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The Daily Mail hates women: these headlines prove it
DOES the Daily Mail hate women? Not sure. But it does troll them. It sets up women to fight against each other. The Daily Mail is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust plc. It’s 13 board members were white males until September 14 2012 when a white woman was welcomed aboard. They need another woman upstairs to see how two women in the same room will rip each other to shreds. It’s a man’s world:
Leveson Report: Should we ignore Lorrsine Kelly and back the Hacked Off campaign?
I DO hope that the sensible among you will sign Hacked Off’s petition, writes Madame Arcati.
It demands that Leveson’s recommendations be implemented – that our media abide by principles enshrined in statute. For decades, newspapers have made up their self-regulation as they went along, with senior members of the press presiding over complaints: hence the hopelessness of the PCC.
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Posted: 1st, December 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Sonali Mukherjee: acid attack victim wins game show millions
Hammy frog sacrifices life to save Australian family
WHEN a frog dies, Australia reacts. Belinda Brustolin and her family had a lucky escape. A lightning bolt hit an electricity pole a few yards from their their home in Girraween. The power went out. She tells the Northern Territory News:
‘It was like nature’s version of Territory Day. There was a thunder clap, a bright flash and then the power went out. It was a good storm.“
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Highlights from the Victorian circus freak show (posters)
THE VICTORIANS loved a ‘freak’:
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Owner of Britain’s last Temperance bar arrested for drink driving
TO Fitzpatrick’s bar in Rawtenstall, where owner Christopher James Law, 52, is at work. He’s just been nicked for drink driving and banned for 17 months.
So as you know, Fiztpatrick’s is the last Temperance Bar in the United Kingdom. The bar sells non-alcoholic drinks. It’s been doing so since 1890, when the Methodist-driven Temperance movement was looking to reduce the nation’s alcohol intake.
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London’s Teddy Boys – a photo essay
ALL hail the Teddy Boys. Long-drape jacket, drainpipe trousers, slim tie, plain shirt with high collar, brothel creepers and overt socks the Edwardian style. And hair. It’s all about the hair. Teen culture always is.
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Posted: 30th, November 2012 | In: Fashion, Flashback, Key Posts | Comment
1978: Ted Rodger ‘studies’ The Gentle Secs for 3-2-1
FLASHBACK – with caption by the Press Association: “Ted Rogers studies secretaries (R to L) Tula, Patsy Ann Scott, Gail Playfair, Jennifer Layland, Mirielle Allonville and Holly Allen-Smith in a London street. Ted and the The Gentle Secs are to present Yorkshire TV’s new panel game 3-2-1 which begins on ITV.” Date: 22/05/1978.
Dusty Bin meet the girls with the big bins:
Posted: 30th, November 2012 | In: Flashback, TV & Radio | Comment
Danny Nightingale: the case of the disappearing bullets
DANNY Nightingale is free. Danny Nightingale is the SAS sniper jailed for illegally possessing a pistol and ammunition. The man who has served in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria was jailed by the British for owning an illegal firearm and lots of bullets.
Sergeant Danny Nightingale, 37, stood on the steps of the High Court and thanked his supporters:
“It has just been extremely humbling. Very, very humbling. Thank you to the great British public. They have been absolutely wonderful in their support.”
His wife, Sally Nightingale, 38, added:
“It can only be good for all the troops out there fighting for our country to see justice has been done.”
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Posted: 30th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (6)
14 illegal immigrants seen running from one car in Oklahoma – video
TO Interstate 40, 40 miles west of Oklahoma City, for the International Immigrant of The Year Awards – SUV Class. A state trooper pulls the vehicle over, as tradition dictates. He questions the driver. As he does so the contestants make a dash for it. Count them. We made 14.
Says copper Cody Palmer:
“I couldn’t fathom that they had gotten that many people in that car.”
Round up the usual clowns…
By Wednesday, 13 of the suspected illegal immigrants had been arrested in a search conducted by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Canadian County Sheriff’s Department, the state Agriculture Department, Immigrant and Customs Enforcements and K-9 units. One person remains at large.
It’s Atari and PONG’s 40th birthday
HAPPY 40th Atari! Amber Frost reminds us that “40 years ago today, with only a $500 out-of-pocket investment, engineers Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney introduced PONG to the market on the Atari game system. From those two humble lines and a single, noble dot came a great pioneer in computer, arcade, and console gaming. Atari is even where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple got their start.”
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Posted: 29th, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Technology, The Consumer | Comment
Local news: Giggling in Bracknell
TO Bracknell, where Jennie Slevin has news from the corridors of power:
A typo in the agenda handed out during a Bracknell Forest Council meeting, led to chaos as councillors struggled to suppress their sniggers. A line in the document about focusing on ‘pubic’ access to council meetings sparked a two minute giggling session when councillors noticed the error last night.
When asked if there were any questions about the article Cllr Temperton rose and led the room into a state of hysteria.
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Daily Mail responds to Lord Leveson’s report (gives you cancer)
THE Daily Mail has repsonded to Lord Leveson’s report:
Spotter: tonyjackson89
Juxtaposition: Daily Mail offer weight loss elixir for vomiters
NEWSPAPERS Juxtaposition of the Day: the Daily Mail’s weight loss guide to vomiting:
On anti-Semitism, Jews and child molesting in Melbourne
SMALL that? Australia’s The Age reports: “Jewish community embroiled in new child sex charges.”
Is the race relevant? Are Jews more predisposed to child sex? A NEW child sex scandal has hit Melbourne’s Jewish community, with a man to stand trial next year on 27 charges of sexual intercourse with a child under 16, sexual penetration of a child under 16 and indecent acts.
The name of the man, the organisation and the victims have been suppressed, but Fairfax Media understands the charges involve a Jewish organisation.
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Posted: 29th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Lindsey Stone: Woman fired for making a joke on Facebook
JOKES are serious business. We live in a world so jumpy that you can make a clearly off-hand remark about blowing an airport up and you end up in a lengthy legal process, with celebrities backing you up and paying for your legal fees. Elsewhere in the world, say anything bad about the people who fought for your right to piss-about, and you’ll get your arse handed to you in a tall hat.
Just ask the woman who has been unceremoniously sacked from her job for the awful hate crime of posting a photograph on Facebook.
Lindsey Stone was photographed giving the finger while stood beside a ‘silence and respect’ sign at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The image promptly went viral and thousand of humourless git-machines started kicking off and demanding heads-on-pikes.
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Posted: 28th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
‘Yet another Liverpudlian to come off the boat with diamorphine concealed in their rectum’
QUOTE of the year is found in the Shetland Times, which reports on the cae of David Garnett:
The latest Liverpudlian heroin courier to be jailed at Lerwick Sheriff Court said he was forced at gunpoint to make the trip to Shetland in punishment for having beaten up a man with drug gangster connections.
To avoid having his legs broken in revenge David Garnett, 39, of Lawrence Road, Liverpool, concealed bags of heroin inside his body and caught the bus to Aberdeen before boarding the NorthLink ferry on 26th May.
Procurator fiscal Duncan MacKenzie told the court on Wednesday the police had intelligence about his activities and were waiting at the Holmsgarth terminal the next day for “yet another Liverpudlian to come off the boat with diamorphine concealed in their rectum”.
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Britain is now fattest nation in Western Europe: MPs go for the fat vote
WE win! Britain is now the most prosperous nation on Earth. How can we tell? Because as any fan of Dickens knows, prosperous equates to fat. And we are FAT. The OECD research says we are FATTER than the French, the Italians and even the Germans.
If a world food shortage struck now, Britons would be the last humans on Earth. Our fat reserves would save humanity. Reassuring new for those of us wary of the Belgian threat.
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Egypt judge sentences seven Christians to death for parts in Innocence of Muslims film
IN Arab sprung Egypt, a cout has sentenced seven Egyptian Christians to death for taking part in the pisspoor film the Innocence of Muslims.
Says Cairo-based Judge Saif al-Nasr Soliman:
“The seven accused persons were convicted of insulting the Islamic religion through participating in producing and offering a movie that insults Islam and its prophet.”
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Posted: 28th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Salvatore Perrone: this police sketch looks nothing like him
TO New York , where Salvatore Perrone, 64, is accused of killing three shopkeepers. Perrone, 64, of Staten Island is alleged to have killed the three men with a sawn-off shotgun. Police found the gun at Perrone’s girlfriend’s home in Brooklyn. Isaac Kadare, Mohammed Gebeli and Rahmatollah Vahidipour died in their shops.
This is the police sketch of the wanted man:
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Posted: 28th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Gawker says Iran wants to murder all Jews with nuclear bombs
NICE work by US online tabloid Gawker to begin a story:
Here Is the Super-Scary Chart That Iran Will Use to Kill All the Jews
The chart is from the Associated Press, which explains the above chat:
The undated diagram that was given to the AP by officials of a country critical of Iran’s atomic program allegedly calculating the explosive force of a nuclear weapon _ a key step in developing such arms. The diagram shows a bell curve and has variables of time in micro-seconds and power and energy, both in kilotons _ the traditional measurement of the energy output, and hence the destructive power of nuclear weapons. The curve peaks at just above 50 kilotons at around 2 microseconds, reflecting the full force of the weapon being modeled. The Farsi writing at the bottom translates “changes in output and in energy released as a function of time through power pulse” (AP Photo)
From that Gawker got:
Here Is the Super-Scary Chart That Iran Will Use to Kill All the Jews
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Gazans name their children after Iranian rockets
TO Gaza, where the locals are celebrating the region’s munitions by naming their children after missiles and rockets. YNet news reports that Muhammad al-Shafi’i Abu Nassat has named his newborn son Fajr, after the Imported Iranian missiles. Amira Abu Assus has also named her son Fajr, Arabic for ‘dawn’. She says the lad will have – no pun intended – “a bright future within Palestinian resistance”.
Naming your kids after rockets will be good news for the Palestinian media who like to distribute and set up photos of injured and dead children. How long before Israel’s Iron Dome defence shield hits a Junior Fajr? How long before the BBC’s man in the know promotes it online?
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Posted: 27th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Gila Shalit speaks about Ahmed al-Jabari
GILAD Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas. The Israeli spent five years in captivity. He was the only Israeli living in Gaza. He was freed on Oct. 18 2011. Israel swapped him for 1,027 Palestinians in Israeli prisons. Does he feel glad that the man who played a key role in his imprisonment, Ahmed al-Jabari, the Hamas military leader, was killed by the Israelis two weeks ago?
Der Spiegel asks him:
When asked about Gaza, he speaks quietly and hesitantly, struggling with almost every sentence. No, he says, he did not feel satisfaction when he heard about Jabari’s death, because he didn’t even know the man. “The killing has to stop,” he says. This is Shalit’s only message before his father interrupts the conversation. “The boy needs to be left alone,” says Noam Shalit. “Gilad isn’t a public figure.”
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Posted: 27th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Paris 1914: colour photographs
THESE colour photographs of Paris in 1914 are from the Albert Kahn Museum, based at Kahn’s former home at 14 rue du Port in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb west of Paris:
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Posted: 27th, November 2012 | In: Flashback | Comments (3)
