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The Ugly Girls Club is out of your league, lads

 

Have you see the Ugly Girls’ Club? Members convene at the Royal Holloway’s feminist society.

Natasha Barrett, president of the society and a second-year English Literature student, said:
“It started very small, as … (read more)

Posted: 9th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Fashion Fails: the ‘Don’t Open ‘Til Christmas’ WTF children’s onesies

Fashion brand Hatley has some intersting items for the kids:

 

 

 

Up close:

 

 

 

Oh, and dad gets one, too:

‘Til Chtistmas’

… (read more)

Posted: 9th, December 2014 | In: Fashion | Comment


Rape Fantasises and Rolling Stone: sticking to the narrative in place of facts and truth

 

Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s story on gang rape at the University of Virginia was all about the narrative. She looked for a tale that would fit her agenda. Even when JAckie asked for it … (read more)

Posted: 9th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


BBC Balls: Star Wars in horrible no news story

What you missed on the BBC:

 

 

 

It’; news when the BBC says it is… … (read more)

Posted: 9th, December 2014 | In: Celebrities | Comment


Transfer Balls: Marco Reus in the Daily Express and only Liverpoool miss out

The Daily Express continues is exercise in trust online with its latest report on footballer Marco Reus:
Marco Reus’ new hobby DENTS Chelsea, Arsenal and City hopes
What new hobby has the … (read more)

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


Trees get email in Melbourne

Can you hear the trees talking? No. Maybe you should try writing to them. It turns out that trees love to email:
SOME might think they are barking mad, but sappy … (read more)

Posted: 9th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Daily Mail advertises for Portuguese builders

The Daily Mail has news:

If you didn’t know better, you’d be excused for thinking the Mail was illustrating why immigration works.
As for builders, well…
… (read more)

Posted: 9th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Peta says drinking dairy is like being gangbanged by a bull

 

What do People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have against women?

Peta thought it an idea to slap up a billbaord poster of a woman with a dairy bukake facial … (read more)

Posted: 9th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Madeleine McCann: Robert Murat, looking for ‘inconsistencies’ and Amaral

Madeleine McCann: A look at the missing child in the news.

BBC: “Madeleine McCann: British police to observe questioning in Portugal”
British police investigating Madeleine McCann’s disappearance in 2007 have arrived in … (read more)

Posted: 9th, December 2014 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment


Modern romance: Heidi Creamer punched sister in face over sex toy

 

To Florida, where 48-year-old Heidi Creamer allegedly punched her twin sister in the face  during an argument over “Heidi’s boyfriend and a sexual toy (vibrator),” according to a police report.
Heidi … (read more)

Posted: 9th, December 2014 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Brendan Jordan arrives: the gayest boy in the world advertises for American Apparel

 

Your hero in the above video is Brendan Jordan, the 15-year-old lurker who seized his chance when local news filmed in his area.

Said Master Jordan:
“I just saw a camera, and did my … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2014 | In: Fashion | Comment


The UVA rape story is being used to beat and abuse white men

Judith Levine on the culture of using racism and bigotry to attack anyone who seeks evidence of a rape:
Just before Thanksgiving, Richard Bradley sensed something was wrong with the story … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Grumpy Cat’s £64m fortune is pie in the sky

Grumpy Cat has earned its owner £64m.

Well, so says the Daily Express, which spoke with Grump Cat’s owner Tabatha Bundesen of Morristown, Arizona.

Grumpy Cat, real name Tardar Source “has made £64 … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2014 | In: Celebrities | Comment


Shrien Dewani fights to clear his name

 

Ami Denborg, left, and her brother Anish Hindocha, right, react after the court case that acquitted their sister’s former husband Shrien Dwani from murdering … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)


Oh, yes he did: Lionel Blair is not appearing in panto because all adults are suspected sex criminals

Dancer Lionel Blair with his wife Susan and their new born son Daniel.Ref #: PA.7291791. Date: 14/08/1968

 

Lionel Blair is not appearing in panto. He explains … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2014 | In: Celebrities | Comment


Westminster paedophiles: Exaro News and the spectre of Joseph McCarthy

Westminster paedophiles: Anorak’s look at the allegations that politicians abused children in the 1970s and 1980s.

Exaro News has been tweeting:
Do not fall for smears against Exaro re CSA [child sexual … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Rolling Stone’s UVA debacle has traces of Satanic Panic

Margaret Talbot has a view on the Rolling Stone’s UVA rape story. She agrees with us: it’s the Satanic Panic all over again:
More than a decade ago, I wrote about the McMartin … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Ed Miliband eats turkey

Ed Miliband has been eating. at the Red Lion Inn, in Hognaston, Derbyshire. It’s news in the Derby Telegraph:
He was with a party of around 12 – and they booked a table … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2014 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)


Eleanor de Freitas and Alexander Economou is a tale of victims and causes

Alexander Economou, 35, was accused or raping Eleanor de Freitas, 23. He was innocent. But the police and State would not let the matter drop.

Hugh Muir wrote of “her attacker”. That was … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Arsenal balls: fans who want Wenger sacked should support Spurs or godless Chelsea

 

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is not going to be sacked, and certainly not dismissed mid-season. Any sane Arsenal supporter with half a memory should concede that Wenger’s Arsenal are a big … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2014 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment


Why is Benedict Cumberbatch ‘glum’? That question to the paparazzo with his camera on ‘stun’

Why is Benedict Cumberbatch “glum”? The Daily Express tells readers:
Missing Sophie? Benedict Cumberbatch looks glum as he arrives at LAX airport
 

 

 

Kirsty McCormack investigates:
The 38-year-old actor was pictured arriving at LAX … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2014 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)


You’ll never guess how Rose West has become ‘creepy’

For those of you who quite fancied Rose West, the housewife sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 10 young women and girls, comes disappointing news. Her victims’ dismembered bodies were buried … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Princess Beatrice implicated in North Korean hacking shocker

Princess Beatrice has been ‘HACKED”.
Not to death. Her phone calls have been recorded. This hacking has to do with her salary.
As the Mirror reports:

Hackers working for North Korea are thought … (read more)

Posted: 8th, December 2014 | In: Celebrities, Royal Family | Comment


Jackie said ‘no’ to Rolling Stone: how the magazine passed the University of Virginia rape story

So. How did Jackie’s story of being a victim of gang rage at a University of Virginia fraternity ever make it into Rolling Stone? She didn’t want it in print. But the story … (read more)

Posted: 7th, December 2014 | In: Key Posts | Comment