"On Thursday again we'll see these so-called Thursday demos, along with the Grannies, the Grannies Against the Right," he told the crowd.
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The dancing grannies have also faced a backlash at home.
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They beat the grannies, and then turn on each other.
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Yet despite the strong taste, these grannies are into it.
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But the bebopping grannies are just part of the scene.
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In Zimbabwe, Grannies provide therapy, because no one else does.
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"I love to mix with the other grannies," Ngubane said.
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But aunts and grannies do have some science on their side.
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The grannies visited Facebook HQ back in 2010 with similar demands.
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The door to Village Grannies is already open when I walk in.
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The Pasta Grannies Instagram page is relatively modest, too, with 180,000 followers.
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The young kids respect him; the grannies hope for little baby Buakaws.
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"We have a very large population of app-literate grannies," says Mr Roque.
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"There are grannies, young queer girls, young gay men, dudes, kids," she smiles.
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Wannabe grannies, it seems, have a tendency to scream, shout, jiggle and whoop.
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In other hands, she'd be one of Monty Python's grannies: a provincial biddy.
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OK, it's house music for pissed grannies in Magaluf, but hey, house is house.
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You should read Kim Severson, as well, on the pasta grannies of YouTube fame.
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THEY looked like any other group of middle-aged grannies, Chicha Mariani and her friends.
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She's transferred to "Florida," aka B Block, where "grannies, trannies, and loonies" live (like Suzanne).
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The regular Thursday demonstrations began only in October, by which time the Grannies were organized.
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Beijing, China (CNN)Wherever there is open space in China, you find grannies strutting their stuff.
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Hunter Johnson, 35, is a producer with Xpedition Media who pitched Pasta Grannies for the series.
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The city has a force of middle-aged and elderly community health workers known as Grannies.
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Story at a glance Humans aren't the only species in which grannies help raise their grandkids.
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In a few weeks' time, well over 1m grannies and grandads will be hearing from Auntie.
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Kuaishou is full of peasants plucking rice, fishers trying to catch eels and grannies cooking traditional recipes.
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They live in matrilineal groups that might include four generations, with the oldest grannies running the show.
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It might be blending in turmeric for arthritis for the old grannies around the area, or whatever.
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YouTube channel Pasta Grannies features older Italian women making their original pasta recipes in their own homes.
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Bennison is the founder of Pasta Grannies, a YouTube channel featuring Italian grandmas making their best homemade pasta.
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With her group, the Raging Grannies, her actions included blocking oil trains while chained to a rocking chair.
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The Grannies received two weeks of training, to understand and diagnose depression and learn about problem-solving therapy.
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Forget the lame olds over at Arizona State — twerking animals, horny unicorns and angry grannies are so last year.
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That's right, older Americans aren't the stereotypical grannies and grandpas huddling in a corner just hoping to get by.
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Though Village Grannies has been open for less than a year, their focus on community seems to be working.
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A filmmaker is trying to preserve the art of handmade pasta by turning Italy's Pasta Grannies into video stars.
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The meme goes that no one can stop Wuhan grannies from getting their groceries, not even the Chinese premier.
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"It was very different from the ones our grannies made," which she said were more like bone-filled globs.
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It depends on how much you're hating life RN. Maybe Lee just needs to hang with the Pasta Grannies.
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Within the first 30 seconds of the track, everyone is singing along and dancing: aunties, grannies, toddlers—everyone is grooving.
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A group of older women known as the Grannies Against the Right have become a fixture at Austrian antigovernment protests.
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"I noticed cooking skills were no longer being passed onto the younger generations," she wrote on the Pasta Grannies website.
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When Village Grannies opened three weeks after the election last year, that sense of community was something they felt people craved.
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Because there are so many ambrosia variations — almost as many as there are grannies — there are many versions of ambrosia cake.
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They are affectionately known as South Africa's "boxing grannies," and these women are juking and jabbing their way to healthier lives.
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She is wondering aloud why fuller figured women have to endure those "black, cream and white" bras for "grannies" in department stores.
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A few villagers—mostly grannies and toddlers—milled about, careful not to stray too close to a circular green-felt landing pad.
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"What I've learned from these grannies is, you have to have patience, perseverance and you've got to be disciplined yourself," he said.
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Grannies sticking needles in bananas and disgruntled employees hiding them in strawberries doesn't seem to have been a scenario anyone was expecting.
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"Some of the grannies don't even get this queer vibe," which is totally fine by Letissier; an assurance of her quality product, even.
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But as she cradled babies, hugged grannies and posed for selfies in Phrae province, Yingluck was also thinking of political survival, say aides.
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Yet those "dancing grannies," the middle-aged and elderly outdoor dance enthusiasts who crowd sidewalks, parks and squares across China, have shimmied on.
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The Grannies also addressed one of the problems that has shadowed them since the beginning: a misunderstanding among some members about their mission.
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They stamped their feet to revive frozen toes in 20-degree weather while listening to the Raging Grannies, a political activist singing group.
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The protest included folks from a number of progressive Bay Area groups, including Media Alliance, Global Exchange and the Raging Grannies Action League.
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The women rolling in for the weekend range from punk tattooed twenty-somethings with band shirts and acid-green hair, to grey-haired grannies.
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I imagined them hiding away old photographs of grannies in unironed saris or grandfathers in muddy fields, when they visited one another for cocktails.
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LOS ANGELES — The drag queen Madea and her posse of goofy grannies unexpectedly mopped the floor with Tom Cruise at the weekend box office.
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It seems, too, that I'm part of a national resurgence of interest in needle and other handicrafts, and not just among old grannies like me.
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The most visible are the "cardboard grannies", old women who collect boxes in poor neighbourhoods to sell for recycling in order to make ends meet.
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He thinks perhaps that's why generations of aunts and grannies have told children to stop cracking their knuckles: because they just couldn't stand the sound.
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A group of "Grannies Respond" activists started their 2,000-mile road trip on Tuesday, traveling from New York to McAllen, Texas, according to WCBS Newsradio.
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He recently returned from three days on Ischia, in the Gulf of Naples, shooting Ms. Bennison and some grannies with a team of 17 people.
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The dancing grannies are being deployed at some 100 junctions in the country's capital to teach people to be patient and wait for the green man.
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Her newest role in Bad Grandmas finds her amongst a group of gun-toting, pot-smoking grannies, including a hilarious Florence Henderson in her final role.
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When they are not dodging bullets or excrement aimed at them by angry local residents, the so-called dancing grannies are often busy managing their families' finances.
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With nearly 173,000 subscribers, the Pasta Grannies YouTube channel is nothing compared with heavy hitters like Kabita's Kitchen, an Indian cooking channel that has 5.6 million subscribers.
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According to Yahoo7, the bickering grannies are friends, but decided to settle an argument the Muay Thai way, balanced on a bamboo pole suspended over a river.
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The two women had spent their careers prior to Village Grannies working in creative fields—Behr as a jewelry designer and Eldar as a creative director for film.
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Mr. Rust of the tree action group talks of a secret army, including "grannies on buses," that keeps watch, enabling protesters to arrive only minutes after Amey's workers.
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They are even aiming to form an international "resistance" against the right wing and extremists across Europe and beyond, the Grannies declared at an annual meeting last month.
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"The Grannies have received a lot of attention because of their age — they stand out in the largely younger crowd and they are well connected," Mr. Dolezal said.
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For Irene Haider, who joined with the group for a demonstration on International Women's Day last month, the Grannies' age made them not just unusual, but also important.
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They waved to two women watching from the sidewalk, then pulled a couple of "Grannies Against the Right" signs from the shopping cart and asked them to join.
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There's a perception elsewhere that Florida is a land of misery and unmitigated stupidity, a sinking swamp teeming with urban sprawl, racist cops, and grannies in rhinestone MAGA caps.
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DeAndre Jordan ain't into grannies ... at least when it comes to free throws ... 'cause the L.A. Clippers star says he'll never shoot his free throws granny style ... meaning underhanded.
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Although their numbers fluctuate from demonstration to demonstration, depending largely on whether they are needed to help care for their grandchildren, the Grannies have become a recognized political force.
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It was the most serious unpleasant episode associated with the "dancing grannies," a social phenomenon that has polarized many Chinese over the very public — and audible — nature of their activities.
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They've both been fucked by grannies... Irish singer/songwriter Sinead O'Connor celebrated Ireland's newfound distance in a Facebook post: London-born rapper Stormzy declared his intention to replace David Cameron.
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Last year, she registered the Grannies as an official organization in Austria, and it now counts 300 members, with branches across Austria and Germany and thousands of followers over social media.
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As a song that will "both enrich your knowledge and help you achieve physical fitness," as Xinhua puts it, it could well become a favorite of China's famous, or infamous, dancing grannies.
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Salehi said the group has since expanded into a grass-roots movement with other "grannies" and "grampies" forming caravans across the country to travel the southern border to protest migrant family separations.
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And with any hope, that reality will grow to include more stores like Village Grannies, looking to be community spaces rather than secretive, get-in-and-get-out holes in the wall.
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" He added: "If you'd told me five years ago I'd have a load of grannies with crops on my books, I wouldn't have believed you, but the money is great for them.
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This, despite adopting the suggestion that the Grannies take over the cat-eared "pussy hat" beanies that had become the signature fashion item of the 2017 women's marches in the United States.
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More than 70 are featured in the cookbook "Pasta Grannies: The Secrets of Italy's Best Home Cooks," which the British publisher Hardie Grant will release in the United States on Oct. 29.
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And, when they figured that the spotlight was dimming, they borrowed the playbook of other groups like the Raging Grannies, an international network of protest groups, and resorted to more militant tactics.
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The Grannies haven't missed a march since, but with the political opposition weakened for the moment, the protests have had limited influence, said Martin Dolezal, a political scientist at the University of Salzburg.
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At half the age of the women he trains, Maphosa is also taking in life lessons, perhaps gaining as much -- if not more -- from the grannies as they are gaining from his gym.
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I would have committed unspeakable acts to be able to walk into a store that catered to my thicker teen frame, but every "plus-size" shop in my area was for moms and grannies.
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After testing out various methods — including public shaming, robots and even subway gates — to stop jaywalkers, the country now has installed groups of dancing grannies to convince people to stay safe on the roads.
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Impact: While the protests they've attended may have had limited influence, their presence serves as a reminder of past horrors born of intolerance and of the democratic gains that the Grannies want to preserve.
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Ms. Kerr followed that book with a series, beginning in 1970, centering on Mog the Cat, a clever but forgetful feline that has capers with everyone from foxes to grannies to bunnies and babies.
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Democrats in America assail most proposals to restrain the rising costs of public pensions or health care as tantamount to throwing grannies off a cliff; in Australia it was the left that pioneered such policies.
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Tencent's latest investment is an app that teaches grannies in China to dance Called Tangdou, or "sugar beans" in Chinese, the app announced that it has raised a Series C funding round led by Tencent. 3.
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If you're solo masturbating and eating some nachos to fill the romantic void this weekend, or simply need some encouragement about finding your perfect mate, take a break and read what these grannies have to say.
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When we grandparents are in the lives of the children, they get adoring, unconditional love, the parents get free child care, and we, the grannies and pops, rather than getting older, feel younger, healthier and happier.
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There's no wrong place to start in the Pasta Grannies archive; regardless of which video you watch first, the format will be the same, although earlier episodes won't have the jaunty theme music and title graphics.
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Vickie Bennison, the food writer turned filmmaker behind the Pasta Grannies channel, was researching a book about Italian food when she got the idea to record and preserve some of the pasta techniques she'd been reading about.
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The brand, the legend now goes, risked becoming the preserve of monied grannies before he arrived, slashing hemlines and adding glitz to the prim tweed suits of what is now one of the world's most valuable couture houses.
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Whether they're recreating their own weddings years later, playing an unconventional role in a loved one's special day, or getting married themselves, these grannies and grandpas prove that with age comes elegance, grace, and a grand sense of fun.
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Founded four years ago, Tangdou began by offering video tutorials that teach grannies and aunties how to dance, but has over time morphed into a one-stop app fulfilling news reading, networking and other needs for its senior users.
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"Pasta Grannies" is a YouTube channel and Instagram account started by Vicky Bennison, who sought out elderly women to teach her a variety of pasta shapes and sauces — a lost art that's disappearing as Italians opt for quicker meals.
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"You have whole families from all different cultures and across the generations, the grannies, the babes in arms, everyone, who can sit down to watch it and know that there will be no swearing, that it's a family show," she said.
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Humans aren&apost the only species that rely on grandmothers to watch the kids: Orca grannies ensure baby whales live longerA California woman punched and elbowed a mountain lion to stop it attacking her dog, but the pet died anyway
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Mastanamma has not appeared on many of the videos on the Country Foods channel lately—according to The Telegraph India, she doesn't enjoy cooking in the summer—but fortunately, we've just discovered the Pasta Grannies AND WE ARE IN LOVE.
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Vicky Bennison, a 60-year-old British woman with a background in international development, never intended Pasta Grannies to become a minor YouTube hit or to make stars of a handful of Italian nonnas who couldn't care less about their influencer status.
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Dreaming Up Disneyland By Tom Zoellner A Book Full of Reasons to Love Paris By Edmund White From Sichuan to Israel, from Italy's "pasta grannies" to the community cooks of the American South, there's plenty of enticement to return to the kitchen.
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Sure, they've crept around for years — spotted on bundled-up grannies or slung on a colleague's chair as a last-ditch effort to combat the frigid AC — but they've never held their own as a forward staple compared to modern turtlenecks and chunky knits.
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The Grannies' list of grievances is long: cuts to women's programs; discrimination against women, who receive no pension compensation for time taken off to raise children; the demonization of refugees and minorities in general; and an overall lack of empathy in the political discourse.
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As with so much else in the global economy, China's decision is rippling through a vast supply chain that stretches from big waste companies in Texas to the "cardboard grannies" in Hong Kong like Ms. Leung that pick through mounds of paper and plastic.
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If the camera lingers as the grannies knead dough or cut bits of onion into a pot with their plastic-handled nonna knives, it's not for aesthetic reasons, but because there is something to learn from the hands of someone who has done it for 70 years.
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Grannies from Grand Rapids and cowboys from Colorado might vote for Delta Air Lines to provide more legroom, Exxon to assume a higher carbon price when it drills for oil, IBM to move some jobs from Delhi to Detroit and Apple to pay a higher tax rate than its current 18%.
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The rest of the thoroughfare was filled with life: crowds streaming in and out of the local wet market, customers lining up for steamed pork buns, grannies dancing in unison to the latest pop songs in the adjacent public square and ambulances screaming past to one of the three hospitals along the street.
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More than five thousand people saw the version they erected in West Hollywood in 2015; every night, a line of eager hipsters waited for the chance to be led through the spectacle—past the cave of the "Polyamorous Vampiric Grannies," through the "Riot Ghoul Dance Party"—by one of the "demented women's-studies professors" who serve as guides.
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Hundreds of wrestling die-hards in "Bullet Club" T-shirts walked in clusters, chatting about Kazuchika Okada in the previous night's main event, while roughly the same number of Jehovah's Witnesses—dressed-up families, grannies and aunties being helped into wheelchairs by teens—filed out of the assembly hall next to the one we piled into.
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A caravan of self-proclaimed "grannies" are headed to the U.S.-Mexico border to protest family separations caused by President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.
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As reported by the South China Morning Post, Choi's project has won an HK$800,000 (about $100,000 USD) prize awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, enabling him to hire four to six more grandpas and grannies and providing the seniors with a social outlet and a way to earn a modest living post-retirement.
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In my opinion, there's not much of an upside to growing up, save a few things:- Doing whatever you want to, whenever you want to- Eating strange things at strange times- Getting to know your family as human beings (rather than authority figures), and occasionally partying with themAnd to that final point, a new video reminds us that grannies like to throw back shots, too.
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There are always humans in it: codgers bobbing up and down, doing invisible calisthenics; brawny young men in Speedos doing laps in impeccable form; backstroking grannies; moms coaching tots; sly submariners; stationary yentas conducting philosophical discourse while blocking an entire lane; lifeguards perched above it all, looking bored; and annoyingly adept kiddies — probably the grandchildren of those demons from Schenectady — zipping around (and under) me like demented otters.
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A combination of easy money, the introduction of the bedroom tax (which gives less money to those living in government housing if there's a vacant room), and the fact that there's a very low chance they'll be locked up for their crimes has led to the rise of "groppers"—grannies with a crop, one of whom we met in the cannabis episode of our new UK drugs series High Society.
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The dark side of the influencer economy In the nearly 15 years since YouTube launched with a video of one of its cofounders at the zoo, the platform has emerged as a powerhouse where people of all ages -- from an eight-year-old who reviews toys to "pasta grannies" who, well, make pasta -- can build up large followings and lucrative businesses to rival the success of television stars.
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