The flighty thief of Greggs

 

A crafty seagull has been ruffling feathers in England, after it was filmed entering a branch of high street bakery Greggs in South Shields. It waits for the automatic doors to open, slips in quietly, picks up a bag of crisps (always the Walkers Salt & Vinegar variety) and calmly walks out without paying.

Credits: Metro, Animated GIFs, Giphy, 4GIFs.com and Facebook

10th anniversary of the #hashtag

 

Twitter is marking 10 years since the hashtag was first used on the social media site by celebrating some of the most memorable uses of the digital symbol.

Former Google and Uber engineer Chris Messina first used the symbol as a way of tagging or categorising a tweet on August 23, 2007, when he suggested the symbol could be used to create group messages.

‘How do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]? (sic)’, he wrote.

Happy 10th #birthday, #Hashtag!!

Credits: Julie Henderson via GifCities and Internet Archive, Metro

A Sherlock fandom moment in a GIF

 

Haha… Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have gone full anime, doing the cat-ears dance. Elementary dancing, my dear Watson.

Credits: Metro via Savannah Sharron and Pinterest

Food, glorious food

 

My colleague Sandra’s husband works as a delivery driver for a restaurant, and brings home a lot of leftover food from his workplace. Sandra brings a lot over to our office. I’ve had cake, salmon and chicken, all in neat little white boxes. She and her hubby don’t even have to cook that much.

Credit: Metro

Eggs, death and chips

 

This morning, my landlord’s brain-dead girlfriend decided to warm up the house with the strong aroma of fried eggs and chips (fries). Now I don’t find the smell of fry-ups objectionable at all, but this woman has a habit of leaving the gas on and disappearing off somewhere. No surprises, if one day she burns the kitchen down. Slow clap, Buk Lau, slow clap!!  🍳 🔥 🏥

Credit: Metro

Back to work

 

It’s my first day back to work since my Indian holiday. I’m not particularly sleepy (got a nap on the Circle Line via Liverpool Street) but I’m now going to have to figure out what tasks I have to do.

Credits: HilariousGIFs via Metro

Down the Tubes

 

I have just been reading this fascinating article on Tube stations here in London, then and now. Several stations are mentioned, with special slider galleries showing the station’s entrance in the past and how they look now, side-by-side. The article by TimeOut can be seen here. For those of you curious about which is my nearest Tube station, it would be Plaistow, with Canning Town being second closest.

Credits: Robbie Khan Photography and Facebook via Giphy and Metro

Irexit

 

Some are suggesting that the current £11billion tax bill owed by Apple Inc. to the Irish treasury could have such severe political ramifications, Ireland may choose to follow Britain’s lead and make a swift exit from the EU.

Credits: Metro