https://www.thespoof.com/search.cfm?writer=9311 Spoof News and Political Satire by Roy Turse en Copyright 2018, TheSpoof.com Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:43:46 GMT webmaster@thespoof.com webmaster@thespoof.com 60 https://www.thespoof.com/images/logo120x60.gif https://www.thespoof.com/search.cfm?writer=9311 120 60 Spoof News and Political Satire Writing by Roy Turse https://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/uk/125531/vegetarians-disgusted-by-facon-bombshell Vegetarian and religious groups the world over have renounced the companies producing vegetarian bacon slices after it emerged that the products are derived from pork. The companies concerned say that they chemically remove everything in the product... Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:10:20 GMT UK Headlines https://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/uk/125529/nhs-hospitals-to-charge-entrance-fees The unqualified success of hospital parking schemes which raise around £200m a year have prompted NHS trusts to look into other profit-making ideas. In 2016 several hospitals will try out an Entrance Fee system which could prove even more lucrative. Tue, 22 Dec 2015 10:14:42 GMT UK Headlines https://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/uk/125527/mumsweb-threatens-distributed-denial-of-service-attack-on-christmas-lunch-unless-adele-is-played-during-preparations Following the news that a hacker group has attacked Xbox Live and threatened the PlayStation Network over the holidays, outspoken activists Mumsweb have issued an ultimatum. Unless British Mums can play Adele at a reasonable volume while the prepara... Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:03:24 GMT UK Headlines https://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/uk/125526/chancellor-demands-progress-bar-standards Chancellor George Osborne says he is 'totally hacked off' with web and software-based systems that use progress bars to show how far along a particular process is. He claims that millions of hours of productivity are being lost from British industry... Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:54:18 GMT UK Headlines https://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/uk/125254/st-albans-sinkhole-3d-street-artist-gets-it-all-wrong A well-known pavement artist who has created many of the most famous 3D street paintings got it all wrong today when he attempted to trick homeowners in St Albans that their street had collapsed into a gigantic hole. The publicity stunt backfired... Fri, 02 Oct 2015 23:20:17 GMT UK Headlines https://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/entertainment-gossip/124913/music-chart-overhaul-throws-up-a-surprise From today, the UK music chart is being published on Fridays, and will be based on a new algorithm for calculating positions from a range of sources. Unfortunately, this has coincided with changes to the days on which new music is released, and the... Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:57:49 GMT Entertainment & Gossip https://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/uk/124912/nsa-just-assume-were-spying-on-everyone-all-the-time The ongoing revelations about the United States National Security Agency's activities may be ruffling some feathers in the international political arena, but cannot come as much of a shock to anyone concerned. The idea that nations would spy on... Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:52:12 GMT UK Headlines https://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/uk/124903/hello-have-you-been-subjected-to-excessive-nuisance-calls-you-may-be-entitled-to-compensation Following news that Time Warner Cable has been ordered to pay a Texas woman $229,500 for bombarding her with automated nuisance calls, automated call centres have been quick to include automated call compensation in their repertoire of services. W... Thu, 09 Jul 2015 10:52:28 GMT UK Headlines https://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/us/124891/canadian-balloon-man-arrested-disney-brings-copyright-charges In a scene reminiscent of Disney's film Up, a Canadian man was yesterday spotted flying over Calgary sitting in a garden chair supported by multi-coloured helium party balloons. In fact it was so reminiscent of Up that once he parachuted to safety h... Tue, 07 Jul 2015 23:57:59 GMT US Headlines https://www.thespoof.com/spoof-news/uk/122837/kardashian-pics-body-double-comes-forward Following the release of 'those pictures' of Kim Kardashian a few days ago, we can now reveal that it was, as some predicted, nothing more than a publicity stunt, and in fact a body-double was used. And if that was not sensational enough we can also... Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:01:06 GMT UK Headlines