Anorak

Anorak News - Pop culture, media, sport and weirdness

20th, January 2011 Key Posts 1

Joanna Yeates: Sun Clears Chris Jefferies In Jo's Garden

The shock news is that Chris Jefferies appears to have been cleared by the Sun - one of the papers that monstrered him... More »

19th, January 2011 The Consumer

Panasonic Flies Snowman From Japan To Bahrain: Global Warming 101

To showcase global warming to the locals of Bahrain, Panasonic flew a snowman packed in its high-tech insulation 5,314-mile journey from Japan to the desert... More »

19th, January 2011 Key Posts

Hampshire School Bans Student For Looking Too Old

The Petersfield School, Hampshire, has suspended Prince Summerfield because they say he’s not 14... More »

19th, January 2011 Reviews 1

EMA Protest Photos: The Biscuit Revolution

The student protest against the Government’s plants to kill off the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) will not make the front pages. More »

19th, January 2011 Strange But True

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2: Justin Bieber Is Chico

When they come to make the sequel to Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Chico is a shoo-in for the lead role... More »

19th, January 2011 Celebrities

Miranda Kerr's Organic Breast Milk: A Warming Photo

Kerr would like to show one and all a photo of her son Flynn suckling on her breast... More »

19th, January 2011 Reviews

Skins: Less Sex, Drugs And Facebook

Skins is a great show because the stars are vapid, vindictive, insecure and hateful... More »

19th, January 2011 Technology

Drivers Take On The Iciest Hill In The World (Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh)

To Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They come to watch the ice hill races... More »

19th, January 2011 Money

Goldman Sachs Partners Just Keep Getting Richer

Because bankers are despised – they bet against their own clients to win – we can reveal that the story of Goldman Sachs’s hostile take over of Haitian blood bank reserves are wide of the mark... More »

19th, January 2011 Strange But True 1

Man Stabs Four For Laughing At His Farts

Marc Higgins, 21, is farting at a party. Others make fun of him. So he leaves. He then returns... More »

19th, January 2011 Politicians

Obama Infected By Worms In The White House

Worms in the White House is the Snakes On A Plane sequel you've been waiting for!... More »

19th, January 2011 Reviews 1

The Koran of Kansuh al-Ghuri Is The Future

One day, when the Daily Mail is King, all korans will be this big and believers will be encouraged to carry them about in their pockets... More »

19th, January 2011 Reviews 2

84-Year-Old Doris Thiele Tackles A Burglar

Mrs Thiele is 84. She fought off Leon Ingram, who had broken into her New Forest home... More »

19th, January 2011 Key Posts 14

Vanessa Feltz, Channel Five And The Living Hell Of Writing For The Daily Express

Feltz might be post-gastric band but she continues to fill the daytime schedules like a bulking agent in a packet of own-brand baps... More »

19th, January 2011 Reviews 3

Schools Record Language Of Racial And Sexual Abuse: From Nig-Nog Through Mega Peado To Clean Shirt

If 2010 figures are a guide, right now there are just 10,000 primary school children engaging in homophobic or racist in England and Wales. This is well down on 1974... More »

19th, January 2011 Reviews 2

Global Warming Has Been Beaten

We did it! More »

19th, January 2011 Celebrities 8

Katie Price Divorce Statement In Full: Harvey Price Is The Man Of The House Again

Price's chocolate sock love affair with Alex Reid is over. Will he jilt her at the lawyers?... More »

19th, January 2011 Strange But True 2

Man Kills Himself On Test Drive: Car Salesman Escapes

Richard Byrne used the red Mini Copper he was test driving to kill himself... More »

19th, January 2011 The Consumer

Swearing Fark Toy Teaches American Children to Bark: Video

That My Pal Violet toy is turning the air blue with her rendition of a children’s favourite... More »

19th, January 2011 Celebrities 10

Zachary Jackson Levon: Elton John's African Kids And A Sperm Shake

Elton: “They said ‘Quickly! The baby is coming!” We went in and stood behind the bed. Then the top of the head came out, and David said, ‘My God, that’s the head!”... More »

19th, January 2011 Reviews 1

Shrien Dewani: The Motive, The Suicide And The Circus

Tomorrow, the UK courts will review a request by the South Africans to extradite Shrien Dewani. He is alleged to have played a part in the murder of his wife Anni Dewani... More »

18th, January 2011 Reviews 1

Joanna Yeates: The Crimewatch Journey

JOANNA Yeates is on the front pages... More »

18th, January 2011 Politicians 1

Barack Obama's Tuscon Applause Cue Surprises White House

The teleprompter goes open source... More »

18th, January 2011 Reviews 2

Dog Kicker Arthur Kent Jailed

Ken was filmed kicking his dog Thumper (!) in Knee Hill park (he said it as to teach the dog to walk)... More »

18th, January 2011 TV & Radio

Sam Hollyman Rejects Britain's Got Talent Publicly

BGT is the idea launch pad to embark on a meteoric career? It might be – so long as you sign the contract... More »