Is This the Weirdest Weight Loss Method You’ve Ever Heard Of?
It’s called “Weight Loss Tongue Patch Surgery” and the idea is very gross. For just under $2000 US, a doctor sews and abrasive patch to your tongue, making it very difficult for you to eat. People who have had one attached have reported weight loss of up to 30 pounds a month. Meet the California […]
Coffee Cups? Pizza Boxes? Surprizing Things You Cannot Recycle
Everybody loves recycling. Everyone goes mad for it. But people are stupid. They think they can recycle anything and everything. You cannot. Some crazy person put a used paper coffee cup in the recycling bin at my workplace the other day. Madness. Sheer madness. From Greenpeace themselves: “Coffee cups are…not recycled. Every plastic coffee cup […]
Casting Spells: Spiritual Mistake or Are They OK?
There are quite a few new-age witches about these days, particularly on the internet. It doesn’t take long to find ‘love spells’ and ‘money spells’ online. Remember the book The Secret? Total utter materialistic codswallop if you ask me, but yes, I bought the damn thing. I am not the only blogger who thought The […]
Happiness is NOT the goal. Here’s Why.
Why are you trying to be happy? No, really, think about it. You’re just going to wind up feeling sad again. This is not going to be a negative post – just a discussion on the fact that we are being sold a false hope: happiness. One of my fave bloggers has posted on this […]
How to be a Morning Person: Your Easy Step-by-Step Guide
I am a morning person. Are you? I think I am naturally like this, but I still hate getting up earlier than I am used to. My body protests, my eyelids refuse to open, my head hurts, it’s cold in my apartment. I don’t want to get out of bed. People need different amounts of […]
McDonalds “Track My Maccas”: Why this is the Crappest App of 2013
Useless apps. I’ve downloaded a few stinkers in my day. The Bible app kept crashing my phone – further convincing me that the apocalypse was nigh. I couldn’t find a Koran app – they are all in Arabic. The Torah apps were too expensive and the Bhagavad-Gita app keeps sending me ads for cronuts. Religious […]
How to Deal With Hurtful Insults from Someone You Love
It hurts quite a lot to be insulted by someone you care about. Hurtful insults can feel so unnecessary. I don’t often insult people just to be mean, but if I decide to, I can cut a person down with only a few well-chosen words. The better you know someone, the easier it is to hurt […]
What is the Most Attractive BMI? What Should You Weigh to Look Your Hottest?
What’s your Body Mass Index (BMI)? What do you mean you don’t know? This is probably one of the most important figures you will ever find out. This is the number that protects you from obesity. The most attractive BMI is a number that’s particular to you – and one you must find out. Really, what […]
Can’t Remember Multiple Passwords? Have You Heard of this Easy Technique?
Capital A, epsilon, underscore, star, numeral four. Lower-case a, capital Q, umlaut. That is not actually my password – that wouldn’t be acceptable these days. Anything less than 15 characters long not featuring capital letters, symbols and ancient Greek, simply will not do! You need a password for everything these days. I need to remember […]
Further Education: It’s Not Just About University
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 53 per cent of young people in full-time education or training were in current employment, with the average work rate 16 hours a week. You are probably already working, or about to enter the workforce for the first time, so what happens when you want to study to […]
Rejected By the Group? It’s NOT Your Imagination. Here’s Why
Have you ever felt that your ideas are being rejected at work or in a social situation because you are new to the group and considered an outsider? Well, you are probably not imagining it – it’s likely to be true, according to a couple of studies I found. When I was a kid I […]
Does Anyone Remember the Pro-Ana Sites on Live Journal?
Warning: if you are suffering from an eating disorder, this may not be an appropriate post for you to read. This post is a discussion about what used to be on the pro-ana sites of the mid 2000s. Lots of this stuff was bad for people. These sites were frequented primarily by women, but there […]
Professor Loses 27 Pounds on a Junk Food Diet: Should You?
Have you heard of this guy? For 10 weeks, Mark Haub ate only junk food. He lost lots of weight, improved his cholesterol and got his BMI down to a healthy level. All by eating lots and lots of Twinkies. I am not kidding. To make things even more interesting, he is a professor of […]
How to Get Through Extreme Pain: The Tools Book Review: The Reversal of Desire
We all go through pain, usually daily. Sometimes the pain is mild (“Jeez it’s cold in here!”) sometimes it’s sharp (“Oh shit I just got fired.”) and how we learn to cope with pain can make or break us. Every now and then, in our lives we can experience immense amounts of pain, usually due […]