The Campaign for Real Alcopops has protested that an invasion of tedious, responsible drinkers over 30 is driving the UK’s clubs and bars to abandon the much-loved, lurid, caffeinated alcopops in favour of disgusting new drinks known as “real ales”, and is destroying the traditional British night out as a result.
Posted: May 22nd, 2010
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The World Health Organisation has called together the planet’s leading medical scientists for a crisis conference, after admitting that they had yet to agree upon this year’s global health scare.
‘We may have a disaster on our hands.’ confessed Dr Paul Nunn of the WHO, writing in The Lancet. ‘The world could be without a major epidemic to fret about next winter. That would be unthinkable, leaving most of us with no media interviews, lucrative consultancies or entertainment from drug companies. We simply can‘t let that happen and we must protect ourselves, and, er, the population as a whole from the dire consequences.’
Posted: May 21st, 2010
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Journalists in the UK have succeeded in creating the world’s first synthetic news story about artificial DNA.
Posted: May 21st, 2010
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US president Barack Obama leads global praise for the new UK coalition government’s radical first policy decision: the abolition of Home Improvement Packs.
Posted: May 21st, 2010
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Further woes hit England’s beleaguered bid for the 2018 football World Cup, as FIFA returns the country’s bid book and complains that “some idiot has drawn all over it in crayon”.
Posted: May 20th, 2010
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