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It’s healthy to have a hobby. We could all benefit from doing a little activity purely for fun outside of work or our personal life. Not all hobbies were created equal though. In fact some can quickly spiral out of control and completely take you over if you’re not careful. WilliamInBlack wanted to hear more […] The post What hobby screams ‘this is my entire personality now’? – 17 pastimes that have a habit of becoming all-consuming appeared first on The Poke.

Unless you’re a billionaire, chances are you’re feeling the cost of living. It seems like the price of everything has crept up dramatically in the last couple of years. This means people’s spending habits have changed accordingly. Things that used to be treats you’d never think twice about buying have become carefully budgeted expenses. This […] The post ‘What is something you used to buy but is no longer affordable?’ – 17 big ticket items that used to be common purchases appeared first on The Poke.

For an art form that is so revered, and makes so much money, movies are absolutely chock full of lazy and terrible clichés. Removing a pair of spectacles never made anyone magically go from nerdy to beautiful, for example. They’ve been chatting about this on the AskReddit page after user Potential_Action9544 posed this question: ‘What […] The post ‘What is a movie cliché that absolutely never happens in real life?’ – 23 scenes film directors love which are completely far fetched appeared first on The Poke.

The people’s champion (source: Nigel Farage) Nigel Farage has revealed his latest plans to help ease the day-to-day burden on working men and women. That’s right – he’s going to force people who currently work from home to get back into the office, whether they like it or not. Thanks, Nige! I’ve said it before […] The post Nigel Farage wants to stop people working from home and of all the A++ comebacks Jeremy Clarkson knocked the rest out the park appeared first on The Poke.

Laura Ingraham has spent her career preaching Maga values from inside her bubble, behind a desk on Fox News, for the better part of a decade. When she ventures out into the real world, things aren’t as pleasant, even if it happens to be whatever version of the real world a Turning Point USA rally […] The post Laura Ingraham asked a bunch of rabid right wingers about the Epstein Files but did not get the response she expected and it was just fabulous appeared first on The Poke.

After wanging on relentlessly about how he’s going to take humanity to Mars, it turns out Elon Musk has rather reined in his ambitions and is now going to build some kind of community on the Moon instead. Give it a couple more years and he’ll be reduced to building a conservatory. Elon Musk’s SpaceX […] The post Elon Musk swapped Mars for the Moon and this forensic examination of the challenge ahead was a reality check of epic proportions appeared first on The Poke.

To the world, briefly, of Katie Hopkins, whose daily pursuit of relevance – any kind of relevance! – took her to the door of 10 Downing Street. In particular, the estimable Twitter account @Number10cat who does a fabulous job, among many other things, of fact checking idiots everywhere. Dear @Number10cat Count your days you fluffy […] The post Katie Hopkins took aim at the ‘Downing Street cat’ on Twitter and it was a schoolboy error for the ages appeared first on The Poke.

Laura Loomer is pretty much an unpaid social media intern for the White House. A run through of her Twitter feed sums up everything that’s wrong with the far-right political movement. She’s a big fan of posting conspiracy theories and generating vitriolic rumors about anyone not willing to toe the ultra Maga line. Which brings […] The post Laura Loomer’s jaw-dropping take on Bad Bunny’s halftime show perfectly captured the dumb Maga mindset appeared first on The Poke.

New Zealand and Calgary Wild’s Meikayla Moore went down in footballing history in 2022, in a way that she would much rather not have done. As the defender took part in her team’s SheBelieves Cup fixture against the USA, she managed to hit the back of the net three times. New Zealand’s net. One own […] The post This perfect hat-trick of own goals is right up there in the sporting cock-ups hall of fame appeared first on The Poke.

Life lessons can be hard in a variety of ways, and those of us who made a lot of mistakes before we wised up often wish someone else had given us a heads up. But would we have listened? Probably not. They’ve been chatting about this on the AskReddit page after Big_Acanthaceae_1384 asked this: What’s […] The post ‘What’s a lesson you learned the hard way you wish someone had warned you about earlier?’ – 21 people who fiddled around and found out appeared first on The Poke.