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    Daily Fail: Scoffing At Imogen Thomas For “Scoffing Cakes”

    Imogen Thomas is a Welsch model and reality TV star who tweets like a teenage girl and is receiving hypnotherapy for cake addiction. And this Daily Mail article on Thomas is the epitome of the Mail Online's house style—stringing together*paparazzi*photos and tweets with the most air-headed or...
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    Why did Phobos-Grunt fail?

    The Russian probe destine for the Mars system never made it out of Earth Orbit and recently crashed back into Planet Earth. Why did the rocket ship fail? There has apparently been a lot of obfuscation of what caused this disaster, but now there is some better information. It may have been...
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    Daily Fail: Shaming Star Jones’ Weight Gain After Bypass Is Just Tacky

    The Daily Mail has been quick to point out that, nine years after gastric bypass surgery, Star Jones is 'sporting a fuller figure,' shaming the former View co-host by speculating on her diet and weight.*Their article contains zero quotes from Jones about her weight or health, instead citing...
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    Daily Fail: LeAnn Rimes’ Weight Is Not A Healthy Obsession

    Recent paparazzi photos of*LeAnn Rimes*shopping in L.A. spurred a Daily Mail article about how she's looking too thin, because, you know: It's important to stay on top of celebrities' weight fluctuations. They say that despite looking healthy on the beach just a few days ago, Rimes is now "back...
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    Daily Fail: Cosmetic Surgery Is Not A Good Christmas Gift

    Our favorite ridiculous 'news' site, The Daily Mail, is running a piece today called "All I Want For Christmas Is A Tummy Tuck," about how botox and cosmetic surgery are "now topping many women's gift lists." Ugh. Can you say bogus trend piece? More »Post from: Blisstree
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    Daily Fail: Fat-Shaming Hilary Duff While Pregnant Is Lame

    What to do when you've got papparazzi photos of Hilary Duff grocery shopping in sweatpants while pregnant? Shame her for buying so much food, obviously! The Daily Mail routinely gives backhanded compliments to women, sending mixed messages about weight, aging and beauty, but today's article...
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    Daily Fail: The Average British Woman Weights 154 Pounds, And Doesn’t Like It

    At first glance, The Daily Mail's post about the average woman's weight seems vaguely body positive: They announce that the average British lady may weigh 11 stone (that's 154 pounds, this side of the pond), but she it comes in many shapes. But to demonstrate the point, they line up a group of...
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    Do you think bell curves are wrong? Do people who fail before the curve...

    ...deserve to get their degree? So, I recently got my vector calculus midterm back, and even though I failed the exam, I got curved up to a B - (class average was 30% before the curve). I truly did not even demonstrate 50% mastery of the concepts and I end up with a B-? Isn't that wrong? Why...
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    American Diabetes Association's Preferred Testing Method Shown To Fail At Identifying

    In 2009, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommended that Hemoglobin A1c be exclusively used for the diagnosis of diabetes in children. The simple test measures longer-term blood sugar levels -- without requiring patients to fast overnight. However, a new U-M study has shown that these...
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    Daily Fail: Lady Gaga’s ‘Love Handles’ Do Not Exist

    Today, in an article that should have been a review of a charity concert, The Daily Mail did what The Daily Mail (and a lot of gossip sites) loves to do: they made the headline and lead of an important event entirely about a female celebrity's flaws. Because apparently,*we, the readers and...
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    Do you laugh at people who fail at correcting others?

    I saw a comment of Youtube about Justin Bieber. The person said 'Calling him GAY won't make you REAL'. I couldn't believe the idiocy of the person. It was already bad enough, until another person called them 'racist'. I'm not sure if I should be irritated or amused.
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    Pass or Fail: Danny Briere’s controversial shootout ‘stop’ goal

    Danny Briere was the second shooter in the Philadelphia Flyers' shootout order against the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night, and pulled off quite the move: Skating into the zone; stopping short to give Johan Hedberg a snow shower as the goalie lunged for the puck; then skating around Hedberg...
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    Why are celebrity/Hollywood marriages more likely to fail?

    Approximately 90% of Hollywood celebrities marry and divorce. Why is that?
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    Why did prophecies of science fail, like an overpopulation myth?

    What do you think of science's 'ten' doomsday scenarios, which are notably all total annihilation of the human race; so we have to $pend trillions to find a new place to race, some where out there in the darkness of their space?
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    Dieters Fail Because Of Hormones Not Lack Of Will Power

    New research released tomorrow in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggests that people fail to lose weight on diets, more because of hormone imbalances than lack of will power. The crux of the problem is that as a person loses weight, especially in more aggressive dieting, the body changes...
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    iPhone 4 iOS 5 update fail. Phone in recovery mode?

    When I tried to update my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 I got an error message and my phone was put in recovery mode. When I tried to restore it, it failed again. I've got no idea what to do, it's 3:45 AM, and I NEED my phone. I'm waiting on a call about a job so I desperately need this fixed a.s.a.p.
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    Did I fail to meet expectations for this promotion? Or did my boss?

    I was promoted for a month, then told i had the job on wednesday in the 4th week, then i was demoted 2 days later during layoffs. The description of my job, and tasks all seemed very ambiguous, almost on purpose. When i asked for more clarification i was talked to like a child almost, without...
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    why did jesus christ fail in his first coming?

    because he wasn't the messiah according to the jewish Bible?
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    Hackers Fail To Take Down The NYSE [Hackers]

    It's a disappointing time for the NYSE hackers. They wanted to protest Wall Street by obliterating the NYSE website, but they failed. They failed to mount a discernible attack and didn't bring down their target. More »
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    Did i fail epically at changing a simple headlight bulb?

    So, a few days ago my friend noticed that my passenger side headlight on my 08 chevy aveo was out. A couple days later i bought a new bulb. I then had a difficult time getting the old one out and installing the new one because i didn't feel like taking out the entire headlight. I was able to...
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