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10 Completely Useless Wine Accessory Gift Ideas

As we get deeper into the Holiday Gift Giving season, perhaps its time to take a moment to reflect on whether that wine accessory really is something that the recipient would appreciate.

The way Web Watch sees it, if you’re going to give a wine enthusiast a gift, you might as well give them a bottle of wine that either YOU like (so you can then say, “hey, let’s open that bottle I just gave you”) or a bottle of wine that you know THEY’LL like in the hopes that they will open that bottle and share with you anyway.

Funny thing about giving a gift of wine – you’ll probably end up having some of it anyway.

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Why every office should be filled with kittens and puppies

Are you watching the current BRAVO TV program LOLWORK?

It’s a reality TV program that allegedly shows the real-world behind-the-scenes workings of how the Cheezburger Network — home toLOL CATSand millions of other funny animal pictures and videos — does business.

While most the show appears to be purposefully driven to make what is supposed to be good TV, there are specific business-aspects that get aired that really for-real give a reasonable peek behind the curtain of what it takes to run a popular content-driven website.

Watching LOLWORK will give you a good reminder that it’s always hard work to create good, compelling CONTENT for your website, but that it’s that same content that also brings eyeballs to your site in the first place.  Focus on the content, let everything else fall into place later.

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What REALLY happens when you have an opportunity to sleep with your fantasy

Everybody has aTOP FIVE LIST.

That’s the list of your Top Five Most Desired celebrities who, if you ever have the opportunity to do so, you would sleep with – no questions asked from your current spouse or partner.

The obvious reason for the no strings attached hookup allowance is that we can all be fairly confident that the opportunity to actually sleep with perennial favorites Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Sandra Bullock, or George Clooney will never actually happen.

The Top Five List is the purest form of fantasy, like buying a lottery ticket, in that you can dream about what the experience would be like if it were to actually come true with the safety in the knowledge that it never will.  You can be as wild and crazy as you want in your mind, without having to go through with anything in the end.

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The 1800’s were a vulgar, obscene time in history

If you’ve never had the opportunity to visit the Old Country (Germany, Italy, France, etc), you’ll be amazed at how history surrounds you at every turn when you do finally make it over there.

Everywhere you look will be some ancient building or piece of art, forever preserved for the never-ending crowds of ooh-ing and aahh-ing tourists.  Even just stepping out of the high-speed, modern train station in Venice is like stepping immediately into the 14th century (get to Venice while you can, before it sinks away into the sea forever – it’s worth the trip).

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Cards Against Humanity: Best. Party. Game. Ever.

Trying to find The Ultimate Game To Play when it’s holiday time with the family can be tough.

Not everybody likes playing Monopoly, and most other board games are limited to either four or six players maximum anyway.  So if you have a large gathering, it can be tough to find a group or party game that everybody can participate in.

What are you typically left with?  Trivia games, Pictionary, Cranium.  You know – team-based stuff.

But what if you’re tired of competing as a team when you have 10 or more people hanging out at your house for hours on end?

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It ends up that money actually CAN buy happiness

We’ve all heard the expression that “Money can’t buy happiness”, and we’ve heard all the follow-up jokes about it just being a matter of where you shop.

It turns out that maybe those jokes were telling a little bit of the truth, after all.

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When children are afraid of poo (and other parenting advice)

Are you a parent of a small child or toddler?

As quite a few of Web Watch’s parental friends have found out, you aren’t a parent until you experience your child pooping during bathtime.

It happens, they say. Perfectly normal.

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How do your shopping habits compare to others?

Have you ever wondered how you are doing compared to others in your immediate circle?

Don’t pretend that conversation doesn’t happen between you and your significant other: “do you think they have more credit card debt than we do?” after leaving a dinner party.  “How do you think they can afford all that and we can’t?”

Well, we can answer these types of questions now, at least in Australia, where one bank has decided to post a billion credit card transaction records online for you to compare and contrast your own habits against others.