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Something which has been sadly lacking on the web recently is something like this - a pretend 'news' website!
Newsbiscuit is such a site, just launched with it's first 'headline' news story about a new reality show in the vien of 'Space Cadets' that fools would-be extremist suicide-bombers into thinking they've died and gone to heaven by secretly using stun grenedes instead of explosives so they don't actually die, but wake up in a specially outfitted hangar in Luton made up to look like heaven. Read the article, it's hilarious
Bit close to the bone perhaps, but that's how I personally like my humour!
Also read about it on the
Beeb's website.
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Posted: 2006-09-18 16:09:10
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close to bone humour is right up my street...here's another site:
http://glossynews.com
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Posted: 2006-09-18 16:59:52
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Thought you might be one of the first to reply!
The NewsBiscuit site seems rather slow at loading and navigating through, I suspect the BBC news article has lead to a lot of people going onto the site and slowing it down, shame but the 'articles' on there are hilarious!
I'll check your link out too Ax, it seems we have similar senses of humour!
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Posted: 2006-09-18 17:13:34
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Tried viewing from my mobile but no luck. Wrote addys for when can get to pc. Sound like great sites. But i do have a dry/morbid sense of humor.
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Posted: 2006-09-18 17:18:00
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yeh the NewsBiscuit site is very slow in loading,servers must have very heavy traffic or something...i've yet to see it.
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Posted: 2006-09-18 17:19:37
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For those struggling to get onto the site, here's the
suicide bomber reality show article in full:
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A new reality TV show plans to trick Muslim extremists into thinking they are taking part in a suicide bombing, and then secretly filming them as they explore what they imagine is the afterlife.
Following the success of last year’s reality TV show Space Cadets, in which contestants were duped into believing that they had been sent into orbit, Channel Four has been under pressure to raise the stakes in the competitive world of reality TV.
‘If death is the ultimate reality, then making the participants think they are dead is the ultimate reality TV show’ said producer Jeremy Gill. ‘These young extremists will really think they have died for the jihad and gone to their Islamic paradise.’
The show’s set up is quite simple. Extremist militant young Muslims will be tricked into thinking that they are about to lay down their lives in the Holy Jihad. But instead, the suicide bombs in their suitcases will only be stun grenades. When they wake up they will have no idea that they are actually in a specially prepared aircraft hangar outside Luton.
‘They believe that seventy two virgins will be waiting for them in paradise. In our version, there is only Christine Hamilton and Carol Thatcher’ explained the producer of Jihad Martyrs. ‘We thought it would be more entertaining if paradise was consistently disappointing and very badly run. Nothing works and the food is awful. Oh and God and St Peter will there too, because we these guys have to adjust to waking up in a Judeo-Christian heaven. And we made God Jewish. Channel Four does have a remit to cater for all faiths, and we wouldn’t want to cause any offence.’
The programme is already in production and the first episode will transmit next month. Police will not be informed of the identity of the suicide bombers until the end of the series, nor the secret location in which the programme is being filmed; ‘We thought it might compromise the illusion that these people were in Heaven’ said Jeremy Gill. ‘…if armed policeman suddenly burst in and pumped thirty bullets into their heads.’
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Posted: 2006-09-18 17:46:11
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heres one of my favorites...
politicalhumor.about.com/
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Posted: 2006-09-18 18:08:37
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