There is an article by Peter Jones on the Guardian website complaining that the “compare the meerkat” advert is racist. Apparently his Ukranian girlfriend and a Latvian lodger have difficulty pronouncing the word “market”. When they say the word in broken English it comes out sounding like “can you find a husband […]

Ever keen to post about beautiful ladies for the most tenuous of reasons, we have news that Venezuelan Stefania Fernandez was named Miss Universe 2009, beating out more than 80 other contestants during a pageant held last night (Sunday) in Nassau, Bahamas. The 18-year-old was crowned by another Venezuelan, Dayana […]

With England all out for 332 and the Aussies 133-8 at tea on the 2nd day of the final Test, thoughts are turning to what the two teams might do to fill their spare time from about Sunday lunchtime onwards. Faced with the prospect of watching England spend Sunday afternoon […]

An outbreak of common sense with a hint of behind-the-hand chuckling comes from Brazil. With all of the tact and subtlety of a whites-only swimming pool, the Metro in Sao Paulo have installed chairs specifically for the more rotund figure. They are blue instead of white and reinforced to withstand […]

That’s it. Enough! The world is run by Captain Stupid as is often shown by posts on this blog and so TheEye is going to get in on the act for a few hours. The site is being rebranded for the day. Consider the sheer daftness of a Swedish vodka […]

With apologies, TheEye needs to post this as an antidote to The Great Global Warming Swindle. Enjoy…. Industrial Nations Threaten Globe Again A new menace to the planet has been discovered and validated by a consensus of politically reliable scientists: Anthropogenic Continental Drift (ACD) will result in catastrophic damage and […]

It’s been a while since these pages were graced by the oddness that is the Austrian Times, and so to remedy that fact we are proud to present… tattooed fish. Being a collector and occasional breeder of tropical fish, TheEye twitches at this story in a Don’t Try This At […]

Just for fun, have a go at the British Citizenship Test which is online here. It allows 45 minutes but takes a tenth of that if English is your first language which presumably is deliberate to enable everyone to take a crack at getting a passport. David Vance claims to […]

Back by popular demand (well, by TheBigDollop to be precise but TheEye is delighted to oblige) we continue our occasional series of Gratuitous Totty Pictures With Tenuously Connected Text. Up this time is a survey by Kodak Lens Vision Centres. Now you’ve got to wonder how they worked this one […]