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The Paralympics Just Started: What to Watch
The Paralympics Games Paris 2024 started on August 28 and will continue until September 8, featuring 4,000 athletes from around the world. These resilient athletes battle a range of disabilities, pushing their limits every day. While most of the world comes together to celebrate the Olympics, many fail to tune...
Inside Belfast's Deadly Benzos Boom
Northern Ireland stands apart from the rest of the United Kingdom in a number of obvious ways, from its turbulent history to its geography. But visitors who find themselves on a big night out in Belfast might also notice something starkly different about its recreational drug scene. Benzodiazepines—a class of...
Weekly Horoscope: July 14 - 20
As we travel further into the Neptune and Saturn retrogrades, the cosmos have put out a call for a bit of self-care. This starry suggestion comes in the form of a powerful conjunction between a full Moon and Ceres under Capricorn. Ceres is a dwarf planet that governs our need to nurture and receive nurturing, deep relationships and familial energy. This small planet has been in retrograde since mid-May and won’t go direct until late August.
Watching the Euro 2024 Final with England Fans in Benidorm
Last night, the England men’s football team added another famous loss to their pantheon of glorious failures, leveling from a goal down but ultimately coming up short against a superior Spanish side. We sent photographer Yushy Pachnanda to Benidorm—a sun-drenched paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean known for...
Where Conspiracy Theorists Steal Their Ideas From
In The Truth Hurts, a series of VICE documentaries, Bupé Bhima explored the roots and spread of modern conspiracy theories: why they’re dangerous and how they become violent. After conducting extensive research into where conspiracy theories come from, the results were surprisingly out in the open. In fact, they’re right in front of our very eyes.
How Being Irish Became a Meme
I am in huge amounts of psychological pain as a result of the internet’s recent love affair with Irishness. It is online. It is everywhere. It is relentless. Hahaha, the Guinness just tastes different at home, doesn’t it? Do you know how to ‘split the G’? Do you like spice bags? What about chicken fillet rolls? Then there are the more niche references to growing up Irish. Did you ever leave the immersion on? Did your mum ever hit you with the wooden spoon? Barry’s or Lyons?
9 Best Cooling Pillows (for More Chilled-Out Sleep)
It's a scientific fact that the human body gets better sleep when it’s cooler. Experts say the ideal room temperature for sleeping is a brisk 65-68°F—so if your body temperature runs hot like mine, a lot of the time you should be spending sleeping turns into a fistfight with the thermostat and blankets.
The Unhinged Hedonism of 'The King of Ibiza'
Danny Gould has seen it all. After coming up tough on a council estate in Essex, he found escape in Ibiza, where he co-founded the legendary club night Clockwork Orange. However, his taste for late-night debauchery—Danny’s unhinged and relentless hedonism made him legendary on the island in the 1990s—led him into a trap from which he very nearly never emerged.
9 Best Fans to Keep You Cool This Summer
Conundrum: Your apartment is so swelteringly hot that you need to vacate it immediately, lest you sublimate into the ether. But how can you afford that casual month-long jaunt to Mykonos if your apartment is too hot to even sublet?. Maybe you've been raw-dogging it without an air conditioner. Or...
Oobah Butler Reveals How Close He Came to Getting Sued Over His Amazon Film
For nearly a decade now, British arch prankster Oobah Butler has been making oddball films that toy with institutions, systems, and commonly held beliefs, to reveal the silliness and weirdness that often lurks beneath. His antics have seen him turn his own garden shed into the most highly rated restaurant in London, fake his way to the top of Paris Fashion Week, and send doubles of himself around the world for TV interviews and talks.
The Five Big Drug Trends Defining Summer 2024
Taking drugs in the summer: glorious weekend-long odysseys across the length and breadth of a city teeming with euphoria, wearing the same shorts and T-shirt three days straight, making new friends, falling in love, generally channeling a Mercutio-meets-Laura Palmer kind of vibe, before waking up Monday feeling nothing but serenity because for some reason the sunshine cures any comedown you can throw at it.
13 Best Floor Pillows (for Low-Key Lounging)
Confession time: I like to sit on the floor. I always have. If you, too, prefer the floor but want more cushion for the pushin’, we’ve got just the solution to your floor-sitting needs: comfy floor pillows. These are perfect for reading, napping, lounging, watching movies, game nights, snuggling with your pets, and impressing your date with your “minimalist lifestyle.”
Inside Ireland's Thriving Illegal Rave Scene
Across the city and out into the countryside, local techno fans are throwing free parties in a litany of forgotten abandoned spaces—from spooky psychiatric hospitals and warehouses, to old churches and castle ruins. “The thing I love about the city is that pretty much the entire Cork techno scene...
Weekly Horoscope: July 7 - July 13
Last week, Saturn went retrograde, and this week, nearby Neptune follows suit. This makes a total of five planetary retrogrades happening in the heat of summer: Saturn, Neptune, Pluto, Ceres, and Haumea. But because Neptune’s recent switch will bring about the most tangible changes in our immediate future, let’s focus on what this blue planet going backward means.
This Is How Gooners Go On Holiday
You’d be forgiven for thinking that gooners—a relatively new online community who’ve transformed masturbation into an endurance-based art form lasting hours, or even days, on end—would live a fairly sedentary existence. After all, if your life revolves around edging yourself into a trance while surrounded by multiple screens, projectors, laser disc players, and walls covered in porno mags, why would you ever want to leave home?
11 Reading Chairs So Comfy You Might Actually Finish a Book
For the sake of your mind and your ass, consider getting a dedicated reading chair. In this article, we break down the best options, highlighting the best deals and what makes them special so you can finally dive into your favorite novel or spicy audiobook for hours on end. Our...
More Than 50% Of Young Adults Have Tried Choking During Sex. Scapegoating Porn Is Not The Answer.
A survey of 4,702 Australians aged 18-35 has found more than half had been strangled during sex. The findings of the research on consensual sexual strangulation, commonly referred to as “choking”, have been splashed across mastheads, tabloids, and spurred a new campaign to educate young people that “there’s no safe way to strangle”.
'Bodies Like Greek Statues': Steroids Are Everywhere
Illicit steroids and performance-enhancing drugs are typically reserved for elite athletes and competitive bodybuilders. The list of potential side effects, from hair loss to stroke, is enough for most people to steer clear. But in Australia (and across the world) young people, and particularly young men, are willing to take the risk.
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