Sideswipe: Cultural cringe

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Inked Energy drink in "Maori Mango" flavour spotted in 7-Eleven stores across Canada.

Twitter egotism

A new study finds that people are using Twitter to fuel their own narcissism and don't really care about what other people are doing, thinking, or feeling. According to Pew Research Centre, users of Twitter may update the site daily or several times per day, but only about a third of users actually check to see what other people have posted with a degree of regularity. Roughly the same numbers check for content posted by others extremely rarely. (Source: Jezebel.com)

Time-travelling berries

Buyer Beware: Last Thursday Shelley bought some berries from a roadside caravan on Auckland's Tamaki Drive, but miraculously the label said they were packed on December 11, which was Saturday.

Coro confusion

Some confused fans of Coronation Street who watched the Christmas cliffhanger episode of a tram crash have been unable to separate fact from fiction. Half a dozen viewers called Manchester transport bosses the next morning to ask if services were affected by the accident. (Source: Newslite.tv)

Say that again?

Words which are often mispronounced because people had only seen the word written down: Hors d'oeuvre, paradigm, epitome, hyperbole, meme, segue, macabre, Hermione, coup, crudites ... (The Daily What)

Classy cabby

Christmas Spirit: Peter writes: "I have just started chemotherapy so a bit absent minded. Accidentally left house keys behind in a Corporate Cab on my way to a function ... Driver (Noel) figured out whose they were and when I got home there was Noel patiently waiting in his cab outside my gate to hand the keys back. How kind is that?"