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Over the past few years, platforms such as Instagram and YouTube have become overrun with social media influencers. You know the types of people I'm talking about: young, beautiful individuals who make money by - well - being young and beautiful. And occasionally promoting some product or service for a…
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Contrary to what a lot of people might believe, university isn't easy. Sure, from the outside, it might look as if students spend most of their time drinking, partying, and taking naps at strange hours of the day - but, in reality, it's pretty hard graft. Well, it is for…
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Monopoly is undoubtedly the game to end all games. While lots of people will often recount stories of how their best game of Monopoly lasted days - the really keen rule followers among you will know that it should only last a couple of hours at most if played properly.…
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As someone with allergies, I can confirm that they suck. Even if it does bug me that I can't snuggle up with a cat or go for countryside walks for too long before I need to be taken to hospital, it's not as bad as having a food allergy. For…
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As I'm sure everyone is well aware of by now, Christmas is just around the corner. Festive jingles are slowly creeping their way onto the radio, advertisements for bargain rate turkeys and mince pies are popping up on TV, and with Black Friday imminent, a lot of us are probably…
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What is it about winter that absolutely ruins any attempt to live healthily? Seriously, there's a reason that we all have winter bodies and summer bodies, and that's because it's so much harder to say trim, go to the gym, and lay off the demon drink when it's pitch dark…
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Moms brought us into the world, nurtured us as babies, and helped raise us into the semi-functioning adults we are today. So, it's only fair that we return the favor with a hilarious prank. Sure it might irritate her, but one day she'll laugh about it. One day. Okay, you…
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Why is it that after eating, we can sometimes feel completely satisfied - while at other times our hunger lingers, leading us to go for seconds, thirds, dessert, and resort to snacking before the evening is done? Well, as it turns out, it's not always down to how much we…
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Teenagers always get in epic fights with their parents. Maybe they disapproved of your hairstyle ("Turquoise mullets are in!"), or maybe they caught you coming home too late ("It's only 4 am!), or maybe they washed your clothes and found beer bottle caps in your pockets ("I, uh, was just…
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Maybe it's because the royal wedding was such a smash hit, but 2018 has felt like a good year to get hitched. Seriously, couples all over the world seem to have been buoyed up by the romance of it all, and have thus decided to seal the deal by putting…
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We all like to think that we could one day manage to achieve our ideal body, and look like the very best version of ourselves. All it would take would be getting rid of fast food and microwave meals, hitting the salad bar and a few spin classes. Unfortunately, the reality…
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Some people will do anything to get high; whether it's licking a toad's butt or huffing fumes generated from heated manure, there's no low that people won't stoop to in order to get totally baked. However, now it seems that there's a new, and totally gross, method of intoxication that's doing…
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For those of us with full hearing, it can be difficult to imagine what it's like not to just not be deaf, but to have never heard a single sound. However, there are some people out there who were born with impaired hearing but later gained the ability to hear.…
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Christmas is creeping up on us and everyone is looking forward to a time of peace, love and presents. This being said though, when it comes to the festive season, there is one war every family will be fighting, and this takes place on the Monopoly board. In 2018 though,…
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Over the years, we've seen plenty of bizarre trends spring up on Instagram; usually as a result of bored beauty bloggers trying to make their snaps look more interesting, shocking, or just plain weird. A few of them have impressed us with their technical skills, while others just make us…
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All of us, at some point in our lives, have met the one that got away. A person who our heart ached to be with, whom we fell helplessly, painfully in love with, but whom we couldn't have. Through chance or circumstance, your own mistakes or just the gradually cooling…
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Making a change in lifestyle is no mean feat, especially when you are trying to turn hard ingrained habits on their head. Eating habits are often built up over childhood and into adult life, and thus can be extremely difficult to break. And now, perhaps more than ever before, a…
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For most people, a shark attack while swimming would be a scary enough incident. But for Louisiana model Kelly Kohen, it was merely the prelude to an even more painful and frightening ordeal; which led her to escape death twice after she contracted a deadly, flesh-eating disease. Kohen, who hails from New…
