When your significant other has experienced something traumatic, what do you do? You help them get through it, of course, but when college basketball player Lily Hernandez tore her ACL, her boyfriend did that and more. Here they are before the injury:
After the injury, Hernandez had surgery and started using crutches. Awesome boyfriend Luis Escobar hilariously lightened up her mood by blasting epic rap music as they went about doing everyday things—and thankfully, he captured it all on camera.
Escobar created this inspiring 28-second clip using the ultimate soundtrack, which includes the Rocky theme song and Eazy-E’s “Boyz-N-The-Hood.”
The video was posted on Twitter by Escobar, and it has already been retweeted over 40,000 times. But... what does Hernandez think about all of this? No word from her yet on the situation, but it's certainly obvious they're still happily in love. Proof:
A contestant named David had a spectacular geography fail on a recent Wheel of Fortune couples' edition episode. Normally, contestants on the show cause a stir when they botch the solving of a puzzle. This time, however, the couple had already won the puzzle. Host Pat Sajak then decided to check his geography knowledge by asking him the country for their destination. That's when it got interesting. Twice:
https://youtu.be/ord1x2u5n6c
They still get their prize, at least. And any time David tries to win an argument with his wife, she can just whip out this clip on her phone and destroy him every time.
Everyone has guilty pleasures—to various degrees of guilt-worthiness.People on Reddit have been confessing things that they secretly like and are embarrassed to admit, and while people in today's society can watch The Bachelor openly, there are still stigmas affecting the psyches of many. Whether sniffing earwax or enjoying My Little Pony, here are Reddit's most interesting confessions:
1. They could feel it coming in the air tonight.
2. Keeping up with self-obsession leads to self-loathing.
The app Face Swap Live is popular because the possibilities of successful—meaning perfectly terrifying—face swap photos are endless. This photo, from Reddit user giftigeseele, fits neatly into the category of sublimely awful face swaps. Its lines are much neater than that freaky baby/oven swap to the point that if you stare at it long enough, there appears to be little wrong with this photo.
The woman on the left looks either like she forgot to blend in her clown contouring all the way, or like restorers were able to slightly salvage the ruined Ecce Homo fresco:
Anthony Vincent, the mastermind behind the YouTube channel Ten Second Songs, worked a miracle. He made a Justin Bieber song enjoyable to listen to—by singing it as other people, with the costumes to match. Vincent does impressions of luminaries including U2, Culture Club, and Kanye while asking if it is too late to apologize.
Warning: there are four seconds sung in the style of Nickelback, so it is still not for the faint of heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qr-n3t-qH8
This proves that the worst part of Justin Bieber music is, in fact, just Justin Bieber.
The cut-for-time sketches on Saturday Night Liveare often the weirdest, funniest parts of the whole show. This sketch, featuring Melissa McCarthy as a contestant with a plan on the 90s game show Supermarket Sweep, will be one of your favorites. Without spoiling anything, let's just say the game has a clear winner.
Children: some of them can't even properly use a toilet, but it turns out that kids can still handle a gun licensing test with relative ease. Mashable recently challenged three kids (ages five, eight, and ten) to see if they could pass the Michigan handgun ownership exam.
https://youtu.be/_AiCFAKvAjQ
You would assume that this innocent trio who haven't even graduated elementary school and who did not study for the true or false test would completely botch it, right? Wrong.
And when they asked the kids:
True or false?
A young man who got the answer correct said in the video: “OMG true, I feel like I’m being treated as a moron." Which goes to show that maybe the real problem are these ridiculously easy tests and not the guns themselves.
This kid also got the answer right, but her actions speak otherwise. Sigh.
In September 2015, a chart released by the Center for American Progress revealed that more Americans have been shot to death in the past 25 years than having been killed in war. This terrifying realization gets worse when you find out that children—including children under the age of 10—have the capability of passing a gun licensing test.
Also, here's a fun fact: according to The Washington Post, "Federal law prohibits handgun ownership by any person under the age 18, with a handful of exceptions. But there is no minimum age for long gun (i.e. rifle and shotgun) ownership." Yikes.
Hey kids, just don’t go engraving your name on a gun when you come of age. People might think you’re up to no good, right Jeb Bush?
Since rapper Kanye West recently tweeted on his gloriously active Twitter account that he's a whopping $53 million in debt, people have been desperately trying to help out the poor, struggling husband of Kim Kardashian. Now, a new Tumblr called "Thank You Kanye" is imagining how easily Yeezy could vanquish his bills with a little help from all the celebrity friends he's "helped" over the years.
There are many animals out there with aw-inducing faces—animals whose lopsided tongues dangle so endearingly or whose large eyes radiate with cuteness. A cat named Koyuki, which according to Rocket News 24 means "light snow" in Japanese, is not one of those animals. Koyuki, a nine-year-old Scottish Fold, speaks daggers with her eyes.
Sure, she looks cute in that photo. Sort of like a cherubic little kid who isn't getting what she wants. Nine times out of ten, though, Koyuki looks like she's plotting some evil stuff.
This is her "I eat my liver with a side of fava beans" face.
https://www.instagram.com/p/92_qP-ze_D/
This is her "nothing ever goes my way, and people will pay" face.
The Lombardy Elementary School in Wilmington, Delaware, mistakenly emailed a sarcastic "hurt feelings report" to parents recently. A spokesperson for the school district told NBC10 in Philadelphia that a school staff member accidentally attached the form to an email informing parents of upcoming school events and news. It's an easy mistake to make, since the gag report was made to look like an official form:
The report mocks adults at least, not children. The report closely resembles a "hurt feelings report" someone made for The Air Force, but it looks like a teacher just added a touch of school language to this one. The district spokesperson further clarified that the document was not made at the school:
The attachment was something that had been sent to them from a person external to the school. It was not an official document of Lombardy Elementary or the Brandywine School District. This was an embarrassing mistake, but it was just that – a mistake. It should not have happened, and we apologize for the error.
It sounds like whichever employee sent the email totally used a kid excuse when they got busted: they got the contraband from someone else.
The members of Philadelphia's finest don't just want to help Philly's citizens; they want to extend their brotherly love to Kanye West, too. After Kanye tweeted about his debt problems, the Philadelphia Police Department reached out via Yeezy's preferred method of communication/ranting to offer him a gig:
To be fair, Kanye could get out of debt earlier than 3122 if he made some savvy investments.
6ABC contacted the PPD's social media manager, Sergeant Eric Gripp, who said of West, "He's very introspective and forthcoming, so perhaps his personality could help make inroads with some members of the community. That, and his hiring would save me from ever having to rap for the PPD again. That's a win for me and the City!"
Presumably, if you want to book Sergeant Gripp for a rap gig, you can tweet him at @PhillyPolice.
Waiting tables is a really hard job. If you've never done it, you should try; one night of catering to rowdy customers will transform you into the Daddy Warbucks of tipping. While it can be difficult to keep your cool with demanding patrons ordering you around,these servers manage to maintain a great sense of humor.
1. This kid told his server he wanted "nothing," and got his wish.
Looks like there's no pleasing this kid.
2. This photobomb shows just how traumatizing it can be to be a waiter.
Sausage is not on the menu, kid.
3. Little known fact: after leaving Dunder Mifflin, Michael Scott got a job waiting tables.
It's a HARD job, but someone's gotta DO IT.
4. It's impressive to clear that many plates, and even more impressive to not murder someone when they make you stand there and hold them for a picture.
Sure, take as long as you need.
5. Someone complained about not getting lemon in their water, so their server rectified the situation.
When life gives you lemons, use them to be passive aggressive.
6. When you ask your waiter to take a picture of you, and instead he takes a bunch of himself.
Say cheese.
7. Sure, you can have your bill split three ways.
No problem.
8. The waiter who got tired of hitting his head on the light, and had a great idea.
Life in the spotlight isn't as glamorous as it seems.
9. When this guy spilled his drink, his waitress gave him a new one.
The tape really makes it.
10. Their waiter couldn't take a picture because he was busy somewhere else.
He's right behind us, isn't he?
11. This all-night diner has a really lax dress code, and a really happy waiter.
You might've heard a few passing facts about the history of the vibrator—for example, that it was originally created to cure "hysteria" in women by giving them orgasms, or that companies made vibrators that attached to vacuum cleaners. But, early vibrators weren't just made for hysteria orgasms. If you've seen The Knick or The Road to Wellville, you know that the early 1900s was a magical, experimental, and sometimes deeply misguided period of medical history. Hell, there was a man who made a living during this time sewing goat glands into men's scrotums. So, yeah, people were pretty off the mark back then, and many did think vibrators could cure just about everything.
You're still thinking about the goat glands, aren't you?
While at-home vibrators were a thing, many vibration therapies were actually administered by doctors in their offices. One popular medical vibrator was The "Chattanooga" Vibrator (first red flag: if you're going to name a vibrator, maybe don't use a name that's frequently followed by the words "Choo Choo"), which was made specifically to be sold to doctors for use on patients. To help doctors learn how to use the tool, the Vibrator Instrument Co. published How When and Where in 1907, "A Booklet Telling How to Treat, Where to Treat, and When to Treat Cases amenable to Vibratory Theraputics." To be clear, the "Where" was everywhere from relatively banal locations like the wrist or stomach, to saucier spots like the vagina and rectum.
So, why should you be glad to have your Hitachi wand instead of having your doctor use the ol' Chattanooga on you?
1. It looked terrifying.
It's hard to decide which is the sexier part: the strange box, or the loose wire?
2. It was used to vibrate hemorrhoids away.
Hemorrhoids are never pleasant, but vibrating them away sounds especially awful. As you can see below, the Vibrator Instrument Company notes, "Most of the cases were accompanied with bleeding."
3. It could literally break your ass.
There's nothing wrong with some vibrating butt play. In this case, however, the Chattanooga's "rectal attachment" was used to treat things like internal hemorrhoids (see "accompanied with bleeding," above) and anal fissures (that's a tear in your anus, if you weren't already aware), as this promotional bit in the manual promises:
Maybe that doesn't sound that bad. But it was. By 1922, Current Researches in Anesthesia and Analgesia reported:
We were taught formerly that the best way to treat an anal fissure was to administer a general anesthetic and divulge the sphincter muscles. It is true that this procedure did relieve some cases of fissure, but it was a brutal and unnecessarily damaging method of putting the sphincter at rest. We now know that divulsion of the sphincter really means tearing the fibres of this muscle.
So, basically, if a doctor put the rectal attachment in you to divulge your sphincter, he was basically tearing your ass muscle apart.
4. It makes sexy things sound unsexy.
Yes, this vibrator was created as a medical tool. The handbook wasn't written to be sexy. But because of this, it manages to make things that would sound sexy about a modern vibrator come off as weirdly icky:
"Oooh, baby, stick that rigid arm in me."
5. It was used to vibrate out periods.
Amenorrhea is the absence of menstruation. It can be caused by things like being underweight, or <insert your favorite pregnancy joke here>. But as many women know, when you first get your period, it can be super irregular—even for the first few years—and that's totally natural.
But was vibrating the period out really a cure? It's difficult to say, based on the information in the book. There's a good chance these girls didn't have anything to "cure" in the first place, and the book doesn't say anything about when their next menstrual period was, or what the exact results were—there are also other things that can make a vagina bleed, such as polyps or a sensitive cervix.
6. And it was used to vibrate out poop, too.
"Rectal treatment, if necessary" can be translated as, "Can't poop? Get ready to sit in a room with a doctor as he puts a vibrator up your butt."
7. They thought it could vibrate out fat.
Losing weight can still be a big mystery today, but at least modern doctors know that if a weight loss plan works "when used in conjunction with diet," that probably means the diet is doing most of the work. Also, for some reason the Vibrator Instrument Company thought that vibrating the spine "will only promote an increase in fat deposits." Hear that, everyone? Your new fitspiration slogan is DON'T VIBRATE YOUR SPINE.
Dana Falsetti is a yoga instructor from Pennsylvania who proves that you don't need to look like a stock-photo waif to be healthy, fit, and really amazing at holding crow pose (and pretty much every other yoga pose that makes you think "I could never do that").
As Falsetti writes on her website, her journey to yoga started "after years of binge eating, years of struggling with confidence, years of gaining and losing weight in bouts of depression and anxiety."
She goes on to say that she turned to yoga as a "last resort," and that her first classes were incredibly difficult. But, over time, she's learned that anyone and everyone can do yoga. As she puts it:
Yoga is a spiritual practice, one that allows you to be and see yourself. It's a practice of non-attachment. Your physical body isn't a deciding factor in whether or not yoga is for you.
Falsetti proves that in her amazing Instagram photos and videos, which she uses to track her progress with yoga.
Because she shares her photos online, Falsetti has dealt with her share of negative commenters who try to shame her for her weight or claim that she's unhealthy. But thankfully, she gets more comments like this:
Fasetti travels around the country teaching yoga workshops; if you'd like to learn with her, you can see upcoming classes on her website.
Tinder has revolutionized dating. All you need is your phone to find a partner for an evening or a lifetime. And it's perfect for nerds! They can use it to try out their cheesiest pickup lines, especially super-dorky ones, without ever having to talk to someone face-to-face. And sometimes it even works. Way to go, nerds!
The realization that you're no longer 18 years old can come years after your 19th birthday and hit you like a ton of bricks (or VCRs, as the case may be). Over at AskReddit, people are sharing the stories of when they first realized that, damn, they had gotten oldsomehow. Warning: reading this might prompt some self-realizations.
1. The Back to the Future problem.
2. "No, tell me: who loves orange soda?"
3. "Is that by that anti-vaccine guy?"
4. Yikes.
5. He almost blew out his back finding the emoji key.
6. The babies-having-babies worry.
7. Aww.
8. This one's hard.
9. When your dreams get smaller.
10. This one cuts deep.
11. "These doctors aren't even getting the Doogie Howser references I'm making!"
