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Alien Monster Pig Born In Guatemala: Photos Of The Visitation

HAVE your seen the alien pig of Santa Cruz El Chol, Guatemala? Locals says the pig is the result of a visitation from outer space. On the night of the creatures bitth , they say strange lights were floating in the sky. Indeed, readers. Zorkop has flown billions of miles in his flying saucer to mate with a pig. Desperate times on planet GJKOSTRINGFELLOW call for desperate measures.

Says farmer Laureano Escobar Arias:

“I was shocked – it was a really terrifying experience. It looked like some kind of alien creature.”

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Posted: 3rd, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)


How The Tabloids Monstered Rebecca Leighton Over The Stepping Hill Hospital Deaths

REBECCA Leighton is free. The nurse was arrested suspicion of murder in July. Her arrest followed the deaths of two men and a woman at Stockport’s Stepping Hill Hospital. The theory was that insulin was deliberately injected into 36 saline containers.

She was convicted of no crime. Still, the Mirror said she was being held by “saline serial killer cops”.

Who knew that the police had an entire division devoted to saline serial killers? The Times and Telegraph led with photos of Leighton taken from her Facebook page. No, not shots of the nurse looking starched and orderly but photos of her looking zany and bit waahaaay on nights out with mates.

The Mail wanted its readers to play armchair detective – why should saline serial killer cops get all the fun? It’s front page asked:

“DID THIS NURSE MURDER THREE PATIENTS?”

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Posted: 2nd, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)


Boris Johnson Bans Poor Children From Watching Olympic Shooting: Etonians Can Fire At Will

THE Mascots were out in force at the Crystal Palace stadium in London to raise funds for the UK’s first Olympic sport based charity Gold Challenge. The idea is that you participate in an Olympic sport and whilst doing so raise money for charity. But not for the shooting events. Oh,.no. From the cause and effect school of thinking that says people who drive fast cars in video games will commit more road traffic accidents than those who don’t and that looking at images of kids in swimming gear will turn you into a paedophile, comes news that children are banned from watching shooting events at the London Olympics.

London schoolchildren can claim 125,000 subsidised Olympic tickets but are banned from watching the shooting.

The Evening Standard writes:

Giving children tickets to the events, at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, could have appeared at odds with Mayor Boris Johnson’s bid to quell teenage gun and knife crime.

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Posted: 2nd, September 2011 | In: Key Posts | Comment


Lindsay Lohan Gets Billy Joel Tattooed Under Her Boobs: Photos

LINDSAY LOHAN is good fun isn’t she? Mad punchy drunk diamond thief, occasionally doing a bit of acting work. What a great life she’s got. There’s pictures of her taking drugs with Paris Hilton (allegedly!) and she’s have sex with whatever gender she fancies.

She’s doing exactly what a famous person should.

And that includes… um… getting Billy Joel lyrics tattooed just under her boobies. That’s right! She’s got some words inked onto her ribs. They say:

“Clear as a crystal sharp as a knife, I feel like I’m in the prime of my life”

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Posted: 2nd, September 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment


The Battle For Dale Farm: Racism, Green Belt Snobs, The UN, Human Right And Vanessa Bloody Redgrave

THE residents of Dale Farm, Crays Hill, Essex, will have to leave the country’s largest unauthorised traveller site. The travellers, Pavees, had applied for a temporary injunction to stop Basildon Borough Council evicting the families from Dale Farm in Essex from midnight. The case hinged on the circumstances of 72-year-old Mary Flynn who suffers breathing problems and uses an electric nebuliser. Given how the country treats its ill and old, this was a flawed ploy.

The bailiffs are coming. The travellers promise a “bloody and violent” fight.

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Posted: 31st, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (21)


Ortis Deley Gets Fired From C4’s Athletics Coverage Thanks To This Online Video: World’s Worst Sports Presenter

UNSURPRISINGLY, Channel 4 have shown the door to poor old Ortis Deley after he made a terrible hash of his presenting gig during the coverage of the IAAF world athletics championships.

You may recognise Deley from some children’s TV, as well as Channel 5’s The Gadget Show. He bumbled and muttered his way through a series of gawdawful links, getting everyone’s name wrong and generally being more stilted than a hostage telling a tabloid he’s fine.

As such, Deley has been fired from the main presenter role which will now be taken by Rick Edwards. Ortis will stay on the roster but his role has been “scaled back”, potentially to ‘tea boy’.

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Posted: 31st, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment (1)


Funny Signs Spotted On Your Foreign Holiday

ANORAK has compiled a gallery of signs from your foreign holidays…

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Posted: 31st, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment


On Day Ian Redmond Is Buried Scary Daily Mail Says Great White Sharks Have The UK Surrounded

CAN Ian Redmond’s death be used to spread fear in the UK? Yes.

As you know, Mr Redmond died while on his honeymoon in the Seychelles. He was buried in Lancashire today. (We have photos but does anyone need to see them?) The tabloids have feasted off the story.

The death of man thousands of miles from home is tragic but lacks immediacy. Then news arives that a man has been killed by sharks while swimming off what the Mail terms “paradise island” – that’s Fantome Island well off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

Wikipedia describes paradise thus:

A leprosarium was established on the island in 1927. Upon its closure in 1974,[2] it was purged by fire. The island is the site of 200 graves. The island was also a mission under the influence of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary.

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Posted: 30th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts | Comment


X-Ray Photo Of Man Impaled On Shears While Gardening

X-RAY of the day features the head of Leroy Luetscher, a man of 86 years who while gardening in Arizona became impaled on a pair of pruning shears, or secateurs, as the best people call them.

He dropped them. They landed points up. He bent down to pick them up. He tumbled over. And…the handles went into his eye. The blades went through his eye socket and into his neck.

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Posted: 30th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)


Can Tortured Shweyga Mullah Help Us To Hate Colonel Gaddafi: Hannibal Gaddafi And Aline Scaf Are Here To Help

CAN we be trained to hate Colonel Gaddafi – really hate him? While some claim that Gaddafi and thus Megrahi took the fall for Syria’s crimes in the Lockerbie bombing, others point to how PC Yvonne Fletcher’s killer was allowed to leave the Libyan embassy and return unmolested to Tripoli. We need an image that shows Gaddafi to be a murderous, sadistic thug. All we have are the grainy newsreel images of PC Fletcher – and don’t we look at those and feel less hate than pride in the SAS? – and tales of lies and subterfuge over the murders of 270 people on British soil. To hate Gadafi we need to see his victims. We need to see Shweyga Mullah (aka Shweyga Mulla). She tells CNN’s Dan Rivers that she was tortued by Gaddafi’s youngest son Hannibal and his wife Aline Skaf, a Lebanese former model. The 30-year-old Ethiopian nanny says Aline toruted her by pouring boiling water on her skin for not beating theri child. Reprots need to be taken at face value. but Rivers offers no coroborrating evidence.

She tells CNN:

“She took me to a bathroom. She tied my hands behind my back, and tied my feet. She taped my mouth, and she started pouring the boiling water on my head like this.”

CNN enlarges:

She peeled back the garment draped carefully over her body. Her chest, torso and legs are all mottled with scars — some old, some still red, raw and weeping. As she spoke, clear liquid oozed from one nasty open wound on her head. After one attack, “There were maggots coming out of my head, because she had hidden me, and no one had seen me,” Mullah said.

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Posted: 29th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)


National Transitional Council Agrees To Keep Lockerbie Lies Between Friends: UK’s Ally Spares Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi’s Blushes

LOCKERBIE bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi has been found in Libya. He’s ill. The only person to have been tried and found guilty of the biggest mass murder on British soil is in a coma at his Tripoli home. Well, so we are told.

CNN reports that Megrahi appeared to be “at death’s door“. We have not seen his medical records. And neither have the burghers on East Renfrewshire Council, under whose auspices he is out on licence on condition that he dies from his terminal prostate cancer. The trouble is that release from Scottish Jail multiples life expectancy…apparently.

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Posted: 29th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)


Classic Movie Gifs

CLASSIC Movie Gifs – the best bits in bites:

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Posted: 29th, August 2011 | In: Gifs, Key Posts | Comment


No Violence But Plenty Of Love, Fun And Sex At Notting Hill Carnival: A Daily Mail Nightmare In Photos

THE prospect of violence at the Notting Hill Carnival is exciting the Daily Mail to such a degree that it’s report on the first day’s festivities open thus:

The Notting Hill Carnival got off to a peaceful start today as Scotland Yard faces its biggest public order test since the London riots.

So says the wonderfully named Mail writer Chris Slack. His words appear below the headline:

Notting Hill carnival gets off to peaceful start despite ‘disruption chatter’ on social networks

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Posted: 28th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)


Vanity Fair’s Man In Manhattan Cheers For Human Destroying Hurricanes: Irene And Me (With Cats)

HURRICANE Irene is heading for New York! A child has been killed by falling tree in Virginia. James Wolcott writes for Vanity Fair. In 2004, he was in Manhattan cheering for Gaia as she pounded a land mass miles away from his opinion base:

“I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong–Mother Nature’s fist of fury, Gaia’s stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own.”

G, Hurricane – smash Africa to pieces! Yayyy!

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Posted: 28th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts | Comment (1)


Sinead O’Connor Is Looking For Filthy Anal Yam Sex With A Hairy Man

POP star Sinead O’Connor is talking to the Irish Independent. The charismatic singer is, reportedly, looking for sex and snuggles – maybe not in that order:

The man who runs my site will protectively suggest I may want to visit the bathroom for a few intimate moments and a subsequent cold shower before deciding to post this on the site but I will of course ignore him as it’s too late now and the her-moans are having the best of me.

And then it gets interesting:

I recently read of a woman in America who married and regularly humps her truck. I don’t yet own a truck but I’m beginning to understand her head space. And am worried I too may be so desperate for sex that within days I might run up the road and hump Bray Cabs’ whole fleet of cars in one hour. Forty quid clear-up afterward. Can’t say fairer than that. Except maybe a photo for their website. Which’d be fine.

My situation sexually/affectionately speaking is so dire that inanimate objects are starting to look good, as are inappropriate and/or unavailable men and/or inappropriate and/or unavailable fruits and vegetables. I tell you, yams are looking like the winners. I actually do knowa woman who is a performance artist from America. I have a photo of her being escorted arm-in-arm by two UK policemen on to a plane back home cuz she humped a yam in the middle of her show. I just know that’s going to happen to me if I don’t take drastic action.

Needless to say what I do for a living makes it hard for me to find men that only want me cuz they like my (legendary) arse. Yet I am in the peak of my sexual prime and way too lovely to be living like a nun, and it’s VERY depressing.

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Posted: 27th, August 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (4)


Yoandri Hernandez Garrido Has 24 Perfect Fingers And Toes (Photos)

YOANDRI Hernandez Garrido, 37, is” Twenty-Four”. Hernandez lives in Cuba. He says his six fingers on each hand and six fingers on each foot (the condition is called polydactyly) enables him to make a living by scrambling up palm trees to cut coconuts – while ten-pin bowling and massaging his pals in the archery team…

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In this photo taken Wednesday Aug. 24, 2011, Yoandri Hernandez Garrido, 37, known as "Twenty-Four" shows his 12 fingers in Baracoa, Guantanamo province, Cuba. Hernandez is proud of his extra digits and calls them a blessing, saying they set him apart and enable him to make a living by scrambling up palm trees to cut coconuts and posing for photographs in this eastern Cuban city popular with tourists. Known as polydactyly, Hernandez's condition is relatively common, but it's rare for the extra digits to be so perfect. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

Posted: 27th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (4)


Hurricane Bitch Hits New York: Photos Of A Nameless Muslim Storm

HURRICANE Irene is heading for New York. After the earthquake, now the hurricane. The hurricane is terrifying. Well, it would be were it not named. MSNBC contributor Touré says Hurricane Irene is a “bitch”. Familiarity breeds contempt. But all is not lost – President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Sasha and Malia, have cute short their vacation short Friday and return to the White House for a storm he described as potentially historic. Unless he can negotiate a peace. Hey, she’s called Irene. It’s not like a Muslim hurricane or something scary…

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Resident Tony Silverthorne, who chose not to evacuate, has his drink in the wind and rain at Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills, Outer Banks, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, as Hurricane Irene reaches the North Carolina coast. Irene slammed into North Carolina's coast around dawn Saturday with howling winds and drenching rains amid reports of flooding and tens of thousands of people without power. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Posted: 27th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (17)


Reasons To Hate X Factor X-Bot Kitty Brucknell: She’s Ginger

KITTY Brucknell is back in the news. The X Factor’s X-Bot would like us to know that she was bullied. No, not only by the tabloid press. Kitty was bullied by her peers at school. We had thought that the sex tape would follow the tales of fixes, drugs and racy photos, but we were wrong. It and the romance with a fellow contestant will have to wait. The X Factor bosses have pressed F5 on the X-Bot’s head and we’re on to the bullying.

The Sun laps up the PR:

X FACTOR show-off Kitty Brucknell, aka Kimberley Dayle, told last night how she was forced to hit the hair dye bottle after she was branded the GINGER MINGER. She was mercilessly mocked for her strawberry blonde locks throughout her teens, TV Biz can reveal.

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Posted: 26th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment


The Ten Weirdest Things Found In Gaddafi’s Tripoli Compound

THE Ten Weirdest Things Found in Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s Tripoli Compound – from the golden guns to the golf buggy and the Condoleezza Rice photo album. Of course, the weirdest thing in the Gaddafi compound was Gaddafi – but they never did find him…yet.

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Posted: 26th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (5)


The Most Inappropriate 9/11 Items Ever: The ‘Fun’ Superman Wine Flask

AS the anniversary of 9/11 looms, we scout about for the most appropriate gift to mark the murders of thousands of people and the grinding War on Terror. We find a Superman Flask and some wine to fill it:

“Liebs Cellars in Long Island is promoting a wine that was made “using grapes grown 90-miles from the site of the World Trade Center.”

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Posted: 25th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment


Duchess Of Alba Marries Alfonso Diez: Photos Of Their Love

THE 85-year-old 18th Duchess of Alba is to be married to 61-year-old civil servant Alfonso Diez. Maria del Rosario Cayetana Alfonsa Victoria Eugenia Francisca Fitz-James Stuart y de Silva, to give her her dues, holds no fewer than 44 noble titles and 150 hereditary ones. Legend has it that she walk through Spain while never setting foot on another’s property. She is minted.

What attracted Sernor Diez to the ancient billionairess? We can’t say. But she has sought to counter the cynics by giving her five sons, one daughter and eight grandchildren their inheritance early. Moreover, Diez has signed a document renouncing any claim to his lover’s wealth. She has issued a statement in Hola! magazine:

“None of my friends will attend the marriage due to a lack of space.”

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Posted: 25th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Royal Family | Comment (1)


More Awkward Family Holiday Photos: Disney Is Hell

YOU loved the first batch of Awkward Family Holiday Photos so much that we’ve pulled together another gallery. What’s your favourite? We love pictures 5 and 11…

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Posted: 25th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment


Where Is Abdelbaset al-Megrahi? One Of East Renfrewshire Council’s Prisoners Is Missing In Libya (Photos)

The poser hinges on Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam. The rebels, aka Libya’s BNP, say he has been sezied. He says he’s not been kidnapped. He makes a pretty convincing argument as he sits in a car outside the famous Rixos hotel, flashing two fingers in the air like a man well used to ordering doubles of everything.

Previously, Seif has been accused of plagiarising his Ph.D in economics from the LSE.

You might well wonder about lies and liars – and then wonder about Tony Blair, who when Prime Minister had a hand in the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the man jailed for the biggest mass murder on British soil when a jet was blown up over Lockerbie. The killer had three months to live at the time of his release on compassionate grounds on August 20, 2009.

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Posted: 24th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)


Amy Winehouse: How The Tabloids Killed Her By Suicide, Drugs, Blake, Reg Traviss, Booze And Lies

AMY Winehouse has died. She was not killed by an overdose of drugs. Right at the start, when her body was found, police said no drugs were found at her Camden home. Still, the newspapers declared otherwise:

The sordid details of Amy Winehouse’s final hours emerged today, with claims that she bought a cocktail of narcotics including cocaine, ecstasy and ketamineDaily Mail, July 25, 2011

One friend partying with her over the last weeks said: “It was an ecstasy overdose. She could do cocaine ­until the cows come home. But this was ­obviously a dodgy pill. That was backed up by MTV ­producer Danny Panthaki, who claimed: “My friend’s boyfriend is a policeman, and he’s the one who found Amy Winehouse dead. ­Overdosed on ecstasy” – Daily Mirror, July 24, 2011

“TORMENTED Amy Winehouse died yesterday at 27 after downing a massive cocktail of drugs, The People can reveal. The singer was seen buying narcotics, believed to include cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and the horse tranquilliser ketamine, from a dealer shortly after 10.30pm on Friday –  Dean Rousewell The People, July 24, 2011

Rousewell then added:

But last night pals claimed she had died earlier that morning after indulging in a final drugs binge during a night out with pals.

Pals grassing on pals. Some pals, eh, to get a reformed drugs addict off their face on drugs. Do we know who these pals are? No.

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Posted: 24th, August 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment


Megan Fox Fears Catching Mental Illness From Marilyn Monroe Tattoo (Photos)

MEGAN Fox tells Italian magazine Amica, that she has rid her body of a tattoo celebrating the life and times of Marilyn Monroe:

What is happening to your Marilyn?
I’m removing it. It is a negative character, as she suffered from personality disorders and was bipolar. I do not want to attract this kind of negative energy in my life.

Dr Fox is able to diagnose a dead person. Poor Marilyn – first death – now this. By the way, Che Guevara had anger issues; Gandhi was feared anorexic; and Mohammed Ali has Parkinson’s Disease. Anyone with these tattoos on their person is lining themselves up for a life of hurt. You are what you tattoo. Think on.

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Posted: 23rd, August 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)