This Is What $1,500 A Month In Rent Would Get You In Cities All Around The World
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A Drill Sergeant Who Called Overweight People "Repulsive" In A Video Has Gone Viral
John Burk calls himself a “fitness motivator.”
The video has gotten over 2.5 million views on his page, and another 3 million on a separate page that reposted it.
"Your personality might be beautiful, but your body is not," he adds. "It is not OK to be overweight."
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Drake Emerges Days After Meek Mill Spat To Play Kickball With His Friends
All for charity, of course.
Last night, Toronto's own Drake appeared publicly for the first time since Meek Mill fired shots over social media claiming that Drake doesn't write his own songs.
But Drake took the high road and did not officially respond to Meek's allegations...
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A Group Of Shirtless Marines Is Trying To Raise Awareness About Military Suicide
A cause we can all get behind.
Wearing nothing but short shorts, group of Marines and veterans set out on a 13-mile hike on Saturday in San Diego in a bid to raise awareness about military suicides.
The vets set out from South Mission Beach Jetty wearing what's known as "silkies" -- short shorts that had them turning a lot of heads.
The guys say they plan to walk 22 kilometers carrying 22 kilograms (over 48 pounds) on their backs in a bid to draw attention to the 22 ex-service men and women who die from suicide each day.
“Imagine a pub crawl with all your Marine buddies wearing nothing but silkies and rucks on the most crowded and beautiful boardwalk in California. That’s what’s going on here,” the event's Facebook page says.
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23 Times Helen Mirren Was The Queen Of The Goddamn Universe
In honour of her 70th birthday today. Happy birthday, Queen!
The time she had this advice for up and coming young stars.
And went on the subway like a flawless queen from another universe.
The time she showed off her twerking skills.
Then showed it off again once she'd perfected it to beyond perfection.
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29 Of The Most Delicious Things You Can Do To Zucchini
So much zucchini, so little time.
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Zucchini Pizza Boats
LOL at the fact that even in a list of zucchini recipes, there's a place for pizza. Recipe here.
Zucchini, Feta, and Spinach Fritters
Get outta here, pancakes. Recipe here.
Baked Parmesan Zucchini Rounds
I'd tell you these tasted like chips, but that wouldn't be doing them justice. Recipe here.
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"Pixels,""Armada," And The Geek Fantasy It's Time To Banish
Michelle Monaghan, Adam Sandler, Josh Gad, and Q*bert in Pixels.
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Pixels is about how Adam Sandler saves the world from invading aliens using the skills and know-how he picked up playing arcade games.
As premises go, it isn't more outlandish than those of Sandler's other movies, in which he's played the favorite son of Satan, a guy able to control time using a magic remote control, and, nightmarishly, his own twin sister. Sandler has been turning out the high-concept, low-commitment comedies for two-plus decades, even though he seems less engaged each time — we're a long way from the anarchic energy of Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison. And there are scenes in the surreally lazy, occasionally funny Pixels in which Sandler's face slips into the exact same weary, disgruntled expression he wears in Funny People, in which he played a comedian trying to distance himself from the broad, inane films that made him famous.
The idea of extraterrestrials attacking in video game form is more than just a viral video concept that's been inflated into Sandler's latest pean to arrested development. It's having a moment, courtesy of how Pixels has intersected with the release of Ernest Cline's Armada earlier this month, a book with a strikingly similar premise. But where Pixels uses its setup of grown arcade rats as unlikely heroes for comedic action, sending Pac-Man rampaging through Manhattan and offering up a cowering Q*bert as a prisoner of war, Armada is very serious about how its 18-year-old protagonist Zack Lightman becomes humanity's savior using the skills he's built up over years of obsessive gaming.
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Armada is the second novel from Cline, the author of the best-selling nerd tome Ready Player One and one of the screenwriters of Fanboys. It is a work of earnest, exhausting fandom that ties itself into influences and predecessors like Ender's Game and Star Wars with the care of an academic tract. Pixels, directed by Mrs. Doubtfire's Chris Columbus and co-written by frequent Sandler collaborator Tim Herlihy, is more like a bro in nerd's clothing, offering up a shrugging barrage of '80s references in hopes some will stick.
And yet, both end up doing the same maddening thing, which is find the point where geeky affirmation becomes barefaced pandering, and blow right past it. These are not stories about how underdog nerds save the world. They are stories in which world destruction has been carefully arranged to give its heroes a chance to prove themselves special.
Both Pixels and Armada are clear on how their protagonists' gaming skills haven't yielded real-life benefits. Brenner, the character Sandler plays in Pixels, made it to the 1982 arcade world championships before losing out to a preening, mulleted guy who's played as an adult by a very entertaining Peter Dinklage. As a grown-up himself, Brenner is divorced, installs home electronics, and isn't even a gamer anymore — but he still declares himself a nerd when he gets turned down by a customer, Violet (poor Michelle Monaghan), whom he labels a snob. "I'm an amazing kisser. All us nerds are, because we appreciate it more," he tells her.
Violet, not long after this, is revealed to be a DARPA scientist, which by any classical definition would make her the nerd, and an apparent genius one at that, given her convenient ability to whip out anti-alien weapons in little to no time. But Pixels is not about genuine nerdiness as it might pertain to someone smart, shy, or with obsessive interests. When Brenner uses that term, what he means is that he's someone who doesn't feel appropriately appreciated for who he is — that he knows he's great, and Violet should kiss him even though he admits he didn't bother to brush his teeth that morning.
Sandler and Gad in Pixels.
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As the movie unfolds, and as the aliens arrive, having interpreted the contents of an '80s NASA time capsule as a declaration of war, Brenner gets to not just be the hero but to be the man lecturing Navy SEALs on the nuances of Asteroids and getting toasted by a bar full of soldiers. "I've never been happier or more alive," he yells while shooting his way through a giant version of Centipede. He, Eddie (Dinklage), and Ludlow (Josh Gad) get custom uniforms; a gala is thrown in their honor in between alien attacks; Eddie demands Serena Williams as his date — and gets her! "I'm just a loser who's good at old video games," Brenner says, as the universe he's in assures him this is the most important thing he could possibly be.
Zack from Armada is, unlike Brenner, still a teenager, though he's also mired in '80s pop culture ephemera, thanks to his obsession with the father he never knew. Zack's eponymous game of choice is a space combat simulator at which he's become good enough to earn a top ten spot, of which he's proud while admitting the time he's put in has hurt his grades and cost him his girlfriend. Like Brenner, Zack is recruited and immediately promoted above actual soldiers when the aliens attack. He gets a nifty uniform of his own ("I actually looked pretty sharp, like an intrepid young space hero"), and while there's little time for galas in Armada, which has a much higher body count than Pixels, he arrives at base to find his favorite snacks (Lucky Charms, no milk) already laid out for him.
Like Brenner, Zack knows better than the military leaders he clashes with, and also like Brenner ("We Will Rock You"), Zack ("Another One Bites The Dust," "One Vision") takes his gaming soundtrack with a lot of Queen. The two have no interest in making games, which just emphasizes it's not authorship or the industry they're interested in — it's being the best at playing. They're both convinced they're destined for greater things, even if Brenner has longer to wait.
Pixels.
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Pixels and Armada are descendants of movies like The Last Starfighter and War Games, Armada explicitly so. But they flail against an absence of oppression. Neither Sandler's movie nor Cline's book can really muster up an argument for its main character as a misunderstood representative from a maligned subculture, because both are set in a modern world in which gaming is a billion-dollar industry and a mainstream form of entertainment. Armada does cough up one '80s-style bully who calls Zack a "videogame nerd who can't get laid," but the story quickly counters this claim by having a military aircraft land on school grounds in front of all Zack's classmates (including his ex) to zip him away to training, where he immediately bags a fantasy girl won over by his in-game rankings.
It's a moment in which the underlying sentiment in Armada as well as Pixels shines through, and it's not actually one of geek affirmation or nerd triumph — an inarguable point in our age of Comic Con and Marvel movies, in which we're all some degree of nerdy. No, it's a more ordinary and less inclusive sort of wish fulfillment, that streak of "someday you'll be sorry" that has nothing specific to do with being a gamer or being a geek and everything to do with the feeling of deserving more respect and appreciation.
Serena Williams and Dinklage in Pixels.
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It's a recognizable human sentiment, if an unpretty one, that desire to be celebrated and rewarded for some hidden greatness that's going unrecognized — greatness that, in the case of Pixels and Armada, the main characters have conveniently achieved in their own time, the work already done. Genre fiction is filled with underdog characters who manage heroics, but those stories are about what they go on to do, strengths they find, journeys they make, the things they achieve, not the indulged hobbies they already have. Maybe it's time to give this self-congratulatory idea a rest — at least until we're ready for a story in which the only person who can save the world is one with an unprecedented ability to mainline multiple seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Netflix in a single sitting, living only off of pints of Häagen-Dazs. Then sign me up.
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39 Things Every Australian Kid Said In The '90s
“You can come to my Pizza Hut party if you trade me that Tazo.”
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Jake Gyllenhaal And His On-Screen Daughter Are Too Cute For Words
Oona Laurence plays Jake’s daughter in Southpaw, and they’re literally too adorable for words.
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21 Important Questions About Pet Etiquette
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19 Tips For Studying Abroad That Aren't Complete Garbage
♫ ‘Cause I’m leavin’ on a jet plane…♫
Plan all of your side trips as soon as possible. The earlier you book your flight from England to Paris, or wherever you go, the less it'll cost!
-- susanr4
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Don't let sleepiness bog you down. If you have the choice between a nap and a chance to explore, EXPLORE. You won't regret it.
-- lexlex012
Learn a little bit about your new country before you get there, so you're not totally in the dark when discussing with your new foreign friends.
-- Mike Ferkol, Facebook
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Khloé Kardashian Says There Wasn't Cocaine At Kylie's Grad Party
“No one was doing coke at a graduation party.”
Let's catch you up to speed. This is Kylie Kristen Jenner. She recently graduated from high school.
So family friend Ryan Seacrest decided to host a surprise get-together at the Jenner abode to celebrate.
They also celebrated sister Kendall's 2014 graduation.
The whole gang was there.
KANYE EVEN KIND OF SMILED. So much fun was had!
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17 Things You Should Never Say To A Dad
Today’s dads aren’t who you think they are.
"Are you babysitting today?"
Actually, when you're a dad it's called "parenting."
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"Have you changed a diaper yet?"
This would be a fair question for, say, Pete Campbell from Mad Men, but the majority of dads in 2015 change their kids' diapers from day one. Implying that they don't stinks (like a diaper in need of a change, you could say).
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"Looks like she wants her mommy!"
Babies don't cry because they want their mommy. They cry because they want to be comforted, fed, or changed, and a dad can do those things too.
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"Who dressed her?"
Dads hear this whenever they show up somewhere without their kids looking like Depression-era waifs. But dads are perfectly capable of making their kids look cute. Many even do hair!
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31 Tumblr Posts Only True Disney Fans Will Appreciate
This will change the way you see Disney. H/T: this Imgur post.
This musical riposte:
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This disgusting revelation:
And this less disgusting one, which will make you think:
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This helpful dating advice:
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What's Going On Around The World Today?
HERE ARE THE TOP STORIES
President Obama praised Kenya on his visit but warned of challenges ahead.
On Sunday, finishing up his visit to the east African country — the first by a sitting U.S. president — Obama welcomed Kenya's newfound political stability, pointing out that young Kenyans today did not have to emigrate, like his father did, in search for a better life. But he also told Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta he must do more to stamp out corruption and improve its human rights record.
Obama also called for a greater role for women and girls in Kenyan society. And on Saturday, he criticized the nation, as well as other African countries, for a poor record on LGBT rights.
President Barack Obama delivers a speech in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday.
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Obama’s next stop is Ethiopia. Among the issues he’ll discuss are “recent elections in which the ruling party secured all of the parliamentary seats, and a further clampdown on the media and the jailing of bloggers,” BBC News’ Karen Allen writes. Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to visit the country and will be the first to address the 54-member African Union on Tuesday.
And a little extra.
A new Nairobi exhibit of political cartoons traces Kenyans’ falling in and out of love with Obama.
In this cartoon, Air Force One is piled high with things to take back home, just like buses when people head back to the village from the city. Obama’s plane, though, is also loaded with symbols of aid, like a military ship.
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An aid worker was raped in South Sudan and the United Nations did almost nothing about it.
A Canadian woman went to South Sudan hoping to help its women and girls weather violence. Instead, she experienced sexual violence herself. And it would take her several months to find out that, despite the U.N.’s “zero tolerance” for the crime that was perpetrated against her, there would never be any real justice. BuzzFeed News’ Jina Moore reports from Bentiu, South Sudan.
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WE’RE KEEPING AN EYE ON
A U.S. federal judge ordered the release of immigrant mothers and children from detention.
Around 1,700 mothers and children are currently being held in immigration detention after fleeing violence in Central America. Officials from the Department of Homeland Security began detaining families last summer after a surge of undocumented immigrants arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border, BuzzFeed News’ David Mack writes. The families are held at the facilities, located in Texas and Pennsylvania, while their claims for asylum are processed.
“The court received evidence from some of those being detained in the prison-like, ‘secure’ facilities who complained of overcrowding, inadequate nutrition, poor hygiene, subpar medical treatment, and not being allowed visits from family members,” Mack writes.
Detained immigrant children at a facility in Texas in September, 2014.
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What’s next?
Homeland Security officials have until Aug. 3 to come up with a plan for releasing the mothers and children. A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told the Los Angeles Times that officials were reviewing the ruling to “determine appropriate next steps.” Earlier this month, ICE officials told BuzzFeed News they had begun releasing from detention undocumented immigrant families who have valid asylum claims.
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THIS?
“We live where we work, and we can’t leave … We are like modern-day slaves.”
The United States’ H-2 visa program invites foreign workers to do some of the most menial labor in America. Then it leaves them at the mercy of their employers. Thousands of these workers have been abused — deprived of their fair pay, imprisoned, starved, beaten, raped, and threatened with deportation if they dare complain. And the government says it can do little to help. A BuzzFeed News investigation.
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Quick things to know:
Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, died at 22 after months in a coma. (BuzzFeed News)
Shares in mainland China have recorded their biggest one-day fall in more than eight years. (BBC News)
After attacks along the Syrian border, Turkey requested a rare emergency meeting for NATO members under Article 4 of the group’s founding treaty, “which allows countries to ask for consultations when they believe their territorial integrity, political independence or security is threatened.” (CNN)
New York magazine’s cover powerfully captures Bill Cosby’s rape accusers. (BuzzFeed News) Over the weekend, Spelman College, a historically black women’s school, ended a professorship that was named for and funded by Cosby. (BuzzFeed News)
A New York Times article about a request to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email use was corrected. (Politico)
The Boy Scouts of America is expected to officially end its longstanding ban on gay scout leaders today. (USA Today)
The boat of two missing 14-year-old boys was found Sunday about 65 miles off the Florida coast, police said. (BuzzFeed News)
No, swallowing semen isn’t better than Prozac. (BuzzFeed News)
British cyclist Chris Froome won his second Tour de France title. (BBC)
These 14 moments from the Special Olympics World Games opening ceremony on Saturday will make you smile. (BuzzFeed Community)
Today in Twitter: Twitter is deleting stolen jokes on copyright grounds. (The Verge) And Kim Kardashian asked for the ability to edit tweets and Twitter’s CEO called it a “great idea!” (BuzzFeed News)
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Happy Monday
A plus-size model on the cover of a magazine — especially a fitness magazine — is relatively rare. So people were excited when Women’s Running featured runner and model Erica Schenk on its cover. The magazine’s editor in chief, Jessica Sebor, said, “Runners come in all shapes and sizes. You can go any race finish line, from a 5K to a marathon, and see that. It was important for us to celebrate that.”
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16 Things You Simply Don't Say Around A Bollywood Fan
“Let’s fast-forward the songs. They’re too long.”
"Let's fast-forward the songs. They're too long."
Let's fast-forward our budding friendship to its end.
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"Andaz Apna Apna was so unfunny; why do people even like it?"
Because it was fucking hilarious.
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"I don't know what Shah Rukh Khan's appeal is."
ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY.
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"Old Bollywood was still good. The new stuff is shit."
Wow, nice opinion, especially since we've come out with some of the best films EVER this year alone.
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Dazzling Photos That Remind Us Why We Fell In Love With The London 2012 Opening Ceremony
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Performers depict the industrial revolution.
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A 'night out' is acted out during the London Olympic Games 2012 Opening Ceremony at the Olympic Stadium, London.
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Rings representing the Olympics and the industrial revolution are lit and lifted.
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A British meadow and rural community is depicted during the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium, London.
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Olympic rings are forged in a scene from the industrial revolution.
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Traditional family life being acted out during the ceremony.
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Workers weave on giant looms in a scene from the industrial revolution.
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Britain's flagbearer, Chris Hoy, leads his country's delegation parade.
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A member of Italy's delegation holds her national flag as she parades during the ceremony.
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Members of the India's delegation wave their national flags.
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The Olympic flame is lit inside the stadium.
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3 Adorable Emails That Will Always Brighten Your Day
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A Woman's Ex-Boyfriend Ripped Her Throat And Now She's Speaking Out To Warn Others
“If anything good can come from my situation it will be to warn other young people of abusive relationships before it’s too late.”
A woman has shared her shocking story of survival after an abusive ex-partner bit her nose and forced his fingers so hard down her throat that it ripped the flesh inside her mouth.
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Speaking to Liverpool Echo, Kate Friday, a 20-year-old student from West Derby, said she wanted to share her story to “warn” people of the signs of abusive relationships.
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Last month, her 21-year-old abusive ex-partner Kyle Newby admitted to harassment and assault, the Echo reported. Newby avoided a prison sentence, a decision Friday described as “disgusting”.
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She told the Liverpool Echo that he "exploited" her because he was her first boyfriend and that she didn't know what a healthy relationship was.
"I came to accept the abuse as the norm and just got used to it," she said. "But no one should ever have to get used to that. I wish someone had been there to tell me about the warning signs."
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37 People You Wish You Could Hang Out With Every Single Day
Your life would be better with these people around.
The guy who owns this business card.
This fellow, who's just as helpful as you want to be.
Whoever clearly has a popcorn hookup at the cinema.
Anyone who's this goddamn talented.
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