These are the rules of the sophisticated social interaction known herein as the man challenge. 1. Definition: a ‘man challenge’ is when a man looks at another man, and the other man looks back at the first man (ie the eyes of the two men meet). 2. Definition: ‘another man’

(a scene from a police procedural TV show that is not real) INT. LECTURE THEATRE. DAY. THE head of Hutchison ‘Hunch’ Hinchcliffe pops out from behind a lectern at the front of an empty lecture theatre. Empty, that is, aside from a forensics team surrounding a body on the floor.

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It was almost the ultimate, masculine, grown-up interaction. I stood when she entered the restaurant. I drew her chair from beneath the table, then slid it gently back in as she sat down. I ordered a big piece of meat and a little piece of carbs. I told a story

When I’m looking after my children, sometimes I try to do too much. I keep up with work emails, I cook the dinner, all while entertaining and playing with them. And it always effects my mental health. In the bad way. But now I just focus my mind on

A man in an impressively pressed frock spoke first. 'We are gathered here today, to join these two people in holy-' The bride and groom were nervous, but they needn't have been. This was to be the perfect union. Everyone agreed. Except one guy. The one guy interjected. 'Hehhemmmm', he

Tell me I'm on mute As if I didn't know that I sneezed, for fucks sake

Walk into a costume party, and I guarantee you will see all three of the following costume party tropes, almost immediately. Trope one is ‘all out guy’. Someone who has gone all out, then kept going so they’re orbiting ‘all out’ from beyond the stratosphere. Except the orbit analogy