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A jaded man’s attempt to give up sarcasm for Lent is going REALLY well, it has emerged.
Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ has been and gone and the president’s love of tariffs has proved just as cataclysmic as people who understand this sort of thing (so not Trump) had predicted. While stock markets tumble around the world and the very real prospect of a generational global recession looms over the horizon, no-one summed […]
It’s a measure of how badly Donald Trump’s tariffs have affected the US stock markets that Fox News has left the tracker off their screens, and is studiously playing the ‘Look, a squirrel!’ card on their website. Harris Faulkner’s Fox News show has been on for 20 minutes now. She has not mentioned tariffs or […]
The world of work can sometimes feel like it’s stacked against employees, but that isn’t necessarily the case. While bosses hold a position of authority, it seems that their position isn’t as secure as it appears. That’s if the answers to a recent workplace question posed by No-Nerve6154 over on Reddit are anything to go […]
It’s life’s simple pleasures that matter, we are so often told – the smile on the face of a baby, the silent majesty of sunrise, the gentle trickling of a stream. However, a new study has revealed that these simple so-called pleasures are actually vastly overrated and nowhere near as good as going on a […]
A colony of penguins have hit back at Donald Trump’s tariffs on the Heard and McDonald Islands by imposing their own retaliatory 10% tariffs on all imports from the US.
We don’t pretend to be experts on the US economy, but even our untrained brains can grasp that the stock market reactions to Trump’s sweeping tariffs have been undesirable. And we’re only saying “undesirable” because ‘fucking horrendous’ wouldn’t be very professional. Let’s take a look. Allow me to be the first to congratulate President Trump […]
We all like to exaggerate a little from time to time, talking up our achievements to make ourselves seem more impressive. However, some people take it so far into the realms of fantasy that it becomes embarrassing for everyone. Over on the AskUK subreddit, user Woody-Pieface asked ‘What is the best ‘Jay from Inbetweeners’ level […]
Have you ever noticed someone do something quietly odd and had your suspicions? Well, you’re not alone. It seems that lots of small, everyday actions have aroused suspicion. And Redditor LaksaLoco provided people with an outlet to discuss these social infractions by posing this question to the folks over at r/AskReddit. ‘What mundane activities are […]
A seemingly innocent, 15-second video has been baffling the Internet. Would-be cooking streamer and self-styled digital creator Asta Bush posted a clip to her Twitter followers a day or two back. And despite – or perhaps because of – its brevity, it has knocked Twitter into a right old tizzy. In the clip, Asta stands […]