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As you get older – especially if you live in a big city – it’s natural that your friends will scatter.

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Mostly they’ll just move to the suburbs or the countryside so that they can afford to buy a house.

But some of them will take things a step further and emigrate, or go on extended travelling trips.

Last year I saw three of my closest friends leave the county, and another left a couple of years earlier.

I’ve since got one of them back (yay!) but… Read the full story

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Why does your sex drive increase during the summer?

July 21, 2017, 1:05 am

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Have you been getting laid a bit more recently? It might be because Mother Nature is being your wingman/woman.

Our sex drives usually experience a slight bump during the summer months, but why does it happen?

There are a few reasons – some are scientific, while others are… a little more predictable.

More Vitamin D

Cue the jokes about ‘getting the D’…

Done? OK. Vitamin D is in very few foods, but your body can produce it by exposing your skin to sunlight (just don’t get burnt).

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July 21, 2017, 1:15 am

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Here’s some good news to brighten your day.

149 dogs and puppies who were doomed to be killed, butchered, and sold at a meat market in South Korea to make traditional bositang soup, have been rescued from a meat farm by Humane Society International.

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The meat farm is one of many in South Korea, where dogs are killed to make a spicy soup that’s said to boost stamina and virility.

Humane Society International have been working their way around South Korea… Read the full story

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July 21, 2017, 2:00 am

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Ever looked down at your mons pubis and thought ‘ugh, I wish you had the gleam of a ray of sun hitting a crystal’?

‘Course you have.

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And thus, someone has created ‘shades of V’, a highlighter for your undercarriage.

The Shades of V Very V Luminizer does not actually use the words undercarriage, mons pubis, vulva, or vagina, mind you, instead referring to an ambiguous ‘V’ upon which to apply the highlighting, softening, illuminating substance.

The V, The Perfect V explain, is ‘that small triangle we wax, shave,… Read the full story

As the summer holidays begin, 40 thoughts every teacher has on the last day of term

July 21, 2017, 2:06 am

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Close that laptop, whack the chairs on the desks, wave goodbye to that troublesome kid who is moving up to your unfortunate colleague next year and get excited – the summer holidays are here and you can guarantee that teachers will be as excited as the kids. 

As term draws to a close and a long summer stretches out ahead, teachers are suddenly the envy of the rest of the country who will claim bitterly that they get ‘too many holidays’, while also inwardly admitting that they would never in a million years stand in front of a class of students and try and educate them in academics and life.

But take… Read the full story

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July 21, 2017, 3:03 am

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Stretch marks and period stains – not often things we think of as beautiful.

We hide them, buy creams to fade them, crop pictures that show them, and do whatever it takes to avoid them.

This 21-year-old artist turns periods and stretch marks into rainbow works of art

But what if we viewed these things – things that are considered flaws – in a different way?

Artist Cinta Tort Cartró, known as Zinteta, wants to help us do that, by turning periods and stretch marks into rainbow works of art.

A 21-year-old artist from a small town called Torrelles de Llobrega, Cinta recently graduated from the University of Barcelona with a teaching degree – but she’s always loved to create art.

She’s using her work to spread a message of self-love and acceptance.

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July 21, 2017, 3:15 am

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There are calls for London to emulate New York’s hot food ban on public transport, which would forbid passengers to eat hot food on the Tube. 

There are a lot of things I would change about the Tube. Fast and slow lanes for tourists and commuters to separate themselves. A cattle prod for anyone who tries to get on the train before everyone get’s off. ‘I’m hungover, please have pity and give me a seat’ badges.

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But banning the… Read the full story

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July 21, 2017, 4:45 am

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When you’re feeling awful physically, it’s hard enough to justify taking a day off to the voice inside your head.

‘You’re just being lazy,’ it tells you. ‘Everyone will be angry.’

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When you feel rubbish mentally, it feels impossible.

There’s no easy way for you to point to evidence of how you’re feeling, no sniffly nose or cough your boss can hear over the phone, no nipping to the loos to vomit to prompt your deskmate to tell you to bloody well go home, no dodgy takeaway you can blame… Read the full story

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There is absolutely nothing wrong with having ‘burger’ nipples

July 21, 2017, 4:49 am

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I woke up this morning, as is often the case, to a group Whatsapp chat about Kim Kardashian. 

Only in this case, rather than the topic of conversation being her marriage, or whether she’s using a surrogate to have more mini-Kanyes (we’re a very cerebral lot), was her nipples.

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Specifically, the size of her nipples.

‘She’s got burger nips’ one friend commented. I confess, I had to Google the phrase, having managed to live a whole 26 years without ever having heard anyone use it before.

Burger nips, for anyone else who’s… Read the full story

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July 21, 2017, 4:59 am

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Take a deep breath, people, because everything you thought you knew about pasta was a lie.

One strand of spaghetti isn't actually called spaghetti and we had no clue

Well, spaghetti in particular – as it turns out spaghetti isn’t always called ‘spaghetti’ after all. Not if it’s being referred to in a singular strand form, that is.

Twitter user @caroramsey recently discovered that a single strand of ‘spaghetti’ is actually called ‘spaghetto’.

We know, we can’t quite believe it either.

She broke the news with an online dictionary screenshot – and after a quick Google we can confirm she wasn’t making it up.

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July 21, 2017, 5:04 am

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I’ll admit it, I’m a lover of fast food. 

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I know it’s bad for me – and I know most of it’s processed – but I just can’t help myself when it comes to a cheesy pizza or a greasy burger.

I do know however that this sort of food is best eaten in moderation – and so I make sure not to make it more than a fortnightly occurrence.

Though that can’t be said for a bunch of other people, who are so invested in the deliciousness of fast food that they’ve actually had… Read the full story

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July 21, 2017, 6:57 am

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Reading this while eating a speedily bought Boots meal deal at your desk?

You’re part of a nationwide problem.

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According to new research from WorkThere, the average UK worker is taking just 34 minutes of the one hour lunch break they’re allowed.

34 minutes. That’s just over half, and given it’s an average (and there are likely to be a few people taking the full hour to bump it up), there are loads of us who are taking less than that.

That’s not a good thing, to be clear.

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July 21, 2017, 7:04 am

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If you’re single and you haven’t tried online dating yet we’re going to assume you’ve got the fear.

You’re not alone either.

It can be difficult to believe in the claims of websites that they are the most accurate way to find love in the modern world. They are, after all, just words..

Fortunately, the good folk at Match have more up their sleeve than just *words*.

With an app as well as a website, a detailed sign up process (where you can fill out as much or as little as you’d like) and light-hearted additions such as winks Match is easy to use. You can be as involved as you like, at your own pace and be sure that you’re meeting like-minded people.

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July 21, 2017, 7:30 am

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Let’s face it, we all share the same bodily functions. Though we don’t like to admit it, we all burp, we all pass gas, and we all use the toilet for longer than five minutes.

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Of course, most people like to keep that private – and that’s fine.

But one mother couldn’t help but make it public after a recent attendance at yoga saw her running out of the room in embarrassment after accidentally farting in front of the entire class.

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July 21, 2017, 7:33 am

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You can now enjoy a boozy Full English breakfast without actually even having to make an alcoholic drink – as a butcher has come up with his very own range of alcohol-inspired sausages, which include flavours such as pear cider and gin and tonic.

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McCartney’s of Moira has launched the cider and gin flavoured meats to go along with 40 other varieties of alcoholic sausages.

The recently produced cider sausage, which consists of Kopperberg Pear Cider, and the impressive Gin & Tonic Pork Sausage have been designed to capitalise on… Read the full story

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July 21, 2017, 7:54 am

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We were all overjoyed when McDonald’s announced they were going to be rolling out a delivery service across 150 restaurants in 16 UK cities – except, of course, the McNugget fanatics who didn’t quite reach the area code.

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But nonetheless, lots of people were happy – and those same people can get ready to love the fast food chain even more, as it’s recently launched a new clothing line that includes a load of McFoodie fashion items – including an adult-sized onesie that comes absolutely covered… Read the full story

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July 21, 2017, 8:09 am

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It was inevitable, when Jodie Whittaker was announced as the first female Doctor Who, that some people were going to be cross. 

Pleasingly, people generally speaking seemed pleased. It’s almost like the outward gender of a totally fictional alien who flies around in a police call box doesn’t need matter that much.

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But, as with anything in life, there always has to be fly in the ointment, or rather lots of little flies who live on the internet and complain. Various unfunny jokes about Doctor Who becoming… Read the full story

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July 21, 2017, 8:00 am

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Ah Bristol (or Brizzle if you become a bit of an adopted Bristolian), you’ve been the city of dreams for many a young student.

You’re home to two universities (though everyone knows which one is better*), countless bars and restaurants, and plenty of community spirit.

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You’ve got international festivals, a thriving and varied music scene and, of course, Banksy.

Perhaps that’s why more than a handful of students have stayed on after their degrees to become locals – and it’s no wonder that, at times, your… Read the full story

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July 21, 2017, 8:20 am

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If you like wine (who doesn’t) and you particularly like English wine, then read on.

This weekend, Hampshire is celebrating its successful wine-making industry with the Vineyards of Hampshire wine tasting festival – and we have two pairs of tickets to give away.

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We went to satisfy our soul food urges at Chicken Society and we weren’t disappointed

July 21, 2017, 8:25 am

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So you’re in the city and you’re looking for a place to get your food on, but you’re fed up with the same chain restaurant, pub food and don’t want to take a gamble at an expensive new restaurant – well, that search soon turns the pleasures of eating out into a chore.

I know that feeling.

But then my colleague Ella and I were summoned to a place by the name of Chicken Society in order to satisfy our love for ‘soul food’.

Here’s what happened next.

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