The holiday season is up ahead and if your like us, so are many nights of boozing it up with the friends and family.  Sure it my be hard on the liver, but what better way to deal with that creepy Uncle and those nagging parents than with a little extra nog in your eggnog?  There isn’t one.

But as necessary as alcohol may be for maintaining holiday sanity, have you ever wondered how much effect drinking has on your holiday waistline? Well wonder no more.  The folks at BBC Radio 1 have put together an awesome new website that does just that.  Be ready to be horrified.  Be ready to be amazed.  Oh, and be ready to wonder WTF a Jaffa Cake is.

Check Out The Alcohol Experiment Here.

How do you create the ultimate bachelor pad so a lady - or possibly many ladies - will come through and not be turned off by the fact that you live in your own sh*t.

The most important things to keep in mind when designing your bachelor pad are: YOU must be comfortable there. A WOMAN should not be uncomfortable there. It should reveal your PERSONALITY. It should be a FUNCTIONAL place to live. It should look like a MAN lives there.

Whether your pad passes the lady’s “test” or not could be the difference between heart-pounding success and mind-numbing failure. Of course, certain things are obvious and go without saying - such as your place should be clean, neat, and smell-free (or preferably smell good). However, keep in mind that it should look “lived in” and not like you just spent six hours cleaning it before she came over. You want her to be “impressed” but also comfortable.

Check out How to Create the Ultimate Bachelor Pad after the jump! Read more

Picking up the tab on the first date is always an awkward moment. Do you offer? Do you just sit there looking around the room and wait for him to take it? What do your actions say about you as a person? In this week’s He Said/She Said, we dive into first date etiquette. Who should be grabbing their wallet?

He Said:
Paying on the first date is completely inconsequential to me. I seriously don’t care. If I asked you out, then me paying makes sense to me, based only on logic. However, if she wants to pay, that’s fine, too. It doesn’t make me feel like any less of a man. Especially if I’ve somehow tricked some super-employed high powered lady into dating me (bonus!). Read more

For your health!