Living in a houseshare can be trying at times, but it’s great being surrounded by a whole group of people who have your back in times of need.
Take, for example, when you get back from the shops to make that bangin’ recipe you saw on the interweb, only to find that you forgot to buy onions.
If you lived on your own, you’d be screwed, but… Read the full story
People are questioning McDonald’s’ advertising attempts after one Londoner came across a sign placed directly outside of a Burger King restaurant.
Scott Reid was passing through Tottenham Court Road, London, when he noticed a not-so-subtle McDonald’s sign strapped to a lamp post opposite Burger King.
The sign indicated that customers looking for some fast food should do a U-turn, and was accompanied with the words: ‘You’ve just passed us’, in what seems like an attempt to prevent potential customers getting their fast food from Burger King instead.
If you don’t know the name Lucinda Chambers, you really should.
She’s worked at British Vogue for 36 years, 25 of which she acted as fashion director (and thus was responsible for a bunch of iconic fashion moments for the magazine).
Back in May, it was reported that she’d quit – just as Edward Enninful signed on to be the new editor-in-chief.
But now, according to a new interview with Vestoj, Lucinda has come out to say that actually, she was fired – and… Read the full story
We shouldn’t be surprised when we see stretch marks in photos.
And yet, when ASOS stopped airbrushing out their models’ tiger stripes, the internet noticed.
Stretch marks are nothing new. They’ve existed for as long as humans have. Seeing them on bikini-clad women shouldn’t be news.
But sadly, the only time we see stretch marks in the media are usually when they’re in a red circle of shame in a women’s magazine.
These magazines might claim that they’re just showing readers that even the most… Read the full story
Tinder becoming a bit tame for you? Struggling to find anyone down to clown the way you are?
Well, you might be interested to learn that there’s a new app in town – designed exclusively for sex fetish enthusiasts.
KinkD has just launched in the UK and it’s already got over 30,000 users who signed up during the beta testing phase.
It’s aim is to ‘make sex life great again’ by allowing people to fulfil their wildest BDSM and fetish fantasies.
For all the people who are leaving their vagina be, letting it do its thing, and not shoving all manner of nonsense up there, we’re sorry. We’re sure it must seem like all we talk about is things that obviously should not be placed into your nether regions.
But the reality is, there are people who are putting jade eggs, balls of herbs, ozone gas, wasp nests, and all other ridiculous things into their vaginas. Hopefully not all at the same time, but you never know.
Attention, attention, any man who’s suggested that a woman shouldn’t be president because she’d make sh*t decisions while on her period, who’s suggsted their female boss is menstruating when they make a decision, or who’d dismissed their girlfriend’s thoughts because there happens to be some blood coming out of her vagina.
Finally, a study is here to smack down the belief that being on her period makes a woman less competent.
Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki analysed 88 menstruating women from… Read the full story
Oi, you, with the penis. You might want to jizz today.
That’s not us being overly invested in your sex life, to be clear. We’re just concerned about your health.
You see, there’s a study making the rounds that suggests that regular ejaculation could protect men from prostate cancer – that’s important, considering prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers for men.
This isn’t the first bit of research to suggest this.
Brands, this is why you need to get more women working for you.
Not for their skills, wit, and talent, obviously,* but because women will be able to instantly recognise when a design looks like a period product.
*That’s a joke. Please hire women for reasons beyond their ability to play ‘spot the tampon’.
Learn this lesson from Swimways, a brand that’s managed to design a pool float that looks just like a giant sanitary towel.
We’re not kidding.
The Aquaria Pasadena pool float has got the same shape as a… Read the full story
It’s normally a bad sign if the crew take you alone off a ship, transport you to the shore and drop you on a deserted beach.
But, thankfully, I hadn’t done anything to upset the captain – I was being carried in a Zodiac inflatable boat to the sunshine island of Amorgos in Greece.
As we bounced across the waves I looked back at our ship, Star Flyer, a traditional square rigger anchored in the bay.
Its huge masts looking… Read the full story
Have you ever watched someone puff on a cigarette and thought how beautiful it looks when they exhale?
No, me either, but then we’re obviously absolute plebs, because an award-winning artist from America has dedicated a whole body of work to smoke.
New York-based Armenian artist Mher Khachatryan is intrigued by the grace he sees in smoke and fire, linking it to the wonder of life and death.
He depicts scenes in smoke created with oil… Read the full story
Rockinghorse Children’s Charity is a Brighton-based charity that raises funds for the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital and their life-saving and cutting-edge medical equipment, while ensuring that children are treated in an environment better suited to their needs.
Alongside supporting ‘The Alex’ (that’s the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital, to be clear), Rockinghorse also support the Trevor Mann Baby Unit, based at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and its sister site, the Special Care Baby Unit at the Princess Royal… Read the full story
I first visited Sri Lanka in 2014. I was only supposed to stay for a couple of weeks, but ended up not leaving for two months.
There was something about the lush palm trees, bathwater-warm ocean and laid-back locals that captured my heart.
Away from the cities, the pace was slow and the lifestyle relaxed. It was just what I needed after a hectic time in India.
I had friends in the tiny, south-coast surf-town of Midigama so headed straight down there and… didn’t leave. We surfed, napped and read books by day, then drank Lion beers by night. I was living my best life.
I went back for a few months earlier this year, and managed to prise myself away from the coast to explore more of the island. Holy hell, I’m glad I’m did. Sri Lanka is the island that truly has… Read the full story
There’s nothing worse than paying an arm and a leg to go to an event, only to find that the bar is also extortionately expensive.
You spend half of your evening queuing for a drink before having to hand over wads of cash for a single G&T – and the rest of the evening is spent soberly wondering how long you can survive in your heels without the numbing help of alcohol.
But one teen has worked out how to get around that particular dilemma at her prom.
By disguising a… Read the full story
You might have heard of people referring to ‘The Clap’ when talking about sexually transmitted infections (STIs). It is a colloquial term for gonorrhoea, a highly contagious STI caused by the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
It is an STI that is easily spread – mainly because those infected with the disease often show no symptoms.
The symptoms that are seen include thick white or yellow/greenish discharge from the vagina or penis, painful and/or increased… Read the full story
If you’re trying to save a bit of cash for your holidays, then you might want to take a leaf out of Amanda Holden’s book.
She’s managed to save over £23,000 in just eight months by eating other people’s leftovers.
No, we’re not talking about the X Factor judge – Amanda, 32, is a former finance worker from Portland, who quit her job to go travelling for a year after feasting on her co-workers’ leftovers.
Known by her former coworkers as the Dumpster Dog, Amanda now blogs about her… Read the full story
A teacher has slammed Benefit Cosmetics after seeing one of their adverts while passing through his local Debenhams.
Josh Key, from Perth, Scotland, spotted the campaign advert on his way to the school where he begins teaching in September – and claims it tells girls that they ‘just need to be pretty’.
The poster shows a young woman having just woken up, holding an alarm clock and looking incredibly tired. Above the picture of the girl reads the message: ‘Skip class not concealer’.
25-year-old Josh said he was upset by the… Read the full story
There’s no denying that the world loves wine.
Someone created wine-infused coffee, a company started selling rosé-scented deodorant and and we all lost our minds over an award-winning £5.99 rosé from Aldi.
An utter, bloody genius even invented a wine bottle that doesn’t drip (hurrah!).
People lucky rich enough to have wine cellars have been feeling superior for decades about their wine storage, but they’ve been 100% usurped from the smug throne by these… Read the full story
Okay people, we have a #TheDress situation on our hands here, and this time, it’s coming to us in the form of Nike sportswear.
If you’re not familiar with #TheDress (and in which case, have you been living under a rock over the past year?), it was basically a confusing phenomenon, as some people saw the dress as being white and gold and others saw it as being blue and black.
As it turns out, the dress was blue and black – and a theory that we… Read the full story
