Is this what love feels like?
This inside-out bagel grilled cheese exists.
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You Need To Try This Bagel Grilled Cheese Immediately
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24 Things All Bisexual People Can Relate To
It’s not a phase, how many times do we have to tell ya?
First, here's a friendly reminder that it's not a phase.
We just fall in love with boys AND girls.
And yes *whispers* we exist!
Just like our asexual buddies.
And we don't care if you don't like us.
We don't have time to waste on you haters.
We'd rather use our energy for more important things.
Like love. 'Cause all we need is love, right?
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13 Parts Of Your Body You Didn't Know Had Names
I like big dimples of Venus and I cannot lie.
Glabella: the space between your eyebrows.
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Rasceta: the lines on the inside of your wrist.
Philtrum: the groove located just below the nose and above the middle of the lips.
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Anatomical snuff box: the triangular ridge between the base of your thumb and your wrist.
So called because people used to use it to sniff powdered tobacco out of.
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Here's Why "Paw Patrol" Is A Terrible Kids' Show
Down with pup patriarchy.
Paw Patrol is the latest in a long line of kids shows that rely on incredibly stupid adults to drive the plot. At the top of list is the mayor. In this episode Alex offers to help row the boat, so she just puts down her oar and lets them go in circles...
I mean, come on.
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Here's Capt'n Turbot, who should have his boating license revoked due to extreme stupidity. He is a threat to marine life everywhere.
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Please watch as this ~boat captain~ rushes to get a photo of a bird and falls off his boat. Pretty much every episode with Turbot involves him or someone else falling off his boat.
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He also has a French cousin named Francois who was literally juggling when he was first introduced.
Together they reach new heights of le stupidity.
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What Percentage Cat Are You?
We’ll find out right meow.
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Two Single AF People Got Married For A Week And Things Got Interesting
“Like most married couples, it’s going to be completely sexless… right?”
Being single is hard... but hell, so is being married. So two single AF people put their ~independent~ lifestyles aside for a week to try out married life.
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Meet Zach. Despite his wit and charm, he's never been in a long-term relationship before... and he's pretty OK with that.
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And meet boss-lady, Ashly. She's been too busy ~doing her~ for any long-term commitments.
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So, what two better friends to fake-marry each other than these two terrified-of-commitment pals?!
So maybe the "wedding" wasn't the most romantic, but hey –they're trying.
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24 Things That Would Happen If "Inside Out" Was Set In The Philippines
Riley in Manila?
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1. Instead of San Francisco, Riley and her family will be moving to Manila from the probinsya.
2. In the city, Riley gets agitated because of the humidity. Also their stuff didn't arrive on time because the lipat bahay truck is stuck in EDSA.
3. In her head, in an area they call the Himpilan, her emotions — Saya, Lungkot, Galit, Takot, and Nakaka-sama Ng Sikmura — are having a giddy ol' time. The emotions manage Riley's core memories called in order to power five islands. The Pamilya, Kaibigan, Ugali, Wacky, and Patintero Islands.
4. When Saya triggers happy memories of her road-trip from the province, Riley sees all sorts of funny street signs. But when Lungkot touched the memory, Riley remembers the stress of being stuck in city traffic and becomes sad.
5. On the first day of school, Riley giddily introduces herself to her classmates and tells them how she's from the province. She is laughed at. This creates a sad memory in the Himpilan and Wacky Island is swallowed by a sinkhole into a dark region called the Limot dump.
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6. Taking action, Saya decides to dump the sad core memory. However, she struggles with Lungkot who knocks other memories out. This causes an imbalance in Riley's emotions just as she was having pancit for dinner with her parents.
7. Due to high levels of sass, Riley's dad is forced to put his foot down, which involves raising a slipper and a palo threat.
8. Riley's mom tells her to go to her room while raising an eyebrow at her husband who promptly asks "Anong ginawa ko?" before going back to imagining a recent basketball game.
9. Riley's mom rolls her eyes before herself, languishing in that memory of a pinoy military dude asking her to elope.
10. While fixing Riley's memories, Saya and Lungkot are sucked into a tube onto Long Term Memory, a hidden place never thought to exist. Riley is jolted and is reminded of an old TV commercial called nano-nano.
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We Know When You'll Get Married Based On Random Questions
Don’t question our techniques.
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21 Dads Who Were Clearly Meant To Be Dads
“Private caller? We only pick up for Lieutenant Caller or higher.” —a dad
This dad, who told the greatest dad joke.
This dad, who didn't check his voice text before sending.
This dad, who found the perfect opportunity for a pun.
This dad, who is a genius in efficiency.
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This Dog Accidentally Ran A Half-Marathon And Placed Seventh
Best. Walkies. Ever.
Meet Ludivine. She's a two-and-a-half year old hound dog from Elkmont, Alabama, who just won seventh place in the town's half-marathon.
The morning of the race, her owner let her out to relieve herself. Ludivine, who frequently roams the small town and is well known by its 400-something residents, wandered all the way to the local half-marathon and started running. She completed all 13.1 miles.
"All I did was open the door, and she ran the race on her own accord," April Hamlin, Ludivine's owner, told Runner's World.
She even got a medal!
She looks so proud!!!
Hamlin only found out about her pup's great accomplishment when friends who were volunteering at the race texted her with photos. She was surprised, to say the least.
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22 Of The Most Powerful Photos Of This Week
Here are the most moving, sorrowful, and beautiful pictures from the past week.
A man rides a horse through a bonfire in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, as part of a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals. On the eve of Saint Anthony's Day, dozens ride their horses through the narrow cobblestone streets during the "Luminarias," a tradition that dates back 500 years and is meant to purify the animals with the smoke of the bonfires and protect them for the year to come.
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A sledding dog is covered in ice after spending the night in the open air with his musher at the polar base of Val-Cenis, as they ready for the next stage of the 12th edition of "La Grande Odyssee" sledding race in Val Cenis Lanslevillard.
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A group of people take part in a snow battle in Kiev, Ukraine.
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Cui Deyi, known as "Polar Bear," plays xiangqi in Handan, Hebei province, China, while sitting in a box filled with ice. Buried waist deep in ice for more than an hour wearing nothing but a pair of swimming shorts, the man shivers and laughs at the challenge.
Fred Dufour / AFP / Getty Images
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Can You Guess Why This Winchester Brother Is Crying?
“A single man tear, that’s all we fear.” [Spoilers, obvs.]
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These Five Questions Will Tell You What Percent Gryffindor You Are
Are you Godric or more of a Helga?
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The Show That's Breaking New Ground For Queer Representation
Clarke (Eliza Taylor) and Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey) have been allies, enemies, and potential romantic partners on The 100.
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Late in Season 2 of The 100, Clarke (Eliza Taylor) and her enemy-turned-ally Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey) shared an unexpected lip-lock that set social media on fire. Suddenly, Clarke, a character that had been assumed to be straight — her only prior romantic pairing was with Finn (Thomas McDonell) — earned an exciting new dimension as a queer woman. Thus, the hashtag #Clexa was born. It blew up on Twitter and Tumblr, and remains a hotbed of enthusiastic shipping.
Enthusiasm aside, some viewers doubted Clarke’s attraction to women, seeing as she and Lexa only kissed once, and Clarke pulled away. But the Season 3 premiere of the post-apocalyptic CW series, which aired Jan. 21, should put those concerns to rest. On the run from her own people and others who would do her harm, Clarke found herself seeking comfort from Grounder trading post worker Niylah (Jessica Harmon), and eventually fell into the stranger’s bed.
“She just wants to escape her pain. And part of the way people escape pain, the way they do in our world and in the world of the show, is you numb out or you take drugs or you drink or you have sex with people,” showrunner Jason Rothenberg explained in a phone interview with BuzzFeed News. “For even those few minutes, she’s not feeling bad — she’s feeling sexual, and that’s a good thing.”
Clarke and Niylah (Jessica Harmon) in the Season 3 premiere.
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Rothenberg could have paired Clarke with anyone, but he deliberately chose a female character in hopes of clarifying his heroine’s sexuality for good.
“There were some whispers in certain quarters — maybe this was on Twitter, I don’t know — of people not believing that Clarke was in fact bisexual, because of the way the relationship with Lexa had played out in Season 2,” he said, referring to the fact that Clarke’s grief over being forced to kill Finn led her to halt things with Lexa before they’d really begun. “I wanted to put that to bed. And so, I chose Niylah as opposed to Nigel, so it could be once and for all clear that she is attracted to people of both sexes.”
Given how limited representation of bisexual characters is onscreen, bisexual viewers are eager to see themselves on The 100. But though Rothenberg continues to refer to Clarke as bisexual, the character will likely never proclaim her sexual identity on the series anytime soon. Clarke and Lexa kissed without any discussion of their preferences, and the episodes that followed didn’t address their orientations either, which has resulted in some pushback. Those dissenting voices of The 100’s matter-of-fact approach toward sexuality might soon find themselves wondering why Miller (Jarod Joseph) — whose boyfriend was first mentioned in the Season 3 premiere — won’t be identifying himself either.
“I certainly get some criticism in my Twitter feed about how labels are important and I should use labels, and Clarke should call herself bisexual. I don’t even know that they would have that term,” Rothenberg said. “I get that labels are very, very important in our world, and you should be proud of who you are, and you should be able to state it proudly, and, ‘Fuck you if you don’t agree with the way I live my life,’ but that’s just not the way it is in the show.”
While it may not satisfy all queer fans, Rothenberg’s perspective on LGBT representation on The 100 is one of the most unique and progressive on television. On the series, which is set nearly a century after a nuclear war that destroyed the vast majority of humanity, characters are defined by more than their orientations. At the same time, their desires are more than incidental: The 100 does not shy away from depictions of same-sex affection and intimacy.
The way The 100 treats its queer characters is radically different from the vast majority of television shows. It’s rare and laudable for a series to embrace diverse sexual identities in a way that puts them at the forefront of the story without making sexuality the dominant theme of the narrative. But, as Rothenberg notes, it’s also a factor of the setting in which the series takes place. The world of The 100 is one without sexual orientation, in part because it’s a world where homophobia doesn’t exist — survivors have bigger concerns than other people’s relationships.
“It’s a little bit idealized, obviously, ‘cause it’s not like our world, where there are still battles to be fought on those fronts. But the battle for who you want to sleep with, who you love, is over in my post-apocalypse,” Rothenberg said. “Nobody is giving you a hard time in the world of this show. … No one’s parents are upset to find out their son is gay. That’s just not a thing.”
It’s an attractive fantasy, one of the few in the bloody, brutal universe of The 100. The young people on the series grew up without any knowledge that same-sex pairings were ever taboo, because, for the most part, their parents were too busy teaching them how to stay alive.
“That’s the sort of worldview that I wish existed, and so we just say, ‘Why not? Miller is gay. Big deal,’” Rothenberg said.
Miller (Jarod Joseph), center, in Season 2.
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The writers aren’t naïve, however: They know there are political and cultural implications that come with queer representation. And while they’re not concerned with homophobes who are turned off by The 100 because of its same-sex relationships, they do pay attention to LGBT viewers who want to watch accurate on-screen depictions of queer life.
It’s a complicated line to walk, especially for Rothenberg, who has made a point of not letting fan desires affect his writing. (If that were the case, he wouldn’t kill off so many of your favorites.) But the result of Rothenberg’s commitment to strong storytelling above all else is that The 100 doesn’t look like anything that came before it. It’s making major strides forward with every episode — its grounded, straightforward queerness is just one of many things The 100 is getting right.
“In the real world, we have relationships and that’s a big part of our lives, and so it’s a color in the crayon box. It’s not the crayon box,” Rothenberg said. “I’m trying to tell the story as I see it, and hope that people like it.”
The 100 airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on The CW.
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Zayn Malik's First Solo Single Is Coming Out This Week
“Pillowtalk” is out on Friday 29 January.
He tweeted a topless photo of himself on Sunday announcing "Pillowtalk" would be out this Friday.
The single is the first material from his debut solo album that will be out in March, a year after he left One Direction.
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Next Friday the 23-year-old will also be appearing on BBC1's The Graham Norton Show, his first TV interview since going it alone.
In an interview with The Sunday Times (£) published today, Zayn said his new music would "let people know what's really going on".
"I don't want to make it black and white for people. I just want it to be creative, still, and artistic," he said.
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21 Witches In Art History Who Understand Your Menstrual Struggle
Curse the entire world. Curse it.
This witch knows her period is coming soon because of the wrath coursing through her body.
"I hate everybody, especially you."
'Podgers Catching a Witch' engraving by J Simpson / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
This witch just got hit with a killer cramp and is trying to find a position to relieve the pain.
"Fuuucccckkkkkkkkkk."
Water-ordeal. Engraving. XVII. / Wethersfield Historical Society / Via en.wikipedia.org / Creative Commons
This witch is begging her coworkers for painkillers.
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"Please Marion, I know you have Ibuprofen in your desk drawer."
"Give it to me or I'll steal it when you're in a meeting."
Okabe - The Cat Witch / Via en.wikipedia.org / Creative Commons
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Getting A Phone Call In 2016
Umm… can’t you just text me?
Getting a phone call is pretty much terrifying...
...especially when it's from an unknown caller.
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You thought it was just gonna be a chill night at home... you know, watch some Housewives recaps, maybe Snapchat and wine.
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Then all of a sudden... the phone rings.
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IT KEEPS RINGING AND RINGING.
Do people even call each other ON PURPOSE????
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15 Hilarious Tweets About Narendra Modi Hanging Out With Francois Hollande
Here we go again.
French President Francois Hollande is visiting India as the guest of honour at this year's Republic Day parade in New Delhi on January 26...
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26 Of The Funniest Things People Have Said In Their Sleep
“My husband farted and said, ‘Damn, girl, shut your ass.’”
–Alexandria Flint, Facebook
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2. "I cuddled up extra close to my girlfriend and whispered, 'I love you, no matter what you drop in the toilet.'"
–Zack Jacobs, Facebook
3. "I accuse my husband of neglecting our pet turtles in my sleep. I ask if he's fed them, if he's brought them inside, etc. We don't even have turtles."
–Jackie Rowland, Facebook
4. "My husband rolled over and said, 'Your mother ate my hot dog — I will send her to the seventh circle of hell.'"
–Jessica Lynn Starkey, Facebook
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U.K.'s Slow Response To Ebola Cost Thousands Of Lives, Says Report
A report on lessons from the Ebola crisis suggests the UK is vulnerable to future epidemics because it lacks the capacity to rapidly manufacture vaccines.
The UK's response to the Ebola crisis was slow and inefficient, and may have failed to prevent thousands of cases of the disease in West Africa, says a parliamentary report.
The report, from the House of Commons science and technology committee, found that while volunteers, medical staff, and civil servants worked "tirelessly" to fight the disease, "delays were evident at every stage of the response" and lives were needlessly lost, especially in Sierra Leone.
Pauline Cafferkey, a Briton who caught Ebola in Sierra Leone, flies to London for treatment. AFP / Getty Images
The report says: "The failure to conduct therapeutic trials earlier … not only cost lives in this outbreak but will impact our ability to respond to similar events in future."
It also warns that the committee is "not convinced … that the government has looked ahead and considered how a more timely, coordinated and robust response could be achieved when the next epidemic emerges".
More worryingly for the future, it says, the UK lacks the means to rapidly manufacture vaccines.
And, it says, building the facilities to do so will take years, leaving the UK in a "vulnerable" position. Dr Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust told the report that "if something dreadful happens on a regional or global scale, getting vaccines would be incredibly difficult. … [The UK] would be on its own. That is a very worrying situation to be in."
The British hospital ship RFA Argus leaves Falmouth for Sierra Leone. Matt Cardy / Getty Images
For instance, a new testing kit that would have sped up the procedure for detecting Ebola from days to minutes was rapidly developed, but then – despite government promises to make 10,000 of them – never produced in large numbers.
The government also ignored World Health Organisation recommendations to introduce screening for Ebola at British airports that the report says lacked "scientific evidence and rationale". Prof George Griffin, an infectious diseases specialist, told the report that screening was an "incredibly blunt and insensitive tool".
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