How to Know if You Should Take Yourself to the Doctors

Posted 8:28pm Friday 11th May 2018

It’s that time of year. Exams are nigh, Seasonal Affective Disorder is imminent, fruit is about to get so expensive you get scurvy and if you haven’t had chlamydia yet, chances are you might.  At this time of year, it is hard to know if you are actually sick (at least if Read more...

Advice On How To Be A Solo Zen-Dog Traveller For A Year

Posted 5:07pm Saturday 5th May 2018

If you’re trying to find yourself, a good place to look is Southeast Asia. If you want to make your trip last a lifetime, get a little tattoo on your wrist or ankle, as a symbol of your personal growth. Reconciling your basic bitch aesthetic with finding yourself while travelling is quite Read more...

Advice On How To Reinvent Yourself

Posted 6:53pm Sunday 29th April 2018

Moving to uni is the perfect opportunity to reinvent yourself. Sometimes we think reinventing yourself is a kind of awkward thing to do. As if everyone else would know how doobie you used to be, and that they’d see through your new sheen of me-ness. Well, maybe. But also, whatever. You can Read more...

Advice on Giving Advice | How to Give it to That Git in the Middle of the U-Bar Mosh

Posted 6:03pm Thursday 19th April 2018

Pint night is the old-but-kinda-nouveau-new thing for those who are keen on a social Wednesday evening. Because of this, the U-Bar mosh is arguably the most sociologically significant location for Dunedin students. There is an important code of etiquette to partaking in the mosh, so freshers listen Read more...

Advice on Giving Advice | How to Win Every Drinking Game

Posted 10:18pm Thursday 12th April 2018

If you exist in or around North Dunedin and are somewhere between 18 and 24 years of age, drinking games are gonna be an essential part of your life.   Most of us can’t remember our first drinking game, and that’s because a lot of us didn’t have someone to advise us on how Read more...

Advice on How to Advise People That Now Really Isn’t the Time.

Posted 10:46pm Thursday 5th April 2018

Sometimes, even the people you are closest to get your knickers in a twist. Sometimes you want to be polite to them and avoid them. And sometimes they don’t even deserve that sort of evasive kindness. Now we’re not suggesting you get it out in a fisticuffs brawl at Castle St on Read more...

Advice on Giving Advice | Advice on Sending It

Posted 8:26pm Thursday 22nd March 2018

If you are reading this thinking we’re about to deliver some absolute pearlers on how to be the most productive you you’ve ever been, you’re about to be more disappointed than hearing certain presidential election results. To be utterly frank, we operate purely off mantras. Read more...

The Definitive Guide to Talking About The Sex That You Or Other People Are Having

Posted 9:20pm Thursday 15th March 2018

Here’s the thing with sex – like most things you will do in your life, it’s going to be good, it’s going to be bad, and it will often seem like a good idea when you’re drunk. But, just like getting sex advice from your well-meaning father, you don’t need to always Read more...

Auntie Kell and Mumma Zo | Advice on Getting out of Dunedin

Posted 5:03pm Thursday 8th March 2018

It is generally advisable not to sleep with someone solely so you can get them to take you out of the city (like my mother did), or out of the country (like Kelly’s mother did). This could leave you with a child in an unknown part of the world. Choice. Hitch-hiking is a possibility, our Read more...

Advice on Advising | The Phresher Phlu

Posted 4:24pm Saturday 3rd March 2018

Disclaimer: In no way do we support being ill and partying O-week and the first week of lectures have been and gone. This means that all of us attempting to avoid the phresher phlu have now well and truly intermingled. The biggest problem with phresher phlu is that despite O-week being over, Read more...