Harry Styles ❤️'s Daniel Ricciardo
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Eeek soooo many things to talk to you about this morning!! First, infinity cute and happy to see that you all love Dunc as much as I do, he’s feeling much less self-conscious after all your GORG responses yesterday. Also THANK YOU for all of your 🐜 ant advice 🐜 (and here’s a Sunday day in the life where you can actually see me engaging in my ant battle.
Next update: two of my flatmates have covid right now (for the record I don’t have to isolate at home because I’ve had it in the last three months) but I made this HILARIOUS VIDEO of all the things Hayden has said so far about having it, and it’s really funny so you should go and watch it (also it’s basically a house reveal for me if you ever wondered what my home looks like!!)
I’ve also been meaning to ask if any of you watched Thirteen Lives (the film about the boys stuck in the caves in Thailand) because I want to know what you thought of it! Plz reply with all your musings!
And finally, you have been really making my inbox a lovely place to be with all ur cute mfing cat photos, so today we have these two cuties from newsy readers Carrie and Sophie to brighten your inbox too:
I need my carcass time
Did you know that competitive punning is a thing?
Brittney Griner's team files appeal of conviction
Harry Styles loves Daniel Ricciardo too
Russia vows to expand relations with North Korea
When you close your eyes do you see black? Or is it waves/colours/static??
I need my 'Carcass Time'
We all know that I get incredibly inspired by what I see on TikTok (boutta do a whole newsy section on this tomorrow 👀), and the other day I saw this HIGHLY relatable Tok by a girl called Avery about how she needed her ‘Carcass Time.’ Here’s what it said:
“Something about me, I need Carcass Time. I will enjoy my social life, I will be silly, I will have a smashing little time. But the second I’m home? Fully horizontal. No talking, no texting, no nothing. Gotta go full Carc for like 4 hours, then I’ll be good to go. Just gimme a sec”
And the caption was ‘extroverted introverts unite.’ As soon as I saw this I KNEW I HAD TO WRITE ABOUT IT because I just love being seen on this app (not literally, plz don't track me Bytedance.) I’ve talked about it on Culture Vulture before, but when I get into social situations I feel like I exert that much energy that by the time I’m home I’m fully depleted and literally need to close my bedroom door and do nothing. I can’t understand how people can go from social occasion to social occasion (I can do this if I have to, or if I’m drunk, don’t get me wrong) without any ME time??? It’s why I think I’ll never end up with a long-term partner because I genuinely need to be alone soooo much to be able to function/ be the Luce I like. Anyway, maybe I should be talking to a therapist about this and not putting it onto all of you, but that’s what penpals are for right???
Did you know that competitive punning is a thing?
Again - another thing I learned on TikTok - COMPETITVE PUNNING IS A LEGITIMATE THING! I also think this is something I should have gotten into as a kid but it’s okay, I’ll just continue punishing you with my amateur punning in my normal day-to-day life. Here’s a super entertaining article about punning in Fast Company if you’re interested - the world of competitive punning seems like pundemonium if you ask me!
Also, for any Bob’s Burgers fans out there - they actually have a pun QUOTA that they need to reach on each episode of the show:
“There is actually a pun quota on each episode of Bob’s Burgers. There is a storefront sign, a rat van, and a Burger of the Day in each episode and it’s each writer’s job to come up with them.”
Other non-obvious competitions:
‘Paper, Scissors, Rock’ contests
Competitive gurning (pulling weird faces)
Stone skimming
Egg throwing
There really is something out there for everyone 💘
Brittney Griner's team files appeal of conviction
Brittney Griner, who we know has been charged with nine years in prison in Russia, has just filed an appeal (well her lawyers have filed an appeal) of her sentence. We don’t actually know the grounds of the appeal (but is was expected), and here’s what we do know:
“Blagovolina and co-counsel Alexander Boykov said after the conviction that the sentence was excessive and that in similar cases defendants have received an average sentence of about five years, with about a third of them granted parole.”
We still don’t have any updates on how talks are going to exchange Brittney (with a prisoner in the US) to get her home, but as per, I’ll keep you in the loop!
My two worlds colliding in a beautiful way
Some car-aoke perhaps?
Russia vows to expand relations with North Korea
Oh yes, exactly what I needed on my Tuesday morning - news that Russia and North Korea are doing a bit more 🤝. Basically in a letter sent from Putin to Kim Jong-un on Pyongyang's ‘liberation day’ Putin said things like… their ‘comradely friendship’ would grow stronger, and that they will look to extend their ‘comprehensive and constructive bilateral relations.’
There was also naturally a bit of weapon chat, and it’s all just very 🙃🙃🙃
When you close your eyes do you see black? Or is it waves/colours/static??
When I was younger I used to close my eyes and not be able to sleep for a while because I would focus on all the colours splashing around!! It’s a hard one to explain but I remember thinking that this should be the time when my mind shuts off and I relax but noooo, it found something else to look at/ analyse. As I’ve gotten older I don’t even think about it anymore really, so I (for the most part) can just shut my eyes and not see/ focus on anything, but I was wondering if anyone else had this sensation too (or something similar) and once again, I’m not alone!!
Only 25% of you say that when you close your eyes you see just pure black
75% of you see… something
In the nature of not wanting to look too deep into this/ go all webMD on you all, I have refrained from Googling/ trying to explain this (and if you’re about to do that… do so with care plz) but I’m sure there are a million explanations out there for why this is!!
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