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Kim Jong-un reading from a piece of paper is the meme that keeps on giving
One thing led to another while I was watching North Korean television yesterday (shut up), and I uploaded a screen grab of Kim Jong-un reading from a piece of paper onto Twitter with a vaguely amusing caption. This one, in fact: "And after the meat raffle, we've got a comedian. But don't bring the kiddiewinks,…
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Nazis who can’t draw swastikas STRIKE AGAIN
Nazis are never the most intelligent sort of people, as their inability to draw their own fascist symbol proves time and again. And the latest manifestation of this phenomenon comes from Essex, where the local knuckle-dragger dragged his bones down to the offices of the local newspaper to give them a piece of his tiny…
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Archive: Aussie bloke does a mad dog impression on TV news
After yesterday’s mad clip of an Australian politician being possessed by the ghost of a bitter crocodile hunter, here’s more evidence that the sun down under turns your brain. What started as a routine news story about dogs being allowed to run amok around his street, turned Sydney pensioner Ray Graham into an overnight sensation…
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Watch an Aussie politician suddenly become possessed by the spirit of poor, dead Crocodile Dundee
This is possibly one of the weirdest political interviews we have ever seen. But then, it’s Australia, and anything goes in local politics. One minute North Queensland politician Bob Katter is giving his blessing to the forthcoming legislation on equal marriage following the positive result to the national referendum. Then, he changes. One of the…
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From the Archives: Driver’s fury over ban on his personalised number plate
Got a personalised number plate? Congratulations, you have money to burn in a classy, showy manner that doesn’t annoy anybody in the slightest. Just make sure it’s not – you know – a little bit illegal, because the rozzers don’t like it. Brighton Argus: Brighton businessman told his MR L10N number plate is illegal, and he’s…
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The Cumbria News and Star’s Orchestral Removers in the Dark front page is proper genius
Crime hits the streets of Brampton in Cumbria, as thieves make off with £40,000 of musical instruments in a night time raid. While this story may pass unnoticed, even with it’s APILN-worthy photograph of the aggrieved shop owner, it’s when Cumbria News and Star sub-editors took over that it all took new levels of madness.…
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CHRISTMAS IS RUINED! The countdown to a miserable Yuletide has begun
Halloween and Guy Fawkes have come and gone, and that can only mean one thing – people getting annoyed at Christmas. And it’s already started with the news that Gregg’s have apologised for switching sweet baby Jesus for a half-eaten sausage roll, and brain-dead racists threatening to boycott Tesco because their Christmas advert includes people…
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Which lo-fi celebrity is switching on your town’s Christmas lights? (Hint: It’s Antony Cotton out of Corrie)
It’s that time of the year when everybody crowds into the town centre, a c-list celebrity pretends to switch on the lights, and the crowd goes home cold and miserable and complaining that there were too many people there and the lights were worse than last year’s. So who’s turning on your local lights?…
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Nottingham woman left mortified by anonymous gift of hideous Paddy McGuinness plate
There are many things that you don’t want in your life. Ebola. Rabid weasels. And new to the list – a commemorative Paddy McGuinness plate. And you really don’t want a commemorative Paddy McGuinness plate. Mere photographs cannot put across the full horror of this rare item, but photographs you shall have. Nottingham Post: Woman vows to…
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From the Archives: Mum goes to war with school over cheese in school lunches
What’s the hill you’re prepared to die on? Fighting racism? Kicking hatred out of society? How about cheese in school lunches? I myself am prepared to fight to the death over the new one pound coins, but then they should never have got rid of those fivers you had to fold half a dozen times…