“To me, you are perfect.”
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Which "Love Actually" Couple Are You And Your Significant Other?
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19 Sexy Motivational Posters To Get You Through Finals
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Martha Stewart Finally Stopped Taking Gross Photos
Martha was the worst food photographer on Twitter, but she really stepped it up in 2014.
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12 Reasons The 12 Days Of Christmas Is Garbage
More like 12 days of NO, THANK YOU.
Honest to god, these are not gifts of a "true love". These are the gifts of a psychopath. What's so wrong with a nice book or necklace or sweater? I'd even take socks!
1 Partridge in a Pear Tree
The fuck is this? #1, do you think I have the means to take care of a partridge properly? Secondly, do you think I have the TIME to take care of a pear tree? Both of those things need tending. I don't even like pears but if I did, I'd buy them at the damn store.
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2 Turtle Doves
So you're telling me that not only am I now responsible for one Partridge but 2 turtle doves?? Three fucking birds? Who wants three birds. Did you ask if I had the space? Are you providing the cage? What is wrong with you.
3 French Hens
At least I can eat these but that's 6 birds now. 6 birds I didn't want and I have a feeling you don't want me to eat these hens but you know what? I didn't want them in the first place.
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Meet The Feminist Star Of MTV's First YouTube Channel
YouTube celebrity Laci Green recently joined forces with MTV to create Braless, a 12-episode web series.
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On Nov. 17, 2008, Laci Green uploaded her first YouTube video, titled "Birth Control: NuvaRing Review." By 2012, her videos started reaching millions of views, and by October 2014, her channel garnered over one million subscribers.
"I think my first huge viral hit was this video called 'You Can't POP Your Cherry!'" Green told BuzzFeed. "It's basically about the hymen and this huge belief that it breaks and bleeds and pops and that there's this violent process that needs to happen in order to have sex. It's factually wrong. And the fact that we grew up learning this I think really shocked people when they actually looked at an anatomy textbook and saw what's actually going on down there."
The 25-year-old San Franciscan initially started making sex-positive videos as a hobby. "My interest in sex education advocacy started from me not having very good sex ed, not having anywhere to get answers," said Green. "But feminism comes into the picture because I really believe that we cannot have a really solid, empowering sex education model without incorporating issues of gender inequality, sexism, homophobia — all of those things."
After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, Green had casually mentioned that she was looking for employment on her blog. Due to the popularity of her videos, she was flooded with job offers and ended up taking one for Planned Parenthood as an educator, using her talents on screen and in college lectures. She then moved on to work at DNews (owned by Discovery), which was her first time working with a real film crew instead of using a webcam.
Now, the YouTube celeb is the star of MTV's first-ever original web channel, Braless, which has a 12-episode engagement and debuted about a month ago. Her most recent episode, "Sex at Hogwarts?!" is a pretty good representation of the show, examining pop culture through the lens of sex-positivity and questioning the lack of sex in the Harry Potter universe.
"When I was younger, Harry Potter was my life. And now my life is about advocating and educating about sexuality, so I put my past and present together to do sort of a thinkpiece on sexuality in the series."
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19 Hilarious Vines That Perfectly Sum Up How Finals Week Feels
Must… keep… going.
When you're still in denial that finals are here...
When you just know your professors are out to get you...
When you face the reality that studying must occur...
Your perpetual inner monologue...
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This Incredible Dog Has A New Lease On Life Thanks To 3D Printing
Derby the dog, once fated to be euthanized, is living his best life with his forever family and sweet new legs.
This is Derby.
Born with deformities in both of his front legs, his original owners were at a loss of how to care for him and were going to send him to a shelter to be euthanized. In just over a year, Derby has gone from being doomed to getting a second chance at a full life with the help of 3D-printed prosthetics.
Derby was recovered by Peace and Paws Dog Rescue, whose owner, Melissa Aronson Hannon, told BuzzFeed Life that she had heard about him from a friend.
He was brought to Peace and Paws in April, but his life completely changed when he was fostered by Tara Anderson (above), Director of CJP Product Management at 3D Systems in Massachusetts.
Peace and Paws / Via Facebook: media
Though Derby was equipped with a set of wheels for running around, Anderson said that she could tell from the beginning that Derby was a high-energy dog who needed to be able to run and play a bit more freely.
With the help of her colleagues, Anderson began working on designing models for prosthetics for Derby. The process began with a CAT scan that gave them the data needed to turn thousands of layers of 2D photos of Derby's limbs into the 3D geometry that would then be printed, which then takes only a matter of hours.
Peace and Paws / Via Facebook: Derby-Portanova
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24 Times Grindr Brought Awkwardness To A Whole New Level
I’ll just be over here blocking you. WARNING: Rather NSFW language. H/T: Awkward Grindr and Creepy Grindr Messages.
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What The World Was Like The Last Time D'Angelo Dropped An Album
How does it feel?
D'Angelo recently released a new album, Black Messiah. It's his first album in nearly 15 years.
What happened in the year 2000, when D'Angelo released his sophomore album, Voodoo?
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J. Lo and Puff Daddy were a power couple.
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Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston had their dream wedding.
Scott Nelson / Getty
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18 Powerful Photos Of Criminals Turned Thespians
Photographer Clara Vannucci captures an extraordinary prison program that transforms felons into talented actors.
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"Unnecessarily Antagonistic?" Sony Execs Debate Merits Of Kim Jong Un Assassination Comedy
“Do you think there will be a possibility that Kim Jun Eun may launch missles to our office if we release it?” said a Sony executive based in South Korea.
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In making a comedy about killing North Korean president Kim Jong Un, Sony Pictures anticipated the film would have its critics. But as the initial release date of The Interview neared, studio executives debated a more specific concern: Was releasing the film on a North Korean national holiday devoted to the founding of the country's ruling party taking things a step too far?
Leaked emails from Sony executives show the company questioning the launch date, as well as broader concerns about a buddy comedy that depicts the killing of a real-life foreign head of state. Members of the company's legal and international units were particularly concerned about the film's inflammatory content; people closer to the creative teams held a more relaxed view.
On May 20, Keith Weaver, the executive vice president for worldwide government affairs at Sony, said the planned release date of Oct. 10 was awkward, as it was the same day as the North Korean holiday that commemorates the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea.
"The holiday itself is a big deal and involves many ceremonies and marches and weapons displays around the Worker's Party monument, which is depicted in the opening scene (what the missile launches out of/from)," he said. "Should I do anything?"
Sony Pictures Entertainment general counsel Leah Weil said the planned date "seems perhaps unintentionally (unnecessarily) offensive." In response Weaver said that Jeff Blake, then the vice chairman of Sony Pictures, was "unaware and really appreciated the call" and said that "the right people are discussing" moving the date.
When, in August, Sony decided to move The Interview's release date to Christmas, several outlets portrayed the move as a confident one, and Entertainment Weekly called it a "Christmas gift" to Kim Jong Un. James Weaver, the president of Seth Rogen's production company, said in an email that "the coverage has been really great and this Christmas present to Kim Jun-un idea is awesome and keeps coming up."
But concerns about the film's potential to offend audiences, especially in East Asia, were voiced earlier by overseas executives.
On May 20, head of international distribution Steven O'Dell said he would send a print of the movie to Sun Yong Hwang, a Sony executive in South Korea, but said that he expected them not to release it, and he "will not even suggest we try to censor the film." In response, Hwang wrote O'Dell, "Do you think there will be a possibility that Kim Jun Eun may launch missles to our office if we release it?"
O'Dell responded, "The film itself will be a bomb there all by itself."
He also said releasing the film on a North Korean national holiday "seems unnecessarily antagonistic especially if we doubt the film can be commercial."
In June, Hwang made it very clear that the movie would be unacceptable in South Korea. "Above all, it make a North Korean head too much caricature and strange North Korean accent is not acceptable to our audience," she said. "Also there would be a big potential to produce the political issue about North Korea as well."
Also in June, Robert Crockett, a Disney executive for Southeast Asia, recommended that The Interview not be released in Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia, citing "very stringent rules & regulations on discriminatory and racial inflammatory content" in Singapore and Malaysia, and that it would not be commercially viable in Indonesia.
Sony ultimately decided not to release the movie in Asia, and Kazuo Hirai, CEO of the Sony parent corporation, made a rare intervention in the creative process, requesting that "a scene in which Mr. Kim's head explodes when hit by a tank shell be toned down to remove images of flaming hair and chunks of skull," the New York Times reported.
Many suspect that North Korea is behind the devastating hack of Sony Pictures, although neither Sony nor any law enforcement agency has accused the North Korean government in public. Last week North Korea denied that it was behind the hack, but described it as "righteous." In a message that some Sony employees received from a group purporting to be the hackers, threats were made to employees and their family if they planned to release "the movie of terrorism which can break the regional peace and cause the War!"
In a damning email on May 30, first uncovered by Gawker, Peter Taylor, a Sony Pictures executive in the United Kingdom, said the film was a "misfire" and was "desperately unfunny and repetitive," until the last 20 minutes, when it "stopped being a comedy altogether with a level of realistic violence that would be shocking in a horror movie." Taylor did say, "on the plus side," that the film had one of Rogen's best performances, and that "the concept itself despite being poorly executed is sellable."
After a trailer was released in June, the North Korean government criticized the movie, prompting Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton to say in an email to Amy Pascal, "better if seth does not do any tweeting for a while until we sort it out."
However, while Lynton was hoping the controversy would blow over, Pascal decided that the company should distance itself from the film. In one email, she told Blake that "we need sonys name off this asap everywhere." Sony's legal staff also discussed taking Sony's name off of promotional materials. Lynton then received a series of emails detailing how Sony's name was being removed from from the trailer and credits.
A few days later, a group of Sony executives were emailed a BBC story with the headline "North Korea threatens war on US over North Korea movie," Pascal responded "Is this a joke."
Hwang, the Korean executive, responded "Let me find out but it will be fine." Hannah Minghella, the president of Columbia Pictures, said "I think it's very real and very scary." Andrea Giametti, the executive vice president for product at Columbia, said, "We survived opus day and Jesus freaks on davinci. Al queda on zero dark thirty. And we will on this too."
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15 Reasons We're Still Taking Fashion Cues From Rihanna
“She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.” —Rihanna
Whenever Rihanna serves a look, we all take notes.
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We stalk her Instagram hoping some of her bad-gal-ness rubs of on us.
So how have we learned from RiRi this year? Let us count the ways...
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29 Internet Philosophers Who Will Rip A Hole In Your Mind
These Tumblr users might be the greatest minds of our generation.
This enlightened stoner.
These boner aficionados.
This literally daredevil.
This defender of LGBT rights.
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Ask A Lesbian About Being Gay
Cameron Esposito explains the difference between gay and lesbian… it’s the same.
Buzzfeed Yellow / Via youtu.be
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Beau Bennett Is The 15th NHL Player To Be Diagnosed With The Mumps
Players from five teams have come down with the disease.
Beau Bennett.
Gene J. Puskar / AP Photo
Bennett is now the 15th NHL player to be diagnosed with the disease this season. Earlier this week, Deadspin noted that he'd spent some time at a children's hospital. Bennett's teammate, Sidney Crosby, was diagnosed with the mumps last week.
The disease has hit multiple players on the Rangers, Ducks, Wild, and Devils.
Mumps is transmitted through saliva, which makes hockey players — who work in close proximity to each other and often make physical contact while playing — particularly susceptible. An infected person can carry the disease for two weeks before exhibiting symptoms, but they are contagious during the entire time.
Players who have contracted the disease have been vaccinated (Sidney Crosby received a booster shot in February), but once the disease enters a community, the health of all members is compromised. This theory is known as "Herd Immunity," which the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has illustrated as such:
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The 18 Most WTF Jaden And Willow Smith Moments Of 2014
They are on a higher plane of existence. Or just in an alternative one. Who knows anything an y mo ore eeeeee e e e e; 5 3 4 2 1.
When they had a fixation with crystals — sorry, "orgonite pyramids".
Jaden was spotted toting his around. They're believed to have ~positive healing properties~.
KAMA / IXOLA / AKM-GSI
When Jaden let Shia LaBeouf know that he was "here" for him — misterunderstood to misterunderstood.
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Moments Every Lazy Girl Knows To Be True
Bad hair day? Good hat day.
Buzzfeed Violet / Via youtube.com
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22 Awkward Stock Photos That Will Make You Fear Christmas
On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: 3 Objectified Women, 2 Men With Guns, and A Santa Passed Out By The Christmas Tree.
This dude, who has a present for you out in his van.
Via Thinkstock/Jussi Pernaa
This woman, who's Skyping with your dad.
Via Thinkstock
This man, who needs a moment.
Via Thinkstock/Mark Hayes
This child, who drank the wrong eggnog.
Via Thinkstock/Jupiterimages
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Who Said It: The "Scandal" Edition
A quiz to separate the gladiators from the bitches.
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21 Things Multiracial People Are Tired Of Hearing On First Dates
Please stop talking about genetics.
"So which parent is white?"
Don't assume all mixed people are half-white. And if we are, don't fucking ask that.
Paramount Pictures / Via markreads.net
"Which parent is what?"
And I want you to back up and think about how it sounds to ask a near-stranger what COLOR THEIR PARENTS ARE.
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"Mixed people are so attractive."
This is usually followed up by some bullshit science talk about "normalizing the features of both races" and to that we say: nope.
FOX Searchlight / Via didoelizabethbelle.tumblr.com
"Being mixed is kind of rare, you know?"
Math is hard for you.
Touchstone / Via wordofthenerdonline.com
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