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31st, March 2013 The Consumer

The Iron Throne Lifesize Replica: yours for $30,000

Thirty grand for a replica chair... More »

31st, March 2013 Reviews

The Barnsley curfew turns 'irresponsible' parenting into a crime

Under 16s who want to go out in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, between 9pm and 6am will need an adult with them... More »

31st, March 2013 TV & Radio

Modern Britain: 'You want see the state of our Wez!'

'24 seconds of life in Wigan' More »

31st, March 2013 Reviews

Nominative determinism: Mr Dick guilty of exposing himself in public

The Nominative Determinism detector points to Consett Magistrates Court, where Janet Coxon, prosecuting is in full flow... More »

31st, March 2013 Flashback 1

A history of Easter Eggs: dipped in Christian blood and covered in chocolate

But Easter eggs have been with us for so long that the ‘real’ message is just one of many traditions that live on side by side. And the Christian tradition itself comes from Mesopotamia, where people dyed eggs red to symbolise Christ’s blood.... More »

31st, March 2013 Reviews

Black women and scared whites have much to discuss about mass shootings

How much of a factor is race un the US gun debate?... More »

30th, March 2013 The Consumer

Shoppers riot for free cake at the Jining Guihe shopping center

I like cake. You like cake. They love cake... More »

30th, March 2013 Reviews

I was Jesus Christ: The world's 18 best Good Friday Crucifixions

On Good Friday, we ask ourselves what Jesus looked like? All around the world Christians dresses up Jesus Christ to play his role in The Passion Plays... More »

30th, March 2013 Celebrities 1

Camden Town looks up the Amy Statue statue

Should Anorak favourite Amy Winehouse be immortalised in statue-form?... More »

30th, March 2013 Reviews

Suspected armed robber collapses at Oxford jewellery store

It could have done beter... More »

30th, March 2013 Reviews

Sex Shop thief caught red faced and red handed

"He told me to let him out or he would stab me. I was with my girlfriend, in shock and a bit sleepy so I just thought it best to let him out. Then I saw he had two armfuls of gear on him..." More »

30th, March 2013 Music

Plagiarism is nothing new in this brave new digital world

The Washington DC-based website Brightest Young Things has removed all of its content for an audit. Why..? More »

30th, March 2013 Strange But True

Mother arrested for slapping wrong boy at son's school

To South Carolina, where 36-year-old Tyshekka Collier is on the way to Fairforest Middle School... More »

30th, March 2013 Sports 1

Four Girls One Cup: Missouri High School girls test their aims

When Monett High School girls' basketball team took on the ladies of Cassville High School in southwest Missouri, the Cassville players poured a cup of urine into a water cooler used by Monett players... More »

29th, March 2013 Celebrities

RIP Richard Griffiths: Uncle Monty cracked the boards in his youth

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29th, March 2013 Flashback

The simian negroid Irish depicted in English and American cartoons

The sub-human Irishman... More »

29th, March 2013 Flashback

1922: The Passing Show makes Brighter Newspapers with the caption 'interchange'

"BRIGHTER NEWSPAPERS - How a little innocent pleasure could be provided by an interchange of 'caption' in our picture press"... More »

29th, March 2013 Sports

Don't panic: 'hapless' England are not QPR

The Daily Mail is gunning for Roy Hodgson... More »

29th, March 2013 Photojournalism 1

Behold the monkey troll

Say Chee-tah... More »

29th, March 2013 Money

Karl McCartney shocked that politicians can be treated like any poor sod waiting for benefits

A Tory MP has been complaining that the fees office treats them like dirt... More »

29th, March 2013 Reviews

How not to throw a Molotov Cocktail (in photos)

So. You thought throwing a Molotov cocktail was easy... More »

29th, March 2013 Sports

Rio Ferdinand bonfire chant: thought police want Fifa to punish England fans

"RIO RACE TAUNTS", is the Daily Mail's lead sports story. The paper says England have been reported to FiFa for "alleged racist" chants direted at Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand and his younger bother Anton... More »

29th, March 2013 Books

Is Microwave Cooking for One the saddest book ever written?

Take one plug... More »

28th, March 2013 In Pictures

26 weird and funny things spotted in London

Things of interest seen in London features none of the usual landmarks in the great city... More »

28th, March 2013 Politicians 1

Lord Ahmed regrets that his Woody Allen SatNav made him look like a racist

Ahmed has issued a “complete and unreserved” for saying Jews were behind his imprisonment for dangerous driving. It turns out that wasn't Jews who made him drive dangerously... More »