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That’s not what it says on your T-shirt, mate
This is what happens when you don’t update the site for a few weeks – it gets backed up with crap like a pair of Y-fronts stuck in a sewer pipe. Where’s my biggest prodding stick? Here we go, the best of Angry People in Local Newspapers of November 2022 (so far). ____________________ Lancs Live:…
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When vicars go bad, and the least newsworthy news story in the world, and frankly we’re not exaggerating
As the silly season cranks up yet further, let’s get this one from Canada out of the way first. Hamilton Spectator: Dildos up a tree for some reason I’d rather not go into Luckily for everyone, it’s behind a paywall and now we’ll never know how things escalated to this particular level of pettiness. We…
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More dull showbiz news in local newspapers – Touch my bumper
Car Dealer Magazine: One of the Cheeky Girls is now working for a car dealership in York Touch my bumper, this is life. That’s it. That’s the joke. ______________ Newcastle Chronicle: Ant and Dec spotted sitting the wrong way round at Newcastle football match “Human sacrifice! Dogs and Cats living together! Ant and Dec the…
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Dull Showbiz News in Local Newspapers
You can never have too many news stories about Peter Andre being spotted in supermarkets. This is a useful public service in which readers are able to avoid the crowds until the proper authorities have got a grip on things. And it’s also a good measure of how dull the press is prepared to go…
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Royal Wedding Dull News Extravaganza: Part V – The Final Frontier
Our ordeal is almost over as our local press wheel out their final desperate angles on the royal wedding. Ironic, though, when you think about it, that the local council has stopped homeless people sleeping in the street so that people with actual homes can sleep in the street to see a glimpse of a…
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Royal Wedding Dull News Extravaganza Part IV: A New Hope
Only one day to go, and still the dull royal wedding news keeps on coming. And unless it goes completely Albert Square, that’ll be the last we hear of it. Part One Part Two Part Three York Press: Local woman and her cuddly toys quite looking forward to the royal wedding That’s the real Harry and…
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Royal Wedding Dull News Extravaganza Part III: Return of the Burrell
It’s the event that just won’t go away, and with two days to go, the gammon is out of the fridge and picking up a nice dose of E.coli. Part One Part Two And we’ve come to this – unrealistic voodoo dolls in the Chester Standard. We don’t know about you, but the representation of…
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Royal Wedding Dull News Extravaganza: Day Two – Harry and Meghan boogaloo
After yesterday’s opening salvo of desperately dull news on the forthcoming royal wedding, the stories are coming in thick and fast. So let’s see what our fair nation brings us as we await this happiest of events. Cambridge News: Man is quite looking forward to the royal wedding There is “quite looking forward to the royal…
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The Harry and Meghan Royal Wedding Dull Local News Extravaganza
There’s a royal wedding coming, and that can only mean one thing – mind-bendingly dull local news takes trying to find their own angle on the nuptials. Some may be dull, some may be vaguely horrific, but others hit the G-spot and land slap bang in the middle of dull and horror. And that is…
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Presenting the winner of “Dullest News Story of 2017” AND “Dullest Newspaper Photo Caption of 2017”
The phone rings in the editorial offices of the Bristol Post. “What?!” screams the editor down the line, “I’ll get our top reporter onto it RIGHT NOW.” “Scoops McGee – the shit’s hit the fan at the Cumberland basin. Get down there, get some pictures. The front page is all yours.” And that is how…