J and B 4eva.
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Fact: It’s delicious.
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1. There is a correlation between the amount of chocolate a country consumes on average and the number of Nobel Laureates that country has produced.
2. A jewel thief made off with $28 million dollars of gems in 2007 because he was able to gain the trust of the guards working the bank in Antwerp, Belgium, by repeatedly offering them chocolate.
3. The blood in Psycho's famous shower scene was actually chocolate syrup.
4. At one point the Nazis plotted to assassinate Winston Churchill with an exploding bar of chocolate.
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Spoiler alert: Kim Kardashian’s game is not #1. Not even close.
Ranking:
Cost: Free +5
Available on iPhone and Android +2
Enlightened us that there's something called #MadonnaDay +3
Is basically just an aggregation of her (outdated) tour dates plus a store -15
Has several photos of her that look like she's behind a beveled bathroom door +3
Has several photos of her that look like she's behind a beveled bathroom door -3
Total: -5
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
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The BBC has to record all of the emails and phone calls it receives in a giant database. BuzzFeed takes an exclusive peek behind the curtain at the angry people.
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Promotion of Beastiality. I am a married man with 6 children , and i do not appreciate the active promotion of beastiality on prime time t.v. The recent new series of Dr Who starts off with a servant girl declaring her love for her misstress and then smacking her mistress on the head whilst reminding her they are married ? Not too dramatic untill the fact that the servant girls mistress is a LIZARD is made apparent . I am sick of all the men kissing men and women on women in t.v. soaps but to have this depraved viewing presented to us in what is in essence a kids t.v. programme is beyond a joke . This current so called modern world mentality should be stopped .
.Same sent to Ofcom .
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A PRESENTER'S SAID THE WORD DUNCE.ON BAKE OFF. ONE OF THE PRESENTER ON THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF, WHICH WAS BROADCASTER ON THE 27/08/2014. SAID THE WORD DUNCE, THAT TO ME WAS OFFENCE, AS I WAS PUT IN TOO A CORNER IN MY CLASSROOM BACK IN THE 60'S. BECAUSE I COULD NOT READ OF WRITE, SO THE TEACHER PUT A DUNCE CONE HATE WITH THE LETTER (D) ON TO MY HEAD. WITH ALL THE CLASS LOOKING AT ME. SO WHEN THE PRESENTER SAID THE DUNCE WORD, IT UPSTER ME. I THOUGHT THAT THE WORD DUNCE WAS OFFENCE. THESE'S DAYS.
Go for a jog? I thought you said update my blog.
They don’t know that we know that they know.
Reasoning: Joey's Barcalounger returning from the dead is such a unique plot, it definitely deserves to be on the list.
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Reasoning: The boys compete in the most complicated game known to man: Bamboozle. Monica being nervous about Rachel's mom at the baby shower, à la sweating her ass off, is beautifully entertaining.
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Reasoning: The six friends poking Ugly Naked Guy with a stick made out of plastic takeout forks and knives is an amazing moment in Friends.
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Reasoning: It's a great bonding episode for Rachel and Chandler, and what better way to spend time together than stealing cheesecake from a downstairs neighbor?
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“I know what it’s like to be a parent — I have a dog!”
"Is it true you might poop on the table? IT IS?! ARGHHHHH!"
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"OMG! It's like a tiny version of The Exorcist!"
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"IT POOPED! I CAN SMELL IT! WHAT DO WE DO NOW?!"
We won't be needing any crayons either.
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Because why not?
It's a new bra and underwear set designed specially for men from Japanese designer Kaku Nishioka. COOL STORY, BRO BRA.
“It’s boxers and briefs, and if you’re really daring, maybe a thong!” said Krause.
The investment banker turned media mogul turned New York City mayor is heading back to run the company he founded. And as Bloomberg expands its news operation into magazines, politics, and more, his first order of business should be to buy CNN.
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By now you may have heard, courtesy of the New York Times, that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is returning to the media company he founded just eight months after leaving office. Seems even multibillionaires get bored with Bermuda after a while.
And now that the investment banker turned media mogul turned politician is going back to Bloomberg LP, I have a suggestion for him: Buy CNN.
Bloomberg the man's return to Bloomberg the company coincides with a confluence of events in the media business that are screaming out for a mega-rich empire builder to add a few bricks to his kingdom. Notably, his company has been diversifying away from its lucrative but maturing — if not declining — terminal business. It has been building up the news side of its operation, which traditionally just fed hardcore financial news through its terminals to investors, to include magazines, a new politics website led by John Heileman and Mark Halperin and, as Bloomberg Media Group CEO Justin Smith told the Times, "a portfolio of content brands, born of the web but on different kinds of media platforms," among them television, digital video, print, online, and even radio.
This is a lofty notion. In reality, Bloomberg TV has been something of an orphan asset inside the company. Its ratings are so small as to not qualify for measurement by Nielsen, and as a lone cable network without sister channels with which to bundle and sell to cable distributors commands only 7 cents per subscriber per month, according to figures provided to BuzzFeed for a story on the network last November. By comparison, CNBC collects upwards of 30 cents and Fox Business collects around 13 cents per subscriber per month.
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It just so happens, however, that just a few blocks west of Bloomberg's shiny Manhattan digs on 57th Street and Lexington Avenue, another media conglomerate has also found itself in the midst of a transition.
Time Warner announced just last week that it would embark on a voluntary buyout program with the aim of reducing its workforce at Turner Broadcasting, whose networks include TNT, TBS, Adult Swim, CNN, and HLN, by 6%. The move is being undertaken as part of a strategic growth plan to show investors that it was justified in rejecting Rupert Murdoch's unsolicited roughly $80 billion takeover offer for the company. Despite Murdoch's protestations that he is no longer interested in a deal, many believe he is waiting on the sidelines to see if Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes can execute on his plan and get its stock price to the $85 per share level that Murdoch initially offered.
For his part, Bewkes has proven himself to be an expert financial engineer, spinning off assets without little hesitation or sentimentality. Under his tenure, Bewkes has dispatched of AOL, Time Warner Cable, and most recently Time Inc. All that is left of the company is Turner Broadcasting, the Warner Bros film studio, and HBO.
Further, Bewkes has made no secret of his desire to get rid of HLN, which has been in talks about a deal with Vice and, according to the Wall Street Journal, Glenn Beck's The Blaze.
There is little to suggest that he wouldn't part with CNN or HLN or both CNN and HLN for the right price.
As part of the proposed Fox-Time Warner deal, Murdoch had planned to sell CNN to pass regulatory muster, and Bloomberg's own media operation reported that the network could be worth as much as $8 billion in a deal.
That's only 25% of Bloomberg's personal net worth of $32 billion. While that price is a bit lofty for other potential buyers of the network like CBS, whose CEO Les Moonves described it as "sort of silly" on the company's most recent conference call, Bloomberg could buy it with pocket cash.
Doing so would add a kind of clarity to his empire. He could keep the legacy Bloomberg network focused on financial news and keep CNN focused around general news and politics. Tying the two networks together could theoretically even increase the value of the legacy channel. Think of its as akin to CNBC-MSNBC or Fox News-Fox Business.
The idea, in fact, is not entirely unique. Bloomberg has in the recent past held talks with CBS and others about a merger or partnership on the news side.
The ambition seems to be there. Less than a month ago, Bloomberg Media promoted Josh Tyrangiel, who is responsible for returning BusinessWeek to something resembling its former glory, to oversee all of its editorial content, including TV.
Even deer like to get out of the city every once in a while.
The real question: What are we typing into our smartphones on the regular that is making autocorrect learn such language?!
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And in other news there was also a football game that night.
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Drinking and photobombing is a powerful combination.
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The One Where Everything Is Simulated.
Because winter is coming.
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Cetaphil is a gentle facial cleanser that was created for people with sensitive skin. It has the added effect of being non-skin drying, which makes it an ideal face wash for colder weather.
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Because the fall is the perfect time to grow that beard you've been waiting for after those hot summer months. But if you're going to commit to it, you better get a good beard oil to keep that puppy from running ragged. Beardbrand's Tree Ranger will not only keep your whiskers moisturized, but with it's nice woodsy scent, it will get you in the mood for all autumn will bring.
If growing a beard is not your thing then give this shave cream a try. Formulated with aloe vera, macadamia seed oil, and olive leaf, it will leave your skin nice and hydrated after a shave, plus it promises to reduce razor burn (which is always a plus!).
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Maybe don’t read this in public.
Kye, a 3-year-old Belgian German shepherd, was stabbed to death by the suspect on Aug. 24, 2014, and was buried with full honors.
Oklahoma City police officer Sgt. Ryan Stark leans over the casket of his canine partner.
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Department spokesman Capt. Dexter Nelson told Today.com:
Kye was injured while Stark was responding to a stolen car report last Sunday, August 24. A 22-year-old suspect had led police officers on a car chase until he crashed his vehicle in a ditch and then tried to flee by foot. Kye chased after the suspect and Stark, when he caught up to both of them, saw the suspect stabbing the dog repeatedly with a knife.
Police officers file past Kye's casket during his Aug. 28 funeral.
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***Flawless feline.
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"I'm leaving on a (private) jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again...."
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Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner, and Ansel Elgort star in Jason Reitman’s movie that reaches for big themes about online life, but just doesn’t connect.
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The internet, social media, smartphones, and apps have become an integral part of our lives, but movies still struggle to get them right on screen. It's not just the fake alternatives to Google that are used for search scenes, or the insane way any character labeled a "blogger" tends to behave. Nor is it the way things feel dated so quickly. (Though that is a major obstacle — consider how Sandra Bullock's character ordering pizza from a website pre-Seamless in The Net was meant to be a sign of her terrible isolation.) The toughest part is actually how often tech-centric stories, from Swimfan to Sex Tape and everything in between, are heavy-handed cautionary tales. We may all be online, but on screen, it's frequently still just a path to humiliation, loneliness, or ruin.
Jason Reitman's new movie Men, Women & Children, which opens in theaters Oct. 17, is the mother of all finger-wagging internet treatises. The film, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, is an ensemble drama weaving together the stories of different characters in a Texas suburb who, Crash-style, all embody some sort of online-enabled misery. It's a movie that yearns to be ambitious and timely, to resonate with contemporary life, but it's often so tone deaf, it's a little shocking to think that it came from the now-36-year-old director of Young Adult and Juno. Adapted from contentious author Chad Kultgen's (The Average American Male) novel of the same name, Men, Women & Children feels just as much drawn from Dateline specials and other news scare stories. The internet: It will destroy you.
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Jennifer Garner plays an uptight housewife who's clearly watched enough Dateline specials herself to panic her into monitoring her daughter (Kaitlyn Dever) like a prisoner: "Remember to take your phone so I can track you!" she chipperly tells the poor kid. And that's just one of Men, Women & Children's many online-enabled character foibles.
There's also a husband (Adam Sandler) and wife (Rosemarie DeWitt) whose marriage has gone stale and who look to an escort website and Ashley Madison for outside sexual satisfaction; a teenager (Ansel Elgort), upset about his mother leaving, who quits the football team and starts investing hours in playing Guild Wars to the bemusement of his father (Dean Norris); said teenager's former teammate (Travis Tope), who finds he's watched so much porn, he can't get an erection around real live girls; a cheerleader (Elena Kampouris) who seeks help from thinspiration forums in her quest to catch the eye of her crush by slimming down even more; and another cheerleader (Olivia Crocicchia) who, with the help of her enabling mother (Judy Greer), maintains a website that threatens to cross into underage porn.
This checklist of internet alarmism also includes anonymous bullying, sexting, and minor catfishing. There's a shot of the mall in which every single person there is on a device — the games they're playing, texts they're sending, and tweets they're reading shown as if they were thought bubbles floating above their heads. As the unseen narrator, Emma Thompson makes solemn observations about the Voyager satellite and the crippling amount of malware preventing a character from jerking off to YouPorn.
