"I would be angry too if I'd just been made into a pie!" writes Nicola.

Sydney's Elanora Heights Public School has banned clapping during student assemblies in an effort to help pupils with noise anxieties.

I'm pretty sure they think it says SHORT BLACK, but it doesn't read that way at first glance.

Emotive words to add to your lexicon A list of words that explain the things we feel, but can't explain • Sonder - The realisation

Matter of taste Q: What was your most satisfying moment of winning an argument? A: Having been married forever, I eventually learned

The origins of the flat white recognised in Coffee Mania in Moscow. Spotted by Maria.

The dog parking in Switzerland was amusing but our dogs in Tauranga know how to park with style and comfort.

I've been sitting on this photo for a wee while. It was taken one morning during one of my early bike rides.

A plane causes this rip in the clouds, snapped in Epsom across the road from Alexandra Park.

Was hauled in front of the headmistress and told I must wear stockings. Fair enough you say but this was Australia 30C heat and I was a teacher.

In the 1940s, American high school girls used hair ribbons to indicate if they were coupled up, looking or indifferent.

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I grabbed it with my chopsticks and started to eat it. It was a hot hand towel, though, and my brother burst into a very loud non-stop laughter.

Convinced that smartphones are ruining pub socialising, the owner of a newly-opened bar in Brighton, England has disabled cellphone reception.

Indispensable: Clean Dreams, a kitchen sponge holder.

You might think Canadian Olympic swimmer Santo Condorelli is a bit surly, but his giving the middle finger to his dad is just a getting-psyched ritual.

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"This old armchair in Mt Roskill had three such 'we are investigating' stickers on it from someone sent out by the Auckland Council," writes Paul Carpenter of Rotorua.

This typo was handled perfectly by a Canadian news announcer.

Spotify offers free music to millions and the minuscule royalty per stream they pay artists has always been the subject for much grumbling.

Guilt-free beer in the US is about to be ruined by a nutrition information panel.

Class clown demoted to chairwoman of the bored "I had been sent out of my math class for being disruptive - throwing books across

Paul spotted this at Countdown Highland Park. He wasn't sure if they were delusional or having us all on.

People exist, and they're out there! You have been warned! (Spotted at a local council office by @Bridget-Burdett).

A Gold Coast charter boat skipper who was bitten by a shark taped his leg wound up with duct tape and carried on working.

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A Muslim group is handing out Islamophobin at The Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

"My son got mad at me yesterday and opened all the bananas in the house. What type of passive aggressive monster is he?" @VictorPopeJr

One of the pranks the kids pulled on me. Other successful pranks: Fake dog poo - I picked it up with paper and smelled it before knowing.

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