Friday, January 28, 2011

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Video: Rapping Cartoon Squirrel Wants You To Call Manhattan Lawyer

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 11:36 AM PST

This video is amazing. It is also not a joke. We just called the offices of Robert Greenstein in Manhattan, which is the number we’re connected to when dialing 1-800-Victim-2.

The receptionist said she didn’t know the name of the mascot, or who does the rap, but if we wanted to leave a message for Mr. Greenstein, he’ll get back to us. So many questions!

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Video: Rapping Cartoon Squirrel Wants You To Call Manhattan Lawyer

The Best Frozen Faces From Last Night's 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills' Reunion

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 10:56 AM PST

How sad. This season of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is almost over. What will we do with ourselves on Thursday nights now? Where will we get our schadenfreude plastic surgery fix every week? Most importantly: what are we going to do with all these barbies?

Well, we’ve got one more week of new content from Bravo’s Beverly Hills franchise. Why? Because the network mercifully split up the reunion into two episdodes. And last night, we enjoyed watching the ladies reactions almost as much as what they said. Mostly because that bucket of Botox makes it really hard to discern what they’re thinking! Good times. Click through our gallery to see the best reaction shots from last night’s show.

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The Best Frozen Faces From Last Night's 'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills' Reunion

Dear Facebook Users: Step Away From Your Ex-Boyfriend's Profile Page

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 10:48 AM PST

Why is everyone trying to ruin Facebook’s most popular pastime? Apparently, friend stalking is making Facebook users depressed.  According to a new study out of Stamford, looking at other people’s happy moments and commentary on Facebook only makes people feel bad.

Dear sad Facebook users: You’re doing it wrong.

“Misery Has More Company Than People Think,” a paper in the January issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, has found that most Facebook users only post positive items on their pages. So when others surf their content, they have a “grass is always greener” moment and start feeling worse about their real life, that is full of ups and downs and crappy moments.

According to Slate:

Jordan and his fellow researchers asked 80 freshmen to report whether they or their peers had recently experienced various negative and positive emotional events. Time and again, the subjects underestimated how many negative experiences (“had a distressing fight,” “felt sad because they missed people”) their peers were having. They also overestimated how much fun (“going out with friends,” “attending parties”) these same peers were having.

Here’s the problem. Facebook stalking is an addictive pastime. Once you’re in someone’s pages, it is incredibly hard to stop clicking. That is why you need to choose your victims carefully. And monitor your settings so that images of happy exboyfriends do not pop up in your feed.

Social media schadenfreude only works when you’re staring at photos that will make you feel GOOD. So to reiterate:

  • Photos of hot girls from high school who are now fat: Good!
  • Images of your last boyfriend in the Caribbean with his new girlfriend: Bad!
  • Reading about people from high school who never did anything with their lives: Good!
  • Wandering onto the page of your nemesis to see what s/he is doing right now: Could go either way. Tread carefully!
  • Wall photos of your high school boyfriend who is now ugly and divorced: Good!

Ok. Now carry on!

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Dear Facebook Users: Step Away From Your Ex-Boyfriend's Profile Page

RIP Girl Scout Cookies

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 10:36 AM PST

Don’t worry, your Thin Mints and Tagalongs are safe. But in an attempt to cut costs in the fiscally-bloated Girl Scout industry, reps have announced that they will be scaling back their delicious cookies to just six varieties. On the chopping block are Lemonades, Thank U-Berry-Munch, All Abouts shortbread, sugar-free chocolate chip cookies, and Dulche De Leche.

“”The Dulce de Leche cookies were another attempt to attract the Spanish-speaking market, but I don’t think Spanish-speaking people bought any more than English-speaking folks,” said the Girl Scout CEO of Nassau County Donna Ceravolo.  Which is just…we don’t even know. What is this hypothetical they were imagining? That Spanish speakers would be confronted with a tiny little girl giving them a picture list of items, and they would be so confused that their transaction would be based solely on the one type of cookie that you know how to say? How would they know how many boxes to get? How would the money situation work out here, if your Spanish neighbor gave your daughter pesos?! These are all real problems, folks.
Also in an effort to make some more profit, the boxes will be shittier and the price will go up. In case some Girl Scouts are feeling dubious about this transition, there will be “so-called cookie colleges to explain to schoolgirls why the changes make business sense.” Maybe these colleges will also explain why kids are selling cookies for an annual rake-in of $714 million without ever seeing a penny of that money themselves? Sorry, “non-profit,” “children,” and  “shrewd marketing tactics” are just three phrases you should never see in the same article. Then again, we’re just happy they’re keeping the Samoas.

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RIP Girl Scout Cookies

The Daily WTF: T-Pain's Facebook Like Button Tattoo

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 10:22 AM PST

T-Pain, you old goofball! What were you thinking with this Facebook tattoo? Like, it’s weird to begin with, but once you realize he’s tattooed a thumb onto his arm, it takes on a level of meta-bizarreness that actually makes us uncomfortable. Here are some suggestions for the other arm:

1. You don’t have to like me… but you can poke me anytime you want.
2. You don’t have to like me… and you don’t have to share me.
3. You don’t have to like me… but please add me as a friend, Mark Zuckerberg.

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The Daily WTF: T-Pain's Facebook Like Button Tattoo

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 09:57 AM PST

Lea Michele To Sing At Super Bowl- Really, who does this appeal to? That slim overlap on the venn diagram between sports fans and people who know who Rachel Berry is? (Vulture)

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Hot Shot: Alex Pettyfer Strips For 'Ellen'

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 09:52 AM PST


Supercute actor/model Alex Peffyfer made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres show and gave the host a little more than she’d bargained for by showing off his lithe, 20-year-old figure. Seriously, Alex’s body is kind of perfect, right? Dude also had some pretty kind words to say about his girlfriend, Glee star Dianna Agron:

“She’s an amazing woman and she’s got this old school, classic movie star elegance to her. She’s amazing.”

(via)

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Hot Shot: Alex Pettyfer Strips For 'Ellen'

Charlie Sheen's Bender: The 6 Degrees Of Separation

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 09:48 AM PST

Charlie Sheen was “rushed to the hospital” Thursday morning, after a 36-hour bender with a bunch of porn stars, prostitutes, and cocaine. Luckily, the emergency turned out just to be a hernia from laughing too hard, and Charlie is expected to make a full recovery. Unfortunately for Charlie, TMZ is making it their mission to dig up every piece of damming information about that night (like the briefcase full of cocaine, which is something that exists in Hollywood). Even for Charlie Sheen, this was one hell of a blow-out. Here are the 6 most random actors involved in Charlie’s hospital drama.

  • George Santo Pietro
  • Dr. Paul Nassif and wife Adrienne Maloof-Nassif
  • Kaycee Jordan
  • Denise Richards
  • Melanie Rios
  • Steve Brodersen

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Charlie Sheen's Bender: The 6 Degrees Of Separation

Gallery: 'Gossip Girl' Set Pics, Funny Rubber Boots Edition

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 09:55 AM PST

The Gossip Girl Gang (super menacing, tattoos of ascots of under their eyes) was spotted on-location in Manhattan yesterday, where the did their best to work around 19 inches of snowfall. Did you ever want to see Ed Westwick or Blake Lively wearing a pair of goofy bright rubber boots? Well, here’s your chance!

  • Looks like Penn Badgely's back from Sundance.
  • And Blake's got her little dog.
  • Leighton emerges in the boots!
  • There's Ed wearing them too.
  • And Blake! Blue boots and a hint of thigh.
  • No silly rubber boots for Penn.

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Gallery: 'Gossip Girl' Set Pics, Funny Rubber Boots Edition

Video: Jenelle From 'Teen Mom 2' Lip Dubs Ke$ha

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 09:15 AM PST

Over here at Crushable, we’re pretty much anti-lip dub at this point. Except sometimes, it is so fun to see what people decide to tape themselves doing while lipsynching to popular music. Witness: Jenelle Evans from Teen Mom 2 has uploaded a lip dub of Ke$ha’s song “We Are Who We Are” to YouTube.

Why is this awesome? Well, in addition to not really knowing the words, Jenelle is quite impressed with her dance moves. Are we are too! It’s been a long time since we’ve seen someone use a television remote for a microphone on camera. Also, the Molly Ringwald dance from Breakfast Club!

And let’s be honest. I’m totally incorporating Jenelle’s bed twist move (at around the 1:10 mark) into my dance repertoire. Enjoy!

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Video: Jenelle From 'Teen Mom 2' Lip Dubs Ke$ha

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