The year was 1999 and these British bands and singers were at the top of their game. But can you remember the correct lyrics to their songs?
How Well Do You Remember British Song Lyrics From 15 Years Ago?
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30 Struggles Anyone With Long Hair Understands
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"Lost" Castaways Then And Now
It’s been 10 years since Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on that weird-ass island on Sept. 22, 2004. In celebration, check out the original cast from the pilot episode versus how they look today!
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ABC, Getty
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15 Adorable Kids Pose As Iconic Figures In Latino History
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Eunique Jone’s ” Because of Them, We Can ” photo project celebrates leaders in the Latino community.
Eunique Jones
"Becuase of Them, We Can" initially began as a 30-day photo project to celebrate black history and "empower and excite young people about their history and their future." But following the success of the 30-day campaign, photographer Eunique Jones realized one month was simply not enough time to honor the trailblazers that have paved the way for so many. Jones extended the project into a year-long endeavor, produced calendars and posters, created an equally adorable homage to overlooked figure's in women's history month, and eventually published a beautiful coffee table book.
This time, "Because of Them, We Can" is back but as "Por Ellos, Sí Podemos", a celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15). "We want to continue to provide imagery and messages to uplift children whose dreams and self-esteem are constantly attacked," Jones told BuzzFeed. "Por Ellos, Si Podemos" features 31 total portraits, both in spanish and english, of artists, scientists, activists, athletes and cultural figures that have shaped, and continue to shape, Latino history.
Eunique Jones
Eunique Jones
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New Zealand Prime Minister Says New Flag Is Priority
Re-elected PM John Key promises flag referendum in 2015.
New Zealand has had a national flag since 1834, when the United Maori Tribes gathered to declare independence.
The national flag from 1834 to 1840, it was replaced by the Union Jack.
In use since 1861, the current flag became New Zealand's official flag in 1902 – it features the Union Jack and the Southern Cross.
Critics say the flag is a colonial relic, defenders say any change would be an insult to those who have died serving under it.
Following Saturday's election victory, PM-elect John Key said one of his biggest priorities is a national referendum to decide whether New Zealand should have a new flag.
"I'm obviously a big supporter of the change," Key told Radio Live. "I think there are a lot of strong arguments in favour."
Nigel Marple / Reuters
The discussion follows hot-on-the heels of debate about what to do with the Union Jack and associated flags in the event that Scotland had voted for independence last week.
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8 Crazy Things Women Once Used As Birth Control
Hint: A surprising amount of weasel testicles.
Crocodile dung was mixed with honey and attempted to be used as a spermicide.
Via youtube.com
Weasel testicles were worn during intercourse.
Via youtube.com
Onion juice was believed to be an oral contraceptive.
Via youtube.com
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Are You A Nervous Wreck?
Oh god, was there something I was supposed to do today?
Stockbyte / Via Thinkstock
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23 Things Canadians Are Truly Proud Of
” True patriot love…”
It's been found that Canada has some of the most prideful people in the world. So, last week, we asked fellow Canucks "what makes you most proud to be Canadian?"
"We are very accepting, not as judging, and overall very polite."
"I'm very happy with society in general here," one person said. "I was born in Canada and as much as I hate the cold, I really can't imagine living anywhere else."
Submitted by Leah Martine Rioux.
"I’m a proud Canadian because when I walk into a store, someone’s already holding the door for me."
"[...and] because when I hold the door for someone I’m instantly greeted with a smile and 'thank you'. Being Canadian is so much more than toques, lumberjacks, and say 'eh.' You’re just bred awesome, and taught to respect elders and always be polite eh?"
Submitted by violetvirginiae.
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What People Say On Their CV, Vs. What They Mean
Job-hunting cliches, translated.
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1. "Dynamic" - No-one knows what this means. Writing it down anyway.
2. "Accustomed to thinking outside the box" - Sometimes I use pink AND yellow highlighter pens.
3. "Committed to fostering a creative environment" - I bloody love flipcharts.
4. "Serial entrepreneur" - My businesses keep failing.
5. "Visionary" - I think I'm wonderful.
6. "Intensely results focused" - Shark-eyed psychopath who is gunning for your job.
7. "Unflappable" - My response to most things: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
8. "Team player" - This should set me apart from all the anti-social loners who apply for the job.
9. "I'm detail-oriented" - As opposed to those people who despise detail of all kinds.
10. "I work well in a group" - Bet you've never heard that one before.
11. "High emotional intelligence" - I will spend most lunchtimes crying in the toilets.
12. "Inspirational leadership style" - Everyone hates me.
13. "I'm passionate about…" - I will now bullshit outrageously on the subject of…"
14. "Looking for a new challenge" - About to be fired.
15. "Highly motivated" - Desperate.
16. "I'm enthusiastic" - I will suggest all manner of annoying team-bonding exercises.
17. "Hobbies include…" - I haven't quite filled a side of A4 yet, so…
18. "Reading, watching films, and socialising" - Don't act like you're not intrigued.
19. "Energetic" - As opposed to being sluggish and indolent.
20. "Committed" - Will turn up to work most days, hangovers permitting.
21. "Proactive" - I do stuff.
22. "I have a wide range of skills" - I'm not very good at anything.
23. "Punctual" - I get in ten minutes early to steal all the nice biscuits.
24. "I bring out the best in people" - I'm so lazy everybody else has to work twice as hard.
25. "Proficient in a wide range of information technologies, including Microsoft Word" - I cannot think of anything to write here.
26. "Creative powerhouse" - Nobody is as good at nicking other people's ideas as me.
27. "Have become an invaluable member of the team" - Nobody else knows how to unblock paper jams in the photocopier.
28. "Driven" - I maintain inbox zero with an obsessive zeal that will make you fear for my sanity.
29. "Intense" - Dreadful wanker.
30. "I'm a people person" - I'm that guy who asks everyone to gather round and awkwardly sing happy birthday to you at your desk.
31. "I'm a perfect fit for the team" - I haven't actually met the team yet but…
32. "I'm a problem solver" - I will find supposed problems where none exist.
33. "Strong interpersonal skills" - Capable of handling most workplace situations without headbutting anyone or calling them a tosser.
34. "I'm a born organiser" - I love scheduling pointless meetings.
35. "I'm creative" - I love scheduling pointless brainstorms.
36. "I'm professional" - I love creating pointless spreadsheets.
37. "I'm easygoing and laid back" - You don't expect me to do actual work, do you?
38. "I'm fun and outgoing" - I think this is a dating profile.
39. "References available upon request" - Praying you don't request references.
40. "I'm always looking for new challenges" - I've failed all my previous challenges.
41. "Social media skills" - I tweet a lot.
42. "Social media expert" - I manually RT wisdom by other people in a shameless bid to garner retweets.
43. "Formidable social media presence" - I bought a shit ton of followers.
44. "Video editing skills" - Once spent an afternoon dicking around with iMovie.
45. "I'm keen to focus on the next stage of my career" - I've shagged everybody in this office and now I need an escape plan.
46. "Achievements include…" - I will now take credit for things that happened at my company that actually had nothing to do with me.
47. "Experience working in a fast-paced environment" - Rarely fall asleep at my desk these days.
48. "Fluent in…" - "Dimly remember a smattering of…"
49. "Communications director" - I get paid an insane amount of money for taking people out to lunch.
50. "PR executive" - I send a lot of emails that journalists ignore.
51. "PR director" - I phone up journalists and ask them why they ignored the emails.
52. "Strategist" - Bullshitter.
53. "Analyst" - Pie chart specialist.
54. "Chief Evangelist" - LOL not even I know what I get paid for.
55. "Management consultant" - I go into companies and write long reports telling them to sack the people they had already decided to sack anyway.
56. "Client-facing creative synergies" - These words sound pretty good together, right?
57. "Delivering multi-platform, full-stack content solutions" - Please don't ask me to explain what this entails.
58. "Rock star" - Huge douche.
59. "Contact me at davidhthomas@hotmail.com" - I still think it's the '90s.
60. "My application takes the form of a viral video…" - Delete, delete, delete.
61. "I like to work hard and play hard" - I am worse than Hitler.
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14 Insanely Specific Laura Benanti Reaction GIFs
From audition season to curtain call, Laura’s got you and your feelings covered.
You're getting ready for an audition.
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But there's a dance callback you didn't know about.
David J. Bertozzi / BuzzFeed
The green room has all your favorite snacks.
David J. Bertozzi / BuzzFeed
You just got cast in the role you want.
David J. Bertozzi / BuzzFeed
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Watch These Adorable Frogs Swarm Worms They Can't Eat
At least they tried.
So, someone — I'm looking at you, Steve Jobs — had the crazy idea to put a smartphone out with footage of worms crawling around.
youtube.com / Via tastefullyoffensive.com
It was an immediate hit with the frogs, who formed a semicircle around the glowing screen (wicked relatable, I know).
And then even more frogs arrived, all of whom were in agreement: this was good programming and relevant to their interests.
Kinda terrifying, tho, to be honest. I feel like they would eat us if they could, amirite?
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21 Vintage Halloween Costumes That Will Make Your Skin Crawl
Warning: This post is all trick and no treat.
WTF! Is this some sort of Where the Wild Things Are acid trip?!
Via teamjimmyjoe.com
This really looks like frightening Bert and Ernie cosplay.
Via rebloggy.com
Um, is that supposed to be a tail or a penis?!
Via vintag.es
"I watch you while you sleep."
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Would You Pass GCSE German Now?
If all the questions were multiple choice, that is.
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Questions from the AQA German GCSEs and the BBC Bitesize website.
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26 Things That Can Ruin Any Type-A Person's Day
It’s hard out here being a BOSS.
When your friends are taking too long to get ready and you know you're going to be late.
The early bird is the fucking champ. Or something like that.
Disney
And then when you tell them that you're going to be late, they tell you to "relax."
How about you spend more time getting YOUR shit together, because I'm doing just fine.
Netflix
Actually, make that any time anyone tells you to "calm down."
How about YOU shut your mouth?
Warner Bros.
And feeling "relaxed" actually makes you feel MORE stressed, because it's an unfamiliar feeling, and you know you should be getting shit done.
Winning feels better than sitting on your butt, after all.
Walt Disney
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Alison Bechdel Is The Ultimate Genius "Dyke To Watch Out For"
The day after winning a $625,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation, author and illustrator Alison Bechdel spoke to BuzzFeed News about what happens when you’re no longer an underground sensation.
Elena Seibert
For nearly six weeks, Alison Bechdel has been living in a castle in Italy, drawing life-size portraits of adults in yoga poses. It may not be the kind of work you'd expect from the writer-illustrator of the cult comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and graphic memoirs Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and Are You My Mother?, but she says it was time for a change. "I was about run dry when I arrived here. Now I feel fantastic." Over Skype, Bechdel leans toward the camera. "I mostly draw in real life with a pen, then I put it in a computer and make little changes. So usually, I'm working really small. This has been a great, organic, fun, freeing thing to work really big." She beams when she says "big," excited about the sheer scale of her new work.
This has been the summer of "big" for Bechdel. A musical based on Fun Home is set to premiere on Broadway; she was awarded the artists residency in Italy; and the day before we spoke, she was announced as a recipient of the MacArthur Genius Fellowship. That last bit of news is what she's having the hardest time wrapping her mind around. Her voice rises in pitch when she talks about the MacArthur grant. "This is so weird. My life has been so crazy. I've had about five lifetimes worth of good fortune. For six weeks, I've been at an artist residency in Umbria, living in a castle with a bunch of other artists. Now this?"
The MacArthur grant provides the recipients with more than bragging rights. Bechdel and her fellow "geniuses" will also be gifted $625,000 to be paid out in increments over a five-year period. Bechdel is shocked and grateful to be named in such esteemed company, though slightly concerned about how such a large sum could change her approach to her work. "It's such a huge gift of security, but security can have a double edge. In many ways, needing to earn a living really drives me. Don't worry, I'm very happy to have it. But I can see there may be pitfalls to it. I want to be very careful not to be lulled into complacency. I want to keep taking risks. I think the point of it is to enable you to take risks, but I can see how it would have the opposite effect. You feel like you have to have a lot of gravitas or be a 'serious' writer now. I hope I don't get derailed by that."
Surely, longtime fans and observers of Bechdel's work hope the same will be true. The comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For ran for 25 years (1983–2006) and was renowned for its humorous depiction of the everyday lives of lesbians in America. Even in her graphic memoirs, Bechdel has a way of approaching dark memories with a lightness that comes from having survived her own crucible. This is why her body of work has often been considered a reliable archive of life in the LGBT community over two decades. For Bechdel, this was always the plan. "I feel like my work has been very intimately and inextricably bound up with the LGBT movement. I was part of it. I was reflecting it."
A consistent concern for Bechdel, lately, has been the unintended consequences of LGBT groups campaigning for acceptance via rhetoric that can be boiled down to "we're just like you." "One of the main topics of my comic strip was what happens as we become assimilated and more accepted? What's lost and what's gained. It was something I was very passionately interested in and wanted to document." From those conversations, she gathered that many of her contemporaries had the same concerns she did. "At the danger of waxing nostalgic about the 'old days,' I don't want to be like everyone else. I want acceptance, but I want acceptance of my difference, not my sameness. It's a funny contract. The cultural machine wants to chew everyone up and turn them into this uniform little substance."
Bechdel is painfully aware that what led her to being awarded a MacArthur grant must have been her "otherness" more than anything that makes her "normal." "You couldn't pick a less likely career trajectory likely to lead to a MacArthur award than what I've been doing. A comic strip? It's crazy."
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19 Important Life Lessons We Learned From "Living Single"
Aren’t you glad you got your girls?
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Pumpkin Spice Hummus Is Here In Case You Want Your Day Ruined
Stop fall, I want to get off.
Snack company Cedar's has come out with a special seasonal flavor of hummus, and of course it's PUMPKIN SPICE.
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25 Things No One Tells You About Growing Up
The world will try to harden you. Don’t let it.
Life will be full of disappointments.
No matter what age you are.
And moments of pure bliss.
The moments where your face will hurt from smiling so much.
You will fall in love, and it will be terrifying.
But it will also be exciting and wonderful.
You'll fall out of love.
Or someone will fall out of love with you.
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Which X-Man Should You Hook Up With?
Or X-Woman, if you’d prefer.
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18 Tinder Messages That Went From 0 To 100, Real Quick
“0 to 100” is the name of a Drake song and also apparently the messaging strategy of the straight boys on Tinder. [NSFW language]
This guy who's probably on a PETA watch list.
This dude who needs to find a stadium of seats.
This fruit lover.
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