AskReddit might be the best part of Reddit, if only because people feel that it's appropriate to ask wildly dumb questions and expect totally legitimate answers in return (Example: Why is it so taboo to make fun of fat people for being fat? Why is it called discrimination?). In those cases, you learn nothing. In the better cases, you learn that some men prefer getting a hug from behind than receiving a blow job.
Zooey Deschanel Goes Even Retro-er in the New She & Him Video
She & Him's new video for their plaintive song "I Could’ve Been Your Girl" is so Beyonce's "Countdown" meets Alicia Keys' "You Don't Know My Name". From the old-school dancing, to sad waitress who just wants to be loved by her patron, Zooey expresses herself through the art of the past (and dance).
Fashion Scavenger Hunt: Find Angelina Jolie's Hackers Jacket
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Hilarious: What the New 'Bachelorette' Thinks of All Her Suitors
People magazine has done us all a great service and forced the new Bachelorette Desiree to choose one word to describe each of her would-be suitors on the upcoming season of the ABC behemoth. Some highlights: the only black contestant is described as "interesting" and the dude named Larry has been labeled "Seinfeld"…
Lars von Trier's Nympho Movie Just Knocked Itself Down a Notch
If you're watching a Lars von Trier film, you know you're in for some genitalia. The eccentric Danish director (he's afraid of flying and insists on driving from Denmark to France for the Cannes Film Festival, from which he is now banned for his 2011 Nazi gaffe) isn't just comfortable with displaying penises and…
Good News: 1980s 'Crack Babies' Epidemic Was Hugely Overblown
The narrative of the "crack epidemic" came to be a subject of frenzied media discourse in the 1980s. The pregnant crack-addicted body, in particular, became a location of acute panic — the media fixated on the idea of the "crack baby," the innocent soul born addicted to cocaine who, according to claims, was three times…
Rich Parents Now Outsourcing Absolutely All Parental Duties to Nannies
Administrators at some tony New York private schools are currently having a massive collective snit over the fact that rich parents don't show up for even the most basic school functions. Instead, they send hired nannies along to entrance interviews, bake sales, "safety patrols," class plays, and any other volunteer…
Wack Courtrooms Look to Urban Dictionary for Help With Slang
Hey, hey, hep cat jurors! In today's modern and crazy courtroom, some words may come up that you don't quite understand. While in your everyday life, you could just let these words go, in court you gotta get wise to 'em because they may make the difference in a guilty/not guilty verdict. Ya dig, turkeys?
