It’s been an emotional couple of days. Great British Bake Off aired its final episode, Tea the Afghan Hound has been named the prettiest pooch on the planet and #WorldPastaDay reminded us how much we, well, love pasta.
Tissues, please.
Live from the Delivery Room
Of the roundup of people who have absolutely zero sense of boundaries, record producer and Snapchat extraordinaire DJ Khaled definitely takes the cake.
Bringing his phone along with him into the maternity ward where his fiancée, Nicole Tuck, was in labour, Khaled broadcasted every moment of his son’s birth. On Snapchat. Whilst playing his own album.
Streaming regular updates to his fans from the delivery room, Khaled could barely contain his excitement —
Oh my god. DJ Khaled really snapchatted the birth of his son 😱😂 pic.twitter.com/BGyrYeqk0f
— Jacob Barnes (@JacobDBarnes) October 23, 2016
Ending his Snapchat saga with a seriously cute imprint of his newborn son’s footprint, we almost forgot the absurdity of the situation….
Welcome to the world, baby Khaled!
Bob Marley & Me
If you read last week’s Wins and Fails blog, you’ll know people love a weird hashtag.
Continuing the tradition, this week’s weird (and wonderful) hashtag came with a Caribbean twist.
Dutty Dancing #ReggaeAFilm
— Steve Tav (@BiGTaVoZ) October 24, 2016
Jerk chicken little
#ReggaeAFilm— Wake 'N' Bacon (@Daleyinsanity) October 24, 2016
All movies we’d watch, to be fair.
Penne for Your Thoughts
It was #WorldPastaDay on Tuesday, an ode to everyone’s favourite Italian carb.
But perhaps no one has expressed a love for pasta so pure as Tottenham Hotspur’s player Victor Wanyama did back in 2012, when he tweeted:
I had spaghetti and it was very nice i enjoyed it
— Victor Wanyama (@VictorWanyama) May 7, 2012
So, on #WorldPastaDay, it was only appropriate the football club remind everyone of Wanyama’s poignant words that stand the test of time:
Happy #WorldPastaDay! 😜 🍝 pic.twitter.com/ZLjuX6gTda
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) October 25, 2016
Story of My Life
Nothing has ever been more relevant than when #MyLifeInOneWord began trending on Thursday.
Hungry #MyLifeInOneWord pic.twitter.com/02ggt0l7fo
— ᎪᎽᏞᎥᏁTRON (@AylinMinajestic) October 27, 2016
Literally always.
#MyLifeInOneWord Overthinking pic.twitter.com/SCpUrkf1Le
— ❣BH90210 Wed 9pm FOX❣ (@Patricia__Braun) October 27, 2016
But seriously, the sticky toffee pudding or the apple crumble? Or both?
Och Wheesht and Get Oan Wae It
After embittered Daily Mail readers demanded Scotland be booted out the Union, Scots of the Twittersphere rallied up and hijacked their #ThrowScotlandOut hashtag in the most witty way possible.
YOUR COMMENTS: Mail readers want Scotland ejected from the UK because Nicola Sturgeon asked for a Brexit strategy… pic.twitter.com/6bd5latZ78
— The DM Reporter (@DMReporter) October 24, 2016
Like this:
Who do they think they are with their stunning landscapes, wonderful welcoming people, free tuition and free prescriptions #ThrowScotlandOut pic.twitter.com/UkxCp7dcVm
— Dudley Sewell #FBPE 🇪🇺 (@DudleySewell) October 26, 2016
(Awful view)
And this:
Och, we're not that bothered, we've been thrown out of better pubs than this #THROWSCOTLANDOUT
— Frank W (@frawil66) October 26, 2016
Together with this very valid point:
We can't #ThrowScotlandOut fs, we'll never win Wimbledon again. PRIORITIES, people.
— chiller ★ (@chiller) October 26, 2016
Truly though, we can’t have Đoković winning….
Tiers Shed
It’s the end of an era, folks. Wednesday evening’s finale of Great British Bake Off wracked up a colossal 14.8 million viewers, as baking enthusiasts across the nation tuned in one last time to watch Candice Brown be crowned the winner.
Twitter reacted —
"Hello, this is the UK. We're a bit busy at the moment, please leave a message." #gbbofinal #gbbo
— Scott Reid 🔍 (@scottreid1980) October 26, 2016
Here we go, it’s time for the last #GBBO as we know it.#GBBOFinal pic.twitter.com/UlmfYTA0cI
— Alex T (@AlexT) October 26, 2016
This is the British equivalent of the last ever episode of 'Friends' #GBBOFinal
— Richard Osman (@richardosman) October 26, 2016
For those of you still struggling to cope with the fact that BBC One will never air another episode of GBBO, here’s a beautifully nostalgic photo to print and frame:
This beats the oscars selfie… #GBBOFinal pic.twitter.com/XVwiYXmemS
— Beth♡ (@bethxjames) October 26, 2016
You’re welcome.
#HairEnvy
If you thought you were having a good hair day, think again.
Meet Tea, the Afghan Hound:
Just one picture. That's all it took for an Afghan hound named Tea to be crowned the internet's next "It" dog. https://t.co/1IH4NBneyn pic.twitter.com/IsmamdVw4l
— The Dodo (@dodo) October 26, 2016
When Tea’s owner, Luke Kavanagh, posted pictures of her on social media, she soon became an overnight social media sensation. News of the supermodel dog spread, and people began calling her the world’s ‘prettiest dog’.
Look at those luscious locks. They are flawless. They are a thing of beauty.
Your wedding day hair will never look as good as Tea’s does on a regular basis.
All that needs to happen now is for Tea to be the new face of Vidal Sassoon. We’d buy every product.
Double, Double Toil and Trouble
In anticipation of Halloween, #ScaryStoriesIn5Words saw some natural born storytellers emerge from the dark depths of the Twittersphere:
#ScaryStoriesIn5Words Announcement: FINAL season, LAST episode pic.twitter.com/wek7rIjnt6
— Kaung Ko (@kaungko) October 28, 2016
Don’t we know it.
#ScaryStoriesIn5Words We Lost Internet Access. Forever. pic.twitter.com/gPFJmfdWQd
— irfan 👁 (@simplyirfan) October 28, 2016
We once lost internet access for 5 minutes and it was horrifying.
The spiders learn to wrestle #ScaryStoriesIn5Words @midnight pic.twitter.com/asjPdySpiw
— Adam B.omb (@BVilivusonline) October 28, 2016
All aboard the nopetrain to Nopeville.