Born in 1892 and living for 92 years, my grandmother experienced more change in her life than anyone at any time before her.

I saw what looked like a large brown handbag swimming towards me.

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Grinder, Tinder and now Rumblr - for fighting, not hooking up...

More tales of mortification

Pulled over and treated like a criminal...

What's your most awkward moment?

A study makes the Dad Bod legit and self-healing concrete is on its way...

"Willy Wonka is a psychotic, sadistic child-hating manchild with a penchant for Third World labour." (On Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl)

My kid was bored. I gave him my phone and he played a game. I vomited in the bucket.

Rebel girls -- hurling veg at the teacher and having a baby in US airspace...

Would you like to live in a life-sized replica of Minas Tirith from Jackson's LOTR trilogy?

Have you been scammed by this at your local dairy?

Bulgarian Beyonce and Trump's business house aided by silver spoon...

Typical advice for working mothers, offered to working dads sound so inane...

My friend is holidaying in Cambodia and posted this photo on his Facebook...

Janine recounts a combination of modern technology and luck.

Unsure what this picture was used for.

Imagine describing car ownership to someone who had only lived in a dense, walkable, transit-rich city...

Culture-jamming and tolerance is really just good manners...

Street signs taken in St Paul Street Auckland behind AUT in 2011. Photo credit: Christine Smith

Can we just go fully metric, already...

The best of local and international graffiti, that's been added to...

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