Amy Louise Brown paints the scenes of war most Americans don’t get to see.
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Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Kylie Minogue Took Our “Which Kylie Are You?” Quiz
And the results were glorious.
We created a Which Kylie Minogue Are You? quiz this week.
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Then we were lucky enough (no pun intended) to meet the lady herself to discuss her new album Kiss Me Once.
So naturally we got her to try out the quiz for herself.
Which led to amazing reaction GIFs such as this.
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77 Magical Ways To Eat Potatoes On Saint Patrick’s Day
You’re gonna need the carbs to soak up all that green beer in your stomach.
Homemade tater tots
Mini pommes anna
Make ahead hash brown potatoes
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Britain Will Have Its First Same-Sex Married Couples From Midnight Tonight
Thanks to a quirk in the law the UK will recognise their marriage at the stroke of midnight – two weeks before the first ceremonies will take place.
This is Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson. At midnight tonight they'll become one of the first same-sex couples to have their marriage recognised as legal under UK law.
Same-sex couples getting married in England and Wales will have to wait until Saturday 29th March to hold their ceremony but a quirk in the law – first reported by BuzzFeed – means couples who married overseas will have their unions automatically recognised from tomorrow onwards.
This includes Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson, two university professors who married in Canada in 2003 and spent the last decade campaigning for their partnership to be recognised in Britain. Tomorrow, thanks to the government's decision to bring forward the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act, that day will finally come.
“It's like being turned into a pumpkin on the stroke of midnight,” Celia told BuzzFeed. “We'll be sitting there in bed with a bottle of champagne and at the stroke of midnight we'll turn into a married couple. We're going away to a hotel, having a nice meal and the at midnight we'll be wife and wife again!”
There's no paperwork and no formal process. But when the day switches from Wednesday to Thursday all overseas same-sex marriages will at last be legally recognised.
And for the first time there will be couples in Britain who are able to call themselves husband and husband, or wife and wife in the eyes of the law.
Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger
“Sue got a temporary job in Vancouver for two years and it just happened to be at the period when Canada was debating legalising same-sex marriage. The decision was initially really practical,” explains Celia.
“The gay movement in Canada won their battle [for marriage equality] and I was going backwards and forwards between England and Canada to be with Sue. Once you've been through 5 or 6 times a year and you get looked at funnily by the customs officials and then there were issues with apartments and bank accounts. Marriage was just the easy option.”
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The Ultimate St. Patrick’s Day Drinking Game
Oh, another green hat — time to chug.
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Bill O’Reilly, Master Troll
The king of cable news has still got it.
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LINK: President Obama Appears On Between Two Ferns
LINK: Administration Defends Two Ferns Web Traffic
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34 Perfectly Good Reasons Why Wichita State Will Win The National Championship
Reminder: It is not wise to disrespect undefeated, Missouri Valley Conference champion Wichita State. Those Shockers play angry.
On April 6, 2013, Louisville came from behind to beat Wichita State in the Final Four, 72-68. Louisville went on to win the national title.
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And since then, the haters have come out to explain exactly why Wichita State can't make another incredible run in March Madness.
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They say the Shockers didn't play anyone this year.
The Shockers are 3-0 vs the RPI Top 50, and 10-0 vs the RPI Top 100. The biggest wins: at Saint Louis, vs. Tennessee, and vs. BYU.
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They say the Shockers don't have the athletes to compete with the Floridas and Arizonas in the tournament.
Uh, wut…
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Freddy’s Restaurant From “House Of Cards” Is Up For Sale
If you’ve got $119,000 to spend and fancy a disused Baltimore shop front, this is the property for you.
Here's the store, at 2601 Greenmount Ave., Baltimore.
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Yup: Freddy's isn't actually in Washington, D.C.
In the first season, Frank Underwood would retreat there when he wanted private time.
At one point Freddy tells Frank why the ribs taste so good: They're the result of the illegal “slow-bleed” method of slaughtering that increases suffering for the cattle. This may have a metaphorical undertone.
And in the second season, the shack comes to the fore.
Without wanting to give away spoilers, Freddy becomes something of a pawn in the game Frank is playing.
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Monday, 3 March 2014
This Is What The New iPhone Cars Look Like
iOS in dash lets you access maps, messages, and music.
In a video posted to their official YouTube channel, the Swedish auto giant Volvo revealed what Apple CarPlay—iOS integration with in-dash displays—will look like. There's no great surprise; it basically looks like an iPad sunk into your dashboard, with a home screen featuring Music, Maps, and Messages apps.
Also, Spotify. Which, according to the Volvo video, will allow you to listen to the legendary Swedish melodic death metal band, In Flames. As you can see in the above screenshot, Volvo has chosen as the demonstration song “Fear is the Weakness“, off of In Flames' 2011 album, Sounds of a Playground Fading.
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Saturday, 1 March 2014
18 Epically ’90s Tommy Hilfiger Moments
Both the man and the brand had some very serious ’90s moments.
When Snoop rocked a Tommy rugby shirt while performing on SNL.
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When the Warner Bros. Studio Store released this exclusive Bugs Bunny stuffed animal and it was wearing a bangin' Tommy outfit.
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When Beverly Hills, 90210's resident rapper, Brian Austin Green, picked up some fly threads at Tommy's NYC flagship store.
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When Tommy Hilfiger posed for a photo with Salt-N-Pepa's Spinderella.
I really hope they broke out into an impromptu “What a Man” sing-along.
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140 Disney Characters Come Together To Create The World’s Best Hashtag
Disney wins for the the most magical hashtag on social media.
Presenting the greatest hashtag to ever exist: thank you Disney!
Disney took to Twitter to post a very magical “140 character tweet” (in a very literal sense) to announce this year's All-Night Extravaganza on Memorial Day Weekend.
Take a look at the characters coming together to form this social media magic!
This will serve as the ultimate game of Disney I-spy.
Have a closer look with these zoomed in shots:
Mike Wazowski is that you hiding behind the Beast?
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15 Celebrity #TBT Photos You May Have Missed This Week
First Lady Michelle Obama literally kicks off #ThrowBackThursday.
Ahead of her hosting the Oscars this weekend, Ellen DeGeneres shared this photo of the first time she hosted the show in 2007.
January Jones bravely shared this photo of herself in 1988 rocking a spiky mullet.
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Esther The Wonder Pig And Her Dads Are The Most Inspiring Trio You Need To Meet
Some pig, alright!
Meet Esther, the Wonder Pig.
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She lives with her two dads and sister dog, Shelby in Georgetown, Ontario.
Esther's dads bought this cutie, thinking she was a “micro pig.”
But, as many alleged micro pigs do, she kept growing…
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Friday, 28 February 2014
Which Power Ranger Are You?
I suggest you listen to this while you take the quiz..
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Lupita Nyong’o Delivers Moving Speech About How She Learned To Love The Color Of Her Skin
The Oscar nominated actress spoke candidly in her Black Women in Hollywood acceptance speech about her struggle to understand that there is “no shame in Black beauty.”
Yesterday, Lupita Nyong'o won the Essence Magazine Black Women In Hollywood Breakthrough Performance Award.
And while she has fast become one of the most idolized women on the red carpet in years…
I wrote down this speech that I had no time to practice so this will be the practicing session. Thank you Alfre, for such an amazing, amazing introduction and celebration of my work. And thank you very much for inviting me to be a part of such an extraordinary community. I am surrounded by people who have inspired me, women in particular whose presence on screen made me feel a little more seen and heard and understood. That it is ESSENCE that holds this event celebrating our professional gains of the year is significant, a beauty magazine that recognizes the beauty that we not just possess but also produce.
I want to take this opportunity to talk about beauty, Black beauty, dark beauty. I received a letter from a girl and I'd like to share just a small part of it with you: “Dear Lupita,” it reads, “I think you're really lucky to be this Black but yet this successful in Hollywood overnight. I was just about to buy Dencia's Whitenicious cream to lighten my skin when you appeared on the world map and saved me.”
My heart bled a little when I read those words, I could never have guessed that my first job out of school would be so powerful in and of itself and that it would propel me to be such an image of hope in the same way that the women of The Color Purple were to me.
I remember a time when I too felt unbeautiful. I put on the TV and only saw pale skin, I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin. And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned. The morning would come and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of a mirror because I wanted to see my fair face first. And every day I experienced the same disappointment of being just as dark as I was the day before. I tried to negotiate with God, I told him I would stop stealing sugar cubes at night if he gave me what I wanted, I would listen to my mother's every word and never lose my school sweater again if he just made me a little lighter. But I guess God was unimpressed with my bargaining chips because He never listened.
And when I was a teenager my self-hate grew worse, as you can imagine happens with adolescence. My mother reminded me often that she thought that I was beautiful but that was no conservation, she's my mother, of course she's supposed to think I am beautiful. And then…Alek Wek. A celebrated model, she was dark as night, she was on all of the runways and in every magazine and everyone was talking about how beautiful she was. Even Oprah called her beautiful and that made it a fact. I couldn't believe that people were embracing a woman who looked so much like me, as beautiful. My complexion had always been an obstacle to overcome and all of a sudden Oprah was telling me it wasn't. It was perplexing and I wanted to reject it because I had begun to enjoy the seduction of inadequacy. But a flower couldn't help but bloom inside of me, when I saw Alek I inadvertently saw a reflection of myself that I could not deny. Now, I had a spring in my step because I felt more seen, more appreciated by the far away gatekeepers of beauty. But around me the preference for my skin prevailed, to the courters that I thought mattered I was still unbeautiful. And my mother again would say to me you can't eat beauty, it doesn't feed you and these words plagued and bothered me; I didn't really understand them until finally I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.
And what my mother meant when she said you can't eat beauty was that you can't rely on how you look to sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion for yourself and for those around you. That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul. It is what got Patsey in so much trouble with her master, but it is also what has kept her story alive to this day. We remember the beauty of her spirit even after the beauty of her body has faded away.
And so I hope that my presence on your screens and in the magazines may lead you, young girl, on a similar journey. That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside.
There is no shame in Black beauty.
Confirmed: Lupita could not be more beautiful.
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Jackie And Kelso Are Maybe, Probably Engaged To Be Wed (In Real Life)
Praise the TV gods! Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are together for real.
In case you were living under a rock, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have been dating for a while now.
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According to multiple outlets, Mila is now wearing an engagement ring. So it was time to go back.
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WAY BACK.
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Back in time to the days of Jackie and Kelso.
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20 Things Gay Guys Are Sick Of Hearing
“Oh my god, quit being so sensitive.”
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This Mom’s Reaction To Her Son Coming Home After Two Years Is Everything
You’ve never heard the f-word sound so loving.
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Proof That Mercury Retrograde Is Real And Terrible
As the latest Mercury Retrograde draws to a close, a look back at whether it was so atrocious after all. (It was.)
For the past three weeks of Mercury Retrograde, I kept a daily journal, assigning each day a “Retrograde Rating,” with 0 as the least Retrograde-y (i.e. the least terrible) and 10 being the MOST Retrograde-y (i.e. so bad it is almost unbelievable). That journal, with added testimony from coworkers and friends, is below.
Thursday, February 6
All day I feel crazy (LITERALLY CRAZY) and am not sure why. I listen to Nicki Minaj's “Boss Ass Bitch” 5-7 times in a row. I'm really annoyed all day, but in a way that borders on hysteria, so I giggle a lot. In the afternoon, the discovery comes to me, via Twitter: Mercury Retrograde has begun. Everything makes sense now.
Retrograde Rating: 7
Friday, February 7
My notes say “sad feelings.” Several of the emails I send on this day appear partly in green text. This is a mystery to me, and also a little embarrassing.
Retrograde Rating: 9
Saturday, February 8
Around 2:00, a friend of mine tweets that she is bored and wants to get a tattoo. I reply that I'll go with her sometime soon. Our mutual friend jumps in and says, “You guys should go TODAY.” I don't have any other plans (ugh), so I decide to get something permanently drawn on my body that I had no intention of getting earlier the same day. This uncharacteristic bravado feels planetary. We make appointments for 8:00, and I go first, and get a four-inch lighthouse on my back. It doesn't hurt as much as I remember my first tattoo hurting. I text my parents to tell them and my dad suggests that I should have just gotten a t-shirt with a lighthouse on it if I like lighthouses so much.
Retrograde Rating: 3
Sunday, February 9
On Sunday mornings I talk to my best friend on the phone. Toward the end of our 90 minute conversation, after she has told me about this horrible guy she was briefly seeing, I tell her that Mercury is in retrograde. “I didn't know that,” she says. “I have been feeling so horrible and I'm not even getting my period.”
“It's because of Mercury,” I say.
“I guess so,” she says. “I am glad I now know who to blame.”
Retrograde Rating: 5
Monday, February 10
My mom emails me to say that my tattoo, which she saw on Instagram, is a lot bigger than she thought by how I described it. “I guess you won't be able to cover it up all of the time,” she writes, “but I guess you aren't worried about that.”
My notes say “General shittiness.” Sour Patch Kids consumed: upwards of 30.
I spend half an hour on the phone with Time Warner, who the week previous told me my internet problems weren't their fault, it was the router's fault. Over the weekend the router people said it wasn't their fault, it was Time Warner's fault. Tonight when I call Time Warner the woman I speak to says it's them. They can send someone out to fix our internet. In a week.
Retrograde Rating: 9
Tuesday, February 11
I order some books online, which is good because the stack of unread books I already have on my floor could be bigger. Both of my friends whom I asked to get lunch with me said no. One of them is leaving for vacation tomorrow and says she “has to go buy bug spray.” Sure.
Representative Gchat Dialogue, 11:52 AM: “I need to leave the country I think”
Retrograde Rating: 7
Wednesday, February 12
The morning is good because I talk to a friend about nail art. After lunch I feel like falling asleep and also maybe crying. I spend a little bit reading the Wikipedia page for the Majestic 12, which normally cheers me up. Today it does not.
My notes say: “I CANNOT FOCUS WTF IS GOING ON I AM JUST LISTENING TO ANGRY GIRL ROCK FROM THE EARLY AUGHTS”
Retrograde Rating: 7
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See The Secret Underground Tunnels A Mexican Drug Lord Used To Escape Capture
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who evaded authorities for 13 years, had a network of tunnels under his bath.
Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman used a network of secret tunnels – including one hidden beneath his bathtub – to move between his houses and escape arrest.
A Mexican marine lifts a bathtub that leads to a tunnel at one of Joaquin Guzman's houses in Culiacan.
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Beneath the bathtub was a ladder that led down into the tunnel network – which itself exited into the city's drainage system.
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Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa cartel, had been on the run from authorities since escaping from prison in a laundry truck in 2001.
This picture shows part of Culiacan's drainage system, which connected to a tunnel underneath one of the Guzman's houses.
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Guzman was captured on Saturday at a hotel in the beach resort of Mazatlan, in a joint operation between Mexican marines and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents.
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