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London has some fun with #BandsToAvoid

London has some fun with #BandsToAvoid
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Twitter trends don’t happen the way they used to in the past. Most people aren’t spending as much time on twitter like they used to in the past, during the first five years, for instance (2009 “ 2014). Of course, when there’s a world event, everyone logs in but participation in making a silly hashtag trend doesn’t happen that much.

Once in a while though, there’s a gem of a hashtag, like this one - #BandsToAvoid. This started trending in London around lunch time IST and picked up pace. The idea is to come up with a slightly twisted name of a band, involving one that already exists but changing a word or adding one to give it a weird aura. Like this one, Rage Against the Vending Machine. Take out the word Vending and you have an award winning band. Or, you could make your own name, like Stiff Little Finger, with Petyr Baelish from Game of Thrones as the main man. Here are a few tweets from Ol Blighty to make you laugh

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Kushal, for the win!

At the finals of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa in Goa, Kolkata boy Kushal Paul took the stage and left everyone mesmerised. A day later, when speaking to #TGlife, he was still taking it in

The Goan Network
Published Jul 18, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
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Kushal, for the win!

The finals of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa were held in Goa a few days ago and everyone was mum on the outcome. But now that the show has been broadcast on Zee TV, everyone knows what happens, who sang what, and most importantly, who won. Kushal Paul certainly stole the show, not just because of his performance with Benny Dayal but because he was a strong contender throughout. In fact, many chose him as the man to beat. Sadly, Rupali Jagga and Jyotica Tangri, as well as Sachin Kumar and…

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