Tearaway website Mumsnet has declared independence from the rest of the Internet. In a move that is bound to shock the rest of the web, the renegade site for mothers has published a statement saying that “everyone else can go suck themselves”.
January 17, 2010 | Posted in
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Gordon Brown has promised to sacrifice former Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon on Hampstead Heath if the Labour government wins re-election in the forthcoming general election. Hoon, who is reportedly “uneasy” with the plans, will be sacrificed on the summer solstice, with a paying audience selected by ballot.
January 17, 2010 | Posted in
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Scientists at the Stuttgart Institute of Internet Disease Related Research (SIIDRR) have discovered that people who tweet up to five times a day on social networking site Twitter are less likely to get cancer than those who tweet only once, or not at all.
January 16, 2010 | Posted in
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The dish: cold. The service: rude. The place: the Cafe des Connards, on the famed rue des Merdes in Paris, which claims to be the restaurant with the rudest waiters on earth, and le garcon has just told me to shit myself a new head.
January 15, 2010 | Posted in
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Sir John Chilcot is facing damning criticism after it was revealed that he plans to release a book, a DVD, a play and a HBO TV series of the Chilcot Inquiry even before it has ended. He has received further accusations that the Inquiry itself is being made “more dramatic than it needs to be”.
January 14, 2010 | Posted in
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More English refugees have been found in deplorable conditions trying to enter Spain. Seventeen early retirees were discovered by Spanish border patrols in the hold of a cargo ship.
January 14, 2010 | Posted in
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Residents of the Norfolk village of Shytte are today in mourning after the shock death of their snowman, Stephen. The snowman, age 7 days, was found in a state of thaw with his head detached from his body.
January 14, 2010 | Posted in
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Parts of the internet are today under heavy snow with webmasters warning of treacherous conditions for web surfers. Some sites find themselves completely closed off to the public and web geeks have been reporting slippery html code.
January 13, 2010 | Posted in
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It’s January 13th, and Germans are recovering from their traditional day of revelry and humour, “National Let Your Hair Down Day”. All over the country, hangovers are being treated and faces are reddened with embarassment as people realise the extent to which they have gone to have fun.
January 13, 2010 | Posted in
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Frustrated Indian customers are beginning to vent their fury over the continuing trend to outsource to UK call centres. Bank of India customers have been among the most vociferous, claiming that customer service has been shunted aside for “profit, cost-cutting and greedy outsourcing”.
January 12, 2010 | Posted in
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