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Posted: 11th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment (1)
Swansea University teaches dirty foreign students how to use the toilet
STUDENTS of Swansea University – tell us how you go to the toilet? Posters are on the walls of Swansea University are advising students how to use the toilet. The University says this is not taking the rise out of students hygiene habits, but addressing cultural differences.
The BBC notes:
In some countries in South East Asia where people squat to use the toilet there are posters informing Westerners how to use them.
In parts of the Middle East where plumbing systems cannot cope there are posters informing people not to put toilet roll down the toilet but in bins.
So. No harm done, then. No racism. The posters are just there for those who don’t know the rules – Asians, Arabs and anyone on a day trip from the Valleys. As the posters also show, people who do not know how to use Swansea toilets are always black.
A university spokeswoman assures us:
“Swansea University is a multi-cultural campus community and the informational posters were produced, for use in both male and female facilities, to help address cultural differences that were unfortunately causing damage and hygiene issues. The information was produced in conjunction with the International College Wales Swansea (ICWS) and displayed in key areas around the campus. Since the inception of these posters, the situation has greatly improved in the affected areas.”
The soiled toilet paper on the floor was placed there by non-British students, like Mustapha and Samira? The footprints on the toilet seat were the result of Young Kim Park’s weak bladder? It’s not the locals socking the floor and missing the bowl. It’s them – the foreigners with their odd bottom habits.
Of course, this is all bunkum. Most British students urinate freely in the street, having first sought out a bin or car wheel arch, and nine out of ten males prefer the kitchen sink to the sink in the bathroom or shower tray. For British women it’s all about Bounty Tissue, flower pots and jeggings.
Posted: 10th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
The Stuart Pearce racism story makes John Terry and Luis Suarez laugh
STUART Pearce – nickname: Psycho – has taken charge of England post-Capello. Stuart’s mastery of the English language makes him a shoo-in for the job – albeit a man bettered only by Harry Redknapp and his Sun column that could be written by a two-year-old. But things are looking bleak for Pearce.
The Sun’s front page story reads “England in race storm No. 2“. The paper trawls the history books and finds an 18-year-old story that Pearce, then with Nottingham Forest, apologised for allegedly racially abusing Manchester United’s Paul Ince during a match in 1994.
It was the game at United’s Old Trafford. Pearce shared the same Forest colours with Des Lyttle, Bryan Roy and Stan Collymore. Did Pearce racially abuse his black teammates? No. As a manager, has he picked players on the strength of their colour? No.
Before the Stephen Lawrence murder, football’s Kick It Out campaign and Sir William Macpherson’s new definition of racism (it’s racism if you say it is), people knew that racism was wrong.
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Posted: 10th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2)
Chantelle Houghton shocked at baby girl – was expecting chest of drawers
CHANTELLE Houghton tells OK! readers:
“I won’t let my daughter be left heartbroken like me”
This is:
“Pregnant Chantelle on being abandoned”
On page 39, we meet Chantelle. She is sat on a bed. On it lies a single red rose. She rests a hand on her tummy. Whipped hair tangles over her shoulders. The woman impregnated by Katie Price’s ex Alex Reid is here to slam the rumours the couple are “on the rocks”.
“When Chantell arrives on the shoot, her eyes are glistening with tears, ‘I’m having a girl…I can’t believe it.”
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Posted: 9th, February 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
The nostalgia proof European sex mag – photos
THE nostalgia proof sex stills will take you back to those halcyon says of lurid colours, bouffant hair and European porn mags. While Britishers were watching sex comedies filmed in drab high streets, dull suburbs and tawdry holiday camps – Britain in all its glory: as passionate and sexy as eating chops, boiled potatoes and peas off a tray while watching Love Thy Neighbour – Europe was at it in day-glo latex and go-ahead gymnasiums and clinics. God – they were sexy. So, very, very sexy…
Posted: 9th, February 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comments (2)
Why Capello really quit England: he mastered English better than Redknapp
AS Fabio Capello “flees” England (Daily Star), the media goes into overdrive. Will Spurs manager Harry Redknapp now get the nod? Was Capello just warming the bench until Redknapp’s tax evasion trial ended? Was Capello undone because he canna speaka da Ingleeesh so good? Will he be replaced by Harry Redknapp, a man who told a court he he had the writing ability of a two-year-old (a face not recorded in the Sun – the paper for which Redknapp writes a column). Is Harry Redknapp the master of the English language we crave?
The FA’s decision to go over Capello’s head and strip Terry of the captaincy until after his July court case, where he will deny racially abusing Ferdinand, the Queens Park Rangers defender, led to the Italian quitting his £6m-a-year post.
Now read on…
The FA statement in full:
“The Football Association can confirm that Fabio Capello has today resigned as England manager. This follows a meeting involving FA chairman David Bernstein, FA general secretary Alex Horne and Fabio Capello at Wembley Stadium. The discussions focused on the FA board’s decision to remove the England team captaincy from John Terry, and Fabio Capello’s response through an Italian broadcast interview. In a meeting for over an hour, Fabio’s resignation was accepted and he will leave the post of England manager with immediate effect.”
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Posted: 9th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (17)
The Oldie’s limp saveloy enlivens the BBC’s Jimmy Savile ‘Cover Up Scandal’
THE cock of Sir Jimmy Savile may now be a shrivelled saveloy in its tilted grave that faces Scarborough’s sea, yet what Mrs Thatcher’s favourite DJ did with it and with whom is still the subject of immense fascination and conjecture.
The Oldie is now the unlikely source (via Guido) of further claims that the mummy-loving hospital worker was the subject of a BBC probe into allegations of his molestation of underage girls. A probe whose results never saw the light of day for reasons swathed in BBC beige.
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Posted: 8th, February 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (9)
#twitterjoketrial – Paul Chambers, Tony Blair and a case of extreme stupidity
IN September 2010, Paul Chambers lost his appeal against a conviction of “menace” for threatening to blow up an airport. His “foolish prank” on Twitter would stand as a sign that only quick thinking and rule of law prevented carnage.
In January 2010, Chambers tweeted to his friend Sarah Tonner, aka @crazycolours, his frustration that snow had stymied their efforts to hook up at her place in Northern Ireland:
“Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!”
Staff at Doncaster’s Robin Hood airport saw the tweet. They called the police. The police called the Crown Prosecution Service. They said Chambers had a case to answer:
The Crown Prosecution Service caused controversy by using a law aimed against nuisance calls – originally to protect “female telephonists at the Post Office” in the 1930s – rather than specific bomb hoax legislation, which requires stronger evidence of intent.
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Posted: 8th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Anonymous emails tie Syria’s Assad to George Galloway’s Gaza Flotilla and ‘easily manipulated’ Americans
Anonymous emails link Syria’s Assad to George Galloway and ‘easily manipulated’ Americans.
ASMA Assad, 36, the Vogue-approved wife to Syrian President, Bashar Assad, has spoken to the Times about her life and concerns.
Says Asma Assad in an email:
“The President is the President of Syria, not a faction of Syrians, and the First Lady supports him in that role.”
Hurrah!
“The First Lady’s very busy agenda is still focused on supporting the various charities she has long been involved with and rural development as well as supporting the President as needed. These days she is equally involved in bridging gaps and encouraging dialogue. She listens to and comforts the families of the victims of the violence.”
Charity work must go on! Wernher von Braun was right – how the widows and cripples of old Homs Town will owe their large bags of second hand clothes and text books to Bashar Von Braun.
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Posted: 7th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)
In photos – Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II preparations
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IN Photos – the preparation for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II:
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Posted: 6th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Royal Family | Comment
Courts bans woman, 29, from sex – Child snatching State owns your body and your baby
THE State owns the body of a 29-year-old women. Mr Justice Hedley says the woman’s autism and IQ of 64 make her too mentally negligible to understand the dangers of sex. As such, he has imposed a “very restrictive” order on her. This will protect her from “potentially exploitative and damaging” relations. The ban mens anyone having sex with the woman could be charged with sexual assault or rape.
One man has been convicted of attempting to rape her. Also, the woman known only as ‘H’, had engaged in “exploitative and unconventional” behaviour with a “group of much older men”.
Were these much older men victims of their mental capacities?
Says Mr Justice Hedley:
“It is strange, but nevertheless true, that even the freedom to make unwise decisions is one that the court is required to guard and only to restrict if and when the best interests of [the woman] so require…Under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards order to which she is subjected and the latest ruling, the restrictions “prevent H from engaging in sexual relations (which she would otherwise willingly do) because she does not have the capacity to consent and they will be potentially exploitative and damaging.”
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Posted: 6th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (33)
Photos of the day – bad branding tattoos
EVER feel inspired by a brand to such a degree that you wanted to wear its logo as a tattoo on your body or face? They did…
Posted: 6th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment (1)
Amanda Holden wins Britain’s Got Talent with the Hollie Rose show
AMANDA Holden has had a baby. The birth of a child is a joyous thing and the red-tops do not overstate the arrival on planet Earth of Hollie Rose:
The Sun (front page): “HOLDEN the baby – First pic of Hollie Rose”
The Mirror (front page): “HOLDEN THE BABY”
Daily STar (front page): “AMANDA MIRACLE BABY – FIRST PICTURE”
Of course this is not really the first picture of Hollie Rose. This is the first picture of Amanda Holden holding Hollie Rose. Holden is the cougar judge on Britain Got Talent, the pushy head girl telling the hapless amateurs at the school of showbiz where they are going wrong and, with any luck, reducing them to tears.
It’s all about the presenter. Holden invests in her role as expert here to help your lowly lives by presenting her child for us to gaze upon.
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Posted: 6th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (11)
The Queen in photos: 60 years of laughing
THE Queen is making 60 years since her accession to the throne. For most of that 60 years her public face has been steady, a living statue who when you press her palm says something polite and meaningless. If it’s her birthday, a bouquet of flowers appears in her hands and a symphony strikes up. At all times she remains a millinery marvel, a woman in a lid. If she lives long enough the hat will come with solar panels and a windmill in an effort to reduce the Queen’s carbon footprint.
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Posted: 5th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Royal Family | Comment
RBS’s Disgraced Fred Goodwin was ‘risk’ adviser to the Queen
NICE little twist on the scourging of Fred “The Shred” Goodwin, former head of the Royal Bank of Scotland comes in Scotland on Sunday today.
It seems gagger Fred (super injunction on the fact he was bumping the uglies with a senior staff member, female, while helping preside over the collapse of his empire) was an adviser to the Queen AND Prince Charles long after he was forced to resign when the UK government took over 80 per cent of the RBS. The full tale is there if you follow the link above.
The in-joke is he was an adviser on risk management…the one thing analysts of the RBS banking disaster say was the bank’s worst failure..risk recognition. It was alleged at a Treasury meeting, as the banking situation reached crisis point, the then Sir Fred was locked out of the meeting on what to do because he had no idea how much money was urgently needed to stop his bank foundering.
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Westminster bars Top Totty: Kate Green or Katie Green?
TOP Totty, the smooth-skinned amber-skinned lovely with a good head, will not be in Westminster’s The Strangers’ Bar. The image has been deemed offensive to sherry drinkers and other women.
Shadow equalities minister Kate Green, Stretford and Urmston MP, found the “picture of a nearly naked woman on the tap” offensive. And because she was offended, the beer, on sale since 2007, has been banned.
Green then called on the Commons to champion “dignity at work in Parliament”.
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Posted: 3rd, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (4)
Costa Concordia: Domnica Cemortan loves Francesco Schettino – divers find knickers in captain’s cabin
COSTA Concordia: Domnica Cemortan, the Moldovan dancer-turned-“international hostess”, reportedly, has a self-confessed “weakness” for Captain Francesco Schettino,.
Rumours abound that Cemortan and Schettino wined and dined together the night the cruise ship ran aground on rocks off the island of Giglio.
Rumours abound that Cemortan was on the ship’s bridge when the captain made his ill-fated big-horn pass of the island.
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Posted: 2nd, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Breading is a meme – photos of wheat tolerant cats
BREADING is the newest internet meme. The idea is simple: you place a splice of bread around your cat’s next or ruff, take a photo and upload it on the web. It’s a good way to test if you cat is wheat intolerant. Look how much he loves it:
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Posted: 2nd, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment
John Terry becomes victim of a Tory led twitter hunt
JOHN Terry, the Chelsea and England captain is “TOXIC”. So says the Daily Mirror. John Terry has been charged with racially abusing QPR’s Anton Ferdinand in a Premier League game in October. Terry denies any wrongdoing. The matter will come before the courts on July 9, after the end of the European Championship.
But Damian Collins, a Tory MP who sits on the culture, media and sport select committee, saw fit to tweet:
“John Terry should stand aside as captain until the case is resolved, and any doubt either way removed.”
John Terry should lose his job because of an allegation?
This is Collins who claimed £4,440.90 over three months in rent for a house in London, despite declaring that he already owned a home in the capital. A pall of doubt hung over the young Tory . Did he step down while matter were cleared up? No. He just said the home was “too small to provide accommodation for my young family, and even if that was not the case, as a new member of parliament I wouldn’t be able to claim any accommodation allowance against the mortgage on the property”.
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Posted: 2nd, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (14)
In photos – many dead in riot between riot between fans of Egyptian football clubs Masry and al-Ahly
A RIOT at a football match in Egypt between Masry and al-Ahly has left many dead. Early reports put the number at 73. The BBC says 25. Right now, it;s guesswork.
Port Said side Masry won 3-1. And then violence came. Fans streamed on to the pitch, attacking secutoty , players and other fans.
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Posted: 1st, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment
Gary Speed’s death for a non football fan
ALAS, I had no idea of Gary Speed’s existence until he ceased to be. How tragic to have reached the end of his life and not be known by me. Can there be sadder fates?
My first assumption on learning of the death of someone whose life was a matter of oblivion to me was: Ah, a satsuma moment. You know, man throttles himself for testicular release with the aid of fruit segment. Anoxia I think it’s called. It’s one of the tabloid faves and usually features a promising politician, RIP.
But no fruit segment was found by Gary’s side. Nor signs of testicular release. People said he was the happiest man that ever lived – he discussed footie morning, noon and night. Why would anyone want to kill themselves in such circs? I couldn’t help thinking: What a blessed release for the poor man.
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Posted: 31st, January 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (35)
Tattoos on old people can resuscitate – in photos
TATTOOS on old people prove that what you do in your youth you can do in your mature years. The colours may fade, the word ‘mum’ may run down your chest as your breasts sag, and there may be ink only your nurse will ever see. But the blue veins, baldness and liver spots will be gone, incorporated into a design for a novelty Tube map or Mickey Mouse’s ears. It’s never too late to resuscitate…
Posted: 31st, January 2012 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment
Christina Aguilera melts at Etta James funeral – in photos
CAN we an analyse what was trickling down Christina Aguilera’s leg as she belted out At Last during Etta James’ funeral? Look past the Bungee for Jesus hanging down her god-fearing bosoms, the fans filming in church, and that long rasping note that sounds exactly like the noise aliens make as they insert a chip beneath the skin on your forehead (all plastic surgeons are alien enablers) – and get a load of the liquid.
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Posted: 31st, January 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Gary Speed: inquest leaves questions unanswered
GARY Speed is dead. And the tabloids pile in on Louise Speed, the widow and mother to his two young sons.
The inquest into the death of the man who played football for Leeds, Newcastle, Everton, Bolton and Sheffield United found that he died by hanging. Why did he place a noose about his neck? We don’t know. The therapy industries spoke long and loud about how Speed was a depressive, making him the leader of a Suicide FC. The PFA issued a glamorous pamphlet reminding young footballers of famous faces who had suffered from mental illness. This was death by football. The private man would be defined by his job held in the public eye even after his death.
It’s unlikely we ever will know why Gary Speed died. We don’t even know if he killed himself – the coroner ruled an open narrative verdict, meaning Gary Speed could have died in an accident. Coronoer Rheinberg says it may have been a “dramatic gesture” gone wrong. The coroner stuck to the facts.
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Posted: 31st, January 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (3)
Gary Speed is dead – time to ruin Louise Speed’s life
GARY Speed’s widow Louise Speed has given evidence at the inquest into the death of the Wales manager.
Key points are:
* The coroner says he may have killed himself by accident
* The word depression is not mentioned once by the coroner
* Louise Speed says they had argued the night before she found his body – she had spent the night in the car
* Louise Speed says her husband texted her an idea that he might kill himself – but he swiftly discounted it and vowed to do best with the couple’s two sons
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Posted: 30th, January 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment
