We asked our regular contributors through e-mail Which song is in your opinion 100% perfect? We got many interesting responses. Here are some of them. We have just copied and pasted their responses, not editing them in any way. 1. Wii sports theme. – batmenhen766 2. Ain’t no sunshine – Bill Withers. – sadfaceemoticon 3.…… Read More »
Here are this week’s Life Pro Tips. 1. Buying a luxury car isn’t the expensive part, maintaining it is. 2. The only cheaper wage than minimum wage is a salaried employee working overtime for free. Quit giving up free labor when your employer should be hiring more help and paying more. There are always exceptions…… Read More »
Nickelodeon is named after the first theater in the world exclusively devoted to showing motion pictures. Opened on June 19, 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nickelodeon’s name was concocted from nickel (the cost of admission) and the ancient Greek word odeion, a roofed-over theater. The post Nickelodeon is named after the first theater… appeared first on… Read More »
An australian man suffered from am heart attack in an accident and spent 15 days in a coma. To celebrate his miraculous recovery, he bought a lottery ticket and won a $30,000 car. When asked to reenact the win by local news, he agreed and bought another scratch card. He won $250,000. The post An… Read More »
[Vaccination] reduces death and hospitalisation, but can’t stop Covid from spreading. Lionel Shriver, 20 November 2021. The novelist Lionel Shriver misrepresented the evidence about Covid-19 vaccines in a column for the Spectator on 20 November 2021. One of her misleading comments was also included in a widely shared tweet from the Spectator. Claiming that western… Read More »
The police don’t normally look back and investigate things that have taken place a year ago. Dominic Raab MP, 5 December 2021. A clip of justice secretary Dominic Raab appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show has been widely shared online after Mr Raab claimed that police “don’t normally” investigate alleged offences that took place… Read More »
A number of Facebook posts, including one with over 90,000 shares, claim that Thomas Hughes has been attacked in prison and is in “critical condition”. Hughes was recently jailed for 21 years and his partner, Emma Tustin, was jailed for a minimum 29 years over the torture and killing of his six-year-old son, Arthur Labinjo-Hughes,… Read More »
90% of people in hospital are unvaccinated right now with Covid. Dr Hilary Jones, 6 December 2021. 90% of people in hospital [with Covid] have not been vaccinated. Lorraine Kelly, 6 December 2021. 90% of the people that are in hospital [with Covid] are unvaccinated. Martin Kemp, 7 December 2021. Both Dr Hilary Jones and… Read More »
Claims that the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine has a one in 17 mortality rate have been spreading on social media. This is false, and is due to a misreading of a report from Pfizer on adverse reactions. When Full Fact asked Pfizer to authenticate the report, a Pfizer spokesperson said: “We cannot authenticate documents that are… Read More »
