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HOMO: Gay Bashing Vladimir Putin’s OMOH Police Do It In Mirrors
Russian OMON riot police officers detain British human rights activist Peter Tatchell as gay rights activists try to hold a demonstration in downtown Moscow Sunday, May 27, 2007. Russian police detained gay rights activists, including at least two European lawmakers, as they tried to hold a demonstration in downtown Moscow on Sunday while conservatives punched the activists and pelted them with eggs. The demonstrators, appearing to number less than 100, tried to present a letter signed by some 40 European lawmakers to the office of Moscow’s mayor, appealing the city’s ban on a march they wanted to conduct. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
SO. Vladimir Putin says gays are likes paedos. In other news, Putin’s riot police, the OMOH, let us in on their little secret:
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Flashback To Mach 11 1977: Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten Gives The Double V-Sign After He’s Fined For Drugs
FLASHBACK to 11/03/1977: Johnny Rotten, lead singer with the Sex Pistols, giving a double V-sign to journalists after he had been fined £40 on a drugs charge (speed, since you ask) at Marlborough Street Magistrates Court, London.
Posted: 17th, January 2014 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment
Mikaael Kular: The Exciting Possibility of A Crime
MIKAEEL Kular is missing. He’s three. His mother, Rosdeep Kular, him last at 9pm on Wednesday, at his home in Ferry Gait Crescent, Edinburgh. That was when she put him to bed. He lives there with his four siblings. He noticed he was missing at 7:15am.
His coat gloves and shoes were also gone.
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Posted: 17th, January 2014 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Edinburgh Whale Ends Up In City’s Landfill Dum – Photos
THIS week a sperm whale washed up on Portobello beach in Edinburgh. Want to see what happened to the whales that too too close to a boat? They didn’t blow it up. No cars were crushed by falling whale meat. They did not eat it or heat homes with it. Scottish Marine Animal Strandings Scheme took it to the landfill:
Flashback To June 1, 1932: Alcohol Prohibition Research Committee Seek An Honest Man In New York
FLASHBACK to June 1, 1932: Five members of the Alcohol Prohibition Research Committee depart on the bus Diogenes, named after the man who sought in vain for an honest man, in New York City. The membership is seeking one drunk who has been reformed by the 18th amendment in their campaign against the liquor ban. From left are, Stephen Duggan Jr., assistant investigator; Russell Salmon, chief investigator; Ernest Boorland Jr., member of the executive committee; Robert Nicholson, assistant director; and Paul Morris, director.
The failed Prohibition experiment ended on December 5, 1933,
Posted: 17th, January 2014 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Children In Restaurants: Manager Orders Child To Remove Squeaky Shoes
CHILDREN in Restaurants Watch – Part 2: The Squeaky Shoes.
“They want to help children with disabilities and this was just something that happened in their cafe and they are not proud of it,” says Catherine Duke.
Last week, an assistant manager at a Savannah Panera Bread, told Duke’s 2-year-old daughter to remove her shoes. A customer had complained they were squeaking “too much”. “We weren’t welcome with the shoes. It was very blatant,” adds Duke. “Emma has an undiagnosed developmental disorder that prevented her from walking until she was 23-months-old. These are special shoes. They squeak when she walks properly.”
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Posted: 17th, January 2014 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
Dispatches From The 70s: Women’s Lib Akin To An Irritating Rash
Bra Burning Party
IT is a common misconception that the 1970s were this wildly liberal time where every tradition was fair game. Sure, there were a lot of ‘progressive’ philosophies that entered Main Street which had heretofore been relegated to liberal back alleys. However, with each New Idea came the predictable resistance. Nothing epitomizes this better than the Women’s Lib movement which gained traction in the late sixties and became a buzz word for the ensuing decade.
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Posted: 17th, January 2014 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Face of the Day: World Scotch Pie Winner Stephen McAllister
FACE of the Day: World Scotch Pie winner Stephen McAllister, from Kandy Bar bakers in Saltcoats, celebrates after being presented with his prize at The Scotch Pie Awards at Carnegie conference centre in Dunfermline.
Posted: 16th, January 2014 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
In 1980 Lee Scratch Perry Tried To Bust Paul McCartney From A Japanese Jail With This Letter
One time producer for reggae legend, Bob Marley, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, performing his own style of dub reggae, which was mixed by the ‘Mad Professor’, at POD on St. Patrick’s Day, in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
ON January 16th of 1980, Paul McCartney was busted for weed. Japanese customs officials at Narita International Airport found 7.7 ounces of cannabis in the former Beatle’s singer’s bags. For his pains – he’d been travelling with his four children and wife, Linda – Macca scored 10-days stay in a Tokyo prison. The Japan leg of the Wings tour was cancelled.
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Posted: 16th, January 2014 | In: Celebrities, Flashback, Key Posts | Comments (3)
American Apparel Window Mannequins Now Donning Dark Hairy Bush
photo by Jen Chung/Gothamist
LADY mannequins inside the American Apparel store window displays on East Houston Street in New York City are now sporting full bush, Gothamist reports. Under the flimsy, translucent undergarments of each of the bespectacled female dummies sprouts a dark hairy merkin. There’s no doubt that the controversial exhibit will stop pedestrians in their tracks, and really isn’t that what founder Dov Charney and his team really want?
Insert snarky comment here.
Posted: 16th, January 2014 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comments (8)
Flashback: Exiled Egyptian King Farouk Shows Off His Curves At Gracie Fields’ Restaurant In Capri
FLASHBACK to August 5, 1953: Exiled Egyptian King Farouk strolls in the sun by the swimming pool at singer Gracie Fields’ restaurant, Canzone del Mare, on the Isle of Capri, Italy. King Farouk and his family spent time as guests of the British star. With Farouk is his wife, Queen Narriman, their young son, the new King Ahmed Faud II, and three daughters of Farouk from a previous marriage. (AP Photo)
Posted: 16th, January 2014 | In: Flashback, Royal Family | Comment (1)
ECG Data Suggests Did Michael Collins Died On Apollo 11 Mission?
YOU are looking at NASA’s picture of the “Typical ECG signal received during the Apollo 11 mission”:
Neil Armstrong was excited, but Michael Collins was…dead?
Spotter: NASA
Posted: 16th, January 2014 | In: Flashback, Technology | Comments (3)
Early Flying Car Soars Above Rome (1947)
IN 1947, a flying car –a propellor-driven automobile that flies– took its first test in Rome, Italy. While cruising down the road, the vehicle’s wings stay folded and when its ready to soar, the “driver/pilot” stops and unfolds them. This newsreel by British Pathé, titled “The Flying Car”, shows this two-passenger hybrid vehicle in action, both on land and in the sky.
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Posted: 15th, January 2014 | In: Flashback, Technology | Comment
Thieves Smash Sigmund Freud’s Urn In An Attempted Burglary
THE Greek urn holding the ashes of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, and his wife Martha, was “severely damaged” by thieves who tried to steal it from its home at from Golders Green Crematorium in London. The incident occurred sometime between between New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. A search to find who is behind the crime is underway and detective constable Daniel Candler of the Metropolitan Police says, “This was a despicable act by a callous thief.”
(Maybe they went to grab it and it slipped. You know, a Freudian slip… – ed ).
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The Vexed Question Of Children In Restaurants
Young Taiwanese children sit on western style toilets as they enjoy ice-cream served in a miniature Asian squat toilets at Marton, Taiwan’s most recent hit theme restaurant, (named after the Chinese word Matong, meaning toilet), Sunday, May 29, 2005, in Taiwan’s southern port city of Khaohsiung. The restaurant’s toilet theme has become so popular serving light meals and ice-cream treats in western and Asian style toilets, the owner Eric Wang, 26, has opened a second branch just seven months after the first. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
MY response to this appalling worry of modern life is that I’m just fine with children in restaurants although I will admit to preferring them boiled rather than fried. This isn’t quite how a Guardian writer called Ben Pobji sees things of course: he is insisting that he should be able to inflict his snotnoses on you:
Fine, say the kiddie-banners. Then hire a babysitter. Go out without the kids. Excellent. But guess what? Sometimes you can’t get a babysitter. Sometimes life happens and you’re stuck holding the nappies. But more than this – sometimes, believe it or not, we want to take our children to a nice restaurant. We all know that in general parenthood is a lifelong struggle to avoid spending time with the kids, but every now and then, incredibly, mum and dad might enjoy their children’s company and would rather have them around than dump them and run.
And perhaps most importantly, if you don’t allow kids in restaurants because of how they behave, what you’re doing is raising a whole bunch of kids who’ll never know how to behave in restaurants. I consider taking my kids out to eat an educational moment: teaching them while they gorge.
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Did Somebody Drop His Mouse? Harry Nilsson And The Pensioners Sing ‘I’d Rather Be Dead Than Wet My Bed’
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Posted: 15th, January 2014 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Music | Comment
The Elephant Man: Blondie And David Bowie At New York’s Booth Theater In 1980
FLASHBACK photo: Deborah Harry of the rock band Blondie visits David Bowie backstage at the Booth Theater where he is starring in The Elephant Man, Nov. 1980. (AP Photo/Nancy Kaye)
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Posted: 15th, January 2014 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment
Was Kruger Wrong To Kill Elephant That Charged Tourist Car? Video
WAS it right the elephant was killed at the Kruger National Park?
Sarah Brooks, a teacher at Gleed Girls Technology College in Spalding, and her South African boyfriend Jans De Klerk were filming a bull elephant “when suddenly it charged, overturned the vehicle three times and shunted it 40 metres into the bush”. So reports the Lincolnshire Echo. Brooks was hurt Brooks; Mr De Klerk was unharmed.
But was the attack inevitable? Was it sudden?
Footage of the incident has emerged.
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Posted: 15th, January 2014 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
15 Curious and Intriguing Beatles Covers
THE FAB FOUR had barely left Ed Sullivan’s stage before their songs were being covered like mad across the entire planet. You’d be hard pressed to find a single artist from the mid-sixties to mid-seventies who didn’t have at least one cover in their repertoire. Then royalty rates went up, and it naturally became harder to include a Lennon/McCartney track on an album…. and finally, in July 1978, The Bee Gees famously ruined the idea altogether.
Herein are fifteen from the Golden Age of Beatles Covers – when everyone from Deep Purple to Peter Sellers had a Beatles song to make their own. Enjoy.
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Posted: 15th, January 2014 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Music | Comment
Kenya’s Gay Hatred Is Rooted In A Global Evangelical Movement
Riot police stop Orthodox protesters who are trying to interupt Ukraine’s first gay pride demonstration in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, May 25, 2013. About a hundred gay and lesbian Ukrainians and those from other countries took part in the gay pride rally, protected by hundreds of riot police. Antipathy toward homosexuals remains strong in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)
IN Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan has put his signature to the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act. Among a range of anti-gay laws, homosexuals can be jailed for ten-years for displaying affection in public. Helping homosexuals avoid detection is also a crime.
It’s getting to be like Eastern Europe and some people’s visions of a better USA in sub-Saharan Africa. The links between the bigotry in Africa and what’s happening in parts of Europe and the UK has links to US missionaries.
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Posted: 15th, January 2014 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Faces Of The Day: Isabella Sorley, 23, From Newcastle, and John Nimmo, 25, From South Shields
FACES of The DAY: There be trolls, allegedly. Be afraid:
John Nimmo, 25, from South Shields, arriving at Westminster Magistrates Court, London, where he and Isabella Sorley, are to appear in court charged with improper use of a communications network in relation to tweets to campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez.
Picture date: Tuesday January 7, 2014. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced last month that both had been charged under Section 127 of the Communications Act. However it would not be in the public interest to prosecute over messages allegedly sent to MP Stella Creasy.
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Google To Team Up With RyanAir On A Flight Comparison Site
THIS is a bit of a surprise really, given RyanAir’s long standing policy on being listed upon any of the flight comparison sites like Skyscanner. That they’re going to team up with Google in order to build a site that will be incorporated into the Google home pages and search index:
There are some very exciting developments with Google, where we have been working with them on sharing the pricing.
We’ll be sharing the Ryanair pricing through all of the Google outlets, so when you go in, there’ll be route selections, cheapest prices and so on. Google are developing a price-comparison thing themselves.
They want to launch with us and we’re working with them on that kind of product. It’ll blow comparison sites like Skyscanner out of the water.
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Posted: 14th, January 2014 | In: Money, Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
