Grim. According to a study by the London School of Economics, watching Keeping Up With the Kardashians for as little as 60 seconds can make you a worse person by reducing your sympathy for the poor. Research from LSE found that exposure to shows that “glamorise fame, luxury, and wealth accumulation” may bring about anti-welfare and materialistic sentiments, […]

6 years ago

You’re looking for something to watch on Netflix, aren’t you? Watch this. I demand you watch this. I personally demand it. It depends on your level of imagination, of course, but films that exist in a confined, solitary location have the capacity to ramp up the nervous tension to levels you simply don’t get in […]

7 years ago

The man who set himself on fire outside the White House has died, according to police reports. The man, named as Arnav Gupta, was taken to hospital on Wednesday in Washington DC where he died from his injuries. Secret Service officials “responded in seconds” to the incident after Gupta lit himself on fire near the […]

7 years ago

Plastic straws, plastic drink stirrers and cotton buds with plastic stems will be banned from sale and use in Britain by April next year, the UK government has confirmed. Following the ban, food and drink outlets will be unable to display plastic straws or provide them to customers. The move has been in the works […]

7 years ago

FORTY-SIX MILLION DOLLARYDOOS!? TOBIAS! The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has had a shocker lads. Honestly. They rolled out a new $50 banknote in October last year that not only contains fancy polymer technology which prevents counterfeiting but also features Australia’s first female member of parliament, Edith Cowan. Unfortunately, the note also contains the word […]

7 years ago

Decent shout for the weekend? Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film, The Hateful Eight, is now a four-episode mini-series on Netflix. It now also contains 25 minutes of additional footage that wasn’t included in the cinematic release. Great. Fans of Tarantino’s western-themed, parlour-room whodunnit, which stars Samuel L.Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth and Michael […]

7 years ago

The only gift for the kebab fiend in your life.

7 years ago

The Grand National will once again come under review by Aintree and the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) after three horses died during this year’s meeting. Up for Review became the first horse to die in the National since 2012, suffering a fatal injury at the very first fence during the 17:15 main race on Saturday. […]

7 years ago

Thank u, next Ariana Grande is headlining August’s Manchester Pride, her first performance in the city since the 2017 Manchester bombings. 22 people died after her concert at the Manchester Arena was targeted by a suicide attack outside the venue. Ever since, the American singer has developed something of an affinity with the city and […]

7 years ago

Y E S. The long-awaited screen adaption of Philip Pullman’s epic trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, inches ever closer and we now have the very first trailer for the upcoming series airing on the BBC. You’ll perhaps know the series better by the individual titles of the books: Northern Lights (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber Spyglass […]

7 years ago

Army and police officers surrounded the plane after it was forced to land. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from Bangladesh to Dubai made an emergency landing after an ‘attempted hijacking’, according to reports. Shakil Miraj, the airline’s general manager, says army and police officers surrounded the plane after it was forced to land on Sunday at […]

7 years ago

It’s been a good year for cows. And an even better week, as a rogue herd of cows staged an invasion in a local Hong Kong supermarket recently, attacking the fresh produce aisle with all the military precision of the Red Army during the Operation Uranus counteroffensive at Stalingrad. Yeah, sorry, yeah, I have been watching […]

7 years ago

A less than ideal companion for your long haul flight… Airline passengers in Indonesia were given a bit of a scare this week after spotting a 12-inch scorpion crawling out of one of the overhead lockers during a flight from Jakarta to Pekanbaru. The scorpion – known locally as kalajengking – was seen crawling around the […]

7 years ago

A presidential campaign could well be on the cards Idyllwild, which is apparently a real place in California, America, elected Maximus Might Dog Mueller II as its mayor. The landmark election candidates, which took place a few months ago, consisted of 14 (fourteen!) dogs and two cats, for some reason. They are arguably even more distrustful […]

7 years ago

Good news for good boys. The Elon Musk led electric car company Tesla is releasing a new ‘Dog Mode’ on its cars that will keep your doggos and/or puppers safe in the car whilst you are away. They are updating their Cabin Overheat Protection feature they launched in 2016 so it can now keep dogs […]

7 years ago

Unreal. Netflix has released a photo teaser of the upcoming Black Mirror special that is set to drop onto streaming services on the 28th of December. Titled ‘Bandersnatch’, you can find its page already set up on the streaming service, complete with the caption: ‘Be right back.’ The special episode is rumoured to clock in at […]

7 years ago

Who’s excited? Whether it’s the Stormzy Scholarship, winning the Ivor Novello award, releasing his autobiography Rise Up and launching a publishing imprint with Penguin Books or now this, a headline slot at Glastonbury 2019, the #Merky rapper is absolutely killing it. He’s also going out with Maya Jama, which must be nice. That must be pleasant. There […]

7 years ago

A mass shooting has taken place in Thousand Oaks, California A mass shooting has taken place at Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California on one of the venues College nights, attracting students from California Lutheran University and California State University, Channel Islands. Police officers were called at 11:15 pm local time on Wednesday night […]

7 years ago

Goodnight sweet prince Apu Nahasapeemapetilon is being written out of The Simpsons, according to a producer of the long-running show. Whilst Matt Groening, creator of the iconic three-fingered characters, has defended Apu, it appears his time has run out. Hari Kondabolu’s documentary The Problem with Apu firmly put a spotlight on the problematic character, and […]

7 years ago

The next Bond film will almost certainly be Daniel Craig’s last The search rumbles on for a new James Bond, aka 007, the martini-sippin’, tuxedo-wearing, fisticuff-having secret agent with extremely questionable ethics and an entire personality derived from making other people feel like shit. Truly, the Great British hero if there ever was one. Barbara […]

7 years ago

Creepy. One of Stephen King’s most notoriously disturbing novels is coming to cinemas next year in the form of Pet Sematary, a darker than dark meditation on life, death, and whatever the fuck there might be in between. The upcoming film, directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, appears as though it will closely follow the plot […]

7 years ago

Big, big news in the chocolate world So M&Ms have decided to flip the script and launch five new chocolate bars, set to hit shelves – and mouths, and freshly ironed, crisp white t-shirts – this December. The flavours, unfortunately, are nothing new as the Fab Five are: classic milk chocolate, peanut, crispy, mint and […]

7 years ago

Barbara Broccoli, a producer in the James Bond film series, has stated that 007 will “probably” never be played by a woman. Daniel Craig is currently set for his last outing as MI6’s finest in the upcoming film, due out sometime in 2020. The producer did, however, address a real problem in the film industry […]

7 years ago

Selfies… a dangerous, dangerous artform as it happens. Some people don’t like taking selfies, and it turns out it’s a good thing and might just help keep you alive after the news that a staggering 259 people have died taking ‘extreme selfies’ between 2011 and 2017 according to a global study. Researchers at the US National […]

7 years ago

This could have been a very costly error indeed We’ve all messed up in our lives. All of us, at least once, more likely several times, have had a slight blip in our mental processes and have completely – how do you say – ‘fucked it’. The truth is, none of us has ever been […]

7 years ago

Bad news for pub-loving doggos From Monday, glorious value pub chain Wetherspoons will be barring all breeds of dog from its venues. Whilst the pubs have traditionally adopted a no-dogs policy throughout its 40-year history, it is the first that the rule will properly be enforced. Not only this, but pups will not even be […]

7 years ago

How did nobody see this before? Because we were all far too busy basking in the warm glow of early Simpsons, that’s why Despite what you may have heard, and despite what I have tried to argue for many years now, The Simpsons’ golden age (starting and ending somewhere between series 3 and 10 depending on […]

7 years ago

Carbs in a box, come and get your carbs in a box. Let me tell you about a takeaway. Specifically, a takeaway in Scotland. It is called ‘East West Spice’, which, makes little to no geographical sense. But neither does its signature dish: a gigantic box of exclusively beige stodge. Brace yourselves, the meal(s), contains […]

7 years ago

A 20 box just isn’t enough. Ah, the chicken nugget. Just about the only thing you can rely on these days, aren’t they? A beacon of consistency, they’ve never really changed. Nor should they. Nor do they need to. McDonald’s know this, and they know that their current offering of nugs – in portions of […]

7 years ago

This seems like a good use of anyone’s time. You know the scene. The “PIVOT… PIVOT… PIV-OT!” scene from Friends. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be reading this. It’s one of those moments in pop culture that becomes so ingrained in the conscious of the masses that it is now almost impossible to carry something – be it […]

7 years ago

It will be the first time in 15 years he won’t take part.

7 years ago

Friends star Matthew Perry has undergone emergency surgery Perry, 48, was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital on Tuesday evening due to a ruptured bowel. He has reportedly had emergency surgery for the gastrointestinal perforation, which means a hole has formed in part of the gastrointestinal tract (the oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine). […]

7 years ago

“I’ve not just lost my brother but my very best friend.”

7 years ago

There was a 3000% increase despite less sex, smoking and drinking

7 years ago

Game of Thrones star Jason Momoa is set for his first solo outing as Arthur Curry

8 years ago

They haven’t… have they?

8 years ago

Alex has already won the nation’s heart

8 years ago

He took home the £250,000 grand prize on Sunday.

8 years ago

“Gingers are emojis too you know”

8 years ago

Ingenious.

8 years ago

Figures show around 22,000 children now leave Primary School obese

8 years ago

*Cue dramatic music* … and it’s based on a true story

8 years ago

Yes please!

8 years ago

#OnDaddysPecMeat is officially the best hashtag in the history of the entire world

8 years ago

“So glad to see that she has been able to turn her life around”

8 years ago

“That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run”

8 years ago

This is not a drill

8 years ago

He bought the plate a decade ago for £375,000

8 years ago

Somehow nobody on the street has noticed

8 years ago

The dark storyline continues.

8 years ago