Tuesday 5/28/24
Celebrate:
Amnesty International Day
International Hamburger Day
National Beef Burger Day
National Brisket Day
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Weekend Box Office
1. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga $26.3M
2. The Garfield Movie $24.0M
3. IF $16.1M
4. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes $13.4M
5. The Fall Guy $6.0M
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A group called the Unicode Consortium decides which new emojis are considered each year. And the most useful one from their latest batch is . . . "Face with Bags Under Eyes." Like, I'm so exhausted I can't even type the words.
The other six are: Fingerprint . . . leafless tree . . . harp . . . shovel . . . a splatter mark . . . and a "root vegetable" emoji that's either a beet or a turnip.
There's technically an eighth they're considering: The flag of a tiny island in the English Channel called Sark.
Have you ever used a flag emoji??? None of us are Vexillogists!
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People online are debating the things everyone just PRETENDS to enjoy . . . and somehow "other people's kids" was not the most popular answer.
Here are some of the best responses . . .
High heels
Family Christmas and Thanksgiving gatherings
Edible arrangements
Cold plunges in ice
Running
Small talk
Voluntarily waking up at 5:00 A.M.
Gender reveal parties.
Twitter or "X" or whatever.
Some people suggested more controversial things, like: IPAs . . . kombucha . . . coffee . . . "The Office" . . . TikTok . . . "League of Legends" . . . hiking . . . and "crowded events with hard-to-get and expensive crappy beer."
Most of those seemed like cases where someone DOESN'T like something mainstream or trendy and is trying to argue that it's IMPOSSIBLE that so many others like it.
Some other, better examples could be: Kale . . . extremely spicy stuff, like Carolina Reapers . . . neighbors . . . "influencers" . . . using corporate phrases like "manage client expectations" and "circle back" . . . and "people," just in general.
See the Buzzfeed article here.
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If you need an easy way to choose an outfit in the morning, TikTok is in love with something called the "Sandwich Method".
Usually, it means matching your shoes to your shirt. So they're the same color, or close. And your pants or skirt are sandwiched in the middle.
But it doesn't have to be shoes. You could also wear jeans and a blue hat or blue sunglasses, so they're the bread and your shirt is the meat.
The idea is to just create balance in your outfit without being too matchy-matchy.
Can't we have GarAnimals for alduts so the clothes are matched for us?
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - In the early 1900s, before alarm clocks were popular, people in England would hire people to knock on their windows with a pole to wake them up.
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