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Kickstarter needs to you to help book that says Obama is the Antichrist!

CARTOONIST Rick Geary has launched a Kickstarter campaign we can really get behind. He wants fans to fund a book called ‘A is for Antichrist: Obama’s Conspiracy Alphabet’.

Of course, everyone … (read more)

Posted: 21st, September 2013 | In: Money, Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Brilliant man invents the McEverything

WASTING time is a glorious endeavour and one writer has done something that is of zero use to anyone, but brilliant all the same.

He’s gone and invented the McEverything, which … (read more)

Posted: 20th, September 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment

Watch the $1 Million FAIL

LIFE isn’t fair and no-one promised you a damn picnic.

With that in mind, one Wheel of Fortune contestant missed out on the chance of winning $1million after an unfortunate case of … (read more)

Posted: 19th, September 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment

BBC News presenter can’t tell the difference between an iPad or a stack of paper

LIVE TV is a treacherous thing at the best of times, as a BBC News presenter fond out when he delivered a bulletin holding a pack of photocopier paper instead of … (read more)

Posted: 18th, September 2013 | In: Technology, TV & Radio | Comment

Rich kid Jaden Smith thinks school is for losers like Malala Yousufzai

JADEN Smith thinks that the world would be a much better place if everyone dropped out of school. Of course, he might be a bit young… and rich… and mental, … (read more)

Posted: 18th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Should Spurs fans say the word ‘Yid’?

LOTS of people say words that make others feel uncomfortable. Look at 99% of every hip hop record made in the last 30 years. People also feel funny when they … (read more)

Posted: 16th, September 2013 | In: Sports | Comments (9)

Blobfish is the champion of minging animals

ALL animals, in their own way, are preposterously ugly. They defecate everywhere and probably eat their own sick while mating in public.

However, the demonstrably beautiful human race need to decide … (read more)

Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)

GTA5: Looks like it will be life ruiningly large

EVERYBODY who plays video games – and that’s rarely pasty loners picking crumbs from their cracks in their mum’s basements because things have changed significantly in the past two decades … (read more)

Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment

Arctic Monkeys on X Factor and beer bellies

THE world of rock music is a dreary place at the moment and one of the few likeable bands on the circuit are Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys. Whether you like their … (read more)

Posted: 11th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment

Bob Geldof to be blasted off into space

NEVER, in the history of humankind, has someone from Ireland been sent into space… unless you count the people who think they’ve been there after losing their sight and minds … (read more)

Posted: 11th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comments (3)

Susan Boyle’s Christmas LP to feature Elvis’ ghost

REMEMBER when everyone didn’t think Susan Boyle could sing because she wasn’t a young woman with an attractive face, wearing a snapback cap hi-tops? Then she sang with that soaring … (read more)

Posted: 10th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities, Music | Comment (1)

New RoboCop trailer released – start wetting yourself with excitement, now!

THE original RoboCop movie was a tense, bleak affair and any notion of remaking it was going to set everyone’s phasers to ‘uh-oh’. With that, the release of the trailer … (read more)

Posted: 9th, September 2013 | In: Film | Comment

We kid you not – man to marry his goat

A BRAZILIAN bloke is going to get married to his pet goat, which isn’t sinister at all. Aparecido Castaldo, aged 74, has decided to end his days as a bachelor boy … (read more)

Posted: 5th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment

All hail the My Little Pony CV!

FANS of My Little Pony are terrifying. They’re not children. They’re all adults who like watching talking ponies fly around with their day-glo skin and are more obsessive than Breaking … (read more)

Posted: 5th, September 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Derek Acorah will ‘read’ your phone for ghosts

IN a move that in no way shows you that those who ‘talk’ to the dead are charging for something that’s a complete crock, Derek Acorah has using his ‘skills’ to … (read more)

Posted: 5th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Australian newsreader: “Tonight, I’m going to sound like a drunk…”

THE news is so often stuffy and depressing, that it’s nice when it goes a bit awry. Take, for example, the news anchor in Australia who is going viral no … (read more)

Posted: 5th, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment

David Walliams hates it when people ‘come out’

THIS bizarrely Christian bit of the world we live in has made it difficult for anyone not-straight to do as they please. Quite why anyone would be interested in someone’s … (read more)

Posted: 4th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Weirdos vote egg mayo as Britain’s best sandwich

SOME preposterous berks have, according to a survey, voted egg mayonnaise as Britain’s best sandwich, despite the fact that there are millions of better options.

These people are like those sickos … (read more)

Posted: 4th, September 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comments (7)

Brother’s room turned 90 degrees in excellent prank

PLAYING tricks on your siblings is one of the most noble pursuits in life. One Dutchman has taken things to a whole new level though, by turning his brother’s room … (read more)

Posted: 4th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Australia’s Sarah Palin steps down after saying ‘Islam’ is a country

ONE thing you can say about a lot of xenophobes is that they tend to be quite stupid. One Australian election candidate lived up to that notion, saying on TV that … (read more)

Posted: 4th, September 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment

Chris Fountain sacked by Corrie after this ‘rape rap’

OVER in Yorkshire, there’s a fall-down funny group of rappers called SY Cypher. They freestyle in a self deprecating manner, often threatening to shoot each other with guns they clearly … (read more)

Posted: 4th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment

Newsreader interrupted live on-air by her own child

CHILDREN are idiots aren’t they? Especially your own. And one Moroccan newsreader found that out when her daughter interrupted her at work while she was live on telly.

Lena Alwash’s live broadcast … (read more)

Posted: 4th, September 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment

50 Cents mocks domestic abuse charges

SEXISM, bigotry, sexual assaults and other horrible things have been a hot topic over the last week or so, with notable Twitter users going on a 24 hour strike for … (read more)

Posted: 4th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Snail grows in toddler’s knee – we’re all going to die

HERE at Anorak, we like to tell you about the demise of the human race thanks to our cousins in the animal world. Badgers have destroyed roads, tiny horses have … (read more)

Posted: 4th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Watch Atletico player telling team-mate where to ‘do’ injured Messi

GREAT footballers get kicked around. That’s always been the case. Look at the savage treatment doled out to Pele in the ’66 World Cup, kicked out of the competition entirely.

These … (read more)

Posted: 4th, September 2013 | In: Sports | Comment

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