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When we’re considering what we want from a partner, we tend to think of the big, obvious things: personality, looks, ambition. But what about the little things that reveal far more about someone’s character than the size of their salary. Over on the AskReddit page, Redditor Honeydrizzlex66 asked: ‘What’s something incredibly small someone did that […]
Believe it or not, there’s plenty of good news in the world that deserves celebrating. It’s just that the information economy tends to thrive on sharing the bad stuff. To give positive stories the attention they deserve, Redditor CosmosisJones42 turned to the learned crowd over at r/AskReddit and decided to ask this question about the […]
All the talk this week has been about Donald Trump’s on-off global trade wars, but it’s worth remembering that it’s not just tariffs that he knows nothing about. We mention this after Trump revealed that he doesn’t know the difference between political asylum and insane asylums, as highlighted by @atrupar over on Twitter. Trump still […]
Over on Twitter – no, stick with us, please! – the White House account appears to have embarked on a race to the bottom with Donald Trump. Far from being a platform for diplomatic communication, it increasingly feels like the increasingly unhinged @WhiteHouse has descended into a mouthpiece run by an edgelord intern. Recent posts […]
If you’ve ever tried to move an image in Microsoft Word, you’ll know that even the most minor adjustment can ruin the rest of the document’s layout beyond recognition. And if you don’t know what this pain feels like, TikTok user @jessandquinn is here to show you how it looks in this hilarious clip which […]
Human beings are idiots. We see evidence of it every day, from global trade-destroying tariffs being applied willy-nilly to people spending ridiculous amounts of money on chocolate, just because it came from Dubai. And it turns out we’re utter wallies on a smaller scale too. Redditor HikingOtter asked ‘What’s the dumbest misuse of an object […]

A range of people you wouldn’t know if you passed them on the street are going to live in a house you couldn’t give a toss about, doing things that don’t matter, all for your entertainment, it emerged this morning.
I have spent my entire adult life in professional football, and if there is one thing my career is littered with, it’s people congratulating me on my excellent use of analogies for things I don’t like.
It was either a magnificent example of Trump’s Art of the Deal or it was a humiliating climbdown, the likes of which we’ll never see until Trump does it again, obviously. Either way, Trump’s great global tariffs bonanza turned out to be nothing of the sort, leaving us almost entirely back at where we started, […]
Reddit is a curious place that throws up all kinds of strange and eccentric subjects, opinions and questions. One of these popped up on the AskUK page recently, with user holybloodnoarms asking ‘Why do British tourists smell so good?’ and following their question up with this slightly mysterious story: I’m in a small town in […]