Chris Hemsworth tweeted a picture of his dramatic weight loss for his upcoming role in Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea. It looks like someone stuck a pin in Thor and deflated him. In the Heart of the Sea is based upon the non-fiction novel of the same name, which tells the story of a crew trying to survive after their ship is struck and sunk by a sperm whale, which was actually the real-life inspiration for Herman Mellville's Moby Dick. The movie looks like it will be Cast Away or Life of Pi but set in the 1800s. To portray the starving sailors, the actors of the film went on crazy, 500-calorie-a-day diets. Hemsworth decided to share what that looks like on social media:
People are always looking for easier ways to get food in their food holes, which is why cooking short cuts are so popular on social media. Suzanne Dale from Manchester, England was excited to try the grilled cheese life-hack she saw on Facebook, which suggests you turn your toaster on its side and place bread and cheese inside. Like this:
Turn a toaster sideways to get a grilled cheese.More great stuff at http://homestead-and-survival.com/
BAD IDEA! A few minutes after Suzanne popped the sandwich in the toaster it started smoking. Seconds later flames appeared. At this point Suzanne acted on pure instinct, and threw the entire thing out her window. "Luckily I live in a house and have a garden, but if it was anyone living in a flat or somebody who was less agile who couldn’t get out as quick, they were real flames, it could be dangerous," she told Manchester Evening News.
Thankfully Suzanne had no injuries. She posted the photo of her food fail on Facebook to warn other hungry/lazy people. The post quickly went viral.
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME... !!! ...Saw a tip on FB about turning your toaster on it's side for toasted cheese.....thought...
If Pinterest fails have taught us anything, it's that you can't trust every recipe on the Internet. This one is a dangerous nightmare, unless you want to be roasting marshmallows over your charred possessions for dessert. It's not worth it, just ask the London Fire Department. They tweeted out this warning today:
After months of speculation on whether or not a certain Jon Snow is still alive in the Game of Thrones universe, the announcement of the show's return hinted that the character is returning as well.
The Warwick Rowers have been publishing calendars of their hunky paddlers since 2009 to raise money for the team, and their most recent one was just released to much panting and hooting. The calendar has been wildly successful, creating book and short film offshoots. All sorts of people can enjoy hot dudes flashing their buns, but unsurprisingly, it has been particularly popular amongst gay men. To thank their fans in the LGBT community, the Warwick Rowers launched Sport Allies, a program designed to reach out to young people facing homophobia.
Loved by gay men and wizards alike!
The response has been huge, of course, and it's also affected people on a more emotional and personal level than photos of butts usually do. This weekend, the calendar's producer Angus Malcolm shared a fan letter he received from a gay teen on Facebook:
A young Australian (coincidentally also called Angus) recently wrote to The Warwick Rowers Calendar with this message. ...
Hi, my name’s Angus. I’m a 17yr old Australian who recently came out as gay to his friends and family. I just wanted to say thank you, so very very much for what you guys do. The promo shots of your calendar and some of the pictures were some of the first ever photos of those kind that I saw. In fact it was the calendar images that made me realise my attraction and thus homosexuality.
But I think the most powerful aspects of the images are that they show that camaraderie and mateship is still possible when there are accepting people who don’t care about your sexuality. They gave me the realisation that when I came out to my friends they wouldn’t treat me any differently, but just like a mate. In fact the day I came out I put one of the posters on my phone lock screen as motivation to come out.
Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for what you’re doing, fighting homophobia and giving confused guys like me confidence in their attraction and eventual acceptance. As soon as I get a job I will buy one of the calendars and support this great cause, so hopefully you can keep helping others like me.
Wow. Taking your clothes off really can change the world.
After the trends of dandruffy glitter roots and those flower beards that made every guy look like he was about to join a 14-piece indie rock band, the next male hair trend should have been obvious: glitter beards. While the trend has been circling social media for a at least a month, glitter beards are becoming especially popular in advance of the holidays. These celebratory sparkle faces ensure that men will look festive at holiday parties while leaving a tell-tale smattering of sparkles on the face of anyone they kiss under the mistletoe.
All that glitters is not gold. Sometimes, it's beards.Glitter beard, glitter eyes, glitter pants? We can't see them, so maybe!Bluebeard, glittery pirate of the high seas.The only glitter beard that also features butterflies and a small woman hovering over the shoulder.A beard of glitter beards, because somebody had to do it.
The fine gentlemen at The Gay Beard have a how-to video on how to keep the sparkles sticking to your beard so you (hopefully) don't constantly rain glitter as you walk:
In this deleted scene promoting the Season 3 DVD release of Inside Amy Schumer, you'll get to see all those engagement photos of your Facebook friends fainting under trees get mercilessly ridiculed. Love is beautiful, but the number of occasions that now get special commemorative photos has dramatically increased since the advent of social media. Everything from surprise proposals to the completely made-up tradition of Promposals are getting more and more elaborate, and for what? Likes? Admit that it's for likes!
Reddit user TechnicallyRon_ noticed that his wife cries at "absolutely anything," so he started keeping a log of each individual thing that's triggered her tears. He's not saying all women or emotional or anything—just his wacky wife. Seriously, she's always crying!
After analyzing his data, it's clear that there are few key patterns:
Animals
Food
Her husband
It's an okay statistical survey. Nothing compared to this, though.
Lara Mason is an award-winning baker who has made cakes in every shape and size. Most frequently, she makes them in human shapes and sizes, cake-ifying everybody from Jennifer Lawrence to Harry Potter. She was married last month to Nikki Mason in Malta, and decided to make her own wedding cakes. The pics have gone viral, in part because they're amazing, in part because eating your own face at a wedding is somewhat horrifying, even in a post Game of Thrones"Red Wedding" world:
Happy wedding day to us!!!Bride and groom lifesize cakes... I am exhausted!!3 days was NOT enough time haha!
The couple clearly has a sense of humor. Not only are they offering their own bodies up to their guests as dessert, Nikki's cake-person sacrifice is wearing one of those beer guzzling hard hats that reads, "Marriage Survival Kit." If Nikki needs to double fist Coors to get through his marriage, it's pretty obvious what Lara needs: marzipan.
What would piss you off more: seeing Justin Bieber in a Nirvana shirt, or finding out Justin was born one month before Cobain killed himself, and thus it was definitely probably his fault? (Editor's note: sarcasm.)
I guess u can say nothing pisses me off as much as seeing justin bieber in a nirvana t-shirt.
Agreed. There's no way Bieber heard any of the band's hit songs during his entire life. Plus this looks like more of a Spencer's purchase than Hot Topic, tbh.
Why is Justin bieber wearing a nirvana shirt name one song you white girl fresh outta hot topic
Damn it, Biebs. Why don't you understand that you can't just wear a band's merch whenever you feel like it? If you want to wear a Nirvana shirt, then you have to be seriously freakin' hip. Like a toddler who lives in Brooklyn or anyone spending Black Friday at Target.
That 'Toddler Girl's T' is going to give Emerson the best Christmas ever.
TV news coverage might seem increasingly partisan, but there is one area where America's news professionals are on the same page: in buying the same dress. After one woman posted a link to the $23 Homeyee Women's Stretch Tunic Pencil Sheath Dress on a Facebook group for meteorologists, dozens of other weather professionals purchased the dress as well. In addition to being affordable, the dress strikes a balance between professional, casual, and flattering that meteorologists desire in their work wardrobes. (Off air, meteorologists presumably only wear T-shirts that say "I love weather!") Now, the forecast for local TV news broadcasts is sunny with a strong chance of Homeyee dresses, and the forecast for any blog writing about this story is even worse meteorology puns than that.
Now imagine if all of these women were wearing The Dress, and then thank goodness that meme has died.
Here's a closer view of part of the above:
The red version of this dress is one insignia away from a Star Trek uniform.
Unfortunately, it appears that none of the women bought the green dress, which would turn them into awesome floating heads in front of their meteorology green screens.
5. Gwen Stefani, because Gavin Rossdale is already ho-ing it up.
How the mighty have fallen. And later, gotten divorced.
It's only been a short time since Gavin Rossdale banged the maid, forgot to delete the evidence from his iPad, and was dumped by Gwen Stefani. But you wouldn't know it from how they've both moved on. Gwen is already getting hot and heavy with her Voice costar Blake Shelton, and now it looks like Gav is jumping into the swinging single lifestyle with the enthusiasm of a kid cannonballing into a swimming pool full of models.
TMZ reports that a dapper Gavin was seen at a swanky tennis event for charity in Boca Raton on Saturday night, flirting and waving his ringless finger around for all the ladies to see. A source described him as a "chick magnet," because chicks seemed to be physically drawn toward his body by an invisible force. Like a magnet.
That's animal magnetism right there. He's like a magnet and an animal.
He seemed particularly hands-on with one unidentified blonde. Unidentified to the press, that is. Hopefully, he knew who she was.
Was Gwen driven crazy with jealousy by this wild night? Did she even care? Does Gavin? DO YOU?
4. Lil Wayne, because he might lose his private skate park.
"I have a skate park?"
Lil Wayne is in Big Trouble over a particularly sticky debt. He owes $2 million to a private jet company (a totally relatable problem) and took out a $1.5 million loan to help pay it. But apparently, financial institutions won't trust Wayne to handle his money responsibly no matter how many diamonds he has in his teeth, because they demanded collateral. In a form that's sure to hurt.
In order to secure the loan, Wayne had to put his beloved private skate park on the line. If he's unable to repay the $1.5 million in a timely fashion, he could be reduced to grinding and ollieing in a public park with all the non-famous skaters. Now that would be a crime.
The good news is that by offering the skate park, Wayne was able to keep his prized collection of art from being seized by the government. But he had better learn to control his spending soon, or Uncle Sam will be going into his mouth with a pair of pliers.
3. A guy who tried to steal a beer truck and ran himself over.
Who wouldn't be tempted by a felony quantity of warm beer?
A Columbus, Georgia man is in police custody after he committed the local crime version of flying too close to the sun—trying to steal a beer truck. And like Icarus in the myth, he paid for his hubris. And his stupidity.
Just before 6 A.M. this morning, 56-year-old Gregory Miller got behind the wheel of a beer truck stopped at a Circle K while the driver was inside. Miller drove the truck to a nearby Bojangles restaurant and got out, but apparently, he didn't understand the full complexities of a commercial vehicle's emergency brake. He fell under the truck, which rolled over his right leg.
Miller was taken into custody. The extent of his injuries are unknown, except for what must be a powerfully bruised ego. He was so close to being a beer-slinging hero.
2. Jennifer Lawrence, because the final 'Hunger Games' movie tanked.
Lawrence at the premiere, before she knew how dystopian the future was about to get.
J. Law having the worst Monday?! You heard right. But only because otherwise, things are going so well for her. She's a huge star, paid nearly as well as her male colleagues, and beloved the world over. Which makes the relative failure of her latest movie, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, all the more crushing.
The Hunger Games franchise is what put Lawrence on the map, and this is the last installment (technically the second part of the last installment), so obviously, it's bittersweet for Lawrence and the rest of the cast and crew. But for a last hurrah, it was pretty underwhelming. More of a last "…yay?"
Maybe if she had ever actually shot the arrow, people would have been more excited.
The film came out on Friday and had a $101 million opening weekend, coming in as the #1 movie in the country. For most films this would be fantastic, but for The Hunger Games it was a pretty lousy showing, the lowest of all the films so far. It's also more than $50 million less than the highest-grossing movie in the franchise, Catching Fire, which opened at $158 million.
Does starring in a movie than only made $100 million really mean Jennifer Lawrence is having a worse Monday than you? Yes. Famous people's problems are bigger than everyone else's. Sorry.
1. A guy who was beaten up by a stripper after he told her to lose weight.
The bar for good behavior at a strip club is so low already.
Let this story be the sweet dessert at the end of a bitter meal of rich people problems. And sweet it is.
In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a 23-year-old man was enjoying a pleasant Sunday night at the elegantly-named Derriere's Gentlemen's Club. One dancer was irritating him in some way, so he told her to "go to the gym and lose weight." Surprisingly, things went badly from there.
So much trouble for such a classy place.
The dancer, whom the victim described as being a white female of roughly 115 to 120 lbs., reached off the stage and struck him four times in the face, injuring him with a ring she was wearing. Then the bouncers dragged his sorry ass to the curb, using what he described to police as "excessive force."
That's the strange part of this story. The victim decided to tell the police, instead of the more logical step of taking this story to his grave. He also admitted to the authorities that his intoxication level was "11 out of 10," and declined to press charges.
So why did he go public at all? It's simple—to make you happy. So, when you're bending over your Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, take a moment to give thanks to this drunk idiot for giving you something to laugh at. And maybe if you're lucky, your family will do the same.
The Slow Mo Guys, famous for using their slow mo camera to film someone getting shot by a taser and another guy popping a giant water balloon, took things to the next level by recreating a fire tornado (which, they pointed out, is a naturally occurring phenomenon) and filming it in slow motion. They arranged a bunch of box fans in a circle around a bucket of kerosene, lit up the kerosene, turned on the fans, and boom—fire tornado.
It's the holidays, so when you see a story about kids cutting their hair, you may naïvely assume it was to benefit people with cancer or some such feelgoodity (or maybe to punish them). But not today. Today you learn about Bunchems, the hot new toy making nightmares for parents. As you can see, Bunchems are little plastic balls that bunch up real good:
A photo posted by Jaymee McKinnies (@my_delightful_life) on
5. This parent who really spent way more than Bunchems are supposed to cost.
6. These parents who wish they hated their kid enough to enjoy this.
7. Finally this guy, who has advice for everyone.
There were many more, but these were some of the stickiest entanglements kids of Amazon reviewers got into. But fear knot, parents with their Bunchems in a twist, Buchems has heard your call and answered with a video containing a girl with a seemingly slight Bunchems issue compared to previous entries:
Hair dye posts are all the rage these days, whether it's new twists on old tricks or straight-up turning your hair into magic, but what about the horror tales of bad hair dye reaction? Where's their time in the sun? Well, you're in luck, because one sufferer, already putting up with the symptoms of a severe reaction to seemingly-normal hair dye, also suffered her friend posting the pictures online. Here's what redditor the_chosen_ginger's friend looked like before attempting a brave new look:
And now they both invite you to journey through their slideshow album, complete with captions.
Just a reminder, kids: beauty is chemistry, and chemistry is one of the burnier of sciences. Here's a bonus album from a while ago from redditor JohntheRevelatorJR:
A group of girls is trying to enter one of California's oldest boys clubs: no, not the club of high-paid Hollywood directors—the Boy Scouts. The group of five girls, who call themselves the Unicorns, are former Girl Scouts who want a more hands-on outdoors experience—the sort of experience the Boy Scouts offer. And the Unicorns are good at that hands-on outdoors stuff, too. In the spring, they participated against several Boy Scout troops in an event called Camporee where they're "judged for grit and spirit," and they placed second.
Boy Scout leaders, however, are not interested in letting the girls join, either on the local or national level. Local leaders rebuffed the girls, and the national organization sent this to journalists: "We understand that the values and the lessons of scouting are attractive to the entire family. However, Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts are year-round programs for boys and young men.” Title IX is no help in this case, either—it actually has an exception for the Boy Scouts, noting that they don't have to allow women to enter.
The arguments people are giving against letting the Unicorns join the Boy Scouts are things like "Yeah, this is supposed to be a place where boys can run around and get their sillies out" and "Coed tents? No THANK you!" as if agreeing to let girls join the Boy Scouts would automatically mean that they had to share tents. Neither of those are concerns of the Unicorns, who just care about getting to do the same work the Boy Scouts do:
You may have seen a few of these "100 Years of Beauty" videos before (see below for an exhaustive list)—but all those videos were lame compared to this one, because you can't take off 100 years of tattoos. That's the difference between Casey, who volunteered to get 11 tattoos for this Cut video, and all the other low-stakes models who did these.*
