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Our relationship with the US government is a perplexing one, unceasingly complex and eternally problematic. The powers that be are the American people’s guidepost, a formidable force on the world stage, our pillars without which we could not stand. As citizens, our lives are often in their hands, but are…
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Dogs are man's best friend. There for us in our darkest our to provide comfort and unconditional love, there also in our moments of triumph, to bound along next to us in unbridled joy. In short, dogs are basically the companion we don't deserve, but somehow are able to have,…
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Few things alive on Earth in 2017 are as awe-inducing and fearsome as a 17-foot-long crocodile. Longer than most cars, those prehistoric jaws are built to never let go once they've clamped down on a nice slab of human leg. A 17-foot saltwater crocodile is the biggest Queensland has seen…
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A week ago, category four Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, killing 16 people and leaving millions more in need of help. It is the latest in a string of devastating natural disasters to have wrought havoc in recent weeks, after the unprecedented scenes of flooding in Houston, and brutal tempests…
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Oh, to be rich and famous. Free from the shackles of financial constraint, life would appear to be chock full of sun-soaked vistas, absurdly Instagrammable brunches and red carpet interviews. In short, the stuff of our wildest dreams. Unfortunately, the effervescent glitz and glamour of celebrity is not attainable to…
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Let's start by prefacing how the type of vessel can make or break your enjoyment of a hot beverage. A mug with the perfect diameter to cosily nestle in both hands? Divine. One of those cheap cappuccino cups you get at cafes where you can't stick a single finger through the handle? Aggravating. It's…
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For all intents and purposes, America is a great nation. Hailed as the land of democracy and the home of the ever-ephemeral American dream, in the last century alone, the USA has changed the face of popular culture and technology forever. Certainly, not only has Hollywood provided the world with…
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Would you go on a laconic skydiving date with a woman you've never met before? Well, depends on how badly you want to skydive. Would you write an entire cover letter and resume for it? Uh...no. Well, Emma Vowell got dumped just days before her boyfriend's birthday. He had purchased…
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We've all felt like we've had the weight of the world on our shoulders at some point during our lives, but these three have most likely registered that emotion in a far more literal sense than the rest of us. The burden of public office is a solemn one not…
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When we talk about resentment and societal malaise, so often we conceive of it as a safe, containable force, perhaps the trolling of a few thousand, or a chronic depression, or a toxic online community. And yet, resentment in its purest form has the power to undermine everything you think…
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What do Liz Lemon, Chandler Bing, Dr House and Sheldon Cooper all have in common? Well, they're all characters in TV shows that provide comical relief for viewers. But they're funny not in a slapstick, "Oh I'm so silly everyone laugh at me" kind of way, but rather in a…
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How many ships are lost on the floors of the world's unexplored oceans? Where it's so dark that the bottom of the ocean resembles the outer reaches of space, what exists of our old societies, left abandoned, preserved as if in formaldehyde? Well, over 60 shipwrecks have been photographed in…
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Cheating on a test is always a risky endeavor. For one, if you cheat and do you well, you risk destroying your own relationship to your own work. After all, it if worked to cheat, and others who were honest failed, why not lie and cheat all the time? If…
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Sigh. Do we have to keep going over this? Is it really so amusing to send vulgar messages to women on Tinder that we have to keep talking about them? Why can't we share the lovely messages and high quality banter that other Tinderonis enjoy between them? All we hear…
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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner yesterday died peacefully in his Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills at age 91. The tributes are flowing, and many people have been given a new impression of how much good the porn mogul actually did. As well as making pornography a mass commodity with Playboy magazine,…
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Soccer moms get a bad rap. I mean really, by definition they're just suburban mothers carting around their kids so they can play soccer or some other extracurricular activity. But there's also a kind of stigma looming over them that says these mothers are overprotective about their angel children, regulating…
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Despite the fact that Game of Thrones ended quite a long time ago now, it is still managing to dominate the headlines with new plot lines, fan theories and characters being announced and discussed daily. While fans of the show will now have to wait until 2019 until they find…
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Ah, sex. Most of us do it, covet it or else make colossal life decisions informed by it, yet a great many of us also feel more than a little uncomfortable discussing it. The reasons for this are most likely rooted in deep set taboos established by generations past, and…
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After 91 long years on this planet, Hugh Hefner certainly made his mark. He was celebrated as a sexual revolutionary, criticised as a misogynist, and will almost certainly be remembered as an American icon. Regardless of how we feel about Hef, however, we can't deny that he had a good…
