Dear Agony Uncle, As a long-established (homosexual) bachelor who has never felt the need to compromise myself by entering into relationships, I feel I am experiencing somewhat of a mid-life crisis.  Since meeting a dear friend’s new, much younger ‘gentleman friend’ I am starting to have urges and worrying thoughts of DVD nights at home, pyjama [...]

I can hear William Shakespeare rolling in his grave like a lamb on the spit in a late-night kebab shop. Some genius at New Oxford American Dictionary has decided that ‘unfriend’—the act of removing someone’s friendship on a social networking site such as Facebook—is worthy of being officially adopted into official American English after its [...]

The next time you consider hosting a ten-course meat-only banquet peppered with palette cleansing on the defibrillator, cast a thought to your invitation stationery. J&D (Justin Esch and Dave Lefow) on their quest to ensure that “everything tastes like bacon” have invented the Mmmvelope – a bacon-flavoured envelope that promises to tantalise the tastebuds with the synthetic porcine [...]

United States President Barack Obama has caused a storm in a Japanese earthenware cup for a breach of imperial protocol. When meeting Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan at the weekend, President Obama bowed deeply while shaking hands with the Emperor, considered a major faux pas in Japanese bowing etiquette. The affair is reminiscent of [...]

A Florida man was arrested after making a phone call to 911 after his mobile phone ran out of credit. Joshua Basso, the genius pictured below called the number he always knew would be free and asked the operator about her breasts before she hung up on him. Unperturbed, he called back and was hung up [...]

A New Zealand MP was forced to apologise publicly after writing a hostile reply to a voter who had written a letter criticising his behaviour on a tax-payer funded trip. The member of the public e-mailed the Maori party leader, Hone Harawira after he opted to go sightseeing in Paris and skipped his obligations to [...]

I’m perplexed by a party invitation problem: I don’t want to invite losers. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them getting about; sometimes in disguise as interesting arty folk and occasionally my loser beam doesn’t pick up on it until they are within its circumference at a gathering. What’s a sure-fire question I can ask [...]

A nightclub promoter is enforcing a strict dress code in an attempt to rid violence and dance floor melees. The promoter of Dorcia, a night at Melbourne’s Ding Dong says that their policy will eradicate the “sports jock mentality” that can be found at many club nights. There have been cries of outrage saying that the [...]

20-year-old student, Geisy Arruda has caused quite the escándalo at a Brazilian university after supposedly disregarding “ethical principles, academic dignity and morality.” Miss Arruda was  expelled from Bandeirante University after wearing a pink mini dress to class, which resulted in mass hysteria from the student body. She was escorted by police guards as she was mobbed by [...]

New studies from Britain’s Department of Transport suggest that airborne aggro is on the rise, with more than 3500 reported incidents aboard British aircraft between April last year and March this year. This is massive increase from the 2702 cases that were reported the previous year. 37 per cent of reported cases  involved at least one intoxicated passenger. Although reasons [...]