It's been more than two years since "Blurred Lines" was the ubiquitous song of the summer, but Robin Thicke is still acting hardcore Robin Thicke. He and co-writer/performer/dancer-among-naked-women Pharrell Williams were sued and found guilty of copying elements from Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up" in their song. KABC has released new deposition videos from the copyright infringement trial, and though there aren't masterpieces on the level of Bieber's deposition videos, there are some interesting moments. 

When asked if he was drunk or on Vicodin during a particular interview from 2013, Thicke answered:

I didn't do a single interview last year without being high on both. 

He was just trying to make things efficient by offering an answer to any follow-up questions about when he was or wasn't drunk or high.

Pharrell's slow-moving interview consists of a lot of bickering over specifics about music notes and chords. However, the most notable element of both interviews is the evocatively pouty faces made by both defendants. Pharrell glumly rested his head in both of his hands.

And Thicke was equally frowny-faced in a similar resting pose.

If you had a huge hit song and then had to give $5.4 million to a dead guy, you'd probably get all angsty too. 

This dog refused to leave his owner's side after she was killed in a hit-and-run. 42-year-old Florida resident Kelly Black was hit by a semi-truck in the parking lot of a gas station. Her dog Paco was with her, and laid on the ground by her side until Black's family came to get him.

 Paco was happy when his family arrived—

—but is still sad without Kelly, as the two of them were "inseparable." Sambo, Black's other dog, has similar feelings:

"[Paco] is not too happy, and Sammy is not either, because she's not there with them right now,” Johnson said. “They are used to me and they're going to be really sad."

Despite an ongoing police investigation, the driver still hasn't been found.

Writer Kadia Blagrove shared a story on XOJane that sounds like a stress-induced nightmare, except she really had to live through it. She'd been dating a guy for about 6 months, with the understanding that they were exclusive, but something wasn't  feeling quite...right. We can all see where this is going. People cheat and they're discovered in all sorts of ways, but what happened to Kadia was pretty next level. She discovered her boyfriend out on a date with another woman and he pretended not to know her.

She describes how this horror show began with a night out with a girlfriend, gossiping about how her guy had been giving her trouble. They happened to be in his neighborhood and decided to go to a local bar:

Upon entering the bar, I half-jokingly said “Imagine if he’s in here with some other girl.” Like magic, the Universe said “BITCH YOU GUESSED IT! YOU WAS MOTHER FUCKING RIGHT!”

I saw him there, sitting at the bar where we usually sat, with another woman, caressing her face and holding her hips. 

I made eye contact with the bartender who looked back at me with pitiful eyes and a remorseful shrug. I felt so pathetic. I immediately went back outside and burst into tears. That whole moment felt unreal. 

I just remember shouting, “I fucking hate him!” The drunk, the sober, and the in-between all stood and watched me cry my eyes out. 

Kadia rallied and went back into the bar, which in itself is amazing. Most of us would run home to throw up and then eat ice cream. 

As my "boyfriend” sat there laughing and giggling with his date, I tapped him on the shoulder and coldly said, “Hi.” (I literally had nothing else to say.) 

He looked up at me shocked, and then immediately returned his attention to his date. He acted like he didn’t know me. 

This man, who just a week ago had sent me a love song and interrogated me to find out whether I gave another guy my number, acted as if I were nothing more than a stranger. Embarrassment had reached its peak.

Moments later her "boyfriend" fled to the restroom and the girl he was with actually started a fun chat with Kadia about loving her hair. Then it all came out:

I blurted out, “Is that your boyfriend?”

She girlishly smiled. “No, this is just a date, but I’ve been seeing him for a little while.”

“Oh, OK. I took my shot. "This is just odd for me because that’s my boyfriend.”

Her mouth fell open and she just kept saying, “Oh my God!”

Kadia left soon after, leaving her ex-man to cower in the toilet. While she felt wrecked, she didn't answer any of the many calls and  "hey hi hello" texts that followed from the dude for the next three months. She said he never left an apology or explanation, just demands that she respond to him. While a part of her is curious about what he might have said, she ultimately knows she deserves better:

But even though I was heart-broken, I knew my worth. There was nothing to gain from inviting him back into my life. I took a logical and selfish look at myself and the kind of respect I require from anyone who wants to spend time with me. 

So I let it go. I didn't let curiosity get the best of me. I didn't even flip the hell out when I originally confronted him. Maybe that's weakness. Or maybe it's strength. 

Hard for anyone to know how they'd respond in that situation until they've lived it. Maybe...arson?

Read the rest of the story on XOJane.

Kim Kardashian had her baby shower over the weekend. Have you heard that she's pregnant? She's keeping it pretty under the radar but if you've been paying close attention you might noticed a few subtle photos and articles and announcements related to the topic.

The celebration was inspired by a movie close to the hearts of many millennials: Troop Beverly Hills. (The literal "Pregnant Kim Kardashian" theme was already used at Kim's recent birthday party, so this celebration had to go with something different.)

Kim and her sisters shared Instagram photos of the whole crew dressed up in matching pajamas and sitting outside teepees. 

According to E!, the party was also attended by Kanye West, Gigi Hadid, Serena Williams, Cara Delevingne, and Caitlyn Jenner. North West's little bro already has a lot of powerful friends for someone who won't be born for two months.

Teen content machine Brendan Jordan sky-rocketed to viral stardom after completely owning his moment as a background body on the local news. That girl on the right probably wishes she hadn't served him the side-eye like that, because he's now a YouTube powerhouse and has over 500,000 followers on Instagram. 

And he looks absolutely incredible:

Brendan Jordan's transformation is blowing everyone away. That picture on the right is from a modeling gig for designer Marco Marco that happened about a week ago.

If his style kind of reminds you of someone, like Miley Cyrus, you could say she's been an influence:

It's very interesting to watch someone mature who seemed to have a preternatural level of confidence to begin with. That video is probably the most awkward Brendan Jordan will ever be, and he's absolutely slaying. Brendan is also very open about being a part of the LGBT community, loving make-up and fashion, and experimenting with gender fluidity. He's comfortable with being referred to as either he or she, and says at only 15 he's not really sure how it's all going to shake out, but experimentation is key.

If there's one take-away from Brendan's story, it's that you should always completely be yourself, even if it involves absolutely destroying a simple news segment.

It's an issue that has scandalized many since the 1980s: are leggings pants, or are they simply an undergarment?

Jamie Higdon Randolph of Cleveland, Tennessee has a strong opinion on the issue, which recently went viral in a sassy video that has already been viewed on Facebook more than 12 million times. Recording herself in her car about to go to the store for a new garment, Randolph looked straight into the camera for a direct message to the youths: “Some of you people like to use‪ leggins’ as britches, as pants,” she says. “That’s not how they’re supposed to be worn. If you can’t wear a shirt that covers your tail so that I can’t tell that you got some Aztec-print thongs on, you don’t need to be wearing ’em,” she said.

Watch and learn: 

A crew of firefighters in Tacoma, Washington was out grocery shopping together at Safeway, when they had to leave to respond to a CPR call. (It's very adorable to picture a bunch of firefighters getting groceries together, isn't it?) Central Pierce Fire & Rescue posted the heartwarming story of what the firefighters found when they got back:

The anonymous soul who paid for their groceries just wanted to thank Crew 66 for all they do, like saving people's lives. And in exchange, the world gets this food porn:

A cat tried sneaking into a vet clinic's office to be with her kittens. The employees of the Mill Road Vet Clinic in New Zealand found a box of kittens left on their doorstep two weeks ago. They took them in and started to care for them. The next day, they noticed a cat hanging around the premises, trying to sneak in as clients were entering. They put two and two together and reunited the mom with her family.

According to the clinic, the family recently found a foster home that's taking them in:

The lioness has rejoined her cub, and all is right in the jungle.

Suicide Squad doesn't come out in theaters in August 5th, 2016, which is a whole 283 days from now. Until today, there were only a few stills and a first look from Comic Con to help fans cope for the coming months, but now a new picture of Jared Leto's Joker has been released on the cover of Empire magazine, and it has legs.

Oh man. The chiseled torso. The smoldering eyes. The swagger with the cane. The strangely prominent pubic bone, attention drawn to it with a tattoo. Now there are more known details to incorporate into your Halloween costume. 

Looking at this photo, you can't help but turn into the joker and let out a creepy smile yourself. 

 Don't judge a magazine by its cover — there are also new photos, and an interview in which Leto describes his experience of playing The Joker in a very special way: 

Check out the December issue of Empire, coming to a newsstand near you.

For the love of God, somebody give Daddy an Oscar so he can stop torturing himself on set. Actor and professional heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio describes the brutal behind-the-scenes conditions he faced while filming his new movie, The Revenant. (They were even worse than sharing a dressing room with Alan Thicke on Growing Pains.)

The epic film, coming out in December, depicts the true story of an early 19th century frontiersman who was buried alive after a vicious bear attack. It details what lengths a man will go to simply to survive in Hollywood without an Academy Award. 

DiCaprio opened up to Yahoo! about the grueling conditions he endured while filming his movie. He had to be really cold and eat gross stuff! What the heck, give him his dang Oscar, this is getting ridiculous!

I can name 30 or 40 sequences that were some of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to do. Whether it’s going in and out of frozen rivers, or sleeping in animal carcasses, or what I ate on set. [I was] enduring freezing cold and possible hypothermia constantly.

Sleeping in an animal carcass? Without any models? That's disgusting. 

Watch the official trailer here:

You don't have to do this, Leo. You're a winner no matter what! Also, sorry for thinking this was a totally sweet Legends of the Fall reboot. 

A Jeopardy! contestant used her Final Jeopardy answer to make a sick burn against liberals. For the prompt, Trebek displayed a picture of a flower accompanied by the following statement:

This flower pictured here is called this, also a disparaging term for people on the political left.

The answer was "Bleeding Heart." Becky Sullivan, one of the contestants, responded with "pansy."

She lost all of her $6,000 winnings, but the Internet thought her response was hilarious. People jumped the gun to label her a conservative, though. She tweeted the following while the episode was airing:

Sullivan is, in fact, a producer at NPR, which makes the misconception all the more ironic... You know, because NPR is radio and Jeopardy! is on TV. 

Lower that BLT from your greasy lips and take a seat. The news you've been trying to deny is true: bacon and other processed meats cause cancer.

Eating as little as two slices of bacon per day increases your risk of colorectal cancer by 18%, according to the World Health Organization. If your response to that news is "How bad is colorectal cancer anyway?" then you might have a problem. 

Processed meats are meats that have been smoked or cured with salt and other preservatives, including "bacon, sausages, hot dogs, salami, corned beef, beef jerky and ham as well as canned meat and meat-based sauces." But researchers say pork, beef, and lamb that are unprocessed still "probably" cause cancer, which caused a stampede of people signing up to be part of the study that finds out for sure. 

One possible upside to finding out bacon is scary: new Halloween costume idea?

The White Moose Café seems like a completely normal eatery in Dublin serving a mixture of vegetables and meats (like bacon, which the WHO just tragically announced causes cancer). The White Moose is owned by a man named Paul Stenson. Apparently, back in August, the staff had a run-in with a vegan customer who was perturbed to find few dishes on the menu that worked for her chosen diet. Stenson posted the short rant below about calling ahead to restaurants if you wish to be accommodated:

Sometimes screaming into the void that is social media can feel good and harmless. Stenson typed away and that probably seemed like the end of it. Here's the thing, though, it wasn't. The particular customer Stenson was referring to actually saw the post recently, and they shared it on various vegan Facebook groups. Before he knew what was happening, The White Moose Café was being flooded with negative comments and reviews from people who'd never even eaten there.

Then Stenson jokingly banned Vegans from the café, period. He also threatened to shoot them all with guns, which is a bit specific:

Of course, no one thought it was a joke, because people who spend time leaving negative reviews on unknown restaurant pages probably don't have much of a sense of humor:

Stenson updated the restaurant's banner photo, in a more passive-aggressive move:

Then he "really" apologized, because of the gun stuff. But he signs it with "fuck you," so you know how that was taken:

People even showed up and protested at the restaurant! But they'd never been there before, so they went when it was closed:

A lot of vegans sent death threats, which is confusing:

So, Stenson offered cheap meat to everybody:

And thanked the protestors for all the free press:

But people were still upset about the gun stuff:

Though he is warmer towards them, vegans are still barred from the restaurant:

At least the incident has made it clear to everyone, vegan and omnivore, exactly how helpful online restaurant reviews actually are:

5. Chris Christie, because he was kicked off the Amtrak quiet car for being a loud jackass.

Who can blame Chris Christie for being stressed? The former presumptive Republican presidential candidate is now polling at a dismal 3%. But although we're used to him lashing out, there are some spaces too sacred for even him to violate. Chief among them is the Amtrak quiet car.

Sources report that Christie boarded an Amtrak train from D.C. to New Jersey on Sunday morning with two security men, already chewing them out for mixing up his seating arrangements. Holding a McDonald's smoothie, the governor took his seat just before the train pulled out, and immediately began making phone calls. The calls may very well have related to his presidential campaign, because a witness claims he kept repeating the phrases "this is frickin' ridiculous" and "Seriously? Seriously?" That same witness grabbed this lovely Instagram shot of the incident:

After a few minutes and a number of passenger complaints, a conductor came to remind Christie that he was in the quiet car. To his credit, he seemed to have no idea, and quickly moved to another car where he could be as loud as he wanted to (which is plenty). He only stopped long enough to berate his security for seating him in the quiet car. His spokeswoman Samantha Smith later issued this statement:

On a very full train this morning, the Governor accidentally took a seat in Amtrak’s notorious quiet car. After breaking the cardinal rule of the quiet car, the Governor promptly left once he realized the serious nature of his mistake and enjoyed the rest of his time on the train from the cafe car. Sincere apologies to all the patrons of the quiet car that were offended.

Will Quiet Cargate tarnish his legacy as much as Bridgegate? No, but he's finished anyway. 

4. Adam Lambert, because Demi Lovato ditched him on her tour for Nick Jonas.

There's trouble in Gorgeous Pop Star Paradise. Adam Lambert was supposed to accompany Demi Lovato on her upcoming tour, and everyone was excited. But unexpectedly, TMZ reported on Friday that instead of Lambert, she would be joined by none other than Nick Jonas. If you don't know who any of those people are, congratulations on being old.

No explanation was provided for the switch, and speculation ran wild, including from TMZ. Did the pop royals have bad blood? Both Lambert and Lovato took to Twitter over the weekend to establish (perhaps too eagerly) that there were no hard feelings:

But the question remains: is TMZ's story inaccurate, or was it a little too accurate? The world may never know, which is good because the truth is probably boring, and speculating is more fun.

3. Bacon lovers, because cured pork gives you cancer.

Hopefully you had a nice day so far, because after hearing this news, you may never be happy again. A new report from the World Health Organization claims that bacon and other processed meats cause cancer.

What exactly does this mean for your lifestyle? In short: it's over. The WHO's report states that all smoked, salted, or preserved meats increase the risk of bowel cancer, including "bacon, sausages, hot dogs, salami, corned beef, beef jerky and ham as well as canned meat and meat-based sauces." Basically, everything you live for.

This decision also places bacon in the same category as other proven carcinogens, including cigarettes, alcohol, and plutonium. So say goodbye to those bacon/booze/cigar/plutonium parties. They're a blast, but the risk is too great.

2. Hospital workers who were fired for taking pictures of Lamar Odom while he was in critical condition.

Thankfully, Lamar Odom has made a miraculous recovery since his near-fatal brothel binge in Nevada. For a period of days, the media and fans everywhere were left wondering if he would pull through. Everyone was on the edge of their seats, except the workers at the hospital where he was being treated, apparently. They were busy trying to take photos of his comatose body to sell to the tabloids. Yeesh.

TMZ is reporting that several staffers at Las Vegas's Sunrise Hospital, where Odom was first treated, were fired after administrators learned that they attempted to take photos of him when he was still in critical condition. They also tried to access his medical records, which is a clear violation of HIPAA regulations. Sunrise issued this statement:

We take all patient privacy very seriously and follow all HIPAA policies in compliance with federal regulations.

Odom has since moved to Cedars-Sinai in L.A., where TMZ reports he's under constant security. Now the only people who can get to him are his family — i.e. all of the Kardashians. May God have mercy on his soul.

1. A guy dressed as Chewbacca who was arrested for campaigning for Darth Vader.

This story is truly the cherry on top of a bad Monday sundae. It comes to us from a galaxy far, far away, AKA Ukraine.

On Sunday, a man dressed as Chewbacca from Star Wars was arrested for campaigning for a candidate running for mayor of Odessa. That candidate's legal name? Darth Vader. Here's video of the arrest, showing how many human cops it takes to subdue the mighty strength of a Wookiee:

Despite how weird this story is, the reason Chewie was arrested is surprisingly pedestrian. Apparently there's a law in Ukraine against campaigning for a political candidate on election day. Is that worth going to jail for? If you're a big enough Star Wars fan, absolutely.

Chewie was taken to court, where he was fined the equivalent of $7.50 (converted from Ukrainian hyrvinias/Galactic credits). However, he claimed that his bank has no branches on this planet, which may put him in trouble. That and the fact that he wouldn't take off his costume in court.

It's all worth it for that photo. It's great to see democracy blooming in Ukraine. Next step, the galaxy.

Actor Moise Morancy was on a crowded bus when an older white woman started yelling at a young black lady. It's a bit unclear exactly what started her tirade, but it's a bus, so it could be anything. Buses are probably the worst form of travel that doesn't involve going through a radiation machine before entry. Everyone is angry, and much like alcohol, bus anger brings people's true demons. Morancy describes the situation that went down in the video like so:

So this morning, I get on a crowded bus on my way to school & this white woman is bugging out, yelling and being extremely rude, mainly because people were standing near the back door. So this brilliant black girl kindly says to her “Ma’am, there’s no room on this bus. There’s a stroller and it’s extremely crowded, where are people supposed to stand?” Immediately the woman snapped saying all kinds of rude things! No, I don’t know this black girl from a hole in the wall, but I don’t care. You ain’t gonna talk to my sista like that. So I call out that woman’s racist remarks as well as her white privilege; because she thinks she can speak to whoever she wants to in whichever manner she feels. All hell breaks loose as we see her true perspective of not only us as black people but our traits and occupations…..what do you think? Was I wrong for stepping in?

Well, let's see:

Okay, this looks pretty bad and super racist. The woman goes out of her way to call Morancy inferior, uneducated, and un-presentable. She takes a swipe at his hair, then follows it up with suggestive comments about waiting for the police to show up to take out cameras. She never drops the n-word, though she seems like the kind of person who says it quietly to herself when she gets home after a long day of having to rub elbows with inferior people. 

No word on what's happened to this woman now that a video of her losing her sh*t on a public bus has gone viral, though Morancy says in the vid that he hopes she gets fired. It's tempting to almost pity her, because Morancy is relentless and she clearly has no idea how powerful the Internet can be. But if she weren't racist, she wouldn't underestimate a young black man's social media presence. It's sort of a "racist chicken and racist egg" situation. Considering his post has been shared on Facebook almost 9,000 times, she's probably learned. To take a cab.

A California start-up called Clear Food has done the Thing That Should Not Be Done: analyzed what's actually in a bunch of different hot dogs. They took samples from 345 different hot dogs and sausages, and as you might be able to guess, the results weren't that "these hot dogs were made from grade A organic meat that's raised in conditions so great, the animals have higher thread-count sheets than you." In fact, 15% of the samples had "evidence of meats not on the labels." This includes pork products in sausages that are supposed to be chicken or beef, as well as animal products in dogs that were supposed to be vegetarian. And this on the same day that the World Health Organization tells us bacon causes cancer.

But perhaps even more disturbing than that is this: 2% of the samples tested positive for human DNA. You might be thinking that a secret evil hot dog lab has developed the perfect hot dog animal: a cross-breed that's 98% cow and 2% human, so it probably looks like a cow, but with a gorgeous head of human hair. 

That's not the case, though, because 2/3 of the samples that tested positive for human DNA were "vegetarian." There were actually a lot of problems with the vegetarian dogs — the study also found that many of them exaggerate their amount of protein, 10% of the vegetarian items actually contained meat, and "vegetarian items accounted for 67% of the hygienic issues found in the report." If you're curious, human DNA is considered a contaminant in the report rather than a meat, so at least we're not cannibals.

If you want to know if your favorite hot dog brand creates a "hot dog with integrity," Clear Food has a list of the best-scoring brands in its report.

If you're a famous person, you might want to "play it safe" on Halloween by not wearing a deeply offensive costume. Here are some free uncontroversial ideas: pumpkin, Rosie the Riveter, ghost. There you go, Jennifer Aniston. Enjoy your night! Have fun avoiding the fate of these 9 celebrities who got in trouble for their provocative—and in some cases, also very racist—get-ups.

1. Julianne Hough as Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren

The Dancing With The Stars performer apparently didn't know the history of blackface or the history of ignorant celebrities wearing blackface in this country when she dressed up as a beloved Orange Is The New Black character.

2. Bill Murray as Jimi Hendrix

This brings up a lot of questions like "why?" and "how?"

3. Bill Maher as Steve Irwin

Instead of apologizing for dressing up as the Crocodile Hunter at the moment of his tragic (and at that point, very recent) death, the comedian/pundit suggested that Irwin might have provoked the stingray that stabbed him in the chest.

4. Ashley Benson as Cecil the Lion

When the Pretty Little Liars actress shared an Instagram photo of her Halloween costume idea a few weeks ago, she faced an immediate backlash from people who thought it was too soon to evoke the adored lion's murder. Probably one of those people was a crying Jimmy Kimmel.

5. Snooki as Girl On The Milk Carton

The reality star thought it would be chill to pretend she was a notice for an abducted child.

6. Ellie Goulding as Sexy Native American

If you're planning to dress up as a sexy Native American, consider not doing that. This is a lesson it's taking society a longtimetolearn.

7. Prince Harry as a Nazi

Not technically a Halloween costume, but seriously, isn't there someone in England whose job it is to make sure the royal kids don't pull shit like this?

8. Heidi Klum as Hindu Goddess Kali

A lot of people were not into this, including Hindu scholars who thought it was disrespectful to their religion.

9. Chris Brown as Terrorist

He's trolling, right?

Cordelia Roberts from the U.K. and Ciara Murphy from Ireland had never met before they both wound up in Bremen, Germany for a college exchange program. In fact, it took them a while to meet once they were there. Both of them started to get weird questions around campus from people asking if they had traveled to Germany with a sister or a twin. Needless to say, both girls were baffled. But one day, they finally came face to face, and realized they had each found their twin stranger in a strange country.

Since then, the two have become inseparable friends. They're like identical twins in every way, except they have different charming accents. It's a perfect situation! Here's hoping they stay in touch after their stint in Germany is over. They can keep each other up to date on how their faces are aging and other twin topics. It'll be really special.