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Mothers rewarded for year of dedication with crappy pub lunch

‘The reality will be business as usual, except they will be spending a good chunk of my household budget on buying an overpriced meal in a crowded noisy pub, where I will still be on peacekeeping duty and doing the ordering.’

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Posted: Mar 10th, 2013
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Bollocks, says everyone, as Mayan apocalypse fails to happen

Same time next year, eh lads.There has been widespread disappointment among the planet’s male population as Britain woke up today to find that the Doomsday forecast by the Ancient Mayans’ ‘long count’ failed to happen.

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Posted: Dec 21st, 2012
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Mervyn King announces ‘qualitative easing’ for wedding anniversary gifts

Several gifts have been rescheduled, to reflect changes in value since the list was first drafted. 50th Wedding anniversaries are now celebrated with a two-foot length of copper pipe, but the new 60th ‘Full Tank of Diesel’ anniversary has been criticised as ‘extravagant’ by some economists.

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Posted: Oct 12th, 2011
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Man facing £4,000 credit card bill for ‘perfect mother’s day gift’

Paul Taylor’s prayers were answered when he saw an advert for ‘Beautiful’ by Calvin Klein, which described the new fragrance as ‘the perfect gift for mother’s day’. ‘I could now make amends for the previous year’s mishap with not just a good gift, but a perfect gift.’

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Posted: Apr 2nd, 2011
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Child outraged as parents fail to buy him any Xmas presents for seventh year running

parents 'just a pair of stingy bastards'Seven-year-old Josh Cooper was ‘angry, yet not altogether surprised’ yesterday when once again his parents failed to buy him a single Christmas present.

‘If it wasn’t for the XBox Kinect, Iron Man toys and new bike from Santa, it would not have been a very merry Christmas at all’.

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Posted: Dec 25th, 2010
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