The Brunch round-up: The week and how it made us feel

This week, there’s a global pistachio shortage. George Clooney dyed his hair. BTS’s Jin announced a world tour. And everyone’s calling the razorbill a “diva”

The Brunch round-up: The week and how it made us feel

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  Globally outraged

  Jin from BTS has announced his first solo world tour: US, London, Japan, Europe. This is not world, Jin. This is just a first-passport wishlist. India has BTS fans. They spend good money on gigs now. Can Jin, aka Worldwide Handsome, update his world map?
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  Word nerds

  Video platform Kapwing has crowned Brooklyn Nine-Nine the wordiest TV show, clocking in at 206 words per minute. Hang on. Don’t Aaron Sorkin’s actors monologue faster? And Shonda Rhimes’s actors barely inhale between lines. But Kapwing looked at the number of subtitled words by episode length. B99 probably won for Peralta’s Coolcoolcoolcool.
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  Coming clean

  Ahilya Bamroo, she of the accent Reels and the minor part in I Want To Talk, has a video about how she got into acting. She admits to losing out to a “more experienced and talented” actor in her first audition. She names names too: Alia Bhatt in Heart of Stone. Honest, self-aware, smart. Enjoy her authenticity before Bollywood’s PR machine takes over.
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  Calling it

  Kendrick Lamar won five Grammys this year. That should have been the last word on who won the Drake-Lamar feud. Now, he’s repping Chanel’s eyewear too. Drake, meanwhile, is suing Universal Music over Lamar’s Super Bowl performance, calling it character assassination. Sigh, this is not the rap-fight we want.
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  Eyeing imports

  Dubai’s viral kunafa chocolate is so popular, it’s caused a global pistachio shortage. Some brands are limiting how many bars people can buy at one time. So, be nice to your NRI cousins. And ask them to bring you some when they drop in for the summer, Habibi.
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  Curious about George

  Clooney, that is. He was greying nicely. Then, he coloured his mop dark brown. How could he? A good beard is the male equivalent of a push-up bra. Greys, similarly, are like a lacy thong. Step away from that dye box, sir!
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  Over this trend

  Months after the American fashion rental company Bipty called dupattas a European trend in a video, Indians are still bristling and posting spoof reactions. We get it. Cultural appropriation is awful. But they’ve apologised. Move on, desi influencers. You wear dresses, skirts, jeans and trousers too.
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  Going cuckoo

  Step aside Ananya Panday, the internet has a new It Girl. The razorbill, a North Atlantic seabird, is everyone’s new crush. She’s got rizz, she’s got fish, and apparently, she serves face even while snacking. But we already overwhelm human celebrities with this kind of attention. Must birds and baby hippos suffer too? How do we make this right?