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1st, November 2011 TV & Radio

Happy Halloween From The Human Badger

Human? Or was it a badger? More »

1st, November 2011 Key Posts 2

Bryon Widner Erases His Face Tattoos: Reformed Nazi Changes His Looks (Photos)

Widner is the reformed racist skinhead turned police informer who underwent 25 operations to remove tattoos that marked him out as a violent white supremacist... More »

1st, November 2011 Strange But True

Dinner Lady Pole Dancers For Hungry Students

At the local school in Östhammar, north of Uppsal in eastern Sweden, the dinner ladies are revolting. (And so are their dinners.)... More »

1st, November 2011 Strange But True 2

Panicky Police Shoot At Escaped Cow (Video)

When a cow escaped from a truck on its way to the slaughterhouse, brave Canadian police in Gatineau police drew their guns and shots at it.... More »

1st, November 2011 The Consumer

Chinese Restaurant Sells Koala Bear Stew (Photo)

The restaurant in Panyu district, Guangdong, sells live koala bears. You can take it away with you - "braised or stewed". Bu way of a serving suggestion the koala has been placed next to a carrot... More »

31st, October 2011 Reviews

Occupy Wall Street Offer Training Scheme For Budding PRs

Dow Jones has news that Occupy Wall Street is offering trainee schemes for budding workers... More »

31st, October 2011 Sports

Liverpool's Steven Gerard Spotted Leaving On Tanzanian Bus

Liverpool fans looking for Steven Gerrard have been looking in the wrong place. Forget the treatment room, Stevie G's on the back on a Tanzanian bus... More »

31st, October 2011 Celebrities

Timberlake and Fallon Team Up For History Of Rap 3

GOD. Justin Timberlake is irritating isn't he? Talented, good looking, wealthy and, worst of all, he seems like a really decent bloke.... More »

31st, October 2011 Flashback

On This Day In Photos: Au Pair Louise Woodward Is Wrongly Convicted Of Murder

On This Day in Photos - October 31, 1997: a Boston jury found au pair Louise Woodward, 19, guilty of second degree murder for killing eight-month-old Matthew Eappen by shaking him violently. Woodward was sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison.... More »

31st, October 2011 Celebrities 2

Kris Humphries Emerges From Kim Kardashian After 72 Days: Divorce Looms

The pair seemed perfect. She had a bikini wax; he had name that started with a 'K'. It could not fail... More »

31st, October 2011 Reviews 1

Tohseef Shah, Emdadur Choudhury, Poppy Burners And EDL Mosque Vandals

An email doing the rounds claims two men have been sentenced to six months choky for daubing a big red poppy on the side of the Portsmouth Jami Mosque: More »

31st, October 2011 Politicians

The Pursuit Of Beaver Opened Up Canada

Fnar. More »

31st, October 2011 The Consumer

Inappropriate Toy Of The Day: The Two Finger Squirter

Toys that are not safe for children More »

31st, October 2011 In Pictures

Toys: Not Safe For Children

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31st, October 2011 Money

How To Really Make Money on the Stock Market: The Misinformation Edge

If you know something that the rest of the market doesn't then you can make money: if you don't have that extra knowledge then you can only make money through pure blind luck. And today I'm going to give you one of those pieces of extra knowledge... More »

31st, October 2011 Strange But True

Have You Met Jaws Cat? Video

Basically, what we have here, is a cat, the Jaws theme tune and one of the most peculiar noises you're likely to hear all week... More »

31st, October 2011 TV & Radio 4

X Factor Replaces Kitty Brucknell wIth Aunt Sally Robot:

E X Factor is failing. Time, then, to press f9 and pile in on designated hate figure Kitty Brucknell... More »

31st, October 2011 Sports 5

France Fined For Facing Down Kiwi Sportsmanship: Everton Do The Z Cars Dance

The Rugby World Cup was long and dull stuff. Who wouldn't rather have watched the dwarf tossing? One highlight, so we are told, was the New Zealand haka, a spectacle that has all the excitement of tourists on a Spanish costa watching a pre-dinner flamenco show, albeit without any chance of audience participation or fun... More »

31st, October 2011 Key Posts 1

Corgis In Halloween Costumes: Photos By Royal Appointment

Why does the Queen like corgis? The question should be: why doesn't everyone? More »

31st, October 2011 Gifs

Gifs Of The Day: The Ultimate Halloween Trick Or Treat Reply

Trick or treat? Go on, what'll it be..? More »

31st, October 2011 Key Posts 1

Qantas' Wapping Effect: Alan Joyce Might Be The Airline Industry's Rupert Murdoch

Alan Joyce,45, the Irish-born Chief Executive of the Oz flagship Qantas airline is openly as gay as the campiest steward to be found in any Little England cabin crew...but has bugger all sympathy with their fair wage and conditions causes More »

31st, October 2011 Key Posts 1

Daily Mail Turns Joanna Yeates Into An Anti-Porn Cause: Vincent Tabak's Video Nasties

Can the tabloids turn Joanna Yeates into a cause? The Daily Mail is having a go... More »

31st, October 2011 In Pictures 1

Madonna: A Life In Magazine Covers

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31st, October 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: The Picnic Condom Squirter

Be prepared... More »

31st, October 2011 In Pictures 1

Disgusting Halloween Candies And Sweets

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