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Floyd Mayweather opens his ‘toy world

 

This week on the Instagram Beat, boxer suprmere Floyd Mayweather was showcasing off his chattles:

 
Bugatti Veyron $1,600,000; Bugatti Veyron $1,600,000; Bugatti Gran Sport $3,000,000; Ferrari 458 Spider $360,000; Ferrari 458 Spider $360,000; Lamborghini Aventador $390,000; Porsche … (read more)

Posted: 16th, January 2015 | In: Sports | Comment

‘Man Tries To Have Sex With Post Box’ Is Nothing Safe?

The Wigan Post has news of a man who “tried” to have sex with a Post Box.

 

 

 

Two thoughts, well three:

1. He tried to shag an inanimate box with a hole in … (read more)

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

Robert Crumb on Charlie Hebdo: God according to Mohamid Bakshi

Robert Crumb has repsonded to the Mohammed Charlie Hebdo cover story. And Crumb knows all there is to know about religion. He wrote the Bible:

 

 

 

Crumb drew:
Aline [Mr. Crumb’s wife is … (read more)

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

Transfer Balls: Arsenal sign Ryan Shawcross, Grzegorz Krychowiak and it’s 65

Arsenal Transfer Balls: To date, the media has liubnked the Gunners to  – get this – 62 footballers. Arsenal are going mad in the January sales. And it does not end there. … (read more)

Posted: 16th, January 2015 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment

Pope Francis V Jesus Hebdo: The ‘other cheek’ is a clenched fist

 

Pope Francis has a few words on free speech and the murder of journalists, police and Jews in Paris:
“If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he … (read more)

Posted: 15th, January 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

Free Speech: The Sun finds a ‘dark-skinned’ capitalist sellling Charlie Hebdo magazines in Gloucestershire

The Sun is cheering for free speech. It is cheering for Ila Aghera, the “defiant” shopkeeper selling copies of Charlie Hebdo magazine to the many French speaskers and peopls who can say … (read more)

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

Burnham’s Moral Rhetoric: Vote Labour to stop Tony The Tiger abusing your children

 

Remember when fat meant jolly and thin was mean? Well, it’s over. Now fat is a sign of failure: you and your parents’ grinding failure.

In March 2014, Shadow Health Secretary … (read more)

Posted: 15th, January 2015 | In: Politicians | Comment

Free Speech: Sky News recoils in face of Charlie Hebdo cover

Live on Sky News we have free speech campaigner Caroline Fourest. She’s astounded that Sky won’t show the subject of their story: the cover of Charlie Hebdo.

So. She holds up the … (read more)

Posted: 15th, January 2015 | In: TV & Radio | Comment

Free speech means defending the racist: Dieudonné must be innocent

Dieudonné fans

 

Oh, the irony: the racist French entertainer Dieudonné is the subject of a criminal investigation into something he wrote on Facebook. The anti-Semitic Dieudonné – whose taps … (read more)

Posted: 15th, January 2015 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)

Transfer Balls: Arsenal buy Ilkay Gundogan and Mats Hummels for £43m more than they have

Transfer Balls: The BBC has stella news for Arsenal fans, who will recslls news that the Gunners have a £20m transfer kitty for this January’s transfer window (Daily Mirror). Now … (read more)

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

Transfer Balls: Manchester City CAN Get Messi, Chelsea can’t but Manchester United could

Transfer Balls: Manchester City are buying Lionel Messi. Well, sort of. The Sun leads with news that City “CAN”get Messi.

 

 

The “City Transfer Taunt” leads to a news story based on … (read more)

Posted: 15th, January 2015 | In: Chelsea, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Bristol University Student Union bans Charlie Hebdo for being ‘unsafe’

You can have Paris. But you free speech fundamentalists can never have Bristol University campus. The local Student Union’s “Safe Space” policy forbids free speech lest it fuddle a student’s minds and … (read more)

Posted: 15th, January 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

Sarah Ferguson name drops Imperial College to get Americans to swallow her crap

 

Sarah, Duchess of York, is on NBC’s the Today Show talking about herself.  She tells viewers of her work as ambassador for the Institute of Global Health Improvement at Imperial College London.

If … (read more)

Posted: 15th, January 2015 | In: Royal Family | Comment (1)

The Pub Landlord is standing against Nigel Farage in South Thanet at the general election

The Pub Landlord is standing against Nigel Farage in South Thanet at the general election.

 

 

 

As @TheMediaTweets says:
The Pub Landlord v Nigel Farage: One gained notoriety as a parody of the archetypal … (read more)

Posted: 14th, January 2015 | In: Politicians | Comment

How To Get A Husband: An 1880 guide to spotting a man

How To Get A Husband – a guide for woman in the 1880s:

Read it all at Flashbak… … (read more)

Posted: 14th, January 2015 | In: Books | Comment

Great ads: Bedworld will ‘ship this bed’

This advert for Castleford’s Bedworld:

 

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Posted: 14th, January 2015 | In: The Consumer | Comment

Free Speech: New York Times Charlie Hebdo cowardice shames its fight to expose a secret history of the Vietnam War

Attorneys for The New York Times leave the Supreme Court in Washington on June 26, 1971 after presenting arguments against the government’ suit to … (read more)

Posted: 14th, January 2015 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)

Spurs Transfer Balls: Delph, Rabiot, Benteke and a ‘new Messi’ lead the charge

Spurs Transfer Balls: so who are Tottenham buying this January Transfer Window? We’ve looked through the mainstream media for insight into which footballers at heading to The Lane. It turns out … (read more)

Posted: 14th, January 2015 | In: Sports, Spurs | Comment (1)

Arsenal Transfer Balls: Perin, Gomis and Moreno arrive

Transfer Balls – Arsenal: To date Arsenal have been linked to – get this – 59 players. Not by some small websites. The mainstream media has said Arsenal are buying players … (read more)

Posted: 14th, January 2015 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment

A day in the life of Philippe Starck: the square oyster omelette and sex in a white truffle

A day in the life of Philippe Starck, as told to the Times:

Spotter: @whippletom, @daisygreenwell … (read more)

Posted: 14th, January 2015 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Drop your #JeSuisCharlie sign: the free speech fundamentalists demand it

Writing in the Huffington Post, Mehdi Hasan says he is ‘fed up with Free Speech Fundamentalists”.
You and I didn’t like George W Bush. Remember his puerile declaration after 9/11 that … (read more)

Posted: 14th, January 2015 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment

Inappropriate BBC asks ‘How welcome are Africans in the UK’

The BBC has tweeted a question: “How welcome are Africans in the UK?”

 

The tweet was then deleted:

 

 

Spotter: ‏@EdDriscoll … (read more)

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

Charlie Hebdo: The BBC and New York Times reject Jew Suis Charlie and Muhammad’s tears

The Charlie Hebdo cover is all over the web. For those of you have not yet seen it, it’s here below. Charlie Hebdo manages to reproduce the character at the centre … (read more)

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

CNN reports: attack on Paris kosher supermarket was an attack on Muslims who shop there

We go live to Paris, where CNN are by a kosher supermarket where people have been murdered. Some, like the French Preesident, say the attack on a kosher supermarket was … (read more)

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

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