This new Tumblr is pure evil genius . Here's a sampling.
This wonderful father posts photos of his son...
...and notes the reason why his son is bawling at that particular moment.
The amateur photography...
"Reasons My Son Is Crying"
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21 Incredibly Angry Songs About Margaret Thatcher
The former prime minister inspired bitter tunes by Elvis Costello, Morrissey, Pink Floyd and many others. She died today at 87 — though her death was celebrated by musicians years ago.
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Margaret Thatcher served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. Nicknamed the Iron Lady, Thatcher was known for her steadfast conservative politics. Thatcher's term coincided with a boom in English music in the wake of the punk movement, and much of this music harshly criticized her policies or straight up attacked her on a personal level. Bands tapped into the atmosphere of anger and discontent in Thatcher's England, singing about everything from high unemployment rates to the Falklands War.
The Not Sensibles, "I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher" [1979]
Though most songs about Thatcher make her out to be a villain, this song, released shortly after she was elected to office, is rather light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek.
The English Beat, "Stand Down Margaret" [1980]
2-tone ska legends The Beat were among the first to condemn Thatcher in song with this cut from their album I Just Can't Stop It.
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The Smartest Party Schools In The Country
These colleges take working hard and playing hard very seriously.
BuzzFeed mapped out where most of Fiesta Frog's Top 100 Schools To Party At stand on Forbes's Top Colleges Rankings. Looks like the people who party the most (near the top of the graph) know how to crack a book once in a while too. The lower half of the party list does seem to have a few slackers though.
Source: Design by John Gara for BuzzFeed
And the winners, for most combined partying prowess and academic rigor:
1. University of Virginia (#22 party & #36 academic).
2. University of North Carolina (#25 party & #47 academic).
3. Colgate University (#31 party & #48 academic).
Source: campusexplorer.com
The Princeton Review published lists for schools that study most, study least, drink least, and more. We compared to the Forbes and Fiesta Frog lists:
Only Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA was able to "study most" and make Forbes' top 100 while still making Fiesta Frog's party list.
Source: onedublin.files.wordpress.com
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Thatcher The Feminist: 11 Powerful Quotes
What Britain's only ever female Prime Minister had to say about being a woman.
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9 Crazy Attempts To Smuggle Live Animals
These are some of the greatest busts in the rare and exotic animal trade.
Baby Tiger
In this Aug. 22, 2010 photo released by Suvarnabhumi Airport Wildlife Checkpoint of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, a baby tiger cub is found among stuffed toy tigers in the suitcase of a woman flying from Bangkok to Iran, at Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Bangkok, Thailand. Authorities at Bangkok's international airport found the baby tiger cub that had been drugged and hidden among stuffed toy tigers in the suitcase.
Image by AP / AP
Pig Nosed Turtles
On April 1, 2013, authorities seized the illegal shipment of live 687 pig nosed turtles at the airport in Jakarta that originated from Papua province, a known habitat of the rare fresh water turtles.
Image by AFP / Getty Images
The pig nosed turtles were less than a month old and were sent in a box, but it is unknown where the turtles were supposed to end up. The pig-nosed turtles are listed on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which imposes international trade restrictions to protect the species from over-exploitation.
Image by AFP / Getty Images
Falcons
A Pakistani custom official prepares to release falcons at a bird sanctuary on the outskirts of Karachi on January 24, 2013. Pakistan authorities intercepted six falcons that were being smuggled to the gulf.
Image by RIZWAN TABASSUM / Getty Images
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Peter Dinklage Is "Peter Drunklage" On SNL
And his Tumblr blog is filled with regret. A great cameo from The Dink alongside Bobby Moynihan's “Drunk Uncle.”
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How To Be The Tackiest Girl At Prom
Just wear one of these WORST DRESSES EVER. Easy!
Prints are good. The more colors the better!
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You can never have too many colors OR prints.
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Colors and prints and prints and colors.
Source: promgirl.com
Did somebody say COLORS AND PRINTS?
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Cher Is Not Dead, You Guys
Cher fans are melting down on Twitter over the Margaret Thatcher death hashtag #nowthatchersdead.
The creators of a website anxious to celebrate Margaret Thatcher's death: Is Thatcher Dead Yet? started a celebratory hashtag #nowthatchersdead. Some Cher fans are AGHAST.
Via: @ItzDaveMedia
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A Man Paid $150 For Toy Poodles That Ended Up Actually Being Huge Ferrets
Whoops!
A man recently discovered the two extremely cheap toy poodles he had purchased at Argentina's largest Bazzar were actually ferrets. Two huge white ferrets.
Source: griffithkennels.com
That looked like this:
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The man took his two new pets to a veterinarian to get their shots. The vet then revealed that his toy poodles were actually ferrets that had been given steroids since birth to make them look like poodles.
Source: hbferretclub.co.uk
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Melissa McCarthy Should Probably Be On "SNL" Forever
Melissa McCarthy is one of those hosts that will always and forever be great because sketch comedy is her background. Here are her best moments from the show.
When she fell slowly during her monologue:
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This bumper:
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Her confession of being a "Crocs person":
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Everything You Could Possibly Ever Want To Know About Quisp Cereal
This cereal with “QUAZY energy” shares an interesting history with Rocky and Bullwinkle .
One of the most memorable and iconic cereals and cereal mascots of all time, Quisp, was first introduced by Quaker Mills in 1965.
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Quisp was marketed as "the biggest selling cereal from Saturn to Alpha Centauri," and it promised to deliver "the vitamin powered sugary cereal...for QUAZY energy" (which I am sure is code for a sugar rush).
Unlike most cereals, Quisp was actually created as a mascot before the cereal even existed.
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Quisp's story began when Quaker Mills contacted Jay Ward and Bill Scott (the creators of Rocky and Bullwinkle) and asked them to come up with cartoon characters around which they could build cereal brands.
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This Girl Pulls Off The Perfect "Glee" Inspired Proposal
Dressed as a Warbler and complete with back-up dancers, she pulls out all the stops. Her girlfriend thinks it's just a birthday surprise until the big question gets popped.
How do you pull off a Glee-inspired Warbler proposal?
Source: last.fm
Step 1: Lead your unsuspecting girlfriend to a beautiful park.
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Step 2: Be waiting with friends and family in full Warbler costume.
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Step 3: Perform dance number.
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13 Reasons Shakira Should Be President Of The World
She's incredibly hardworking, generous, and intelligent. Also, she has really honest hips, which is important in a leader.
She understands the value of hard work.
I'm sorry, is this not the exact kind of thing you'd want your fearless leader to say during a speech? Because I'm pretty sure it is.
She wouldn't allow her cabinet members to coast.
Shakira wouldn't hesitate to call out any slacking taking place on her watch. That's the kind of direct call for accountability that this world needs! #thebuckstopshere
She knows how to incite her followers toward greatness.
The world deserves a Presidentqueen who will inspire her people whenever possible. It is my firm belief that Shakira is that Presidentqueen.
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She's in top physical condition.
Because she's in such good shape, we, the populace, can be confident that she'll be around to guide us forward for many more decades.
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16 Reasons People Who Think Baseball Is Boring Are Stupid
Seriously, stop whining.
They complain that the season is too long...
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The rules are too confusing...
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And there's not enough action.
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Whenever they do watch a game it's never without some kicking and screaming.
Source: inothernews.tumblr.com
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How To DIY Your Very Own Girlfriend
Just invent a coat, like these Japanese students . This impressive piece of attire simulates the touch of an actual human woman.
The coat, which only exists as a prototype, has a belt that makes you feel like you're being hugged from behind.
The hardware engineer, Hikaru Sugira at the University of Tsukuba, told The Daily Mail, "The concept of this device is everyone can get the feeling of having a girlfriend."
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Source: dailymail.co.uk
It can also be hooked up to headphones that play recordings of a female voice saying things that (apparently) a girlfriend might say.
The example the article gave was "sorry I'm late." Good work, girlfriends.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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Probably The Most Ferocious French Bulldog Puppy Ever
Not sure if adorable or terrifying.
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Facebook Is Charging $15 To Message Popular Users
Facebook has quietly raised the price for sending messages to people with lots of followers. Whether or not they're actual celebrities.
Calvin Broadus, AKA Snoop Dogg.
"It's free and always will be," reads Facebook's signup page. But that may need an asterisk: It's free as long as it doesn't involve messaging someone really popular. That could cost you $15.
Today, several news organizations reported that the site is now rolling out paid messaging in the U.K. and thirty-six other countries. It appears, however, that it is has already been happening here in the United States, and with higher prices than anyone expected.
You may remember that last December, as BuzzFeed reported, Facebook started a pilot program to charge users a dollar to send messages to strangers (this functionality used to be free). If users choose not to pay, their messages go to the somewhat hidden "other" mailbox. At the time Facebook told Buzzfeed it was "tinkering with [the price] over time."
Tinker they did. Without announcement, Facebook upped the price for some messages to $5 and even $15. "At the time of announcing the test we let people know we would be testing a variety of prices," Facebook told BuzzFeed. "The highest price we are currently testing in the US is $15, but this is still a test and these prices are not set in stone. We have tested a range of different prices so far."
The site temporarily tested a $100 fee for an extremely select group of users, but ditched it after the media discovered that it cost that much to contact Mark Zuckerberg's inbox. That test was shrugged off by Facebook as an experiment to test "extreme price points" to "see what works to filter spam." The $15 inbox, however, appears to be a part of Facebook's actual business plan. (Users under the age of 18 aren't allowed to send paid messages — which precludes the worrisome teen heartthrob/parent's credit card use case. Don't worry: currently you can contact Justin Bieber for free.)
Facebook told Buzzfeed the price is based solely on the number of followers someone has, meaning that it isn't limited to traditional celebrities. For now, though, for-pay inboxes seem somewhat randomly selected; there are clearly other factors at play. It costs £10.68 (around $16.30) for U.K. users to message diver Tom Daley and singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran's apparently fake account. Yet, I, a US user, can contact them for free. However, I have to pay $15 to message each of three very different popular users: Snoop Dogg, Salman Rushdie, and Neal Mann, social media editor of the Wall Street Journal. I can message Vin Diesel, however, who has over 40,500,000 likes, without charge.
The $15 club gets stranger still: It costs $15 to message Lockergnome's Chris Pirillo, who has only 133,756 followers, or MySpace's Tom Anderson, who has 1,414,069 followers. When asked to elaborate the selection criteria, Facebook would not offer any further information.
It seems doubtful that many people will pay $15 to send Facebook messages to MySpace Tom. But a true celebrity? Who knows. And paid email as a method to fight spam has been promoted before by people such as angel investor Esther Dyson, who presented the idea at Google's Solve For X event at SXSW. But it's hard to shake the feeling that paid messaging flies in the face of Facebook's stated mission, as declared well before its less-than-stellar IPO: "making the world more open and connected."
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25 Reasons The Job Search Sucks, As Told By Frustrated Cats
For unemployed Americans and soon-to-be college grads, the job search is a terrible void of suckage. These cats explain a few reasons why.
Using Indeed.com and other job search websites.
Please stop listing Microsoft Word as a skill on every job.
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When people give you advice on how you could do it better.
"You should try a temp agency. You know, [random stranger] got his first job from a temp agency."
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Copy and pasting your résumé into some online applications and the fancy formatting disappears.
But it was perfect!
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Relatives and friends asking, "How's it going?"
"How's it going? Well, I haven't told you about any job offers so I'd wager it's going downright shitty."
Via: seahorsesforlife.tumblr.com
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31 Reasons Birth Control Exists
Arguably the most important invention ever.
Because televisions shouldn't be covered in clay:
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Because no one wants to be insulted by an 8-year-old on SnapChat:
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Because you shouldn't have to live in fear:
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Because who gets stuck in a chair?!?!
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19 Reasons People Give For Attending A "Thatcher's Dead" Street Party
Partygoers in Brixton explain in their own words.
News of Margaret Thatcher's death saw more than 200 people throw an impromptu street party in Brixton, the scene of two violent riots that marred the former prime minister's years in power.
In a divided country, some considered the '#nowthatchersdead' party a legitimate protest against a pernicious political legacy. Others viewed it as distasteful gloating over an elderly lady's death.
Here's the story of what happened, and the reasons people gave for participating, in their own words.
Brixton's local cinema is hijacked by party goers.
Via: @RobPreeceOnline
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