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Woman curled up in tiny ball of embarrassment after ordering tiny kitchen utensils from Ebay
Ebay regret. We’ve all done it. We’ve all bought something without properly reading the description, and ended up (in my case) with a camera tripod made out of drinking straws, or a gigantic Stay-Puft marshmallow man. Nottingham Post: Bargain jug and glasses bought from Ebay turn out to be dolls house sized After clicking ‘buy it…
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I’ve been posting my letters in the dog poo box for TWO YEARS and other weird news classics
This classic story has arrived in our inbox yet again, so we thought it best that we stick it up on the website here and save it for the ages. Lord knows if it’s true or not, but – frankly – who cares? It has everything you hope for in a news story, but boils…
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Watch as a drunken Russian nutter punches a TV correspondent in the face
It’s Paratrooper Day in Russia, where drunken paratroopers gather in Moscow’s Gorky Park and get very, very drunk. OK, Russian paratroopers get very, very drunk every day, but today isn’t on the company’s time. So, enter Russia’s NTV television channel, who are doing a piece to camera about the festivities, and – frankly – it…
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Have we stumbled across the new Ron?
There is only one Ron. Ron is the pensioner who found himself at the wrong end of a £900 bill from Virgin Media for smutty films he swear he never watched, and his face in the Manchester Evening News has made him a cult star in certain internet circles. APILN: Everything you will ever need…
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Hull Council builds a fence across a man’s drive, have the front to ask him for feedback
Another one from the “You Had One Job” file. A big round of applause for contractors working for Hull City Council who left their brains at home when they went out to work. Hull Daily Mail: Council asks for feedback after cutting man’s drive in half with new fence I’m not a betting man, but I…
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Oxfordshire village ‘cut off’ from the outside world after thieves steal their post box
One of our favourite angry people poses: People pointing to the thing that isn’t there any more. In this case it is an antique Victorian post box, ripped from a wall to satisfy some collector (or, more likely to be melted down for 10 quid’s worth of scrap). Luckily, there is the pile of rubble…
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Priests asked to leave Cardiff pub after being mistaken for stag party
Catholic priests get a bad press among the licensed trades, mostly due to one Father Jack Hackett. So when a group of newly-ordained priests descended on a pub in Cardiff, it was only natural that the barman at the City Arms should have them out on their collective ear. In fact, he thought they were…
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Steampunk cosplayer is thrown out of family event for being too scary. Twice.
There’s one rule and one rule only for family events held down the park: Don’t frighten the kiddiewinks. And Lee here WENT TOO FAR when he decided that the Grimsby Wonderful World festival was just the right time and place to dress up as a plague doctor, complete with severed head. Grimsby Telegraph: Man is barred entry…
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Plymouth woman is FUMMIN because her bins haven’t been emptied in 12 weeks
Bins again. If the Brexit Remain campaigners had promised regular and efficient bin collections, they would have won easily, such is the importance of bins to the British householder. Plymouth Herald: Plymouth mum says nobody’s been to pick up her backlog of rubbish for three months Oh wait… what’s this coming in on the 11th paragraph?…
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Want to feel old? The pratfall road rage video is already two years old today
Apart from Kate Winslet, Ricky Gervais, Mike Oldfield, and Chris Tarrant, this is Reading’s cultural offering to the world. That, and locking up Oscar Wilde. It’s the time a cyclist with a helmet cam got into a bit of a stoush with and enraged motorist on Zinzan Street, already the town’s classiest street, and the…