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Shopper uses great keepy-uppy skills at the supermarket

To Brazil, where a local man is demonstrating how to shop with style. Forget the 5p bag and go native. And get me a dozen eggs… Game on!

 

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Posted: 20th, June 2017 | In: Sports, Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment

Brian Cant explains whatever happened to Brian Cant

 

Brian Cant has died. The face and voice of children’s TV in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s was from an era when men on pre-school telly looked like your dad. An actor by trade, Cant … (read more)

Posted: 19th, June 2017 | In: Celebrities, News, TV & Radio | Comment

After Finsbury Park: hate crime hunts and usual suspects

The righteous are taking sides, using the ‘facts’ to mutate the Finsbury Park murder to fit a cause. On twitter there is mention of anything and everything.

At London’s Al Quds … (read more)

Posted: 19th, June 2017 | In: News | Comment

Stephen King’s recipe for successful writing

Stephen King In On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft addresses the importance of a good night’s sleep and become a better writer:
Like your bedroom, your writing room should be … (read more)

Posted: 19th, June 2017 | In: Books | Comment

80 years of New York city side by side in this neat video

The New Yorker has created this neat video of showing how New York City has changed from 1930s until today.

 

 

Spotter: Open Culture, Flashbak, … (read more)

Posted: 19th, June 2017 | In: Strange But True, Technology, The Consumer, TV & Radio | Comment

Transfer Balls: Will Ronaldo snub Manchester United for the beer?

Much chatter over Cristiano Ronaldo making a return to play in England. Well, it is the summer and off-season since he left the Manchester for Madrid we get the same … (read more)

Posted: 19th, June 2017 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Oregon offer citizens a choice of three genders

From next month Oregon drivers can select any one of three genders for their licenses and state IDs. You can opt for M, F, or X.

The first recipient of the new rule … (read more)

Posted: 19th, June 2017 | In: News | Comment

Schools use loaned laptops to spy on students

Rhode Island schools operating ‘1-1’ programs are spying on students. Under the terms of the program adopted by 22 of the state’s 33 school districts, students each get a laptop supplied … (read more)

Posted: 19th, June 2017 | In: News, Technology | Comment

Phoenicopterus Rex: a giant pink flamingo looms over Black Rock City

 

The fetish for big man-made things is one of our pet loves. A trip round Australia in the 1990s introduced me to The Big… Ant, Apple, Avocado, Banana, Chook and lots, … (read more)

Posted: 19th, June 2017 | In: News, The Consumer | Comment

A camera falls from an airplane and lands in a trough for pigs

A camera falls from an airplane and lands in a trough for pigs.

 

Una cámara cae desde un avión y acaba en un abrevadero para cerdos. pic.twitter.com/WxqTWDmgSL— Enrique Coperías (@TapasDeCiencia) June … (read more)

Posted: 18th, June 2017 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Biased BBC identifies three Palestinian murderers as victims of Israeli violence

 

When Israeli police officer Hadas Malka, 23, was stabbed to death, the BBC headlined the story: “Three Palestinians killed after deadly stabbing in Jerusalem.” Let’s put some other recent news … (read more)

Posted: 18th, June 2017 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment

Extremists’ demands for collective guilt unite Grenfell, Manchester and London

Grenfell Tower: Get angry, stay angry. Overthrow the Government. ‘Blood, blood, blood on your hands.’
Manchester and London: Don’t get angry. Let’s love one another.

 

 

Horrific events have claimed many lives in … (read more)

Posted: 18th, June 2017 | In: Key Posts, News, Reviews | Comment

After Grenfell: the revolting clamour for Theresa May’s tears and Corbyn’s embrace

“This is what leadership looks like,” says one tweeter by a photo of Jeremy Corbyn hugging a woman after the Grenfell Tower horror. It looks like compassion. It looks like … (read more)

Posted: 17th, June 2017 | In: News, Politicians | Comment

Theresa May waits for the nation say story to her

Theresa May is reeling. This is not the time for her to be confronted by people by Grenfell Tower. Mrs May is in a weakened position and has housing and employment concerns to … (read more)

Posted: 17th, June 2017 | In: News, Politicians | Comment

After Grenfell: Kensington and Chelsea warns children to stop playing football or else

How’s that London Olympic Legacy coming along? How goes the spirit of 2012 and all that euphoria? Not well. Not well at all if you’re poor. Residents in the flats … (read more)

Posted: 17th, June 2017 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment

After Grenfell: Tory haters are using the victims’ graves for a political slogan

Much nastiness has been written about the Tories since the horror at Grenfell. As I’ve said, the race to blame, to point the finger and scream “Murderers” at people who clearly … (read more)

Posted: 17th, June 2017 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez isn’t cryptic he’s just spouting nonsense

Transfer balls: Is Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez speaking in code or just trite attempts at aphorisms?

The Daily Mirror has been watching Sanchez’s Instagram account. It tells readers: ‘Arsenal fans beg Alexis … (read more)

Posted: 16th, June 2017 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Artist creates brain-controlled sperm

 

If you sperm start swimming towards the front door and then onto Massachusetts, this is why? Ani Liu reveals her plan:
Reflecting on the cultural and scientific discourses that shape notions of … (read more)

Posted: 16th, June 2017 | In: Strange But True, Technology | Comment

Man sues date for texting during Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2

Brandon Vezmar is suing his date for $17.31, the price of the movie ticket he bought her. Vezmar claims the woman’s behaviour on their night out “is a threat to civilized … (read more)

Posted: 16th, June 2017 | In: Film, Money, Strange But True | Comment

Rabbi takes a ‘kill pill’ to become MMA fighter

Mazel tov, Rabbi Yossi Eilfort on winning your first MMA fight.

UFC fighter Thierry Sokoudjou tells us: “I never thought that a rabbi would be interested in fighting. But I … (read more)

Posted: 16th, June 2017 | In: Sports, Strange But True | Comment

Los Angeles honors Adam West with Bat-signal on City Hall

Los Angeles honors Adam West with bat-signal on City Hall. ❤ pic.twitter.com/YCNGYSVQZa— Scott Weinberg (@scottEweinberg) June 16, 2017

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Posted: 16th, June 2017 | In: TV & Radio | Comment

After Grenfell Tower arrests and party politics: ‘life is a game with many rules but no referee’

After Grenfell Tower the media and politicians are demanding that we find someone to blame. The horror invites many questions about the 24-storey tower block’s cladding, sprinklers, fire-alarms, house building, the cost and … (read more)

Posted: 16th, June 2017 | In: News, Politicians, Reviews | Comment

The original Twitter homepage linked to Instagram

 

 

In the “What your friends…” box on the first version of Twitter, we see the name of Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom. He got in early – one of the first 400 to … (read more)

Posted: 16th, June 2017 | In: Technology | Comment

New York Times points fingers at Sarah Palin in GOP baseball attack

The New York Times has news. It might even be fake news. Or it might just be wrong. James T Hodgkinson, 66, from Belleville, Illinois, a volunteer on the Bernie … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2017 | In: Politicians | Comment

Gender roles: Anything becomes all about the boy

Acting. Isn’t that about pretending to be someone you are not? One writer takes issue with indie movie Anything, staring Matt Bomer:
However, it is not Bomer’s incontestable conventional attractiveness that is … (read more)

Posted: 15th, June 2017 | In: Film | Comment

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