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Mom gets nasty note from friends telling her to shut up about her baby.

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A new mom was sending updates to friends about her baby girl Addy and they decided to respond with this.


This is why people don't use the mail anymore.(via Sunrise)

A woman got this note from some "friends" who were "concerned" about her recent barrage of baby updates on Facebook. The new mom then passed it on to comedian Em Rusciano, who has shared it with the world.

It's hard to be sure that this is a real letter, written by real monsters. Rusciano says it was anonymous, so did they slip it under her door? ANYWAY. Assuming this is real, what the hell?!

That multiple women could be annoyed by constant photo and status updates about a baby is believable. That they came together and blew off some steam bitching about it would be completely understandable. But to take this final, stupid step of writing those feelings down and delivering them to the subject of their grievances is insane.

It's called, "Unfollow." Learn it, live it, love it.


Some moderate responses to this letter.(via Em Rusciano)

We've all unfollowed people for all sorts of reasons. Babies, exes, constant brunch photos, vague-booking. IRL it's good to talk openly and honestly about your feelings. If someone was constantly standing up and shouting, "I have a baby!" in the same room with you, telling them to pipe down is reasonable. On Facebook we should let people manage their social media presence, while we manage our newsfeed.


This incredible artist transforms people into superheroes using only make-up.

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Lianne Moseley is a Canadian make-up artist who uses aqua-color to paint people as spot-on cartoon superheroes.

It's so great to see someone take a very specific idea that they're passionate about and making it work for themselves as a career. Lianne Moseley has blown up online since posting a picture of herself as the character Archer on Reddit. She now makes a living doing body and face painting for photoshoots, comic expos and any other reason people can think of to get painted like their favorite superhero. Think about it. There are a lot of reasons.

Let's look at some of her work, because daaaaaaaaaaamn, girl.

Wut.

Aquaman on the streets.

Two in one.

Simple, but effective.

Trap ME in your web.

Was genuinely fooled by this one.

Another twofer.

Not a cartoon, definitely a superhero.

The whole fam.

Great work, Moseley! If I ever get married, you're doing the make-up (PLEASE).

The more tangled this old man gets in his seatbelt, the more Boston he becomes.

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Somebody had the quick thinking to film this man hilariously stuck in a locked-up seatbelt.

This is the kind of moment that can become legendary in a family. But try as hard as you might, you'll never be able to communicate how funny it was. Unless, that is, you get it on video. Then you deserve a parade in your honor.

15 of the most hilariously bizarre wedding photos to ever capture the union of two weirdos.

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All of me, loves all of you. -John Legend. (via flickr)

Who needs a wedding dress with a plunging neckline when you can have no neckline at all? If you're going to take the plunge of a lifetime, why not take it to the next level like this woman. Don't pretend to be the cake-topper version of a bride and groom, show your wedding guests who you really are! This is your special day, and you should express yourself because you are shelling out a fortune to celebrate your love for one another. Also, if you have a weird wedding, people might forget how much it cost them to attend.

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Is there enough blood on my veil? (via flickr)

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Every person looks genuinely happy to be here. (via weddingunveils)

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We'll still be fun to hang out with after we get married. (via modblog)

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No one in this room will discuss the new Star Wars movie. (via offbeatbride)

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A traditional Italian clown wedding. (via felicementesposati)

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A traditional American clown wedding. (via jg-tc)

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None of my bridesmaids are allowed to look better than me. (via NM)

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No. Just No. (via Awkward Family Photos)

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At a nudist wedding, the photographer wears the wedding dress. (via huffpo)

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And a cake shall be built in your likeness. (via CNN)

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Running from T-Rex is scarier than lifelong commitment. (via Quinn Miller)

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Jeff Goldblum makes everything just a little bit better. (via Adam Biesenthal)

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Staging this photograph only means it will come true. (via Elite Digital)

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Be yourself. (via Pinterest)

If you think this drunk, skateboarding taco can't see where he's going, you're correct.

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To promote dollar tacos, professional skateboarder Jon Newport donned a taco costume, but alcohol and toppings sent him careening into traffic.



Dollar Tacos ~+ Happy Hour Every Day 5 to 8 ~+ He's All Right +~ @newpaloop
A video posted by Baby's All Right (@babysallright) on

This is worth the click.

After an afternoon drinking at Baby's All Right in Williamsburg, production manager Ben Wilkes and co-worker Jon Newport, decided more people should know about the kick-ass dollar taco Happy Hour special they'd been enjoying. Apparently, Newport was a professional skateboarder in his teens, so putting on a taco suit and rolling down the notoriously steep pedestrian walkway of the Williamsburg Bridge should have been no problem. Taco suits aren't great for visibility, nor is 3 hours of pre-gaming, so he was soon shooting into a moving car.

But he's okay! He also told ANIMAL New York that he's looking forward to giving it another shot:

“It worked out great, I can't wait to do it again. I probably won't get hit by a car, but I will risk my life."

Masked men don the suit when duty calls.

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This anti-vax mom changed her tune after her 7 kids all got whooping cough at once.

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Tara Hills came out publicly for vaccinating after her 7 children all came down with whooping cough.


The Hills family pre-cough.(via The Scientific Parent)

If there's one thing I never expected, it's that vaccines would become controversial again in my lifetime. Sure, people weren't sold on them when they were new, but that was 200 years ago. Many of the most common vaccines we use today are close to 100 years old, and have decades of medical research supporting their effectiveness and safety. The anti-vaccination movement, however, is mainly based on one discredited study from 1998.

The overwhelming evidence and public opinion in support of vaccines often make anti-vaxxers feel persecuted, however, and cause them to become more resolute in their stance. One example is Tara Hills of Ottawa, Canada, who decided to stop vaccinating her seven kids due to distrust of the medical community. She wrote in a blog post on The Scientific Parent:

We had vaccinated our first three children on an alternative schedule and our youngest four weren't vaccinated at all. We stopped because we were scared and didn't know who to trust. Was the medical community just paid off puppets of a Big Pharma-Government-Media conspiracy?

The answer is "maybe, but you should still vaccinate." Hills and her husband started to change their mind when the Disneyland measles outbreak hit, and had a real epiphany when they saw a similar measles outbreak among anti-vaxxers they knew personally. They scheduled a catch-up vaccine schedule for their children, but the week it was supposed to start, all seven kids came down with a nasty cough.

When the kids didn't get better, they realized their fears had come true: all of the kids were infected with whooping cough. Also known as pertussis, whooping cough is a highly contagious bacterial disease that can be fatal in young children. An effective vaccine has existed since 1925.

Here's The Washington Post's recap of the story:

Hills wrote the aforementioned blog post while under quarantine with her kids. Since then, they've all recovered, and are back on a vaccination schedule. Hills says she wrote her post to reach out to two groups. She wants to reach out to anti-vaxxers and urge them to reconsider, for their children's sake and the public good. But interestingly, she also wants to reach out to passionate pro-vaxxers, and tell them to change their approach to the anti-vax community. Instead of attacking them or calling them ignorant, she wants us to take a compassionate approach, and extend an olive branch of mutual understanding. That way, they will be less defensive, and more likely to change their minds.

This is an important message. Vaccinations are not just important for the kids who receive them. A large number of unvaccinated children puts the health of everyone else at risk. When that's at stake, we shouldn't let our anger and self-righteousness dictate our decisions. We need to be nice to anti-vaxxers, for the greater good. Yes, even Jenny McCarthy.

Stressed? Watch bored geniuses pop a Wednesday's worth of bubble wrap in an industrial press.

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This should be approved therapy and workplace insurance should cover it.

Bubble wrap is one of the few modern products we all agree has magical properties. Like a medieval sin-eater, each bubble absorbs a tiny piece of the holder's stress, and popping that bubble destroys that stress (for a time, at least). Hydraulic presses are usually seen as less magical, but that might change after this video of bored employees using the press to wipe out an entire factory sheet of bubble wrap.

They basically popped the equivalent of an entire Wednesday for the whole company. I think more workplaces should do this. Heck, I think if you don't start letting your workers pop their stress, you should get an OSHA fine. Stress is a killer, bubble wrap is a...uh...fun.


Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande got together to make this surprisingly likable lip-sync to Carly Rae Jepsen's new single.

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Justin Bieber made a lipdub of Carly Rae Jepsen's new song and it's full of celebrities.

Sure, there tons of negative things you can say about Justin Bieber, but since they were all so poetically expressed in his roast, it seems redundant. Let's focus on something great he's done: support fellow Canadian musician Carly Rae Jepsen. He boosted her career back in 2013 with his video for "Call Me Maybe" and he made another one for "I Really Like You."

WARNING: This song is super catchy and you will be humming it all day if you watch this video. Here are all the most important elements in this piece of moving picture mastery:

1. Justin Bieber has tattoos.
2. Justin Bieber does silly dance moves.
3. Justin Bieber wears funny hats and glasses.
4. ADORABLE DOG SIGHTING AT 2:41.
5. Justin Bieber has many, many, many, many, many celebrity friends.

Here is an incomplete and definitely inaccurate list of famous people featured in the video:

1. Ariana & Frankie Grande, sibling duo.
2. One fifth of N*Sync.
3. Randy Quaid.
4. Somebody from Empire.
5. Somebody from Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
6. Jeremy Scott, he designs for Moschino.
7. David Foster, he won a Grammy.
8. AN ADORABLE DOG AT 2:41.
9. The Obamas.


The only moment that matters. (via YouTube)

I am currently singing "I Really Like You" at my desk and am pretty sure I'm going to get fired.

Teacher fired for having her students write why they hated a bullied classmate on the chalkboard.

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Madeline Luciano lost her job at a New York City school after her cruel assignment made a student cry.


Artist's impression.(stock photo)

When I was in school, I had to do some dumb assignments. Pointless dittos, word searches, SATs… but none of them were as stupid, not to mention inappropriate, as this one. Not even the time my French teacher made us line up and smell my classmate's hair (not making that up). At least she didn't cry.

Madeline Luciano is a former eighth-grade teacher who worked at P.S. 18 in Inwood, Manhattan. Her troubles started the day one of her students returned to class from dropping off paperwork at the principal's office. Upon reentering the classroom, she found that her bookbag was missing. She and Luciano eventually found the bag, its contents pulled out and damaged. Luciano asked the students what had happened, and they started explaining how much they disliked the girl, calling her "annoying" and "stupid." Up to this point, this could be an ordinary story of kids and their cruel bullying. The next part is where it gets crazy.

According to a report from the Department of Education's Office of Special Investigations, Luciano devised an assignment based off of this incident, in which each of the students in class had to write a letter explaining their reasons for hating the girl. Of course, they immediately took to it, ganging up on the poor kid in a social experiment worthy of Philip Zimbardo. They started shouting out their answers, and one student began writing them down on the chalkboard. Luciano claims she never told this student to start doing this, but the kids tell a different story. Complaints about the girl included "her attitude and how fake she is around people," and that she is an "ugly person."


Mean Girls 2: Mean Teachers. (stock photo)

The assignment only ended when the 13-year-old girl in question started crying. The student writing on the board erased everything and wrote "sorry," and Luciano claims she told the class that "they needed to work as a team and that they needed to treat each other with love." Maybe she should have led by example and not instructed them to do exactly the thing she was reprimanding them for.

Anyway, it won't be an issue anymore. Luciano's principal, Connie Mejia, fired her after she saw the report. What's more, Luciano's DOE security clearance has been revoked, effectively barring her from teaching at another New York City school. She has petitioned to have this ruling overturned, but considering that this incident will appear on her record, it seems unlikely she'd get another job in the city.

What do you think? Is this punishment too severe, or should Madeline Luciano be prevented from teaching? One thing is for sure. She'll never forget what happened that day, and neither will that girl.

Travel back to a world of insane American wholesomeness with this 1991 Sizzler's ad.

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Forget the 50s, the "good old days" in America were four minutes long, shot entirely in soft focus, and featured an assortment of amazing combos that represented our freedom and choice as citizens.

Here it is, Internet: the high water mark of American culture, preserved in digital glory. Here is where the flood of freedom Georgie Washington, Tommy Jefferson, and Al Hammyton unleashed on the world hit its peak before receding into the swamp of repression, recession, and reality television. These four minutes of mouthwatering steak, succulent shrimp, and Vaseline-drenched Americana are, simply put, what destroyed the Soviet Union.

Who can forget the day Sizzlers ads first reached East Germany, causing disillusioned former commies to grab their sledgehammers and beat a path straight to the door of unlimited buffets and democracy?

Who can forget when George H.W. Bush said "Read my lips" and America believed him, primarily because breaded Sizzler's shrimp were falling out of his mouth while he talked?

Who can forget when a girl died of E. Coli poisoning from Sizzler's salad bar in 2000?

Like I said, it was kind of downhill after this.

The video has been online since 2012, but it's come back to the Web's attention thanks to a hilariously in-depth profile on Esquire's website yesterday. Still, even they underestimate just how perfect this ad is. This ad probably would have violated campaign finance laws had it run in 1992, because who wouldn't interpret it as an endorsement of the sitting president if you prove to everyone that everything is perfect right now?

5 Things You Should At Least Pretend To Know Today - April 15, 2015

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1. Aaron Hernandez Officially Has Shittier Lawyers Than OJ Simpson

Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has been found guilty today of first-degree murder for the killing of Odin Lloyd in the summer of 2013 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Not only is this sentence is being hailed as a victory for the justice system, but it is believed to dramatically decrease the possibility of a reality show centered around the gleefully shallow family of one of the defense attorneys.


2. Female CEO Blazes New Ground In Small-Minded Misogyny For Women

Cheryl Rios, CEO of the Dallas-based Go Ape Marketing company, proved that professional women are just as capable as men at making stupid, sexist, anti-women public comments after she attacked the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton based solely upon the number of X chromosomes she possesses. "With the hormones we have there is no way we should be able to start a war," she wrote on Facebook. "Yes, I run my own business and I love it and I am great at it BUT that is not the same as being the President, that should be left to a man, a good, strong, honorable man."


3. The GOP's Predictable Mocking Of Hillary Clinton's Predictable Announcement Gets Predictably Mocked By Jon Stewart

Hillary Clinton announced her presidency, a bunch of Republicans had overblown responses to her announcement, and Jon Stewart made a bunch of funny jokes at their expense. None of this is particularly shocking. In fact, I didn't even write this post today. I wrote it two weeks ago and saved it in a document along with a post about Joe Biden being caught by a hot mic making a joke about Clinton's ironing skills.



4. Hypothetical Female Time Travelers Less Likely To Make-Believe Kill Hitler Than Hypothetical Male Time Travelers

Women are much less likely than men to murder Adolf Hitler in his sleep, according to a social psychology study from a student at Wilfrid Laurier University. Well, technically speaking, both groups have something extremely close to a zero percent chance of killing Hitler in his sleep. Women are simply more conflicted about the hypothetical possibility of it.


5. 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' Remake Aims To Leave A Whole New Generation Of Weirdos And Outcasts Shivering With Antici...

Fox is preparing to remake the not-particularly-well-made-the-first-time-around cult midnight classic Rocky Horror Picture Show as a television movie. I'm assuming this will later be spun out into a multi-film expanded Rocky Horror universe with each character receiving his or her own standalone film. No word yet on who will provide the voice of the anthropomorphic vibrating dildo president of the planet Transsexual, in the galaxy of Transylvania, for the series. I'm pulling for Sir Ian McKellen.

Here are the best reactions to the new ethnically diverse emojis.

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It's a small world after all (because there's only like 5 races according to your phone).


Finally, I can make my friends uncomfortable without even using words!

If you haven't noticed already, the most recent update on your phone now lets you send emojis with five different realistic skin tones (plus yellow, for any LEGO people using a smartphone). It's the kind of thing we can all rally behind, or mock openly because it's still goofy.

Here are a few reactions to the emoji update:







and finally...




5 people who are KILLING IT this week.

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1. The Hirakawa Zoo, which is filling its Twitter feed with adorable baby otter pics.

YASSS. Adorable baby animals are always a win, but considering how cute adult otters are, this one is a no-brainer. Thank you, Hirakawa Zoo, for giving us what we want.


2. Jon Cryer, who put his saddle shoes back on to do his classic "Pretty In Pink" dance with James Corden.

Anyone who's seen Pretty In Pink knows that the real romantic hero is Ducky and his incredible thrusting hips. It's weird to see that, aside from needing a wig and reducing the number of thrusts his hips can handle, Jon Cryer seemingly hasn't aged. In that case, neither have I! Thanks for making my girlish heart flutter, Jon.


3. Needle Felted Cats, who produced this terrifying and wonderful cat head you can wear to brunch.

Housetu Sato and students at Japan School of Wool Art created this mask that almost tops the crazy Tyrion one from earlier this month. Lotta cool stuff coming out of Japan this week! If you happen to be in Tokyo this weekend, the mask will be on display at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. Only downside is that you probably won't get to try it on.


4. Ricky Syers, who can play the drums for "Tom Sawyer" with a marionette and miniature drum set like a pro.

Street performer, Ricky Syers, can slay Rush's 1981 hit Tom Sawyer. On a miniature drum set. With a tiny marionette. I can barely clap in rhythm. This guy knows how to pull strings!


5. This guy, who is losing it over how silly his dog looks.

Just a good old-fashioned video of a guy giggling till he chokes over how goofy his dog looks. The dog's not embarrassed, so no harm done! We gotta make our own fun. This dude gets it.

Keep killing it, everybody.

Row row row your boat, until you're attacked by hundreds of flying carp.

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This crew team was just trying to practice when they suddenly found themselves in the middle of a fish storm.

You're looking at the freshman men's crew team for Washington University in St. Louis. The team was just settling in for their Friday morning practice when, all of a sudden, they had fish flying at their faces from every direction.

Specifically, these are Asian carp, an invasive species spreading across the US. They're well-known for being easily spooked by boats and jumping out of the water, which has resulted in cuts, bruises, and broken bones. You can tell how destructive they are when the one guy in the video says, "The fish took my seat off!"

So it might be a dangerous fish, but at least now it'll be comfortable.


Today in Fat News: Newspaper reveals the moment mainstream America first heard about pizza.

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Here is the fattest news story of the day...


My dream is to one day run the "News of Food" column.
(photo via the NY Times)

The New York Times found out something unbelievable this week: there was a time in America when we didn't constantly eat pizza. The fateful day that average Americans were doomed to a doughy future was September 20th, 1944, when Times reporter Jane Holt wrote of "a pie popular in Southern Italy...filled with any number of different centers."

You're damn right, Jane. Any number indeed.

The only toppings listed in the article are: mushrooms, cheese, anchovies, capers and onions. Good thing America dug its greasy, innovative hands into this recipe, otherwise the world would never have thought to put all of those ingredients together and then add pineapple and ham.

What I learned from this article: the plural of pizza is "pizze" which is a word I've needed every single time I've called Dominos.

Anyway. Let's get to the point: Here's a bunch of pictures of the most beautiful food in the world. MMMMmmmmmm, pizza.

Stay hungry, everyone.

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Marco Rubio ruins campaign early by saying he's a fan of EDM and Nicki Minaj.

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Don't worry, young people! GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio is totally down with your music.

TMZ got a brief interview with presidential candidate Marco Rubio outside of an airport, and one of the questions they asked Rubio was "How do you see today's music?" Rubio gave an answer that sounded like a staffer was feeding him the top hits from searching "young people music" in Google Bing.

Rubio said, "You know, electronic music, I've gotten into it a little bit with David Guetta... Swedish House Mafia and all those guys. And I'm still a Nicki Minaj fan. She's very talented."

Politics aside, can any of us vote for a man who calls Nicki Minaj talented?

I'm sorry, Marco. You're right. That sure is... a lot of talent.

Guy uses $5000+ in drone equipment to film a Craigslist ad for his crappy $3000 used Taurus.

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This homemade car commercial is strangely captivating.

I am obsessed with the video this guy made for a Craigslist ad for his 2002 Taurus. The audio combines a 1987 Ford commercial and a few low-quality overdubs to accurately portray the facts about his particular Taurus.

The car only has 125,000 miles on it and is in much better condition than my Dad's '99 Taurus that I totaled when I hit a snowbank and crashed into my town's welcome sign (sorry Pops).

It takes a certain kind of person to film an ad using a $2,500 camera and $2,800+ drone for a $3,000 car. Clearly, he's not in it for the money, and it's all about becoming the next big thing in car commercial filmmaking.

You sir, are no used car salesman, you are an ARTIST.

SpaceX attempts sci-fi rocket landing in the ocean, achieves sci-fi rocket near-miss in the ocean.

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What goes up must come down and go up in flames.

The final, probably-explosion-filled seconds are missing from this Vine, but it's amazing nonetheless. This, in case it's not clear, is a rocket several stories tall returning from space and attempting to land vertically on a drone ship in the ocean. It's not quite as jaw-droppingly thrilling as SpaceX's last almost-landing (which nearly took out the camera filming it), but seeing what we had been told was impossible all through the 20th century suddenly become clearly-possible-but-just-not-quite-working-yet is still spectacular.

This is by far the closest SpaceX (or anyone else) has come to success in vertically landing a rocket after sending it into orbit. If they succeed, going to space will become much cheaper. So, you know, like available to the whole top 1%, instead of the top .1% or the top .01% where it is today.

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