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12th, November 2013 In Pictures

Meowvember: The Best Cats With Moustaches

Whiskers... More »

12th, November 2013 manchester united

Crank Up The Journalisomobile: Manchester United's Wayne Rooney Is Back With A Hooker

Now 57, in 2004 Tierney was on the front desk at Diva’s massage parlour in Liverpool when Manchester United's Wayne Rooney came knocking... More »

12th, November 2013 In Pictures

The 35 Most WTF Christmas Toys Ever

We've scoured the internet to bring you the most bazaar, off-beat, inappropriate children's toys ever... More »

12th, November 2013 Money

The Guardian's Nonsense About The Twitter IPO Cash

It would appear that The Guardian is simply entirely ignorant of how this creative destruction stuff of capitalism works... More »

12th, November 2013 Arsenal

Coat Balls: Manchester United's Robin Van Persie Does An Impression Of Chelsea's FKW John Terry

Robin Van Persie is a lot of things - a top finisher for United' a turncoat for Arsenal - but he is no John Terry. .. More »

12th, November 2013 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: The Sun Cooks The Figures On Kate McCann's Charity Appeal For Missing People

Missing People is a charity. The 100 people reunited with their "folks" were not all "kids". Far from it... More »

12th, November 2013 Reviews

Circumcision Songs: Mohels by Kol Ish (The Bris Anthem)

The circumcision dirge... More »

12th, November 2013 Strange But True

Globalisation Special: Russian Woman Offers Banana To Wild Kangaroo

The world in a story... More »

12th, November 2013 Reviews

Gloucester Woman Accused Of Supplying Cannabis Meditated To Shiva Nine Hours A Day

he maintained she did not realise it was illegal to grow and said she used to smoke it when she was meditating, which she did for up to nine hours a day... More »

12th, November 2013 TV & Radio

Firefighter Rides Magic Iron Carpet (Video)

In the Croatian port of Rijeka, a firefighter rides like Aladdin... More »

12th, November 2013 Politicians

Poppy Cocks: The 'Demeaning' Row Over Google's Poppy Day Tribute

The other week I watched a troop of people working out how they could make poppies appear over the banner mastheads of every single one of their websites without having to re-upload all the images through the CMS... More »

12th, November 2013 Sports

Arsenal and Manchester City Are Useless : Ian Wright Joins Fools' Chorus Of Praise For Manchester United

Ian Wright adds his tuppence worth of views (the Sun pays him a lot more than that? - Ed) on Arsenal's 1-0 defeat to Manchester United... More »

12th, November 2013 Reviews

Tabloid Balls: Cressida Bonas Dressed As Adam Lanza For Nazi-Themed Tom Cruise-Inspired Party

First Prince Harry dressed up a comedy Nazi.Now the Sun reports that another "toff" has donned the feldgrau... More »

12th, November 2013 Books 2

Not Up To Dick: 100 Wonderful Victorian Slang Words You Should Be Using

Want top speak like a Victorian? James Redding Ware, the pen name of writer Andrew Forrester, documented slang English terms of that perverted period in British history in his book Passing English of the Victorian era, a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase... More »

12th, November 2013 The Consumer

For Sale: Gold Rush Town Of Seneca, California (With Liquor License)

Want to buy a ghost town with a bar and liquor license?... More »

11th, November 2013 Reviews

East London's Cricket Mad Muslim Patrol Go Down

Out! More »

11th, November 2013 Music

Pop Tributes: Johnny Cash Converters, Epsom

It's what he would have wanted... More »

11th, November 2013 Key Posts

Rod Stewart And The Faces Rock The Marquee Club In 1970

If the camera was any closer, one sniff and you'd be inside one of rock's greatest noses... More »

11th, November 2013 Reviews

Desperate Tweeting - Kellogs: Tony The Tigers Remembers The Grrrrrreat War

Social media fail... More »

11th, November 2013 Books

Nazi Uniforms: Sid Vicious, Peter Rabbit, Prince Harry And Other People Who Still Wear Them

Paul Dutton, 48, was ejected from his local branch of Asda in Cambridge, after a fellow shopper complained about his attire – a classic formal black suit of the type produced by Hugo Boss in the 1940s... More »

11th, November 2013 Reviews

'Lucky' Harold Percival's Funeral In Photos

Not everyone is as lucky as Harry... More »

11th, November 2013 Flashback

Stanley Milgram's Obedience Study: Could Science Explain The Holocaust?

In 1961, Yale University’s Stanley Milgram, a Jew, tested how compliant humanity was. .. More »

11th, November 2013 Money

How Long Before Facebook Goes The Way Of MySpace? Ask The Teens

SO. Here's an interesting little question.... More »

11th, November 2013 Film

Customer Letters: The Perils Of Watching Thor: The Dark World In 3D

Dear Mr Jones... More »

11th, November 2013 Flashback

Flashback To 1967: African Schoolteacher Sanderson Chirambo And His Man-Powered Aircraft “Limba IV”

How could it fail..? More »