Would could possibly go wrong?
London’s latest niche pop-up is a bar where you can drink while hammering nails into logs.
It’s in Stoke Newington. Naturally.
This fun new game actually comes from Germany and is known as hammerschlagen. Each player is assigned a nail. Each player’s turn consists of a single swing at their nail with the wedge end of the hammer. To win, you must be the first player to get the head of the nail flush with, or below, the surface of the wood.
Let’s be real, actually managing to raise a kid is the real superpower.
Raising Dion is a new comic book from Dennis Liu, that takes a look at the unsung heroes in classic superhero stories – the people raising them.
The story follows seven-year-old Dion as he learns how to use his powers – invisibility, telekinesis, and plasma powers. So far, so classic comic stuff.
But this time, Dennis Liu tells the narrative from the perspective of the woman raising the superhero: Dion’s single mum, Nicole.
Nicole doesn’t have any supernatural powers, other than that classic mum ability to always magically know what her son is up to.
Faith – and one elderly man’s roof – restored.
After David Perez from Fremont, California, spotted an elderly neighbour two doors down attempting to fix his own roof, he made a plea for help on Facebook. And, that weekend, 20 complete strangers answered the call.
David wrote on his Facebook page: ‘I’m trying to reach anyone that has roofing experience. So please share this. I have a neighbor, the man on the roof in this picture, name unknown. He is about 80 years old and climbs onto the roof trying to finish putting the shingles on by himself.’
Yes, we know, food art is everywhere.
But guys, this time it’s different.
Ioana Vanc isn’t using a boring old plate for her canvas, she’s using a spoon.
Vanc is a Romanian architect and uses her fine technical skills to make perfect mouthfuls of art.
Not that we could bring ourselves to eat them.
Sometimes she takes our favourite icons from popular culture like Kermit or Batman.
Other times she creates a whole world inside a silver spoons with landscapes filled with intricate animals.
Whatever Vanc turns her hand to, it’s bite sized perfection.
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Miley Cyrus’s stint at hosting the VMAs has still got people talking. But not for the reasons she was hoping.
Cami James and Nadia Napreychikov, the two Australian designers behind fashion label Di$count Universe (also known as DU), claim that the outfits worn by Miley Cyrus and her back-up dancers for their VMAs performance were ripped off from their designs.
In case you missed all the bonkers stuff Miley wore throughout her hosting gig, her final appearance on stage saw Miley singing her new single ‘Dooo It’ with a team of drag queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race, all wearing brightly coloured glittery leotard type things with statement eye motifs.
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As hobbies go, reading isn’t one of the most sociable ones – but it is one of the most rewarding. After all, throwing yourself into a good book is the only way you’ll get to live a life other than your own.
If you’re a big reader, you’ll probably share these experiences.
You’re suspicious of anyone else who claims to read a lot
Define your interpretation of ‘a lot’.
When you’re in the middle of a good book, it feels more real than the real world
Especially when your real life is going through an exceptionally dull phase.
You have a permanently sore neck from staring down at a book
If only someone invented a contraption that allowed you to strap… Read the full story
So that’s it. It’s over. The relationship you thought was forever, the love you thought was ‘the one’, the life you had mapped out – gone.
Suddenly you’re being catapulted back to single life and while it seems every human being in the whole wide world is getting engaged and settling down, you have found yourself going back on the market – entering the dating scene all over again.
And, as all of us heart broken people will know, in times of a break up we find solace in a variety of confidants – colleagues, best friends, friends of friends, parents, siblings, cousins, aunts, woman on the train…the list is endless. You turn to whoever will listen (without judging) to… Read the full story
Want to know if you’re as young at heart? We mean literally.
Thanks to a handy, although slightly terrifying, heart risk calculator created by America’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, now you can get a good idea how old your heart is.
You just need to know your BMI, your age (hopefully, you’ve got that down), and your average systolic blood pressure (that’s the top number on your reading – so anything between 120 and 140 is considered normal).
Click here to get your not-so-magic number.
The CDC decided to create its calculator after a study of half-a-million American adults, aged between 30 and 74, found that 40 per cent had hearts that were five or more years… Read the full story
Proof that giant slides will always be fun, no matter your age.
Jean Hazewinkel is a 96-year-old woman from Minnesota. A 96-year-old woman who’s crazy for slides.
Seriously, she loves sliding. She has a longstanding tradition of heading to the annual Minnesota State Fair, for one joy-filled reason: to ride the giant slide.
‘Every time I come to the fair I go down the slide,’ she told KSTP.
She also shares that her favourite fair food is a nice chocolate malt.
Truly inspiring.
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Being a teenager is hard, but being a transgender teenager is almost impossible to live with.
In the UK, a survey carried by LGBT mental health charity Pace showed that 48.1% of trans* people under the age of 26 had tried to commit suicide.
The same tragic statistics are found in America, where the Youth Suicide Prevention Program reports more than 50% of transgender youth attempt suicide by the age of 20.
Mashable has looked at the lives of America’s transgender teens to see why those statistic are so high in an incredibly moving video, which shows teens talking to their future selves about their hopes and troubles.
‘Why are you still single?’
Because I’m a complete liability after a few drink, because nobody fancies me or because I choose to be.
One of the above statements is true (Ok, maybe two – clue, s**t loads of people fancy me) but, try as they may, people still find it hard to grasp that a person would be single through choice.
Well, grasp it, people – because here’s news, I’m single and I totally love it.
Make no mistake, dating rocks too.
The initial connect, the first date, chatting for hours in the corner of a cosy pub, snogging on the way home, getting to know someone and sharing my time (and bed) with someone ‘special’ – it rocks and I wouldn’t turn down… Read the full story
Forget calorie content, doctors are telling us to look at the overall nutrition of our food instead.
In an article in Open Heart, researchers have recommended a high-fat Mediterranean diet as the best way to combat obesity and heart diseases.
With obesity costing the NHS over £5 billion a year, they’re recommending we make substantial changes to our diet rather than quick fixes advocated by the weight loss industry.
They wrote: ‘Shifting focus away from calories and emphasising a dietary pattern that focuses on food quality rather than quantity will help to rapidly reduce obesity, related diseases and cardiovascular risk.’
Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean you can start stuffing your face with everything as long… Read the full story
Quick trip to Australia, anyone?
Melbourne is about to welcome its first pop-up store dedicated entirely to Nutella, serving special Japanese-style bento boxes of Nutella filled treats.
Each bento box will include a Nutella and peanut butter S’more, a Nutella salted caramel truffle, and a Nutella and maple syrup tart with smoked hickory Italian meringue.
They’ll only be selling 500 of the boxes, with each one costing $10. Plus there’s the cost of a plane ticket, but hey. It’s peanut butter and Nutella S’mores. Worth it.
It’s not that we don’t like people, it’s just that sometimes it’s too tiring to be around others all the time and we seek to avoid human contact and interaction.
Do you recognise any of these things?
Here’s 14 signs you’re not a people person.
1. Going out of your way to ignore someone you know who you’ve just seen in the street because you’re not in the mood for a conversation.
2. Spending your day off alone with your pet because they totally get you more than any human ever will.
3. You spend so much time watching Pretty Little Liars that the PLL Girls are all your real besties.
4. Phoning your favourite restaurant to order a meal to take away because you can’t possible sit in a restaurant with other humans.
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Want to start doing daily affirmations to boost your self-esteem, but feel like saying ‘I am kind, beautiful, and smart’ is a bit braggy? And ‘today I will be brilliant’ is just absurdly optimistic?
You’ll just need some more modest, self-deprecating affirmations, trading in that self-love LA vibe for the ‘I’m alright sometimes, I guess’ attitude us Brits are known for.
Because really, you’re looking in a mirror and talking to yourself. No need to be so full of yourself.
Say these enough and you might actually consider yourself an alright human being. Hooray.
1. Sometimes, my outfits actually go together in a way that doesn’t look scruffy or too try-hard.
2. My cups of tea do not fill my co-workers with disappointment and dread.
3. I actually remember to bring my umbrella out with me when I need it. Occasionally.
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War and peace, in tiny soldier form.
A lot of people tend to think that yoga is girly – mostly enjoyed by skinny blonde women who also enjoy green juices and casually discussing their colonics. But it doesn’t have to be.
Yoga can be bad-ass. It can be used for fitness and strength. It’s for athletes, people who hate most exercise, and holistic super healthy people.
Basically, It can be enjoyed by anyone and everyone who wants to find a moment of peace.
That’s the message behind Yoga Joes.
Candles: for relaxing, romance, and regretting all your life decisions while you weep by candlelight.
South Korean design company The Jacks have created a Kickstarter campaign for a seriously depressing set of candle holders, that weep hot, scented wax as you burn the candle inside.
You know, for your inner emo kid. Or for when you want to add some ambiance to your solo crying seshes.
Whatever you fancy, really. A crying skull, bunny, sheep, or deer is appropriate for every occasion.
The candles that go inside the holders are a little emotionally heavy too, with the option of a wax brain, bunny ears, or antlers.
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Les Baker’s photography series ‘Inebri-Nation’ shows the experience of taking drugs with incredible intensity.
Seriously, look into their eyes.
Their eyes tell a terrifying story of a thousand words.
Baker waits until participants are reaching their ‘peak’ on different substances from alcohol to crack cocaine before taking his shot.
Baker then manipulates each image and overlays other pictures to symbolise the drug.
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Mental illnesses often get ignored, or aren’t taken as seriously as they should be, because they don’t always come with physical symptoms.
So, to draw attention to mental illness like OCD, body dysmorphia and bipolar, UK artist Toby Allen has drawn them as monsters, complete with evil superpowers.
‘I want to make people aware of how damaging these illnesses are and how much of a burden they can be to those who suffer from them,’ he explains of his Real Monsters project.
In what is possibly the biggest work related cock-up ever, a guy has sent an unsolicited dick pic to his future HR manager.
The 23-year-old from Illinois had just been accepted for a new job before the incident occurred.
Unfortunately, when sending a dick pic to celebrate, he accidentally got the wrong number.
And what does one do when a dick pic has gone by without comment?
Why send another, of course.
Yeah, the HR… Read the full story
