A gay man has opened up about his plan to have his sister’s baby in order to have a child who shares both his and his partner’s genetics in an article for Mamamia.
Sam Leighton-Dore claims that there is nothing ‘remotely incestuous’ between he and his sister, but he plans to have her baby using IVF.
The idea of turning up at your SO’s house in nothing but a trench coat and heels sounds like fun, but also a bit of a faff.
And now ASOS seem to have taken this idea further, by creating an ‘outfit’ which your SO can literally unwrap.
Except it looks like someone made it out of toilet paper.
Designed by British label… Read the full story
Craft beer is brewed by a small, independent brewery, often using traditional methods.
The craft beer scene in the UK has exploded over the last few years and there are some fantastic breweries out there making brilliant British beers.
Seeing as it’s International Beer day, what better time than now to sample some of the many gorgeous beverages brewed our there away from the mainstream pint?
Here are 16 that you have to try. Maybe not all at once though:
Babies are fine and all that. But you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.
Sorry parents, but they do all kind of look the same. And we’ve already had about 34 new baby photos posted on our Facebook wall this week alone.
Newborn bunny shoots on the other hand, well, feel free to bombard us with them.
Ashraful Arefin is a fine art photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He specialises in conceptual and still live photos. But, sometimes, he also likes to photograph his pet rabbits.
Dementia doesn’t just affect humans – dogs can develop it too. And for some of them, it can be a race against time to fulfill ambitions before they lose their memories completely.
So, one woman is helping her dog carry out his bucket list before that happens.
Six months ago, Mugly started acting oddly – getting lost around the house and staring into space for long periods of time. It turned out that this was the beginning of doggy dementia.
When he was seven, the Peterborough-based Chinese Crested was crowned the Worlds Ugliest Dog, 2012.
After his diagnosis in June, his owner Bev decided to put a list of experiences together so his final days… Read the full story
Pokémon Go has a lot to answer for. People have been dyeing their dogs to resemble Pikachu. People have walked into ponds.
But, now, a heavily pregnant woman from south east London has credited the app with inducing labour, after she walked almost three miles playing the game.
Before Amber Wilde walked for hours hunting for Pokémon, she’d tried every remedy going to try and go into labour. Being one-month-overdue already, she was due to have a meeting with medics to decide what to do.
‘I was eating pineapple and rolled around on a birth ball – but nothing seemed to work,’ she says.
But after downloading the game, she says… Read the full story
You can’t go on a celebrity’s Instagram or Twitter these days without being bombarded with pictures of them holding up packets of fitness teas and other detox infusions.
But one doctor is speaking up against one brand in particular, which uses what she calls ‘dangerous laxatives’.
Dr Lauretta Ihonor has created a petition on change.org to remove these laxatives from Bootea Teatox, and has already got two thirds of the signatures she needs.
This is Noah. He is 23-months-old (almost two) and he just appeared in his first live TV broadcast.
In fact, he just aced his first live TV broadcast.
Noah appeared with mum Torrie Williams on morning TV show Good Day Philadelphia to talk about Pennsylvania’s new car seat law.
The idea was simple. While roving presenter Mike Jerrick talked to Gina, an expert from the Children’s Hospital, Torrie would demonstrate how to put your toddler in the car seat correctly.
Except no one had run this by Noah.
The segment started badly. ‘So, we’ve got the mini van over there. We’ve got a child ‘who’s about to throw a… Read the full story
Six-year-old Brody Whiteside has melted the hearts of thousands after a picture of him wanting to be ‘just like his daddy’ was posted to the Crohn’s and Colitis UK Facebook page.
However, the picture didn’t show Brody wearing his dad’s clothes or putting on his work boots.
Brody’s… Read the full story
If you don’t know about the ‘Doge’ meme, where the hell have you been over the last three years?
A meme was born.
Nowadays, the picture of the ‘doge’ is generally accompanied by short, funny phrases written in Comic Sans font. It doesn’t sound like much, but they really are brilliant.
One girl who knew just how brilliant decided to gift her fellow-student with her own handmade meme – in parking ticket form.
Reddit user Lonehoof posted an image of the parking meme… Read the full story
The last year of a decade is always a scary one. Whether you’re coming up to 20, 30 or 40, you inevitably start to worry about what you’ve actually achieved – as well as dwelling on the fact that you’ll soon be grey and wrinkled.
And it looks like that worry translates into some pretty bad behaviour.
New research has found that people are more likely to cheat in their last year, with the ‘most dangerous age of all’ being 39.
The last year of a decade (19, 29, 39, 49…) is… Read the full story
The celebs are doing it and apparently Brits are increasingly open to it.
It might be time to try your first nudist beach.
According to lastminute.com, they’ve seen a huge growth in online searches for nudist beaches in Europe – up by 52 per cent since January.
Over half (59%) of Brits would now consider going on a nudist holiday, sunbathing in the buff or visiting a nudist beach.
There’s nothing more satisfying than achieving that perfect highlight that looks as though a fairy has swiped their wand across your face.
It’s a magical experience.
But you know what’s even more magical? Dabbing your makeup brush into a sparkly rainbow of penises.
Bitch Slap Cosmetics has recently released a set of highlighters that each come with their own engraved penis inside. Don’t pretend you don’t want one.
With a whole array of colours to… Read the full story
Have you ever organised your kitchen cupboards so that all tins are in order of size, height and colour, and then referred to yourself as being ‘so OCD’?
If so, you need to stop. Here’s why.
There’s a common misconception that OCD is something that means you like order, you’re a neat-freak or that you simply can’t go a day without doing the hoovering.
It’s… Read the full story
If you’re planning on going out out tonight, the chances are that you might swerve having a heavy dinner. After all, piling up before a night on the tiles can leave you feeling a bit tired and bloated.
But there are some don’t eat at all if they intend on drinking loads later on. And people are calling it ‘drunkorexia’ or ‘alcorexia’.
Drunkorexics restrict their food intake to make room for alcohol calories. And for some, simply skipping a meal or two is enough.
Anya*, who’s in her 20s, tells Metro.co.uk: ‘I never eat before a night out/drinking because food makes me sleepy and I find it hard to fit beer… Read the full story
If there’s one thing sneaker fans love it’s exclusivity. And it doesn’t get more exclusive than customised kicks.
Having only released the Air Max 1 Ultra Flyknit in late July, Nike are teaming up with a trio of designers to deliver a bespoke footwear experience.
From August 5th-21st trainer and streetwear obsessives can add a variety of patches, pins and flags to their kit. This stretches from t-shirts and hoodies to the Air Max 1 Ultra Flyknit.
While Nike have always allowed a degree of customisation through their NikeiD portal, the option to choose from 37 national flags is rare (Olympics — nudge, nudge).
Wait, are we still dreaming? Can this be real? Are all our deepest fantasies coming true?
You may remember an announcement of joy back in April 2016, which declared that one day, a plot of land in the corner of St. Joseph, Missouri, would become home to the most magical thing of all: the McDonald’s of the future, complete with fancy customisable burgers, indoor slides, and unlimited fries.
We’ll be honest. We didn’t quite believe it would really happen. It seemed too good to be true.
But this Thursday, August 4, 2016, history was made.
TransPennine Express has no time for your nonsense. They’ve places to go and people to collect along the way.
But one man has no respect for this. He decided that rather than enjoying his train journey, reading a book, or just quietly minding his own damn business, he’d take to Twitter to whinge about other paying passengers. Right then.
His issue? That the person opposite him was wearing a dress.
‘Evening @TPExpressTrains’ wrote Gary Cocker. ”Guy’ on the seat opposite me is wearing stockings and a dress – what is that all about?’
It’s the one thing that can simultaneously form and break friendships, soothe you or fill you with rage, and cause both bonding and fury online: a cup of tea.
Seriously. Just try making an acquaintance a great cup of tea – now you’re best friends. Now do the same, but pour in a load of milk. Make that tea an unsettling shade of beige. You are now mortal enemies, and you, the tea-maker, are an absolute disgrace.
Tea is powerful. Tea brings us together and separates us. And now,… Read the full story
In 1982 President Reagan declared August to be National Peach Month and called upon the people to incorporate the seasonal fruit into their diets.
Peach cobbler is a very American dessert, best enjoyed with vanilla ice or cold heavy cream on a sultry southern afternoon.
Georgia, where Gone with the Wind was set, is known as the Peach State. Imagine you are Scarlet O’Hara or Rhett Butler drinking peach tea on the veranda while tucking into this pudding.
In the UK peaches are in season from June to October, and we get the South African peaches shipped here in the winter. A cobbler is similar to our British crumble: dry ingredients, rubbed with butter, are spread… Read the full story
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