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Fortunately, she only seems to take issue with one drink, rather than another who suggested that you’re really going to annoy them by ordering one of any 10 if it’s particularly busy – at which point there can’t be that many left on the menu.

Apparently the worst thing you can say at a bar is ‘surprise me’ because you are in fact not in a movie and unless you’re best friends with the bartender, they’re not going to have a clue what you want.

Although if it was me I’d just give them one of those bottles of wines that’s been sealed for 80 years and bill them for being too difficult.

At the end of the day, a drink is just a drink and if you’re a lad and you fancy that pink fruity cocktail then just go for it. If the bartender ‘judges’ you then who cares?

However, a particularly popular TikTok post by @soundbowlbae shows a clip of her making her most hated cocktail and narrating the whole process, suggesting that she would judge anyone who orders a long island iced tea.

The classic cocktail is made up of equal parts gin, vodka, tequila, rum, and triple sec, along with a splash of lime, cola, and plenty of ice.

Now when you reach my age and you start getting horrible hangovers, you’ll learn that it’s not the best idea to mix your drinks unless you want to feel the consequences the next morning.

But when you’re young and carefree, or perhaps more of a heavyweight than I, it’s understandable why you might want the bang for your buck you get when ordering a drink with four different types of alcohol inside.

The TikTok user is less sympathetic however and suggests it’s ‘insane’ to order one at the bar.

She said: “Let me tell y’all a secret. When you come up to the bar and you order a Long Island, the first thing I’m thinking is, ‘Is everything OK?’

“Like, is everything going on alright in your life ‘cos why on Earth would you want four different liquors in your drink?

“You are getting rum, vodka, tequila and gin all mixed in one. That’s just insane.”

Once you’ve had one or two of the drinks you’re probably past the point of caring, but if you’re a people pleaser, then maybe it’s best to opt for a different drink next time you hit the town.

While the moment has now taken on its own life as a meme, it was originally a heart wrenching moment in which Se7en shocked its audience with a horrifying twist.

The iconic David Fincher thriller is most well-known for this moment, but is an amazing film outside of this, and now it is finally on Netflix in the UK and Ireland.

Though viewers are able to figure out what is ‘in the box’, the film never shows this.

The movie centres around William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and David Mills (Brad Pitt) as a pair of detectives investigating the crimes of a serial killer.

By the end of the film, they think they have caught the suspect, with Kevin Spacey’s John Doe handing himself in.

Somehow though, Doe is able to lure the pair away, giving them a box which has Mills’ pregnant wife’s head in it, who is played in the film by Gwyneth Paltrow.

Despite the fact that it is not shown on screen, fans of the film actually saw what was in the box, just 16 years on and in a completely different film.

It was revealed by a TikTok film expert Glittering Ghostwriter that they had actually made a prop of her head in case they changed their mind and wanted to show it and so that Pitt could act appropriately.

This prop was later used in Contagion, a 2011 film about a pandemic breaking out and the attempts of those working at the CDC to find a cure.

Glittering Ghostwriter said in a video: “I mean, obviously in Se7en we technically know what is in the box. We just never physically see what’s in the box.

“But that’s not because the box was empty. The creators of Se7en actually did intend to show us Gwyneth Paltrow’s severed head, but in the end, they decided it would build up more tension and mystery if we just never saw it.

“I have to agree with the creators on this, but like I also am, personally, curious to see the prop that they created. And if you are too you can, as long as you watch the movie Contagion. Because the prop from Se7en was actually used in Contagion.

“In the scene where Gwyneth Paltrow’s character has an autopsy done on her, they have to like cut into her head.

“Since they already had a perfectly good unused prop of Gwyneth Paltrow’s severed head they just use that for the scene in Contagion.”

There you have it, if you were ever dying to find out what was really in the box in Se7en you can head to your local DVD shop and pick up Contagion, cause it doesn’t stream anywhere online (but you can probably just watch the scene on YouTube).

If you want to watch Se7en though, the iconic thriller is now thankfully easily watched on the biggest streamer in the world.

Donald Trump sort of made good on his promise to release 1,100 declassified files detailing the assassination of John F. Kennedy this week – but many of them were still redacted.

The 35th president of the United States was youngest person ever elected at 43 years old.

How did JFK die?

Kennedy’s tenure was cut short after he was shot dead by a sniper in Dallas, Texas on 22 November, 1963.

He was famously riding in a convertible limousine with his wife Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally’s wife Nellie.

Harvey Oswald was arrested after police said he fired three shots in 8.6 seconds from the Texas School Book Depository building.

But just two days before his trial, Oswald was shot dead by nightclub owner Jack Ruby, who was allegedly ‘mobbed up’, former mafia captain Michael Franzese told Piers Morgan Uncensored.

One JFK document ‘missing’ from released files

Since then, conspiracy theorists have been waiting for the CIA to release the declassified files, which are now available via The National Archives.

However, one document in particular was apparently not included, according to James Johnston, the author of Murder, Inc.: The CIA under John F. Kennedy. Johnston claims that the document detailed the first one-on-one conversation between new President Lyndon Johnson and CIA Director John McCone.

Given that the president had famously tried to use the CIA to kill communist dictator Fidel Castro, the release of the document could have provided a possible link to the mafia and the CIA, the author says.

Johnston – who investigated the CIA in 1975 – told USA Today: “If it was going to embarrass the agency or tell a different story, they wouldn’t have turned them over to the National Archives in the first place.

“And if they were withholding them before, I’m guessing they would continue to withhold them.”

The National Archives and Records Administration, who hold the documents, said some files have been held under court seal or for grand jury secrecy.

“In accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive of March 17, 2025, all records previously withheld for classification that are part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection are released,” they said.

“As the records continue to be digitized, they will be posted to this page.”

Was the mafia involved in the JFK shooting?

Former mafia captain Franzese, once of the infamous Colombo crime family, insists that the mob were involved in the death of JFK, and claims the CIA asked the mafia to help arrange the shooting.

“I will take it to my grave. I know this for a fact and this information eventually is going to come out – they came to us for help to assassinate John F. Kennedy,” he told the Daily Star.

Franzese – who claims to have made $8 million a week in the 80s through crooked deals – said the power of the mafia meant that the government wanted their help to kill Castro.

The former UFC star, 36, has even given the powers that be a 12-day deadline to ‘present a clear plan of action’ as he pushes for immigration reform in his nation.

And if the government don’t bend to his will, McGregor appeared to threaten to use his new-found friendship with Donald Trump to force their hand.

The Irishman was in the White House earlier this week for a St Patrick’s Day (17 March) sit down with the US President.

It came a week after taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheál Martin made the trip to Washington to talk with Trump – who revealed that he has a soft spot for McGregor during the meeting.

“I do happen to like your fighter,” he told Martin in reference to the sportsman. “He’s got the best tattoos I’ve ever seen. Conor’s great.”

These compliments seemingly went straight to McGregor’s head, as he decided to pop on his political hat and dish out some fighting talk for Martin’s government during his White House visit.

He told Trump that politicians in Ireland have ‘abandoned the voices of the people’, complaining that there was ‘zero action with zero accountability’ and claiming there is an ‘illegal immigration racket running ravage’.

“We consider America our big sibling,” McGregor said. “We wish to be taken care of by the big bro. You know, the United States should look after its little bro.”

Politicians in the Emerald Isle quickly made it clear that the MMA star isn’t a mouthpiece for the country, with Martin taking to X to state that McGregor’s ‘remarks are wrong’.

He went on to say that they ‘do not reflect the spirit of St Patrick’s Day, or the views of the people of Ireland’, while MP Colum Eastwood added: “He doesn’t represent the Irish people. In fact, we’re all pretty embarrassed by him.”

McGregor, who has declared he may run for President in Ireland later this year, then shared a scathing social media statement in response last night (19 March) calling out the ‘government elite’ and their ‘deflection tactics’.

Sharing a snap of him and Trump, he wrote on Instagram: “Ad hominem style attacks against me coming in hot by Ireland’s government elite. Classic, and glaringly obvious to everyone, deflection tactics.

“What is your response / plan of action to the issues I raised? Ireland wants to know. America wants to see!

“Chip,chop now fellas, don’t make me keep going,” McGregor wrote. “Do what you’re told by the people of Ireland and we will have no issue here. Do not and it’s over for you.”

McGregor then went on to say that he doesn’t mind going over Martin’s head to get his demands met.

“I will publicly send my orders for you to implement and mark my words it will be made to be done,” his statement continued.

“You have Twelve Days to present a clear plan of action, on 1. Dismantling Irelands human trafficking racket.

“2. Mass deportation of dangerous, criminal, and radicalised imports, as well as all who entered illegally, as well as all who are a strain on our welfare system who have made no effort to secure employment or assimilate with Irish culture and values.

“3. Stringent border protection adjustments to stop this from ever happening again.

“Be the hero here and save yourselves, and save Ireland, or my direct plan of action that Ireland and America wishes to see implemented will come in on White House paper attached with my signature.”

It seems that he believes his words might have more clout thanks to his alliance with Trump, who takes a notoriously tough stance on immigration.

If these threats don’t trigger the response he wants, it appears as though he plans to call the President in for back up and get the US to intervene. Bonkers, we know.

Appearing to announce his run for Ireland’s President in September last year, McGregor said: “I am the only logical choice. 2025 is coming.”

He has since promised that if he was in power, he would ‘have all the answers the people of Ireland seek from these thieves of the working man, these disrupters of the family unit, these destructors of small businesses’.

But what do we know about the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT)? How many people does it hold, what are the conditions like, and what can the inmates do while they are there?

What are conditions in CECOT like?

Few people have been inside the CECOT and been able to share their experiences, so it is thanks to CNN journalist David Culver that we are able to see the conditions inside the prison, which is reportedly able to hold as many as 40,000 inmates.

Culver visited the prison and spoke to prison officers, local police, and even a former gang leader to learn about their experience there. It is immediately obvious that there is little chance of escape due to the numerous security checks and armed officers who patrol the prison floors.

Men are also kept inside large cells which can hold around 80 people, and there isn’t any reason for them to leave, as toilet, washing, and eating facilities are all present in the cell at all times.

Those who misbehave will also be sent to solitary confinement, which is a dark room with just one tiny light from above.

How do the inmates at CECOT spend their time?

The prisoners are let outside of the cell for just 30 minutes per day for exercise, and even legal and doctor visits are conducted inside the prison, meaning that those inside rarely get to see the sun.

Occasionally, more trusted prisoners are treated to motivational talks, where they sit in rows in the corridors outside their cells.

Why is Trump sending prisoners to CECOT?

It’s difficult to ever know for sure why Trump has done something but despite the federal judge ruling against it, the President has gone ahead and sent a reported 238 people from the US to the El Salvador prison.

He has managed to do so after striking a deal with Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador, in February. Bukele has also explained that he was willing to take in anyone who is deported from the US.

How many prisoners are there in CECOT?

A figure from 2024 suggests that there were around 15,000 people in the 40,000 capacity prison, which was only built in 2022 as Bukele began his own crackdown on gang crime in El Salvador.

Around 7,000 people are said to have been wrongly imprisoned in CECOT, but given the vast reduction in crime numbers since Bukele took over, it is clear he and his government consider this to be collateral damage.

The prison is the largest in Latin America, and it seems likely that the 238 sent by Trump won’t be the last so-called ‘criminals’ to be deported and holed up in CECOT.

After a nine-month stint on the International Space Station, 59-year-old Suni and fellow Boeing Starliner pilot Butch Wilmore, 61, finally landed back on Earth earlier this week.

Considering the fact that pair were only meant to be in space for around eight days, the nine months away from home and the impromptu addition to the International Space Station crew will have come as a surprise to the pair.

It will also have had a major impact on their bodies.

As you probably already know, living outside of the confines of gravity isn’t just floating around and making sure you don’t spill any liquids – it can actually have a pretty significant impact on your health.

The impact of spending 286 days could be seen in the first photos of Suni after she landed off the coast of Florida, who appeared noticeably thinner and more tired than before.

Suni could be seen shaking hands and greeting various NASA officials alongside Butch and fellow ISS astronauts Alexander Gorbunov and Nick Hague in a new set of photos released by the space agency, with many appearing concerned about her ‘visibly thin’ wrists.

Responding to the images in an interview with MailOnline, Dr Vinay Gupta, a pulmonologist and Air Force veteran, explained that her thinner appearance was due to the absence of gravity on the ISS, which causes the body’s muscles to atrophy.

“I don’t think people realise that you need gravity to exercise your muscles, and if you don’t have gravity, your muscles have nothing to have resistance against,” he explained.

Bone density loss and muscle atrophy isn’t something which would come as a shock to astronauts, as there is a wealth of research examining their relationship with gravity.

NASA previously explained that for every month spent in space, an astronaut’s bone density drops by about one percent. The human heart also becomes weaker in space, as it doesn’t need to work as hard to pump blood around the body.

Weight loss is also a common side effect from being in space, with Dr John Jaquish adding to the outlet: “Without gravity, you don’t digest food as well. Compromising your ability to digest food is certainly going to contribute to muscle loss and bone loss on its own.”

The impact of spaceflight on the human body does sound pretty traumatic, which is why astronauts will dedicate years of their lives preparing for interstellar travel. NASA also has a comprehensive aftercare protocol in place at Johnson Space Center in Houston in order to make sure astronauts are able to regain their base level of fitness.

Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen a rising number of young people embracing the sobriety, with recent statistics from Drinkaware suggesting that 19 percent of adults choose not to drink, a figure which rises to 26 percent with among young adults.

One person who decided to make the change is former Love Island star turned health influencer Dr Alex George, who has spent the last two years of his life sober.

The 34-year-old now makes regular content about his alcohol-free lifestyle, with a recent YouTube video exploring all the changes you’ll notice after six months without booze.

Here are all the changes which Dr Alex noticed, who explained how this was often a ‘pivotal point’ for people when deciding whether or not to resume drinking.

The physical changes from going sober

One of the biggest changes which Dr Alex noticed after six months was how his physical appearance changed, particularly with his weight.

“The biggest thing for me was that weight was just really falling off,” he explained, adding that two years without drinking saw him lose a whopping ‘six or seven stone’.

“In the first six or so months that weight just poured off. Why? Alcohol is very calorific and it really impacts your decision making around food and exercise.”

The weight loss may also be linked to his increase in ‘physical energy’ levels after quitting booze.

“My capacity to just move and just exist,” he added.

“Six months in, I’m getting, fitter, faster, stronger.”

Half a year without alcohol also saw a positive shift in Dr Alex’s sleep cycle, as well as allowing his organs to ‘recover’, although he does notes that our liver’s ability to recover is ‘overestimated’.

“Six months is a good amount of time for your body to start regenerating.”

The mental and emotional changes of going sober

The physician noted how the mental impacts of ditching the booze can often be harder, with newly sober people having to deal with alcohol cravings and sleep disturbances.

However, this is an important part of the journey.

“Think of it like therapy… in therapy things get worse before they get better,” Dr Alex explained.

“That’s also the process of what happens in the first six months [without] drinking.”

He then went on to add that the three to six-month mark allows you to begin processing how alcohol impacts your emotions as well as developing healthier coping mechanisms.

“At six months you have to want to establish ways of coping,” he said. “It’s a necessary part [but] I don’t think it’s easy.”

The social and lifestyle changes of going sober

Make it to half a year booze-free, and Dr Alex explains that you begin to develop a new identity as a ‘non-drinker’, which allows you to more easily navigate social situations where drinking is commonplace.

He also highlighted how developing your identity as a non-drinker will also allow you develop hobbies and interests outside of knocking back the booze, due to the increased amount of free time.

“You’ve got to create your excitement, that involves getting dopamine in new ways,” he said, suggesting activities such as hiking, running, or going to the theatre.

“You’ve got to create your own highs.”

Inspired by the shocking rise in knife crime amongst young people in the UK, Adolescence tells the story of 13-year-old schoolboy Jamie (Cooper) who is arrested on suspicion of murdering his female classmate Katie (Emilia Holliday).

The following episodes then show Jamie’s parents (Graham and Christine Tremarco) struggle to navigate their new reality as viewers learn what motivated their teenage son to take the life of his classmate.

The series has since shot to the top of Netflix viewing charts, with viewers praising writers Graham and Jack Thorne for shining a light on how easily young people can become radicalised by extremist content online, with Jamie revealed to have visited incel sites.

Observant viewers have also pointed out all of the clever details weaved into the series, which include the emojis which Jamie uses, foreshadowing of his fate in the opening scenes, as well as the reason why his psychologist offers him half of a sandwich in episode three.

However one particular heartbreaking detail has caught one viewer’s attention. Taking to TikTok, @indigoreports pointed out that Holliday’s character actually has a bigger role in the series then we initially realised.

“Throughout the show we don’t ever get to hear from Katie,” she explained. “However the haunting detail is that Katie is actually talking to us throughout the show in her own way.

“That’s because a lot of the songs on the soundtrack are actually sung by Katie herself.”

This wasn’t just a theory. Speaking about the children’s choir we hear covering Sting’s ‘Fragile’ at the end of episode two in a video shared on Instagram by Netflix, Graham said: “The beautiful part of the process is that we used a choir from the actual school [they filmed in] and the kids from that area.

“The girl singing [the final section] is the girl that played the girl that got killed.”

Another goosebump-inducing musical moment comes at the end of the final episode, with ‘Through the Eyes of a Child’ by Aurora playing over the series’ closing moments.

Director Philip Barantini explained it’s Holliday’s voice we hear there too.

“The voice in the score is Katie’s voice,” he confirmed in an interview with Tudum. “Katie is a part of the whole series, her presence is always there.”

The director also touched on the decision to use the Norwegian singer-songwriter’s track, which talks about loss and longing for a ‘childlike soul’, in final scene of the series.

Explaining that he’d come across the song after being sent a script for the series, Barantini said: “I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It’s just absolutely incredible.”

For the last three years, an e-cigarette was never too far from Kallie Banks clutches, as she admits she was ‘completely addicted’ to puffing on them.

She was ‘easily’ blitzing through up to five e-liquids each day, while topping herself up with a lemon and lime flavoured disposable vape as and when she felt like it.

As well as costing her a hell of a lot of money, Kallie told LADbible that this habit was affecting both her physical and mental health, as well as impacting how present she was as a parent.

Despite previously being convinced that she couldn’t make it through an hour, let alone a day, without a vape, it’s now been more than seven weeks since she last took a drag on one. And she’s feeling tons better for it, as Kallie explained that ‘everything is more enjoyable’ now she’s kicked her habit.

The mother-of-two – who shares a six-year-old son and daughter, three, with husband Bobby – recently went viral on TikTok with an emotional video of her discussing her vaping struggle.

Although she usually posts light-hearted content on the social media page (@hanandkal) which she runs with best pal Hannah, Kallie sat down with her more than 6,000 followers to discuss a more serious topic.

In the video, Kallie, from Staffordshire, said she was kicking herself about ever picking up a vape, fearing it ‘could have knocked years off her life’ and ultimately cut her time with her two beloved children short.

“What breaks my heart is that I’ve got two young kids and I just think…what a stupid girl I was,” she said in the candid clip – which has racked up over 164,000 views – while fighting back tears.

“I’ve come to a point in my life where I really want to take care of myself I want to be there for my kids, hopefully grandkids one day.”

It’s a feeling which a lot of people will be able to relate too – and although the 28-year-old wishes she’d stopped vaping sooner, she acknowledges that she really was dependent on it.

“I genuinely, hand on heart, didn’t think that I could live without it,” Kallie told LADbible. “I was that addicted to it. It was the first thing I thought of in the morning. I was desperate for the nicotine.

“I felt like I had a vape more than I had oxygen. That’s how ridiculous it was. I used to be at soft plays with the kids and all I could think about was going for a vape.”

Kallie confessed she would even nip out for a drag on an e-cig while working out at the gym whenever she got a craving, before resuming her workout – albeit a bit breathlessly.

“The amount of times that I would puff and puff and puff away and think, ‘Yeah, I feel better’,” she recalled. “Then ten minutes later, you feel worse for it. I don’t know why I did it.”

Considering Kallie only use to smoke cigarettes socially on the odd occasion, she was shocked when she became ‘instantly hooked’ on vaping from the moment she first tried it in 2022.

It’s a slippery slope which a lot of Brits are all too familiar with – and although vapes were initially touted as a safer alternative to smoking, recent research suggests otherwise.

A bombshell study by experts at Manchester Metropolitan University indicates that the latter is a lot worse for your health, despite the NHS previously describing vapes as ‘substantially less harmful than smoking’.

“It was in my hand, in my mouth, continuously,” Kallie said. “I’m embarrassed by it. Who wants that? Who wants to be addicted to something that’s so s**t for you? My poor lungs!”

Despite being well aware of the damage that vapes can cause, the mum said she simply ‘didn’t even care’ at the time as she simply ‘enjoyed it too much’.

Kallie admitted that she ‘didn’t support’ the disposable vape ban which is coming into force from June, as she thought people should be allowed to make their own choices.

But she’s now done a complete U-turn after stopping vaping, as she said: “I think [the ban] needs to come in right now. I cannot imagine these poor kids who are just sucking on it because it’s fashionable or cool. It really upsets me.”

A rude awakening later managed to jolt Kallie to her senses and encourage her to cut vaping out for good.

The mum explained that she recently needed to undergo an emergency colonoscopy as doctors began ‘investigating her for cancer’.

Kallie said: “And that made me think, ‘f**king hell, I’m 28-years-old and I’m being investigated for this?’ I’m almost certain it’s not going to be that, but god forbid if it was.

“But they could have been investigating my lungs. I haven’t done anything to my bowel to cause that issue, but why am I giving my body a reason to have these issues?

“We literally do live once, I think people think they’ve got nine lives like a cat. I’ve always had bowel issues anyway, but I just think, I’ve been doing something that could have been impacting my health so much.”

Although a lot of parents reckon their vapes keep them sane, in hindsight, Kallie believes that she was almost blowing things out of proportion just so she had an excuse to reach for hers.

She continued: “What I was doing was thinking, ‘This is a really stressful situation right now, I need a vape’. But it was actually just a marginally stressful situation and I’d be going for the vape.

“It was ridiculous. I just think I was pathetic. Stop making excuses for yourself, because you’re making excuses to live a shorter life.”

Kallie explained she wasn’t ‘even thinking’ about her vape these days after her third week of going cold turkey – which is a seriously mean feat, considering it used to be pretty much surgically attached to her.

Now, more than seven weeks on, e-cigarettes no longer cross her mind.

“I did struggle with like car journeys and stuff, but not now,” she said. “Because the withdrawal was so bad for me, it made me realise what I was doing to my body.

“That made me not want to pick it up even more because why is my body that reliant? Why is my body struggling so much after coming off it? It’s because I’ve been pumping it into my body for years and it’s not good stuff.”

Thankfully, Kallie says her body is now getting ‘back to normal’, although she believes she will continue to see benefits from giving up vaping for the next year or so.

“I just feel so happy I’m not doing it anymore,” she added. “I can breathe, I can appreciate air, I can appreciate smells again. Normally, I wouldn’t even be able to smell because I’d have a vape in my mouth.”