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Furious letters, daft headlines, terrible poetry, and Peter Andre – December 2021
People won’t stop writing terrible poems to local newspapers. Good. ____________________ People won’t stop sending terrible smug letters to local newspapers. Good. ____________________ Local newspapers won’t stop writing pointless stories about Peter Andre. Good. ____________________ They put this behind a paywall. Bad. ____________________ You didn’t see this. Keep scrolling. ___________________ Nobody wants to hear about…
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Christmas is RUINED: The 2021 collection, part three – now into the rolling vistas of UTTER RUINATION and FIRE
____________________ Astonishingly, this isn’t a photo from the Hull Daily Mail about a couple who are furious because their festive tube of Pringles had a dead mouse inside and Christmas is RUINED, it’s a BBC promo image from the Two Doors Down Christmas special. Top tip: If your Christmas is RUINED, follow the professionals and…
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Christmas is RUINED: The 2021 collection, part two – Christmas is RUINEDER
Part One of Christmas is RUINED 2021 is over here. The best non-Christmas is RUINED stories from December are over here. ____________________ Liverpool Echo: Christmas is RUINED after kiddiewink finds chocolates inside her alleged luxury advent calendar aren’t very big at all Top tip: Save your Christmas from being RUINED by a disappointing advent calendar…
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The best of December stories so far but not Christmas is RUINED stories because they’ve got their own post thank you
For the best of this year’s Christmas is RUINED stories, click here. ____________________ Gloucestershire Live: Bomb Squad called to local hospital after man gets a WW2 shell stuck up his bumhole The old “I was cataloging my large collection of wartime memorabilia in the nude, and I slipped and fell onto this large artillery weapon,…
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Christmas is RUINED: The 2021 collection
It doesn’t take much to RUIN Christmas for everybody these days. Try to avoid these unfortunate scenarios to avoid having to run to your local newspaper about the death of this year’s festive season. Wolverhampton Express and Star: Christmas is RUINED after the Coco-Cola truck cancels stop in Wolverhampton Top tip: Avoiding ruining your Christmas…
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Just none cornettos, illegal sprinkles and other stories
Another week, another parade of people who have thought – for one reason or another – that their lives could be improved by taking their problems to their local news organisation and pointing angrily at the thing that made them angry. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. Stoke Sentinel: NHS worker absolutely furious as…
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Ron’s Gone Wrong and other stories
So, I spotted this bus outside IKEA, and – frankly – it was asking for it.
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Oh Lordy, it’s another Best of APILN post – 27 September
We might as well kick off with the important stuff. Where were you in 1987? ________________________________________ Bristol Post: Locals upset as post office and post box close Some of the finest mugging to camera you are ever likely to witness. ________________________________________ Anonymous Google Maps vandalism is on a par with Wikipedia vandalism, and is a…
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Best of Angry People in Local Newspapers – 17 September 2021
Now that we’ve kicked out the spammers and got this site working again, we’d better get our money’s worth and offer actual content. So here’s the best angry stories which have crossed our radar in the last week or so. Wales Online (and everywhere else): Police called after kids chalk hopscotch grid onto pavement Obviously,…
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The really very important APILN submission guide
So you’ve found a funny news story to submit to Angry People in Local Newspapers. We get hundreds of submissions every day, which we whittle down to about ten or so for your delight and/or fury. The whole idea is that APILN is a fun look at people’s everyday frustrations about BINS, parking, pencil-necked desk…