Two Friends Put Up a Fake Poster of Themselves in McDonald’s and It’s Hilarious

What do you do when there’s a big, blank wall inside your local McDonald’s? Just ask Jevh Maravilla…

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That’s right, without telling the manager or the employees, Maravilla hung a fake poster of himself and a friend. And while it is funny, the two friends also did it for a very specific reason. Maravilla said, “If you haven’t noticed, there isn’t a lot of Asians represented in media. And hopefully one day I could see someone like me on the big screen. So one day, my bud Christian and I were eating at McDonald’s, munching on some snack wraps. I look up and I see a blank wall and I tell Christian, ‘Hey, what if we put a picture of us on there? Look around, there are literally no Asians in any of these walls. Maybe we can change that.’”

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Hopefully, the poster will remain up for quite a while. Maravilla added, “Remember, folks: all races deserve recognition. And I guess I did my part.” Yes, you did. Nice work.

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Hotels Reveal the Books Most Frequently Left Behind by Guests

When you’re staying in a hotel for the night and need to kill some time, it’s great to have a book with you. Unfortunately, many of these books end up getting left behind.

Travel + Leisure put together a list of the books that hotel guests leave behind the most and some of them might surprise you. Take a look at the list and ask yourself a question: do you think some of these books might have been left behind on purpose? Just a thought…

1. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

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2. Paul O’Grady’s Country Life by Paul O’Grady

3. Bad Dad by David Walliams

4. Origin by Dan Brown

5. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

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6. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

7. The Couple Next Door by Sharri Lapena

8. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway by Jeff Kinney

10. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

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11. Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book by Johanna Brasford

12. IT by Stephen King

13. The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump

14. Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them by J.K. Rowling

15. Big Little Lies by Liana Moriarty

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16. All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class by Tim Shipman

17. Harry Potter: Coloring Book 

18. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

19. The World’s Worst Children by David Walliams

20. Disney Princess Beauty and the Beast Magical Story

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The Salem Witch Trials, Explained

While they only lasted a little more than a year, the legacy of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts continues to resonate in the American consciousness. And although we hear the trials referenced quite often, what actually occurred during the paranoia and hysteria that led to the execution of 20 people?

In 1689, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts saw an influx of refugees from New York and parts of Canada because of a war between New France and New England. The conflict was known as King William’s War. The refugees added fuel to a rivalry between wealthy people in Salem and those who still relied on agriculture for their livelihood. Salem Village’s minister, Reverand Samuel Parris, was widely disliked because of his rigidity and greed.

In January 1692, Parris’ 9-year-old daughter Elizabeth and 11-year-old niece Abigail Williams alarmed their friends and relatives by throwing fits, screaming, speaking gibberish, and twisted themselves into weird positions. A third girl named Ann Putnam had similar experiences.

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A local doctor believed the girls’ calamities were supernatural. In late February, the three young girls were pressured into admitting the source of their madness: they said it was Tituba, the Parris’ slave from the Caribbean; Sarah Good, a homeless woman; and Sarah Osborne, a poor, elderly woman.

The three older women were brought before local magistrates. Good and Osborne denied any association with witchcraft, but the slave Tituba admitted she had been contacted by the Devil himself and was doing his work. Tituba also said there were other witches intent on destroying the Puritans. All three women were imprisoned.

After the women were put behind bars, rumors and paranoia gripped the town. People of all ages were accused of being witches. The first “witch” convicted and hanged on Gallows Hill was a woman named Bridget Bishop, even though she adamantly denied practicing witchcraft. As the summer of 1692 wore on, 18 more people were hanged for supposedly being witches and many more imprisoned.

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Eventually, well-respected people in the area, including Massachusetts Governor William Phips, prohibited the arrest of accused witches. By May 1693, the Governor pardoned all people accused of witchcraft. The final toll of the hysteria: 20 people executed, several died in jail, and over 200 accused of practicing witchcraft.

It wasn’t until 1957, over 250 years after the trials, that the state of Massachusetts formally apologized for the events of 1692-93.

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Older Millennials Remember Formerly Popular Websites That No Longer Exist

It’s important to remember that millennials are not teenagers. Many of them are grown-ups who still remember the early days of the internet. You know, when it was still a novelty and didn’t control every aspect of our lives?

Here are 15 websites we thought would never fall by the wayside, but that no one under the age of 25 would remember at all.

Cheers to getting older!

 

#15. Flash is dying.

“I didn’t learn about this website until a few years ago, but I would say homestarrunner.com mainly since Flash is dying.”

#14. Cards and chess.

“yahoo games used to be the best place for cards and chess and a ton of other games online.”

#13. Digital bubble wrap.

“Bored.com. Just for the digital bubble wrap alone!”

#12. Loved it.

“Wondering if anyone was gonna bring up livejournal. I got one when you still needed a code from a friend. Loved it.”

#11. So much angst

“Xanga. I kind of want to go back and read what 16 year old me wrote, but I think I’d die from the embarrassment.”

#10. By trial and error.

“Angelfire and Geocities were sites where you could make your own “website” and they would host them for free. It was fun back in the day learning really basic html by just trial and error. I don’t think anything like that exists any more, maybe blogspot would be the closest thing like it today.”

#9. Chatrooms.

“Napster. Not just for music downloads. I spent a lot of time in the chatrooms there.”

#8. Every Wednesday morning.

“The Onion used to publish a new edition every Wednesday morning. I was chomping at the bit by Tuesday night.

They had a better format back then, too.”

#7. Ready and waiting.

“AskJeeves. Just imagining a man named jeeves staying awake 24/7 to answer all questions.”

#6. Random forums.

“Webrings, almost every single band in the world had an forum with thousands of people, so many forums for other random shit. Bonzai Kitten and other joke sites, then there are the citrus extravaganza and other sites that weren’t so jokey but went viral nonetheless. In the early 2000s you saw websites like what Reddit would base itself on: Something Awful (which I could never stand), Fark (which used to be pretty great until terrible mods drove it into the ground and the owner stopped caring and decided to try politics instead), hell at once point there was this Reddit thing that would pop up but most people were like “meh, I already got something better” and just let it be.

Chatrooms in general are something that seem to be long gone. So many bots, so much chaos, but it was a bit wild wild west back then. Using bots and tools to clone names and accounts, kick people off chats, log them offline, etc (AOHell was probably the biggest known one if any of you want to look up what it was like).

And I remember websites/programs like The Palace and such which were chatrooms that allowed people to move around and be seen as avatars, oh how amazing the future was then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palace_(computer_program) Again you could use a lot of bots to mess with people, one you’d commonly see was a bot that stole people’s avatars which usually angered the entire lot as there seemed to be a general rule of “ask if you want it”/”trade” etc. as a lot of them were made by the person “Wearing” them.

Good times, actually. I think one of the most distinctive things, especially of the 90s was the lack of people from every corner of life. It would be extremely rare to run into some old grandparent, there was this active subculture of people while most people just stuck to reading their emails and calling it a day. Now everyone is online, everyone is on Facebook, etc.”

#5. Scan every download.

“Limewire was filled with trojans and malware but Kazaa wasn’t much better. Kazaa Lite was what people used if they didn’t want to do a scan after every download.

Then Torrents came along and no worries.”

#4. Ah, memories.

“Neopets! God I sucked at neopets.”

#3. Over 2 decades.

“The hamster dance

Edit: hamPster dance. Forgot the P cause it’s been over 2 decades.”

#2. Pre-Tinder.

“Amihotornot.com”

#1. Budding weebs.

“gaiaonline. So many budding weebs on that site.”

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Before and After Photos Show How Clothing Can Affect Our Perception of People

Seeing before and afters of men wearing street clothes versus suits definitely proves the adage that “the clothes make the man”.  Even if you think that what you wear (or see others wearing) doesn’t affect perception, these pictures can leave no doubt that we’re influenced by what people are wearing.

For men who have come out the other side of imprisonment or addiction, what they’re wearing out on job interviews is important to two reasons – for the image they present and because of its effect on their own confidence. That’s why non-profit Sharp Dressed Man, an alliance between the Baltimore Fashion Alliance and the Living Classrooms Foundation founded in 2011, custom designs suits for men re-entering the workforce. Normally, they cost upwards of $3,000.

Christopher Schafer, the tailor and founder of the group, collections donated high-end suits from clients and locals and then, on Wednesdays, men come in for a fitting, haircut, and a hot meal. He’s battled addiction himself and knows the meaning of a second chance – and the importance of getting it right.

“I really think that the biggest thing, though, is a guy gets treated with respect. And some of these guys have not been. They have not treated themselves with respect, nor have they been treated with respect,” he told PBS.

Check out 15 of their fabulous, heartfelt, and spiffy transitions below!

#15. Chin up.

#14. Yeah, throw those shoulders back.

#13. The smile says it all.

#12. That bowtie is everything.

#11. What a change.

#10. That smile, though.

#9. Hello, confidence!

#8. I think he actually grew taller.

#7. He makes me want to smile back.

#6. Haircut and pinstripes ftw.

#5. Love the colors.

#4. Gratitude.

#3. Pride shines.

#2. Silly and happy.

#1. I want to give him a hug.

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13+ Married People Share Quirk Their Partner Has That USED to Be Cute

There are probably a thousand examples of things people do that seem really cute while you’re dating, but then once you’re married or living together and they’re doing it multiple times a day, oh my god, would going to jail for murder really be that horrible? Maybe it’s the fact that they leave their towels hanging on the closet doors so they can use them again or they hog the covers? Or how they sneeze?

Only you know.

Here are 15 awesome examples.

 

#1. Forgetfulness.

“His forgetfulness used to be cute and fun. Waking up to fresh gallons of milk sitting on the counter for hours is annoying as fuck now.”

#2. A bag of magic beans.

“His spontaneity.

It used to be really fun and sexy…but now it’s like living with a real life Homer Simpson/Phil Dunphy hybrid.

No joke, I am just waiting for the day he comes home with a bag of ‘magic beans’.

Edit: I’ve had a lot people asking for more stories of my husband doing crazy shit.

I think my favorite is: on our first date we got caught in a rain storm. I was wet to the bone and wearing a skirt…so he offered me his pants.”

#3. A choral piece.

“Her having to sing everything like it’s a perfected choral piece.”

#4. Some pedantic loophole.

“Debate with me. At the beginning it was great because I felt like I met my intellectual equal. Now I realize she’s just a disagreeable person. I’m 90% sure if I told her the sky was blue, she would find a way to dispute my assertion with some pendantic loophole

EDIT: ok people, it feels like half of these responses came from my wife. I just double checked out the window, the sky is definitely blue. Do you want to know what shade of blue? SKY BLUE!! Explaining WHY it’s blue doesn’t make it not blue. Baaaah!!”

#5. Minecraft mistakes.

“She doesn’t take precautions playing Minecraft. It was funny seeing her wooden house burn down, or her losing all her stuff digging straight down.

But since I ran the server, she would keep asking me to go to use my admin powers to get it all back. A lot.

She also still sends settlers unescorted in Civ V (I just triggered all civ players, sorry). Other than that she is still perfect after 10 years :D”

#6. Get to the verb.

“He can not tell a story. Rambling, unnecessary details, and the listener is three steps ahead the entire time, just waiting for it to slowly unspool.”

#7. Hair.

“Her hair. She has such long, beautiful hair, but it gets everywhere. Drains. Sinks. Carpets. I’ve had to sit and cut hairs out of the vacuum so it would work again because it had tied up the roly bit. Not to mention I’ve had her hair on me and all through my clothing.”

#8. Bathroom stalking.

“Constantly watching me in the bathroom. It was fun at first, we always make/made jokes. But now there are times I just want to be left alone to shit for fucks sake.”

#9. My way’s better.

“First off, still very happily married and in love! However, there is one thing that does cause a ruckus every now and again. When we were dating and living together, we would do diy stuff around the house. I know a little past the basics because my dad made sure to teach me things and of course there is always youtube, so I’m not helpless by any stretch. In fact I owned several of my own power tools before we got together.

When doing one of these projects, he often wouldn’t let me do much. Back then I thought, “What a gentleman, doesn’t want me to get dirty.” or whatever. Nowadays I’ll be watching him do something and know a better way of doing said task, and it’s like he doesn’t believe me. So he’ll try 18 other ways before landing on the way I suggested and it working out just dandy. It’s pretty frustrating. I can do more than hold something while you work!

It’s not a deal breaker, but sometimes I let him know just how stupid he was acting, and how much time it wasted by not just trying my way first. Even if my suggestion doesn’t work, what did you lose?”

#10. Slow eater.

“Takes forever to eat a meal. It was very well-suited to long dates, romantic dinners, those intense getting-to-know-you conversations at the beginning. 15 years later and I just want to have a meal where I’m not done before he’s barely taken a bite!

His whole family is like this and I simply don’t understand. It’s food, you put it on a plate and you eat it and go on with life! Not for them, mealtimes often stretch on for hours, occasionally into the next bloody meal if it’s a family event. I just don’t get it.”

#11. Clumsy

“Clumsily break things accidentally. It’d be a teaspoon one day or a shoelace the next. Little insignificant, ‘how-on-earth-did-you-manage-to-break-that?’ type of things. Started out quite cute and amusing. Now it’s a case of ‘Babe, that’s like the fourth vacuum cleaner this year, and it’s a fucking Dyson.’”

#12. What’s for dinner?

“Her indecisiveness. It was adorable to see her struggle when we were dating but goddammit I’m just trying to figure out what to make for dinner.”

#13. More than me.

“Not married, but engaged and have been together for almost 5 years now? Everyone likes her. She’s a very likable person, but my friends and family like her more than me. Just gets to me sometimes when she tells me something about a friend or family member that I should have heard from them.”

#14. NOW?

“My husband always tries to make me laugh. I honestly hope he never stops trying, but there are times when it’s like “really?? You’re trying to make me laugh NOW?!”

#15. He needed me.

“In the beginning he used to really need me and he always required a LOT of attention.

I loved it, at first.

I loved to feel needed and I 100% absolutely loved to lavish him with my adoring attention endlessly…

I was absolutely devoted.

Fast forward 15 years…

I feel used up and taken for granted.

He has never reciprocated, our relationship has always been strongly one way.

His behaviour was exactly what I wanted and needed – at one point.

Now it’s just something that upsets me. A lot.”

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This is How Much People Get Paid to Be on ‘House Hunters’

Why would you open yourself up to the ridicule of friends, neighbors, and strangers while you house hunt and possibly reject a home for its paint color or say the words “great entertaining space” or “light and bright” in a twenty-minute span? It actually never occurred to me that people get paid to be on the popular HGTV series House Hunters, but I mean, of course they do.

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You’re going to be shopping for and buying a house anyway, so why not make a little extra cash in the process? It’s actually pretty smart to go on shows like this and a lot of people apparently board this train of thought, since HGTV reportedly gets between 100 and 200 applications every single week.

But how much money can people earn for putting their house hunt on full public display?

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Sadly, not as much as you think – only $500 per family.

Let’s break that down, shall we? Because the $500 covers everything from a person applying all the way through the end of filming, a process that can take some time. If your online application is selected, you have to go through a phone interview, paperwork, and a 10-minute audition video. So, let’s say that’s at least 3 hours of work, figuring conservatively (it would depend on the level of your video editing skills).

Then, each person or family puts 30 hours of filming into the eventual 23-minute episode – six hours at each house, before-and-after interviews, footage of their daily lives, etc.

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You’re looking at between $5-$6 an hour, bottom line. It would stand to reason, since the show is well-stocked with future episodes, that the chance to be on television is more of a pull than the cash itself. The bottom line is that you shouldn’t expect to get rich if you go on House Hunters, but you will probably get a few free meals out of the deal.

And enough cash to change out those horribly offensive paint colors, too.

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20 Cheap Knockoff Brands That Will Make You Laugh

Knockoff brands, there are some good ones, and then there are some pretty hilarious and not very well devised ones. For all the big name-brand products out there, you’ll run into a ton of other cheap (and entertaining) products.

Here are some of the best. “Meats by Dr. Dre” anyone?

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These 15 Adults Share the “Kid” Things They Still Love to

Adulting is hard, and the more of a “grown up” you become, the more you realize that age is just a number. Having kids is often a way to remind yourself of all of the fun stuff that used to make your day – and if you’re doing it right, it’s also a chance to keep doing those “childish” things you love. These 15 people on AskReddit recently confessed to the things they still love to do.

#15. Once in a while.

“Sugary cereals.

I can’t do them often (I’m a healthy eater), but a little Count Chocula or Frankenberry around Halloween can be a fun thing.”

#14. Every time.

“Swinging my legs when my feet don’t touch the ground whilst sitting in a chair.”

#13. Don’t forget to jump off!

“Swinging on a swing set, trying to get that funny feeling in your stomach from swinging too high and jumping off when I’m done.”

#12. Milk isn’t just for kids.

“Chocolate milk is great for after workouts idk why people think it’s childish.”

#11. Especially dirty ones.

“Alphabet soup.

It’s still fun to spell words in the soup.”

#10. Nothing not fun.

“Playing at the playground.

Because there is nothing NOT fun about climbing to the tippy top of a jungle gym, sliding down ALL the slides (then climbing back up them again), swinging on the swings till you’re sick and then jumping right off, and doing jungle gym parkour till you tire yourself out. Not to mention it’s amazing exercise. :)”

#9. I just can’t take him anywhere.

“My father, who is in his 60’s, was playing with legos at a dentist’s office (normal legos not the jumbo kind). He used his teeth to remove one of the bricks when he looks up at me and quickly stops playing. I find out the next day from my mother that he managed to swallow a lego. I just can’t take him anywhere. Months later he chipped his tooth in an unrelated accident.”

#8. Only occasionally.

“I (21M) occasionally enjoy going up the stairs on all fours.”

#7. Freakin’ awesome.

“We built a fort in the theater in my college dorm last night. Its freakin awesome.”

#6. Love it all.

“Pokémon. Cards, games, toys. Love it all.”

#5. Guaranteed.

“25 with 20+ guns. You put a nerf gun in anyone’s hand and I guarantee they’ll be having fun within 5 minutes.”

#4. Imagine.

“Traipsing through a forest with my dog, I will always imagine I’m a warrior princess stomping through a magical forest. Sometimes I have a little internal chat about the current politics of this fantasy land.”

#3. Always Spongebob.

“Watching the cartoons from my childhood. My roommates and I love watching Spongebob, Hey Arnold, Batman the Animated Series, etc.”

#2. Cute as hell.

“Plushies. They are cute as hell and calming.”

#1. Close enough.

“Barbies

I’m 37 years old with no daughters to use an excuse to play, so I got The Sims. Not the same but close enough.”

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15 Signs That Will Make Every Pun Lovers Day

There tends to be plenty of eye rolling and groaning when someone makes a good pun work, but isn’t that just their way of saying a pun is great?

The Indian Hills Community Center in Colorado is a pun-lovers dream. The residents have a great sense of humor and love the changing puns put up by Vince Rozmiarek, the community center volunteer behind the signs.

If you love puns, then you’re going to snicker at every last one of these.

#15. Okay, that one got me.

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#14. *snicker*

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#13. Volunteers will line up, I’m sure.

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#12. Think about it.

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#11. Do good for all.

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#10. Mental image not wanted.

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#9. So why bother?

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#8. But still satisfying.

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#7. You know you’re chuckling.

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#6. So would I!

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#5. Double truth.

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#4. Yes. Merry season to you.

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#3. You know it’s true.

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#2. Stolen, but still good.

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#1. I love smart puns the most.

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