With huge floods in Houston turning into huge turnouts at Donald Trump’s political rally, it’s been an eventful week. Here’s your round-up for this weekend.
Like most of society, Applebees finally said fuck you to millennials and decided to go back to their good ole fashioned mid-western roots. I’m not sure what that means and I was at an Applebees last year and I didn’t realize they changed. Apparently the chain spent $40 million installing fire grills to attract these kids…I didn’t know millennials were particularly drawn to fire grills. Have you ever tried to make pulled pork on a fire grill?
Speaking of hipsters China had something special going on this week. Pictures of an 85-year-old farmer in a suit who tended rice paddies his whole life went viral. The pictures were taken by his grandson. The farmer never wore a suit and never visited Beijing before and the whole of China thought it was cute. Though I’m pretty sure his grandson never tended rice paddies before. But children who do tend rice paddies in China look cute as reported by Kristin, an American blogger who saw it first hand.
Staying on topic of viral things in Asia a cute video emerged of two doctor’s fighting over a pregnant woman arguing whether or not she had eaten before surgery. The baby and mother were both fine though but a baby did die a few feet away. Hospital spokesman said those two events were unrelated.
On Monday we had a post about the floods in Houston and the Anheuser-Busch brewery paused its beer production to can emergency drinking water. I think the process was finding transparent gallon sized plastic buckets, taking cans off the line, opening the cans, and pouring them into said buckets…because you know…Budweiser is like water. Baddaboom.
Sean Spicer finally met with Pope Francis this week. I guess the Pope was distracted and didn’t notice that two of his nuns went missing and were too busy robbing a bank in Pennsylvania.
Mark Hamill used the force and his Twitter god-status to donate to a campaign to remove Donald Trump from Twitter. He said it was all a joke though because Trump’s tweets are admissible evidence to whenever someone/something/Mike Pence sues/fires/replaces him
In related childhood movie news, I don’t know about you but IT scared the shit out of me. I remember my parents encouraging me to tune in just at the point where he pulls that little kid down the sewer thing, luring him there with a paper folded hat. I was scared of clowns from that moment on. IT ruined lives and it looks like the remake is continuing where the original left off. Clowns are now losing work because of it, or should I say IT. Also I didn’t know the fear of clowns was called coulrophobia. The more you know.
Finally in Dutch news (get your Google translators ready):
Albert Heijn was being a dick again.
The third edition of counting bikes is going to be bigger than ever this year (I didn’t know this was a thing).
Three students from Leiden were plucked from the highway by police on Tuesday trying to hitchhike. Apparently someone drove them to Amsterdam, dumped them there, and told them they had to find their own way back as part of their unique hazing ritual. Oh, they were also wearing Totally Spies! costumes. The police were kinda sorta amused but not really. It’s definitely an international relations nightmare as confirmed by a police spokesperson who stated, “Think about how something like this looks to the outside world.”
Being a person from the outside world, I had to google what the fuck Totally Spies! are.
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