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Old Jews on Miami’s South Beach in the 1980s (with added jokes)
MY mother loves Miami. Her friend – he’s 83 – drives a Honda Goldwing. His girlfriend wears leather trousers – green ones. They enjoy life. Gay Block loves it , too. She produced a series of photographs of old Jews who live in South Miami Beach. The images are in her book, About Love. She notes:
“When I saw Miami’s South Beach for the first time, in 1982, I was awed by the beauty of the small Deco hotels, but I was even more fascinated by the old people sitting on the porches. The first night, when I stopped at one of those porches, it was love at first sight. I knew right away that I would return again and again to talk with and photograph these people. There were the bubbes and zaydes (grandmothers and grandfathers) I had longed for. I was drawn to return again and again over the next four years, until gentrification changed South Beach forever and it became a place for the young and hip.”
Before the photos, a joke:
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Posted: 30th, June 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment (1)
The 12 Worst Pop Music Lyrics Ever
SHOULD the dancing and the singing and the breeding not work out for her, Britney Spears is showing signs of being a pretty good lyricist.
Speaking through the tears on a TV interview, Britney is heard to say:
“It’s bad. I’m sad.”
In your face, Chris de Burgh, who notoriously rhymed “dance” with “romance” in his seminal hit Lady In Red.
Anorak has delved into the pop archives and now brings you the 10 Worst Rhymes In Pop. Chins up, Britney, you may yet be great:
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Posted: 30th, June 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (14)
FLASHBACK: The biggest Wimbledon shocks – ever!
THIS week’s defeat of former Wimbledon champion and current number two seed Rafael Nadal has been described as one of the greatest upsets in history. His second-round exit at the hands of world number 100 Lukas Rosol was certainly one of the most extraordinary games ever seen at the All England club, and deserves to take its place among the biggest shocks of the world’s top tennis tournament. But is it the greatest ever? Recent decades have thrown up a few serious contenders…
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The London Cable Car is open for tourists visting South London the long, slow and expensive way
THE London Cable Car is go! Transport for London’s gondola lift cable cars are taking people across the River Thames, making the half-mile crossing between Greenwich and the Royal Docks that little starrier. From the 34 cabins you can see the Olympic Park, Canary Wharf, South London, the Thames Barrier, Brixton and my granny’s house. A one-way ticket on the ‘Emirates Air Line’ costs £3.20. Each pod holds up to 10 passengers.
The fares are:
Cash single fare:
Adult boarding pass £4.30
Child boarding pass £2.20
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Barack Obama and the marijuana toking Choom Gang – Ruby Dreams of My President
ZOMBIE CANNIBALS are about to run legal in Barack Obama’s Chicago. The city has voted to decriminalise minor marijuana possession. Possessing cannabis is illegal. Now, however, owner will get a fine. Chicago joins Seattle, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia is approaching sense.
We’re still not there yet, though. The decision to fine and by how much will be left to the Chicago police service. Get caught holding less than 15g of weed and expect a fine ranging from $250 to $500.
The move was brought by Barack Obama’s old Chief of Staff mayor Rahm Emanuel. He was aided by Chicago police superintendent, Gary McCarthy, who said most of the 20,000 yearly arrests of marijuana possession create criminal cases that are dropped. This new way frees up police time to chase actual criminals and count all that money from fines, an estimated $7m.
So. As Chicago finds a legal way to tax illegal marijuana, we look at President Obama. Did he inhale?
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Posted: 28th, June 2012 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)
10 disgusting things found inside processed food
OUR gallery of 10 disgusting things found inside processed food is enlightening. Makes you wonder what gets fished out before it reaches the consumer? What surprise have you found in your dinner..?
chicken-head
An American mother went to a McDonald's with her two 6 and 8 -year old children. She ordered two Happy Meals with chicken for the children and a hamburger with fries for herself. While they were eating, the 6-year old was more interested in the slide across the street than in the chicken nuggets which he didn't even touch. So the mother decided she would eat them. Without actually watching what she was doing she was bringing a chicken biggest to her mouth, just when her 8-year old son yelled not to eat it. So she looked at the biggest to find that -- despite the crust, it looked just like a chicken's head.The manager offered them their meal for free and two more weeks of free meals. The mother pressed charges and demanded 100,000 dollars compensation.
Spotter: Complex, Oddee, Yahoo
Posted: 28th, June 2012 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
Was Rudy Eugene driven to cannibalism by marijuana?
RUDY Euguene, the so-called Miami cannibal, was only on marijuana when he attacked Ronald Poppo, eating much of the older man’s face.
The coroner’s report informs us, via the Miami Herald:
“The department has ruled out the most common drugs found in ‘bath salts,’ a press release from the ME’s office said. The toxicology testing “has identified the active components of marijuana,” the release said. “The laboratory has tested for but not detected any other street drugs, alcohol or prescription drugs, or any adulterants found in street drugs. This includes cocaine, LSD, amphetamines (Extasy, Meth and others), phencyclidine (PCP or Angel Dust), heroin, oxycodone, Xanax, synthetic marijuana (Spice), and many other similar compounds.”
The ME’s office said it sought the help of an outside forensic toxicology lab, “which has confirmed the absence of ‘bath salts,’ synthetic marijuana and LSD.” The ME’s office said that “within the limits of current technology by both laboratories,” marijuana was the only drug found in Eugene’s system.
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Posted: 27th, June 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (6)
Monos is a tumblr of disturbing make-up
TUMBLR of the day is Monos, a Japanese blog focusing on make-up. Hold off on getting that revolting tattoo, readers. This stuff washes away:
Spotter: Laughing Squid
Posted: 26th, June 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Germany outlaws child circumcision – Muslims and Jews should be afraid
FIRST they came for the halal and kosher meat.
Then they came for the clothes.
Now a court in Cologne, Germany, has decreed that circumcision constitutes bodily harm and is thus outside the a legal guardian’s authority.
The Financial Times Deutschland reports on a Muslim doctor, who, at the request of the boy’s parents, circumcised a four-year-old. The procedure did not go well. The boy needed hospital treatment.
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Posted: 26th, June 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (8)
The Twitter hunt for ‘racist’ Steve @Lapwnge: Ashley Cole and Ashley Young must be avenged
THERE was little racism in evidence at the Euro 2012 Championships in The Ukraine and Poland. The BBC and the tabloids had warned England fans about neo-Nazi gangs waiting to murder blacks, Asians and Jews. In “Anarchy in the Ukraine – ‘Nazi’ militia train yobs to fight our fans“, the Sun showed us local thugs rehearsing for murder with wooden knives. But Ashley Young’s family sat in the stands for England’s match with Italy came home not in coffin, as Sol Campbell told BBC viewers black fans might, but on the smart seats of a passenger plane.
The message was clear: we will not tolerate those uncultured (Daniel Pudsey writing for the LSE) East Europeans living in a backward land “notorious for its extremist yobs“ (Sun) with “endemic racism“ (Daily Mail).
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Posted: 26th, June 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports, Technology | Comment
Roller Coaster dad says ‘Never Again Grace’
ROLLER COASTER dad says, “Never Again Grace.”
Spotter: Karen
Who really killed 2-year-old Hadeel Ahmed Al-Haddad in Gaza?
A CHILD has died on the Gaza Strip. She was just two-years-old. How did Achhad Hadeel Ahmed Al-Haddad, aka Hadil al-Haddad, die?
The PalTimes – a “Palestinian news site working to address and follow up on all political issues and daily committed to accuracy” – reports:
Zionist war planes bombed a house just west of Al Farouk Mosque near al-Zaytoun neighborhood, which led to the death of Achhad Hadeel Ahmed Al-Haddad, 2, and wounding her brother, 3, was slightly wounded.
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Kevin Brennan MP never was much cop at darts – do the maths
HOW bright do you need to be to be an MP? In this masterclass, Kevin Brennan, Labour education spokesman and MP for Cardiff West, says three in 10 pupils achieved good GCSEs in 1997. As any fule knows that’s “60 per cent.” As he said:
”It was we who inherited a weak system on maths and English from the Tories. Only three in 10 pupils, that’s 60 per cent because I know the Secretary of State is not very good at maths, only three in 10 pupils got a good GCSE in 1997.”
All funny stuff. If an Oxford graduate and former economics teacher can’t do the sums, who can?
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Posted: 23rd, June 2012 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Karen Huff Klein gets abused on a New York school bus by young fat busters
EGGED on by the State-sanctioned war on the fat, the kids on board the Greece School District bus in Greece, N.Y, set about abusing (surely, encouraging her to lose weight – ed) Karen Huff Klein, a 68-year-old bus monitor.
The most popular terms of abuse if “fat ass”. A playground wit tells her “you don’t have a family because they all killed themselves because they don’t want to be near you.” Her son killed himself ten years earlier. The nippers knew this. They advise her that she will “die of diabetes.”
It’s all pretty much the usual expert-inspired stuff, in which the fat are told to objectify themselves and their roly-poly kids, who are responsible for draining the health system of funds and killing the planet. Kids, he, they really do just pick up adult prejudices.
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Posted: 22nd, June 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
Jimmy Carr fluffs his lines
JIMMY Carr has become the face of the wrong-minded tax-dodger. You’d think that a satire-mined comic would revel in this, using it as a chance to be the baddie, goading the right-minded with his legally earned cash and how he and Take That are being blamed for the collapse of the financial system. “Sod it,” says Carr. “I’ve hit the easy liberal-friendly targets (women, Christians, bankers), been BBC compliant and made a mint as the on-message TV panel show stalwart.” Now I’ll do the risky stuff. I won’t be on the telly, for sure, but I’ll make you laugh.”
It gets better when marketing man David Cameron calls Jimmy Carr “not morally right”. Has there ever been better badge of honour? Wear it with pride, Mr Carr. Use it as slogan for your nationwide tour. Jerry Sadowitz is knocking on a bit. It’s time for a new pariah.
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Posted: 21st, June 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
The Royal Ascot dress code in full
TO Royal Ascot with the Daily Mail, who having led with blonde Joanna Southgate’s tattoos (arms), today leads with blonde Zoe Neilson’s ring (nose) and bra strap (black). Fot added raciness, the paper tells readers that Neilson attended St Mary’s boarding school, Oxfordshire (£29,000 per annum). Like a school girl on her way home via the precinct, she tells readers:
“I knew my dress was too short so I tugged it down just before I went through the gates.”
And then, presumable hoisted it up again once out of site of Miss and Sir.
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Boston atheist vows to defy police and display poster stating all religion is fairy stories
JOHN Richards, of Boston, Lincolnshire, has been told that he faces arrests if his post decrying relgions as “fairy stories” causes offence. Because anything can cause offence to those who seek it out, Mr Richards is doomed.
According to Lincolnshire Police, the 1986 Public Order Act states that “a person is guilty of an offence if they display a sign which is threatening or abusive or insulting with the intent to provoke violence or which may cause another person harassment, alarm or distress.”
That nonsense is followed by the police’s laughable lines:
“This is balanced with a right to free speech and the key point is that the offence is committed if it is deemed that a reasonable person would find the content insulting.”
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Posted: 20th, June 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
10 best juxtaposed newspaper images ever (2)
JUXTAPOSED images of the day feature the paedophile priest, the dog hurter, the ferry jumper and the teen rapist… (The first batch is here.)
The Sounds of Silence, Seventies style censorship
THE re-release of the Sex Pistols’ God Save the Queen, 25 years after its last Jubilee disgrace, has set the cat among the pigeons once again.
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Posted: 19th, June 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Music | Comment (1)
The 10 most awful books covers and titles
ARE these the 10 most awful book titles and covers in English literature? (More epic covers here. And more lusty stuff is here.)
When tennis stars go mad: Nalbandian, McEnroe, Williams and even Timmy Henman explode
WHEN tennis stars go mad:
David Nalbandian’s assault on a hapless hoarding at the Queen’s club was itself sufficient to warrant a stern rebuke and possibly even disciplinary action. But the unfortunate collateral damage – a nasty shin injury to the line judge who was seated immediately behind the advertising board – has catapulted the angry Argentinian into the lawn tennis hall of shame, and earned him worldwide notoriety.
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Martha Payne uses her school dinner blog to promote the Roman Catholicism in Africa
MARTHA Payne was doing it for a Christian charity. The nine-year-old blogger has so far raised £70,000 for charity after Argyll and Bute Council forbade her from posting photos of her Lochgilphead Primary school dinners on her blog and then, in the media spotlights, caved in.
Matha Payne is raising cash for school dinners in Malawi. She has taken the parental advice, that if the kids in Africa are starving they can have my revolting dinner, by raising enough money to feed the children over there.
Matha scores each meal on her “food-o-meter”, giving the mush a health rating. She then counts the number of mouthfuls she needs to eat it. When it’s peas and smoked haddock the mouthful count can top 23,000!
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Posted: 17th, June 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (8)
Luka Magnotta: He might have practiced for murder on his doll Barbie
LUKA Magnotta is in a cell in Berlin, awaiting extradition to Canada. The head of his alleged victim, Jun Lin, has not been found. So far, two hands and two feet from Lin’s body have arrived via the post at part two Vancouver schools, the Ottawa headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada and another addressed to the country’s Liberal party was intercepted at the post office.
Montreal police Commander Ian Lafreniere tells media:
“The state of the body is so bad. It was cut. It was dismembered. This is a very hard case for us in terms of being extremely gross. We’re still missing body parts.”
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Tattoo portraits – touching signs of your indelible love
YOU liked our gallery of tribute tattoos so much we’ve pulled together another one. Are you fan enough to get inked with your child’s face? What’s the matter with you? Don’t you love your kids? Getting their names on your arm and ankles is soooo last season. You want their face on your face. That’s love. Real love…
Posted: 13th, June 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Shot Girls: Vanity Wonder uncovers the black market in silicon buttock injections
VANITY Wonder is the woman lifting the lid on the world of black market buttock injections. In Shot Girls, Vanity revela such moments as meeting Luxor:
Her breasts were huge and she had a big jiggly booty. She was over 6ft tall though, with huge hands and feet and her voice was kind of, well, deep. I blew it off like maybe she was just a big woman.
While the two of them caught up, Luxor brashly instructed Casey to put the numbing ointment on me and Denim. He called us over one at a time and rubbed a gel on our butts, then covered them with saran wrap. When I pulled my pants down, he was surprised.
“OH! You smell just like baby powder! It’s nice to get somebody in here that smell good. Some of these girls come in here smellin’ so bad!” he said.
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Posted: 13th, June 2012 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment (1)
