7 Hilarious News Stories You Might Have Missed This Month

Summer is here and exams are finished which can mean only one thing: it’s time to have some fun. Sure, you could spend your time reading through the latest world university rankings, but let’s face it, you just want something silly you can share in the group chat.

Here are the headlines which have been making us laugh this month.

Beat the heat by dressing like a woman

What do a group of schoolboys and a 20-year-old call center worker have in common? They both decided to get around strict dress codes by wearing women’s clothes. Boys at a school in Devon in the UK were told shorts weren’t official school uniform, and so a group of them joined forces and decided to wear skirts into school instead.

Joey, also from the UK, took things one step further when he was told not to wear shorts at the call center he worked in. Do you think he pulls it off?

pic.twitter.com/tIvA7UvDoN

— joey (@jBarge_) June 19, 2017

Saving money by any means necessary

If you live in the UK, you’re probably fully aware how ridiculously expensive train tickets cost. Joe, a 21-year-old from Newcastle, found an enterprising solution to this by flying from Newcastle to London via Menorca in Spain – a long-winded journey that saved him over £50. Joe even had time to fit in a Sex on the Beach cocktail while he was abroad. Not bad!

Newcastle - London Train£78.50 Newcastle - Menorca £15.99 Menorca - London £10.99 Car hire £7.50 Sex on the beach cocktail £4 I can have a night on a Spanish island, hire a car, have a cocktail on the beach, fly back to London and still have £40 left over..... OR I could have sat on a train What would you have rather done? #virgintrains #thomascook @virgin @thomascookuk

A post shared by Joe Furness (@joethesailor) on Jun 23, 2017 at 1:52pm PDT

How to delay your flight

Talking of flying, maybe don’t do what one Chinese woman did this week. Attempting to secure good luck for her departing flight, an 80-year-old passenger threw coins into the plane’s engine. Funnily enough, that wasn’t very good for the engines, and her concerned fellow passengers alerted the authorities. Although eight of the nine coins were recovered, the flight was deemed unsafe to fly without the final coin being removed and so all 150 passengers were delayed for five hours. So much for good luck.

Strike a pose

This doesn’t require much set-up. French president Emmanuel Macron posed for his official portrait this month and it didn’t take long for everyone to go a little weak at the knees.

emmanuel macron's official portrait is full on "monsieur grey will see you now" pic.twitter.com/HxoWgfoawu

— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) June 29, 2017

Under the sea

For some reason, this newly discovered sea worm has never featured in an episode of Spongebob Squarepants or The Little Mermaid.

Peculiar group of sea creatures found in deep Australian abyss https://t.co/5WtQziRTCO pic.twitter.com/l66QwStKpA

— IBTimes UK (@IBTimesUK) June 17, 2017

We’re sure it has nothing to do with what it looks like…

Suddenly I wanna go deep sea diving pic.twitter.com/nUKgSdwtge

— ㅤ (@festivating) June 17, 2017

Naughty Queenie

Following a comically disastrous UK general election, the Queen headed to parliament to kick things off for Theresa May’s propped-up minority Conservative government by giving the Queen’s Speech. While most people chose to focus on how much the Queen’s hat resembled the EU flag, one eagle-eyed viewer was too busy calling the police to report Her Majesty for not wearing a seatbelt.

Glastonbury’s must-see act

We end the round-up with a quick look at the biggest highlights of this year’s Glastonbury festival? Was it Radiohead, Foo Fighters or Ed Sheeran who impressed attendees the most? Was it the unusually hot weather that made it a weekend to remember? Nope, apparently not. Labour PM Jeremy Corbyn arrived at the festival, addressing crowds from the Pyramid Stage and receiving the adulation of hundreds of thousands of people. He was so popular, almost every other set across the weekend was punctuated by cheers of “Ohhh, Jeremy Corbyn” to the tune of Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes. Stormzy loved it so much, he even joined in…

Lead image: Raph_PH (Flickr)