Who do you think kisses like a dementor at Hogwarts?
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“Australians are like British people but with balls of steel, can-do brains, tiny hearts and whacking great gunships.”
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Farage, whose right-wing UKIP party is hoping to substantially increase its vote in next month's UK election, has put Australia's migration model at the centre of his plans to control who comes to the UK from around the European Union.
On Sunday he blamed EU leaders for the current situation, which has seen hundreds of people die in the Mediterranean this year trying to flee war-torn Libya.
The latest disaster saw 650 people drown off the Libyan coast yesterday.
At the UKIP party launch on the outskirts of London last week, Farage laid out plans for an "Australian-style points based immigration system", which he argues would crackdown on low-skilled migrants coming to the UK.
The Australian system would grant visas to skilled migrants and takes into account their age, work experience and health.
Spring into reading a new book.
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God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
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Tituss Burgess has had some pretty great lines.
Anything strapless is a joke.
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“Life’s full of tough choices, innit?”
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The new movie Unfriended unfolds in a landscape that's familiar, but markedly weird to see on a big screen — a computer desktop, cluttered with files, open tabs, apps, and, eventually, communications from a vengeful, social media–savvy ghost. It's a premise that seems ridiculous until you start to realize it might actually be brilliant, or at least charmingly clever.
Unfriended, which was directed by Levan Gabriadze, isn't the type of horror movie that will keep you up at night, but it is the kind that wants to make people shriek and giggle, more Paranormal Activity (with which it shares a producer, Jason Blum) than It Follows. And Unfriended wittily fulfills these modest goals by using scenes that are part and parcel of contemporary life, but rarely the stuff of cinema — and by making those familiar sights spooky.
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We devote a lot of our time to gazing at devices, a reality that's rarely reflected in movies, mostly because it's not interesting to watch someone else hunch over a computer or fiddle with their phone. When characters in movies use technology, it usually involves feeding queries into nonexistent search engines and scanning through unfamiliar interfaces that use an awful lot of animation. Characters usually turn to devices when the plot demands it, and not, the way many regular people do, just to hang out, or because they're bored, or because they have a spare moment, or because they just want to see who's saying what on whichever network.
But Unfriended — which joins two smaller cyberbullying-themed movies out in theaters, the overly earnest A Girl Like Her and the witch trials–inspired The Sisterhood of Night — showcases totally believable internet futzing around right from the start. Its main character Blaire (Teen Wolf's Shelley Hennig), home alone for the night, toggles between Facebook, Gmail, iTunes, and Instagram. She's ensconced in the (quickly questionable) safety of her family's suburban house — her parents, like her friends', aren't around, adding to that feeling of an online-enabled world that adults have no access to or real inkling of.
Blaire video chats with a group of her friends, but has a side conversation going with one of them, her boyfriend Mitch (Moses Jacob Storm), in Messages. And she watches two clips online that turn out to be central to what's been haunting her and her friends. One, hidden behind content warnings on LiveLeak, is a wobbly shot of a girl holding a gun to her head and then shooting herself. And the other, on YouTube, is a video of the same girl, drunk at a party and poised to humiliate herself. It's called "LAURA BARNS KILL URSELF" — a suggestion that Laura (Heather Sossaman) apparently took to heart.
For all of its silliness — its malevolent force lurks behind the default Skype avatar and does things like fill out all the fields in a form with "I GOT HER I GOT HER I GOT HER" — Unfriended is one of the first movies to take on cyberbullying in the form of anything other than a well-intentioned PSA or as part of an overall ripped-from-the-headlines cautionary tale about internet use (like 2012's Disconnect or last year's Men, Women & Children). Which makes it, unexpectedly, also the best at approaching a serious topic that tends to get treated as an abstract epidemic, in the style of an after-school special — see ABC Family's clueless 2011 TV movie on the subject, an exercise in unintentional camp. Unfriended may be current in its tech (and will date itself very quickly), but it's not a sermon. It's part of the good ol' slasher tradition of a group of teens being targeted by something wicked that's intent on picking them off one by one.
The high school clique in Unfriended seems nice at first, and then turns out to be not that nice, in all sorts of unremarkable ways — the teenagers are plagued by infidelity, resentment, competition, minor betrayal, truths that come out when the ghost (operating under Laura's old username, billie227) starts posting revealing photos and videos and pitting the characters against one another. These secrets are the sort that might seem earth-shattering in the confines of teenagerdom and not that big a deal a few years out of it, when the fact that your friend started a rumor that you had an eating disorder might not seem like an unforgivable act of aggression.
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Unfriended doesn't soften the language or impact of anonymous online cruelty — it presents it as a spigot of bile that can be directed at anyone in an age where any mistake or misdeed can be captured and placed online, its reach magnified for a scornful internet audience that's never held accountable for its words...except by the supernatural. The movie's most painful scene, more than the kills that get broken up, hilariously, by buffering, is the one in which we finally see the full video that led to Laura's suicide.
Everything shown until that point has been vague, shadowed by the foreboding suggestion of a sexual assault, but the reveal is actually of a less loaded (though understandable) humiliation. It's the stuff of a future embarrassing bar anecdote, but in the context of an unforgiving high school social structure, it feels much worse. The sense of anticlimax emphasizes the added targeting and vulnerability of young women to online abuse. Unfriended makes cyberbullying scary, in several senses, but it also makes it mundane, the kind of thing that could happen to anyone, and that doesn't only fall into stereotypical divides of alpha types and traditional targets. Laura's revenge may not be entirely earned, but the movie has you rooting for her, because why should she be any more measured than her former friends? Ghosts can be mean girls too.
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Want recognizably larger lips? It’s a cinch with this cool yet painful trick.
It’s election time, so watch out if you work on a building site. They point here, they point there.
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♫ “Well, I’ll get right to my point, if you’ll roll me up a joint! Yeah, roll me up a funny cigarette.” ♫
“Who bought this sex tape? Make yourselves known.”
Stevie J pays a visit to his former girlfriend, Mimi Faust.
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1. Mimi and Stevie J being business partners in her new music management company is not going to go well.
2. Also, Mimi is managing musicians now? Doesn't she run a cleaning business?
3. And Lil' Kim's mentee Tiffany Foxx wants Mimi to manage her?!
4. PLEASE, PLEASE BE RUNNING AWAY FROM STEVIE J, JOSELINE.
5. Did Stevie J really just offer Mimi a bottle of his sperm to create another baby?
6. And did he really just call it his "special sauce"?
7. **Pauses DVR to vomit.**
8. "I can't be a greaseball like that." Side-eyeing Stevie J RN.
9. He wants to have both Mimi and Joseline together again. He really actually wants to be a greaseball, huh?
Introducing...Jessica Dimepiece.
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10. King of Diamonds finally makes it on one of these shows. Makes sense.
11. Jessica Dimepiece and this pink wig, though. Get it, ma.
12. Karlie Redd and Jessica Dimepiece are friends?
13. Dawn wants Jessica Dimepiece to give Joseline a run for her money in Atlanta. Girl, stop.
14. Another stripper turned rapper. Here for it.
15. Guess we'll see her soon in Atlanta.
16. "I don't really know Joseline Hernandez. I know Shenellica Bettencourt. That's how far we go back." !!!!!
17. That's the name Joseline went by when she danced in Miami!
18. Why isn't Joseline returning your phone calls? Girl, bye. You already know. Don't come for the Puerto Rican Princess, honey.
19. $30,000 a week?! DOING WHAT?
The momentary ramblings of a man who fears death.
1. OMG!!!!!
2. Relax, everything is going to be all right.
3. My hands are sweaty.
4. Why is the plane shaking?!?!
5. AHHHHH!!!!
6. NONONONONONONO!!!!
7. STOP SHAKING!
8. Please stop shaking.
9. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
10. Easy plane, come on!
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11. Easy… OK…
12. This is nice.
13. Stay like this… All good...
14. The sun is out.
15. It's a good day to fly.
16. The world is really quite beautiful from up here...
17. Are we flying through a cloud?
Because raw’s cooler than being cool.
Organic, raw and vegan - this Bondi Junction spot ticks all the boxes. Grab a smoothie, rice paper roll or treat yo'self to some delicious raw dessert.
If a seven course raw food degustation sounds right up your alley, step this way. Sadhana Kitchen also deliver lunches during the week, if your office is up to the delicious challenge of going completely raw.
If you're a raw chocolate fan you're probably already familiar with the pure goodness that is Pana Chocolate. Get to their Alexandria store quick smart for a dessert experience you thought was only possible in dreams.
The perfect place for a dinner date with someone who isn't completely sold on the whole ~raw~ thing, this restaurant offers both cooked and uncooked food. Everything on this menu is also available for takeaway, if you're looking for something to compliment your night in at home.
#TBT, a few days early.
If not, you need to stop what you're doing and check it out right now.
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SO MUCH YES.
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Phil Rudd pleaded guilty to the charges in New Zealand on Monday .
Rudd arrives to face charges at the District Court in Tauranga, New Zealand on April 21.
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The 60-year-old drummer was initially charged with plotting to arrange the murder of two men following a raid on his home in November, but the charge was later dropped.
On Monday in Tauranga District Court, he pleaded guilty to a second charge of threatening to kill and to possession of 130 grams of cannabis and 0.7 grams of methamphetamine, according to the New Zealand Herald.
Police said Rudd was charged with threatening to kill over an incident that happened on Sept. 26 in which the rockstar threatened to kill a man he knew and the man's daughter, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Craig Tuck, the lawyer who represented Rudd in court on Monday, said his client would be seeking discharge without conviction, New Zealand's Stuff reported.
Rudd was remanded on bail for sentencing on June 26. He has been out on bail since the charges were made in November, spending the summer in his guarded waterfront home in Tauranga.
After his home was raided Nov. 6, Rudd was charged with attempting to procure murder, threatening to kill, and possession of methamphetamine and cannabis. The first charge was dropped the following day. Tuck said Monday that the charge had been "incredibly damaging" to his client's career.
Rudd played with AC/DC from 1974 to 1983, and then again starting in 1994. In November, AC/DC asked former drummer Chris Slade to perform with them on their Rock or Bust tour, but Rudd has said he wants his spot back in the band.
"I'm going back to work with AC/DC, and I don't care who likes it and who doesn't," he told Television New Zealand in December. "I want my job back, I want my reputation back, and I'm gonna get it back."
LINK: AC/DC Drummer’s Murder-For-Hire Charge Dropped In New Zealand
Being a witch ain’t easy
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Actually, she was a very powerful witch.
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Your favorite food + your other favorite food = your new favorite food!
Like this cookie waffle.
With this treat from Little Baby's in Philadelphia.
Just get this pizza from Mr Mike's Pizza in Toronto.
Then this ice cream from Jeni's Ice Cream in Los Angeles is for you.
