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Cynthia Robinson (1944 – 2015)
Cynthia Robinson has died of cancer. The musician played trumpet with Sly And The Family Stone Roots drummer Questlove salutes her life:
… she wasn’t just a screaming cheerleading foil to … (read more)
Posted: 28th, November 2015 | In: Celebrities, Music, Reviews | 0 Comments
Dog gets stick stuck in his urethra (photos)
Basil the elderly Jack Russell was out walking in Chapel Hill, Lincolnshire, when a shaft of plant got wedged up his urethra.
“He was walking like John Wayne when he ran back … (read more)
Posted: 28th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments
Mother hosted beer and weed party for 12 to 14-year-olds
To Texas, where mother-of-three Mandy Wells, 32, tells police she “thought for minute that it was a bad idea” to provide alcohol and drugs to a … (read more)
Posted: 28th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments
Arsenal balls: Gunners take glorious 14 minute flight to Norwich
Posted: 28th, November 2015 | In: Arsenal, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
An open letter to Katie Hopkins: keep going!
Posted: 28th, November 2015 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Reviews | 0 Comments
Why sprinkling LSD on your breakfast cures anxiety
Off to work on LSD – the day just flies by
Taking 10-15 micrograms of LSD every morning can cure anxiety and insomnia. So says Dr James Fadiman:
People do it and … (read more)
Posted: 28th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Transfer balls: Ribery joins Arsenal, shuns Manchester United and heads to Chelsea
Posted: 27th, November 2015 | In: Chelsea, Key Posts, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
The Arab-Muslim IDF Soldier With The ‘Long Live Israel’ Tattoo
Posted: 26th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
The Times corrects The Sun story on British Muslims supporting ISIS
The Times has issued a clarification of a poll that was first reported in The Sun.
The Times:
Aside the glaring errors, the poll was, er, spot on.
… (read more)
Posted: 26th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Tabloids | 0 Comments
Transfer balls: Ronaldo shuns Manchester United and follows a stranger to PSG
Posted: 26th, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | 0 Comments
Ursula Haverbeck gets prison for Holocaust denial: free speech under attack
Posted: 26th, November 2015 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | 1 Comment
Newspapers only feature naked or hired women on front pages
A survey in January this year revealed that women do read newspapers.
Via
But how do newspapers report on women?
These are today’s front pages:
The only women on the front pages … (read more)
Posted: 26th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Chelsea balls: Mourinho attacks Arsenal with praise
Reader can think of any number of reason why the … (read more)
Posted: 26th, November 2015 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Japanese department store offers one ‘F*CKIN’ SALE’
To Osaka, where the Gallerie store is holding a “Fuckin’ Sale”.
Update: it’s been changed.
Spotter: Steven Levy, Japan Subculture blog, Adrian Chen … (read more)
Posted: 25th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | 2 Comments
Arsenal balls: Petr Cech ran 4.6km against Dinamo Zagreb
Statistics in football can be tricky to comprehend. For instance, … (read more)
Posted: 24th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Transfer balls: Arsenal send the stretchers for Lars Bender and William Carvalho
Posted: 24th, November 2015 | In: Arsenal, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Silhan Ozcelik betrayed by justice, like all the Kurds
Silhan Ozcelik is in a British prison. You might be outraged. You should be.
This is how the Islington Gazette headlines the story of the young woman who went to join … (read more)
Posted: 24th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Manchester United balls: the mounting injury crisis gets better fast
Posted: 24th, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Ronaldo 99% certain to join Manchester United (and 100% certain not to)
Posted: 24th, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Aston Villa: Jack Grealish in hippy horror night out
The facts in David Kent’s report are … (read more)
Posted: 24th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Clock Boy Ahmed Mohamed wants $15m for ‘trauma’, lives in Qatar
You will remember Clock Boy, one Ahmed Mohamed. He was arrested after teachers at his Texas school thought the homemade clock he’d brought to class looked like a bomb.
Ahmed and his family have been … (read more)
Posted: 24th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Manchester United balls: Wayne Rooney is off to play in China?
As it is the Sun says … (read more)
Posted: 23rd, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Yodel delivery driver leaves package on top of customer’s roof
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Posted: 23rd, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments
Transfer balls: Ronaldo to Manchester United and Benitez to Coventry
Trouble at Real Madrid. One bruising defeat to Barcelona and Cristiano Ronaldo, 30, says of manager Rafael Benitez: “Either he goes, or I go.” And that means Ronaldo is off to play … (read more)
Posted: 23rd, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments