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1st, September 2011 Gifs

Gifs Of The Day: The Cat Slides In The Box

More bite-sixed moments of stupidity (some with cats)... More »

1st, September 2011 Strange But True

127 Hours Sequel: Trapped John Hutt Cuts Off All His Toes

The sequel to 127 Hours is in the pipeline. It stars semi-retired logger John Hutt, 61. While working alone in the remote San Miguel County the morning of Aug. 19, his foot became caught in six tons of machinery... More »

1st, September 2011 In Pictures

Gifs - Famous Moments From Great Movies

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1st, September 2011 Strange But True 3

Man Arrested For Sex With Pink Inflatable Swimming Pool Raft

To Cincinnati, where Edwin Charles Tobergta, 32, has been arrested for "sexual activity" with a pink inflatable swimming pool raft in an alley... More »

1st, September 2011 TV & Radio

Arsenal Enter The Spurs Zone As Arteta Cuts And Runs And Redknapp Gets £40million For Modric

The Gunners were in the fabled Tottenham Zone, waiting for players to get progressively cheaper as the countdown on Transfer Deadline day approached zero.... More »

31st, August 2011 Key Posts 21

The Battle For Dale Farm: Racism, Green Belt Snobs, The UN, Human Right And Vanessa Bloody Redgrave

The residents of Dale Farm will have to leave the country's largest unauthorised traveller site. The travellers had applied for a temporary injunction to stop Basildon Borough Council evicting the families from Dale Farm in Essex from midnight. They failed... More »

31st, August 2011 Sports 5

The Sun's Steve Howard Tries To Kick Arsenal Manager Arsene Wenger And Misses Horribly

In a piece about transfer dealings, the Sun's man sat in front of News Now and Teletext, tells his readers how crap Arsene Wenger is at spotting talent... More »

31st, August 2011 Photojournalism

News In Photos: The George Clooney Tomatina

The News in Photos: what the mainstream media might have missed... More »

31st, August 2011 Celebrities

Alex Reid And Chantelle Houghton Get Infected In The Celebrity Petri Dish

In OK!, the "reality couple" are on an "escape" in Portugal. What they are escaping from is unclear. We'd wager it's chapped thighs, Peter Andre, hoodies and sharks... More »

31st, August 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: The Rat's Tail Doggy Duck Arse

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31st, August 2011 Key Posts 1

Ortis Deley Gets Fired From C4's Athletics Coverage Thanks To This Online Video: World's Worst Sports Presenter

He bumbled and muttered his way through a series of gawdawful links, getting everyone's name wrong and generally being more stilted than a hostage telling a tabloid he's fine... More »

31st, August 2011 Reviews 1

Maybe I'm Watching The Wrong Porn?

There's a crisis in American Porn Land: one of the actors (such an interesting name really, for what they do) has tested positive for HIV so the industry is shut down. Wads are not being shot, paycheques not earned and presumably the strip clubs and escort agencies are getting an influx of staff... More »

31st, August 2011 Strange But True 1

New Mexico Policeman Filmed Having Sex On Car: Chihuahua Looks On

KOB Eyewitness News 4, of New Mexico, has broadcast footage of a State Police officer having sex with a woman on the hood of a car. It is daylight. A chihuahua looks on... More »

31st, August 2011 Gifs

Gifs Of The Day - The Waggling Toe Fails

GIFS of The Day feature: the se-saw saws; the great drop shot; the creepy toe; this is just too funny (4); a car door mishap, the inevitable cat; and train surfing... More »

31st, August 2011 Sports 1

Arsenal Sign Gary Cahill? Phil Gartside's 'F*ck Off' Earns Bolton £8million More

Arsenal offer a rpeorted £6million for Gary Cahill. Bolton Wanderers chairman Phil Gartside tells them to "fuck off"... More »

31st, August 2011 Money

The Banks Really Are To Blame For The Economy

The banks really are to blame for the economy. Although not in quite the manner many seem to think... More »

31st, August 2011 Sports 2

Spurs Sell Peter Crouch For £39m

Peter Crouch is leaving Spurs for... Well, who? And how much?... More »

31st, August 2011 Reviews

The Daily Express' Deadly Heat Wave Is Over: Records Show Cold Summer

Anyone reading the Daily Express may be surprised that the doom and heat never arrived... More »

31st, August 2011 Key Posts

Funny Signs Spotted On Your Foreign Holiday

Can you laugh at foreigners speaking English badly? Well, the ones who don't understand you...yes... More »

31st, August 2011 Celebrities

Jessie Wallace And Vincent Morse Make EastEnders And The Daily Star Seem Almost Real

Jessis Wallace the EastEnders harridan with the pork-pie voice and jellied eel gait is dating Vincent Morse. Well, she was. Yesterday's and today's tabloids wer full of news that the pair had split... More »

31st, August 2011 Celebrities 1

Is Private Peter Andre's 'Secret Love' His Sister Debbie?

With Kerry Katona in the Big Brother house, it's time for OK! to catch up on the life and times of sentimental Peter Andre?... More »

31st, August 2011 Reviews 7

Hull Family Threatened WIth Big Fine If Child Makes Too Much Noise In Garden

Alfie Landsell is so noisy that his mum and dad could be forced to pay a £5,000 fine if he fails to stop. Hull City Council tells Simon and Pippa Lansdell that a complaint has been made about their four-year-old son... More »

31st, August 2011 Money 1

German Prostitutes Buy Sex Tax Discs From Vending Machine

Prostitutes in German brothels already pay taxes so this is attempt to make things fair. You might own your body, but you do not own the tarmac on which you stand... More »

31st, August 2011 TV & Radio

Don't Jump Edward: Kids On Slides Video Of The Day

Edward. Edward. Don't jump, Edward. Edward... More »

30th, August 2011 Reviews

Local News Story Of The Day: Lancashire Couple's Shower Is UK's Oldest?

Tony and Margaret Jackson's Mira 8b shower with a Kelta shower was installed at their Brierfield, Lancashire, bungalow in 1976. It might be the UK's oldest working shower... More »