Competitive eater Pat Bertoletti set a new record this weekend for eating deep fried bull’s gonads. Some of competitive eating’s top names turned out for the Isle Black Hawk Rocky Mountain Oyster Eating World Championship in Colorado on Saturday. The ‘Rocky Mountain Oysters’ are sliced and deep fried bull’s testicles and Bertoletti managed to consume [...]
A man with connections to a murdered gangland enforcer was attacked at the roadside and his penis chopped off by assailants using hammers and chisels. 26-year-old Brian Hanlon was driving through Glasgow in the early evening on Sunday when his car was forced off the road and a gang of up to seven men set [...]
Continue reading …Chef’s in Poland have created the world’s biggest pizza measuring 1.1km long! The enormous pizza was made this weekend at Błonia Commons, by chefs from Pizzeria Magillo. The pizza was made using three and a half tonnes of flour, 1,500 litres of tomato sauce and 1,600 kilos of mozzarella cheese. The tasty treat smashed the [...]
Continue reading …A two-headed turtle hatched in Thailand in July is thriving well and gaining weight. The green sea turtle was hatched on a Thai Navy conservation area in the Similan Islands and was supposed to be released into the wild, but as soon as marine biologist Kongkiat Kittiwattnawong of the Phuket Marine Biological Center noticed the [...]
Continue reading …Unconfirmed reports are flying around the interwebs saying that Doctor Who actress Karen Gillan will be leaving the show part way through the next series. Last week we reported that Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat had announced that the next series of the show would be split into two parts with half the episodes being [...]
Continue reading …Around 140 people from right across Europe travelled to the muddy Waen Rhydd Peat Bog near Llanwrtyd Wells, mid Wales this weekend to compete in the 25th annual World Bog Snorkelling Championships. Snorkellers are encouraged to wear fancy dress outfits and are permitted to use goggles, facemasks and flippers but they are prohibited from using [...]
Continue reading …Today saw the 4th Annual World Gravy Wrestling Championships held in Lancashire. Hundreds of spectators and the country’s press gathered at the Rose ‘n’ Bowl pub in Stacksteads near Rossendale to witness what is fast becoming one of the North West’s premiere weird sporting events. Over 1,000 litres of gravy were produced for the tournament [...]
Continue reading …Sylvester McCoy has broken his silence on the Hobbit casting rumours surrounding him. We reported a few weeks ago that the former Doctor Who was in the running to play Bilbo Baggins in the forthcoming Hobbit movie, but this weekend the Scottish actor has dispelled those rumours and stated that he is not being cast [...]
Continue reading …Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat announced this morning that the next series of the show will be split into two parts with half the episodes going out in spring next year and the following half being broadcast months later in the autumn. Moffat claims that the pause halfway through the series is part of an [...]
Continue reading …Bakers in the city of Bethlehem in the Palestinian West Bank have set a new world record by making the biggest qatayef pancake in record time. The qatayef is an Arab pancake which is usually eaten during the month of Ramadan. The dessert is made from a batter like most pancakes and filled with sweet [...]
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