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Every once in a while it’s fun to play pranks on people you love so long as they’re harmless and everyone gets to laugh, including the person being pranked. It can turn into a funny story to share with other people or you can accidentally start a never ending prank war. It’s a toss up really but one that will certainly cause belly laughs.

When Emily Haswell had her first child a little over a year ago, she noticed that her mom seemed to need glasses but refused to see the eye doctor. Instead of nagging her mother who visits weekly to see her grand baby, Haswell decided she would pull a prank designed to force her mom to admit she needed glasses. The new mom decided to share the results of her prank on her social media pages.

Haswell admitted to her followers that her mother not only visited once a week to see the baby but would ask for daily pictures of her new grandchild. But instead of sending pictures of her daughter, Sadie every time, Haswell started sending pictures of random babies she found on the internet to see how long it would take for her mom to notice.

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“Hi guys! My mom asks for pictures of my baby every day, she also refuses to go to the optometrist so I have decided to start sending her pictures of random white babies I find on the internet until she notices,” Haswell reveals in her intro to the short lived prank series. “Just to be clear, I also send her real pictures of my baby and she sees my baby like once a week.”

By day three, grandma seemed to suspect but didn’t outright deny the baby that was sent was Sadie so the prank continued. It lasted a full seven days before the silly series ended but commenters were invested.

“Nah, girl. You need to double down. Something like “Wow, really, mom? Not recognizing your own granddaughter? Nice…,” someone wrote.

“This is just truly chefs kiss of quick entertainment 🤌. The investment is real and heavy,” another person said.

There doesn’t seem to be a conclusion on the series but with a new baby, mom brain is real and we’re just glad Haswell gifted us with this comical multi-day prank.

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Anyone who has a dog knows that they will never leave you alone when you are exercising. When you pull out the workout mat, the dog knows you’re about to get active and absolutely has to be involved. They see you stooped down to their level and assume you’ve stooped to their level and it’s time to wrestle.

A TikTokker named Grizzly Bane, 27, showed how much dogs love to play with us while we’re trying to exercise in a clip where she has to fight a Bernese Mountain Dog off her yoga mat. Her efforts are unsuccessful, but the video is adorable. The video also gives her a great excuse next time she doesn’t feel like like working out: “My dog wouldn’t let me!”

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“Exercise with your dog they said,” Grizzly Bane captioned her video.

Exercise with your dog they said 😅 

@grizzly.bane

Exercise with your dog they said 😅 #exercisedog #bernesemountaindog #mydogsloveme #yogadog

The Bernese Mountain Dog is an impressive canine that can reach a height of 27 inches and weigh up to 120 pounds. Even though they can be intimidating, they’re usually calm but always ready to play. They are true people-pleasers who love to have fun with their owners, especially when they’re just trying to do a little yoga on the porch.

These lovely dogs are especially gentle with kids.

“He’s testing your core strength,” Jeff Craigen joked in the comments. “Lmfao this is why I rejoined the gym because I can’t do it at home anymore,” Rae and Remmy added.

“She said you are doing downward dog all wrong!” Mrbravo75 commented.

Dealing with passive-aggressive people, whether at work or in family life, can be very frustrating. It’s like trying to solve a puzzle without all the pieces. Their indirect communication and subtle digs force you to guess what they mean, turning simple conversations into a minefield.

It’s draining because you’re always on edge, trying to decode hidden messages or intentions, which can create a tense atmosphere. It’s tough to have to go through all the extra work when you’re just trying to get along and keep things smooth.

It also means that passive-aggressive people can take shots at you that you can’t defend because they hide behind the plausible deniability that they were just being helpful.

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Jennifer Brick, a career counselor who goes by the moniker “Your Career Bestie” has some excellent advice for those forced to deal with passive-aggressive people. She has a simple phrase that, when delivered correctly, can stop them from getting beneath your skin.

@jenniferbrick

Replying to @brett.lancaster you shutdown your passive aggressive coworker, here’s why they aren’t going to admit they’re trying to be hurtful. #career #fyp

“I started using this with passive-aggressive people last year, and there has not been even one case where I have used it where the person hasn’t backed off with their toxic little tail between their legs,” she said in a video with over 1.4 million views.

Brick advises that when dealing with someone who’s passive-aggressive, to in “your most neutral tone” and ask one simple yet direct question: “Are you trying to be helpful or hurtful?”

Brick’s approach is a confident, but non-confrontational way of exposing the passive-aggressive person for their toxic tactics while allowing them to save face. That can be important when you have to deal with them on a regular basis.

In a follow-up video, she notes that it is “by design” that the person will say they’re being helpful.

@jenniferbrick

Replying to @beachy625 ofc they’re going to lie, we expect them to. here’s why…

“The statement I shared in that video is a light confrontation, and they are going to avoid it at all costs,” she continued. “They are going to backpedal, they are not going to say that their intention is to be hurtful. They want to conceal their toxic selves,” Brick concluded.

Bricks’ advice is helpful because people use passive-aggressive communication to hide behind their nefarious ways so they can be hard to expose. This is a way for you to acknowledge their unfair communication tactics without ratcheting the situation up into a full-blown confrontation.

Dr. Cortney Warren agrees with Brick’s tactic. The Harvard-trained psychologist says the key is to remain neutral with the person and ask them about their intentions, just like Brick. “You could say something like: ‘I know you’re telling me you’re not upset, but it doesn’t feel that way to me.’ Or, ‘I get the impression that you’re upset. Do you want to talk about it?’” she tells CNBC.

This is another way to confidently address the aggressive hidden message without being confrontational.

“Remind them that you care and are willing to talk if and when they’re ready,” Dr. Warren continues. “In the meantime, walk away and focus on what you do have control over: you.”

During yesterday’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, K-Pop band Enhypen appeared on a giant float of Baby Shark. If you aren’t familiar, it’s a children’s cartoon that started from a viral song in 2016, which the South Korean entertainment company Pinkfong, released. Now, they’re making it into a fittingly titled Baby Shark’s Big Movie.

Enhypen appears on the soundtrack with their song “Keep Swimmin’ Through,” which they performed at the parade. Before they showed off their killer choreography, a snippet of the “do do do Baby Shark” track prefaced their own.

However, social media users who were watching the Parade thought the float was way too small for the band, both for their height and their status — providing some hilarious reactions.

Enhypen is also set to appear in the movie as a singing group of Beluga whales.

The rest of Baby Shark’s Big Movie‘s cast has major names too. Cardi B and Offset will be returning as their characters of… Sharki B and Offshark. Their two children are also set to make a cameo, getting their own aquatic-themed names in the process. Lance Bass will also play himself as a TV presenter, according to Rolling Stone.

Check out Enhypen’s Thanksgiving Day performance above. Below, find some more thoughts about the Baby Shark float.

Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Megan Thee Stallion is turning horses into hot girls, as she hilariously appears in a new skit for the 2024 Olympic Games. The clip opens with Megan welcoming viewers to “thee Paris Olympics” as she dances alongside some equestrians.

“Look at my hot girl,” she says, as the video cuts to a horse with red highlights to match her own. However, it’s not just any regular horse. This one says “Bonjour” and has wings. And breathes fire.

As it turns out, this is all part of Megan’s fantasy pitch, as she explains her idea to a room of business representatives. “And that, is the Olympics, hot girl style,” she adds.

“What do they not get about this?” the horse says at the end.

While it’s unclear if Megan will appear in any other promotional videos ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics, it is still a fun holiday treat.

“As America gathers together today on Thanksgiving, we wanted to surprise the nation with an Olympic moment as big as the holiday, and what better way to do that than with ‘Thee Olympics,’ featuring Megan Thee Stallion and dressage horses at Versailles,” Jenny Storms, NBC Universal’s CMO Of Sports And Entertainment, shared in a statement, via Rolling Stone. “As we approach the new year, even more surprises are in store as we continue to bring to life the biggest media event of 2024 — the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.”

Check out Megan Thee Stallion’s 2024 Olympics teaser above.

Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Robert Pattinson’s had an unusual career. Instead of going the usual handsome movie stud route, he’s done pretty much whatever he’s wanted. The recent birthday boy’s post-Twilight life has seen him working with some of the great auteurs: David Cronenberg (twice!), Claire Denis, the Safdie brothers, Werner Herzog, James Gray, Robert Eggers. He’s even the star of the next Bong Joon-ho. Good for him! Not that working with the best has made him more confident as an actor.

In a new interview he conducted with Saltburn star Barry Keoghan for Wonderland, Pattinson confessed that he feel “more nervous when I don’t feel nervous” on a project. He admitted that whenever he starts a new job, he feels like he forgot how to act. At the time of the interview the SAG-AFTRA strike had yet to end, and he was nervous about how he’d feel even more unprepared.

“I just feel like now I’m back to the start again,” he said. “I know the next time I do something, I’ll be like, I can’t remember how to do any of this stuff. It’s kind of nice to go into it as an amateur every time and be like, ‘This is a huge mountain to climb.’ It’s like being a total fake again.”

Keoghan argued that that’s a good thing. “I feel being familiar with this stuff is dangerous because you kind of lose spontaneity,” he said. “You lose a lot of that instinctive thing that we love and the directors love, obviously.”

“The nice thing about the job as well, in general, is that if something worked in a previous movie and you’re like, ‘Oh everyone said that was good’ and instinctively you go, well, everyone liked that – I want to do that again,’” Pattinson said. “And then next time round, everyone just says it’s sh*t and you’re like, what the f*ck?”

That said, when a film is done, Pattinson has found it easier to move on. “I used to really struggle to watch myself,” he said. “Now, once it’s finished, I feel quite disconnected. I mean, not disconnected in a bad way.”

Technically, Pattinson and Keoghan have worked together before. They’re both in The Batman, albeit not at the same time. Keoghan only appears at the end, in a cameo as a Arkham Asylum inmate credited as “The Joker.” You might have heard of him.

(Via Wonderland and EW)

The New York Jets have spent most of the last few decades finding new ways to torture their fanbase, and their latest effort was starting Tim Boyle in a standalone game on Black Friday against the Miami Dolphins.

Boyle went 7-of-11 passing for 35 yards and one interception in the first half, continuing his streak of throwing a pick in every game he’s appeared in where he’s thrown the ball at least five times in his NFL career. However, this was not just any ordinary interception, as Boyle threw a pick-six on a Hail Mary to end the first half, which seems like an impossible thing to do but the Jets managed to figure out how to allow it to happen.

It’s rare you get a Hail Mary that isn’t thrown into a massive crowd where, even if someone picks it off, he’s going to end up being brought to the ground quickly. In this case, Jevon Holland was able to catch the ball on the goal line with no one really all that close to him, which allowed him to break upfield and outrun the angles of the Jets offensive line. From there, it was Holland 1-on-1 in the open field with Boyle who suffered the indignity of getting dropped on a couple of cutbacks as Holland strolled into the end zone to give Miami a 17-6 lead at the half.

The Jets defense had done an incredible job in the first half, forcing a pair of Tua Tagovailoa interceptions and had it so the Jets should’ve been down less than a touchdown at the half. Instead, the Jets offense continued its quest to break the will of everyone on the defense by giving up a truly awful pick-six on a play that should never have that as a possible outcome.

Something funny happened while Bradley Cooper was in the midst of the Hangover trilogy: He became an award-gobbling movie star. In between editions two and three, Cooper starred in Silver Linings Playbook, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He didn’t seem all that stoked to be in Part III, and when it was over he earned even more Oscar noms and even became an acclaimed director. Does that mean he’s too good to return to the franchise? Absolutely not.

Per The Daily Beast, Cooper chatted with David Remnick for Friday’s installment of The New Yorker Radio Hour. They talked Maestro, Cooper’s directorial follow-up to A Star is Born in which he plays legendary composer Leonard Bernstein (with a controversial fake nose). It’s a serious film (with some jokes), and it prompted Remnick to ask the guy who broke through with films like Wedding Crashers and Failure to Launch if he was “done with fun.” He then mentioned him doing a potential “Hangover 5.”

“Well, I would do Hangover 5,” Cooper quickly interjected, before correcting Remnick’s mistake: “It would be Hangover 4 first, but yeah.”

“You would do that in a flash? Not just to pay the bills,” Remnick asked him.

“I would do probably Hangover 4 in an instant, yeah,” Cooper replied, “just because I love [director] Todd [Phillips], I love Zach [Galifianakis], I love Ed [Helms] so much. I probably would, yeah.”

That said, Cooper added, “I don’t think Todd’s ever going to do that.” (Perhaps Cooper was intimating that Phillips, like him, has moved on to very different fare, in his case the far darker Joker films, the next of which adds Cooper’s Star is Born costar Lady Gaga.)

Cooper then took umbrage with Remnick’s language: “You said the word, ‘fun.’ There’s nothing more fun that I’ve ever experienced than Maestro and A Star Is Born. This is me having fun.”

It’s not uncommon these days for franchises to get dusted off after a decade or so, or even decades. Perhaps it will take another 20 years for a fourth Hangover that’s about one of the gang’s kids getting married and having a bachelor party gone creatively wrong. We’re just spit-balling here.

In the meantime, Maestro is now in select theaters and will stream on Netflix starting December 20.

(Via The Daily Beast)

Something funny happened while Bradley Cooper was in the midst of the Hangover trilogy: He became an award-gobbling movie star. In between editions two and three, Cooper starred in Silver Linings Playbook, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He didn’t seem all that stoked to be in Part III, and when it was over he earned even more Oscar noms and even became an acclaimed director. Does that mean he’s too good to return to the franchise? Absolutely not.

Per The Daily Beast, Cooper chatted with David Remnick for Friday’s installment of The New Yorker Radio Hour. They talked Maestro, Cooper’s directorial follow-up to A Star is Born in which he plays legendary composer Leonard Bernstein (with a controversial fake nose). It’s a serious film (with some jokes), and it prompted Remnick to ask the guy who broke through with films like Wedding Crashers and Failure to Launch if he was “done with fun.” He then mentioned him doing a potential “Hangover 5.”

“Well, I would do Hangover 5,” Cooper quickly interjected, before correcting Remnick’s mistake: “It would be Hangover 4 first, but yeah.”

“You would do that in a flash? Not just to pay the bills,” Remnick asked him.

“I would do probably Hangover 4 in an instant, yeah,” Cooper replied, “just because I love [director] Todd [Phillips], I love Zach [Galifianakis], I love Ed [Helms] so much. I probably would, yeah.”

That said, Cooper added, “I don’t think Todd’s ever going to do that.” (Perhaps Cooper was intimating that Phillips, like him, has moved on to very different fare, in his case the far darker Joker films, the next of which adds Cooper’s Star is Born costar Lady Gaga.)

Cooper then took umbrage with Remnick’s language: “You said the word, ‘fun.’ There’s nothing more fun that I’ve ever experienced than Maestro and A Star Is Born. This is me having fun.”

It’s not uncommon these days for franchises to get dusted off after a decade or so, or even decades. Perhaps it will take another 20 years for a fourth Hangover that’s about one of the gang’s kids getting married and having a bachelor party gone creatively wrong. We’re just spit-balling here.

In the meantime, Maestro is now in select theaters and will stream on Netflix starting December 20.

(Via The Daily Beast)

For years, we’ve seen players who retire and enter the sports media often criticize the current generation for not playing the way they did, or saying the game is too soft or not as good as it once was. That’s why it’s always so refreshing when a former great goes the other direction and celebrates the game’s evolution and the talent in the league today.

Kevin Garnett is among the most prominent who does this in the NBA, as he marvels at what guys now are able to do, building on some of the things he helped bring into the league as one of the early hybrid big men. Garnett has been particularly effervescent in his praise of Victor Wembanyama, struggling to understand how someone 7’5 is able to move the way he does, handle the ball, and shoot. On a recent episode of Real Talk with Stephen A. Smith, Garnett told the ESPN talking head that he thinks the conversation around the NBA on TV shows and podcasts focuses far too much on the past and debating where people rank in NBA history, believing “we’re missing out on greatness right in front of us.”

Garnett highlights what LeBron James is doing at 38, Wembanyama is doing as a rookie, Nikola Jokic is doing “making Wilt Chamberlain roll over in his grave,” and Stephen Curry’s ability to “shoot from Mars” all being things we’ve never seen. I love hearing a Hall of Famer like Garnett say this, and while that doesn’t mean we should ignore or forget the past, but we should focus our conversation more on what is happening now and the incredible things we are seeing as opposed to constantly trying to find comparisons in the past.