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A family may be responsible for a pricey statue their child knocked it over at the Tomahawk Ridge Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas.

According to Sarah Goodman, the child’s mother, the incident occurred last month at a wedding reception, local outlet KSHB reports. 

A security cam captured the whole thing, and shows the kid hug the statue before walking away. The child later returns to the statue, and appears to hang onto it. The statue falls over, and the young boy goes along with it. 

The statue was not barricaded in any way. Read more…

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Last week, IHOP attempted to pull off some viral marketing when it announced it was changing its name to IHOb, and the “b” stood for burgers. Now, we see if those burgers hold up to the hype. 

The internet felt duped when the “b” was announced — though they should have seen this coming a mile awayMemes were made and other fast food enterprises trolled the crap out of the breakfast chain. 

YouTuber The Report of The Week, aka Reviewbrah, whose specialty is reviewing bad fast food in a suit and tie, tackled one of IHOP’s new burgers this week, and the review is the perfect amount of sarcasm and snark. Read more…

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Actress Leslie Jones is basically a pro at dealing with internet trolls. 

Back in 2016, Jones was viciously attacked on the internet in connection with the release of the Ghostbusters rebootHer website was hacked, alleged nude photos of her were leaked, and outspoken alt-righters like Milo Yiannopoulos started a hate brigade directed at the comedian. 

Two years later, she’s had some time to reflect, and has offered up some advice to Star Wars: The Last Jedi star Kelly Marie Tran in a recent interview in The Hollywood Reporter. Read more…

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This Father’s Day, call your dad. 

Your dad doesn’t care how many likes you collect on Instagram or Facebook. Just pick up the phone and call the guy. 

Listen, I get it — you want to show all your friends what a total stud your dad was in his 20s or share a cute childhood, family photo where you look completely adorable and your sister is in peak awkward stage. 

But before you post a photo on social media, let him hear your voice.

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As Indian cinema’s worldwide audience grows, most people are acquainted exclusively with Bollywood – Hindi-language romantic dramas full of dazzling song-and-dance numbers that may or may not be related to plot. 

But Indian cinema has always been more than that, just as Italian film extends beyond neorealism or and the French New Wave is just one piece of a rich history. Cinephiles may know Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy, which offers a glimpse of the type of gritty auteurship that doesn’t pay the Bollywood bills, but speaks to some truly fine artistry. Indian short films remain a source of this ingenuity and excellence, and Netflix’s Lust Stories is a fresh new installment.  Read more…

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You may not know it by its exact name, but if I showed you a photo of the iMac G3, chances are you’d recognize it. Read more…

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The reviews are in for the mobster movie Gotti which profiles the life of notorious crime boss John Gotti. Following the laundry list of excellent mob movies this should be an easy win, but Gotti‘s reviews are apparently the only entertaining thing about it.

The movie currently has a 0 percent Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes. That’s right, zero.

Tomatometer ratings are based on “the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show,” provided there are at least five reviews. Personally, I didn’t even know a 0 was possible. 

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting a taste of what happens when you piss off The Onion. 

The satirical news site has been relentlessly trolling Zuckerberg and Facebook for the past few days and promises it’s only getting started.

While the satirical site is known for lampooning just about anyone and everyone in the public eye, the publication has been relentlessly trolling Facebook, more so than usual. Four anti-Facebook posts were pinned to the top of its homepage for much of the day Friday, three of which mention Zuckerberg by name or feature his photo. Read more…

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Disruption comes in many forms. For Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, it may end up taking the form of a jail cell. 

The 34-year old Stanford dropout has been charged by federal prosecutors with 11 counts alleging she defrauded her investors and patients. 

It was just a few months ago that Holmes, who once promised to revolutionize blood testing, was also charged with fraud by the SEC. In that case she agreed to pay a $500,000 penalty. 

Holmes’s supposed shady dealings were first highlighted in 2015 by Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou, who poked holes in Theranos’ claims with a devastating series of stories concerning the company’s Edison blood-testing device.  Read more…

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Let’s be honest, there are few feelings that can match the rush of watching live as your favorite soccer team wins in PKs during the World Cup, snags a game winning run in the bottom of the ninth, or gets a sudden KO in the middle of the octagon. Even seeing these major moments an hour later — or worse, catching wind of them on Twitter — is enough to cause despair. 

But how do you watch live sports if you don’t have cable — or even a TV? The good news is that you don’t have to rely on cable anymore in order to follow your favorite sports teams live, and these services prove that. Read more…

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