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1969: Pink Floyd play live at the BBC as Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon
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Man has full back tattoo… of Taggart
WHEN trying to think of the worst or oddest tattoos you’ve ever seen, your mind may make an immediate leap to ill-advised tramp-stamps, dodgy Winnie The Pooh tats that people got when they were 16 or Chinese symbols that are supposed to say ‘life’, but actually say ‘bell-end’.
Well, a chap called John Cuthbert may have topped the lot with a full back tattoo of Jim Taggart, the eponymous character from the Scottish crime drama. Feel free to say ‘it’s murder’ in a Scottish accent to yourself.
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Mick and Mairead Philpott did kill his six children before they went dogging
MICK Philpott, 56, set a fire to his home at 8 Victory Road in Derby. The May 11 2012 fire killed six of his children. He is guilty of manslaughter. He never meant to kill. He meant to frame his former mistress, Lisa Willis. She lived with Philpott and Mairead Philpott, his wife, 32. He would sleep with the women on alternate nights.
Then in the February before the fire, Lisa left. Philpott wanted revenge.
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KFC tells sacked homeless woman to reapply for work when she has a home
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Dad cuts open family dog’s stomach to retrieve son’s finger
Thief snatches bag before KOing himself with a window (video)
THIEVES aren’t funny if they’re stealing from you, but when they’re removed, bungling idiots, then we can all hoot away to our heart’s content because frankly, they deserve it.
And so, to a man in Perth who snatched someone’s handbag in a shopping centre.
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David Miliband used Paolo Di Canio and left Sunderland with the better man
PAOLO Di Canio has caused “outrage” at Sunderland. The Sun says “thousands of furious” Mackems are turning on the club. A Rob Johnson says he is “sickened and ashamed” that Di Canio is the club’s new manager. John Hall, a 92-year-old World War 2 veteran says he would “fight the fascists all over again”.
The Sun’s lead headline, “WAR VETS BOYCOTT ‘FASCIST’ DI CANIO”, is somewhat undone when Mr Hall’s quote is seen in full:
“I’m too old to go to matches but I’d pack it in if I was still going.”
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Posted: 2nd, April 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Sports | Comments (13)
Plebs Beware: WPC Kelly Jones sues 999 caller for not warning her about a kerb
PC Kelly Jones, 33, might be hero. Steve Jones (no relation) sent out the distress signal (he called 999) when the alarm went off at his Nuns’ Bridges Service Station in Thetford, Norfolk. It was midnight when Jones arrived. In the course of the search for villains she tripped and fell on a 6 inch kerb. She hurt her wrist and leg. So. She’s suing Mr Jones. The Mail says she could get £50,000.
Seems fair.
But her boss, Phil Gormley, Chief Constable of Norfolk Police, says:
“This type of claim does not represent the approach and attitude of the overwhelming majority of our staff who understand and accept the risks inherent in policing and which they willingly confront to keep the public they serve safe. It is a disappointment that this is potentially undermined by a private compensation claim.”
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Posted: 1st, April 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Irony overload: Guardian Comment is Free writer calls online journalism consumers ‘looters’
ON the Guardian ‘s Comment Is Free site – oh, the irony – Bob Garfield says people who consume news for free on the web are “looters“.
Those consumers cheerfully using the web to sample content from all over the world via news websites, blogs and aggregators are essentially picking the inventory clean. Oh, and when they get the stuff home, the goods aren’t what they used to be. And some of the stuff has a sour smell to it.
Anyone who cares deeply about quality, independent journalism should pray for paywalls and other subscription models to take hold. Because in the world of the smart and the desperate, desperate always has the last word.
Because news is a commodity? Opinion is only worthwhile opinion if it is paid for and sanctioned by a big brand? So says the man in the Guardian, the paper that loses a fortune, supports State-control of the media, doesn’t pay its interns, wants to colonise the world, is confused about economics, and won an award when the profitable News of The World (Britain’s best-selling newspaper) died.
Now read on. Or don’t.
Posted: 1st, April 2013 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment
Wind farms deliver an Exxon Valdez-sized massacre of birds every year
COMPARE and contrast oil and wind power:
The American Wind Energy Association says 500 birds are killed by wind turbines every day in the USA:
The National Wind Coordinating Collaborative, a collaboration of government officials, conservationists and industry representatives, more accurately estimates, based on actual data collected from over 100 wind farms nationally, the loss to be 200,000 birds annually.
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Jesus at Easter: The NYT says Heaven is not a place on Earth
THE New York Times wants to correct a story on Pope Francis’ Easter:
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: April 1, 2013
An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the Christian holiday of Easter. It is the celebration of Jesus’s resurrection from the dead, not his resurrection into heaven.
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Jason Hackenwerth shows his pisces balloon sculpture at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
JASON Hackenwerth turns latex balloons into works of art. His latest work, Pisces, is on show at the Edinburgh International Science Festival at the National Museum of Scotland. The work is Hackenwerth’s interpretation of the Greek myth of Aphrodite and her son Eros who escape the monster Typhon by transforming into fish.
Now, how’s that ballon dog coming along?
Jason Hackenwerth starts work.
More photos here.
Egypt helps Bassem Youssef ‘establish some guidelines on freedom of expression’
HOW’S that Arab Spring coming along in Egypt? Well:
Egypt’s most popular television satirist, who every week skewers the Islamist president and hard-line clerics on his Jon Stewart-style “Daily Show,” was released on bail Sunday but could face charges of insulting the country’s leader and Islam.
Bassem Youssef is the most prominent critic of President Mohammed Morsi to be called in for questioning in recent weeks, in what the opposition says is a campaign to intimidate critics …
Deputy chief prosecutor Hassan Yassin denied the nearly five-hour interrogation was part of an intimidation campaign and said his department was enforcing the law and seeking to establish some guidelines on freedom of expression.
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British newspapers lead with incredible news – but which is the April Fool?
HOW are the British newspaper marking April Fool’s Day?
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Posted: 1st, April 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Divorce Court: Husband made wife sleep with snake – she urinated on his Church uniform
DIVORCE court Zimbabwe calls Venenciah Chatima and her husband Mutsvodi Makwini. Their petition for separation at a Harare court is worth a look. Makwini is seeking a protection order against her.
The wife:
Venenciah Chatima claims Mutsvodi Makwini is forcing her to have sex with a snake.
“The reason why he is divorcing me is not that I am abusing him as he claims in this court. The real issue here is that I refused to sleep with a snake. What happened was that he came home with a brand new television set and he told me that if I wanted him to bring more things at home I was supposed to have sex with a snake. Even though I refused to sleep with the snake, I have noticed that every morning I will be feeling as if I had slept with someone. As you can see I no longer have my front teeth. I lost them the day he assaulted me because I had entered our bedroom and caught my husband sleeping with his 25-year-old girlfriend on our matrimonial bed.”
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Posted: 1st, April 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
Police scare thieves into surrender by barking like dogs
THE police are barking in New Haven, Connecticut. After a chase, they’ve cornered two men at a residential block in Elm City.
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Posted: 1st, April 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment
The best April Fools jokes of 2013
THE best April Fools Day pranks of 2013:
* YOUTUBE deletes every video , leaving only the winners behind:
I encourage everybody to watch as many videos as possible before YouTube deletes everything tonight.” –Antoine Dodson
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Posted: 1st, April 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Standing trial: Pre-teen Colville Schoolboys ‘plotted to rape and murder’ female classmate
ONE boy aged 10 and his 11-year-old friend are alleged to have plotted to rape and murder a classmate at Fort Colville Elementary School, Washington. The boys made notes. They had formed seven steps to murder. So claims Stevens County Prosecutor Tim Rasmussen.
The boys will stand trial in a Washington state juvenile court.
And that’s unusual. Because juvenile court in that state is usually reserved for people aged 12 and 18. Although, Washington’s court system states:
A juvenile is any individual who is under the chronological age of eighteen years and has not been previously transferred to adult court.
The Washington State rules are clear:
Children under the age of eight years are incapable of committing crime. Children of eight and under twelve years of age are presumed to be incapable of committing crime, but this presumption may be removed by proof that they have sufficient capacity to understand the act or neglect, and to know that it was wrong. Whenever in legal proceedings it becomes necessary to determine the age of a child, he or she may be produced for inspection, to enable the court or jury to determine the age thereby; and the court may also direct his or her examination by one or more physicians, whose opinion shall be competent evidence upon the question of his or her age.
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Posted: 31st, March 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Sign of the day: the bitter husband of Coalville, Leicestershire
SIGN of the day: the message outside a house in Coalville, Leicestershire, is aimed at the owner’s ex-partner.
“WOMAN YOU STRiPPED THIS HOUSE BARE. I PROVED YOU A LiAR iN COURT. YOUR GETTiNG ***K ALL”
So what about those Venetian blinds, then? She can’t have taken it all. And if we had to hazard a guess as yo why she left him, we’d point to that random lower case ‘is” is ‘LiAR” and so on. Annoying, aren’t they…
The Barnsley curfew turns ‘irresponsible’ parenting into a crime
“This just moves the problem elsewhere.Treating every group of young people as criminals is quite wrong. It is a sign police have lost control and does nothing to restore community spirit or respect for the law.”
Nominative determinism: Mr Dick guilty of exposing himself in public
“The first cleaner said she had looked through the window and saw the man. She maintained eye contact for around five seconds before she dropped her mop in shock.”
In the dock stands a man guilty of outraging public decency in a public place. He has admitted to the offence. At first, he claimed to have been applying
cream to a genital wart, which he showed police officers interviewing him. Once before, in May 2005, this man was caught applying cream to a genital wart. A student saw him allegedly applying the unguent as he sat in his car.
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A history of Easter Eggs: dipped in Christian blood and covered in chocolate
EASTER is upon us once again, and Christians are muscling in this year, after the success of their campaign to persuade major supermarkets to sell ‘religious’ eggs that represent the true message of the occasion.
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Posted: 31st, March 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment (1)
Black women and scared whites have much to discuss about mass shootings
HOW much of a factor is race un the US gun debate? The Washington Post trolls the nation with an article entitled:
White men have much to discuss about mass shootings
Charlotte Childress and Harriet Childress write:
Imagine if African American men and boys were committing mass shootings month after month, year after year. Articles and interviews would flood the media, and we’d have political debates demanding that African Americans be “held accountable.” Then, if an atrocity such as the Newtown, Conn., shootings took place and African American male leaders held a news conference to offer solutions, their credibility would be questionable. The public would tell these leaders that they need to focus on problems in their own culture and communities.
But when the criminals and leaders are white men, race and gender become the elephant in the room.
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I was Jesus Christ: The world’s 18 best Good Friday Crucifixions
ON Good Friday, we ask ourselves what Jesus looked like? All around the world Christians dress up as Jesus Christ to play his role in the Crucifixion:
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Suspected armed robber collapses at Oxford jewellery store
THE armed robbery on Oxford’s John Gowing jewellery store could have gone better. The two robbers at the Covered Market shop on a motorbike. They smashed their way inside. And then it went wrong. One of the alleged robbers collapsed on the floor with a suspected heart attack. The other man fled, leaving behind the motorbike.
After a period of emergency paramedics CPR on the patient, the middle-aged man is rushed to the John Radcliffe Hospital.
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