Lifestyle

Their old microwave, and other things your parents are constantly trying to lumber you with

ONCE you’ve left home your parents just view you as someone they can dump all their old shit on. Here are some things they insist you have.

The best expensive items of outdoor gear to wear indoors

CLIMBING a mountain? No? Then why are you wearing a pair of ludicrously expensive bouldering trousers and a jacket more suited to Everest? Here's the best outdoor clothing to wear like a ponce.

How to maximise the awkwardness in a lift

NOBODY likes being forced into close proximity with strangers in a lift. Here’s how to take the experience to new levels of awkwardness and discomfort.

The self-checkout camera at Tesco, and other places you look f**king dreadful

THOUGHT you looked pretty good in the mirror at home? Here are some places that will unexpectedly reveal how truly hideous you are.

'They had to remove it from my arse in A&E': insanely personal information strangers just come out and share

COLLEAGUE? Friend of a friend? Stranger in the street? Why would they just come out and tell you this shit?

Smoking in offices, and other things you tell your kids happened but they don't believe

AS children grow, they are told stories of the recent past that sound like made-up bollocks. These former commonplaces seem scarcely credible now.

The teenage first-timer's guide to rolling a spliff

AS a 19-year-old fresher who’s bought weed twice, Jack Browne is an expert at rolling spliffs and it often only takes three goes. Here he talks you through it.

Always one dickhead at fancy-dress party not in fancy dress

THERE is always one miserable bastard at every fancy-dress party who has not bothered to make an effort, it has been confirmed.

Sandwiches in a lay-by, and 15 other 80s holiday activities

BEFORE cheap airline travel, holidays used to be profoundly disappointing. Here are some of the classic lowlights from 80s family trips.

Man trades two-bedroom West London flat for Huddersfield

A MAN has decided to sell his pricey London apartment and buy Huddersfield.