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10th, January 2014 Gifs

Wonderfully Ridiculous Animated Photographs Of New Yorkers

French-born, NewYork-based photographer Romain Laurent has created these fun animated portraits... More »

10th, January 2014 Strange But True 1

South Africa Government Wants OAPs To Stop Using Condoms For 'Rubbing Knees'

"We want an immediate stop on OAPs using condoms for 'Rubbing Knees'. We have noted with concern here in the province that our senior citizens who are using condoms to rub their knees.." More »

10th, January 2014 Key Posts

Mic Wright's Remotely Furious: Praising Big Brother, Advocating Nuking Nick Robinson

Celebrity Big Brother is the zenith of the Channel 5 Big Brother experience. It has got casting down to an art – Jim Davidson chained to a Nolan, Lee Ryan being Lee Ryan, Evander Holyfield looking more out of place than a box of condoms on the Mother Superior’s desk and a smattering of models whose only point is to feed The Daily Star with more big breasted happy-faced types... More »

10th, January 2014 Strange But True

South African Pastor Walks On Congregation And Makes Them Eat Grass As He Commands Demons

The grass, says Daniel, is a sign that if humans believe they can eat anything... More »

9th, January 2014 Liverpool 4

Liverpool Balls: Brian Reade's Bad Maths Makes Andy Carroll Look Good

LIVERPOOL FC fan Brian Reade looks away from the hellholes of South London to talk about his team. He writes in the Mirror: 'Bonus Brian Reade: Liverpool the ones laughing now over much-mocked January 2011 transfer window'... More »

9th, January 2014 Flashback

Trading Cards Of The 1970s: The Bay City Rollers Versus The Village People

The Topps Company didn't just make baseball cards with a stick of chewing gum in each packet. They made cards for non-sporting endeavours. Collect them. Trade them. The Garbage Pail kids cards sold well. So too Pokemon. But what about these? More »

9th, January 2014 Celebrities

Are Disney 'Gender Bigots'? Meryl Streep Thinks So...

Disney, in the past, have been accused of anti-Semitism and more, but Streep focused her ire on Disney's treatment of women, calling Walt Disney (played by Tom Hanks in the film, for the record) a "gender bigot" and quoting longtime Disney animator Ward Kimball, who said his boss "didn't trust women or cats."... More »

9th, January 2014 Key Posts

Become An Instant Millionaire For Only $100!

Yes indeedy, as a signal that this altcoin market (Bitcoin, Litecoin and the like) you can become an instant millionaire in your own currency for the once only low low price of $100!... More »

9th, January 2014 Music

The Bluffers GuideTo This Year's Coachella Line-up

The Coachella Festival is back, announcing the 2014 line-up, much to the excitement of people on Tumblr who are hipster enough to fawn over it, but alas, too poor to actually afford to attend. The big news is that the festival will have a recently reformed Outkast headlining, which is good news for all. Also topping the bill are Muse and Arcade Fire (Queen 2.0 and Music For Dads, respectively)... More »

9th, January 2014 Reviews

TV Presenter Charlie Vernon Sacked For Raising Finger At Colleague Who Called Her A 'Wh**e' Through Her Earpiece

"I was shocked and extremely offended to be called a f****** big whore and a bitch on my earpiece,’’ says Charlie Vernon... More »

9th, January 2014 manchester united

Revealed: Manchester United's Chris Smalling Is A Jihadi Pretending To Be A Footballer

Last night, Smalling and his girlfriend hosted a private fancy dress party to celebrate Christmas and their respective birthdays. Smalling came as ‘The Jagerbomber'. He was the jihadi with Red Bull and Jagermeister cans and bottles strapped to his vestments... More »

9th, January 2014 Key Posts 2

Armed Struggle: Duggan Police Should Be Accountable

Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and other large conurbations have endemic gun crime and draconian policing policies. The rise of zero-tolerance gung-ho Chief Constables was not helpful in communities which still mistrusted and actively sought to outwit law enforcement... More »

9th, January 2014 Flashback

Hollywood Stars In World War 2 - 43 Photos

What did Hollywood stars do during the War? These 43 photos help us to understand... More »

9th, January 2014 Music

Kaiser Chiefs' Ricky Wilson Shows Rare Honesty About Doing The Voice

When they nearly kill themselves with drugs and booze, they pretend they've got 'nervous exhaustion'. When they refuse to do promotional work for new records, they know that that, in itself, is promotional work and it works very well thank you very much... More »

9th, January 2014 Key Posts

The Mark Duggan Story In Photos: Police And Gangsters Shoot To Kill

On August 4, 2011, Mark Duggan, 29, is show by police in north London. The father-of-four was travelling in a mini cab when pulled over More »

8th, January 2014 In Pictures

The Tao Of Cats: 15 Cats Sleeping Anywhere

CATS. They can sleep anywhere. Many Anorak writers and readers own cats. You know that cats spend most of the day sleeping. So. They get pretty good at it. They get to showboat... More »

8th, January 2014 Money

Wannabe New York Times Owner Chen Guangbiao Has World's Least Humble Business Card

The world's most humble business card is that handed over by Chen Guangbiao, a minted Chinese businessman who would be owner of the The New York Times... More »

8th, January 2014 Film 1

Proof: DVD Covers Are Rubbish

Before anyone points out that movie posters have an edge via larger canvas size - I’ll acknowledge that. But there’s plenty of awesome paperback artwork – the smaller canvas didn't seem to handicap Frank Frazetta or Robert McGinnis. So, I’m not going to give DVD covers a pass... More »

8th, January 2014 Film

The Baftas 2014 Nominations Are Announced!

Leading the pack is Gravity with 11 nominations and true stories dominate the main categories (which probably means all our fiction writers are either rubbish or they've given up through a lack of funding) with all but two films (Gravity and The Selfish Giant) falling into that pocket... More »

8th, January 2014 Reviews 3

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