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Jennifer Lawrence Stunned After Amy Poehler Suggests She's Showing Subtle Sign Of Perimenopause At 35
Perimenopause occurs, on average, in most women's late thirties and early forties, teasing the hormonal shift of their next season of life. During perimenopause, women will likely experience many unusual symptoms they've never experienced before, and if they talk to a doctor about it, it'll likely be brushed off as "normal" and "just another sign of perimenopause."
The Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence got schooled in this while visiting Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast.
While the two women were talking about Lawrence's film production company, Excellent Cadaver, Poehler complimented one of the production company's films, Causeway, and Lawrence's performance in it, which Poehler claimed was one of her "most favorite things [she'd] ever seen [Lawrence] do."
Meanwhile, Lawrence repeatedly reached up to itch her right ear. While responding to Poehler's compliment, she called herself out:
"Sorry, my ear keeps itching. Is this gross?"
Quick as a whip, Poehler responded:
"No, but you know, itchy ears are a sign of perimenopause, so congrats."
Laughter could be heard on set while Lawrence's mouth dropped open in shock and she subjected Poehler to a millennial pause instead of one of her witty comebacks.
You can watch the segment here:
Viewers were thoroughly amused by Lawrence's reaction to the possibility.
The segment was also shared on the "Pop Culture Chat" subReddit, where Redditors agreed that, yes, itchy ears were very common during perimenopause, among other strange and unexpected symptoms.
"At 45, I blame everything on perimenopause. Itchy ear, perimenopause. Legs a little more hairy than I'd like, perimenopause. Haven't eaten a vegetable in a week, perimenopause." - BubblyFlow6143
"Honest to god, tho, itchy ears are one of my worst symptoms." - R00ts_Dreamland
"Itchy armpits for me. It's hard to address subtly without feeling like I'm doing a stereotypical chimpanzee impression." - ComfortableCaptain61
"Mine is the phantosmia. I smell someone smoking cigarettes ALL THE F**KING TIME. No one is smoking cigarettes anywhere near me. I swear. Then the just general feeling like I'm crazy and sweating." - Jahidinginvt
"Omg, I’m in premature menopause, and after I got diagnosed, my eyes had such extreme dryness, I had to stop using contact lenses. Told my optician I was in menopause, and he was like, ‘lol yeah, dry eyes are a side effect of lack of estrogen.’"
"LIKE … THAT TOO???? FOR REAL???" - prettybunbun
"C'MERE DOLL I'LL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT WHAT'S TO COME."
"So, firstly, any concept of a cycle goes out the window. I am 10 days early. Again."
"Then your ears itch. Like right inside, like there's wax build up that you just need to, get in there and get it out, but there's not."
"Then your armpits itch. And you think, oh, I'm a smelly monster who forgot to put on antiperspirant, so you're sweating. And then you remember it's actually minus-two outside and you're shivering, and you're not smelly."
"But don't worry, because in a minute, you'll put on a jumper, but start sweating like a murder suspect, so you take off the jumper, but then you're cold as f**k again."
"Then you lose your appetite and don't want to eat anything."
"Then your appetite comes raging back, and you want to eat everything."
"Then you start crying at IG reels about fictional gay hockey players."
"Then you start crying because the seatbelt jerked you back into your seat and hurt your boobs."
"Then your hair starts to fall out, and you start googling Minoxidil + Your Country."
"Then you discover 'sleep hygiene,' because you can't doze off until like 2:00 AM, and all of a sudden you've spent gajillions of euros on pillow sprays and magnesium-something and lions mane something and weighted blankets and the Calm app and Enya's on Spotify, and you're crying again, because your skins gone to s**t no matter how much hydrating crap you apply."
"So there's that." - dashboardhulalala
Meanwhile, some Redditors were just as shocked as Lawrence was.
"I was literally itching my ear at the same time and looked at Jennifer with the same face. Remembered we are the same age. Thanks, Amy, looking into hormone tests now." - RonnieDeVille
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"Wait… what? I turn 40 this year and … f**k." - LordOscarthePurr
"Omg, I'm not the only one! Why the heck are my armpits itchy all of a sudden!??? I don't think I've ever had an itchy armpit in my entire life, and suddenly at 46, it's a daily annoyance."
"Why did no one warn us." - activelyresting
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You can watch the full conversation here:
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This is a classic example of "the more you know," but it's especially true for women right now who are doing their best to educate themselves about this stage of life and also better prepare the women who will go through it after them.
Though this was a funny moment on the podcast, and Lawrence is famous for being able to laugh at herself, it's still so important that it happened so more women are in the know.
Ryanair Drags 'Idiot' Elon Musk After He Hurls Ableist Slur At CEO While Threatening To Buy The Airline
O'Leary said:
"What Elon Musk knows about flights and drag would be zero. We've already had Boeing confirm we have to put an aerial antenna on top of the aircraft; now, that will cost us about a 2% fuel drag."
"Our fuel bill a year is five billion; it would cost us about $200, $250 million a year. In other words, about an extra dollar for every passenger we fly and the reality for us is we can't afford those costs."
"Passengers won't pay for internet, for internet usage. If it's free, they'll use it, but they won't pay €1 each to use the internet. So we're not putting it on board."
You can hear O'Leary's comments here:
After being told that Musk—who is an investor, not an inventor or an engineer—called him "misinformed," O'Leary responded:
"I frankly wouldn't pay any attention to anything that Elon Musk puts on that cesspit of his called X. He was the guy who advocated to getting Donald Trump elected."
O'Leary went on to add:
"I would pay no attention whatsoever to Elon Musk. He's an idiot. Very wealthy, but still an idiot."
The Ryanair boss garnered support for his take on Musk.
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In response, Musk lashed out on X, calling for O'Leary to be fired.
During a subsequent outage on X, the Ryanair X account poked Musk back.
Musk then did exactly what he did to solve his problems with Twitter—threaten to buy Ryanair.
Although Musk misspelled Ryanair as Ryan Air.
He also referred to O'Leary using the same ableist slur MAGA Republican President Donald Trump has been repeatedly criticized for using.
@elonmusk/X
In response, O'Leary held a press conference in Dublin, Ireland, Wednesday where they announced a new fare especially for Elon Musk.
O'Leary told the press:
"If he wants to invest in Ryanair, we would think it's a very good investment. Mr. Musk is welcome to buy shares, but he can't take control."
European Union rules bar non-citizens of the EU from owning a major stake in a European airline.
Coupled with flashy graphics including a mock-up of Musk and O'Leary, the Ryanair CEO also announced the "Great idiot seat sale especially for Elon Musk and any other idiots on X." The sale offers 100,000 one-way tickets from €16.99 ($19.93) for travel during February, March, and April.
The Ryanair X account announced the special fare.
The account banner image was also changed on X to include the images O'Leary used during his press conference.
@Ryanair/X
O'Leary was clearly unbothered by Musk's bluster. He told the press:
"Elon Musk called me a [r-word slur] tw*t. All I have to say to Musk is, he'd have to join a very, very, very long queue of people who think I'm a [r-word slur] tw*t, including my four teenage children."
People gave the win to O'Leary and Ryanair.
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O'Leary told the press he welcomed Musk's tantrum and insults.
"It is very good for our bookings. We love these PR spats that drive bookings on Ryanair."
Their Big Idiot seat sale has reportedly had over 400 million hits since being launched.
Jesse Watters Ripped After Claiming The U.S. 'Owns' The Moon In Mind-Numbing Fox News Rant
On the latter, Trump claimed Greenland was "imperative for National and World Security" and the United States "has to have it."
But in an episode of Fox News' The Five on Tuesday, host Jesse Watters focused on justifying Trump's Greenland grab rather than his disturbing press conference performance.
Watters declared:
"We have to secure Greenland. It will happen. The United States always secures our interests, economically, militarily, either by force or purchase. Louisiana Purchase. Alaska. The Philippines. We even got the Marshall Islands after World War II. You don’t even know where they are."
Then Watters stated:
"We got the moon. I think we own it. I know we own it."
Watters is unsurprisingly, since he rarely knows what he's babbling about, unaware of the Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies—a.k.a. the Moon Treaty or Moon Agreement—signed by the United States in 1979.
The treaty specifies the moon is for the peaceful use for all of humankind, equally, and not just the five nations that have successfully landed craft there.
You can see Watters' comments here:
People mocked Watters soundly for his ignorance.
@ThoJuanita/X
After his moon claim, Watters continued his defense of Trump's Greenland obsession:
"And when the world changes, we change. So globalism is dead. We have to protect our own supply lines, we have to protect ourselves from missiles coming in from China, and we’re going to do it whether they like it or not."
"Denmark should take the offer. Denmark cannot defend or develop the island, and they're in violation of their NATO obligations because they are sworn to defend all of their territory, and they cannot defend it."
"They live under our security umbrella. It is a big, beautiful umbrella. Do they want to live under it or not?"
Greenlanders, which include the Inuit—Kalaallit, Tunumiit, and Inughuit peoples—who have called the land their home for millennia, have made it clear they do not want Trump's umbrella.
Or as they say, "Kalaallit Nunaat, Kalaallit Pigaat" or "Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders" who have repeatedly declared their home is not for sale or transfer.
No means no, but given their histories, it's no shock that both Trump and Watters don't understand the concept of consent.
Ted Cruz's Team Responds To Backlash After He's Spotted On Flight Out Of Texas As State Braces For Winter Storm
You can see Smith's post and the image below.
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In response to a request from reporters with My San Antonio, Cruz's spokesperson said Cruz "is currently on pre-planned work travel that was scheduled weeks in advance," adding that Cruz "will be back in Texas before the storm is projected to hit."
Cruz, via his official X account, shared an update from the Texas Division of Emergency Management in which he urged his followers to keep their eyes on updates from the organization and the National Weather Service, adding:
"My team and I are monitoring the incoming cold front that could bring snow, ice, and disruptive weather conditions to parts of the Lone Star State later this week."
You can see his post below.
But the timing could not be worse.
Cruz faced considerable national backlash after he flew to Cancún while millions of people went without food and water as a result of the February 2021 Texas power disaster. At least 246 people were killed directly or indirectly; some estimates suggested as many as 702 people were killed as a result of the crisis.
Cruz claimed he went to Cancún to accompany his daughters, an apology that did not sit well with his critics. He insisted that his only faux pas had been simply "wanting to be a good dad," claiming he'd only accompanied them for a single night before flying back to Texas. However, Cruz’s social media accounts had not acknowledged any official travel.
While the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) says the grid is better prepared following upgrades made after 2021, lingering concerns have prompted residents to stock up on generators and emergency supplies.
Cruz has been mocked in response.
Cruz just can't seem to stop traveling when natural disasters strike his state. Last year, he was photographed visiting Greece with his family when floods struck struck Texas over the Fourth of July weekend. At least 135 people died during this weather event.
Among the victims were 27 campers and counselors from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp straddling the Guadalupe River. Cruz was seen visiting the Parthenon in Athens with his wife, Heidi, just a day after Camp Mystic announced that more than 20 girls had gone missing in the floodwaters.
At approximately 6 p.m. local time on July 5 (11 a.m. ET), more than 24 hours after the Guadalupe River overflowed, the couple was spotted waiting in line outside the famed historical landmark.