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13th, November 2011 Sports

Manny Pacquiao v Juan Manuel Marquez In Photos

r Manny Pacquiao defeated Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas. He retains his WBO welterweight title with a decision identical to the pair's last meeting in 2008.... More »

13th, November 2011 Strange But True

Man's Gallstones Diagnosed As Pains From Past Hysterectomy

Les dad Les Kennington was told by medics that his acute stomach pains were the result of a past hysterectomy. Sure, he's a man but his medical report says he has a hysterectomy. The report cannot be wrong... More »

13th, November 2011 TV & Radio 1

Live Court TV Will Kill The Inflated News Anchor And Bring Back Capital Punishment

Did you watch the Conrad Murray v. Michael Jackson trial on Sky News? The channel broadcast the show for five hours a day . It was unremittingly tedious. Yet source say audiences were up a third on the channel's usual shows... More »

13th, November 2011 Sports

South African Cricketers Amazing Remembrance Day Tribute: England Footballers Shamed

Fun fact: at 11.11am on the 11/11/11, South Africa required 111 runs to win the First Test against Australia.... More »

13th, November 2011 Key Posts

Sorority Girls: Picking Which One To Hate Most Is Tricky

Sorority Girls is the Channel 4 shows featuring five big-toothed American girls setting up a sorority house - Sigma Gamma - in…Leeds. These cultural missionaries will create the UK's first Sorority.... More »

13th, November 2011 Sports 4

Lifting The Lid On Rugby Players - US Boffins Want To Pick Their Brains

An American University wants to pick the brains of Britain's Rugby players. That is ... take out and study the brain of Rugby players. It would like to examine the brain tissue of players... More »

13th, November 2011 TV & Radio

X Factor: Louis Walsh Says Gary Barlow Lacks Credibility In Incredible Story

Walsh, bobble-headed super-injunction negating, Hughie Green impersonator and cloth-eared peddler of novelty hits, is to leave the X Factor. More »

12th, November 2011 Celebrities

Ashton Kutcher's Refreshingly 'Dishonest' Sympathetic Backstory: Stringing Demi Moore Along

Kutcher "is working so hard to court Demi, 49, that he accidentally wrote a tweet making light of sexual abuse". Yep, it was not his lack of research, stupidity nor alleged cheating on Moore with "hot-tub ready" slappers that caused him to cheer for alleged child abuser... More »

12th, November 2011 Sports

Harry Redknapp Accused Of Tax Evasion As Capello's England Beat World Champions Spain

The Spurs manager has been charged, along with his former boss at Portsmouth Milan Mandaric, with cheating the public revenue... More »

12th, November 2011 Reviews 1

Belt Beating Judge William Adams Banned From Seeing 10-Year-Old Daughter

The video of Judge William Adams - a justice on matters of family law - can't see his youngest daughter, aged 10, because the law, like us, has seen him using a belt to beat the crap out of his oldest daughter Hillary while his then wife Hallie egged him on... More »

12th, November 2011 Reviews 1

Lord Mayor's Show 2012 In Photos: Occupy Gold Coach

Lord Mayor's Show introduced the City and the Occupy London Stock Exchange protestors trying to get God to resign at St Paul's to new Lord Mayor Alderman David Wootton... More »

12th, November 2011 Reviews

Police Trap Suspects With Free Beer Sting

The Police sent missives to the last known addresses of people who had evaded arrest. The letters invited the recipients to phone the printed number and claim their free crates of beer. The number was for Chesterfield Police Station... More »

12th, November 2011 Reviews

Taking One For The Newsdesk: Turkey Earthquake Journalists Get The Last Byline

It's only a disaster when the media says so... More »

12th, November 2011 Celebrities

How Frankie Cocozza Was Fixed Up With Stringfellow's Worker And Dogging Fan Becca Hills And Katherine Holland

X Factor renegade Frankie Cocozza, the cocky, untalented Brighton teenager with a head like a windswept camel's hump, remains on the Sun's front page. The latest news is that Frankie Prankie wanted a treesome with "students Becca Hills and Katherine Holland"... More »

12th, November 2011 Reviews

Will Ramsgate Cat Swinger Use Igor Borisovich Charkovsky Defence?

The youngest cat swinger in Ramsgate, Kent, is, allegedly, 20-year-old Riain Richards.... More »

12th, November 2011 Strange But True 1

Belfast Woman Feeds Daughter Into Fairground Machine To Steal Cash: Video

"She should try putting 50p in to try and win her daughter back..." More »

12th, November 2011 Music

Danny Boy For Cat Lovers: Songs For Fans Of Mawkish Maudlin Morning Misery

Songs To Slit Your Wrists By... More »

11th, November 2011 Photojournalism

This Movember Grow A Mousthair: A Gallery of Brilliance

To honour Movember - when men are sponsored to grow a moustache and raise cash got fight prostate cancer and other cancers that affect men - we bring you the brilliant Mousthair. The pictures are all fantastic... More »

11th, November 2011 Key Posts 1

John Lewis Advert Splits The Country: Is The Rabbit In The Box Decapitated Or Alive And Fluffy?

Feel free to puke... More »

11th, November 2011 Reviews

Local News Story: The Blackpool Lamp Post Dodger

The accompanying photo does not tell the entire story but for one commentator (and I'm still laughing) it was enough... More »

11th, November 2011 In Pictures

Santa Claus - More Awkward Photos

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11th, November 2011 Music

R Kelly Is Back! And This Time, He's Singing About Throat Surgery!

MENTAL. That's the only correct word you can feasibly describe R Kelly with these days. He's the Colonel Kurtz of pop, all paranoid and holed-up lashing out at imagined haters, bringing forth the horror, the horror... More »

11th, November 2011 Reviews

With No Muslim Poppy Burners Around The EDL Makes Do WIth Taking On The Police: Photos

As Muslims Against Crusades go the way of other Islamist groups, the English Defence League scouts around for a group to shout at across a busy road, police lion or fence... More »

11th, November 2011 Strange But True

Maria Topp Goes Down For Bitting Into Lover's Testicles

Maria Topp, 44, of Gateshead, is hereby sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court to 12 months chocky (fnar), suspended for 18 months, for the crime of biting hard into the scrotum of one Martin Douglas... More »

11th, November 2011 Reviews 3

BBC Anti-Israel Bias: Gaza Medical Convoy Had No Cargo

The Israel-Gaza border is hot zone of rocket-firing, gun-toting, propaganda-pushing persons. Important, then, to make sure reporting is correct. We look to the BBC, which on November 2 reported... More »