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Woman creates hilarious Bingo board out of her grandpa’s bad attitude

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(Picture: @bitchytyphoon)
(Picture: @bitchytyphoon)

One woman, who’d had enough of listening to her grandfather’s constant bad attitude over Christmas come up with the best way to deal with it.

Where to get your takeaway on New Year's Day

Reddit user bitchytyphoon decided to take it upon herself to make her family’s Christmas a little more bearable by making a bingo board, which featured all her her grandpa’s most unfortunate vices.

Featuring options such as ‘Is racist’, ‘Classifies mom’s job as bookkeeping’ and ‘Talks nonstop for 20+ minutes’, it’s… Read the full story

Romjul is here and it means you don’t have to leave the house between now and NYE

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The period between Christmas and New Years is an odd one.

You’ve spent the past five days eating your weight in Quality Streets and Baileys which has left your forehead glistening brighter than Blackpool Tower. You don’t know what the day is. You’ve seen more of your wretched family than you ever dreaded.

This incredible artist can sketch entire cities from memory alone

This is Twixtmas.

This is a period where you can’t be day drunk like on Christmas so you’re hanging around until NYE when you… Read the full story

Dad documents daughter’s Christmas visit home from hell in hilarious video diary

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(Picture: Dan Howard)
(Picture: Dan Howard)

One dad from Cape Elizabeth in Maine is making all parents feel relieved that they’re not the only ones with kids that drive them crazy.

Here's what Romjul is and why it's the best excuse to do nothing between now and NYE

Dan Howard recorded a hilarious video diary of his daughter’s Christmas visit home.

From delayed flights to his daughter and her friends chanting ‘American Pie’, Dan documents it all.

With day one consisting of his daughter’s flight not getting in until 1am, day two featuring his daughter and her… Read the full story

How to make a magical enchanted rose for your New Year’s crush

New Year’s Day 2017: Opening times for cafes and fast food restaurants in the UK

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How mad would you be if delivery guys actually did this? Like, just give me my damn pizza, this isn’t show and tell (Picture: Getty)

New Year’s Day in the UK is a weird one.

Where to get your takeaway on New Year's Day

Some stores treat it like any other day, some are all up in the Bank Holiday opening hours and others close their curtains and ask you not to darken their door until the 2nd, when they’ve done a face mask, had some Alka Seltzer and started to feel a little… Read the full story

23 of the most important weird trends of 2016

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XX most ridiculous trends of 2016 Credit: Getty Images/Shutterstock
(Picture: Getty Images/Shutterstock)

2016 has been many things. Awful. Soul-destroying. The killer of all our favourite celebrities.

It’s also been a bit bloody weird.

Where to get your takeaway on New Year's Day

Seriously. Have a think back over the last twelve months and consider all the stuff we – as a society – have been doing.

We’ve refused to let the death of a gorilla lie. We’ve damaged our phones in an attempt to take… Read the full story

We need to change the sexist way we talk about women’s binge drinking

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Concerns about female drinking have been exaggerated. (Picture: metro.co.uk)

When you think of women getting plastered, what do you think of?

Girls falling out of cabs with their dresses half way round their waists? Some ladette having her straggly hair held back by a pal while she vomits in the road? Raucous, scantily clad women harassing young men at a bar, cackling like witches into their fifth bottle of Pinot?

A fascinating ñ… <a href=Read the full story

Pinterest has just predicted the best lipstick for winter and we love it

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It’s bold, it’s vampy and it’s the colour of the season according to Pinterest.

I love make up, I have loads of it and for some reason people assume I know what I am doing with it. For the record, I don’t – I just love the ritual of applying it and how it helps me to start my day not feeling like human garbage.

Where to get your takeaway on New Year's Day

Most of all I love a bold lip with staying power for days, and that is very tough to find. I can hear you muttering about first world problems from here, but if you didn’t care about this exciting lipstick news you wouldn’t have clicked on this article, so really the joke is on you.

I digress.

Pinterest has managed to solve my problem. With over 12,000 repins,I’d like you to join me in greeting the colour the season: M.A.C. Retro Matte… Read the full story

This woman’s response to her fiance breaking up with her by text is everything

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(Picture: @AlexMcDaniel)
(Picture: @AlexMcDaniel)

If you’re going to break up with someone, at least have the decency not to do it by text.

Especially if you’ve recently proposed to that person – and your break up excuse is that you have ‘nothing in common’. That’s just the lowest of the low.

But that’s exactly what happened to 30-year-old Brenna Clanton – who had been so happily in love with her husband-to-be that she thought she’d surprise him with tickets to see the Cowboys play the Lions at the AT&T stadium in Arlington,… Read the full story

This adorable pup retrieved owner some napkins after hearing her sniffling

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(Picture: @mayrelynphan)

It’s true when they say dogs are ‘a man’s best friend’. 

23 of the most important weird trends of 2016

It’s especially true this little pup, who likes to make sure her owner always has everything she needs. She likes to keep her happy, make sure she’s always smiling and she simply can’t hack it when she falls ill.

And so, of course, when the latter actually happened, she came to the rescue straight away – by bringing her owner some napkins as soon… Read the full story

Your favourite St. Ives Apricot Scrub is getting sued for allegedly wrecking people’s skin

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Ah, nostalgic skincare. (Picture: St.Ives/Unilever/metro.co.uk)

When you first got into the world of skincare, you probably bought a tube of St. Ives Apricot Scrub.

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It smells great. It’s satisfyingly scrubby, so it feels like it’s doing something. It’s cheap.

But according to a new lawsuit, your favourite Apricot Scrub might also be wrecking your skin.

TMZ reports that the two women that filed the lawsuit claim that… Read the full story

Parents reckon Hatchimals are saying rude words in their sleep

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Are Hatchimals – the hottest kids’ toy of 2016, if you didn’t know – actually programmed to say ‘f*** me’ in their sleep?

Here's a fan trolling the Kiss Cam and his relationship by snogging his beer and not his girlfriend

Probably not. But this conspiracy theory is gloriously entertaining. So let’s roll with it.

CTV News reports that a mum and dad living in Canada are convinced that their child’s Hatchimal toy is saying some very naughty things in its sleep.

‘I’m pretty sure it… Read the full story

2016 was an awesome year and here are 12 reasons why

There’s going to be a gin-themed New Year’s Eve party in London

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This New Year there’s going to be a party dedicated to drinking gin.

This guy is the Willy Wonka of the gin world

The Victorian-themed evening at Fogg’s Gin Parlour in Covent Garden kicks off with Fanny’s mince pies and a glass of champagne but swiftly moves on to some serious gin consumption.

Guests will get their first gin and tonic of the night from the Gin Parlour’s gintologist, then their second and third gins from a special New Year’s Eve selection.

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Samsung’s made a new gadget that scans your skin and tracks your flaws

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From the people who brought you exploding phones, here’s a new fun gadget to put near your face.

A blind dog regains sight after well wishers fund his £2,500 operation

As part of CES, Samsung has just revealed a bunch of new tech they’re planning to bring out in 2017.

This year they’re getting involved in skincare, bringing out two snazzy skin-related gadgets designed to monitor and improve your skin.

The first one is Lumini – a special camera that detects any ‘flaws’ – meaning freckles, spots, ageing, oiliness, and enlarged pores… Read the full story

‘Straight’ guy realises his best friend has been his boyfriend all this time

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The best online dating sites to find love in 2017

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Metro Illustrations illustration request: How to low-key stalk you crush online Picture: Liberty Antonia Sadler /Metro.co.uk
(illustration: Liberty Antonia Sadler for Metro.co.uk)

This week marks the biggest online dating week of the year (combined with the biggest divorce week of the year). Whether it’s a failed relationship or the urge for a new beginning that has propelled you into the dating wilderness, online dating almost certainly has someone waiting for you.

Should dating apps do more to protect their users?How to protect… Read the full story

Male model’s trousers fall down during photoshoot and he doesn’t even flinch

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These guys are really professional and should win awards for services to modelling (Picture: Getty)

Sometimes, I wonder what we did for fun before the internet.

24 truly unbearable struggles of being single on New Year's Eve

How did we cope without epic coffee shop fails, weird and wonderful Reddit chats and videos of pole-dancing rats?

It doesn’t bear thinking about a time BW (Before Wifi), it just doesn’t.

Mostly because we would never have found out about this glorious fail on a Japanese photo shoot.

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