You might not know this, but Bradley Cooper, Jimmy Kimmel, and Dax Shepard — those charming, handsome, attractive, top-knotch-facial-hair-having dudes — are actually bros. If you don't believe it, check out this #tbt photo for proof:
Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Bradley Copper and Jimmy Kimmel looked at this picture and reminisced about their longstanding bro-ship:
This just goes to show that you never know who at your Scrabble game is going to be the next Crosby on Parenthood.
Tumblr has turned a weird picture of Demi Lovato into a meme about her fictitious sister and it's kind of hilarious. It all started when a now-deleted Tumblr blog called cstcrpt posted a picture of Lovato with the following caption:
Demi’s twin sister. She was locked in a basement her whole life. This picture was taken the first time she went outside. Her name is Poot.
The Internet then took this four sentence story and ran with it. There are already a bunch of Poot Facebook accounts:
There is also a Poot Twitter account:
People even gave her a Wikipedia page, which was later taken down, unfortunately:
Long live Poot! Even if you don't get the joke!
An entrepreneurial 15-year-old and his 17-year-old brother have a non-traditional extra-curricular activity — or maybe it is very traditional, seeing as it involves the world's oldest profession. A 15-year-old in Spokane, Washington has been charged with running a prostitution ring from his mother's house, with help from his brother.
The older brother was already in juvenile detention, and he instructed his brother how to run the ring over the phone. Recorded phone calls say that the older brother told the younger one,"how to run a prostitution ring, using, among others, the brothers' girlfriends as prostitutes."
The police say that they found women on Backpage.com, and would then send them out on jobs. "According to court documents the brothers talked in code," reports KHQ Spokane, "Saying things like 'Make them think they're going to be reimbursed, even if they're not,' and 'Treat them right, that way they stay around, and make sure they do the calls.'"
The details just get crazier:
According to court documents, police found the underage girls on Backpage.com and set up a meeting with them. Court docs say when the girls found out their "johns" were actually police officers, they told the entire story. According to one of those girls, they gave a quarter of the money they made to the brothers' mom. They said she was using part of it to save for the cost of bailing out T.H [the older brother]. T.H.'s bail was $175,000, so she would need $17,500 in order to bail him out.
Please stick to lemonade stands, kids.
It's easy to criticize other moms, because they're all doing a rushed, imperfect, and occasionally downright crappy job, just like you are. In this emotional new ad from Similac, you'll get to see a day in the life of a bunch of very different new moms—some good, some bad. Just kidding! They're all imperfect and just trying their best. At the end, the women come together to reveal their shared fears, insecurities, and tendencies to judge each other. You'll also get to see a lot of babies who are probably judging each other's diaper sizes and puking distances. So immature.
It seems like schools are always sending girls home for wearing too little, but in Belle Terre Elementary School in Florida, they do things a liiiiiiittle differently. Click Orlando reports that an unnamed six-year-old was sent home on the school bus in just her shirt and a pair of underwear after she soiled herself in class. The girl has a medical condition that means she needs to use the bathroom frequently, but her teacher refused to let her leave and things took their course.
The school didn't think they were making a huge mistake and that the girl's shirt was long enough to pass as a dress, but according to their own dress code, dresses cannot be more than 4 inches above the knee. The shirt comes to about 4.5 inches. Raymond says:
We asked her why my daughter was sent home in just panties and a T-shirt, and she begins to tell me, 'We thought she had a long enough shirt to be able to put her on the school bus and send her home.'
They make me send her to school in clothes to their expectations. Why couldn't you send my kid home in clothes to your expectations?
The parents, Raymond and Jennifer McCurdy, said they were especially angry because the school does have four different emergency contact numbers for them. They could have picked the kid up instead of leaving her to be bullied by her classmates. Because when you come back to class with no pants on, you better believe children will comment on it.
The parents are demanding an apology and have hired a lawyer. They say they don't want something like this to happen to another kid. The school district released this statement:
There are procedures and protocols when incidents such as this happens. We've reviewed those during an investigation at Belle Terre Elementary School. We've invited the parents to sit down and discuss our findings, but they have declined.
Their "findings" didn't include pants, perhaps. If you're wondering why the McCurdys didn't outfit their kid with a change of clothes knowing her condition, they say it's never been an issue because schools have always been notified and allowed her to use the restroom whenever she needed to. This is the first accident she's had since moving to Florida. When all else fails...blame Florida.
Elephants are very lovable animals — most of the time. When they're not adorably taking baths or showing family unity, they can also be terrifying, vicious animals. In moments like that, you suddenly remember that they're enormous and have sharp tusks and powerful trunks.
That's what happened in this video, taken in Sri Lanka's Yala National Park. A group of safari tourists were ogling a bull elephant from their open truck when the great beast took a dislike to them and proceeded to gradually rip the seats of their vehicle apart while growling menacingly. Perhaps it was looking for food, or perhaps it just wanted to scare them. Regardless, the hapless tourists escaped unharmed but terrified, even though the elephant had more than enough time to yank them out of there and toss them around like juggling balls.
This video was originally uploaded in January 2014, but has gone viral again because it reminds us all that nature is not our friend. Even the cute animals can kill. It's even easier for them, because you don't expect it.
Abby Kingston became the 11th woman in her family to walk down the aisle in this beautiful Victorian gown that dates back to 1895. That was the year it was first worn by Abby's great-great grandmother Mary, who had a totally bangin' body.
Abby's Mom wore the dress at her own ceremony in 1977, and is absolutely thrilled her daughter is following in the tradition. She told Inside Edition, "Every mother wants their daughter to wear the wedding dress that they wore."
Yeah, plus more money to spend on the open bar!
The original Victorian gown took over 200 hours of detailed work to restore to peak wedding day condition. (120 years worth of pit stains ain't easy to get out!) You can watch the full story of the dress here, and see the groom's adorable reaction.
What they didn't tell you is that great-great grandma Mary was buried in it...*
*not really
Watching a dog jump over and over into a pile of leaves is incredibly good for morale at the end of a long work week. We scoff at the quaint notion of simple joys, but aren't most joyful things small? Like dogs and children? A laughing kid even pops up in this video unexpectedly to prove that point. SO what the heck, jump right into that pile of leaves with Stella. She loves leaves! You will too!
Watching this video has probably changed a lot of people's weekend plans. Suddenly, raking the yard sounds fun.
Batman, Superman, Spider-Man: these are the names that come to mind when you mention the word 'hero.' But these men are nothing compared to the real-life superhero who was brave enough to do the unthinkable... he told the Oprah she had food stuck in her teeth.
It's true — the unnamed man let Miss O know she was walking around with a big ole piece of kale in her chompers. Oprah was apparently grateful, tweeting out her appreciation while managing to squeeze in a humblebrag.
This news takes us through the whole range of emotions. Oprah is just like us (eats food), but is nothing like us (eats kale chips), but is just like us (gets food in her teeth), but is nothing like us (gets invited to parties.)
As the Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays continue their battle in the American League championship series, the libraries for both cities have had a war of words on Twitter. It's very clever and very funny, and probably the coolest these librarians have looked in their entire lives. It's also the first time libraries have become so heavily involved in sports. Normally it's the mayors of the respective cities promising each other their city's best delicacy over a dumb bet. But the libraries are using book titles in stacks to taunt each other, and they're doing a great job. KC kicked it off after their last win:
Toronto accepted the challenge and quoted the late Yogi Berra:
KC fired back with a rhyme this time:
And after thinking it through, it just so happens Toronto's librarians can rhyme too:
The press gave them some love for their war of words:
The Royals and Blue Jays face off tonight for the sixth game in the ALCS to decide who will face the Mets in the World Series. The Royals could clinch it tonight, or the Blue Jays could force a seventh game. Then the libraries will have no sports feuds, because the Kansas City Chiefs are terrible, and the Toronto Raptors can't seem to ever advance in the NBA playoffs.
In this video, The Voice France contestant Diana Espir imagines herself as a Marilyn Monroe-type figure cheating with someone else's tattooed boyfriend in what appears to be an underground grotto. It almost seems like she's being held there as a prisoner, but no, Espir frees herself by the end of the video, ironically by imprisoning him. Because she ain't nobody's side chick, side chick. She's a predator!!!
Except, it kind of seems like she already was this guy's side chick? It also kind of seems like it's not particularly empowering to have slept with someone already in a relationship and then demand they end that relationship to suit you. But, hey, it's hard to judge from the outside. Maybe she really does deserve "the finest things and pearls."
Although many people think of previous decades as being repressed, at least one sex-ed book from back in the day was pretty graphic when it came to depicting sex. It's called How Babies Are Made, and was published by Time Life in 1968. It starts off using plants to describe sex:
The seed falls onto the ground. With the help of sun and rain, it will grow into another plant.
That's not too out of the ordinary. So far so good. It then starts depicting animals. First birds:
To send the sperm into the hen's body, the rooster climbs onto her back and places his opening against hers. Then his sperm move into the opening in her body.
Then dogs:
Ok, that's pretty uh, in-your-face. The book then moves on to humans:
The sperm, which come from the father's testicles, are sent into the mother through his penis. To do this, the father and the mother lie down facing each other and the father places his penis in the mother's vagina. Unlike plants and animals, when human mothers and fathers create a new baby they are sharing a very personal and special relationship.
And boom. That's it. It's just sex. People in the 60s didn't have as many societal hang-ups about it as we do. They just straight-up told their kids what was up. Sure, it's a bit much to take in, but it's better to tell them the truth than to have them grow up to be naive about it. Nothing in this book is that inappropriate if you think about it.
Except for the hen stuff. WTF was up with that?
If you were ever wondering how we will become a surveillance state, here is the answer: by having adorable security cameras everywhere. Enter Ulo, "an interactive home monitoring owl," which is one of those phrases that 20 years ago would have made someone laugh and say, "Nice crazy future vision, you Philip K. Dork" and today makes people say, "OMG PUT IT IN MAH HOUSE."
And the thing is adorable. (Which is not a surprise, because goddamn, owls are the cutest.) It winks when it's taking pictures and looks sleepy when it needs a battery recharge. Basically, it's like a Tamagotchi, if your Tamagotchi could catch the babysitter when she brings friends over. And it can track movement with its eyes. Just look at this:
If you want adorable surveillance to become a reality, you can contribute to the Ulo Kickstarter.
Earlier today, Reddit user Jouletheif posted a link to the prehistoric channel, a child's YouTube channel that, at the time, only had 22 subscribers. Jouletheif also pointed out that this anonymous kid has uploaded a new dinosaur video every day for the past four months. He even posts apology videos when he can't post a "real" video:
At (what sounds from his voice like) a young age, this kid already has an IMDB-worthy body of work that ranges from narratives to character studies to experimental-looking dinosaur attack animations that will almost definitely be used for some band's music video in the next six months:
And there are epic dinosaur-figurine flyover videos:
And there's the series Prehistoric Island, a Jurassic Park-soundtracked exploration of "a beautiful and lush place about the size of the Indonesian islands." That, of course, is filled with dinosaurs.
Even if you don't like dinosaurs, the videos are a wonderful little window into childhood storytelling and play, which is always fun to dive into, unless you're a crotchety old jerk.
Two seal lovers named Sija and Babyface were a couple when they lived together in the UK's Cornish Seal Sanctuary, and now they maintain their long-distance relationship via FaceTime. Since it is a sanctuary, they intentionally try to prevent the seals from getting pregnant. Sija was on the pill, because apparently there's a birth control pill for seals. At 37-years-old, they thought Babyface was too old to father children. Plus he has one eye. But against all odds, Sija was discovered to have conceived two seal pups despite being on the pill, and it was then decided the two would have to be separated. Sija was taken 160 miles away to Weymouth SEA LIFE Adventure Park, to live in an all-female enclosure. That's when they started having the seals use FaceTime.
It's cute, and the caretakers do believe that the seals recognize each other. But this story quite simply sounds like a young female got pregnant and then banished to an all-girls school or convent. And as humans in long-distance relationships know, FaceTime is great, but not as good as real life. If Sija hooked up with Babyface despite him being considerably older and having one eye, he must have a lot of money. Now they took that silver lining away from Sija too!
New York City now has pizza raccoon, which may be superior to the legendary pizza rat. Pizza rat first encountered competition when double pizza rat was discovered. Pizza raccoon was spotted enjoying a slice in a tree in Central Park. But he did not begin his meal there. Anya Schiffrin was walking with a friend in the park, when the two spotted this New Yorker just trying to mind his own business.
He wanted more privacy, so he scurried in one fell swoop up the tree and continued eating. From the trash can, to the base of the tree, to the top of the tree, he never dropped the pizza once.
The circle of life in New York is pretty straight forward. If you drop or throw away any slice of pizza, some type of critter is going to eat it. And they're going to do it in public, because the animals of New York are just like its human inhabitants: they do what they please in front of everyone. Only time will tell what other furry friends we will see eating pizza in the greatest city in the world.
