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Hacking cough: Tottenham and England great Jimmy Greaves needs your help
Below the photo of the young Syrian would-be refugee and the story of escaping death, The People leads with the news that we have 72 hours to “save” Jimmy Greaves. The … (read more)
Posted: 6th, September 2015 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Sports | 0 Comments
Manchester United bid £21m for Martial a week before the transfer deadline
Pérez’s spokesman at Real told … (read more)
Posted: 5th, September 2015 | In: manchester united | 0 Comments
China TV news lolz: mistakes Fleshlight sex toy for rare edible mushroom
News from 2012 with Jeremy Ko:
I translated the video myself and added it in using FCP. It is as accurate as I can understand from it. Besides the obscure name of … (read more)
Posted: 5th, September 2015 | In: Reviews, TV & Radio | 0 Comments
Hurrah for the migrants: Daily Mail cheers for murderous, scrounging asylum-seeking scum
The Daily Mail is overjoyed that migrants have reached the “promised land”.
Daily Mail readers might be tad confused by this take on the news. For years the Mail has told … (read more)
Posted: 5th, September 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Transfer Balls: Manchester United’s £60m for Thomas Muller
Posted: 5th, September 2015 | In: manchester united, Sports | 0 Comments
X Factor: you don’t have to be stoned like Wiz Khalifa to watch it but it helps
The X Factor is back. Simon Cowell is one step closer to becoming his own waxwork. Cheryl Cole remains the nation’s sweetheart (that nation being Assad’s Syria). Nick Grimshaw brings … (read more)
Posted: 5th, September 2015 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | 0 Comments
Football: at home with an Arsenal star in 1973
On August 4 1973, Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson showed Shoot! readers around his Hertfordshire home.
Spotter Flashbak … (read more)
Posted: 5th, September 2015 | In: Arsenal, Sports | 0 Comments
Video: man with the 19-inch penis goes the way of the three-breasted woman
When we heard that Roberto Esquivel Cabrera, a 52-year-old Mexican, sported a 19-inch penis, we marvelled. And then we wondered if anyone had a photo of the massive member.
Cabrera says his penis is go … (read more)
Posted: 4th, September 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments
Who was the best Hannibal Lecter: watch Cox, Hopkins and Mikkelsen go head to head
Matthew Morettini let’s us compare and contrast three screen manifestations of Hannibal Lecter with this neat video
I always preferred the 1985 Manhunter, with Brian Cox as the terrifying Lecter. Anthony Hopkins reworked … (read more)
Posted: 4th, September 2015 | In: Books, Film, TV & Radio | 0 Comments
Woman has large horn growing out of her head (video)
To China, where Liang Xiuzhen of Sichuan sports a 13-centimeter by 6-centimeter horn. It’s not stuck on. It’s part of her.
The 87-year-old’s growth is known as a cutaneous horn. Made of … (read more)
Posted: 4th, September 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments
Watch: murderer told on TV that victim’s body has been found
In 2011 Lauren Giddings had been reported missing. The TV news crew interviewed her classmate and neighbour, Stephen McDaniel.
He was keen to talk.
Look out for the part when he’s told the body … (read more)
Posted: 4th, September 2015 | In: Reviews, TV & Radio | 0 Comments
Torquay woman ‘robbed’ of money from her ‘private parts’
Questions aplenty in light of the Torquay Herald’s story of Paul Clint Wells, 38, who stood before the Beak at Torquay Magistrates’ Court for the alleged offence of “attempting to rob … (read more)
Posted: 4th, September 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments
Manchester United news: Sir Alex Ferguson says too much displine cost United titles
It sounds … (read more)
Posted: 4th, September 2015 | In: Books, manchester united, Sports | 0 Comments
French farmers kidnap Alps park boss as wolves attack
Posted: 4th, September 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
What an English pop song sounds like to Italians
What do the English sounds like to Italians?
In 1972, Italian singer Adriano Celentano belted out the No. 1 hit Prisencolinensinainciusol. You can sing along if you know the words but if … (read more)
Posted: 4th, September 2015 | In: Music | 0 Comments
Manchester United: De Gea takes the clickbait and signs a new Old Trafford contract
The Metro’s Jamie Sanderson plugs into his click-o-rama and says “David De Gea to sign new Manchester United contract with Real Madrid transfer interest dead”.
De Gea wants to stay at … (read more)
Posted: 4th, September 2015 | In: manchester united, Sports | 0 Comments
Manchester United: ‘serious questions’ over Anthony Martial as Van Gaal drowns his sorrows
Posted: 4th, September 2015 | In: manchester united | 0 Comments
You can buy a hat for your man bun
The man bun hat “unites the best of contemporary styles in hair and hats for young men,” says the fashionaista at Capitol Hill Seattle, notes Rob Beschizza.
Not yet available as a tattoo.
Spotters: Stylite, Dan … (read more)
Posted: 3rd, September 2015 | In: Fashion | 0 Comments
Manchester United balls: Anthony Martial and Louis Van Gaal’s missing warning
Posted: 3rd, September 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
North Shields mum finds human poo at bottom of log flume, Bill Murray is away
Posted: 3rd, September 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Arsenal: striker out until Christmas
The Gunners are the only club from the top five European leagues not to sign … (read more)
Posted: 3rd, September 2015 | In: Arsenal, Sports | 0 Comments
Nostadamus predicted Manchester United’s transfers, Arsenal put on a front
Whereas Anthony Martial’s £36million deadline day move to Manchester United caught most people on the hop, it would appear that all over United’s summer transfers were centuries in the making, … (read more)
Posted: 3rd, September 2015 | In: manchester united, Sports | 0 Comments
Here’s why you should never step on a cricket
Never step on a cricket. That’s a nematomorpha. … (read more)
Posted: 3rd, September 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments
The Sun’s proud history in demonising migrants
Posted: 3rd, September 2015 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | 0 Comments
Galip and Aylan: two dead Syrian boys on the beach become the faces of the migratian crisis
All newspapers lad with the photograph of the dead boy washed up on a Turkish beach.
The dead boys on the beach were two Syrian refugees. Galip and Aylan, who died … (read more)
Posted: 3rd, September 2015 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments