so someone shit their pants on a plane
+ wtf is happening with celeb relationships rn? AND win an Olivia Rodrigo GUTS vinyl!!
My ANGELS!!!! Holy shit thank you for all the emails and comments about my visa (and for accepting that my love language is sending you all unsolicited emails with life updates at 6pm on a Monday night!!) I have more updates!
I’m flying out on Tuesday night (yes - this COMING TUESDAY) so I’m feeling panicked and stressed - mostly because I’m still waiting for my passport to arrive to me. It’s with the courier as we speak, it’s currently a Friday… my flight up to Auckland is on Monday… how are we liking my chances? Can anyone give me some reassurance that couriers do in fact deliver on the weekend? Why do I do this to myself? My impatience is actually my superpower and my downfall tbh.
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WIN an Olivia Rodrigo GUTS vinyl!!
Someone shat themselves on a plane
In celebrity relasho’s
Shit You Should Cook About: 🥚Summer Salad Nicoise🥗
China wants to ban clothes that 'hurt nation's feelings
Danny Masterson from ‘That 70s Show” has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison
WIN an Olivia Rodrigo GUTS vinyl!!
Angels!!!! In celebration of the release of Olivia Rodrigo's second album GUTS, we are giving away the GUTS vinyl to TWO of our gorgeous kiwi subscribers!!
All you have to do is fill out this form here and tell us about something you’ve done that you KNEW was a bad idea (but you did it anyway.)
Two lucky kiwi subscribers will be getting notified whether they’ve won a vinyl next week, but in the meantime GO STREAM GUTS!
Someone shat themselves on a plane
Gotta give a quick shoutout to Normy’s favourite story of the week (and one we talked about on the literal shit show today) which is: a Delta Airlines flight had to return home due to a ‘biohazard issue.’ This biohazard issue, friends, was that there was diarrhea ‘all the way through’ the plane.
The plane was two hours into its journey from Atlanta to Spain before a passenger (who I feel so fucking bad for) left a trail of diarrhea that took the crew five hours to clean up, and caused an entire aisle’s carpet to be replaced. All the details we know in this weeks ep of The Shit Show!
In celebrity relasho’s
Listen to us as we discuss all of these updates in this week’s Culture Vulture!!!
Shit You Should Cook About is written by London Laura - our resident ray of sunshine and co-host of Culture Vulture (our weekly pop culture podcast!) She’s a new London dweller, chief of romanticising literally everything, and will definitely ask you all what your love language is at some stage. You can find more Shit You Should Cook About over
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BIG news this week - we did our last-ever Culture Vulture pod from opposite sides of the world! From next week Luce and I will be on the same timezone (and who knows what will come from that!!) 🎉🎉🎉
In my world - London is experiencing a very late summer heatwave 😬 my bus broke down yesterday on my way home in 32 degrees (London is not built for these temps) and we have been braving the murky depths of the Hampstead Heath ponds (great writeup on them here) to cool off - I have never missed Aotearoa & its ocean more!!!
When it is this hot I want to eat things that take minimal effort (and definitely don’t involve an oven), and one I keep coming back to is a meal my mum used to make a lot - in the same lane as quiche, filo pie and everything early 90’s - salad nicoise. A french salad with a focus on *crunch* it is made for summer and can be heavily adapted depending on what you have in the house. Also as a pescatarian, this is a great one for protein as she’s got eggs and fish - but you could swap out for whatever you prefer!!
As always say hi over on @shityoushouldcookabout or Geneva - looove to see what you are cooking!!! <3 <3
🥚Summer Salad Nicoise🥗
(for two)
1 large tin of tuna
2 boiled eggs
1 potato, cut into small chunks
A handful of green beans
2 tomatoes
½ a cucumber
½ a head of lettuce
optional - olive oil, olives, mayonnaise, dressing of choice.
Boil your eggs for 6 minutes (less more / depending on runny-ness! Once they are done, remove and set aside. Refill the pot with boiling water, and when it’s bubbling add your beans and potato pieces. Chop your tomato and cucumber into small, similar sized pieces, and tear your lettuce. Remove your potatoes / beans once cooked (after 5-10 minutes) and strain, running under cold water for 30 seconds. Add to a bowl with tuna, lettuce, tomatoes & cucumber and drizzle with olive oil / salt and pepper. Peel your boiled eggs, slice in half and pop on top. Drizzle with more olive oil, your dressing of choice and serve!
China wants to ban clothes that 'hurt nation's feelings
A draft law “banning speech and dressing detrimental to the spirit of Chinese people" is causing a bit of debate at the moment. The claim, which people are rightly wanting more clarification about, suggests that people who wear (or force other people to wear) anything that “undermines or hurts the feeling of the Chinese nation” could be detained for up to 15 days and fined up to 5,000 yuan!!
Danny Masterson from ‘That 70s Show” has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison
This is a breaking story from The New York Times, so here’s an excerpt from their reporting:
Danny Masterson, the actor best known for his role in the sitcom “That ’70s Show,” was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on Thursday for the rapes of two women when he was at the height of his career more than 20 years ago.
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