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Jeff Bezos, the brain behind Amazon.com, owns top media companies like The Washington Post, top food companies like Whole Foods, and can sell you virtually any entertainment, from books to streaming television, that your heart desires. With tendrils in media, food and retail, Amazon resembles a grand sky-octopus suspended over…
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The destruction that Hurricane Harvey has inflicted on the Texas Gulf Coast has been unprecedented. Despite being referred to as the most powerful storm to hit the mainland U.S in 12 years, the scale of the damage that Harvey wrecked upon the southern states of Texas and Houston has surpassed…
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Well folks, the wall-to-wall coverage of Game of Thrones monomania will be suspended until 2019. But before then, I've got one last nail to hammer. So, the season finale just aired last night, and massive spoilers are incoming. (MASSIVE SPOILERS) There were so many memorable moments. Littlefinger collapsing into speechless…
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As I'm sure you're all aware, the city of Houston, Texas, is currently in the midst of its worst storm on record. There has been a record high of 30in (75cm) or rain in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, with many of the roads that run through the city turning…
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In a world where our physical appearance is seemingly prized over anything else, it's hard not to feel the pressure to fit society's expectation of what is considered "beautiful". Popular culture, whether it be in the form of television, films or magazines, constantly bombards us with retouched images of flawless…
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Novelty t-shirts are usually pretty rubbish, aren't they? You've got the classic FBI t-shirt (which if you don't know what that is, just look it up), or you've got other classics such as "I'm with stupid" which literally nobody finds funny. I always think it takes a certain type of…
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While the jaded people of the world consider themselves to have stone-cold hearts, rendering them impervious to picture-perfect portrayals of love seen in Hollywood films and soap-operas, I have seen many a self-confessed "cold hearted" people reduced to tears after witnessing a particularly moving proposal. Just take one scroll through…
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As much as we envy their lives a lot of the time, sometimes I reckon being a celebrity must be pretty annoying. Unlike you or I, celebrities can't go about their day without anyone noticing. Imagine that every time you pop out to the shops, someone stops you for a…
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Here's the thing: I can't recall what I had for breakfast this morning, but I can remember the exact moment that I was unfairly given a detention during a physics lesson eleven years ago - right down to the teacher's smirk and that stupid red tie he always wore. Yes,…
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Caitlyn Jenner landed herself in some hot water on Saturday night after she was confronted by a trans woman over her continued support of Donald Trump despite his seemingly "anti-trans" stance. The reality star, 67, was attending the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles when she was confronted by an angry…
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Some people say that getting married makes you feel like you're on top of the world. This was almost certainly true for James Sissom and Ashley Schmieder, who tied the knot earlier this year on Mount Everest, the planet's highest peak. After nine months of training and preparation, eight days of hiking,…
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Parents: you gotta love 'em, right? Though they may have made our lives a living misery during our adolescent years, we all eventually overlook the resentment and trauma in favour of the largely-upheld conviction that our parents "only want the best for us" at the end of the day. Once…
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Body-positivity bloggers are a growing trend across social media sites such as Instagram, and appear to constantly be in a feud with the company over their guidelines regarding what can and can't be published on the site. Instagram has fairly strict rules when it comes to nudity on the website,…
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Whether you enjoy it at a restaurant, at home in front of a movie, or straight out of the fridge in the morning after a heavy night, pizza is always there for you. More than just a foodstuff - pizza is a treat, a comfort, an old friend. Some may…
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Well, that was a bit disappointing wasn't it? I mean, we all knew how the fight would go down, but you couldn't help feeling a bit let down by it all. Yes, Conor McGregor took Floyd Mayweather to round 10, which no one was really expecting, but it never seemed…
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A teenage boy has died at Reading Festival in circumstances that are being treated as "unexplained". The 17-year-old boy was pronounced dead around 2am on Monday morning after emergency services rushed to a tent in the campsite of the music festival. Whilst the teenager has yet to be formally identified, Thames…
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Based on my own personal viewing history, there are very few shows that have got me frustrated enough to start yelling at the screen. Buffy the Vampire Slayer got me riled up a few times, and I'm sure I've hurled a multitude of insults at Ross from Friends on several…
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Around the world, people are still in shock at the tragic passing, the founder of the iconic Playboy Magazine and main tenant of the fabled Playboy Mansion. Playboy Enterprises announced earlier today that Hugh Hefner had passed away of natural causes at the Playboy Mansion. He was 91 years old.…
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"Have you tried turning it off and on again?" These are the fateful words which so many people have had to dispense to those in their hour of need. Whether it's your mum composing every text with her little finger or your granddad calling the police on the sat nav,…
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It's only logical that prolific writer and wizard enthusiast J.K. Rowling would be fairly good at Twitter. But where she would usually have thousands of words to play with, here she has only 140 characters. Yet she has managed to master the medium and bring some level-headedness to the largely unregulated…
