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11th, May 2012

Battleship premier photos: Rihanna and the bored games

Battleship is a really expensive B-movie based on the boardgame. The story is that aliens have crashed into / invaded Earth and have decided to attack Hawaii.. Read More »

Film

11th, May 2012

Pakistani rapists and white moralists agree – white working class girls are asking for it

Last night on Question Time, the BBC’s flagship chat show for the political elite and showbiz smilers who do issues, the matter of how nine men who conspired “to engage children under 16 in sexual activity” in and around Rochdale Lancashire came up… Read More »

3 Key Posts

11th, May 2012

Rihanna unfollows Chris Brown… not because he slapped her about, but because of a song

Chris Brown may be the most jarring goon in the world, but Rihanna still stuck by him… Read More »

Celebrities

11th, May 2012

Mexican couple row over teddy stuffed with heroin

Would you be more unnerved by a man and a woman fighting in the street over drugs or a teddy bear?… Read More »

Strange But True

11th, May 2012

A wild Wallaby is at lage in Kent – video

Anyone lost a wallaby? Read More »

Anorak TV

11th, May 2012

Engelbert Humperdinck is big in Azerbaijan

Before he croons the UK to victory in the Eurovision Song Contest, Engelbert Humperdinck shows the Daily Mirror’s man round his Leicestershire estate… Read More »

Celebrities

11th, May 2012

Lost star gets charged with DUI… and it isn’t his first brush with boozy bother

You may have watched Lost or Party Of Five, looked at Matthew Fox and thought ‘he seems like a nice man… a nice, hunky, stubbly dreamboat of a man’… Read More »

Celebrities

London Olympics

11th, May 2012

The ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture suits the Mr Messy Olympics (photos)

The big squiggle, that demented Mr Messy, is sponsored by ArcelorMittal, the huge steel company. Why? More »

11th, May 2012

The Wright Stuff mongs out

Having asked viewers “Amanda Knox: would ya?” the Wright Stuff’s producers put their thinking caps on and wondered if they could produce another survey to demean a soft target… Read More »

TV & Radio

11th, May 2012

Retro Gifs of the week – Monroe does the Bardot

Gifs of the Week are all Retro Gifs of the Week. They are all fabulous: Marilyn Monroe is eerie; Bardot is saucy; Cary Grant outacts George Clooney; and the lovely Diana Dors… Read More »

Gifs

11th, May 2012

Too much online porn damages your life: scientists say

There’s a lot less to this piece of research than some might think… Read More »

Technology

11th, May 2012

If ‘tan mum’ wants a burnt-to-the-crisp complexion, that’s her choice

With her burnt-to-a-crisp complexion, New Jersey’s ‘tanorexic’ mum Patricia Krentcil looks like a poster girl for anti-tanning campaigns… Read More »

1 Key Posts

11th, May 2012

Chenille Steele pays tribute to Simon Cowell

Chenille Steel returns to pay tribute to Simon Cowell. She’s moved on from footballers. This is NSFW… Read More »

Celebrities

11th, May 2012

How to raise a child who will grow up and resent you

THIS week’s TIME magazine lead story is about “attachment parenting”. The cover photo shows a mum breastfeeding her three-year-old son. Will his friends ever let him forget? Read More »

1 News

11th, May 2012

George Galloway presents the Enfield Poltergeist

Galloway canvases a long overlooked demographic… Read More »

Key Posts

11th, May 2012

Sweden records biggest ever seizure of cowboy hats

“This is our largest seizure of cowboy hats,”said Morten Nystuen of the Kongsvinger customs in Sweden… Read More »

Strange But True

11th, May 2012

Man ran down sister after her cat urinated on his computer

When Sydney resident Hannah Richardson’s cat urinated on her 20-year-old brother Oliver’s computer, he grabbed the cat and tossed it into his car… Read More »

News

11th, May 2012

3000 brave England fans head to near-certain death in Ukraine

So. Why are just 3,000 England fans heading to Ukraine to watch England play in the Euro 2012 football tournament?.. Read More »

Sports

Royal Family

10th, May 2012

Caption this – Prince Charles reads the BBC weather

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10th, May 2012

The most controversial magazine covers of all time

The Most Controversial Magazine Covers of all time features: Time mag’s woman breastfeeding a toddler (don’t worry, they’ve been on a few dates); OK! paying tribute to a dead Jade Goody before Jade Goody had died;… Read More »

Key Posts