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Life is full of seemingly unavoidable rites of passage: going to school, getting a job, paying taxes… However some things aren’t as compulsory as they appear. And just because everyone else mindlessly goes along with them doesn’t mean that you have to as well. To find out which things you’re free to skip, Objective-Treat2245 put […]

There’s no doubt that Elon Musk‘s ‘Grok’ AI has become increasingly allied to the right of politics recently, a fact pretty much acknowledged by Musk himself when he updated the system prompts so they “should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect.” Not only has Grok been given free-rein to be politically […]

Anyone who has ever clicked on a listicle with a title that promises something along the lines of ‘Number five will blow your mind!’ will be aware that clickbait works, despite the the fact we all know that our minds will, in fact, not be blown. It’s just so hard to resist. But what if […]

Getting drunk tends to follow a familiar pattern for most of us, which starts out with high-spirited fun, meanders through oversharing with strangers, stops off at feeling a bit sick, veers into falling asleep and then you wake up the next day with the dreaded hangxiety. But some people also have what they believe to […]

No matter how low Donald Trump sets the bar, you can be sure he will limbo under it. Well, not limbo, obviously, more like slither, and he has surely never slithered as low as this (at the time of going to press) while taking questions from the members of the press. It’s one woman journalist […]

Unless you’re an Imelda Marcos type of person, you probably don’t pay all that much attention to your shoes. But you should, because they daily save you from a litany of painful and/or disgusting experiences. They’ve been discussing the awful things we can put our feet in or on on the AskUK subreddit after user […]

Adulthood has its swings and roundabouts and its ups and downs. And it also has some almighty big surprises that they just don’t tell you about when you’re a kid. They’ve been discussing these shocks – good and bad – on the AskReddit page after user Goddessblack_ posed this question: ‘What’s something that no one […]

The MAGA crowd are again singing the praises of their Dear Leader, Donald Trump, for his absolute genius move of signing an Executive Order which eliminates tariffs on steaks, the most MAGA of meats. And now those juicy steaks are going to be more affordable thanks to Trump and his love for the citizens of […]

The festive culture wars take many forms, and it’s not just people’s fury – not always Reform UK-ers, just a lot of the time – that certain things don’t scream ‘Christmas!’ at them loudly enough. But this was a new one on us, after ‘Sir James Britain’ – no more intel required – shared this. […]