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NUS: Israelis are never killed by ‘terrorists’ and anti-Semitism not a problem

 

In 1972 Palestinian terror outfit Black September murdered 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympics.

Ilana Romano says her husband Yossef was tied up and castrated:
“What they did is that they cut off … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, December 2015 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)


Sarah Vine and online attacks on Gordon Ramsay’s ‘promiscuous’ daughters

 

For two days the Daily Mail has published this photograph of TV chef Gordon Ramsay’s four children: Jack, 16, Matilda, 14, Holly, 16, and Megan, 17. It was twins Jack … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, December 2015 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Reviews, Tabloids | Comment


Caffeine-Use Disorder is as real as your hallucinations

 

Scare story of the day is found in the Daily Mail (natch.), wherein we learn of “caffeine-use disorder”.

Sophie Freeman asks:
But how do you know when your love of coffee has … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, December 2015 | In: Reviews, Tabloids, The Consumer | Comment


Judge allowed defendant to be accompanied by his cat in court

 

To Chelmsford Crown Crown, Essex, where defendant Aiden Wiltshire, 72, is in the dock. To his side is his cat Taylor, perched in a wheeled shopping trolley.

ITV says Mr Wiltshire “continually stroked” … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, December 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment


The Dog with Musical Ears (video)

This dog that sing and dance with his ears. Wow!
… (read more)

Posted: 2nd, December 2015 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Arsenal: Alexis Sanchez performs hokey cokey to prove his fitness

 

How injured is Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez?

He’s IN!

The Mirror: “Sanchez has handed Arsenal a huge boost ahead of Christmas the New Year.”

He’s OUT!

The Sun: “Arsene Wenger fears Alexis Sanchez may miss the … (read more)

Posted: 2nd, December 2015 | In: Arsenal, Reviews, Sports, Tabloids | Comment


Tabloids keep ISIS guessing when bombing raids will begin

 

When will Britain begin bombing Islamic State, formerly “so-called Islamic State”? The Mail says it’s 48 hours. The Sun says it’s 36 hours.

Jeremy Corbyn says ‘NEVER!”

Good old, Jezza. Loose lips sink … (read more)

Posted: 1st, December 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Court rules a BMW motorbike will not give you a 2-day erection

BMW – ‘But Mine Works’

 

Can a BMW give you a two-day erection? The Marin Independent Journal learns the truth:
Wolf claimed he suffered an acute case of priapism – … (read more)

Posted: 1st, December 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment


Driver who killed teenager didn’t have a licence because he’s blind

 

Hector Arroyo, 68, called police to tell hem he’d hit a deer while her was out driving. He had;’t. He’d hit and killed 13-year-old Helina Dirba.

Arroyo told Detective James Maltby he didn’t stop … (read more)

Posted: 1st, December 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment


Arsenal balls: the media crisis that isn’t

 

Arsenal have a lot of players injured. But some how they’ve managed to give themselves a fighting chance of progressing in the Champions’ League and sit just two points from … (read more)

Posted: 1st, December 2015 | In: Arsenal, Reviews, Sports | Comment


Transfer balls: Chelsea in for Manchester United’s Thomas Muller

The Mirror says Chelsea have joined the hunt for Bayern Munich’s Thomas Muller. In “Muller In.. Mauler Out”, the paper says the German will replace Diego Costa, the Blues’ charmless … (read more)

Posted: 1st, December 2015 | In: Chelsea, manchester united, Reviews, Sports | Comment


Listen to Manchester’s Beetham Tower groan and hum in the wind

If you listen you can hear Manchester’s Beetham Tower grown in the wind.

 

… (read more)

Posted: 30th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment


Tristram Hunt ‏MP ‘Beyond Excited” Stoke to get a Pizza Express

Labour MP Tristram Hunt says he is “Beyond Excited’ to learn that Stoke is to get a branch of the Pizza Express restaurant chain.

BEYOND EXCITED!

 

 

Tristram Hunt is not a parody … (read more)

Posted: 30th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment


Clickbait football: Manchester United and the ‘Jamie Vardy’ reject

In Clickbait Football, the Metro has news on the Manchester United “reject” who could have been Louis Van Gaal’s Jamie Vardy.

The paper’s headline declares:
Stats: Man United reject proving he could’ve … (read more)

Posted: 30th, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | Comment


Chelsea balls: Costa tosses his pink toys and misses Mourinho

Diego Costa is more entertaining off the pitch than on it. The Chelsea striker “threw his substitute bib at Jose Mourinho and his toys out of the pram” after being dropped, says … (read more)

Posted: 30th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment


Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy gets the Hollywood movie treatment

 

Jamie Vardy, Leicester City’s can’t-stop-scoring striker, is to star in a Hollywood film, says the Sun. Well, not him, but an actor playing the 28-year-old footballer.

And who might that actor … (read more)

Posted: 30th, November 2015 | In: Celebrities, Reviews, Sports | Comment


Princess Charlotte photos: three eyes, a comb-over and everything sponsored

 

Pictures of Princess Charlotte occupy the front pages of the Mail, Telegraph, Mirror and Express.

The Mirror says the child’s hair  is “light brown – somewhere between  the colour of Kate’s darks locks and … (read more)

Posted: 30th, November 2015 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Royal Family | Comment


Premier League footballer in Sun schoolgirl stunna sexting sensation

Which part of this Sun headline excites you the most?
Premier league star meets uniformed schoolgirl in street… then sends pics of his manhood just hours later
If it’s the part of … (read more)

Posted: 29th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Tabloids | Comment


Transfer balls: Liverpool in for 7 Dortmund players (and one plays for Manchester United)

The Metro reports Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp as having said “nothing stopping Liverpool grabbing Marco Reus and Mats Hummels”.

Is that really what he said? Because last January the Metro reported that Reus had … (read more)

Posted: 29th, November 2015 | In: Liverpool, Reviews, Sports, Tabloids | Comment


ISIS and the nanny State agree: smoking is punishable by death

Can we relate to ISIS? Yes, says Brendan O’Neill, we can because they are like the worst of us.

 

Both are punishable by death

 

He notes:
ISIS hates everything … (read more)

Posted: 29th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment


Record Thief Returns Stolen Stone Roses LP After Finding God

 

A born-again Christian regrets stealing vinyl from Out On The Floor Records in London’s Camden Town 10 years ago. The thief realised that his religion looks unkindly on stealing, so he parcelled up the … (read more)

Posted: 29th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment


Why are 27 nail-studded baseball bats tied to phone polls in San Francisco?

In San Francisco, police have found 27 baseball bats tied to poles. The bats are studded with nails. Is insurrection in the air?

 

 

 

Sgt. Michael Andraychak says it’s “very strange”.

 

 

Is San Francisco … (read more)

Posted: 29th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment


Transfer balls: rubbish Leicester City’s Vardy passes Manchester United and Chelsea test

Vardy passes his United audition

Transfer balls: Leicester City have “slapped” a £30 million price tag on Jamie Vardy to “ward off interest from Chelsea and Manchester … (read more)

Posted: 29th, November 2015 | In: Sports | Comment


Transfer balls: Ronaldo in the ‘clear’ for Manchester United

Manchester United have been “ion red alert” for Cristiano Ronaldo ever since the player they bought from Lisbon said he dreamt of playing for Real Madrid and duly left the club.

Today the Metro … (read more)

Posted: 28th, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | Comment