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10th, November 2013 Strange But True

Pyotr Pavlensky Nails Testicles To Pavement In Moscow's Red Square

Cobblers... More »

10th, November 2013 Celebrities

How To Take Robert De Niro's Photo

My private mission is to take his photograph. Big stars are funny about such things... More »

10th, November 2013 Arsenal 2

Manchester United V Arsenal: Mouse Invades Pitch (Photo)

What can it mean? More »

10th, November 2013 Celebrities

Shoot! Tom Cruise Trained For War In Afghanistan At The Scientology Bootcamp?

When Tom Cruise reportedly said acting acting was as hard as fighting a war in Afghanistan we laughed... More »

10th, November 2013 Politicians

The Guy Fawkes Vendetta Mask: Guess What Poor People's Sweat Shop They're Made In?

You can buy a V for Vendetta Mask on Amazon for £1.42 to £4.85... More »

10th, November 2013 Technology

Belarus Dash Cam Records Speeding Horse And Cart Running Into Car

The one horseman of the apocalypse... More »

10th, November 2013 Flashback

Private Sidney Lewis: World War I's Youngest Soldier Was 12 Years Old

Private Sidney Lewis enlisted with the East Surreys at Kingston in August, 1915. He would go on to fight in the Battle of the Somme with the 106th Machine Gun Corps. He was 12... More »

10th, November 2013 Technology

Video Game Violence: Preparing To Be Bad On Mortal Combat vs. DC Universe

Christian Happ and his colleagues recruited 60 students (20 men) with varied video gaming experience and had them spend 15 minutes playing the violent and bloody beat-em-up game Mortal Combat vs. DC Universe on the Playstation 3.... More »

10th, November 2013 Arsenal

Arsenal V Manchester United: Lake Tanganyika And New York Mark Historic Encounter

BBC football commentator Jonathan Pearce presents the Most Tortuous Introduction of the Week... More »

10th, November 2013 Reviews

Good God It's Joel Osteen And Ministries

Good God... More »

10th, November 2013 Reviews

Man Who Headbutted Bracknell Bus Charged With Assault

When is bus shelter not a bus shelter? When it is the victim of an alleged "assault"... More »

10th, November 2013 Reviews 1

Milton Keynes Residents Told Pavement Is Not A Pavement

It is a "service margin"... More »

10th, November 2013 Key Posts

Where's Wallaby: Caring Animal Experts Kill The Highgate Bouncer

THE Wallaby spotted hopping around Highgate Cemetery is dead. More »

10th, November 2013 Strange But True

US Woman Charged Swearing Fee By Towing Company Would Have Gone Free In Britain

When Mahogony Grandison , of Huntsville, Alabama had her car towed away, insults was added to injury.... More »

10th, November 2013 Arsenal

Ozil Says Arsenal Will Beat Manchester United 'For Fun'

Ozil is the subject of a Spurs chant about his eyes being offside.. More »

9th, November 2013 Flashback

“Roka-Kinne Third-Dimensional Television Debuts In 1953

3D TV... More »

9th, November 2013 Reviews

Harold Jellicoe Percival: A Moment Of Your Time

RAF Bomber Command veteran needs your help... More »

9th, November 2013 Strange But True 1

Police Arrest Woman Wearing Cheeseburger As A Sandal

"When the female finally got dressed, she attempted to put a cheeseburger on her foot as if it were a sandal"... More »

9th, November 2013 Celebrities

Katerina Stojanovska Stars In Awkward Model Poses WIth Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Marlin Brando

A star is born.... More »

9th, November 2013 Technology

Blind From Birth: Tommy Edison And Austin Seraphin Explain What It's Like

The next day, I went outside. I looked at the sky... More »

9th, November 2013 In Pictures 1

Cake International: Photos Of The Birmingham Bake Off

On your tarts.... More »

9th, November 2013 Flashback

TV 21 Was The Go-Ahead Comic Of The 1960s

Did you read TV 21, the British children's comic from the 1960s and early 1970s? It was "A brand new comic of the future for the children of today". More »

9th, November 2013 TV & Radio 5

Teenager Sticks Bare Bum On Electric Fence With Surprising Results

And then it happened.... More »

9th, November 2013 Reviews

Science Is Used To Intimidate Climate And Health Policy Makers

Mark Steyn looks at how debate over climate science is being blocked. He quotes former Austrian PM John Howard's talk in London... More »

9th, November 2013 Money

Obamacare V Humana: Libertarians Were Right

Dear, ill person... More »