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1st, October 2012 Reviews

Pussy Riot sack their lawyers and play to the crowd

To Moscow, where feminist punk group Pussy Riot - the famous group whose songs you can't name, let alone hum - are in court... More »

1st, October 2012 Strange But True

Well-endowed Britons beat French but lose to Germans

The Press Association tells us that British men have, on average, large penises than the Irish and the French but not the Germans.... More »

1st, October 2012 Money 1

Guardian get 50 loons to explain climate change

Yep. Your three year old niece owning her very own blankie and Raggedy Anne doll. That's what's killing Gaia... More »

1st, October 2012 Celebrities

ChidLine founder Estzer Rantzen says she ignored Jimmy Savile child abuse stories

Rantzen sinks her choppers into the Jimmy Savile child rapist allegations.... More »

1st, October 2012 Celebrities

Jimmy Savile got his brick stuck in a sex shop

Back in July 2011, Jimmy Savile was in a sex shop... More »

1st, October 2012 TV & Radio

Gangnam Han Solo Style: the video

How many times will you watch this? More »

1st, October 2012 Celebrities 10

That video of Jimmy Savile 'all over' 14-year-old Coleen Nolan

That footage.... More »

1st, October 2012 Celebrities 1

Why did Glencoe locals shun Jimmy Savile?

A reader writes on Jimmy Savile... More »

1st, October 2012 Key Posts 5

Is Megan Stammers a victim of rape culture?

"Megan Stammers should write a book: ‘My Teenage Years’. Or, ‘How I Cost My Maths Teacher His Job"... More »

1st, October 2012 Flashback 1

1965: Discotheque Dances with Dick Blake

Flashback to 1965. All the cool kids are learning Discotheque Dances with Dick Blake... More »

1st, October 2012 Politicians

Barack Obama shows David Cameron show to do Letterman

When in the USA, behave like an American... More »

1st, October 2012 Technology

Twitter censors tagets faggots, fags and d***s

Intolerance will not be tolerated is the Twitter mantra. Chis Paine looks at how homophobia is ok on twitter... More »

1st, October 2012 TV & Radio

The world's greatest cats video

Laugh it up.... More »

1st, October 2012 Reviews

Aberdeen fire crew rescue man with head stuck in bin

Meanwhile...in Aberdeen.... More »

1st, October 2012 Strange But True 1

Man murdered lover who interrupted his sleep

Eric Brian Pauley tells the Putnam County Circuit Court, West Virginia,why he shot and killed Debra Rosiek, 52... More »

1st, October 2012 Strange But True 2

Naked woman licked ice-cream from straddled driver in speeding Porsche

To Sweden, where the woman says she was “licking ice cream” off the driver’s body she was straddling as the couple sped down the E4 motorway in a convertible Porsche.... More »

1st, October 2012 Strange But True

An Inconvenient Truth about drowned polar bears

Used to seeing press photographs of seemingly stricken polar bears sat on tiny cubes of ice, it's heartening to read that the symbol of global warming is doing fine... More »

30th, September 2012 Sports

NFL legend Jim Marshall trials Apple maps during match (epic fail)

Left a bit... More »

30th, September 2012 Flashback

1936: Dimples are made to order

Isabella Gilbert has a machine... More »

30th, September 2012 In Pictures

11 WTF retro images

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30th, September 2012 The Consumer

Parents build Halloween costume around son's wheelchair (photo)

Sometimes, humanity wins.... More »

30th, September 2012 Reviews

Bangladesh Buddhists attacked by outraged Muslims

RESULT! Osama has found something on the internet that offends Islam. No. Not Spurs' 3-2 win at Manchester United over the weekend (a million poxes on your house!). This is a Facebook page featuring a burnt Koran... More »

30th, September 2012 Celebrities

Did Jimmy Savile wear tracksuits to rape or run?

More on Jimmy Savile, no, as the Mail reports on the ITV1 documentary, Exposure: The other Side of Jimmy Savile. One of his alleged crimes is: "Promising a victim he would not rape her but then did"... More »

30th, September 2012 Strange But True

Newcastle man shops ex-lover who bit off his testicle

Once bitten, twice shy? Not a bit of it. Martin Douglas got back with Maria Topp, 45, the woman who bit into his scrotum... More »

30th, September 2012 Celebrities 3

Justin Bieber vomits on stage - video

Why? Your answers, please... More »