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These Japanese “schoolgirls” are making sumo wrestling great again.

Two Japanese sumo girls are seen twisting, throwing, and body dropping each other with ease in a promotional video for a high school sumo tournament.

The video, entitled “Sumo Girl 82 techniques”, showcases the 82 known winning techniques of sumo wrestling and is a promotional video for the High School Sumo Kanazawa Tournament.  

In order to win a sumo match, you have to force your opponent out of the ring, or make them touch the ground with any part of the body other than their feet.  Read more…

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Charlie Hunnam may be best known as a badass leather-clad biker these days, but back in 1998 he had an entirely different look.

During an appearance on The Graham Norton Show on Friday, the Sons of Anarchy and King Arthur star was presented with some footage from his earliest acting performance: a 1998 cameo in the British teen drama Byker Grove.

We don’t know what’s more fun to watch: the footage itself, or Charlie Hunnam’s mildly cringy reaction to watching it again. Read more…

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The Green Party is serious ad goals — and the latest is the cheekiest to date. 

After depicting UK politicians as a bunch of squabbling 5-year-olds, the party produced a retro-looking ad for a fake board game called “The Race to Number 10 — Snap Election edition.” 

The ad is a nod to ’90s advertising, with saturated colours, Comic Sans fonts, a smiling family and creepy voiceover. 

“The game no one wants to play is back — with only two teams to choose from,” it says, in reference to the surprise snap elections of June 8. 

More subtly outrageous statements at the two parties dominating UK politics, the Labour Party and the Conservatives, are made as the family plays the game: Read more…

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A global ransomware attack hit thousands of Windows-based computers late last week, locking users’ files and demanding Bitcoin payment to unlock them. 

The attack, called WannaCry (or WannaCrypt), is a lesson to both the IT industry and consumers, Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith argued in a blog post Sunday. But most of all, it is a wake-up call for governments, whose stockpiling of software vulnerabilities can be as dangerous as getting their missiles stolen. 

According to Smith, all Windows computers that are fully updated are safe from the attack, and Microsoft has been “working around the clock since Friday to help all our customers who have been affected by this incident.” Read more…

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Millennials like avocado on toast and soy lattes and expensive rents and ASOS clothes by the bucketload. They pay for it all with their outrageous, disposable incomes. And when they reach adulthood, they only want to buy a three-bedroom house with ocean views on the best street in town. 

In other words, they want to have the smashed avo and eat it too — and they’ll eat all the avocado they please, goddamnit. 

In recent months, it seems every smarmy rich dude and responsible adult in Australia — the place with the highest per capita consumption rate of ridiculous organic food types — has been preachin’ high and low about the pure disrespect for money that Gen Y has shown in their young lives. Read more…

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The organisers of Singapore’s only pride event have banned foreigners from attending this year, following a rule change in the city’s laws on demonstrations and political gatherings.

Before the rule change, foreigners could attend Pink Dot as observers, but only locals were allowed to actively “demonstrate” by joining in the human formation of the event’s trademark pink dot or holding up placards.

The event’s organisers said in a statement that changes to the city’s Public Order Act — laws limiting demonstrations in the country — would mean that the law “no longer distinguishes between participants and observers, and regards anyone who turns up … in support of an event to be part of an assembly.” Read more…

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Here’s one skill Putin might not want to add to his repertoire.

The Russian president launched into a piano performance ahead of his meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Sunday. 

Putin, who was in Beijing for a summit, played two Russian songs — Moscow Windows and Evening Song — dubbed the unofficial anthems of Moscow and St Petersburg.

But Chinese social media users were far from impressed.

“This is such an amateur performance,” said one user on social media platform Weibo.

“I suggest that he learns from our country’s four-year-old pianists,” another added. Read more…

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*** Spoilers ahead if you haven’t watched season 4 of Silicon Valley ***

How great is it when life imitates art?

Much of season four of Silicon Valley so far has circled around the boorish charm of entrepreneur Erlich Bachman and his attempt to make something of the young developer Jian-Yang’s octopus recipes app. 

Bachman hastily invested in the app, thinking it had to do with Oculus — not octopus.  

With venture capitalists confused as to why anyone would want an app with eight octopus recipes in it, Bachman seized on Jian-Yang’s lack of English by explaining its not a seafood app, but rather you can “see food,” pivoting the app to become the “Shazam of food” to secure funding. Read more…

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The dude who crashed the Eurovision stage — who everyone thought was Australian because he was wearing the country’s flag as a cape, but isn’t — appears to be in a lot of trouble.

Ukrainian prankster Vitalii Sediuk mooned the crowd and millions of television viewers on stage during the performance of reigning winner Jamala at the final in Kiev on Saturday night.

Here’s the moment again, if you missed it.  

Sediuk was removed from the stage, and no references were made to the incident by the show’s presenters. Australian fans were reportedly furious following the incident, with concerns that the country would not be invited to compete in Eurovision again. Read more…

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This video is giving us some serious “Do it for the Vine” flashbacks.

Twitter user @TommyFrmBroward uploaded a video of his friend doing an extremely risky stunt for a video and… let’s just say it almost ended very, very badly.

The reckless dude climbed onto the back of a car parked on an obvious slope to show off his video-worthy backflip next to an active road. We’re no physicists, but the flip’s momentum in combination with the slope were clearly too much for the guy, who narrowly avoided falling directly into oncoming traffic.

Watch him unwittingly test his luck right next to fast-moving cars here: Read more…

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