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ok this clovergender kindergender has come up and I REALLY hope it is fake cus otherwise EW. https://www.facebook.com/clovergender/ Clovergender, def: an adult man OR woman who sexually identifies as a child, who is attracted to other children. Also known as “kindergender”.

On 31 December 2016, the liberal clickbait web site RealTimePolitics announced with a headline that Lindsey Graham, a Republican U.S. senator from South Carolina, has vowed to “bring down” President-elect Donald Trump. Though Graham has been a vocal critic of Trump throughout the 2016 election cycle, he has not vowed to “bring him down.” (Because …

Bethania Palma Markus is a journalist from the Los Angeles area who started her career as a daily newspaper reporter and has covered everything from crime to government to national politics. She has written for a variety of publications as a staffer and freelancer, including the Los Angeles News Group, the LAist, LA School Report, …

Origin:A popular pop culture superstition holds that a white BIC disposable lighter is bad luck. While there are many reasons why people believe this, the most commonly offered reason is that several members of the “27 club” (musicians who all passed away at the age of 27) — including Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, …

Coughing Sorry, no graphic for this one, and don’t laugh, it works 100% of the time although the scientists at the Canada Research council (who discovered it) aren’t sure why. To stop nighttime coughing in a child (or adult as we found out personally), put Vicks Vaporub generously on the bottom of the feet at …

Claim: President Obama issued a full pardon for rapper C-Murder. FALSE Origin:On 9 December 2016, the web site Gummy Post published an article reporting that President Obama had issued a full pardon for Corey Miller, the rapper better known by his stage name of C-Murder, who is currently serving a life sentence in Louisiana’s Angola …

A Facebook post poking fun at flat-earth believers and conspiracy theorists went viral on 29 December 2016, claiming that the 7 December 1941 attack Pearl Harbor was an “inside job.” As “proof,” the meme’s creator scrawled a red line from Japan to Hawaii on a rectangular map, circumventing land masses — not taking into account that …

Claim: Mark Twain said that Its easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. unproven Origin:A quote frequently attributed to Mark Twain gained greater prominence in 2016 as media publications debated the effect of “fake news” on the internet: It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they …

Longtime film and television star Debbie Reynolds died on 28 December 2016 — a day after the death of her daughter, fellow actress Carrie Fisher. She was 84. Reynolds’ death was announced hours after she was hospitalized in Los Angeles. Reynolds reportedly had trouble breathing, prompting her to be taken in for medical attention. Her …

Longtime film and television star Debbie Reynolds died on 28 December 2016 — a day after the death of her daughter, fellow actress Carrie Fisher. She was 84. Reynolds’ death was announced hours after she was hospitalized in Los Angeles. Reynolds reportedly had trouble breathing, prompting her to be taken in for medical attention. Her …

Origin:On 25 December 2016, the unreliable political site YourNewsWire.com published an article asserting that President Obama had signed a “Christmas bill … quietly” that effectively labeled alternative media as “propaganda” and criminalized it: President Obama has just quietly signed into law a bill that makes it illegal to run an alternative media website in the …

Musician George Michael has “passed away peacefully at home”, his publicist has said. The 53-year-old singer, whose real name was Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, rose to fame (along with Andrew Ridgeley) as a member of the popular 1980’s British musical duo Wham!, known for hits such as “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” “Careless Whisper,” and …

Claim: Former Trump campaign official Carl Paladino said he hopes President Obama dies of mad cow disease and First Lady Michelle Obama goes to live in a cave in Africa with a gorilla. True Example: [Collected via e-mail, December 2016] Are the rumors true about Trump’s guy Paladino? Said FLOTUS should return to being a …

Origin:A perennial theme in urban legends involves the ingenuity of criminals and how to stay one step ahead of them, once again evidenced in the long-circulating claim carjackers “recently” started stealing license plates in a complex scheme to eventually perpetrate a armed car theft. According to a snippet of text circulating via Facebook, e-mail, and other …

Two men were ejected from a JetBlue flight on 22 December 2016 after an alleged confrontation between one of them and Ivanka Trump, daughter of President-elect Donald Trump. The incident was first reported by the gossip site TMZ, including a picture of Trump attributed to Matthew Lasner, who said on Twitter that his husband intended …

Claim: An habitual alcohol abuser lost his penis to frostbite after a drunken sexual encounter with a snowman. false Example: [Collected via Twitter, December 2016] Drunk Man Has Sex With Snowman; Loses Penis To Frostbite https://t.co/j98WaBYi2f — Mwic Robinson (@mwic255) December 8, 2016 Origin:On 8 December 2016, fake news site Thug Life Videos published an article …

Claim: Representative Mick Mulvaney, who was recently selected as the Trump administration’s nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget, one posed the question “Do we really need government-funded research at all?” on Facebook. True Origin: On 17 December 2016, President-elect Donald Trump nominated South Carolina representative Mick Mulvaney to lead the Office …

On 16 December 2016, People magazine posted a story about a calico cat named Hidey who had so much matted fur on her that she looked like she was dragging around multiple cats. The story was taken from a Facebook post by the Pennsylvania’s Animal Rescue League shelter, who said the cat (which looked as …

Masters of Sex star Michael Sheen has an eye on politics, but not right now. A story published by the Times of London, however, suggested that Sheen’s switching gears from acting to political activism was imminent, since Sheen reportedly said he had no other entertainment projects lined up. However, Sheen quickly released a statement saying …

Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart: I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They …