Signs that you grew up as an only child

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Jun 6, 2014

Everyone can always tell when someone is an only child. But they never think of the things WE had to deal with as a result of being an only child. It’s not all sunshine and rainbows y’know!

1. Dealing with people who say: “But you don’t seem like an only child”

What does that even mean?

2. Two-player video games are always a bit tricky

Teddy = Player Two. Weep.

3. People who accuse you of being a bit spoilt

Thing is, sometimes you ARE a little selfish…Oh well. Hey, that’s MINE!!

4. The way twins relate to The Parent Trap

5. You relate to The Shining

6. You get VERY close with your BFF because they’re like a sibling to you

7. In general, you tend to prefer the company of older people

Because kids be cray.

8. ’90s TV shows made you a bit sad. There were so many siblings!

9. Apart from Sabrina of course

10. One Christmas you even asked Santa for a little brother

Guess he got stuck in the chimney

11. You’re not great at confrontation

You were never wrestled by an older brother, how do people even fight?

12. People LOVE asking you if you had imaginary friends as a kid

In fact you were friends with the friends of those imaginary friends.

13. You’re still learning how ‘housemates’ work

The basics of cohabitation don’t come naturally.

14. At times your parents were a little overbearing

15. Small talk kind of ends when people ask: “Do you have siblings?”

16. Christmas isn’t a great turn out

17. The whole unwrapping of the presents never takes very long

18. But in general being an only child is AWESOME

19. Only child = the best child!

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This might be the best break up we have EVER seen!

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Jun 5, 2014

by Amber Saunders

When @KaneZipperman‘s girlfriend cheated on him, he decided to get the ultimate revenge.

In this epic messaging conversation, Kane replies using hilarious memes and we love it!

While we do think he may have been a bit harsh, we reckon he was pretty hurt by the whole thing.

Plus, it really made us laugh!

Things that every Irish person does on their holidays

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Jun 5, 2014

by Amber Saunders

Don’t lie, you have done each and every one of these at least once during your holliers.

1. Letting everyone know you have arrived safely
Whether you check-in online or text your mammy, there is a serious guilt if you do not instantly let people know you are there safely once your plane hits the runway.

2. Complaining about the weather
“Jeeeeesus lads, it’s humid!” You’d miss the clear Irish air all the same, like.

3. Lathering on the factor 50
Because sunburn hurts, that’s why.

4. Asking where all the tourist attractions are
There’s no feckin shame in asking!

5. Dressing like a tourist
Yup, we see you, with your massive hat and birkenstocks. It’s like seeing a North Face jacket in Ireland and instantly knowing it’s an American tourist.

6. Eating the same food you do at home
“‘I’ll have the bacon and cabbage please.”

7. Assuming everyone speaks English
Just because you speak louder, doesn’t mean they understand you any more.

8. “Sure, you wouldn’t see that in Ireland now”
All that kissing and cuddling – Jaysis!

9. Buying crappy souvenirs
Sure everyone loves a key ring!

10. Speaking Irish
You haven’t a word, except “amadan,” which incidentally, is the only one you need.

11. Going to Irish pubs
You leave Ireland just to spend your entire holiday in a place that looks exactly like your local.

12. Doing the country proud
We have a reputation for drinking and when we go abroad, we feel the need to reaffirm it. This is usually done in the form of drinking so much that you blackout for the rest of the holiday.

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The 8 most irritating people you’ll meet on the bus

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Jun 4, 2014

by Amber Saunders

Public transport is never easy. But these people make it ten thousand times worse.

1. The phone person
Who needs to have a two-hour conversation on a bus? Seriously?

2. The raver
Prodigy at 6.30am? And is that red bull we smell? Good Lord. More power to them.

3. The PDA couple
What ARE they doing back there? Judging by the sounds, we feel we’re better off not knowing. *shudder*

4. School children
Teenagers scare the crap out of us. The screaming, the loud music, the scarily heavy bags that could kill us in one sudden turn.

5. The person who needs a seat for their bag
Is there anyone more rude in this world than the person that gives you a dirty look as they move their bag from the empty seat? Do they think we WANT to sit next to them? That ANY of this is our choice?!

6. The smelly person
Gagging.

7. The person who waits until they’re on the bus to get their money out
The bus is 30 minutes late as it is – what HAVE you been doing?

8. The person who doesn’t thank the bus driver when they get off
It’s an unwritten rule – what the hell?

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10 things he says and what he actually means

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Jun 3, 2014

by Amber Saunders

Men are a conundrum.

Here are some of the typical things you may hear them say – and more importantly, what they actually mean when they say them.

1. He fancies you
If he says: So maybe we could go for a walk or a coffee?
He actually means: I think you’re really hot and want to ask you out, but I’m of a nervous disposition.

2. I don’t really like you in that way
If he says: You’re a really nice person
He actually means: See ya!

3. I need you to stick around
If he says: Let’s be friends
He actually means: You’re not my type, but could you set me up with your hot friend?

4. Not so serious
If he says: We’re seeing each other
He actually means: You’re his first choice but there may be someone else involved.

5. When he wants sex
If he says: This is our fourth date, isn’t it?
He actually means: I WANT SEX

6. Player
If he says: I don’t want anything serious
He actually means: Friends with benefits?

7. Jealousy
If he says: How many guys have you been with?
He actually means: I’m the best, right?

8. It’s getting serious…
If he says: Introduces you as his girlfriend
He actually means: He no longer introduces you as his “friend” and he more than likely wants you to meet his friends, family etc. Are YOU ready?
9. Scaredy-cat
If he says: Maybe we need to slow down
He actually means: Maybe you need to slow down

10. It’s love!
If he says: I love you
He actually means: You make me incredibly happy whenever we are together. I think you may be The One.

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Getting over the bank holiday blues in once piece

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Jun 3, 2014

by Amber Saunders

It’s been a great weekend – but now you need damage control.

It’s time to treat your purse, and body the way it deserves after the weekend. Here’s how to survive the bank holiday crisis:

1. Plan out your finances
You spent a lot of money this weekend. Plan your meals, hit up Aldi and DO NOT attempt to stop off at the shop for Revels after work.

2. Leave your bank card at home!
You know exactly how much cash you need for college or work. Bring that and just that.

3. Carry a litre bottle of water with you
Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate and you’ll be back to your old self in no time!

4. Fight off the fear!
Be mindful of your actions and you won’t have anything to fear! Simples!

2. “Spirits before beer or you’ll be on your ear.”
You’ll remember that next time, won’t you…

1. Down a pint of milk
If your weekend STILL isn’t over, drink some milk. ‘Twill do you the world of good.

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Vogue chief tops fashion names on ‘100 Most Powerful Women’ list

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May 30, 2014

by Amber Saunders

Anna Wintour has topped the fashion names on Forbes magazine’s ‘100 Most Powerful Women’ list.

The American Vogue editor-in-chief and artistic director of Condé Nast has been placed at number 39 on this year’s list – a whole two places higher than in 2013.

This is in part down to her fundraising work for the Anna Wintour Costume Centre and President Obama’s re-election campaign.

Anna, 64, beat designers Diane Von Furstenberg, who ranked in 68th place, Miuccia Prada in 75th and Tory Burch in 79th as well as supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who has an estimated wealth of $42million.

Also on the list in 43rd place is Spanx creator Sara Blakely who made history after turning her $5,000 life savings into the billion dollar brand, becoming the world’s first self-made female billionaire.

Sara has also joined the Giving Pledge, vowing to donate at least half of her earnings to charity.

Beyonce, Shakira, Oprah Winfrey, Angelina Jolie and Sofia Vergara also made it onto the list, which was topped by the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

10 lies everyone is told as a child

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May 29, 2014

by Amber Saunders

Parents tell their kids some pretty messed up things, and so far from the truth that it’s hard to register when we finally learn. Here are some lies you may have heard as a child.

1. “Don’t pull that face, God will see and leave you looking like that.”

If you grew up with an Irish Catholic parent then you were likely to have been fed this horrifically scarring lie at some stage. To this day, there’s still that underlying fear some of us have that this may in fact still happen.

2. “Santy sees everything”

This lie gets children everywhere to act and do exactly what their parents want any time of the year. How crafty.

3. “Eat up all of your vegetables and your hair will be curly”

We all wanted curly hair as kids, then boom, your 11 and begging you mom for a GHD and haven’t eaten broccoli in years for fear of curls.

4. “Eat your crusts and you’ll get hairs on your chest.”

We were four and some of us were girls, why the hell would we want hairs on our chest? WHY? All of those hairy men clearly ate all of their crusty Nutella sandwiches back in the day.

5. “Your school days are the best days of your life.”

Oh yes, I do miss those tiny benches and a school-bag that always smelt like rotten apples.

6. “You’re so bold, you’re not like mine at all, you’re actually adopted.”

You have always secretly wondered since…

7. “That’s only for adults.”

No fair!

8. “Children have to go to bed by 9 o’clock, it’s the law.”

Even during the summer when it was bright out, you were forced to go to bed or else the police would come. Scarred.

9. “Don’t eat the apple pips, otherwise an apple tree will grow in your belly.”

Terrifying stuff.

10. “Don’t swallow your chewing gum, it’ll make your insides stick together.”

Actually, this one might be true.

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10 memories everyone who went to Irish college will have

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May 28, 2014

by Amber Saunders

While it may have seemed like the worst thing EVER back in the day, when you look back on it, you were very lucky to have been given to chance to go to the Gaelteacht.

Here are some of the fond memories you no doubt have:

1. Where the hell are we?
When you are on the bus to the Gaeltacht you feel like it takes an eternity to actually get there. It all starts to look the same and you’re so deep into the countryside there are no roads only laneways.

2. Learning absolutely no Irish
Nobody actually learns Irish at the Gaelteacht – more like Engrish. “An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an beach and take a swim?”

3. Shifting up against the back wall at the disco
You cringe now. Back then you were just glad you got your first shift in Irish college and didn’t have to go to school in September a “frigid.”

4. Playing Hot Potato during every break
Or else that weird clapping game that all of the cool girls played.

5. Ban an Ti
She is the head of the household and was crazy enough to volunteer to keep a huge bunch of girls in her house for two weeks. She makes your breakfast and dinner washes your clothes if they’re dirty, a real Irish mammy.

6. Ceilis
Any time you hear Irish dancing instructions you shudder at the thought. The Ceili is on every night and you have to learn the steps and try not to look like a fool in front of the Irish college veterans.

7. No TV and no Internet
Looking back, we were troopers for surviving without a TV or internet or music! Go us!

8. Couples
During your two/three week stay in the Gaeltacht almost of every girl and every guy get together and then before they leave they break up.

9. Speaking English at every opportunity you get
Rebel!

10. The talent show
It all boils down to this – don’t mess it up!

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10 signs you are getting older

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May 28, 2014

by Amber Saunders

One minute you’re drinking two bottles of JP Chenet and bouncing out of bed the next morning and then one year later, a glass of pinot grigio at a family barbecue is enough to tie you to the toilet the next day.

Ah, getting older.

1. Drinking equals dying

Everything hurts.

2. Sleep is the most important thing

A nightclub? Zzz…

3. You’re so fat

When you were sixteen you survived on nothing but ham rolls and Hunky Dories and there was never a pick on you. Now you eat salad for lunch and occasionally use low fat milk and you’re pretty sure nothing is changing.

4. D.M.R. (Deep Meaningful Relationships)

Single life is great. Then suddenly you’re 23 and the only relationship you’ve ever had has been with your fridge. Crap.

5. Weddings. Why? WHY?

One of your friends has just messaged you to inform you that another girl in your year has just got engaged. Seriously?!

6. Baby talk

Please stop. Cats, not babies. Cats.

7. Avoiding awkward questions

Those family reunions where all you hear is “hows the love life?” or “any talent?” Gah!

8. Home sweet home

You find yourself feeling a sense of pride in an organised wardrobe and a gleaming bath. It’s the little things.

9. Dressed to impress

You finally realise what suits you and what doesn’t. Short skirts with your arse hanging out? No.

10. Parental guidance

You are officially old when you realise your parents were right all along. Damn it!

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Have you been friend-zoned? Here are the signs

Relationships

May 27, 2014

by Amber Saunders

Ah, the friend-zone. It’s not only boys it happens to you know!

Here is a few of our favourite things that happen when you’ve been put in the friend-zone:

1. They’re never short of telling you about all the best bums and boobs in the world. Including those of your best friends and how incredible they are. But of course, never yours.

2. You keep thinking life is like a movie and one day you will gain the courage to proclaim your undying love for him. Never gonna happen.

3. You guys flirt more than you make normal conversation, but it doesn’t mean anything because you’re best friends *gritted teeth*

4. Every time people pick up on your high pitched voice when around the person that’s friend-zoned you, you have to reassure them you’re just friends and you would “never like them like that … gross.” *GULP*

5. On nights out, they are so much craic and you guys have so much fun together but they’ll always find someone else to go home with

6. You painfully see them with someone who does not deserve them and is annoying, desperate and clingy (at least that’s how you see them). But you can’t say anything.

7. Every time you have good news or something’s happening in your life they are the first person to come to mind.

8. They have called you “Bro,” “Pal ” or “Mate,” and for the ultimate friend-zone, “Sister.”

Admit your love, the worst that can happen is they will say they don’t feel the same … and that’s not so bad, right?

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10 things to know about landing your first real job

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May 26, 2014

by Amber Saunders

All this time in college you assumed that you would just walk into job, right? Well, here are things that you need to know when finding your first real career break:

1. In everyone’s mind you’re officially an adult
In college you were only a student, in purgatory between a teenager and adult. No one could complain, “sure, he’s going to university isn’t he”? This quickly changes when you leave college to “ah, he is taking a year out”, even though that usually involves some sort of travelling.

2. Interviews can sometimes feel like an interrogation
It is bad enough when there is one interviewer, but if there are two or three you feel like it’s an interrogation, as they slowly eye you up and crush your will.

3. Working for free is the most likely option
“Well, do you have any experience? No … well, you can always work for free” Yes it has come to this. You never thought it would happen, but you’re thinking of working for free.

4. Oh, so that’s why you get a summer job
“Sure who needs a summer job, it’s only for money, I don’t need money.” When your young, money is just a thing you use to buy sweets. Summer job’s are all about experience and you ponder this while looking at a blank CV.

5. Your CV is actually important
“CV? Sure I’ll just put my leaving cert results on it and it will be grand”. Hmm, you think that your employers are going to be impressed by your Leaving Cert results?

6. You’re not the only one
“I’m a shoe in, the interviewer really seems to like me.” Little do you realize that there are actually other people who went for the interview as well. They have more experience than you, better people skills, and have worked in a job like this before. Harsh, but true.

7. Socializing is a thing of the past
You will quickly find out that when you’re not working you don’t have money.

8. Signing on
As much as you thought you wouldn’t need to, sometimes you may need to sign on. But don’t worry, hopefully it won’t be for too long. Keep up the motivation and don’t allow yourself to get stuck in a rut.

9. Degree … What Degree?
You spend 3 0r 4 years doing a degree only to find out that the piece of paper is worthless and it’s in Latin so no one can read it. It is basically just used as an indication of what your interests are.

10. Chance to learn something new
Instead of staying at home watching daytime TV, you could actually make the most of your time and learn something new. You could finally learn to drive, learn a new language, go skydiving, go to the gym. The world is your oyster!

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