From toolbox magnificence tricks to a poor style tribute CD… your weekly roundup of offbeat tales from world wide.
An actual chiselled jaw
At all times needed greater cheekbones and a manly jawline? Then take a hammer to your face.
That’s the viral recommendation of a “manosphere” TikTok influencer who’s a part of the “looksmaxxing” on-line pattern to spice up males’s sexual attraction.
Looksmaxxing influencers are selling a bunch of fast and infrequently painful DIY strategies for chin extensions, pouty lips and almond-shaped “hunter eyes” to impressionable younger males.
Additionally they urge them to take steroids, bear cosmetic surgery and even have “leg-lengthening” procedures to make them extra engaging to girls.
“Babe, what’s taking you so lengthy within the toilet?” reads the caption flashing throughout a viral TikTok video of a “skincare routine” that entails a person hitting his cheeks with the sharp fringe of a hammer.
Beneath the video are dozens of feedback warning that “bone smashing” is harmful whereas others hailed it as a fast method to an angular jawline.
Bish! Bash! Busted!
The officers dressed as Batman and Robin in a bid to idiot the lads working unlawful playing video games on Westminster Bridge subsequent to the Homes of Parliament.
“I knew if we had been going to catch them we must assume outdoors the field,” one of many officers advised AFP.
“After which I remembered that I had Batman and Robin costumes handy.”
Two males who had been working the “shell sport” on the bridge had been nabbed and had been later fined.
No playing cards right here
Because the solar units on money elsewhere, the distant Pacific archipelago of Tuvalu has lastly bought its first ATM.
Siose Teo of the Nationwide Financial institution of Tuvalu known as the money machine “transformative”, as chocolate cake was handed out to rejoice, with Prime Minister Feleti Teo hailing the “important milestone” for the microstate of 12 000 individuals threatened by rising sea ranges.
Bare greed
In fairly probably the worst posthumous “tribute” ever, a Japanese document firm has been slammed for eager to launch a CD by a lifeless singer with personal nude photographs of her taken 50 years in the past.
Yashiro, the “queen of enka” music, died in 2023 aged 73, and was mourned by her military of followers.
The 2 intimate photos of her taken by a former accomplice are included as a “bonus function” on the CD due out on Monday.
“If this isn’t revenge porn, what’s?” wrote Takashi Kimura, the governor of Kumamoto in southern Japan in a weblog put up, branding the choice as “unforgivable”. Followers are additionally appalled, calling “this disagreeable occasion… completely unacceptable”.
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By Garrin Lambley © Agence France-Presse
