It’s Take Your Dog To Work Day! Hooray! We ALL want to take our dogs to work with us! Just imagine: cuddles, kisses, fun runs in the park, universal adoration, special treatment at work. Heaven.
Or is it? Well, let’s take a look…
1. Your commute is now a mad, military operation
2. So get a bicycle
3. Until you have to get a bigger basket
You arrive at your hotel after a long flight and the pool bar is calling.
Who can be bothered to unpack when you could be lolling around on your lilo, piña colada in hand, Club Tropicana playing quietly in your head?
Inevitably, you spend the rest of your holiday scrabbling around in your suitcase to find that perfect going out top – oh, there it is, screwed up in a ball in the corner. Good.
But, what if there was another way?
Enter the ShelfPack! (exclamation mark essential) – it’s a suitcase that folds out into four shelves, with your clothes already folded neatly on top (well, if you could be ars*d to pack properly in the first place).
Arrive. Open. Relax.
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Foundations, face masks and false lashes; beauty therapy is the dream job for anyone who takes a liking to any of these, but all is not as glamorous as it may seem.
Fellow therapists, you’ll be with me on this one…
1. Painting nails all day, everyday is presumably what you do for a living
Yes, exactly why we spent two tough years at college studying anatomy and physiology.
2. You become immune to anything with a bad smell
Nail polish, acetone and fake tan – you walk in from work whiffing of a combo of all three apparently (not that you’d know what that smells like anymore).
3. Feeling like a hypocrite for giving out skincare advice
When you yourself have… Read the full story
The 2015 Glastonbury Festival has already had its first marriage proposal – and this one may well take some beating.
Festival-goer Mark Goddard took the opportunity to pop the question to girlfriend Jane Shannon with an 11-metre long banner, which she saw from the top of the festival’s Ribbon Tower.
Jane, 45 – who was persuaded to scale the tower despite being scared of heights – admitted she had no idea of her other half’s plans.
‘I was just looking out over the hill and I saw the sign,’ she said.
This is what a swimwear ad looks like with no Photoshop. Pretty fabulous right?
swimsuitsforall is following up its popular #CurvesinBikinis campaign, which saw the first size 16 model – Ashley Graham – appear on the pages of Sports Illustrated’s swimwear edition last year.
This time, the brand has worked with the gorgeous Denise Bidot to encourage women to feel confident in their bikinis on the beach, whatever their size. No retouching necessary.
And the super-sexy, 100 per cent natural, video is already making waves.
After US Vogue published an interview with Cara Delevingne suggesting that her parents think ‘girls are just a phase’ for her, 14,000 people have begged to differ.
Around 14,100 people have now signed the Care2 petition telling Vogue that being LGBT ‘isn’t a phase’.
Cara opened up about her sexuality and her relationship with girlfriend singer/songwriter St Vincent, saying ‘I think that being in love with my girlfriend is a big part of why I’m feeling so happy with who I am these days…and for those words to come out of my mouth is actually a miracle.’
She adds: ‘It took me a long time to accept the idea [of being gay], until I first… Read the full story
Stop all the clocks, cut off the wi-fi router.
Tumblr TV is here to melt your mind and eat your soul, with its never ending stream of in your face, burning your retinas, full-sized GIFs.
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Allowing you the option of filtering by hashtag or a specific blog, Tumblr TV displays almost full-screen GIFs, which loop a few times before moving onto the next and the next and the next and the next and the next and the next, taking a tiny… Read the full story
Brock O’Hurn has better hair than you. Fact.
He’s been dubbed the ‘King of Man Buns’ and he can whip those locks up into a top knot quicker than you can say ‘heck that’s a fine head of hair’.
Brock is a single, 23-year-old, 6ft 7in personal trainer from LA and he credits his 849,000 Instagram followers to a 25 second clip posted to his Facebook page back in November.
He captioned the footage: ‘In light of Man Bun Monday and No Shave November. Lets do it.’
Here he is doing it *pauses while you watch it on repeat for five minutes*.
‘Ah, it’ll be lovely having two little ones close in age. They’ll be best friends,’ they told me when I was pregnant for the second time.
Really? Because from where I am sitting they are mainly whacking each other over the head with sippy cups.
Here are some of my two and three-year-old’s favourite arguments:
1.‘I AM THE BIGGEST.’
Clearly the eldest is bigger than the youngest. They MUST know this. Yet, every day the Who Is Biggest debate rears it ugly head.
Screams of ‘I AM THE BIGGEST’ can last an entire day.
I try diplomacy. ‘Come on girls, you are both the biggest.’
‘I’M THE BIGGEST.’
I try honesty. ‘You are only two so you are not the biggest. But when you are… Read the full story
Nasir Sobhani, aka The Streets Barber, cuts homeless people’s hair on his day off. It’s his way of giving back.
He says he does it to repay his gratitude ‘for being sober and healthy again’.
Nas, 26, who is the subject of a new PLGRM documentary, is a recovering drug addict. He also practises the Baha’i faith, which he credits for his sobriety, along with his passion for slick haircuts.
Nas works six days a week at a barber’s shop. On his day off, he skates round Footscray, Melbourne, giving homeless people free haircuts. He calls it his Clean Cut… Read the full story
Gossip – man, I love it. Nothing thrills me more than a juicy bit of news about a colleague, a new Whatsapp group pinging up on my phone entitled ‘not being a bitch but …’ or the words, ‘you swear you won’t say anything …’
However, according to Joshua Becker, an expert on human relations:
‘There are better things to talk about than other people. Gossip almost always complicates our lives rather than simplifies it and the intimate details of another person’s life should be lower on (our conversation) list than it usually is’
And yet, I still can’t resist the bait when I know some juicy ‘other people’ info is coming my way.
I’m not the only one either – with a recent study suggesting… Read the full story
We want to go back to school. Specifically, the The Dai-Ichi Yochien preschool in southern Japan.
Because they have a very special courtyard designed to collect rainwater into one giant puddle, which the kids are encouraged to splash around in during break-time.
On dry days, the courtyard can also be used as a sports area. And, in winter, it can even be converted into an ice rink.
Our inner five-year-old is so jealous right now.
The preschool was designed by Youji… Read the full story
She was a giant cow.
We’re not speaking ill of the dead. Blosom, who measures 190 cm (6ft 2in from the hoof to the withers) was declared the world’s tallest living cow last year.
That’s the same height as Will Smith, or Donald Trump.
After the 13-year-old Holstein sadly passed away last month, from an irreparable leg injury, the Guinness World Records team has released a moo-ving tribute and farewell to the gentle giant.
The video, filmed earlier this year, shows Blosom towering over her owner Patty Meads-Hanson at her home in Orangeville, Illinois.
‘I always like it when people are not afraid to be who they are,’ says photographer Roger Kisby.
So, when he stumbled upon the Association of Professional Piercers Conference and Exposition in Vegas earlier this month, he couldn’t resist asking if he could photograph some of the people there.
He told Refinery 29 he was intrigued by the opportunity to show beauty can come in many different guises, from piercings and tattoos, to implants and flesh tunnels.
Kisby said: ‘The point of this project was not to point and say, “Look at these people, look at how weird they look,”‘. Instead, he explained: ‘It was to show the range… Read the full story
Maggcom, an Indian lifestyle website, has launched a campaign to end the discrimination of men, or as they call it ‘mancrimination’.
They posted their call-to-arms online yesterday, using the hashtag #DontMancriminate.
The article, written by Jahanvi Maheshwari, also coined the term ‘manism’ to ‘remind us of the forgotten gender, who, regardless of the situation, are expected to be such gentlemen’.
It was accompanied by posters of famous men with gags over their mouths, which listed all the disadvantages they face. ‘It’s a man’s world. Bullsh*t,’ one says. ‘I don’t get free drinks. I don’t get free entry. I don’t get sympathy,’ it goes on.
There’s also a video:
The post concludes: ‘It is… Read the full story
I was sitting on the tube last night, minding my own business, only to be assaulted with the depressingly common sight of a writhing couple sucking each other’s faces off opposite me.
After they left to stumble their passionate selves to somewhere hopefully more private, I thought that my nightly experience of having to endure the dreaded PDA was fulfilled.
No, just one stop later, another couple sat right beside me and engaged in some heavy downstairs mutual petting that was about as subtle as a brick to the face.
Seriously, when did such blatant exhibitions of explicit foreplay become an accepted part of your commute home from work?
There are a lot of serious issues in the world that… Read the full story
What’s tall, sophisticated, light and brings happiness to pretty much the whole world?
No, not Benedict Cumberbatch in a balloon. We talking prosecco.
Refreshing, perfect with dinner and more affordable than champagne, it’s easy to see why it’s the drink of choice for many of us.
And now, with the deadline for the worldwiden prosecco shortage looming near, we’ve teamed up with the folks at Yelp to bring you the best places in the UK to drink the bubbly one before it goes for good. And breathe…
1. Gordon’s Wine Bar: 47 Villiers Street, London WC2N 6NE
So yeah, couples get married throughout the year. But it’s only during the summer months that wedding season officially starts.
Weekends are taken up by hen dos and weddings, Facebook is filled with those generic happy newlywed shots and Pinterest goes into overdrive.
Aside from wanting to get married immediately, here are 25 things we sometimes think during wedding season.
1. OK, so when is that girl from school going to upload her wedding photos. Hello, we’re all waiting here?
2. I haven’t read the news during lunch in ages. I’m too bothered by Pinterest, and ya know planning my wedding. Even though I’m not engaged… or in a relationship, but you know, a girl’s gotta plan.
Summer is here (sort of..) and a bit of cloud rarely stops the Brits getting out the BBQ, inviting friends and family over and having a bit of a summer shindig.
Impromptu or otherwise, summer parties can be a bit of a nightmare to prepare, and to cater for.
Here are a few small tricks and tips for you to try at your next BBQ/summer party/picnic, if you haven’t already
1. Freeze coffee to make coffee ice cubes!
2. Hand out cupcake holders to pierce through the bottom of ice lolly sticks to avoid messy fingers!
Baconmania is a real thing.
The latest video from AsapScience takes a look at our universal, all-consuming love for bacon, sharing a bunch of bacon facts and figures to explain why we’re all so obsessed.
For example, did you know that not all bacon around the world is made equal? Different areas of the world use different parts of pigs to create their bacony goodness, with Canadians going for loins while Americans use the shoulder.
Here is Britain, we use the shoulder, and will happily fight anyone on the internet who doesn’t see that this is clearly the BEST method of bacon creation. If you’d tried that crispy nonsense America is pushing, you’ll agree.
Other cool facts: Canadians really love their bacon, with 43% choosing bacon over sex.
