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1948 test: How Masculine or Feminine Are You?
IN 1948, the sexually confused could take Psychoquiz to determine how masculine or feminine they were. Is your favourite movie star a guy or a girl? Do your enjoy reading The Winning Of The War in Europe & The Pacific or a still more romantic tome? Crabbing or dancing? Do you make slip covers or repair chairs? Flowers or vegetables? Plaid or flowery patterns? Do you take quizzes in magazine to check on your hormones?
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Posted: 16th, March 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment
Operation Weeting: Murdoch’s Times focuses on Tina Weever but ignores Rebekah Brooks
TINA Weaver, 47, is the former Sunday Mirror editor arrested at her London home in the early hours as part of Operation Weeting, the police’s investigation into phone hacking. Weaver is a member of the Press Complaints Commission. Weaver is pregnant.
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Devon abolishes the apostrophe – sticklers for good English take their markers
MID-Devon District Council has abolished the apostrophe from all new street names. This will “avoid potential confusion”. It does not say who might be confused.
Tiverton’s Beck’s Square and Blundell’s Avenue, and Cullompton’s St George’s Well were “all named many, many years ago”, and can retain their apostrophes. But new street names will not feature the grammar.
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Posted: 16th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Mr Carron’s Falling Cone for Victorian daredevils
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Posted: 15th, March 2013 | In: Flashback, Technology | Comment
Should Eric Joyce MP blame his violence on his Army past?
MAKE the link between two of today’s news stories:
…men who have served in the armed forces are three times more likely to have been convicted of violent offences than their civilian peers, according to a study published on Friday.
The report in the Lancet, the first to marry the experiences of almost 14,000 military personnel with details on the Police National Computer, also shows how troops who have been in combat are more likely to be involved in violent offending back in the UK.
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Posted: 15th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
The gigantic foam Cosplay Titan sword with lights demands ‘fear and respect’
THE best thing about this gigantic Cosplay Titan Sword – it’s a 5-foot long foam sword with built-in blue LEDs – is that it “splits into two pieces for easy transport”.
Why? Where do you take a 5ft long foam sword with LED lights built in? To a health a safety expo in Iraq?
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Red Nose Day: English more tightfisted than Scottish, despite stereotype
YOU’VE heard the jokes about Scottish people being tight fisted. However, ‘throwing his money around like a Scotsman with no arms’ doesn’t hold any water when you discover that it is in fact the English who are tightwads.
On this Red Nose Day – the day where comedy raises money for good causes, yet weirdly, acts as the single most depressing day in the calendar – a study of British philanthropy found that the Scottish are much more generous than the folk south of the border.
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Madeleine McCann: six or eight British cleaners in a ‘mysterious’ white van
MADELEINE McCCAN: Police are ‘hunting’ for 6 British cleaners. The Sun leads with :
“Maddie: hunt for 6 Brit cleaners”
These cleaners were working in Portugal around the time the child vanished. And, erm, that’s pretty much it.
Although, these six cleaners could be as many as eight.
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Posted: 15th, March 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (4)
I was Pope Francis’s 12-year-old lover (says Vera Duckworth look-alike)
POPE Francis fancied 12-year-old Amalia Damonte.
No, no! Well, before he became Pope at a sprightly 76 years young, the 120 year-old Master Jorge had a thing for Damonte, 76. No! She’s wasn’t 76 , then. She’s 76 now.
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Posted: 15th, March 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Marge Simpson becomes speaker for Islamic Education at UCL
THIS image is taken from the website of Islamic Education and Research Academy. It is good to see Marge Simpson and her daughter Lisa getting on with their lives since the artist who did their features quit:
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Twin prostitutes Louise and Martine Fokkens retire at 70: The Ladies of Amsterdam
HOW do you defy ageism and sexism? Well, you can try working as a prostitute in Amsterdam. Louise and Martine Fokkens, 70, have been lying down on the job for 50 years. And, yes, the Fokkens are sisters (who both look like Brian Connolly, lead singer of 1970s glam rock outfit The Sweet.)
The Fokkens (I cannot tire of saying it) might be victims of nominative determinism, but their fate has serviced, by their estimated, 355,000 men.
Louise (mum to four) says some sexual positions make work “too painful”. Martine (mum to three) is running out of customers. She has her regular – the man who stocks up for his weekly sado-maschism session – but soon he’ll realise you can get that treatment on the NHS for free and leave her.
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In photos: the Royal Marines Commando cold weather warfare camp, Norway (with epic Northern Lights show)
WITH the Royal Marines Commando Reservists to their training base in Norway. Exercise Hairspring 2013 focuses on cold weather survival and warfare training for Royal Marines Commando Reservists in the mountains range near to Porsanger Garrison near Lakselv, Norway.
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Fox News celebrates Women History Month with creep shots of their boobs (video)
FOX are, as we all know, completely mental and this week, they’ve outdone themselves while covering Women’s History Month.
Fox CT was reporting on a march in Connecticut, and what did they show while the report chirruped away? Super creepy close-up shots of women’s boobs. And these shots lasted for the entire duration of the segment. RIGHT ON WIMMIN!
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Posted: 14th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Operation Yewtree has turned the Met into vigilantes and all adults into suspects
SLOW news day? Worried that the plebs are getting restless? Then tell them things are okay because there are going to be lots more “significant” arrests in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. These arrests will be in the “next few weeks”. Stay tuned, folks.
Nazir Afzal, chief crown prosecutor for north-west England, says child sex abuse was “more widespread than we ever imagined”.
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Posted: 14th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Pope Francis is Jack Duckworth (photo proof)
POPE Francis looks like… Well, some say he looks bit like Jim Bowen, the super/smashing/great host of TV’s Bullseye. He does. A bit. But , then, a reader shows us that Pope Francis is none other than Jack Duckworth, the Coronation Street stalwart who shuffled off this mortal coil to be with his Vera. Gerra load of those bins.
Pope Jack
Pope Jim
Schoolchildren forced to strip before exams
TO prevent cheating, school officials in Sagore, central India, were ordered to strip to their underwear. Those boys not wearing vests (you can always trust a lad in a vest tucked smartly into his knickers) had to sit their exams bare chested.
Female students being tested at the same venue were allowed to reamin fully clothed.
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Alice Spring’s last prostitute leaves town
TRACEY Randall, owner of the Minni Maid brothel – the only brothel in town – is packing up her bags and leaving Alice Springs. For Randall the “last straw” was when thieves stole a bag of vibrators, a strap-on phallus and condoms from her car.
Randall was with a client at the – get this – White Gum Motel when the robbers struck. She says:
“I’ve had enough of the violence and the crime in town and there’s nothing done about it. There’s one law for one and one law for others. People aren’t socialising anymore. They’re not leaving their homes because they come home and find their house violated.”
Randall, 48, says she will move to WA or Queensland and drive a truck.
“They’re crying out for female drivers. They feel females are easier on the vehicles.”
Although that depends which seat they’re in…
Pope Francis says the Falkland Islands belong to Argentina: Vatican Army muster against British?
THE Falkland Islanders might have opted to remain a outcrop of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in a referendum, but God’s representative on Earth, Pope Francis, formerly Cardinal Bergogli, says Las Malvinas belong to Argentina.
He says his countrymen who died in the Falklands conflict 30 years ago “shed their blood on Argentine soil”.
He says:
“We come to pray for all who have fallen, sons of the homeland who went out to defend their mother, the homeland, and to reclaim what is theirs, that is of the homeland, and it was usurped.”
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Posted: 14th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)
Pope Francis: Why was killer priest Christian Von Wernich allowed to celebrate Mass in prison?
CARDINAL Bergoglio has been made Pope Francis. The NYTimes rakes over the coals of his time in Argentina. Christian Von Wernich was a police chaplain in that country. In 2007, the priest was convicted for part in seven murders, 42 abductions and 31 cases of torture during the 1976-83 “Dirty War”. People confided in Wernich. And he told all to the police.
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10 incredible facts about Pope Francis
TEN things you never knew about Pope Francis, as reported on every media outlet in the world:
He’s never been arrested for drink driving in Essex
He’s Catholic
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Posted: 13th, March 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)
In photos: election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis
THE New Pope is called Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He is from Argentina. He is now called Pope Francis. He is also the Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of Vatican City, Servant of the Servants of God. It’s a 10 for one deal.
He’s 76.
And he’s in it for the long haul.
A faithful touches a figure of Jesus Christ after attending a Mass inside the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, Wednesday evening, in Vatican City, meaning 115 cardinals in a papal conclave elected a new leader for the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
Members of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit pray inside the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, center, announces the newly elected pope from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio has been elected pope, the first pontiff from Americas. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinals attend a Mass for the election of a new pope celebrated by Cardinal Angelo Sodano inside St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican
Photographers shoot photos of friars as they cross St. Peter’s Square during a rain storm at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Cardinals sequestered themselves in the Sistine Chapel on Tuesday for the start of the conclave to elect the next pope. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
An Femen group activist is detained by police officers following a protest against the pope outside St. Peter’s Square as cardinals took an oath in the Sistine Chapel at the start the conclave to elect a new pope at the Vatican,
A seagull sits on a statue of St. Peter in St. Peter’s Square during the second day of the conclave to elect a new pope at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Pilgrims carry a cross through St. Peter’s Square while cardinals meet in conclave in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
A pilgrim kisses a cross after white smoke billowed from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel indicating that a new pope has been elected in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
A pilgrim kneels in St. Peter’s Square during a mass at St. Peter’s Basilica attended by cardinals before sequestering themselves in the Sistine Chapel for the conclave to elect the next pope at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
White smoke emerges from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. The white smoke indicates that the new pope has been elected. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Crowds cheer after white smoke billowed from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel indicating that a new pope has been elected in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
Dr Who 1987: Viewers hope Bonnie Langford gets eaten
THE Audience Reaction Report for ‘Doctor Who’ for 1987 makes for an entertaining read. We especially enjoyed the section on Bonnie Langford, who played Dr Who’s assistant. Known to a generation as the sick-faced child terrorist (“I’ll sthcream and sthcream until I’m sthick”) Violet Elizabeth Bott, Langford’s performances had viewers dreaming of her death:
“Bonnie Langford, who played the Doctor’s assistant Mel can only be described as unpopular with respondents. Indeed, 56% of respondents who answered a questionnaire…wished she had been eaten”
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Posted: 13th, March 2013 | In: Flashback, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Malvern Binman pooed on resident’s driveway
WHAT would you do if the binman pooed on your driveway? A dustman employed by Malvern Hills District Council did just that, taking a poo on a resident’s driveway. The home owner says the dirty toilet roll blowing down his driveway in Ryall, near Upton, Worcestershire.
Says that homeowner:
“It’s pretty vile.”
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Dance hall groper pleads Gangnam Style defence in Perth court
DEREK Kerr, 36, says he did not intent to feel up a stranger in a club. He says it was all a terrific misunderstanding. And you can blame Psy, the singer of Gangnam Style.
Mr Kerr was at The Gig in Blairgowrie. He tells the court what occurred:
“The Gangnam Style song was on and I was doing the horse-riding moves, as well as jumping up and down.”
Gangnam was a dressage event until Kerr brought it into the jump season.
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How the BBC turned the killing of 11-month-old Omar into Hamas propaganda
WHEN a child dies there are no winners. So, when an 11-month-old child died in Gaza during another battle between Iran-backed Hamas and Israel, the news can be only grim. The mood must be regretful. But it’s important to know the truth.
The child killed was the very young son of Jihad Misharawi. He was called Omar. Jihad has worked as a journalist for the BBC’s Arabic division.
Mr Misharawi’s brother and his sister-in-law also died from the explosion that killed the child.
The image of the dead child in his father’s arms was spread by media. It was heart-wrenching. It was also politically charged. The Palestinians have used dead children to paint the Israelis black before. (The BBC has bought into alleged fakery.) It would be wise not to rush to judgement.
But many did.
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Posted: 12th, March 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (9)
