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12th, September 2013 In Pictures

Dads at the One Direction concert - a photo story

Hero... More »

12th, September 2013 Books

Salvador 'Dalí is the biggest prick of the 20th Century' says Henry Miller

According to Life, for one of the paintings Dali had black servants pose in ankle-deep snow in front of the mansion with a piano and a slaughtered deer.... More »

12th, September 2013 Reviews 2

Blobfish is the champion of minging animals

The blobfish, with its face like perished ham and an air of utter misery, topped a poll featuring some of the planet’s weirdest looking creatures... More »

12th, September 2013 Celebrities 1

Behold the Stoddens! Doug Hutchison give Courtney a big set of balloons

Oddly, as she left the Elstree compound, her husband, the matured Doug Hutchison was there to greet her with a big bunch of balloons... More »

12th, September 2013 In Pictures

Cigar Smoking Graceiela is the Cuban with the enviable Havana (photos)

Smoking is sublime... More »

12th, September 2013 In Pictures

Dekorta: Japanese trucker art lights up the skies (photos)

One of the drivers who got friendly with told me: “At first, I never liked this job. But I had to love my job to live, so I started to decorate my truck.” ... More »

12th, September 2013 The Consumer

LOL: German health club advert of the year

TRAIN HARD. FEEL GOOD. More »

12th, September 2013 The Consumer

Great Ads: Mick Humphries can teach you to drive one of these biiiiiig trucks

Mick Humphries has a song.... More »

12th, September 2013 Sports 4

Who needs Croatia? Alan Shearer rewrites history in his attack on Roy Hodgson's England

Alan Shearer says foolish things to deadline... More »

12th, September 2013 Gifs

Photographer captures the surpising tidal changes around Britain

Since 2003 Michael Marten has travelled to different parts of the British coast to photograph identical views at high and low tide, six or eighteen hours apart. His beautiful and surprising photographs reveal how the twice daily rhythm of ebb and flood can dramatically transform the landscape... More »

12th, September 2013 Sports

Arsenal sign a new Beckham

Can it be true? Arsenal have signed the news Beckham? Yes. And no.... More »

12th, September 2013 Technology 1

Security flaw in new iPhone 5s means your fingerprints are not your own

The software is not safe, however, as this Reddit user proves.... More »

12th, September 2013 Technology

GTA5: Looks like it will be life ruiningly large

The brain bendingly massive environment will let players parachute, sky dive, jetski, fly, drive... even play golf and, the studio has been bragging that the new game will be larger than the previous two GTAs and its Western title Red Dead Redemption COMBINED... More »

12th, September 2013 In Pictures

Son Doong Cave - photos of the world's biggest and most awesome cave

Awesome photos of the world's biggest cave... More »

12th, September 2013 Sports

Manchester United: Shinji Kagawa never did have a dig at David Moyes

Did Manchester United's Japanese star Shinji Kagawa really "hit out at new Manchester United boss David Moyes"?... More »

12th, September 2013 Key Posts

The most bad taste tributes on the 12th anniversary of 9/11

Marketing mass murder... More »

12th, September 2013 Strange But True

Steve Cohen arrested for dancing with a chicken tied to his cock at the Eiffel Tower

He danced with the cock for around ten minutes... More »

12th, September 2013 Madeleine McCann 3

Madeleine McCann: parents' risky libel case against Amaral begins in Portugal

Taking sides in a legal matter... More »

11th, September 2013 Reviews

Esquire magazine uses 9/11 falling man photo to advertise a 'more stylish commute'

FAIL More »

11th, September 2013 Strange But True

Is nothing safe? Man has sex with kebab shop and Land Rover Discovery in Wales

First of all he was seen to be urinating. He was then seen to go down the High Street with his trousers around his ankles and his T-shirt pulled up over his head... More »

11th, September 2013 Sports

Manchester United: let's all laugh at Shinji Kagawa and his 'pigeon' English

United's Japanese player Shinji Kagawa is the subject of a spoof twitter account. The Mirror's David McDonnell has noticed it... More »

11th, September 2013 Celebrities

Hello I'm Johnny Cash - the 1976 Comic book and Jesus Christ reader

He walked the .line... More »

11th, September 2013 Music

National Night in Singapore: Mentos mints release rap to promote procreation

Raise the flag and mobilise... More »

11th, September 2013 Money

Small balls mean you'll be a good father. Obviously

Gary Becker's Nobel for Economics was in part gained because he pointed out that mating, the creation of children, is a market very like any other .. More »

11th, September 2013 Key Posts

See the Titanic in Tennessee: A Weekend in Pigeon Forge with Dolly Parton

So I settled for the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee because it combines two things I love: gorgeous mountain scenery and gloriously tacky tourist traps. The latter is why I ended up in Pigeon Forge, the tourist town best known for its Dollywood amusement park, built by and named after Dolly Parton, a native of nearby Sevierville... More »