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19 Things That Would Happen If Adult Life Was Like School

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Afternoon nap or meditation time please.

You'd have a bus pass, so you'd get free travel to work!

You'd have a bus pass, so you'd get free travel to work!

Like the opal card, but... free.

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After your morning meeting, you'd get a nice 15-20 minute break for morning tea or "recess".

After your morning meeting, you'd get a nice 15-20 minute break for morning tea or "recess".

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Not to mention 45 minutes to an hour for lunch time. EVERY DAY. With NO interruptions.

Not to mention 45 minutes to an hour for lunch time. EVERY DAY. With NO interruptions.

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And as a bonus, your lunch would only cost a few dollars - because you'd have an awesome, super cheap canteen to go to.

And as a bonus, your lunch would only cost a few dollars - because you'd have an awesome, super cheap canteen to go to.

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Can You Speak Yorkshire?

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Tha knows nowt, Jon Snow.

12 Photographs That Bring Home The Horrors Of The Vietnam War

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Eddie Adams’ Pultizer Award winning 1968 photo of a South Vietnamese general executing a suspected Viet Cong prisoner seared the horror and brutality of the Vietnam War into the global consciousness. Through the 20 years of the war from 1955 until the Fall of Saigon in 1975, hundreds of photojournalists captured unforgettable images of tragedy, compassion and desperation.

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Americans Try British Food For The First Time

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“Who is Eccles? Why are we eating his cakes?”

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18 Times "Pretty Little Liars'" Spencer And Aria Were The Best BFFs

Jeremy Renner Sings Ed Sheeran Parody Ballad Praising Hawkeye's Talents

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“But listen, I’ve got powers too, they’re pretty sweet / I promise I can do so much more than just archery.”

Jeremy Renner stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon during the promotional tour for The Avengers: Age of Ultron to explain some of his character Hawkeye’s lesser-known talents with this version of Ed Sheeran’s "Thinking Out Loud".

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The actor changed some of the lyrics slightly to highlight Hawkeye's strengths compared with the other Avengers.

The actor changed some of the lyrics slightly to highlight Hawkeye's strengths compared with the other Avengers.

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He wanted the audience to know Hawkeye is pretty special too.

He wanted the audience to know Hawkeye is pretty special too.

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He's got it all going on.

He's got it all going on.

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21 Guardian Articles That Should Definitely Exist

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“I gave my child a sadness jar.” New Tumblr account Comment Is Weird is the Comment Is Free you deserve.


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How Many Of The Original Pokémon Can You Name?

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Gotta name ‘em all.


Thousands Are Protesting Against The Forced Closure Of Indigenous Communities

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People taking part in ninety-four protests around Australia are saying ‘no’ to Aboriginal community closures.

What is #SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA?

What is #SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA?

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The #SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA campaign was created in response to the potential forced closure of 150 communities in Western Australia.

What began as outrage mostly amongst Indigenous people living in the Kimberley, Western Australia, has now grown into an fierce global social justice movement.

Ninety-four rallies will take place today around Australia and overseas, protesting against the closures.

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If People Were Honest On OkCupid

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OK, cupid.

When you pick a fun username...

When you pick a fun username...

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... But should go with one that accurately represents you.

... But should go with one that accurately represents you.

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When you upload cute candid pics of yourself...

When you upload cute candid pics of yourself...

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... But they're carefully curated to make you seem sporty, adventurous, and hot at the same time...

... But they're carefully curated to make you seem sporty, adventurous, and hot at the same time...

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Can You Guess The Season Of "Criminal Minds" Based Only On Reid's Hair?

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Did you join a boyband?

If Tom Haverford Quotes Were Motivational Posters

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“Love fades away, but things last forever.”

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Police Found A Stoner's To-Do List During A Raid And It's Perfect

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Get a stick, chop it up, get stoned.

Murdoch Police in Western Australia have tweeted out a to-do list they found during a raid on the weekend and it's pretty great.

Murdoch Police in Western Australia have tweeted out a to-do list they found during a raid on the weekend and it's pretty great.

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1. Get up get ready
2. Get bus fare
3. Go to bus stop
4. Get 513 to [redacted]
5. Go get lunch (chips and gravy)
[Editor's note: How good are chips and gravy?]
6. Go KMart and shopp[sic]
7. Go bus stop
8. Go [redacted] and dye hair
9. Go home and get a stick
10. Chop up and get stoned


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31 Reasons Why "Miss Congeniality" Is A Certified Classic

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“I really do want world peace.”

Sandra Bullock is a badass, and she plays one too.

Sandra Bullock is a badass, and she plays one too.

Gracie Hart is F.B.I. (Fabulous, Beautiful, Intelligent).

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We all can relate to Gracie Hart.

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When you want to eat and frozen dinners are all that's left.

When you want to eat and frozen dinners are all that's left.

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After a night out downtown.

After a night out downtown.

Or a binge-watching marathon on Netflix with wine.

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Labour Would Accept SNP Support On A Vote By Vote Basis

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Ed Miliband has hardened his stance towards the SNP, but Caroline Flint says they could still have a significant influence on a minority Labour government.

Labour leader Ed Miliband and shadow secretary for Energy and Climate Change Caroline Flint.

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A minority Labour government would be willing to rely on the support of the SNP in a vote by vote arrangement, according to shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint.

During Question Time on Thursday evening, Labour leader Ed Miliband told the audience he would prefer to see the Conservatives in power rather than have a Labour government which relied on SNP support.

He said: "We're not going to do a deal with the Scottish National party. We're not going to have a coalition. If it meant that we weren't going to be in government, not doing a deal, not being in a coalition, then so be it."

However, in the "spin room" following the debate, Flint told BuzzFeed News that a vote by vote arrangement with the SNP is still possible if there is a minority Labour government after next week's election.

"What [Miliband] ruled out was this idea that, somehow, to have a Labour government we're prepared to do a coalition or some other kind of confidence and supply deal [with the SNP]," said Flint.

"But, at the end of the day, whoever forms a government, parties will get a chance to vote for a Queen's speech, vote for budgets, and vote for policies, that's the same with any government."

Flint added: "What we're not doing is trading off our manifesto for a deal with the SNP to get us into power."

The leader of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon, has previously said her party could wield "considerable influence" over a minority Labour government in such an arrangement.

"We can force a direction on them," said Sturgeon, speaking in March. "If we're voting against a minority Labour government on an issue which mattered to us, if we can win enough support from across the House of Commons, including from Labour backbenches, we can have such a significant influence."

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What Does Your Phone Case Say About You?

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You have to care about this!

Nowadays phone cases are one of the first real identifiers of a person's personality.

Nowadays phone cases are one of the first real identifiers of a person's personality.

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We can be seen as funny, quirky or down-to-earth, all based on the type of case we have.

We can be seen as funny, quirky or down-to-earth, all based on the type of case we have.

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In a world where we shape our personalities for other people to like us, the wrong phone case could be sending a false message to our peers of us being lame.

In a world where we shape our personalities for other people to like us, the wrong phone case could be sending a false message to our peers of us being lame.

OMG.

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Train's Pat Monahan Explains Some Of Their Most Iconic Lyrics

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You've no doubt belted out one of Train's megahits like "Drops of Jupiter" at late-night karaoke or while singing your heart out in the shower. But the Grammy-award winning band is back at it again with even more music, recently releasing their seventh album Bulletproof Picasso, and gearing up to hit the road this summer on their Picasso at the Wheel tour.

Frontman Pat Monahan recently stopped by BuzzFeed New York to chat all about the upcoming tour, and finally explain what some of those highly confusing but extremely iconic lyrics actually mean. Here's what went down.

"Drops of Jupiter"

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Pat Monahan: "Drops of Jupiter" was written just after my mom had passed away, so the song came to me in a dream, literally. I fell asleep and woke up with this song in my head and went downstairs and wrote it all out and sang it into a Dictaphone. It's a story about my mother coming back after like swimming through the planets and finding her way through the universe, and coming back to tell me that heaven was overrated and [to] love this life, you know? That's what that was about.

What exactly is a drop of Jupiter?

PM: My mother, she was able to swim through planets and turn them into whatever she wanted — they didn't have to be what we know them to be. So she actually had Jupiter in her hair, when she was talking to me.

Is that how songs come to you in general, through dreams and experiences?

PM: No, that was like a magical song. I keep waiting for another one of those. It'd be sweet if I could write another "Drops of Jupiter." If any of you guys are holding hit songs, I'd love to get in on it. (laughs)

How long did it take you to write it?

PM: I wrote almost the whole thing in about a half hour, and then the next night when I was going to bed I went and finished it so that took about 20 minutes — less than an hour.

In the song you sing, "the best soy latte that you ever had." Was there an actual best latte?

PM: You know, I wasn't even drinking coffee at the time! But everybody in my band drank lattes and soy lattes, so it just was like a potentially great realistic portion of the song. I got heat about a few lyrics in that song from either my record company or the guy producing the track. "Soy latte" was definitely something that my producer wanted to get rid of, "fried chicken" my record company wanted to get rid of, and there may have been one other lyric that somebody wanted to change. But we didn't change any of them, and I'm really grateful for that.

"Hey Soul Sister"

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PM: That song I wrote really quickly. That was like two hours — I wrote it with some friends in New York, and I had never been to Burning Man but everyone around me was going to Burning Man, and that song made me think of my wife dancing around this burning man. So the whole song was about Burning Man, and then we shot a video that had nothing to do with it. (laughs) So that's the idea of "Hey Soul Sister."

Has your wife been to Burning Man?

PM: No, but her family all go. We haven't gone because we have kids and we wanna go together, so we'll wait until our kids grow up.

The lyric, "I believe in you, like a virgin, you're Madonna. And I'm always gonna wanna blow your mind." Is that a comparison — are you comparing your wife to Madonna?

PM: Well, I wouldn't compare my wife to Madonna — I think Madonna is fine, but I think my wife is fucking awesome. So it was just what worked in the song, and I probably was actually thinking about Madonna, not the pop star. I think I was thinking of Mary, the mother of Lord Jesus. She was also a virgin like the pop star. But it's not religion, because I'm not religious at all. It just works, you know?

"Meet Virginia"

PM: You know, Virginia was a bunch of girls that I had met in San Francisco and they were real people, and Virginia was the name that came with that person — I don't know why. One of the main girls, her name was Amber. My wife's name is Amber too, but this other girl was dating my original bass player and we were playing softball against a few of the guys from the Counting Crows cause they were a Bay Area band originally too. So my bass player's girlfriend comes from some like wedding shower, and she's wearing a really long dress and high heels, and she goes out and plays shortstop and kicks ass. So it was like, she was wearing high heels and exercising and it was just so weird that it had to be written about. So that's what "Meet Virginia" is about, a bunch of different people.

Do you meet fans all the time that are like, "I'm Virginia!"

PM: Yeah, yeah. Virginia, the first 10 years of our career, every girl that was named Virginia, or Ginny, or whatever version of that name was, would say, "I'm her! You wrote the song about me!" It's less like that now just because, you know, I think we've been a band so long that most of those women are dead. (laughs)

"Calling All Angels"

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PM: I have a therapist named Judy Bell in the Bay Area and she is just really terrific — she just really helped me become a grown-up, and in the process she helped me start to understand that in a process of work you have to stop sometimes and congratulate yourself, or you just get caught up in it all and it's never rewarding. I was stuck in that place, so she would make me stand up and like take bows in front of her, and she would clap and everything, and she said, "Just remember that we are made up of angels and traitors, and the angel is the one that says, 'You're beautiful and you can do anything you want,' and the traitor is the one that says, 'You're ugly and you can't get anything right.'" And so that song just came from that conversation of, if we all called our angels, what a cool life this would be for all of us.

What did you mean in the lyric "I need to know that things are gonna look up / 'Cause I feel us drowning in a sea spilled from a cup"?

PM: You know, a sea spilled from a cup is kind of the idea of big problems always starting small. And so one little lie turns into 10, and then, you know, you build a life out of a house of cards, and then all of a sudden somebody blows it over some day.

And what about: "When children have to play inside so they don't disappear / While private eyes solve marriage lies 'cause we don't talk for years / And football teams are kissing queens"?

PM: News and children disappearing and terrible things happening, that's just literal. And then hiring private eyes because we don't talk for years, pretty literal. And then, I was watching the news and I saw that these great soccer players in the U.K. were — the queen is so massively important, the royal family is such a tradition, and they love their queen, and I found that to be ironic. I found that to be kind of strange that still after all this time they wouldn't just say, "We're gonna come and get all the shit outta your house and you're gonna have to go get a job." So that's what that was all about — I find tradition to be super cool and beautiful, but also it can get in life's way, you know?

"Drive By"

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PM: "Drive By" was about meeting my wife and quickly falling in love, and being really scared about that because I was like, Man, I am not sure if this is a good idea — that something like this would happen so quickly. Because I think generally when you're looking for something big you're not gonna find it, and when you're not looking for that thing it's gonna probably show up and get you. And so, "Drive By" was all about realizing that I have to not worry about it and just let it be what it is.

What did you mean when you said, "Just a shy guy looking for a two-ply Hefty bag to hold my love"?

PM: So, back in the day, I worked at a restaurant called Henry's in Erie, Pennsylvania. I'm friends with the guy that owned it and he lives in Denver now — so, Mark, if you're seeing this, I wanna just say I'm so sorry. We would steal beer out of your refrigerator, and we would put it in garbage bags and put it in garbage bins filled with garbage. And then we would take it out, put it in the dumpster, and then we would go get the beer when you went home. And then we would go to parties together and drink that beer of yours. And I remember meeting one of the waitresses' husbands and he was like this really big, beautiful, awesome black man. I was just not gonna talk to anyone at this party because everybody was intimidating, and he came up to me and he just goes, "Shy guy." And I was like, man, I wish that was my name because he made it seem so cool. And so I really was a shy guy at those parties, but he was so cool to me and that's where "Shy Guy" came from. And then you know, when you have love for somebody, you can probably fill up a Hefty bag full of it. And then Hefty sent us a bunch of garbage bags. I was hoping that would work out with the song "Cadillac, Cadillac," but...you know.

"Marry Me"

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PM: You know I wrote that song on my kitchen counter in front of my wife, because I had this melody and an idea. And I'm a terrible guitar player, but I figured out how I wanted to play it and had this first verse and this chorus and I just wanted it to be that. It was about 52 seconds, and then I sent it to my manager and he was like, "OK, you gotta finish it" and I was like, "Nah, I think it's good. I think that's what's cool about this is it's 52 seconds. And he was like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you're gonna finish it because it's gonna be three minutes and it's gonna be an important part of people's lives 'cause it's cool." And then the first person to make me feel like it really was that was Martina McBride and her husband, John. They wanted it on Martina's album and had me sing it, and they became dear friends of mine and that was a proud moment for me.

"50 Ways to Say Goodbye"

PM: It was just a gag about a girl breaking up with a boy and being just so immature that the only way to handle it was just to tell your friends that she's dead. Which makes sense...

Train's Picasso at the Wheel tour kicks off May 21. Check out their tour dates here.

How Vegan Are You?

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Give peas a chance.

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This Sea Lion Pup Was Rescued After Found Wandering The Streets Of San Francisco

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The malnourished sea lion, named Rubbish, was spotted early Thursday on a sidewalk in the city’s Marina District and is now at a rescue and rehab center.

This is Rubbish, the sea lion pup that was found wandering the streets of San Francisco early Thursday.

This is Rubbish, the sea lion pup that was found wandering the streets of San Francisco early Thursday.

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Rubbish was trapped under a parked vehicle in the Marina District on Divisadero Street shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday. Officials said the sea lion was malnourished and appeared to have lost weight since his first rescue and rehabilitation earlier this year.

Rubbish was caught by a net and ushered into a large crate before being transported to the Marine Mammal Center, which has been inundated by stranded, malnourished sea lion pups this year.


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More Pictures Of Zac Efron Half Naked And Doing Insane Things On His New Movie Set

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Bless this movie.

WELL LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THERE'S MORE. Including being lifted onto Robert De Niro's back while in tight yellow pants.

WELL LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THERE'S MORE. Including being lifted onto Robert De Niro's back while in tight yellow pants.

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Seriously tight pants.

Seriously tight pants.

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Did I mention TIGHT ASS PANTS?

Did I mention TIGHT ASS PANTS?

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