#Famous for Being Famous

[asmileworthahundredlies]

Gabbriette by Mel Bles for British Vogue.

[shhheeeilaaa]

Alice Roosevelt - President Teddy's daughter, classic old school wild girl, pre-movie star era celebrity, first babe famous for being famous?

Great article via Messy Nessy, my favorite cool things compilation site ..

[warneckequotes]

"Beri Pfister's Real-Life Drama!", 2018

[raincitygirl76]

I would’ve assumed he was talking about the Armenian genocide too. Now I think of it, Kardashian does indeed sound like an Armenian surname, but I never connected the dots until now. I guess I just assumed the “famous for being famous” family sprang full-formed from the head of Zeus or something.

One time we had this guy covering a shift at the coffee shop and it somehow came out over the course of regular small talk with us that he was Armenian. He got this really tired distant look in his eyes and said "yeah, you know what people always think about when they find out." Everyone nods and I figure we're all on the same page so it doesn't need to be said, and I'm about to move on when someone pipes up "the Kardashians!" He sighs and nods, and I, unable to help myself go "oh" and then very quietly "I thought we were talking about the Armenian genocide."

Everyone is stunned for a moment, except for the guy who suddenly lights up and says, in a remarkably delighted tone of voice: "that's the first time anyone has ever mentioned the Armenian genocide!"

I actually had no idea the Kadashians were Armenian.

[brudders]

Essentially — Small Towns

Advocating On Behalf of the Real World, a Famous for Being Famous List of Die Hard Impersonators of the Very Important Persons w/ Privileges; Weird "Al" Yankovich Hints to Couch Potato Included 'Patchwork Quilts' in a Music Video and Other Heckling at the Lifestyle Come from Various Slogans and Gestures Used for Promo at the end of the Vernacular

* There are People Who Make Believe the #PoloBear Stands Between Ambition and the Way that Person May Dream; When In Fact the Only Changing of Ones Behavior like the Chino (fem. china) of Mexico Whose Foundation is Meant to Show Support or Raise Awareness 🗺️🗾

* Couch Money Is Nothing Like Old Money These Days; It's the Internet of Things Grappling w/ Americas Stake in Distribution of Winnings; A Purse of Money 🤑💰

*If the Real World/Road Rules Challenge Happens Today There Will Be a Movement of People from Southern US Between Educated People Movements by Organizations Fixing Them and High-Rollers In Anticipation of an Old Comrades Songs and Anthems.

[great-and-small]

Everyone meet ‘Slappy’ the wild sea lion that has gone viral on TikTok after begging tourists for peanut butter sandwiches 🤣

Watch Now: Beloved wild Sea Lion Slappy does her signature bark for a PB sandwich

Check out our list of the BEST memes about our favorite Instagram celebrity Slappy the seal

Wildlife authorities ruin internet’s fun by putting ban on feeding famous sea lion ‘Slappy’

- Top comment: Not me risking a class 2 wildlife felony to feed Slappy a peanut butter sandwich 😂☠️

Internet famous sea lion enjoys new meme craze “Outlaw Slappy” as her admirers continue to offer treats despite the ban from marine wildlife officials

Sad news out of Southern California today as the internet mourns beloved sea lion ‘Slappy’, who was put down by authorities after biting a child that was trying to feed her a sandwich.

[cidnangarlond]

[bronzetomatoes]

Post cancelled. Frank Iero

[warneckequotes]

"Beri Pfister's Real-Life Drama!", 2018

[dapper-lil-arts]

Ah the dichotomy of the Celestia family... The preps and the goths

[honeyedknife]

sequel no one asked for

part 1

[the-nefarious-vampire]

"you only say you're autistic because you want to feel special and different" actually finding out i was autistic made me feel significantly less special and different. before i was autistic i was Strange and Unpredictable in some sort of Unknowable way which Surely meant i was Predestined for Greatness (like storybook character). now im just some fuckin autistic guy like any other. i significantly prefer it this way btw

[fauvester]

something something seeing things through different eyes

[lesamis]

If you're up for it could you explain what is making the Germany government stuff so funny? I can find news articles about it (a coalition is dissolving? There's been tension for a while?) but they're all fairly serious. Thx!

ohhh, sure thing! i'll do my best!

i'll say upfront: this is a pretty serious thing to happen. our chancellor fired our minister of finance, Lindner, which definitively breaks up the governing coalition. germany will likely have snap elections at a moment in which far-right parties are polling extremely well. if news coverage about it seems like people are Worried, that's because, well, they are.

however. the reason it's funny is because our minister of finance was fired. ministers aren't really... ever fired. like, it's not a done thing. i'll fully admit i didn't even know it was an option until yesterday. and our minister of finance wasn't just anyone, he was one of the most mocked and hated figures in politics to germans who vote anywhere left of center.

the coalition that governed until yesterday was made up of the green party, the social democrats, and the neoliberal party (FDP). the FDP is infamous (and i mean, my parents already raised me to hate them for that) for playing kingmaker in coalition governments: they never get all that many votes, but they get just enough that whoever they agree to form a government with will probably succeed. they then tend to force extreme concessions from their coalition partners, because hey, if we walk off, you can't govern at all! so you better play along!

for the past three years, this behaviour has been extremely frustrating for germans who voted for greens or social democrats, because policy from their faction was constantly being blocked by the FDP and often by Lindner personally. the FDP received 11,5% of votes in 2021, but to many of us, it felt as if they were the only party who really had any say in the governing coalition. it made the green and social democratic coalition partners look spineless and passive.

and now, i invite you to imagine how on the day of the US election results, the day the whole world rolled their eyes at the sheer fucking stupidity and pointlessness of it all, at NINE IN THE EVENING, just as germans are getting ready to settle in to bed to dream of nightmare global politics -

the news suddenly breaks that our notoriously invisible chancellor just decided to fire Lindner for that exact behaviour. this chancellor comes out and says, on camera, to the entire sleepy nation, that acting the way Lindner did - blocking necessary policies, refusing to approve budgets unless his party's interests were met - was childish, selfish, irresponsible, and unfit for government, so, whoops, he had to go. shame. coalition over, i guess.

so, politically, that was a long-needed but never-expected moment of triumph for those of us who think the FDP is a clown show made up of human TESLA shares, and it came at a hysterically funny moment.

on a personal level, i can barely explain how uniquely hateable Lindner has always been. he's what would happen if a stock index graph came to life. he hates poor people with a relish; he mocks welfare recipients and would ax minimum wages in a second. he's everyone's business major roommate who shows up in boat shoes fresh off a yacht to discuss NFTs with you. throughout the entire time that he's used his rich boy policy blackmail strategy, he's been smug about it, and he was never taken to task for it, and millions of germans have been longing to throw rotten fruit in his face since 2017. and now we finally get to do it. via memes. on the day of trump's election win.

so that's why it's funny.

[jakeperalta]

very sexy of joe alwyn to have the eyes of millions of prying swifties on him for months and to only ever be like "btw you should care about gaza"

[soosoosoup]

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