Russian train stations are basically super bling palaces

October 29, 2015, 9:00 am

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Suddenly the Victoria line doesn’t look so glam…

Forget stinky subways and rat-infested tubes, Moscow’s underground train stations are on another level.

And when we say another level, we mean it. We’re talking cut-glass chandeliers, marble columns and gold-framed frescos.

In fact, the stations are so opulent, you could be mistaken for thinking you’d wandered into a palace.

Canadian photographer David Burdeny was lucky enough to be granted special permission to enter the network after hours, and captured these stunning stations in all their super bling glory.

Check these out.

Sportivnaya station

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October 29, 2015, 9:41 am

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First we asked you to answer once and for all whether you were good in bed.. But there’s more to sex than just doing what you know well.

Humankind are curious creatures that like to experiment, particularly when it comes to sex. Sometimes it goes well, and sometimes it doesn’t.

So you have an envious repertoire of sexual experiences? Should Fifty Shades of Grey really be about your sex life? Now’s the time to find out.

We’ve put together our own mega version of have you ever – because you know it’s always comes down to questions about sex in the end.

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Stop obsessing over calories – getting your dream body is down to counting your macros

October 29, 2015, 10:31 am

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Honing your goal body is all to do with what you eat rather than how much.

There’s no one-size-fits-all diet that will help with tone and definition with one person and weight loss with another.

It’s because carbohydrates, protein and fat are processed and utilised by the body in very different ways.

‘Consuming 500kcal from a carb source is not equal to consuming 500kcal from a protein,’ says nutritionist Emma Rose, from Fresh Fitness Food.

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24 reasons tights are the absolute worst

October 29, 2015, 10:57 am

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Full disclosure: I spent a full few years wearing only tights, never trousers, on my bottom half.

I gave up jeans after someone I knew proudly proclaimed that wearing jeans and a t-shirt says to the world that you’re a boring person.

I took it to heart, and years of only wearing dresses and skirts followed (I couldn’t find any non-denim trousers that weren’t incredibly unflattering).

And you know what, as fancy and feminine as I felt, the whole experience just made me realise exactly how sh*t tights are. They are the worst and I hate them with the fire of a thousand suns. Here’s why.

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Toffee apple ale is the Bonfire Night booze you’ve been waiting for

October 29, 2015, 11:04 am

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Every occasion deserves it’s own tipple, and now, finally, we’ve found the perfect boozy accompaniment to Bonfire Night.

Let us set the scene: it’s Bonfire Night, and as per tradition you’re standing in a damp field with your mates. Despite the fact you’re wearing approximately 82 layers you can’t feel your fingers or your toes, and, of course, the display is running behind time.

If only you had a tipple which blended the flavours of dark creamy ale with rich toffee and crisp fruity apple to sup on.

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Quiz: How many of these dating mistakes have you made?

October 30, 2015, 12:17 am

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Dating – it’s a battlefield of awkwardness, vulnerability and hope isn’t it?

Yet it’s something most of us have to go through in order to find that special someone.

With online dating complicating everything, we don’t always know what we’re doing. We’ve all made blunders and mistakes somewhere along the way.

We’ve put together a list of the biggest dating mistakes you can make on dating apps, first dates and beyond.

Tick off how many you’ve made and see if you’re a dating natural. And if you’re not – well- we all learn from our mistakes right?

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Girl texts ex using only Adele lyrics and it gets emotional

October 30, 2015, 12:41 am

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Who better to turn to when a relationship goes sour than someone like Adele?

She speaks for broken hearts and spurned exes everywhere.

Which is why 19-year-old Mary Caldarella from Auburn, Alabama decided to text her ex-boyfriend using only Adele lyrics.

Specifically, lyrics from her new single Hello.

Because you’ve got to get your kicks where you can.

Mary tweeted her ex Matt’s baffled response yesterday with the caption ‘when the ex falls for Adele lyrics’. And, let’s just say, it got emotional (and a teeny bit NSFW).

when the ex falls for Adele lyrics pic.twitter.com/7P4Pd64UIh

— Mary Caldarella (@maryc_021) October 28, 2015

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October 30, 2015, 1:34 am

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Earlier this week, 17-year-old high school student Carey Burgess was told her skirt was too short and suspended from school. Her powerful response has now been shared over 9,000 times online.

Carey, student body president at Beaufort High School in South Carolina, was asked to leave school grounds because, according to one staff member, her skirt violated the dress code by exposing more than three inches of thigh.

The school girl was initially reduced to tears by the dressing down by her school administrator. But, she later took to Facebook to argue her case.

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These are not jack-o-lanterns, these are works of art

October 30, 2015, 1:45 am

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Warning: if you’ve already carved your pumpkin, you’re going to want to throw it away and start again after reading this.

And if you haven’t yet got your carve on, you’re about to get some serious pumpkin goals.

Because what you are about to see are no run of the mill jack-o-lanterns, with bog-standard triangle eyes and rubbish teeth.

These pumpkins are actually works of art by people who know how to wield a knife scarily well.

There’s this literal work of art

And this pumpkin that’s making waves

These mad skills

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I tried popular Halloween makeup to see if was actually possible to copy at home

October 30, 2015, 2:00 am

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Browsing on Pinterest, as I often lose hours of my life doing, I was getting seriously impressed by some of the Halloween makeup ideas going round.

Decaying zombie flesh crafted from liquid latex, unzipped faces and fragile china dolls all looked far superior to anything I’d ever tried before.

There’s a billion and one tutorials out there showing you how to achieve these looks, but most of these are done by people with actual skill who regularly do this kind of thing.

We tried sexy Halloween costumes to see what the fuss was about

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October 30, 2015, 2:35 am

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It’s true – you really do get one chance at life. But, for argument’s sake, what if you could have another?

We spend a lot of time wanting to put back the clocks or regretting decisions, with half of young people regretting their life choices by age 21 according to Economic and Social Research Institute.

So here is your chance to live your life again, with all the randomness of life chucked in for good measure. Will you make good decisions and live to old age?

Take our quiz to find out.

You are born

Black toothpaste cleans your teeth using charcoal

October 30, 2015, 2:39 am

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It promises amazing things but can you bear to brush your teeth with black toothpaste?

The new Curaprox formula is made with a base ingredient of activated carbon (charcoal) which is said to absorb and remove stains without wearing away tooth enamel.

Apparently this is better than typical whitening toothpastes, whose abrasive particles and bleaching agents erode the enamel.

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This dad let his four-year-old daughter give him a tattoo

October 30, 2015, 2:40 am

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Okay, this dad is brave.

Not only because he’s trusting his four-year-old daughter not to monumentally mess up, which is courageous in itself (kids are cute, but not the most reliable), but because he’s given her the chance to permanently alter his arm, using a big, scary needle.

Known as Bob Tat, the tattoo artist decided to let four-year-old daughter Chloe tattoo his arm after months of training.

Watching her dad tattoo his clients has made her want to try it too, and for months she ‘safely watched, learned, and listened.’

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Bride left devastated after photographer doesn’t show up to wedding gets to recreate her big day

October 30, 2015, 3:26 am

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‘Photos are easily the one thing that is most important for the day,’ says bride Heather Koehler of the dream wedding.

Because those pictures are the ones you’ll put on your mantelpiece, and the ones you’ll show your grandkids.

So, Heather was left devastated when her wedding photographer failed to show on her big day. She learnt about the no-show just minutes before she was due to walk up the aisle to marry boyfriend Matt.

She had no choice but to carry on without any professional pictures. ‘It never crossed my mind that she wouldn’t show up,’ she told MLive.

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October 30, 2015, 3:43 am

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If you’ve seen nutscaping, you’ll know that balls are having a real moment right now.

So, answering what’s clearly a worldwide demand, someone really has made a backpack designed to look like a set of testicles. This is the world we live in. Isn’t it glorious.

The Scrote ‘N’ Tote is a rucksack with a twist. The twist being that the sack part is a ballsack. It’s made of specially designed scrotex, for the realism we all crave from our testicle themed fashion, complete with all the hairs and wrinkly goodness you’d expect.

The scrotal rucksack first came into public knowledge last year, when a photo of one man proudly displaying… Read the full story

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Halloween party recipe: You can make this edible meat skull at home

October 30, 2015, 4:00 am

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This year Halloween falls on a Saturday which means THOUSANDS of Halloween house parties will be taking place over the weekend, make yours stand out with this spooktacular meat skull.

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Ingredients:

• You’ll need one clean, plastic human skull, 2 cocktail sticks and a serving platter
• Assorted thinly sliced cured meats (prosciutto, bresaola, copa etc)
• runny honey
• 2 pickled onions
• 2 green peppercorns
• red food colouring

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October 30, 2015, 4:00 am

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Since having children I find myself saying the same old sentences over and over again, day in, day out…

I am sick of the sound of my own voice. Especially when I hear it saying these things:

1. Where is the other SOCK?

Why is it that when you become a parent you lose the ability to keep socks in pairs? My children are not even aware that matching socks are a ‘thing’.

2. If you do (insert simple task here) you can have a biscuit.

Bribery is a parent’s most useful tool.

3. One more spoonful…

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October 30, 2015, 4:04 am

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We Londoners are apparently so bereft of time, we can’t even make decisions about what to eat anymore.

Hence the ever increasing number of single-item restaurants. From the niche – we give you Tartufi & Friends, a self-styled ‘truffle lounge’ – to the nostalgic – porridge cafes people.

The latest offering, The Project Project, has designs on the humble spud.

The gourmet baked potato cafe opened this week in Soho and these spuds are smokin’.

There’s the All Day Breakfast Jacket (yup breakfast served in soft fluffy potatoes).

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The real Dumbledore – here’s what magic a wizard gets up to on Halloween

October 30, 2015, 4:05 am

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Steve Andrews, aka The Bard Of Ely, is a 62-year-old singer-songwriter, poet, author and wizard.

He grew up in Cardiff and spent 24 years living on the Ely council estate.

Big Issue Cymru magazine dubbed him The Bard Of Ely when he wrote a regular column for them.

His new book, Herbs Of The Sun, Moon And Planets, will be published next year.

He lives with his wife, Melissa, in Portugal.

1. Let’s get the Harry Potter thing out of the way first. Are there any similarities?

I used to feel that I was different to the other kids I was in school with but didn’t know then that I was a young wizard.

I liked to wear my hair long and used to get into trouble over this.

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This ghost’s Instagram is better than yours

October 30, 2015, 4:38 am

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Ever feel like someone’s haunting your Instagram feed? Watching, stalking, liking and then rapidly unliking photos from a few weeks back?

It’s me.

Oh wait, no. It’s not me. Sorry. Got confused. It’s this ghost, Mr Boo, who’s dedicated to bringing all kinds of ghostly delights to the internet.

Mr Boo is a totally real ghost, who’s come back from the graveyard to become Instafamous. But also because he has ‘unfinished business’.

We’re not sure what this unfinished business could be, but we like to imagine it has something to do with overtaking Kim Kardashian’s follower count.

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