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The New Danish Royal Family Portrait Is Super Creepy

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We’re not saying “All Hail the Satanic overlords,” but we’re also not not saying that.

The new portrait of the Danish Royal Family is a little... dark. The painting by artist Thomas Kluge was unveiled over the weekend as part of an exhibition of royal portraits.

The new portrait of the Danish Royal Family is a little... dark. The painting by artist Thomas Kluge was unveiled over the weekend as part of an exhibition of royal portraits.

Prince Christian, the second heir to the throne, stands at the painting's center. Queen Margrethe II and her husband Henrik, the Prince Consort are seated on the couch. Princess Isabella is seated to the queen's left. Above her, Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary hold their twin son and daughter, Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine. Prince Joachim and Princess Marie are on the right side of the couch — Princess Marie is holding their daughter Princess Athena. Their son, Prince Henrik, crawls behind Prince Christian, while Crown Prince Joachim's two sons from a previous marriage, Prince Nikolai and Prince Felix build a tower of blocks together.

Thomas Kluges / Danish Royal Family / Via kongehuset.dk

In Kluge's painting the royal couple is depicted in a gilt rococo settee surrounded by their sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren, all in everyday clothing. The present and future monarchs, H.M. The Queen, T.R.H. The Crown Prince and Prince Christian, all make eye contact with us, while their family members are portrayed in their own universe, unprovoked by the gaze of the spectator. The children are at play with the exception of the upright and severe Prince Christian who seems aware of his future responsibilities.

The new group portrait was made to reference a famous painting of the 1880s, which depicted the Danish royal family and their international family. The depicted monarchs, Christian IX and Queen Louise, were called "the in-laws of Europe" in their time.

The new group portrait was made to reference a famous painting of the 1880s, which depicted the Danish royal family and their international family. The depicted monarchs, Christian IX and Queen Louise, were called "the in-laws of Europe" in their time.

Danish Royal Collections / Via kongehuset.dk


This Video Of A Snoring Duck Is Here To Soothe Your Worries

The Word For "Gay" According To 12 Languages

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Etymology is a beautiful thing!

We know the word "gay", which has been used to refer to homosexual men, also means "joyful" and "happy". Ever wonder how other languages come up with their own words to describe gay men? Read on and be inspired.

We know the word "gay", which has been used to refer to homosexual men, also means "joyful" and "happy". Ever wonder how other languages come up with their own words to describe gay men? Read on and be inspired.

Via en.wikipedia.org

German

German

The German word for gay, schwul, comes from the Low German word for "sultry, hot, and humid". A gay man is called a Schwuler.

Schwul is also the Dutch word for gay.

Via en.wiktionary.org

French

French

The word "gay" (pronounced as GHEH) actually comes from the Old French word "gai", which is most likely Germanic in origin. It translates to "joyful" and "carefree".

"Gay" (pronounced as GHAI) is also used in Spanish-speaking countries.

Via fr.wikipedia.org

Greek

Greek

Omofylófilos literally means "same-sex friend". Gay men are called "ομοφυλόφιλους άνδρες" (omofylófilous ándres).

Via el.wikipedia.org


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23 Absurdly Lame Things That Happened To Superman, Batman, And Robin

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From 1941-1986, the superheroes appeared in their own comic book series, World’s Finest Comics , and it was ridiculous.

When Superman tried to fat shame Robin.

When Superman tried to fat shame Robin.

Via dc.wikia.com

The one where Robin, Superman, and Batman decided they wanted to take a dip with the boys.

The one where Robin, Superman, and Batman decided they wanted to take a dip with the boys.

Via dc.wikia.com

The time they all went on a ski trip together -- that was so epic they needed 96 pages to tell it.

The time they all went on a ski trip together -- that was so epic they needed 96 pages to tell it.

Via dc.wikia.com

The issue where they took up photography (?).

The issue where they took up photography (?).

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The Emotional Rollercoaster That Is Moving Out Of Home

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You’re in a share house of emotion.

You decide it’s time to move out, you’re a little nervous, but it feels right.

You decide it’s time to move out, you’re a little nervous, but it feels right.

Via crushable.com

It might be time for you to embrace the responsibilities that come with so called "adulthood" that you've been avoiding for so long.

It might be time for you to embrace the responsibilities that come with so called "adulthood" that you've been avoiding for so long.

This is the life defining step that will make your life into something.

This is the life defining step that will make your life into something.

Via f-march-madness.livejournal.com

You grab a bunch of friends.

You grab a bunch of friends.

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22 Signs You Were Raised By Stephen Sondheim

9 Celebrity Tweets You Missed Today

Watch This Drunk College Kid Try To Bash His Head Through A Table For £20


33 Of The Weirdest Places To Nap Lead The Daily Links

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Plus 10 great songs by unlikable singers, a school of journalism named after Ron Burgundy, and an ode to the late Blockbuster.

Get these folks an espresso! These 33 people have chosen the weirdest spots to take a snooze. - [COED Magazine]

coed.com

It's a quiz about nothing: Can you guess the Seinfeld quote from just a GIF or freeze-frame? - [Vulture]

NBC

It's the singer, not the song: Here are 10 great songs that you wish were sung by someone more likable. - [Crushable]

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This is not a still from the new Hobbit movie: This is a massive volcano that recently erupted in Indonesia, and the photos of it will blow your mind. - [The Atlantic]

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The 27 Worst Fashion Mistakes Of Carmelo Anthony's Career

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The man apparently LOVES bucket hats.

Getty / Garrett Ellwood

For the most part, Carmelo Anthony is a pretty dapper man. When he puts the pieces together, it's a nice fit (see above picture), but sometimes he gambles with his wardrobe and, well, he loses all of his money and gets kicked out of the casino and then a car drives by and splashes dirty mud water on him. Here are a few examples of those poor fashion choices:

The Beginning

The Beginning

If there's one thing Carmelo loves, it's baggy oversized suits that make him look ridiculous. It's something Michael Jordan has been doing for many, many years. Sadly.

Getty / Jennifer Pottheiser

Lazy Sunday

Lazy Sunday

Allen Iverson, is that you?

Getty / Brian Bahr


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Supermax Prisoners In Solitary Were Given One Photo Request — This Is What They Asked For

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If you were held in the hole for years, what one image would you want to look at?

Prisoners held in solitary confinement are confined to small, often windowless, cells for 22 to 24 hours a day. They suffer extreme isolation and sensory deprivation, in conditions that even the United Nations has denounced as torture.

Prison-rights group Tamms Year Ten asked inmates locked in a supermax (super-maximum security) prison outside of Chicago what photos they'd like to have to hang on their walls. They could be of anything — real or imaginary — and they would find artists on the outside to fulfill the request.

Though Illinois prison policy prohibits the prisoners from hanging the photos on their walls, the images offer motivation, escapism, a view to the outside, and just a way to combat loneliness for the inmates. The photographs capture the sensory details they miss. For outsiders, it's a view into what they are thinking about all day.

Here are some of the requested images:

My Auntie's house on the block at 2 p.m., facing east

My Auntie's house on the block at 2 p.m., facing east

"Let the people outside know that the picture is for 'D-man,'" Darrius, the prisoner, told Tamms Year Ten.

Chris Murphy / Via yearten.org and solitarywatch.com

A specific stained-glass window

A specific stained-glass window

Greg Ruffing / Via yearten.org and solitarywatch.com

The Chicago skyline

The Chicago skyline

Scott Fortino / Via yearten.org and solitarywatch.com


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11 Signs You're Dating A Boy And Not A Man

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A male can be a boy at 35, or a man at 18. Choose wisely.

A man pays for dinner if he asks you out.

A man pays for dinner if he asks you out.

And if you asked him out, he at least makes the gesture to pay.

Via womenslifestyle.com

A boy will also spilt hairs about who ordered what.

A boy will also spilt hairs about who ordered what.

Even though he ate half of your fries and was the one who suggested that you get an appetizer.

Via lifeinbmajor.com

A man shows up on time.

A man shows up on time.

And if he is running late he will let you know.

MGM/Colombia Pictures / Via gifrific.com

A boy shows up an hour late, having lost track of time playing Call of Duty.

A boy shows up an hour late, having lost track of time playing Call of Duty.

Via giphy.com


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Obama Pens Handwritten Tribute To The Gettysburg Address

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President Obama says he’s inspired by Lincoln’s historic speech.

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The White House released a letter written by President Barack Obama Tuesday on the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg address. In the letter, Obama said he sometimes visits the White House room President Abraham Lincoln once used as his office and looks at a copy of the Gettysburg Address handwritten by him.

"Through the lines of weariness etched in his face, we know Lincoln grasped, perhaps more than anyone, the burdens required to give these words meaning. He knew that even a self evident truth was not self executive; that blood drawn by the lash was an affront to our ideal; that blood drawn by the sward was in painful service to those same ideals."

Obama was criticized for omitting "under God" when he recited the Gettysburg Address as part of a project by Civil War scholar and documentarian Ken Burns. White House spokesman Jay Carney responded saying Obama read the version of the speech given to the White House by Burns. The version he was given was the "Nicholay copy," which was the first draft of the speech and was provided by Lincoln White House staffer John Nicholay.

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14 Most Important Selfies Of All Time

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The results are in, and “selfie” is Oxford Dictionaries’ Word Of The Year for 2013. But who has created the best selfies of all time? Here is the definitive answer to that question.

Robert Cornelius

Robert Cornelius

Robert Cornelius took the first known photographic selfie waaaaaay back in 1839.

en.wikipedia.org

Leonardo De Vinci

Leonardo De Vinci

It's not certain that this drawing from 1510 was actually a selfie by Leonardo, but most historians are pretty sure it was.

en.wikipedia.org

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer is one of the first prolific people to start making selfies. He made this selfie in 1484 when he was only 13 years old!!!

en.wikipedia.org

Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas

Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas

Diego Velázquez may have invented the photobomb when he added his selfie into this family portrait Las Meninas in 1656.

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"My Boyfriend's Back" Is The Most Underrated Rom-Com Ever

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Seriously, I wish my boyfriend was undead. Just kidding babe… kinda.

For those of you who aren't familiar, My Boyfriend's Back is a delightful 1993 zombie film.

For those of you who aren't familiar, My Boyfriend's Back is a delightful 1993 zombie film.

It's about a high school senior who finally works up the nerve to ask out the girl of his dreams, only to be killed right after doing so. But death isn't going to stop Johnny from taking Missy McCloud to the prom. So, he comes back. That's right, he comes back for his one night of glory.

The film is campy, smart, and hopelessly romantic. In other words: it's perfect. In terms of zombie romance competition, there isn't much out there aside from Warm Bodies. And Shaun of the Dead can also be called a zombie rom-com, though the leading man isn't one of the undead. The thing that My Boyfriend's Back and Warm Bodies has in common is the zombie love interest. And, in this author's humble opinion, My Boyfriend's Back is the stronger movie. (Please read the rest of this post before lighting the torches and rushing my apartment!)

Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 10% ... way harsh.

Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 10% ... way harsh.

But Stephen Holden of The New York Times totally would've been my BFF.

But Stephen Holden of The New York Times totally would've been my BFF.

Call me, bro.

nytimes.com


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10 Sad Truths About Adulthood No One Ever Told You

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SPOILER ALERT: It’s not all sunshine and rainbows.

It's hard to make friends after college.

If you don’t like your coworkers and don’t have children in play groups, meeting new people can be tough. And until you hang out with your favorite coffee shop barista outside the coffee shop, they don’t count as a new friend.

Via thezodiaccity.com

You have to feed yourself.

While this sounds awesome (cereal for dinner FTW!), most of the time it means one of two things:
•Spending ridiculous amounts of money on eating out
•Spending half of your Sunday, every Sunday, cooking meals for the week

Via funnycutegifs.com

Insurance is confusing.

Deductibles? Copays? Dafuq?!

Via tomhiddles.tumblr.com

Every day you will debate when to eat lunch.

“I’m hungry, I should eat now." "The afternoon will be so long if I eat now. I should wait til 1:00." "No, I should eat now, I’m so hungry." "No I should wait.”

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The "Addams Family Values" Cast Reveals Behind-The-Scenes Secrets 20 Years Later

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Released on Nov. 19, 1993, the sequel to the film remake of Charles Addams’ classic cartoons has since become a cult favorite. The stars talk to BuzzFeed about what happened on set. *Snap snap*

Paramount / Courtesy Everett Collection

Nearly 60 years after Charles Addams' first Addams Family comics appeared in The New Yorker and a quarter century after the hit TV sitcom had been laid to rest, Paramount Pictures revived Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Fester, and Co. for the big screen. Producer Scott Rudin managed to sign Anjelica Huston, Raúl Juliá, and Christopher Lloyd on for the main three roles respectively and The Addams Family was a hit. The film was released on November 22, 1991 and grossed nearly $113.5 million domestically. So, of course, the studio wanted a sequel.

Almost exactly two years later, on November 19, 1993, Addams Family Values hit theaters, reuniting the original cast (except for Carol Kane as Grandmama, who replaced Judith Malina) and earning coveted praise for any follow-up installment in a film franchise. "It's the rare sequel that is better than its original, and yet Addams Family Values qualifies," Roger Ebert wrote in his review at the time. Though the sequel failed to bring in the box office numbers of its predecessor (in total nearly $49 million), it's become a modern classic, a film that airs on television every Halloween (thanks to the natural ghoulishness that the family casts off) and Thanksgiving (due to a particularly hilarious pilgrims-meet-Pocahontas play at Wednesday and Pugsley's camp, one of the movie's highlights).

"Is there not another movie they can play during this time?" lamented Mercedes McNab, who played Wednesday's sleepaway camp nemesis Amanda Buckman. "That was probably my awkward stage so every year, around Halloween and Thanksgiving, I have to relive my awkward stage ... It's been like 20 years. I was actually dwelling on that. I was thinking, Wow, it's been 20 years. Oh my god, that's terrifying. I can't believe I'm that old."

Two decades later though, those involved with Addams Family Values still have incredibly fond memories.

"I think the way that particular cast just embodied those characters was just perfection," screenwriter Paul Rudnick told BuzzFeed. "We were all such odd characters, even though we were a really functional family, in a way, as eccentric and crazy as we were," Christopher Lloyd noted with a laugh. "And it was such a wonderful feeling amongst us of being a family almost. We were The Addams Family!"

Below, the cast and crew of Addams Family Values look back on making macabre movie magic, their auditions, the lines they can't escape, first kisses, some unexpected Michael Jackson drama, and how they remained close through it all.

Rudin and Rudnick had been working together on Sister Act since 1987 (some creative differences led the screenwriter to ask to be credited with the pseudonym Joseph Howard after the script went through excessive changes) and the producer asked Rudnick to be the original Addams Family script doctor. "Scott Rudin brought me on board right before the movie started shooting to do an overhaul and work on throughout the shooting process," Rudnick recalled.

"The first film had done well so the studio was eager for a sequel and because Scott managed to reunite that amazing cast and Barry Sonnenfeld, who was the terrific director, I was brought on board too," he said of getting the gig penning Addams Family Values, his first solo screenwriting credit. "I think we were allowed to get away with a lot more because the first movie had been successful. The reins were a little looser."

Despite the extremely morbid jokes ("Everyone knows it. When you have a new baby, one of the other children has to die," Wednesday explains), alarmingly elaborate pranks involving guillotines and electric chairs, and, of course, some heavy sexual undertones, Rudnick doesn't recall anything having to be cut from the film to maintain a PG-13 rating. "I remember there was one moment on set when Barry called his wife gleefully and said, 'Guess what? Today I threw a baby off a roof!'" the screenwriter remembered with a laugh. "So once that proved normal, there were very few boundaries."


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The Xbox One Refuses To Acknowledge The Existence Of Porno

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We tried to surf porno with the voice commands on Microsoft’s new console. It didn’t go as planned.

We turned off every parental control we could. Still, no porno.

What happens to a hands-free dream deferred? Does it explode?

8 Ways Ingrid Michaelson Proved She Is Doing It Right

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Ingrid Michaelson tweets and instagrams her everyday problems, just like you. She just does it better.

She spends her time as any girl should.

She spends her time as any girl should.

She has great taste in music, as well as all things nerdy.

She has great taste in music, as well as all things nerdy.

I'd talk LOTR with these two any day!

She has an unbelievable taste in fashion.

She has an unbelievable taste in fashion.

It's okay, Ingrid. You are totally rocking that coat.

She's modest when it comes to friendship.

She's modest when it comes to friendship.

Because conversing with Rainn Wilson isn't a big deal at all…


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