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BIA is making a whole lot of noise. Last month, she announced that she would travel from city to city to share her latest EP, Really Her. The “Whole Lotta Money” rapper is no stranger to putting on shows around the country, having had several notable appearances at significant music festivals, including Rolling Loud New York and in Los Angeles, to name but two. However, her The Really Her Tour is deeply personal for her, especially considering she’s joined by her friends Lakeyah and Lebra Jolie as openers.

The Really Her Tour kicked off on Monday, October 9, at The Belasco in Los Angeles, California, and they have several stops remaining, including Houston, Texas, Tuscon, Arizona, and San Francisco, California. View Bia’s The Really Her Tour setlist according to Setlist.fm and the remaining tour dates below.

1. “Classy”
2. “Big Business”
3. “I’m That Bitch”
4. “London”
5. “Don’t Tell”
6. “Raise The Stakes”
7. “Sturdy”
8. “Fallback”
9. “N/A”
10. “Best On Earth” (Russ Cover)
11. “Bia Bia”
12. “Cover Girl”
13. “Can’t Touch This”
14. “Plate”
15. “Super Freaky Girl Remix”
16. “I’m Geekin”
17. “Geekaleek”
18. “Same Hands”
19. “Motionless”
20. “Four Seasons”
21. “Whole Lotta Money”
22. “Besito”
23. “Chicky Ta”
24. “Millions”

10/24 – Houston, TX @ Rise
10/25 — Dallas, TX @ The Echo
10/27 – Tucson, AZ @ Encore
10/29 — San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
10/30 – Santa Ana, CA @ Observatory

One of the biggest topics of discussion among football fans in 2023 revolves around the QB sneak that has been perfected by the Philadelphia Eagles, which sees Jalen Hurts get under center and almost automatically pick up at least one yard. While this is a bit of an oversimplification, critics say that it’s a dangerous play that is remarkably difficult to stop as a result, while those in favor of the play say that if everyone could run it and succeed, they would.

The Minnesota Vikings attempted to run this very play with Kirk Cousins on Monday night while down on the doorstep against the San Francisco 49ers. As it turns out, San Francisco has a pretty good plan for stopping the play: Just have Fred Warner jump over everyone after he perfectly times the snap and smother Cousins altogether.

Now, obviously, this is extremely difficult, and if every team could have Warner at linebacker to stop this very play from working, we’re sure that they would love to do that. We’ll have to see if Warner gets a few more reps to do this over the coming weeks ahead of Dec. 3, when the Niners travel to Philadelphia to take on the Eagles and will almost certainly have to stop their QB sneak from working at least once.

Stranger Things started filming in 2015. That’s eight years ago. That might not seem like too long a time, but it is if your show is centered on teens. Stranger Things sure is, and it’s been noticeable for a while that its main cast is getting a little long in the tooth, at least to be playing high schoolers. Throw in a pandemic and two semi-congruent strikes and time is not working for them. But for their fifth and final season, they’ve got a plan to stop time dead in its tracks.

In a new interview with Variety (in a bit caught by Entertainment Weekly), series executive producer and sometime director Shaun Levy opened about the difficulties of keeping its cast looking high school age.

“We’ve already watched the cast of our show grow up in the public eye, and between 12 and 22, every human being changes profoundly,” Levy grumbled. While he confessed “this passage of time is definitely not helping,” he remained optimistic, After all, the show’s “hair and makeup and wardrobe department are pretty exceptional,” and that they could use “costumes and wigs and makeup” to keep the cast looking high school age.

“So we’re going to use all the tools available to us,” Levy added.

Mind you, the SAG-AFTRA strike is still going, meaning every day the Stranger Things kids are becoming less and less kid-like. Most are in their early 20s, though Millie Bobby Brown is still 19.

Speaking of, Brown has spent the last year telling the press that she’s “very ready” to be done with a show she’s been doing since before she was even a teen, and that her commitments to the Netflix behemoth is holding her back from other projects. So you hear that, AMPTP? Find a new contract and let these young actors get back to work before they start looking like the 20- and 30-somethings still playing high schoolers in Grease.

(Via Variety and EW)

There is an age-old debate over whether someone should get plastic surgery to overcome their insecurities or learn how to accept them by talking to a therapist.

Plastic Surgeon Dr. Chales T. Slack says that plastic surgery can’t solve all someone’s problems. “Perkier breasts won’t save your marriage,” Parker wrote on his blog. “A new nose won’t guarantee a promotion. And while cosmetic surgery can give you a boost of confidence and add to your self-esteem, it cannot fix big underlying psychological issues.”

Studies show that for some plastic surgery can be a big boost to their self-esteem, while for others, such as those with body dysmorphic disorder, it can lead them to feel even worse about themselves.

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Over recent years, public opinion surrounding plastic surgery has changed. Previously, many thought cosmetic treatments were vain, superficial, or only for people with low self-esteem. But these days, more see it as self-care in a world where people feel judged for their appearance.

Since the pandemic, there has been a huge surge in people getting plastic surgery. Especially among those younger than 45. At least 30% of plastic surgeons say their business has at least doubled since 2020.

Shannon McNamara, the host of the Fluently Forward podcast, recently reshared a video of her getting a nose job to inspire others who are feeling insecure about their body to get work done.

@fluentlyforward

Throwback post #nosejob #rhinoplasty #beforeandafter

“I’m short, I’m petite, and I just feel like my nose stuck out so much,” she said in the video. “I feel like anyone else who doesn’t like their nose, you will know the feeling. I don’t even have to describe it; it was all I thought about.”

McNamara believes the pain of being uncomfortable with her nose went way beyond the satisfaction she could ever feel by having a “natural” body.

“I thought about my nose every day,” she said. She then shared a memory of when she was in the 7th garage and went out of her way to sit in an odd position in class to ensure her crush couldn’t see her profile.

She also spoke out against those who said she shouldn’t get plastic surgery because she was “so beautiful that she didn’t need” it. McNamara believes cosmetic surgery can be necessary when extreme feelings of insecurity cause stress hormones to overtake your body. “It’s just sending cortisol through their system,” she argues.

“Get it done,” she urged. “Get work done.”

Five years after the surgery, McNamara is satisfied with her new look. “I don’t give a rat’s A about my nose,” McNamara said. “I just don’t think about it, and that was what I wanted. And I think everyone who says that they got their nose done, the only thing they regret is not doing it sooner.”

McNamara’s video is a strong case for those who want to remove the stigma surrounding plastic surgery. However, the research shows that the answer should differ for everyone, depending on the root causes of their insecurities. “The whole idea of aesthetic surgery being superficial, it’s just not,” Dr. Adam Kulker tells InStyle. “People tend to be very judgmental, but it’s so much more important to focus on the individual and their self-perception.”

The Minnesota Vikings started off Monday night’s game against the San Francisco 49ers in a pretty unfortunate way. On the team’s third play of the night, Kirk Cousins dropped back and tried to fire a strike to rookie wide receiver Jordan Addison. While there are plenty of folks who are awfully high about Addison’s future, he had a moment he’ll want back, as San Francisco 49ers defensive back Charvarius Ward just outmuscled him for the ball and picked Cousins off.

Fast forward to the Vikings’ final drive of the game and the team found themselves up, 10-7. Cousins dropped back and tried to find Addison, but did not look like he had nearly enough on it, which would have let Ward get a second takeaway of the night. But instead, Addison was able to get his QB back, as he ripped the ball away from Ward and ran 60 yards for a score.

A different angle shows that the ball was straight up in Ward’s arm, but Addison ripped it right away from him and then left him in the dust.

With Justin Jefferson sidelined due to injury, Minnesota really needed Addison to step up to help give them a potent passing game. Seeing as how he has four receptions for 95 yards and a pair of touchdowns at halftime against perhaps the best team in the NFC, he’s managed to do just that.

There’s nothing traditional about Sexyy Red. The “No Painties” rapper’s breakout single, “Pound Town,” dominatrix-inspired stage entrance at Rolling Loud Miami, and her desire to forgo signing with a major record label after finding success proved that she has no interest in being a cookie-cutter act. But after she confessed that she found it “sweet” when her first boyfriend robbed someone for her, the public decided Sexyy’s outlook on romantic gestures was backwards.

That said, it makes sense that her stage name doesn’t follow the Merriam-Webster listing. During a recent stop of her Hood Hottest Princess Tour, she revealed why she spells her stage name with two Ys. When someone misspelled her name, she took a moment between songs to set the record straight.

“Y’all dead wrong for that one. Y’all, it’s spelled with two Ys because I’m extra sexy. If y’all put one Y, I don’t know who that b*tch is,” said Sexyy in a video captured by concertgoers.

This isn’t the only time Sexyy Red has taken questionable creative liberties with the English language. In a sit-down with Interview, she revealed the titles and flavors of her cosmetic brand. “I got a lip gloss line dropping soon. Y’all better shop with your girl,” she said. “I got all different flavors: Coochie Juice, Bootyhole Brown, Coochie Pink, Sex on My Period, Gonorrhea, Yellow Discharge, and Nut.”

Look, going to the club after 30 is not for the meek…or those of us with bad knees from Snoop telling us to drop it like it’s hot too many times in the early 2000s.

So walking through the doors to let your hair down after a long week only to be reminded of how old you are can be discouraging. But one Millennial club goer’s recent experience has people scratching their heads.

Gus Rosas, a Millennial on the younger side at just 32, told his TikTok followers how he found himself in a strange predicament while at a dance club. He explains that he was dancing with a girl in her early 20s at a club in Los Angeles when the girl kept telling him to put his hands down.

“I was dancing at the club last night with this girl and she was like, ‘you know what’s giving away your age?’ She was like, ‘you keep putting your hands up.'”

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This revelation has commenters extremely confused. What on Earth is Gen Z doing with their hands while they dance? Are they just doing TikTok dance trends on repeat? If there’s no trending dance to the song playing do they do the Snoopy and “Charlie Brown” leg shuffle thing with their arms glued to the sides? We elder Millennials have questions.

“But how will anyone know if I’m a true player if I don’t throw my hands in the air,” one commenter writes.

“Sir, I cannot shake it like a polaroid picture with my hands glued to my sides,” someone says.

“How do you point to the window then to the wall,” a person asks.

“Even Miley Cyrus puts her hands up when they’re playing her song,” another person writes.

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You see where this is going. Millennials have been instructed for decades to put our hands in the air while dancing and now it simply shows we are the old people in the club. But honestly, I’m invested in finding out what a club full of Gen Zers looks like because if it’s a “Charlie Brown” dance party, I think we Millennials will continue to heed the instructions in the songs.

Education has certainly changed over the years, and is continuously evolving. That goes for teaching methods—utilizing more technology, providing more resources to students with special needs, and incorporating more personalized approaches—as well as what information is actually being taught in classrooms.

Surely, if you think back to your childhood, you’ll remember certain “facts” being drilled by your teacher that nowadays seem like straight up nonsense. And if not, you can copy off of the Reddit community’s homework.

Redditor u/authorized_join31 recently asked “What’s a fact that was taught in school that’s been disproven in your lifetime?” and people did not disappoint with their answers.

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Of course, while many of these are harmless fun, it’s easy to see how very problematic others are. Particularly when it comes to health and history—diet fads, medical myths, falsely idolizing historical figures to perpetuate a skewed narrative…you get the picture.

If anything, these anecdotes just go to show that we should never stop trying to learn, even after school if over.

And with that, class is now in session.

1.”That strangers will give me free drugs on street corners and on Halloween candy.”

—u/Slight-Mess-6615

2. “All fat was bad for you. Thus, fat-free foods became a thing for a while.”

—u/SpewPewPew

3. “I learned about tongue taste maps at school. Turns out it’s complete nonsense.”

—u/TimmyMTX

4. “In pharmacy school around the turn of the century, we were taught that people in legitimate pain don’t get addicted to opiates and opioids.”

—u/PayEmmy

5. “Your permanent record will follow you into adulthood.”

—u/Darth-Byzantious

6. “The whole ‘A meteorite killed the dinosaurs’ thing wasn’t yet the accepted theory when I was a kid.”

—u/senefen

7. “No one is going to wait for you to look up information in the real world, you have to know it.”

—u/cheezturds

8. “That George Washington’s teeth were made of wood.”

—u/alloverbeautiful

A brilliant example of an inaccurate piece of history that was completely injected onto our consciousness during school, that perhaps covered up a more difficult truth to swallow. In truth, Washington’s dentures were made of materials from lead-tin, copper and silver alloy, as well as cow, horse and human teeth. The latter of which were bought from slaves, or at least a portion of them. That might have been more pertinent to know.

But what’s even more baffling is why this false fact was so important to teach in the first place. And is we must talk about a dead president’s teeth, why not tell the more exciting (and true) story of how Washington’s dental trouble helped mislead the British Army in 1781? But I digress.

9. “The Food Pyramid.”

—u/CharlesNotManson69

10. “Once you get to high school, nobody will accept papers not written in cursive.”

—u/FridgesArePeopleToo

11. “You won’t always have a calculator on you.”

—u/Deuteronomy93

12. “I once asked one of my elementary school teachers what a rainbow was, and she told me scientists hadn’t figured it out. I walked around until my early 20s thinking that. Also, I think it was this same teacher who told me Columbus thought the Earth was flat. They were training teachers a different kind of way in the ’70s and ’80s. It’s honestly one of the reasons I’m thankful for the internet, because depending on your teacher or an outdated encyclopedia for answers could be a real roll of the dice.”

—u/UhOhFeministOnReddit

13. “So many professions that we were taught were ‘lesser-than’ or just looked down upon. Being a plumber was always a joke… wish I woulda took the 70k, Union job with excellent benefits and a pension joke at 20 years old lol.”

—u/Ok_Reporter1407

14. “You only use 10% of your brain each day.”

—u/E8inches2Short

15. “My primary school teacher told me our bodies can’t make new blood and we’re born with all the blood we’ll ever have. As someone who got nosebleeds, I knew it was bollocks. When I questioned that adults are obviously bigger so have more blood, she said it’s watered down.”

—u/Appropriate-Divide64

16. “Carrots are good for night vision.This was a lie the British used to explain how they could spot German bombers during WWII. The truth, that they had broken the German Enigma machine and were decoding secret messages, was kept a secret for decades. The full story was not told until the 1990s.”

—u/dylans-alias

17. “That we would all but run out of oil by the year 2000.”

—u/fatbongo

18. “That lemmings commit suicide.”

—u/study-sug-gests

19. “That Canada didn’t ever have slaves. What’s worse is, to my knowledge, they still don’t teach this. I had to look it up myself.”

—u/Blue_Moon_Rabbit

And last but not least….

20. “If you study well and have excellent grades, you will end up with a nice job and lots of money.”

—u/MyKinkyCountess

Some people are natural-born comedians. When and how a sense of humor develops is a fun psychological puzzle, but it’s clear to anyone who’s been around lots of children that some kids tap into their funny bone very early.

Some kids are also natural-born actors, and when you combine those early drama chops with an innate comedic impulse, you end up with a hilarious little baby prankster.

Case in point: This video of a baby seeming to have her forearm stuck in the top of a water jug. It starts with the little darling in distress, crying and fussing for help, with her arm appearing to be lodged into the narrow bottle opening.

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Then, when a grown-up comes to help dislodge her, the tears turn to giggles as she pulls her arm out herself, showing she was never actually stuck in the first place. Watch:

Such a little sneaker! And an Oscar-worthy performance to boot.

From a parental point of view, this is both highly entertaining and slightly terrifying. How are you ever supposed to know when this kid is acting or actually in distress?

People commented on a version of the video on Facebook with their own experiences of baby jokesters:

“Signs of high emotional intelligence.. This is great!”

“I work in childcare and it’s so funny how even really young babies can have a sense of humour!”

“My son does this. He cries cause his foot is stuck in the couch. I pull him out and he sticks it right back in and cries.”

“Babies are so dang funny. My baby was about 8 months he knew that if he ate all his food he would get a treat so he use to hide all his food in his diaper and when I changed him there goes his food lol “

“My son did this. He’d cry big ass tears and everything. We pull his arm or leg out, he’d giggle, and put it right back. Then anyone he hasn’t done that to before he would. They’d be like “omg his arm is stuck” then I’m like no it’s not watch and pull it out so they can watch him do it again.”

Here’s to the hilarious little humans who keep us laughing while keeping their parents on their toes.

Last week Mayim Bialik called out an old SNL sketch that did her dirty. Back in 1994, the show sent up Blossom, the sitcom that made the actress (and later scholar, and later Jeopardy! host) a star. It was fair game, except they did it with one bizarre prop: Melanie Hutsell, the cast member playing Bialik, was forced to wear a gigantic prosthetic nose. Hutsell responded to Bialik’s essay with an apology. Now Bialik has responded to Hutsell.

“Thank you Melanie Hutsell for this,” Bialik wrote in an Instagram post. “I did not intend to disparage you or SNL and I really appreciate your thoughtfulness around this! It made for an interesting essay (which I was asked to write many months ago on the topic of antisemitism) and with everything going on in the world, I’m virtually hugging you and appreciate you very much!”

After Bialik’s essay made news, Entertainment Weekly spoke to Hutsell about the nearly three decade-old sketch. “I was absolutely horrified that they wanted me to wear a prosthetic nose to play Mayim Bialik’s character, Blossom. I knew it was wrong,” she said. “I remember so clearly that when I expressed that I did not want to wear the prosthetic nose for the sketch, I was told if I refused, I would be fired.”

In the meantime, Bialik is hard at work on a Blossom reboot, which she vowed won’t be a sitcom — which makes sense for a show that frequently indulged in serious “Very Special Episodes.”

(Via Entertainment Weekly)