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Aberdeen man wins year’s supply of socks after hand dryer sprayed him with urine

 

The Handmade Burger Company restaurant in Union Square, Aberdeen, regrets that diner Gordie Wallace was damaged by the automatic hand dryer that fire up when he ws in mid-flow.

The 31-year-old Glaswegian says:
“After … (read more)

Posted: 16th, June 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment


Botox injections cure woman of smoking and oral sex

One lucky pucker

 

With Botox, you too can smoke less. Kelly Greenwood, of Vancouver, Washington, says:
“My upper lip is paralysed by the injections so I can’t close … (read more)

Posted: 16th, June 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment


College censor Tara Schultz: ‘I expected Batman and Robin, not pornography’

 

Tara Shultz, 20, of Yucaipa, CA, wants to censor your library. She wants four graphic novels on the syllabus at Crafton Hills College banned. Why? Because Schulz thinks Persepolis, Fun Home, Y: The … (read more)

Posted: 16th, June 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment


Transfer Balls: Chelsea’s Petr Cech wants to set new Arsenal recrod but not for £39m

Transfer Balls: is Petr Cech leaving Chelsea for life at Arsenal? The Sun says the player’s goalkeeping coach has “risked a major rift with Chelsea — after indicating the Blues stopper … (read more)

Posted: 16th, June 2015 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Sports | Comment


The cowboy sandal is impetigo for your feet

The Cowboy Sandal is the work of Scotty Franklin of Springfield, Missouri. For $50- yeah, you pay him! – Scotty will distract attention from your terrible hair, chronic impetigo and that carbuncle on … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2015 | In: Fashion, The Consumer | Comment


Mars Attacks: fabulous face paint (video)

 

Mars Attacks!

 

This #marsattack video has been enjoying some viral hits the last few days on #Facebook 💕💕💕😊 another look for any of you new guys here !!! Thanks to all … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2015 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Lord Janner scandal day 58: Michael Jackson’s letter of the law

 

Lord Greville Janner: a look at news on the Labour peer embroiled in allegations that he abused children. He maintains his innocence. It’s been 58 days since the Crown Prosecution … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2015 | In: Key Posts, Politicians, Reviews | Comment


Thomas Evans is dead: British Muslim convert killed in Somalia

 

Thomas Evans left his home in High Wycombe to fight with al-Shabaab. The Times says he’s dead, killed in Kenya as the Islamists attacked an army base.

His mother Sally told The Sunday Times in 2014:
“I would rather … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Arsenal balls: Damian Martinez and Emiliano Martinez compete for one space

 

The Sun’s Alan Nixon has the facts about Arsenal football club.
ARSENAL goalkeeper Damian Martinez is set to go on loan to Spanish side Getafe. The 6ft 4in Argentine has had spells … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2015 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment


Transfer Balls: Arsenal and Liverpool target Alvaro Morata’s ‘staggering’ fee used to be higher

Transfer Balls: Is Juventus striker Alvaro Morata heading to Arsenal, Liverpool or Manchester United? The Daily Express’ Joe Short finds the fee staggering:

 

 

Back in March 2015, the news was not … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2015 | In: Arsenal, Liverpool, manchester united, Sports | Comment


World Cup Balls: Oliver Holt fails his own test for misogynists and the fools

 

“Why are so many trying to belittle the women’s game?” asks Oliver Holt in the Daily Mail. Holt is on the side of the righteous in his look at the … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2015 | In: Reviews, Sports | Comment


Photo: Raccoon surfs an Alligator in Florida

To Florida, where  Richard Jones took this photograph of a raccoon surfing on an alligator in Ocala National Forest.
 Jones tells WFTV 9:

“I snapped a lucky picture right when the gator slipped into the … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2015 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Aston Villa’s Jack Grealish in tabloid photo shaming

The tabloids fill the hiatus between Premier League seasons with transfer balls and news of footballers on holiday. The Sun brings news of Aston Villa star Jack Grealish’s “hol shame as he’s ‘found lying in … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2015 | In: Sports | Comment


Transfer Balls: Raheem Liverpool’s Sterling is exclsuive to Manchester City

In an “EXCLUSIVE” the Daily Express says “Arsenal and Real Madrid join Man City in race for Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling”.

But they don’t. They haven’t. The only bids for Sterling have … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2015 | In: Liverpool, Manchester City, Sports | Comment


Stoke’s WaterWorld: Muslims, naturists and the EDL seek thrills at the Great British waterpark

 

The Sunday Express has news on Muslims in the UK:
UK waterpark bans bikinis and orders visitors to wear ‘Islamically appropriate’ clothes
Scott Campbell reports:
A BRITISH waterpark has sparked fury by banning … (read more)

Posted: 14th, June 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment


Lord Janner scandal day 57: an alleged victim tells of blood in Westminster

ouses of Parliament, St Stephen’s Crypt – Watercolour by Edward M. Barry c.1863 (WOA 1601)

 

Lord Greville Janner: a look at news on the Labour peer embroiled … (read more)

Posted: 14th, June 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment


Magical Jews stole my shoe: Asghar Bukhari of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee is hopping mad

A loveable brogue

 

 

Today in ‘The Jews Did It’ Asghar Bukhari, founding member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK (MPAC UK), says Jews stole a shoe from his … (read more)

Posted: 14th, June 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment


Meat Is Red Rum: town takes record for world’s biggest horsemeat helicopter

 

To the Russian town of Kumertau, where the world’s biggest helicopter model made from horsemeat is on display. The horsemeat chopper celebrates the towns’ anniversary and the local helicopter factory.

Horsemeat seller Liliya Amineva explains:
“Today’s helicopter … (read more)

Posted: 14th, June 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment


Manchester City’s Yaya Toure and Sandra Ntonya in Sainsbury’s sex shocker

 

 

Manchester City’s Yaya Toure is the subject of the Sun’s story that he has been allegedly seeing a “£140-an-hour hooker”. The story begins with this tremedous line:
Sandra Ntonya, 34, told last night … (read more)

Posted: 14th, June 2015 | In: Manchester City, Reviews, Sports | Comment


Watch the poisonous squirting cucumber explode its seeds

 

Smithsonian Channel has this great video of how plants disperse seends. Look out for violets, touch me nots, and poisonous squirting cucumbers. Really, look out:

 

Spotter: Boing Boing, The Kid Should See This

  … (read more)

Posted: 13th, June 2015 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Wonderful photos of fleeing Syrian women throwing off their Islamic State burqas

As they arrive in Kuridsh-controlled territory, women fleeing Islamic Stateare are tossing off their buqas.

Freedom Portrait A woman takes off blackness after reaching safety, #Kurds #YPG contrld area, west #GireSipi #Rojava … (read more)

Posted: 13th, June 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment


Transfer Balls: Manchester City to offer £60m and £86m for Paul Pogba

Transfer Balls – a look at shonky reporting in the newspapers.

The Sun says Manchester City are readying a £60m bid for Juventus and France player Paul Pogba. They will offer … (read more)

Posted: 13th, June 2015 | In: Manchester City, Sports | Comment


Naked earthquake maker Eleanor Hawkins heads home

 

Naked earthquake maker Eleanor Hawkins, 23, is on her way back home. Having endured a three-day prison sentence for outraging public decency, Hawkins is free to begin her life on the British media treadmill.

“I am … (read more)

Posted: 12th, June 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment