As the Greeks noted, the pursuit of love can have comic or tragic consequences, sometimes both. To aid you in your quest to find love for a day or a decade, or to at least help you avoid turning into that guy in The Big Bang Theory whose chronic fear of the opposite sex makes him speechless around them, I’ve made you a list. Yay lists! WithIn this list, I’ve laid out the pros and cons of ten terms of endearment that I’ve heard over the years. I hope this [...]
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Single’s Awareness Day – Surviving Valentine’s Day
In case you haven’t heard or seen shops dotted with love hearts, today is Valentine’s Day. There’s no escaping the annual hallmark cash-in event but in the flurry of last-minute teddy-buying and card-making, spare a thought for the singletons -those who have to endure the most loved up day of the year, me being one of them. Not that I hate Valentine’s Day if anything it has no effect on me at all, but my loved-up friends find that hard to believe, or even understand. St. Valentine’s Day wasn’t originally [...]
I Heart You: A History
The ubiquitous heart. The symbol currently festooning every shop front and advertising campaign. The universally recognised symbol of love and strong emotional ties. But where does it come from? Any attentive primary school kid can see that your actual heart is a lot more lumpy and lopsided than the traditional symbol of ‘lurrrve’. The rest of us know that your heart is little more than a muscle. A basic pump to keep the blood flowing in your veins, it’s barely even connected to your brain not to mention your emotions. There are several schools of [...]
The Break-Up Playlist
Breaking up is hard to do. Whether you’re the receiver, or the one doing the breaking up, you need your ‘mourning’ period. There are a number of ways we choose to do this: some girls turn to the more reliable men in their lives – Ben & Jerry; some girls and boys go on the rebound; some resort to bad-mouthing their ex – from their shoes to their mother. But for others, the mourning period involves blocking out the outside world, sticking on the iPod or heading to YouTube and [...]
Bebo: Tír na nÓg
Bebo was launched in 2005, seven years later the website is still going strong attracting millions of users each day. However, for those of us who joined way back when and haven’t logged on in a while it acts as a virtual time capsule. Once logged onto Bebo, you instantly feel rejuvenated as if it was still 2007. Bebo gave teenie boppers a sense of identity, with usernames being more important than your actual name. So usernames such as Madspoon101 and MassoMary69 became common. It was also the place where most of us cool [...]
Friends, Boyfriend, Girlfriend- Who Do You Put First?
“ There is no better sale than when you give a true friend what he needs” -Old Chinese proverb We all love the start of a new relationship: the budding romance and the cheesy declarations of love that can’t help but seep into the new courtship. Everyone loves the start of a relationship: except maybe the friends that get left out in the cold.We all know (or have been) couples that are so devoted to each other that they simply don’t have time for their pals anymore. They become so [...]
Social Networking: Friend or foe?
Youth culture in Ireland is rather dependent on the internet. Everywhere we look someone is ‘tweeting’ or writing on someone’s wall’. Have the new media become the dominant media? Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and Bebo are four sites that have billions of followers. Human contact is no longer the way to go as people converse in a new way, which was unheard of in Ireland just a decade ago. Of course, it has its downside. The redundant boring statuses about who had what for lunch and who wishes to announce publicly [...]
Crumbs in the Butter: When the sparks die in a relationship, what should you do?
You know the feeling, when you first meet someone. You somehow start to resemble a valium overdose victim: grinning stupidly as you bump into random objects, blinking slowly at your phone as if willing it to do something; anything. The honeymoon phase, as they call it; the cosy, rose-tinted world of those who are newly loved up. The excitement of getting to know each other more and more, of realising that not only does Damien share your love for orange Rice Krispie squares, but your dad’s both enjoy the odd spot [...]
Cyber Displays of Affection
Britney Spears has just released her music video for new single Criminal. The popstar who played gigs in Dublin’s the O2 and the Odyssey Arena, Belfast this week has cast her current beau, Jason Trawick, as her “bad boy” lover in the video. The couple play a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde who spend most of their time locked in an embrace. In the video, Britney gives her fans a steamy look into what may go on in her and Trawick’s bedroom. The pair appear to be completely naked in one [...]
Signed, Sealed, Outdated?
When someone mentions the scratch of a pen or the smell of clean paper what comes to mind is Mr. Darcy sitting at his writing desk ardently expressing his feeling of love and devotion for his lady love, or the weather beaten soldier lying in the trenches re-reading a letter from his sweetheart before he goes to sleep that night. At least for me, letter writing conjours up romantic notions of fate-seperated lovers reaching for each other despite the thousands of miles that seperate them. Perhaps it’s your long lost grandmother’s first [...]
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