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Brexit: Wile E Coyote does a runner

Jeremy Warner should bone up on low culture. He’s writing about Brexit for the Telegraph:
The image that springs to mind is the cartoon character Road Runner, who keeps on running … (read more)

Posted: 21st, August 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Media Balls: Arsenal fail to pay penalty at Leicester

Media Watch: a look at monocular football reporting. In today’s match we look at biased views on Arsenal’s away draw at Leicester City. The game ended o-0.

THE PENALTY CLAIMS

Leicester Mercury:
Leicester City…can feel aggrieved … (read more)

Posted: 20th, August 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Media Balls: Liverpool robbed by Burnley

Media Watch: a look at monocular football reporting. In today’s match we look at biased views on Liverpool’s away defeat to Burnley. The game ended 2-0.

CLYNE’S ERROR

Liverpool Post:
Ragnar Klavan’s cross-field pass … (read more)

Posted: 20th, August 2016 | In: Back pages, Liverpool, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Media Balls: Chelsea benefit from ‘stunning’ ‘poor pass’ to beat Watford

Media Watch: a look at monocular football reporting. In today’s match we look at biased views on Watford’s home defeat to Chelsea. The game eded 1-2.

THE WINNING GOAL

Watford Observer:
The difference was to be … (read more)

Posted: 20th, August 2016 | In: Back pages, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Ashley Cole will ‘snub’ Arsenal to help Chelsea kids understand greed

The Evening Standard reports that LA Galaxy defender Ashley Cole, 35, “says he wants to work for Chelsea after his playing career is over rather than Arsenal.”

It would take a … (read more)

Posted: 20th, August 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Chelsea, Sports | Comment (1)

Transfer balls: Lukaku wants Chelsea, commits to Everton, goes nowhere

Transfer balls: The BBC says Everton striker Romelu Lukaku, 23, “will turn down Chelsea to stay at Goodison Park for at least another season”.

The BBC claim links to the Daily Mirror, which is adamant:
Romelu … (read more)

Posted: 20th, August 2016 | In: Back pages, Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Dog passes the fermented herring test (video NSFL)

This is a Not Safe For Lunch video of a dog being treated to its first encounter with fermented herring:

 

Malin Jonsson from Umeå in northern Sweden spotted her French bulldog, … (read more)

Posted: 20th, August 2016 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Culture Kalash: Pakistani tribe doesn’t like Muslim migrants

There is trouble in Pakistan. The Kalash tribe is threatened:
Hidden up in the mountains near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, the Kalash tribe loves homemade wine and whiskey, dances for days at colorful … (read more)

Posted: 20th, August 2016 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment

Jew stabbed: media turns Islamic terror into a mental health issue

In Strasbourg an Hassidic Jews has been stabbed. News is that the attacker has “mental health issues”, much like the knifer in Russell Square, London, did. Does failing mental health lead … (read more)

Posted: 19th, August 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)

Madeleine McCann: ‘Sick’ tweets from The Sun and Fruity King

It’s been a slow summer for news of Madeleine McCann, the missing child who was once a mainstay of the summer news cycle. The Sun, however, has news:
SICK MADDIE SLUR … (read more)

Posted: 19th, August 2016 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Who thinks this photos from the Independent looks like gay Olympics porn?

“People think these photos from the Olympics look a lot like pornography,” writes Joe Vesey-Byrne in the Indy.
NBC has been censoring Olympic swimmers with the infamous ‘black bar’, and now the games look … (read more)

Posted: 19th, August 2016 | In: Reviews, Sports | Comment

Arsenal balls: José Giménez and Shkodran Mustafi are just stop-gaps in a steady decline

That Arsenal are looking fore a centre-back is daily news in the Press. Arsène Wenger’s side have been talking with Atlético Madrid over Uruguayan stopper José Giménez.

Is he the man … (read more)

Posted: 19th, August 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Dalian Atkinson: police crimes, Tasers, mental health and black skin

A round-up of news on the death of former Aston Villa Dalian Atkinson, who died after being hit by police Tasers.

Daily Mail: “Two officers under criminal investigation over footballer Taser death”

That’s … (read more)

Posted: 19th, August 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Manchester City offload Joe Hart to Everton by loan and sale

What news of Manchester City’s ranting goalkeeper Joe Hart?

The BBC says Hart will “join Everton on loan”.

The Daily Mirror agrees that Hart will leave on loans because Manchester City have are buying … (read more)

Posted: 19th, August 2016 | In: Back pages, Manchester City, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Periods in sport are no taboo, Serena Williams gets over it

When watching the Olympics, did you think I wonder if she’s on her period? Ross George did. She tells Guardian readers:
My gold medal goes to Fu Yuanhui – for talking … (read more)

Posted: 19th, August 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Inequality makes you fat and food is therapy

Why are you fat? Why are you not fat? Polly Tonybee knows. She writes in the Guardian:
The Tories must tackle the real cause of obesity: inequality
When fat meant prosperous and … (read more)

Posted: 19th, August 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Reviews, The Consumer | Comment

Man passes out after having sex with a van

Police say Michael Henson was trying to have sex with a van in Dayton, Ohio at around 8:00pm.

 

Caught in Transit

 

A woman who called police claims to have … (read more)

Posted: 19th, August 2016 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Validation: the wonder of free parking (a video)

Kurt Kuenne’s short film Validation is the “fable about the magic of free parking”.

 
… (read more)

Posted: 18th, August 2016 | In: Film | Comment

Take Hart: Manchester City given lesson in ‘common human decency’ by Joey Baton

When not shouting like the loon on the night bus, Joe Hart is letting in goals for England. Manchester City have seen enough, and are looking to offload the goalkeeper. The Mirror … (read more)

Posted: 18th, August 2016 | In: Back pages, Manchester City, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Arsenal fan signs Riyad Marhez because he read it in the Metro

Modern football fans are in crisis. Get a load of the Arsenal fan who bought a replicate top and had the name “MAHREZ” stuck across the back. That’s Leicester City player Riyad Mahrez, … (read more)

Posted: 18th, August 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Reviews, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Racism spotted in the dust of Judge Roy Bean’s nooses

 

Can a sign be racist? In Green Country, Oklahoma, Terrance Reed, Sr. Reed spotted three nooses handing from a tree. “When I looked over there, I was like, ‘are those nooses hanging … (read more)

Posted: 18th, August 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Bachabaze, gang rape and Afghan asylum seekers

Do they have Yew Trees is Afghanistan? The Indy has news of a suspected rape:
Four-year-old child refugee ‘raped by Afghan man’ at centre for asylum seekers in Germany
The boy’s dad … (read more)

Posted: 17th, August 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: pig-headed Chelsea reserve Cesc Fabregas want Real Madrid move

Transfer balls: what news of Cesc Fabregas, the former Arsenal captain who left for his beloved Barcelona and now warms the bench at Chelsea? The Daily Express has some, reporting on August … (read more)

Posted: 17th, August 2016 | In: Back pages, Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | Comment

How to make puppets from cats

You make your own entertainment in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Gerda Osteneck makes puppets from old cat hair. “Boo was a rescue cat we got shortly after I took a felting class,” says Gerda, … (read more)

Posted: 17th, August 2016 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Transfer balls: Shkodran Mustafi arrived at Arsenal yesterday after no bid was made

Transfer balls: Are Arsenal set to sign a new defender? Given the Gunners’ season debut against Liverpool, you’d think hiring another four would be ideal. But the Mil says one is … (read more)

Posted: 17th, August 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Reviews, Sports | Comment

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