August means two things starting up again: football and college. Another year, another crop of clueless freshmen who have experienced a life in the bubble of suburban comfort... and are completely clueless as a result. For some of you, these people may be your future roommates. If so, we offer our condolences. We would offer to tell you where the post-orientation ragers will be this weekend, but we... uhh.. we kinda don't know ourselves... do you know, by any chance?
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It's been kind of a mixed bag for athletes making the difficult decision to come out as gay. It helps to have Hermione on your side.
Keegan Hirst recently broke many boundaries, coming out as Britain's first openly gay rugby player. For a macho guy in a macho sport with macho teammates and macho fans, it wasn't the easiest of decisions. He's received a lot of support for the decision, marking even more how much the world has grown in a short time.
And in a beautiful and classy move, Emma Watson congratulated Hirst in a series of tweets Aug. 18.
Courage is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty or intimidation.
— Emma Watson (@EmWatson) August 18, 2015
.... Physical courage is courage in the face of physical pain, hardship, death or threat of death,
— Emma Watson (@EmWatson) August 18, 2015
while moral courage is the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition, shame, scandal or discouragement. @KeeganHirst #gotboth
— Emma Watson (@EmWatson) August 18, 2015
Hirst spoke to the Daily Mirror about coming out Aug. 15.
Respected prop Keegan, 27, reveals the secret torment of dealing with his sexuality while carving out a career in one of the world's most macho sports.
Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mirror, the dad of two tells of the moment he finally found the words to explain to his wife the reason they could no longer be together.
And he talks emotionally of the support he got, not only from her but also from his rugby team-mates.
The 6ft 4in captain of West Yorkshire side Batley Bulldogs said: "At first I couldn't even say 'I'm gay' in my head, let alone out loud.
"Now I feel like I'm letting out a long breath that I've held in for a long time."
Societal attitudes take a long time to evolve, but that evolution couldn't happen without people like Hirst taking initiative and influential people like Watson supporting them.
Well done, everyone.
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GOP Presidential candidate (and serial water sipper) Marco Rubio took a break from campaigning in Iowa today to totally annihilate a kid in the head with a football.
You can watch the short clip above, but it is even better in GIF form.
Marco Rubio hitting the kid in the face with the football is even better as a GIF http://pic.twitter.com/FLpnHz0un0
— Mudacris (@moody) August 18, 2015
And even better in Pokémon GIF form.
marco rubio out in iowa just trying to catch em all tbh
@Mirandacgreen http://pic.twitter.com/An37A0Vtxo
— darth™ (@darth) August 18, 2015
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After Donald Trump told a kid he was Batman, Jimmy Kimmel took it upon himself to give us all the gift of Donald Trump's voice dubbed onto Batman cartoons; maybe he really is the hero this country deserves? (Head to 2:57 to skip Jimmy and get right to the dub)
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Dan May, a 24-year-old bizdev manager from Essex, England, was able to take advantage of publicity campaign by phone company O2 this month, in which they promised free pizza to office workers who downloaded their O2 Priority app. May never got his free pizza, and decided to let O2 know about it... complete with a threat to take his business to O2 competitor 3. Companies take bad publicity seriously, and they weren't about to let 3 hijack their own marketing campaign...
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