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21st, November 2011 Reviews

Get Theresa May To Sort Out Duggan Shooting Inquiry Says Tottenham MP

Tottenham MP David Lammy said there had been a "catalogue of very public errors" surrounding the investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission... More »

21st, November 2011 Celebrities

BBC Says Gok Wan Uses Large Wooden Plugs To Stretch Himself But Fails To Specify Where

Is Gok Wan, the TV's clothed expert on female naked beauty using earlobe stretching plugs on his body? The BBC writes... More »

21st, November 2011 Sports

The Charming Optimism Of Chelsea Manager Andre Villas-Boas

Having presided over Chelsea's worst start under Roman Abramovich's, the young tyro opined: "The owner didn't pay 15million euros to get me out of Porto to pay me another fortune to get out"... More »

21st, November 2011 Strange But True 3

Crocodiles Get Free Vajazzle At Darwin Spa: Photos

Overthe web comes news of Louanne Grasmeder, of Darwin, Australia's, Parap Day Spa in Darwin, who has given a crocodile a bikini wax, exfoliation and pedicure. Says she: More »

21st, November 2011 Music

Photos Of 39th Annual American Music Awards: Bieber's Unter Alles Hair And All The Winners Listed

THE 39th annual American Music Awards, presented at the Nokia Theatre, featured Justin Bieber wearing new unter alles hair, David Hasselhoff dancing in his knickers (unsoiled), and an interesting photo of Gene Simmons seemingly showing us how he retrieved his wedding ring from Shannon Tweed... More »

21st, November 2011 Key Posts 2

Stuck Up!: 100 Objects Inserted & Ingested in Places They Shouldn’t Be: Photos

Book Of The Day: Stuck Up!: 100 Objects Inserted & Ingested in Places They Shouldn’t Be. Psychiatrist Rich E. Dreben, M.D., emergency room physician Murdoc Knight, M.D., and forensic psychiatrist Marty A. Sindhian, M.D.'s book looks at unusual objects found inside human beings... More »

21st, November 2011 Reviews

Bradford Evokes Allah In Appeal To 'Dirty' Muslims

The leaflet states: “There is no excuse for dropping litter and living in a dirty neighbourhood. Dumping rubbish on the streets makes the area look horrible. It is also illegal..What does Islam say about the environment we live in?”... More »

21st, November 2011 Strange But True 4

Shandong Bobby Guards Grave Of Dead Owner: Will Mourn For Buns

When Lao Pan died aged 68 at Panjiatun village near Qingdao city, Shandong Province, China, his yellow dog sat by his grave. For seven days, the dog stayed put. Locals took pity... More »

21st, November 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: The Cheeseburger Gets Wasted

Rabbits, cats, cheesebuger and Malibu dreaming... More »

21st, November 2011 Key Posts 16

Mark Duggan Killing: Police Start Kettling Talkative Guardian As Adviser Quits Watchdog 'Worse' Than Evidence Planters

The investigation into the police shooting of Mark Duggan in a Tottenham street on August 4 is spiralling down completely out of control... More »

21st, November 2011 Sports

Alternative Olympic Sports: Badr Al-Alyani Saudi And Mehmet Yilmaz Go For Eye-Spitting Gold

Al-Alyani Saudi will now prove that Saudi Arabia can excel at sports. He will squirt milk from his eye. It will travel 2.3metres. One day he will beat the current 2.7-metre... More »

20th, November 2011 Reviews

Jay Rayner, Jonathan Jones And The Guardian's Odd Attitude To Its Readers

Where do news organs stand on being nice to their readers? Observer food critic Jay Rayner, seen extempore eating on BBC cooking show Master Chef, wrote about a filler about slow eating... More »

20th, November 2011 The Consumer

Barbie Goes The Gay Way: Action Doll Dates Elen Degeneres

Has Barbie no longer so into Ken? Has she gone the gay way... More »

20th, November 2011 Reviews

The p-Phenylendiamine Scare: Is Every Hair Dye Horror Story Reported?

The Sun reports on Julie McCabe, a 38-year-old mother. She's in a coma. Before falling ill she dyed her hair. Are the two things linked? The paper''s headline states: 'Brain damage after mum used hair dye'... More »

20th, November 2011 Reviews

Pensioner Sees Of Young Accrington Robber With Bottle Of Wine

The younger man was armed with a knife when he raided the Texaco petrol station on Dill Hall Lane, Church, Lancashire. At Burnley Crown Court, Devlin, from Accrington, Lancashire, is jailed for five years.... More »

20th, November 2011 Reviews

The Bachelor: Gavin Henson's Nice Fruit Platter

Take an American TV format, transfer it to the UK, throw Gavin 'personality' Henson into the mix, and what do you get?... More »

20th, November 2011 Sports

Chelsea 1-2 Liverpool: When Luis Suarez Met John Terry

Anorak's gaze fell upon John Terry and Luis Suarez, each the centre of whirlpools of racist allegations. Both players hook hands after the game, so whatever was said - death threats, slights on what goes on in the showers, accusations that such-and-such a player is Sepp Blatter in disguise - were made gone... More »

20th, November 2011 Reviews

Occupy Wall Street Drum Circle Is Doomed: Bloomberg Release The Emerald Society Of The NYPD Bagpipers

Occupy Bongo is coming to New York City. There is to a a 24-hour drum circle. Egads! Not even those in the circle of Hell will be able to stand it... More »

20th, November 2011 Key Posts

UC Davis Police Department And Linda Katehi Prove Attack Is The Best Form Of Defence: Live Ammo At Riverside

The UC Davis Police Department has been squirting pepper spray at students protesting at University of California, Davis, near Sacramento. Linda Katehi, the university chancellor, invited police to deal with the students... More »

20th, November 2011 Key Posts

Retro Images Of The Day: Spread Your Legs In A Pontiac

More fantastic pictures from yesteryear... More »

20th, November 2011 Celebrities

X Factor: Charitable Kitty Brucknell Rides Britney Spears' Camel In Bluewater Kent: Photos

If anyone sees the Three Wise Men, tell them to keep their eyes on the star More »

20th, November 2011 Key Posts 5

Chaotic Police Complaint Commission Whinge Over Guardian Mark Duggan Yarn: Killing The 'Murder' Story

That would seem to be either tongue in cheek or just stupid from the body which first said Mark Duggan had opened fire on police before he was shot. Clearly untrue and involving the Independent Police Complaints Commission in what now appears to have been a bare-faced lie issued to it by the Metropolitan Police... More »

20th, November 2011 Strange But True

Woman Chews Off Man's Scrotum: Palm Wine Tappers On High Alert

To Ghana, where Akosua Serwaa Bonsu , 31, has been arrested for chomping off the scrotum of one Kwadwo Owusu, 55, causing his testicles to fall out... More »

20th, November 2011 Strange But True

Woman Dumps Lover To Date Her Father's Goblin

When Tsitsi Dzengerere was asked by police why she had abandoned her six-month-old baby girl she told them: “I dumped the child because I am now having a relationship with my father’s goblin"... More »

20th, November 2011 Key Posts

Sepp Blatter's Friends Agree Racism Is No Big Deal: Spurs Boss Harry Redknapp Wishes Fifa Boss Was British

As FIFA's Swiss president Sepp Blatter continues his mission to shake hands with everyone black and thereby cure the world of racism, we take a look at Harry Redknapp's words in the Sun. The Spurs manager pretty much sums up the British position on this story by saying that things would be better were Blatter one of us... More »