Category: Food For Thought
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Enjoying the Best Restaurants in Derby: Dining Out with Friends
Dining out with friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Derby offers a plethora of excellent restaurants that promise memorable culinary experiences. Whether you’re planning a casual get together, a special celebration, or just a night out to enjoy good food and company, Derby’s dining scene has something for everyone. Here’s a guide to some…
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How much is your social life worth?
Social life can simply be defined as having healthy relationships with the people that you know, creating new relationship with the people that you meet, and most importantly maintaining both your old and new relationships. So, if you were asked today to put a price tag on your social life, how much will it be…
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Are we coming to the end of face-to-face socialising?
Are all the various social media platforms we join today making us a less sociable generation of introverted couch potatoes? Same Analogy – Different Medium: Those of a certain age will no doubt be able to remember when television first became available to the masses. Within a couple of years sociologists were predicting life would…
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Your Christmas Day Itinerary 2015
Waking up The one time of the year when having young children actually serves as a welcome wakeup-call. Otherwise you would probably sleep through the entire festivities, having celebrated heavily the night before. If you don’t have kids, don’t worry, you’re bound to know some idiot who thinks it would be a good idea to…
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Gift Ideas for Christmas 2015
Nothing consolidates friendship better than good gift-giving… at least that’s what some of our mates usually say around this time of year. So in the spirit of things, we’ve decided to do a rundown of some the best presents for Christmas 2015. For your bloke mate who likes his food Curry and chips flavoured chocolate…
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Halloween 3 – Less of the Same
We’ve been giving you guys ideas on how to celebrate Halloween for three years running now; from enthusiasts to conscious objectors, there’s plenty of ways to please everybody. So this year we thought we’d go down the route of horror movies – with a difference. That’s right, even the most devout “Halloween is a stupid,…
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Why Female Housemates Are Just Better (Just for Fun)
Living with your mates can be no bad thing. Imagine somebody told you when you were six that you had a choice of getting married (yuk, yuk, ugh) or living in the same house as your best friend…We’d have chosen friend any day! But when it comes to guys living together and girls living together,…
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Movies We’re Excited For Later This Year
Summer is officially over and the past few months has seen some awesome blockbusters with the likes of Jurassic World, Mad Max, Terminator Genysis, and the hilarious Ted 2. But it’s pretty safe to say the best of 2015’s releases have been saved for the latter half of the year. So with much anticipation and…
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6 Toys From Our Childhood Better Than Ted
The sequel to Seth McFarlane’s Ted came out last week and we can’t recommend it highly enough, especially if you like your humour rude, crude and tiptoeing the razor’s edge of controversy. But enough about the movie, because it’s Ted that really fascinates us. Yes, he may not be the greatest role model for the…
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Since Jurassic Park – What I’ve Learned About Friendships
Let me take you back to the Summer of 1993. Like most of the kids my age, I was bat-shit crazy for anything about dinosaurs and seeing Jurassic Park for the first time was the cultural equivalent of a spiritual awakening. I went into that cinema a young, impressional boy, but I came out a…
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Your Summer Perfectly Summed Up in 4 Massive Fails
Did you ever see that Seinfeld episode The Summer of George? We didn’t think so, seeing as you most probably watched Friends in the 90’s. But for the handful of you who DID see it, you’ll know exactly what we mean when we say every summer can be perfectly summed up by all things you…
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Monday Not-so-Funday: 7 Thoughts You Have at the Start of Every Week
So it’s another Monday, probably the least appealing day of the week. Sure, it doesn’t have all the drudgery of a Wednesday, and Thursdays are practically useless, but it’s still got to be everybody’s most hated all of weekdays. Unless it’s a Bank Holiday, then it rules. Here are 7 thoughts we all have every…
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And The Results Are In: Who Did Your Friends Vote For?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past few months, or rather hiding under one to avoid the relentless coverage and annoying memes, you will undoubtably know there was an election earlier this week. Yesterday, in fact. And the results are pouring in as I’m writing this post. But who did your friends vote…
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6 Signs You Need to Go Out and Start Having Fun
It’s nice to get some downtime now and again, but when things start to go awry you know it’s time to get up off the sofa and have some fun outside. In case you can’t tell the difference between a day off and a write-off, here’s 6 signs to look out for: You’re surfing channels…
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Pub Garden Etiquette: Because it’s Getting Near That Time Already!
We love a good pub here at MixingOut, and with the weather beginning to turn and a hint of clarion in the air – okay, maybe we’re jumping the gun there – we’re already picturing ourselves sat outside, cold drink in hand, meeting people and having a good time. That’s right, we’re talking about beer…
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2015 Oscar Winners We Want to Hang Out With
If only to brag about attending a red carpet event, we’d love to make friends with some of this year’s Oscar winners. We can just picture it now; invites to A-list parties, rubbing shoulders with the Hollywood elite, and then onto some trendy LA club where the overpriced drinks menu is carved out of ice…
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4 Things Nobody Tells You About Making Friends When You’re a Grown-Up
1. Every night is “you’re not going out tonight” night Remember when you were little? You’d make plans to meet up with your friends after school and then as soon as you got home you’d hear “you’re not going out tonight” from your mum and dad. Maybe they had other plans, maybe you did something…
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Making Friends, In The Interest of Self Preservation
Now and again we like to strap on our thinking caps here at MixingOut. And without getting too deep about the whole thing, there’s definitely an element of meeting new people and making friends that serves us in good stead, philosophically speaking. We’re ‘social animals’ and hardwired to seek out human companionship. Friendships have benefited…
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5 Facebook Friends Everybody Has But Nobody Wants
1. The #Hashtagger No longer satisfied with Twitter as a means of spreading their pretentious, internet-assembled philosophies, these social media hipsters are now intent on ruining Facebook for everybody too. Trying to remain friends with somebody who constantly uses hashtags on Facebook is like trying to convince yourself that you’re not in a miserable, loveless…
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3 Ways of Making Friends When You Were a Kid That Still Apply Today
Making friends when you’re a kid is easy. Remember when you were six, and one minute you were best friends with somebody because they liked the same things as you – and by the end of the day you were best friends with somebody else because you both had the same coloured shoes. Ah yes,…
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5 Types of New Friends Everyone Should Have
We’ve all seen the movies; new friends and old friends heading off on a night out/to search for a dead body/to throw a ring into the fires of Mordor. There’s always one of every ‘type’ to help the hero on their way. But when it comes back to the real world – which types of…
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Meet Friends on Your Lunch: 3 Alternatives to Your Typical Lunch Break
So it’s almost lunchtime and nothing’s going to satisfy you more than to meet friends for a quick bite to eat, with a side helping of ‘pleasant conversation’ and maybe a few drinks thrown in for good measure. Yes, nothing aids digestion more than good company (unless they steal your food from your plate) which…
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Sun’s Out, Guns Out – Getting Fit With New Friends
Physical exercise isn’t exactly the most appealing way to spend your free time. But what if you started doing more active things with new friends, surely that would make it more engaging and attractive. Besides finding someone else to help develop your fitness interests (because getting into shape is practically nine tenths motivation) it’s also…
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Best ‘Non-date’ Dates for New Friends
Let’s get one thing straight, we’re not talking about dating new friends here. This isn’t like when you were twelve and just going out with one other person meant it was ‘a date’. That’s stupid, right? We’ve all grown up and matured since then… Well, most of us have. No – we’re talking about ‘non-dates’.…