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A social media post from a local roofer has gone viral after he told the story of a homeless man who was willing to help him and his colleagues out with a job, after they had bought him a tea in the morning and got chatting with him. JayJay Murray,…
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The dog my family had during my childhood never really had his own space. Sure, he had his own dog basket to sleep in, as well as a rug he liked to stretch and relax on - but these things weren't in his own private area. They were in corners…
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When I was around five years old, I got my very first pet in the form of a guinea pig. His name was Jamie, and although I was very excited to have him, the relative naivety shown by myself and my brother meant that we spent a lot more time…
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There are innumerable scenarios that might occur in a lift that all have the potential to descend into fisticuffs. A confined space is never the best place to badly fall out with someone; at the very least you've got to travel several floors together in tense, uneasy silence, at the…
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Today's eclipse provided remarkable insight into the lengths Donald Trump will go to prove fake news wrong. Don't look at the eclipse? Pffh. He'll gaze into the widening gyre, the circling drain of cosmic death, and he'll do it without silly glasses. Despite warnings from scientists, saying that the unnatural…
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Renovating your house is a monumental task. Personally, I couldn't get further away from the do-it-yourself craze, but there are some people out there who are extremely talented with this stuff. And once you've seen the examples from this list, you will want to track down whoever is responsible and…
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Being an actor must be a strange old job. One minute you're just being yourself in your family home, the next minute you have to completely transform your image, character and lifestyle in order to get into part. You see some extreme transformations throughout the world of acting, whether it's…
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It was 1967, the year that Bowie's first album, the self-titled David Bowie, released. He was two years away from his world-busting hit with Space Oddity, and the young man was climbing rapidly toward the breaking point where his fame would eclipse him entirely. He had yet to invent Ziggy…
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Okay, everyone. Deep breath. Let's take a second to drink in that last episode of Game of Thrones, which I think was by far the best of this season so far. Forgetting the utter madness of Jon Snow and his doomed mission to bring back a White Walker, let's appreciate…
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Even as a child, you know there is no manual for being an adult. But I know I always assumed that by the time I became a full-time adult I would have my life together. This, as many of you know, is really not the case. In fact, most of…
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So, as we all know, things aren't great with North Korea at the moment. Whether it's the petty insults, aggressive rhetoric, or launching of nuclear missiles, Kim Jong-un seems dead set on winding up the entire world with no clear end game in sight. In all seriousness, it's difficult to…
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Here we go, guys! It's finally upon us. If you're looking for a way to spend your Monday that's literally out of this world, you could do a whole lot worse than donning your best sunglasses and watching the solar eclipse. It's the first time in nearly a century that…
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It is being reported that police hunting the main suspect in last week's Barcelona attack have shot a man in the west of the city. According to the reports, the incident took place on a road in Subirats and the man is believed to have been wearing what appeared to…
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Indigenous Americans have been a casualty of the machinations of history. Pundits like Christopher Hitchens have said that there is no going back, and lamenting the genocide of Native Americans is equivalent to asking for the undoing of Western civilization, and yet the wounds still run deep in modern indigenous…
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Organizations often have the most to fear from employees-turned-whistleblowers. In film, rage detectives pose the greatest threat to police corruption. Edward Snowden, once a silent, obedient member of the NSA, used his position to leak the secrets of a nationwide spying program. The problem with including human workers in any…
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At one time or another we've all looked over at the group of people in the corner frantically thrusting their good side into the camera lens and quarreling over whether to use the flower crown or noir filter and thought "what are they doing with their lives?" But one thing…
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More and more in modern society, it's becoming a common practice for both men and women to undergo extensive cosmetic surgery in order to alter their appearance. Although the overall number of plastic surgeries in the United Kingdom dropped by 40 percent in 2016, last year was the first dip…
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One woman has been killed and another person has been seriously injured after a van struck two bus shelters in the southern French City of Marseille this morning, police have confirmed. The driver was arrested not far away from the scene of the fatal incident, which was attended by both…
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Sometimes the internet can be a bit too quick to judge. While it's always important to defend good values and criticise those who are doing something hurtful, it can really backfire if you are in the wrong. This was definitely the case when these two Australian models received backlash for…
