Society

SPEND weeks agonising over £60 shoes then have to drop a grand on boiler repairs without blinking? These are the dull as f**k purchases that eat cash.

SHOPPING for your miserable adolescent who last removed their headphones in March? These five presents won’t even make a dent in their resentment.

DID you know the Welsh greet Christmas morning by opening their windows to invite the drizzle in? These bizarre Yuletide traditions come from around the UK.

A NORTHERNER from near Leeds has had his Northern credentials challenged by a colleague from Newcastle. 

MANY everyday phrases you use are, on closer inspection, just a random collection of meaningless words thrown together. Like these deeply confusing sayings. 

YOU have woken up and, as an ordinary, hard-working Briton, are furious with the boss of a union that’s on strike. But which one?

ANTISOCIAL teenage snowmen are roaming the streets in packs kicking humans over and laughing, it has emerged.

SNOW is so rare and unprecedented in Britain that it sparks reactions of confusion, hysteria and wide-eyed excitement. Look out for these.

NEED to stir up some resentment for the opposition ahead of tonight’s match? Historian Denys Finch Hatton explains the reasons to hate England’s longtime enemy.

PARENTS have told their school’s PTA that they will happily give them £100 now in order for them to f**k off for the rest of December.