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5th, December 2013 In Pictures

Nelson Mandela RIP - A Life In Photos

A nation mourns... More »

5th, December 2013 Reviews 1

Manchester United & England Balls: Phil Jones' Midfield Role Erased From Record Books

Tabloid shifts facts to prove a point... More »

5th, December 2013 Flashback

1977: Her Majesty The Queen Meets A Huge Inflatable Golliwog

Golly Gosh! More »

5th, December 2013 Reviews

Kooky Wedding Video #305,389: Is This The Best Or Worst Ever?

Americans, and no-one else on Earth, have decided to turn their weddings into blockbusting events... More »

5th, December 2013 Fashion

The Rise And Fall of 'Hippiedilly' In 1969

On the Sunday morning of 21 September 1969, a slightly-built Chief Inspector convinced some hippies inside a squat at a large five storey mansion at 144 Piccadilly to lower an improvised wooden drawbridge so doctors could help a seriously ill person inside... More »

5th, December 2013 Politicians 6

Cowardly Nick Clegg's Little Problem With David Ward

Is Nick Clegg a hypocrite or just weak? The Jewish Chronicle says he's the former: "There is only one word for Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister: hypocrite"... More »

5th, December 2013 Technology

Sam Wollaston Is The Witless Antidote To Clive James' TVGuardian

Sam Wollaston is my favourite TV critic of the modern age. While Clive James continued in his dotage to be pure genius, Wollaston is a performance artist... More »

5th, December 2013 In Pictures

The Greatest Hyphenated Names

Funny names corner... More »

5th, December 2013 Money

The Global iPhone 5 Price Index

This is a nice little piece of research showing the variation in price of the iPhone all over the world... More »

5th, December 2013 Celebrities 1

The 8 Most Terrible Things We've Learned About Nigella Lawson

Huge swathes of the press are incredibly excited about the Nigella Lawson court case because they're getting loads of juicy information on her private life without having to rummage around in bins, tap phones or interview a soul!... More »

5th, December 2013 Reviews

Watch A Terrifying Amount Of Geese Nearly Fly Into Some Cackling Humans

You've heard of Sharknado? Well, how about a Geesenami? More »

4th, December 2013 In Pictures

The Best Dog Moments Of 2013

Release the hounds... More »

4th, December 2013 Strange But True

Goblin Found In Prophet's Satchel

To Harare, Zimbabwe, where prophet Honest Mafa, 24, of Budiriro high-density suburb has been pulled over by police... More »

4th, December 2013 Key Posts

Bisexual Tom Daley Inspires Nation To Go Searching For 120 Gay Footballers

Tom Gayley isn't.... More »

4th, December 2013 Arsenal

Arsenal & Manchester United Balls: Wise Garth Crooks' Puts His Champagne On Ice

And Garth did speak... More »

4th, December 2013 Celebrities

8 Profoundly Unpleasant Songs by Actors and Actresses

No, this list has nothing adorable in it. There’s nothing charming about a single chord on these celebrity records – nothing to latch onto and attach some redeeming quality. These are objectively awful from the first note to the last... More »

4th, December 2013 Money

So How Do You Train To Stick Your Finger Up A Man's Bum?

Whatever the answer used to be it seems that it has now got easier as someone has invented the robotic bum... More »

3rd, December 2013 Celebrities 1

Hull MPs Want Page 3 Banned But the Official Brochure Says Poppy Morgan Is Part Of The City Culture

Where the f*** is Hull? More »

3rd, December 2013 Strange But True

Newport Man Gets Toilet Roll Holder Stuck Up His Bum

It could happen to anyone... More »

3rd, December 2013 The Consumer

Font Fail: 10 'FLICKERING' Lights

Really..? More »

3rd, December 2013 Technology

The FriXion Revolution: Virtual Sex Just Got Intimate

On the next generation haptic social network innovative and affordable haptic peripherals empower FriXion users to come together and touch each other in tangible, stimulating ways... More »

3rd, December 2013 Reviews

Turkey Rules Swimming Goggle To Be Offensive Weapons

Goggles are offensive weapons. So too are masks made from plastic bottles. A Turkish court says so. It says such items are "weapons"... More »

3rd, December 2013 Strange But True

Man Stabs Fellow Diner In Row Over Table Settings

In a scene that could be from Downton Abbey After Dark, Edward William Bright of the Richland County, South Carolina Bright, and another man are debating the crockery... More »

3rd, December 2013 TV & Radio

Newsnight Balls: Mr Memory Jonas Von Essen Namechecks The BBC Team

World Memory Champion Jonas Von Essen rises to the challenge of reciting the Newsnight credits from memory... More »

3rd, December 2013 Flashback

Incredible Secret World War 2 Room Found In Norway House (Photos)

In Norway, the owners of a home found a secret room... More »