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13th, May 2012 In Pictures

Roller Coasters - The Greatest Pictures Ever

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13th, May 2012 The Consumer

Sun on Sunday pink hairdryer horror

On May 1, the Sun on Sunday carried a front-page reader offer for a "FREE" pink travel hairdryer work £15... More »

13th, May 2012 Strange But True

Does swimmers' urine kill German fish?

Expects say the deaths of hundreds of fish in Eichbaum lake, Hamburg, Germany, is down to swimmers' urine... More »

13th, May 2012 Strange But True

Police stop man for driving whilst radioactive

To Connecticut, where Mike Apatow has been pulled over by the polcie for Driving Whilst Radioactive... More »

12th, May 2012 Celebrities

The Houston Family Chronicles: televising Whitney Houston's legacy enema

How can Whitney Houston keep on entertaining us with new material now she's gone?... More »

12th, May 2012 Flashback

The Argos catalogue 1976 - featuring the After Eight mints silver-style Gun Carriage

Flashback to 1976. Argos is the high street darling. Richard Tompkins, creator of those Green Shield Stamps has rebranded his "Green Shield Gift House" as Argos... More »

12th, May 2012 The Consumer

Ikea sells self-assembly Stonehenge model kits

If IKEA had made Stonehenge... More »

12th, May 2012 Flashback

NS-Frauen-Warte was the Nazi magazine for women - photos

What did Nazi women read in those heady days of German superiority? NS-Frauen-Warte was the official Nazi magazine for women... More »

12th, May 2012 Strange But True

70-year-old virgin Pam Shaw looking seeks Simon Cowell to break her duck

Pam Shaw, the 70 year old Mancunian cabaret singer advertising for sex, has no descendants to embarrass... More »

12th, May 2012 Reviews 3

Vanity Fair sicks it to Rebekah Brooks

Brooks' stint in the forensic chair at Leveson drew attention to Vanity Fair - and how a report it ran back in February, on her mysterious rise to power and her reported peacemaker role between Rupert and James Murdoch as Hackgate kicked in, was (she said) a load of cobblers... More »

12th, May 2012 TV & Radio

The Air DJ Championships in Bournemouth's Club Slinky

Air guitar is for the olds. Air DJ is where the action is at... More »

11th, May 2012 Reviews 1

Lincoln Nebraska anti-gay activist speaks out about the homosexual homiciders

Give a woman a microphone... More »

11th, May 2012 Film

Battleship premier photos: Rihanna and the bored games

Battleship is a really expensive B-movie based on the boardgame. The story is that aliens have crashed into / invaded Earth and have decided to attack Hawaii.. More »

11th, May 2012 Key Posts 7

Pakistani rapists and white moralists agree - white working class girls are asking for it

Last night on Question Time, the BBC's flagship chat show for the political elite and showbiz smilers who do issues, the matter of how nine men who conspired "to engage children under 16 in sexual activity" in and around Rochdale Lancashire came up... More »

11th, May 2012 Celebrities

Rihanna unfollows Chris Brown... not because he slapped her about, but because of a song

Chris Brown may be the most jarring goon in the world, but Rihanna still stuck by him... More »

11th, May 2012 In Pictures

Signs - unnecessary ones

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11th, May 2012 Strange But True

Mexican couple row over teddy stuffed with heroin

Would you be more unnerved by a man and a woman fighting in the street over drugs or a teddy bear?... More »

11th, May 2012 TV & Radio

A wild Wallaby is at lage in Kent - video

Anyone lost a wallaby? More »

11th, May 2012 Celebrities

Engelbert ­Humperdinck is big in Azerbaijan

Before he croons the UK to victory in the Eurovision Song Contest, Engelbert ­Humperdinck shows the Daily Mirror's man round his Leicestershire estate... More »

11th, May 2012 Celebrities

Lost star gets charged with DUI... and it isn't his first brush with boozy bother

You may have watched Lost or Party Of Five, looked at Matthew Fox and thought 'he seems like a nice man... a nice, hunky, stubbly dreamboat of a man'... More »

11th, May 2012 Sports

The ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture suits the Mr Messy Olympics (photos)

The big squiggle, that demented Mr Messy, is sponsored by ArcelorMittal, the huge steel company. Why? More »

11th, May 2012 TV & Radio

The Wright Stuff mongs out

Having asked viewers "Amanda Knox: would ya?" the Wright Stuff's producers put their thinking caps on and wondered if they could produce another survey to demean a soft target... More »

11th, May 2012 In Pictures

Funny bar signs

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11th, May 2012 Gifs

Retro Gifs of the week - Monroe does the Bardot

Gifs of the Week are all Retro Gifs of the Week. They are all fabulous: Marilyn Monroe is eerie; Bardot is saucy; Cary Grant outacts George Clooney; and the lovely Diana Dors... More »

11th, May 2012 In Pictures

Photos of the day - the ecard that says it all

Well, yes... More »