
Lee Suckling: Why do Kiwis hate speedos?
What's up with our aversion to speedos? It's a drastic contrast to our neighbours in Australia, who are all about the budgie smuggler.
What's up with our aversion to speedos? It's a drastic contrast to our neighbours in Australia, who are all about the budgie smuggler.
There was one thing that began to make me homesick every time I got on a plane. The absence of cassava chips.
The gay community isn't a physical community. It has nothing to do with geography. And though many who choose to think it, the gay community isn't something that happens on K Road at 1am on a Saturday.
AirBnB isn't for everyone. And it's definitely not for the apprehensive or risk-adverse, writes Lee Suckling.
If you're back at work this week, it's likely you're experiencing some summer holiday envy.
A new year beckons, as does the pressure to improve your life. Rather than embarking on a new year's resolution list that you're destined to fail try some of these sustainable, tangible resolutions...
Thanks to mags men are inundated with things they are supposed to own these days. But what about the things they shouldn't?
When you come across the things that drive you nuts about the holiday season, rest assured you're not the only one out there daydreaming about January.
The summer holidays are beckoning, so before we all switch off for the year let's look back at 2014 and see what it taught us.
I jumped the gun and got married in early November. It was a simple affair, and while we didn't set out with this specific goal in mind, the total wedding cost came in at just under $1000.
We love market disruption: it's what makes things better, more affordable, and forces inferiority out, writes Lee Suckling.
Society has always been fascinated by sex, and the internet gives us insight into previously unheard of sexual practices, portraying them as standard conduct, writes Lee Suckling.
We're a culture that loves hysteria, and Halloween is a great vehicle for which people can go nuts. Is it an important celebration? Absolutely not, writes Lee Suckling.
If what might've happened at seventeen 50 years ago is now happening in our mid-twenties, are we a generation of late bloomers, or even non-bloomers?
Gay engagement shouldn't be any different than straight engagement (after all, that was the point of marriage equality), but it is, writes newly engaged Lee Suckling.
If the intention is good, are they still "white" lies? You be the judge, for there are several lies, white and not-so-white, that many of us tell to get our way.
You may have never heard of them, but it won't be long before their efforts are making an impression on you, too.
The New Zealand-wide lack of civic mindedness applies to all generations, not just my own, writes Lee Suckling. How could this be prevented, you ask? We might start by teaching civics.
Without oppression or persecution, what happens to humour, wonders Lee Suckling. Share your thoughts in the comment section.
Ah, the message board. Almost primitive in internet technology, online forums have been popular since the dawn of dial-up.
Sometimes it feels like you have to own a purple dinosaur costume to prove you don’t hate kids. Some kids are great, but saying you “love kids” is like saying you “love people”.
Blogger Lee Suckling is nearly 30, and his mum and dad are still helping him out with his finances. But he's not the only one.
Throughout the last month, gay pride weeks have shone brightly across the northern hemisphere.
Memes carry the cultural ideas of the day. They are short-lived, thus timeliness is of the essence, writes Lee Suckling.
The twenty-something adults of 2014 are different to any generation that has come before us. Lee Suckling gives us five reasons why.
Kiwi humility includes an awkwardness talking about money with friends. Fair enough, as too often it's to blame for passive aggressive barbs or outright arguments.
A new study groups Generation Y into six tribes. But this Gen-Yer doesn't agree with this grouping.