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Christmas Row Watch: Liverpool Lovers Racially Abuse Perth Police In Tinsel Fight
Man Alive: Kentucky Man Runs About Bingo Hall With His Trousers Down
Lost Sesame Street: Take Me For A Ride To See Crack Monkey On Your Crack Camel
IN this Sesame Street show, you take a ride on the Crack Camel:
Posted: 29th, December 2013 | In: Flashback, TV & Radio | Comment
Library Rules of The Insane Asylum of California (1861)
THESE are the Library Rules of the Insane Asylum of California (1861):
1. The Library of the male department shall be under the charge of the Supervisor. Every volume taken therefrom shall be charged to the borrower, except for the use of the patients, when it shall be charged to the Attendant, into whose ward it is taken, who will be responsible for its being used with ordinary care and returned in proper time.
2. If a volume shall be lost or destroyed, by any patient, the Attendant, having charge of the patient, will report the fact to the Supervisor, and, if practicable, exhibit the fragments. If lost or destroyed, by any other person, it must be replaced.
3. No one will be permitted to take from the library more than one volume at a time, or to keep a volume more than two weeks, without permission from the Superintendent or Assistant Physician, except Bibles, Testaments and Prayer books placed in the hands of the patients for daily reading.
4. The Supervisor will be responsible for books taken from the library and not charged.
5. The Library of the female department will be under the charge of the Matron, who, in its management, will be governed by the above rules, prescribing the duties and responsibilities of the Supervisor.
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Posted: 29th, December 2013 | In: Books, Flashback | Comment
All Fox Hunters Are Scum – Well, Anyone Rural, Traditional And Conservative Has To Be
The Avon Vale hunt makes its way to the Village of Laycock, Wiltshire on the traditional Boxing Day meet.
ARE hunters scum? Is their desire to dress in tights and cropped jackets (for him) and hunt foxes offending you? Or is your problem with hunters, that they embody all the things you aren’t allowed to like, things labelled “rural”, “traditional”, “local” and “conservative”? Is that why you want these ninnies banned, because you despise what it is you think they stand for? Are these people who bay for blood and treat animals like, well, animals, a bit reckless, untamed and savage?
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Pussy Riot Will Not Be Appearing At The Sochi Olympics
PUSSY Riot are free. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina have been granted amnesty, two months short of their scheduled release after spending nearly two years in prison for their protest at Moscow’s main cathedral.
They used their first press conference to state their sim to “get rid” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. They said their release was just “window dressing” for a corrupt regime.
There’s was a confrontation between repression and freedom. Di freedom win? No. It’s unlikely Pussy Riot will be performing at the Sochi Olympics.
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Princeton Student Kiki Lin Screws Her Eponymous Cat Into A Jar
THE Mary Bale Fan Club welcomes Taiwanese-born Princeton student Kiki Lin who stuffed her cat – also called Kiki Lin – into a jar before closing the lid. This was not a magic trick. This was not an existential experiment, nor one in the eye for Erwin Schrödinger. This was punishment for the cat’s alleged naughtiness.
Lin then took photos of her cat in the jar and posted them on the web.
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Posted: 28th, December 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Christmas Row Watch: Stabbed By A Squirrel And Other Seasonal Family Fights
HOW was your Christmas? Did the family come over for turkey and all the trimmings? Did you play Monopoly?Incredibly, not all families get along at Christmas:
North Charleston police arrested Helen Ann Williams, 44, early on Christmas morning. Her victim says he’d walked to a store earlier in the night to buy beer, but the store was closed.
Williams grew angry that the man returned without the beer. She grabbed a ceramic squirrel and hit the man over the head… Williams then stabbed him in the shoulder and chest with the item.
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Posted: 28th, December 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Madeleine McCann: Bungling ‘Cops’, The Suspect Who Wasn’t And The Maddie Advent Calendar
THE Daily Mirror interrupts your holiday season to bring news of ‘Our Maddie’:
EXCLUSIVE – Madeleine McCann cops’ prime suspect blunder
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Posted: 27th, December 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment
In 1994 Tom Tomorrow Predicted The NSA Would Spy On All Of Us
IN 1994, Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, foresaw the NSA and the American elite’s plan to watch us all and record our movements on tapes in his work for Spin magazine.
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Posted: 27th, December 2013 | In: Flashback, Reviews, Technology | Comment
Lydia Estes Pinkham Wanted To Cure ‘Hysterical Women’ Of Their Menstrual Weaknesses
LYDIA Estes Pinkham made “women’s tonic” to relieve menstrual and menopausal pains.
In 1875, Lydia Estes Pinkham reaction to straightened times by creating tonics for “all those painful Complaints and Weaknesses so common to our best female population”.
The original recipe for Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is as follows:
Unicorn Root (Aletris farinosa L.) 8 oz.
Life Root (Senecio aureus L.) 6 oz.
Black Cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa (L.) Nutt.) 6oz.
Pleurisy Root (Asclepias tuberosa L.) 6 oz.
Fenugreek Seed (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) 12 oz.
Alcohol (18%) to make 100 pints
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Posted: 27th, December 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
The Celebrity Party Tricks Hall of Fame
IN Huddersfield in 1977, the Sex Pistols held a Christmas party for the children of striking firefighters.
A documentary about this party and the extraordinary times in which it occurred, when the band were hounded from pillar to post and banned in most towns, will be shown on BBC 4 at 10pm on Boxing Day (and subsequently on the iPlayer).
By rock’n’roll standards the party was tame, but Johnny Rotten’s antics – including diving face first into the cake – deserve a modest place in the Celebrity Party Tricks Hall of Fame.
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Posted: 27th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback, Key Posts | Comment
The Tao of David Coleman
The Tao of David Coleman
He was born at Alderley Edge, the place now famous as the luxury location of choice for the gated homes of multi-millionaire footballers. But Coleman is a man synonymous with the blurred black-and-white ‘soccer’ of a more simple, if not innocent era.
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Posted: 25th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback, Key Posts, Sports, TV & Radio | Comment
Aberdeen Chippies Spoil Customers With Battered Ferrero Rocher
AS BigB0bbyT puts it: “Aberdeen chippies are really spoiling us.”
Will the ambassador to a new independent Scotland go native? Is the battered Ferrero Rocher real…
Church of England Supports Marks & Spencer Sharia Checkouts But Not Christians Refusing To Serve Halal
THERE has been something of a furore over Marks & Spencer’s announcement that henceforth Muslim staff on their checkouts will be permitted to decline to serve M&S customers who purchase alcohol or pork, writes Cranmer. That is to say, M&S customers will either be asked to queue at a checkout where the employee does not object to serving kuffar (however much longer the queue), or they will have to wait while M&S find a member of staff who is prepared to serve you.
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Posted: 24th, December 2013 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comments (7)
Jesus X: Why Xmas Is A Venerable Abbreviation For Christmas
CHRISTMAS or Xmas?
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Posted: 24th, December 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comments (2)
1959 Louis Bleriot Race: Lt Commander W.G Boaks Sets Off From Marble Arch By Rollerskates
FLASHBACK to July 13, 1959:
Lt Commander W.G Boaks setting off from Marble Arch by roller skates, in a race to mark the 50th anniversary of Louis Bleriot’s cross channel flight, using any kind of transport.
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Nigella Lawson Trial: How Courtroom Artists Show Her Inner And Outer Turmoil
NIGELLA Lawson v her now former personal assistants Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo was pretty entertaining for anyone not directly involved in the matter. Nigella did enjoy being pulled apart in court with no right of reply; and the sisters look too stressed to morph their new-found fame into a stint in the celebrity jungle.
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Posted: 24th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Life, Humanity And Capitalism Take On David Suzuki’s Mighty Ego
DAVID Suzuki has a plan. He aims to “design a vision of Earth in which humans live within the planet’s productive capacity.”
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5 Small Ways Christmas Has Improved
IT’S inarguable that Christmas has snowballed into a giant hulking materialistic bezerker over the past few decades. However, it wasn’t all poinsettias and candy canes back in the day either. I’d like to highlight just a few things that are perhaps better nowadays…
1. No More Christmas Tree Flocking
If you have a vacuum cleaner attachment specifically for purposes of flocking, there’s a very good chance you’ve taken holiday tackiness to new heights.
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Posted: 23rd, December 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
Nathan Rao’s Killer Christmas: Daily Express Weather Man Predicts 100 Days of Death
ON October 12 2013, the Daily Express told us to expect the “WORST WINTER FOR DECADES“:
Worst winter for decades: Record-breaking snow predicted for November
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Posted: 22nd, December 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
The Most Stupid And Violent Reactions To Justine Sacco’s AIDS Tweet
Posted: 21st, December 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (11)
Welling, Kent’s Anjem Choudary Helps The BBC Sell The War On Terror
THE grandstanding and patently envious Muslim Council of Britain says the BBC was wrong to give Welling, Kent’s Anjem Choudary a spot on the BBC Radio 4’s Today. This, they said, gave the idiotic preacher “the oxygen of publicity”. The BBC has a big commitment to multicultural diversity, so if it wants to show a laughable Islamist benefits mullah speaking for the Islamist Benefits Mullah community, then so be it. So long as they give equal airtime to Nazi Benefit Vicars, all’s fair.
You could also argue – and we’d suggest successfully – that getting Mr Choudray and his bearded loons on the telly to tell us that the infidel must die is pretty much the best way of getting the great unwashed to believe in the War on Terror. Don’t restrict him to a segment on the Today show; let him present the thing.
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