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This Instagram account is the work of Peter Alden, a 29-year-old who works at a 3D interactive software start-up in New York City.

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He tells BuzzFeed, "I am 29 years old, single, and living in NYC. Help!"

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The other two people in the picture are his brother, Ben, and Ben's fiancé, Marissa Evans – who is also Peter's best friend.

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Peter said, "I used to live with my brother. When they started dating I was always around."

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♫ All you have to do is call my name and I’ll be there, on the next train. ♫

Our opinions on lip injections have ~definitely~ changed.

Motivated by Kylie Jenner, my co-worker Ella and I decided to try getting lip injections for the first time. Warning: If you're squeamish around needles, you might not love this.

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Neither of us had ever had any kind of plastic surgery before, but we both felt like if we were ever going to change anything about our appearance, we would change our lips.

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"My lips are honestly the one thing that I feel like I don't love about my face."

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♪ Oh, and I’m on my way to believing. ♪

Drinking from red cups vs drinking in parks.

In the US, you learned to drive at 15 or 16, especially if you lived in the ‘burbs.

Maybe you saved enough money from your summer job to buy an old car and spent the rest of high school demanding gas money from your friends for driving them around.

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In the UK one of your friends might have passed their test at 17.

Probably because their grandma had an old Nissan Micra and she couldn’t see well enough to drive anymore.

You used it to go to the big supermarket out of town to get better deals on crates of Strongbow (using someone’s brother’s ID).

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In the US you probably hung out with all your friends at the mall.

If you weren't at the mall you were probably at a place of great natural beauty.

Or the parking lot outside the mall.

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In the UK you spent all your time getting drunk on cheap cider in a park.

Even if it was raining.

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Reddit

This afternoon, some indeterminate yet undoubtedly enormous number of real human beings gathered around their computers to watch newly minted Reddit CEO Steve Huffman propose a new — and desperately needed — content policy for the site. In Huffman’s sizable post and in follow-up questions from redditors, he laid out a few seemingly concrete policy changes. If adopted, Reddit will reclassify offensive content, putting NSFW labels on things like pornography and other material that “violates a common sense of decency.” It will also ban the following outright:

• - Spam

• - Anything illegal (i.e. things that are actually illegal, such as copyrighted material. Discussing illegal activities, such as drug use, is not illegal)

• -Publication of someone’s private and confidential information

• - Anything that incites harm or violence against an individual or group of people (it's ok to say "I don't like this group of people." It's not ok to say, "I'm going to kill this group of people.")

• - Anything that harasses, bullies, or abuses an individual or group of people (these behaviors intimidate others into silence)

• - Sexually suggestive content featuring minors

On the surface, these sound like material changes. For one, there are more guidelines than ever before, and they are far more explicit.

But as Huffman notes at the end of his post, these rules are a work in progress and not, as he later clarified, “an official update to our policy.”

So where does that leave Reddit? Pretty much where it was this morning, it seems.

As far as purges of contentious subreddits go, Huffman’s post suggests that a complete clean-out of Reddit’s underbelly is out of the question for all but the most extreme communities. “Sure. /r/rapingwomen will be banned,” Huffman wrote, alluding to the site’s three-and-a-half-year-old pro-rape community. “They are encouraging people to rape.” But r/coontown, Reddit’s virulently anti-black forum, will be reclassified. “The content there is offensive to many, but does not violate our current rules for banning,” Huffman explained.

Under the Huffman administration, r/coontown will exist, but only for registered Reddit members who are logged in to the site. By doing this, Reddit is protecting passersby from its most contentious communities while making the latter a de facto membership feature of the site. The rampant racism and sexism will still be there, only now it’s opt-in.

Perhaps the most vexing part of Huffman’s proposed reclassification of Reddit's unsavory content is his characterization of it, borrowed from Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart: It's “difficult to define, but [you] know it when you see it." Difficult as such material may be to define, Huffman attempts to do just that, calling it “content that violates a common sense of decency." And while he admits it is offensive, he also concedes that “that alone is not justification for banning.”

While Huffman’s proposal semantically qualifies as a new content policy, this vague line of reasoning is hardly a new one for Reddit’s leadership. And, more critically, it fails to address Reddit’s very real harassment problem. Huffman’s prescription — “it's ok to say ‘I don't like this group of people.’ It's not ok to say, ‘I'm going to kill this group of people’” — is largely a restatement of former CEO Ellen Pao’s dictum: “Ban behavior, not ideas.” And not only is it equally precarious, it suggests that despite numerous public meltdowns, petitions, threats, and executive leadership changes, Reddit’s latest quixotic vision of online communities is no different than the ones it described two or six or 12 months ago.

Under the proposed policies, Huffman explicitly states that Reddit will not tolerate “anything that harasses, bullies, or abuses an individual or group of people (these behaviors intimidate others into silence).” On the surface, this suggests Reddit will do everything in its power to make the site a safe place for everyone. But the complexities of Reddit’s myriad online communities and its poor record of managing such behavior in the past suggest it will be a daunting task indeed. ,The forum Huffman effectively pardoned this afternoon ,r/coontown, has on numerous occasions brigaded and harassed different subreddits. And overt and direct harassment aside, there’s a compelling case to be made that groups dedicated to the subjugation and hatred of another community explicitly “intimidate others into silence.”

Huffman and Reddit’s choice to further a policy that waits until harassment scales Reddit’s walls and bleeds into the physical world is precarious — and potentially reckless — but it’s also nothing new. Similar to Pao and her predecessor, Yishan Wong, Huffman has decided to continue to put faith in a vision of the internet where communities, when left largely to their own devices, will veer toward “open and authentic discussions when they aren't worried about the speech police knocking down their door.”

But that’s not the internet we have now. Just ask Ellen Pao, who wrote today in the Washington Post that balancing "free expression with privacy and the protection of participants has always been a challenge for open-content platforms on the Internet. But that balancing act is getting harder. The trolls are winning.”

Huffman’s policies seem to bear this out. While the new CEO explicitly stated that r/rapingwomen will be banned, that subreddit appears to be composed mostly of online trolls dedicated to over-the-top and overly sensational headline-grabbing behavior: individuals who care far more about offending people than they do about condoning rape. The r/coontown subreddit, however, is a well-known and active community built around hate and dedicated to amplifying those messages, which is to say that it’s arguably just as potentially abusive, if not more so, than overtly violent, purely trolling communities.

Of course none of the work of making the internet safer is simple. The discussion of policing and controlling harassment inside online communities doesn’t just contain gray areas — it is a gray area. And in a way, that’s what makes Huffman’s proposal for Reddit so disheartening. Providing some semblance of safety for women and minority groups of all kinds is difficult, sometimes arbitrary work that requires definitive policies that were nowhere to be found in Huffman’s post today.

Instead, Huffman continued in the tradition of past Reddit leadership, offering yet another declaration of values and ideals — an ideological framework from which the company can operate. But today’s AMA was not some constitutional convention. Reddit is a vast, vibrant community that contains thousands of smaller, idiosyncratic communities, not some newly bordered, land-bound nation begging for new founding ideas on virtue and justice. Nor is it a 21st-century internet morality consortium. Reddit is an important online home for millions that is crying out for clear-cut laws and practical solutions by which to safely govern its community. Today, it received nothing of the sort.

*Books next trip immediately*

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Because you are a person living on this Earth, there is a 99.999999% chance that you really like taking trips.

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But travel is so much more than stunning IRL sunsets and that #daydrinking life. It's also good for your mind and your soul. Here are 13 amazing effects travel has on your brain.

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A recent study from the Academy of Management Journal found that people who worked overseas were more imaginative and inspired than those who stayed in the U.S. Why? It's all about cultural immersion.

"People who integrate a new culture into their identities are more creative in the long run," William Maddux, Ph.D., the study's lead author, tells BuzzFeed Life.

His logic: Doing as the locals do for an extended period of time opens up your mind, forcing you to think in different ways and bounce around between different ideas. It's a concept scientists very fancily refer to as "cognitive flexibility." And the more ~cognitively flexible~ you are, the more creative you will be.

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If you don’t want to know what MIGHT happen in Season 6, it’s probably best to look away now.

If there's one thing we know about Game of Thrones fans, it's that they like to speculate.

And for the next nine months the thing they'll most likely be speculating about is how Jon Snow can be brought back from the dead. But nine months is a long time, so allow us to give you something else to think about...

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Earlier this week HBO announced some new filming locations for Season 6. One of which was Castillo de Zafra in Guadalajara, Spain.

The 12th-century castle was built on top of a rocky outcrop on a hillside. And as you can see from this picture, there seems to be very little surrounding it

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To many people who have read the books, there is one Westerosi location that this looks like above all others: the Tower of Joy.

For those who haven't read the books, the Tower of Joy was the place where Eddard Stark found his sister Lyanna in a bed of blood, at which point Ned made Lyanna a promise moments before she died.

The theory – commonly known as R+L=J – says that the blood was the result of childbirth, and that the child in question was fathered by Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. Knowing that any child of a Targaryen would be slaughtered by Robert Baratheon, Ned promised Lyanna that he would raise them as his own, telling everyone (including his wife) that the child was his bastard. If you hadn't worked it out by now, that child was Jon Snow. Half Stark, half Targaryen, Jon Snow is literally the song of ice and fire, or so the theory goes. You can read more about this theory here.

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As this all happened 17 years before the events of the show, the inclusion of the tower could mean that we get to see flashbacks.

Which could mean, if we're very lucky, that R+L=J will be confirmed at some point during Season 6.

There are those who claim this castle could be Casterly Rock, although the fact that this location is miles from the coastline seems to dispute this. So what other evidence is there that we could see flashbacks to the Tower of Joy during Season 6?

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It’s unclear what news story, exactly, made Loretta Young — one of the most beautiful and celebrated actresses of Classic Hollywood — first wonder if she had been date-raped by one of the biggest stars of all time.

It was 1998 and the 85-year-old Young was living a life of comfort and splendor in Palm Springs. At 80, she’d married French fashion designer Jean Louis; until his death in 1997, they had reveled in their collective fabulousness, drawing attention wherever they went, like an irresistible vortex of glamour.

At that point, Young was best remembered for The Loretta Young Show, a pioneering and massively successful program that had put her in American living rooms for the bulk of the '50s. But that had been Young’s second act. She’d first appeared onscreen in 1917, at the age of 3; by age 40, she’d appeared in over a hundred films. Even years out of the spotlight, her distinctive doe eyes and name would have been recognizable to anyone born before 1950.

Young was also known for her part in one of the biggest Hollywood cover-ups of all time: In 1935, at the age of 23, she became pregnant with Clark Gable’s child — while Gable was married to another woman. Over the course of the next two years, Young managed to hide the pregnancy, birth, and young infant for more than a year, eventually manufacturing an adoption narrative to bring her daughter home.

The story was successfully concealed from the public, even as it circulated around Hollywood, at a muted level, for years — Young herself didn’t confirm it until after her death, via her posthumously released memoirs, in 2000. The child wouldn’t learn of her parentage until just before her wedding, and Gable never acknowledged her as his own. Meanwhile, Young attempted to reconcile her image as devout and often openly moralizing Catholic, known for implementing a “swear jar” on set, with the persistent rumors of an extramarital affair. Over the course of her decades-long career, she was called a duplicitous liar, a fraud, a hypocrite.

Young loved to watch Larry King Live, which is most likely what prompted her to first ask her friend, frequent houseguest, and would-be biographer, Edward Funk, and then her daughter-in-law, Linda Lewis, to explain the term “date rape.” As Lewis recalled from her Jensen Beach, Florida, home this April, sitting next to her husband, Chris — Young’s second born — and flanked by Young’s Oscar and Golden Globe, it took a tact to explain, in language that an 85-year-old could understand, what “date rape” meant. “I did the best I could to make her understand,” Lewis said. “You have to remember, this was a very proper lady.”

When Lewis was finished describing the act, Young’s response was a revelation: “That’s what happened between me and Clark.”

After my extensive interviews with Young’s son, daughter-in-law, and longtime biographer, it seems clear to me that by keeping the secret of her daughter’s conception, Young was doing what millions of women have done before and since: using what little power she had to take back control of her life after it had been wrested from her.

But to understand this story — and why Young kept quiet for so long — one has to understand not only how women were made to understand their role in unwanted sexual advances, but also the expectations that governed Hollywood in the 1930s, and the well-honed studio system that ensured, at all costs, that stars hewed to them. But you also have to understand who Gable and Young were — what their larger-than-life images stood for, and all they stood to lose if the truth were revealed.

This is a story about the past, of course, but one with chilling echoes in the present: in the ever-accumulating allegations against Bill Cosby, or this week’s revelations about the rape of a 16-year-old member of The Runaways in 1976. It’s easy to look at Young’s elaborate cover-up and label it ridiculous. It’s harder to see what happened to her as indicative of larger structures of power — patriarchy, of course, but also Hollywood — that continue to make it so difficult for these stories to be told.

Clark Gable and Loretta Young.

Young’s narrative was classic Classic Hollywood: She came to the pictures poor, from a working-class family, with no formal training. She first appeared onscreen at the age of 3, when she was still known by her birth name of Gretchen. She was cute and took instruction well, but the same was true of her other two sisters, who, like so many young kids in Hollywood during the silent era, made extra dimes by appearing as extras after school. Loretta didn’t distinguish herself until age 14, when, according to lore, a director telephoned to request her sister Polly, to which Gretchen replied, “Polly isn’t in, but why don’t you use me? I’m better looking and a better actress.” Silent star Colleen Moore became her mentor, giving her the name “Loretta”; in 1928, Young starred opposite Lon Chaney in Laugh, Clown, Laugh in what would become her breakout role — in part because, even at the age of 15, she was ethereally beautiful.

With two equally beautiful sisters, Young’s home became the go-to hangout for “some of the younger boys around Hollywood,” as one fan magazine reported. “One of the sisters was almost always to be at home when anyone called.” But this was no house of ill-repute: Young’s mother, Gladys, had converted to Catholicism, and was filled with the sort of religious vigor that entailed a convent education for each of the girls, weekly suppers with friendly priests, and a rigid code of conduct.

Which is why Loretta’s elopement, at the age of 17, with 28-year-old actor Grant Withers, fractured the family. It wasn’t that Loretta had absconded without her mother’s knowledge — at least not entirely. The sin was far more grave: Withers wasn’t Catholic. To punish Loretta, her mother refused to speak to her, and forced her sisters to do the same, even when one was serving as Loretta’s body double. Young quickly became disenchanted with her marriage and returned home — at which point a visiting priest, Father Ward, told her something that would guide Young’s decisions from that point forward. “I’ve already spoken with two 16-year-old girls, who each wanted to elope. They said, ‘If Loretta Young can do it, why can’t I?'”

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Ward concluded by paraphrasing Matthew 18:6: “Rather than give bad example, you should have a stone tied around your neck and be thrown into the sea... You have to decide, Loretta. Where are you going — heaven or hell?”

Her priest’s warnings and parental shunning affected Young deeply, but she was still a sucker for romance. She separated from Withers after less than a year and embarked on the beginning of her time as “The Gayest Divorcee,” as one headline put it. She was consistently framed as a woman of great beauty and greater emotion: “Currently she is out of love and hard to date,” Screenland reported in 1932. “She has moody weeks like these, occasionally, when she fancies herself the lonesome Garbo type. ... Then she’s falling in love again despite protestations that she never wanted to. She just can’t help it!” She fell for another actor; he married someone else. She fell for a businessman; he died during an operation. And then she fell for Spencer Tracy — a Catholic, but a Catholic married to another woman.

Tracy and Young met on the set of A Man’s Castle in 1933, when he was newly separated from his wife of 10 years. Both Tracy and his wife acknowledged the separation to the press, and Tracy appeared frequently with Young. It was a public courtship, but one that couldn’t come to a happy end, as Tracy, a Catholic, refused to divorce. He hung out at the Young family home — a point captured in home-movie footage taken with a camera that Tracy himself had given Young.

But for all their flirtation, Young remained chaste. You can see it in her goodbye letter to Tracy, which Tracy kept until his death; today, Linda and Chris keep a facsimile in their guesthouse, which doubles as a loosely organized Young archive, where her massive hat and glove collection seeps into endless stacks of glamour shots, posters, and family photos.

In the letter, Young’s words are coded but her intentions are clear. “When I’m with you, or listening to your voice, I seem to have little or no logic or common sense and certainly no resistance,” she wrote. But “unless I’m able at this time to see you and still live up to the promise I made five years ago” — “to never again under any circumstance ... Forget Him, to the extent of committing a sin” — it will be “impossible for us to see each other again unless we can truthfully and honestly be a good boy and a good girl.”

“It’s enough for me just to be able to look at you and talk with you,” Young continued, “and although this might sound stupid to say at this time I know I could do it if I even had a tiny bit of help from you, Spencer.”

Tracy, however, couldn’t keep up his end of the forever-chaste bargain. He and Young parted just as she was about to begin location shooting for Call of the Wild — a high-budget 20th Century film based on Jack London’s juvenile adventure of the same name. It was a loose adaptation, picking up on only one of the text’s plotlines, in which a prospector heads to Alaska looking for a gold mine, finds a woman in distress, rescues said woman, and allows a dog to steal the show.

It was a perfect role for Clark Gable, whose studio, MGM, was in the midst of renovating his image as a romantic “lover” into that of a hardened he-man. When Gable, the 22-year-old Young, and the rest of the crew left for Mount Baker, Washington, in January of 1935, Gable was a month from winning Best Actor for his turn in It Happened One Night. He was also a known womanizer, constantly at war with his second wife, who rebelled against his constant philandering, most notably with fellow MGM star Joan Crawford. Those relations, along with a purported drunk driving accident in 1934 that killed a pedestrian, were kept quiet by MGM’s legendary team of “fixers,” who helped shape the raw, and often scandalous, star material into sanitized images ready for public consumption.

Every studio had a set of fixers, including Young’s home studio of 20th Century. Yet apart from well-placed fan magazine articles around her divorce from Withers, she hadn’t needed their services: She was a flirt, but not a reckless one. Still, it was common practice for unmarried starlets to have chaperones — usually a friend or family member — when shooting on location. When the train left for Washington state, Young was accompanied by Frances “Fanny” Earle, a friend of one of her sisters. The plan was to shoot in the Mount Baker wilderness, about three hours’ drive from Seattle, for several weeks, but after the entire crew travelled 65 miles to the base camp, eight days of blizzard socked them in. With temperatures of 11 degrees below zero, even the film in the camera froze. When Young was doused in water for a scene, her teeth started chattering so hard that she began to cry uncontrollably. Co-star Jack Oakie sent the studio a tongue-in-cheek letter: “Am lost in deep snowdrifts. Send St. Bernard dog with keg of brandy. Will return dog.”

In the end, director William Wellman eked out a total of six days of shooting during the nearly nine weeks they spent on location. When Young and Gable weren’t sequestered in their quarters, they clowned around and flirted like mad — a flirtation Young herself caught on camera.

Clark Gable on the set of Call of the Wild, filmed by Loretta Young.

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“Mom used to tell me that every performance involved falling a little bit in love with her co-star,” Linda Lewis explained, sitting in her Florida home and sorting through various Loretta keepsakes. By total coincidence, the 1945 Young film Along Came Jones was airing on Turner Classic Movies that morning, and Chris Lewis would periodically pause to point out a scene in which Young was beautiful, or wooden, or funny.

In location and isolated by snow, it made sense that feeling between the two co-stars amplified. Gable would call out, “Where’s my girl?” whenever he was looking for Young; Young openly loved attention and the exploitation thereof and believed, as she told Ed Funk years later, that so long as no boundaries were crossed, she wasn’t doing anything wrong.

Rumors traveled to Hollywood that Gable had made a conquest of yet another co-star, but Young was still heartbroken over Tracy. As she recalled in a 1950 article in Hollywood Magazine, “I was only a careless youngster at the time — spending most of the time at the window waiting for the messenger boy, on snowshoes, to bring the mail in which I thought there might be a letter from a lad in Los Angeles in whom I was deeply interested.” Later in life, she remained firm that for all her flirtation with Gable, nothing sexual took place between them — and the “paper thin walls that afforded only visual privacy” of their lodgings would certainly have made it difficult, if not impossible.

When 20th Century finally called the production home in February, Young thought their flirtation would come to a natural end. For the overnight train back to Hollywood, the stars were given individual sleeping compartments, while the crew, including Young’s companion, were seated and sleeping elsewhere on the train. At some point in the night, Gable entered Young’s compartment. Young never spoke of the specifics of what occurred to anyone — not to her sisters, mother, husbands, or children — until decades later.

In some ways, Young’s situation was impossibly unique. Yet it also recalls the millions of unwanted sexual encounters that entire generations of women did not talk about, in part because they couldn’t: They literally did not have the language to do so. The word “rape” was too extreme — something that happened to women in back alleys. The introduction of “date rape” into the vernacular gave a name for an experience that, to that point, had defied description, and thus reportage.

But back in 1935, Young had to deal with a train arriving at the station early in the morning — and her mother there to greet it. Once they arrived, Young did the only polite thing, and invited Gable to breakfast with her mother. Going about life as usual had and would continue to be Young’s primary coping mechanism. “She was so humiliated,” Linda told me, “and what she would do when she was humiliated was just ‘on with the show.’ Because she had been trained since the age of 3, you put a good face on it, and you go forward. She knew she’d have to continue working with him.”

Which is precisely what she did. Young and Gable filmed the remaining scenes for Call of the Wild on the 20th Century backlot, sustaining the rumors of Gable and Young’s involvement. A month after shooting wrapped, Gable’s wife, Ria, called Young with a plan: She was hosting a party, and if Young showed up, they’d shut down press speculation. But Young declined — not because she wanted the rumors to continue, but because she’d very recently deduced that she was pregnant.

No, I don’t want to be part of your threesome.

One major deal breaker is only posting group photos, so everyone has to guess which one you are.

"I'm not on here to play 'Where's Waldo,' people."

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Putting the absolute minimal effort into your "About Me" section -- or putting no effort at all.

"It's a total turnoff when there's no punctuation in someone's profile and messages. Or when their bio is blank! How am I supposed to spark a conversation?"

-- Mumbi Okundaye, Facebook

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Using the Kesha and Pitbull lyric, "It's going down, I'm yelling Tinder..."

"That, and 'Looking for my Tinderella.' It's dead. Stop."

-- Rox Cee, Facebook

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Turns out ghosts are the worst people to date.

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"I started seeing this guy who was from Hong Kong but living in New York for college. I told my mom that that was the guy I was going to marry one day – that's how much he had me wrapped up. He said he wanted to be with me and that he would move to Nashville with me when he was done with school. Well a year later, I decided to go visit Nashville and he drove down from Buffalo (6 hours) to see me at my house for a few hours before I left. Things seemed perfect.

I got to Nashville and spoke to him that night. The next day, he deleted me off Facebook and completely stopped answering my calls/texts. For years I never knew what happened to him or us. I found out a year ago that he got arrested for burglary with a deadly weapon and he was in jail. Thank God I didn't end up with him!"

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Is that … a face?

The Figure on the Balcony

"This is the Schluter house. Many, many people died in here. I snapped a few photos because the house was AMAZING. When I went to look at them, I noticed an odd figure on the balcony. This wasn’t taken through a car window or anything like that. I did some online research and saw photos just like the one I took with the same strange figure in them. Still creeps me the fuck out."

— tonibrookec

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The Face in the Window

"This picture was taken back in February of 2012. I was looking for a wedding venue and got a private tour of Loose Mansion in Kansas City, MO. In the upper right hand corner in the glass pane, there is a face. Keep in mind, you had to be buzzed into the building so there was no way there was anyone on the other side. It also wouldn’t be a reflection of anyone on my side of the glass either since there was a small set of stairs leading up to the doors (you can see the handrails), and the only other people there were my mom, my cousin, the lady giving us the tour."

— kaylahat11

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The Strange Light

"Last year, while taking some pictures around my property of some old abandoned buildings, I captured this image. Look in the top corner at the window, there appears to be light glowing from within, despite the fact the building has no electricity or other sources of light, and in person no light was visible."

— riverwilde

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There’s a reason part-time bad boy Jamie Laing is the best part of Made in Chelsea.

Love him or hate him, Jamie Laing has been a breakout star of Made in Chelsea for nine seasons.

So we went straight to the source on how to become a successful reality TV star from part-time bad boy Jami Laing.

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You have to own the fact that you've lucked into it.

"Being on reality is kind of a funny thing. Lots of people don't like it, because they think you've lucked your way into an industry people have worked so hard for. But whatever you do, you have to own it. People are going to criticize you. But you're criticized in every industry."

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Don't force yourself to be something you're not.

"Made in Chelsea started a trend because it's shot like a drama, it's not that fly-on-the-wall sort of thing. We're a group of friends, all of us have known each other for years. People on other shows fight for airtime and fight for the best storyline, but we don't really care. It's really about a group of friends that grew up together."

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Have a personal style.

"I always under-dress rather than overdress. I have to be comfortable. I suppose I like, rip my jeans myself, I like a rugged look. I'm not rugged at all... so it's a complete contradiction. My style is a complete contradiction to who I am."

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When do the ‘feelings talks’ come in!?

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It’s almost like we’ve heard it all before.

As prime minister Tony Abbott again stood by speaker Bronwyn Bishop over the "Choppergate" scandal, Fairfax Media reported Labor were planning to "blast her out of the chair".

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Despite this being an extremely unsavory choice of phrase, it means the heat on the independent speaker's expense reports will continue for several more weeks.

Abbott's steadfast support for Bishop and Labor's condemnation got us thinking about the similarities between this current situation and the long, drawn out scandal that plagued former speaker Peter Slipper and the Gillard government.

Under the former Labor government, Julia Gillard defended Peter Slipper as he was plagued by sexual harassment allegations and was eventually found guilty of misusing $900 of cabcharges.

In contrast Bishop has been found to have caught a $5,000 chopper trip between Melbourne and Geelong and has agreed to pay back the money.

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“I look like Ron Jeremy!”

Most everyone has heard of drag queens, but don't be fooled, drag kings are out there slaying the stage too. We were transformed into drag kings for the first time, and ended up letting out our inner bad boys.

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The committee looking into conditions at the regional processing centre heard from service providers and the department of immigration.

An unexploded bomb was found under the school tent.

Transfield Services, the company that operates the offshore detention centres, confirmed that an "unexploded ordnance" from WWII was found under the tent where primary school aged children attend school in the detention centre.

A spokesperson described it as a shell that had been defused.

The inquiry also heard evidence that children would often faint while in the school tent with the temperature reaching up to 50 degrees.

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Transfield has only had a human rights policy for four weeks.

Senators asked whether the company only brought in the policy as part of its bid to renew its $1.2 billion contract with the Australian government.

Transfield executive Kate Munnings denied that this was the case.

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A staff member with Wilson Security was dismissed for having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old detainee.

Between November 2013 and March 2015, 11 security guards were disciplined or terminated for sexual assault or use of excessive force.

"What does that tell you, if there are 11 examples of that type of conduct?" Senator Kim Carr asked.

John Rodgers from Wilson Security explained these incidents involved hitting, pushing or smacking children, as well as using threatening language to a minor.

One female guard falsely claimed she was indecently assaulted by a detainee. After a police investigation it was revealed to be a consensual "inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old transferee." She was terminated immediately.

Department of immigration and border protection

Transfield did not take responsibility for the decision to keep a child on Nauru after the child was abused by a staff member.

Sarah Hanson-Young questioned Transfield about a child who was abused by a member of staff, who was subsequently dismissed. The child then remained in detention, where the child was abused and humiliated by their abuser's friends out of retribution. Hanson-Young asked how this could possibly be justified."The responsibility for the allocation of accommodation for children is welfare so that question is best put to Save the Children," said a Transfield representative.It was then revealed that the decision to keep people in detention belongs to the department of immigration."I don't think blaming Save the Children is appropriate," said Hanson-Young.

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A suspected asylum seeker vessel spotted off the WA coast.

A suspected asylum seeker boat has been spotted off the north coast of Western Australia by crew on board an oil tanker.

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The sighting was off Dampier in the north west of WA on Monday morning.

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Ailaa, this is amazeballs.

"Taming of the Fuckery" is an art project by Sneha Keshav, a graduate student at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

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The project aims to find and typographically illustrate 100 colourful alternatives to the word "fuck".

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It has been inspired by Michael Bierut's "100-Day Project".

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Since April 7, Keshav has uploaded a fun new substitute for the F-word daily, without fail.

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