Yorkshire couple discover they’re the only ones on the flight; dance in the aisles

September 7, 2016, 4:02 am

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Can we preface this by asking why this never happens to us?

Anyway, a couple from Yorkshire unintentionally took a private jet when they flew from Krabi, Thailand, to Penang in Malaysia, last week.

They didn’t mean to. They’d booked via low cost commercial airline Firefly. It’s just that no one else turned up.

Carrie Fisher and her partner Kyle McNicol, both 28, first got an inkling something was up when they checked in for the flight. ‘Oh very special flight for you today’,… Read the full story

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Facebook can make you as happy as getting married or having a baby, apparently

September 7, 2016, 4:29 am

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Feeling a little miserable at the state of your life after seeing yet another one of Facebook friends announces their engagement or new baby?

Don’t stress. You don’t need what they have. You have Facebook.

A new study conducted by Carnegie Mellon University and Facebook suggesting that interacting with people on Facebook could make you just as happy as getting married or having a baby. Apparently.

Researchers tracked 1,910 Facebook users’ activities for three months, looking at how they used the site – commenting, posting statuses, liking photos, posting on people’s… Read the full story

Starbucks is trialing a weekend brunch menu

September 7, 2016, 4:49 am

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Your Sunday routine could be about to change in a big way.

Starbucks has announced that they’re trialing a snazzy new weekend brunch menu, complete with waffles, quiche, and French toast. *Drools*.

The news was officially broken by blogger StarbucksMelody, an unofficial source of Starbucks-related news, who revealed that Starbucks was testing out brand new waffles.

Starbucks has now confirmed the rumours, explaining that since August 17, they’ve been trialing a new weekend brunch menu in multiple Starbucks locations across the U.S., primarily in Seattle and Portland.

The new menu, which includes baked French toast, waffles, and mini quiches,… Read the full story

These illustrations perfectly sum up all the conflicting expectations placed on women

September 7, 2016, 5:07 am

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We are told that we need to be more assertive in the office but, when we are, we’re called bossy. We’re told we should wear makeup and love our bodies, but, you know, not too much.

Sound familiar?

If it feels as though you can never win, whatever you do, that’s because you can’t – not if you’re trying to please other people.

Every day, women are expected to live up to unrealistic, and constantly conflicting, expectations, as these illustrations perfectly demonstrate.

Artist and fashion illustrator Daisy Bernard created the illustrations in the wake of the burkini ban on beaches in France and… Read the full story

This trick will help you get through the awkwardness of small talk

September 7, 2016, 6:38 am

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Small talk is an unbearable but necessary evil.

These illustrations pretty much sum up how it feels to be a woman in 2016

We hate it with a passion. We wish we could skip through chatting about the weather and start getting to the real stuff, like our intense opinions on Beyoncé’s Lemonade or our miserable childhoods.

But we have to do it.

Small talk is essential for networking and friend-making. You have to put up with it in the world of dating.

It sucks, but we all have to do it. So we will… Read the full story

Mum shares empowering before and after photo with a difference

September 7, 2016, 7:15 am

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Losing weight or toning up isn’t the only body transformation you should be proud of.

Bodies change. Sometimes this is because you’re no longer restricting your diet. Other times it’s because your body has just done something really tough, like giving birth, or recovering from illness.

These transformations should be celebrated too – not just the traditional six pack and weight loss selfies.

Mum On The Run blogger and mum Laura Mazza is a brilliant example of that. Last week, she shared a before and after photo with a difference, that’s since been shared more than 3,800 times.

The… Read the full story

People are sharing their strangest wedding requests and it’s intense

September 7, 2016, 7:32 am

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I don’t know, maybe I’m lucky, or maybe I’m just really good at picking friends, but I’ve never had to deal with psychotic bridal parties.

Sure, there have been a few fraught conversations in the Coast changing rooms about bridesmaids dresses and we’ve all whinged about having to spend a fortune on a weekend in Dublin drinking out of penis straws with crazy aunts, but that’s all par for the course.

Asking bridesmaids to put on weight so you’ll look the best on your big day? Not so much.

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Panache chose models for its new lingerie campaign based on their achievements, not just their bodies

September 7, 2016, 8:18 am

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Following the success of last year’s ‘Modelled By Role Models’ campaign, Panache has brought the idea back for another round.

Rather than hiring standard industry models to show off their new collection of snazzy underwear, Panache set about choosing women based on their accomplishments, not just their bodies.

This year they chose to launch a competition to find their new role models, asking the public to nominate who they’d like to see modeling in the campaign.

They received more than 7,000 nominations.

Eventually the brand narrowed this down to a shortlist of 14 women, then asked… Read the full story

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Couple celebrate 57 years of marriage with photoshoot inspired by The Notebook

September 7, 2016, 8:20 am

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Some love stories are meant to last a lifetime.

Clemma, 76, and Sterling Elmore, 80, have been sweethearts for 57 years ‘and counting’.

They fell in love almost from the first moment they met and married four months after they started dating.

It’s like something out of a movie – and, last week, the couple from Oklahoma celebrated almost six decades together with a photoshoot inspired by one of the most romantic films of all time – The Notebook.

The photos were taken by Stacy Welch-Christ for Mary Evelyn Photography and arranged by the couple’s granddaughter Amber. Stacy… Read the full story

Sneaky teacher stumps students with hilarious surprise exam question

September 7, 2016, 8:54 am

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There’s a lot of hard work that goes into teaching. 

Couple celebrate 57 years of marriage with photoshoot inspired by The Notebook

And of course, it’s not the easiest of times being a student, particularly if you don’t attend everything you’re meant to.

After not taking attendance registers for an entire school term, one teaching assistant, who took exam day off, decided to make his students sweat with a surprise question at the end of the test.

Student and Reddit user dovahkid, was… Read the full story

Rainbow burgers are here and they’re absolutely magical

September 7, 2016, 9:10 am

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We thought we’d be tired of the rainbow food trend by now.

But then we saw the rainbow burger, and we fell in love all over again.

So, essentially, to recap, get this rainbow burger in our mouths immediately, please. We need it.

This week, Sydney’s Bar Luca debuted the Beauregard Burger, a tribute to the late Gene Wilder.

The Beauregard Burger is a beef patty drizzled in tomato jelly, fried potatoes, popping cheese, blueberry onion jam, and wonka sauce (we’re not sure what’s in that, but we like the sound of it), and nestled in a rainbow bun.

BEHOLD.

It’s glorious, and we’re sure Gene… Read the full story

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September 7, 2016, 9:50 am

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Sadly, Fabric was shut down today.

What shall we do with it now?

Obviously you can’t leave a space that big in a prime East London location empty for too long.

So I’ve imagined nine things Fabric might be turned into now its party days are over.

1. An artisanal all-you-can-drink champagne bar that specialises in 18 different types of savoury popcorn

You don’t really like popcorn, but apparently their strawberry and balsamic organically popped Parisian-style popcorn is a ‘playful, culinary delight’, and all your friends Instagrammed the cool neon signage inside weeks ago.

You also doubt you can drink more than two glasses of champagne before it starts to feel like you’ve swallowed shards of glass.

But for… Read the full story

Stunning photos capture the life of a mum with muscular dystrophy

September 7, 2016, 9:51 am

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When 34-year-old Camilla Nielsen chose to become a parent, she risked her life.

At three years old, she was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic neuromuscular diseases characterised by progressive skeletal muscle weakness and severely damaged muscle tissue.

Along with incredible pain and difficulty day to day, the condition also makes having children a difficult choice.

As well as carrying the risk of passing the genetic disease on to children, women with Muscular Dystrophy who become pregnant risk worsening the symptoms of their syndrome as a result of increased muscle weakness.

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All the models were overheated and miserable at Kanye’s Yeezy Season 4 show

September 8, 2016, 1:52 am

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It’s Yeezy season. Meaning misery, ennui, and a new burning need to own a nude leotard.

Yesterday fashion genius and inventor of leather jogging pants Kanye West packed a load of fashion influencers and journalists on a bus and took them over to Roosevelt Island, so they could behold his latest collection, Yeezy Season 4.

And, erm, it was a total mess.

First there was the bus travel, which featured no snacks, no Kanye merch, and no provided bottles… Read the full story

Vets made this tiny bird with deformed feet its own set of mini snow shoes

September 8, 2016, 2:27 am

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I don’t care what you’re doing right now. Put down your work and look at this little bird. Its struggles are more important.

A little mockingbird – it doesn’t have a name, so we’re going to call it Tim – was recently rescued by the California Wildlife Center, who took him in after noticing his deformed feet.

Tim was born with ‘knuckled’ feet, which means the feet have grown to fold on themselves, making it impossible to comfortably walk or perch on trees.

Left in the wild, a mockingbird like Tim would likely die.

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This girl’s post on why everyone needs to stop giving their opinions is so relatable

September 8, 2016, 2:29 am

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If you’re fed up of a world where people think it’s fine to just go up to a woman in the street and give their opinion on their appearance, or to approach a parent with their child and offer their thoughts on their parenting skills, then this is for you.

Sydnie Adams, a 16-year-old student, YouTuber and makeup artist from Kenner, Louisiana, believes that if you haven’t got anything nice to say, you should just keep your mouth shut.

‘I’m done with the buffoolery, I really am,’ she says in a video which she shared on Twitter, where it’s now… Read the full story

These hilariously tragic illustrations perfectly capture what it’s like to be single AF

September 8, 2016, 2:41 am

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Being single can be great. No f*ckboys. No duvet hogging. No one spending your hard-earned cash. But at times, it can seem a bit tedious.

All you want is someone to spend Sunday afternoons with – is that too much to ask?

After a while, you start lusting after everybody and anybody. So you enter the dating scene, where you find yourself surrounded by society’s biggest idiots and catfishes.

If this is you (and let’s face it, it’s basically all of us at some point or another), then this illustrator’s Instagram account is all you need to appreciate the single life.

 

Washington-based artist and writer Mari Andrew has come up with… Read the full story

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September 8, 2016, 3:07 am

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Unless it was your ‘first day’ as opposed to your ‘first day back’ at school, there really was no reason to be excited.

People are sharing their worst 'reply all' emails and you'll cringe for them

Sure, you got to see your friends and tell them all about your holidays, but the novelty soon wore off after second period.

One little boy who didn’t even want to get to second period has managed to get his message across loud and clear in the most brutally honest sign, which he was asked to hold… Read the full story

This is Pinterest’s most popular bridesmaid dress – and it’s actually affordable

September 8, 2016, 3:10 am

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When imagining of one the most popular dress on Pinterest, you’d expect to have to fork out your life savings for it and perhaps even hand over an arm or a leg. 

So you can imagine just how shocked we were to find that the site’s most popular bridesmaid dress – with more than 170,000 Pins – is actually surprisingly affordable.

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A guy took the perfect sunset wedding photo of a couple he’d never met

September 8, 2016, 3:12 am

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Mike Karas wasn’t hired as the official wedding photographer for a newlywed couple posing at Taft Point in Yosemite National Park.

But when he saw the perfect sunset shot, he had to capture it.

Mike had been hiking along a trail when he looked up to see the couple standing on a cliff ledge. He took a few photos and posted one on Instagram, where he asked his followers to help him track down the couple so he could send them the pictures he’d taken.

A few days later, as his picture racked up shares, Mike was put in touch with the couple –… Read the full story