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14th, March 2012 Film

Hunger Games Premiere - Twilight meets Columbine

In the not-too-distant future, America is finished. The demonic leaders select 24 teenagers to fight each other to the death for a TV show. It's the TV news bulletins on London kebab shop knifings, only more ordered and better lit... More »

14th, March 2012 Reviews

Dover's White Cliffs advance on France

REJOICE! The Daily Mail reports that as a result of a large section of the famous White Cliffs of Dover collapsed into the English Channel last Friday meaning "France is even further away".... More »

14th, March 2012 Reviews 1

Kony continues to evads Internet and Kim Kardashian

Others shared this initial reaction. “Did the internet catch Joseph Kony yet?” tweeted the managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine at the weekend.... More »

14th, March 2012 Key Posts

The 10 sexiest One Direction Gifs ever

OK. Girls. Ready. These are the 10 sexist, most suggestive One Direction gifs ever. One Direction are totally checking you out… More »

14th, March 2012 Key Posts 1

Rick Santorum is a meme - denies raped underage teen a life-saving abortion

Santorum is overcoming his anal issues by adding a silent P to his first name.... More »

14th, March 2012 Reviews

Student protest in photos: A Start The War march

Students have been preparing banners outside King's College, London, before a rally protesting against government plans for higher education... More »

14th, March 2012 The Consumer

Steve Jobs immortalised as the iCEO doll

The Apple founder is now available to own as a plush doll. It's just all the other toys only with less buttons and the Rupskin (TM) operating system... More »

14th, March 2012 Technology

10 Pi Day-themed items

It's March 14 - 4.14. How can you celebrate? Why, with Pi merchandise. It's also Albert Einstein's Birthday... More »

14th, March 2012 Money 2

The Banker resigning from Goldman Sachs because they're sharp bastards

The New York Times today has a piece from a Goldman Sachs senior banking types who is resigning because all the people he works with are complete bastards... More »

14th, March 2012 Sports

Diego Maradona says he's the Bono of football - world nods

Diego Maradona writes his own obituary... one all England fans can agree on... More »

14th, March 2012 Celebrities

TOWIE's Lauren Pope is the face of PIP implants

When the PIP implants story hit the news cycle we knew it would not be long before the story of industrial silicon breasts garnered a celebrity face. And so today the Sun serves up Lauren Pope... More »

14th, March 2012 Reviews

Rebekah Brooks quits school governor role at Fulwood Academy

She became “pre-occupied with various matters around phone-hacking and (the) Leveson (inquiry).”.. More »

14th, March 2012 Reviews 4

Fukushima - One year on and no-one died from nuclear power

"Tens of thousands of anti-nuclear protesters across the globe called for an end to nuclear power as they marked the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami at Japan’s Fukushima power plant." Why? More »

14th, March 2012 TV & Radio

Leprechaun spotted in Alabama - with news video and amateur sketch

To Mobile, Alabama, where just in the nick o'time for St. Patrick’s Day a Leprechaun has been spotted... More »

14th, March 2012 Reviews 20

Rebekah Brooks arrested more times than Heather Mills, Glenn Mulcaire and these people

Former News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks, fromerly Rebekah Wade, has been arrested. Again.... More »

14th, March 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the day - Ham and Banans Hollandaise

Photos of the day are presented by: Ham and Bananas Hollandaise, the bony poodle, the worst airbrushing ever and the most lovelorn man on planet earth... More »

14th, March 2012 TV & Radio

The Orient Express gets namechecked

What's the name of that train? The Orient Express, you say. Yes, the Orient Express... More »

14th, March 2012 Key Posts 1

Why I'm Leaving Al Qaeda, by Ayman al-Zawahiri

Greg Smith is resigning today as a Goldman Sachs executive director and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Others soon to pen their resignation letters from organisations bent on world domination and a win-at-all-costs mentality: More »

14th, March 2012 Celebrities

Kerry Katona: 'Stacey Solomon's smoking Silk Cut - it's not a real cigarette'

This is Katona who slurred her words on ITV's This Morning, made bipolarism the go-ahead celebrity mental illness, lost her job advertising Iceland's frozen squirrel Boozy Brownies for taking cocaine... More »

14th, March 2012 Money

Australian advertises jobs for 'No Irish' - video

Bricklayer needed ASAP. $250 a day, no part-time workers and NO IRISH”... More »

14th, March 2012 Celebrities 2

Marie Osmond wets herself - a video

You know you are getting old when Marie Osmond has a senior moment and wets herself on stage... More »

14th, March 2012 Reviews 3

The strange case of Azhar Ahmed - can you racially abuse your own side?

hmed'a alleged crime was to have complained that the coverage of the recent deaths of six British soldiers in Afghanistan was unfair... More »

14th, March 2012 Politicians

Hammersmith and Fulham Council says thanks for your obedience

The staff at London's Hammersmith and Fulham council just want to say thanks. More »

14th, March 2012 In Pictures

Adverts - Funny Fitness Ones

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13th, March 2012 Reviews

Sunday Times illustrates fatal Nigeria terror raid with Call of Duty's John 'Soap' MacTavish

To explain the murders of Chris McManus and Franco Lamolinara by Al-Qaeda-style Islamists Nigeria, the Sunday Times illustrates the 'action' with a picture of John 'Soap' MacTavish... More »