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Chinese man clicks selfie before helping intoxicated friend
CCTV footage recorded by a camera in a Metro station in China showed a group of four men - with body language that suggested they were friends - making their way across the station as one among them passed out on the floor! The friends couldn’t stop hooting with laughter as they tried to get him upright, and eventually gave up, letting him sprawl down comfortably on the floor.
One friend even took selfies - from different angles - with the passed-out friend to remember the incident! After they had their fun, they once again grabbed the friend and proceeded out. The video of the incident has received tonnes of shares as people shared similar incidents too, and agreed that humiliating selfies are a norm of present-day friendship.
Google asks why Indians propose to Google Assistant, and is greeted with witty answers
Google’s tweet asking users why they persistently asked Google Assistant to marry them received almost 30,000 likes and many responsive comments. Although the most common among them was people demanding privacy upon wondering how Google knew this in the first place, others answered that the tool was more responsive and helpful than any person they were interested in, and some even claimed that the tool let them down easy, unlike their human interests!
75-year-old Bengaluru woman sells roasted corn using solar power
Selvamma (75), selling corn outside the Vidhana Soudha building, Bennigana Halli, has garnered praise for thinking about sustainability, after using solar power to roast corn! Although she has been selling corn for over 20 years now, she recently decided to switch to solar-powered equipment provided to her by and NGO. She claims that besides being eco-friendly, it is also a conversation starter, as people stop to ask questions about it and eventually end up ordering corn!
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