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31st, December 2011 Technology

Teach your iPhone4 S to swear like John Terry

The iPhone 4S has told Charlie Le Quesne: "Shut the f*ck up, you ugly t*at"... More »

31st, December 2011 Sports

Alternative Olympic Sports: the lit cigarette toss and catch

Continuing our look at Alternative Olympic Sports, we bring you the lit cigarette toss and catch - in mouth... More »

31st, December 2011 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann spotted in bible

To Thailand, where Madeleine McCann has been spotted in the Koh Tao Bible... More »

31st, December 2011 Reviews

Sir Johnathan Ive heads mixed cast of New Year's Honours List (in full)

Yesterday, we could not tell you that Steve Jobs’s pal Jonathan Ive - the designer of the iPad, iPod and iMac - has been knighted in the New Year’s Honours List. The news carried an embargo.. More »

31st, December 2011 Key Posts

The Best Mug Shots Of 2011

Well, you might as well make the most of your arrest... More »

31st, December 2011 In Pictures 5

Cats Being Stoopid

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30th, December 2011 Flashback 1

Photos of the day: Women on top

A hark back to when women were useless, feckless, docile. In short, a tioem wehn women were put in a tin can and zoomed to the moon to service pioneering astronauts... More »

30th, December 2011 Key Posts 2

Anuj Bidve: Hapless police post £50,000 reward

The police have arrested five men for the murder of the Indian student in Salford. They have used the words "racially motivated" and called Anuj Bidve's death a hate crime, although not one motivated by, er, race... More »

30th, December 2011 In Pictures

Best Gifs of 2011

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30th, December 2011 TV & Radio 1

Park Jo Min is South Korea's Adele

Park Jo Mon is the star of K-Pop Starcan, South Korea's number audition for telephone operatives... More »

30th, December 2011 Celebrities 1

Russell Brand and Katy Perry defile sanctity of marriage

Brand has filed for divorce from Katy Perry. Russell and Katy have been married for 15 month. It was never going to last. Unlike Brangelina, Jedward and SuBo, Russell Brand and Katy Perry never gelled as a tabloid abbreviation... More »

30th, December 2011 Reviews 1

Green energy could be cheaper than traditional say lying bastards at DECC

That's how we do it: we simply assume that everyone's going to use half as much energy in the future. Well, OK, I can do that too. Assume that everyone is going to use half the energy, hey, the cost of our energy system has halved then!.. More »

30th, December 2011 Flashback

I want a man, grannie but I have bad breath - vintage Colgate advert

"I Want a man," says Libbie. Never fear, Libbie, granny is here to make you feel inadequate. More »

30th, December 2011 Celebrities

Billy Corgan: Wrestler And Tea Room Opener

Clearly out of musical ideas, Billy Corgan has forgotten all about that whole Smashing Pumpkins thing and decided to branch out a little... More »

30th, December 2011 Politicians

Giant North Korean soldier watches Kim Jong il ascend to heaven in 1976 Lincoln

The Giant North Korean soldier caught on camera paying his blood-teared respects to Kim Jong-il of North Korea is not a product of photoshop nor other imperialist trickery... More »

30th, December 2011 In Pictures

Vintage Erotic Photos

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30th, December 2011 In Pictures

The basketball karma sutra

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30th, December 2011 Reviews

Samoa erases December 30 2011 from history

HAIL Samoa and Tokelau, land of the future! Tonight, Samoa will jump from December 29 to December 31.... More »

30th, December 2011 Celebrities 1

Punchy Chris Brown back with Rihanna? Surely not!

Remember when everyone was thoroughly disgusted with Chris Brown's using Rihanna as a punchbag? That was a pretty lousy celebrity story to read wasn't it?... More »

30th, December 2011 Gifs

Gifs of the week: John Lennon's five cup trick

Gifs of the week are brought to you by the five cup trick, pets in love, England is lost, John Lennon's cup of char and the largest folding tongue in the world… More »

30th, December 2011 Politicians 4

Margaret Thatcher loved Liverpool because the official records say she did

Thatchers's Cabinet contemplated allowing the post Toxteth riots Liverpool to fester and die. She rejected it. Indeed, Mrs Thatcher loved the place. Just loved it... More »

30th, December 2011 Politicians

Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher refused free ironing board

Thatcher, currently appearing as Meryl Streep in the cinemas, was once, according to the national archives, embroiled in row over the No 10 ironing board... More »

30th, December 2011 Politicians

Kim Jong Un turns South Korea into a 'sea of revengeful fire'

North Korea might have stopped for Kim Jong-il's Princess Diana-themed funeral, but South Korea was wise not to use the opening to launch an attack. Kim Jong Un is more than ready.... More »

30th, December 2011 In Pictures

Tattoos - Tramp Stamps Of Awful Wonder

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30th, December 2011 Strange But True

Dead Hiroyuki Joho sued by woman his body parts injured in train crash

Hiroyuki Joho is dead. His biggest mistake was not ensuring that parts of his dismembered body failed to hit bystanders... More »