Mike Rampton

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Mike Rampton

It’s thigh-guy summer. That seems to be something of a consensus in fashion circles at the moment, with publication after publication insisting that short shorts are all the rage. Speedos are flying off shelves, catwalks are awash with micro-shorts, and style-conscious men are competing for the shortest inseam.

3 weeks ago | mentalfloss.com | Mike Rampton

The makers of Fruit Stripe Gum have announced that they're retiring the product after more than half a century. It’s the end of an era—particularly if you are a fan of jaw workouts with largely no reward: Fruit Stripe Gum is no more. The great-looking but eternally underwhelming gum, with its visually striking stripes and 0.75-second flavor window, has been around since 1960, accompanied by hella sick temporary tattoos and a zebra mascot named Yipes.

2 months ago | getmaude.com | Mike Rampton

Caroline Cossey was decades ahead of her time. Whenever the question of the future of the James Bond franchise comes up, there is a split. Some people want it to embrace the modern era, with more representation and less of a focus on a white cis male gallivanting around the world, while others want it to maintain its traditional formulas. Something both groups can probably agree on: the 1981 Bond movie For Your Eyes Only, starring Roger Moore as the gentleman spy, isn’t the best in the series.

Mar 14, 2025 | inews.co.uk | Mike Rampton

Married men are three times as likely to be obese than unmarried men – it turns out that, for guys, wedding cake is extremely fattening. As Dr Alicja Cicha-Mikolajczyk, lead author of the study at the National Institute of Cardiology in Warsaw, told The i Paper: “Married men do not have to try so hard to maintain a normal weight if they are accepted by their partners.

Feb 25, 2025 | inews.co.uk | Mike Rampton

I recently heard the most disgusting noise in the world. It was a hellish mess of snorts, groans, chokes and grunts, like a pig having a flashback to a traumatic event in its past, or a Tasmanian devil violently disagreeing with someone while eating a toffee. Sadly, the noise came from me. I was on a plane, and had a bit of a cold, and snored so loudly and terrifyingly that I woke myself up. This was fairly upsetting.