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If you grew up somewhere, the tedious familiarity of it probably makes you think it’s the most boring place on earth. However, when you dig a little deeper into the history of your hometown, you’re likely to find some absolutely fascinating history, something we’re blessed with an abundance of on these very old, and somewhat […]

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time, as the old saying goes, and anyone who has spent several blissful hours mindlessly binging their favourite TV show will heartily agree. However, while vegging out in front of the box is definitely therapeutic relaxation, there are some activities that genuinely are squandering precious seconds of our […]

Over on TikTok, this little experiment by @vlogcast went hugely viral back in 2022, and with people watching it over and over – we’re not a bit surprised. This is a hell of a way to water the grass. @vlogcast Armstrong! 😱 ♬ original sound – Vlog Cast Strong Violet Beauregarde vibes – for those […]

‘In space, no-one can hear you scream.’, claimed the Alien tagline. But Ridley Scott hadn’t heard NASA’s recording of the black hole that sits in the Perseus galaxy cluster. YouTube users were suitably chilled by the sounds from more than 200 million light years away. A black hole is probably one of the scariest things […]

If you want a snapshot of where the UK finds itself right now – not all the UK, obviously, but large parts of it – then look no further than this appalling exchange captured by Sky News. It’s an interview which was hijacked by these passers by who felt no shame in bellowing exactly what […]

Like us you probably haven’t come across this social media account called @britishunityuk. Despite its name, it appears to hark after ‘unity’ only for a very specific type of person (you can probably guess), not least those people who are enthusiastically ‘raising the flag’ of St George all over the place right now. And we […]

After enough heartbreaks to fuel 11 original studio albums since 2006, Taylor Swift is engaged to be married to long-term boyfriend, American football player Travis Kelce. The couple announced the news via an Instagram post, which, in just five days, has amassed a whopping 35.7M likes, making it the 9th most liked post on the […]

As the ‘Raise the Flag’ movement continues to gather momentum, more and more of the terminally gullible are taking to the streets to hoist their made-in-China Union Flags and St. George’s Crosses from lampposts and motorway overpasses in a blatant display of patriotism/xenophobia. It’s not just flags, of course. They’re defacing mini roundabouts and scrawling […]

If you’d made inventing something your life’s work, and then it turned out that people successfully used it for a different purpose than you’d intended, would you mind? It’s hard to say, but a lot probably depends if you’d made a lot of money out if it regardless. They’ve been chatting about things that are […]

A video produced by “& Co.” for the Danish Road Safety Council in 2022 showed the importance of wearing helmets, but used humour and Vikings to get the message across. There can’t be many things that aren’t automatically better with humour and Vikings. It’s called ‘A helmet has always been a good idea’. The ad […]