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A woman smelling of alcohol hurled insults, almost fell into the arms of an officer and later "name dropped" in an effort to avoid a DUI citation, but failed and is facing charges, officials said.
Shortly before 3:30 a.m. Friday, a Riverside officer spotted a driver in the southbound lanes of the...
IKEA MonkeyToday in bear news
Joanne Barnaby was collecting wild mushrooms with a friend in the North West Territories of Canada on June 10, when they separated on their morel-picking paths. On her way back to the truck, she heard a growl and turned to see a lone wolf growling and baring its teeth.
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The beverage's alarming hue is all natural.
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Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced on Friday that Oakland Police Chief Paul Figueroa, who had been at the job for all of two days, has decided to step down. Figueroa is the third Oakland police chief to resign in the last eight days.
IKEA MonkeySounds pretty good... knock a dollar off the price and I'm in
IKEA MonkeyI am only sharing bc I want to do something like this at home w/ broccoli. But less fried. Maybe a light almond flour/breadcrumb coating and baked?
IKEA MonkeyI don't hate it. I love English muffins. I'd just eat it with butter. A nice big English muffin full o butter.
IKEA MonkeyI've had that sandwich before
Early this morning, one truck carrying bread collided with another truck carrying deli meat on a New Jersey highway. Jersey residents are finally getting the lunch they deserve.
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Bill O’Reilly and Gretchen Carlson made Fox News history this week by experiencing a brief tandem bout of decency. Both hosts came very close to saying that the federal assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004, should be renewed. And Fox News fans are taking it so well!
IKEA MonkeyJOHN CENA FOR PRESIDENT
It’s hard to tell what’s more impressive in the above video — the fact that John Cena‘s tailored suit isn’t ripping apart at the seams due to his incredible vascularity and definition, or the fact that he’s straight owning the use of Mandarin. Seriously, for two straight minutes, Cena sounds like he was born in China. To be honest, I have no clue what good Mandarin sounds like but it seems like John’s got a great handle on it.
It hasn’t been a secret that Cena has been working on his Mandarin, but damn those lessons paid off! Somewhere, Vince McMahon is sitting back and looking at the monstrous cash cow he helped create with gleaming eyes. The footage WWE posted on their YouTube on Thursday is from WWE’s “historic” press conference in China, an event that was presented to announce the partnership between WWE and PPTV, a Chinese streaming entity.
Elsewhere in WWE/China relations, Triple H was on hand to announce the first Chinese national athlete to sign with WWE, Bin Wang.
Wang will report to the WWE Performance Center to start his training. He’s 6-foot-3, 230 pounds, and he looks pretty good in a suit. As for his athletic prowess, we’ll just have to wait and see how he handles the WWE canvas. Hunter said that WWE scouted all the major regions in China, looking for a superstar worthy of the coveted Performance Center contract.
Wang … you have been chosen.
IKEA MonkeyI lol'd way too hard
IKEA MonkeyThere isn't a universe in a million parallel universes in which I could do this now
A handstand push-up is exactly what it sounds like, and as with the push-up and pull-up , you’ll need to learn it, bit-by-bit. In her video, Nia Shanks, coach and owner of Lift Like a Girl, shows you the exercises to help you work up to one.
IKEA MonkeyFast food photoshopped advertising product is supposed to look appetizing... not like THAT, Wienerschnitzel
IKEA MonkeyJez hates on Blake Lively as much as they hate on Meghan Trainor. I think they are just jealous.
Blake Lively, skilled chooser of words
, offered Marie Claire a touching description of her 15-month-old daughter, James, for the magazine’s July cover story:
IKEA MonkeyHe loves making it all about him
IKEA Monkey*slams fist on counter* I'LL TAKE THEM ALL
You know what would make that bread better, that corn on the cob more delectable, that muffing more muffin-y? Butter. Yet apparently so many people have difficulty spreading butter evenly that multiple companies have come up with supposed solutions to this age-old problem.
Are these gadgets any better than heating a traditional knife under hot water and going at it? Is spreading butter so difficult that the average consumer must arm themselves with a drawer full of dedicated devices? We don’t know — all we know is that they exist — and here are a bunch of them.
EasiChef, the company behind the EasiSpread, calls the soon-to-be-on-Kickstarter tool “the world’s first instant heated butter knife,” adding that it’s different from heated knives because of its detachable handle (that way you can attach another product in the works, a heated ice cream scoop). The company also claims that it heats it up to 95 degrees F (35 degrees C) within five seconds (around the same temperature as running hot water from the sink). It’s also rechargeable, dishwasher safe, and a complete and utter delight to handle, if the below ad is to be believed. Price: TBD
(h/t The Verge)
Speaking of other heated knives, have you met SpreadThat? It’s a “serrated warming butter knife” that uses the wielder’s body heat (not just by sticking in your armpit for a minute or two) to “carve and spread cold butter.” The company claims that SpreadThat! is “easy on the wrist,” lest ye be spreading large amounts of butter, and is designed for left- and right-hand users alike. Price: $19.95
If you’re of a certain age, you probably can’t hear the SpreadThat! name without instantly thinking of this hip-hop classic from 1989:
With the ButterUp, we venture into the crowded field of knives that claim to scrape or spread butter in multiple ways, regardless of the temperature. This one has both a serrated edge and another set of holes that allegedly “turns cold, hard butter into sumptuous easy to spread ribbons of dairy goodness.” Price: $12
“One-Piece Ergonomic design with 3 functions, grater, slicer, and curler” — wait, where have we read that before, word for word? Ah yes, Butter Knife Magic, just a moment ago. But EasyKnife is $4 less and besides, the company selling it says it’s a totally different thing. “These are two very different products, from the material, to its shape and size and especially the Handle Design,” seller B A Y writes on Amazon. Price: $17.95
The idea with the butter mill is to stick cold butter inside and “with a few simple twists, cold butter is grated into soft butter,” Cooks Innovations says. You can scrape off what you need with a knife, and leave the rest inside for the next time. Price: $19.99 (or $29.95 for the stainless steel version).
Do you need a 10-foot ribbon of butter? The makers of this butter dispenser claim you can get one by inserting a stick of cold butter into a rectangular box and twisting a crank that shoves it through some holes. Price: $14.99, or $99.99 for the stainless steel version from the same company. What makes that one so pricey? We imagine it must be because it’s a “Beautiful, Handcrafted, Machined, and Engineered Work of Art,” as the product decsription reads.
There’s no twisting or cranking involved with the Fox Run butter spreader, “just fill with butter, press on plunger and rub over fresh, cooked corn cob.” This model also offers the convenience of doubling as a butter storage container with a built-in cover. Price: $6.04
This all makes us wonder — is any of this really necessary? Vote in our poll below:
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A skateboarding man and his dog cruised around the park during Monday’s San Francisco Giants game—or was it a skateboarding dog and his man?
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Labor MP Jo Cox was murdered in broad daylight Thursday by a man who reportedly yelled “Britain first,” as he fatally shot and stabbed her.
IKEA Monkeythe LCC Comfort Dogs are incredible. I got to pet two of them in the airport at Christmas. It was wonderful.
IKEA MonkeySuch a beautiful cover. He's playing Millennium Park on Monday, August 1 in the evening. Free show. I'll be there if you wanna go.
Marcus Wong, the reader who recommended Tanya Chua’s soulful-jazz version of “Drops of Jupiter,” flags one of my favorite songs:
It really surprised me when I found out that Jose Gonzalez’s song “Heartbeats” is actually a cover. I went to listen to the original version [by the Swedish group The Knife] and almost immediately decided his version was better (no disrespect to the original artists). Jose’s version is velvety smooth and it really brings out the emotions in the words.
I tend to think the original is better, but as far as visuals go, the Sony Bravia ad that uses Gonzalez’s cover (embedded above) edges out The Knife’s music video, which features crudely animated crows and kids riding vintage skateboards. But both are hypnotic in their own way.
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IKEA MonkeyNo thanks
Every year, hundreds of thousands of giant spider crabs descend on Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay to shed their shells.
IKEA MonkeyAnother horrifying story outlining the need for abortion access without roadblacks from politicians and non-medical professionals
Sonia Loureiro never expected to need an abortion. A married, 34-year-old mother of four, Loureiro had relied for years on a copper intrauterine device, or IUD, a hormone-free method of birth control that allowed her to avoid some of the side effects of the pill. Busy working and caring for her kids—Loureiro works from her home in Raleigh, North Carolina, as a human resources coordinator—she wasn’t paying much attention in late 2015 when her state passed some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, and she had never thought much about where she stood in the abortion debate.
IKEA MonkeyI try this and my left hand looks great, then I reverse hands and try to paint with my left hand and I look like I dipped my hand in a vat of paint
Painting your nails is by no means a clean task, but perfecting your nail polish technique cuts down on time you spend cleaning-up. Here are some tips to get the look you want the first time with no fuss.
IKEA MonkeyHonestly though... if I WAS paying $200K in *HOA FEES* ... shit, even if I was paying $200, I'd be fucking pissed at audible construction happening at 6 am that has been going on for FOUR YEARS. At what point to rich people just go, "yeah I'm good. Thats enough."
Four years of renovations by Oaktree Capital billionaire Howard Marks at his 720 Park Avenue address has finally driven his neighbors to sue. The man has 30 rooms, six terraces, two dozen closets, two chefs kitchens, two libraries, and two offices in his 22,000-square-foot duplex, so it will take definitely take outside intervention to end the construction.
IKEA MonkeyI mean, he didn't break any laws, but come on dude
IKEA MonkeyMADtv was an underrated petri dish for breakout comedic performers. I wonder how the next iteration will play out.
Fox’s original MADtv run never had the critical acclaim or mainstream popularity of Saturday Night Live, but the show ran for 14 seasons and managed to pull together a surprising number of a performers who have gone on to do some pretty big stuff in the years since. The show had Mindy Project breakout star Ike Barinholtz, former Fox NFL impressions guy Frank Caliendo, Review creator and podcast superstar Andy Daly, future SNL cast member Taran Killam, The Big Bang Theory’s Simon Helberg, every cartoon show ever’s Phil Lamarr, The Three Stooges’ Will Sasso, six-time Scrubs guest star Michael McDonald, Family Guy’s Alex Borstein, and Key And Peele creators Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.
Now, with The CW set to revive MADtv later this summer, TV Line has the list of new cast members who will be tasked with escaping from under the shadow of those ...