Radio presenter Rachel Smalley found herself in the poo after a not-so-timely comment or two this week but it was her attempt to weasel her way out of it that offended me. Smalley thought her mic was turned off after…
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Plucked from the headlines, online and in print
Bet that was uncomfortable
This is why it is important for headline writers to have dirty minds!
No wuckin’ furries
In the greatest scandal to rock children’s television since Big Bird started toking up and imagining a big hairy critter named Snuffy, a mum in Cardiff reckons her young daughter has picked up a naughty word (starts with F, ends…
One for the haters
The sad death of Charlotte Dawson at the weekend has reignited the whole debate over online assholes being, well, assholes. Not that it’s much of a debate: “if you wouldn’t say it to someone’s face, then keep your trap shut”…
Wonder what gave it away?
Unlike the parrot, she isn’t pining for the fjords*
It was a story that had the makings of a Hollywood tearjerker: hunky jock loses both his grandmother and the love of his life in the space of six hours, then goes on to lead his football team to an…
Where are you?
Beware the ominous bulge
Something happened at the cricket
It should have been front-page news: something actually happened at the cricket on Tuesday. And it even involved a cricket ball … along with a couple of other, more fragile balls. One of the cricketers took a direct hit in…
Such sensitive wee souls …
I’m not a fan of telly ads most of the time, an aversion I probably share with most of you out there. And after working nights for all those years, I got into the habit of recording the programmes I…