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Cynthia Robinson (1944 – 2015)

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Cynthia Robinson has died of cancer. The musician played trumpet with Sly And The Family Stone Roots drummer Questlove salutes her life:
… she wasn’t just a screaming cheerleading foil to … (read more)

Posted: 28th, November 2015 | In: Celebrities, Music, Reviews | Comment

Dog gets stick stuck in his urethra (photos)

 

Basil the elderly Jack Russell was out walking in Chapel Hill, Lincolnshire, when a shaft of plant got wedged up his urethra.

 

 

“He was walking like John Wayne when he ran back … (read more)

Posted: 28th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Mother hosted beer and weed party for 12 to 14-year-olds

Mandy Wells

 

To Texas, where mother-of-three Mandy Wells, 32, tells police she “thought for minute that it was a bad idea” to provide alcohol and drugs to a … (read more)

Posted: 28th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Arsenal balls: Gunners take glorious 14 minute flight to Norwich

Upset at the long, long wait for flying cars, Arsenal have used a passenger jet to make the 14-minute flight from London Luton airport to Norwich ahead of Sunday’s game at … (read more)

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

An open letter to Katie Hopkins: keep going!

Katie: keeping hacks employed

When the Independent vowed to say no more on former reality TV contestant Katie Hopkins’s to-deadline polemics, we wondered if it would last. … (read more)

Posted: 28th, November 2015 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Reviews | Comment

Why sprinkling LSD on your breakfast cures anxiety

Off to work on LSD – the day just flies by

 

Taking 10-15 micrograms of LSD every morning can cure anxiety and insomnia. So says Dr James Fadiman:
People do it and … (read more)

Posted: 28th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Ribery joins Arsenal, shuns Manchester United and heads to Chelsea

Can it be that Chelsea are ready to pay £45million for Bayern Munich’s Franck Ribery? Yes, says the Daily Mail. It’s true! The paper declares:
“Roman Abramovich to break the bank for Bayern … (read more)

Posted: 27th, November 2015 | In: Chelsea, Key Posts, Reviews, Sports | Comment

The Arab-Muslim IDF Soldier With The ‘Long Live Israel’ Tattoo

Samal Ziyad (not his actual name) has a tattoo on his arm. It says ‘Long live the State of Israel’. Ziyad, who serves with the IDF’s Bedouin Trackers Unit, is … (read more)

Posted: 26th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

The Times corrects The Sun story on British Muslims supporting ISIS

The Times has issued a clarification of a poll that was first reported in The Sun.

 

The Times:

 

 

Aside the glaring errors, the poll was, er, spot on.

  … (read more)

Posted: 26th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Transfer balls: Ronaldo shuns Manchester United and follows a stranger to PSG

Did you see that Angel Di Maria has given a “massive hint” that Cristiano Ronaldo is going to join him at PSG? What!? He’s not joining Manchester United? The Sun tells us:
Di … (read more)

Posted: 26th, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Ursula Haverbeck gets prison for Holocaust denial: free speech under attack

If you believe in free speech, the idea that nothing should be censored, that nothing is unsayable, then you should defend Ursula Haverbeck’s right to liberty. Haverbeck, a far-right Nazi fan, has … (read more)

Posted: 26th, November 2015 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)

Newspapers only feature naked or hired women on front pages

A survey in January this year revealed that women do read newspapers.

 

Via

 

But how do newspapers report on women?

These are today’s front pages:

 

The only women on the front pages … (read more)

Posted: 26th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

Chelsea balls: Mourinho attacks Arsenal with praise

In “Why I don’t want Arsenal to go through”, the Mirror leads its posts coverage with the words of Chelsea’s manager Jose Mourinho.

 

 

Reader can think of any number of reason why the … (read more)

Posted: 26th, November 2015 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Japanese department store offers one ‘F*CKIN’ SALE’

To Osaka, where the Gallerie store is holding a “Fuckin’ Sale”.
Update: it’s been changed.

Spotter: Steven Levy, Japan Subculture blog, Adrian Chen … (read more)

Posted: 25th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comments (2)

Anti-Semite Dieudonne becomes a martyr

Anti-Semetic, Jew-obsessed French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala has been sentenced to two months in jail by a Belgian court for being an anti-Semite. A Belgian court says Dieudonne broke the law when he … (read more)

Posted: 25th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

Arsenal balls: Petr Cech ran 4.6km against Dinamo Zagreb

Arsenal need to beat Olympiakos by two goals or score three and simply win to progress to the knockout phase of the Champions League.

Statistics in football can be tricky to comprehend. For instance, … (read more)

Posted: 24th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

Transfer balls: Arsenal send the stretchers for Lars Bender and William Carvalho

Will Arsenal buy a new player in the January transfer window? And will that player take out extra medical insurance? The BBC says Arsenal have “dossiers of holding midfielders” should … (read more)

Posted: 24th, November 2015 | In: Arsenal, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Silhan Ozcelik betrayed by justice, like all the Kurds

 

Silhan Ozcelik is in a British prison. You might be outraged. You should be.

This is how the Islington Gazette headlines the story of the young woman who went to join … (read more)

Posted: 24th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

Manchester United balls: the mounting injury crisis gets better fast

Ahead of Manchester United’s Champion’s League tie with PSV, the Independent has news:
Champions League: Manchester United’s injury woes continue to mount for PSV visit
United fans will see that headline. Worry. … (read more)

Posted: 24th, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Ronaldo 99% certain to join Manchester United (and 100% certain not to)

The Independent is so independent of thought its writers contradict each other freely. Sometimes they ever contradict themselves in the space of a few minutes. Today the paper has NINE stories … (read more)

Posted: 24th, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Aston Villa: Jack Grealish in hippy horror night out

Aston Villa footballer Jack Grealish went out and enjoyed himself his Aston Villa side lost 4-0 to Everton. This leads the Daily Mail’s sports news.

The facts in David Kent’s report are … (read more)

Posted: 24th, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Sports | Comment

Clock Boy Ahmed Mohamed wants $15m for ‘trauma’, lives in Qatar

 

You will remember Clock Boy, one Ahmed Mohamed. He was arrested after teachers at his Texas school thought the homemade clock he’d brought to class looked like a bomb.

Ahmed and his family have been … (read more)

Posted: 24th, November 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment

Manchester United balls: Wayne Rooney is off to play in China?

If this were the 1970s, and we were Benny Hill, we would describe the Sun’s back page exclusive that the Chinese are wooing Wayne Rooney as looney.

As it is the Sun says … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | Comment

Yodel delivery driver leaves package on top of customer’s roof

Ever use a ladder to retrieve a package?
YodelOnline Suprised your delivery driver decided to throw the package on the roof? Any reason why?

 
… (read more)

Posted: 23rd, November 2015 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Transfer balls: Ronaldo to Manchester United and Benitez to Coventry

 

Trouble at Real Madrid. One bruising defeat to Barcelona and Cristiano Ronaldo, 30, says of manager Rafael Benitez: “Either he goes, or I go.” And that means Ronaldo is off to play … (read more)

Posted: 23rd, November 2015 | In: manchester united, Reviews, Sports | Comment

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