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8th, February 2014 In Pictures

The Best News Pictures Of The Week - Vote On Your Favourite Photo

The best photos from the last week... More »

8th, February 2014 Sports

Sochi Fakery: Russian TV Showed All Five Rings Opening Up (Photos)

WHEN one of the Olympic rings failed to covert form a snowflake at the Sochi Winter Olympic opening ceremony jokes abounded abounded about the clenched fifth being a tribute to the uptight Vladimir Putin. But on Russian telly it never happened... More »

8th, February 2014 Reviews

Daily Express Weather: Everyone Dead By Teatime

WE need to talk about the weather. We need to talk about it because a large part of the UK is about to be sucked into a black hole... More »

7th, February 2014 Sports

Did A Racist Just Light The Olympic Flame At Sochi?

MANY all eyes on the Winter Olympics in Sochi for signs of anti-gayness. But what about racism? Irina Rodnina is an MP from Vladimir Putin's United Russia party. She used to be a champion figure skater... More »

7th, February 2014 Flashback

Otl Aicher: The Olympic Designer Who Shaped Your Journey To The Toilet

Otl Aicher designed these, the Games' pictograms, the figures that pointed the way to the Games' events, told you where smoking was forbidden and where the toilets were located. His simplistic design would become the universal standard. More »

7th, February 2014 Sports 1

Farting Gymnastics Challenges You Not To Smile

Go. Laugh. I dare you.... More »

7th, February 2014 Celebrities

Lookalikes: Pharrell Williams And Ken Dodd's Diddymen

William's celebrated lid is called the Mountain Hat. It’s made by Vivienne Westwood. Yep, she is that avid Ken Dodd fan, the leader of the Diddymen gang... More »

7th, February 2014 Reviews

Watch Joanna Lumley Explain Her Workout In This 1968 Video: 'I've Never Been A Skinny Bird'

IN 1968, a 21-year-old Joanna Lumley told us about her keep-fit regime. "I've never been a skinny bird" - not like Twiggy - says Lumley... More »

7th, February 2014 TV & Radio 1

Glee Banned From TV After Comedy Club Spat?

Well, Comic Enterprises Ltd, who run four stand-up comedy clubs called 'The Glee Club' since the 90s have accused the Hollywood behemoths at Twentieth Century Fox of "swamping" its rights and "putting off" customers. Nothing worse than turning up somewhere and expecting a nice singalong and being faced with a comedian crying to himself on a stage... More »

7th, February 2014 In Pictures

Journalists Find Sochi Full Of Yellow Snow - Photo Reactions To The Facilities

SOCHI is hosting the Inter Olympics. Thanks to Russia's pogrom on gays, the winter games are now one long protest against bigotry. Journalists lucky enough to be in the sun-dappled snow kingdom (it says here) have been settling into their quarters... More »

7th, February 2014 Reviews

British Jihadis Build New Syria With Asda Muesli Bars, Pot Noodles And 'lol Pizza'

JIHADIS are using social media to recruit British fighters. Hear the call to arms for Syria's ISIS and their subgroup the Muhajireen Brigade: “Brothers, what are you waiting for? There are plenty of weapons here waiting for you to play with, plenty of food and plenty of women waiting to get married...” More »

7th, February 2014 Books 2

Weasels Ripped My Flesh! 10 Awesome Pulp Headlines

IS there anything better than a mid-century men’s action magazine? They were chock full of lurid stories and provocative artwork depicting female biker gangs, nympho pirates, Gestapo dominatrices, etc. If it fulfilled a macho fantasy, it was fair game, and the headlines beckoned men to go along for the ride. Here are ten worthy examples... More »

6th, February 2014 Flashback

50 Years Ago, The Beatles Landed at JFK: 10 Great American Beatles Rip Offs

FIFTY years ago, The Beatles landed at JFK and caused mayhem. Their presence hit America so hard that they re-evaluated their own music history, screamed a lot, got competitive with the pop world again (great news for everyone) and generally got a huge kick up the arse from four scruffy Scousers who loved them right back... More »

6th, February 2014 Film 4

Childhood’s End: The Five Most Terrifying Movies Made From A Child’s Perspective

In his 2011 text, The Sociology of Childhood, author William Corsaro wrote that horror movies can form a sort of “risk management for children and youth in which they challenge themselves emotionally to deal with fears.”... More »

6th, February 2014 Politicians 1

This Picture Proves Ed Miliband IS An Indian Chef

HAS Ed Miliband, the Labour Party's unbelievable leader (as in - how the hell is he their leader?), given up pretending to be inanimate objects to work as a chef in India?.. More »

6th, February 2014 Reviews 2

Putin's LGBT Pogrom: Hunted And The Horror of Vladimir's Anti-Gay Crusade

Putin is on the cusp of pushing for an all out pogrom of LGBT people. It is ‘the gays’ as the hate groups would have it are Russia’s latest disposable minority, a political distraction that can be liquidated... More »

6th, February 2014 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: Three Years Later Portuguese Police Got A Call About An Intruder

PIERS Eady has an Our Maddie scoop in the Daily Mirror: Madeleine McCann: Cops probing claims a kidnapper tried to snatch another British tot from holiday flat in Portugal... More »

6th, February 2014 Key Posts 27

Bullshit, Bastards & Bylines: What To Learn From Tumblr, Buzzfeed, HuffPo And Upworthy…Yes, Really

Which media organisations have mastered making the web jump to their own sick tunes? Buzzfeed and The Daily Mail. The rest of the media runs like pissed wolves behind these lean beasts... More »

6th, February 2014 Key Posts

Read The Document That Caused A British Magistrates' Court To Demand Mormon Church Prove Adam And Eve Were Real

The head of the Mormon Church movement is being summoned to prove the religion is based on facts that can be proven by science... More »

6th, February 2014 Fashion 1

Groovy Vintage T-Shirt Adverts

Anyway, if you were a child of the seventies (or eighties for that matter), I’m sure you can recall a few tees near and dear to your heart. Whether it be Ziggy or The Six Million Dollar Man, I know you had at least one. To jog your memory, here are some advertisements from the T-shirt heyday… More »

6th, February 2014 Reviews 9

Fracking Hell: The Police V Dr Steven Peers Puts Belligerent Coppers In The Frame (Video)

This incident was taped at the anti-fracking protest on Barton Moss Road, Irlam, Salford on 14/1/14. The man with the camera is Dr Steven Peers, an Electronic Engineer. On linked In we learn that his interests are "Electronics, Jiu Jitsu, Aquaponics"... More »

6th, February 2014 Books

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