Straight from the You Couldn’t Make This Stuff Up Department comes this fantastic story: The floor of a Weight Watchers clinic in Växjö in south central Sweden collapsed on Wednesday night beneath a group of about 20 participants in the weight-loss programme. The Weight Watchers participants had gathered in the […]

With apologies to the ever-splendid Croydonian, who has the well deserved monopoly on all bloggy things North Korean, here we have Kim Jong Il’s reaction to a Hoon and Hewitt failed putsch out there….

TheEye has unusual tastes in music sometimes, and was introduced to the music of Al Stewart many years ago by a young pub-quizzing friend who turned being a walking encyclopaedia in to his career path. Happy New Year to everyone, and especially to that certain setter of puzzles to whom […]

For those of you who keep an eye on shipping movements, there were unusual events listed by the Queen’s Harbour Master Portsmouth for late on the 25th December….ah, well it made TheEye smile anyway….

An expert commission of African leaders today announced their plan for comprehensive reform of music band U2. Saying that U2’s rock had lost touch with its African roots, the commission called for urgent measures to halt U2’s slide towards impending crisis. “Our youth today are imperiled by low quality music,” […]

Think you know everything about the Global Cooling Denial Scandal? Take this simple test and see! A sweeping doff of the fedora to microdave via GOT and Banned

A co-conspirator here, the GrumpyOldTwat, has launched a fightback at his own place against the Global Cooling Deniers with a series of posters, blog headers and so forth. Some sweary and some not, all are great designs to run with on your blogs in the run-up to the BBC love-fest that […]

At first glance this has got to be every red-blooded males dream job. The advertised position, at the Leeds University School of Sociology and Social Policy, is for: “Research Officer – The rise and regulation of lap dancing and the place of sexual labour and consumption in the night time […]

Just a quicky, that caught my eye and amused me, which would sit rather nicely under one of TheEye’s “it could only happen in Amercia” type headings . . . . It’s been reported, in the LA Times, that a would-be reptile smuggler was apprehended at LAX with more than a […]

Gerald Warner at his best in the Telegraph. Worth reading the whole article, but here is a flavour: Gordon Brown is set to make a public apology for the Norman Conquest. Last night close aides and Downing Street insiders categorically denied that any such move was being considered, fuelling the […]