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Scottish Sun
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Parents spark fury as they take their baby to a tattoo salon – but it's the kid's name that's got everyone talking
The parents explained the name had a 'sentimental' meaning, as they danced to a song with the same name TATT'S WILD Parents spark fury as they take their baby to a tattoo salon – but it's the kid's name that's got everyone talking A COUPLE have come under fire after taking their baby to a tattoo salon - however, it's the little boy's name that's got everyone talking. Mum and TikToker Morgan Presley, who welcomed the baby in May, explained that she simply didn't ''trust people'' enough to get a babysitter. 2 The parents sparked fury after taking their son to a tattoo salon at just few months old Credit: 2 However, it was the baby's name that got everyone talking Credit: As the two parents were desperate to have their facial piercings changed, they decided to take their baby son to the tattoo salon with them. In the now-viral video, Morgan explained that her son had reached the ''grabby'' stage and was constantly pulling her eyebrow piercings. ''My luck, he would rip them out,'' she said. Knowing she would face backlash, the mum-of-one also said: ''To the people who will say, 'Just get a babysitter' - I don't trust people.'' While the couple were getting their piercings changed to more fitting ones, their son was chilling and peacefully sleeping in the background. However, while the pair were chuffed with their new facial piercings, Morgan and her partner came under fire for taking the little one along to the tattoo salon. One person wondered: ''not hating at all, but in the uk tattoo and piercing shops are 18+, surprised they let your baby in there, is that normal in all parts of usa?'' Another was baffled, writing: ''You don't trust people but you post him online?'' A third critic chimed in: ''Once again people proving they shouldn't be parents.'' But it's not just the day-out at the tattoo salon that sparked a fierce debate - Morgan and her husband were also slammed for naming their baby ''Pony''. Parents warned 3 common summer foods are dangerous to toddlers - and eating a specific fruit can cause nasty sunburn The parents revealed the son's name earlier this year in a video that's since gone viral, admitting that finding a boy that ''excited'' them was ''so hard''. ''Instead of going to baby name lists, we went to our record collection trying to look for a record that kind of spoke to us the most, that had sentimental meaning. ''And that's how we ended up landing on Pony Ramone Presley.'' In the clip, Morgan added that Presley was not his last name - and was intended for ''safety'' reasons. ''On our first date, we danced to this record by Orville Peck which is called Pony.'' Meanwhile, the middle name was inspired by The Ramones - a band the two were ''heavily, heavily listening to'' during the pregnancy journey. 'We are naming future adults not just babies' The boy's name, as adorable as it may be, has not proven to be a major hit amongst concerned social media users, who slammed the parents. One said: ''Giving him a fake last name from his safety doesn't feel very useful lmao. How many Pony Ramones are there?'' Another wrote: ''I've said it once I've said it again we are naming future adults not just babies.'' A third critic chimed in: ''People choose names for their children as if they were choosing a name for a pet.'' ''I'm so happy to live in Germany, where you're not allowed to give your children names that could harm them!'' a viewer from Europe commented.
The Irish Sun
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Parents spark fury as they take their baby to a tattoo salon – but it's the kid's name that's got everyone talking
A COUPLE have come under fire after taking their baby to a tattoo salon - however, it's the little boy's name that's got everyone talking. Mum and TikToker Morgan Presley, who welcomed the baby in May, explained that she simply didn't ''trust people'' enough to get a 2 The parents sparked fury after taking their son to a tattoo salon at just few months old Credit: 2 However, it was the baby's name that got everyone talking Credit: As the two parents were desperate to have their In ''My luck, he would rip them out,'' she said. Knowing she would face backlash, the mum-of-one also said: ''To the people who will say, 'Just get a read more on parenting While the couple were getting their piercings changed to more fitting ones, their son was chilling and peacefully However, while the pair were chuffed with their new facial piercings, Morgan and her partner came under fire for taking the little one along to the tattoo salon. One person wondered: ''not hating at all, but in the uk tattoo and piercing shops are 18+, surprised they let your baby in there, is that normal in all parts of usa?'' Another was baffled, writing: ''You don't trust people but you post him online?'' Most read in Fabulous A third critic chimed in: ''Once again people proving they shouldn't be parents.'' But it's not just the day-out at the tattoo salon that sparked a fierce debate - Morgan and her husband were also slammed for naming their baby ''Pony''. Parents warned 3 common summer foods are dangerous to toddlers - and eating a specific fruit can cause nasty sunburn The parents revealed the son's name earlier this year in a video that's since gone viral, admitting that finding a boy that ''excited'' them was ''so hard''. ''Instead of going to ''And that's how we ended up landing on Pony Ramone Presley.'' In ''On our first date, we danced to this record by Orville Peck which is called Pony.'' Meanwhile, the middle name was inspired by The Ramones - a band the two were ''heavily, heavily listening to'' during the pregnancy journey. 'We are naming future adults not just babies' The boy's name, as adorable as it may be, has not proven to be a major hit amongst concerned social media users, who slammed the parents. One said: ''Giving him a fake last name from his safety doesn't feel very useful lmao. How many Pony Ramones are there?'' Another wrote: ''I've said it once I've said it again we are naming future adults not just babies.'' A third critic chimed in: ''People choose names for their children as if they were choosing a name for a pet.'' ''I'm so happy to live in Germany, where you're not allowed to give your children names that could harm them!'' a viewer from
Economic Times
05-07-2025
- Automotive
- Economic Times
End-of-life for a mechanical being can be more than machine learning
SONG OF THE END OF THE ROAD The KKK took my baby awayThey took her away, away from me - The Ramones This week, I lost a love of my life. Like loves of your life that you take for granted, I realised that Batmobile a.k.a. Bat was a love of my life only after I let go of him on Monday. Finding out on Thursday that Delhi had second thoughts about hunting down petrol cars over 15 years old (and diesel cars over 10) - 'end-of-life' vehicles, they call them as if 'dead' wasn't poetic enough - and sending them to the scrapyard, brought with it a kick in my already-numb juggernauts. But honestly, I was ready to let Bat go, without having to put him through some tortuous BS-IV emission standard enhancement procedure that's made Madonna look what she does now. Bat was a grey 2009 Honda City SV Petrol MT beauty. Driving him was like flying the Millennium Falcon, before Lando Calrissian lost the YT-1300f light freighter in a card game to Han Solo. Sure, over time, he stalled, more than a few times - once, after midnight on way to the airport. The battery needed recharging more frequently than usual. Its automatic locking system went rogue like a malevolent AI in a Kubrick movie, and I had to change it for a manual lock. And by the time I got Bat over from Delhi to Kolkata's roadscape that makes the lunar surface seem an autobahn, its low clearance and bucket back seats had started to break my spine - and his chassis. But this was more a function of my age than his. And yet, here I am, and here he - so giving on the smooth, so forgiving on the rough - isn't. Of course, if you are with someone, inhabit some thing, from June 21, 2019 to June 30, 2025, you become hybrid: part-Hazra, part-Honda. It was only after he left that I had the courage to reread Subodh Ghosh's sparkplugs-tearing 1940 short story, 'Ajantrik' (The Unmechanical). In it, we encounter Bimal, and his 15-year-old Ford, Jagaddal. (In Ritwik Ghatak's finest film, a 1958 adaptation of Ghosh's Agantuk, Jagaddal's number plate is tellingly BRO 117. Bat's is DL 4CAH 9453.) Jagaddal is of 'prehistoric shape, his whole body marked by shambolic decay,' and he hardly gets customers in the taxi stand. And yet, Jagaddal is Bimal's 'valet, friend and provider' - his life. For the misanthrope, this machine provides what human companionship never can. While rubbing kerosene to remove rust from Jagaddal's weary bolts, Bimal snarls back at a person who asks him why on earth he's 'fixing a broken mandir', saying it's his private matter. Fellow driver Pyara Singh laughs and asks Bimal [in Hindi], 'Private? Gari bhi ghar ka aurat hain kya?' His business is on the verge of folding up. But Bimal won't give up his beloved Jagaddal. Until one day - 6 pages into the 9-page story - the car breaks down while going up an elevated road on the way to Ranchi. Jagaddal's piston is broken. A few days later, the bearing melts. Then it's the fanbelt, then it's a blocked carburetor. Finally, the sparkplugs short. 'No, I'm here Jagaddal. Don't worry, I'll get you up and running again,' Bimal promises the teenage geriatric. Soon enough, he gets parts, fixes him, and plans to get Jagaddal a new hood, paint, and burnish. But overnight rains seep through the shambolic garage delivering a final blow to the car. To cut a short story shorter, Bimal is unable to revive him - 'He doesn't understand love, he doesn't understand my words, son-of-an-iron, inanimate ghost!' he shouts while kicking the car in anger, frustration, and grief. Jagaddal is soon sold as scrap. Ahe end of the story, we find Bimal getting progressively drunk, as he hears a 'thong thong thokang thokang - Jagaddal's burial spot is being prepared. As if the sound of a shovel and a crowbar.' The chap who came to take Bat away, told me that in a few weeks, he'll send me a WhatsApp video clip of him being turned to scrap. It's apparently company policy. Elevate your knowledge and leadership skills at a cost cheaper than your daily tea. Zepto has slowed, and Aadit Palicha needs more than a big fund raise to fix it Drones have become a winning strategy in war; can they be in investing? How the sinking of MSC Elsa 3 exposed India's maritime blind spots Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro: Are GLP-1 drugs weight loss wonders or health gamble? Darkness at noon: Can this reform succeed after failing four times? Stock picks of the week: 5 stocks with consistent score improvement and return potential of more than 29% in 1 year Stock Radar: Nippon Life stock gives a breakout from Cup pattern in June; check target & stop loss for long positions From takeovers to a makeover: Are cement stocks ready for re-rating? 8 cement stocks with upside potential from 6 to 42%
The Herald Scotland
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Buzzcocks on how punk went from Glasgow ban to Bellahouston
On Saturday though a star-studded lineup of the scene's progenitors - Stranglers included - will headline Bellahouston Park, capacity circa 35,000. Buzzcocks were there from the beginning, as Britain's youth turned to spiky hair and safety pins, and they'll be there in Glasgow on Saturday when the combat boots are dusted off by the city's elder punks. Read More: Who better, then, to chart the journey from banned to Bellahouston. Guitarist and last suriving original member Steve Diggle tells The Herald: "We brought the Sex Pistols to Manchester when it (punk) was kind of unknown, really. "That's where we all met, the next day me, Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley plugged into an amp and a terrible beauty was born, to quote Yates. "A couple of weeks later we opened for the Pistols in Manchester, we got reviewed and that put it on the map. So we were there right at the beginning. "We were doing that in Manchester and The Clash and the Pistols in London and we got to know them well, there was a connection between us because all of this was kind of new at the time. "The landscape was kind of dead, really, you had prog rock bands but they'd run their course and nothing was happening for a few years. "Suddenly you got this excitement, and everybody came alive." The Britain into which punk was birthed was one of high inflation and unemployment, of industrial unrest and a shifting political climate. It was famously referred to as "the sick man of Europe", with unemployment reaching 5.5% in 1978, the year the first Buzzcocks album was released. Diggle says: "Britain was black and white and grey - it was just boring, you know? "I was coming up to 20 and you kind of wanted some excitement. I'd been playing guitar since I was 17 and for three years I'd been trying to write songs and all that stuff and then suddenly this punk rock thing happened. "It hit the country like a carpet bomb, it was an explosion of the imagination - people thought things were possible, including ourselves, it was like an exchange between the bands and the crowd. "There wasn't any rivalry then, because we all started at the same time so if I run into a member of The Clash, or the Pistols, or The Jam we know where we come from so there isn't any rivalry. "It was great, we'd put a record out and they'd acknowledge that, then we'd acknowledge theirs. "It seemed like every week a single from one of those bands was coming out, it was a magical time." The poster for the punk all dayer (Image: DF Concerts) As punk was booming in the UK a similar thing was happening across the Atlantic with bands like The Ramones, Dead Kennedys and Television. However, Diggle doesn't feel there was a great deal of cultural overlap. He says: "The Ramones released their first album just before we released Spiral Scratch (the first Buzzcocks EP) and that was kind of a big influence, that first Ramones album was great. "I think it inspired The Clash and really everybody, it was fast and furious and straight to the point - all the music was direct in those early days. "So we had The Ramones and in the past MC5, Iggy Pop, The Suzies and all that stuff, and obviously The Velvet Underground. "But me and Pete grew up as kids of the 60s really, with The Kinks, The Beatles, The Who. "So we were aware of the American part but this was more of a British thing, all those bands were very British and thinking about things more over here, the stuff we were all going through at the time. "Actually when we first went to America, The Ramones came to see us. We got off the stage and they were all there, and they were kind of saying, 'we do that straight ahead stuff but you guys take it somewhere else' so they loved that about the Buzzcocks." Buzzcocks in 1978 (Image: Newsquest) British punk also carried a more political bent, though Diggle's band were less overt than contemporaries like The Clash. He says: "The Buzzcocks sang a lot about the human condition, you know? "There were political ones, Joe Strummer loved my song 'Autonomy' on the first album. "We had distorted guitars and we had that attitude, we had things like 'Orgasm Addict' (which was banned by the BBC). "The Clash were a bit more externally political but a lot of my songs are political underneath. Songs like 'Why She's A Girl From A Chain Store', we had a lot of complexity with it as well, we had a bit of existentialism about us. "It wasn't as simple as going 'the government's wrong', it was dealing with other complexities as well. We knew the government was wrong but it's not a case of thinking the crowd is so simple they don't understand those kind of things. "When we all started it was all under this umbrella of punk, initially no-one could particularly differentiate between any of them. "But then as we kept making albums each band got its own identity, so even within that movement we were all different." Though bands like The Clash and the Sex Pistols had their pop chops too, Buzzcocks were perhaps the most melodic of the first wave bands. Their influence can be heard in the lineage of punk and its offshoots, from Nirvana and Green Day to Supergrass and the Manic Street Preachers. L-R. Steve Diggle, Steve Garvey, John Maher, Pete Shelley (Image: Fin Costello/Redferns) Diggle says: "It's quite amazing, at the time you're just making a record you don't think you'll be inspiring other people. "It's a great compliment, Nicky Wire from the Manic Street Preachers said 'when we started we were playing 'Autonomy'. REM, U2, Pearl Jam, Nirvana and loads of other bands you've probably never heard of will say 'we used to do a Buzzcocks song when we were starting out'. "You can hear a lot of echoes of Buzzcocks in other people's records, Green Day and people like that, which is not something we ever set out to do." The group has somewhat come full-circle, and will once again play alongside the Sex Pistols at the 'punk all-dayer' at Glasgow Green on June 21, as will The Stranglers, The Undertones, Skids and The Rezillos. Punk's not dead, as they say, though admittedly some of those groups' former members are. Diggle says: "They still do Shakespeare and he's a lot older than us, so we've got time! "We were supposed to headline Hyde Park twice and were banned because we were a punk band, but we've gone full-circle here. "It'll be a great day playing with all those bands. It's still alive and well, you know? Still rolling on." The Punk All Dayer takes place at Bellahouston Park on Saturday, June 21. Tickets are available here.
Tom's Guide
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
I just watched ‘Bono: Stories of Surrender' through the Apple Vision Pro — and it could change the way we experience movies
'If you want your child to grow up to be a grand standing stadium singer there's two ways to go about it… You can tell them they're gifted and that the world needs to hear their voice. This is the Italian method. Or you can completely ignore them. This could the Irish method. Much more effective in my case.' Those are the wry words of U2's lead singer, which I heard through the Apple Vision Pro headset as part of "Bono: Stories of Surrender." This reimagining of Bono's one-man stage show premieres today on Apple TV Plus, but a special version has also been created for Apple's spatial computing headset. In fact, it's the first feature-length film available in Apple Immersive Video, the format Apple pioneered for its device using 8K cameras. The result is a 180-degree experience that is rich, intimate and downright trippy at times. However, as I attempted to sit through the nearly 90-minute feature, I experienced some unpleasant reminders of the Vision Pro's flaws. It was like I was on stage with Bono as he shared the pain of losing his mother and what his household was like afterwards as it became 'a river of silence.' The Vision Pro version is a combination of big-screen movie storytelling interspersed with jaw-dropping 3D clips that make you feel like you're in the venue with Bono — getting a better-than-front-row seat to hear some of the most iconic U2 songs and the stories behind them. For Bono, getting access to a guitar saved his life. It became a shield and a weapon as he gravitated towards rock with The Ramones and one day decided that he wanted to try to write songs himself. The presentation through the Vision Pro is a combination of big-screen movie storytelling interspersed with jaw-dropping 3D clips that make you feel like you're in the venue with Bono — getting a better-than-front-row seat to hear some of the most iconic U2 songs and the stories behind them. I'm sure the 2D version through Apple TV Plus will be engaging enough, but there's something about standing face-to-face with Bono as he shares the most intimate details about his upbringing, health scares and more. I felt like I could reach out and shake Bono's hand as I looked up at his face with his trademark specs right down to his shoes and the stage. And while 'Stories of Surrender' is shot in black-and-white, the immersive film cleverly works in pops of color with fluid animations here and there. As Bono told the story behind "Bloody Sunday" and the lyrics scribbled across the screen, I truly got sucked into the Immersive Video. Written by Edge, Bono shared that the mission of the song was to contrast the original Easter Sunday with the murder of 14 unarmed protesters in the city of Derry in Northern Ireland. As Bono sings "How long must we sing this song" you can feel and see the pain as you see only the outline of his face in the foreground and a harp in the background on stage. But "Stories of Surrender" simply doesn't work without Bono's masterful storytelling and ability to play multiple characters. This includes Bono's father, who Bono describes as melting when he meets Princess Diana ahead of a charity concert with Luciano Pavarotti in Italy. As Bono impersonates the princess slowly walking towards his "da," he playfully described the encounter as "800 years of oppressions disappearing in 8 seconds." So while the Vision Pro brings "Stories of Surrender" to another level, U2's lead singer and his warmth and humor is the real star. As impressive as "Bono: Stories of Surrender" looks and sounds through the Vision Pro, I found that I couldn't comfortably watch the whole thing in a single sitting. I found myself needing to take breaks for a couple of reasons. First, the Vision Pro is a hefty headset, and I could feel the weight of it after 25 minutes or so. Yes, I could have swapped out the sleeker Solo Knit Band for the Dual Loop Band, which is more secure. But all the criss-crossing straps on the latter reminds me of something one might wear before getting a brain implant. I also felt some uncomfortable pressure around my eyes, which took me out of the vibe of Bono's heart-warming and humorous performance, not to mention his soaring vocals. There's a rumor Apple is working on a much lighter Vision Pro 2, and I think it would help a great deal. Lowering the $3,500 price would not hurt, either. "Bono: Stories of Surrender" serves up two major takeaways. The Vision Pro continues to deliver the most immersive entertainment experience of any headset. And Apple still has a long way to go in terms of bringing this experience to more people in a way that feels comfortable and natural. That's to take nothing away from this Apple Immersive Video. 'Stories of Surrender' is a great proof point for the promise of the format as content creators find ways to tell stories in new ways. It gets me thinking of what a season of "Severance" might look and feel like through this device (or its predecessor). Or perhaps the next season or version of "Ted Lasso."I'm looking forward to seeing where Apple takes Immersive Video next.
