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Last month, hundreds of millions of people around the world watched 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, a teenage climate activist from Sweden, condemn world leaders for not taking enough action as far as tackling climate change is concerned. This is the moment Greta Thunberg criticised world leaders at a climate summit at…
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If you're a fan of all things cheese - and assuming you're also a fan of Christmas - you'll be pleased to know that Aldi’s cheese advent calendar is coming back to the US for 2019. And that's no huge surprise considering just how popular the item was when it…
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If we can learn anything from the success of Marie Kondo, it’s that there are a surprising number of people who take a perverse pleasure in seeing stuff get tidied. Like a real life game of Tetris, watching books and clothes neatly slot onto precisely angled shelves is basically porn…
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As desserts go, ice cream isn’t especially evil. It might be responsible for the occasional bout of brain freeze, but it’s nowhere nowhere near as malevolent as a chocolate fudge cake or black forest gateau. Those are the Devil’s food. However, with Halloween around the corner, news from frozen treat…
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Sometimes, it gets to the point when a parent can think of nothing else but to tell their kids a little white lie. You know how it goes: you're exhausted from work and chores, and your children just won't stop bugging you, so you make something up to keep them…
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Haircuts are always tricky territory. If you’re brave enough to peer back into the annals of Facebook, you can find terrifying testaments to the unspeakable things people have done at the barber’s. Whether you went for the “unkempt hobbit” look, or decided to try blonde cornrows aged 15, we’ve all…
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The Nightmare Before Christmas is a cult classic in which an anthropomorphised skeleton, Jack Skellington, of Halloween Town, discovers a holiday-themed portal that transports him to Christmas Town. After a musical interlude, during which Skellington expresses his awe and admiration at all things festive, the re-animated corpse resolves to make…
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In this modern world we all occupy, traditional ideas we might have had of privacy are being rendered more and more obsolete. Now, a quick search of social media can tell strangers a truly astonishing amount about us, particularly if we're not careful with our privacy settings. Online security and…
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For food fans who resent having to do normal grocery shopping, Costco really is the greatest place on the planet. Name another store where you can purchase a 23-pound bucket of mac and cheese and $600 wagyu steaks at the same time. You can’t. However, even by Costco’s lofty standards…
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Regret. The great maker of people and teachers of lessons worth heeding. It is said that it helps us to move on and achieve what we need to in life with the stark reminder of how a wandering path or action can affect our own lives. However, when it comes to…
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[caption id="attachment_3252" align="aligncenter" width="760"] Credit: Reddit[/caption] Regret. Ah, regret. The great maker of people and teachers of lessons worth heeding. It is said that it helps us to move on and achieve what we need to in life with the stark reminder of how a wandering path or action can…
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Aldi is really coming into its own as we approach the festive season. Yes, the countdown to Christmas is basically now on; September has come and gone and the cold nights are starting to draw in. If you, like me, find the winter something of a depressing chore to navigate,…
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There are some jokes that nobody can resist, and making fake captions for bank transfers is one of them. Oh come on, don't play dumb with me. You know what I'm talking about. When you're transferring a sum of money to a friend on a banking app or via a…
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Food has a tempestuous relationship with technology. Even as some chefs enjoy prodding and poking ingredients with implements that wouldn’t look out of place at an alien autopsy, plenty would much rather be roasting something rudimentary in a fire pit. Each unto their own. But, even the most luddite cook…
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Chocolate beer might sound like the brainchild of Willy Wonka’s alcoholic brother, but it is about to become a reality thanks to two giants of the food industry. In exciting news for cacao-obsessed pub lovers, American candy company Hershey’s have announced a collaboration with superior, all-American brewery Yuengling to create…
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Cougars get a bad rap. If Hugh Hefner can have seven girlfriends in their twenties, then Madonna can have a boyfriend that age too. Sure, some of these relationships might not be as genuine as those between two people the same age, but some of them really have stood the…
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Cougars get a bad rap. If Hugh Hefner can have seven girlfriends in their twenties, then Madonna can have a boyfriend that age too. Sure, some of these relationships might not be as genuine as those between two people the same age, but some of them really have stood the test…
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Given that the 1950s was the decade when Rosa Parks wasn’t allowed to sit where she wanted and it was deemed a-ok to smoke and drink during pregnancy, you might think that there is little to be gained by going back in time. Katrina Holte disagrees. The 30-year-old Oregonian has…
