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23rd, April 2013 Music

Jimmy Kimmel dupes Coachella festival goers to say they have heard of non-existent bands

This is great... More »

23rd, April 2013 Celebrities

When Hunter S Thompson interviewed Keith Richards

The pigs began to squeal as the elevator opened on the tenth floor. A few squeamish guests opened their doors to investigate the horrible noise, and closed them very quickly when Hunter brandished the sparking cattle prod... More »

23rd, April 2013 Reviews

USA nuclear terror was in 2008 not 2013

More tabloid fertiliser... More »

23rd, April 2013 Sports 2

Twilight comes to Liverpool: Luis Suarez bite sparks copycat attack in school breakfast club

So suggestible are the youth to the antics of "role models" that mums across the land are upset that Liverpool's Luis Suarez didn't finish his meal... More »

23rd, April 2013 Sports

Manchester United fan watches computer at Old Trafford as team win Premier League

Oh dear... More »

23rd, April 2013 Reviews

Burglar phones police while robbing house

Robber shops himself... More »

23rd, April 2013 Strange But True

How to have sex on the Taiwan metro with a good book and an anorak

So. There you are on the Taipei Metro. Your lover /sister / cousin is riding the train with you. She's shy... More »

23rd, April 2013 Reviews 1

Donald Trump says wind farms will bring down planes over Scotland

Trump is no fan of wind farms. Wind and Donald's do not mix well... More »

23rd, April 2013 TV & Radio

'Fu**ing Sh*t': TV News Anchor AJ Clemente's introduces himself to viewers and loses his job on the first day

So. How did your first day at work go, AJ..? More »

23rd, April 2013 Sports

Referee says coach's testicle squeeze left him unable to have sex

He pulled my testicles. He actually pressed them and I was hanging on him when he was pulling me. I was crying..." More »

23rd, April 2013 Music 1

RIP Richie Havens

Best rememberd as the act that opened the 1969 Woodstock festival in 1969, Havens died of a heart attack in Jersey City, New Jersey... More »

23rd, April 2013 Sports

Manchester United's Patrice Evra bites a shaky Luis Suarez prawn sandwich (photo)

Norman Hunter bit yer legs... More »

23rd, April 2013 Key Posts

The Biters: sportsmen who sank their teeth into their opponents

With Downing Street intervening to suggest that Luis Suarez should receive a sentence that reflects his position as a role model, it’s clear that the feisty Uruguayan’s crime has transcended the world of football and become a matter of national importance... More »

22nd, April 2013 Sports 2

In photos: Robin Van Persie's Manchester United win the Premier League 2012-2013

RVP... More »

22nd, April 2013 Reviews 1

Gary Neville on Funny Foreigner Luis Suarez: Biting and spitting are so very un-British

Can is be argued that Liverpool's Luis Saurez gets a worse press than a British born player would?... More »

22nd, April 2013 Sports 7

Blame Kevin Friend for missing Suarez's bite: England's Jermain Defoe only got a yellow card for his 'nibble'

In October 2006, Spurs forward Jermain Defoe (England) bit West Ham's Javier Mascherano (Argentina). Defoe was booked for “aggressive behaviour”.... More »

22nd, April 2013 Music

I was a Led Zeppelin Roadie from 1971-74 - and this is what I remember

A bit hazy... More »

22nd, April 2013 Flashback

Al Schiefley and Les Skuse give a lovely lady the 'SWEET' and 'SOUR' boob tattoo

“English tattooists were using a single needle. This caused a lot of bleeding and pain..." More »

22nd, April 2013 Reviews

Stephen Lawrence 20 years on: how the elite used one man's death to erode our freedom and justice

On 22 April 1993, Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a racist attack while waiting for a bus in Eltham, south-east London. And then it began... More »

22nd, April 2013 Flashback

White House speechwriter William Safire's letter to President Nixon on the failed moon landing of 1969

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.... More »

22nd, April 2013 In Pictures

Typical tourist photos that everyone takes

You had to do it... More »

22nd, April 2013 Money

Teen pregnancy makes you fat!

There really is good research which shows that the less attractive young women perceive themselves to be then the more likely they are to have sex without a condom, to pick up STDs and so on... More »

22nd, April 2013 Music 5

Cliff Richard's music kills plants - Black Sabbath makes them thrive

The relationship between music and plants has been long muttered about, despite the fact plants don't have ears.... More »

22nd, April 2013 Strange But True 1

Indian woman who didn't poo for 45 days may have psychological issues

Anusha, 28, from Mumbai, India, hadn't been to the toilet for 45 days when she visited the Nova Specialty Surgery Centre in Chembur... More »

22nd, April 2013 Strange But True 1

Boys find Big Foot in Massachusetts woods

Can a place be a victim of nominative determinism? We ask in light of a discovery in Quincy, Massachusetts... More »