Milking it: Seriously, Josie, it’s getting really hard to have your back

Josie Cunningham, the notorious "NHS boob job" girl, has continued to haunt the tabloid press, and her newly arrived daughter has been born into a crazy world. Having narrowly avoided having her entrance into this world attended by four strangers, her daughter's now unwittingly become part of the tabloid circus following Josie's latest Twitter blunder. …

Baby Boom: The Josie Cunningham saga gets weird

So, Josie Cunningham is back on the blog. For those not up to date check out the tag at the top of the post, for everyone else, let's read as her story takes a turn for the bizarre. On Twitter earlier in the week Josie announced that if her followers picked up a copy of …

Only the good die young

I like to keep an eye out on the weirder and smaller news stories, and today I read one that caught my eye. An elderly couple in Switzerland have just got pinched for going on a mini-crime spree where they raided the collection boxes of local churches, stealing hundreds of Swiss francs in the process. …

If at first you don’t succeed, try another 4,999 times

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take- Wayne Gretzky  Online dating can be a frustrating experience. You look for people who catch your eye and read their profile before firing off a couple of messages to try and break the ice. Writing those messages is kinda tough. I always try to pick up …

Hot for teacher

(Apologies for the title, which might undermine the general thrust of the post, but it's rather late, and I couldn't come up with anything better) There's always a massive difference in the way stories of teacher-student relationships are reported or treated. I think a lot of it comes from the assumption that most teenage boys …

News Grab Bag: Bunnies, Busts and Bedroom Blunders

Unbelievable Over in Switzerland a shopping centre decided that instead of using the cliche of bunny girls in skimpy clothes  for it's Easter promotion they'd use an actual bunny in underwear. Cue this rather daft photoshopping: It's a fairly harmless, goofy little advert. I mean, who's going to kick off about that? Well, it would …

News Grab Bag Jan/Feb 2014: Deaths, Names and Badassery

Okay, so I routinely bookmark news stories that I'd like to write about, sometimes they get a post to themselves, but now and then a few smaller ones pile up and I do these News Grab Bag ones, so this is a collection of stories that caught my eye earlier this year but which I …

Soda Stream > Oxfam?

At Wrestlemania X8, Hulk Hogan took on the Rock. I didn't see the match until several years later but watching it I found myself in a bit of a dilemma, did I cheer for the Rock, the most electrifying man in sports entertainment and the face (goodie) in the match? But could I really turn …

This s**t is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S

Getting your five a day of fruit and vegetables is pretty important, but sometimes with a hectic life or poor planning can leave you falling short. Once you've heard the five-a-day recommendation you do keep it in mind, and sometimes when I'm on four or three I'll go out of my way to drink juice …

Curses!

Recently I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!, the annual parade of has beens and D-listers being tormented for the public's amusement. It's trash telly at it's very worst, or best depending on your viewpoint. Personally I've only ever watched little bits of it before, but as some of my flatmates wanted to watch …