Flight attendant reveals the secret meaning behind the ‘chime sounds’ you hear on airplanes: ‘I never knew that’

#1:Flight attendant reveals the secret meaning behind the ‘chime sounds’ you hear on airplanes: ‘I never knew that

 

’ A flight attendant revealed the secret meaning behind the strange airplane chime sounds you hear during a flight.
The flight attendant, named Tommy Cimato (@tommycimato), shared the info in a now-viralTikTok clip. In his video, he explained the different beeping sounds you might hear during a flight and what each one means.
It’s just the latest in a long line of viral TikToks that show what it’s like to work in and around airplanes. In recent clips, users have revealed how the airport ground crew signals planes into their gates, how flight attendants clock their work hours and how to use a neck pillow the “real” way.
Cimato’s video begins with a sound any air traveler knows well — the two-toned beep that shows up in the plane’s speakers at seemingly random intervals during a flight.
As Cimato explains, this sound is actually one of three noises that flight attendants use to understand what’s happening on the plane.
Cimato first explains that if you hear a high-to-low chime, it means one flight attendant is signaling another — or that the flight deck is trying to reach them.
Meanwhile, one single tone means that a passenger is trying to get help from a flight attendant. This is the sound you’ll hear if you press the “call” button at your seat.
Three tones mean an emergency, Cimato says. However, he adds that these noises are extremely uncommon.  
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“You never will have to hear that,” he says in the video.
TikTok users were largely blown away by the video. Many had no clue what each of the sounds meant.
“I never knew that,” one user wrote.
“I always thought it meant an announcement is gonna be made,” another added.
“New fear unlocked: Hearing three tones,” another user joked.
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"Hogging" Is A Horrifying Sex Competition That Some Fraternities Engage In, And People Are Finally Talking About It

#1:"Hogging" Is A Horrifying Sex Competition That Some Fraternities Engage In, And People Are Finally Talking About It

 

 I've always disliked fraternities, for obvious reasons. But now, I am genuinely terrified of them after learning about a practice called "hogging."
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Evidently, the practice is not anything new, and the term has been in Urban Dictionary for nearly two decades. According to the website, "hogging" is basically when groups of men compete to have sex with the "fattest" woman at a bar or party.

And apparently, in 2018, it happened at Cornell University. According to Slate, people reported the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity for having what they called a "pig roast," where members of the house "competed to sleep with women they consider overweight."

"Hogging is a practice in which men will typically prey on fat women, and make bets with their friends about finding the fattest and most unattractive woman and having sex with her," Megan Mapes, who goes by @megsforfun on TikTok, explained in her viral video, which now has nearly 1.5 million views on the platform. "Sometimes they will then, in the completion of having sex with her, have the entire group of men come barging in the room, and they'll start oinking and harassing the woman until she leaves that space."
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This is a thing that has been happening at colleges across the country. Yet, why does it seem like nobody really knows that this exists? BuzzFeed spoke with Megan, a plus-sized fashion and body positivity activist, to learn more about the subject.
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"Hogging is a practice of achieving masculinity," Megan told BuzzFeed. "One of the ways men can do that, in their eyes, is by sleeping with the greatest number of people possible. They see fat women as easy targets."
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"My hope is that by having a conversation about hogging, more people will become aware of it and respond negatively to it happening. And so, hopefully it happens less frequently," she added. "But more importantly, if and when it happens, I hope that people see, and become aware, and we can check each other."
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For some people, seeing Megan's TikTok was the moment they realized they may have been involved in a hogging-related incident. "This confirms to me that I was definitely a part of a hazing ritual at Mizzou against my will," Adrieanna, who goes by @urgirladrie on TikTok, said. "I matched with a guy who was pledging this frat and he invites me over...We get to the room and its just a bed on a floor and a laptop pointing... I knew I was being watched."
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"At some point he asked me to go all the way, and I'm just like, 'I'm good, I actually wanna leave' ... He starts looking around and says, 'We have to get you out of here right now.' I think I ruined his frat ritual by saying 'No,' and they were basically gonna jump out and laugh at me," she added.

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Bannon Defiant as He Surrenders to FBI: ‘We’re Taking Down the Biden Regime’

#1:Bannon Defiant as He Surrenders to FBI: ‘We’re Taking Down the Biden Regime’ 

Steve Bannon, a former top adviser to President Trump, surrendered to the FBI on Monday on two criminal contempt charges that were leveled against him for refusing to cooperate with the select committee probing the January 6 Capitol riot.
On Monday morning, Bannon pulled up to the FBI Washington, D.C. branch, greeting dozens of members of the press looking for comment. “We’re taking down the Biden regime,” he said before walking inside.
Bannon was charged with two counts of contempt after he failed to comply with a subpoena to appear for a deposition and submit requested documents related to the events preceding the mob’s storming of the Capitol. Both counts carry a minimum sentence of 30 days and a maximum of one year in jail, the Department of Justice confirmed.
The Monday development comes after Bannon was indicted by grand jury for contempt of Congress last week.
Before he turned himself in Monday, Bannon went on air for an episode of his podcast WarRoom, imploring followers to continue the fight against the Biden administration.
“I don’t want anybody to take their eye off the ball from what we do every day, OK,” he said. “I want you guys to stay focused on message.”
When the January 6 committee demanded files and testimony from Bannon in October, his lawyer claimed executive privilege extended to his client by Trump, even though others in the field disputed that the protection applied once the president has left office.
The attorney told the committee that “the executive privileges belong to President Trump,” despite his being a private citizen. President Biden has refused to grant executive privilege to actors under investigation for the January 6 incident.

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Woman claims she was 'scammed' by online reseller after noticing label detail: 'Oh my god is this real?'

#1:Woman claims she was 'scammed' by online reseller after noticing label detail: 'Oh my god is this real?

 

' A woman took to TikTok after she thought she bought a secondhand Zara vest, only to realize a Shein label was on the garment instead.
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Anya (@xx.anzz) said she first thought Zara was duping her, captioning her initial TikTok exposing the tag with “excuse me @zara I want a refund.”
In a follow-up video, Anya admitted that she didn’t buy the vest — or gilet, as she refers to it — directly from Zara. Instead, she actually got it off of the popular reselling app Depop. The Depop seller had allegedly shared a photo of the vest alongside an official photo from the Zara website in the listing.
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’m guessing [the Depop sellers] probably get a Shein product and stitch a Zara label on the back and sell it as Zara,” Anya said in the video. “Long story short, I think we got scammed.”
Anya also said she owned the coat version of the vest from Zara, so she didn’t give the Depop post a second thought until she saw the Shein label.
While Zara and Shein are at vastly different price points, Zara is still considered a fast-fashion company. Zara may have a higher price point than Shein, but the clothing brand still lives up to the fast-fashion name with unsustainably high turnover and new on-trend style arrivals every month.
Shein, for context, adds around 6,000 new items to its site every day and the average item costs slightly less than $11.
Prices aside, there are some major similarities between Zara and Shein’s merchandise. There is a slew of Instagram accounts that compare almost indistinguishable side-by-sides of the two companies’ products.
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Anya’s TikTok has since racked up almost 16 million views and thousands of comments — many of which pointed out that the Zara tag at the top of the vest seemed a bit off.
Commenters were also stunned at how bold the Depop seller was for allegedly sewing on a fake Zara label.
“Oh my god, is this real?” one asked. “That’s insane.”
Some viewers suggested that Zara and Shein manufacture clothes at the same facilities, but that hasn’t been confirmed. Zara is pretty open on its website and in annual reports about the sourcing of its clothing and the working conditions of employees. Shein, as of now, has not divulged that information.
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Jared Kushner said he was too busy with the Middle East to challenge Trump on his doomed effort to overturn the election: book

#1:Jared Kushner said he was too busy with the Middle East to challenge Trump on his doomed effort to overturn the election: book

 

 Pence's chief of staff asked Kushner to challenge Trump on his doomed effort to overturn the election, according to a new book.
Trump was obsessed with the false notion that Pence could overturn the results, the book said.
Kushner said he was too busy with the Middle East to talk to Trump.
Jared Kushner told Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, Marc Short, that he was too busy focusing on the Middle East to challenge President Donald Trump on his unprecedented effort to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a new book by ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl.
After losing the 2020 election, Trump effectively threw Pence under the bus by falsely suggesting that the vice president could unilaterally upend the results when Congress gathered to certifying the Electoral College vote on January 6. Despite statements from Trump to the contrary, Pence did not have the power to do this. Vice presidents preside over the Electoral College certification process, but it's a largely ceremonial role.
The baseless notion that Pence had the power to overturn the election had become a "Trump obsession, and Marc Short wanted Kushner to convince the president that the idea was nothing but a fantasy, Karl wrote in the forthcoming book, "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show."
Karl said that Short believed Kushner was intelligence enough to understand Trump was "flat-out wrong." Privately, the president's son-in-law was telling people he knew that Trump lost the election, Karl wrote, and he was aware Pence couldn't do anything to change that.
"Please talk to the president," Short said to Kushner during a phone call, per Karl. "He listens to you. Explain to him that the vice president's role in counting electoral votes is entirely ceremonial. He has no power whatsoever to reject any state's electoral votes."
According to the book, Kushner responded, "You know, I'm really focused on the Middle East right now," adding, "I haven't really been involved in the election stuff since Rudy Giuliani came in."
Short implored Kushner to intervene, underscoring that this is a "big problem," Karl wrote. "The president is being misled. Please talk to him."
Kushner replied that he really didn't want to get involved, Karl said, stating that his "focus is on Middle East peace."
Over the course of the Trump era, Kushner was intricately involved in the administration's Middle East policy.
Kushner spearheaded the Trump administration's "peace plan" for the Middle East. But Kushner's roadmap for peace involved no consultation with Palestinian leaders. Critics of the plan dismissed it as a PR stunt for then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a close ally of Trump's, to boost his chances in an impending election. Palestinian leaders rejected the plan.
Kushner also helped broker the Abraham Accords. The UAE and Bahrain formalized diplomatic ties with Israel via the landmark accords in September 2020. Two more Arab countries, Morocco and Sudan, joined the Abraham Accords shortly after.

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Trump announced he would skip Biden's inauguration after he learned McConnell was planning to disinvite him, book says

#1:Trump announced he would skip Biden's inauguration after he learned McConnell was planning to disinvite him, book says

 

 Trump tweeted on January 8 that he would skip Joe Biden's inauguration.
A new book says he made the announcement after learning of plans to disinvite him.
Congressional leaders wanted to bar Trump from the event after the Capitol riot, the book said.
Then-President Donald Trump announced in January that he would skip Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony after learning of plans to disinvite him, a new book says, according to excerpts published by ABC News and Politico on Monday.
The outlets published excerpts from "Betrayal," the ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl's new book on Trump's final few months in power, set to be released on Tuesday.
Trump announced on Twitter on January 8 that he would not attend the ceremony. "To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20," he said.
The tweet turned out to be his last before Twitter barred him, citing "the risk of further incitement of violence" after the Capitol riot on January 6.
But according to Karl's book, Trump had caught wind of a plan by then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, to bar him from the inauguration, fearing a repeat of the violence of January 6.
"McConnell felt he could not give Trump another opportunity to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power," Karl wrote, ABC News reported. "McConnell wanted to get a letter together from the top four congressional leaders informing Trump that he had been disinvited."
But House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, also a Republican, tipped Trump off about the plan, and Trump made the announcement he wouldn't attend, Karl's book said.
"Trump apparently wanted people to think it was his decision alone to become the first outgoing president after an election to fail to attend an inauguration since Andrew Johnson skipped the inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant in 1869," Karl wrote, according to ABC.
Liz Harrington, a spokeswoman for Trump, tweeted a statement on Monday in which Trump repeated his false election-fraud claims, said the decision not to attend Biden's inauguration was "mine, and mine alone," and insulted McConnell and Karl.
—Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) November 15, 2021
Instead of attending Biden's inauguration, Trump left the White House on the morning of January 20 on Marine One to fly to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

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Reports: Pro MMA fighter arrested for allegedly stabbing, killing doctor after COVID-19 vaccine argument

#1:Reports: Pro MMA fighter arrested for allegedly stabbing, killing doctor after COVID-19 vaccine argument

 

 Akmal Khozhiev, a 3-1 pro fighter, was arrested Nov. 7 by the Guam Police Department after allegedly stabbing and killing a doctor during a COVID-19 dispute in Tamuning, according to multiple reports from local news outlets including Pacific Daily News, KUAM News, Pacific News Center, and The Guam Daily Post.
At the time of publication, the Guam Police Department did not respond to MMA Junkie’s inquiries for comment.
Khozhiev, 27, faces charges of first-degree felony aggravated murder with a deadly weapon and second-degree aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Bail for Khozhiev was set at $1 million.

According to a witness, Khozhiev and Dr. Miran Ribati, a radiologist at Guam Memorial Hospital, engaged in an altercation at an apartment complex after a heated debate over the COVID-19 vaccine. The witness said the altercation got physical when Khozhiev choked Ribati unconscious and stabbed him in the throat with an animal bone from a meal the two had shared. Khozhiev allegedly then grabbed a knife and stabbed the doctor again.
Police responded to the scene where they reportedly found Ribati face down in a pool of his own blood. “Sir, it’s me, it’s me, I killed him,” Khozhiev reportedly told police
J.J. Ambrose, a veteran MMA fighter who competed for Bellator among other promotions, used to employ Khozhiev at Steel Athletics in Tamuning and said he was not surprised to hear about the violent altercation. Ribati, like Khozhiev trained for years at the gym.
“He was such a great person up until he wasn’t,” Ambrose told KUAM. “We did everything we possibly could to warn people that AK wasn’t AK anymore. … It’s very hard ’cause I know when you’re friends with two people and those two people are on the outs, you don’t want to take sides. You want to ride in the middle. But in this case, AK seriously needed help, and that was the problem – that people were not trying to take sides, and he seriously needed help this whole time.”
In a statement to Pacific Daily News, Guam Memorial Hospital praised Ribati for his dedication and skills as a physician.
“It is with a heavy, shocked and saddened heart that the Guam Memorial Hospital Authority shares the passing of one of its esteemed physicians, Dr. Miran Ribati. Dr. Ribati was an Interventional Radiologist at GMHA, serving the community for over three years. His talents were undeniable and impeccable; his passion unparalleled; his accolades from patients in droves. He will be sorely missed among colleagues, staff and the entire Guam healthcare community.”

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