Pop star says ‘alien’ is derogatory term for extraterrestrial life
And other stories from the stranger side of life
The pop singer Demi Lovato has objected to the use of the word “alien” to refer to life from other planets and suggested we call them “ETs” instead. “I think that we have to stop calling them aliens because aliens is a derogatory term for anything, the non-binary singer told Pedestrian. “That’s why I like to call them ETs!” Lovato said they do not believe that beings from another planet mean to harm humans.
Man builds rotating house
A Bosnian man has built a rotating house so that his wife has a varied view. “I’ve got tired of her complaints and frequent refurbishing of our family house and I said: I'll build you a rotating house so you can spin it as you wish,” Vojin Kusic, 72, told Reuters. His wife declined to comment.
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Man celebrates pumpkin victory
A man in Washington State won the top award at Half Moon Bay pumpkin festival for his 2,191-pound gourd. Jeff Uhlmeyer, 62, won $19,719 (£14,500) for his pumpkin. “It just grew and grew,” he said. “It’s a very thick pumpkin. When I pulled it out of the patch earlier in the week, it was still growing.”
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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.
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