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10th, December 2013 Celebrities 1

Bono Blesses The Mandela Crowd (Photo)

What would Bono do..? More »

10th, December 2013 Reviews

Nelson Mandela Memorial In Photos: Where Were You When The White Supremacists Ruled?

The Nelson Mandela Memorial took place at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg... More »

10th, December 2013 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: Aktenzeichen XY…Ungelöst And The Christmas Lights

What news..? More »

10th, December 2013 manchester united

Transfer Balls: Manchester United And The Bruno Gomes 'Snub'

The transfer season looms... More »

10th, December 2013 Celebrities

How TV Works: Anna Jardine Jones' Vending Machine

The truth about telly... More »

10th, December 2013 Key Posts 1

Nelson Mandela: The Best Anti-Guff Tributes

When Nelson Mandela died, the tribute industry went into overdrive... More »

10th, December 2013 Key Posts

28 Up South Africa: A More Fitting Tribute To Nelson Mandela Than the Usual Guff

28 UP is the greatest TV franchise ever created. It's not the one that has made the most money or the most famous but it is the greatest, a true document of human experience that has stretched across decades and charted its beautiful, broken, bruised and buoyant quality... More »

10th, December 2013 Flashback

Before The War: Europe's Royal Family In 1913

1913 was the year before the war to end wars. Were those halcyon days? No.... More »

10th, December 2013 Reviews

TSA Seize Monkey's Gun

The TSA has been molesting and groping Americans for fun. And now it wants to steal your monkey guns... More »

10th, December 2013 Politicians 2

Chicago Prisons Official Was Arrested 24 Times

How politics works... More »

10th, December 2013 Celebrities

George Osborne's Annual Christmas Party (With Geri Halliwell) - Photos

What, no drugs? More »

9th, December 2013 Technology

Facebook Button Allowed Users To 'Sympathise' With Other People's Kids

Facebook has a new button. Press it and you can "sympathise" with another Facebooker you don't know well enough to call on the phone or speak to directly... More »

9th, December 2013 Politicians 4

BBC Defends Mandela Coverage Against 1,000 Loons Who Complained About It

BBC News director James Harding having to defend the extensive reporting on Mandela's death after Auntie received nearly 1,000 complaints from thunderous git-baskets who still haven't worked out how to switch channel.... More »

9th, December 2013 The Consumer 1

Fat Flag: People Painted As Flags Eat That Nation's Stereotypical Food

What says the Frenchman..? More »

9th, December 2013 Celebrities

In 1988 Angela Lansbury Took A Bath And Swam Standing Up In A Dress

After all, it is the dawn of a new day... anything is is possible... More »

9th, December 2013 Money 1

Inequality Caused By Cronyism Kills Economic Growth

Oh dear... More »

9th, December 2013 Strange But True

Wife Bites Off Husband's Testicles

To Córdoba, Spain, where the local lovely has been arrested for beating up her soon-to-be ex-husband and biting off bis testicles... More »

9th, December 2013 Reviews

NSA Are Spying On Gamers Too

THEY'RE WATCHING YOU EDWARD! More »

9th, December 2013 Fashion

25 Epic Slacks Adverts (And The Nunn's Bush)

Male fashion is is often a cause for hilarity. But in the 1960s and 1970s, men's fashion was serious business, no more so than in the slacks game... More »

9th, December 2013 Flashback

3 Highly Disturbing Vintage Ads From The 70s And 80s

Back then eating women to sell product was the done thing... More »

9th, December 2013 Money

Candy Crush Saga: The Game That's Too Successful To Float (See Zynga)

The reason is that everyone remembers what happened to another games developer that had a huge hit... More »

9th, December 2013 TV & Radio

As Seen On Super Casino: The Babestation Mix Up

Whoops. He got those late-night channels mixed up... More »

9th, December 2013 Sports

Robbie Savage Says Manchester United Have Improved And Got Worse

It's all about consistency... More »

9th, December 2013 Sports

Chelsea Balls: Jose Mourinho Works Miracles (Says Jose Mourinho)

Jose Mourinho is doing a masterful job of talking down his team and talking up his own abilities... More »

9th, December 2013 Strange But True 3

Man Asked For Directions Discovers Shot Glass Up His Anus

How did a shot glass come to be embedded inside Mr Liu's bum?.. More »