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The wonderful flowers displays of the Bloemencorso parade
FLOWERS. The Low Countries love flowers. And the Bloemencorso parade in Zundert is the place to see them. The float called ‘Full Moon’, designed by Steven van Erck and Stefan van Stee, won first prize (1st photo):
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The Tory paedophile ring and other witch hunts
PAEDO-hunting is now entertainment for daytime telly. Phillip Schofield, host of ITV’S This Morning, attempted to ambush David Cameron by handing him a list of names of suspected paedophiles he’d found by looking online for a few minutes. No proof. No evidence. Just what Phil had read on the web. For good measure, Phil flashed the list he’d made up to those watching at home. Disgusting.
And odd. Not too long ago the liberal commentariat was bashing the News of The World. When the now dead paper’s Paul McMullan told the Leveson Inquiry “Privacy is for Paedos“, he was rounded on. Now the same people that professed to hate such tabloid tactics are using them.
This has been coming. Schofield is just the latest idiot to jump abord the paedo-hunting bandwagon.
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Posted: 8th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)
Unforgivable home croch clothes from the 1970s
DID you home crochet in the 1960s and 1970s? Did you buy Aunt Lydia’s Knit Crochet Heavy Rug Yarn? Did you read publications like Knitting & Crochet, In Shawls and The Easy Art of Ripple Crochet? These people did. Look out for the brooding brother dressed the same as his mum, dad, and sister; the woman knitting her own bikini by the pool; man and dog look alike; the neck brace that let’s you dress like your toilet; and more…
Posted: 8th, November 2012 | In: Fashion, Flashback | Comment
Lady driver ordered to wear ‘idiot sign’ by court (video)
BAD drivers are the bane of everyone’s lives, but some are more idiotic than others. One lady in Ohio has managed to sidestep the political fervour that rampaged through her State to become an officially court-ordered ‘idiot’. How? She actually being made to wear an idiot sign after being caught doing something really idiotic in her car.
The woman in question repeatedly drove onto a pavement to overtake an unloading school bus. That’s not clever is it?
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City of the day: smog hangs over New Delhi
IF you can see the air, you know the city is working well:
Photo: Traffic moves in front of the landmark India Gate monument enveloped by a blanket of smog, caused by a mixture of pollution and fog, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012.
What happened when a white journalist dyed their and lived in America’s Deep South
OVER 50 years ago a white journalist dyed his skin black to experience segregation in America’s Deep South. Listen to this report about John Howard Griffin:
Danielle Lloyd researches her roots in Harvey Nichols
MR Jamie O’Hara, of Wolverhampton Wanderers, formerly of Spurs, tweets about his wife, the professional WAG Danielle Lloyd:Proud of my wife@MissDLloyd opening Harvey Nichols in Liverpool today, never forgets where she came from
The Daily Mail is more racist than football and Strictly Come Dancing (but not the Leveson Inquiry)
WRITING in defence of football’s designated position as a sport riddled with racism and in need to state control, lest the white working class fans race riot, Martin Samuels uses his Daily Mail column to compare the national sport to Strictly Come Dancing.
Samuels notices that Colin Salmon has been voted off BBC pro-celebrity dance show Strictly Come Dancing. Colin Salmon is black. He was voted off in a public vote. Samuels writes:
The past two weeks, Salmon has been inexplicably endangered by the public poll. On Sunday, his luck ran out. He performed nervously in the dance-off and was eliminated. Aside from Louis Smith, the Olympic gymnast, who is mixed race, Strictly is now all white on the night.
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Posted: 7th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Famous musicians doing ordinary things at home
IN this collection of great photos, we see famous faces form the 1970s at home. Look out for Frank Zappa, Elton John, Iggy Pop, Keith Richards, Grace Slick, Freddie Mercury and David Bowie:
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Posted: 6th, November 2012 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment
FLASHBACK: Bombshell resignations – how to say ‘stick your job’ in style
RESIGNATIONS – memorable ones. And on that bombshell…
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Posted: 6th, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment
Daily Mail spots black Superstorm Sandy looters for Oscar Grant
TO many the story of Superstorm Sandy is one that brought out the best of humanity. People helped one another. But not everyone behaved well. A few people looted. Of the millions of people hit by the destruction, a few opportunists went on the rob.
The paper yells:
“Even momma got outta house to loot new shirt’: Looters brag on Twitter”
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Posted: 6th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
The Lewes Bonfire Society marches at dusk (photos)
WE move with the times. The Lewes Bonfire Society’s parade through Lewes, in East Sussex, has teamed up with the Lorraine Kelly Society and Anti-Peado groups. To Scarborough! With spades!!
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Ched Evans rape supporters fined paltry sum for naming victim on Facebook and Twitter
HOW much does it cost to tweet or Facebook the name of a rape victim? Answer: £624. Each of the nine who tweeted the name of a woman raped by former Sheffield United footballer Ched Evans must pay the victim £624.
Evans was jailed for five years back in April.
The nine who thought it good idea to identify a rape vicim are: Evans’s cousin Gemma Thomas, Craig McDonald, 26, a 25-year-old biology school teacher called Hollie Price, Michael Ashton, 21, Benjamin Davies, 27; David Cardwell, 25, Paul Devine, 26 (pictured); Dominic Green, 23; and Shaun Littler, 22.
Gemma Thomas, 18, (pictured) said the rape victim was a “money grabbing slag” and a “dirty s*****r”. Cardwell called the woman a “f***ing whore”.
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Houseplants of the 1970s (ferns and tongues)
IN the 1970s, home decor was abut house plants, most often ferns, the mother-in-law’s tongue and Pampas grass. In this gallery of 1970s rooms, the house plant is there. Always there. The 1970s truly were the golden age for ferns…
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Posted: 5th, November 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comments (12)
Melanie Phillips writes an open letter to the Daily Mail Reporter
MELANIE Phillips sets out to prove that not every one at the Daily Mail is all that into perving at kids. Just like those Sun readers whom we are told skip quickly over Page 3, Phillips might not spend long looking at the Mail’s website, which features photo-led stories on children, like fashion icon Suri “all grown up” Cruise (she’s 6), “curvy” Elle Fanning (14), and underage girls Chloe Moretz, Lourdes (Madonna’s daughter) and Bella Thorne. To the Mail’s eyes, they all “look older“.
You can see the Daily Mail Reporter in the dock. He eyes the Beak: “Honestly, your honour. I thought she was older.”
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Why The Daily Mail is Evil (starring sexy toddler Suri Cruise)
THE Daily Mail is hugely popular website. Bullshit.com is winning. Why? Well, it has lots of stuff on it. Above all else it has lot of celebrity stuff. And lots of celebrity kids. The Daily Mail love looking at celebrity kids, taking note of their curves and sex appeal. Suri Cruise is not old enough to have curves. But if the Mail stares long and hard enough, the paper of record should be there when they develop, and she becomes “all grown up“. Martin Robbins reviews the watchers…
Posted: 5th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Strathclyde Police caught lying on their own website
Posted: 5th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Man east octopus – Daily Mail says trawling is the new trolling
IS trawling the new trolling? Can the Daily Mail find a new way to exist? The top story on the world’s most popular online news site is about Dylan Mayer, who lives in Seattle:
“I eat it for meat… it’s just a different animal’: Outrage as diver, 20, drags LIVE octopus from ocean and takes it home for dinner”
Posted: 4th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)
Food hell: when Campbell’s made soup gravy
CAMPBELL’S make soup. And that’s might be the start and the end of it. But what if soup wasn’t eaten from bowls? What if soup was eaten from plates? Crazy stuff, we know. But someone at Campbell’s thought it was a great idea, better than soup lollies (soup on sticks) and Soup on pizza slices (Soup Triangles). The company invite shoppers into Campbell’s Kitchen. Top tip today is: “Frozen hash browns and a can of Cheddar cheese soup help to make this flavorful dish easy and delicious! This is a great way to use up leftover ham.”
The food remains disgusting. But one thing that has improved is the photography. This is how Campbell’s used to sell soup you could eat with a knife and fork:
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Posted: 4th, November 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Kurt Vonnegut’s letter on his son’s refusal to fight in Vietnam
KURT Vonnegut is, of course, the subject of the work Kurt Vonnegut: Letters. In one, he writes of war and killing:
November 28, 1967
To Draft Board #1,
Selective Service,
Hyannis, Mass.Gentlemen:
My son Mark Vonnegut is registered with you. He is now in the process of requesting classification as a conscientious objector. I thoroughly approve of what he is doing. It is in keeping with the way I have raised him. All his life he has learned hatred for killing from me.
I was a volunteer in the Second World War. I was an infantry scout, saw plenty of action, was finally captured and served about six months as a prisoner of war in Germany. I have a Purple Heart. I was honorably discharged. I am entitled, it seems to me, to pass on to my son my opinion of killing. I don’t even hunt or fish any more. I have some guns which I inherited, but they are covered with rust.
This attitude toward killing is a matter between my God and me. I do not participate much in organized religion. I have read the Bible a lot. I preach, after a fashion. I write books which express my disgust for people who find it easy and reasonable to kill.
We say grace at meals, taking turns. Every member of my family has been called upon often to thank God for blessings which have been ours. What Mark is doing now is in the service of God, Whose Son was exceedingly un-warlike.
There isn’t a grain of cowardice in this. Mark is a strong, courageous young man. What he is doing requires more guts than I ever had—and more decency.
My family has been in this country for five generations now. My ancestors came here to escape the militaristic madness and tyranny of Europe, and to gain the freedom to answer the dictates of their own consciences. They and their descendents have been good citizens and proud to be Americans. Mark is proud to be an American, and, in his father’s opinion, he is being an absolutely first-rate citizen now.
He will not hate.
He will not kill.
There’s no hope in that. There’s no hope in war.Yours truly,
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Posted: 4th, November 2012 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment
1975: Ronald Reagan’s pet mouse threatens Presidential bid
WHAT’S that in Barack Obama’s pocket? Is Mitt Romney’s jacket twitching? On November 23, 1975, The National News Extra spotted something nasty in Ronald Reagan’s jacket pocket.
The magazine trilled:
“Everywhere that Ronnie goes, Squeaky is sure to follow. Squeaky should; the disgusting creature ride around in Reagan’s pocket and scares the hell out of little old broads.”
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Posted: 4th, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Politicians | Comment
Swansea police prosecute man for ripping up disposable pillow
TO Swansea, where Richard Lewis, 42, has been arrested for a petty offence. He’s just lost his job. Police take him to the cells. He’ s not happy. Lewis vents his frustration out on the 50p disposable “custody pillow”. He rips it up. Stress has been relieved.
Police decide that Lewis has no case to answer for the petty offence that triggered his arrest. But the full weight of law will be used to prosecute him for the torn pillow.
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