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[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Where's your happy place? ✨

In this annual report by the @UN, the 2021 happiest countries have been impacted by factors including government handling of COVID-19 and pandemic employment rates.

Find out who takes the top spot
https://t.co/q4zpBm7V1p

[Bernard]

I am glad to see some people are still happy.

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Does moving countries help?

[Bernard]

I suppose it might, if one could adopt the happier culture of the new country.

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

On President's Day in the waters off of Manhattan Beach, a racist scuffle, now referred to as the "incident" exposed a dark side to the localism customs that dominate surfing.

It spurred a racial reckoning in the surfing world.

https://t.co/xCIu6KQoyd

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Inactivity is the fourth biggest killer in the world - yet it's barely discussed.

We spoke to @peterwalker99 about his new book which looks at this health crisis, and how the solution to sedentary living could save both planet and people.

For #healthcareweek, read more

[Bernard]

Quote of the day:

"Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things."

Doctor Johnson

[Bernard]

Visitors to a brewery in Austria can relax in a pool of beer. It is claimed that the beer is beneficial to the skin, but visitors are advised not to drink it.

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Unbelievable with or without a link.

[Bernard]

Oh you of little faith! I read it in the Daily Mail, so it must be true.

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Littlest of little faith

[Chris]

That’s such a weird story. That sounds like such an Australian idea, and I can’t wrap my head around the chemistry. 🤔

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Me neither! But it's Austrian Chris.

[Bernard]

Quote of the day:

"It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions."

T H Huxley

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

New York State has legalized the use of recreational marijuana. 40% of the tax revenue will go to minority communities, and people with marijuana-related convictions that are no longer criminalized will have their records automatically expunged.
https://t.co/NcVWJPLaqQ

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Nike wins halt to further sales of Lil Nas X 'Satan Shoes' with human blood

The $1,018 (£740) trainers are modified Nike Air Max 97s that feature an inverted cross, a pentagram and the words "Luke 10:18".

https://t.co/SXVfNzK0vt https://t.co/XXrHOkS25H

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

20 years after the first legal same-sex weddings in the Netherlands, gay marriage has taken off around the world https://t.co/ehIbFokAeU

“I will never get married, my generation do not get married.”

Often called the “Kingdom of Daughters,” the Mosuo tribe is China's last matriarchy, a society where women reign https://t.co/PFYyjs4WED

[Bernard]

I am reading about the Cold War. Although it was well under way when I was born, I consider it my war, as my parents did WW2. I did not fully appreciate the horror of the Cuban missile crisis, but I did realise how scared many adults were.

It went on for a long time, and now, after a short lull, we are into a "cool war" with Putin's Russia.

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Really? Didn't read about that.

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Video with nude models on balcony goes viral and ends in Dubai prisons
https://t.co/znJbo6MOxH

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

The Ukrainian models were anything but cold!

[Bernard]

Ukrainian models promoting Israeli pornography in Dubai??? The world has gone mad !!!

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

'Mrs Sri Lanka' beauty queen injured after her crown was seized by a rival seeking her disqualification https://t.co/5MM0UK9QqY

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

I agree!

[Chris]

If you don’t mind the diversion, I’d like to bring up a discussion on mathematics in literature. It’s not common and I’d like to get some input from other writers, especially fiction writers.

I’ve introduced novel counting methods as part of the lore for my work after finding a YouTube video that shows some of the diversity of counting and representing numbers on Earth. I know it’s a very niche subject, and not all readers and writers will look at numbers in this way, but I feel it’s a field that’s not very well fleshed out in fiction, and I’d like to get everyone’s take on it.

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Interesting

[Bernard]

Test your tax knowledge

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articl...

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Death, taxes and COVID!

[Bernard]

Yes, an unholy trinity.

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Thinking inside the box: the Welsh teen who tried to post himself home from Australia.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia...

Model train plays record-breaking melody with 2,840 water glasses
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...

A former Mrs. Sri Lanka removed the crown from the newly appointed beauty pageant queen after falsely claiming she was ineligible to take part https://t.co/UK0AsPYapP https://t.co/DkX1QMZHQr


"It is enough to die, because of, we only want our democracy."

@MissGrandInter's Han Lay, representing Myanmar, made global headlines when she called for international help for her country during the pageant. She explains why she did it despite possible consequences #MGI https://t.co/cdykYMn3DD

[Bernard]

Excellent record! But how much does 2,840 water glasses cost???

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

British humour is priceless!

[Bernard]

Indeed. It has been developed over thousands of years. The first written record of it was painted on Stonehenge, but unfortunately that was removed by the Romans.

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

BREAKING: Biden proposes a $753,000,000,000 Pentagon budget, a significant increase from last year's budget.

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: The Vanuatu tribes mourning the death of their god — For decades, the villages Yakel and Yaohnanen on the Vanuatuan island of Tanna have revered the Duke of Edinburgh as a god-like spiritual figure, descendant of a very powerful mountain god https://t.co/SnmrPhN3Nd

[Bernard]

Of course Philip was also revered as a god-like spiritual figure by some in UK. May he rest in peace.

[Bernard]

Quote of the Day

"Happiness is a mystery like religion and should never be rationalised."

G K Chesterton

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

There’s a notorious neo-Nazi political leader on the loose somewhere in Europe. Authorities say they can’t find him, but signs point to a commune of renegade conservative monks.
https://t.co/F63dzYp3Wg

What happened to Jack Ma? Since the tech billionaire annoyed Chinese President Xi Jinping last year, he has almost vanished. But his disappearance is a sign of something much bigger https://t.co/t95SLXtVOh https://t.co/Y0jSx4yd1C

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

When animal welfare officers in the Polish city of Krakow were called out to a sighting of an unusual animal squatting in a residential area, their initial reaction was this must be a late April Fool's joke. https://t.co/z5hU5H6YkG

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

"Can lab-grown mushrooms replace styrofoam... or even bacon?" https://twitter.com/i/events/13831549...

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

In Israel, when a solider is injured and needs rehabilitation, the use of sex surrogates is available at government expense.

Paid surrogates teach the soldiers how to have intimate relationships and sex

https://t.co/qEgYpIlbIJ

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Two and a half years after legalization, most marijuana producers in Canada are still reporting staggering losses. https://t.co/DHfNqIIhyZ

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

EU takes legal action against 'golden passport' schemes in Cyprus, Malta https://t.co/GtExQIrBt1 https://t.co/HwHw0VUsMt

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

'Loopholes' found in Malta's golden passport scheme
https://t.co/7QskTmseRy

[Bernard]

Found in the blurb for a literary magazine ...

"Among its pages you may also encounter a river people and their god, a bridge between the living and the dead, redemptive friendships, Bird’s Eye potato waffles, a stolen bottle of extra-virgin olive oil, Antigone and Dominic Cummings, three kinds of goodbye, several toads, a badger, a racist fish and a wren shrieking in existential dread."

... something for everyone!

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Casual conversation has been all but eliminated in the pandemic. Whether you love small talk or hate it, science shows that the lack of it has an impact on your mood and energy—and can contribute to burnout. More here: https://t.co/JoQ4I8FmOg 1/5 #COVID19

[Bernard]

I love small talk! But not tiny talk. And sometimes I like to debate the big questions, like can fish be racist?

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Big questions about big fish?

[Bernard]

Ah! Is it the big fish that are the racist ones?

[Grasshopper, Administrator]

Palpable tension as we await group member number #1100 to our midst.
Group members are encouraged to send invites to their friends & fellow writers.