This will come in handy for me. My mom doesn’t care if hundreds of men, women, and children get maimed or killed in a movie, but if a dog dies (or even gets lost or inconvenienced for a little while), everyone in the room is going to hear about it.
Let’s just say that watching Old Yeller as a kid wasn’t the most fun thing I’ve ever done in my life.
Do you know people like this? Well, if you do, you should probably let them know about DoesTheDogDie.com. The website is dedicated to “crowdsourced emotional spoilers for movies, tv, books and more.” The site contains “warnings” about more than 4,000 films and over 800 TV series where animals are harmed and killed.
The site also tracks other potentially upsetting categories such as “Drownings,” “Eating Disorders,” and even “There Are Spiders.”
For example, if you search for John Wick on the website, you’d get the straight dope about the dog dying in the film: “Yes, and it’s terrible, BUT John Wick spends the rest of the movie deliberately, gloriously, and violently avenging the dog, so it feels really pro-dog overall.” So you’ll also get some positive reinforcement as well if you need a little encouragement to watch a particular movie.
So next time you’re about to watch a movie with your family or friends, hop on over to DoesTheDogDie.com, type in the movie or movies you’re thinking about watching, and see if any animals are going to bite the dust and potentially ruin your evening.
This guy found out his ex-fling was married with children in the most “yikes” way possible — by running into him at church on Christmas Eve.
Dan, or @dxnielandrew_ on Twitter, reported the entire story live on Twitter, and it went viral for obvious reasons.
It all started when Dan went to midnight mass with his mom for Christmas Eve.
“Next to me was a man I hooked up with last summer….and next to him was his wife and children that I had no knowledge of,” he wrote alongside the perfect reaction GIF.
Just been to midnight mass with my mum and next to me was a man I hooked up with last summer….and next to him was his wife and children that I had no knowledge of pic.twitter.com/KlTAQYzSwp
“Can I add we went on 7 dates before he told me he couldn’t be with me because his job was too hectic,” Dan added. “Never realised his job was stay at home dad xxx.”
If that weren’t bad enough, though, the ex then slid into Dan’s DMs because he apparently has zero shame.
Dan posted a screenshot of the DM, leaving the man’s identity anonymous.
Dan denied the man’s advances (good job Dan), replying: “No I’m not going to do that, have a nice Christmas.”
But the man simply doubled down.
“Let’s talk, I can give you Christmas miracle lol xx,” he wrote.
He didn’t stop there either. He wrote a follow-up message, “Dan please hear me out, when are you back in work? Let’s talk please I hav so much I want to say to you. I can’t stop thinking about you xx. Santa said you’re on the naughty list hehe.”
Please come to my funeral, please come and have a celebration in my honour because I don’t think I’m going to survive Christmas xxx pic.twitter.com/VfAwzDDRGY
Just to get really sad boi for one second but it’s just hit me that I was used by this man, I was literally his dirty secret and I feel disgusting and I also feel terrible for his poor wife and children like WHY AM I NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR ANYONE
On only the third day into his internship at NASA, a 17-year-old named Wolf Cukier (awesome name) discovered a new planet that is being called “TOI 1338 b”. The planet is 6.9 times larger than Earth, and the folks at NASA believe the planet will be in a stable orbit for at least the next 10 million years. It is located roughly 1,300 light-years away from Earth.
The teenager discovered the planet while looking at “variations in star brightness” in images captured by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
Cukier is from Scarsdale, New York, and he completed a two-month internship last summer with NASA at their Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
Cukier said, “I was looking through the data for everything the volunteers had flagged as an eclipsing binary, a system where two stars circle around each other and from our view eclipse each other every orbit. About three days into my internship, I saw a signal from a system called TOI 1338. At first I thought it was a stellar eclipse, but the timing was wrong. It turned out to be a planet.”
NASA just recently confirmed Cukier’s findings, and they submitted a paper co-written by the teenager about the discovery of the new planet.
Let’s get to meet this whiz kid, shall we?
Cukier also confirmed that he is indeed now looking for other new planets. Keep up the great work!
Oh, these darn kids today…they’ll never know some of the struggles or the joys we experienced back in the day, now will they?
I’m not talking about the old “I walked uphill both ways to school in the snow every day.” I’m referring to more recent stuff, like 1980s and 90s technology and culture and other stuff like that.
The Twitter-verse has caught on to this “today’s kids will never know” trend, and the tweets are quite entertaining.
Let’s take a look.
1. It really was epic!
Today’s kids will never know the joy of swapping shareware discs with your friends or having to wait for the next episode of doom or Duke Nukem to come out! pic.twitter.com/njD46VA5yH
Today’s kids will never know what it feels like when your crush logs onto AIM and the door opening sounds comes on. Then 2 seconds later they sign off, door closes and you are just distraught
kids today will never know how hard it was to keep up with friends in the ‘90s. you’d lose someone in the department store and they’d return the next day a wizened old man, having spent three hundred years in the thrall of the faerie queene.
— The Library Owl (on HIATUS) (@SketchesbyBoze) October 20, 2019
There have been several times while plotting books when I discarded an idea because it sounded too outlandish…even though, in some cases, it was historically true.
In that vein, Redditors thought it would be fun to share facts that are truly hard to believe, and I bet at least a few of these are going to blow your mind!
15. This isn’t really surprising, if you think about it.
Death rates in boxing exploded after the introduction of the boxing glove. Almost nobody ever died bare knuckle boxing because head punches often resulted in broken hands, so nobody used them.
14. A man-eater.
The Champawat Tiger was a female Bengal tiger responsible for an estimated 430 deaths in Nepal and India, (listed in the Guinness Book of World Records and Wikipedia) More people than died in the U.S. in the last 100 years from, snakes, bears, wolves, and spider fatalities combined.
13. I’m going to need video of this.
President Lyndon B. Johnson owned an Amphibious car, the Amphicar, and used it to scare guests by driving them into his lake screaming about brake failure.
12. Let’s get on activating that, hmm?
Humans have the gene to, and are capable of hibernation. It’s just not active
11. This is not actually surprising.
There was once a war between Honduras and El Salvador started by a soccer game.
10. It’s Australia. There’s any number of things that could have happened to him.
Australia once lost a prime minister. as in straight up couldn’t find him. and they have yet to find him.
9. Wait, why?
Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
8. That’s gotta be uncomfortable.
Wombat poop is square. Go ahead, google it. *edit: yes, cube-shaped.
7. A desert is just a desolate, arid environment.
My friend doesn’t trust me with these things now that I’ve told her that Antarctica is the world’s largest desert. She still doesn’t believe it.
6. I’m sure that’s pretty.
It rains diamonds on Saturn, and Jupiter.
5. In case you want to hate corporations a little bit more.
There is a little town in Mexico called Chamula where shamans started using Coca Cola in their religious rituals to heal worshippers. Pepsi heard about this and began giving commissions to shamans if they recommended Pepsi instead, so then Coca Cola did the same and there are now rival religious groups based on which soft drink they use.
4. Crazy or innovative? You decide.
In the 1950’s Popular Mechanics published a story about a former artillery Sergeant who attempted to invent a personal delivery system similar to what Amazon intends to create with drones. Except he used modified artillery shells. He actually got a hold of an M116 howitzer which he fired modified shells over a small town in upstate New York.
The shells were hollowed out inside and a parachute would automatically deploy as it approached the target. The problem was the shells weighed twenty pounds and if the parachute did not deploy that meant a twenty pound shell would come crashing down from the sky and wreck someone’s house or possibly kill someone in the street. As the Sergeant tested the device and was utterly convinced it was a way of the future he offered to sell a solution installing expensive iron plating on the roofs of people’s homes and heavy protective armor for navigating the streets.
This Sargent’s story had become an inside joke among people who market modern electronics and virus software. Create a problem that is unnecessary and then sell people an expensive and completely impractical solution.
3. I fail to see how this could be a bad thing.
Thanks to a botched burglary attempt at the Émancé Nature Reserve (about an hour outside Paris) in the 1970’s, there is now a feral Wallaby population in France.
2. And they were Nazis.
The founding of Adidas and Puma.
Rudolf “Rudi” Dassler and Adolf “Adi” Dassler were born into a German family, and Adi eventually began to produce athletic shoes. Rudi joined his younger brother’s company, and everything went swimmingly… for a while.
Eventually, both brothers joined the Nazi Party and turned on each other. Rudi formed “Rudas,” now known as Puma. And Adi formed “Adidas,” now known as Adidas.
The first time I heard this story, I was convinced it was fake.
1. He might be an alien.
In the hockey world, some of the numbers that Wayne Gretzky put up are mind-boggling. He scored nearly 3,000 points, nobody else even has 2,000. He has more assists than anyone else does points. He recorded 4 seasons with at least 200 PTS, nobody else has ever scored 200 in a season, though Lemieux came close. Rarely do we see a 50 goal scorer anymore, Gretzky set the record with 50 goals in a mere 39 games. So many other records that just make you say “wow.” No wonder he’s known simply as “The Great One.”
Do you have something you would add to the list? Share it in the comments!
It was a simpler time, when cell phones were tossed in the gloveboxes of cars to wait for actual emergencies, Jolly Ranchers ended up in the bottom of Zima bottles, and Boone’s Farm ruled the weekend, N*Sync on the radio setting it all to music.
If that made sense to you, well, these 13 memes are going to delight and amaze.
13. You were risking your freedom for free music!
12. I can’t explain it but it’s true.
11. You have sacrificed nothing.
10. I feel personally attacked by this post.
9. Uphill both ways.
8. Battle scars we have them.
7. Okay yeah that was pretty weird.
6. Guilty. Now, they roam free.
5. I want to re-watch all of these movies immediately.
4. Just because it was a dream doesn’t mean it wasn’t real.
3. I think I just had an attack of PTSD.
2. Yeah but look at him now.
1. I forgot about this until right now.
I miss those days, sometimes.
Not when I think about how broke I was or the guy I thought I was in love with or my Toyota Tercel.
But sometimes.
So what do you think? Do you have some nostalgia for those early 2000s? Let us know in the comments!
Beginning a new year is always a mixed bag. On one hand, you want to do your best and start over in some areas in your life.
On the other hand, sometimes you get bogged down with all the new excitement and you don’t even know where to begin. Oh, and the weather usually sucks, and that doesn’t help at all.
But we’re here to help! Hopefully these posts will put you in a good mood and you’ll start 2020 off on the right foot.
None of the kids wanted toys for Christmas this year, they just wanted cash. Understandable, but cash as a gift, while practical, always feels impersonal, so I made special packaging. Went over well pic.twitter.com/urXVCHtDyW
for those of you that don’t know, i’m not accepted by my parents for being gay. i have struggled for five years with them and decided this year to cut off contact. this is my first christmas not with them and this is how sarahs (my fiancée) dad tagged my gift pic.twitter.com/BpGmBkCde8
Is TikTok sweeping the nation, or is it just me? It seems like every time I turn around, people are talking about the social media platform in one way or another.
While it’s good for funny videos (and great pet videos), people are also using it for surprising life hacks. Here are some rather interesting ones from TikTok.
We’d like to add that we haven’t tried any of these out ourselves, so we’re not sure if they actually work…
Doesn’t it seem like old, classic Hollywood movies get a free pass? Like we’re supposed to just accept their brilliance and not question it on any level.
Well, NO MORE OF THAT…
People on Buzzfeed got pretty fired up about old movies that critics think are incredible and life-changing…but these folks definitely don’t feel that way. At all.
“It’s just… bad. The story is all over the place, the acting isn’t really all that great, and the ending is just stupid. I watched it once quite a while ago and was unimpressed.”
2. Gone with the Wind (1939)
“Scarlett O’Hara is spoiled, selfish, and self-absorbed, and Rhett Butler is a fuckboy. Yes they’re made for each other, but mainly to keep them from poisoning the general population.”
3. Mary Poppins (1964)
“I’ve never really understood the hype around Mary Poppins.”
4. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
“This movie glorifies racist stereotypes, organized crime, child marriage, and utter inauthenticity. I also hate to say this because she was utterly lovely to look at, but Audrey Hepburn’s performance is completely unbelievable. It’s a bad, bad movie.”
5. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
“I don’t know why, but I’ve always found something awful about The Wizard of Oz. I don’t think it’s that great.”
6. Casablanca (1942)
“This movie is SO boring and overrated. I had to watch it for my film history class, and then I found myself rewatching it three separate times because I kept falling asleep!”
7. West Side Story (1961)
“West Side Story doesn’t bring anything interesting to the table. It’s just another Romeo and Juliet movie and I’m frankly sick of movies using that trope.”
8. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
“The acting is terrible in Rebel Without a Cause and James Dean is very overrated.”
9. All About Eve (1950)
“I’ve heard for years this movie is incredible, chilling and thrilling, and then I watched it and found an utterly lifeless, dull movie. Absolutely nothing happened in this movie at all. It was frankly one of the most boring movies I’ve ever seen.”
10. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
“I love Marilyn Monroe, but this movie is just truly awful. It’s incredibly boring and the main character’s paranoia and conversations with himself really ruined the plot for me.”
11. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
“I love old Christmas movies, but I can’t stand It’s a Wonderful Life. It’s a schmaltzy piece of mediocre film that’s somehow managed to get classified as something no one is allowed to criticize. If you want your Jimmy Stewart fix at Christmas time, I recommend watching The Shop Around the Corner instead.”
12. The Birds (1963)
“The Birds is tedious to the point of boredom for most of its runtime. If you take out all the long, dialogue-less scenes of driving, parking, and walking from the freshly parked car to the next shot, this movie would be like 20 minutes long.”
13. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
“A Streetcar named Desire is about an abusive relationship that has been glorified as a passionate romance for decades. Brando’s character is abusive to both his love interest and her sister, and when I first saw it in my twenties, I was stunned that it’s lauded as this great film. No thanks.”
14. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
“Rosemary’s Baby is just hours of lackluster content with no real storyline. I found it very boring and the end was a disaster.”
15. Citizen Kane (1941)
“People say Citizen Kane is the greatest film of all time, but I think it’s incredibly boring. The characters are flat and very detached. It’s just really hard to connect with them.”
What do you think?
Are there any old films that get a ton of praise that you believe are really overrated? Tell us about them in the comments!
It’s really important for children with disabilities to see themselves in pop culture, whether it’s movies, music, TV – or even the toys and dolls they play with. That’s why this announcement from American Girl should make a lot of kids and parents very happy. American Girl rang in 2020 with a new doll, and this one, for the first time ever, has a hearing impairment.
And the new doll is also American Girl of the Year.
Meet Joss Kendrick. Joss’s story is that she hails from Huntington Beach, California, and that she is “a fierce athlete born with hearing loss and a passion for surfing and competitive cheer.”
Joss was born deaf in her left ear and she wears a hearing aid in her right ear. The company said about Joss, “Whether she’s on her surfboard or in the gym, Joss shows girls the importance of trying new things, pushing past stereotypes, and being a good team player.”
The new doll was introduced with the help of Caroline Marks, a 17-year-old surfer who is looking to make a mark at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as part of the U.S. Women’s Surfing team (I didn’t even know surfing was an Olympic sport). Marks said, “I’m so excited to be a part of the Joss launch and share her message that passion and hard work can really take a girl places—even to the Olympics.”
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