I may have been delayed by a day or two, but I find it is far easier to write an article on Valentine’s Day retrospectively. The pangs of loneliness are beginning to fade and the melodramatic amount of alcohol I drank has passed through my system. Couples will have broken up,...

  Not many sports are all that great when confined to a table. Table Rugby hurts a lot, Table Skiing is short-lived, and Table Chess is a lot like regular chess. But Table Tennis is the perfect blend of athleticism and, err, tables. Ever thought that tennis should just be smaller? Or...

  It’s difficult to describe the nutshot to anyone who’s never experienced it (that is, women, extraordinarily lucky men, and Ken dolls). I guess a good place to start is throwing up. You know when you reach the point of dry heaving? The pain that you feel when your stomach...

  Hallelujah, Summer has arrived! However, since great weather is so irregular in Britain, we as a nation are not sure how to deal with it, to the extent that we even feel comfortable enough to spark up conversation with a stranger and complain about it with them. When the sun hits our...

  Admit it. You’ve always wanted to be Leonardo DiCaprio, and seeing Inception made you want to be him even more than the time you saw him sink to a watery grave in Titanic. Luckily for you, I’m here to make your dreams a reality. Well, sort of. I’m sure many of you...

  Driving a car is no is easy business. I mean, you only have four limbs with which to haul a one ton chunk of metal around the country at 50+ miles per hour, and I don’t know about you, but I’m no Vishnu. Driving is so difficult, in fact, that more than 90% of under...

  OK, now before you start getting red in the face or spluttering on your Dunkin’ Donut in anger, this is not simply a tirade of abuse directed at fat people. No, it is a tirade of abuse directed at really, really fat people. You know, people who make you wonder whether Shamu did...

  So by now, you’ll have seen the Stop Kony (sorry, I mean #stopkony) video, unless you live under a rock like those lucky insects who never have to sit and watch the number of likes on an inane Facebook status crawl up and up, wishing that those tiny thumbs would jab you in the...

  If you’ve ever tried to raise money for charity, you’ll be well aware of the difficulties and hardships of doing so. At the moment I’m trying to raise money for a 2,400km bike ride that three friends and I are doing across Vietnam for The Saigon Children’s...

  As a general rule of thumb, break-ups aren’t great. There’s the whining, the screaming, the tears, and the girls are usually pretty cut up too. Unfortunately, we’ve all been there at some point in our lives. I’m certainly no stranger to it; when reality comes...

  This may seem a little delayed, but it is far easier to write an article on Valentine’s Day retrospectively. The pangs of loneliness are now starting to fade and the melodramatic amount of alcohol I drank has passed through my system. Couples will have broken up, lonely hearts...

  Apparently, working as an elevator operator is a job that has it’s ups and downs. And BOOM! We’ve started. Straight in with the jokes.   Surprisingly, the first elevator was built way back in 236 BC by a certain Archimedes, which just shows how productive he could be...

  Every year on Boxing Day, it seems that Britain goes insane with the thought of saving pennies and gaining unnecessary things that normally they would not have bought. Places like Oxford St become masses of people, fighting over footwear, punching over purses and causing chaos over...

  Christmas has passed, New Year’s has come and gone and for many of us the evil spectre of essays is fast threatening your firstborns and disturbing your family seances. What follows is not so much a guide to sending these ethereal beasts back into the underworld, but it should...

  Birthdays are a rare and special occasion for us, because for one day a year, the world just revolves around us, right? What people fail to realise is that you share your birthday with roughly 20 million other people worldwide, so perhaps you’re not so special after all. Sorry...

  Everyone has to meet someone at some point in their lives (right?) and when you do, it can be a complicated thing. Many decisions have to be made in too few minutes. Greetings are simple no more! The hug, the kiss, the handshake, the full-on high-five, the not-so-full-on...

  In an ideal world, housemates would behave like the cast of Friends; slightly dysfunctional but work well as a group and, let’s be honest, who wouldn’t want to share a house with Jennifer Aniston?   Unfortunately, in the real world this is not the case. As much as you know...

  Huzzah! Midweek Media is now a thing! Click here to see what we have on offer! Videos and comics galore. Olly T, as I will probably never call him again, is back with another video, but recently he also tried his hand at words instead of movie films. Please subscribe to his YouTube...

  Sometimes, our articles are appreciated outside of our tight-knit TrendFlux community. These are known as ‘good days’. Just recently an Oxford-based magazine asked to feature Guy Vero‘s article about Freshers’ Week. Here is an edited version that is more...

  The thing about Halloween is that it’s just as mysterious as it is frightening. No one really knows why it came about. I think, by now, we all know that Halloween is a contraction of ‘All Hallow’s Eve’, and if we didn’t, at least we all know someone who...

  Everyone dreams of it, the perfect day, the perfect partner and that perfect kiss, but is it truly what everyone gets? Trendflux is here to investigate that most brilliant of traditions, the British Wedding.   Kate and William, David and Victoria, Heather and Paul, just some fine...

  Please forgive me for slanting this article somewhat towards the late teens/early 20s; I figured if you’re 12 years old, you either don’t know what a pimp is or aren’t interested in the opposite sex yet. If your 30 and up, I’m sure you have more important things to worry about,...

  In today’s society, it has become apparent that you have to fit a certain mould to be deemed ‘socially acceptable’, and this is all the more emphasized at university.   Most people bang on about how university is the place where you can be yourself, do what you want to do...

  Doctors will often give their patients a pill, or some kind of treatment, in order to improve their condition. The pills will usually contain wonderful medicines and chemicals, and treatments could be anything from anaesthetic and painkillers to actual surgery. But enough of this...