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Archive for September, 2011

Egyptian hieroglyphs ‘were early examples of Facebook status updates’

far more poking going on than was strictly necessary‘If a pharaoh wanted to let his friends know how he was, he’d just instant message them by carving a status update like ‘wavy line, owl, big eye, smiley face’ onto his wall.’

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Posted: Sep 27th, 2011
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Buying Richard Desmond lottery tickets ‘a symptom of mental illness’

Daily Express owner Richard Desmond launches a new health lottery today, with strong ticket sales anticipated among the learning impaired and morons.

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Posted: Sep 27th, 2011
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Labour leader to apologise for being Labour leader

The move comes as a damming opinion poll in the Sun reveals just one in 20 voters think he is a ‘natural leader’, for which he apologises. Labour activists say that until Miliband says sorry for being elected Labour leader, voters won’t take the party seriously.

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Posted: Sep 27th, 2011
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Saudi women granted right to back-seat drive

Shatt navKing Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has announced that from 2026, women will be given the same freedom to criticise their male drivers as their Western counterparts.

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Posted: Sep 26th, 2011
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Spontaneous combustion threat to elderly this winter, Government warns

‘When you’re wearing as much knitwear and tweed as some pensioners, just turning the central heating up a notch too high can easily spell disaster.’

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Posted: Sep 26th, 2011
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