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There are two lessons to be learned from this week’s stories on a pastor who complained on a receipt about tipping a server “more than God.” One – don’t complain about things via restaurant receipt, thus providing stilted servers written evidence of your stinginess. Two – don’t post such complaints online if you’re a server and you want to keep your job.

St. Louis pastor Alois Bell, disagreed with an 18 percent gratuity charge added to her Applebee’s bill, and let it be known on her receipt, writing “I give God 10% why do you get 18″ and scratching out the gratuity charge, replacing it with a zero, TheSmokingGun.com reports.

The server showed the receipt to another server, named Chelsea Welch, who took a photo of it and posted the photo on Reddit.com, sparking nationwide fury and attempts to identify the pastor in question, The Consumerist reports. Welch was later fired from her job, she told The Consumerist, after she says Bell called her restaurant and complained about the incident.

In an interview with The Smoking Gun, Bell apologized for the note, calling it a “lapse in judgment that has been blown out of proportion.”

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is really dedicated to making sure the kids get their milk.

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Legendary porn star Ron Jeremy is in critical condition in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart aneurysm.

The adult film actor admitted himself into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Tuesday, complaining of severe chest pains.

His condition worsened overnight and he has since been receiving treatment in the intensive care unit.

Jeremy’s manager, Mike Esterman, tells TMZ.com the 59 year old is currently being prepared for emergency surgery.

The star, who has appeared in over 2,000 porn movies throughout his career, had been booked to appear at a Super Bowl Sunday party this weekendin Dedham, Mass., although it is not yet known if he will be well enough to honour the commitment.

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Reality TV stars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt frittered away their $10 million fortune because they believed the world would end in 2012.

In 2010, Pratt revealed the couple was broke and on the verge of bankruptcy, and they even gave up their luxury home and moved in with his father to save money.

He has now admitted they deliberately spent all their cash before December 21, 2012 — the day the world was set to end, according to a prophesy based on the Mayan calendar.

He tells Britain’s OK! magazine, “We made and spent at least 10 million dollars. The thing is, we heard that the planet was going to end in 2012. We thought, we have got to spend this money before the asteroid hits.

“Here’s some advice, definitely do not spend your money thinking asteroids are coming. But the world didn’t end.”

Opening up about his extravagant lifestyle, Pratt adds, “I would give my friends $15,000 for their birthday. Just cash. I would buy people cars. Every valet I met got a couple of hundred pounds tip. I would pay people $200 just to open doors for us.”

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Here are some hot new findings in the world of domestic bliss.

Sociologists say married men who spend more time doing traditionally female chores, such as cooking, cleaning and shopping, report having less sex than husbands who don’t do as much. Conversely, men who did more manly chores, such as yard work, paying bills and auto repairs, reported having more sex.

The study, using data on heterosexual couples in the United States from National Survey of Families and Households, appears in the February issue of American Sociological Review.

As a graph from the paper below, the difference is pretty stark between men who do a lot of “female” chores (core housework) and those who don’t.

Sexual Frequency (times per month) by men’s share of core and non-core housework. (American Sociological Review)

So what gives?

The scientists found that happiness, religion, gender ideology, and a range of other variables did not affect the relationship between more traditional divisions of labor and more frequent sexual activity.

Interestingly, previous research has found that women’s marital satisfaction increases as men participate more in overall household labor, and that includes traditionally female chores. But this study seems to indicate that such satisfaction does not translate into more sex.

The basic takeaway seems to be that even as the world becomes more gender neutral in the 21st century, gender and traditional gender roles remain important cues for human behavior.

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Any time you’re feeling down, it’s nice to have a few viral videos on hand to help get your spirits up again. Following in the footsteps of the bike-conquering boy, Kid President offers a few words of wisdom on how to leave boring behind and start making life awesome.

Quoting Robert Frost’s famous poem “The Road Not Taken,” Kid President says, “What if there really were two paths? I want to be on the one that leads to awesome.”