Between load shedding and the rain, traffic this week hasn’t been fun. What usually takes me 25 minutes took me 1h20m. Needless to say, I was late for work that day. But today is Friday and that means it’s time for Bytesized where you’ll find out what toy is a better investment than gold and stocks, how Valentine’s Day can be brutal, new emoji coming to your phone and more.
?People have a lot to say about the genie in the live-action remake of Aladdin
Aladdin is getting a live-action remake and while I’ll always love the original, I’m definitely going to watch this version. The trailer revealing the genie dropped during the Grammys and people have a lot to say about Will Smith as the Genie. But my favourite responses are the ones below.
Christina Aguilera wasn’t locked up tight For a century of lonely nights so that we have to see Genie like this pic.twitter.com/9SDraVS2WK
— Simon (@simon_orgill) February 11, 2019
I did not bring a daughter into this world for her to know THIS as the Genie. #Aladdin #garbage pic.twitter.com/hKyrVDgKQ8
— Joey Maloney (@redlight24fps) February 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/Nick_Frost/status/1094869528041963521
Why does Will Smith look like smurf centaur?! What kind of genie?!
— stressed & highly favored (@holadamilola) February 11, 2019
?New emoji for 2019
We are getting 59 new emoji this year + 171 variants of gender and skin tone but the ones I care about are the sloth, the pinching hand and the period emoji.
The pinching hand will be used to comment on penis size.
The period is actually the result of a campaign that wants to smash the stigma surrounding menstruation.
The sloth because sloths are awesome.And if you really want to embrace the way of the sloth, there is a book you can read to do exactly that.
?LOL
How long do you wait before you introduce your girlfriend to your child? For arguments sake let’s say you’ve been dating for 3 years and the child is 6 weeks old.
— Wally (@walliesta) February 7, 2019
⚡Eskom shed its load (again)
I usually don’t share stuff if I can’t see the source, but this made me laugh out loud and makes sense. I’ll try this at work – but don’t worry instead of 8 stages I’ll only have 4 (I’m not a monster).
This. pic.twitter.com/u6Mgo0fauF
— robert (@rmaclean) February 12, 2019
? Valentine’s Day can be brutal
- In Sydney, the zoo hosted a competition to name one of the world’s most venomous snakes (a brown snake, a name that definitely doesn’t strike fear) after your ex.
- This zoo named a cockroach after your ex and fed it to a meerkat on Valentine’s Day
?New retirement plan: buy LEGO & sell it
Apparently second hand LEGO is a better investment than stocks or gold. There is a market for buying second hand LEGO and if you have the goods you can make some serious cash. This is good news for me because so far I have a t-rex, the whomping willow from Harry Potter, Chewbacca and Wonder Woman brickheadz and a unicorn. Also, it’s worth mentioning I’m not a financial advisor.
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