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Every now and again, you hear horror stories on the news, seemingly designed to make people freak about nationwide panics that are overblown at best, and completely made up at worse. Remember those rumours about rainbow parties, or about how there were people out there sneaking razorblades in children's candy…
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Food is great, isn't it? Keeps us all alive, I hear. When you cook it in your own kitchen, it's pretty great, giving you a sense of pride, but there's nothing like going out in your nicest clothes, paying a chef to make your dinner for you. Try it sometime…
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Even if we're not particularly driven, ambitious or even talented, I think that one thing we can all do with our lives to make them more successful is to try to leave the world a better place for our sons and daughters. That could mean taking the time to help…
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As my arrest and subsequent upcoming trial for identity theft shows, it's really not easy being Kate Beckinsale. Whether she's starring in the Pearl Harbor movies, standing around confused in the Underworld movies or taking on the impossible task of feigning attraction to Adam Sandler in the 2006 movie Click,…
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A 24-year-old man has admitted to stealing his dead neighbour’s bank card and going on a shopping spree with it, in the process keeping her passing secret for over two years. Robert Sharkey, from Grays Hill in Bangor, Wales, was accused of breaking into elderly neighbour Marie Conlon’s house all…
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If you're going out for a big meal, you know that diving right into your main course is a great way to signal to the rest of the table that you're a huge amateur a. The best way to eat a ton of food in one gloroious is to start…
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Xavier Cunningham was just your average boy from western Missouri, playing with his friends, when one Saturday afternoon, he took an unfortunate fall. Xavier was with his friends in a neighbour's house, when they tried to climb into a treehouse that happened to house a wasp's nest. One of those wasps…
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When you're a young restaurant business desperately trying to stay afloat, the word of a renowned critic can be the thing that makes or breaks your future in the culinary business. I've only watched the first 15 minutes of that Jon Favreau movie Chef, but public opinion can change in…
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I don't know about you guys, but I've tried a lot of things to get Ryan Gosling to show up at my place of employement, but nothing's ever worked. Tweeting at him, e-mailing his publicist, showing up uninvited at his house late at night, begging a judge to overturn a…
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While I have plenty of time for a burger, steak or even chicken nuggets, in my opinion, there's nothing like a good bit of ham to break the meat monotony. It's salty, delicious, and can be enjoyed with a variety of cheeses, sauces for a very sophisticated yet sloppy eating…
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As they say, all's fair in love and war, and when you're deep in the heat of battle, it's not unnatural to want to throw everything at your opponent, hoping to gain even the slightest advantage in your pursuit of victory. What I'm not trying to say, however, is that throwing hot…
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While I was a young college kid who probably could've been a bit smarter with his money, I spent a lot of time in Subway. There was one right at my student union, and even though I could probably make a sandwich on my own for a lot less money,…
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Kids these days may have Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and any and all email clients, but if you ask me, there's nothing that beats a good old handwritten letter. Eschewing all that technological mumbo jumbo, you've got the chance to take out a bit of physical paper, with your hand cramping…
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Last week, we had one of those corporate promotion snafus that we so love to talk about, and weirdly enough, they all seem to be coming from Russia. Fresh from telling their women to steal sperm from professional footballers at this year's World Cup for free Whoppers, Domino's in Russia…
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Although everybody has the right to eat out, there have been plenty of recent examples of people being refused service for reasons you could describe as "pretty justified". But these decisions are usually made case-to-case, and that's for good reason; if you're making blanket judgements about who you won't serve,…
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Vital to fuelling the mind of many a growing teen, it's really important that children get to take a little bit of time for their lunch for some good old-fashioned grub. But when your sandwich-making skills aren't quite up to scratch or if your kid is a fan of hot…
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I don't know about you, but I think that everybody should work a job in retail at some point. It's not the most glamorous or lucrative of jobs, but it keeps you grounded, and allows you to pick up some underrated people skills, not least the ability to handle all…
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We've all been there. Trudging home on a Friday night, your ears still ringing and your head still spinning from the festivities that occurred that day, you feel that rumbling in your stomach, and in that moment, you immediately regret not heading to that McDonald's and ordering 40 chicken nuggets.…
