Marriage proposals can go a lot of different ways. Sometimes they’re spontaneous and it’s perfect. Other times, they’re thoughtfully planned out, and it’s also pretty perfect. And still other times… they’re planned, but the plans aren’t exactly ideal. One woman recently shared on Reddit that she’s experienced two fairly disappointing proposals before, and she had been hoping that her boyfriend would have something better in mind. Unfortunately, it turns out that she doesn’t love how he plans to propose.
It sounds like he did… until she found out that part of his plan included proposing with the same ring that he proposed to his previous girlfriend with.
This isn’t her first or second proposal, so this time around, she really wants it to be right.
“Let’s start with what I do not want to be judged on: I have been married twice. First to my high school sweetheart (together 14 years, married 4 of those) who left me for a coworker. Then to my only other high school boyfriend (a One Who Got Away type) who married me after a year of dating. We knew each other since we were 14, lost touch, reconnected and then… he died. Very suddenly the age of 35.”
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Tom Cruise leaps off buildings and dangles off the side of helicopters all the time. Don’t forget all all that running as well, so what does Tom think of standing and/or lounging atop a speeding train? In comparison, it doesn’t seem like a challenge to him. The Mission: Impossible 7 production wrapped its Norway leg of filming this weekend, according to director Chris McQuarrie, and now they’re moving onto Rome. Before that happens, though, Cruise and crew members hopped aboard the aforementioned train, and people witnessed it just, you know, happening. In response, a relaxed-looking Cruise (who was taking a breather in a semi-reclined position) smiled and waved.
You know this had to land on TikTok. The people loved it.
@tomasspangelo
Halla Tom #fyp #norway #missionimpossible #norge #hype
♬ DET ER HAN SOM SITTER DER – Tomas Haugland Spangelo
https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js
At one point, Tom was also standing atop the train with absolutely no sense of fear. I guess when one’s climbed the side of the Burj Khalifa, this is just another day at work. Here’s another video from an Instagram user.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CF6nw31pRtM
In a more muted take, here’s McQuarrie’s tech-y version on Instagram, which notes that the production is done wreaking action-havoc in Norway and swapping countries.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CF6vx0ADlig
So, after the upcoming Tom Cruise franchise picture that does everything but send him to space shut down production (due to you know what) earlier this year, it looks like everything is going swimmingly. That’s a good thing, considering that Cruise personally called Norway’s culture minister before igniting a local controversy involving cruise ships. This followed a bridge kerfuffle and a stunt gone wrong, but Paramount Pictures must be breathing a sigh of relief because it’s all happening (again) for real.
Mission: Impossible 7 is scheduled for a November 19, 2021 release.
After the success of the Travis Scott meal, it only makes sense that McDonald’s would continue to collaborate with the hottest stars in music today. No genre is expanding its foothold on the public consciousness like Reggaeton and no artist has been more successful as an ambassador of the style than J Balvin, making him the perfect choice to receive his own spin on the McDonald’s menu. The J Balvin meal, like the Travis Scott meal, is based on the star’s go-to order: a Big Mac without pickles, medium fries with ketchup, and an Oreo McFlurry.
In an interview with Complex, Balvin explained the deal, saying, “I grew up with McDonald’s. I wasn’t born in the States, but since I was a kid, I was eating McDonald’s meals. When I had my very first chance to go to the States, it was like a dream to me, coming from Colombia to my first time having a McDonald’s meal. It’s those types of moments that connect with me as a child. And when they called me saying that they wanted to work with me, I immediately said yes because it connects with me and my childhood. I’ve always been a big fan. It’s crazy to have your own meal.”
The J Balvin meal will become available when the Travis Scott promotion ends.
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Eager Harry Potter fans were excited to get a glimpse of the Hogwarts Express steam train roll through the Drumry Train station in Clydebank, Scotland last week.
Unfortunately, onlookers on the opposite platform had their view entirely blocked by an local train headed in the opposite direction.
Originally advertised to arrive at the station around 18:13 local time, even the magical Hogwarts Express was running late, leading to the unfortunate timing of the passing train in the opposite direction. The timing literally could not have been worse for these disappointed fans on the wrong platform.
There’s only one episode of season 2 of The Boys left, and judging by the teaser for the season finale, it’s all hitting the fan.
After the brain-splattering final moments of the penultimate episode, “Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker,” The Boys prepare to hit back with the only option they have left in their battle with the Supes: Kill everyone. Although, it appears that they’ll be primarily focused on Aya Cash’s Stormfront, the latest addition to The Seven, as she pulls Antony Starr’s Homelander deeper and deeper into her secret Nazi agenda.
While Butcher — who is now vowing to “kill everyone” — has always had it in for the terrifyingly powerful Homelander, this time it’s even more personal after the all-American Supe took the son of Butcher’s estranged wife, Rebecca. Adding even more chaos to the mix is the last shot of the teaser, which shows something very strange happening to Homelander’s eyes. Did Stormfront inject him with a new version of Compound V? Is the invincible psychopath mutating into something even more dangerous? It’s definitely a new surprise for viewers of the show.
You can see the teaser for The Boys Season 2 finale below:
While The Boys has never shied away from a high body count, showrunner Eric Kripke recently revealed that he does regret one of the deaths in the second to last episode: Shawn Ashmore’s Lamplighter. Via TVLine:
“We wrote all that before we cast Shawn, and once we cast Shawn and we saw how good he was and how soulful and weary and, in a weird way, sympathetic he made Lamplighter, I really regretted that we were killing him,” Kripke admits with a laugh. “If I could go back and do it again, knowing that I had Shawn and what he did with that character, I would have kept him alive for longer. But that was what that character was arced for from the beginning.”
The Boys Season 2 finale starts streaming Friday on Amazon Prime Video.
NBA players have been adamant throughout the restarted season about keeping focus on issues beyond the basketball court that impact their communities. Players have committed time, money, and resources to fighting for racial and social justice, calling for leaders to bring about systemic change in policing and racist policies, such as voter suppression, that disproportionately targets and disenfranchise Black Americans.
During the pandemic, they’ve also helped to provide meals and resources to thousands of families across the country as unemployment rates skyrocket and uncertainty about where the next meal will come from has become a major concern for millions. On Monday, the league announced the five players who have earned the NBA Cares Community Assist Award this season for their work off the court, with the league and Kaiser Permanente donating $10,000 on their behalf to a charitable cause of their choosing.
Harrison Barnes, Jaylen Brown, George Hill, Chris Paul, and Dwight Powell are the five recipients of the award this year, honoring their work in the community in a year in which those efforts have been incredibly important. All five have provided donations to support local efforts to provide food to those in need during the pandemic and also have been driving voices in the call for social justice and an end to systemic racism, working with their teams and making individual efforts to support various organizations in the fight for racial justice.
The five $10,000 donations will go to the African American Policy Forum (Barnes), 7uice Foundation (Brown), Represent Justice (Hill), Chris Paul Family Foundation (Paul), and Champions of Discovery (Powell).
Since President Donald Trump was hospitalized Friday with COVID-19, the public has been desperate for any news about his condition.
Reporters have struggled to cut through the morass and misinformation to deliver accurate news about the president. One reporter who hasn’t seemed to struggle is One American News’ Jack Posobiec, a far-right site that’s friendly to the president.
Posobiec has dished out misinformation and inaccuracies frequently, so take his missives about scooping the mainstream media with stories about how the president is “cracking jokes” with a grain of salt (he’s likely being fed what the White House wants). But there is one report everyone wants to be true, if only for the memetic potential.
Trump is eating big boy meals.
“Direct quote from medical official to @OANN: “He’s been eating like a mad man today. Back to back plates. Energy way up,” Posobiec wrote.
Direct quote from medical official to @OANN: “He’s been eating like a mad man today. Back to back plates. Energy way up.”
Eating like a mad man! Back to back plates! Who doesn’t enjoy a president bulking up for the winter months? Everyone does!
“I’ve never seen anything like it. He’s like Jughead. Ten Garfield’s. Have to serve him with one of those pizza paddles just so nobody loses a hand” https://t.co/kKPYWbpQbW
It’s downright adorable. “This is how I talk about my dog after he gets sick and recovers,” noted @RedArmyPrinter.
Some did note that given Trump is being treated with steroids, increased appetite might be a side effect. Which is great. Even more president! BIG POTUS.
Love him or hate him, you can’t be upset at the commander-in-chief scarfing down those meals.
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In 2014, he repeatedly blamed President Barack Obama for Ebola, and offered advice on how to control it. In 2020, Trump has basically ignored all his own advice while refusing to take the blame.
Six years later, Trump also has largely disregarded his own medical experts’ advice to stop the spread of coronavirus, such as wearing a mask.
On Sept. 26, he held a ceremony at the White House to announce the nomination of Judge Amey Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court. The event almost entirely eschewed social distancing and mask guidelines.
Some have speculated Trump contracted the virus at the ceremony. Numerous attendees have since tested positive for the virus.
Although it’s impossible to be certain when, where, and from whom Trump contracted coronavirus, it is known that he was exposed on Sept. 30 at the latest. That evening, Hope Hicks, one of his top advisers, began experiencing symptoms while traveling with the president to a rally. Hicks subsequently tested positive for the virus that’s infected nearly 7.5 million Americans and killed 210,000.
Trump attended a fundraiser in New Jersey the following afternoon, nevertheless. Afterwards, he announced Hicks’ diagnosis in a tweet and said he would quarantine. Two hours later, Trump tweeted that he had the virus.
The following day, he presented with symptoms and was hospitalized.
On Sunday, three days into his hospitalization, Trump potentially put his Secret Service detail at risk when he did a drive-by to wave at supporters gathered outside.
Back in 2014, Trump was full of harsh words for people who potentially infected others with Ebola, which was much less contagious, but far deadlier, than COVID-19.
“The Ebola patient who came into our country knew exactly what he was doing. Came into contact with over 100 people. Here we go—I told you so!” he tweeted in October 2014.
He even urged criminal prosecution against them.
This Ebola patient Thomas Duncan, who fraudulently entered the U.S. by signing false papers, is causing havoc. If he lives, prosecute!
He also took aim at a nurse who flew in an airplane to Cleveland while possibly being sick, something Trump himself may have done on Air Force One last week.
The Ebola nurse should NEVER have been allowed to fly to Cleveland and (amazing) back again. Nothing works in our once great country anymore
After the Rose Garden event, Trump flew—no joke—to Cleveland for the debate.
In 2014, Trump criticized the Obama administration of failing adequately inform the public and covering up the truth about Ebola. Ebola ultimately infected 11 Americans and killed two.
Trump’s administration has faced accusations of dishonesty in the wake of his diagnosis.
Ebola is much easier to transmit than the CDC and government representatives are admitting. Spreading all over Africa-and fast. Stop flights
From the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Trump has been accused of misleading the public. Last month, recorded interviews with Bob Woodward revealed that early in the pandemic, Trump admitted to downplaying the virus.
As of Monday morning, Trump remains hospitalized with coronavirus.
Claire Goforth is an award winning journalist covering politics and justice from her home base in Jacksonville, Florida. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from regional alt-weeklies to Al Jazeera.
