If you aren’t quite feeling Christmassy yet, we may have figured out the problem.
Our Christmas lights just aren’t good enough.
Sure, we’ve got some pretty ones strung around Oxford St and sparkling through our… Read the full story
Moscow’s Christmas lights are so much better than yours
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14 most satisfying sounds in the world
Sound is one of the most important – if underrated – senses, and its enormous spectrum and possibilities can have wildly different effects on our human ears.
While some noises can drive you up the wall – fingernails dragging across a blackboard, or a badly played violin – others can just make you go ‘ahhhhhhhh’.
So what are the most satisfying noises in the world? Here’s what Reddit users came up with.
1. Crackling fire
2. Rain
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Four women speak out about their abortions in emotional video
In this heartbreakingly personal video, four women have decided to speak out about their abortions, to inform others of the choices they have made and the reasoning behind these choices.
Melanie, Bree, Alyssa and Shanelle each have very different reasons for their choice to have an abortion. You can see each woman finds it incredibly hard to talk about in the AJ+ video, no matter what their reasoning is.
Shanelle was just 18 when she had an abortion.
She was a student at the time she fell pregnant nad found out when she’d taken a pregnancy test at a health centre.
She feels they didn’t give her very good advice as to what her options were.
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3.6 million Japanese households will be eating KFC this Christmas
We knew Christmas was really all about eating, but Japan’s food traditions are a tad different from ours.
Instead of devouring a big old turkey, potatoes and lashings of gravy come Christmas Day, Japanese families will be tucking into the Colonel’s famous fried chicken.
Yep, we mean KFC.
No this isn’t a weird joke, according to KFC an estimated 3.6 million Japanese households will seriously be busy digging into buckets of fried Christmas food.
Rumour has it that the tradition started back in the early 1970s when one KFC employee overheard the conversation of an expat customer.
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16 reasons Christmas was far better in the 90s
Do you ever get the feeling that Christmas isn’t as exciting or magical as it used to be?
Well, it’s not just because you’re growing up (after all, who wants to do THAT?) it’s because it’s actually true.
Gather round children of the millennium, allow me a moment to put on my TMNT slippers as I sit down on my rocking chair space hopper and educate you on what you missed out on during the Christmases of that fabled decade, the 90s.
It was so much better back then for the following… Read the full story
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Can you find this letter on your palm? If so, you could be pretty special
The lines we see on the centre of our palms may be telling us more about our personalities than we knew ourselves.
Specifically speaking, if you can find the letter M in the lines on your palm, you could be more special than most.
The letter M is found when the major lines on your palm – which are known as the heart, head and life lines – are in alignment.
The letter… Read the full story
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Quiz: Are you on Santa’s naughty or nice list this year?
Christmas Day is not that far away now. The Santa Claus letters have been sent, hopes and dreams of presents made, and Santa is busy checking his naughty and nice list.
Yep, he’s checking it twice.
All that we can do now is wait and hope we won’t be getting coal or something else unpleasant in our stockings this year. Or is it?
Luckily after some consultation with Santa we’ve put together a genuine, oh-so-bona-fide quiz if you’re too impatient for Christmas to arrive.
Find out now if you’re on Santa’s naughty or nice list this year.
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Deaf pit bull cries while cuddling with her favourite toy as her best friend gets adopted
Dogs get lonely at Christmas time, too.
Marshmallow is a deaf one-year-old pit bull up for adoption at Unleashed Pet Rescue in Mission, Kansas.
She’s not having a very merry Christmas – not only because she’s having trouble finding a home, but because her best friend and roommate, Scooby, was just adopted.
Scooby and Marshmallow had been best buddies since Scooby moved in in April. They lived together, played together, and now, Marshmallow is very, very sad to see her go.
Scooby was adopted by a family this week, who were unable to take Marshmallow in with them.
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The 14 toys every girl who grew up in the 80s still wants for Christmas
Being a responsible adult it’s easy to forget how it felt to be a kid unwrapping a new toy with breathless joy.
Remember how grown up you felt with your peel off nail varnish? How proud you were of your strange plastic meal preparation? How responsible you felt for that doll? Or how exciting it was to put Beauty the Afghan Hound in her basket?
Take a little trip down toy memory lane and remind yourself of the presents you were desperate to find under the Christmas tree in the 80s – because I’m sure some of these toys would make our adult lives a far happier place today:
1. A La Carte Kitchen
Bow down to the toy of my dreams!
A tidy little wheel-along kitchen with a place for everything and everything in its place.
Cooking… Read the full story
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The 15 worst things about being a parent at Christmas
Christmas is all about the children really, well that’s what parents are constantly being told.
And yes while it’s lovely to imagine their happy little faces lit up by fairy lights and sharing in the family traditions – and of course their joy at getting festive wishes granted by Santa – it can be a bit of a stressful time for mums and dads hellbent on making sure a good time is had by all.
Because while we’re waiting with gritted teeth to learn what part our kid’s got in the Nativity, tracking down that last elusive new Nerf gun, missing out on spontaneous festive drinks and throwing money around like… Read the full story
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This woman says Kylie Jenner’s photos with a wheelchair empowered her to start sharing her own
Remember Kylie Jenner’s photoshoot for Interview magazine a few weeks back?
You remember. The really controversial one – and not just for the usual lips/body/Kardashian reasons. The one for which Kylie Jenner posed with a wheelchair, and angered actual wheelchair users all over the world.
One woman who was unhappy with the photoshoot was a student named Arden Lee.
She told Buzzfeed: ‘When I saw Kylie Jenner’s photoshoot, I was upset.
‘I became even angrier when I realised the wheelchair was supposed to represent the… Read the full story
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My 80-year-old penpal helped me realise the true meaning of Christmas
For eleven years I wrote letters to my octogenarian penpal. Companionship – in all its various forms – is what Christmas is all about.
It all started in the winter of 1999, when my Mum asked me to write a letter to her old friend, Jean Burnett. Jean was an eighty year-old lady living in Somerset, and had worked briefly for my Mum as an employee of her boutique Calico Casa in the Seventies. She had no family and few friends, and on top of that was a double amputee, due to diabetes complications that had affected her mobility… Read the full story
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‘Face dancing’ is the next big trend
Maybe twerking wasn’t for you. Perhaps you haven’t quite mastered your whip or your nae nae.
Finally, there may be a dancing trend all of us free of dancing talent can hop on: face dancing. It’s the next big thing, apparently.
Face dancing started out its life as a competition from video sharing app Mei Pai, which asked people to upload videos in the search of China’s best face dancer.
Here’s how it works. You draw a little person (or animal) on your face.
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17 things every foodie knows about Christmas
Whilst everyone else is worrying about trees, presents and partying, you can be found in Tesco at 6am stocking up on festive treats.
‘Tis the season to eat all the food!
1. As soon as Tesco starts stocking them, you become a mince pie connoisseur, which basically means you get to eat all the mince pies with zero guilt – because research.
2. There is nothing more glorious than being able to wrap anything and everything in bacon in order to make it ‘Christmassy’. Bacon > anything else.
3. Matchmakers, After Eights, Mingles, any type of… Read the full story
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Cadbury may add kale, wasabi, and beetroot chocolates to their Milk Tray box
If you’re still bitter about the disappearance of Turkish Delight from your annual Christmas Milk Tray, you may want to look away now. Because honestly, this might fill you with a rage even a Caramel… Read the full story
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Here’s how to make a sushi roll out of Krispy Kreme doughnuts and ice cream
A Krispy Kreme and ice cream sushi roll is exactly as amazing as it sounds.
It involves delicious glazed doughnuts filled with swirling ice cream, but in really fun bite-size pieces that feel sophisticated.
Yeah we know, it’s not strictly sushi with no raw fish or rice in sight, but this is so much better because instead of raw fish there is ice cream. Yum.
It’s made by top sushi chef Hiroyuki Terada, the guy who gave to us the magical Big Mac sushi roll.
Plus it’s rolled, so we’re standing by our assertion that it’s a Krispy… Read the full story
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9 secrets and little-known things about the London Underground
It isn’t just really expensive and subject to delays. There’s more to the London Underground system that meets the eye.
It is is one of the oldest and biggest metro systems in the world, with lots of quirks and even its own commuter etiquette. So naturally it’s become a place of intrigue, mystery and secrets.
To this day, we are still discovering new or lost things about it, including ghost stations such as South Park earlier this year.
Here are nine other secrets and little known things about our beloved London Underground.
1) There are 40 estimated disused stations
That’s TfL’s… Read the full story
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10 children’s Christmas gifts parents hate
I dread my kids opening their Christmas presents from friends and relatives.
You just know there is going to be something among those beautifully wrapped gifts that you are going to want to throw out of the damn window by Boxing Day.
Here are a few things I really hope my kids don’t get this year:
1. Anything that needs batteries
Chances are, we will not have any batteries in the house, let alone the correct batteries.
Therefore, we can either spend all Christmas morning unscrewing every single battery-operated toy we own in the hope of finding some that fit or endure a… Read the full story
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Should you wrap presents you give to blind people?
It’s a question we never thought to ask. But now that someone’s brought it up, we can’t stop thinking about it.
Why do people wrap presents for blind people?
The whole point of wrapping presents is to hide what’s inside. And using some nice ribbons and festive paper to make a box look pretty.
But blind people can’t see what the present is when it isn’t wrapped. And they can’t see the that snowman-themed paper you chose.
So why should we wrap the gifts we give to blind people?
Well, as Youtuber Tommy Edison brilliantly points out, it’s because unwrapping presents is… Read the full story
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15 things that every singleton experiences at Christmas
Mistletoe and wine are a dangerous combination for singletons at Christmas, and although you can avoid *some* complete disasters, there are a few things that you’ll never really be able to dodge….despite best efforts.
1. You end up furiously Tindering in late November in a last ditch attempt to bag a date before the festive season.
2. You try to avoid watching Love Actually, watch it anyway and cry. A lot. Thanks Emma Thompson.
3. You’ll feign disgust when drunken members of the opposite sex try to get you under the mistletoe…
4. But then you’ll get drunk and try… Read the full story
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