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Burn hole cardigan worn by Kurt Cobain on MTV-Unplugged sells for $140,800
The deeply unfashionable cardigan wort by Kurt Cobain on MTV: Unplugged in 1993 has been bought at auction for $140,800. The seller was a “friend” of the Cobain family.
Four months after the show, … (read more)
Posted: 9th, November 2015 | In: Music, Reviews, The Consumer | 0 Comments
Transfer balls: Manchester United ‘owed’ Rooney £45m (unless they sell him to Real Madrid)
Transfer Balls: The Daily Star leads with news of a “Man Utd £45m deal”.
Wow. Manchester Untied have agreed to sign a player for £45m? No. Jonathan Green’s stort is utter balls:
Manchester … (read more)
Posted: 9th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
The secret den in King Tutankhamun’s tomb
Cairo University’s Faculty of Engineering … (read more)
Posted: 9th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Liverpool balls: Klopp and the Crystal Palace ‘mass walkout’ that wasn’t
Did you see the “MASS WALKOUT” at Anfield as Liverpool lost to Crystal Palace?
What happened was that as the game wound down fans started to leave. This is pretty routine.
Jurgen … (read more)
Posted: 9th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Grass and Gas: Store offer marijuana and petrol to loyal customers
In the file marked “What could go wrong?’, we learn that medical marijuana users can now buy weed while filling up their gas tanks in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
“Gas & Grass” in Colorado … (read more)
Posted: 9th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Arsenal and Spurs balls: Vertonghen gropes Giroud, Kane is ‘immaculate’ but Ozil is the star
Arsenal drew 1-1 with Spurs in the Premier League yesterday. The Mirror leads with “GET A ROOM BOYS”, a comment based on a picture of Tottenham’s Vertonghen with his hand close … (read more)
Posted: 9th, November 2015 | In: Arsenal, Reviews, Sports, Spurs | 0 Comments
Coffin company uses naked women calendar to seduce stiffs
To Poland, where coffin company Lindner is seducing stiffs to its product range with a calendar full of topless babes.
“We enjoy showing our beautiful coffins, and what better way than including beautiful … (read more)
Posted: 9th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | 0 Comments
Transfer Balls: Benzema signs for Arsenal (again)
Posted: 8th, November 2015 | In: Arsenal, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Palesinian terrorist Hilwa Salim Darwish is dead and alive, allegedly
Hilwa Salim Darwish, 22, was shot when she approached an Israeli security guard, pulled a knife from her handbag and tried to stab him.
The Daily Mirror produces a strange report. … (read more)
Chelsea v Stoke: Adam escapes, Costa kicks Shawcross, Blue website hilarious
Home And Away: our look at biased reporting on football matches.
The Chelsea website has a review of the Blues match at Stoke City – they lost 0-1. The website makes Pravda … (read more)
Posted: 8th, November 2015 | In: Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Stoke City beat the champions and Chelsea get all the media coverage
Posted: 8th, November 2015 | In: Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Chelsea balls: Mourinho ‘sacked’, Simeone arrives in 2016, Rodgers brings Liverpool magic
The Sunday People says Jose Mourinho will be handed his P45 because Chelsea … (read more)
Posted: 8th, November 2015 | In: Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Wath Later That Same Life: Stoney Emshwille’s brilliant time-travel talkshow
Stoney Emshwiller was 18 when he recorded himself filming his older self. Now age 56, Stoney completes the wheel by replying to his younger self’s questions. His film is called Later That Same … (read more)
Posted: 7th, November 2015 | In: Film, Reviews | 0 Comments
Chelsea balls: Mourinho bans watches Stoke match on hospital radio
Posted: 7th, November 2015 | In: Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Arsenal: Eduardo’s missing leg, Manchester City victims of success and Liverpool are nowhere
Carragher reasons that getting kicked out of the Champions’ League in the first round … (read more)
Posted: 7th, November 2015 | In: Arsenal, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Murderer and sex offender wants his wig back
To Brazil, where New Zealander Phillip John Smith has flown whilst on day release from Springhill Prison. Having obtained a passport under his birth name, Phillip … (read more)
Posted: 7th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments
Police hunt: cycling hatchet-wielding transgender bag-snatcher
The six-feet tall, middled-aged transgender woman than flees on … (read more)
Posted: 7th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments
Chelsea balls: Mourinho chose between watching Stoke game in hotel or city pub
Posted: 6th, November 2015 | In: Chelsea, Sports | 0 Comments
Transfer balls: Joel Campbell signs for two clubs and vows to stay at Arsenal
The Metro says Campbell’s agent sees his client remaining at Arsenal for some time.
Campbell, who signed for … (read more)
Posted: 6th, November 2015 | In: Arsenal, Sports, Tabloids | 0 Comments
Lawyers summoned after schoolgirl given detention for hugging classmate
Matt Morgan of Morgan & Morgan at law says he’s been hired to help raise awareness about the issue of hugging in schools.
Keen minds are focused on Jackson Heights Middle … (read more)
Posted: 6th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments
Ursula Presgrave: idiot sent to court of saying something idiotic
Free Speech is under threat. The Mail says the “star of BBC reality TV show The Call Centre faces JAIL after posting ‘sick’ Facebook message that ‘anyone born with Down’s … (read more)
Posted: 6th, November 2015 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | 0 Comments
Madeleine McCann: Julian Hernandez and his dad found
Madeleine McCann – a look at reporting on the missing child.
Daily Star (front page): “MADDIE HOPE – Missing boy found alive after 13 years”
Beneath the news of a boy having … (read more)
Posted: 6th, November 2015 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | 0 Comments
Hey, stupid – your smug V for Vendetta masks are made in a corporate sweatshop
Who admires the social warrior for the ordinary, wearing a plastic mask of Guido Fawkes, those uniform smug fake faces that have come to symbolise rebellion and a hatred of unfairness? You can … (read more)
Posted: 6th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Parasitic tapeworm with cancer kills man by cancer
This is an adult Taenia saginata tapeworm.
The 41-year-old Colombian man was HIV positive. What killed him, as reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, was … (read more)
Posted: 5th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments
David Cameron dummy and dead pig’s burned for Guy Fawkes night
This Guy Fawkes night, the people of Lewes will look beyond burning a stuffed effigy of the Pope and instead torch David Cameron and a … (read more)
Posted: 5th, November 2015 | In: Politicians, Reviews | 0 Comments