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30th, April 2012 The Consumer 2

What is going in in these photos?

Quiz of the day... More »

30th, April 2012 Reviews 1

Local News update: Bird steals sausage in Wokingham

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30th, April 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the day - Marilyn Monroe's first time

Marilyn Monroe covers the first Playboy cover; the world's first mass-produced mobile phone; the bubble boy; Tom Cruise is timeless; the biggest turd in the world; and Tramp Idol... More »

30th, April 2012 Reviews 2

Wind farms create climate change and make it hotter

This really is the most glorious story. We're told that we have to put up bat slicers all over the country in order to beat climate change... More »

30th, April 2012 Celebrities

Coco Austin - season's end

Austin, Anorak's woman of the Year 2011 and Ice T-'s wife, has waved adieu to Ice loves Coco, the fly in the thong TV show on the E! channel.... More »

30th, April 2012 The Consumer 3

The call to ban airbrushing is a stupid attack on free speech and dumb kids

Today Rachael Johnston, an anorexic once given just 48-hours to live, has launched a petition to ban the use of airbrushing to make woman look flawless and thin in magazines and other organs.... More »

30th, April 2012 The Consumer 3

Man sues BMW for giving him permanent erection

Mr Wolf claims that following a four-hour ride on a 1993 BMW motorcycle sporting a Corbin-Pacific seat, he developed "a severe case of priapism".... More »

30th, April 2012 TV & Radio

The human beat box is a chicken (Norman Collier lives)

Collier's daughter gets her big break in beat boxing... More »

30th, April 2012 Key Posts

The night Mario Balotelli made a drink of his urine

Chloe Evans: “Another night we went for a meal and he threw a lobster right at my head, claws and all. I screamed. But everyone fell about in stitches — and eventually I had to see the funny side. Who else would do something like that?”... More »

30th, April 2012 Sports

1997: When Roy Hodgson was Glenn Hoddle's interpreter

Don't panic, England! Roy Hodgson is just like Jose Mourinho... More »

30th, April 2012 Sports

The tabloids hate Roy Hodgson for not being Harry Redknapp

Why is that a shock? Well. Roy Hodgson has never been in bother with the law. And the tabloids nailed their colours to Redknapp's mast... More »

29th, April 2012 In Pictures

Maldon Mud Race 20102 - photos

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29th, April 2012 The Consumer 1

Californian mum wins $3m payout for Nutella's deceptive advertising

How dangerous is Nutella? The Consumerist reports on goings on in California, where Athena Hohenberg, a litigious San Diego mother of a four-year-old child, took out a class-action lawsuit against Ferrero U.S.A. Inc., makers of the nutty brown gunk... More »

29th, April 2012 Film

Star Wars photos: George Lucas and his robots

The Film Anorak goes back to look at Star Wars' creator George Lucas and his robots... More »

29th, April 2012 Reviews

Tottenham Court 'bomb' suspect was the BNP candidate for Stevenage

Hope Not Hate is reporting that Michael Green, the man arrested in the Tottenham Court Road the “siege” (Sky), “disturbance” (BBC), “nuisance Scotland Yard) and “afternoon off” (every worker) once represented the BNP... More »

29th, April 2012 Key Posts

The best and worst juxtaposed newspaper headlines ever

. Who would want to be the poor sod with the camera on the front page of The Sunshine Cost Daily's front-page warning over paedophiles? Is Santa Claus a "child porn kingpin", as The Times of South Africa seems to be saying?.... More »

29th, April 2012 Celebrities

Awkward photo of the day : KKK at the Keisha gig

T-shirts of hate... More »

29th, April 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the day - The David Guetta mystery pandalism

David Guetta's keyboard; Twilight's No.1 fan; free chewing gum; and somewhere in San Francisco... More »

29th, April 2012 Key Posts

Bullshit.com - How To Make Your Website Like The Daily Mail's - a photo lesson

In today's extract from Bullshit.com - How To Making Your Website Like The Daily Mail's, we turn back the clock to July 2009.... More »

29th, April 2012 Sports 4

Army overlooks tower blocks in favour of yuppie flats for rooftop missile systems

An update on those Army missile launchers soon to feature atop blocks of flats in Bow, east London... More »

29th, April 2012 Celebrities 1

Alex Reid cancels Chantelle Houghton's wedding plan

Houghton, the pregnant woman made from Katie Price's off-cuts who read Jade Goody's How to be Thick and Loveable but missed the section of charm, will not be married to future Prime Minister Alex Reid.... More »

29th, April 2012 Royal Family 2

Pippa Middleton: I was Pippa's dwarf stripper double

Annie Shields is a dwarf who looks like Pippa Middleton would look were the royal arseness a dwarf... More »

29th, April 2012 Strange But True

Jilted dentist pulls out all lover's teeth one by one

To Wroclaw, Poland, where dentist Anna Mackowiak, 34, is upset that Marek Olszewski, 45, has ended their love affair... More »

29th, April 2012 Reviews

Man was speeding because he wanted sex

Police pulled over the 1994 Honda Prelude. Ramirez said he was ging so fast because he was “trying to go have sex with a girl he liked"... More »

29th, April 2012 Reviews

German Gorbuntsov: who is the wanted Russian banker shot in London?

Gorbuntsov, 45, was shot six times outside his flat near London's Canary Wharf on March 20th 2012. The Russian businessman who fled his country in 2009 says he knows who tried to kill him... More »