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23 Of The Funniest Posts About Cats And Dogs This Week (June 14-20)
Woof — it's been a long week. If you feel like you've been working like a dog, let us offer you the internet equivalent of a big pile of catnip: hilarious posts about pets. We Shih Tzu not. Each week at HuffPost, we scour Bluesky, Instagram and X, formerly Twitter, to find the funniest posts about our furballs being complete goofballs. They're sure to make you howl. (And if you want more, no need to beg ― you can check out last week's batch right here.) When I was a child, my mother tried to train our dog with the same tactics she used to raise me. She'd say stuff like "I'm going to close this door if you don't come inside right now and you'll never see me again. If you care about me you're going to come inside". To our dog. — cabby (@cabby) June 19, 2025 👏👏👏 — cats being weird little guys 👅 (@weirdlilguys) June 15, 2025 He couldn't wait to use the indoor pool at the daycare — B&S (@_B___S) June 17, 2025 The jump.. 😂 — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) June 16, 2025 instead of texting 'on my way' i'm just gonna start sending this — poppa (@popitforpoppa) June 15, 2025 I'm falling in love with this adorable cutie!😻 — The Internet of Cats 🐈🐈⬛ (@KittiesInternet) June 15, 2025 while canvassing a man followed us down the hall with two dogs to try and make us leave the building…..but the dogs looked like this: — allison (@allisongeroi) June 20, 2025 My cat learned how to roll and now she rolls all the time 😭 — contents that ll heal your depression 🌻 (@catshealdeprsn) June 15, 2025 Art Artist — The Cats 𝕏 (@TheCatsX) June 16, 2025 At the DMV yesterday looking to order vanity plates:DMV employee: 'I see your second choice here is M, R, A, A, A, O, W. What does that mean?'Me: 'you know, like the noise a cat makes, MRAAAAOW?'DMV employee: 'MRAAAAOW'Her coworker: 'Are you guys meowing at each other?!' — Grant (@KittyCat_Grant) June 13, 2025 — 𓆩♡𓆪 (@dailypxst) June 13, 2025 This is Tub and Blue. They simply cannot figure out how to get their tennis ball that fell in the pool. Still 12/10 because they really are trying — WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) June 16, 2025 i went to the hallway hamper to do some laundry to my shock and awe there she was. the hamper creature. — 🏳️⚧️walkup kitties 🐈✨🏳️🌈 (@walkupkitties) June 19, 2025 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cats Doing Things (@catsdoingthings) — WholesomeMemes (@WholesomeMeme) June 17, 2025 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Good Boys Of New York (@newyorkgoodboys) My favorite protest sign so far.🔥NO KINGS! — Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) June 14, 2025 View this post on Instagram A post shared by T R E V O R THE IGGY (@iggytrevor) A cat strolls into a bar. The bartender looks up and asks, 'What can I get you?' The cat replies, 'A shot of whiskey.' The bartender pours the drink. With a deliberate motion, the cat nudges the shot glass off the bar, gazes up, demanding, 'Another!' — CCR Feline Research Center (@CowboyCatRanch) June 19, 2025 An MLB cameraman can't see the cat at all, but he can perfectly determine the cat's current location just by looking at the crowd. He's so professional! — The Figen (@TheFigen_) June 14, 2025 22 Of The Funniest Posts About Cats And Dogs This Week 21 Of The Funniest Posts About Cats And Dogs This Week 22 Of The Funniest Posts About Cats And Dogs This Week
The Guardian
2 hours ago
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- The Guardian
‘Ordinary people enjoying themselves': Beryl Cook exhibition to open in Plymouth
She was a seaside landlady who left school at 14 and who, without any formal training, became one of Britain's most popular artists. Now, 17 years after Beryl Cook's death, her home city of Plymouth will this week announce a major exhibition that will include previously unseen works as well as much-loved humorous paintings with larger-than-life characters. Cook was chronically shy and avoided her exhibition openings – and would probably have stayed away from the show at The Box from January 2026. Spanning her entire career, it will feature loans from private and public owners, including her family. It will explore her significance in portraying 'ordinary people enjoying themselves', with both comedy and compassion. Among the paintings that have not been publicly exhibited before is Bingo, in which a woman in a bingo hall has just won a game, raising her hand in glee as a nearby woman gives her a classic Cook side-eye. It was acquired last year by The Box, whose collections include a film and television archive, on which its curator, Terah Walkup, has drawn, linking Cook's images to actual places. She has, for example, identified the Plymouth bingo hall and the exact moment of inspiration for Bingo: 'It was from a news clip on local television about the popularity of bingo. In one scene, a woman throws her hands up in the air celebrating a winning card, while women behind her cast a side-eye … 'Beryl had a notoriously photographic memory, so it could have been that she remembered this particular scene or seeing it on the local television. It changes the way that we might think about this classic humorous work. 'This particular film clip wasn't just about bingo halls. It was actually about the sociability of older women. It was about how women found space in order to meet each other, socialise, spend money and have a sense of independence in the 1980s.' The artist had in fact worried that her caricatures would offend the real-life people who had inspired them, according to her daughter-in-law, who in the early 1970s lived in the basement of Cook's modest terrace house on the Hoe. Teresa Cook told the Guardian: 'She did worry to start with. She was nervous. Actually, that's why the fan letters helped so much. People can recognise themselves or they feel they've seen somebody that looks like that … Beryl realised that there was no offence in the art and people were genuinely so happy to see her art.' Sophie Cook, the artist's granddaughter, said that because the caricatures were never cruel, 'people loved being in the paintings.' Recalling an earlier exhibition, she said: 'The major comment from every staff member was the laughter that everyone could hear … You can be having a bad day, you go and have a look at a Beryl Cook exhibition and I guarantee your day just got better.' She spoke of a new fanbase for Cook's art, that the family receives correspondence from people – particularly young people – who love it. The family hopes it is only a matter of time before the Tate shows her properly. Despite her popularity with the public, the gallery's former director declared in 1996 that 'there will be no Beryl Cooks in Tate Modern,' although she was in a 2010 group show at Tate Britain. Sign up to Art Weekly Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions after newsletter promotion Julian Spalding, former director of galleries in Sheffield, Manchester and Glasgow, criticised modern art museums 'who wouldn't go near Beryl with a barge pole, even though part of their job is preserving art history'. In his 2023 book Art Exposed, he argued: 'Beryl's work merits a place in any public collection.' He was among her earliest fans, after seeing her painting of two weary middle-aged women in a museum cafe, 'easing their sore ankles out of the pinching heels of their shoes, with blissful relief spreading across their faces'. He observed: 'No troubling art to look at any more, just a cup of tea and a seat. What an earthy response to a gallery visit … She was, I thought, a genuine artist of our time.' Teresa Cook said: 'She did a few paintings of me, and I loved them all.' They include Elvira's Café, about which Cook once said: 'This is a picture of my son and daughter-in-law's cafe, in which they serve sausage sandwiches, amongst other things … Here you see one about to be tackled by the lady in front, with Teresa enjoying the view she had of one of the many handsome marines who frequent the cafe, for they are stationed in barracks just around the corner. In the summer they sometimes arrive in sporting gear, like this vest and tiny shorts.' Walkup noted that the Tate had been supportive of this exhibition: 'This is the most extensive exhibition of Beryl Cook's work to date, a landmark show. 'It's all about recasting Beryl's career and showing that she's quite radical, particularly to do with identity and representation. Beryl was painting those who have been overlooked by society.' The exhibition draws on Cook's previously unpublished letters. In one, she wrote: 'Instead of doing housework, I go upstairs and start painting.'
Times
16 hours ago
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- Times
Cracks show in PM's team over best gags
Pity the prime minister's joke writers. For a start, they could be a team of Barry Cryers and they'd still be at the mercy of Sir Keir Starmer's delivery, but they also feel that their man doesn't give them enough credit for all his memorable jokes (yes — all of them). Chris Ward, the PM's PPS, told Five Live that Starmer will 'disown' a joke in rehearsals before finding it does well in the Commons. 'Then you'll bump into MPs and Keir's been going round saying 'I wrote this fabulous joke', ' Ward said. 'Which annoys all of us.' Ward added this is 'the right of the PM' — but Starmer will need to keep his allies on side, lest they decide they want to have the last laugh. Reform are trumpeting every win they get, so, at business questions, their MP Richard Tice raised Nigel Farage's victory in a poll of Britain's sexiest politicians by the adulterous dating website Illicit Encounters. He also acknowledged that Labour's Angela Rayner topped the female category and suggested to Commons Leader Lucy Powell that the pair celebrate by having dinner together. Powell said this would not be possible. 'I'm sure the deputy prime minister has a very full diary,' she said, 'washing her hair and the like.' While up in the International Space Station, the astronaut Tim Peake briefly thought he'd made contact with alien life. He tells All in the Mind that he looked out of the ISS's window and saw unexpected lights. The sun obscures the stars, so the appearance of three lights could only be an approaching spaceship. With no human visit scheduled, Peake thought he was about to meet ET … until his Russian colleague came in and said the lavatory was leaking. Peake explained: 'The 'spaceship' turned out to be urine that was freezing and crystallising and reflecting the light back from the sun.' So not first contact but a close encounter of the number-one kind. The bastions of the establishment are turning their backs on dress codes as we all wilt in the heat. The MCC even relaxed theirs at Lord's on Wednesday, lest men fry in their egg-and-bacon jackets. Not all places are as compromising. At Henley Royal Regatta, during a heatwave one year, an announcement was made: 'Members may remove their jackets — gentlemen will prefer not to.' The Rev Richard Coles's Radio 4 persona made him Britain's most famous parish priest, but he has unclerical tales to tell of his pre-frocked life as a member of the Communards. These include a multi-month blowout on Ibiza involving ecstasy, acid and paying for increasingly audacious forms of transport. 'We got barred from Avis for life because we got through a lot of vehicles,' he tells How to be in Love. 'Also, I bought a speedboat, and I don't know where it is. It's still there as far as I know.' Fortunately, the band were barred from buying a light aircraft. 'We went to the airport,' he recalled, 'but they wouldn't let us in because we'd forgotten to put our shirts on.'
The Sun
a day ago
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- The Sun
Mum-of-twins shares what she looked like before & after giving birth and people beg to know if ‘Dad kept the receipt'
A MUM has left people in hysterics after revealing what she looked like before and after giving birth to twins. Cheryl took to her TikTok page to share her hilarious transformation, as she said it was "too funny not to jump on this trend". 4 4 4 The video showed Cheryl "before having twins", as she was seen with a full face of make-up and gently curled hair. She also looked to be wearing a cute floral puff sleeved dress. It then showed another snap of Cheryl pre-twins, as she showed off her flawless skin and picture perfect hairdo as she posed in a white and black dress. The video then changed to show Cheryl "after having twins" - with the difference in the two images bringing many people to tears. In the after, she was seen with no make-up on, dark circles beneath her eyes and her hair unbrushed and wildly sticking out from every direction. She also appeared to be wearing her pyjamas, and added in the video's hashtags that the transformation both before and after her twins was definitely "humbling". The comments section was immediately filled with remarks from other mums saying they can completely relate to Cheryl's video. "The hair after - saaame it's killing me! Someone give me a remedy for this please!" one wrote. "This made me lol because it's so true, I'm a wreck!" another added. "I still look like your second pic," a third commented. Half of new parents believed myths during pregnancy that turned out to be false "My twins were 33 in February." As someone else called having kids "the ultimate sacrifice", another wrote: "The solidarity is real. "My two are currently going through teething & sleep regression - love that for me!" "Same! I had twins and then a single baby 2 years later!" someone else sighed. "Seemed like fun at the time. I now hide all of my photos of those first few years!" Even the men had something to say, with one joking: "Poor Dad! Hope he kept the receipt!" What are the different types of twins? TWINS are when two children are produced in the same pregnancy. They can be identical or different, and two boys, two girls, or a girl and a boy. Twins are quite rare, but are usually born completely healthy What are the different types of twins? Monozygotic – identical twins ('one cell' twins) Dizygotic – also known as 'fraternal', non identical twins. Babies are no more alike than siblings born at separate times, and they can be the same or different sexes Conjoined twins – identical twins that are joined together. They are extremely rare, and it's estimated they range from one in 49,000 to 189,000 births, although around half are stillborn, and one third die within 24 hours. Can identical twins be two different sexes? Identical twins are always of the same sex because they form from the same fertilised egg that contains either female or male chromosomes. The single egg is divided into two separate embryos, and they occur in about three in every 1000 deliveries worldwide. Therefore, boy/girl twins are always fraternal (or dizygotic), as their chromosomes are either XY (male) or XX (female). What are Di Di twins? Di Di stands for Dichronic Diamniotic, and they are the common type of twins. They have their own amniotic sacs and placenta, so are just sharing the womb of the mother, and are therefore not identical. There are few complications with Di Di twins, so have a good chance of being born completely healthy without intervention from your doctor. Di di twins are more likely to be non-identical than identical. While another hit back: "This is why we prefer our ladies without make-up. "We fall in love with them when they think they're not good enough but to us they're a 10/10." 4
Yahoo
2 days ago
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27 Funny Tweets From The Week That Sentttttt Me Into Orbit
Hello. It's certainly a time to be alive right now. If you're stuck in a doomscroll right now, let this be the *gentle* reminder to go stare at a tree, walk around, do some jumping jacks (my psychiatrist told me to start doing this when I'm feeling low it's call a friend, pet an animal, make a smoothie, something, anything! Before you bounce, I'll leave you with these 27 funny tweets from the week to put a little pep in your step: 1. 2. 3. 4. told my bf to turn his truck off while he gets gas and he said 'i never do that.. you and your superstitions' ???? — $HANTI 🦂 (@shantisdiary) June 11, 2025 @shantisdiary / Via Twitter: @shantisdiary 5. 6. 7. Related: I'm Gonna Have To Log Off For A Bit After Learning About These Terrible, Shocking, And Horrifying Things 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Related: 40 Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Creepy Wikipedia Pages 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. I have just learned that my instagram story has been auto-posting to facebook — Joe Gunn (@joegunn) June 13, 2025 Bravo / @joegunn / Via Twitter: @joegunn 18. me liking tweets that contradict each other because sometimes i see both points & two truths can co-exist — fi 🎀 (@fionabankss) June 16, 2025 Nintendo / @fionabankss / Via Twitter: @fionabankss 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. HE FUCKING CHANGED THE PASSWORD I CAN'T MAKE THIS UP — Anne Teefa (@lipbalmwhore) June 10, 2025 Comedy Central / @lipbalmwhore / Via Twitter: @lipbalmwhore Alright, that's all I've got, now go outside!!! Have a sweet treat for me (and pls send a pic in the comments if so). Do something for yourself, I'M WATCHING!!! Gonna do my jumping jacks now, TTYL! Also in Internet Finds: People Are Sharing "The Most Believable Conspiracy Theories," And Now I'm Questioning Everything I Thought I Knew Also in Internet Finds: Holy Crap, I Can't Stop Laughing At These 28 Painfully Awkward And Embarrassing Conversations Also in Internet Finds: 23 Cute, Happy, And Wholesome Posts I Saw On The Internet This Week That You Absolutely Need To See
