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CHRISTMAS IS RUINED: The best festive stories of 2017 – so far
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, and angries are going to the papers because their landlord is a twat. There’s nothing quite like the festive season to bring out the very worst in people, so we present this year’s best CHRISTMAS IS RUINED stories so far. Derby Telegraph: Couple’s Christmas is RUINED after landlord…
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From the archives: That time a couple booked a Las Vegas holiday from Glasgow Airport in MONTANA
“Read the small print” is always very good advice. But you should also read the BLOODY MASSIVE PRINT too. This is especially the case when you are planning your holiday in Las Vegas and come across a suspiciously cheap flight deal. This might be because you’ve made a bloody massive mistake. Daily Record (2015): Couple miss…
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Hammers fist down on the NOSE-HOLDING KLAXON, Aussie-style
Stories with people holding their nose are virtually guaranteed to be featured on our pages, but this one’s extra special. Because not only is this one about BINS, but it’s from the world’s greatest local rag, The NT News. NT News usually go for tales of croc attacks and drunkenness in Aussie’s Top End, but…
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APILN teams up with Eagle Radio for the Secret Santa appeal
We at the Satirists’ Secret Santa appeal are amazed at your generosity, with over 5,500 gifts donated to children around the UK. That’s over £43,000 raised to give the kiddiewinks a happy Christmas. And now we’re helping kids in the EAGLE RADIO area. We teamed up with the Newsthump, Southend News Network and Rochdale Herald…
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The Cambridge News has duffed up their front page and everybody’s lost it
Another day, another edition of the Cambridge News sent to the printers. Did you remember to check the front page for mistakes, editor? You did? Jolly good. The kind of duff up that has layout editors waking up in the early hours screaming. Not only a 100PT SPLASH HEADING HERE hitting the city of Cambridge,…
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Aussie couple driven up the wall by wild bird’s mating call
Here’s a giant woman and her very very small husband beating frying pans and messing about with a pressure washer to try to get a lovelorn bird to shut up. But all he wants is a beautiful lady bird to love. Why can’t they go to the bird shop and get one? I bet they’ve…
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It’s December, which can only mean one thing: CHRISTMAS IS RUINED
Christmas! The happiest time of the year. Unless, of course, you read local newspapers, then it’s a cavalcade of misery. There’s nothing quite like the festive season to bring out the very worst in people, which – of course – makes for great reading in the papers. And there’s nothing that says CHRISTMAS IS RUINED…
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The Angry People in Local Newspapers shop, for all your FUMMIN needs
Now’s the time to pick up APILN merchandise in a choice of styles and colours. Yes, I’ve only been doing APILN for about eight years, and I’ve finally got my act together with the T-shirts, spotter’s badges and other guff that the readers have [ACTUALLY] demanded. And all reasonably priced from British supplier Spreadshirt. CLICK…
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YouTube Comment Reconstructions is still the best of YouTube ever
From the seething ocean of YouTube comments emerged YouTube Comment Reconstructions, and four years on, it is still a work of beauty. For the uninitiated, it is a video series in which genuine serious actors reconstruct the hellish horror that happens below the line on YouTube, bringing them the gravitas they clearly do not deserve.…
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Give the kiddiewinks a happy Christmas with the Big Fat Secret Santa
Angry People in Local Newspapers has joined our pals at Newsthump, Southend News Network and The Rochdale Herald in the Big Fat Secret Santa, bringing Christmas presents to disadvantaged kiddiewinks around the UK. We’ve joined forces with Reading Family Aid’s Toys and Teens Appeal 2017, Rochdale Giving Back Christmas Toy Appeal, and Southend on Sea…