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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

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It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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Cat Menagerie said:
Wait wtf.

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College recruiter fired after lining students by skin color & hair texture at metro high school

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Metro high school students were forced to line up by the color of their skin, and then their hair was allegedly ranked from nappy to not. A recruiter from Oklahoma Christian …
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> "Teachers left,” Brown said. “They were crying and they were offended. Their faces just look disgusted. I know they had a talk with him after, like, 'That's not okay.'"

Something seems fishy about this; even garbage teachers would stop such an event as described while it was going on rather than crying and leaving the room. Could you imagine a bunch of adults sitting around wathcing their students made to cry by a college recruiter? Everyone hates recruiters to begin with, they don't have any clout.
 
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Something seems fishy about this; even garbage teachers would stop such an event as described while it was going on rather than crying and leaving the room.
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That's kind of why I'm scratching my head. I'm a minority and went to school decades ago. If some college recruiter tried to pull a stunt like this, they'd have been interrupted by staff and shown the door rather sternly. Our teachers wouldn't have run out crying like emotional children.
 
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That's kind of why I'm scratching my head. I'm a minority and went to school decades ago. If some college recruiter tried to pull a stunt like this, they'd have been interrupted by staff and shown the door rather sternly. Our teachers wouldn't have run out crying like emotional children.
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It's a sign of how pathetic and weak and incapable of standing up for anything our society has become that he wasn't sent on his way with a shiner to remind him of the importance of courtesy.

That or that the story is made up somehow. I honestly am finding it difficult to believe people just put up with this bullshit.
 
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Astronaut Candidate

Astronaut candidates will spend approximately two years training on the basic skills required to be an astronaut - from spacewalking and robotics to leadership and teamwork skills. Upon completing training, they will join the active astronaut corps and become eligible for spaceflight assignment...
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French guy fucks up his and his neighbors plumbing with Orbeez


Any parent with an Orbeez-obsessed kid will tell you how annoying it is to get rid of these things. Something this French guy probably wasn't aware of when he decided to start playing with them in the first place.

Look at him demonstrating how they work in this video. Then, he gets a not-so-bright idea: why not fill his bathtub up with the Orbeez, that could be cool, right?

Admittedly, there is something relaxing about squishing the Orbeez between your fingers, so why not experience that sensation all over your body? Well, because Orbeez are annoying as hell to clean up, which this man found out the hard way.
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There are literally millions of cover versions on YouTube. Acoustic covers, piano covers, 8-bit covers — you name it, there’s a cover of a famous song done in that style. In fact, the only type of video that might outrank cover versions is cat videos. So a cover with a cat? Seemingly for no other reason than to do a cover with a cat? There’s something beautiful about that, like listening to the heartbeat of the Internet itself. Which is why this video of a piano cover of Linkin Park’s Numb, with a cat sitting on top of the keyboard, is everything.

The adorably fluffy cat in question, named Haburu, has a sleepy start to the video, lounging across the piano and trying to get a bit of a nap in while their human, Minh, plays Numb. This incredibly chill feline spends the middle of the video dramatically staring off into the distance before finally getting some sleep, only to wake up right at the end of the song. For the record, Minh’s cover of Numb is beautiful and impressive, but it’s hard not to get distracted by the real star of the video, Haburu, who truly belongs in the Internet cat hall of fame.

Watch Numb performed with a cat on the piano and stare into the soul of the universe:
Truly amazing.

Arguably the best comment on the video comes from YouTube user Cls, who wrote, “LOL, the cat’s become so Numb, he can barely move.” We see what you did there.

Haburu, who has over 300,000 YouTube subscribers, has sat in on — well, more like napped during — loads of covers, including a cover of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, called Bohemeow Rhapsody where it seems like Haburu gets more rest:
To be fair, this isn’t the first animal cover of Linkin Park’s classic Numb. Here a hilarious video with a lot of different animals including a dog, a goat and a donkey, ‘singing’ the track:
Whether or not Haburu’s version of Numb will reach 1 billion views like Linkin Park’s video for the song did remains to be seen. In the meantime, we hope Haburu gets to take a nap now.
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Now do it in stereo.
 
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