Intro
Week number 7, if I'm not mistaken. Mostly light funny stuff to talk about this week, which is fun. It makes my job easier. I probably should write about the big things, but enough people are doing that as is and, frankly, sometimes we need a bit of escapism.
Travel
Simply typing the title for this one made me chuckle. Earlier this week, a man who missed his flight, at Dublin airport, tried to catch it in a different way.
In a scene straight out of a Simpsons sketch, the passenger, in his 20s, broke on to the apron through a security door and proceeded to run after his taxiing flight, yelling 'wait!' at the pilot, in an attempt to flag the plane down. Taxiing seems a particularly apt word in this instance.
He was then tackled to the tarmac by Ryanair staff, and subsequently arrested by police. He and a woman were apparently late for a 6.50am flight to Amsterdam and, according to a Ryanair Spokesman, "were engaging with Ryanair staff at the gate and the male passenger was becoming agitated. He was banging on the window to try and get the aircraft to wait".
No-one was hurt in the man's antics, but he will appear at the Criminal Court of Justice on Thursday.
(Source: The Independent, ITV)
Film
This week a new trailer was released for J. K. Rowling's upcoming blockbuster, Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindlewald, but Twitter has found itself annoyed again at casting.
A number of disgruntled fans complained on the social media site, that the film's only Asian actor was to play a snake that was enslaved to a villain. The author hit back with a tweet stating "the Naga are snake like Mythical creatures of Indonesian mythology, hence the name 'Nagini'. They sometimes depicted as winged, sometimes as half human, half snake. Indonesia comprises a few hundred ethnic groups, including Javanese, Chinese and Betwani'.
One fan even called the casting an afterthought for the sake of representation, however Rowling has said this is not so as, according to her, Nagini is a maledictus, which is a female who has been cursed to turn into a beast, only she kept this fact a secret for 20 years. While this seems like a fair explanation, this isn't the first time creator of the wizarding world has been landed in hot water.
She has previously been criticized for her casting of Johnny Depp as the eponymous villain after claims of domestic abuse which he has denied and the fact that while Dumbledore is a gay character, this won't be portrayed explicitly. The film itself looks like it will be a success story, but whether these claims perpetuate remains to be seen.
(Source: BBC News)
Nature
Majestic right? This image of a rare white stag sneezing was caught by University student Oban van Schie in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire. He has described it as a 'one-in-a-million shot'.
The 19 year old took a motorbike ride into the country with an old SLR camera where he spotted the elusive fallow buck and proceeded to photograph the creature. Van Schie stated "I didn't realise what I had until hours later when I began editing my photos".
He then posted the shots on website Reddit where they received much acclaim, to the tune of around 90,000 upvotes on various subreddits. Many redditors suggested that the student should have watermarked the image as his own, as no others exist.
I imagine this also occurred to him some time later. He must have thought, 'Oh Deer'.
(Source: BBC News)
More Nature
If you haven't seen this video floating around the info-sphere this week, then quite frankly the rock you live under must be quite nice. This is another incidence of one-in-a-million captures, where a seal slaps a man, on camera, full in the face via the swift application of a held octopus.
Kyle Mulinder is a GoPro ambassador and was filming an advert for the product when the kung-fu mammal decided to display is crouching seal, hidden octopus fighting style. Not only had he captured internet gold, but on the camera he was attempting to advertise no less.
As such, people have questioned the validity of the footage, but scientists have since revealed that the seal likely mistook Mr Mulinder for a rock, on which it could beat the living daylights out of it's be-tentacled prey.
However, if by some strange perversion of nature you haven't seen the clip, please watch it and see if your sharp intake of breath is high pitched enough to make dogs whine.
(Source: Newshub, Metro)
Crime
Over 10 years since "America's Dad" committed his atrocious assault on Andrea Constand, Bill Cosby has been sentenced.
The comedian was originally trialed for his crimes in June last year where the jury failed to find a verdict, but in April he was found guilty in a retrial. This week saw his sentencing hearing where Judge Steven O'Neill sentenced him to 3 - 10 years in prison and fined him $25,000 ($6,000 of which are the cost of the prosecution).
Wrists' handcuff-clad, he was taken to Montgomery County Correctional Facility. He declined to give a statement.
(Source: BBC News)
In a scene straight out of a Simpsons sketch, the passenger, in his 20s, broke on to the apron through a security door and proceeded to run after his taxiing flight, yelling 'wait!' at the pilot, in an attempt to flag the plane down. Taxiing seems a particularly apt word in this instance.
He was then tackled to the tarmac by Ryanair staff, and subsequently arrested by police. He and a woman were apparently late for a 6.50am flight to Amsterdam and, according to a Ryanair Spokesman, "were engaging with Ryanair staff at the gate and the male passenger was becoming agitated. He was banging on the window to try and get the aircraft to wait".
No-one was hurt in the man's antics, but he will appear at the Criminal Court of Justice on Thursday.
(Source: The Independent, ITV)
Film
This week a new trailer was released for J. K. Rowling's upcoming blockbuster, Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindlewald, but Twitter has found itself annoyed again at casting.
A number of disgruntled fans complained on the social media site, that the film's only Asian actor was to play a snake that was enslaved to a villain. The author hit back with a tweet stating "the Naga are snake like Mythical creatures of Indonesian mythology, hence the name 'Nagini'. They sometimes depicted as winged, sometimes as half human, half snake. Indonesia comprises a few hundred ethnic groups, including Javanese, Chinese and Betwani'.
One fan even called the casting an afterthought for the sake of representation, however Rowling has said this is not so as, according to her, Nagini is a maledictus, which is a female who has been cursed to turn into a beast, only she kept this fact a secret for 20 years. While this seems like a fair explanation, this isn't the first time creator of the wizarding world has been landed in hot water.
She has previously been criticized for her casting of Johnny Depp as the eponymous villain after claims of domestic abuse which he has denied and the fact that while Dumbledore is a gay character, this won't be portrayed explicitly. The film itself looks like it will be a success story, but whether these claims perpetuate remains to be seen.
(Source: BBC News)
Nature
Majestic right? This image of a rare white stag sneezing was caught by University student Oban van Schie in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire. He has described it as a 'one-in-a-million shot'.
The 19 year old took a motorbike ride into the country with an old SLR camera where he spotted the elusive fallow buck and proceeded to photograph the creature. Van Schie stated "I didn't realise what I had until hours later when I began editing my photos".
He then posted the shots on website Reddit where they received much acclaim, to the tune of around 90,000 upvotes on various subreddits. Many redditors suggested that the student should have watermarked the image as his own, as no others exist.
I imagine this also occurred to him some time later. He must have thought, 'Oh Deer'.
(Source: BBC News)
More Nature
If you haven't seen this video floating around the info-sphere this week, then quite frankly the rock you live under must be quite nice. This is another incidence of one-in-a-million captures, where a seal slaps a man, on camera, full in the face via the swift application of a held octopus.
Kyle Mulinder is a GoPro ambassador and was filming an advert for the product when the kung-fu mammal decided to display is crouching seal, hidden octopus fighting style. Not only had he captured internet gold, but on the camera he was attempting to advertise no less.
As such, people have questioned the validity of the footage, but scientists have since revealed that the seal likely mistook Mr Mulinder for a rock, on which it could beat the living daylights out of it's be-tentacled prey.
However, if by some strange perversion of nature you haven't seen the clip, please watch it and see if your sharp intake of breath is high pitched enough to make dogs whine.
(Source: Newshub, Metro)
Crime
Over 10 years since "America's Dad" committed his atrocious assault on Andrea Constand, Bill Cosby has been sentenced.
The comedian was originally trialed for his crimes in June last year where the jury failed to find a verdict, but in April he was found guilty in a retrial. This week saw his sentencing hearing where Judge Steven O'Neill sentenced him to 3 - 10 years in prison and fined him $25,000 ($6,000 of which are the cost of the prosecution).
Wrists' handcuff-clad, he was taken to Montgomery County Correctional Facility. He declined to give a statement.
(Source: BBC News)
