Cynthia Eviro doesn't like your Wicked edits, Mariah Carey "tortured" by overhead lighting & the World Conker Championship cheating scandal
Your weekly Cringe edit
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Whatever kind of week you’ve had, we hope this hits the spot:
Group chat fodder
Annie’s favourite headlines
The recent Pop Bitch shared a lovely story about the late Liam Payne’s affinity for drawing in his post-One Direction years: Apparently he once met David Hockney through the artist’s great-nephew and decided to draw him before the meet-up. It can’t have been half bad: After Liam gave him the portrait, David Hockney decided to hang it up in his house.
Pregnant Gypsy-Rose Blanchard Says It's 'Heartbreaking' Her Mom Will Never Know Her Daughter (not satire)
This brilliantly relatable quote by Mariah Carey following one long satisfying rant:
Overhead lighting, it makes me sick…”
Channel 4 Countdown star John Cowen charged with stabbing rival at tournament – must’ve been confusing then for Susie Dent to see her picture in the Daily Star under the headline "Channel 4 Countdown star charged with stabbing rival at tournament". The publication has since apologised:
"On 13 October 2024, we published a picture of Susie Dent in an article about an alleged assault at a Countdown themed event (not licensed by Channel 4 or officially linked to Countdown). The inclusion of this image may have given the false impression that Ms Dent was involved in the assault, and for that we extend our sincere apologies to her.”
About Elon Musk’s SNL appearance:
Georjia’s favourite headlines
The Apple cam at the Sweat Tour seems to bring out the crazy and desperate of people with TikToker Brittany Broski getting pushed off camera by a random man who wanted to shine.
After reposting a meme of the Wicked poster, Cynthia Eviro called out the Wicked AI poster edits as “the most offensive thing”. Girl, you posted the meme first?
Keir Starmer is considering offering Ozempic to the overweight and unemployed demographic to help boost the economy.
82-year old “King Conker” has been accused of cheating in the World Conker Championships:
@metroukA winner of the World Conker Championships was found with an identical steel conker in his pocket! It's launched a whole investigation into cheating allegations on 82-year-old David Jakins, or King Conker. He's insisting it was just for 'humour value' but one of his competitors said: 'My conker disintegrated in one hit, and that just doesn’t happen.' #fy #fyp #scandal #cheat #funnynews #viral #uknews #autumn #fall #conker #conkerchampionships #northamptonshire #newstok #viralnews #investigation #competition
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WYR be caught showing a colleague the middle finger while on a Zoom call or accidentally pull out a dildo from the wrong drawer?
Context: The first part of this week’s Would You Rather is inspired by a politician getting caught on camera giving a journalist the middle finger. The second half is loosely based on a Twitch streamer accidentally opening the wrong drawer revealing her collection of dildos while on a stream.
Georjia: I do think flipping off a colleague is necessary in the right context. It could be as a joke, some office banter if you will. But this being on a Zoom call, you could be accused of doing it to everyone on the call which could make the consequence more severe. I think we’ve all been in a Zoom meeting and desperately stopped ourselves from rolling our eyes or moaning about someone, so to finally release that energy and get caught doing it – ouch, but probably necessary. It must be a fear for people to pull out a sex toy from a drawer or have someone find one, we don’t understand the shame of it but it’s still embarrassing. A bit of a “Sorry you’ve caught me and I’m not even using it right now” moment. I understand flipping off a colleague could lead to drama and issues in the workplace but I think I could deal with that better than revealing a plethora of sex toys by accident. Maybe that’s something I need to bring up to a therapist. I’ll flip off a colleague as I’m sure they deserved it.
Annie: Two almost equally vulnerable situations, despite relating to quite different emotional states… We can probably all agree that the best part about Zoom meetings is the side conversation you have with a colleague or two, especially when the meeting is led by someone (usually senior) you all collectively dislike. Is it kind? No. Is it justified? Depends. But considering I’m paranoid enough to send a personal message on Teams and therefore tend to switch over to WhatsApp, I can’t even imagine the embarrassment of accidentally flipping someone off on camera – imagine the meeting is being recorded too! Sure, everyone seeing your dildo collection is embarrassing, but what happened to sex positivity huh? I’d rather be embarrassed knowing I’ve maybe made someone feel a little less ashamed about their own collection than get an email from HR after flipping someone off. Let me display the dildo collection!
Weekly palate cleansers
Annie: This diva:
Georjia: Al Pacino showing off his Shrek phone case.
Meme of the week
The Substance memes are better than the actual film ngl:
That’s it for this week, see you next Friday!