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20 Times People Lived in a Wes Anderson Movie on TikTok
Romanticizing your life on social media is nothing new, but some TikTokers are taking it to a new level of *~aesthetics*~. A recent trend has emerged on the video sharing platform that features users creating TikToks with a vibe ripped straight from a Wes Anderson movie. The shorts feature users going about their…
James Bond star was real-life secret agent who lived double life, family claim after his death
FIDDLER on the Roof star Chaim Topol was a secret Mossad agent, his family claim.
The Israeli legend — who starred with Roger Moore in Bond movie For Your Eyes Only — lived a secret double life of “adventure and courage”.
The actor, who died last month aged 87, worked for Israel’s spy service in between gigs.
Topol used his London home as a base to target embassies, airports and airlines of Arab enemies, according to his widow Galia, and children Adi and Omer, who spoke to Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
On one occasion he bugged an Arab country’s embassy using the flat next door and pretended to be a dental patient to cover for drilling noise.
Omer said: “I don’t know exactly what the appropriate definition is for the missions and duties he performed.
“But what is clear is that Dad was involved in secret missions on behalf of the Mossad.
“His status in those years was that of an international star, and he could go anywhere he wanted.
“He had the ability to deliver documents and take pictures without anyone questioning anything.
“But he was no James Bond or anything like that!”
Surprise killing Sonic the Hedgehog shows why he’s lived so long
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is absolutely brilliant. Released as a free game on Steam to coincide with the many April Fool’s jokes our industry puts out, Sega and Sonic’s social team has once again proved that they completely understand the characters, fanbase, and reason why the series sticks around so much. Despite repeated attempts to kill him, Sonic The Hedgehog refuses to die.
I tried the revived KFC Double Down and lived to tell the tale
The internet was different in 2010 to 2014. We didn’t think about things like cringe — my brother, everything was cringe. We were doing online quizzes about which Hogwarts house we belonged in and it was groundbreaking stuff.
Food culture online was different back then, too. Basically it could be summed up by the phrase epic bacon. To wit: A decade ago, the biggest thing going was the YouTube channel Epic Meal Time, which would make stupidly massive foodstuffs often centered on, or propped up by, a staggering amount of bacon strips.
The KFC Double Down — a fried chicken sandwich where two slabs of chicken serve as the “buns” — was very much of that moment. It was a fried chicken sandwich composed of only fried chicken, cheese, bacon, and mayo. AKA it was sans bread. It was gluttonous, delicious, and kind of gross, all in one. And now the Double Down is back after a nine-year hiatus.
KFC announced that it would re-release the sandwich for just four weeks, starting March 6. KFC sent along a sample sandwich ahead of the release date and we gave it a whirl. As Mashable’s Chief Trash Food Correspondent, it was my duty to review this Frankenstein of fried chicken and I took my job very seriously.
Fun fact: You know what else was different back in 2010 to 2014? Me. I was a young man with the appetite and metabolism to match. I could scarf a Double Down then go play pickup basketball for two hours without blowing chunks. Now, as a grown man with graying hair, I could only power through about one-third to one-half of a Double Down. Two fried chicken breasts, a big glob of mayo, cheese, and bacon strips does not make for a good working lunch. I chomped it down then stared into the middle distance, questioning how my life had led me to this point. I mean, look at this honker.
Credit: Mashable / Tim Marcin
As for the taste, it’s not bad. I hadn’t had KFC in years and, you know what? The chicken was crispy while remaining juicy. Sure, it was over-salted but it’s fast food, that’s the whole point. I don’t mind mayo, but I could have dealt with less of it. There were a few bites where the mayo overtook every other flavor. The bacon was thin but fine. The cheese was warm, but more limp than melty. All-in-all, it’s hard for the sandwich to be bad. It’s fried chicken. Fried chicken kicks ass.
But it is, of course, wildly impractical. The proportions are all off. It’s a chore to eat. Your fingers are immediately greasy. You basically have to grip the damn thing tight to keep it all together, which means the wonderful breading is going to slime your hands with grease. Maybe the carnivore diet people around today will get into it, but it’s probably not going to be the go-to sandwich for the general public. This is the sort of a thing a college kid should eat after far too many light beers.
Would a normal chicken sandwich be better? Of course. Bread would contain the ingredients, soak up the grease, and evenly distribute the mayo. Bread would also add a bit of textural difference and make the sandwich easier to eat.
But, alas, the Double Down is not built for practicality. It’s gorgeous 2010s stunt food. It’s epic bacon, baby, and on that, it sure as hell still delivers.
I lived next door to murderers and drug dealers in prison, it was a dangerous sh**hole, says Boris Becker
BORIS Becker has revealed he was housed next door to murderers and drug dealers during his time in prison.
The shamed tennis star, 55, served more than seven months for bankruptcy fraud.
He was first sent to South London’s HMP Wandsworth — and yesterday branded it: “In plain English, a s***-hole. It’s a dangerous place.”
Becker was later moved to Huntercombe Prison in Nuffield, Oxfordshire, a jail for foreign nationals.
Boris said: “I was surrounded by murderers, drug dealers and people smugglers.
“They’re next door! At first, you’re scared, because this guy killed two people.
“He’s already doing 18 years. Imagine! He becomes your buddy.”
Boris is now back in Germany — and claimed Wimbledon want him back as a commentator.
He said: “I’m in contact with the guys and they want me back.”
A BBC spokesperson said: “Currently, we don’t have any plans to work with Boris.”
Model who lived with Danny Masterson tells court of the night he sodomized her
What if GTA 6 actually lived up to Take-Two’s lofty expectations? Because it just might
When Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, who’s well known for making courageous – and often unpopular – statements, claimed earlier this month that GTA 6 would set a new “creative benchmark for all entertainment,” many folks were quick to dismiss such claims as Take-Two and Rockstar Games’ hype machine derailing way too early. But what if he’s right?
The thought of Rockstar setting a new bar for interactive entertainment isn’t an alien concept. In fact, we’re still trying to figure out how the hell GTA Online keeps printing money at such an absurd rate in spite of years of complaints about a broken in-game economy and unbalanced updates. And maybe the answer is simply that Rockstar did in 2013 something that other triple-A developers are still struggling to figure out. It hasn’t been an easy evolution, but the UK-headquartered company has always been ahead of the curve.
To this day, we’re still talking about GTA 3 like the first proper 3D open-world game (sorry, Daggerfall). That’s canon now. Claude Speed’s hijinks in Liberty City set the stage for arguably the most famous structure used by modern action-adventure games. And while developers all over the world were trying to adjust to such a radical change, 2002 brought forth Vice City, which is a “magical place” for diehard fans – no matter when they first played it.
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