‘Things You Should Know’ Archives
Five over-rated things
This is from my Gen X Girl weekly column in this week's Townsville Bulletin Savvy Magazine. Along with 11 million other Australians I went and saw the final instalment of the Harry Potter series last week. It was good, not great but that’s OK [...]
Feng shui your meth lab
According to Kathleen Noonan's column in this week's Courier Mail the suburbs are a virtual plethora of meth labs. Apparently it's much easier to disguise a meth lab in a suburban house. They make for good quiet neighbours other than that whole [...]
Those dirty vaginas are history
Summer's Eve, the product that all women with smelly vaginas turn to in their time of need, has done it again with a classy ad that can also pass as a history lesson. Oh dear Summer's Eve. I think you got it wrong again. But isn't it nice to know [...]
Liar, liar, liarexic
Are you a liarexic? What, you’ve never heard of liarexia? It’s a condition, experienced mostly by women whereby they lie about their food intake? Hmm, imagine that—women with food issues. Anyway to put it succinctly it’s a condition [...]
Quick study on Harry Potter
If you're really behind all things that are really cool, then you may have missed out on the later Harry Potter movies. You're going to have to do do a lot of reading to catch up, have a movie marathon, or maybe have a quick look at Lucy Knisley's [...]
So the water thing is wrong too
So I'll just take a moment to say, between frantic dashes to the toilet, that I've got it all wrong. Apparently none of us needs to be drinking eight glasses of water a day so put that water bottle down right now. According to a study published [...]
Evolution in schools? How revolutionary
I came across this promo clip for the 2011 Miss USA contest. Burning question that required a long, deep, superficially well-balanced reply? Should evolution be taught in schools? Seriously. And some said no. Seriously. Miss Georgia gave a [...]
Some cliched facts about husbands
Bride Magazine has helpfully compiled a list of those oh so endearing qualities that husbands will display causing new wives to shrug their shoulders and shake their heads at the sheer quirkiness of it. Be warned girls most of it is bullshit and [...]
Why Princess Kate is cooler than Princess Charlene
Over at The Gloss they've put together a dazzling little slideshow called 9 reasons why new Monaco royal bride Charlene is cooler than Kate Middleton. They're wrong of course. Kate is the coolest princess and these are nine reasons [...]
Heart Tiffani
That Justin Bieber--he's just so cute. Did you see him working the Tiffani Theissen shirt at the awards the other night. Pop culture meets couture. Anyway in an all out love-fest Tiffani returned the favour by rocking a Justin Bieber t shirt. You [...]
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