Be sure to double check your hotel room before handing back your key card. It turns out that almost half of Canadians admit to leaving personal items behind when they check out. A new survey by Leger marketing found that 43 per cent of us have forgotten something in a hotel room. I once forgot …
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one. iPhones are just the worst. No, it’s not a joke, I’m just wondering how many people are saying it now that science has confirmed what we all suspected. I’ve never been a big fan of Apple products. Their tight control over every aspect of devices and the content …
File this one under “Why Did I Bring A Kid Into This Terrifying World Again?” North Korea reportedly conducted its fifth nuclear test today, claiming to have successfully detonated a warhead that could be mounted on ballistic rockets. The explosion apparently set off a 5.3 magnitude earthquake. According to CNN, the POTUS “warned North Korea that …
I hope you got along with your college roommates. You may have to live with them for quite a while after graduating. You already know that you can’t afford a house. Now you can forget about even renting your own place as well, even after you land your first professional gig. Making a lot of …
The Canadian cities where the average young person can’t afford to live Read More »
Wondering what kind of wine to pair with your Bic Mac? That’s a no brainer. It’s Champagne, obviously. The Big Mac being the Champagne of fast food burgers. That is what the experts say, anyway. Now, I’m not a sommelier, but I would suggest that the perfect drink to accompany a Mac would be rum …
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Don’t sit so close to the television, you’ll go blind. You have to wait an hour after eating before going swimming. There are tons of health claims that have been thrown at me my whole life, and I’ve never stopped to ask whether or not there was any truth to them. Is the five-second rule …
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If you had to guess who would be more generous, fat people or thin people, which would you choose? If you guessed fat people, a new study suggests you’d be right. Well, fat men anyway. The study hypothesized – according to the abstract – that “economic decision-making differs between lean and corpulent subjects, [and] that …
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This is pretty funny. Everyone hates waiting for their bags after a flight, but imagine if your bag looked exactly like everyone else’s. This is what some airport in the UK (Heathrow, maybe?) looked like when Team GB come back from the Olympics thanks to what was the probably ill-advised plan to all have matching …
A new report was released this week by the Economist Intelligence Unit on the best places to live in the world. Just as an aside, doesn’t the “Economist Intelligence Unit” sound kinda like some sort of secret service police thing that goes around unearthing conspiracies and bringing economic social science criminals to justice? Because it’s …
Ever wonder why people cheat on their spouses, when they are most likely to do it, and the excuses they use to cover their tracks? New research of actual cheaters provides some insights. It turns out that people are more likely to cheat on their partners in the last year of each decade of their …