Wired for Gossip: Humanity’s Oldest Addiction Humans can’t shut up. That’s not an insult, it’s a survival strategy. Long before gossip magazines, Twitter meltdowns, and Instagram “tea accounts,” gossip was how tribes worked out who was pulling their weight and who was sneaking extra meat. We used to groom each other like apes — literally … Read more
Workaholism: The Only Addiction We Celebrate Work addiction is the only sickness where society applauds while it strips your health, robs your relationships, and bulldozes your sense of self. If you were knocking back vodka at your desk, HR would panic. If you were chain-smoking in the breakroom, someone would stage a wellness talk. But … Read more
The Cheap High of Saying ‘Sure Promises are the cheapest currency going. They slip out before you’ve even realised you’ve minted one. Yeah, sure. Of course. Leave it with me. Five seconds later you’ve bought yourself applause you didn’t earn — and a job you’ll probably never do. I learnt that while shoving my writing … Read more
Rush Hour in London: Travel or Contact Sport? Rush hour in London isn’t travel, it’s a contact sport. You tumble off the Tube into Oxford Street and instantly regret every life choice that led you there. Horns blare. Someone’s balancing a latte, a phone, and maybe their will to live. A cyclist yells at a … Read more
Kaunas First Impressions: Sarcasm, Shots, and Cobblestones I don’t come to Kaunas just for the cheap pints. There’s blood in these cobbles — Lithuanian somewhere in my family tree — and every so often I hop over to let my hair down and see if the place still recognises me. It usually does: a raised … Read more
The Tinder Opener Trap: When Clever Lines Die on Impact You’ve done it, don’t lie. Sat there with Tinder open, convinced you’re about to fire off the kind of line people screenshot for the right reasons. You hit send… and nothing. Not even a pity laugh. Just your words sitting there like a stale chip … Read more
Friday’s Short-Lived Victory Friday again. Always Friday. Wages drop in, feels like a little win even though it’s already half-spent before it lands. Bills get shuffled about, some paid, some “deal with it next week.” Fridge stocked just enough to pretend you’ve got your life in order. Maybe a frozen pizza, some milk, couple cans. … Read more
My name’s Eddie, and I came to Amsterdam for the same reason every idiot Brit does: beer, neon, and the vague promise that two hundred quid would buy me more happiness than therapy ever could. The Red Light District is meant to be this wonderland, yeah? Rows of women in windows, all flawless, all staring … Read more
The Laziest Lie Ever Told Anxiety ruins sex. That’s the excuse everyone trots out when things don’t go perfectly under the sheets, as if nerves are a supernatural mood-killer. Cute story. Wrong story. The truth is sex anxiety takes different shapes depending on context — first-time jitters, long-term relationship ruts, or the aftershocks of one … Read more
Love vs. Obsession: Guess Which Eats You Alive Welcome to tonight’s ridiculous showdown. In the blue corner we’ve got Love — quiet, stable, underestimated, the one everyone thinks is boring until they finally grow up. And in the red corner, wearing a cape stitched together from red flags and bad decisions, we’ve got Obsession — … Read more
