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  Socks again for Christmas. Liver and onions for tea. That guy asking you out on another date and knowing...

Do you remember when Ronan Keating, former lead squawker in Irish quintet of greige Boyzone, launched his career by sitting on...

  When you're a child, you don't notice your family's quirks – those things that are perfectly normal to you...

For reasons that probably seemed pretty valid in whichever content meeting this was dreamed up in, the Observer has done an...

  We all have that friend who is a little bland. That pal whose opinions are always pretty much on...

  Last week, we had two embryos planning their retirement, and now we zoom over to the other end of the...

  I have a friend who, at Christmastime, bought a huge box of Monster Munch for her boyfriend. She wrapped...

  I swear to God the Guardian must have only two different men they keep in a cupboard and wheel...

  You know that feeling when you have been at a dinner party – some might call it a soirée –...

Do you remember being bored as a child? It's a different kind of boredom, isn't it? It's an angry boredom,...