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23rd, May 2011 The Consumer

The Sooner You Advertise Here The Better: Ad Of The Week

This advert in Holland is better than the advert it wants you to cover it with... More »

23rd, May 2011 Politicians

Barack Obama In Ireland: Photos

It's a big day for free Ireland. After years of poverty and life ruled by the English pound, the Irish are now free to pay off their own massiove debts...Sort of... More »

23rd, May 2011 Music

Jedward To Team Up With Aerosmith, Which Is Completely Fine

JEDWARD are in grave danger of having their credibility ruined by teaming up with ageing rock testicles, Aerosmith. Well kinda. Not the whole of Aerosmith, but mainman, Steven Tyler, who is currently sat at home ironing his face in a trouser press... More »

23rd, May 2011 Music 3

Quite Obvious Former Smackhead, Bob Dylan, Admits He Used To Take Heroin

TAKE one look at Bob Dylan - who just happens to be celebrating his 70th birthday tomorrow, despite looking and sounding like a 70 year old since around 1964 - and you think, there's a man who used to like bags of heroin disappearing up his puny arms... More »

23rd, May 2011 Key Posts 8

Lawyers Sell New Magnificent-Injunctions: Ryan Giggs Offered Discount

Ryan Giggs' daughter is called... Liberty. More »

23rd, May 2011 Politicians

Imogen Thomas And Alex Salmond F*** The English

“It looks to me like English law and English injunctions are increasingly impractical in the modern world."... More »

23rd, May 2011 Celebrities 1

Trying To Swallow Gwyneth Paltrow At The Chelsea Flower Show

Paltrow has been at the Chelsea Flower Show. We spotted her in the B&Q Garden - "the tallest edible garden at the Chelsea Flower Show!... More »

23rd, May 2011 Celebrities

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Denise Van Outen And Mildred Baena's Face

Arnie “deliberately targeted unattractive women for affairs - because they worshipped him more than beautiful ones...” More »

23rd, May 2011 Strange But True

Trucker Flashes Police On Motorway

With news of lorry drivers chucking porn mags from their cabs in Kent fresh in the mind, we hear of truck driver Peter Manson... More »

23rd, May 2011 Strange But True 9

Harold Camping And 200 Million Are Missing: Judgement Day Guru Presumed Raptured

Family Radio’s Harold Camping guaranteed the rapture. He guaranteed Doomsday. He also spotted it coming on September 6, 1994... More »

23rd, May 2011 Key Posts

BBC Admits Detector Vans Never Used In Court: The Best Licence Fee Scare Videos

Did you know that the BBC has never - NEVER - used detector vans to prove to the courts that the accused has been watching the telly without a TV licence? Well, it is true... More »

23rd, May 2011 Reviews

Imogen Thomas Promotes Scottish Independence: Super-Injunction Scandal Spreads

The thing about the alleged super-injunction taken out by the married footballer who had an alleged affair with Imogen Thomas, is that you have to have an idea who he is to look up his name... More »

23rd, May 2011 TV & Radio

TV Baftas 2011: The Only Way Is Essex Gives YouTube A Winning Face

For obvious reasons, The Only Way Is Essex cast were presented not with an orangey metal face - which only would have made the gong look like a decapitated extra... More »

22nd, May 2011 TV & Radio

British Academy Television Awards 2011 Photos: Amy Childs Chocolate Box TOWIE

To the British Academy Television Awards 2011 at London’s Grosvenor House, 90 Park Lane, London (turn left at the footballers’ suite)... More »

22nd, May 2011 Celebrities

Peter Andre Won't Be Dating You Famous Women, So You Can Breathe Easy

DESPITE barely registering on most people's scale of celebrity, Peter Andre has an almost charming delusion that he's a big deal. He takes his music very seriously (no, honestly he does - if he was any more earnest, he'd be a good replacement for the Montell Williams Show) and is very... More »