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My girlfriend's silly selfies are posing a dilemma
My girlfriend's silly selfies are posing a dilemma

The Age

time13-06-2025

  • Entertainment
  • The Age

My girlfriend's silly selfies are posing a dilemma

This story is part of the June 14 edition of Good Weekend. See all 14 stories. Sometimes my girlfriend and I send each other funny selfies. She always purses her lips and does what she calls 'noot face', inspired by Pingu, the animated penguin. I no longer find 'noot face' funny (let alone attractive). Is it my business to tell her to stop? O.M., Newtown, NSW Pingu was my kids' favourite TV show in the 1990s. His videos did about 65 per cent of my parenting, with Rugrats making up the rest, and I'd pop in now and then with snacks and eye-drops for their tired, bloodshot eyes. So I'm very familiar with 'noot face': that honking-beak expression that Pingu does when he makes his noot-noot noise – a bit like a pushed-out trumpet or the lips of every woman in every franchise of The Real Housewives. Loading For this reason, I can understand why you no longer find 'noot face' funny or attractive and, if your girlfriend keeps doing it, why it might have a disastrous effect on the relationship: you could actually stop desiring her or, worse, you could start desiring a claymation penguin from a Swiss children's TV show. But I have a solution: if 'noot face' is killing your feelings of romance, maybe romance is the way to kill 'noot face'. Tell your girlfriend that you love her, you adore her, and the two of you should invent a special, unique 'new face' that you can do as a couple for all future selfies. Suggest pushing up your nose and calling it 'snoot face'. Or puffing out your cheeks and calling it 'fruit face'. Or pulling a Clint Eastwood grimace and calling it 'cheroot face'. And if she still insists on doing 'noot face', either tell her she looks like a Real Housewife, or mock up a cease-and-desist letter from Pingu's legal representation and see how she goes with 'lawsuit face'.

My girlfriend's silly selfies are posing a dilemma
My girlfriend's silly selfies are posing a dilemma

Sydney Morning Herald

time13-06-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Sydney Morning Herald

My girlfriend's silly selfies are posing a dilemma

This story is part of the June 14 edition of Good Weekend. See all 14 stories. Sometimes my girlfriend and I send each other funny selfies. She always purses her lips and does what she calls 'noot face', inspired by Pingu, the animated penguin. I no longer find 'noot face' funny (let alone attractive). Is it my business to tell her to stop? O.M., Newtown, NSW Pingu was my kids' favourite TV show in the 1990s. His videos did about 65 per cent of my parenting, with Rugrats making up the rest, and I'd pop in now and then with snacks and eye-drops for their tired, bloodshot eyes. So I'm very familiar with 'noot face': that honking-beak expression that Pingu does when he makes his noot-noot noise – a bit like a pushed-out trumpet or the lips of every woman in every franchise of The Real Housewives. Loading For this reason, I can understand why you no longer find 'noot face' funny or attractive and, if your girlfriend keeps doing it, why it might have a disastrous effect on the relationship: you could actually stop desiring her or, worse, you could start desiring a claymation penguin from a Swiss children's TV show. But I have a solution: if 'noot face' is killing your feelings of romance, maybe romance is the way to kill 'noot face'. Tell your girlfriend that you love her, you adore her, and the two of you should invent a special, unique 'new face' that you can do as a couple for all future selfies. Suggest pushing up your nose and calling it 'snoot face'. Or puffing out your cheeks and calling it 'fruit face'. Or pulling a Clint Eastwood grimace and calling it 'cheroot face'. And if she still insists on doing 'noot face', either tell her she looks like a Real Housewife, or mock up a cease-and-desist letter from Pingu's legal representation and see how she goes with 'lawsuit face'.

‘Born in Maharashtra, must be named in Marathi': Penguins now part of language row in Mumbai
‘Born in Maharashtra, must be named in Marathi': Penguins now part of language row in Mumbai

Time of India

time05-06-2025

  • Politics
  • Time of India

‘Born in Maharashtra, must be named in Marathi': Penguins now part of language row in Mumbai

NEW DELHI: A row has erupted in Mumbai over the naming of three newly hatched penguin chicks at the city's Byculla zoo with BJP leaders demanding they be given Marathi names instead of English ones. The protest, led by BJP functionary Nitin Bankar from the Byculla assembly constituency, took place outside the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan and Zoo — popularly known as Rani Baug — where the chicks were born earlier this year. 'When penguins were brought from abroad to the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan and Zoo, we accepted that their names would be in English. However, Penguin chicks born here, on the soil of Maharashtra, should be given Marathi names,' Bankar said. He claimed that repeated appeals to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which runs the zoo, had gone unheard. The zoo had named the chicks Noddy, Tom, and Pingu — continuing a tradition of English names that began when the first batch of Humboldt penguins arrived from South Korea in 2016. Bankar said the protest was not just about naming animals, but also about recognising Marathi's classical language status. 'We stood firm on our demand, but it was ignored. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch vàng CFDs với sàn môi giới tin cậy IC Markets Tìm hiểu thêm Undo I had even written to the BMC administration, but no one responded,' he said. The penguin chicks were born to two penguin couples in March, zoo officials said. The first, Popeye and Olive, welcomed Noddy on 3 March. Daisy and Donald had two hatchlings — Tom on 7 March and Pingu on 11 March. This was the first successful batch of chicks at the zoo in over a year. 'Tom gets his name to complement Jerry, a chick hatched in June 2023,' an official explained. 'Tom, being the elder sibling, often gets more food regurgitated by the parents. We end up feeding Pingu.' The chicks are being cared for by their parents and monitored by zoo staff. 'The babies are expected to start exploring the pool area once they are about three months old,' said Dr Abhishek Satam, biologist at the zoo. The hatchings have brought the total number of Humboldt penguins at the facility to 21. Zoo officials said they were fast-tracking expansion plans for the enclosure, which currently houses up to 25 birds. The proposed expansion — an additional 400 square feet — will increase capacity to around 40 penguins. With most of the birds now around 6–7 years old and able to breed until the age of 15, the zoo anticipates more additions in the coming years. The facility has drawn praise for its success in breeding the species in Indian conditions, officials said.

The emergency mobile alert sound, reviewed
The emergency mobile alert sound, reviewed

The Spinoff

time25-05-2025

  • Entertainment
  • The Spinoff

The emergency mobile alert sound, reviewed

Another test, another shocking reminder of the emergency alert noise. We asked some experts to describe that indescribable sound. First published in 2023 shortly after yet another emergency alert. Over the past few days, weeks, months, years, people across the country have had their lives periodically punctuated by a loud warning screech emitting from their phone. Some of these have been warning of unusually heavy rain, others of a nationwide lockdown, most recently of Cyclone Gabrielle. It's a dreaded sound that many will be increasingly (and unfortunately) familiar with – but how exactly would you describe it? The start of the dial-up tone? The traffic lights at the start of Crash Team Racing? Or like the gates of hell opening up for us once more? We asked some of our finest writers, musicians and thinkers to weigh in. Sharon Lam, Writer It 100% sounds like a robot Pingu going NOOT NOOT, right? With glowing red eyes? Surely everyone will also say this? Joanna Cho, Author I'm with my nieces in Auckland and I said 'the alarm sounds like Pingu' and they said 'what's that' and I put on Pingu on YouTube and now they're lying around my work computer watching Pingu so I can't work, fine by me. The Beths, Band The notes that make the tone wouldn't be out of place in a song like Silence Is Golden, but if we did that, we'd have a count in! No count in is just wrong. It's also twisted how it calls and answers to itself when you're in a group of people. It's a bit of a musical cheat code – it is 'harmony', but most harmony suggests a place it wants to go, or at least a place it came from – that's what brainy musicians call 'function'. The emergency tone screams for attention, but doesn't really suggest any movement. Ironically, this makes it musically 'non-functional'. Haz Beats, Producer A Tsunami siren. The big panic apocalypse end of the world type lol. Definitely a siren. Jess Molina, Writer Sounds like I'm about to panic over not panic-buying toilet paper Toby Morris, Illustrator I remember reading about the concept of 'the brown noise' in WWII, where they researched finding a perfect note that'd loosen any bowels. I feel like the emergency noise has gotten close to that, combined with the visual equivalent – when they researched the most unpleasant possible colour which they used for non-labelled cigarette packaging. It's giving uncomfortable meets unnatural meets poo, basically. Aaron Yap, Psychic Glands DJ It sounds like a chintzy 1950s sci-fi movie robot vaporising you with its laser beam. Alan Holt, International Manager at New Zealand Music Commission Off the top of my head it reminds me of a quite a few things – side two of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music around the 10 minute mark, a less musical interpretation of 'Don't Take' from Sachiko M's Sine Wave Solo album and a less funky take on 'Sonata Number 5 (the 'Detroit Sonata')' from Bruce Russell's album Circuits of Omission : Sonaten für synthetisierten Klang (Opus 60). Nick Ascroft, Poet This sounds like a mouse ambulance reversing. As it should. Jane Yee, Treasure Island Star It sounds like all my nightmares coming true in one ear piercing screech. I physically left the couch vertically skywards when yesterday's one arrived. Usually have my phone on silent but I had been playing League of Legends Wild Rift on my phone which requires sound on and forgot to switch it back. I will never be the same again. Britt Mann, PR Maven The sound is getting familiar to me now. On Sunday it emanated separately and all at once from various corners of the house. The flatmate, the cat and I met each other's gaze in an instant. 'Was that…?' 'Yeah.' Severe, significant event. Red Alert Level Gabrielle. 'Top up?' She cracked the magnum of red we'd opened to mark the Beginning of the End of Days. Janaye Henry, Comedian If I was to Shazam that sound I reckon it would say Skrillex, Bangarang. Reuben Jelleyman, Acoustician The sound itself is basically the same as a phone dial tone but the emergency mobile alert is higher and richer in resonant sideband frequencies which makes the sound harsher. You also have the two beeps, which gets your attention. One beep would be easy to ignore. From my perspective the sound is strong enough to get your attention, but it's not meant to be harsh, it's to provoke fear. I would say it's easy to associate feelings with sound, that's normal. When we hear the alarm, it reminds us of the last time we were anticipating a tsunami or a storm and that puts us on edge. Sanjay Patel, Comedian It sounds like the government is alerting you to the fact that they have now finally discovered the most sordid thing you have searched for on the internet. Imogen Taylor, Painter If the alert was a painting it would probably be a whole exhibition of paintings and that exhibition would be in some art museum in some country quite far away that you'd been really excited about travelling to but when you got there you realised you got the museum dates mixed up and instead of there being a Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective on there was a fucking Banksy retrospective on and then to top it off you paid for the tickets which were horrendously expensive and went inside to look at the bullshit paintings but then realised whatever you had for lunch from that place on the corner outside the museum before you went in wasn't sitting right in your gut and you immediately need to find the bathroom somewhere. Rose Hoare, Writer It sounds antique to me. Like if they had emergency mobile alerts on Bridgerton, that's what they'd sound like. It sounds like a boomer ringtone to me. The kind that would be mildly irritating in an office environment. You learn to block it over time, but it will always give you an inner eye roll and feeling of superiority. It doesn't exactly evoke authority. Or urgency for that matter.

3 penguin chicks born to 2 pairs, city zoo popln now 21
3 penguin chicks born to 2 pairs, city zoo popln now 21

Time of India

time28-04-2025

  • General
  • Time of India

3 penguin chicks born to 2 pairs, city zoo popln now 21

Mumbai: There's a little celebration happening at the Byculla zoo . Three penguin chicks were born to two pairs of Humboldt penguins over since early March — the first such arrivals in over a year. The first pair, Popeye and Olive, welcomed their hatchling Noddy on Mar 3. The pair, long-time residents at Byculla zoo, have become proud parents. Daisy laid two fertile eggs, both hatched into healthy chicks — Tom, born on Mar 7, and Pingu, on Mar 11. You Can Also Check: Mumbai AQI | Weather in Mumbai | Bank Holidays in Mumbai | Public Holidays in Mumbai Zoo officials said that Tom gets his name to complement Jerry, a chick hatched in Jun 2023 — the last lot born to the penguin family at the city zoo. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 20 Women From The 90's That Still Turn Heads Reportingly Undo Since the last batch of hatchlings, the penguin eggs that had been laid were either infertile or did not hatch, said an official from the zoo, officially known as Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Vanaspati Udyan va Pranisangrahalaya. "This time, both the chicks hatched." Tom arrived first, Pingu followed. "Tom, being the elder one of the two siblings, commands more food from the parents, who regurgitate partially digested food and are then feed him," the official said, adding: "We end up feeding Pingu." The three babies and their mothers are doing fine, said Dr Abhishek Satam, biologist at the zoo. The chicks are being tended to and closely cared for by their parents right now. "The babies are expected to start exploring the pool area once they are about three months old," said an official. Typically, the parents are expected to chaperone the tiny birds in the nesting area; the chicks are expected to enter the waters once they are a little older. With the latest arrival of three chicks, the population of Humboldt penguins at the zoo has shot up to 21. The rise in penguin numbers would, of course, mean that space at the penguin enclosure could prove to be a challenge soon. The current one, built in 2017, can house up to 25 birds. Zoo officials said they are now expediting plans to expand the enclosure to accommodate the bustling penguin colony. Officials said that plans were already afoot for the expansion of the facility by around a quarter more of the existing exhibit area, which is around 1,800 square feet. The proposed addition is for about another 400 square feet of space which should be able to accommodate close to 40 penguins. The average age of penguins is around 6–7 years currently, and since the birds can procreate up to 15 years of age, enough arrangement is needed for the newer additions, said the official. The zoo's penguin breeding facility has garnered much appreciation from other zoos in the country, claimed a zoo official.

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