Love your shape, let your shape love you.
Which is phrenology, a highly discredited pseudoscience based around the idea that the measurements of the human skull can tell a lot about how animalistic or moral or whatever someone is.
Australia is killing it on Instagram.
Half-man. Half-fish. All yours.
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How about unconditional love?
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Can the same makeup really work for everyone? We put cult favorites to the test.
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Between the single-shade blushes that are marketed as built for everyone, and the lipsticks that have racked up a cult following across the board, the idea that some products are made to be universally flattering is just about everywhere.
Benefit
It’s so ~mysterious~ to me!
Italian comfort is the best comfort.
A lasagna that won't put you to sleep. This one ditches the stewy, forever-cooked tomato sauce for a lighter version with eggs.
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Maximize those nubbins of caramelized squash by spreading a butternut purée over pizza dough.
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Butcher shops in Sicily make these as an easy snack that everyone loves. So should you.
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Lots of olive oil and a handful of bread make the richest tomato soup ever.
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Everybody wins?
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Technically, they models were meant to be "human backpacks."
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One thing’s for sure: you’re super sweet.
In the same church and everything!
They first met in church, and when Adrian was told he was the ring bearer to her flower girl in a family friend's wedding, "I was devastated. I was like, 'tell me I don't have to walk down the aisle with her!" he told WBTV.
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She told BuzzFeed Life that it was pretty much love at first sight for her, but her outspoken and energetic personality didn't vibe with Adrian's more reserved nature. "She was kind of a brat" he told BuzzFeed Life. "I was always trying to get away from her and run from her and hide from her."
Brooke Franklin
"We went on a church trip together, and she caught my eye with her laugh, and this time, her personality got to me," he told BuzzFeed Life. Four years later, he finally asked her out.
Their relationship was practically inevitable: Both admit that they thought about the other during other relationships, and Brooke's mother even contacted Adrian's best friend to set them up.
"When we finally went out in August of 2011, I knew he was the one. I just fell in love that minute," Brooke said. Adrian proposed last November.
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(Both had been attending the church for years, so they didn't choose it for sentimental reasons.)
The bride from the wedding they were in together attended their wedding, but before she did, she gave them the best present they could ask for. "We kind of forgot that we were in the wedding together and she brought the photos to us a month before our wedding and asked, 'Do you remember this?'" Brooke told BuzzFeed Life.
She let them keep the photos, which now hang in their house.
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NEVER FORGET.
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To learn more about exactly how and why to marinate your meat, check out this Marinating 101.
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“I don’t even like pumpkin spice lattes.”
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Because alcohol is fun, and sharing is not.
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Or whatever booze you're feelin'.
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“Welcome to Alexandria.” (Spoilers obviously.)
Point spreads, pigskin, and the pursuit of a profit: weekly football wagers from a wannabe wiseguy
After biting off more than I could chew from last week's enticing board, the approach in Week 4 is to heed a time-tested truism and keep the season in the black: quality over quantity.
The number of quality options can vary from week to week based on the matchups and the market. Selectivity is arguably the greatest advantage a player has on the book, which must list lines for virtually everything. This week, that gets put back into practice.
Many thought Cincinnati was in a letdown spot last week - myself included - but this week's situation takes it to a whole new level. Now at 3-0, having put the Ravens in an 0-3 hole last Sunday, and sensing the Steelers' vulnerability without Ben Roethlisberger, the Bengals know they're sitting pretty in the AFC North. Coming off the rivalry game in Baltimore and with a Week 5 showdown against the Seahawks looming, it's not a stretch to see Cincinnati overlooking the Chiefs.
With Kansas City having lost back-to-back games on national TV, the Bengals would be far from alone in making some dangerous assumptions about this matchup. Playing their second road game this week may work against the Chiefs, but they should be able to overcome it considering the spot for Cincinnati and their ability to pound the rock with Jamaal Charles.
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Teasers can be tricky, but this one became a fit for two primary reasons. First, it teases through key numbers 7 and 3, meaning straight-up wins by the Packers and Chargers most likely cash the ticket. Second, straight-up wins by the Packers and Chargers simply require Aaron Rodgers to defeat Colin Kaepernick and San Diego to beat the Browns at home. As Cleveland's backup would put it...
Chanel-O-Ween is frightfully funny.
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A taxi drives in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina.
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JERUSALEM — With just one touch of a button in Jerusalem, you can now order a taxi with a baby car seat, a cold drink, fresh flowers — or a “kosher” driver.
David Shmuel, 60, is one of those drivers working with Gett, Israel’s homegrown and most popular taxi app. Shmuel’s not kosher in the rabbi-certified sense; rather, he is part of Gett’s “kosher” taxi fleet — Gett Mehadrin — in which customers can order a driver who does not drive on the Jewish Sabbath, from Friday evening to Saturday night, in keeping with strict Jewish law.
“It’s like milk at a supermarket,” Shmuel told BuzzFeed News during a taxi ride on a July night in Jerusalem. “There are lots of options. Some people like a certain kind — kosher.”
Gett launched the Mehadrin taxi fleet in March. It’s only available in Israel, and there are now around 1,000 Mehadrin drivers out of Gett’s 6,700 nationwide as of August, according to Iris Hermon, the head of marketing for Gett in Israel. The fleet accepts any Gett driver — from all races, religions, and genders — and includes a few Arab drivers, though Hermon declined to provide an exact figure. Nationally, Gett Mehadrin accounts for up to 20% of the company’s monthly rides, the majority of which are in and around Jerusalem, according to Hermon.
The new service, depending on whom you ask, is either entirely reasonable, entirely racist, or not something the average Jerusalemite thinks twice about having these days. It has also gained a reputation among some drivers as the “Jewish driver” option in a city defined by cycles of religious and racial divides.
“It’s racist,” agreed Ahmed Abu Tir, an east Jerusalem resident and Gett driver. He, like all the Palestinian drivers interviewed, referred to it as the “Jewish driver” option.
Abu Tir knows that unlike Gett, many of west Jerusalem’s cab companies won’t hire drivers like him, or will send a Jewish driver on request even though that’s illegal. Still, when his wife calls, he doesn’t like to respond in Arabic if he has a Jewish passenger: He worries they’ll become suspicious.
Gett told BuzzFeed News that claims of discrimination are misplaced.
“It’s about service,” Hermon said. “We never treat one driver differently than another.”
Hermon said Gett developed the Mehadrin option in response to customer feedback. This arrangement, she said, is a part of modern Jerusalem life: If Gett did not have the Mehadrin option, then the city’s large and politically powerful ultra-orthodox communities would boycott them, as they do with most businesses open on the Sabbath.
Uber, which launched in Israel in 2014, does not have a specific fleet catering to the ultra-Orthodox. For now, Israeli law forbids the popular UberX system, in which a registered driver can turn their private car into a cab.
Gett and Uber also do not operate in the occupied Palestinian territories, where Israel has not granted Palestinian telecommunication companies in the West Bank and Gaza enough bandwidth for their own access to 3G internet yet.
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Jerusalem’s population today is about one-third ultra-Orthodox Jews, one-third secular Jews, and one-third Christian and Muslim Palestinians, often referred to as Arabs by Israelis. Jerusalem, which Israel declared its capital despite objections from the international community, is largely split between the Jewish west and the Palestinian east.
The city’s transportation system reflects many of these political and religious divides. Today the Palestinian east side has a bus system and taxi companies to serve its communities, while in the west, some ultra-Orthodox Jews have pushed for a gender-segregated bus system. Much of West Jerusalem, including public transportation, shuts down on the Jewish Sabbath and holidays.
It’s also a city where transportation has been a site of violence, from Palestinian suicide bombings of Israeli buses a decade ago to more recent tensions around Jerusalem’s light rail, on which a wide range of the city mixes as the rail crosses from east to west.
In such a politically charged space, residents say, racial and religious profiling by Western standards is also fairly commonplace.
Abu Tir of Gett feels it in the subtleties of interactions. At a previous cab company where he worked for three years, he went by the name Amir instead of Ahmad: He chose a more ethnically ambiguous name, he said, after people repeatedly canceled on him because of his distinctively Arab name and look.
The rider said she would cancel rides with Arab drivers. Gett told her they didn’t want her business.
Now he can’t do that at Gett, as each rider receives his registered name, picture, phone number, car type, and license plate with every order. On the one hand, he thinks this provides an improvement: Some Jewish passengers, he reasoned, feel more comfortable getting in the cab knowing that Gett is tracking the interaction. Like many Gett drivers, Abu Tir works for both a Jerusalem taxi company and picks up customers via the app to maximize his time. Still, after the violence surrounding last summer’s Gaza War, including some alleged attacks on Arab cab drivers, he said he’s looking to leave the business.
When Herzel Moshe, 60, first joined Gett in 2012, he said there “were a lot” of incidents of riders canceling on Arab drivers. Moshe has been driving cabs for over 30 years and is now Gett’s Jerusalem city manager with a small operating office adjacent to a gas station.
“At the beginning it [Gett] was something different,” he said. “As I told you, many stations did not take Arab drivers like Gett.”
Now, according to Moshe, dropped orders happen less and less because of two changes. “They know all the drivers,” he said, pointing to a Palestinian driver in the office, calling him a veteran. “They have the Gett Mehadrin option.”
Hermon, Gett’s marketing director, said that riders cancel orders for many reasons and it was impossible to say if riders were specifically dropping Arab drivers, because the app has no way to track this and the company does not distinguish between Arab and Jewish drivers. If a rider repeatedly drops orders, they build up “bad karma” in the system, she said, which can lead to the suspension of their account for various periods.
Some Arab taxi drivers in Jerusalem say they try not to speak Arabic on the phone in the car with Jewish passengers.
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Last year, Gett made headlines when it told off a rider who criticized the service on Facebook for having so many Arab drivers. The rider said she would cancel rides with Arab drivers. Gett told her they didn’t want her business.
When Gett launched the Mehadrin option in March, the criticism and calls to boycott came from the other direction.
Several users posted that they would stop using Gett and criticized the fleet for being racist toward Arabs by creating a taxi driver criteria that in practice appeared to create a "Jewish" option.
This time Gett went on the offensive, saying it was simply expanding its service to meet religious needs, and reminded customers that any driver can join the fleet.
A user, responding to that, said, “It is perhaps not meant to be racist, but it turned out that way.”
Moshe was less fazed. “That’s Jerusalem,” he said of the city’s ups and downs in taxi tensions. “That’s Jerusalem that has Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Here, there is friction.”
Fact: A beautiful kitchen makes everything taste better.
It's science.
Happy World Smile Day!
