Take your holiday season from CRISIS to CHRISTMAS with these easy tips and tricks.
38 Clever Christmas Hacks That Will Make Your Life Easier
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The New "House Of Cards" Trailer Is Here And It Is OMG, WTF, Darkness
Holy….what.
The new House of Cards trailer is here, and it is hella dark.
Here are the darkest things about it.
The thing starts out with Frank Underwood's iconic speech about pain.
"There are two kinds of pain. The sort of pain that makes you strong, or useless pain. The sort of pain that's only suffering. I have no patience for useless things."
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Frank Underwood has a badass motorcade now.
Since he is the veep now, right?
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Frank says, "I need to prove what the vice president is capable of," while saluting what looks like a group of Civil War reenactors.
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9 Movie Moments That Will Make You Cry Unattractively This Christmas
Gawd bless us, every-WAH-HAAHH-HAAHHHH.
Home Alone: when Kevin's mother returns.
Ugh, Macaulay Culkin's Kevin is so bratty. I'm totally rooting for the bad guys. Oh wait, he's befriended his lonely old neighbour. Oh look, he's wandering folornly round his empty house. Gasp! His mother's finally come home, and she's standing there looking all lovely and soft-focus while her lost little boy gazes at her unbelievingly. Oh look, I have something in my eye. A bit.
It's a Wonderful Life: "Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings."
Breathe. Breathe. If you breathe you can get through this. Oh no, lovely hard-done-by George Bailey just winked and said "attaboy, Clarence". Permission to fall apart granted.
The beginning of Santa Claus the Movie.
Oh look, it's a kindly old couple who make toys for children! Oh look, they're going for a lovely sleigh ride! Oh my god, they are freezing to death in the North Pole. This is a children's movie, for crying out loud. WAIT. It's okay. They're being transformed into Santa and Mrs Claus. Phew. Hang on, does that mean that Santa's a zombie?
Elf: "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear."
Not going to cry. Seen Elf before. I know how this works - Zooey Deschanel sings, the music swells, we're meant to get all emotional, and OH MY GOD THEY'RE SINGING OH MY HEART. He does know when you are sleeping! He does know when you're awake! Okay, fine, I fell for it.
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Fail: Mary Landrieu Has Exact Same Issues Page As Michelle Nunn
A web design filler text snafu.
Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's Senate campaign website "issues" page appears to have been copied directly from Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Michelle Nunn's website "ideas" page BuzzFeed has found. There's no link to the page on the site, but the section can be found by searching for Landrieu's issues page on Google. The same company, Trilogy, designed both websites.
A Landerieu campaign strategist said the page hasn't launched yet and wasn't intended to be viewed.
Here's is Landrieu's issues page which even has a video of Nunn.
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And here is Nunn's.
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Landrieu's entire page references Nunn and Georgia. Here is the rest of the Louisiana senator's page.
Via marylandrieu.com
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32 Incredible Pictures Of A Rare Snowstorm In Jeruslem
The Holy City is buried in a thick white blanket after its worst snowstorm in two decades.
The Holy City of Jerusalem was blanketed in snow after being struck by the worst snowstorm in 20 years.
Brian Snyder, Pool via Associated Press
A man walks in the snowstorm at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City.
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Ten to 15 inches of snow piled up in the city center and in the outskirts.
A Beduin woman walks next to shacks covered with snow following a snowstorm at the outskirts of Jerusalem.
Ammar Awad / Reuters
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There Is A Brilliant New Card Game About Group Sex
It’s called Clusterfuck! And it’s free!
Cards Against Humanity, the disgusting, profane, hysterical party game released in 2011, has become an actual cultural phenomenon—our unshockable generation's Uno.
Now, in collaboration with the highly-regarded indie designers Zach Gage and Doug Wilson, the designers of Cards have released a new, free-to-play card game that is just a shocking, and nearly as funny: Clusterfuck! Yes, it is a card game that simulates a swinger's party.
The rules are simple: in the game's first, silent, phase, you plot whom to have sex with by passing secret notes and making eyes. Then, everyone closes their eyes and points—two people fingering each other is sex, three people pointing at each other is a threesome. Score is assigned after everyone opens their eyes. A twosome is good (two points); a coordinated threesome is even better (three). You can ogle (1 point), contract chlamydia (other players don't score when they have sex with you) and break up threesomes in the making (two points).
So watch this video explaining the rules, print out the game, and enjoy simulated group sex with your friends and family!
LINK: Clusterfuck!
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17 Holiday Drinks That Are Even Better Than Eggnog
Looks like you know what you’re getting for the holidays.
Mulled Wine
Includes: Red Wine, Nutmeg, Orange Peels
Tastes like: Warmed Sangria, that is spiced and seasoned to unexplainable perfection
Recipe here.
Hot Buttered Rum
Includes: Dark Rum, Butter, Sugar, Cinnamon
Tastes like: Everything you hoped butterbeer from Harry Potter would taste like, with an added adult kick
Recipe here.
Peppermint Schnapps Hot Chocolate
Includes: Hot Chocolate, Peppermint Schnapps
Tastes like: Melted down peppermint bark combined with warm, holiday cheer
Recipe here.
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Someone Spent $1,800 Promoting Their OkCupid Profile Over Three Months
So that new monetization strategy is working out pretty well so far.
It's apparently possible to spend $1,800 on a free online dating website in three months.
OkCupid introduced a new feature in July that allows users to pay $2 for 15-minute "bursts" of extra promotion across the site. While the results are still rolling in, it's working well enough that one person apparently spent $1,800 boosting their profile's visibility to crushes and compatible strangers with the Spotlight feature in just three months, executives said. (The site doesn't show whether someone is using it or not.)
"There's a row of potential people of the gender you're interested in across the top of your screen when you log in — that row gets clicked on with much greater propensity than if you do a search," Jeffrey Kip, chief financial officer of InterActiveCorp, which owns OkCupid, said at a Wells Fargo conference last month. "Now you can go in there and pay $2 to get piped into the Spotlight row of everybody you're interested in who's out there logged in right now, and it's instant gratification. There's a panel that appears to the right that says you're now being looked at by six women, now being looked at 14 women, 42 women. It's worked well and we believe that kind of product can play across all of our products and a lot of our sites well in different ways, and I think there's other services we think of bringing it into."
IAC Chief Executive Officer Greg Blatt alluded to the $1,800 customer in a conference call at the end of October without specifying which of the media company's services it was spent on. (IAC's dating properties also include Match.com, Twoo, and Tinder.)
"Someone paid us $1,800 in three months on a so-called free site," Blatt said. "On Match, the king of so-called paid sites, the most someone can pay us over three months is around $150 or less than one-tenth of that even if they're willing to pay us more...the biggest indicator of who will pay for these dynamic features is the fact that they're already paying for subscription offerings."
It's a fresh way to monetize OkCupid, which outside of advertisements, draws revenue from "A-list memberships." With those, users pay $5 to $10 a month to get better matches, browse profiles invisibly, get read receipts from messages and an ad-free experience. The site, which IAC bought in 2011, says it has 7 million registered users. It's categorized as "developing revenue" for IAC along with DateHookup and Match's international operations, excluding Meetic. Together, the division brought in $66.9 million last year. Match's revenue was $713.4 million.
Brands like OkCupid and Tinder have been viewed by IAC as a means to get people more comfortable with online dating, ultimately paying for subscriptions down the road, which bring in the most money.
Blatt said in February there are 100 million American singles and 50% say they're open to online dating. That may grow to 112 million people, with 55% to 60% comfortable with online dating by 2017, he said.
Most of the people paying for the promotions on OkCupid are already paying subscribers, according to Kip. The idea of "transactional monetization" is something IAC may introduce to other of its dating apps and sites.
"We think there is a lot of upside," he said. "We've been working on this and thinking about this for a while, but we've just started to really show the traction in the results, and we think we can really talk about it affirmatively."
OkCupid didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the adoption of the profile boosts or whether the $1,800 user found love. In July, OkCupid co-founder and President Christian Rudder told BuzzFeed that more than 2,500 people paid to promote themselves with the tool in the first 24 hours, which started out as a 10-minute boost. Rudder said he anticipated it would mostly be guys making use of it.
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This Cat Is The Embodiment Of How You Feel About Beyoncé's New Album
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33 Reasons Why Aliens Will Never Talk To Us
Not going to happen.
Because of people like this:
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And tattoos like this:
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Because of shirts like this:
Because we still need to figure out our own geography before we take on the universe:
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Japan Has A Book Of European Philosophers As Anime Girls
“Decartes is a haughty princess; Heidegger is a long-haired cultural club leader.” Thank you Aya.shii.org for bringing this to our attention.
"Me, Tsundere and Heidegger" (2011) is a light novel about European philosophers as anime school girls.
Subtitle: "Because philosophy is important in life." You can order it on Amazon.
Lights novels (or "ranobe") are a uniquely Japanese YA genre aimed at middle and high schoolers. They are often illustrated by famous anime artists.
They're often texted chapter-by-chapter to subscribers as "cell phone novels," too. Seven out of ten best-sellers in Japan in 2007 started as cell phone light novels.
In this book, post-Enlightenment philosophers are girls in modern Japan having an after school discussion.
This girl is apparently Descartes's reincarnation. Cogito ergo tsun, etc.
According to the synopsis, the protagonist is a misogynistic salarymen jealous of his beautiful boss. After dying in an accident, he is reincarnated as a high school girl. She then gets a good lecture by 8 philosopher classmates.
Heidegger, Hume, Descartes, Spinoza, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche.
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23 Delicious Dips For A Veggie Platter
Because store-bought hummus is for alone time, not your holiday party.
Labneh with Pistachios, Parsley, Lemon and Sumac Dip
Sesame Sweet Potato Miso Dip
Mayan Pumpkin Seed Dip
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Television May Be Embracing Gay Characters, But Where Is The Same-Sex Intimacy?
While LGBT representation went down slightly in 2013, the bigger problem is how LGBT characters were portrayed. With displays of same-sex affection so invisible, gay characters just aren’t on the same footing as their heterosexual counterparts.
Nolan (Gabriel Mann) and Patrick (Justin Hartley) kiss on Revenge.
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In the fourth episode of an already shaky third season, Revenge gave fans something to celebrate with the quick consummation of a will-they-or-won't-they flirtation that began the moment Patrick (Justin Hartley) set foot in the Hamptons earlier that season.
"I just thought," Nolan stammers, "you showed up at my party, and we saw each other at the beach club, that maybe we, uh…"
"We did," Patrick finally answers, pulling Nolan into a passionate kiss.
With little fanfare, Revenge showed audiences a tender man-on-man kiss, something that shouldn't feel revolutionary in 2013 but still proves to be noteworthy.
Contrast the Nolan-Patrick kiss — and the steamy embraces that followed — with Nolan's fling with sexy con artist Tyler (Ashton Holmes) in Revenge's first season. As sexually charged as their interactions were — largely a tribute to Nolan's portrayer, Gabriel Mann, who has chemistry with just about everything — their coupling was relatively chaste. The first kiss, designed to out Nolan as bisexual, was implied, with the camera cutting away before Nolan or Tyler had a chance to slip some tongue.
In many ways, the transition from Nolan and Tyler to Nolan and Patrick shows how quickly things can change when it comes to LGBT representation. But while Revenge deserves credit, to be sure, the climate as a whole isn't nearly as progressive as it purports to be. By and large, gay characters are sexless. And when they're not, their trysts are still more insinuation than anything explicit. LGBT audiences aren't looking for porn on network television, but we need more than the occasional hint that two same sex characters are attracted to one another. It comes down to depictional equality: If the straight couples on a show are making out, the gay couples ought be able to make out too.
Cam (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitch (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) get (almost) close to each other on Modern Family.
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The hard truth is gay sexuality is considered inherently more risqué than heterosexual sexuality. And that's not limited to sex — a kiss between a man and a woman is expected on nearly every TV comedy or drama, but a same-sex kiss continues to give pause. Filmmaker Kirby Dick addressed this phenomena as it relates to films in his documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, which pointed out a major discrepancy in terms of how the MPAA rates films with LGBT content. In a 2011 blog post on The Wrap, he wrote, "By rating films with gay subject matter more harshly, the MPAA is clearly saying there is something objectionable about gay sexuality."
The thought process seems to be that the MPAA is protecting more conservatively minded viewers from what they might consider to be objectionable content. And television appears to be following the same model: Shows hold back on how much they depict of LGBT sexuality out of fear that viewers will protest — or, at the very least, change the channel. But representation is important, and that goes past stated identity. After all, the LGBT spectrum isn't all about labels: As Tom Daley and Maria Bello have demonstrated, sometimes coming out simply means expressing a romantic attraction to someone of the same sex. TV is still stuck in the old model, where gay is something stated, not expressed. Because, well, expression can be scary.
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How The Sexiest Video On Beyoncé's New Album Came Together
The director of Bey’s sexy “Yoncé” video, Ricky Saiz, tells BuzzFeed how the biggest surprise of the year all came together. And did you know that’s Justin Timberlake drumming on a bucket in the background?!
Via iam.beyonce.com
We'll never think of Friday the 13th as unlucky again. Beyoncé was the album drop heard 'round the world, arriving without notice at midnight, complete with 14 new songs and 17 music videos. The internet practically exploded that night as more than 80,000 fans rushed to buy the album on iTunes and to watch the videos well into the wee hours of Friday morning. After a year of waiting for a Beyoncé album with no foreseeable release date, it was the perfect holiday gift from the ultimate diva.
We're still digesting all the images that Queen Bey has bestowed upon us, so BuzzFeed turned to Ricky Saiz, the director of the album's incredibly sexy "Yoncé" video, to break some of it down.
Saiz is the co-head designer and co-head of creative for the iconic hip-hop clothing brand Supreme, as well as a video director and filmmaker. While he hadn't worked with Bey before, he was brought in by Lady Gaga's creative director Todd Tourso, with whom Saiz had worked on the Lady Gaga x Supreme campaign. Tourso directed "Jealous" and "Heaven" on Beyoncé.
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28 People Having A Way Worse Holiday Than You
The holidays are hard, guys.
Think you're having a rough December? These people might change your mind...
Like the kids who just wanted to get a tree from Home Depot.
AFV
Or the parents who bought this expensive ornament.
The mom who was just trying to burn off some Christmas cookies.
AFV
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Dog Left To Die On A Trash Heap Makes Inspiring Recovery
Miley the husky was near-death in Los Angeles when a rescuer saved her life.
Somewhere in that pile of trash is Miley, a stray husky that badly needed to be rescued.
Hope for Paws co-founder Eldad Hagar found the sick dog, who had apparently been living in the pile for months. "When I got there, I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing," he told The Huffington Post.
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The Trippiest Video About A Bridge Replacement Ever Made
The North Carolina Department of Transportation had something else in mind when they made this new video about a bridge project. There must be something special in that tobacco they’re growing down there in NC after all. But it’s whatever, man.
Some picture North Carolina like this:
Shake and bake!
And some picture it like this:
Us North Carolinians love a good back massage almost as much as we love South Carolina's cheap gas.
Via giphy.com
But according to the Department of Transportation it's this:
Normally government sponsored videos can be kind of drab. But it looks like the DOT in the good ole Tarheel State is changing that with this psychedelic, seizure-inducing, shroom-fest of a project video. Do yourself a favor and check out this masterpiece of a video in all its glory.
youtube.com / Via urbanplanet.org
The electronic music had me like:
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14 Things You're Doing Wrong To Your Skin
TAKE THAT LEMON OFF OF YOUR FACE.
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Using lemon juice to clear or brighten your skin.
"Natural remedies" are all the rage on Pinterest, and we're all guilty of pinning them. But, be cautious as they all don't work on all skin types.
One ingredient that's had a lot of debate is lemon juice. Standing at about a 2 on the pH scale, citrus fruits like lemon and grapefruit can harm your skin in the short and long run. With immediate symptoms including irritating rashes or burns, lemon dries your face (as it doesn't help retain moisture) and can break down the skin's acid mantle, which protects the skin against bacteria.
This goes for baking soda as well.
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Forgetting to use sunscreen.
According to the National Cancer Institute, melonoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer, is one of the most diagnosed cancers in America. Wearing at least SPF 15 daily could reduce your chance of getting skin cancer by 40 - 50%. Although people with lighter pigment are more at risk, EVERYBODY should protect themselves against UV rays.
If all that isn't scary enough, sun damage prematurely AGES YOU. Just see what happened to this guy.
The FDA recommends the effective amount of 2 mg — which means you probably need an additional sunscreen rather than just relying on the amount in your moisturizer or foundation.
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Piling on too many new products at one time.
Beauty hauls are the best, but trying every single purchase at the same time is product overkill for your skin.
Fun fact: AHAs (alpha hydroxy acids like lactic and glycolic acid) will de-stabilize your retinoids and render them ineffective. So that expensive anti-aging serum could be going to waste if you're combining with too many other skincare products.
Additionally, unexpected breakouts and allergic reactions can result from a new formula too many. So, try out a patch test to see how your skin responds to different products. Here's a great and simple guide for patch testing.
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Watch As Strong Winds Blow People Over On A Norway Street
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9 Web Videos You Can't Miss This Week
Featuring an awesome stop-motion short of Mario Kart in real life, a 16-year-old French-Canadian singer who sounds *exactly* like Elvis, and the kindergartener who gave her deaf parents one of the sweetest holiday surprises you’ll ever see.
The Airline That Staged Its Very Own Holiday Miracle
The people at WestJet wanted to do something really special for their holiday marketing campaign. And judging by the looks on their passengers' faces, they pretty much nailed it. (5:26)
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Gordon Ramsay Edited To Sound Like He’s Giving Sex Advice
"Gordon Talks Dirty" was originally uploaded in 2011 but it just resurfaced and blew up this week, which is great news because it's fantastic. Bravo, YouTuber 80gumdrops. Bravo. (2:21)
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