DISSEMINATORS OF THE TRUTH

5 October 2015

Three goals, just not in the right net

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It was a day to forget for Manchester United at Emirates Stadium as three goals in the opening 20 minutes sealed a 3-0 win for Arsenal. The ...
4 October 2015

A B C D E F Google

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Google Inc has completed the move to reorganize as Alphabet, and its stock will begin trading as Alphabet on the Nasdaq under the same ticke...
3 October 2015

Can't believe it's only been 25 years

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2 October 2015

Coolest. Lock. Ever.

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1 October 2015

The evil prank to end all evil pranks

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30 September 2015

The bug without the fix

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DISCLAIMER: This post was done entirely with an iOS and Mac app called RemoteMouse. To find out more about it, click here . The Bellend of ...
29 September 2015

THE BIG REVIEW: Pranksters in Love

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This is hands down the best YouTube channel out there. Click here and enjoy.
28 September 2015

Volkswagen turning into Stinkwagen

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Who knew about the deception, when did they know it, and who directed it? Those are among questions that state and federal investigators wan...
27 September 2015

LVG makes it to the top

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After beating Sunderland 3-0 at Old Trafford, Manchester United now sit top of the table with 16 points after seven matches - that's one...
26 September 2015

It seems Bruce Jenner is finally no more

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Bruce Caitlyn Jenner can make her name and gender change legitimate, a judge ruled. Jenner filed paperwork with the court on September 15 r...
25 September 2015

Comet - it makes your teeth turn green

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And it's also the name of a buoyant smartphone. Don't believe me? Check this out.
24 September 2015

Got high hopes for the game against Namibia

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The All Blacks have never faced Namibia. Until now. And r ecords could tumble when the All Blacks face Namibia in the biggest mismatch of th...
23 September 2015

Deader than the average Berra

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Baseball legend Yogi Berra, whose humorous quotes made him one of America's most beloved sports icons, has died at the age of 90.  The Y...
22 September 2015

THE BIG REVIEW: Gotham S2E1

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A review of the season premiere will be up once I can get the episode downloaded, copied to a USB stick, and viewed. Right now, our househol...
21 September 2015

United under Martial law

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Anthony Martial enhanced his burgeoning reputation by scoring twice in a 3-2 win over Southampton that moves Manchester United up to second ...
20 September 2015

The Rise of the iDroid

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Apple's first Android (logo pictured) app, "Move to iOS", which lets users migrate mobile phone data to a new iOS device, is r...
19 September 2015

Chromecast to serve up some tunes

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Google may have more than one Chromecast to show when it announces new products later this month.  According to  9to5Google , Google is also...
18 September 2015

Almost time for the RWC

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And I hope the All Blacks can successfully defend their title.
17 September 2015

Thumbs up for thumbs down

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During a Q&A session at Facebook HQ, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the company is planning to publicly test a Dislike button. It’s finall...
16 September 2015

News to lick donuts to

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Ariana Grande has just made a very exciting announcement — she’s releasing a BRAND NEW single! While promoting her gorgeous new fragrance li...
15 September 2015

THE BIG REVIEW: The new PS4

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If you've delayed getting a PlayStation 4 for whatever reason, your call might have been right as the new version of the PlayStation 4 i...
14 September 2015

Why the iPad Pro could be good for Microsoft

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Sounds unlikely but I'll bite.  Apple's new iPad - though not expected to sell like crazy - could lift the entire market for large, ...
13 September 2015

New guy seals visitors' fate

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Manchester United earned another victory to savour against Liverpool with Anthony Martial scoring on a dream debut to ensure a 3-1 triumph a...
12 September 2015

Time to print some keys

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It's a basic fact of life that once you publish something on the Internet, it's pretty much impossible to get it back. Now illustrat...
11 September 2015

Allegiant to split into Allegiant and Ascendant

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Lionsgate has retitled the final two films of its “Divergent” franchise, “The Divergent Series: Allegiant — Part 1” and “The Divergent Serie...
10 September 2015

Old germ, meet the old germ

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A ‘giant’ virus has been unearthed in the frozen wastelands of Siberia and reports are that researchers will reanimate it. It is reportedly ...
9 September 2015

Punniest. Puns. Ever.

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They say couples who IKEA together, stay together … OK, "they" don't all say that – only some do. Anyone who's been furnit...
8 September 2015

THE BIG REVIEW: Having a new feature up and running

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It's just great that there's a replacement out there.
7 September 2015

Second Jobs biopic already looking to be a winner

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A weekend screening of “Steve Jobs,” a biopic about Apple Inc’s famous co-founder, drew high praise from some reviewers and suggestions that...
6 September 2015

Replacing the Bad Idea of the Week is...

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Not telling.
5 September 2015

Kid power + lead = one less intruder

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An 11-year-old St. Louis-area boy left alone at home with his 4-year-old sister staved off several home invasion attempts before finally sho...
4 September 2015

THE BIG REVIEW: The last 2000 days

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It's been a great journey - here's to the next 2000.
3 September 2015

AIDing in the prevention of AIDS

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Demonstrating that taking a daily pill to prevent HIV infection can work in the real world, San Francisco’s largest private health insurer a...
2 September 2015

Conman's last chance

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A man who conned an Oamaru woman out of NZ$15,000 has been told to repay the money or face jail time. The man in question, 33-year-old Mrina...
1 September 2015

2000 POSTS

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And we have a super Bellend of the Month for August 2015 - Lakeisha Hunter. She was arrested last month for putting vaginal discharge in a c...
31 August 2015

RIP Wes Craven and Oliver Sacks

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But that's not what post number 1999 is about. Manchester United tasted defeat once again at the Liberty Stadium as Swansea City recorde...
30 August 2015

There are rumours the iPhone 6S may be available in rose gold

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But that's none of my business.
29 August 2015

Android Wear to wear the Apple logo

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Huawei’s long-awaited smartwatch briefly went up for preorders on Amazon on Friday before price and other details were eventually taken down...
28 August 2015

ONE-LINE CHALLENGE: September 9

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Ask Siri to give you a hint.
27 August 2015

McNo to the McWhopper

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Burger King proposed the two fast-food giants come together to make a hybrid called the McWhopper for Peace Day. But McDonald's isn'...
26 August 2015

Too noisy - it's just code for too black

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The CEO of the Napa Valley Wine Train calls removing members of a book club for being too loud a “100 percent customer service fail.” The re...
25 August 2015

BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: The end of the feature

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24 August 2015

No booze at the grocer's

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Countdown's central Dunedin store will be banned from selling alcohol for three days next month, after offering illegally discounted alc...
23 August 2015

No goals, no glory

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Manchester United were forced to settle for a point as Louis van Gaal's former Dutch goalkeeper Tim Krul left his old manager frustrated...
22 August 2015

Celebs in the leaks too

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Celebrities are desperately calling up experts to help them manage their reputations following the Ashley Madison leak. These include actor ...
21 August 2015

THE FILM BEAT: Trainwreck

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Seriously one of the funniest movies of 2015. If you haven't seen it yet, then you are really missing out.
20 August 2015

HR to go all out

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In response to accusations of an abusive workplace environment, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos assured employees Tuesday that the company’s human res...
19 August 2015

Big disks and crappy consoles

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Samsung Electronics has unveiled a new solid state drive - and the drive, known as PM1633a, has a skyrocketing storage capacity. With a neve...
18 August 2015

BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: Changing a perfectly good formula

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From its commitment to the Italian coffeehouse tradition to its “Race Together” campaign, Starbucks has often tried to keep it real. And aft...
17 August 2015

Thieves got game

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The owner of a central Dunedin home disturbed a group of burglars when she arrived back at the property at the weekend. Initially confused a...
16 August 2015

Apple to get into the Netflix game

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Apple is not months, but a year away from introducing its very own Internet-based TV streaming service on the Apple TV. Reports from the int...
15 August 2015

This could be LVG's season... or not

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Adnan Januzaj justified his recall to Louis van Gaal’s starting XI by scoring the only goal in Manchester United’s 1-0 win over Aston Villa ...
14 August 2015

WHO DID IT BETTER: This stupid hairdo

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13 August 2015

Friday Night Fights in Jo'burg

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A school fight in South Africa nearly turned tragic when a teenage girl was pushed into moving traffic by schoolmates who accused her of gos...
12 August 2015

Forced update means forced reboot

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Windows 10's automatic updates are designed as a safety measure to stop users avoiding security patches, as a neglected computer can be ...
11 August 2015

BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: Suicidal comedians

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10 August 2015

Grown in Space!

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This week on the menu for astronauts aboard the International Space Station: a purplish-green sample of romaine lettuce, the first plant eve...
9 August 2015

Reds claim early scalp

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Manchester United have kicked off their 2015/16 Barclays Premier League campaign at Old Trafford with a 1-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur t...
8 August 2015

Joker spared due to one juror

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The jury deciding whether Aurora movie theater shooter James Holmes should be sentenced to death ended deliberations after it became apparen...
7 August 2015

THE BIG REVIEW: Office for Mac 2016 (as promised)

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It's actually a really good product. You need to try it.
6 August 2015

Microsoft looking for undeserved megagreen

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Users of the latest version of Microsoft's Windows operating system are being slugged almost US$20 - just to play DVDs. While previous v...
5 August 2015

Fly Away? More like Fly Undone!

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Lenny Kravitz's trousers split open on stage on Monday leading to the 'Fly Away' hitmaker accidentally exposing himself to the w...
4 August 2015

BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: Meth

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3 August 2015

Guess who's back, back again? Zoolander's back, tell a friend!

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It's been a long time coming, more than a decade in fact, but Zoolander 2 is in the making and fans have finally seen a glimpse of what...
2 August 2015

Trainwreck not a trainwreck

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Amy Schumer is moved people like her new movie 'Trainwreck', which is based on her embarrassing dating experiences. The 34-year-old ...
1 August 2015

ONE-LION CHALLENGE: Bring Walter Palmer to Zimbabwe

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As we had a One-Line Challenge (VERY short posts that I try to fit on one line, hence the name) last night, we couldn't bring you the Be...
31 July 2015

ONE-LINE CHALLENGE: Here's a challenge for you

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Google the phrase "year of the dragon speedway bug".
30 July 2015

Nintendo about to get into the theme park game

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Sure, Disney have done a great job of turning their beloved and iconic movies and characters into tangible and equally magical theme parks, ...
29 July 2015

Windows - the way it was meant to be

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Not really because that would mean Windows would be dead. But it ain't because Windows 10 is here and for the first time in a while, the...
28 July 2015

BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: Losing another Brown

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Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of late singer Whitney Houston, has died at the age of 22, some six months after suffering irreversible...
27 July 2015

Deflategate II - not their future

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NFL officials will be keeping closer tabs on football inflation this season, according to multiple media reports. Pregame pressure readings ...
26 July 2015

Key and Peele are so over

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The Comedy Central show Key & Peele, an absurdist sketch comedy that has become known for recurring skits like one in which an “anger tr...
25 July 2015

Hulk made a hulkish mistake

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Hulk Hogan's WWE contract has been terminated following allegations made by RadarOnline.com and National Enquirer magazine that he made ...
24 July 2015

THE FILM BEAT: Ant-Man

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Great use of 3D. Great storyline. Great powers on the part of the titular superhero. The only thing that could be greater is if the Justice ...
23 July 2015

La guerre de tabac starts to smoke

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And speaking of smoking, the mask is being applied to speed cameras throughout France. And no, I do NOT mean Jim Carrey. I mean this: France...
22 July 2015

Je suis Richards

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A New Zealander who topped the French Scrabble world without actually being able to speak the language got a standing ovation after his win ...
21 July 2015

BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: Keeping this gem from us

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And by gem, I don't mean the ones you get for breaking all the boxes in a level. Animation believed to be from a Crash Bandicoot cartoon...
20 July 2015

Their Royal Heilnesses?

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Buckingham Palace scolded Rupert Murdoch's top-selling Sun tabloid on Saturday for publishing a previously unknown film from 1933 that a...
19 July 2015

Guess who's back, back again? Blue Bell's back, tell a friend!

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For more than a century, Blue Bell ice cream has played off its roots as a favorite Southern treat from tiny Brenham, Texas, to quietly beco...
18 July 2015

The W-Fi extender to end all Wi-Fi extenders

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Rhino Security founder Benjamin Caudill has created a tool to help privacy pundits (and criminals) connect to wireless networks from a dista...
17 July 2015

WHO DID IT BETTER: The embedded SIM

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Apple and Samsung are reportedly in talks to collaborate on a shared format for hardware to replace SIM cards - hardware which would be embe...
16 July 2015

New flag in town

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Let's face it - New Zealand has had the same flag since 1902, and some of us think it's time to ditch it. First off, there is a huge...
15 July 2015

Either love the scumbags or leave the Emirates

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They could have just washed her mouth out with soap, but instead Abu Dhabi officials threw Austrailian Jodi Magi in jail for posting a pictu...
14 July 2015

BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: Photographers who muck about

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Prince Philip, the 94-year-old husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth well-known for occasional verbal gaffes, has been caught on camera s...
13 July 2015

Just installed the iOS 9 beta

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And so far, it's not that different except for the new font and the small letters on the keyboard.
12 July 2015

Guess who's back, back again? Stability's back, tell a friend!

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That's right, guys - the most stable iOS yet is available in beta form. Just to be clear, iOS 9 beta is now available to the public for ...
11 July 2015

How much Moore can his Law take?

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Not too much because IBM are loading 20 billion transistors on a chip only 7 nm thick. Sounds too good to be true, but it ain't.
10 July 2015

THE BIG REVIEW: Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac

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This is the last of four candidates to replace the Bad Idea of the Week later this year. In this feature, I will post a review of anything i...
9 July 2015

Whoa, hold on - is that car seat in the front seat?

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Yes. Yes, it is. You heard right - car maker Volvo is turning heads and creating buzz online with its new concept for child-safety seats in ...
8 July 2015

Subway dumps Jared

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Investigators raided the Indiana home of longtime Subway pitchman Jared Fogle yesterday, seizing electronics in a search that the sandwich c...
7 July 2015

BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: Taxless tobacco

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A World Health Organization report says taxing cigarettes to more than 75 percent of their retail price is the most effective way to reduce ...
6 July 2015

X Factor auditions to be X'd

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'The X Factor' auditions have been cancelled following the death of Simon Cowell's mother. A spokesperson for Syco Entertainment...
5 July 2015

He's gonna start the marriage

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Billy Joel has married his girlfriend Alexis Roderick in a surprise ceremony at the singer's Long Island estate. A spokeswoman for the s...
4 July 2015

To boldly name what nobody has named before

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The quest to find out the new title of the Star Trek franchise's next movie is finally over. Director Justin Lin has just revealed on hi...
3 July 2015

ONE-LINE CHALLENGE: The Super Rugby Final

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The Highlanders better win tomorrow.
2 July 2015

Dukes to be duked

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The Wi-Fi at my house may be back, but this hot piece can't wait until later tonight. US cable network TV Land has pulled re-runs of the...
1 July 2015

BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: Forgetting it was supposed to be done on the Tuesday

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But let's not worry about that because Donald Trump is suing Univision for US$500 million after his disparaging remarks about Mexican im...
30 June 2015

What the Nazis taketh, seventy years returneth

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The Bellend of the Month for June 2015 is the Nazi regime. We all know what those creeps did to the Jewish populations of the territories th...
29 June 2015

Dildos in the name of ISIS

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A CNN reporter may never live down the day she was so pleased at being the only person to notice an Islamic State flag at a London gay pride...
28 June 2015

Small players, big brawl

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Otahuhu College has spoken out about yesterday's violent brawl at a South Auckland rugby game which saw a 14-year-old knocked-out. The ...
27 June 2015

WE DID IT AMERICA!

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The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the...
26 June 2015

THE FILM BEAT: Inside Out

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Before I start my review, I will tell you why this post is a little early. It's because my dad literally broke the internet. More specif...
25 June 2015

And now, back before it even starts...

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USA Network has given a vote of confidence to its new series "Mr. Robot". The cable channel had ordered a second season of the cyb...
24 June 2015

Old system, new gadget

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See for yourself:
23 June 2015

BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: The coming mass extinction

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The world is witnessing extinction rates unseen in the last 65-million years. That was when dinosaurs died off – thanks to a mixture of an a...
22 June 2015

A woman's place is on the dough

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By 2020, a woman will finally be right on the money — literally. A remake of the $10 bill will include a portrait of a woman and although a ...
21 June 2015

HAPPY SOLSTICE EVERYONE

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20 June 2015

Spiderman, Spiderman, straight and white like a Spiderman is

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The latest tidbit to come out from the Sony hack is the list of demands Marvel made to Sony when licensing the 'Spider-Man' flicks. ...
19 June 2015

WHO DID IT BETTER: Team

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It was previously mentioned there was something big coming later in the year. I can now tell you more about the event: it will be a new week...
18 June 2015

Don't mess with unlimited

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But first, here's an old toy I played with today for the first time in a while. I had to put in some new batteries first, but it still w...
17 June 2015

Hitler, Hitler, he's their man, if he can't do it no-one can!

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A girls’ cheer-dance team in Mexico has drawn criticism for a routine in which they displayed flags with swastikas, were dressed in pseudo-m...
16 June 2015

BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: Trying to kick the Coyotes out

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If the Arizona Coyotes want to pick up and leave town, they can, but that does not appear to be the preference of the team's ownership g...
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