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25th, April 2013 Reviews

So. Why did an Iranian nutter knife a rabbi in Paris?

Maybe - just maybe,he's a violent racist... More »

25th, April 2013 Reviews

RIP Sunil Tripathi: missing student wrongly blamed for Boston Marathon bombs found dead

The man who did not bomb the Boston Marathon has been found dead... More »

25th, April 2013 Politicians

George W. Bush’s name is not mud anymore

The less he does the more they like him... More »

25th, April 2013 Flashback 1

In photos: The Ernest Henry Shackleton story

Her was the intrepid hero with the good news story... More »

25th, April 2013 Strange But True

'JON Eats Carrots' is the 'internet's premier carrot eating series'

Any interesting stories about carrots..? More »

25th, April 2013 Celebrities 3

Gwyneth Paltrow: my son Moses Martin is a genius

Give up now, kids... More »

25th, April 2013 Key Posts 2

Hyundai make staggeringly stupid advert where a bloke tries to kill himself with clean emissions

This is the kind of idea that someone mentions in the brainstorming session but should never be made... More »

25th, April 2013 Reviews

It's World Penguin Day - ten facts about the smartly dressed bird

It's World Penguin Day - not to be confused with Penguin Awareness Day (January 20). To celebrate penguins, here are 10 facts about them.. More »

25th, April 2013 Money 3

On the Guardian's coverage of economics: Heidi Moore really doesn't understand the subject

You might think that this is just a blooper but later she does show that she really doesn't understand the subject... More »

25th, April 2013 Technology

New Kalq keyboard streamlines English language into a few easy-to-text words

BEHOLD the two-thumb keyboard... More »

25th, April 2013 Reviews

Accusations of cheating and violence add dash of football glamour to Irish chess

"After each move he went to the toilet, at least 20 times ... I found him in the toilet with an android checking the moves with a chess engine..." More »

25th, April 2013 Reviews

What's your worst experience of a night club bouncer?

Popal, a bouncer in Melbourne, has escaped prison after being found guilty of beating people up at the door.... More »

24th, April 2013 Reviews

Police confiscate massive refer at UC Santa Cruz 420 weed fest

That is no Camberwell Carrot, my friends, that is a Dalston Daikon... More »

24th, April 2013 Sports 1

The PFA's cheap moralising allows Luis Suarez's to bite and Ched Evan to rape but racism must be eradicated

Luis Suarez is banned from playing for Liverpool for ten matches. Suarez (Uruguay) may think himself unfortunate given that in 2006, Jermain Defoe (England) got a yellow card for his alleged bite... More »

24th, April 2013 Reviews

Dean Baquet's bitchy comment about NYT executive editor Jill Abramson

How's this for a quote more loaded that George Bush at a frat house party More »

24th, April 2013 Sports 1

In photos: Farmageddon 2013 is sport not for the sheepish

Alternative Olympic Sports... More »

24th, April 2013 Reviews

Concerns over carbon emissions drove the Tsarnaev brothers to murder

Hitler, of course, was upset about food additives... More »

24th, April 2013 Reviews 1

Tamerlan Tsarnaev is a dumb f*ck who taught us the peace of Islam by blowing people's legs off

SO. Why did Tamerlan Tsarnaev detonated a bomb at the Boston Marathon. His former brother-in-law suggest his motivation: 'He was angry that the world pictures Islam as a violent religion'... More »

24th, April 2013 Strange But True

Saudi will only marry lover if he also marries her two friends

And he agreed... More »

24th, April 2013 Reviews 2

Expelled Indonesian schoolgirls face jail for dancing to Maroon 5

To Tolitoli, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, where five girls are condemned for dancing to a Maroon 5 song... More »

24th, April 2013 Sports 1

Terrible tattoos: the pregnant Chicago Bulls star Nate Robinson

One terrible tattoo is now being sported by Ivan Garcia, a basketball fan who liked Chicago Bulls point guard Nate Robinson so much he got his face inked onto his arm. More »

24th, April 2013 Music

Going back to Rochdale - can the town's image be improved with a song?

He's going back to Rochdale... More »

24th, April 2013 Reviews

Women stumbles upon a tiger in the toilet

Others might have panicked. Others might have picked the cat up by its tail and skinned it... More »

24th, April 2013 Strange But True

Spray paint snifer was protecting himself from devil worshippers

Why was 32-year-old Carl McGuirt IV from Charleston, South Carolina, inhaling spray-paint fumes, daning in circles and clutching a knife in the woods?.. More »

24th, April 2013 Technology

Patrick Kane's remote control bionic hand can be programmed by a smart phone

Patrick Kane 16, has become the first person in the UK to receive a revolutionary bionic hand which can be manipulated by remote contro..l. More »