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Only People Born Before 1980 Can Name These Vintage Items From The Last Century

Some of these inventions are wild. View Entire Post ›

31 minutes ago

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Only People Born Before 1980 Can Name These Vintage Items From The Last Century

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8 Famous People Who Changed Their Names For Hollywood, And 8 Who Absolutely Refused To

"If you can pronounce 'Saoirse,' as in Saoirse Ronan, if you can make the effort to learn a Caucasian name, then you can make the effort to learn a South Asian name as well." View Entire Post ›

2 hours ago

Buzzfeed

8 Famous People Who Changed Their Names For Hollywood, And 8 Who Absolutely Refused To

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25 People Are Sharing Eerie, Unexplainable Moments From Their Lives That Will 99.999% Make A Shiver Run Up Your Spine

"Thanks to the voice in my head, I am alive today." View Entire Post ›

3 hours ago

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25 People Are Sharing Eerie, Unexplainable Moments From Their Lives That Will 99.999% Make A Shiver Run Up Your Spine

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Brigitte Bardot's death means only three people mentioned in Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire' are still living

Someone especially famous always seems to die at Christmas, and just when we thought it wasn't going to happen this year, Brigitte Bardot died aged 91. We mention it not only because she was a true icon (who later embraced far right politics, we're only just finding out) but because her passing necessitated ...

1 hour ago

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Brigitte Bardot's death means only three people mentioned in Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire' are still living

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People have been sharing the simple rules everyone should follow that would make the world a better place – 17 commandments ...

Laws and social contracts are doing a semi-decent job of keeping society in check, but as with everything there’s always room for improvement. At some point though everyone has thought up a rule that would improve the overall quality of life considerably. They don’t have to be big sweeping changes ...

2 hours ago

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People have been sharing the simple rules everyone should follow that would make the world a better place – 17 commandments ...

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People shared the abjectly awful lines that totally ruin a perfectly decent song – 25 enormously irritating lyrics

Have you ever been totally immersed in enjoying a song when a lyric pops up which destroys the whole thing because it's so preposterous" You're not alone. On the AskUK subreddit, user mry8z1 asked: 'What song has a line that ruins the song for you"' and followed it up with an excellent example: I can’t ...

3 hours ago

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People shared the abjectly awful lines that totally ruin a perfectly decent song – 25 enormously irritating lyrics

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'What completely innocent but infuriating thing does your better half regularly do?' – 25 people who accidentally drive ...

Having a partner is great, right" Somebody to care for you, to be there for you, to generally lighten the load of life. And also to annoy the hell out of you without meaning to. They've been discussing how bloody irritating the people we profess to love can be on the AskUK subreddit after PaddedValls ...

4 hours ago

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'What completely innocent but infuriating thing does your better half regularly do?' – 25 people who accidentally drive ...

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People have been sharing their 'unusual phobias' – 23 proper outliers that really do keep someone awake at night

Anyone who has ever seen the clip of the woman who is scared of snowmen – which will be lots of people, as it went wildly viral – will know that we can be oddly terrified of the most seemingly innocuous things. Other people's strange fears are utterly fascinating, as they've been discussing on the ...

5 hours ago

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People have been sharing their 'unusual phobias' – 23 proper outliers that really do keep someone awake at night

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People shared the smallest hills they're prepared to die on and these 27 everyday bugbears are a mixture of the funny and ...

It all started when Redditor FunWithAPorpoise asked this. "What's the smallest hill you'll die on"" And the everyday – well, mostly everyday – bugbears worth perishing for came pouring in a mixture of funny, relatable (sometimes both) and just occasionally a proper WTF" 1. 'Tall burgers completely ...

7 hours ago

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People shared the smallest hills they're prepared to die on and these 27 everyday bugbears are a mixture of the funny and ...