Single all the way.
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This awesome video of PSY rehearsing with his backup dancers will relieve your holiday stress.
A behind-the-scenes choreography rehearsal video for Korean pop star PSY’s single 'Daddy made its way online this week, and the delightful precision of it all will help your holiday stress slide away like sweat from a dancer's too-toned bod. Your pants don't fit because of all the cookies? Your coworker won't speak to you since you made a drunken pass at the holiday party? Your mom sending you passive-aggressive emails suggesting she's worried that you won't spend enough on your gifts for the family? Dance it out, or at least let the pros do it for you:
You can also just pretend that this is the real video for "Daddy" if you don't want to watch the creepy schoolboy hootenanny that is the official one, which you should only watch if you definitely want your dreams to be haunted by the ghosts of PSY past, present, and future:
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Teen punches Prime Minister of Spain in the face because the kids are our terrible future.
Young people getting involved in politics is wonderful, but less so when it's by punching leaders in the face, as a 17-year-old just did to Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Wednesday night. Although the exact motive is unclear, the suspect told the newspaper El Pais "I'm glad we did" after he was arrested for assaulting the Prime Minister and breaking his glasses during a campaign stop in the town of Pontevedra. Here's the footage, which may be NSFW if you work in a place where people can understand Spanish swear words:
Although the Prime Minister was fundamentally unharmed, the attack did leave a mark.
It's the Internet, of course, so even an unprovoked assault on a world leader gets immediately remixed:
While there may not be an official motive, Rajoy has lower favorability ratings among Millennials in Spain than Francisco Franco, the fascist dictator who ruled the nation for 36 years. This is due to Rajoy's leadership on stringent austerity policies against government spending, which are not looked upon kindly by a generation suffering a 51% unemployment rate. Those policies may indeed help Spain in the long run as it shifts away from public-sector jobs to more organic job creation, but those benefits are still far down the road and out of reach for young people who are dangerously within reach of the Prime Minister.
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Celebrities join forces for an important cause: dramatically reading the 'Hotline Bling' lyrics.
It seems like you can't open new browser tab these days without seeing another famous person doing a "Hotline Bling" dance parody, but it turns out there was one type of spoof we've been missing in all this clickbait: a dramatic speaking parody of Drake's song opus. Thankfully, W Magazine has made this video with Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Banks, Amy Schumer, and other people W Magazine claims are famous even if you don't recognize them. Watch to see legitimately delightfully dramatic readings of Drake's lyrics, and then pray silently that this "Hotline Bling" parody will be the last.
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Jimmy Kimmel had more celebrities read mean tweets about themselves. Is this the meanest batch yet?
Jimmy Kimmel's best segment, Celebrities Read Mean Tweets, returned on Wednesday night to prove that the stars are indeed just like everyone else—they get cyberbullied. This time, the trolls outdid themselves with some very creative insults: calling Kirsten Dunst's teeth Tic Tacs, suggesting activities more pleasurable than Key and Peele, and comparing Daniel Radcliffe to a certain mammal. Not even his patronus could save him.
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17 people who didn't actually meet the celebrities they think they met.
Everyone has a doppleganger out there somewhere, even celebrities, and sometimes this can confuse people. When you see one of these lookalikes walking around in public, it's easy to get excited and assume that it's the celebrity. Unfortunately, it almost never is. (Except for Bill Murray. It's always Bill Murray).
It should probably go without saying that the wisest thing to do in this situation is to keep your star-struck feelings to yourself—NOT take a selfie with a guy who kinda, sorta looks like Drake. With that in mind, here are some delightfully naive people who immortalized their not-quite-brushes with fame on the Internet.
1. Fake Drake.
2. Mars attracts.
3. How you doin'?
4. No, that's Carolyn Manson.
5. Hugh J'mistake.
6. Where there's not a Will (Ferrell), there's no way.
7. Danican't.
8. U got it wrong.
9. Shia LaBeouf-substitute.
10. Swift justice.
11. No-bey Maguire.
12. 99 problems, and meeting Jay-Z isn't one of them.
13. It's actually his dear brother, Fred Sheeran.
14. Get busy "living."
15. Arya kidding me?
16. Not to snipe or anything.
17. It all sounds the same anyway.
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Pharma CEO Martin Shkreli arrested for securities fraud. The Wu-Tang Clan might be involved.
Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO/horrible douchebro Martin Shkreli was arrested early Thursday morning for securities fraud at his apartment in Manhattan. The charges are related to alleged illegal sales of stock shares at his previous biotech firm, Retrophin Inc.
Shkreli was CEO of Retrophin, until he was ousted by its board. He's also currently being sued by the company. The securities fraud charges against him are related to this matter, and allege that he used stock sales to illegally pay off unrelated debts.
Shkreli became the poster boy for pharmaceutical greed when his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, astronomically jacked the price of a drug commonly used to treat HIV and cancer patients. He has since found several ways to somehow make his personality appear even worse: his ex-girlfriend claims he once offered her $10,000 to go down on her, and he made enemies with the Wu-Tang Clan after it was discovered he was the one who purchased the only copy of their new album.
His arrest is interesting, as there was a hilarious and unsubstantiated rumor going around about the contract Shkreli signed when he bought the Wu-Tang album. The rumor claimed that the contract had a stipulation that either Wu-Tang or Bill Murray reserved the right to steal the album back from the buyer in an elaborate heist. It's not true, but today the Internet shall be joyously overflowing with suggestions that Wu-Tang or Bill Murray had something to do with Shkreli's swift arrest so soon after he bought the album.
Let the rumors fly, because Wu-Tang Clan ain't nuthing ta f**k wit, and Bill Murray does what he wants. And even if Wu-Tang didn't have anything to do with Shkreli's arrest, they know that revenge is a dish best served cold, and are patiently waiting in the shadows.
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Kourtney Kardashian shared a nude photo to get your mind off Bieber rumors. It's not working, but nice try.
Rumors about Kourtney Kardashian and Justin Bieber hooking up have been straight-up swirling, but here's a little something to distract you: Kourtney's butt. The most straight-edge Kardashian shared a new nude photo on Instagram, probably to try to get you to shut up about your Bieber theories. Kardashian and Bieber have been seen spending time together— Look, a butt!
This was a fairly shrewd (and proven) diversion, but there's a major reason why in this case it won't work: Justin Bieber famously posted a butt photo earlier this year.
And this new butt photo is reminiscent of the other photo in that they both show butts of people rumored to be engaged in a romantic and/or sexy partnership. Do you see the similarities?
Some have speculated that Kourtney's photo is from her Vanity Fair shoot in October.
You'll notice the similarity in composition, tone, and butt.
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Weather presenter drops 12 'Star Wars' puns in 40-second report. Nerds everywhere fall in love.
Sian Welby, a weather presenter for the UK's Channel 5, is cashing in on the tidal wave of excitement for Star Wars: The Force Awakens by incorporating it into her job using the universal nerd language: puns.
On Tuesday's broadcast, she managed to squeeze 12 puns into a 40-second weather report, cramming them in tighter than droids in a Jawa sandcrawler. She kept a straight face throughout, even though these puns were so bad they could make C-3PO cringe, and his face doesn't move.
The Force is strong with this one.
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Taylor Swift's birthday throwback photo proves she's been making the same face since she was a baby.
Taylor Swift shared a new throwback photo, and as usual, she looks surprised. But the picture was taken was long before the validity of her shocked faces was repeatedly called into question. In fact, judging from her Little Mermaid sweatshirt and toddler-like demeanor, it couldn't have been too much later than 1989 (copyright Taylor Swift).
Swift shared the photo in honor of her birthday, and wrote in the caption, "Today I begin my 26th year of freaking out over stuff." Doesn't it seem like just yesterday that she didn't know about you, but she was feeling 22? They grow up fast, yet the 1989 tour never seems to end.
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The worst part of this creepy family Christmas card is the glaring grammatical error.
19-year-old Rachel Yoshida of Florida posted her family's Christmas card to Imgur on Tuesday, where it rocked a few boats. In it, Rachel, her mother, and her older sister Natalie are all wearing t-shirts that say "HO," while the patriarch of the family sits like a king in his comfy chair wearing one that reads "Chillin' with my ho's." You're chilling with your ho's what, sir?
It already has over 2 million views and the comments are not kind:
The idea for the pic came from 21-year-old Natalie, who has a lot of followers on Instagram, and certainly knows how to frame a good themed photo. Like this one of of the Yoshida ladies dressed up for Halloween (probably?):
Natalie told BuzzFeed that their dad was indeed very chill about the whole thing and pretty much shuffled wherever they told him. If he is a pimp, he's an undemanding one.
My mom agreed immediately...My dad never actually agreed or disagreed. He’s a great sport.
All of our immediate friends understand our humor so they think it’s hilarious...Not one person who knows us in real life has ‘hated’. Everyone who is ‘hating’ is seeking offense in an obvious joke.
Well, everyone in that photo is an adult and agreed to participate in a weird family sex joke, so it seems okay. Except maybe for the dad? Someone should check on him. Meanwhile, here's what the Yoshidas have to say to the haters:
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The 9 most sociopathic pranks of 2015.
YouTube pranks can be pretty funny—that is, when they're actually pranks and not psychologically damaging to the people being pranked. Not everyone understands that, and every year, a bunch of people take it too far, making the Internet collectively groan. Here are the best worst pranks of 2015, which will make you yearn for the simple days of whoopie cushions and snap gum.
1. Roman Atwood fooling his wife into thinking that he killed their son.
This video is the holy grail of evidence to use in a divorce proceeding.
2. This Cambodian talk show that fooled a 13-year-old into thinking that she'd be reunited with her estranged mom.
The prank starts at around 7:50. She starts crying when she hears the news. It turns out that it was just a man in drag, which leads to the most painfully uncomfortable few minutes of television ever seen.
3. These delinquents who super-glued a woman's hand to her front door.
Two teenage boys put superglue on a U.K. woman's door handle, and when she tried to open the door, her hand got so stuck that firefighters and paramedics had to come. They couldn't get it off the handle, so they had to remove the handle from the door and take her to the hospital. Doctors finally got it off, but she only got home at 4 a.m. and now feels unsafe about living in her apartment.
Nice one, dudes! So badass!
4. This guy who got his friend to break and enter into a stranger's house.
This guy told his friend that had never been to his house before to come over. He gave him the address to the house across the street, though, and texted his friend that he was playing video games and to just come inside when he arrived.
Judging by the manner in which he ran the heck away, he saw some horrific things in there.
5. This Brazilian prank show that did a crazy ghost prank on the subway.
It seems like Brazil's public transit was cooperative with the prank. Perhaps too cooperative.
6. These pranksters who staged a zombie apocalypse.
The kid at 2:22 will be permanently damaged.
7. Katie Couric convincing James Corden that she basically fell to her death on his show.
The bodily twitching at the end of the fall adds a nice (and awful) touch.
8. These friends pranking their Star Wars-obsessed friend into believing that he gets to see the movie early.
They are far more evil than a Sith lord.
9. These Russian comedians who convinced Elton John that he was having a phone call with Vladimir Putin about LGBTQ rights in Russia.
"Haha, let's convince Elton John that progress is happening when it's not!"
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Hilary Duff did an electro version of Fleetwood Mac's 'Little Lies' for you to reluctantly enjoy.
If you haven't been watching Younger, you might start after trancing out to Hilary Duff's cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Little Lies." Duff has a long history of making people reluctantly dance to easy listening pop hits, but the real power behind this version is definitely Fleetwood Mac. "Little Lies" is just a damn good song! It's hard to ruin it, even when you're trying to by making it electronic and turning it into a commercial.
If you want more pop stars covering Fleetwood Mac, but no house beats, here's Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester doing justice to "Dreams."
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Jimmy Kimmel called Trump un-American to his face.
Donald Trump appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday night for a surprisingly confrontational interview. It's fitting that in an episode that featured celebrities reading mean tweets, Kimmel also spoke to the ultimate mean tweeter himself.
A lot of the media has been sucking on Trump's teat, going easy on him in exchange for easy ratings. SNL got a lot of hate for giving him a platform while hardly criticizing his dangerous ideas, and Trump has only gotten worse in the weeks since then.
But in this latest interview, Kimmel didn't hold back. He asked Trump about his proposed Muslim ban, saying, "Isn't it un-American and wrong to discriminate people based on their religion?" He even brought up Malala Yousafzai's point that such an extreme policy is likely to radicalize more terrorists.
To make things funny again, Kimmel did a reading of a children's book he ghost-wrote for Trump. Called Winners Aren't Losers, Kimmel as Trump as Dr. Seuss shared some of his charming couplets:
Oh the places you'll go
On your yacht!
On you plane!
With your suits from Milan!
And your wives from Ukraine!
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Here's a new human Barbie to gawk at. She arguably looks the most like Barbie, but denies plastic surgery.
A Brazilian woman who made her body into a human Barbie told The Daily Mail that she's never had plastic surgery, something which likely is causing other human Barbies to scoff and be like "I had to remove two ribs, what's this BS?" (Think there's only one other human Barbie? Don't be naive—there's a whole set!)
Andressa Damiani has a 20-inch waist and 32F bra size. For comparison, supermodels typically have 24 inch waists, and cup sizes from A to C, as you'd expect with someone who has a small waist.
"People don't believe me when I say I have never had any plastic surgery and they think I starve myself because I'm so thin," the 23-year-old veterinary physician (!) told The Daily Mail. "They call me a liar."
Damiani does most of her Barbie look through expertly applied make-up (like bright blue contact lenses and white eyeliner to make her eyes look huge). This is what she looks like without make-up—very pretty, obviously, but within the range of what a human being looks like:
And here are some of her Barbie looks:
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22 funny and interesting maps that show how weird America was in 2015.
Maps have fascinated people for millennia, but the past few decades have seen an explosion of ways to collect more and better data on people and places, meaning we can make maps previous generations could only dream of—like a map of the most famous Kevin from every state. How did people even get by before then? Here are 22 of the most mind-blowing maps of 2015. Click on the headline to go to the full articles, where you can dig deeper and zoom into all of these maps.
1. A complete map of the relative value of $100 in America.
2. Stay drunk forever with this animated map of when bars open and close in every state.
View post on imgur.com3. This shameful map of every state's most embarrassing top Google searches.
4. This map, the most popular of the year, shows the hourly wage you'd need to afford a two-bedroom rental in every state.
5. On a similar note, this map/app shows what a "living wage" is for all kinds of families in every county, and the gap between that and the minimum wage.
6. This map show the most famous Kevin from every state.
7. The most Googled costume ideas for each state are scarier than Halloween itself.
8. Do you live in one of the top 10 couch potato states?
9. How close, yet so far, do you live from the wealthiest ZIP codes in America?
10. This map will tell you the most iconic soft drink from your state.
11. This map shows the unique way each state is likely to kill you.
12. This is a color-coded map of every job in America (except the spy ones). Read the article to zoom down to the city block level.
13. This interactive map of STD rates across America has the perfect (gross) color palette.
14. If America was split up based on each state's favorite alcohol, this would be the new map.
15. The actual most popular Halloween costumes in every state were a little more tolerable than the ones on the "most Googled" map.
16. Do you live in one of the drunkest states in the US? This map will tell you.
17. This map of the fattest states will show you where your mom lives.
18. Here are the emoji each state uses the most. You should be ashamed of yourself, Nevada.
19. This map shows which states have the most Black Friday brawls.
20. This is how much an ounce of pot costs in every state (read the article for individual prices).
21. Big data finally does something useful by plotting out "the optimal road trip across the U.S."
22. Finally, this map showing what each state Googles more than any others reveals our secret desires.
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These miserable cats being paraded in Christmas costumes are the hottest thing on Instagram.
The cats of the Instagram account My Furry Babies are posing and prancing in Santa and Christmas costumes for the bewilderment of the Internet. Their names are Joey and Cleo, and when they're not being dressed up in costumes by their owner, they're likely plotting their escape from the nightmare they're forced to endure every day.
It appears that they enjoy their Christmas costumes even less than the poor cat that wore a pirate costume on Halloween. They must shudder every time they hear the sound of costumes being removed from boxes and a camera being snapped onto a tripod. Until the day they manage to break free, everyone can watch their tidings of joy.
Maybe the cats will get to retire early if their Internet fame doesn't bring in enough money. If not, hopefully the next of their nine lives will be spent with an owner who has different hobbies, like having a job or getting laid.
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