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Spoof, shoot, Salman & more

Hello honey, the bee’s home, and that too with a brand new joke—how would you designate the bee, if it were working for a newspaper? Answer: A stinger! We guess the bee understands the first rule of poking fun at others—you need to learn how to take a joke on yourself and guess what, bee’s not the only one who abides by this rulebook! The First Annual Apologies to China Contest is going viral on Facebook.

Spoof, shoot, Salman & more

Sushma Swaraj with Judith D’Souza



Amarjot Kaur

Hello honey, the bee’s home, and that too with a brand new joke—how would you designate the bee, if it were working for a newspaper? Answer: A stinger! We guess the bee understands the first rule of poking fun at others—you need to learn how to take a joke on yourself and guess what, bee’s not the only one who abides by this rulebook! The First Annual Apologies to China Contest is going viral on Facebook. The spoof competition was launched on Saturday by several Taiwanese, including social activist, Wang Yi-hai, who ran for the Taiwanese legislature in 2014. The Chinese-language contest solicits apologies to China; the writer of the post that obtains the most likes will win.

“I am sorry that I cannot understand Chinese democracy. It must be because I am not intelligent enough,” one post reads. “Sorry, but my computer does not have a Great Firewall. I can watch BBC, CNN and access Google,” says another.

That being China, India’s fast enough to keep up with their neighbours! Bee gathers you are particularly fond of trolls, so here it is... Salman Khan has been acquitted in blackbuck, chinkara poaching case and Internet could not stop trolling the truly Dabangg actor, who seems to get away with everything!

Unlike Sallu Bhai, Dalits in this country are not so blessed. In Maharashtra, Two Dalit youth were allegedly beaten by 25 people in Beed for overtaking a vehicle on Sunday. There have been a string of videos going viral on the Internet, which show the violence carried out against the Dalit community in different parts of the country.

Face the book

The bee likes digital art, especially Prisma images that have taken Facebook by storm. No wonder the iOS photo manipulation app Prisma went viral and now it’s available for Android users too. Don’t mistake Prisma with your ordinary filters as it does much more than simply overlaying images with different kinds of filters; it uses artificial intelligence algorithms to generate its images. On iOS, Prisma has over 10.6 million installs.

Khatron ke khiladi

You know, the bee has this thing for anything that is over-the-top bizarre and dramatic—so, here’s the first story that left the bee jaw-dropped! Facebook user Kasper Knight posted a video that shows the exact moment when he willingly shoots himself for a music video. Not only did the man shoot his own cheek, he, apparently, also swallowed the bullet! The video went viral with 5,76,000 views and has been shared more than 16,000 times! “Now that’s how you shoot a video,” says the bee.

Here in India, Vasanth Paul, a Chennai-based model and photographer, has taken the internet by storm with his Facebook post claiming how he saved a girl from being raped, and nearly escaped being strangled to death. The alleged incident took place on Friday night.

“The moment I jumped in, a guy engaged in a fist fight and I could see a girl drugged full on and two guys trying to undress her...within seconds I was strangled by the other with a thick jute rope; the more I tried repelling, the more it cut through and intense the situation became, thankfully I was able to create enough time and space for the girl to get out and get an autowala’s attention,” reads an excerpt from Paul’s post.

Tube tales

You heard enough from the bee. Now, it’s time for a good laugh, so watch the video of Akshay Kumar dancing to Uptown Funk!

Tweet trails 

The new Ghostbusters is out in theatres, but ever since it was announced that Sony would be rebooting the classic film — particularly with an all-female cast — it has been the recipient of backlash, much of it rooted in sexism. One of the  incidents involves Leslie Jones, who plays Patty Tolan, a reprise of Ernie Hudson’s character Winston Zeddemore from the original films, who this week was the target of not just sexist hate on Twitter, but also online misogynoir (the hatred of black women). After being repeatedly bombarded with horrific language, Leslie had enough and logged off “with tears and a very sad heart.” 

In India, Sushma ji has posted another Tweet that had the bee in tears; Judith D’Souza, Indian woman kidnapped last month from Kabul in Afghanistan, arrived in India on Saturday after being rescued.

Sushma Swaraj Verified account @SushmaSwaraj 

Judith D’Souza is with us — safe and in good spirits. She will reach her Motherland at the earliest. Vande Mataram

On the other hand, here’s a ‘high’ five from the bee.. (It doesn’t promote smoking, but it does promote legalisation of industrial hemp cultivation) On Thursday, he literally donned a new high when he walked into Parliament wearing a ‘cannabis kurta’, a garment made out of hemp. 

Office of T Satpathy @SatpathyLive 

Today’s High: The Kurta TS wore to #LokSabha today is made of Hemp fabric (courtesy: @Bohecoindia).

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