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Newcastle United fans forced to stop selling Magpie Brand shirts after owner’s threats

 

Newcastle United have banned  The Magpie Brand from selling its black and white tops. The shirts are a popular alternative to the sell-out Wonga-embossed official kit.

Newcastle’s lawyers threatend The Magpie Brand. Stop … (read more)

Posted: 1st, September 2015 | In: Sports | Comment (1)

Daniel Craig: James Bond is a ‘sad old man’

 

James Bond is a bit of  wally, says Daniel Craig, the latest actor to make the character from Ian Felming’s books flesh and blood.

Craig has been talking to Esquire 007 in readiness for … (read more)

Posted: 1st, September 2015 | In: Celebrities, Film | Comment

The Lifesize David Bowie Pillow Doll

 

Who doesn’t awant a full-size David Bowie pillow doll? Proxy Shop on Etsy is offering them for $400a pop.
The Lifesize David Bowie Pillow stands 66” tall and is the ultimate gift … (read more)

Posted: 1st, September 2015 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment

Tiffany White-Wine saw red: woman arrested for alleged drunken attack

 

Nominative Determinism Watch spots 29-year-old Michigan woman Tiffany B. White-Wine. She’s been charged with assaulting her roommate.

White-Wine had been drinking before she saw red.

  … (read more)

Posted: 1st, September 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Transfer Balls: Arsenal ‘buy’ Cavani on super agent’s secret twitter account

Transfer Balls: According to the Metro, Paris St Germain have accepted Arsenal’s £45m for Edinson Cavani.

George Bellshaw declares:
Paris St Germain have accepted a £45million transfer offer from Arsenal for Edinson Cavani…
The … (read more)

Posted: 1st, September 2015 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment

Transfer Balls: David De Gea’s move from Manchester United to Real Madrid collapses

Manchester United had all summer to work on their project. But David De Gea’s transfer to Real Madrid is off because the United board didn’t hand in their work on time.

The BBC … (read more)

Posted: 1st, September 2015 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment

Manchester United: David Dea Gea leaves

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All those vows that David Dea Gea would be made to honour the final year of his Manchester United contract unless Real Madrid made a world-record offer … (read more)

Posted: 31st, August 2015 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment

Other Parents: Cherish Peterson left her child in a shopping trolley

Other Parents focuses on Cherish Peterson who left her baby at the grocery store. Cherish, 27, forgot her two-month-old son Huxton was still sat in the trolley at Fry’s shop in Gilbert, Arizona.

Gilbert, … (read more)

Posted: 31st, August 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Transfer Balls summer 2015: Arsenal bought Vidal, Benzema, Aurie and Schneiderlin

Transfer Balls: a look at the player Arsenal FC bought over the summer trasfer window (and where they really ended up):

Arsenal Buy Arturo Vidal

June 28th 2015, Chile midfielder Vidal joins the … (read more)

Posted: 31st, August 2015 | In: Arsenal, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Transfer Balls: Manchester United panic buy a striker

 

Manchester United have signed Anthony Martial from Monaco for £36m. The 19-year-old scored eight goals in 31 Ligue 1 appearances last season.

Just before that move, the BBC reported:

 

Best of luck to Man United’s third most expensive … (read more)

Posted: 31st, August 2015 | In: manchester united, Sports | Comment

Anorak heroes: Oliver Sacks dies at 82

 

Oliver Sacks has died. The metastatic melanoma finally took the life of the great neurologist and writer. He was 82.

Dr Sacks, most famous, perhaps for his book The Man Who Mistook His … (read more)

Posted: 30th, August 2015 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | Comment

Watch: Arsenal denied clear-cut penalty against Newcastle

Are Premier League referees out of their depth? Why can’t they have video evidence for big decisions? What does the linesman referee’s assistant do?

Video: Arsenal denied a clear-cut penalty by … (read more)

Posted: 29th, August 2015 | In: Sports | Comment

Manchester United: David De Gea unsettles the team and makes Van Gaal spiteful

David De Gea desire to lave Manchester United for a new life and glory at Real Madrid has been well documented. Loved and admired at Old Trafford, De Gea’s refusal to … (read more)

Posted: 29th, August 2015 | In: Sports | Comment

Arsenal: ‘respectful’ Man United fan Gary Neville calls Wenger ‘arrogant, naive and insane’

Can Arsenal compete with the very best? In the Times, Gunners manager Arsène Wenger says that Uefa’s decision to relax its Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules means Arsenal cannot compete with … (read more)

Posted: 29th, August 2015 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment

The Sun shows Everton’s Toffee Terrorists where Chelsea target John Stones is hiding

Working on the murderous spurned lover’s premise that if you can’t have the one you love, then no-one will, the Sun says Everton fans are out to harm John Stones. The Sun says angry … (read more)

Posted: 29th, August 2015 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comment

Stephen King: the productivity of writing books

How to write like Stephen King – as in, how to physically write like Stephen King; the talent you’ll have to work on that yourselves:
As with most postulates dealing with … (read more)

Posted: 29th, August 2015 | In: Books, Celebrities | Comment

Minions toy body wash will give your kids nightmares

 

The Minions 3-in-1 bodywash does not do what it says on the tin: it will not cause your child’s eyes to bleed. Probably.

Spotter: Ash Warner … (read more)

Posted: 29th, August 2015 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment

eBay dogging and murder caravan goes viral

 

On eBay the caravan “suitable for affairs or murders” is for sale.
“Apparently I owned this utterly crap caravan for three weeks before actually setting eyes on it.

“My husband drunkenly bought … (read more)

Posted: 28th, August 2015 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment

Watch: man refuses to stop shagging in VR sex simulation demo

Give a man a VR headset and a plastic doll and he’s good to go.

And go…

… (read more)

Posted: 28th, August 2015 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment

Migrants: they come not to live but to conquer or die trying

 

Can you imagine the horror? Seventy-one bodies have been discovered in the back of a lorry in Austria abandoned on motorway near the Hungarian border.

The dead – 59 men, eight women and … (read more)

Posted: 28th, August 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

Transfer News: Everton fans drive John Stones out, Chelsea want Linpeng, Arsenal meet Higuain asking price

 

It was obvious, really. The way to keep John Stones from leaving Everton is for the club’s fans to make him “flee” his Widnes home and hide out in a hotel. … (read more)

Posted: 28th, August 2015 | In: Arsenal, Manchester City, Spurs | Comment

Transfer Balls: Tottenham play poker with Berahino, West Brom player holding twitter cards

 

Tottenham’s move for West Bromwich Albion striker Saido Berahino will come to nothing. Albion chariman Jeremy Peace is unimpressed with Spurs’ recent bid of £22 million (made in “stage payments and add-ons”). He wants £25m … (read more)

Posted: 28th, August 2015 | In: Sports, Spurs | Comments (2)

Artist Shinji Nakaba makes brilliant pearl skull jewelry

Shinji Nakaba turns peals into skulls.

 

Spotter: here … (read more)

Posted: 28th, August 2015 | In: The Consumer | Comment

Arsenal Transfer Balls: Cavani a ‘cert’, Benzema dead and alive, Wenger’s deadline day dash

Arsenal are chasing Paris St Germain striker Edinson Cavani, says the Metro. The Uruguayan is “Arsenal’s number one transfer target”. This is because the move for Karim Benzema is “dead”.

We … (read more)

Posted: 28th, August 2015 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment

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