This black woman’s open letter to the men of Ireland is everything

May 31, 2017, 9:11 am

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Exotica erotica is rife in online dating.

Plenty of women of colour will tell you that they’ve had close encounters with white guys simply want to tick another race off their sexual bucket list.

Most of us sigh and move on.

But one black Irish blogger isn’t standing for it anymore.

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Filomena Kaguako has written an open letter to demand men stop fetishising her race.

She joined dating site Plenty of Fish to try and find ‘something serious’ – but has since been forced to delete the app after discovering that… Read the full story

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May 31, 2017, 9:49 am

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I recently read the horrifying news that mobile phone calls could soon be possible on the London Underground.

Although the plans are in early stages, London mayor Sadiq Khan believes that having 4G coverage on the tube will bring the capital in line with other major cities.

Places like New York, Paris, Berlin and Seoul can make phone calls in certain tunnels near the surface of their networks, and London is set to follow suit.

I cannot think of anything more terrifying.

Travelling on the tube is, at the best of times, an unpleasant experience.

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What your favourite cheese says about you

May 31, 2017, 11:00 am

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Cheese we absolutely adore you, and there is a lot to be told about a person from their cheese preference.

Are you a fan of the melted orange goodness of a strong American cheese slice? Or do you sit at home in your undies nibbling away on a block of parmesan and sipping on a wine?

Or do your pour a spoonful of cottage cheese onto a chopped up apple?

Either way, lets take a tour into the world of judging via cheese preference.

1. Brie

You’re either French, or a fan of a weird mushy like textures aren’t you?

Basically this cheese tastes like nothing, and is only… Read the full story

International Children’s Day 2017: What the day is about, events and how people mark it around the world

May 31, 2017, 4:01 pm

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Today is International Children’s Day – a date dedicated to raising awareness about child rights and well being.

Hundreds of events are set to take place across the globe to celebrate childhood and get people talking about the issues affecting children at the moment – and how to solve them.

Here is everything you need to know.

What is International Childrens Day?

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World Milk Day: 15 reasons milk is the best drink ever

May 31, 2017, 4:01 pm

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Today is World Milk Day, and we reckon it’s time to give good old humble milk a bit of glory and admiration.

World Milk Day is an actual day, and not something your mum has made up to get you to drink more milk.

19 crazy milkshakes that are worth getting a sugar crash for

It’s been an official thing since 2001, when the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations selected June 1 as the day to celebrate the important contribution of the dairy sector to sustainability, economic development, livelihoods and nutrition.

So in case you needed any… Read the full story

Here’s why having lots of friends isn’t necessarily a good thing

May 31, 2017, 10:00 pm

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When I joined Facebook, back when access was limited to a handful of universities, the most important thing was not how many likes you got; or how many shares or follows (mainly because the follow button hadn’t been invented yet).

The thing that mattered most was the number of friends you had.

You should never ask your friends for dating advice, and here’s why

Nobody bothered with privacy settings back then; stalkers were positively encouraged as a way of… Read the full story

13 things people who hate surprises know to be true

May 31, 2017, 11:00 pm

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Please can we stop this surprise nonsense? It’s not fun, it isn’t cool and a lot of people simply hate it.

When it comes to the big surprise factor people either love it and secretly wish for a surprise every single day, or they live in a constant state of fear that someone will try spring a dreaded surprise on them.

They are guilty of causing too much commotion and rabble, what is so wrong with simply being in charge of everything going on around you?

1. Not fun

No matter what surprise co-ordinators think they are doing for you, and despite the effort that they are putting in, a surprise is… Read the full story

People who recline their seats on planes are simply the worst kind of people

May 31, 2017, 11:14 pm

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Plane journeys are never enjoyable.

They are a necessary evil to whisk you away on holiday, or take you home to humdrum reality.

You are cramped in a small metal tube with a group of strangers, hoping that this hunk of metal stays up in the air by whatever witchcraft is keeping it there.

11 ways children always ruin holidays (so you might as well leave them at home)

But there is one group of people, one selfish group of people, who make a plane journey 10 times worse – they are the people who choose… Read the full story

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Please don’t put wasp nests in your vagina

May 31, 2017, 11:57 pm

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We’ve previously ranted about Etsy allowing people to sell unhealthy, benefit-free, potentially dangerous products for vaginal ‘health’.

There were the detox balls. The tightening sticks. Yoni oil.

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But we reckon this one takes the cake – purely because it sounds so truly absurd that we can’t believe Etsy is allowing the product to be listed.

Surely, selling wasp nests to insert into the vagina is too far, even for chill, ‘sell whatever!’ brand Etsy.

Alas, no.

A seller called HeritageHealthShop was able to… Read the full story

Cold brew coffee ice cream is here and it looks magical

June 1, 2017, 12:59 am

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When summer hits, cold coffee is an absolute delight.

It wakes us up while ticking off the whole ‘I am sweating all over and wish to fill my insides with ice’ need.

Cold brew coffee ice cream, therefore, is even better – because it ticks both of those boxes and adds in a new one: the joy of an ice cream cone.

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Dominique Ansel, the same mind behind the cronut, cookie shots, and those marshmallows that bloom in hot chocolate, has just unveiled cold brew coffee soft serve… Read the full story

Fitspo star photoshops her own body to show how unrealistic pictures of perfect models are

June 1, 2017, 1:09 am

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Instagram can be a great source of fitspiration.

Follow enough of the right people, and you can be persuaded into joining a running club, encouraged into going to the gym, inspired to eat clean.

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But being bombarded with pictures of perfectly slender, plump arsed models can also make you feel sh*t. After umpteen months of squatting and eating salad, you still don’t look like them. You’ve failed.

Which is why one fitspo star has started photoshopping her own pictures and comparing them to the real thing – to prove how ridiculous doctored images can be.

Psychologist… Read the full story

This 82-year-old woman just got her first tattoo

June 1, 2017, 1:40 am

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They say it’s never too late to try something new.

And 82-year-old June Bright is living proof.

A Charlie and the Chocolate factory makeup palette is coming soon and it looks sweet

The grandma has just got her first tattoo – dedicated to her late husband, Derrick.

The idea came to June after she spotted a tattoo of poppies on the wrist of her 79-year-old friend.

After that, she persuaded her granddaughter Naomi to take her to have the procedure done.

June met Derrick when she was just 13-years-old and the two became childhood sweethearts. They spent 53 years together before Derrick died in… Read the full story

A wonderful place in Australia lets you send people Nutella filled doughnut bouquets

June 1, 2017, 2:06 am

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Giving someone a bouquet of flowers is a lovely gesture, but do you know what’s better? Food. Delicious, wonderful food.

We’re not talking about stringing together some Mars Bars, to be clear.

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We’re talking big, fancy food bouquets – food bouquets that are much more exciting than those fruit arrangements.

A company called Dessertboxes in Sydney, Australia, sells all kinds of boxed edible goodies.

Boxes of cronuts filled with Smarties and chocolates. Doughnut six-packs. And their best sellers: the Nutella box and the Nutella Doughnut Bouquet.

Yes, what you’re imagining… Read the full story

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June 1, 2017, 2:42 am

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Most women stop breastfeeding their infants within months of giving birth.

But there are some who continue doing so even after their kids have started nursery.

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And Lacey Barratt is going around photographing them in order to start an open discussion into why we find breastfeeding toddlers so uncomfortable.

She breastfeeds her own toddler and says that she obviously doesn’t do so for her own pleasure.

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Dedicated stray dog gets rescued and lands a job on the police force

June 1, 2017, 2:49 am

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Listen pup, wrongdoers. There’s a new dog on the force and he deals with any and all situations with the necessary ruffness.

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Once upon a time, Azul was a stray struggling to survive out in the Suba district of Bogota, Columbia.

Scared and alone, he may not have been able to keep going for much longer.

Thankfully he was rescued.

Military reservist Nicolas Alejandro Walteros found the shnauzer pup and decided to take him in. But rather than giving the dog a free ride and a cosy home, Nicolas decided to give Azul a job… Read the full story

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June 1, 2017, 2:51 am

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Australian tennis star Margaret Court has told Australian airline that she won’t be travelling with them anymore because they condone same-sex marriage.

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After all, she wouldn’t want to condone anything unnatural while travelling above the earth’s atmosphere in a steel reinforced tube full of purified air.

I’m sure Qantas are heartbroken that the homophobic former tennis star intends to travel with other airlines ‘where possible’ and that they’ll probably hate her for all the publicity she’s drummed up for them.

Unsurprisingly, in light of Margaret Court’s comments, fellow tennis star Martina Navratilova has written another open letter (this… Read the full story

Someone wrote a college essay about Papa John’s pizza and it got her into Yale

June 1, 2017, 3:40 am

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A teenager has just been accepted into Yale after penning an application essay about her love for Papa John’s pizza.

Carolina Williams was asked to write about something she loves doing, and so she decided to write an ode to ordering from Papa John’s.

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She waxed lyrical about her love of ordering pizza – the way her doorbell sounds when rung by the delivery guy. The way the pizza smells when it arrives. The way delivery pizza makes her feel.

‘Accepting those warm cardboard boxes at my front door is second nature to me, but I will… Read the full story

London now has a super chilled floating park

June 1, 2017, 3:41 am

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London is a city of stressed out workers who spend most of their time staring at screens or eating Pret sandwiches in stuffy, windowless spaces.

So it’s no wonder that we get massively excited about the tiniest hint of green space.

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Seriously, take a Londoner to Richmond Park for the day and see how peaceful they become. We need that time in nature. We forget that, then remember the magical restorative power of plants and grass once we get among them.

Add a London-y gimmick to the… Read the full story

4 new London bars you should try this June

June 1, 2017, 4:08 am

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London is definitely not short of interesting places to enjoy a tipple.

Some will only offer you a drink once you crack a code, while others will let you sample just about every gin under the sun.

4 new London restaurants you should try this June

But just as you think you’ve been to all of the coolest drinking dens, a few new ones pop up. And yes, some of them are literally pop ups.

So in a new monthly series, Metro.co.uk will be looking at… Read the full story

How good really is your grammar?

June 1, 2017, 4:24 am

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We all like to think that we’re good at grammar. 

It’s one of those things, like driving, that we all think we can do, even if we really can’t.

In truth, grammar is the really boring part of English lessons when you’re at school, so lots of us get past GCSE and then never give a semi-colon another thought.

So, how good actually are you at the language that you consider yourself to be fluent in? Can you tell your affect from your effect? Or are you the kind of heathen who uses multiple full stops in an ellipsis?

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