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Public transport can be a strange place at times. There's just something about being cooped up in a bus or a train with a bunch of strangers that seems to make some people behave inappropriately. And, if you're ever caught in a situation with a disruptive passenger, the best method…
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Traditional boundaries of gender are being methodically broken down in our modern society. Archaic expectations of how girls and boys "should" behave, or conduct their lives, have been challenged and partially redressed, meaning that the pink-for-a-girl, blue-for-a-boy antiquity of yesteryear is swiftly becoming a quaint memory. As ever with progress…
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Game of Thrones is just the best, isn't it? The HBO fantasy epic has something for everyone. There are tense, fraught political schemes, mystical and magical elements, not to mention gratuitous violence and sex that's helped the show become a bedrock of modern pop culture, leading to an astonishing 38…
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To say that the Church of Scientology has a sketchy reputation would be an understatement. Founded on the science fiction of author L. Rob Hubbard, the church was famously lampooned in South Park, where it was revealed that members actually believe in a galactic conqueror called Xenu who intends to…
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On Sunday October 1st, almost 600 people at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival were the victims of the deadliest shooting in US history. At least 58 of those shot were killed, and a further 527 were wounded, some of them severely. The terrorist behind these heinous actions, Stephen Paddock,…
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Financial gurus, to us millennials, are full of rubbish. Apparently, we're supposed to accept low-paying and unpaid work in order to climb the ranks of a company, but at the same time, we should be investing in the stock market by age 25, saving money for retirement from our first…
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Now I don't know about you, but I have watched enough scary movies to know that history can inspire the most terrifying of stories. Whether we're talking about creepy serial killers of times past or a bloody battle waged in the medieval era, history is always a rich resource when…
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Like all good shows, the best thing about Game of Thrones is its characters. As much as the writing establishes their characteristics, both from the script and the books they're adapted from, it's the actors whose personality brings the characters to life. Getting a shot at playing a random character…
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The Noughties classic The Devil Wears Prada is undoubtedly best remembered for producing our generation's favourite ice-queen, Miranda Priestly. When she wasn't busy terrorising nervous interns, Priestly was the editor-of-chief of the world's most prestigious fashion magazine, Runway. And naturally, she looked fabulous doing so; dressed in head-to-toe black, Miranda Priestly…
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Some things in life are just innately scary. Clowns, spiders and snakes are definitely up there as contenders for the top spot in the creepiness league - but nothing could compare to the horrific doll/wasp nest hybrid posted on Twitter by user @ZombieRiot. In what could easily be a screenshot…
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Have you ever been out in public and come across somebody with a truly horrendous tattoo or piercing? Something so ugly or illegible that you found yourself questioning how it even came to be a permanent feature of someone's body? It happens - and much more often than it should.…
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It's easy to be jealous of models, isn't it? It must be nice to earn a lot of money for being good looking. While the majority of us have to work a boring office job to earn enough money to survive on; models earn a lorry load of cash for…
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Whether you believe in them or not, I'm sure we've all skipped to the back packages of a magazine to check our horoscopes on at least one occasion. Even if it's just for fun, there's something strangely appealing about the idea of our fates being dictated by a few balls…
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For a number of reasons, I find it impossible to do pottery with a straight face. One, my remarkably inflexible sausage fingers mean that every sculpting I attempt ends in hilarious failure. This leads directly to reason two; my lack of skill means I usually resort to making crude and…
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We've all done some bizarre things in our lives. Things that one looks back on and muses, "What on earth was I thinking?". Possibly it was a questionable period of particularly inadvisable fashion choices, maybe it was a situation with a friend or colleague that you wish you had handled…
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When it comes to identity politics, there are some truths that we simply take as gospel - ideas about the way in which we explore issues of gender, sexuality and race which are simply unquestioned. However, this means that our beliefs remain unchallenged. It’s only when academics and political thinkers…
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If you've ever had a peruse through the social media platform Instagram, you'll be familiar with the Millennial generation's obsession with avocados, influencer culture, and creeping sense of wanderlust. Certainly, take a scroll through the picture-sharing app and I can guarantee that you will come across a plethora of pictures…
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What would you do with a million dollars? Go on a round-the-world trip? Buy a house? Invest it all in stocks and shares? For accountancy student Sibongile Mani, the answer was simple: go on a shopping spree. After being mistakenly given 14.1 million Rand (just short of $1.1m) in food…
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An experienced Georgia police officer has been put on leave after footage has unearthed of him telling a woman that she wouldn't be shot because she wasn't black. Cobb County police Lt. Gregg Abbott can be heard on the dashcam video, which has been obtained by WSB-TV, saying: "remember, we…
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