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14th, May 2015 The Consumer

Jart: You can send your mother a fart in a jar

You can now spend your money to send farts in a jar - a Jart - through the post. For $10 plus shipping, you can send a crispy, airy, or juicy blow off and a note to your mother / enemy / lover... More »

13th, May 2015 manchester united

Manchester United: Chris Smalling, a burning hot tub and naked barbecuing

The story is that Manchester United and England's Chris Smalling's garden hot tub caught fire. The Sun says Smalling wasn't at his Bowdon, Altrincham, home at the time. The fire was spotted by a passing police car... More »

13th, May 2015 Reviews

OAP expelled from nursing home for hiding prostitute under his bed

A Philadelphia-area man is looking for a new digs. The 70-something year old - described as one of the “more mobile gentleman” - was kicked out of his Norristown assisted living facility for hiding a prostitute under his bed.... More »

13th, May 2015 Reviews

Vegetarian man offended by the smell of meat threatened fellow train passengers with knife

To the Traunstein to Munich train, Germany, where a vegetatian, 29, has been driven berserk by the smell of meat.... More »

13th, May 2015 Chelsea

Chelsea owe Roman Abramovich £1,041,243,000 and rising

In the year to June 2014, Abramovich's loan rose from £984m to £1,041,243,000. More »

12th, May 2015 Politicians

Lord Janner: 203 votes on the law and police PR with dead Jimmy Savile

Lord Greville Janner: a look at reporting on the beleaguered Labour peer... More »

12th, May 2015 Reviews

Fighting on a Clapham Junction train was just an everyday commuting 'nightmare' in London

Quote of the week comes to use via the Daily Express. The paper's report on a travel "nightmare" at London's Clapham Juncion station is headlined: "Commuters brawl as power cuts halt trains"... More »

12th, May 2015 Books

Reader photocopies his Kindle to make a more expensive physical backup

Artist Jesse England's “E-Book Backup” project sees him photocopy his Kindle version of George Orwell’s 1984. He photocopied every page, one by one. Eh then uploaded the scanned copy to his Kindle... More »

12th, May 2015 Manchester City

Manchester City Balls: Guardiola's tabloid journey takes him to Manchester United

Is Pep Guardiola heading to become the next manager of Manchester City? The Sun has been relating the story. ... More »

11th, May 2015 Strange But True

Police scrape smugged heroin from inside man's foreskin

The man on a train from China to Tibet has secreted heroin inside his foreskin... More »

11th, May 2015 Politicians

Why Survation and the Daily Mirror failed to publish the poll that showed the Conservatives on course for victory

The polls got it wrong. The Conservative Party won the General Election. But one poll you never saw was spot on-ish... More »

11th, May 2015 Reviews

Welsh bus company pull ad with topless model offering wa*kers the chance to 'Ride Me All Day For £3'

A Welsh bus company has used a topless woman to encourage wa*kers (that's not just 'walkers' - ed) to "Ride Me All Day For £3”.... More »

11th, May 2015 Reviews

Beyond parody: 'Is vandalising the Women of World War Two memorial OK?'

The Tab wanted to answer the question: "Is vandalising a war memorial ever OK?"... More »

11th, May 2015 Reviews

Father becomes a criminal to give his 2-year-old epileptic daughter marijuana

ould you treat your child with marijuana? Alex Repetski gives his two-year-old daughter Gwenevere oil-based medical marijuana to help control her seizures... More »

11th, May 2015 Politicians

Lord Janner: the name is erased, the elite weep for justice but the stench lingers

Lord Janner: A look at Labour peer Greville Janner and allegations that he abused children. He says he's innocent... More »

11th, May 2015 Manchester City

Transfer Balls: Paul Pogba pays less tax at Manchester United (and never left Manchester United)

Transfer Balls spots Paul Pogba news. Manchester City are celebrating a Tory win in the General Election by offering Paul Pogba £250,000 per week – net – to pick them (top rate of tax: 40%), Real Madrid (tax optional, allegedly), Chelsea, Barcelona (tax?) Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain (top rate: 75%)... More »

11th, May 2015 Celebrities

Watch every time Owen Wilson says 'Wow' in a movie

Owen Wilson likes to say “Wow”. Indeed, if the script contains enough 'wow', Owen Wilson is in. Had William Shakespeare wrote "Wow, to be or not to be" or 'Wow is that a dagger?", Wilson would have been a fine stage actor.... More »

11th, May 2015 Reviews

Teacher demands students take exam naked

“It's just wrong," says the mother of a student at University of California, San Diego. "Is this the memory that my daughter's going to carry with her for the rest of her life? ... More »

11th, May 2015 Celebrities

That interview with Russell Brand made me realise how stupid the Left think we are

Everything you needed to know about how stupid the high-brow newspapers think tabloid readers, everyone on the web and the youth are is encapsulated in an Independent headline... This interview with Russell Brand could well win Ed Miliband the next General Election... More »

10th, May 2015 Arsenal

Transfer balls: Arsenal get three players they don't want

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10th, May 2015 Politicians

Guardian readers cope with a Tory election victory by drawing faces on fruit

How do readers of The Guardian live with a Tory victory in the General Eleection? That question is rhetorical The answer is: draw faces on fruit... More »

10th, May 2015 Manchester City 1

Transfer balls: Pep Guardiola to Manchester City with Paul Pogba as bait

Transfer Balls hears that stylish Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola, 44, has decided that Qatar-owned Manchester City will be his next job. Well, so reports Qatari-owned BeIn Sports... More »

10th, May 2015 Reviews

Transfer Balls: Chelsea offer £40m and £21m for Manchester United target Koke

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10th, May 2015 Reviews

Kent mother unhappy about son's 'bullet through head' homework question

Alex Garrod’s 11-year-old son Harry was asked to respond to an unusual homework question delivered by Eastchurch Primary School in Sheerness... More »

9th, May 2015 Reviews

Florida school principal Krista Morton student interrupted smoking pot with student

To Florida, where high school principal Krista Morton has been caught in a car with an 18-year-old student and marijuana – "her shirt was unbuttoned".... More »