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Coachella Music Festival Coincides with a Huge Spike in Number of Reported Herpes Cases

You’d think this is a headline ripped straight off a satire site like The Onion. It’s not. That’s right, this is 100% real (side note: I don’t wanna live on this planet anymore).

According to TMZ, there was an outbreak of people treated for herpes in the communities around the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California, recently.

It seems 1,105 cases of herpes were reported in towns around Indio and in Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego counties in Southern California.

The information comes from Herpalert, a service that launched in 2017 to help people who think they’ve been stricken with herpes. It allows potential sufferers to send photos in to doctors so they can get a quick assessment (like, within a few hours).

A typical day sees about a dozen inquiries to the service in Southern California, but in the first two days of Coachella, 250 cases were reported.

Coincidence? It sure doesn’t seem like it. The previous high the service saw was around the 2018 Oscars when Herpalert saw around 60 cases each day.

What happens at Coachella…apparently doesn’t stay at Coachella. Be careful out there, friends!

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Idaho’s Airbnb Listings Now Feature a Giant Potato, Which You Can Rent for $200

Airbnb has revolutionized the hospitality industry, but there’s a new location you can rent out that is revolutionizing Airbnb. It’s a potato, located in Idaho (because, of course).

From the outside, it looks like the potato couldn’t possibly be habitable — again, it is A POTATO — but in fact, it features a queen-sized bed and a fireplace.

It’s called the Big Idaho Potato Hotel.

Upon further reading about the Airbnb, it quickly becomes clear that the potato is fake, which is a real bummer but also a relief. The tuber weighs six tons, and it’s 28 feet long, 12 feet wide, and 11.5 feet tall.  It’s made of steel, plaster, and concrete.

The outside looks appealing, in the sense that potatoes are delicious, but also very unappealing, in the sense that you’d never think to spend the night in one.

But inside, there’s air-conditioning, a kitchenette, and a small bathroom.

Posted by Famous Idaho Potatoes on Monday, April 22, 2019

The giant potato was originally created to promote potatoes across the country. After six years of traveling the country on the bed of a truck, it now has a much trendier purpose: millennials pay over $200 a night on Airbnb to sleep inside of it and take Instagram photos.

The Big Idaho Potato Hotel sits in a giant field in Boise, Idaho, with views of the Owyhee Mountains.

Posted by Famous Idaho Potatoes on Monday, April 22, 2019

It has zero reviews on Airbnb due to being brand new, so… Who’s going to book this place first?!

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15 of the Ugliest Belgian Houses You’ll Ever See

There are no shortage of things in this world that go so far down the ugly scale they begin to somehow get cuter – like the scale is actually a loop and not a straight line.

I wouldn’t have guessed that this would apply to houses, but thanks to blogger Hannes Coudenys, now I do. Belgium is notorious for its quirky buildings, and in 2012 Coudenys started an Instagram account documenting some of the weirder ones.

It’s called Ugly Belgian Houses, and even architects and architecture enthusiasts can’t get enough.

After you scroll through these 15 bizarre architectural oddities, you’re not going to be able to, either.

#1. Are you sure it’s finished?

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David Gebouwi

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#2. A couple couldn’t decide on what kind of house to build and so this happened?

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#3. Warped storage box or a house?

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Calimero house

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#4. Why would you do this.

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Ugly Belgian house protecting it’s nest.

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#5. So weird.

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Nobody puts Baby in the corner

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#6. No idea what’s happening here.

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All roads lead to R̶o̶m̶e̶ an Ugly Belgian House.

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#7. It’s a door! It’s a window! It’s both!

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You had one job (pic by @_schrooten )

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#8. That’s quite a beak.

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Luke, I am your house

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#9. I can’t stop staring.

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The temple of boom shake shake shake the room

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#10. Is it falling apart?

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Sink outside the box

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#11. This one, though.

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When your house is a vegetarian

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#12. It looks like it’s made of Legos.

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#10yearchallenge

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#13. I’m strangely uncomfortable.

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When your architect fell asleep

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#14. Somebody pissed this house off.

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Pytagorage

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#15. In a science fiction movie, this is where the evil scientists are being all evil-y.

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Chernobelgium (pic by @pabloxcepeda )

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You can keep up on Instagram or Facebook.

Hot tip: don’t build a house like this.

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People Continue to NOT Recognize Tony Hawk, and It’s Hilarious

Tony Hawk just can’t catch a break, can he? Who knows why, but Hawk just can’t get anyone to believe he’s really the man he says he is. We’ve previously documented how often the world-famous skateboarder doesn’t get recognized, and we’ve got a new example – it happened when Hawk was trying to rent a car.

Sorry Mr. Hawk, but it happened again. But since he’s such a nice guy, he didn’t call out the person or the rental car company by name.

Just like the many times when he wasn’t recognized in public, people loved this story about Hawk’s misfortunes.

And someone made this great collage on Hawk’s famous video game cover.

Classic! All I can say is that I would recognize you, Mr. Hawk!

At least I think I would…

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15+ Tweets That Prove Cats Are Equal Parts Weird and Adorable

Cats. Humans can totally live without them, but it seems we don’t want to: they’re cute, they’re funny, and maybe we’re hoping that if we feed them they’ll ultimately decide not to murder us in our sleep.

The 17 tweets below prove that we’re right to be worried, because the little floofs among us are as weird as they are adorable.

#1. Are you sure that’s a cat?

#2. She has her reasons.

#3. Cats watching cats never disappoints.

#4. He just wants to make sure you still love him.

#5. Oh, hey, fancy meeting you here!

#6. Stellar use of a hidden camera, if you ask me.

#7. It’s best to make yourself look large in the face of a potential threat.

#8. This cat is basically a toddler.

#9. That’s everyone’s dilemma, my friend, regardless of profession.

#10. He’s pretty sure no one can see him now.

#11. Er.

#12. They do not care about your wants, human.

#13. An apt comparison.

#14. I’m going to go ahead and blame “parenting.”

#15. Someone is confused about the predator/prey relationship here, and it’s everyone.

#16. She’s not exaggerating. Fair warning.

#17. Just living up to his namesake, is all.

Cats: Still the best argument for the internet.

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10+ “Genuises” Who Forged Documents and Didn’t Think They’d Get Caught

Before I start tearing all these forgers a new one, ask yourself a question: when is the last time somebody compared the signature on your credit card with the signature you signed?

Probably can’t remember, can you? True story… I’ve literally just written a big, fat “X” down in the signature field and people have accepted it, no questions asked. Of course, it was my credit card, but nobody asked me for my ID.

So we definitely live in a world, where people just take documents at face value. No questions asked. But our signatures are supposed to be our bond. How can we get back to that?

The following 12 people know this all too well, and most were successful in their deceit.

1. Just a minor violation…

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2. Okay, that is seriously fucked up.

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3. Caught!

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4. Caught again!

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5. Damn.

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6. You’re probably just hurting yourself, but whatevs…

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7. How would diabetes disqualify you from a job? Seems shaky…

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8. Nailed it.

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9. How would they ever check this anyway?

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10. Well, that didn’t work out as planned…

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11. Ivy league scammers, your day will come…

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12. “Many a signature” almost sounds charming. Almost.

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Forgery is a legit crime, and if you’re caught you can get some serious prison time.

Basically, don’t try and get away with doing stuff like this. Because it’s more likely than not that you’ll get caught.

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15 States Where It’s Actually Legal to Fire Someone Just for Being LGBTQ

Believe it or not, there are still places in the United States – in 2019! – where there are no protections in place keeping gay people from being fired from their jobs for simply being who they are.

These 15 states below offer no protection at all for LGBT people from being terminated from employment.

All of the statistics below come from the Movement Advancement Project.

1. Texas

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Estimated number of LGBTQ adults living in Texas: 873,454

2. Arkansas

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Estimated number of LGBTQ adults living in Arkansas: 76,251

3. North Carolina

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Estimated number of LGBTQ adults living in North Carolina: 323,319

4. South Dakota

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Estimated number of LGBTQ adults living in South Dakota: 19,939

5. Wyoming

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Estimated number of LGBTQ adults living in Wyoming: 14,618

6. Mississippi

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Estimated number of LGBTQ adults living in Mississippi: 79,814

7. North Dakota

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Estimated number of LGBTQ adults living in North Dakota: 15,697

8. West Virginia

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Estimated number of LGBTQ adults living in West Virginia: 57,667

9. Virginia

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Estimated number of LGBTQ adults living in Virginia: 259,268

10.  Missouri

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Estimated number of LGBTQ adults living in Missouri: 180,486

11. Kansas

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Estimated number of LGBTQ adults living in Kansas: 72,783

12. Louisiana

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Estimated number of LGBTQ adults living in Louisiana: 138,998

13. South Carolina

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Estimated number of LGBTQ adults living in South Carolina: 139,236

14. Nebraska

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Estimated number of LGBTQ adults living in Nebraska: 55,192

15. Oklahoma

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Estimated number of LGBTQ adults living in Oklahoma: 113,491

Here is a complete list of local non-discrimination ordinances across the U.S.

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“Overheard New York” Instagram Account Is Just Too Funny

I’m not sure why it took someone this long to come up with this brilliant idea, but at least we have it now, right?

The Instagram account Overheard New York is exactly what it sounds like, and that’s a good thing. No, it’s a great thing.

Because who doesn’t love New York, New Yorkers, and the things they have to say?

I know I do!

1. Absolutely heavenly

2. Forget about the taste

3. The daily grind

4. Absolutely not

5. Uggghhhh

6. Hey, it happens

7. That’s how it goes here

8. Oh…

9. You bet it is

10. Help each other out

11. Very specific

12. Roommates

13. Hahaha

14. Regular ass, please

15. Constant struggle

I love New York! Don’t you?

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This Mom is Changing the Game by Shooting Portraits of Girls in Sparkly Dresses and Sports Gear

From a young age, girls are sent the message that they have to either be girly-girls or tomboys. There’s no in between and there’s no overlapping.

Well, not anymore.

Heather Mitchell runs HMP Couture Imagery in Alabama, and she shoots portraits of young girls who want to do what they want to do. Her series is called “Because you can do it all”, and it has gone viral in a big way.

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Mitchell said, “My youngest daughter is 8 and she is trying softball this year for the first time. We were at practice a few weeks ago and I was talking with the other moms. I was saying that I hoped Paislee learned to love the game because she was athletic. One of the moms told me that she was not athletic, that she was a girly-girl.”

She added, “I couldn’t sleep that night. All I could think was, ‘Why does she have to choose?’ I played every sport my school offered and wore lipstick to every game. So the next day we went to the studio and created her shot.”

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After posting shots of her daughter Paislee on Facebook, the requests from other moms came flooding in.

Take a look at these young ladies.

Dress by Dollcake

Posted by HMP Couture Imagery on Friday, April 12, 2019

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Mitchell added a final comment. “My parent taught me that I could be anything I wanted growing up. I didn’t realize till I was much older that everyone is not that blessed.”

Great stuff! Remember girls – you can do it all!

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10 Absolutely Insane Confessions by People Who Got Away With Something Serious

This is some crazy shit folks.

I’ve gotten away with like, stealing some candy from a store once. That I went back and paid for because my conscience wouldn’t let me rest until I did.

I don’t know how these people live.

1. NOT COOL!

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2. Oh how I wish this person would be found out…

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3. Wow. That must have been some excuse!

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4. That’s a lot of work to essentially be super lazy.

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5. Jeezus, what job is that?!

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6. 128 million reasons to lie…

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7. What would mom think?!

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8. Hmmm, something seems fishy here…

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9. How do schools not check this stuff?!

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10. Well, if you’re going to do it, do it right!

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Told you those were nuts!

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