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A History Of The Telephone In Pictures: Just Add Sex Appeal
THE telephone. You can’t live without it. It rings no more than it did when you had one fixed handset that sat on a table at the foot of the stairs but now it’s mobile you just need it. All the time. Everywhere. Once the phone was special. It was suggestive. It was glamorous. It was mysterious. We’ve pulled together a gallery of famous faces on the phone and images of yesteryear’s users. They’ll all fabulous. Just add sex appeal…
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Posted: 5th, November 2011 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment
Stuart Hughes Is Tabloid Gold: How Big Media Laps Up One Man’s 24 Carat PR
BRIAN Whelan has caught up with Stuart Hughes. Whelan describes Hughes thus:
This is the man who has tricked some of the biggest global news organisations into running fake stories about the world’s most expensive homes, yachts and cars.
Hughes is a tabloid gold mine, literally. As for “tricking”, well, Hughes just makes statements that media can either take or leave.
The world’s most unique yacht “ HISTORY SUPREME “ probably the most expensive. This project was commissioned for Stuart Hughes of Liverpool U.K. from an anonymous leading Malaysian business man. At 100ft the yacht took 3 years to complete , a circa of 100,000 kilograms of solid gold and platinum were added to make this an exciting project. All features inc deck , dinning area , rails , anchor , made from precious metals. The base of the vessel was wrapped in gold , a thin layer was formed to embrace this huge section. The main sleeping quarter was adorned with platinum accents of which included , wall feature , made from meteoric stone , with genuine Dinosaur bone shaved in from the raptor T – REX. A cost of £3 billion , the most exclusive yacht was born ! Similar unique designs can be found on our other site www.goldstriker.co.uk
Posted: 5th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment (1)
When Is Nazi Art Theft Not Nazi or Neo Nazi? When It Was The Anti-Semitic Vichy French
A MASTERPIECE described as stolen in World War ll has been snatched back by US agents.
The Wall Street Journal last night headlined the story as:
The headline is classic of how a good – to better than average – news story can lead a city-editor or sub-editor up the garden path.
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Posted: 5th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Pregnant Bride Discovers Lover Is Her Brother
HAVING dated for five years, the couple known by the aliases Jabu Ngomane and Thulisile Mhlabane, prepared for the birth of their first child. Only, when the South African lovers entered into lobola negotiations, they found that they had been engaing in Motherwell Discussions… Jabu and Thulisile are brother and sister.
Dad Alfred Ngomane left their mum in 1983. His son was 2 years old and his daughter aged just 8 months. He raised Jabur in Madras village in Bushbuckridge. The mother raised the girl in Pienaar, outside Nelspruit. Neither child was told they had a sibling.
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Posted: 5th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Alex Ferguson’s First 25 Years At Manchester United: In Photos
SIR Alex Ferguson has managed Manchester United for 25 years. His tenure began with a 2-0 defeat to mighty Oxford United. What happened next…
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Posted: 4th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment
Gifs Of The Day: The Hipster Earring Tug Job
THE lead photo is a cautionary tale / challenge to hipster wearers of those massive Dumbo ear plugs. As he says: “it’s a lotta look, but for those of you who can pull it off – kudos to you. I LOVE IT.”
Posted: 4th, November 2011 | In: Gifs, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Russian Mum Shops Son For Bringing Wrong Sort Of Girls Home – Dead Ones
A RUSSIAN has been robbing graves and taking female corpses home to dress and sprawl around his flat.
Police are holding the 45-year-old journalist who has allegedly been digging in several cemeteries near the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod (it used to be called Gorky) and taken the corpses of 20 woman who died aged between 15 and 25.
Anatoly Moskvin, left, a local historian and journalist – said to be busy writing a book about local graveyards – has not been charged and the doctors have been called in.
His spade was taken from him and it, and he, held for reports.
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Posted: 4th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
Kim Kardashian Is Massive Down Under: Mrs Humphries Sydney Visit Photos
KIM Kardashian is in Sydney, soothing her marital woes by plugging her fashion accessory range at a department store in Australia. Yes, lest it go unsaid, Kim Kardashian is big Down Under.
Until recently, Kim biggest accessory was 90-foot tall husband Kris Humphries, whose job it was to accessorise Kim wedding dress. He will soon be accessorising Kim’s divorce thong and a section in her autobiography entitled “Marriage Tips And Tricks”.
On the subject of Kim’s failed-yet-lucrative marriage to a small giant, she has produced a letter:
This is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write. I see all of the support and I am so thankful for my fans, friends and family who are helping me through this difficult time.
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Posted: 3rd, November 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Dad Pukes On Daughter’s Face On Roller Coaster: Video
ROLLER COASTERS are hell. They really are. They’re designed to make you feel nauseous. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar. They’re not even terrifying.
Going down a hill in the dark on a skateboard, drunk, while your mates throw whatever they can lift from a nearby building site at you. That’s terrifying.
No, roller coasters provide thrills to the boring. Or children. There’s no point berating children. They can’t get drunk yet so they need to get their little kicks however they can.
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Posted: 3rd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Liz Jones Gives Birth To A Cream Egg: Daily Mail Used Condom Appeal Pays Dividends
DAILY Mail writer Liz Jones says he used to drain her lover’s spent condoms of semen and try to fertilise her eggs.
Tomorrow, the Mail will come with free eco-sperm (say no to plastic bags) in which readers will be invited to froth with incandescent rage. The Liz Jones Sperm Appeal will not sue sperm that contains traces of marmalade, Richard Littlejohn and, perversly, nuts.
Says Liz:
The ‘theft’ itself was alarmingly easy to carry out. One night, after sex [with Trevor], I took the used condom and, in the privacy of the bathroom, I did what I had to do. Bingo.
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Posted: 3rd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir And Mazhar Majeed Shouldn’t Have Bothered With Lawyers
HOW successful were the lawyers in keeping former Pakistan captain Salman Butt, 27, Mohammad Asif, 28, Mohammad Amir, 19, and the corrupt agent Mazhar Majeed out of jail?
Butt’s lawyer Ali Bajwa:
“He has gone from a national hero to being a figure of contempt. He has lost almost everything. There is only his liberty and his family left to lose. What purpose would a custodial sentence serve?’
Salman Butt: jailed for 30 months
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Posted: 3rd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment
Iran Nuclear Hot Spot Now The Target – UK Dusts Off Familiar Diego Garcia Attack Plan
ISRAEL yesterday tested a long-range Jericho missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads racking up a bellicose scenario as Britain’s Defence Chiefs began to dust off and assess US plans to attack Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran.
US President Barack Obama and his team are said to have now turned their sights on Teheran’s nuclear capability and are gearing up to attack and destroy it. Obama would be reluctant to attack before next November’s election campaign but the expected warnings from a nuclear investigation team may leave little choice.
The news leaks have the feel of a well-orchestrated Kiwi haka…lots of face pulling and tongues out but little real threat…as yet.
The US is believed to have warned it may be considering an attack and Britain will be a willing participant …without – so far – a single discussion or vote in Parliament.
The Guardian says the UK’s Ministry of Defence knows the US is prepared to speed up plans if the nuclear inspectors’ report, due out very soon, says Iran is seeking a nuclear arms capability. It is expected to do so.
Here we go again.
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Posted: 3rd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Justin Bieber’s Baby Photos: Mariah Yeater Presents Tristyn Anthony Markhouse Yeater
MARIAH Yeater says she has given birth to Justin Bieber’s son Tristyn Anthony Markhouse Yeater. The child was born on July 6. She filed a paternity lawsuit against the singer on October 31. As Star magazine reports, she wants Bieber to “provide adequate support for my baby‘”. Will Bieber splits his collection of pull ups in half?
On the Star magazine cover, above the allegedly Mini Bieber, is a picture of thirtysomething Kim Kardashian, the star of reality TV show who was once photographed splashing with Justin in the surf. He was presented as the love-struck teenager. She was the.. Well what? Revolting? Predatory? Servicing? Helping teenage boys to forgo porn in favour of a flesh-and-bone walking sex training manual?
Yeater says the sexual encounter lasted “30 seconds”. Yep, that long. Kim’s work was not for nought.
Yeater says thay met on October 25 of last year. She was 19 (years). He was playing at L.A.’s Staples Center.
Radar Online reports her telling a judge:
“When I later realized I was pregnant with Justin Bieber’s baby, I tried to contact him through his representatives but no one ever called me back.”
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Posted: 2nd, November 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (3)
Very Distressing Video Of Texas Judge William Adams Whipping His Daughter With A Belt
PEOPLE who work for the law have to be squeaky clean, right? Because they’re the defenders of justice, they can’t be seen to be taking the law into their own hands.
Well, Texas court-at-law judge William Adams went beyond the pale when he discovered that his daughter, Hillary, had been illegally downloading games and music. He promptly went about violently beating her, repeatedly, with a belt. Hillary herself, 16 at the time of the video, was diagnosed with ataxic cerebral palsy at birth, recorded the incident in 2004 and uploaded it to YouTube a few days ago.
Hillary herself, says on the description of the video:
“The judge’s wife was emotionally abused herself and was severely manipulated into assisting the beating and should not be blamed for any content in this video. The judge’s wife has since left the marriage due to the abuse, which continues to this day, and has sincerely apologized and repented for her part and for allowing such a thing, long before this video was even revealed to exist.”
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Posted: 2nd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (20)
Washington Man Cuts Off Own Arm With Massive Homemade Outdoor Guillotine
TO Washington, where Bellingham police officers “still aren’t sure why a homeless man would decide to construct a homemade guillotine and then lop his own arm off with it. But they’ve released this photo of the medieval contraption all the same.”
The man, aged 32, arrived a media centre. Medics noted the missing arm and alerted police who found the limb lying at the base of a guillotine in the woods.
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Posted: 2nd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Global DC TV Presenter Barry Deley Wins Rich Lottery Drawn By Global DC Weatherman: Video
BARRY Deley is the winner of the BC Children’s Hospital Dream Lottery. He gets a country estate worth over $2.5 million mansion or $2million cash. You may know Barry Deley from his job as sports presenter on Global BC in Canada. That’s the same Global BC which drew the lucky winner for a big box of tickets – all with the ticket buyers’ names and adress written on them.
Says Deley:
“You know people are going to think this is kind of fishy,”
Global’s weather broadcaster Arran Henn drew the lucky ticket right in Global BC’s lobby.
Read it on Global News: Global’s Barry Deley wins grand prize in the BC Children’s Hospital Dream Lottery
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Posted: 2nd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Power Broking Scots Daydream Alarm Call: The Greece Of The North
FRONTIER News: Scots are legendary for being thoroughly mean and getting the best value for their fourpenny silver groat.
Racing pundit and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond must have felt he was being given a solid kicking in the sporran this morning when The Herald carried a Page One lead featuring a Citigroup analysis of Salmond’s perfect finishing post: Full Scottish independence and 100 per cent renewable energy in place by 2020. Citigroup was warning off power giants from investing in the renewables scheme because they could end up with money trapped in a Scots’ economic black hole if independence goes ahead.
A Green Dream turning to carbon ash moment?
Both independence and the 100 per cent renewable energy plans are being derided in certain quarters.
Ye’ll no take my Freedom
But the power’s for sale
The Scottish Nationalist leader is now being hounded to hold his independence referendum at once by a more than slightly concerned British national parliament with both Houses of Lords and Commons waking up to the idea the irritating Scots still have a tribal nature and want to shake of the intolerable yoke of English suppression. The fear is the UK economy will disappear into Highland peat bogs along with the financially crippled Bravehearts.
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Posted: 2nd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Will The Woolly Occupy St Paul’s Protest Bring Down The Arch Ditherer Of Canterbury?
OCCUPY London Stock Exchange might pitched camp 0.4 of a mile from its eponymous goal, but the protest continues to hit the big swinging dicks of the Church of England. Giles Fraser, the Canon Chancellor, has gone. And now The Right Reverend Graeme Knowles has resigned. Of course, the buck stops with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Church’s Chief Executive, whose inability to back or evict demonstrators is causing problems.
The current malaise at the Church was not helped by Halloween. As Simon Robinson explains
While confronted by the rise and rise of Halloween, what many fail to appreciate is that what Christians have on their hands could be what Simon Cowell would call a ‘high class problem’. Halloween is believed to originate from the pagan festival of ‘Samhain’, but has long since been Christianised into ‘All Hallows Eve’, in a bold, ruthless, and far-sighted move that was typical of our indomitable forebears. Halloween revellers are in fact celebrating the eve of a Christian festival – All Saints Day or Hallowmas, if they did but know it – partaking in the symbolic last gasp of darkness before it is extinguished by the light. However, unlike similar success stories of Christmas and Easter, the duality of Halloween and Hallowmas is largely forgotten. This is perhaps unsurprising considering the main activity of the traditionally Catholic feast day is to pray to Saints, a no-no for Protestants. It is followed by All Souls day, which features prayers for the departed faithful. Both festivals are sombre affairs that are not universally observed by Christians, and are certainly devoid of any appeal to the masses.
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Posted: 1st, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)
John Terry’s Racism: Matthew Syed Insults Chelsea’s André Villas-Boas
DAY 10 of the media’s persecution of Chelsea captain John Terry over alleged spot to racial abuse aimed at QPR’S Anton Ferdinand.
Before we see Matthew Syed’s words in the Times, Ferdinand would like to speak. He says:
“I have very strong feelings on the matter, but in the interests of fairness and not wishing to prejudice what I am sure will be a very thorough inquiry by the FA, this will be my last comment on the subject until the inquiry is concluded.”
And that’s it.
As for facts, all we know is:
* Terry shouted: “Oi, Anton, did you think I called you a black c***?”
* Terry says this was an attempt to explain to the QPR defender that he had not racially abused him.
* Ferdinand has told the FA that he did not hear Terry’s alleged abuse at the time.
You can make what you will of the anomaly.
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Posted: 1st, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (20)
X Factor Persecution: Kitty Brucknell’s Secret Deal To Be Hated
DAY 32 of the X Factor campaign to make Kitty Brucknell a figure of controversy and hate. Following yesterday’s news that the singer’s voice has been manipulated for the telly, the Sun leads with news of a race row. The front-page headline trumpets:
“KITTY IN X FACTOR RACE ROW”
Anorak half suspects Kitty has signed a secret contract to be the show’s go-to figure for negative stories. We imagine a producer offering professional singer Kitty a deal. Sign the contract and the X Factor will make you famous – but we and the tabloids will tell the slack-jawed masses to hate you. Kitty signs. She thinks she can handle it. All publicity is good publicity, right?. But it isn’t. Being accused of racism is a slur that sticks. There is no recovery. The X Factor chews up its acts and spits them out.
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Posted: 1st, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Bryon Widner Erases His Face Tattoos: Reformed Nazi Changes His Looks (Photos)
BRYON Widner is the reformed racist skinhead turned police informer who underwent 25 operations to remove tattoos that marked him out as a violent white supremacist. An anonymous donor forked out the £21,000 fee to have the tattoos removed after black anti-racist campaigner Daryle Lamont Jenkins publicised the case. The surgery was performed with a laser wilded by Dr Bruce Shack, chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Incidentally, one of Anorak’s writers has had tattoos removed. He says it “can hurt like f***”. The photos are fascinating:
Posted: 1st, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Corgis In Halloween Costumes: Photos By Royal Appointment
WHY does the Queen like corgis? The question should be: why doesn’t everyone? Dress up a corgi this Halloween:
Posted: 31st, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Qantas’ Wapping Effect: Alan Joyce Might Be The Airline Industry’s Rupert Murdoch
ALAN Joyce,45, the Irish-born Chief Executive of the Oz flagship Qantas airline is openly as gay as the campiest steward to be found in any Little England cabin crew…but has bugger all sympathy with their fair wage and conditions causes.
In an unprecedented move, he told the entire fleet to get down and an industrial disputes quango has ordered him to put them back up again.
Photo: Qantas boss Alan Joyce shows the strain of his brinkmanship grounding of the entire fleet
Joyce sees the airline’s future as cutting down on long-haul flights world-wide and concentrate on the more lucrative (he thinks) Pacific Rim trade. Asia is the market he fancies and wants to cut flight prices, shedding jobs and old working ways to fund it all.
Australian trade unions have the sort of reputation once reserved for British Motor Corporation’s car plant workers. They are tough and bloody-minded and been fighting their corner for several months with a series of strikes. Qantas managements were reeling as disruptions to flight schedules became more and more difficult…especially as pilots were getting uppity too. Captains were making in-flight cabin announcements re the industrial disputes and annoying passengers and employer.
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Posted: 31st, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Daily Mail Turns Joanna Yeates Into An Anti-Porn Cause: Vincent Tabak’s Video Nasties
CAN the tabloids turn Joanna Yeates into a cause? The Daily Mail is having a go. Following news that Vincent Tabak, Miss Yeates’ murderer, has watched pornography and not murdered a prostitute in Los Angeles, the paper makes 2 plus 2 equal whatever it wants to. The front-page headline announces:
After revelations that Jo Yeates murder was obsessed with violent images, web firm told: take action or lose millions.
This is the:
Church war on internet sleaze
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Posted: 31st, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Chelsea’s John Terry Is Innocent: Daily Mail And Stan Collymore See what They Want To See On YouTube
DON’T we all hope that Chelsea captain John Terry is innocent of racially abusing QPR’s Anton Ferdinand? Racism is a issue bigger than football’s tribalism. Other than a YouTube video we’ve seen no further evidence to support the case for Terry’s guilt.
Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has defended his captain. Better, perhaps, had the excitable Portuguese manager left the FA to conduct their inquires, as QPR’s Neil Warnock has, and backed his man in private. Villas-Boas opined:
“All of the players have been quiet about it because we know what happened. Nothing happened, so there is nothing to discuss.”
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Posted: 31st, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (10)
