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20 years ago, Friends was dominating NBC’s airwaves with the story of six pseudo-adults in New York City trying to find their way through life and love.

Though it continues to endure with a loyal fanbase, the world of Friends is undeniably analog; Its adorably archaic technology could and does fill lists. In an interview for Thrive Global Podcast With iHeartRadio, Jennifer Aniston told Ariana Huffington that if Friends happened today, everyone at Central Perk would just be staring at their phones.

“Now you have a computer, a television, and a phone. There’s no room,” Aniston said. “We were jokingly saying that if Friends was created today, you would have a coffee shop full of people that were just staring into iPhones. There would be no actual episodes or conversations.” Read more…

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We should have known that this would happen. Riding on the fidget spinner craze, it was only a matter of time before someone combined the toy everyone is obsessed with and the phone everyone is obsessed with, the iPhone 7.

That’s right, YouTuber EverythingApplePro drilled a hole in an iPhone 7 (and a couple of other iPhones, ughhh) and then inserted a ball bearing to create the most expensive fidget spinner yet. It’s ridiculous and a complete waste of iPhones, but hey, sometimes you just need to fidget with something.

While we don’t recommend destroying transforming your own iPhone(s) into a fidget spinner, if you must, please be smart and take out the battery before doing so. Drilling through a lithium-ion battery is dangerous and will cause it to explode. Read more…

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In yet another outlandish transcript of a Donald Trump interview, the president made yet another outlandish claim. 

Trump spoke to The Economist in an interview released Thursday, and the transcript of the Q&A covered the new president’s economic strategy, his known stance on immigration, and an extremely weird aside wherein he takes credit for a centuries-old phrase.

When discussing his tax plan, Trump uses the phrase, ‘prime the pump’ then proceeds to ask the interviewer whether they had heard the phrase before. Even though the interview says yes they had heard this known phrase, Trump continues to take credit for coining it.  Read more…

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Instagram post Thursday morning included the hashtags: #obamacare, #censored, #twitter, #freespeech, and #thought. 

Why all the hashtags? Well, Trump Jr. seems to believe Twitter is censoring him on the platform. To summarize, this is the tweet we’re talking about: 

Here’s what he’s quote tweeting — a Bloomberg story on Obamacare tweeted by the news aggregation site Drudge Report: 

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The latest craze in tooth fashion (because that’s a thing) is here! Meet the tooth gem — a jewel accessory that’s glued to the tooth with an adhesive.

The gems are taking the internet by storm because, you guessed it, a bunch of celebrity supporters are posting about it on Instagram. Everyone from Hailey Baldwin to pop singer Hasley have been sharing photos rocking the enamel bling.

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To celebrate the recent release of Ivanka Trump’s Women Who Work, Samantha Bee and the Full Frontal team started a book club (“Ladies Who Book”) as part of the show’s ongoing sardonic series “The Great Feminists in Feminism Herstory Hall of Lady Fame.”

The book is “a strawberry milkshake of inspirational quotes” — a semi-plagiarized amalgam with some 208 sources (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is quoted 30 times) and not without problematic reminders of Ivanka’s privilege.

Bee isn’t the first late-night host to zero in on Ivanka, who was the subject of a lengthy Last Week Tonight segment in which John Oliver dissected how progressive she and Jared Kushner really are (they’re not). Bee even includes a clip from The View in which Whoopi Goldberg describes a “particularly regrettable passage” where Ivanka uses a Toni Morrison quote and asks if her reader is a “slave to time.” Read more…

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Someone actually made the Back to the Future jacket and it’s probably the only jacket you’ll ever need. 

It has a heating and cooling feature and it can even dry itself.  Read more…

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Coordination is tough, especially when you’re a bulldog.

Gerald the bulldog is a very good boy celebrating his birthday, as you can see from the party hat he’s wearing. Now that he’s received all of these gifts, he just wants to enjoy them on his very comfortable armchair. All of us can relate.

Unfortunately, climbing into an armchair with a bag of treats in your mouth when your legs are only a few inches long can get pretty tricky.

Someone please help Gerald. It’s his birthday, after all. Read more…

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Smooth crooner Bruno Mars used his trademark swagger to make “That’s What I Like” a chart-topping single. But what if you took out the swagger, the hip hop, the backing track, and even Bruno Mars? Would it still be just as good?

We now know the answer to that question, thanks to Jimmy Fallon’s barbershop quartet, the Ragtime Gals. They decided to perform a ragtime rendition of the song on Wednesday night’s show, but that’s not all. They also invited Tina Fey to join them as the lead vocalist.

And sure enough, the song still sounds just as good.  Read more…

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Remember that weird face mask that claimed it can muffle your voice and keep your conversations private while you’re in public?

Well, Hushme has now launched a Kickstarter campaign after a substantial redesign. Read more…

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