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This is your brain on alcohol and marijuana – 2 compare and contrast videos

AsapSCIENCE have produced a video on what happens to your brain on alcohol. This delicious “feelings of release and freedom” allow you to “think very little, but with great clarity.”

 

 

And now for … (read more)

Posted: 13th, December 2014 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment (1)


Science decides: if you want to defeat men wear high heels

 

Do high heels make you men go weak at the knees? This just in from science:
Scientists from the Universite de Bretagne-Sud conducted experiments that showed that men behave very differently … (read more)

Posted: 13th, December 2014 | In: Fashion | Comment


Sex with Bill Cosby is ‘like necrophilia’ with a white woman

 

Bill Cosby’s getting a kicking in the Sun. The headline declares:
Bill Cosby’s hooked on sex with sleeping women
Says who?
Says Dr Charlotte Laws, friend of alleged victim… The Sun can reveal the … (read more)

Posted: 13th, December 2014 | In: Celebrities | Comment


Starbucks v corn flakes: Cereal Killer hipsters complain about Channel 4 treatment

The hipsters at East London’s Cereal Killer breakfast bar are unhappy with how Channel 4 portrayed them. Gary Keery, one of the twins who run the prelude to the runs, writes:

In tomorrow’s Channel … (read more)

Posted: 13th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Westminster paedophiles: Arthur Hutchinson, Geoffrey Dickens, hunting gays and Elm Guest House Tales

 

Westminster paedophiles: a look at the story of child abuse in the 1970s and 1980s.

Midhurst and Petworth Observer: “No plans to re-open Vishal murder case at Rogate”
SUSSEX police say there … (read more)

Posted: 13th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Ray Bradbury: how to burn a book without fire

This Dec. 8, 1966 file photo shows science fiction writer Ray Bradbury looks at a picture that was part of a school project to … (read more)

Posted: 13th, December 2014 | In: Books, Celebrities | Comment


Liverpool balls: Flirting with relgation

Robbie Savage is sticking up for Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers in the Daily Mirror:
Kop boss knows it’s not been good enough this season but Reds were closer to the Championship … (read more)

Posted: 12th, December 2014 | In: Liverpool, Sports | Comment


Tom Jones get to grips with Paloma Faith’s chest in the BBC Vine Booth (SFW)

 

Inside the BBC Vine Booth Paloma Faith and Sir Tom Jones are spinning around:

 

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Posted: 12th, December 2014 | In: Celebrities | Comment


UVA rape: time to name the victims and challenge the lawyers

A few postings on the door of Peabody Hall related to the Phi Kappa Psi gang rape allegations at the University of Virginia in … (read more)

Posted: 12th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Regret the error: Sefton Hall and QPR suffer from the cuts

New Jersey’s The Record has news. It is “number one for breaking local news”:

 

 

“Nothing like 8-year-old file photos for Wichita State-Seton Hall,” tweets Wichita Eagle news editor Josh Wood.

artin Gottlieb, editor … (read more)

Posted: 12th, December 2014 | In: Sports | Comment


How to Survive A Helicopter Crash: grab the clip and don’t let go

In Airspace Mag you can learn How to Survive A Helicopter Crash. The simplest way, of course, is never to get inside a helicopter. I once took a trip to an … (read more)

Posted: 12th, December 2014 | In: Technology | Comment


Gawker counts the cost of attacking its customers

Gawker media’s anti-GamerGate drive back-fired:
 “The cost to Gawker Media of its ridicule and viciousness toward video gamers was ‘seven figures’ in lost advertising revenue, according to the company’s head of advertising, Andrew … (read more)

Posted: 12th, December 2014 | In: Technology | Comment


Being Stavros: jibes and snides when a 30 stone man enters Mr Gay UK

 

Organisors of Mr Gay UK turn on a man for being not the ideal weight. Stavros Louca was robbed:
When Stavros decides to enter the Mr Gay UK beauty pageant nothing goes … (read more)

Posted: 12th, December 2014 | In: Film | Comment


London’s Cereal Killer cafe and Belfast’s Slum shack in race to a hipster’s runny bottom

East London’s Cereal Killer cereal cafe is riding high on the news cycle. Eating cereal for dinner, lunch and tea is more likely to give you chronic diarrhea than cool. The news … (read more)

Posted: 12th, December 2014 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)


Police advice: ‘don’t jerk and drive’

The South Dakota Department of Public Safety tells drivers “Don’t Jerk and Drive”.

A British accent – the voice of nannyhood authoutity – declares “nobody likes a jerker”.

The department’s director Lee Axdahl … (read more)

Posted: 12th, December 2014 | In: Technology | Comment


College field trip to Millwall studies ‘working class culture and habits’

Millwall fans love stuffed toys

 

A college has been branded ‘offensive’ for arranging a trip to a Millwall football match so that students can observe ‘working class … (read more)

Posted: 12th, December 2014 | In: Sports | Comment


Talking Balls: Manchester City never did run from Manchester United in 2012

Writing in the Sun, Martin Blackburn has news on Manchester City’s affable manager Manuel Pellegrini:
Two years ago this month, City were beaten by Borussia Dortmund on a low-key night in … (read more)

Posted: 11th, December 2014 | In: Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comments (2)


Everything the CIA knows about torture it learned in Northern Ireland

A British soldier in Belfast, Northern Ireland stands outside a new all weather shelter in October 1969. (AP Photo/Peter Kemp)

 

Patrick Corrigan links the CIA … (read more)

Posted: 11th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


False rape: the Scottsboro Boys become the model for UVA and campus crimes against men

In this April 7, 1933 file photo, Ruby Bates sits in the witness stand in a courtroom in Decatur, Ala. Saying that Dr. Harry … (read more)

Posted: 10th, December 2014 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment


Shrien Dewani is innocent: but worse than that he’s ‘gay’

 

When lawyers for Shrien Dewani slapepd his bisexuality on the table in a South African court they quashed the entertainment and the case against their client. Not gay, Shrien could still … (read more)

Posted: 10th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Riot Police toys: teaching boys but never girls to smash rebellion

There’s a new take on cops and robbers in your playground. Cool kids can now crush insurrection and legal protest by becoming riot police.

And girls – forget it. Only boys … (read more)

Posted: 10th, December 2014 | In: The Consumer | Comment


WOOF! Watch Aaron Ramsey’s sublime stike against Galatasaray

Arsenal fans calling for Arsene Wenger’s head. The naysayers who want Wenger out. The doom merchants and plastic fans who crave only success and weep and wail when they don’t … (read more)

Posted: 9th, December 2014 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment