Forever 21 wedding bands

Forever 21 wedding bands

Forever 21 makes wedding bands now! If you're looking to save some money on not just your nightclub dresses and 5-inch platform heels, but your big day expenses as well, look no further. For $4.80, you can get Forever's "I Do Ring Set", which comes with both a wedding band and an engagement ring. The website claims that the two are made of metal, but it doesn't specify what kind, and the stones are obviously cubic zirconia, not diamond. But it's $4.80!

(via Forever 21 through The Frisky)

Heather Morris in "Videophone"

Heather Morris in "Videophone"

Forget about the camera head people and the multicolored plastic guns of Beyonce and Lady Gaga's "Video Phone". This version is so much better. Heather Morris and fierce man in the pink tutu for the win.

Italy vs. Paraguay and Fabio Cannavaro

Italy vs. Paraguay and Fabio Cannavaro

I watched the Italy vs. Paraguay game today on ESPN and was listening to the commentary that the announcers were making. This was refreshing, because the other day, I had to watch the games on WGBO, or the Spanish-speaking channel in Chicago, because other networks weren't playing the U.S. vs. England game. The only real thing I could understand from those commentators was when a team made a goal, at which point the announcers would shout "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOL" and it would be pretty obvious that something big had happened.

Anyways, the ESPN announcers were talking about the captain of the Italian team, Fabio Cannavaro. He's now almost 37 years old, making him one of the oldest players in the 2010 World Cup (behind England's goalkeeper David James, the oldest in the games at 39, who didn't play in the starting lineup of his country's first game but may soon replace Robert Green after the uproar over his goalkeeping skills against the U.S). Man, this guy is almost 40 and he is still CAPTAIN of his team.

And as I was watching, before my eyes, at 3:38 on the clock, Cannavaro does this kick like nobody's business in an effort to stop the ball:

He is at least 4 feet in the air, even though you can't see it on the screenshot. But look at his leg! He is pushing 40 and he can still bend like that? This wasn't even a very important moment in the game; the ball was about to go out and he was just trying to stop it. It wasn't like he was about to make a goal or anything. No wonder he's captain of the reigning World Cup champion team.

Ohio cops

Ohio cops

I haven't had a long-standing relationship with the cops in my area. Aside from a single speeding ticket I got in high school, my interactions with the police force in the past have been extremely limited. So I don't exactly have a bone to pick with police officers in general. But if a cop tried to bust me for speeding based on a hunch, with no further radar or laser-based evidence, I think I'd be pretty annoyed.

Unfortunately for commuters in Ohio, the Ohio Supreme Court just ruled this past week that a speeding ticket based only on an officer's reckoning of the alleged speed of the car in question is enough for a speeding ticket to hold. So, in short, you can't argue a speeding ticket down in court even when the cop is just guessing your speed. The officer needs "gauging speed" experience or training through the Ohio Peace Officer's Training Academy (or a similar training school), but even a rep of the Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission said, "It's kind of a dead-reckoning kind of thing". Learning how to do this kind of visual gauging doesn't even take up that much time in training. Reportedly, visual speed gauging is only a small part of a 5-hour unit of training,  and the officers are asked to watch 20 cars and estimate their speeds. If they get an average of 5MPH off of the actual speed, they pass.

Personally, I don't think that 20 vehicles is really a large enough sample size to determine an officer's accuracy of speed gauging, especially when money, points, and a speeding ticket are on the line.

(via Cleveland.com and autoblog through Google Reader Play)

Harel Skaat

Harel Skaat

I'm still watching Eurovision, yes. But how does one resist Israel's Harel Skaat, also known as the REAL LIVE VERSION OF DISNEY'S PRINCE ERIC, one of Disney's great successes in Very Good Looking Disney Princes (along with Aladdin). Which makes Skaat a Very Good Looking Disney Lookalike Prince.

He gets a couple notes sour at the end of his Eurovision performance (unfortunate, considering his rehearsal videos showed him singing them on point), but the rest of his singing is quite lovely. I'm not just talking about him because he's cute; his voice is pretty decent too, especially if you Youtube his other songs.

Eurovision 2010

Eurovision 2010

I don't understand why American networks don't broadcast Eurovision. I would watch it ALL THE TIME.

For those of you who don't know, the Eurovision Song Contest is an annual show held within the countries of the European Broadcasting Union. Each separate country submits a singer and song to the contest, and the people watching vote through televoting or text messages (like American Idol). From what I discern, a tally of the scores within each country for each contestant determines who the country as a whole votes for (so whichever contestant gets the most votes within a country gets that country's vote).

So this year Germany's contestant won. Her performance, while lovely in its own right, was not EPIC. To see epic, you HAVE TO watch the Moldovan entry. The sax guy makes the performance, although the light-up violin is pretty good in and of itself.

Twilight MasterCard

Twilight MasterCard

Best way to teach responsible spending habits: put Edward Cullen on the face of your child's source of money. They'll never lose it.

(picture via Risky Business/HR through Go Fug Yourself and NY Mag)











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