25th, September 2011
Key Posts
Romana Lefevre 's book Rude Hand Gestures of the World will ensure that travelling football fans manage to hit the right notes. Here's a gallery of how to offend - and to avoid offending - while overseas... More »
24th, September 2011
Strange But True
In this form of entertainment, people would gather dozens of cats in a net and hoist them high into the air from a special bundle onto a bonfire. According to Norman Davies[1], the assembled people “shrieked with laughter as the animals, howling with pain..." More »
24th, September 2011
Reviews
"Of course I believe in free speech. But reading Hensher's latest novel I was shocked by all the grisly detail. It's completely unnecessary." And then... More »
One way the opinion guys kick our ass and appeal to an audience is that they talk like normal people, not like news robots speaking their stentorian news-speak.... More »
24th, September 2011
Politicians
It's election time in Bahrain, friend to the UK, haven of human rights, home to the US's Navy's Fifth Fleet and venue of a failed Iran-approved Arab spring... More »
24th, September 2011
Reviews
Without any sense of irony whatsoever, the cyclists formed the shape of a giant bicycle as environmental campaigners 350.org launched their Moving Planet... More »
24th, September 2011
Photojournalism
A look back at some odd adverts and photos from years gone by... More »
24th, September 2011
Celebrities
In reply to Sarah K Silverman, she muses on life with Woody Allen... More »
24th, September 2011
Photojournalism
Photos of stories making the news... More »
24th, September 2011
The Consumer
Finally, the German fashion label has apologised for backing those dapper Nazis and using slave labour to make its clothes. More »
24th, September 2011
Key Posts
Faherty, 76, is the first person in Ireland to die of of spontaneous human combustion. His body was found at his home in Galway on 22 December 2010. He was found lying face down near an open fire in his living room... More »
24th, September 2011
Strange But True
We go back in time to 7.55am on Tuesday, September 20. A 15-year-old boy is walking by Church Drive, Gloucester on his way to School Lane... More »
23rd, September 2011
The Consumer
If you put the sticker in the right place the thing you're selling might well sell a whole lot better… More »
23rd, September 2011
Key Posts
9 People being put to death by the State of Texas will no longer get a last meal... More »
23rd, September 2011
Strange But True
The lovebirds fake her death. They buy two bottles of tomato ketchup. She lies on the ground with a machete under her armpit. Her mouth is taped closed. Her hands are tied. Carlos Roberto de Jesus takes a photograph... More »
23rd, September 2011
Technology
Three types of the 17 centimetre (6.7 inch) -tall, green and white imp-like robot, powered by three of Panasonic's rechargeable Evolta AA batteries, plan to challenge an ultra distance triathlon on the Island of Hawaii... More »
23rd, September 2011
Music
The 24m long by 6m wide work was commissioned to celebrate the dual 50th anniversary of The Beatles first gig at The Cavern Club and meeting their manager Brian Epstein... More »
23rd, September 2011
Key Posts
The stars of the Dale Farm saga are Serena McCarthy and Shannon McCarthy, two young blondes who have taken to posing for photos at the head of the movement.... More »
23rd, September 2011
Sports
We've stumbled across a video that isn't just your average, run-of-the-mill game of stupid dodgeball. This is mondo stupid dodgeball with 4,000 people split across two teams with 750 balls... More »
23rd, September 2011
Reviews
Now, you may well think that this is the talk of some guy who is withholding sex in one last desperate power grab... and you may be correct. However, this is something that is widespread across the WHOLE WORLD!... More »
23rd, September 2011
Key Posts
5 Anorak's looks at the story in the news media... More »
23rd, September 2011
Sports
Can the ref send off himself for simulation..? More »
23rd, September 2011
Sports
Now, we look to Joey Barton, and in recent years Robbie Savage for anything resembling character out of a sport that is now filled with yawning drones who all speak like trainee security guards. So still, we look to Maradona... More »
23rd, September 2011
Reviews
You will, of course, recall the name Stuart Mungall? No. What about if we tell you that he was the face of the original Yorkie chocolate bar adverts? Yep. Him. Well, he's facing jail after admitting killing his terminally ill wife... More »
