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Ruby May, 23, got sick of her admin job and turned to social media to make a living, starting a page on subscription site OnlyFans where she gets paid $9,000 a week posting sultry snaps for her paying followers, the Daily Star reports.
May’s journey started when she moved to Australia at 18 where she bounced from job to job.
“I switched between about 10 jobs in the first year. I did admin for a cleaning company for six months,” she said.
“I hate it, but while I was there I started lingerie waitressing on the side. Serving drinks in underwear is a huge thing in Australia,” May revealed.
The money was too good to ignore according to May.
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“I was working at bachelor parties and making so much more per hour than I did in the office job,” she said, adding, “Then I tried topless waitressing, quit my job, then started selling pics on OnlyFans, as it’s way more lucrative.”
People sign up for the site and pay a subscription fee to get access to x-rated subscriber-only photos and videos. Subscribers can also make requests of the people they follow.
“A guy once asked me to dress up as a cow,” May said of her weirdest request, adding it’s not all about sexy snaps.
“It’s important to me to keep my ethical values as a high priority and not get blinded by the money,” she said.
That’s one way to make sure customers come back.
A restaurant owner in China’s Guangxi Province was found to have been lacing the noodle shop’s dishes with opium, Oddity Central reported.
The owner’s deceitful plan was discovered after a patron ate at his restaurant and ended up testing positive for the drug during a police investigation sometime after dining at the noodle house.
Police investigated the noodle shop and uncovered the treachery. The man, identified only by his surname Yang, was arrested and allegedly admitted to lacing his food with poppy seed powder so that his customers would get hooked and return.
The poppy plant can be used to create opium.
Cops questioned Yang where he got the supply, supposedly telling them he used the husks of poppy plants he had planted years prior.
This 11-year-old boy is stronger than you.
Timofey Klevakin, of Shalya, Russia, has been hitting the gym he was five and has built up enough muscle in his short life that he’s able to lift upwards of 225 pounds, the Daily Star reports.
“He just played at first, then he jumped rope, took up hula-hoop and ran with it,” Klevakin’s father, Arseniy, said of his son’s love for bodybuilding.
“We noticed that he started to take light dumbbells, repeated after me and (other) people, looked at how they did it, tried to raise their dumbbells,” Arseniy said.
The young boy is able to perform feats of strength most adults will never be able to muster such as flipping a tractor tire.
His father says people have voiced concerns that it may not be healthy for a child to lift such heavy weights.
“Everyone says that he doesn’t need such pressures at his age,” Arseniy said, adding, “Every three or four months we are followed up with by doctors and surgeons.”
Why not just drink water, have a sports drink, or sleep your hangover off?
No, that simply won’t do when you can get your own personal IV drip to hydrate away the headache from last night’s alcohol-induced adventures.
That’s what “party drips” purport to offer as companies like getadrip use social media influencers to market their products.
But Stephen Powis, the United Kingdom’s National Health Service’s medical director, warns against the hangover cure calling it a “dangerous fad,” the Daily Mail reported.
Regular use of IV drips can lead to liver damage or death as a result of an overdose of vitamin A, Powis said. The party drips typically contain a mixture of saltwater, vitamins and anti-nausea meds.
“People who are healthy do not need IV drips. At best they are an expensive way to fill your bladder — and then flush hundreds of (dollars) down the toilet — but at worst they can cause significant damage to your health, Powis said.
“A much better way to ‘cure’ a hangover is through drinking plenty of water and getting some fresh air,” Powis explained.
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