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4th, June 2013 Technology

Phones replaced with sandwiches - highlights of a great Tumblr

Better than an apple... More »

4th, June 2013 Reviews

In 60 photos the Queen celebrates 60 Years of “utter self-sacrifice”

Before 2000 guests at Westminster Abbey, The Archbishop of Canterbury commended the Queen’s “utter self-sacrifice” ever since she was annointed queen on June, 2, 1953... More »

4th, June 2013 Key Posts

English football club mottos: the Latin, the motivators and the downright crap

News that Everton Football Club™ has decided to modernise its historic badge, and in the process jettison its famous Latin motto, has caused not altogether unpredictable outrage among the Goodison Faithful ™... More »

4th, June 2013 Reviews

Contempt and the contemptible: Can there be justice for Lee Rigby and Georgia Williams?

Contempt laws are in place to try to ensure that anyone accused of a crime has a fair trial - and also that the prosecution is not hampered in holding the guilty to account... More »

4th, June 2013 Reviews 1

Cambridge student too ugly to punt

The Oxbridge universities don't make it easy for people to like them do they? It is all ties and crests, hazing and fags, bizarre rituals and elitism and worst of all, posh folk in red trousers... More »

4th, June 2013 Sports 1

West Ham's anti-Semitic chanting at Spurs shows the FA to be clueless on race

When some West Ham United fans serenaded Spurs fans with songs-designed-to-offend back in November 2012, they hit the mark... More »

4th, June 2013 Flashback

In this 1973 photo Sid Vicious is seen heading to a David Bowie gig

Glam Rock fan joins punk band... More »

4th, June 2013 Key Posts 2

Lord Hylton says through his beard that homosexuals and 'poofs' stole the word 'gay'

Lord Hylton, a parliamentary crossbencher is upset that homosexuals "stole" the word gay. Says he to the House of Lords... More »

4th, June 2013 Key Posts 1

The Gaza Strip: Israeli soldiers post these racy photos on Facebook

Why would Israeli female soldiers pose for photos in their underwear and then post the pics on Facebook?... More »

4th, June 2013 Strange But True

Lovelorn moose romances statue

Is nothing safe... More »

4th, June 2013 Film

16 living movie stills - can you name the films?

Name the film... More »

4th, June 2013 Reviews

It's not who you know, it's who you blow: Cambridge University 'drinking society initiation' exam question

Students on the University of Cambridge undergraduate law degree were presented with an exam question that asked them to consider the fates of Billy, Gilbert and Richard... More »

4th, June 2013 Sports

Fight breaks out at amputee football match

When the national amputee teams of Holland and Belgium played their first match at Westerlo in the Belgian province of Antwerp on Saturday there was a fight.. More »

4th, June 2013 Key Posts

Lesbian Hart tells us why she doesn't dress more feminine (with watermelon)

“If you love women so much, how come you don’t you dress like one?”... More »

4th, June 2013 Celebrities

Jiah Khan - a life in photos

The actress in photos... More »

4th, June 2013 Celebrities

Jiah Khan: why would the Bollywood star commit suicide?

The body of the 25-year-old actress was found hanging. It looks a lot like suicide... More »

4th, June 2013 Technology

How they deal with road toll dodgers in Burma

For whom the bar tolls... More »

4th, June 2013 Photojournalism

Replaced by a reporter with an iPhone a sacked photojournalist's Tumblr life

“Rob Hart was replaced with a reporter with an iPhone, so he is documenting his new life with an iPhone, but with the eye of a photojournalist trained in storytelling”... More »

3rd, June 2013 Celebrities

WTF: Steven Seagal leads U.S. Congressional delegation to Russia

Is Seagal a top spy and counter-terrosism exponent in real life? Are all his films and TV show fly-on-the-wall documentaries? More »

3rd, June 2013 In Pictures

10 LOL exam questions

McDonald's is hiring... More »

3rd, June 2013 Sports

Thrill seeker climbs very tall crane in Southampton then dangles off it with one hand (video)

Dangling off a very high crane in Southampton... More »

3rd, June 2013 Music

Unlocking The Truth: the greatest 11-year-old metal band in New York City

Restoring our faith in music's future are Unlocking The Truth, a sixth-grade metal band... More »

3rd, June 2013 Reviews 2

Tell Mama: using the 'truth' to attack Muslim victims in light of the Woolwich murder of Lee Rigby

After the murder of Lee Rigby, the Guardian reported that anti-Muslim hate crimes were suddenly on the rise... More »

3rd, June 2013 Celebrities

Michael Douglas: oral sex gave me cancer (but not at 69)

"Because without wanting to get too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV [human papillomavirus], which actually comes about from cunnilingus... " More »

3rd, June 2013 Money 1

What? Food Banks Show The Government Must Do More!

There is poverty: yes. There are people who cannot afford, for some reason, lots of lovely food... More »