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Revealed: 10 reasons why the BBC sacked Danny Baker
REVEALED: Why the BBC sacked Danny Baker from his brilliant daily afternoon show on London 95.9FM. The Danny Baker Treehouse has been felled:
1. “We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.” – Danny Baker
2. Global warming
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Posted: 1st, November 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
April Jones joker Matthew Woods’ sentence reduced – you should be offended
APRIL Jones has not been found. Paul and Carol Jones, April’s parents, have spoken from their home in Machynlleth, Powys, to thank the help and support they’ve ben given. They have been “overwhelmed“.
Mark Bridger, 46, is is jail. He’s been charged with 4-year-old child’s abduction.
Meanwhile, Matthew Woods, 20, of, Chorley, Lancashire, has had his 12-week sentence for posting an offensive tweet abut April Jones reduced to eight weeks on appeal.
Two magistrates sat at Preston Crown Court to debate whether or not making a deliberately sick joke in 140 characters or fewer is worthy or 12 weeks prison.
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Posted: 1st, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (9)
1956: The Are You In The Know? booklet about menstruating, fashion and dating?
HOW did they date in 1956 ? Thanks to this historial document, we know. It was produced by “Kotex menstrual napkins“, and published by Kimberly-Clark, with drawing by Irving Nurick. Marvel at the research that went into aping teenage slang of the day.
“Greet him dressed for gallivanting; if only to the local Cokery.”
“Tain’t fittin’, kitten!”
Click the images from Are You In The Know? to make them bigger:
Posted: 1st, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment
‘Chelsea – standing up to racism since Sunday’ (Manchester United fans unveil world’s best banner)
CHELSEA v Manchester United in the Capital Cup. No John Terry. The Chelsea captain is banned for using racist words on the pitch. Referee Mark Clattenburg has been relieved of his duties while police and the FA investigate the allegation that he racially abused two Chelsea players during the side’s Premier League match last Sunday. Manchester United fans note the irony:
Posted: 31st, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment (1)
Farewell Ceefax: How Internet killed the television star
FAREWELL then, Ceefax; your Legoland graphics will delight and inform us no more. You were called Ceefax, because you enabled viewers “see the facts” with no messing about, and you became a national institution. But your birth was a happy accident.
As BBC engineers searched for a way to provide programme subtitles, they realised the same technology could be used to send other information.
Colin McIntyre led a team of eight at Television Centre in Shepherd’s Bush, monitoring the news wires. They typed up the stories, then produced a punched tape which was “read” by a machine into a “core store” with a maximum capacity of just 24 pages.
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Posted: 31st, October 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
UK Uncut really don’t know what they’re talking about, do they?
IN a press release from UK Uncut we see this:
A report in the Times newspaper (20/09/12) outlined how 533 directors of UK companies have registered addresses in Monaco. Despite vetting by HMRC, the government has still seen fit to award several tax exiles with honours. These include the billionaire Sir Phillip Green- who avoided £285million in capital gains tax in 2005. UK Uncut activists have repeatedly targeted Green by occupying branches of his Arcadia fashion empire.
Err, no. Just no.
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Posted: 31st, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Money | Comments (12)
Superstorm Sandy in photos: the full Frankenstorm blog
SUPERSTORM Sandy has hit America’s East Coast. Why? The obvious explanation is that with the Presidential election a matter of days away, the weather machines have been switched on. Others believe it never happened. Says New Yorker Lorenzo Montanez: “I think its malarkey. They are just hyping it up so people can go and buy stuff they don’t need, and scare the s*** out of people.” Why else named a killer storm after the lead character in Grease? Frankenstorm might be better.
New York has taken a pounding. Mayor Michael Bloomberg calls Sandy as “a once-in-a-long-time storm”. Estimates are that 5.8 million have lost power along the East Coast of the US. Parts of the New York Subway system are under salt water.
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Posted: 30th, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Facebook has kidnapped your friends and put a price on their heads
FACEBOOK has been turning down the volume. Not all those followers who have taken the time to “like” your Facebook page are seeing all of your updates. You might not have noticed.
Anorak has a pretty modest Facebook following. We never paid much interest to it until recently. But the plan, as with all small and big publishers, is to spread the word and get as many people to like the site to follow our updates. The new Anorak site (a couple of weeks away) has ben designed to be more Facebook friendly.
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Posted: 27th, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (3)
This Hampshire Halloween checklist: Is Your Costume Racist?
THE Hampshire College Halloween Checklist asks: “Is You Costume Racist?”
Ask yourself: “Does my costume represent a culture that’s not my own?” That question to the Jedi Klingon Zombie…
The brain dead should convene at the Amherst, MA, campus on October 31…
Posted: 26th, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Pigeons: A pictorial history of humanity and the urban bird
PIGEONS. One half of humanity seems hellbent on trying to murder them with harks and guns. The other half wants to use them to throw food at them. One man’s rock dove is another man’s flying rat. A few things we know about pigeons:
1. They are critics of human endeavour – no statue is safe
2. They love cricket
3. They help to win wars
4. They can be raced
We’ve gone through the archives to bring you a pictorial history of pigeons.
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Posted: 26th, October 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment
Did Jimmy Savile turn Kerry Katona to necrophilia?
KERRY Katona says he will know that she’s dead when Gina D’Acampo, Fern Britton, Coleen Nolan and Ant ‘n’ Dec, turn up at her funeral. We’d advise her to approach Iceland with a Cryogenics range of frozen celebs, possibly on sticks. Kerry is talking about death because it’s Haloween. OK! wants to know if she has ever “had a poltergeist”. Well, there are no kids to offer proof of a dalliance but she did have experiences:
“At my house in Warrington, the light used to blow constantly, and I’d be lying in bed and the TV would suddenly come on. I went to see a psychic and he told me it was my dear friend letting me know she was there.”
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Posted: 26th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
How to breath underwater: you need beer, a deep pool and gritted teet
WANT to learn how to breathe underwater? Children look a way now:
IN LATE 60’S I DISCOVERED I COULD BREATH UNDER WATER WITHOUT EQUIPMENT.
1-DRINK ONE BEER (MAY NOT BE REQUIRED)
2-JUMP INTO DEEP END OF POOL
3-EXHALE ALL AIR AS YOU ARE GOING DOWN
4-SIT ON FLOOR OF POOL
5-GRIT TEETH AND LIPS
6-SLOWLY SUCK AIR THRU LIPS AND TEETH.WARNING…NOT FOR MINORS
MAYBE SOMEONE CAN FORWARD THIS TO THE NAVY SEALS AND PERHAPS AFTER THEY FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN DUPLICATE THIS CAN INVENT A MOUTHPIECE THAT ACTUALLY IS SEPARATING OUT THE AIR (HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN) FROM THE WATER ENABLING MILITARY TO BREATH UNDERWATER WITH NO TANKS ECT. SORT OF A FISH GILL FOR THE MOUTH. IT IS NOTED THE POOL ALSO CONTAINED CHLORINE ..THE POOL WAS IN HOLLYWOOD CALIF.
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Posted: 25th, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Extracts from Jimmy Savile’s autobiography Love Is An Uphill Thing
EXTRACTS from Jimmy Savile’s autobiography, Love Is An Uphill Thing.
* Great and momentous times we have had, the ladies and I. Monumental and magnificent. Tender, sometimes touching, but never turbulent. From single situations to team-handed times, girls have taught, trimmed and trained me up to Olympian standards.
* From that day to this there have been trains and, with apologies to the hit parade, boats and planes (I am a member of the 40,000ft club) and bushes and fields, corridors, doorways, floors, chairs, slag heaps, desks and probably everything except the celebrated chandelier and ironing board.
* The officeress was dissuaded from bringing charges against me by her colleagues for it was well known that were I to go, I would probably take half the station with me.
* On one of my trips to France I had walked into a shop to ask a price and there was a lady behind the counter. The counter was also the same height as my pelvic bone… Hands in trouser pockets I leaned foward to speak, bit before I could utter a word over-balanced and rocked back and forth, perfectly balanced by the hips. As I couldn’t get my trapped hands out of my trouser pockets I was well stuck, and the alarmed lady summoned her husband with loud Gallic cries. He levered me upright, but as I couldn’t speak French at the time, all I could do was smile like Charlie Chaplin and bow out.
* One second I was there, the next, all that was left was an old raincoat.
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Posted: 25th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
The best creepy crawlies microscope photos
THESE are the best photographs from Nikon’s Small World microscope photography competition 2012. Unpleasant creepy-crawlies can be beautiful:
Posted: 25th, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comments (2)
Jimmy Savile was a Satanist in an Establishment-run anal paedophile ring
PAEDO Ring. Jimmy Savile. Margaret Thatcher. The links reverberate around the newsrooms:
Daily Star (front page): “SAVILE: Paedo Ring Linked To Number 10”
Beaten by:
Daily Mirror (front page): “Peado Ring INSIDE Number 10”
The story is based on the words of Tom Watson MP who yesterday told the Commons at PMQS:
“The evidence file – used to convict paedophile Peter Righton – if it still exists, contains clear intelligence of a widespread paedophile ring. One of it’s members boasts of his links to a senior aide of a former Prime minister, who says he could smuggle indecent images of children from abroad. The leads were not followed up, but if the files still exist, I want to ensure that the Metropolitan Police secure the evidence, re-examine it, and investigate clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and Number 10″.
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Posted: 25th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
The 2012 Carnage event in Brighton – photos
TO Brighton, East Sussex, for the Pimps and Hoes-themed Carange student piss up, throw up, feel up, cock up and knocked up extravaganza. Honk if you’re not dry heaving. Who’s up for it?
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Posted: 24th, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Jimmy Savile was a miracle saved by the God and the saintly Margaret Sinclair
JIMMY Savile was a miracle, a gift from God. It’s true. He was meant to be. He was saved by the venerable Margaret Sinclair.
In 1978, Pope Paul VI declared that Margaret Sinclair practised the Christian virtues to a heroic degree and she was given the title ‘The Venerable Margaret Sinclair’.
St. Pattrick’s parish, Edinburgh, praises her. It wants the woman born in that city to made a saint.
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Posted: 24th, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (3)
Ceefax and Teletext RIP
BEFORE the internet, there was a whole world of information to be found on Ceefax and Teletext. These blocky, but comfortingly amateurish graphics would adorn our pages with TV listings, horoscopes, music news and games. Bamboozle is surely one of the first interactive games a generation played? Channel 4 had Planet Sound, with John Earls heading up the editorial and providing a trusted, fanzine-style voice which music fans would devour with their Coco Pops on their TVs previously meant only for their Spectrums and Commodore 64s.
The BBC’s Ceefax was a little more safe than what could be found on other channels, but by no means loved any less.
Even though the whole thing looked hopelessly out of date in an age where video games are hyper-real and the internet is the place filled with every kind of graphic and photo you could hope for, there’s elements of Ceefax and Teletext that haven’t been bettered.
For example, the Now And Next (p120 or p606) television guide feature was a thing of wonder, minimising itself at the foot of the screen, allowing you to continue to watch television while weighing up which channel to hop to. And of course, subtitling was a glorious leap forward, with captioning on Freeview and Sky basically copying what Ceefax had done before.
For many, Teletext and Ceefax won’t mean a thing, but for that generation that truly embraced it, its passing should bring back a host of memories. Pressing ‘reveal’ on pages with no answer was always a thing people did, revealing stray code and such. Then there was the button which allowed you to enter a four number code, rather than the usual three. Stoners and the bored would endlessly tap in random digits in a bid to find secret pages. And this writer DID, and it appeared to be something to do with a premium rate phone game, regrettably.
It goes without saying that this old technology had to go, surpassed by the infinitely more useful internet. Smartphones and tablets effectively made Ceefax redundant. But that’s not to say we shouldn’t pay small tribute. After all, if it wasn’t for Nightscreen and the like, many of us would never have heard any jazz or muzak, ever.
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Posted: 23rd, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
Savile: Let’s smash up the NHS and the BBC in our hunt for paedos
THE media loves to talk about the media. Today it’s all about media star turned pariah Jimmy Savile. The papers lead with:
Daily Star: “BBC torn apart by Savile”
Oh, please. The Star, owned by Channel 5 boss Richard Desmond, is hoping for too much.
Daily Mail: “Savile’s victims to sue for millions”
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Posted: 23rd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (7)
People being dicks on infomercials
PEOPLE on infomercials are always doing it wrong. “Whenever a TV product commercial plays I bust a gut during the parts where they show us what we’re doing wrong and why we need the product.” Here are some of the best:
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Posted: 22nd, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
David Walliams thanks shit taste and Shakin’ Stevens for saving him from Jimmy Savile
DID you have a “lucky escape” from Jimmy Savile? David Walliams did. The Telegraph says David Walliams had a “lucky escape” because when he was 10 he wrote to Jimmy Savile, asking the then sainted charity worker to fix it for him to meet Brian Blessed. Yeah, Brian Blessed. Lucky escape or what!?
Walliams has kept the letter he wrote to the BBC’s Jim’ll Fix It show. He’s published it on the back of his autobiography, Camp David. The letter goes:
“Dear Jim’ll [sic], Please can you fix it for me to meet Brian Blessed, who plays the King Vultan in Flash Gordon? And please can you fix it for me to be a Hawkman for the day? Basically, I just really want to be on TV. Yours sincerely, David.”
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Posted: 22nd, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Police did to striking miners what they did at Hillsborough: they lied
THE self-serving police elite can try to use the idiotic Andrew Mitchell to look pure, righteous and trustworthy but after the lies of Hillsborough were exposed, we get news that South Yorkshire police may have lied during the miners’ strike in 1984.
Were young officers keen to get on and not sully their careers coerced into fabricating reports that led to the arrests of 95 miners in what became known as the Battle of Orgreave? All the miners were acquitted. But in nicking them, the police made it harder for the accused to protest. Hit them hard and tomorrow they won’t turn up to protest.
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Posted: 22nd, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Newsnight editor Peter Rippon ‘quits’ over Jimmy Savile story: George Entwhistle is toast
NEWSNIGHT editor Peter Rippon has quit over the fallout from his decision to spike the Jimmy Savile sex story.
Well, so says the Daily Mail on its front page. But on twitter, Nick Sutton tweets that Rippon has not quit.
Has the Mail made a howler? No. Rippon has stepped aside.
Panorama says Rippon WAS under pressure from his superiors at the BBC to drop the story that Jimmy Savile was a predatory paedophile.
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Posted: 21st, October 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (4)
Marina Chapman was Marina Luz – the child raised by monkeys
MARINA Chapman was, when a young child, adopted by family of capuchin monkeys in the Colombian jungle. She had been kidnapped at around five-years-old. The caper had went and she was abandoned in the jungle.
She now lives in Bradford.
In Colombia, Chapman learned from the monkeys. She could catch and kill small animals and birds with her bare hands. She lived that way for five years.
When human beings found her, they took her town and traded her for a parrot with a brothel keeper.
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Posted: 21st, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
What we know about Leeds United fan Aaron Cawley
LEEDS United. They’ll chant! They’ll shout! They’ll knock your keeper out! It’s Leeds United!…
Some Leeds fans will doubtless revel in the antics of Aaron Cawley, who ran onto the pitch and slapped Sheffield Wednesday Chris Kirkland in the face. When Leeds United equalised, Crawley attacked a big professional athlete who was looking the other way.
Leeds United manager Neil Warnock said Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Chris Kirkland “went down like a tonne of bricks”. But, come on, it looked like a foul…
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Posted: 20th, October 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (5)
