Instagram bans photographer’s breastfeeding pictures…during World Breastfeeding Week

August 5, 2015, 6:24 am

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The timing really couldn’t have been worse.

Instagram banned the account where Queensland photographer Melissa Jean Wilbraham shares her intimate photos of pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding…on the first day of World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7).

Melissa, whose MelissaJeanBabies Instagram page has just under 24,000 followers, told Daily Mail Australia: ‘It was like being punished for celebrating the miracle of life.’

However, her page has now been restored after a campaign by her friends and followers – and she even gained around 4,000 followers in the process.

 

When Melissa tried to log into the page over the weekend, she received this message: ‘Your account… Read the full story

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Illustrator brilliantly depicts teen life using nothing but a Biro

August 5, 2015, 7:31 am

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These images haven’t been done on a computer. They are created using only Bic Biros. True story.

They are the work of Paris-based illustrator Helena Hauss.

Like pretty much all of us, she started doodling with Biros while at school. But, unlike us, she can create incredibly detailed and beautiful works of art with them.

In fact, she got so accustomed to drawing with her trusty ball points, she’s never used anything else.

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August 5, 2015, 7:41 am

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If you think in squares or you look at a sunset and say, ‘Yep, that’s definitely a Nashville’, then you might recognise these…

1. I’ve tried all the Insta-trends: filtered pictures; the #nofilter trend which I don’t admit to slightly (read: heavily) editing; the border trend; the no border trend.

Name it; I’ve done it all.

2. All life questions are about ‘The Grid’.

And I often delete old pictures for fear it doesn’t quite fit with ‘The Grid’.

3. I panic that people will forget about me if I haven’t posted an Instagram in three days. There are two options in this situation:

Option 1 – upload a picture of a bunch of peonies that has been saved on my camera… Read the full story

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August 5, 2015, 8:50 am

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Are you a sweaty mamma or mister?

Join the club.

If you have spent your life avoiding bright coloured clothing, or with your arms clamped firmly by your side, then some of this might sound a little familiar.

1. You keep tight-fitting coloured tops for when you’re in the house. Alone.

2. All your shirts are white or black. It’s fine. Even if people do keep mistaking you for a waiter.

3. And you generally wear a jacket over the top. Double protection.

4. But then it sort of traps the heat in. And things get really steamy *runs through door, strips off, takes ice bath*.

5. All your white tops have yellow… Read the full story

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August 5, 2015, 9:25 am

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We’ve all been there: your best mate starts a new relationship, and suddenly you go from hero to zero.

But when Rachael Ryan’s best friend Katy Philbin made… Read the full story

The weirdest wedding photos from around the web

August 5, 2015, 9:34 am

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Once again, the web has proven it’s a weird and wonderful place with these WTF wedding photos.

Photos of cutting the cake, tossing the bouquet and the wedding party just aren’t working for some people, who instead have put their own bizarre twists to photos of their happy day.

Raw chickens are chucked rather than bouquets, couples put a whole new meaning to shotgun weddings, mostly with an (un)healthy amount of Photoshop.

Thank you internet for curing our midweek blues.

MORE: Couple pose for breathtaking wedding photos thousands of feet above Yosemite National Park

This happy couple want chicken with the traditional rice

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McDonald’s are trialling table service right here in the UK

August 5, 2015, 11:26 pm

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The best thing about MaccyD’s is that you always know what you’re gonna get. Once you get through those golden arches, you’re home. Safe.

But not any more, as it seems change is a-coming.

McDonald’s have just announced that they’re trialling table service right here in the UK. Not just thinking about it, but actually doing it.

The fastest of all the fast food chains are opening 11 ‘concept stores’ across Britain by the end of the month, the first of which is going to be in Mottram, Greater Manchester.

MORE: McDonald’s is trialling a new gourmet breakfast that includes avocado toast

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August 5, 2015, 11:30 pm

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A PR job on paper sounds too good to be true: be creative every day, attend all expenses paid parties, you must read all of glossy the magazines, rub shoulders with celebs, spend hours on Instagram…

Even though most of this is true people who work in the industry know in reality the job is never as glamorous as it sounds. But the good certainly outweighs the bad – that’s why every other person you meet is “in PR daarling.”

Here are 16 things only people who work in PR will understand:

1. Your family think you’re a PA…

2. You try and explain to your family for the 100th time what PR is, then you overhear your mum… Read the full story

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14 things you’ll understand if you look younger than you are

August 6, 2015, 12:00 am

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We’ll be glad of our youthful looks when we’re forty, we know, but being a ‘young professional’ is tricky when you still look like a student.

Here are some things you’ll definitely know if you look younger than you are.

You get done up – and you get IDed

Oh, great, you spent ages making yourself look nice and apparently all you achieved was making yourself look 17.

You don’t get done up – and you get IDed

Would someone under the age of 18 dare to go to the pub without make-up on? COME ON.

Losing your ID is a disaster

HOW AM I GOING… Read the full story

Toddler who was born with just one arm finds her soulmate in a three-legged dog

August 6, 2015, 1:11 am

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A truly heartwarming tale.

Little Ella Peggie may only be one-year-old, but she’s already met her soulmate.

Ella, who suffers from Amniotic Band syndrome and was born without her left arm, has found a friend for life in a three-legged puppy called Snowy.

Talking to MailOnline Australia, Ella’s mother Brooke Hodgson explained: ‘My heart skipped a beat when I saw Snowy online.

‘I knew she was going to be perfect for Ella –… Read the full story

People of Britain: you have taken over 1 billion selfies in the past year

August 6, 2015, 2:40 am

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Despite the general consensus that selfies are for chumps, it seems that we just can’t stop ourselves.

According to Ofcom’s 2015 communications market report, Brits took an astonishing 1.2billion selfies in the past 12 months.

The report states that 31 per cent of British adults admitted to having taken a selfie, with 34 per cent of selfie fans saying they take them on a daily or weekly basis.

Unsurprisingly, those aged 16 – 24 were the most frequent offenders, with 26 per cent saying they took at least one a week. In contrast 91 per cent of over 65’s claimed to have never snapped a picture… Read the full story

The cutest turtle you’ll ever see just scored a book deal

August 6, 2015, 2:44 am

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Dwight the turtle has been winning hearts all over the internet ever since his owner started posting videos of his adorable adventures on Vine.

Life hasn’t always been so good to Dwight, who just a few months ago was living in a gutter.

His life changed around when  23-year-old student Mike Miller found the baby turtle and took him home.

Miller told the Coloradoan: ‘It’s a kind of rags-to-riches story.’

The first video Miller took of Dwight was posted by R&B singer Tyrese Gibson on his Facebook account and shared over 120,000 times, catapulting teeny tiny Dwight into fame.

Now Dwight has profiles on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Vine with… Read the full story

17 things northerners miss when they move to London

August 6, 2015, 4:17 am

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Moving from the North to London can almost feel like moving to a different country.

So making that move past Watford can cause the mind to wander and your heart to really miss your northern home.

(Warning: this article contains a lot of stereotypes!)

1. Wind and rain as you have never experienced it before

Sideways rain and wind that hurts – there are hairstyles you manage to achieve up north thanks to the weather that are completely unobtainable anywhere else.

And what about the fashion? Down south people use umbrellas. That simply wouldn’t work up north – it’s a rain mac or nothing.

2. Chips and gravy

It’s a northern phenomenon that is seemingly unacceptable down south. When it is requested in southern ‘chippies’ you either hear ‘we… Read the full story

Four million Brits haven’t had a glass of water in over a week

August 6, 2015, 4:34 am

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Are you a water dodger?

Despite the fact that water makes up two-thirds of a healthy human body, and the government recommends that we drink six to eight glasses a day, a staggering four million Brits haven’t had a glass of H20 in over a week.

In fact, the survey by SodaStream found that only 23 per cent of Brits regularly drink the recommended two litres of water a day.

30 per cent of people claimed they ‘needed’ caffeine more than water, which was reflected in the fact that over half admitted to drinking more tea and coffee than plain old H20.

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Seeing a new woman ‘gives men better orgasms’

August 6, 2015, 5:07 am

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Men who like to play the field will be happy to hear that new research suggests better orgasms are had when a new woman is involved.

The study, which appeared in Evolutionary Psychological Science, found that men ejaculated more, for a longer time and more quickly after ‘beginning’ when they watched a video with an unknown female in it.

The quicker part might explain that awkward ‘this never usually happens’ thing with a new partner.

To find this out, 23 men between the ages of 18 and 23, who identified as heterosexual, got their jollies on every 48 hours over the course of two weeks.

All in the noble pursuit of science of… Read the full story

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August 6, 2015, 7:35 am

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Are you a team-player? Can you work well under pressure? Do you have the ability to do ten things at once, with one hand, on barely any sleep? Then you are probably a parent.

Here are seven reasons why you should employ a mum right now:

1. They work well under pressure

Have you ever tried to prepare a hot meal with a baby crying and a toddler climbing up your leg? Or attempted to get young kids dressed, ready and out of the door for an early morning doctor’s appointment? Not to mention the constant pressure to do it all, have it all and be a perfect parent. Mums LIVE under… Read the full story

Doodlebug the orphaned kangaroo loves his teddy beary beary much

August 6, 2015, 7:52 am

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This is Doodlebug. He’s an orphaned eastern grey kangaroo, and he loves his teddy beary beary much.

Doodlebug has be melting hearts all over the world, since Aussie media advisor Tim Beshara tweeted out the picture of him hugging his teddy earlier this week.

The little guy – who Tim initially mistook for a wallaby, silly Tim – has been in the care of Tim’s mother, Gillian, a wildlife-carer since he was orphaned.

Talking about Doodlebug’s rough start in life, Tim told MailOnline Australia: ‘He may have fallen out of his mother’s pouch or his mother may have died. He was a couple of months old when he was passed onto my mother’s wildlife company WIRES.’

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Richard Herring: I’m going back to my own future

August 6, 2015, 9:08 am

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The Edinburgh Fringe kicks off this week and for the first time since 2003 I am not a part of it. I can’t quite describe how this makes me feel. Is this the emotion you earthlings call ‘happiness’?

I’d like to wish my fellow comedians the best of luck for the month ahead. They will need it to survive the maelstrom of self-obsession, paranoia and disappointment they are willingly throwing themselves into. It’s simultaneously both worth it and not at all worth it.

It’s the first August in ages that hasn’t begun with me in a cold sweat, though I don’t know why I’m so calm. I… Read the full story

Four baby white lion cubs to fill your heart with joy

August 6, 2015, 9:45 am

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If you felt you hadn’t reached your cute quota for the day, prepare to have it filled. Because these are baby white lions and they are everything.

They were born just a few weeks ago at the Taigan Safari Park in the Crimea, which is already home to over 50 lions.

The four new additions have been warming people’s hearts ever since they arrived with their soft fur and adorable paws.

At the moment the sweet cubs can barely keep their eyes open, so they spend most of their time sleeping and eating.

To be honest, it’s all fine by us – just look at how incredibly cute they are when they cuddle up to each other.

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