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Miss Gay Nicaragua 2012 – photos of true princesses
TIARAS off to Bismark Martinez, winner of the 2012 Miss Gay Nicaragua beauty contest at the Ruben Dario National Theatre in Managua, Nicaragua. Why he dressed as a woman seems odd. And shouldn’t it be Mr Gay Nicaragua? Much to discuss at gay headquarters and community meetings:
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Local News update: Bird steals sausage in Wokingham
NEWS from get Wokingham is that someone’s sausage has been stolen by a bird. The sausage was stolen form a “hot barbecue”. Who’s been having hot barbecue in the rain? And do the police know?
Spotter: Get Wokingham
Posted: 30th, April 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Wind farms create climate change and make it hotter
THIS really is the most glorious story. We’re told that we have to put up bat slicers all over the country in order to beat climate change. When, in fact, the bird choppers themselves create climate change:
Large windfarms can increase local night time temperatures by fanning warmer air onto the ground, new research has revealed. The study used satellite data to show that the building of huge wind farms in west Texas over the last decade has warmed the nights by up to 0.72C.
We should note that this is real science too, published in Nature and all.
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Posted: 30th, April 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Tottenham Court ‘bomb’ suspect was the BNP candidate for Stevenage
HOPE Not Hate is reporting that Michael Green, the man arrested in the Tottenham Court Road the “siege” (Sky), “disturbance” (BBC), “nuisance Scotland Yard) and “afternoon off” (every worker) once represented the BNP as the party’s parliamentary candidate for Stevenage.
Michael Green, 48, has been charged with possession of a weapon, false imprisonment and making a bomb hoax. HNH says Green, of Stevenage, Hertfordshire, was the BNP candidate for his town in the 2010 General Election. Green polled 1007 votes. He came fifth.
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The best and worst juxtaposed newspaper headlines ever
THE best / worst juxtaposed images of the day might not be all accidental. Who would want to be the poor sod with the camera on the front page of The Sunshine Cost Daily’s front-page warning over paedophiles? Is Santa Claus a “child porn kingpin”, as The Times of South Africa seems to be saying? Is the Journal Sentinel having at the late Ted Kennedy? Let’s take a look..? Those infamous Costa Concordia pages are here.
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Bullshit.com – How To Make Your Website Like The Daily Mail’s – a photo lesson
IN today’s extract from Bullshit.com – How To Making Your Website Like The Daily Mail’s, we turn back the clock to July 2009. Bettina Vetta is showcasing the Mail’s new editorial policy of finding photos of a celebrities riding high on the news cycle and making up a story around them. “Insert caption here”, if you please…
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Man was speeding because he wanted sex
ZACHARY P. Ramirez was spotted driving at 111 mph through Springbrook Prairie Forest Preserve, Illinois. The speed limit is 45 mph. Police pulled over the 1994 Honda Prelude. Ramirez said he was ging so fast because he was “trying to go have sex with a girl he liked”.German Gorbuntsov: who is the wanted Russian banker shot in London?
GERMAN Gorbuntsov, 45, was shot six times outside his flat near London’s Canary Wharf on March 20th 2012. The Russian businessman who fled his country in 2009 says he knows who tried to kill him.
Gorbuntsov tells The Mail on Sunday:
“I believe that the assassination attack on me was organised by the same group of people that four years ago was behind a raid on my assets. The main argument, proving their involvement is this: they are the only ones with a serious motive. I simply have no-one else who would want me to be dead.”
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NonuMum: Human piñata Karla Vanessa Pérez Castañeda has nine children at once
PARP! P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P…Parp! Human piñata Karla Vanessa Pérez Castañeda, 32, is ready pop put nine munchkins from her clown-car sized womb. The nonuplets will make Karla Vanessa Pérez Castañeda NonuMum. Husband Bernado is NonuDad, and the world’s most fertile being outside a gerbil’s cage.
Karla Vanessa Pérez Castañeda already has four kiddies. She is well set to be the mother to 13. (Only one of them can be Jesus, so last one out’s Judas. The names are sorted.)
Octomum is over. Unless Nadya Suleman, for it is she, can squeeze a three-year-old from money box, all is lost.
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Great Barrier Reef not dying, just moving
THE Great Barrier Reef is dying. In 1999, the BBC told us:
The Australian Conservation Foundation says the reef, which stretches 2,000km along the east coast, is “dying a death of a thousand cuts”.
Might climate change expand our eternally-dying reef?
A team of scientists will test whether climate change could push the Great Barrier Reef south.
A team from James Cook University and the University of Sydney will begin a study on Gardner Bank, near Fraser Island, to see whether the area could become an extension of the reef in the future.
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Smutty and sexist cartoons from the 1950s
SMUTTY and Sexist Cartoons is a collection of funnies from old magazine published in the 1950s and 1960s. I remember reading my father’s collection of these funny books in the attic. There was always something warmly erotic about them. I’ll get hold of them and start publishing soon…
James Murdoch, Jeremy Hunt and Fernando Torres – what the Sun didn’t tell you
JAMES Murdoch bores the vigour from Lord Leveson’s inquiry into media standards with corporate speak ‘n’ spell. Jeremy Hunt lands in the brown stuff. And the Sun (prop, Rupert Murdoch – James’s dad) wonders what story to lead with on the morning after Chelsea qualify for the Champions League final and Fernando Torres scores a goal.
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Barack Obama bans medial marijuana selling but supports torture
MEDICAL marijuana needs supporting. But Barack Obama says he can’t ask the Department of Justice to “Ignore completely a federal law that’s on the books”. OK. Some on cannabis prescriptions sell their drugs on illegally. But so do people on prescriptions for all manner of uppers and downers.
Greenwald wonders about Obama’s moral compass:
The same person who directed the DOJ to shield torturers and illegal government eavesdroppers from criminal investigation, and who voted to retroactively immunize the nation’s largest telecom giants when they got caught enabling criminal spying on Americans, and whose DOJ has failed to indict a single Wall Street executive in connection with the 2008 financial crisis or mortgage fraud scandal, suddenly discovers the imperatives of The Rule of Law when it comes to those, in accordance with state law, providing medical marijuana to sick people with a prescription.
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Flashback to April 27 – Photos from this day in history
APRIL 27 – On this day in history…
This map drawing of the area in which the United Statesˆ spring H-bomb tests will take place in the Pacific Ocean, shown April 27, 1956. The distance of the islands of Eniwetok and Bikini from Japan, Guam, New Guinea and Hawaii is noted. The islands are in a vast danger zone which has been established. It covers more than 420,000 square miles. Precautions have been taken to avoid any repetition of incidents like the one during the last hydrogen bomb test. A Japanese fishing boat unwittingly came within range of the fallout. Illness and death among the crew, which the Japanese attributed to the effects of the fallout, brought strong reaction. Protests over the new tests have been made both in the United States and aboard. (AP Photo/Ed Gunder)
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Max Bygraves sings Under the Coconut Tree
ONCE upon a time it was ok for toothbrush botherer Max Bygraves to belt out Under the Coconut Tree in the style of an Asian man who lives in South London doing an impression of a demented black Caribbean barman. It’s 1976 and all the cool cats are swayin’ in da bweeze…
Assault victim Kristoffer Larsgard gets seven years jail for running over a woman’s toes in America
KRISTOFFER Larsgard, 33, is another victim of the lunatic American police force and judiciary. For hurting a woman’s toes in his rented car, the Norwegian holidaymaker is now serving a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence for assaulting six Americans with a deadly weapon.
Posted: 27th, April 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Human bomb invades Advantage HGV office in London: photos and videos
A HUMAN bomb – a man strapped up with gasoline cylinders – has invaded the offices at Advantage, a company which offers HGV courses, on London’s Tottenham Court Road.
According to Abby Baafi, 27, the head of training and operations, the man stormed into the offices. She says that she told the suspect she was three months pregnant to escape.
Stories are that the man has chucked computers and other objects from the fifth floor of Shropshire House.
The police are enacting the Three C: Confirm. Coordinate. Converse.
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Posted: 27th, April 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (7)
Is God on your side? Check with this handy diagram
RUPERT Myers – “Barrister, writer, & political obsessive” – has produced a handy diagram explaining Thought For the Day on the BBC – and how to check if God is on your side:
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Posted: 27th, April 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Victoria’s Secret models of 1979 – comfort before sex and excited dogs
It’s 1979, and Victoria’s Secret is flogging underwear. The guiding principles are, in order: warmth; coverage; clothing should not arouse pets, specifically dogs; three-for-one deals are available on request; the go-ahead set have phones in the bedroom; women are not made of plastic resin; tans can be natural; tans are not obligatory; women do not shine in the dark…
Posted: 27th, April 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Egypt moves to legalise necrophilia
IN Egypt laws are afoot to allow a husband to have sex with his dead wife. Necrophillia is getting legalised in the Arab Spring state.
Al Arabiya reports that the Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW) does not want the parliament to lower the minimum age of marriage to 14 and allow a husband to have sex with his wife within six hours of her death.
[Insert tasteless joke about tight sphinxter here.]
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Gareth Williams inquest turns into a homophobic character assassination
GARETH Williams, the MI6 spook found locked in a bag, could have taken drugs. Or not. He might have been poisoned. Or not.
At the inquest of Gareth “Swiss Watch” Williams, 31, scientists said that because the spy had been dead for so long before he was found drugs and poisons tests could not be relied on.
Gareth Williams lay dead in a bag in his London flat for at least a week – his colleagues never reported him missing.
Today, the court heard that Mr Williams may have been killed by a “wide range of poisons” and “volatile agents”.
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When atheists mock Islamists in Melbourne things get funny
THE Islamists are making theirs usual threats in Melbourne. They are outside the Global Atheist Convention. They are chanting. And then the atheists chant back. And then ZZ Top get in on the act… Well, they’ve got the beards:
No peace for John Kercher, Amanda Knox and Meredith Kercher – murder brought to book
JOHN Kercher is talking to the Times‘ Lucy Bannerman. John Kercher is Meredith Kercher’s father. She’s the young British woman murdered in Perugia, Italy. Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito did not murder her. Bannerman writes:
I had never cried during an interview, until I met John Kercher.
Bannerman says Knox and Sollecito walked into “an explosion of flashbulbs and big-money book deals”.
She also walked out of prison. Bannerman is painting a picture.
She adds:
As they did, they took with them the one thing Mr Kercher and his family had left — an explanation, albeit horrifyingly incomplete, of what happened to their beloved “Mez”.
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Posted: 26th, April 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (22)
Book of The Day – How To Pick Up Women, by Eric Weber
ERIC Weber’s 1970 tome How to Pick Up Women has over 3,000,000 copies in print – if you believe the marketing. “So effective it should be declared illegal!” – so some say. Team it with Weber’s The Complete Guide to America’s Best Pick up Spots!: 910 Fantastic Places to Pick up Girls! One Hundred Best Opening Lines and you men cannot fail to pull. See also Eric Weber’s Winning With Women and The Shy Person’s Guide to Love and Loving.
Weber self-published his book He took out an advert in Penthouse magazine and waited. And then the orders started to come in.
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