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22nd, January 2014 Reviews

Nenuco Hell: Toddlers Fight To Feed Anorexia Doll And Jab Babies With Needles Full Of Serum

ARE you scared by the "Anorexia doll"? The Sun says there are "Fears over toy snubbing food"... More »

22nd, January 2014 manchester united 1

Manchester United Balls: After Mata, United Will Raid Man City, Newcastle, Spours, Everton and Southampton

Why are Manchester United set to buy Juan Mata from Chelsea? Because Terry Venables told them to... More »

22nd, January 2014 Flashback

Flashback To 1985: Khamis Abdel Motagally Cures Rheumatism By Burying Egyptian Women In Hot Desert Sand

22nd, January 2014 Reviews

Michael Schumacher Truth Fades: Daily Mirror Presents As Fact Dire Words Of Doctor Not Treating Injured Driver

IS MICHAEL Schumacher dead? Dying? Not our question, you understand, rather those of the Daily Mirror editorial community, which thinks its readers want an update on the German driver's health.... More »

22nd, January 2014 Technology

Adam Magyar's Super Slo-Mo Films Of Faces On The Platform As The Train Arrives

What face do you pull when the train pulls into the station? One surprise looking at Adam Magyar's super slo-mo films (50 frames per second; one 12 second moment spans to 8 minutes of film) of faces on the platform is how few people eat on trains in Tokyo, New York and Berlin... More »

22nd, January 2014 Money

Google, Amazon And Facebook Will Just Get Away With It

WE'VE been having all sorts of lovely fun the last couple of years as people uncover the stories about how little the various internet companies pay in tax. Google sells everything in from Ireland, as does Facebook, meaning that they pay tax on their UK profits over there. Well, with a cure deal that lets them send all their profits to Bermuda without tax... More »

22nd, January 2014 Sports

Australian Open: Ballboy Returns Ball With His Face

Meanwhile.... At the Australian Open: More »

22nd, January 2014 Photojournalism

Murmuration Marvels: Photographer Islolates The Paths Of Starlings In The Mob

Dennis Hlynsky, a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, wondered what flight paths each bird takes... More »

22nd, January 2014 In Pictures

Sochi In Photo: Life In The Russian Resort

Sochi is the site of the Olympic Winter Games. What's life like in the Russian report?.. More »

22nd, January 2014 Celebrities

10 Regrettable Examples of 1970s Occult Lameness

THE OCCULTISM explosion which overtook North America and Europe in the 1970s ushered in a level of national fascination that is hard to understand if you weren't there. But, as with anything that experiences a surge in popularity, it becomes sabotaged by the Johnny-come-lately offerings riding the gravy train. In the blink of an eye, the wild taboo becomes irredeemably cheesy. Such is the territory we shall cover today… More »

21st, January 2014 Key Posts 4

Every True Football Fan Should Stand With Spurs' Yid Army: Sing What We Want To

Gary Whybrow, 31, of west London, Sam Parsons, 24, of Amersham, and Peter Ditchman, 52, of Bishop's Stortford, have been arrested and charged with using threatening, abusive or insulting words at football matches. Well, not so much words as a word. That word is "yid"... More »

21st, January 2014 Money

Travel Site Wars: Now Google Is Punishing Expedia Over Dodgy Paid Links By

Oh, and guess what's interesting? Expedia is, of course, a travel comparison site. And Google is rumoured to be launching its own travel comparison site very shortly.... More »

21st, January 2014 Key Posts

Daily Mail Writes Fake Story About Fake Sun Rising Over China

So smoggy is it in Beijing that local crowd around bit tellies to get a look at the sun they once knew. Well, so said the Daily Mail, whose James Nye reported: The smog has become so thick in Beijing that the city's natural light-starved masses have begun flocking to huge digital commercial television screens across the city to observe virtual sunrises... More »

21st, January 2014 Money

I'll Bet You The Guardian Won't Pay Any Tax On This Vast Profit!

Now here's a thing. The Scott Trust Limited, which owns the Guardian Media Group, which in turn owns The Guardian, is just about to make a vast profit. And it will pay no tax at all on that vast profit... More »

21st, January 2014 Reviews 1

Horrifying figurines of foetuses, now available to buy

21st, January 2014 Flashback 8

The 15 Most Depressing Songs of the 1960s and 70s

The late 1960s to mid-70s were a manic depressive time period in music, populated by exultant highs and soul crushing lows. The highs came in the form of disco and bubblegum pop via ABBA, The Bee Gees and their ilk. The lows came in the form of devastating testaments to inner sadness and existential rage. Perhaps it was Vietnam, recreational heroin use, and an economy that was in the crapper that caused such a swell in depressing anthems. Who knows? What is known is that this time period was fertile ground for misery put to melody, and whittling them down to a list of 15 was a daunting task indeed, but here goes…. More »

21st, January 2014 Sports 3

Football's Worst And Best Spitters

THERE are stop footballers spitting at the match by making it punishable by a fine. Let's look at the footballers for whom it was better out than in.... More »

21st, January 2014 Key Posts

The Plan To Stop Footballers Spitting

Enfield Council has sent letters warning football clubs in the north London borough against players spitting. Winchmore Hill FC was once club to have received a letter warning of £500 fines for anyone caught spitting in public - "the bye-law does provide authorised officers with the powers to prosecute those witnessed spitting. Please cascade this information to your players and those of the opposition team to avoid the risk of prosecution.".. More »

21st, January 2014 Reviews

The Daily Mail Says Bagels Give You Cancer And Sugar Is 'Evil'

This might be the Mail's most desperate scare story to date. If a bagel is your biggest problem, you might just be ok... More »

20th, January 2014 In Pictures

Batman Sees Out His Retirement In America's South West (Photographed By Rémi Noël)

Batman has been spotted by Rémi Noël. The Caped Crusader is wondering in the American South-west. Batman, now retired, is seeing the rest of his days in the desert landscapes of the Southwest... More »

20th, January 2014 Flashback

Chewing Gum: Psychedelic Treats And Assorted Oral Wonders

Many people don't much like gum. John Carey, Merton professor of English at Oxford, said chewers who spit it out were "like fly-tippers, gum-spitters register themselves as a disaffected underclass with no share in communal aspirations. Our ruined education system is partly to blame, but so is the vast inequality of wealth we permit, which breeds despair"... More »

20th, January 2014 Celebrities

Putin Says He Likes Elton John (Just Not The Other Gays)

During a show, Elton spoke of his anger at Russia's laws, saying: he was "sad to learn" of the law banning "propaganda of homosexuality", adding that the whole thing is "inhumane and it is isolating". He then dedicated his Moscow's Crocus City Hall show to Vladislav Tornovoi, a young man tortured and murdered in Volgograd for being homosexual... More »

20th, January 2014 Money

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