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10th, June 2014 Celebrities

Get Rik Mayall & The Young Ones to Number One!

IT is remarkable that Rik Mayall, who sadly passed away yesterday, was so loved, considering the small matter of his solely playing really horrible people. Somehow, he retained a certain warmth while being slimy, obnoxious and pervy. Such is the love, that fans have kicked off some campaigns to honour him... More »

10th, June 2014 Celebrities

Soccerball Lover J-Lo Sings World Cup Song And Follows The Action On An App.

THE World Cup is days away and fully grown adults are trying not to vomit with excitement about it all. Women and men everywhere are only half listening to conversations and forgetting to chew their food before swallowing, thanks to the impending cavalcade of football in Brazil... More »

10th, June 2014 Chelsea

Transfer Balls: Hazard Quits Chelsea In Private But Commits To Them In Public

TRANSFER Balls: Today the Press is full of news that Eden Hazard is not leaving Chelsea... More »

10th, June 2014 Flashback

1943: Wounded Soldiers Bake In The Sun Room At Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora, Colorado

ON June 5 1943, wounded soldiers took advantage of the "Sun Room" at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora, Colorado... More »

10th, June 2014 Music

Axl Rose Threatens Everyone With New Guns N' Roses LP

THERE was a time when Guns N' Roses were the perfect, pompous ragtag gaggle of panto rock villains, waddling around giganto-stages and blasting out 'Welcome To The Jungle' while smoking fags and drinking booze from the bottle... More »

10th, June 2014 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Messi Heads To Chelsea As Arsenal Man Fabregas Spins In Manchester United's Revolting Door

TRANSFER Balls - with the Daily Fabregas... More »

9th, June 2014 Arsenal 1

Transfer Balls: Alvaro Morata Is Free To Arsenal, Spurs And Manchester United After Signing For Juventus

More balls... More »

9th, June 2014 Sports

World Cup Balls: John Oliver Nails FIFA (Video)

SO. FIFA is not the hot bed of love and equality we thought it was. It turns out that football is run by greed. John Oliver told of his shock and dismay on Last Week Tonight... More »

9th, June 2014 Sports 1

Revealed: The Dirtiest Teams In The History Of The World Cup Are Not South American

ANDROS Townsend, the Spurs sub with five England caps tells readers of his Sun column: "I don't want to generalise but it's usually the South American teams that resort to dirty tactics. And - at a World Cup - you have to be prepared for that." He doesn't want to generalise. But he will. Those dirty Latins, eh... More »

9th, June 2014 Celebrities

Rik Mayall RIP: A Brilliant Comedian Has Died

Never has an actor been so well-loved for playing such repugnant human beings... More »

9th, June 2014 Celebrities

RIK Mayall Photos: Sticking Two Fingers Up Stephen Fry And Other BJs

He was one of the funny ones... More »

9th, June 2014 Reviews

World Cup Watch: Hodgson Got Liverpool's Sterling Sent Off Like Paul Gascoigne For Spurs

WORLD Cup Watch looks at how the Daily Mail is gearing up top rubbish Roy Hodgson whose key error remains not being Harry Redkapp... More »

9th, June 2014 Money 1

Obesity, Booze And Fags Don't Cost The NHS Money: They Save It

There is no justification for making people thin to save the NHS money. For fat people do not cost the NHS more, they cost it less... More »

9th, June 2014 Flashback 442

8 Reasons Children of the 1970s Should All Be Dead

The way things are going, every kid is going to go to school wearing bubble wrap and a helmet. Back in the 1970s (and earlier), parents didn't stress about our health and safety as much as they do today. It’s not that they cared less – they just didn't worry compulsively about it. Parents of 2014 need to be reminded of how less restricted, less supervised, less obsessively safety-conscious things were... and it was just fine... More »

9th, June 2014 Celebrities

Gwyneth Paltrow Shouts At Rice And Urinates On Hilary Clinton's Happy Teddy: The Greatest Celebrity News Story Of All Time

It is not a work of parody, unless Paltrow is, for she rote on her blog... More »

9th, June 2014 In Pictures 1

Bathini Mrugasira Fish Medicine Photos: Stuffed Live Sardines To Cure Asthma

PHOTOS Essay of a member of the Goud family administering “fish medicine” to an asthma patient in Hyderabad, India.... More »

9th, June 2014 Arsenal 2

Transfer Balls: Arsenal And Barcelona Deal Means Chelsea Miss Out On Fabregas

TRANSFER Balls - in association with the Daily Fabregas, a look at reporting on the Barcelona player. More »

8th, June 2014 Chelsea 3

Manchester United Balls: Mourinho Puts In A Better tackle at Old Trafford Than Smalling And Jones Ever Have

AT the Soccer Aid pro-am charity match, Chelsea manger Jose Mourinho makes his move... More »

8th, June 2014 Reviews

War On Free Speech: The UCL Student Union Bans Fascists And Talking About Fascists

THE UCL Student Union has banned the college's Nietzsche Club. The Union write beneath the headline "Motion to the Union Council: Fight Fascism"... More »

8th, June 2014 Strange But True

No Education: Blackpool Kids Missed School Because There Was Cat Poo On The Landing

TO Blackpool magistrates court, Lancashire, where Gareth Beresford, 32, is explaining that his two daughter, aged 6 and 9, werr unable to attend school because there a cat poo outside their bedroom door. The girls saw the turd and were unable to pass it by... More »

8th, June 2014 manchester united 2

Transfer Balls: Manchester United Sign Pogba To Partner Kroos As Chelsea Miss Out

TRANSFER Balls: Is Paul Progba making a move form Juventus? Let's se what the papers have been saying... More »

8th, June 2014 Reviews

Daily Express: Scottish Independence Gives You Cancer

BLIMEY! The Daily Express has news to chill Scottish Independence voters. A vote 'yes' gives you cancer... More »

8th, June 2014 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: 3 Suspects, All Parents Are Good And Killing Summer In Praia de Luz

MADELEINE McCann: Anorak look at the missing child in the news. In today's newspapers... More »

8th, June 2014 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Lorenzo Insigne Will Join Arsenal If... Can You Guess?

TRANSFER Balls: The Press is talking about Lorenzo Insigne heading to Arsenal from Napoli. TalkSport calls him "Italy's Messi" He must be good... More »

7th, June 2014 Reviews

The Truth About The 796 Dead Babies In Tuam Galway: Catholic Bashers Ignore The Facts

THE Independent talked of "The 'Irish Holocaust'" that "saw hundreds of babies left to die – and the practice may have been more common than first thought"... More »