Genius ushers in 2018 with iconic moment from Beyoncé and Nicki Minajs Feeling Myself
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Genius ushers in 2018 with iconic moment from Beyoncé and Nicki Minajs Feeling Myself
There's only one person in this entire damn universe with the power to command the world to stop—Beyoncé.
In the final milliseconds of 2017, the dulcet sound of Beyoncé ordered the world—and year— to stop. And, as 2018 began, she gave the world permission to "carry on."
This was no coincidence, friends. Ingenious Twitter user @xavierliciouss(opens in a new tab) spent New Year's Eve conducting an extremely important experiment involving "Feeling Myself" by Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé.
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"So I tested out the theory that if you play "Feeling Myself" by Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé at exactly 11:58:50 pm on New Year's Eve, Beyoncé will say "world stop" in 2017 and "Carry on" in 2018, AND BITCH IT WORKEDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!" she wrote.
And, here's the proof...
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This is the only worthwhile way to bring in the New Year. Thank you and good night.
Carry on, world.
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The internet made sooooo many jokes about Trumps fake news trophy tweet
Perhaps the biggest bummer about Twitter's new 280-character limit is that it allows the current president to compose tweets like this one:
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On Monday morning, President Donald Trump hit Twitter to suggest a "FAKE NEWS TROPHY" for whichever news network he deems produces "the most dishonest, corrupt" coverage of his presidency. As usual, Fox was excluded from Trump's media rage.
In the same tweet, Trump referred to himself as the American people's favorite president with a parenthetical "(me)." According the most recent Gallup(opens in a new tab) poll, the self-described "favorite" president's approval rating currently sits at 37 percent.
Naturally the internet jumped all over Trump's first tweet of the day. Some even have a solid suggestion for Trump's proposed "FAKE NEWS TROPHY":
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Project Entrepreneur expands accelerator program to help more women entrepreneurs build scalable companies
Since launching in 2015, Project Entrepreneur(opens in a new tab) — a media partner of Mashable — has trained more than 1,200 aspiring entrepreneurs representing 131 U.S. cities. Its annual venture competition has yielded an alumnae community of nearly 400 women entrepreneurs, with the 2016 finalists reporting $10+ million raised in seed and pre-seed funding.
Now entering its third year, Project Entrepreneur (PE) — an initiative from the Rent the Runway Foundation and UBS Elevating Entrepreneurs(opens in a new tab) — is expanding the number of winning companies in the accelerator from three to five.
“We are so excited to continue working with UBS in providing women with the tools they need to create high-growth companies, and see their visions through,” said Jennifer Hyman, CEO and Co-Founder of Rent the Runway. “Past participants in our accelerator continue to inspire us with their incredible progress, including closing rounds of funding. We are eager to provide the next class of talented female founders with the tools and support they need to scale, and to see the disruption their companies bring to various different industries.”
PE's annual venture competition is open to female founders who are in the prototype or beta stages, have their first paying customers, or are generating revenue. The top 200 applicants will be invited to attend the PE Intensive in New York City on April 13-14, 2018, a free two-day event comprised of in-depth workshops, expert speakers and a pitch competition. The five winning founders will each receive a $10,000 grant, a spot in the five-week accelerator program at Rent the Runway’s New York office and mentorship and engagement with UBS executives, entrepreneurs, and investors. Founders interested can apply online(opens in a new tab); but don’t wait, as the deadline is December 1st!
Last year’s winning companies included: New York-based LOLI Beauty(opens in a new tab), the first BIY (Blend It Yourself) clean and green beauty brand; Scottsdale-based The Touchpoint Solution(opens in a new tab), a neuroscience wearable that alleviates stress by altering the body’s stress response in as little as 30 seconds; and San Francisco-based Lace & Liberty(opens in a new tab), merging direct-to-consumer convenience with luxury bespoke bridalwear. Two additional New York-based companies were hosted by The Knot/XO Group Co-Founder Carley Roney and designer Rebecca Minkoff: Repeat Roses(opens in a new tab), a sustainable floral waste removal business that gives back to people and planet, and Reboundwear(opens in a new tab), athleisure wear with a purpose, respectively.
“The caliber of companies we're seeing through Project Entrepreneur further validates what we've always believed — that there is an incredible population of talented female founders in cities and towns across the country,” said Lori Feinsilver, UBS Head of Community Affairs & Corporate Responsibility, Americas. “Being able to reach these women and provide them with access to resources and support that will help fuel their growth gives us confidence that we can indeed level the playing field.”
Visit projectentrepreneur.org/apply(opens in a new tab) for details on Project Entrepreneur’s Venture Competition, and check out PE’s resources including #theTools podcast(opens in a new tab), blog posts(opens in a new tab) and educational modules(opens in a new tab).
This article is part of a media partnership between Mashable & Project Entrepreneur. For more information, visit here(opens in a new tab).
Two people trying to run the same government agency makes for a really awkward first day
Revolutionaries, take note -- if you're planning a government takeover, please use high quality breakfast pastries.
That's a lesson that White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney(opens in a new tab) apparently hadn't learned when he stepped into the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau today. He was there to take on an additional job as the agency's director.
The only problem? The agency's acting director, Leandra English, refused to cede it to him, in the workplace drama of the decade.
As a Trump appointee, Mulvaney wasn't exactly welcomed at at the job, so he brought crappy Dunkin' Donuts as a way to "ease" himself into an agency he's expected to destroy.
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On Friday, Director Richard Cordray(opens in a new tab) stepped down, leaving English to serve as acting director. Last night, English filed a lawsuit claiming that she is the "rightful acting director" of the agency. English has asked the court to impose a temporary restraining order to prevent Trump from appointing anyone, arguing that she is entitled to her position under the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform Law(opens in a new tab).
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None of that stopped Mulvaney. On Monday, the Budget Director stepped into the CFPB, ready to take on his new job.
This is how English responded in an email sent to 1,600 staff.
"I hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving. With Thanksgiving in mind, I wanted to take a moment to share my gratitude to all of you for your service,” English said(opens in a new tab), signing the note with her title, "Acting Director."
And that, my friends, is what we call a death drop.
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Here's how Mulvaney responded:
“Please disregard any instructions you receive from Ms. English in her presumed capacity as acting director.” Mulvaney said(opens in a new tab). “I apologize for this being the very first thing you hear from me. However, under the circumstances I suppose it is necessary. If you’re at 1700 G Street today, please stop by the fourth floor to say hello and grab a doughnut.”
If Mulvaney, a budget hawk, thinks he can sway members of an agency whose jobs he's poised to eliminate with Dunkin' Donuts, he's out of his mind. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau(opens in a new tab) was explicitly designed to protect consumers from banks and credit card companies. Mulvaney once famously called the agency "sad" and "sick." He is not, as members of the agency likely know, their friend.
And dude, if you're going to try and win your staff over with breakfast pastries, at least go for something slightly more delicious than Dunkin'. Some suggestions:
Krispy Kreme
Entenmann's Coffee Cake
Savory bacon cheddar scones
Literally anything else
The case is currently being decided. In the meantime, here's Twitter's majority opinion on the issue:
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— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) November 27, 2017(opens in a new tab)
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— john czwartacki (@CZ) November 27, 2017(opens in a new tab)
If there's a Trump strategy here, it's to sideline her as a CFPB messenger by starting round 10,000 of the stupid "Pocahontas" story
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 27, 2017(opens in a new tab)
what if i went to the cfpb with bagels and was like "i am your new king, follow me"
— Matt Levine (@matt_levine) November 27, 2017(opens in a new tab)
we should find out who is the real acting director by threatening to cut the CFPB in half
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) November 27, 2017(opens in a new tab)
Chef José Andrés, the man who single-handedly served 3 million meals to Puerto Rico post Hurricane Maria, had the best response of them all.
@CFPB(opens in a new tab) team members! i know is confusing. To have two bosses? Please bring a proof you work there to any of our DC restaurants and first drink is on us...
— José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) November 27, 2017(opens in a new tab)
Woman posts video of crocodile attack, and it is heartstopping
Welp, this is a close call.
A tourist was bitten on the leg by a crocodile on at Cape Tribulation in Queensland, Australia on Monday night, while standing on a creek bank close to the waters edge.
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A Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (EHP) spokesperson said in a statement the crocodile was estimated to be 2 to 2.5 metres (78 to 98 inches) long.
A video posted on the Facebook page of Ally Bullifent shows the crocodile attack, which comes out of nowhere. It'll be sure to give you a shock.
The EHP said it would carry out a site assessment of the area on Tuesday, and will possibly target the crocodile "for removal" as it has displayed dangerous behaviour in a designated area. This means it'll be moved to a crocodile farm or a zoo, according to the Cairns Post(opens in a new tab).
For authorities, it also serves as a reminder about staying safe in areas where crocodiles might be around. Earlier this year, an 18-year-old boy was attacked by a crocodile while reportedly trying to impress a girl.
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Town crier who announced Prince Harrys engagement to Meghan Markle is 100% fake
England, with its quirky traditions and old-fashioned customs, is a land of endless fascination for outsiders, nominally for people from the former colony of the U.S.
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So it's understandable why a town crier -- with his elaborate, red and gold robed dress and tricorn hat -- attracted people's attention on social media when he was depicted in an ABC News video as he announces the news of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's engagement outside of Buckingham Palace:
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"Oyez, oyez, oyz!" He yells in the video. "Buckingham Palace is proud to announce the engagement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. God save the Queen!"
It can't get any more British than this.
Business Insider posted a similar video, calling him "the Royal Town Crier":
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However, it turns out the eccentric guy is not officially appointed by the Queen, nor is he a real town crier. His real name is Tony Appleton, from Romford, east London, and he's been making royal announcements for years, bell and scroll on hand.
In 2013, he fooled prominent American broadcasters(opens in a new tab) including Rachel Maddow and Anderson Cooper when he announced the birth of Prince William and Kate's firstborn, Prince George, outside St. Mary's Hospital.
"I'm a royalist. I love the royal family," he told (opens in a new tab)AP(opens in a new tab), while acknowledging he had no official royal role. "I came unannounced."
Still, many Americans fell for it:
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Cheeky theory is the best explanation yet for the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engagement
News of the engagement between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle caught Americans' imagination just like any other story about the British royals -- births, anniversaries, celebrations, jubilees, and so on.
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But what if behind the jolly facade of a couple in love wishing to declare their commitment before God and the nation there's an actual conspiracy to reclaim a former colony, lost in a never-forgotten, embittered war?
That's the joke Greg Pollowitz, editor at Twitchy.com, dug up to explain the royal announcement:
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Meghan Markle is American, so the future offspring will be Americans! Da-daam! Boom! Mic drop!
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It was just a cheeky tweet, but it went absolutely viral and people just loved it:
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There was the obvious Brexit reference:
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As well as the Trump one:
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Some conjectured a crossover between two incredibly popular TV shows:
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But in general the tweets reacting to the joke were just hilarious:
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While someone took it a bit too seriously:
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Dog, sick and tired of waiting in car, slams his paw on the horn
It will be a long time before America finally grants dogs the right to drive.
Until then, dogs will have to do what they can to keep themselves entertained. Take this pup, who was recently left alone in a parking lot in " target="_blank">Nanaimo, British Columbia(opens in a new tab), and slammed its paw on the car horn out of exhaustion. And then it kept it there. For a long time.
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The video was captured by Joris Wiggers and posted on Facebook by Elizabeth Herman(opens in a new tab). It's not entirely clear that the dog knows how to get his paw off the horn, but no problem, doggo, that's what driver's permits are for.
Arbys bought Buffalo Wild Wings, so heres what a combined menu would look like
On Tuesday it was announced that Arby's owner Roark Capital will acquire(opens in a new tab) Buffalo Wild Wings for $2.4 billion (or roughly(opens in a new tab) 162,271,805 orders of BWW House Samplers).
Per Reuters(opens in a new tab), though the wings restaurant will become property of Arby's, it'll still operate on its own.
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We think this is a huge mistake.
Consider the disturbing menu possibilities a marriage of Arby's meats and BWW wings might afford us.
Our suggestions for this menu full of abominations below:
A half-pound Beef 'N Cheddar sandwich dipped in Bourbon Honey Mustard sauce, rolled in Desert Heat seasoning and deep fried
An entire smoked brisket coated in Blazin' hot sauce and served whole on a bed of deep-fried Cheddar Cheese Curds
Potato cakes drenched in Wild sauce
Beer-battered roast beef tacos
An Arby's House Sampler, featuring 12 classic Roast Beef sandwiches stacked in a pyramid
A Crispy Chicken Farmhouse Salad dressed with Hot BBQ sauce
Boneless Wings coated in Cheddar Cheese sauce
A Corned Beef 'N Cheese Slider cut up into pieces and sprinkled over Buffalo Mac & Cheese
A Cheese Curd Bacon Burger with a Pizza Slider speared on top
Every Arby's slider stacked in a tower and adhered to each another with smears of Parmesan Garlic sauce
The pastry shell of an Apple Turnover, filled with the B-Dubs Blender shake flavor of your choice
A large Ultimate Chocolate Shake blended with a slice of Chocolate Fudge Cake and drizzled over a plate of Dessert Nachos
Cheesecake Bites
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Cops share photo of a driver that went a little too hard with their Christmas tree
Look, if you want to cut down a massive Christmas tree, and stick it up inside your two-story living room, go for it. But maybe don't endanger anyone's life in the process.
Police in Massachusetts put up a post on their Facebook page on Friday, reminding people to please transport their Christmas trees safely. They really shouldn't have to do this, but here we are.
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"One of our officer's stopped this vehicle on Route 20 today," the cops said on Facebook(opens in a new tab), posting a photo of what appears to be a Prius topped with a Christmas tree.
The tree is so large, it completely obstructs the view of the side and rear windows. It's not clearly visible, but we're also guessing that it wasn't tied down very well.
While the tree transport was outrageous to say the least, most people in the comments were upset that the police decided to call the tree a "holiday tree" instead of a Christmas tree.
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2017 was the year Congresswoman Maxine Waters was elected president of All in With Chris Hayes.
From the moment she declared that the director of the FBI had "no legitimacy" and then death dropped in front of a gaggle of shellshocked reporters, 79-year-old Auntie Maxine has had our blood loyalty. Every floor she walked on in 2017, whether it was in the Capitol or at the MTV Movie Awards, became her stage and ultimately, a property in her empire.
More so than any other "deplorable" president with a Ziploc bag of fleas for a brain, Maxine Waters was the de facto leader of the free world/MSNBC in 2017.
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Congresswoman Waters gave us so many viral gifts in 2017. Here are just a few of them.
1. The time she accused James Comey of having no credibility and then just walked on out
2. When she revealed that she was "never going to go" to Trump's Inauguration because, "I don't honor him, I don't respect him and I don't want to be involved with him."
3. The time she was asked what she would do once she was done impeaching Trump, and she replied: "Impeach Pence."
4. When she delivered MTV's first ever "Best Fight Against the System" award, did a plié, and got a standing ovation.
5. When she tweeted that it was time for our "racist throwback" Attorney General to go back "to the plantation"
Sessions doesn't remember what he said, when he said it, & where he was when he said it. Don't blame him. Time to go back to the plantation.
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6. Her "Bye, Felicia" moment
Tillerson's plans are backfiring. Russia sanctions still in place, State is in shambles, & he discovered his boss is a moron. Bye Felicia!
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) October 6, 2017(opens in a new tab)
7. When she busted out this stunner of jean jacket, rose pants ensemble at the Tax March
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8. When she started railing against Trump and told a room full of supporters, "We've got to stop his ass"
9. The moment she just said it:
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10. And the tweet that did it too:
Trump asked what Blacks had to lose. It was apparently healthcare, housing, college admission, & freedom after Sessions locks everyone up
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11. That day Bill O'Reilly tried to humiliate Auntie Maxine and just ... lol, sorry bro. She can't be intimidated.
12. When she "reclaimed her time" from Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin
13. So the internet did too
14. And the Women's March made "Reclaiming my time" the theme of a whole convention
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15. When Congresswoman Maxine Waters finally passed on her torch to the generation that needs it the most.
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Watch this chill lion climb aboard a safari vehicle full of tourists
It's my general understanding that wild lions are pretty dangerous, but after watching a very relaxed lion jump into a safari vehicle full of people, I am very confused.
During a safari at Taigan Safari Park(opens in a new tab) in Vilnohirsk, Crimea, a lion named Filya boarded a vehicle full of tourists, according to the Associated Press(opens in a new tab). Once aboard the lion nuzzled the tourists and plied them with big lion licks.
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Owner of the park Oleg Zubkov was driving the vehicle when Filya came aboard, according to BuzzFeed News(opens in a new tab). He quickly exited the car as Filya entered it to keep an eye on her interaction with the tourists.
All of the visitors seemed surprisingly unfazed and genuinely pleased by a lion climbing all over them. A couple of people even managed to snap a selfie with Filya.
I'm just so curious to know why no one was consumed by fear, or an overwhelming sense of their own mortality? Am I missing something? This is a literal lion we're talking about.
CBS News has the footage:
Filya eventually hopped out of the car and the tourists concluded their safari unscathed.
According to BuzzFeed News, the park is known for allowing its big cats to roam freely without any partitions to separate them from visitors, and interactions with the park's wildlife is actually encouraged. You can even find some footage of these wildlife interactions on the park's YouTube channel(opens in a new tab).
And, if you think all of this sounds dangerous and ill-advised, you're correct. As recently as eight weeks ago, another lion at the park apparently bit a visitor(opens in a new tab). (The tourist's fine, though.)
As adorable as it is to see Filya cuddling with tourists, we probably shouldn't forget that lions are not harmless little kittens. Just a thought.
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An adorable five-year-old king won the internets long-awaited #JoshFight
A bunch of people named Josh Swain met in Lincoln, Neb. on Saturday to fight for the right to their name. The winner of that contest, the One True Josh, is five years old.
#JoshFight has been a year in the making, since University of Arizona student Josh Swain created a messenger group with others sharing his name and challenged them to a fight.
"We fight, whoever wins gets to keep the name, everyone else has to change their name," he wrote. "You have a year to prepare, good luck." Hundreds turned up in Lincoln to watch or compete, playing rock, paper, scissors and fighting with pool noodles in an open field. The event expanded from Josh Swains to all Joshes(Opens in a new tab) and included a fundraiser for the Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation.(Opens in a new tab)
The winner, five-year-old Josh Swain, is already a legend-in-the-making.
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These Prince Harry and Meghan Markle dolls are the stuff of nightmares
With the royal wedding in just a few months (counting down to May 19th!) commemorative royal couple memorabilia is flooding Etsy.
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Among the plates, mugs and posters, you can get an especially unique keepsake: Harry and Meghan dolls.
These dolls are the stuff of nightmares.Credit: Historywearz/etsy
If only they looked like the actual Harry and Meghan.
Calling these dolls Harry and Meghan lookalikes is a bit of a stretch.Credit: Frank Augstein/AP/REX/Shutterstock
With his Sgt. Pepper-esque bowl cut, the "Harry" doll looks nothing like the actual Prince Harry. Where's his famous ginger hair? The stubble? The bright blue eyes?
Other than the dark hair, mini Meghan shares little with her namesake. The doll's sharply plucked brows and vacant eyes have been scaring Twitter. At least Harry comes with two outfits.
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Twitter wasn't too kind on the new dolls.
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— Michael Moran (@TheMichaelMoran) January 18, 2018(opens in a new tab)
For ONLY $181 you can purchase the 'Harry & Meghan Wedding Dolls'...that will probably murder you in your sleep. https://t.co/IbLTyxzY1C(opens in a new tab) - @BlakesShow(opens in a new tab) with @PeterKash(opens in a new tab) #RoyalWedding(opens in a new tab) #NOPE(opens in a new tab) pic.twitter.com/yzJ82BjrPN(opens in a new tab)
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— Dan Farmer 🤓 🏴 (@dan_boi91) January 17, 2018(opens in a new tab)
New Jersey based artist Shirlee Corsey sells these dolls on Etsy. Her shop(opens in a new tab), HistoryWearz, features historical doll costumes, including handmade Hamilton-inspired revolutionary war outfits and Disney princess ball gowns.
At just $175 for both Harry and Meghan, these dolls are a steal.
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This comedians dramatic re-enactment of his son falling in nettles should win all the awards
Great art is born of great suffering.
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British comedian William Andrews uploaded a video of himself doing a dramatic slam-poet-style rendition of his 4-year-old son falling into some nettles.
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People were pretty appreciative of this literary and performative gem.
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After the tweet gained steam (with 3,000 retweets at time of writing) Andrews uploaded this to his website(opens in a new tab):
"So that tweet about my boy falling over has run away somewhat - which is nice. I should tell you *he's fine*. His penchant for the dramatic turn of phrase is to be admired i think. I simply cannot fathom from where he has adopted such a style."
So there you have it, inspiration can truly come from anywhere. Even a big patch of stinging nettles.
14 best tweets of the week, including a Jokerfied Watto, smack barm, and pey wet
Well, that was...a week.
We've officially made it to Saturday and do you know what that means? Time for us to round up some of the best tweets from the last week, which we've been doing for quite some time now.
OK, well then, here they are: our 14 favorite tweets from this week.
1. No one person should have all that power
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2. Holding it together quite nicely, to be honest
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3. This pup is being very human with its facial expressions and I like it
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4. This tweet is from my coworker, Anna, but I will take any opportunity to share the "please Abraham, I'm not that man" story.
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5. I hate this Jokerfied Watto so much that I had to make you look at it. Also if this reads as funny to you, you're Too Online. (I found it very funny.)
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6. Smack barm. Pey wet. Babby's yed. I know these names better than I know my own grandmother's.
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7. OK, this is just a screenshot of the same old video that went viral but it's a perfect screenshot
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8. I do now
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9. Just a flat-out universal truth
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10. The awful horror of job application sites
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11. "It was an accident"
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12. Can I make it any more obvious?
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14. And finally, this is pretty much the global vibe right now
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders condemns harassment. She should tell Trump.
After a weekend in which White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant because she works for Donald Trump, Sanders called for a level of civility that would be better off directed at her boss.
Sanders opened Monday's White House press briefing by reading a brief statement in which she said, "We are allowed to disagree, but we should be able to do so freely and without fear of harm."
She later added, "Healthy debate on ideas and political philosophy is important, but the calls for harassment and the push for any Trump supporter to avoid the public is unacceptable."
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There's merit to what Sanders has to say here, namely the idea that America should be a place where ideas can be freely exchanged without things devolving into threats of physical violence.
But the words ring hollow coming from the mouthpiece of a president who has routinely made violence part of his rhetoric.
After all, just Monday morning, Trump seemed to make a not-so-thinly-veiled threat of violence towards Rep. Maxine Waters, who had called for the harassment(opens in a new tab) of Trump administration officials.
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Besides, who could forget all those time Trump called for violence against protesters who disrupted his campaign rallies?
It didn't even stop once Trump entered office. Last summer, Trump was sure to tell police officers at a speech to "not be too nice" to suspects they were arresting.
Anyone remotely familiar with the president's Twitter feed knows he's taken the opportunity to share violent imagery directed at his rivals, like the time he tweeted a Redditor's video of a Trump WWE appearance with the CNN logo.
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Or the time Trump retweeted a GIF(opens in a new tab) that was edited to make it look like a golf ball he hit had struck Hillary Clinton.
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While those GIFs may seem rather innocuous compared to some of the other examples out of Trump's mouth, they still reflect the pattern of general disrespect for any sort of civilized discourse from Trump.
And consider that just a year ago, Sanders herself said(opens in a new tab), "The president in no way, form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. If anything, quite the contrary."
Sanders denied it then and she denies it now while the President of the United States continues to make violent rhetoric -- both subtle and overt -- a regular thing. Sanders' pearl clutching is nothing but an empty gesture that belongs in the bottomless void alongside so much else from 2018.
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Tana Mongeau is the only YouTuber whose controversial reputation can rival Jake Paul's.
Which is why it's oddly fitting that they're engaged, after a whirlwind (read: extremely public) romance that started with an innocuous selfie on Snapchat and ended with a proposal during her 21st birthday trip to Las Vegas just two months later.
Before last year, Mongeau was a brash vlogger known for doing whatever she wanted, and sharing every detail of her escapades in wild Storytime rants. When VidCon declined to give her a Featured Creator badge for its 2018 event, that tenacity led her to organizing TanaCon(Opens in a new tab), an alternate convention that took place in the Marriott across the street from the building that housed VidCon. But when a 19, going on 20-year-old tries to singlehandedly plan a convention for 5,000 attendees in about 40 days, it's bound to fall apart. The disaster that was TanaCon has been compared to Fyre Fest, and it was the subject of YouTuber-turned-documentarian Shane Dawson's first docu-series(Opens in a new tab).
TanaCon pushed Mongeau from a miffed YouTuber to a widely hated, but closely followed online celebrity. The controversy didn't stop there; earlier this year, she posted(Opens in a new tab) a photo of herself in bed and fans noticed the bed frame in the background was suspiciously similar to fellow pariah Jake Paul's, and deduced that the two were seeing each other.
The internet still hasn't reached a consensus on whether the two are actually a couple or if they're faking the relationship for clout -- both, after all, subscribe to YouTube prank culture. They're leaning into it, and have appeared in each other's videos and Instagram posts since fans made their relationship public. Paul even surprised Mongeau(Opens in a new tab) on stage during her VidCon Q&A to woo her with a very NSFW poem that rhymes "the day I met Tana" with "she ate my banana."
Whatever the outcome, Mongeau is still coming out victorious. For someone who was finally allowed to legally drink three weeks ago, she's accomplished a lot: Not only is she the star of her own MTV reality show, Tana Turns 21(Opens in a new tab), but she was also invited to this year's VidCon as a Featured Creator.
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Mashable sat down with Mongeau at VidCon last week, where she unpacked her engagement, learning to rein in her impulsivity, and her thoughts on cancel culture.
Mashable: First of all, happy birthday.
Mongeau: Thank you!
How's your VidCon going?
Really, really good so far. This is obviously my first VidCon as a Featured Creator and I feel like I'm just walking around like, wow, 13-year-old me would have died for this. It finally does feel very full circle. I'm so ridiculously happy to be here, and I feel so welcomed.
I know last year was lots of chaos — how is this year compared to last year?
This year is definitely still chaos. I think chaos is gonna follow me no matter where I go, I'm gonna be 45 with a year full of chaos, and that's just kind of the bottom line. But I think the difference is, I've learned to handle the chaos, I've learned how to control it. I've grown a lot as a person. I feel like I'm so much less impulsive. I feel like I'm trying to calculate what I can for what the world throws me. Honestly, I feel 20 years older than last year. I literally look at who I was a year ago and I'm like damn. I just feel a lot more in my place ... nothing is shitty.
Yeah. And going off what you said about being impulsive — last year's TanaCon was an impulsive, petty lashing out at VidCon.
Yeah! Yeah.
Do you feel more emotionally mature than last year?
Absolutely! I think realizing that I'm an impulsive person, and realizing how to control that is a big thing for me. It was a mixture of a lot of things, TanaCon, it wasn't just lashing out. I think it was a lot of pain and wanting to change the industry, and wanting to create a space for creators that wasn't there. But I definitely didn't do things right at all. I think it was a really big learning experience for me. I think it forced me to wake up, look in the mirror, and be like, 'How am I gonna grow from this? How am I gonna change?' That's all you really can do when you make a mistake. Grow from it.
And that sentiment of wanting to make more of a space, letting creators have more control, do you think that was heard by VidCon?
I think that the thing VidCon and I have always had in common is that we both are idealists. What we want is a safe and comfortable space for creators to meet their fans, and for us to come together and make that ideal one big thing is so beautiful to me. For them to even hear me, for them to talk to me and want to work with me was such an honor.
Going back to that point about being impulsive: Was your engagement impulsive?
I guess you can call it impulsive, but that's a decision that's not hurting anyone. That's a decision that was out of how much we care about each other. We're both very wild people when we come together; we do some wild shit, and it's super, super fun. In a way I guess you could say that, sure, but not in a bad way.
Right, and you've had a few very public relationships since starting on YouTube.
Yes! I am a public girl.
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How is your relationship with Jake different from your past relationships? What made you say, 'This is who I want to marry.'
Wow, I think it's very real. Jake and I, always for years, from the moment we met each other have been like, wow, 'you are me in another person,' in so many ways. And the ways we're both different, I feel like we help each other grow. And I think that's the most beautiful thing about our relationship, no matter what it is, no matter the title, no matter what people think. At the end of the day, in the places that I lack, I feel like he helps me grow, and the places he lacks, I feel like I help him grow. I think we come together and we're just unstoppable, you know? It makes me happy because I think ... we're very real.
And I think he understands me. I think love is so much about understanding, and I've been in a lot of relationships that were very fun, but in the back of my head, I'm like, 'I don't know if this person understands me.'
I always know that Jake could look at me from across the room and he knows what I'm thinking. That's the difference.
I know your engagement was met with a lot of backlash from the public.
Yeah.
Because one, you're very young, and two, you're both YouTube's controversial figures.
That's true!
How do you respond to that?
At the end of the day, we're just two people with a lot of people spectating us. We know that, and we like to have fun, and we like to play on that. At the end of the day, we're not gonna focus on the people that hate on it, or expect everyone to understand it, because we are in a very unique position that most people aren't in. And we're just having fun and putting it online.
I don't know what tomorrow holds in that regard, and I'm not gonna live my life in fear of backlash or in fear of what people have to say about me. I just want to have a good time, that's what we're doing, you know?
I don't know if you're familiar with Dani Cohn, she's 15 ...
Yeah!
She was also met with significant backlash for not really having a real wedding. There's been a lot of criticism with your and Jake's relationship as being not real, and for likes. How do you respond to that?
Obviously, everything that Jake and I are doing started off as completely real. I texted him straight out of my [last] relationship like 'Be my rebound. Hi.'
We never ever, ever thought it would go on camera, at all. I've always felt like Jake and I have a special connection, friendship, romantic, whatever it may be. And we were just hanging out, and I wanted it to be completely off camera, and the public found out.
I posted a Snapchat, they saw the wood from his bed in the background. Someone caught us at a party, and people were putting it all together. It ended up publicizing itself. I never wanted that.
And I think when you're both in a position where something that was originally meant to be secret gets taken away from you. The public, they find out, they scrutinize it, they have a million things to say about it ... you're kind of faced with two options. You can let that get you down, pressure you, upset you. But Jake and I both being very controversial, wild people who love the internet and the way that it works, decided to play on that. I don't understand how anybody can be mad at that.
Because at the end of the day, we told you from the beginning, we wanted it to be a fucking secret.
Obviously, because of how publicized it is at this point, there's always going to be people that don't understand it or say that it's not real, but what is real? If we're happy and we have a great time with each other, and we make each other the best versions of ourselves, and we're taking it day by day? That's all I can really ask for, as a 21-year-old girl in this crazy space with millions of people commenting on everything I do.
So yeah, fuck the haters.
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So a lot of your relationship has beenvery public — you tweeted right after you got engaged, everything's in a vlog. Where do you draw the line between what youwill share and what's too personal for you?
That's really hard for me. I often have trouble with that, because I've always been a very, very open book as a person. And from day one on the internet I have shared absolutely everything, as it's happening real time, straight to Twitter. I've always been like that.
What I'm putting online is still me, you know what I mean? So to me, there doesn't really have to be a line. I think that it's important to take time for yourself and to make sure to have those real moments when you're in bed at night, when you're with yourself. I try to keep as healthy of a balance as I possibly can. But also YouTube, and making content, is my number one passion. I love to share it all online.
Yeah, totally. And in one of your interviews for MTV [Tana Turns 21]you mentioned that you're the "black sheep of YouTube."
Mhmm, yeah.
You've been canceled, a few times.
Oh yeah, hard.
How do you respond to that? How do you come back from that? What is your self-preservation technique?
I think that realizing that cancel culture ... it's a very crazy realization. I think that for anybody that wasn't fully aware of it, when this James Charles and Tati situation happened, everyone really saw how they woke up one day. And James Charles was completely canceled, and the next day, he was perfectly fine. And everyone was like 'What the fuck just happened?'
I think after going through some scandals and realizing that if I'm growing as a person, and I'm acknowledging my mistakes, and I'm constantly bettering myself to be the best me that I can possibly be, what more can I really be?
I'm always going to give my fans a realistic expectation and let them know that if you think I'm never gonna make a mistake again, go find another YouTuber. I will always make mistakes. I am a human being. And if you're going to cancel people for that and give them no room to grow, what really is that? That makes no sense to me.
It's really not that there's a self-preservation technique to me, but it's always that I'm gonna be as authentically myself as I possibly can. That comes with making a lot of mistakes.
I'm that bitch!
I think with YouTubers especially, there's a whole lot of pressure to be positive and wholesome and perfect. Why don't you embrace that?
I think it's unrealistic. I think coming online to millions of young, impressionable people and saying 'I'm happy all the time and my life is perfect.' And building this ideal for you to envy my life because it's so perfect ... we choose what we put out to the world and the image we want to portray.
I think to set such an unrealistic ideal to young people is so much more damaging, in my opinion. I'm always going to be realistic with how I'm feeling, and coming online and saying 'I'm sad today. I'm upset. I got my heart broken. I'm going through it. I look like shit.' Showing these people that the people they idolize and put on pedestals are just human beings just like you.
I don't know, I think that's more helpful to the young girl or young boy in school to let them know it's OK to not be OK.
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Stop acting like you don’t know your Tinder date’s last name
Modern dating means not having to say you're savvy.
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal ran the headline "The New Dating No-No: Asking for a Last Name." Essentially, the article(opens in a new tab) detailed how asking a date's last name has become a milestone in a relationship that started online. It's operating off of the principle that Tinder, Bumble, OK Cupid, and other dating apps only offer a person's first name, and it's only through getting to know a person that the question of a last name becomes a sign post to the future.
But this isn't exactly how things work. It's actually a lot more interesting because most everyone already knows their date's last name, they just have to wait for the right time to acknowledge it.
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Some online daters definitely prefer to go into their meet-ups with as little information as possible, but many want to do a little googling in advance. I do it, and, in fact, I would encourage all online daters do it to ensure they know the person they've swiped is the person they're meeting.
Using information you get from their profile or from chatting with them, you can usually find enough scraps of their online presence to know if this person is legit.
This invariably means that nine times out of 10, you're going to learn their last name and a whole lot more about them. In many cases it means both parties are pretending like they haven't dug deep and haven't seen that trip you took to Rome or that weird facial hair thing you tried one time
Modern dating doesn't mean asking a person's last name. It means pretending like you don't know their last name.
Within respectable limits, there's nothing wrong with double-checking the veracity of a person's profile You're making sure they aren't lying about their name, posing with Confederate flags, or wearing socks with sandals. It's a useful tool!
(Obviously, there's a fine line between checking someone out and being a creep. It can get really icky really quickly when you do a deep dive into a stranger's social media.)
The difficulty comes in once you're actually on the date when you have to navigate how much you reveal about your pre-date searching. It can be more than a little awkward to acknowledge within minutes of meeting someone that you've found their weird backlit family pictures or know that their cat once helped them do yoga. It's even worse if the other person has done less searching or none at all.
But even if you've only performed some basic, non-creepy searching, you still might feel creepy bringing it up. It's really hard to know if it'll make the other person uncomfortable. You're meeting a stranger, and the last first impression you want to give is that your a stalker-y weirdo.
The odds are, however, that both of you know things about each other, including your last names, but can't exactly bring it up.
And so the dance begins.
"So, that's your last name."
I have personally been in this position multiple times. Last fall, for example, I matched with someone on Tinder, and soon after we decided to meet up. I knew her last name from a brief search. We ended up dating for a bit, and it took a while before full identities were discussed. A few weeks into dating, she showed me something on her Facebook, and I found it the perfect opportunity to point at her name and say, "So, that's your last name." It was a silly move, sure, but I felt weird about knowing and not "officially" knowing.
I, like many others, was caught in a good ol' fashioned catch-22. You don't want to bring up that you've searched, but you also don't want to be caught unawares of whom, exactly, you are meeting.
That's basically the reality of modern dating for most of us. Finding the right moment to bring up what you know IRL can be difficult.
So next time someone asks you for your last name, maybe, just maybe, they really just want out of their own self-inflicted awkwardness.
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Shani Silver is tired of the narrative around singlehood. Read an extract from her book A Single Revolution.
Shani Silver is tired of the same one-note conversations about singlehood. She wants to reframe the way people feel about being unattached.
Being single means different things to different people. For many, it can be a state of liberation and empowerment, an opportunity to get to know your true self, and to understand what your wants and needs are. Being single is not synonymous with not wanting a relationship, it's not synonymous with hating dating, it's not a rejection of romantic partnership. And yet, our society's outdated and negative views on singlehood still persist, fuelling the stigma attached to the state of simply being on your own.
With her podcast A Single Serving(Opens in a new tab), Silver has built a community(Opens in a new tab) of likeminded individuals who want to celebrate singlehood and change the way our culture thinks and talks about single life.
The writer and podcaster has written a book, A Single Revolution(Opens in a new tab),that aims to challenge the thinking that being single means you need to change who you are in order to find a partner. The book gets to the core of what single people really need: the freedom to feel good about their way of life.
You can read an excerpt from the first chapter of A Single Revolution below. The book is available to purchase via Amazon.(Opens in a new tab)
Being single isn't a wrong way to be. This is a very basic and essential concept that single women need to understand, because its inverse is the very thing that keeps us hating our singlehood and repeating behaviors that contribute to our own misery. I don't blame us for feeling wrong; it's the only way society has ever told us single women are allowed to feel. Everything created for or about single women pertains to dating, love, sex, and finding partnership, and literally nothing else.
Dating app, after dating app, after dating app, after dating app. Dating show, after competitive dating show, after instant-marriage show where someone gets hitched to an actual stranger, and so on. Honestly, whoever greenlights these things needs a good kick in the teeth.
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Charming coffee mugs and wine glasses attempt to turn solitude into quips and jokes, suggesting that "you're not drinking alone if the cat is home." As if being alone, drinking wine alone, or owning a cat are even remotely sad truths. Really? Is that all they've got to make fun of us with? Good things? Sounds like lazy writing to me.
The world spins singlehood as sad and wrong in any number of ways, and if it ever does spin being single as right, it paints singlehood as a permanent choice that a woman has to make, drawing a line in the sand and firmly declaring herself as someone who has "sworn off dating" to be "single by choice." That's the only way singlehood is depicted with even a shred of positivity, when you essentially commit yourself to it instead of a partner.
But what if that's not what you want? What if you want a relationship but don't think you should be unhappy until you find one? Who said single women have to choose either misery or permanence? It's possible, and allowed, to love your singlehood and want a relationship at the same time. I live that way every day.
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If everything in our culture ever made for single women pertains to dating and finding love, then seriously, what are we supposed to think about our singlehood? If the focal point of all conversations about single women is "finding someone," what does that tell us about what the world thinks matters most? What does that say about what should matter most to us?
These messages also appear passively in the ways single women are portrayed. Think about the stories we tell about single women and the ways we've been raised in society to think about ourselves, as reflected back to us by how television, movies, songs, and endless artforms choose to style us. We're either the sad and desperate single, the hot mess, the pathetic friend, or the crazy old lady. The only happy endings we're allowed involve partnership. Even female superheroes have love interests (that they never get to keep, for some reason). There is a societal aversion to telling stories about happy single women who are doing great in life. The message single women receive in return is this: Single is wrong. Fix your singleness by finding a partner, or else you're wrong.
Things that happen to single people aren't inherently less important than things that happen to people in couples, but the way we celebrate them is completely unbalanced.
What about the ways coupled people are celebrated? What messages do those celebratory effusements communicate to single women? Notice the reaction when a single woman tells her family she just bought her first house, and then the reaction when her sister tells them she just got engaged. What's the more exciting news, in the family's eyes? Why is something a person worked for less worthy of celebrating than something a person found? We take each other out to dinner to celebrate new jobs with guaranteed salaries and benefits, but we throw multi-thousand-dollar weddings that ignore the statistical likelihood of a lasting marriage based on the current global divorce rate. Things that happen to single people aren't inherently less important than things that happen to people in couples, but the way we celebrate them is completely unbalanced. I'm just saying.
I know there's no celebration in singlehood. None that comes from outside of ourselves, anyway. Even when we accomplish things, there's always a film on top of it, like it needs a good Windexing. It's the notion that our accomplishments don't mean as much because we don't have "someone to share them with." Everything couples get to experience is communicated to us as good and precious. Singles, on the other hand, are digging through a digital dumpster, looking for the thing coupled people have that lets their life accomplishments finally matter.
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The difficulty gets deeper, doesn't it? It gets more direct. And it often comes from people we love.
"How are you single? Are you dating? How are you dating? I bet you haven't tried this yet. Try this! This will fix your singleness. How have you not found someone yet? I can't believe you're still single."
What in the toasty hell are we supposed to do with these questions and suggestions? These constant micro-intrusions into our personal lives? I think they're actually less about someone trying to help us and more about some- one trying to feel helpful. Do they really care? How can our singlehood possibly affect others so much that it's always their first question when we sit down to dinner? Our single- hood doesn't actually affect anyone else at all. They're just approaching it as if it’s a wrong state, because that’s what they've been taught, too. Can you imagine the reverse?
"How are you married? How happy is your marriage? Have you tried therapy? Try this kind of therapy, it will fix your unhappy marriage. I can't believe someone married you."
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We never say such things to married people, because we've been taught that couplehood is sacred, protected, and right. Singlehood is appropriate for invasive small talk, but couplehood is none of our business. It's a completely illogical imbalance of respect. You don't become more worthy of respect simply because you’re in a couple. You're not suddenly more human or more adult, but society doesn't understand that yet. A huge benefit in changing the way we think and feel about our own singlehood is that we stop letting society get away with this garbage.
These messages take root. When all we're shown is how prized couplehood is, and how shameful or "lesser" single- hood is, of course we're going to have a low opinion of our own singlehood.
The biggest problem with the opinions of singlehood that we develop over our lifetimes is they don't belong to us. If we've never questioned where our opinions come from, we're likely to passively think being single is wrong. Entertaining the idea that single isn't actually the wrong way to be becomes a radical act. If you're miserable and consumed by the feeling you need to "find someone," there's a way out of that feeling that doesn't involve anyone else. It involves getting fucking radical.
We're taught to seek the life state where people will finally think we're "done," so we can be treated as whole, valid human beings instead of lesser sacks of sadness who should totally go talk to that guy at the other end of the bar, he's so cute! (Always said loud enough for the guy to hear, of course.) I know it can feel uncomfortable to go against the broadly accepted notions and opinions surrounding singlehood. But do you feel "comfortable" with the way you think about your singlehood now? It always feels weird to think and act differently from the norm, but I can tell you the feelings of validity and worthiness you'll find on the other side are worth it.
We aren't less than other people. We aren't a lower status or class than people in couples. If you've never heard anyone say this to you before, I wish I was there to give you a hug and go to lunch with you, and we could split any appetizers you want. I know it can take time to get used to new ideas, so please be patient with and kind to yourself. The fact that singlehood isn't wrong is a new thing to hear, but it has always been true.
A Single Revolution by Shani Silver is out now via Amazon.(Opens in a new tab)
Prince William and Kate Middleton are the king and queen of draught beer
Prince William and Kate Middleton just proved that they, like many of their fellow Britons, love a good pint. Or at least they like pouring them.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge served up two cold pints when they visited Belfast on a tour of Northern Ireland in celebration of young people making a difference in their communities.
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Kensington Palace tweeted a video of the pair, where Middleton is pouring up a cold pint of Harp (an Irish lager).
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Pics from the pouring ceremony show the couple looking slightly anxious about their pouring technique, presumably worried about the amount of foam on their pint.
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Prince William also had a go on the tap.
BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - FEBRUARY 27: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge looks on as Prince William, Duke of Cambridge pulls a pint off beer during a visit to Empire Music Hall Belfast on February 27, 2019 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Prince William last visited Belfast in October 2017 without his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, who was then pregnant with the couple's third child. This time they concentrate on the young people of Northern Ireland. Their engagements include a visit to Windsor Park Stadium, home of the Irish Football Association, activities at the Roscor Youth Village in Fermanagh, a party at the Belfast Empire Hall, Cinemagic -a charity that uses film, television and digital technologies to inspire young people and finally dropping in on a SureStart early years programme. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage)Credit: Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage
BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - FEBRUARY 27: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge looks on as Prince William, Duke of Cambridge pulls a pint off beer during a visit to Empire Music Hall Belfast on February 27, 2019 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Prince William last visited Belfast in October 2017 without his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, who was then pregnant with the couple's third child. This time they concentrate on the young people of Northern Ireland. Their engagements include a visit to Windsor Park Stadium, home of the Irish Football Association, activities at the Roscor Youth Village in Fermanagh, a party at the Belfast Empire Hall, Cinemagic -a charity that uses film, television and digital technologies to inspire young people and finally dropping in on a SureStart early years programme. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage)Credit: Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage
Looks like the Duke did best:
BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - FEBRUARY 27: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge looks on as Prince William, Duke of Cambridge pulls a pint off beer during a visit to Empire Music Hall Belfast on February 27, 2019 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Prince William last visited Belfast in October 2017 without his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, who was then pregnant with the couple's third child. This time they concentrate on the young people of Northern Ireland. Their engagements include a visit to Windsor Park Stadium, home of the Irish Football Association, activities at the Roscor Youth Village in Fermanagh, a party at the Belfast Empire Hall, Cinemagic -a charity that uses film, television and digital technologies to inspire young people and finally dropping in on a SureStart early years programme. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage)Credit: Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage
Good job, William.
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