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23rd, August 2011 Key Posts 11

The Greatest Football Dives Ever: Gifs To Entertain

Football is a non-contact sport, akin to American TV wrestling. We've compiled a selection of wonderful Gifs to prove the point... More »

22nd, August 2011 Key Posts

Colonel Mad Dog Gaddafi: A Life In Nutty Quotes

It's not the way Colonel Gaddafi says it - it's what he says: More »

22nd, August 2011 TV & Radio

Photos Of Kitty Brucknell As Britney Spears And Lady GaGa: X Factor Victim Number 1

rucknell is the X Factor's stand-out wannabe. You might have seen her on Come Dine With Me or read about her life as Britney Spears impersonator in Now! magazine... More »

22nd, August 2011 Key Posts 6

Daily Mirror Says Isle Of Wight Is Peado Island - And A Great Place To Holiday

The Daily Mirror says that Isle of Wight has been dubbed “Paedo Island”. It wants you to go there... More »

22nd, August 2011 Sports

Michael Obi Free: Chelsea Player's Father No Longer Kidnapped

Obi Senior told the BBC that he had been kidnapped in Jos before being transferred to Kano... More »

22nd, August 2011 Reviews

Life Inside The Rixos Spa: Journalist Trapped Inside Tripoli's Living Hotel (Photos)

Journalists are trapped in the Rixos hotel in Tripoli, Libya. Want to look around and see what war reporting can be like? Course you do... More »

22nd, August 2011 Key Posts

The Battle For Tripoli In Photos: Gaddafi And al-Megrahi Prepare To Talk Or Die In Libya

Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi is in his house - the big new one Gaddafi gave the man who was jailed for the biggest act of mass murder on British soil. He killed 270 people in the Lockerbie bombing. He might now be wishing he was back in a Scottish prison... More »

22nd, August 2011 Key Posts 2

Racist Nivea Presents The Most Racist Adverts Ever

The clean-cut black man is holding the severed head of what is either his old self or else one of his tribe who refused to yield to civilisation and kept his hair natural... More »

22nd, August 2011 The Consumer

Ad Break: Because Pear Drop Pop Makes You Burp In Your Lover's Face

Because burps that small of fake pear are sexy... More »

22nd, August 2011 Money

Why Spain Is Going To Go Bust

We'd all prefer that Spain doesn't go bust. That the euro survives in some form or other, that we don't get the cataclysm of an entire continent seeing its monetary and banking system swirling round the U-bend. But that's probably not the way it's going to turn out... More »

22nd, August 2011 Sports 1

Harry Redknapp Praises Luka Modric - The Best Unfit Pro At Spurs

Redknapp, the Tottenham Hotspurs manager, will now explain what a top bloke and better professional Luca Modric is - you know, the Croatian lad who will never leave Spurs (until the final moments of the transfer window when his value has been talked op to castrato levels?)... More »

22nd, August 2011 Politicians

Joe Biden Takes His Granddaughter To Feed The Ducks In Mongolia: Photos

Biden, the Deputy leader of the US Barack Obama uses for entertainment purposes, is in Mongolia... More »

22nd, August 2011 Sports 3

Roberto Mancine Gets Tough With Arsenal Over Nasri By Giving Them What They Want

The sale of Arsenal's Samir Nasri to Manchester City has reached High Noon. Well, not really - D-Day (surely Crunch Time? - ed) is a little way off... More »

22nd, August 2011 TV & Radio

Darryn Lyons Fake Stomach Photos: The Abs-olutely Tragic

Any more of this and Darryn will be giving the paparazzi a bad name... More »

22nd, August 2011 Strange But True

Three Public Bodies Erect And Remove A Sign For Polish And Spanish Drivers In Worcestershire

To Worcestershire, where Network Rail is carrying out work on a level crossing in Blackminster. Worcestershire County Council wants it to provide notice of the diversion in Spanish, Polish and English... More »

22nd, August 2011 Celebrities

Did Trying To Stop The X Factor Trigger The London Riots?

The Diesel store in Manchester is using the riots to some degree of good. Others were not so amusing and used the riots to promote themselves... More »

22nd, August 2011 Key Posts 1

Ian Redmond Was Killed By A Bull Shark, A Tiger Shark And The Moon: All The Tabloids Facts

When Ian Redmond was killed by a shark in the Seychelles the Sun said he had been "eaten". He wasn't. The paper then told us that the shark was a bull shark, of a type that had inspired the film Jaws. Now the Sun tells us that the shark was "thought to be a Great White"... More »

22nd, August 2011 Reviews

Sun Wants Ursula Nevin To Be The Face Of The Salford Riots: Fails Horribly

"A greedy mum who nabbed designer gear looted in the riots won £100,000 on bingo at the age of 19 - and blew the lot within four months." Greedy? A pair of shorts? And she didn't nab them... More »

22nd, August 2011 Strange But True

Dallas Hospital Patient Says Medics Stitched GPS Tracking Device Into His Armpit: Sues

Michael Woolman says that medics at Dallas' Baylor Medical Center removed his tonsils, cleaned his sinuses and stuffed a tracking device in his armpit. He wants justice.... More »

22nd, August 2011 Reviews

Reasons For The UK Riots: Janet Daly Presents Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"There is no national debate about the epidemic of riots and looting that spread through our cities like a bush fire..." More »

22nd, August 2011 Photojournalism 1

Fail Photos: The World's Compass Tattoo With Added Pooh

FAIL Photos of the Day are presented by: The Pooh and Tigger inappropriate toy; the compass tattoo that heads West; biscuits made of human flesh and... More »

22nd, August 2011 In Pictures

Car Crashes - Photos Of Weird Ones

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22nd, August 2011 TV & Radio

World's Got Talent: Timmy Mallett's Angolan Dwarf Does The Kim Jong-Il Dance

World's Got Talent heads to Angola, where Timmy Mallet is dressed as Kim Jong-il for a cutting-edge puppet show... More »

22nd, August 2011 Strange But True

Freddy Nock Auditions For Sound Of Music Sequel By Walking Up Cable Car Rope

Freddy Nock is shoo-in for the role of Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music 2 - 3D Smack Down. Knock is the Swiss stuntman who has passed an afternoon walking up a cable car rope in Germany... More »

22nd, August 2011 In Pictures

V Festival 2011 Photos: Rihanna Stars And Bras

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