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Not for the first time, the Christmas period saw some people get quite upset about the current state of Quality Street sweet wrappers – except this time, the story comes with the crucial celebrity angle. Carol Decker, lead vocalist of ’80s band T’Pau, expressed her dissatisfaction with the packaging over Christmas, saying that the move […] The post Carol Decker from T’Pau is very annoyed about the state of Quality Street packaging – 14 responses to share and enjoy appeared first on The Poke.

As the fog/food coma/hangover from New Year’s Eve starts to lift, you might be thinking a bit more clearly about what energy or attitude you’re going to bring to 2025. It’s something that people were talking about earlier this week, and, after a long and exhausting 2024, lots of folk had specific ideas about how […] The post “How are you arriving into 2025?” – 25 hilarious and relatable (and NSFW) New Year attitudes appeared first on The Poke.

Here’s a little treat for anyone who still misses the magnificent Harry Hill’s TV Burp on ITV (so all of us, then). It’s 12 years now since the show ended, although that hasn’t stopped people asking the great man when it’s coming back. And this is why, a fabulous 53 seconds which went viral again […] The post This classic clip from Harry Hill’s TV Burp is 53 seconds to get your New Year off to the funniest start appeared first on The Poke.

You might remember a little while ago we featured a thread of pictures drawn by Absolute Radio presenter, podcaster and artist Andy Bush after he put out a call on Twitter to nominate the ‘worst types of public behaviour’. I’ve decided to draw a series of pictures chronicling the worst types of public behaviour. Any […] The post Cartoonist Andy Bush’s thread of ‘irritating public behaviour’ was one of our favourite things of the year appeared first on The Poke.

It’s fair to say that Elon Musk has had a rather torrid twixtmas. He’s been embroiled in some deliciously entertaining infighting with the MAGA lot which was sparked by his comments advocating for more skilled migrants to enter the US workforce by issuing more H-1B visas. The backlash from the America First tribe was furious. […] The post Elon Musk has asked Twitter users to post more ‘positive’ and ‘beautiful’ content and the irony meter exploded appeared first on The Poke.

Yet again, Millennials and younger adults are being blamed for their inability to have the same standard of living routinely enjoyed by their parents and grandparents, who could assume they had a reasonable chance of home ownership. An account that posts about the US economy mused on past lifestyles. It got a lot of attention, […] The post Derek Guy had the best response to the amateur economist saying young people could afford houses if they drove used cars and went camping appeared first on The Poke.

The world darts championship is warming up nicely with teenage sensation Luke Littler through to the quarter finals on New Year’s Day. But amazing to watch as he is, Littler is not the reason we’re here. It’s fellow quarter finalist Callan Rydz, who was subject to an especially inventive – and brutal – chant by […] The post This hilariously brutal darts chant totally hits the bullseye (and you don’t have to be a darts fan to appreciate it) appeared first on The Poke.

There have been no end of clips of Philomena Cunk doing the rounds on Twitter today after the magnificent creation of Diane Morgan and Charlie Brooker returned to investigate … life. A particular highlight was Cunk tackling Professor Brian Cox, but our favourite bit might be this, when Cunk puts our relationship with God under […] The post Philomena Cunk on our relationship with God is the funniest 27 seconds you’ll watch today appeared first on The Poke.

It’s that time of year when a certain type of person likes to wang on about the fascinating (incredibly boring) detox programme they’re about to embark on. They do like to go on about it even though there is minimal (to zero?) scientific evidence to suggest they do any good, a fact underlined by David […] The post A toxicologist’s attempt at myth busting stuck in this person’s throat and their A++ response was a masterclass in restraint appeared first on The Poke.

On February 14th 2022, Sky News’ The Great Debate asked an apt question for the day. Would you send Boris Johnson a love letter or a letter of dismissal? The former Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, responded with a verbal destruction of Johnson that was so far from sitting on the fence, […] The post There’s never a bad time to revisit John Bercow’s beautifully unfiltered opinion of Boris Johnson appeared first on The Poke.