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Watch The Ugandan Expendables and upgrade your action movie demands

 

To Wakaliga, Uganda, where Ramon Film Productions is knocking them bandy with action films of a unique strain. Nabwana IGG, who gave us the terrific Who Killed Captain Alex (budget 200), presents Operation Kakongoliro! The Ugandan … (read more)

Posted: 7th, January 2016 | In: Film | Comment

Babypod lets a foetus know its parents are idiots

 

In the race to get their children ahead, those Other Parents will stop at nothing. They will buy Baby Einstein books, move to the best school catchment zones and transport their … (read more)

Posted: 7th, January 2016 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True, Technology | Comment

Swedish TV host tricked into eating marijuana cookie – hilarity ensues

In 2014, a Swedish TV hosts Filip and Fredrik are reporting from a silent retreat. For research purposes Filip eats a cookie laced with marijuana. He thinks a good idea not to be … (read more)

Posted: 7th, January 2016 | In: TV & Radio | Comment

Transfer Balls: Ronaldo and Bale to Man United, Messi to Man City, Pep to Chelsea

 

Transfer balls: The British Press is obsessed with Real Madrid. The latest news is that Cristiano Ronaldo will definitely leave Real Madrid in the summer, with Manchester United and Paris … (read more)

Posted: 7th, January 2016 | In: Back pages, Chelsea, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Watch Australian policeman’s delight at seeing Mckinlay river flow for first time

Surf’s up (for crocs)

 

Just before Christmas, the lone police officer in Mckinlay, Queensland, Australia, (population 20), watched a river flow for the first time in his lifetime.

Language is NSFW:

 

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Posted: 7th, January 2016 | In: Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment (1)

Transfer balls: Gareth Bale to Chelsea, Hazard to Real, tabloids to guessing

Transfer balls: It’s going to be a month of Gareth Bale this and Gareth Bale that.

The Daily Mail says Bale will head to Manchester United for £75m. There he will hook up … (read more)

Posted: 6th, January 2016 | In: Back pages, Chelsea, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Transfer news: Newcastle fan tosses his shirt in Jamie Vardy’s garden

Transfer news now, and with it the story of the Newcastle United fan baiting Leicester City wonder striker Jamie Vardy. The Magpies fan has attempted to seduce Vardy from high-flying Leicester to … (read more)

Posted: 6th, January 2016 | In: Sports | Comment

Getting high on God: Watch televangelists explain their use of private jets

 

They say it’s hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. But US TV evangelists Kenneth Copeland and Jesse Duplantis are making ready their appeal. Why do … (read more)

Posted: 6th, January 2016 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment

Listen to Brian Eno’s 10 albums for Obscure Records

 

When Brian Eno’s Obscure Records closed in 1978, the ten albums he recorded for the label became tricky to find. Now Ubuweb has links to all ten albums.

Obscure Records (1975-78)

Obscure No. 1: … (read more)

Posted: 6th, January 2016 | In: Music | Comment

Transfer balls: Liverpool ‘get’ Grujic, chase Gundogan, Sane and Aubameyang

Liverpool manger Jurgen Klopp “may be forced into the transfer market”, reports the BBC. During Liverpool’s 1-0 League Cup semi-final first-leg win at Stoke, Philippe Coutinho and Dejan Lovren were forced … (read more)

Posted: 6th, January 2016 | In: Back pages, Liverpool, Sports | Comment

Watch a great video history of David Bowie getting annoyed

David Bowie has been in a many interviews. YouTuber Bodacea1 has compiled the parts of each where Bowie gets shirty.

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Posted: 6th, January 2016 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment

Transfer balls: Arsenal ‘targets’ Elneny and Aubameyang are ‘missing’

Transfer balls: For Arsenal the news is about who is missing. Mohamed Elneny has been missing from Basle training. The 23-year-old Egyptian midfielder has passed his Arsenal medial, which he took in … (read more)

Posted: 5th, January 2016 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment

Manchester United: Bentley for losers

The car’s the star in the tabloids. Manchester United players love a Bentley.

Daily Mail: “Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal arrives at favourite restaurant in a Bentley”

The car’s value is not … (read more)

Posted: 5th, January 2016 | In: Money, Sports, Technology | Comment

Chelsea v Dr Eva Carneiro kicks off soon

“Has he gone yet?”

After the Premier League has wound down for the summer – and Chelsea are calling Avram Grant to manage the team- Dr Eva … (read more)

Posted: 5th, January 2016 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comment

Arsenal join Man City, Chelsea and Man United in chase for Pep Guardiola

Pep Guardiola will manage Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea or Arsenal. He’s leaving Bayern Munich in the close season so he can manage in England.

He told the Press:
“I need a new challenge and … (read more)

Posted: 5th, January 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment (1)

Chris Gayle fined for asking weak, pathetic woman out on a date

 

Jamaican Chris Gayle plays cricket. He’s pretty good at it. He’s a big wham-bam thank you, ma’am sort of player. He attempts to obliterate the ball in the Big Bash … (read more)

Posted: 5th, January 2016 | In: Sports | Comment (1)

SkyDeck: ride a plane in a panoramic bubble

 

With SkyDeck, there is a whole new layer of air travel class.  SkyDeck, created by the Everett, Washington-based Windspeed Technologies LLC, is, it says here, a “revolutionary new in-flight entertainment product.”

 

 

It’s a bubble … (read more)

Posted: 5th, January 2016 | In: Technology | Comment

Simon Danczuk: Oral sex, rape and Rochdale lab rats

 

Danczuk: a look at Labour MP in the media.

The Sun: “Karen Danczuk probed by police over oral sex claim against sex-text MP’s ex”

Probed. Eu!
EXCLUSIVE: Selfie queen claimed love rival romped … (read more)

Posted: 5th, January 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Arsenal want Watford captain Troy Deeney for £20m

“EXCLUSIVE,” says the Daily Star. “Arsenal eye shock move for Watford captain Troy Deeney.”

They are? And, yeah, it would be a shock. It would also be insane.

We’re not not told … (read more)

Posted: 5th, January 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Is Siddartha Dhar A British spy?

 

Snuff TV’s Jihadi John 2 – the replacement for the first Jihadi John who left the planet in series 1 – is Siddartha Dhar. The Star says Dhar “fled Britain … (read more)

Posted: 5th, January 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Manchester United ready huge bid for ‘disappointed’ Bale

Transfer balls: Manchester United are all set to splash a year’s worth of Adidas cash on a £75m bid for Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale.

The Daily Mirror, The Times and Daily Mail all agree this will happen.

But … (read more)

Posted: 5th, January 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united | Comment

Manchester United unveil new Adidas kit designs

The BBC’s headline is interesting: “Man Utd’s playing style ‘not exactly what Adidas want to see’.”

Adidas make sporting goods. They also sponsor Manchester United for – get this –  £75m-a-year. … (read more)

Posted: 5th, January 2016 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comments (3)

British man arrested in Krygyzstan for sausage horse penis gag

Michael McFeat, 39, of Abernethy, is in Krygyzstan, where he works at the Kumtor gold mine.

As part of the Hogmanay celebrations, McFeat is served a sausage horse meat dish called the chuchuk. He considers the hideous lump … (read more)

Posted: 5th, January 2016 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment (1)

Teen brandished machete gift at mother during Christmas board game despute

How was your Christmas?  Did you and the family play games? One 15-year-old did. During play he threatened his mother with a machete he received as a Christmas present.

To West Jordan, … (read more)

Posted: 5th, January 2016 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

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