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September 21, 2016, 5:12 am

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Everyone get excited. We have some very important news.

Ben & Jerry’s has just released a fancy new flavour for the autumn – and it doesn’t have anything to do with pumpkin spice lattes (thank f*** for that).

Presenting One Sweet World.

One Sweet World is a coffee and caramel flavoured ice cream base – which sounds drool-worthy enough in itself – packed with swirls of marshmallow, salted caramel, and chocolate chunks in the shape of ampersands (that’s the & symbol, if you didn’t know).

So if you’re into caramel and coffee, you’re going to like this.

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American woman living in London lists the ‘peculiarities’ of British life

September 21, 2016, 5:23 am

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While we’ve got quite a lot in common with our American cousins, we like to think we’re better than them. Obviously.

Unlike them, we get sarcasm. We also know how to use the English language correctly and we know that scones are something you put jam and cream on – not biscuits you pour a lumpy white gravy (which isn’t a gravy) on.

But, despite knowing we do things better over this side of the pond, it’s always interesting to know what they think of us.

Enter Hayley Bloomingdale, who has spent the last 10 months… Read the full story

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September 21, 2016, 5:43 am

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It might not come as massive surprise to discover that the air quality in your home (or, more likely, office) is probably quite low.

There are all sorts of horrible chemicals lurking in our painted walls, varnished tables and cheap carpet.

Which, seeing how we spend the majority of our time bent over desks, laptops and TV sets, is pretty worrying.

So, what are these harmful toxins that are surrounding us indoors and where can they be found?

Trichloroethylene 

Found in: printing inks, paints, varnishes, adhesives, paint remover

Can cause: dizziness, headache, nausea, vomiting, followed by drowsiness and coma

Formaldehyde

Found in: paper bags, facial tissues, paper towels, napkins, plywood paneling, synthetic fabrics

Can cause: irritation to nose, mouth and throat, as well as swelling of the larynx and lungs

Benzene

Found in: plastics, resins, dyes, detergent, glue, furniture wax

Can cause: irritation to eyes, drowsiness, dizziness, increased heart rate, headaches, confusion, and in extreme cases unconsciousness

Xylene

Found in: printing, rubber, leather

Can cause: irritation to mouth and throat,… Read the full story

These women (and men) are going to work in their wedding dresses and here’s why

September 21, 2016, 5:49 am

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Wedding dresses are probably the single most expensive item of clothing women buy.

Unless they wear couture on a daily basis.

So it sucks that you can only really wear them once.

But today, women in Ireland have dusted off their dresses and donned them for one last time (hopefully).

Because today is #WeddingDressWednesday, which is seeing hundreds of women wearing their dresses while going about their daily lives to raise money for the Irish Cancer Society.

Off to work I go #DareToCare @todayfm @grandantor @PamelaABlake @AlisonTodayFM @ZaraSheerin @maybemerlot pic.twitter.com/JhvKZZE6MW

— Ash (@MsBrindie) September 21, 2016

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Bestselling author Jojo Moyes is offering up her cottage as a free writing den

September 21, 2016, 5:52 am

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If you’ve ever had dreams of swishing around a cottage in a silk dressing gown as you make a cup of coffee before setting down to write your first novel, then your luck may be in.

Bestselling author Jojo Moyes is offering up her cottage to one writer for a week, to help them escape the rat race and either get started on, or finish up their next literary masterpiece.

The fully furnished cottage is set deep in the countryside on the Suffolk borders, and the author even promises she’ll… Read the full story

Someone just made a real life Transformer out of a BMW and who knows what will happen next?

September 21, 2016, 6:55 am

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Someone alert Optimus Prime. Or, if all else fails, Shia LaBeouf.

Because, there’s a company in Turkey called Letvision, which has quietly been assembling real-life Transformers out of BMWs. As in, actual robots in disguise.

Except they don’t call them Transformers – they call them Letrons. Which is slightly less exciting, if we’re honest.

Anyway, for the last eight months, 12 of Letvision’s engineers have been building a fully-working prototype, which they’re calling ANTIMON.

It starts off as a regular BMW, which isn’t quite road-worthy yet, but can be driven using remote control when in car mode.

Then, at the… Read the full story

Personal trainer brilliantly demonstrates the power of a flattering angle

September 21, 2016, 6:55 am

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By now, we should all know that what we see on Instagram isn’t really reflective of reality.

People don’t live of avocado toast and courgetti alone. Their skin is not as smooth and poreless as those filters may suggest. And of course, people do not always look as toned and sculpted as they may appear in their full body selfies.

This health coach’s before and after photo proves losing weight isn’t the key to being happy with your body

We know… Read the full story

Apparently you can fake tan using Nescafe – bloggers say so

September 21, 2016, 7:17 am

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We all love a good tan – but they come at a price.

You’re either splashing hundreds on a week in Palma or trying to maintain a healthy, orange-y hue with bottles of biscuit-smelling St Tropez.

But what if we said there was another, much cheaper way to tan?

That’s what blogger Vela Beauty is claiming.

She says you can get a nice, even, brown tan…using Nescafe coffee granules.

Previously, she’s shown how you can use beetroot as a face mask, and coffee and honey as a remedy for puffy eyes.

And cherry Kool-Aid powder as a lip stain.

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September 21, 2016, 7:43 am

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We spend our entire childhood wanting to be older and our entire adulthood wanting to be younger. 

23 reasons shower sex is the absolute worst

And there are so many of us stuck in the middle – wanting to be old enough to carry an ID but young enough to be asked for it every time you attempt to buy alcohol in a store.

If you’re debating whether you still fit this middle-ground, it’s now time to answer it – by seeing how many of these ‘signs that you’re definitely not ready for adulthood’ you relate… Read the full story

Stop what you’re doing and look at these tiny baby meerkats

September 21, 2016, 7:46 am

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Oh, hey. Having a tough day? These baby meerkats will make it better.

Having a good day? You should still see these baby meerkats, because they are very small and important.

On August 18, Taronga Zoo welcomed a second litter of meerkat pups (the first litter was born in February). This week, those meerkats were ready to venture out into the world.

Venture they did. And it was magical.

Each meerkat now weighs just 150 grams and is able to explore the meerkat enclosure on its own.

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This is what it looks like to be upgraded to a £16,000 flight

September 21, 2016, 8:05 am

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You will soon be able to buy lemon drizzle flavoured gin at M&S

September 21, 2016, 8:11 am

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Sipping a gin and tonic will never be the same again.

7 bars in London that do the perfect gin cocktail

Marks & Spencer has just raised the gin bar several notches with the release of a new Lemon Drizzle flavour.

Yes, it will be cake and alcohol all rolled into one glorious concoction. Genius.

Lemon Drizzle Gin (40.4%vol) is the brainchild of Sipsmith and will officially be launched at the end of September (Sept 26th) in M&S stores across the country.

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If this picture doesn’t make you feel seriously old nothing will

September 21, 2016, 8:50 am

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If you don’t feel old yet, you’re about to after seeing this photo of a little girl who is painfully confused by a public telephone. 

Taken at Disney’s California Adventure, the photo shows the moment the girl was caught by her mum looking rather stumped by the phone during her day at the amusement park.

While the mother was confused as to why the phone was there in the first place (I mean, we all have mobiles nowadays, don’t we?) the girl was more concerned as to what on earth the contraption was.

And yes, it is making us feel incredibly old just looking at her.

My daughter called me a liar when I told her this was a phone.

It also made many Reddit users feel the same way too, after it was posted online. One user wrote: ‘Honestly it’s weird that they’re so rare now. I remember getting… Read the full story

This ginger cat has spent 9 years running a store – and he’s never taken a day off

September 21, 2016, 9:02 am

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Bobo is a 9-year-old ginger cat who has been working at the same store for the past 9 years – and he’s never taken a day off.

He was brought into the store, in Chinatown, New York, as a kitten by an employee as he had nowhere to live.

He was well looked after by his new friends at the store, plus a lawyer who visited the store who had four cats of her own and would take Bobo to the vet and bring him food.

When Annie started working at the store in 2014, she became Bobo’s caregiver.

‘At the store, he likes to sit near the entrance and greet customers. He has his own scratcher lounge towards the front of the store and likes to sit there. He also likes to look out the window, a curious cat!’ Annie told Love Meow.

She added: ‘Bobo’s personality is… Read the full story

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September 21, 2016, 9:21 am

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Oh, hello. Feeling like you need to spice up your sex life (but not that much)? Considering the ever popular move of having sex outside of your comfort zone, meaning the bed?

Ah, you’re thinking about having shower sex. Fair enough.

You clearly haven’t done it before, and have no idea of all the horrors it brings.

Shower sex is a load of sh*t.

It’s dangerous, uncomfortable, and deeply unsexy – no matter what people on TV tell you. Here’s why.

1. Shower sex is a lie sold to us by rom coms and TV shows

We all think it’s the perfect way to spice things up and get sexy. It isn’t.

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Restaurant gloriously messes up customer’s coffee order

September 21, 2016, 9:45 am

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A coffee order is hard to master. But it should also be pretty difficult to majorly f*** up.

Coffee, cup, some kind of latte art. That’s it. Easy.

Not for some people, apparently.

One poor soul decided to order a coffee with Bailey’s at a restaurant. As you do, when you fancy a warm, comforting, alcoholic beverage. Yum.

But sadly, he must have failed to enunciate. Or he mumbled. Or perhaps his expectations of the restaurant’s alcohol stocks were too damn high.

We may never know. All we know is that instead of a cup of coffee mixed with Bailey’s Redditor Rios93 was given this.

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You can now properly correct your mates’ text messages like the pedant you are

September 21, 2016, 11:38 am

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There’s nothing more jarring than reading a text message from someone who doesn’t know ‘their’ from ‘there’.

Or ‘fewer’ from ‘less’

Or ‘its’ from ‘it’s’.

It’s enough to make you want to switch off completely. How did you even become friends with this person?

And as for ungrammatical Tinder bios or messages – don’t even bother.

No amount of tiger-based gap yah profile pictures can make up for a mistake-laden message.

But that might all be about to change.

Because now pedants everywhere can do something about it.

An iOS 10 sticker app called Grammar Snob has arrived which allows you to correct everyone’s mistakes.

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September 22, 2016, 2:56 am

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It was a classic love story…

Girl comes across guy’s photos on her Instagram Search & Explore feed.

Girl follows guy.

Guy follows girl back.

After a handful of mutual likes, comments, DMs and a number swap, somewhere further down the line, a random text out of the blue leads to the guy sending a car for the girl to rescue her from a sudden downpour and whisk her off to the warm safety of dinner and his conversation.

Romantic? Yes. A sign of things to come? Sadly not.

The girl is me. The guy…well, that would be telling.

Let’s just call him Q.

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Model talks about what it’s like to have your period during fashion week

September 22, 2016, 3:05 am

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There’s nothing worse than realising you’re period’s arrived – totally unannounced – mid-morning at work. You have to make your excuses, shove an emergency wad of loo roll down your pants and speed walk (without dislodging said wad) to the nearest corner shop.

Yes, despite being adults and having a period at pretty much the same time every month, it somehow still comes as a surprise.

But, at least you’re not about to walk out in front of hundreds of people wearing a skimpy designer frock worth thousands of pounds, right?

Nineteen-year-old British model Victoria Cain, who has worked with brands including L’Oreal and… Read the full story

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September 22, 2016, 3:40 am

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Okay, that’s it. Pack in autumn. Clearly, we can’t handle it.

There have been many, many signs that we, as a society, are intent on taking the things that make Autumn wonderful too damn far. Pumpkin spice Lindor truffles, for example. McDonald’s pumpkin drizzled fries.

And now, we have come to the breaking point. Let this be the end of the pumpkin spice madness. Please.

Chef Anthony Rotio, creator of The Pizza Shelf, has just unveiled pumpkin spice pizza.

Now, to be fair, it does actually sounds pretty delicious.

It’s made with pumpkin, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, honey, ricotta, sage, and fior di… Read the full story