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Audrey Roloff and Jacob Roloff: No Longer Feuding?!

Even though Audrey Roloff is quitting Little People, Big World because it’s God’s plan , she’s still a public figure. Fans and followers can still see glimpses of her life on social media. So color many fans surprised when none other than Jacob Roloff, Audrey’s brother-in-law, showed up on her Instagram. And no shade was thrown. Have Auj and Jacob really buried their feud? On Saturday, August 4, Auj took to her Instagram stories to share a glimpse of her spending family time with her husband and his siblings. That’s right — all four Roloff siblings, each with their respective significant others. She captioned her image “Ice cream walks.” in it, you can see that Audrey and Jacob, her brother-in-law, are getting along perfectly well. Auj goes out of her way to pan over to Jacob where he is walking with his fiancee, Isabel Rock.  Awwww, they look so cute! Jacob doesn’t follow Audrey on Instagram — he also doesn’t follow his father, Matt Roloff. But Audrey has “liked” nearly all of his posts for a while, now. They might not really seem like best buddies on social media, but it looks like they’re getting along well enough in real life. Feud rumors have swirled about these two since long before Audrey skipped Jacob’s engagement party , but it looks like things have improved. At the very least, neither feels the need to skip out on a family activity where the other is present. Some feuds are brought about by a specific instance. Someone was snubbed, or had a huge fight. While it’s possible that something like that happened behind closed doors between Jacob and Auj, Jacob doesn’t do the family’s show so fans certainly haven’t seen it. Instead, it looks like these two have ideological differences. Jacob is an outspoken agnostic who resents having been brought up with no choice about his own religious beliefs or activities. That’s an understandable source of anger. No one likes to feel powerless. Audrey is a diehard Christian whose views lean towards the traditional and conservative, even going so far as to refer to a “twisted generation” while praying for her daughter . In other words, these two are apparent opposites. The only thing that they seem to have in common is Jeremy Roloff and nice hair. Since Jacob and Audrey see the world in such different ways — and both are so outspoken — how are they able to get along so well? Part of that is almost certainly that they are just getting accustomed to each other. They are, after all, family. But there may be a secret ingredient to how these two in-laws are getting along: Isabel Rock. A number of fans believe that Isabel quashed Audrey and Jeremy’s feud and helped them to mend fences earlier this year. Sometimes, being aggressively friendly and loving two people can, in the nicest possible way, strongarm them into getting along. And it seems to have worked. At the moment, the Roloff siblings are all visiting their grandfather in California. He will turn 90 on January 1, 2019. It is wonderful to see and hear that Jacob and Audrey can set aside their differences for family activities — like ice cream walks. It is normal for close relatives to have wildly different views. What makes a family non-toxic is when they can respect each other’s views. Respecing them doesn’t mean pretending that they agree. But since neither Jacob nor Audrey are, like, nazis or whatever, it’s good that they can get along amicably. And it’s great that Isabel (allegedly) orchestrated their happier relationship. View Slideshow: Jacob Roloff Uses Baby Pics to Send Pointed Political Message

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Justin Bieber & Hailey Baldwin: Abstaining From Sex Until Marriage?!

By now, you’ve probably heard the news that Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin are getting married . There was a time when such a development would’ve been treated with widespread skepticism. These days, however, Justin seems to have turned over a new leaf. Don’t get us wrong, there are still many people who think he and Hailey will never make it down the aisle — and many more who believe their marriage is doomed for failure. But if this were the Bieber who was still attacking paparazzi and making life hell for Selena Gomez , it would be a question of when he would royally mess this thing up, not if. By all accounts, the Justin of 2018 is a far cry from the obnoxious twerp the whole world wanted to smack just a few short years ago. He’s toned down the douchiness; he’s sober(-ish); and he’s reportedly seen the error of his old ways. And in the proud tradition of reformed celebs that dates back to the time when silent film stars used to be found passed out in bathtubs full of Prohibition gin, Justin has found Jesus. It turns out the savior wasn’t hiding between some groupie’s legs, as Justin apparently suspected for so many years. Anyway, Hailey was raised in a devoutly religious home, and Justin is trying to make up for all his years of wanton devilry by leaning way into this Ned Flanders routing he’s got going on these days. As a result, Bieber and Baldwin are participating in an experiment that once would have been unthinkable for the Biebs. According to Star magazine, Justin and Hailey are abstaining from sex until their wedding night. They’ve done it in the past, of course, but it seems that these days, the couple is so serious about keeping their hands off one another that they’ve been sleeping in separate locations. “They’re both very religious and they want to abstain until they’re married,” claims one insider. “Justin’s a recent convert, but Hailey was brought up with religion her whole life.” The source adds: “It’s important to them to wait. So after their dates, he goes to a hotel and she goes to her apartment.” Who would have thought we’d see a time when Justin freakin’ Bieber would be abiding by the Duggar courtship rules . Of course, like Hailey, we’re assuming the Biebs is unaccompanied during all those nights in his hotel room. Can’t say we’d be surprised if he occasionally invited some “company” over. View Slideshow: Justin Bieber: All His Sexual Conquests, RANKED!

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Outback Server Whines About Tip, Gets Fired

Restaurant employees work hard to earn their tips. When they don't receive the gratuity on which they depend to make ends meet, they're understandably upset. When one Outback Steakhouse employee was given $0 in tips on a $735 order for a church, she took to social media to share her dismay and disappointment. And she was fired for it. As you'll see in the video below, she says that she wouldn't change a thing. Outback Steakhouse wisely offers delivery services in some areas — in these days of Amazon Prime and soon-to-be days of delivery via drone and autonomous vehicle, your restaurant has to be exceptional if you expect for people to physically leave their homes to eat your food. However, delivery service at one Palm Beach County, Florida Outback was delayed, and so a local megachurch, Christ Fellowship, sent a volunteer to pick up the order directly from Outback. The order for 25 people came out to $735. The volunteer paid for the order and left. There was just one problem: the volunteer didn't leave a tip. Annoying on small orders. On a massive order that took a while to put together, that kind of slight can leave wait staff financially devastated for the day. One of the employees who worked on the order was Tamalyn Yoder. Speaking to the Palm Beach Post, she explained why this is a problem, even though there was no table service: “We take the order over the phone, we put the order together, take payment and then take order to the car. It’s a lot of work just as much as serving.” As a result, she says that she made only $18 in tips from other orders — as so much of her time was occupied preparing the large order. It's important to remember that, though the minimum wage is not really a living wage, many restaurant employees are paid even less. As a number of servers have done since the advent of social media, Tamalyn took to the internet to express her disappointment that such a large order would come with no tip. A large part of her intention was to raise awareness — some people may believe that tipping isn't necessary because they aren't being waited upon at a table. It's easy to forget how much goes on behind the scenes. She was also just upset, folks. As anyone would be if their work went uncompensated. Unfortunately, Outback responded by firing her, citing its policy of firing waiters who do literally exactly what she did — complaining about customers on social media. Now, Tamalyn is speaking to the media about why she felt that this was worth being fired. “When I brought it out and put it in the car and received the payment, there was no gratuity. I got upset.” She's very matter-of-fact about events. “I posted a post on Facebook about the church not leaving a gratuity tip.” She reminds everyone of the importance of tipping. “We live off of tips. If we don’t have that then we have nothing.” A lot of people aren't sure how to tip when it's not in a restaurant. In a restaurant, 20% makes sense as a bare minimum, sure, but if you're picking up, she recommends: “Coming in to eat or takeout, you should automatically be wanting to tip 15%. From there you either go up or you go down, based on service.” She doesn't quite agree with Outback's policy. “I feel that we should be allowed to say something especially to big parties that don’t leave anything…they pay the exact amount.” Some places put an automatic gratuity on large orders; perhaps Outback should implement that. They may even learn from this example. Tamalyn says that what has transpired was worth it. “I probably would still do it the same way. I wouldn’t change anything.” She is currently searching for a new job. But she mentions that she doesn't harbor any ill will towards Christ Fellowship. “The church did reach out to me, they are trying to rectify the whole thing. And I thank them.” Christ Fellowship has clarified that the volunteer was unaware that the church always tips, as it was a last-minute arrangement.

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Barack & Michelle Obama Portraits Stir Sentiment, Controversy

Barack and Michelle Obama returned to the public eye on Monday, February 12. Both the real-life versions of these stars and two pieces of artwork based on them, as the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery unveiled its two latest additions to its presidential portraits collection. The paintings of the 44th President of the United States and his First Lady were completed by world famous artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively, and each drew quite a reaction on social media. Some users looked at these portraits and longed for the days when there was a sense of sanity and intelligence in the White House. Others, meanwhile, looked at Michelle's in particular and wondered: WTH is that?!? Scroll down for a look at the paintings and for some of the most prominent reactions online to them… 1. Barack Obama Simple. Elegant. Beautiful. There weren’t many negative responses to this depiction of former President Obama. 2. Michelle Obama A thing of beauty or a thing of controversy? The Internet is split on this official Michelle Obama portrait. 3. How Appropriate Two African-American artists for the first African-American couple in the White House. Makes sense, right? 4. We Feel Ya, Little Girl These portraits are gorgeous, they just take us back and give us ALL the feels. 5. We’re Not Entirely Sure What This Means But it still sounds about right to us. 6. The Future Seems Bright It only SEEMS that way upon portrait glance, that is. In reality, let’s remember who is President. View Slideshow

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Isabel Rock: Did She End Jacob Roloff & Audrey Roloff’s Feud?

Little People, Big World fans are still reveling in the happy news: Jacob Roloff is engaged to girlfriend Isabel Rock. This good news is compounded by the happy news that Jacob, once the black sheep of the Roloff family who left home with a lot of anger, is mending fences with his family — even with sister-in-law Audrey. A new and very telling Instagram post suggests that this may have been the doing of Jacob’s fiancee, Isabel. As you’ll see in the photo below, Isabel Rock — full name Isabel Rock Garretson — is cuddling up to Tori Roloff and Audrey. Tori being in the middle may very well be because her hair stands out. Everybody likes a little balance ot their composition, folks. Seeing the three so cuddly together is kind of important. Well, Tori gets along pretty well with most folks. It’s seeing Isabel and Audrey getting along so well that’s a relief to many people. The biggest deal of all is that Isabel used the photo to promote Audrey’s online shop. Hawking goods for your future sister-in-law is one hell of an olive branch. Isabel wrote this in the captions: “I’m so lucky that I gain three sisters by coming into this family. To receive encouragement from, endless support and to always have them to lean on Love you ladies, just missing you Molly.” She’s with Tori and Audrey, of course, who are both tagged in the sweet, sisterly pic. Molly Roloff, of course, does not live on Roloff Farms, and sometimes misses out on family photos for just that reason. (That’s life) But to understand the significance of this photo, we have to backtrack a little and talk about how Jacob and Isabel haven’t always been super close with Jacob’s family. Jacob stormed off of Roloff Farms, blasting Little People, Big World as scripted. He was angry with his family for forcing him into doing a reality show. He’s since expressed that he felt that he didn’t have a lot of choices growing up — which is, in many ways, true. Last year, in a move that was heralded to fans with a photo of his dog being affectionate with his mom, Amy Roloff, Jacob returned to the area and started the gradual process of repairing his relationships with his family. He didn’t come back alone, however. He’d been traveling with long time friend turned girlfriend, Isabel Rock. And now they’re engaged. (We still can’t help but smile as we think of the details of Jacob Roloff’s proposal to Isabel in Iceland) But just because Jacob came home doesn’t mean that there weren’t any bumps. In December, news of a Jacob vs Audrey feud erupted when fans realized that Jacob had unfollowed his brother’s wife on Instagram. Sure, Audrey plugs her own products a lot, but considering that Jacob was willing to let his mom “exploit” him to sell stuff online , we don’t think that it’s a huge issue for him. People instead point to Jacob and Audrey’s ideological differences. Audrey, like a number of the Roloffs, is a devout Christian. One of Jacob’s gripes about his childhood — one that is hardly unique to him — is that he was not given a choice regarding religious adherence. He is now agnostic, which is a pretty far cry from Audrey’s worldview. But then came Jacob’s 21st birthday (gosh, that’s incredibly young to get engaged, but he and Isabel have known each other for 7 years), where we saw Jacob and Audrey bury the hatchet . So … what happened? Fans think that Isabel happened. After the news of their engagement broke, Audrey Roloff seemed the shade Jacob and Isabel with a sex-shaming post about people “dabbling in sexuality” before marriage. But now we see that Isabel’s response is to not only embrace Audrey as a sister, but to promote her clothing — she tagged her own sweater with Audrey’s online shop, folks. Jacob may not have demonstrated the sociopolitical maneuvering skills to make nice with his sister-in-law on his own, but it looks like Isabel has him covered on that front. If her response to what looks like an epic vaguepost aimed at her is to go out of her way to be even nicer, then yeah, we can definitely see Isabel being responsible for helping to repair the Roloff family. If so, we look forward to seeing Jacob spend more time with his precious little niece, Ember Jean. View Slideshow: Ember Roloff at 5 Months: What Can She Do?!?

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Virgin Becomes Pregnant at 29 – Here’s How and Why

A 29-year-old virgin is pregnant with her first child. No, this isn’t one of those things where someone reclaims their virginity — she has genuinely never had sex in any form. A number of people are asking how, exactly, this came to be. Even more are asking why . The how is fairly obvious: Lauren, who hails from a fairly conservative Manitoba community, found a fertility clinic and a sperm donor. It was a little trickier than just that, however. “I was born with hypopituitarism, which means my pituitary gland is not formed properly. It doesn’t send the right hormonal messages to the other glands in the body, like the adrenaline gland or the ovaries.” That meant that she started puberty late. It also meant that she faced some obstacles when it came to fertility. “The hardest thing was probably getting pregnant,” Lauren the 29-year-old virgin tells VICE . “Initially my endocrinologist said it won’t happen, that I’ll need to get an egg donor and spend tens of thousands of dollars on IVF. I felt really shut down.” Eventually, though, she had success using a sperm donor from the fertility clinic. Unlike most she didn’t try the “old fashioned way” of getting pregnant first, but she had her reasons. For starters, she says that dating is … the worst. “People say horrible stuff. I remember when I had an online dating profile the first comment I got was ‘Do you want to come sit on my face?’ For one, does that actually work on anyone? And two, no thank you. People like that turn me away.” You gotta respect people’s boundaries, folks. Just because you would love a direct message (or maybe an unsolicited nude) doesn’t mean that various strangers are up for that as an icebreaker. Lauren, who is due in June, talks about how she’s toyed with the idea of sex, despite not being super interested in dating. “Since I’ve been pregnant there have been a few times where I’ve felt like maybe it would be nice to have someone for that — to go out and have sex…” Not with anyone specific, mind you. “Sometimes, out of curiosity, I think maybe I could try a random hookup, but that feeling very quickly passes — I realize I’m not acting like myself.” hey, some folks aren’t big on hookup culture. “The best possible situation would be with someone I’ve known for awhile. No dinner or anything like that. I’d be strictly seeing what this sex thing is all about.” A lot of people try things like that. Maybe she’d be into it or maybe she wouldn’t. But it doesn’t sound like she’s planning on trying it. “I feel like I would chicken out if there was a big lead-up to it. I’m a fairly anxious person, so I feel like going out to dinner with someone, I would either try to find reasons why I don’t like this person, or try to talk myself out of it.” We’d never tell anyone else what to label themselves, but we can’t help but notice that some of what this woman describes sounds like what you’d expect to hear from someone on the asexual spectrum. Your typical asexual may not particularly desire sex. Some have sex drives, which may strike them as a cosmic joke. Others do not. She says that she has engaged in kissing, much to her chagrin. “I’ve been kissed, very awkwardly. It’s not something I want to relive.” Her interviewer asks her about masturbation, and got a similar answer. “I tried it, and I didn’t really like it. Never did it again.” Some people can’t fathom someone not being interested in sex. Even more people can wrap their heads around finding dating and hookups both equally troublesome, but can’t imagine life without masturbation. If you’re wondering if her virginity is religiously motivated at this point, Lauren says that you couldn’t be further off. “I make jokes about it but basically this is me giving a middle finger to the people who told me I couldn’t do it because I’m not married yet.” It sounds like some people in her life have some very traditional views of how and when you’re supposed to have a child. “It’s the opposite of a religious reason. If you’re telling me I can’t do this, I’m going to do it anyway.” So, if we’re reading that correctly, she may come from one of those religious communities where they’d rather someone have a shotgun wedding than not get married and have a traditional family at all. Hey, good for Lauren for living life by her own terms. As fertility technology improves, people can be awarded greater independence with their reproductive choices. View Slideshow: 23 Celebrity Virgins: Who’s Waiting (or Waited) Until Marriage?

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Ho Sit Down: Bristol Palin Says She And Her New Boo Will Be Waiting Til Marriage To Have Sex

SMH. Even her kid thinks that’s laughable. Bristol Palin Pledges Abstinence Until Marriage Even though she already has one kid and there are plenty of methods of birth control that would prevent another, Bristol Palin is swearing off sex in order to “use her platform for good.” Bristol Palin says being a young mother is “hard”, and now she has vowed no more sex until she and her pipeline worker boyfriend are married. Palin, 21, tells In Touch that she is determined to walk down the aisle with Giacinto “Gino” Paoletti before they think about having another child. “Gino and I are going to wait until marriage,” she tells the magazine. “I’m doing what’s best for me. It’s between me and God, and I know it’s right.” Bristol, the oldest daughter of Sarah Palin and now the star of a new Lifetime reality show “Life’s a Tripp”, became a single mother at 18, giving birth to son Tripp in 2009. But she tells the magazine that being a teen mom was difficult. She explained, “My sister Willow is 17, and when I was her age, I was eight months pregnant, and I look at her and I think, ‘Holy cow, I was just a baby! I don’t care what your background is — it’s so hard.” She insists that she would never trade in Tripp, now three, but she wants to use her story to educate other teens. She added: ““Since I have this platform, I want to use it for good. I want to let girls know that this isn’t ideal, this isn’t fun, this isn’t easy.” Bristol, you’re 21 now. You were wild for the night at 17 and it’s no secret. We seriously doubt any teenage girl out there is gonna hang on to their v-card because you’re depriving Gino of them guts. SMH. Source

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Ali Landry on Saving Sex Until Marriage: Blame Mario Lopez!

Ali Landry appeared on The Wendy Williams Show yesterday and made a startling admission: She and husband Alejandro Monteverde waited until after they were married to have sex. How come? Because the former Miss USA was burned so badly by her first husband, actor/host Mario Lopez. “I had heard something right before the wedding. He swore that it was not true, but I had that feeling in my gut,” Landry said of rumors that her then-fiance had been unfaithful, going on to explain she actually tapped Lopez’s phone to learn the truth. Ali Landry on Wendy Williams: No Sex Until Marriage Landry filed for an annulment two weeks after confronting Lopez about his infidelity – “He still – to this day – denied it and never apologized. It was horrible,” she says – and eventually met Monteverde in a theology class. But there were no bodily fluids exchanged until vows were exchanged. “Because of the situation I was in before, I was just treading lightly, and did not want to make any mistakes in this relationship,” Landry told Williams, adding of the father of her two kids: “He was the person I was meant to be with.”

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Jason Mraz and Tristan Prettyman

Jason Mraz, who popped the question in December, is hopeful and even confident that he#39;ll be able to say “I do” before too long. “Before I got engaged, I said that I don#39;t want to get married until marriage is equal for all,” Jason Mraz, 33, told us at last week#39;s Elton John benefit concert for the American Foundation for Equal Rights in Beverly Hills. “So now I#39;m engaged, and we want to get married some day. So this kind of really puts us in the fight.” Jason Mraz fans anticipatin

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Pentagram Pizza

Wow, some people are very specific on how they want their pizza. View