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Archive for March, 2010

‘Realistic’ Farmville upgrade features battery hens pecking off their own flesh

Kentucky Fried Chicken keeps poking you and wants to be your friendFacebook users showed their disapproval after an upgrade to one of their most popular games, Farmville, prompted thousands of complaints that it has rendered the game much less enjoyable and in some cases unplayable.

Julie Evans, a mother of two young children is horrified at the new style of the game ‘my little ones are only five and seven and they used to love tending to their crops and buying a new tractor when they could afford it but since the caged hens add on where you have to shove as many chickens as you can into a confined space and watch them peck their own feet off they cry when they see an egg.’

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Posted: Mar 25th, 2010
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TV chefs in crisis as Raymond Blanc admits: ‘Mostly we just make sauce’

TV chefs are said to be ‘furious’ after one of their number, Raymond Blanc, broke ranks and admitted that there’s nothing to being a chef beyond ‘piddling about with fancy schmancy sauces’.

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Posted: Mar 25th, 2010
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Staffordshire hoard to remain in Midlands as Cash4Gold saves the day

Campaigners and history buffs celebrate after an eagle-eyed television viewer secures the priceless Staffordshire Hoard by sticking it into an envelope and sending it off to Cash4Gold.com to be saved for the nation.

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Posted: Mar 25th, 2010
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Unsightly coins or wallet bulges in your pockets? You need new ‘Budg-It’

New Budg-It guarantees to reduce those beastly coin or wallet bulges in your trouser pockets
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Posted: Mar 25th, 2010
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Nick Clegg becomes heroin addict in last-ditch bid for media attention

had to get in the papers somehowNick Clegg, reportedly leader of the Liberal Democrat party, announced in a press conference on Tuesday that he has now developed a full-blown addiction to Class A drugs as sign of his dedication to raising the profile of his party.

Clegg, who has struggled to gain the public recognition and popularity of his predecessors, and who is now being upstaged by the new ‘tough guy’ image of the Prime Minister, and even the pregnant wife of the Conservative leader, announced to a press conference held in a drugs den in Harlesden that his decision was a sign of the commitment he had to leading his party to power, and that Liberals should return to their constituencies and ‘prepare to be governed by a junkie strung out on shit, man.’

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Posted: Mar 24th, 2010
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