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14th, October 2010 Celebrities

Perez Hilton Will No Longer Out Gays For Our Entertainment

Perez Hilton and the gay hate public service... More »

14th, October 2010 Politicians 1

Obama Aide Calls Being Gay A 'Lifestyle Choice'

Jarrett was senior Advisor to Obama's presidential campaign. Here she is... More »

13th, October 2010 Reviews

RIP Kaziemierz Jagodinski: The Clown Who Escaped 11 Nazi Concentration Camps

RIP Kaziemierz Jagodinski, aka Kash and the ‘Del Boy of Haslingden’, a man who endured no less than 11 German concentration camps – he escaped from all of them... More »

13th, October 2010 Reviews

Sarah Palin's Alaska To Rodeo Drive Road Trip

"How about if Todd and I we load up all the kids in our motorhome and drive down, park on Rodeo Drive and we come to see you"... More »

13th, October 2010 Key Posts 21

Yonni Barrios You Legend: Love Cheat Chilean Miner In Photos And Virgins

Barrios is the 50-year-old Chilean miner whose name will live on in tabloid and mining legend... More »

13th, October 2010 Film 3

Keira Knightley And Carey Mulligan Never Let Me Go Red Carpet Photos

"I hate red-carpet events; I absolutely hate them. I don't like the fact that people write, 'Oh, you look like crap' in print. Or 'I don't like your arms!'"... More »

13th, October 2010 Reviews

Chilean Miners Rescue Is A Brilliant Government Stage-Managed Affair

Chilean miners are emerging from the earth. The excitement mounts; it can only be a matter of hours before the massed desk chimps denounce the Illuminati conspiracy... More »

13th, October 2010 Reviews

'Britain's First Mephedrone Death' Is Not So: Lancashire Girl Killed By Toxic Blend

Rebecca Cardwell, 19, is the country’s first person to die from mephedrone – aka ‘bubble’ and ‘meow meow’ – and now an illegal Class B drug... More »

13th, October 2010 The Consumer 2

The Long Life Of A McDonald's Happy Meal In Pictures

The burger that will not die... More »

13th, October 2010 Reviews 2

Chilean Miners Thrashed By Channel Tunnel's New Deutsche Bahn ICE3

As the Chilean miners emerge blinking into the media glare having endured a pathetically slow bobsleigh train ride, we chose today to salute Britisher technology... More »

13th, October 2010 Reviews 2

Chilean Miners Train For Winter Bobsleigh Team In Phoenix I

"Well it won’t be the Winter Olympics. I have never seen a slower Bobsleigh team..." More »

13th, October 2010 Reviews 3

Chile Miners: Let The Media And Political Feeding Frenzy Begin

What next for the 33? Well, Blaine Mayhugh knows more than most what to expect... More »

13th, October 2010 Strange But True

CD Pirates Busted For Using Own Photos On Covers

Dennis Davis, 40 and his wife Kerry Ann Graham, 34, would have gotten away with selling pirate CDs had they been less vain... More »

13th, October 2010 Reviews 1

Hated Cheryl Cole Seeks Relativity In Piers Morgan

X Factor line of the Day comes to us via the Star’s Peter Dyke and Nigel Pauly, who tell readers... More »

13th, October 2010 TV & Radio 1

X Factor 2010: Cher Lloyd's Fragile Watch With Robbie Williams

Anorak’s look at the word “fragile” used in context of feisty X Factor singer Cher Lloyd, Dot Cotton’s Team America puppet made life - with Robbie Williams... More »

13th, October 2010 TV & Radio

Man Interrupts Dutch TV Talk Show To Ask Directions To Toilet

In this instructional video you will learn how to ask for the toilet in Dutch... More »

13th, October 2010 Celebrities 14

Michael Parkinson Savages Russell Brand: Well, He's No Billy Connolly

Parkinson says Russell Brand is “Talentless, unfunny and lucky to be famous”. Well, Brand never did get to flick back his hair, stroke his beard and go on Parky’s chatshow, like, say, Billy Connolly... More »

13th, October 2010 Key Posts 1

Gordon Smart 'Stole' My Tweet: Sun Journalist Caught Out On Twitter

The Chile Miners sensation is a chance to see how journalism works and how desperate the tabloids are to remain relevant in the face of electronic media... More »

13th, October 2010 Reviews 2

Sky News' Chile Miners Score Card Is A Life And Death Sweepstake (Photo)

The Chilean miners are being rescued and Sky News has a score card (0/33) on screen. How many of the 33 trapped miners will be rescued? More »

12th, October 2010 Key Posts 2

Photos Of Democrat Politician Krystal Ball Sucking A Dildo Strapped To A Man's Face

Krystal Ball sounds like David Beckham's fortune teller. But she's a Democrat running for Congress in Virginia's first district. And to pave the way for career in big politics she's sucking a small red dildo... More »

12th, October 2010 Reviews

James Turrell's Ganzfeld Sphere Makes Light Of Life In London: Photos

James Turrell's show at the Gagosian Gallery in central London features the Ganzfeld sphere that allows you to “see” the colours inside your head. More »

12th, October 2010 Strange But True 2

These Phuket Vegetarian Festival Photos Are A Pierce Of Heaven

The Phuket Vegetarian Festival is not the place for meat munchers to sneers at vegetarians, to mock them as limp-wristed, effete, milk-fed softies. Vegetatrians like to look tough. Hitler was a vegetarian... More »

12th, October 2010 Reviews

Green Campaigners Create British (Organic) Tea Party Movement

The global warming movement is reduced in the UK to shopping for organic tea - and do use the water in the cartons. It's the Organic Tea Party... More »

12th, October 2010 Sports

Mugged Liverpool Fans At High Court Protest At Sale Of Club

English football used to be fun and competitive - now it's all about greed, money and the biggest wallet wins... More »

12th, October 2010 TV & Radio 3

Cher Lloyd And Chery Cole Are 'Fragile': Brittle, Hard And Thin

Cher Lloyd is fragile. We know this because the word fragile is used to describe her. More »