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10th, February 2012 Key Posts 2

The Stuart Pearce racism story makes John Terry and Luis Suarez laugh

The Sun's front page story reads "England in race storm No. 2". The paper trawls the history books and finds an 18-year-old story that Pearce, then with Nottingham Forest, apologised for allegedly racially abusing Manchester United's Paul Ince during a match in 1994.... More »

10th, February 2012 Strange But True

Chinese coins explode - boy hurt

To China, where a coin has exploded in the hands of a 3-year-old boy in Fujian province. The 1 yuan coin just blow up... More »

10th, February 2012 Reviews

London drowns in globally warmed art halos

In 2007, the Environment Agency looked at sea level and its effects on London and the Thames estuary.... More »

10th, February 2012 Flashback 1

Book of the day - Honor Blackman's Book of Self Defence

Published in 1965, it featured Blackman being repeatedly attacked by Joe Robinson and his brother Doug... More »

10th, February 2012 Strange But True

Farter arrested for toilet paper bomb scare

Wayne Hadley Jr., 19, was arrested at his home in Seminary for writing a note at Jones County Junior College.... More »

10th, February 2012 Money 4

Lottery winners Matt Topham and Cassey Carrington are secretly miserable - says Daily Mail

Matt Topham and Cassey Carrington, both 22 and living together in Nottingham, won £45,169,170.50 on EuroMillions. The paper lead with the news that tax-free millions is not just for Vodafone and bankers... More »

9th, February 2012 Celebrities

Macaulay Culkin joins Take That and dies - photos

Culkin looks like Mark Owner from take That. And that is is no way a good thing. The media writes back... More »

9th, February 2012 Reviews 1

Falklands Islands Penguin News calls Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner a "bitch"

Over in the Falkland Islands the Penguin News has called Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner a "bitch" on its website... More »

9th, February 2012 Sports 4

Fabio Capello was a funny foreigner who didn't undertand the superior English

Do you know why Fabio Capello resigned as England manager? Is it because when the craven FA start picking the team, the manger is done for? No. Hugh Muir knows. In a piece for the Guardian, Muir writes beneath the headline and teaser: Fabio Capello failed to understand why John Terry's trial matters... More »

9th, February 2012 Sports

Photos of sportsmen and women being hit in the face - ouch!

When we saw the photos of Liverpool's Luis Saurez's grappling with the face of Spurs' Scott Parker we wondered if the action was typical of life in the sporting arena? More »

9th, February 2012 Reviews

Human Rights hero Baltasar Garzón abused human rights - the grinding hypocrisy

To Spain for an episode of gross human right hypocrisy. Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, 56 - a Human Rights judge - has been found guilty of ordering wiretaps of prisoners talking to their lawyers... More »

9th, February 2012 Money 1

Europe gets united airforce - reach for the subsidies

European Union is to get its own airforce. Oh, Brave New World... More »

9th, February 2012 The Consumer 2

Real meals: Will Self eats fast food like a middle class writer would

Will Self has penned an article in The Times about “Real Meals” - "the ready meals, buffet snacks and — most importantly — fast food that Britons chomp upon in the go-round of their often hurried and dyspeptic lives."... More »

9th, February 2012 Celebrities 3

Adele talks about the curtain in her throat

Adele is, like it or not, the biggest popstar on the planet. And yes, we intentionally left the door wide open for you to make your own jokes about that statement... More »

9th, February 2012 Celebrities 1

Lana Del Rey: living on hate and daddy's hand-outs

Have you ever heard a cow giving birth? It's a horrible, guttural, depressing noise. So to, is the appalling singing voice of Latest Hot Thang, Lana Del Rey, who has based her fledgling career on daddy's paycheck, giant lips and ... More »

9th, February 2012 Reviews

Hamza Kashghri (Hamza Kashgari) is the victim of a twitter hunt for Muhammad blasphamy

Kashgari, aka Hamza Kashghri, is in the brown stuff. To commemorate the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday last week, journalist Hamza Kashgari, a 23-year-old Saudi working for Jeddah-based al-Bilad daily, tweeted: More »

9th, February 2012 Flashback

Vintage book of the Day: Barbara Windsor’s Book of Boobs

"Barbara Windsor’s Book of Boobs is a riotous collection of boobs of every kind..." More »

9th, February 2012 Celebrities

Chantelle Houghton shocked at baby girl - was expecting chest of drawers

On page 39, we meet Chantelle. She is sat on a bed. On it lies a single red rose. She rests a hand on her tummy. Whipped hair tangles over her shoulders. The woman impregnated by Katie Price's ex Alex Reid is here to slam the rumours the couple are "on the rocks"... More »

9th, February 2012 Money

I'm Female, Give Me Money! What Kerry Andrew wants

It gets rather tedious seeing yet another person demanding that they be given the taxpayers' money for some reason or other. Here we've a female composer named Kerry Andrew demanding that there should be more female composers on the curriculum... More »

9th, February 2012 Sports

Harry Redknapp is an England meme - photos

Harry Redknapp's Spurs team heet... More »

9th, February 2012 Reviews 1

Dick Bellringer and Bonnie Beaver - nominative determinism of the day

The new editor of the Andover Advertiser is... Dick Bellringer. More »

9th, February 2012 Reviews 1

The photograph Adolph Hitler banned

Hitler was so vain. He once banned this photograph from being published... More »

9th, February 2012 Flashback 2

The nostalgia proof European sex mag - photos

The nostalgia proof sex stills will take you back to those halcyon says of lurid colours, bouffant hair and European porn mags... More »

9th, February 2012 In Pictures

Haters Gonna Hate - the best ones

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9th, February 2012 Reviews 2

Chinese boy made to run in knickers through New York snow happy - video

In this video four-year-old Chinese boy He is being encouraged by his loving parents to run through the snow in New York dressed only in his knickers and shoes... More »