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Based on my own personal viewing history, there are very few shows that have got me frustrated enough to start yelling at the screen. Buffy the Vampire Slayer got me riled up a few times, and I'm sure I've hurled a multitude of insults at Ross from Friends on several…
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Around the world, people are still in shock at the tragic passing, the founder of the iconic Playboy Magazine and main tenant of the fabled Playboy Mansion. Playboy Enterprises announced earlier today that Hugh Hefner had passed away of natural causes at the Playboy Mansion. He was 91 years old.…
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"Have you tried turning it off and on again?" These are the fateful words which so many people have had to dispense to those in their hour of need. Whether it's your mum composing every text with her little finger or your granddad calling the police on the sat nav,…
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It's only logical that prolific writer and wizard enthusiast J.K. Rowling would be fairly good at Twitter. But where she would usually have thousands of words to play with, here she has only 140 characters. Yet she has managed to master the medium and bring some level-headedness to the largely unregulated…
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Do you remember the story of the man who had "ghosted" a woman after a three-year relationship and then had somehow managed to get himself employed by that same woman a few years down the line? If not, it's completely insane. The unnamed man found online fame after he wrote…
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Madeleine McCann has been a household name for over ten years now. Three-years-old at the time, Madeleine was holidaying with her parents Kate and Gerry and her twin siblings in Praia da Luz, a resort in the Algarve region of Portugal when she vanished from her bed on the 3rd May 2007.…
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Old men are talking about attractive young women, the online outrage industry is at it again, and a brand new scandal has emerged involving James Cameron and the new Wonder Woman film. Cameron was interviewed by the Guardian when he made some comments that have Hollywood and the media world…
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Between the deep web and the deep state, it seems there's a whole underground world of catacombs and dark arches beneath us, lurking under the foundations of our society, Gothic cathedrals filled with the most horrific secret operations and child smuggling operations we all wish weren't real. Our world is…
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For some reason, us ordinary folk derive great enjoyment from peeking into the lives of the rich and famous. Whether we're scrolling through their perfectly curated Instagram accounts or picking up tabloid newspapers, our voyeuristic tendencies are only exemplified when we have a perfect celebrity coupling to get all too…
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The majority of us have a mindless fascination with the lives of the rich and famous. Whether we routinely pick up tabloid magazines, or spend too long scrolling through the Instagram accounts of today's biggest models and television stars, one thing is for certain, we can't help but be in…
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Floyd Mayweather has defeated Conor McGregor in Las Vegas to improve his perfect record of 50 wins and 0 loses and in doing so surpassing Rocky Marciano's unblemished record of 49-0. McGregor came out the blocks fast and took the early rounds but as the fight went on the Irishman…
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Among the world's royal families, perhaps the Saudis are the most difficult to swallow. Last year, Saudi Arabia executed 150 people by beheading, many of them open for public viewing. The country's number of beheadings has swelled since 2014, around the same time that the nation opened a US-backed covert…
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In October of 2014, stand-up comedian Hannibal Buress made the joke that ultimately led to dozens of women coming forward and accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault. In a riff about Cosby's condescending demeanor, Buress mentioned: "Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so that takes you down a couple…
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There's something about anime that motivates the meme-making community like nothing else. You've seen the memes: "Drake & Josh is my favorite anime" or some Worldstar hip hop brawl being framed as part of the "Top 10 Anime Battles". Anyone familiar with the insanely popular series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure also…
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For those among us who say that age is just a number, here comes a true test of that philosophy. Of course, age is way more than 'just a number'. A person who has graduated college is immeasurably different from someone about to start it. Someone in their 30s, with…
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Few programmes in the history of television have enjoyed the astonishing continued success of Game of Thrones. In an intensely competitive industry - perhaps now more fiercely so than at any other point in history due to the rise of streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime - the winners…
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There are few more instantly recognisable faces in the world than that of Emiem. The rapper from Detroit has become synonymous with modern culture through this dizzying array of acerbic verses and ingenious rhymes. Never one to shy away from polarising opinion and potenitally offensive subject matters of the course…
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Though our society has made significant strides towards tolerance and acceptance over the years, it is clear to most that there is still some distance left to be travelled. Sadly, racism is still prevalent in our culture, an uncomfortable truth highlighted by the regrettable scenes in Charlottesville of late. Indeed,…
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It was a story of labyrinthine qualities that twisted, turned and dazzled, culminating in a fight that will defy all logic and reason. When Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather Jr. face off tonight, they will be met with derision by many boxing purists, who have greeted the fight with an…
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Far from being a haven of reform and repentance, the penal system has historically been linked to low and high-level corruption. Popular culture has always capitalised of documenting the trials and tribulations inmates face inside the closed-off world of prison, which we, outside of books, movies and documentaries still know…
