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15th, May 2012 Key Posts 2

Alan Hansen remembers to forget Liverpool and that Arsenal curse

Alan Hansen earns £4000,000 a week to tell Match of the Day viewers that Arsenal can't defend and Manchester United are a decent bet for the title whilst using a graphics package to track players about to score... More »

15th, May 2012 Reviews

On Rochdale rapists, a biased media, white trash and Eminem's Cranbrook massive

It's not always about race. It's mostly often just be about good old-fashioned prejudice... More »

15th, May 2012 Music 2

What's the biggest rip-off concert you've ever been to?

"Last night, I went to see R. Kelly at the Mansion, a strip club in North Austin, and it was one of the biggest scams I’ve ever experienced..." More »

15th, May 2012 Celebrities

Kristen Stewart finally confirms Robert Pattinson as boyfriend, not that anyone cares anymore

Yet, somehow, like two shadows fading in the twilight (see what we did there?), they've given in and decided to let the world know that they're actually courting, as your nana used to say... More »

15th, May 2012 TV & Radio 2

Bloomberg TV reporter suffers skirt malfunction on air

Meanwhile, on Bloomberg TV... More »

15th, May 2012 Key Posts 2

Rebekah Brooks is Sharon Shoesmith - will David Cameron condemn her in an open letter to the Sun?

Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie Brooks have been charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice during the phone-hacking investigation. What says David Cameron..? More »

15th, May 2012 Key Posts

Judge rules that urinating in public is legal - would you do it?

News from Wheddon Cross, Somerset, where John and Cherry Pusey wanted the council to shut a lay-by close to their home because motorists were pulling over and taking a wazz... More »

15th, May 2012 Gifs

10 prank gifs - because other people falling over can be funny

With Freinds like these... More »

15th, May 2012 TV & Radio 1

Louis Walsh attacks Will.I.Am over The Voice in world's most weak-wristed feud

One man who isn't a fan of the show is, unsurprisingly, The X Factor's Louis Walsh. He's decided to get his claws out and stop likening people to Lenny Henry for long enough to slag off Will.I.Am.. More »

15th, May 2012 Money

Smartphones: the fastest growing technology ever

One way of looking at the current economic world is that it's a complete disaster. Slow to little growth (and don't even start talking about Southern Europe), mass unemployment, a general dirge of it all being pretty crappy... More »

15th, May 2012 Key Posts

Photos of the Day - Joey Barton is The Dictator in the world's best T-shirt

Joey Barton is The Dictator; The prom dress to impress; Carlos Tevez looks forward to Alex Ferguson's death; dog pirates; the church missile; guards for guards; the pizza chopsticks; the worlds greatest T-shirt; the world's second greatest T-shirt; the tree is low moving traffic; row, grandpa, row!; photoshop of the day; and Snoopy knows... More »

15th, May 2012 Sports

De Graapshaft midfielder Rogier Meijer gets help from his daughter Saar - cute overload

Diabetics look away now... More »

15th, May 2012 Strange But True 4

Man fist-pumps for 16 hours to set new world record

Specious World Record of the Day goes to Ohio's 34-year-old fistman James Peterson, who fist-pumped for 16 hours, starting at 11am on Friday and ending at 3am on Saturday... More »

15th, May 2012 TV & Radio

Schrödinger's cat discovers Tupperware - video

Why is this going on? More »

15th, May 2012 Key Posts 6

Carlisle child rapist Azad Miah learned it was ok to abuse 'white trash' from the British elite

Miah raped children and enabled others to do the same. Miah has been found guilty of abusing five girls. The 44-year-old, used one of his four fast-food shops in Carlisle, Cumbria, as a brothel. He called his victims 'white trash'... More »

15th, May 2012 Politicians

David Cameron meets with leading anti gay marriage activist

How in tune with public opinion is David Cameron?.. More »

15th, May 2012 Music

How to play a vinyl record like a boss

How to put a record on record player - the hard way... More »

15th, May 2012 In Pictures

The best of Scarecrow meme

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15th, May 2012 Key Posts 15

Derek Acorah says Madeleine McCann will be reincarnated as Cheryl Cole's baby

“I know her parents are convinced Maddie is alive and I’m really sorry - but the little one has been over in the spirit world for some time..." More »

15th, May 2012 Reviews

The best #popleveson tweets

On twitter the hashtag #Popleveson: the Twitter meme from Court 73, has been required reading for anyone keen to learn how Lord Justice Leveson and Robert Jay QC would cross-examine famous pop stars about the true meaning of their songs. More »

15th, May 2012 Music

Queen to continue elaborate gravedigging of Freddie Mercury with hologram japes

Poor old Queen. They've been at a loss since Freddie Mercury - the only one in the group with a modicum of talent or charisma - went and selfishly died, leaving the group to team up with berks like Ben Elton and Dappy from N-Dubz... More »

14th, May 2012 TV & Radio 1

How to wake up a child on a car journey - a Nirvana video

Cue the dreamy drums... More »

14th, May 2012 Reviews 6

The fat truth about those surgically-implanted al-Qaeda bombs

Newsweek says al Qaeda has an explosives expert called Ibrahim al-Asir. He and some top medics, who might not have taken the Hippocratic Oath, are creating bombs that can be stitched inside suicide bombers... More »

14th, May 2012 Flashback

The British Council archive - 120 films of life in the 1940s

Now you can see what the BC showed and told the savages in its online archive of 120 short films on life in Great Britain, all created in the 1940s.... More »

14th, May 2012 Flashback 1

Girl Watcher magazine of 1959 taught men how to stalk and 'collect' women - photos

In 1959, men of a certain disposition could buy Girl Watcher magazine, the organ that invited punters to stop collecting bottle tops and start collecting women - “more ambitious Girl Watchers find it intriguing to bring home a specimen or two”... More »