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2nd, April 2012

Correction of the Week – Carlo Padavani is John Travolta’s drugs baron

“Several readers have pointed out that alleged crime lord Carlo Padovani (Metro Friday) is said to have modelled himself on Tony Montana…” Read More »

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2nd, April 2012

Tulisa flees UK via Chris Moyles on BBC Radio 1

Tulisa does not QUIT UK – breaking…. Read More »

Celebrities

2nd, April 2012

Britain’s Got Talent: stripper Beatrix Von Bourbon inspired by the Twins (photos)

Britian’s Got Talent is off and running. The names are massing. We’ve seen untelegenic Jonathan Antoine, the singer set up by the usual muggings to camera as the new Susan Boyle. There’s Ryan O’Shaughnessy,… Read More »

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1st, April 2012

Faces of the day: The Navratri festival in India

Ram Navami is a celebration of the birthday of the Hindu God Lord Rama. Other Hindus carry knives and flex their muscles… More »

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1st, April 2012

Blue Jeans magazine and naming those 1980s heartthrobs

Blue Jeans magazine was great. There photo casebooks were how a generation learnt about sexual relations and how to match two types of denim (tip: tuck your jumper in)… Read More »

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1st, April 2012

Ministers save Royal Mail with GCHQ powers to snoop on your emails and web porn

The end of the free internet is nigh. The Government is to monitor all emails, phone calls, text and websites you view. Of course, GCHQ already does just that. But soon it will be legal… More »

1st, April 2012

RIP Chris Ralph, the man we never knew but whom football will mourn

RIP Chris Ralph, the 47-year-old footballer who collapsed during a football match between Chagford and Topsham Town. Mr Ralph died playing for Chagford in the Devon Veterans’ County Cup final at Newton Abbot… Read More »

45 Sports

Key Posts

1st, April 2012

The best April Fools day jokes of 2012

All the day’s jokes to make your chortle…. More »

1st, April 2012

United States seizes control of airspace over Caribbean, Canada and Mexico

The US Department of Homeland Security wants all names of people being flown by British carriers to the Caribbean, Mexico and Canada…. Read More »

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1st, April 2012

Nickelodeon’s 25th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards in photos

To Nickelodeon’s 25th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards to see Justin Bieber and Will Smith in green snot bukkake and the brightest teeth and talents win awards. Also there was Michelle Obama, who was not slimed… Read More »

Celebrities

1st, April 2012

Ex-BBC TV reporter aks young schoolchildren to be quiet in school playground

Graham Purches politely requests that four to seven-year-olds at Elmlea Infants’ School in Westbury-on-Trym near Bristol are not allowed to “scream or shout near our home”. The message is ened with the words “thank you”…. Read More »

News

1st, April 2012

Tulisa Contostavlos quits the UK to ‘get her head straight’

Tulisa Contostavlos will “quit the UK” following release of a sex tope of her and Justin “MC Ultra” Edwards… Read More »

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1st, April 2012

Gif of the day – the elephant on a trampoline

Elephants can bounce… Read More »

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1st, April 2012

It’s National Peanut Butter & Jelly Day!

Monday 2 April is the official National Peanut Butter & Jelly Day in America. The holiday is not to be confused with National Peanut Butter day, which falls on 24 January, National Peanut Butter Lovers’ Day on 1 March, or National Peanut Day on 13 September… Read More »

The Consumer

Global Warming

31st, March 2012

Earth Hour 2012 in photos – presented by Sachin Tendukar’s halo

It’s Earth Hour. Full Beam Ahead! Before the photos a few words from this year’s sponsor Sachin Tendukar?… More »

Flashback

31st, March 2012

1937 – How wives should undress before their husbands, by a burlesque stripper

It’s 1937, and Life Magazine is running a feature on how housewives undress in front of their husbands… More »

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31st, March 2012

George Galloway declares victory in Blackburn on twitter

Well, they look the same up north… Read More »

Politicians

31st, March 2012

Dalex relaxation for humans – the tapes

Dalek relaxation for humans – are tapes of Dr Who’s enemies helping humanity to unwind, as revealed by cultural space surfer Peter Serafinowicz… Read More »

Anorak TV

31st, March 2012

The Federation of Student Islamic Societies in Dublin, George Galloway and sectarianism for Syria

Days after the ‘true Muslim’ George Galloway became an MP, members of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies in Dublin staged a flash mob on O’Connell Street to highlight human rights abuses by the Assad regime in Syria… Read More »

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