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3rd, June 2014 Key Posts

From Soup Tins To Dog Turds - How Life Got 'Iconic'

A recent ‘survey’ conducted among passengers at Heathrow Airport sought to find ‘the top 10 iconic departures that resulted in sporting history’. The winner, should you happen to be interested, was Sir Ranulph Fiennes flying to conquer Everest and cross both polar ice caps in 2009. The runner-up was Andy Murray flying to America to win the 2012 US Open. Leaving aside the preposterously tenuous nature of the concept – the plane trip that preceded the historic achievements – one thing in particular stands out: the word ‘iconic’ itself. More »

3rd, June 2014 Liverpool 21

Transfer Balls: Manchester United Offer Liverpool £25m Less For Luis Suarez Than Real Madrid Will Buy Him For

TRANSFER Balls: How's the summer shaping up for Liverpool's Luis Suarez?... More »

3rd, June 2014 Celebrities

In the 1980s Dick Gregory Wanted To Cure The Very Fat: Walter Hudson Became His Pet Project

IN the 1980s, human rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory became involved in weight loss. .. More »

3rd, June 2014 In Pictures

PASTICHE, PARODY & PIRACY An Exhibition of Subversive Art

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3rd, June 2014 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: Martin And Mary Smith, A Spade's A Spade And Digging For Agony

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

3rd, June 2014 Film 10

16 Tragic Science Fiction Calendar Miscalculations

Here’s a list of sci-fi TV shows and movies and the dates they were supposed to take place. Some are reasonable... some way, way off the mark... More »

3rd, June 2014 Chelsea

Transfer Balls: Frank Lampard Leaves Chelsea But Joins Manchester City Not New York City

The Mirror's "exclusives" are utter balls.... More »

3rd, June 2014 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Chelsea Buy Fabregas From Manchester City But He Wants To Pay For Arsenal

TRANSFER Balls: Having been linked in the media with a transfer from Barcelona to Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City, the Telegraph brings news that Cesc Fabregas is wanted by...Chelsea... More »

2nd, June 2014 Sports 5

Spurs Balls: West Ham United Celebrate Doing The Treble In Embarrassing Fashion

WEST Ham United fans are celebrating The Treble with an official t-shirt. It turns out that season 2013-14 was a stella year for the club. .. More »

2nd, June 2014 Sports

World Cup Balls: The Sun's 'Do Us Proud' Campaign Is Good For India And Bad For England

Do Us Proud, says the Sun. The fans react in a predictable fashion... More »

2nd, June 2014 Reviews

Daily Mail Loses Its Moral Compass Over Animal Testing And Kittens' Skulls Cracked Open

THE Daily Mail has a "shocking" story on experiments conducted on kittens and British Universities, The top comment from readers asks: Where has our moral compass gone?... More »

2nd, June 2014 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: Channel 4 Invite You To Watch Her Dead Body Emerge From The Ground

Police are digging on wasteland. They are looking for... Well, it must be a body, right?... More »

2nd, June 2014 Music

Crisis Averted: Justin Bieber Loses No Followers

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2nd, June 2014 Music

Boy Band Weed Watch: Dull One Direction Make Smoking Marijuana Uncool

THE video of One Direction members Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson smoking weed has been shared a million times on the internet and a number of op-ed pieces have fretted over the band's reputation and the potential for the band misleading their fans into doing naughty things... More »

2nd, June 2014 Celebrities

The 10-Point CV Leonardo da Vinci Sent To The Duke of Milan

PS... I can paint a bit, too... More »

2nd, June 2014 Flashback

King Juan Carlos Hosts Diana, Charles And the Young Princes Harry and William In Majorca 1988 (9 Photos)

KING Juan Carlos of Spain has abdicated for "political reasons". He's 76. The new King of Spain is Prince Felipe. He's 46. Prince Charles is much older. He might now be handing his mum a brochure for the shady Glades retirement village in Tenerife, or Digitas... More »

2nd, June 2014 Key Posts 1

Sad Sex Documentaries That Make You Lust For Haunted Cars

All three women professed to love their jobs having taken up having sex for money later in life but there was no escaping how bleak their situations seemed. I thought my eyes were going to roll right out of my head when one man who has visited mature escorts hundreds of times proudly declared himself to be a romantic... More »

2nd, June 2014 Manchester City

Transfer Balls: Manchester City Take Vow Of Silence On Fabregas Move

TRANSFER Balls update: The Daily Fabregas has news on the Barcelona star... More »

2nd, June 2014 Money 1

What If It's Actually A Virus Turning Us All Into Fat Lardbuckets?

THIS sounds like a very odd theory, that it's actually a virus that is turning us all into fat lardbuckets. But while it's an odd theory there's enough evidence out there that we should at least consider it seriously. Not to the point that we just assume that it's correct of course: but to the point where we investigate more to see if it might be true... More »

2nd, June 2014 manchester united

Manchester United Balls: Tom Cleverley Trying To Board The England Team Plane

Just a joke, of course. And a funnier one than Norman Wisdom impersonator Simon Brodkin being dragged away by the suits... More »

2nd, June 2014 Money

Epic Adverts: Dynamic Nashville Bass Player Is Looking For Work In G (Some Restrictions Apply)

"I play G, C, D. If your songs are not in G..." More »

2nd, June 2014 Strange But True

Jesus Spotted In Rusting Air Conditioning Unit

Jesus is made of flaking iron... More »

2nd, June 2014 Liverpool 2

Transfer Balls: Adam Lallana Signs For Liverpool For £10m Less Than Southampton Demand

TRANSFER Balls: Is Adam Lallana heading out of Southampton? Where is he going? Let's see what the newspaper experts have been reporting the summer so far?... More »

1st, June 2014 In Pictures

The 2014 World Custard Pie Championships In 17 Photos

Custard tarts... More »

1st, June 2014 Celebrities

S-Nigger Watch: Eeeny Justin Bieber Is No Meeny Jeremy Clarskon

WHEN he 15, Justin Bieber told a racist joke about black people. Four years on and The Sun is outraged. It's posted footage of Bieber behaving like a dickhead (which is pretty much all he does) for a documentary called Never Say Never... More »