The Universe has a new Miss and Ty Ty approves.
Miss Philippines, Catriona Gray, was crowned Miss Universe 2018 on Sunday night, and some are speculating that her signature runway walk may have sealed the deal.
Even America's Next Top Model creator and supermodel Tyra Banks agreed.
The final moment arrived.
Folks just could not get over that walk.
Banks reached out to Gray on Twitter to show her support and the two shared a special social media moment.
If Tyra loves it, we all love it.
While Bode said it’s fine to dislike a fictional character, she criticized ableist jokes targeting Nessarose’s inability to walk, noting they mirror real-world prejudices.
She pointed to comments like wanting to harm the character or saying she “deserves her disability” as particularly harmful.
“When these jokes are being made by nondisabled strangers with a punchline of not being able to walk, it very much feels like laughing at rather than laughing with.”
She urged fans to be more considerate and to listen to disabled voices, highlighting Wicked’s themes of understanding and compassion.
Folks in the comments praised her for her professionalism in calling people out for bad behavior, while acknowledging that she shouldn’t need to be so even-tempered in the face of such comments.
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Many praised her for her nuanced interpretation of a complex character in the film.
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Others chimed in with their thoughts on the character.
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People agreed that commenters are way out of line.
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Several disabled commenters thanked her.
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Wicked came out in theaters on November 22nd.
The Governor's response to Republican criticism of open-border policies under Democratic President Joe Biden's administration came to light after a viral video message from a doctor on TikTok encouraged patients to ignore Abbott's executive order.
Tony Pastor, a doctor at Texas’s Children’s Hospital and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, suspected the mandate was "under the guise of trying to get data on how much money" hospitals were spending on undocumented patients.
So he encouraged patients not to respond to the US citizenship question when filling out hospital intake forms.
You can watch his video here.
“It has made all of us physicians and providers super uncomfortable,” said Pastor, adding:
“No one has told us what people are going to do with this information.”
Many on social media praised him for sharing the insight.
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Abbott issued the executive order on August 8.
It required the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to collect "information on illegal immigrants who use Texas public hospitals for inpatient and emergency care and to report incurred healthcare costs due to the Biden-Harris Administration’s reckless open border policies.”
In a press release, Abbott stated:
“Due to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ open border policies, Texas has had to foot the bill for medical costs for individuals illegally in the state.”
“Texans should not have to shoulder the burden of financially supporting medical care for illegal immigrants."
He continued:
"That is why today I issued an Executive Order requiring the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to collect and report healthcare costs for illegal immigrants in our state."
"Texas will hold the Biden-Harris Administration accountable for the consequences of their open border policies, and we will fight to ensure that they pay back Texas for their costly and dangerous policies.”
The Texas Governor ordered that the HHSC will "immediately begin" to "collect information regarding the cost of medical care provided to illegal immigrants, beginning by November 1, 2024."
When Pastor's video demanding his state "do what's right for the health of patients in Texas" went viral, Abbott wrote the following message on X (formerly Twitter).
"Hey Texas Children’s Hospital & Baylor College of Medicine, this doctor is putting your Medicaid and Medicare funding at risk."
"You better think twice & have crystal clear records. There will be consequences for failing to follow the law in the Executive Order."
Abbott also shared a link behind a paywall to the San Antonio Express News reporting on the story.
The Governor's threat didn't go over so well on the internet.
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In response, Pastor posted a follow-up TikTok video of him beaming with an overlaying text that read:
"When the gov of Texas threatens you on twitter because he is mad you exercised freedom of speech."
The brief clip was accompanied by the song "Popular" performed by Ariana Grande from the Wicked movie soundtrack.
His popularity continued surging.
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Pastor touched on immigration in an October 31 TikTok video, explaining how his grandfather immigrated across the border to receive medical care.
“It just drives me crazy that we’ve come this far as a nation that we forget we are a nation of immigrants,” said Pastor, adding:
“And racism and bigotry has just taken over a small population.”
You can watch a clip of the news story here.
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But not all censoring is malicious in its intent or inherently harmful.
Public sector censorship can be related to national security or a symptom of fascism. Private sector censorship can be to protect industry secrets or to hide information to avoid public backlash.
Most adults engage in some form of ccensorship when it comes to children.
They may censor their own language, use parental controls to censor images, websites, or entertainment content or it may be employed to push a political or religious agenda onto other people's children.
And sometimes, it's just plain stupid.
Reddit user RobIson240YT asked:
"What's the dumbest thing you've seen censored?"
"In high school French class, I was given a photocopied excerpt from David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day to read for class by the teacher. There is a single reference to the author having a 'boyfriend' that had been whited-out during the photocopying."
"The book was available in the school library, uncensored."
"This one specific teacher was against the mere idea of homosexuals, but, apparently, found enough importance in this chapter of a book by an openly gay man that she had photocopied the chapter."
"Then she made sure to obviously omit a single word."
~ Malfoy657
"Many years ago, on Animal Planet, at 7 o’clock there was a show about elephants, including mating and giving birth, plus how elephants fight off a concerted attack by lions trying to have a baby elephant over for dinner, nothing censored."
"The following program at 8 o’clock was about gazelles, also including giving birth (not censored,) lions getting dinner (also not censored) as well as mating, but the gazelle’s penis was censored.
"Why‽‽"
"One, the previous show censored absolutely nothing. And two, if censoring anything, then why not the blood and gore‽‽"
~ GrumpyOldGeezer_4711
"In 1996, AOL's profanity filter blocked people from the British town of Scunthorpe from creating accounts because 'Scunthorpe' contains the word 'c*nt'."
~ paraworldblue
"This also happened with cable company NTL, which—before they were bought by Virgin—was the UK's largest cable provider."
"When NTL bought out Diamond Cable and inherited their customer base, the new customer support software also had a 'bad word' filter for signing up new customers."
"Scunthorpe, England was one of Diamond Cable's larger markets and suddenly no new customers could sign up."
"It got fixed pretty quickly, but it happens often enough that the phenomenon has its own Wikipedia page: The Scunthorpe Problem."
~ Leiawen
"The word 'unalive' being used in place of words like death, suicide, kill, or murder."
"It's dumb enough that Tiktok censors content with those words in the first place, but it's a whole other level of dumb when people carry it with them to other sites like Reddit that don't even have those policies."
"It seems like a lot of kids have missed the context that 'unalive' only exists to get around idiotic censorship and have instead misinterpreted it to mean that the words are actually problematic and that censoring them is actually a good thing."
"It's not. Just say the f*cking words."
~ paraworldblue
"I saw Blazing Saddles on some small network TV channel. The whole thing was heavily edited, of course, but the worst one was the scene where the cowboys are sitting around a camp fire, eating beans, and farting."
"For some reason, the network took out all the farting. So it was just a bunch of dudes sitting at a fire, silent, leaning over every couple of seconds."
"It was so weird."
~ TrademarkedLobster
"That sounds like an old edit I saw. They removed the farts, muffled 'Schtupp' to sound like 'Shhh', but left in all the racial slurs."
"The 80s could be weird sometimes."
~ ermghoti
"When Instagram pages post news on shootings, they always say sh*t instead of shot, which I never understand."
~ OLKEUK
"I would also sh*t myself in a shooting."
~ Spram2
"Shooting changed to Sh**ting, because all I see is 💩💩 (sh*tting)."
~ lockwolf
"In high school, a teacher wanted his class to read One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich. It’s a classic about a prisoner in a Russian Gulag."
"But some parents objected to the language. They were afraid their kid would be scarred for life if they read any profanity."
"The compromise was to to come up with a list of words, by page and line number, that had to be removed. A handful of students who had turned 18 were each given a stack of books and Sharpie."
"When the books were handed out to the class, it became a game to see who could figure out what each blacked out word was."
~ JustSomeGuy_56
"Scarred by profanity, but not the account of the horrors of a gulag?"
~ Infinityskull
"Was watching a medical show once, and they were showing a male patient getting pectoral implants. Only the chest area was shown."
"They showed the whole chest, unedited, but as soon as an implant was inserted on each side, the nipples were immediately pixelated."
"The very same nipple that was fine when the chest was flatter."
~ Rogue_N_PeasantSlave
"I remember watching a documentary covering the transition for a transgender person. They showed some of the operations."
"With the part of the breast augmentation, they showed the chest being sliced, and then the breast implants being slid in. The second the implants were in they started pixelating the nipples."
"My eyes nearly rolled out my goddam head."
~ ExxInferis
"On a Jaguar/Land Rover forum of all places, I once stumbled across the word 'Shenanigans' auto censored as 'Shena****ns'."
"I feel like someone had to create a blacklist of forbidden wordswhen creating the site, but went overboard."
~ Madougatee
"I still think it is funny when a horror, crime, action movie or war movie is televised and bad words are cut out but the violence is still intact."
"The same applies to nudity, but as this is less common in film than swear words and can usually be cut, it feels different than seeing a clearly dubbed swear word. Trust me, I think a kid will be less traumatized hearing a word they know than seeing someone die."
"Also I get that swear words are not accepted, but 'f*ck' and 'frick' are just synonyms, so you are just teaching kids to swear in a way that doesn't get them in trouble."
"For me, Goodfellas is always my go to."
"The amount of censorship involved in putting it on tv is so absurd, but so much of the violence is maintained without any edits."
"It is like TV executives think that swearing is the real issue with the characters in the film."
~ teachmeyourstory
"I'm a former teacher."
"I had some parents successfully block me from teaching Fahrenheit 451 to high school juniors."
~ classroomcomedian
"There's the guy named Nasser, who wanted to use his own name as his gaming handle in Warhammer III."
"It was censored to remove the word 'ass', so the game turned his name into 'N***er'—which looks so much worse."
~ DisgruntlesAnonymous
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"Got an image saved somewhere of that dude named Nasser who got part of his name censored. The censorship really makes it look worse."
~ kombatminipig
"The New York Times had a style guide that used homosexual instead of gay."
"So Memphis Grizzlies basketball player Rudy Gay's name got autocorrected to Rudy Homosexual."
~ enad58
"A website reviewing the movie X-Men: X2."
"When commenting on the character Nightcrawler, the actor who played the part, Alan Cumming, was written Alan C*****g."
"Wut‽‽ Dude, it's his name!"
~ Professional_Egg_858
What's the most ridiculous censorship you've seen?
This is especially true when it comes to food service.
But in the end, most of what we're about to "find out " are things we already knew on some level.
I don't go to IHOP for the cleanliness, but I do love the pancakes regardless.
And here's a little tip from my last experience: movie popcorn in the early part of the day is mostly from the night before.
Just FYI.
Redditor SpottedGelato wanted to expose some hidden facts about everyone's workplaces, so they asked:
"What's a secret in your job that people aren't supposed to know about?"
"Working for giant companies, it’s comical how many systems are raggedy messes of bare-bones functionality. All available money gets thrown at certain projects, leaving everything else to work on complete shoe-strings."
- _Externails_
"Piggybacking off this, worked for 3 top tier tech companies in the last 12 years. So much. waste and gross inefficiency."
"The people who complain about government inefficiency and worship privatization have absolutely no clue that it's simply because corporate inefficiency is entirely hidden away from public scrutiny. If corporations had to be as transparent as government agencies, their shareholders would skin them alive at every earnings call."
- thrawnie
"60-year-old, married with 3 kids, the boss is doing his 23-year-old assistant. She charges him $300 when they do. It’s a whole thing."
- Lekomano92
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"You can call multiple entirely separate company customer service departments and talk to the exact same agent at the exact same desk who has been trained in all of them."
- TeaJazzer
"Where I worked, we took calls on our direct number, and then they made it so we'd also take calls from a related service to free them up for actual emergencies. One of our regular problematic callers had been phoning us repeatedly on our usual number, and then we got a call from her redirected from the other number - when one of our night call handlers took the call, she said 'How, the HELL, am I talking to you?!' before hanging up. Didn't stop her calling back more times overnight. I think she was annoyed that she was down a service to harass, but we found it quite funny."
- Perstyr
"I was a server at a chain barbecue restaurant. Yummy food, and they played blues all day. The secret was what they put in the potato salad that was so good… celery seeds. When I was first hired & doing training, they told us we would lose our jobs if we told anyone. It’s been > 25 years, I think I’m safe to blow the secret. 😂"
- DecadentLife
"It’s insanely easy to be a 'bestselling' novelist, and just because you are doesn’t mean you make any money. I’m a true-blue USA Today Bestselling Author, and I’ve made $5ish in 2024."
- villettegirl
"They track individual bookstores. They don’t track ALL stuff that’s sold so as there are fewer bookstores, it becomes very easy to game that system. However, they never bothered to do it unless they thought the book had an audience and could make money off that game. So it means the publishers themselves have a lot of faith in you."
- nofishies
"There are rats in the kitchen."
- flacotron
"The rats are wherever the garbage is put outside. Rats and mice. If there's a steady amount of food being dumped in a large bin, then the rats and mice will figure it out. And if the back door to the restaurant is ajar or open for any amount of time, the rats/mice will move toward the scent of more food, along with the heat. ALWAYS shut lids, close doors, and place traps at strategic access points. Either that or you will find little rice-shaped pieces of sh*t in places you don't want to find them."
- Dimpleshenk
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"The markup on supplies in the medical field is criminal."
- I_am_Reddington
"I used to work in DME. And yeah, it’s outrageous what they would charge for things. Do you know that walker grandma got when she went to the hospital? She was probably charged $150 for it when our cost was around $12. That applied to just about everything we offered, which, if you’re familiar with DME, is a whole bunch of stuff."
- brandognabalogna
"I fix the lottery equipment for my state. This includes lottery ticket vending machines, Powerball terminals (the ones at literally every convenience store/bar, etc), and keno vending machines. There is zero technical documentation of any kind. We made these things and there is literally nothing. No wiring schematics/blueprints, nothing."
"There are no more new Powerball terminals. If something breaks we cannibalize parts from other machines. I have literally sat there scraping BBQ sauce off machines so we can give them out to new bars. Also, the lottery ticket vending machines run XP and are Internet-connected."
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"Restarting your computer will fix so many problems you call your IT dept for when you don’t restart the damn thing for 8 months."
- Gh0sts1ght
"I did tech support for phones. Do I know anything at all about that? No. But I can tell you to turn it off and turn it on again. Fixed the problem almost every time."
- Not_A_Wendigo
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"If your 2-year-old doesn’t want to paint because they’d rather do something else, we can’t force them. If you keep complaining and being nasty because you want fridge art, we will do your child’s art and put their name in it so you can stop complaining."
- SleepyOrange007
"We would throw away do much food from the lunch boxes so parents would think it was eaten. No, we will not give your child leftover Halloween candy right before naptime. No, little kids cannot 'save room for later.' Just because Junior eats something when he’s on your lap and you’re spoonfeeding him, doesn’t mean he’ll eat it on his own."
"We would do everything we could not to serve the birthday pizza. The kids weren’t used to digesting that cheap cheese and dough so it was always a bathroom disaster."
- Silly_Somewhere1791
"Olive Garden Server: You can get 3 free wine samples every time you go."
- _Neither_Bug
"The last time I went to Olive Garden there were cockroaches on the wall as we were being seated (10 years ago). The server acted like she didn’t see it. The manager offered us a free ('free', TIL) glass of wine. We walked out. All I could imagine was fruit flies in the bottle. Shoutout to Bloomington for ruining one of my anniversary dinners. I don’t even remember what we did when we left, but I will NEVER forget that cockroach just walking on the wall by my booth."
- MidnightFire1420
"Most family members have no idea what's best or even good for their loved ones with dementia. A lot of times, they make things worse."
- HelgaGeePataki
"I work at a memory care facility and see this all the time. Families pushing for more and more medical interventions (knee replacement, organ transplant) for their 96-year-old grandma with severe dementia. Putting these people through all that when they don’t even know what’s happening to them or why is so cruel. Just let them live the remainder of their life peacefully."
- Key_Artichoke99
"Most elevators in the United States do not get maintained properly. I used to work for an elevator company, and they would only limit us to a few calls a day because they didn't want to give the impression that something was wrong with their elevators. They didn't want to lose those contracts for those elevators and maintenance. Once in a while, I would say maybe three/four times a month we would find an elevator that was really in bad shape."
"Every time we would put it out of service, the next day, it would be in service again. I am not sure who put it back in service, but someone did. Even if we reported it, nothing would get done, and no one would check the cameras or anything. It was better to take a risk and not have people complaining about having to use the stairs even if it cost them their own safety. I learned to keep my mouth shut and do what I was told. I was close to retirement and didn't want to lose that."
- Charlietango2007
"The IRS doesn't have the budget to enforce tax law, and will drop any issues they feel would cost more than they will collect. There has been more than one instance where a client comes to us after years of arguing with the IRS and we will literally just reprint their prior letters on our letterhead to have the IRS drop the whole matter."
- BackInTheRealWorld
"Many sales guys are the guys that never grew out of the frat house, but the ones that make bank every single year are the guys that really listen and understand someone's motivations without them spelling it out. Those folks know what's important to their customers and their boss and quietly find a way to make everything work for everyone involved."
"The guy that's the life of the party, knows everyone around, and loves making connections can do well in sales, but the quiet, emotionally intelligent, and detail-oriented guys will make $150k+ every single year selling just about anything out there."
- wastedpixls
"Any part I can get, you can get too. The only difference is I mark it up by 30 and then charge you labor and taxes."
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This is why I eat out less and less.
And why I sometimes BYOB and snacks when dining out.
I can't say I'm shocked about the mechanics mark-up.
How do I go in for a $40 oil change and suddenly drop $1000 on things that are suddenly necessary?
That scam is the lie out in the open.
Also, I'm claustrophobic.
I detest elevators.
And now I know I was right to be afraid.
They don't check those things.
We could all plummet to our deaths at any second.
No one better say anything to me about them again.
