Absolute Random Nonsense

Receipt check complaints continue to run rapidly for stores including Target and Costco. The anti-theft method has gone as far as to push customers away and start shopping at different stores. Camron Dowlatshahi, a Los Angeles attorney and a founding partner at Mills Sadat Dowlat LLP, spoke to The U.S. Sun about a customer's rights and options when it comes to the anti-theft policy. "You can say no, but maybe it creates an unnecessary hassle for yourself," Dowlatshahi said. "But now you may have the police come to your house and follow up." Police could come to your home if the store had reason to believe you were stealing, but couldn't check your receipt to be sure. He also gave his advice to fully prevent a police encounter. “I would say, show your receipt. It’s just a really simple thing to do," he affirms.  

من می خواهم خودم را به خواب بزنم و یکی بیاد منو بیدار کنه که تا اومد نزدیک شد محکم یک مشت بزنم توی دماغش  

This is the moment the BBC's gaffe-prone presenter Maryam Moshiri makes another on-air blunder whilst reading off an autocue before signing off with a reference to the Anchorman film. The Tehran-born newsreader has become an online sensation over the last year thanks to her on-air botches, deadpan humour and ability to laugh at herself. Moshiri's latest mistake took place whilst she was delivering a report on the declining number of hazel dormice in the UK, which led the 46-year-old to get confused over the words 'habit' and 'habitat'. Following the autocue, the presenter said: 'Hazel Door Mice have declined by as much as 70 per cent across the UK. It's hoped that the new project which sees them re-released into their natural habit could help them restore the population.' She notices her blunder instantly and says to camera: 'Is it habit or habitat? I'm probably going to get emails about this.' Whilst communicating with the production ga...

توی فارسی سال چهارم دبیرستان یک شعر از مولوی بود در مورد یک طوطی که صاحبش رفت هند و وقتی بر گشت طوطی خود را به مردن زد. یک مصرع آن این بود: "طوطی من، مرغ زیرکسار من". وقتی داشتیم سر کلاس اون را میخوندیم، پسری که نوبتش بود خوند: "طوطی من، مرغ زیر کسار من". همه زدیم زیر خنده اما هیچ کس هم ازش نپرسید که به نظر اون معنی کسار چیه  

"What's in a name?" my father asked me the summer after I graduated from high school. And so began an internal struggle of Shakespearean proportions. In grade school, substitute teachers eyed my name uneasily on the roll sheet. Ramin? Their apprehension was understandable: how could they know which syllable to stress and whether the vowels were long or short? Some teachers weren’t daring enough to attempt it, and called out my initials instead. Others pronounced it like a broken melody rubbing the wrong way down their vocal cords: Raw-men; Ray-men; Row-mean. They’d ask me for its nationality. I would shrug, then stare at my sneakers. One day, prompted by a class assignment, I asked my parents about its heritage. They tried to explain. My name was from their country, which I had never visited. We were Iranian, all three of us, and my younger sister, too. But her name was Sheila, Americanized and normal—because, by the time she was born, my parents had le...

الو؟ قصابی سانزو؟

Two weeks after its much-anticipated premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, a film about Donald Trump in the 1980s is still seeking distribution in the United States. “The Apprentice,” directed by the Danish Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi, immediately sparked controversy. After its premiere, Trump's reelection campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, called the movie “pure fiction” and said the Trump team would file a lawsuit “to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers.” Earlier this week, Abbasi's frustration seemed to boil over on X, the social media platform. In a response to a news article blaming a stream of sequels and remakes on the recently dismal performance of films at the box office, Abbasi offered “a new proposition." “Its not a (expletive) sequel nor is it a (expletive) remake," wrote Abbasi. "Its called #The_Apprentice and for some reason certain power people in your country don’t want you to see it!!!”  

کلاس اول راهنمایی توی کلاس دینی، اونم توی مدرسه نیکان که خیلی مذهبی بود، در مورد آخرت با ما صحبت میکردند و میگفتند هر کی در این دنیا خوب باشه در آخرت لباسهای نو و تر و تمیز میپوشه ولی اونهایی که بد بودند لباسهای زشت خواهند پوشید. در پایان کلاس که معلم در مورد درس اون روز داشت پرسش میکرد به من که رسید از لباس مردم در آخرت پرسید. من گمون کنم کمی هل شده بودم (و به احتمال قوی کمی هم کرمم گرفته بود) و پاسخ دادم در قیامت مردم خوب لباسهای نو و تمیز میپوشند و مردم بد لباسهای پاره و انی میپوشند. اگر درست یادم باشه پس از گفتن این پاسخ معلم منو از کلاس بیرون کرد که از نظر من خیلی خوب بود چون نزدیک زنگ تفریح بود و من نفر اول در صف فوتبال بودم. راستی کس دیگری توی مدرسه شون فوتبال صفی بازی میکردند؟  

Maziar Ebrahimi and his family were on the Family Feud. They lost.

کوکب خانم مادر عباس است. او زن پاکیزه و با سلیقه ای است. ولی خشتکش پاره شده  

Zac Brown and Kelly Yazdi's slow dance together has come to an end. Last fall, the pair, who tied the knot in August after getting engaged the year prior, announced they were going their separate ways after four months of marriage. And at the time, they stressed their relationship had ended amicably. "We are in the process of divorce," they first announced in December with a joint statement to Billboard. "Our mutual respect for one another remains. We wish each other the best and will always appreciate our time together. As we navigate this personal matter, we simply request privacy during this time." However, in the months since then, Zac, 45, and Kelly's split has grown exceedingly contentious. The "Fried Chicken" singer filed a lawsuit against Kelly on May 17 demanding she take down an Instagram post that he argued tarnished his public image and violated a confidentiality agreement she signed in August 2022.