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13th, May 2013
11 photos that explain Ireland to the world

This is Ireland… Read More »
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13th, May 2013
Julian Assange explains why he’s standing for the Australian Senate

“I don’t want to underestimate the difficulties of being in this situation…” Read More »
News
13th, May 2013
Things that existed: the Phone Relief Ultimate Hands-Free Headset

In the early 1990s, the world was in peril. Telephones were falling into pies, to the floor from desks and very possibly being mistaken for carrots. But help was at hand. The Phone Relief Ultimate Hands-Free Headset was here. Read More »
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13th, May 2013
This 1950s safety manual was called It’s Great to Be Alive! (aka: when bicycles attack!)

In the 1950s, the powers that be created a comic book to tell kids what hideous fates could befall them if they took risks and failed to spot danger signs… Read More »
Flashback
13th, May 2013
A hearty well done to the European Union for boosting unemployment to Sub-Saharan levels

Going a little further, what you want is, when countries do not make up such an optimal currency area, some way of making the necessary adjustments easy… Read More »
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13th, May 2013
All hail the Chinese penis building! The People’s Daily Newspaper staff work in a giant dick

Make your own ‘wang’ jokes here… Read More »
News
13th, May 2013
So, Melanie Philips and Barbara Hewson: what percent of paedophiles read the Daily Mail?

The Daily Mail’s staff meetings must be wonderful… Read More »
News
Royal Family
13th, May 2013
In photos: Prince Harry meets the cheer leading display team at the US Air Force Academy base in Colorado Springs

Harry wins hearts and minds… More »
13th, May 2013
The silly idea of an international minimum wage

If we actually have an international minimum wage of 50 cents an hour then everyone whose output is worth less than that loses their job… Read More »
Money
13th, May 2013
Stuart Hazell did murder Tia Sharp

He did it. We all knew he did. But now he’s admitted it… Read More »
News
13th, May 2013
How Matt Drudge became a posture

“I needed her touch, her observations and her humanity.”… Read More »
Celebrities
13th, May 2013
The naked photos that got teacher Olivia Sprauer sacked

One only the very young and the very old will be employable as anything other than strippers… Read More »
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13th, May 2013
Hole to another dimension opens up in Brighton – council ignore warnings

“I was recently walking my affenpinscher (a toy breed of dog) around the Hanover area of Brighton when I noticed that a wormhole or vortex has opened up on Montreal Road…” Read More »
News
13th, May 2013
‘Tired and emotional’ BBC radio DJ is pulled off air

Paula White never got to finish her last BBC Radio Stoke show. She kicked off at 1pm on Friday afternoon but 30 minutes later she was hooked off… Read More »
TV & Radio
13th, May 2013
Is nothing safe? Man arrested for having sex with a dead peacock

Nothing is safe… Read More »
4 Strange But True
13th, May 2013
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson sings I Would Walk 500 Miles (he’s no Terry Venables)

The great man sings… Read More »
Sports
13th, May 2013
In 28 photos: Alex Ferguson’s final match for Manchester United at Old Trafford

A late winner, naturally… Read More »
Sports
12th, May 2013
How can Simon Singh donate to Hacked Off?

Singh is an interesting donor. He once took on the libel system and won…. Read More »
News
12th, May 2013
The Coca Cola Swastika

In 1925, Coke got unlucky… Read More »
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12th, May 2013
Bang With Friends: the only people anonymous are the sex site’s creators

Bang With Friends is pretty to the point and should appeal to reporters looking for a story and women trying to trap their man into admitting that he fancies HER. It will branch out into other areas… Read More »
Technology
12th, May 2013
October 1985: Morrissey and Pete Burns were ‘The Very Odd Couple’

“A Friendship Made In Heaven”… Read More »
Celebrities
12th, May 2013
In 1981 technology stopped the ‘Arctic region becoming equatorial and the tropics suddenly changed to polar temperature’

The sudden melting of the vast ice fields would produce another glacial flood ; the present race would disappear, and the man of the quaternary would begin life ever again at the antipodes.. Read More »
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12th, May 2013
One of the best spot squeezing videos ever is utterly disgusting

Ice-cream..? Read More »
Strange But True
12th, May 2013
Man did pretty well during the last Carbon dioxide peak of 400 parts per million

We are all doooooooomed… Read More »
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