Apparently acne sufferers age slower than those with clear complexions

September 29, 2016, 2:11 am

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If you’re sick of your acne and dream of having a smooth, peachy complexion like your mates, then here’s some great news for you.

The envy tables might be about to turn because scientists have found that those of us who’ve had acne in our younger years show fewer signs of aging later on than those with clear complexions.

And that anti-aging doesn’t just apply to the face, but to the whole body.

According to a new study by King’s College London, ‘people who have previously suffered from acne are more likely to have longer… Read the full story

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Sausages containing natural Viagra go on sale (to over-18s only)

September 29, 2016, 2:52 am

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Introducing SOS Viagra sausages – containing native breed pork, along with L’Arginine, Horny Goat Weed and Korean, Red Chinese & Siberian Ginseng – all of which are said to help with erectile dysfunction.

The natural Viagra sausages went on sale today in packs of six and are the brainchild of founder of Fathers4Justice Matt O’Connor. Bear with us – there is a good reason.

The sausages have been launched as part of a men’s health campaign, to raise awareness of serious health issues affecting men that don’t often get talked about – including depression, suicide and low testosterone.

SOS Sausages with natural viagra go on sale today. £4.99/6 #Fathers4Justice… Read the full story

Cafes are trolling Trump with their excellent sandwiches

September 29, 2016, 3:09 am

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Imagine if politicians were sandwiches.

David Cameron would obviously be a hog roast bap.

Political candidate sandwiches should be a standard part of any election process. They could well hold the power to change our decisions.

One bad filling and that’s a career up in smoke.

So, The Harlem Cafe in Belfast has taken things into their own hands and decided to create a US presidential election special. By creating the ‘Trump sandwich’.

.@Harlembelfast offering a "Trump sandwich" this lunch time . pic.twitter.com/yx2C4a2RqM

— Niall McCracken (@Niall_TheDetail) September 23, 2016

It’s a baloney white bread sandwich, with lashings of Russian dressing and a small pickle.

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Make this giant soft pretzel recipe to celebrate Oktoberfest

September 29, 2016, 4:05 am

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It’s well known that bars give free salty snacks to make you drink more alcohol. One of my favourite drink snacks is the pretzel, shaped to represent the crossed arms of children in prayer.

I like all pretzels, thin and crispy or fat and soft.  The German beer festival ‘Oktoberfest’ is held this year from September 17th to October 3rd so this is the last week to indulge in the tradition of beer with pretzels.

I remember as a child visiting a German beer garden in Munich, stunned by the sheer quantity of empty ‘steins’, the tall ceramic beer tankards crowded on tables. Any decent beer garden, if they… Read the full story

Parents build £840,000 family fun house with secret passageways and hidden rooms

September 29, 2016, 4:17 am

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I was obsessed with secret passageways and hidden rooms as a kid. I literally spent three weeks sat in an oversized cupboard in my room working out how I was going to decorate it.

So, I basically want this couple to adopt me.

Architects Matt and Sophie White just created a luxury fun house for them and their three children – Daisy, Mia and Arthur – which features hidden tunnels, secret rooms, a pivoting bath, a revolving ‘Scooby Doo’ door with a bookcase in the back, and fireman’s poles, if you don’t fancy using the stairs.

The couple, who featured on this week’s Grand Designs, bought a… Read the full story

Palm Vaults in Hackney may well be London’s most Instagrammable café

September 29, 2016, 4:23 am

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The first time we saw Palm Vaults pop up on our Instagram feed, we thought we’d been transported to a real-life version of that bit of our brain that’s reserved for daydreaming about life as a Miami girl in the 70s.

But looky here, it’s real. Right slap bang in the middle of East London’s borough of Hackney.

The cute little café has a small plant-based menu which changes every week depending on what they can get hold of – currently you’re looking at the likes of chia puddings and coconut yoghurt for breakfast and black rice salad and the classic avocado toast for lunch. If you’re a dairy fiend, there’s veggie… Read the full story

If you want to earn the most when you graduate, study Geology

September 29, 2016, 4:29 am

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Your parents, career advisers and teachers all said to study law or finance if you wanted to earn big bucks.

You chose geology.

They all laughed and wrote you off as a maverick who’d end up eating cold baked beans in a squalid apartment after a long day down at the dig.

But they were so wrong.

New figures have revealed that geologists at Imperial College London are the top earners when it comes to graduate salaries.

According to the Sunday Times Good Universities Guide, rock experts rake in an average of £73,267 just… Read the full story

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September 29, 2016, 4:37 am

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Very occasionally the Internet throws up something so magical that it restores your faith in humanity, creativity and god.

Today is one of those days.

The Pen Pineapple Apple Pen song is beautifully bonkers and completely genius (IMO).

No one gets it. No one needs to get it. That’s the great thing about it.

The masterpiece is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Piko-Taro, who has written an entire song about merging an a pen, an apple and a pineapple, thus forming a Pen Pineapple Apple Pen, or PPAP.

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13 costume ideas that’ll make someone laugh or cry this Halloween

September 29, 2016, 5:08 am

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Dust off the witches’ hat because Halloween is almost here.

Why we celebrate Halloween with scary costumes, pumpkins and trick or treating

Millions of trick or treaters will once again take to the streets this Halloween to scare the living daylights out of unsuspecting neighbours [insert evil cackle].

Here’s a bunch of fancy dress ideas to try from Walking Dead zombies to a full on Port-a-loo costume.

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All you need is lots of orange, a feather duster fox tail, a couple of ears and an inflatable blue ball. Perfect.

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This baby didn’t recognise her dad when he shaved off his beard and freaked out

September 29, 2016, 5:22 am

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Facial hair can be powerful stuff.

It can transform a spotty, baby-faced teenager into an attractive, mature-looking man in an instant.

And guys often look completely different when they decide to shed their beards.

So it’s unsurprising that a baby didn’t recognise her own dad when he got rid of his facial foliage.

Seven-month-old Anistyn Claire was playing peekaboo with dad JC just before he shaved – laughing and loving every minute of him peeking out from behind a blanket.

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Boy didn’t have a date for homecoming, so asked himself instead (he said yes!)

September 29, 2016, 6:14 am

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Inspiring.

In America, homecoming seems to have become as over-hyped as prom, with teenagers staging increasingly elaborate stunts to get someone to go to the high school dance with them.

They will then put it straight on social media (because if it’s not on social media, did it even really happen?) in the hope of getting on the Ellen show or something.

But 18-year-old Joe LaRue, 18, from Ohio, just couldn’t really be bothered with all the fuss and nonsense.

We like him already.

who else would love to come home to this? #homecomingproposal pic.twitter.com/XmUS34f6hP

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Sainsbury’s have launched five new vegan cheeses so we obviously tried them all

September 29, 2016, 6:38 am

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Vegan cheese is a funny one. I’ve had great vegan cheese (hi Mildreds) but I’ve also had horrendous vegan cheese. That tasted like solidified sick. And left my kitchen smelling like a rotten feet for three days when I cooked it into a pasta dish.

So I tend to avoid it.

But when Sainsbury’s sent us their brand new milk-free cheeses from their Deliciously Freefrom range, I decided to give them a go, as I was hungry and to be honest, I’m not one to turn down free food.

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David Shrigley: Everything you need to know about the artist behind the giant thumbs up

September 29, 2016, 6:47 am

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David Shrigley unveiled a giant bronze thumbs up on the fourth plinth today.

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Construction worker remembers too late what socks he put on that morning

September 29, 2016, 7:18 am

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Why is it that you only get asked to take your shoes off when you’re wearing your dodgiest mismatched socks?

Oh, who are we kidding? We never manage to match our socks.

Clearly, our sock game is not as good as this guy’s.

Redditor Austmov, a construction worker from Massachusetts, explained that he was called out yesterday to give a quote on a job, when the client asked him to remove his work boots while inside the property (the floors weren’t covered).

As he was taking the boots off, he remembered the socks he’d put on that morning.

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September 29, 2016, 7:49 am

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While siblings may fight, they’re always sure to have each other’s backs. 

23-year-old Lisa White, from Nebraska, proved this beautifully after coming to her 16-year-old brother’s time of need when he discovered he didn’t have anything to wear to his first homecoming dance.

As her brother, Cody, had never been to a formal dance before, he didn’t have anything appropriate to wear and, as his girlfriend had already bought her outfit, he was left worrying about how he was going to compare.

And that’s when his big sister came to the rescue.

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How have we never noticed that expiry symbol on our beauty products before?

September 29, 2016, 8:19 am

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Okay, some of you might be out there screaming at your screens ‘how have you only just realised?!’ – this is not for you. Well done, you can take the rest of the day off.

But, we’re betting some of you are in the same boat as us and never even noticed that little open pot on the back of beauty product labels.

Because, like us, you probably don’t spend that much time looking at the label on your foundation, or your hair wax, or your deodorant.

You’re too busy trying to cool your sweating pits, calm your cowlick down, or just generally admiring the packaging.

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This girl got so drunk that she started messaging Gatwick Airport

September 29, 2016, 8:19 am

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Most of us get the fear when checking our phones after a heavy night out. 

Why? Because for some reason, many of us like to text our exes something that we will totally regret when sober.

So, we can all imagine the fear Annie felt when picking up her phone one very hungover morning.

But it turned out, that morning was the same morning that Annie realised she was different to everyone else – and that her drunken thought process was very, er, unique.

Because, while she had sent out a drunken message – she hadn’t sent it to an ex.

No, instead, she’d sent it to Gatwick Airport. Seriously.

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This student deserves extra marks for being so (grossly) honest

September 29, 2016, 8:32 am

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Every teacher appreciates an honest student and one pupil has taken it upon themselves to be as honest as they can be. 

Boy didn't have a date for homecoming, so asked himself instead (he said yes!)

No, he didn’t own up to cheating on a test,  he actually owned up to accidentally dropping some snot on his test paper.

Wanting to warn his teacher away from it, he thoughtfully circled the snot stain to let them know exactly what it was and why it was there.

Warning their teacher not to touch, the student managed to circle the stain and even told their teacher where it had come from… no, they didn’t leave anything to the imagination.

A colleague of mine got this.

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People are claiming that this strange Japanese eel advert is really sexist

September 29, 2016, 8:40 am

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Imagine if you were an advert executive, given the task of promoting local eel farming.

Random, sure.

But you’d probably take on the task enthusiastically, getting some nice shots of happy-looking eels swimming in their nice lakes.

And maybe you’d finish with a few mouth-watering seconds of the cooked product (less happy-looking eels).

But one Japanese advertiser decided to take a completely different creative route.

And now their ‘unusual’ campaign has been scrapped after the internet accused it of sexism.

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All the food we eat when we’re drunk ranked from bad to horrific

September 29, 2016, 8:53 am

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It’s 3.20am. You’ve lost your coat, your phone has another crack in it and Mandy’s gone off with that guy she only ever sees past midnight.

In short, it is late, you are out, you are drunkety-drunk-drunk.

And now you are hungry.

But what should you eat in this state?

Science says you should be drinking lots of water and a banana to replace your potassium.

But science can bog off til tomorrow.

For today we head over to the dimly-lit burger van on the edge of the car park to eat grease.

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