Society

Six depressing ways to get into the Blue Monday spirit

IT’S Blue Monday, the most depressing day of the year! But are you celebrating it in the right spirit or ruining it by feeling occasionally cheerful?

Popping for bits now costs 40 quid

POPPING into Tesco for a few bits now costs at least 40 quid and there is nothing you can do about it.

Owning a Breville sandwich maker: Things Generation Z will never know the joy of

SOME moments of unadulterated joy are lost in time forever. Such as your dad buying a toasted sandwich maker in the 1980s. Here are many more that Gen Z have missed out on.

Surprise! I'm a prepayment meter!

TA-DAAAAH! Yep, you thought I was a mere smart meter, your energy usage calculating pal, but actually I’m a prepayment meter!

Is your dog an idiot?

THE stupidest breeds of dog have been announced, but is your imbecile of a man’s best friend among them?

Fintech, and other new words you don't understand and it's too late to ask

YOU only learned what ‘goblin mode’ is when pensioners did, and now everyone’s swapping new terminology and you’re nodding like a dickhead at these.

All public toilets in London to be relocated to Doncaster

ALL of London’s 12 remaining public toilets will be dismantled and moved to Doncaster as part of the government’s ‘levelling up’ plans to boost the regions.

What teachers really get up to on an inset day

THE kids would be back at school already if it wasn’t for the pesky inset day. But what are the teachers actually doing during their training?

'Help me' mouths man forced to socialise against his will

A MAN who has been dragged to a social event by his wife has silently expressed his need for help from the other side of the room, it has emerged.

'Did you honestly imagine we'd want this?' say grandparents given school photo as present

A PAIR of grandparents have reacted with disbelief and anger upon being gifted a school photo of their grandchild, it has emerged.