Just when you thought you had your head around what's cool among kids, a new generation comes along and cancels the laughing-crying emoji... telegraph.co.uk/women/life/boo…
Yes, that’s right.
Just as you were getting to grips with the habit of attaching a spherical yellow face to the end of every sentence, the rules suddenly change.
This week, Generation Z, declared the laughing crying emoji is no longer cool...
So here are some ways to spot a millennial, according to the new kids on the block:
🥑Perhaps the most tell-tale sign of all...the avocado obsession🥑
The millennial obsession with the green fruit has even led to a term, “avocado anxiety” – worrying about the fruit being either too hard or overripe – coming top in a study of what the generation fear the most.
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A United Airlines plane suffered a fiery engine failure on Saturday shortly after taking off from Denver for Hawaii, dropping shards of metal and other debris on a residential area.
This is how the flight unfolded ⬇️
🕐 12:49 - Take Off
United Airlines 328 to Honolulu takes off half an hour late from Denver International airport.
It’s a chilly but fine day with scattered clouds. There are 231 passengers and 10 crew on board telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/2…
🕐 12:50 - Course set for Hawaii
The Boeing 777 climbs to the west and banks gently to starboard as it curves across the northern suburbs of Denver, travelling at 380mph and at a height of 13,500ft
When the diaries of Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon, the former Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea, first appeared in 1967, they scandalised London society and created a national sensation.
But who exactly was he?
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Friend and confidant of the titled, rich and famous, Channon loathed Churchill, admired Hitler and thought Wallis Simpson should have been Queen.
His one-liners about his friends and acquaintances, peppered through his diaries, are by turns crushing and amusing
As many of his subjects were still alive when the 1967 edition was published, only now, 63 years after his death, is the unredacted version of the diaries being published, in three edited volumes telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…
The evergreen director of @NIAIDNews has been a medical adviser to seven consecutive US presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan, steering them and his country through outbreaks of Ebola, Sars, Zika, avian flu, swine flu and the threat of biological weapons after 9/11
Dr Fauci was one of the first scientists to spot the lethal new syndrome that was Aids in the early 1980s
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they are expecting their second child on Sunday.
The news came on the 37th anniversary of the announcement that the Princess of Wales was expecting her second child, Prince Harry
While Meghan looked relaxed in a glamorously Californian way for the photograph celebrating the news, Diana was in the midst of a busy schedule of royal engagements when her pregnancy was confirmed