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21st, October 2013 In Pictures

Belfast Can Only See Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada's Huge Portrait From Up High (Photos)

When you wish... More »

21st, October 2013 Fashion

Marketing Balls: Nike Launch Ronaldo's New Real Madrid Boot In A Supernova Of Guff

Want to buy Cristiano Ronaldo’s new Nike Mercurial IX CR7 boot, complete with ‘supernova’ skin print (in homage to Ronaldo’s “out of this world” performances since joining Real Madrid)?.. More »

21st, October 2013 Key Posts 6

Unleashing Police Gunmen On Students: America's Hot New Educational Fad

If you missed last week’s “mad gunman terrorizes American schoolchildren” news story, this time out of North Carolina, don’t feel bad; these days they’re common enough that it’s not reasonable to expect any one person can keep up with them all... More »

21st, October 2013 Flashback

Bacon: 13 Great Vintage Adverts

Ahhhhh, bacon. Food of the Gods. Well, not all of everyone obviously. But so long as you don't know it's a bacon or eat it in a hotel or anywhere outside the home (Kosher Law No, 54b) it's all fine.... More »

21st, October 2013 Fashion

Japan Fashion Week - Practical Outfits For Cool Kids (And Lady Gaga)

Practical daywear... More »

21st, October 2013 Money

Nuclear Nutjobs In Hinkley Point, Somerset: But Jobs Are A Cost Of Doing Something

For, of course, jobs are a cost, not a benefit... More »

21st, October 2013 Reviews

Birmingham Thief Raided Bookmakers With Garden Shears

Thief of the day, is part-time gardener Leigh Barry, 28, now serving four-and-a-half years for his raid on a Birmingham bookies and other crimes... More »

21st, October 2013 Strange But True

Who Donated This Big Bag Of Marijuana To a Seattle Thrift Store?

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21st, October 2013 Sports

David Boon Where Are You? Australian Driver Drank 90 Full Strength Cans Of Melbourne Bitter

Trevor Alexander Warren, 51, of Dundee Beach in the Northern Territory, Australia, told Bathurst Local Court he'd consumed “between 80 and 90 full strength cans of Melbourne Bitter beer" before driving. He had eaten nothing... More »

21st, October 2013 Key Posts

Ghost Goals: The Most Unforgettable Football Goals That Weren't

Is it cheating? Of course, it is... More »

21st, October 2013 Reviews

A Dad Was Looking For Mandy Hogben In Kent: Maria From Greece Should Know The Story

Dad sends a card... More »

20th, October 2013 Celebrities

Courtney Stodden Stars On FashionMINGA.Com Red Carpet

Minging fashions... More »

20th, October 2013 Celebrities

Frank Sidebottom: Statue Unveiled In Timperley Village At Precisely 11.37am

One more time with feeling for the Fourth Beastie Boy... More »

20th, October 2013 Strange But True

Jakarta Monkey Tour: The Topeng Monyet In Video And Photos

A long tailed macaque is dressed like a human and performs with various accessories... More »

20th, October 2013 Celebrities 1

Alex Reid Says Katie Price Became Lady J To His Lord Heaven Above

Dan Wootton, Head of Showbiz - no small title when you grew up in New Zealand - has news on Katie Price's marriage to Alex 'Reidinator' Reid, the walking Toffee Crisp. ... More »

20th, October 2013 Key Posts

Great Car Ads: 1997 Jeep Cherokee For Anyone With BALLS OF STEEL

If, however, you have BALLS OF STEEL and consider adverse weather an excuse to do stupid sh*t: THIS IS YOUR JEEP.... More »

20th, October 2013 Reviews

A Few Words On Norm Geras

I am very sad to announce that Norm died in Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge in the early hours of this morning.... More »

20th, October 2013 In Pictures

Pamplona Bull Running Comes To Georgia: The Great Bull Run In Photos

No longer do thrill-seeking Americans need to head off to Spain to have a bull impale them on a well-tuned horn... More »

20th, October 2013 Reviews

The Goethe-Institut Says Germans Are Even More Terrified Of Germans Than You Are

All we know about Germans we learnt from the Goethe-Institut, "the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institution operational worldwide"... More »

20th, October 2013 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: Blackpool's Charles O'Neill and William Lauchlan Look Like One, Two Three E-Fits

Anorak's look at the missing child in the news. Today the Sun summons the name of convicted child abusers Charles O'Neill and William Lauchlan... More »

20th, October 2013 Strange But True

'Gifted' Bedfordshire Council Removes Circus Posters After Woman Complains They Make Her Too Scared To Walk

"The circus is on the park which is our responsibility and we are responsible to our residents, so something like that is in our gift to fix, so we fixed it." More »

20th, October 2013 Strange But True

Devil Cat Tells Woman To 'Go AWAY'

Who needs Doctor Doolittle when you have animals that can talk English..? More »

20th, October 2013 Strange But True

Babysitter Thought It Was Morning When She Took Children To School At 6pm

It could happen to anyone... More »

20th, October 2013 Sports

Roy Hodgson Race Gaffe: Monkeys Outraged At Being Compared To Slack-Jawed, Tattooed England Footballers

When Roy Hodgson used the word" "monkey" in the vicinity of Spurs's mixed-race Andros Townsend the papers seized on his "gaffe". They are still seizing... More »

20th, October 2013 Madeleine McCann 2

Using Blonde Maria To Bash The Gypsies And Feed Off Madeleine McCann

What facts? More »