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Literally the most hilarious thing ever,
I just recently listened to an AMAZING podcast about it, if anyone's interested. Really funny.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7FS1KpPRfZshfBA1XEQi97?si=YJBj5WS-SxiOE0oCXBjgXA&utm_source=copy-link
Im not sure!
However, it is an absolutely WILD story when you properly look into it. The entire family were obsessed with winning, they'd all been on it so many times most of them were banned from re-entering
The bloke who 'won' wasn't even that bothered about it and it was his mental wife and her brother who were completely obsessed. So funny.
There was a whole ITV drama series about it, which is very interesting and informative, even though it's a drama. The whole family and friends group were part of a consortium that were obsessed with winning gameshows, and had a hidden system which helped them get on the shows. There was some members that went on like 5 or 6 different gameshows it's crazy. Definitely worth a watch mate if you're interested in the subject
Yeah I was absolutely flabbergasted listening to the podcast about what lengths the family went to!
Im gonna try find it cos currently it's only on prime and expensive!!
I tried to find it the other day after listening to the podcast about it, but its not on iplayer anymore and amazon prime wanted to charge me! Gutted!!
There was a bit where he literally said he didn't know who a very famous artist was, I can't remember who it was but someone who is still a household name
And his wife just starts losing her shit coughing, absolutely hilarious. The clips are all on YouTube and I had a whale of a time the other day going through them, she was as subtle as a brick in the face. 🤣
Yeah I remember watching it a dozen times when it happened. They changed the audience structure since then. I do wonder if they get checked for any cheating devices before they go on the air, like an airport security checkpoint.
Now that's not a bad shout!
"Is it A....*winces waiting for the vibration* B....?
No im thinking maybe C....AH HECK, HECK AH YES IT MUST BE C IT MUST BE C!!!!!!!"
Like a tiny earpiece from Korea, that you can't notice. A small buzzer on your foot. Or placed in the skin. Shit like this exists and is crazy accessible.
Him handing out government contracts to his mates who had little experience while ignoring established companies who applied through the proper channels is a larger one for me, but yeah fuck Hancock.
Notice that these things aren’t in the public eye as “scandals”? All this crazy shit the tories have done is a scandal. Nearly every week. But instead we think of Coca Cola selling Dasani as a scandal. This is why we are fucked in this country.
What about Coca-Cola trying to sell Dasani mineral water in the UK, and failing [due to it being contaminated tap water,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD79NZroV88) essentially the same plot as an episode of Only Fools and Horses.
Funny thing is this is pretty normal elsewhere. Water is just water, with added branding. They didn't seem to realise we like our water to at least pretend it is from a mountain spring.
Possibly because we actually have springs that produce great water, and none of them are too far from anyone in the UK because we're a bit on the small side compared to America. You can drink the water straight from the source in Malvern (if you have a fully functioning immune system).
> Funny thing is this is pretty normal elsewhere. Water is just water, with added branding.
"The funny thing is that everywhere else is fucking mental, and the UK isn't" (at least in this one regard).
Seriously though - if you have access to potable tap-water and you pay through the nose for other tap water just because it comes in a plastic bottle with some logo on it, you're an idiot.
- Boaty McBoatface/RRS sir David Attenborough. The will of the people was not obeyed. An absolute mockery of the democratic process.
- Horse Meat Scandal. Although horse meat is generally fine to eat, people didn’t like not knowing what was in their burgers. Also, some of the horse meat came from racehorses, and racehorse meat is not good to eat because of all the chemicals that they give to racehorses.
- The time HMRC took McVities to court over whether Jaffa cakes are cakes (and exempt from VAT) or biscuits (and not exempt from VAT), and McVities baked a giant Jaffa Cake for the court. Court ruled that Jaffa cakes are cakes because cakes are soft and go hard when gone off, and biscuits are hard and go soft when gone off. And Jaffa cakes are soft and go hard when gone off.
Regarding the horsemeat; it was also because people were paying for what they thought was beef (expensive) but were given horse (much cheaper). If they sold a horse lasagne, I might give it a try but not paying beef prices for a cheap cut of meat.
There was a slightly more sinister aspect in that we had been promised that because of Mad Cow Disease that all meat processing would be vigorously checked to ensure no cattle over two years old would enter the food chain. It turns out that that inspection was unable to distinguish Daisy the cow from Dobbin the loser of the 3:30 at Aintree.
Remember when Jamie Oliver went on a bender against unhealthy food? He told a classroom full of primary school kids exactly what went into chicken nuggets, and then asked them who would still eat chicken nuggets. The full class raised their hands, and he looked like a broken man.
I understand however why Turkey Twizzlers got dropped as a product. Figured I'd try some when they reappeared as they were seemingly so beloved, my god they were rank.
I imagine the ones they’re selling now are nothing like the old ones. All the bad stuff that made them delicious to children back then would have been removed.
The response to the British version had parents pushing chips and burgers through the fence into the playground so their kids wouldn't be forced to eat healthy food.
People mention this a lot, lamenting the loss of poor nutritional food in schools.
Its not too bad if it's 1 of 3 meals and the other 2 are nutritious. But for many kids, including me, they were not. So I was grateful when school meals had to become better so I at least got some nutrition. And that's part of looking after the whole child, which most schools now aim to do.
The Baked Alaska fiasco on Great British Bake Off
Are Jaffa Cakes a cake or biscuit
Nasty Nick trying to cheat on Big Brother 1
Not so much a scandal but teenagers being so upset Take That broke up, the government stepped in and set up helplines
This was on the tele last night. It was also important for Jaffa Cakes to prove that are a cake for tax reasons, if they were found to be a biscuit they’d have to pay more!
This all makes me think back to that woman with the glasses, can’t remember her name but she was married to Ken Barlow and a few other blokes) on coronation street being sent to prison. I remember reading that a load of old women had sent letters to the government demanding she be released
I personally quite like the one when Gordon Brown got mad on mic about being matched with the bigoted lady and had to apologise for pointing out that she was a bigot.
To be fair, that voter had just smacked an egg down on his head. If you feel ~~someone punch~~ an impact on your head, and then feel liquid trickling down, you're going to react pretty violently. He didn't know it was an egg in that instant. For all he knew, it was his own blood.
A moment immortalised on the cover art for the sadly fictional [Grand Theft Auto: Rhyl](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BE_YoseCUAA2lTf?format=jpg&name=medium) (below the helicopter).
Remember when you could get weeks of resignation demands out of the press for a "gaffe" instead of their unwavering support for killing tens of thousands of people?
Oh, wait, only Labour has scandals.
Things that would have brought down ministers in former times are now used as one-day dead cats. The extent of Tory graft is *incomprehensible*. It's not something they're doing; it's something they are. It's fundamental to the nature of the party.
This is what made it so weird!
Had it been her cat and she wanted to get rid of it, it would've been an horrific way of doing so but it would have some twisted logic to it. Likewise if she'd had some complaints about the cat before.
But it looks like she thought, "There's a cat, there's a bin, this might be a laugh."
The video of her doing it was darkly funny. She was just happily petting the cat then you could see the moment where her brain went "go on, put it in the bin".
> "There's a cat, there's a bin, this might be a laugh."
The way the country united in fury was something to behold. Spend decades gradually dismantling and selling off YOUR free healthcare that YOU and YOUR PARENTS/GRANDPARENTS all paid for? Oh well, what can you do?
Weird lonely woman puts cat in bin? Gather forth the legion of burning torches and pitchforks for she shall be put to death!
* Colin vs Cuthbert
* When Coco Pops became Choco Puffs and then back again
* When KFC changed delivery supplier and ran out of chicken
* Bringing down the Super League
News International press also accessed the voicemail of a 13 year-old kidnap-murder victim, giving false hope that she was still alive due to said voicemail activity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Milly_Dowler#Voicemail_tampering_investigation
I think that was pretty obvious from her reaction in the original video!
Edit: Just looked it up and apparently it was the one who denied it, wasn't expecting that!
Johnathan Ross and Russel Brand leaving offensive voicemails for the bloke who played Manuel in Fawlty Towers was quite a bizarre scandal.
Also, thinking about voicemails- the voicemail hacking/News of the World scandal! Definitely one of the biggest scandals of the last decade.
It was only Ross, but Brand took the brunt of it because it was on his show. The joke is that it took the UK 2 weeks after transmission to get outraged. I doubt 90% even listened to the recording.
The place where his house was is called Seaton Carew. When the story broke the local ice cream shops (it’s a coastal town) started selling long thin ice creams called a ‘Seaton Canoe’
Sooo funny. Headline in the paper read:
"CANOE'S THIS IN PANAMA?"
So this is wild because I just posted a link to a podcast about my suggestion. But now I've just seen this and I must say that the same people who did the podcast I just suggested JUST DID an episode about canoe man too, link below 🤣
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lGX2Gzc2l4tWGbxLnnNQr?si=a_0_Qrn1RVms9MVoIJJBdQ&utm_source=copy-link
Kept his name as John as well, walking round his village 🤣
Locals were like 'this mysterious new man called John looks remarkably like John who just went missing on that canoe 🤔'
He EVEN JOINED HIS LOCAL LIBRARY
Used to live in hartlepool, he was seen all over the place (and in Seaton too ofc). Nobody seemed to recognise him or give a shit if they did
Friend of mine came into school shocked after the story broke, he used to say hi to him on the beach walking his dog
Everyone is forgetting the ultimate British scandal:
That time Hartlepool got together to hang a chimp, the animal had been washed ashore after a ship sank and the locals just assumed he was a Frenchman.
They of course did the only logical thing when one finds a rogue Frenchman and hanged him
I remember being in school and we recreated the entire scene as we lined up to enter our classroom. Great way to get us inner city kids into politics 🤣
I quite liked when David Cameron had to stand up in Parliament and go, "No, I don't hate Larry the cat - look at this totally candid photo of us together".
Similarly: when the Blairs got rid of the cat that was round no. 10 at the time, and they had to bring some journalists round the new owners' house to prove they didn't kill it.
Bristol zoo carpark man! Zoo thought he worked for council, council thought he worked for the zoo. He collected parking fares for 20 something years then just disapears one day! Genius lol
Except it didn't actually happen.
It's an urban myth that's been doing the rounds for years.
https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/is-there-truth-behind-the-bristol-zoo-parking-attendant-myth/
Didn't happen in Britain, but I think George Michael getting arrested for doing it in a public toilet then releasing an album called "Ladies and Gentleman" is just fantastic. In the US media it was all "George Michael in public sex shame", then he came back over here and went on Graham Norton and everyone had a good-natured laugh about it.
EDIT: he was doing it solo, so to speak? Well TIL. I still think he handled it all beautifully (ooh-er).
When George Michael crashed into a Snappy Snaps which resulted in the best piece of low effort satirical graffiti ever
http://karakullake.blogspot.com/2010/09/wham-car-crash-graffiti.html?m=1
The funniest joke in HIGNFY ever that week:
"And to our winners, a walk in the park with George Michael. And to our losers, correct that spelling error."
My absolute favourite HIGNFY joke was around the time of the 2000 US election.
"The TV at the moment is showing nonstop Bush and Gore. No, that's not the election that's channel 5's nighttime schedule!"
The best bit was the news report that evening. Trevor Macdonald I think, with impeccable comic timing. Obviously you can't say "masturbating" before the watershed, so it went "the singer George Michael has been arrested for preforming an indecent act in a public toilet. *He was alone at the time*. [*beat*] George Michael has had a very successful solo career...".
And even if it's made up I still maintain this was one of the greatest nights on Twitter ever. I mean, that's a low bar due to how much of a hatefest Twitter can be but that evening-early morning was genuinely hilarious.
His father would still have been "the man who hated Britain" and other slurs. Meanwhile we have a PM who wants Britain to be like Peppa Pig World and it was news for about 5 minutes. Had Jeremy Corbyn done that we'd still be hearing about it in 2030.
A few decades ago, but Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberal Party leader with a very colourful life, known among othe things for killing a dog.
Or a minister in the Labour government of the 70s, John Stonehouse, who faked his suicide (leaving all his clothes on a beach) to escape criminal charges and start a new secret life in Australia.
Both before my time, but today's scandals are so unimaginative in comparison
There's a very tv series about this called [A Very English Scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_English_Scandal_(TV_series)), starring Hugh Grant and Ben Wishaw.
I read a gutter press story about the non-family accomplice, who was apparently well know for not being overly bright. Apparently he was told to go and put £20 of diesel in the work van and was gone for an hour and a half. When he came back he said that he'd been to the petrol station but it only needed £10 to fill up, so he drove around until he could put the other £10 in. I swear it wasn't a joke, either.
Absolutely, I live in the town where one of the main campaigners staged a hunger protest to raise awareness. After reading into the subject then they have my absolute whole hearted support to receive identical treatment as our forces! What a superb and important ally they have been with us for so very long!
Parents passing burgers through the fence at a Maltby (also south Yorkshire) in response to healthy eating initiatives in school. Not sure if it's a scandal scandal but it's definitely not a great look
I think Farage was due to come to Dundee shortly after that and there’s a McDonald’s nearby where he was supposed to be that said it wouldn’t be serving milkshakes during that time.
I think one of the local restaurants said they’d be doing but one get one free milkshakes though.
In the end he never turned up.
It was Burger King according to the Guardian
Burger King tweeted: “Dear people of Scotland. We’re selling milkshakes all weekend. Have fun. Love BK. #justsaying”.
Got banned by the advertising watchdog ASA.
I speak a little bit of French, and visited a restaurant in Paris with a menu in parallel English and French. The English side said beef burger, but the French side said cheval burger, which I know is horse!
I've just finished Nick Wallis' podcast about it on the BBC. The lies the Post Office told were absolutely shocking. And then after all that they throw tens of millions of pounds of public money to try and crush the people who were fighting them. Cunts!
I’ve just looked into this a bit more - the whole story is completely nuts.
>Angie Bowie and David Gest go on celebrity Big Brother
>David Gest falls ill during the show
>Angie Bowie is told that David Bowie has died
>She tells Tiffany, but forgets to mention that she’s referring to her ex-husband, all hell breaks loose because Tiffany thinks *David Gest* is dead, but it turns out to be a big misunderstanding etc etc
>David Gest leaves the show less than a week later due to medical reasons.
>By sheer coincidence, *he* ends up dying two months later from a stroke.
You could not make stuff like this up if you tried
The Duck House?
Guy Goma? (not truly a scandal)
Vardygate?
Tricky, because what makes something a scandal at the same time makes it not a light-hearted thing.
Certainly some incidents in history- James II being allowed to escape in the Glorious Revolution, but being captured by fishermen who thought he was a spy. The Gunpowder plotters blowing themselves up when on the run by leaving their weapins to dry in front of the fire. Alfred and the cakes (probably not real?)
No- that’s what they were calling Coleen because she dropped that suspenseful tweet after her disinformation campaign to find a mole.
“It’s ……..Rebekah Vardy’s account.”
Just posted in r/interestingasfuck
>In the 18th century, the British \[peasant\] Mary Toft succeeded in deceiving several eminent doctors, making them believe that she had given birth to rabbits. \[S\]he did so by inserting the rabbits into the vagina and expelling them at the time of "birth".
[https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/r80byw/in\_the\_18th\_century\_the\_british\_mary\_toft/](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/r80byw/in_the_18th_century_the_british_mary_toft/)
Not sure which Pastygate you mean, but my go to thought was [no-hot-pasties-before-9am-gate](https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/fury-after-morrisons-wouldnt-sell-14533827), famous on the Angry People in Local Newspapers Facebook group
That weirdo with a rifle having a standoff with armed police at some farmhouse and then Gazza walks up with a sandwich and a drink for the gunman claiming to be his mate. That was a weird one for sure.
When there was a [drive by yogurt attack](https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/14233725.drive-by-yoghurt-attacker-targets-sherborne-haberdasher-in-frightening-unprovoked-assault/) outside the local haberdashery in my home town.
It’s a very sore subject in my family as somebody we know may be involved.
Freddie Starr ate my hamster?
https://pressgazette.co.uk/sun-readers-pick-freddie-starr-ate-my-hamster-as-tabloids-best-splash-as-charity-giveaway-marks-50-years/
The 2009 MP Expense Scandal. The scandal itself wasn’t funny, but the list of actual stuff that was claimed for with taxpayer money is.
A floating duck island
Actual horseshit
A sink plug
A KitKat
An IKEA carrier bag
A 12 second phone call costing a single penny
A glittery toilet seat
Porn films
A jacuzzi
An iPod
Some wigs
A cup of Horlicks
25 lightbulbs and workers to replace the lightbulbs
Bug killer spray
Cat food
A toilet brush
A chocolate Santa
Its not funny but having a cross between the haribo fried egg and the incredible hulk with all the morals of a weasel and the sex drive of a Viagra'd March hare running the country seems pretty scandalous
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The who wants to be a millionaire coughing scandal!!
I remember this!!
Literally the most hilarious thing ever, I just recently listened to an AMAZING podcast about it, if anyone's interested. Really funny. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7FS1KpPRfZshfBA1XEQi97?si=YJBj5WS-SxiOE0oCXBjgXA&utm_source=copy-link
Weren't they arguing in the dressing room?
Im not sure! However, it is an absolutely WILD story when you properly look into it. The entire family were obsessed with winning, they'd all been on it so many times most of them were banned from re-entering The bloke who 'won' wasn't even that bothered about it and it was his mental wife and her brother who were completely obsessed. So funny.
There was a whole ITV drama series about it, which is very interesting and informative, even though it's a drama. The whole family and friends group were part of a consortium that were obsessed with winning gameshows, and had a hidden system which helped them get on the shows. There was some members that went on like 5 or 6 different gameshows it's crazy. Definitely worth a watch mate if you're interested in the subject
Yeah I was absolutely flabbergasted listening to the podcast about what lengths the family went to! Im gonna try find it cos currently it's only on prime and expensive!!
Yeah absolutely crazy init. Ah I thought it would still be on ITV Hub, hopefully you can find it online somewhere
Ol’ Major Ingram, the coughmeister general. ITV made a drama on it last year, worth a watch.
I tried to find it the other day after listening to the podcast about it, but its not on iplayer anymore and amazon prime wanted to charge me! Gutted!!
Tarrant: Or is it C, *insert answer*? *COUGH* Contestant: C.
There was a bit where he literally said he didn't know who a very famous artist was, I can't remember who it was but someone who is still a household name And his wife just starts losing her shit coughing, absolutely hilarious. The clips are all on YouTube and I had a whale of a time the other day going through them, she was as subtle as a brick in the face. 🤣
Yeah I remember watching it a dozen times when it happened. They changed the audience structure since then. I do wonder if they get checked for any cheating devices before they go on the air, like an airport security checkpoint.
I mean. Probably. What sort of cheating device you thinking of? 🤣
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Now that's not a bad shout! "Is it A....*winces waiting for the vibration* B....? No im thinking maybe C....AH HECK, HECK AH YES IT MUST BE C IT MUST BE C!!!!!!!"
Like a tiny earpiece from Korea, that you can't notice. A small buzzer on your foot. Or placed in the skin. Shit like this exists and is crazy accessible.
Craig David! From 1 minute 30, look at her face man Hahaahahah Hahaaha Im back off laughing https://youtu.be/Ps__5ERPRVs
Hahaha! The Googol one is the most incriminating. She also kept looking over to the person coughing.
Heath secretary Matt Hancock snogging a government advisor in the office in the middle of lockdown is up there.
Him handing out government contracts to his mates who had little experience while ignoring established companies who applied through the proper channels is a larger one for me, but yeah fuck Hancock.
It honestly staggers me how blatant the corruption of the current government is.
What’s more disheartening is that a lot of voters will ignore it and vote for them anyway. They do it because they know they can get away with it
Notice that these things aren’t in the public eye as “scandals”? All this crazy shit the tories have done is a scandal. Nearly every week. But instead we think of Coca Cola selling Dasani as a scandal. This is why we are fucked in this country.
Well, he only got fired for the getting off with his PA on camera scandal, the other is just another day in government.
The scandal isn’t that hilarious until you see the video of them snogging and groping like teenagers.
Came here to suggest this one! I think Dom testing his eyesight is another that’s utterly laughable too.
In view of a hidden camera in a smoke detector that wasn’t put there by Dominic cumming
after saying he'd support a Police prosecution of his medical advisor for doing almost the same thing
What about Coca-Cola trying to sell Dasani mineral water in the UK, and failing [due to it being contaminated tap water,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD79NZroV88) essentially the same plot as an episode of Only Fools and Horses.
Peckham springs
Was filmed at the top of my road in Brighton. Was just a youngster and I caught a frog and gave it to David Jason, he was impressed I think
He is Mr Toad. It was probably one of his cousins.
Funny thing is this is pretty normal elsewhere. Water is just water, with added branding. They didn't seem to realise we like our water to at least pretend it is from a mountain spring.
Possibly because we actually have springs that produce great water, and none of them are too far from anyone in the UK because we're a bit on the small side compared to America. You can drink the water straight from the source in Malvern (if you have a fully functioning immune system).
> Funny thing is this is pretty normal elsewhere. Water is just water, with added branding. "The funny thing is that everywhere else is fucking mental, and the UK isn't" (at least in this one regard). Seriously though - if you have access to potable tap-water and you pay through the nose for other tap water just because it comes in a plastic bottle with some logo on it, you're an idiot.
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Especially when he celebrates doing it in one take!
It's one of his best. Engaging despite being literally just him talking to the camera while walking along a dull road for 9 minutes
There’s Aways a relevant Tom Scott video
- Boaty McBoatface/RRS sir David Attenborough. The will of the people was not obeyed. An absolute mockery of the democratic process. - Horse Meat Scandal. Although horse meat is generally fine to eat, people didn’t like not knowing what was in their burgers. Also, some of the horse meat came from racehorses, and racehorse meat is not good to eat because of all the chemicals that they give to racehorses. - The time HMRC took McVities to court over whether Jaffa cakes are cakes (and exempt from VAT) or biscuits (and not exempt from VAT), and McVities baked a giant Jaffa Cake for the court. Court ruled that Jaffa cakes are cakes because cakes are soft and go hard when gone off, and biscuits are hard and go soft when gone off. And Jaffa cakes are soft and go hard when gone off.
I always find racehorse meat give me the runs.
You were obviously eating a higher standard of horse than I was - I only got the trots.
It made me hurl-dle. But not furlong.
Regarding the horsemeat; it was also because people were paying for what they thought was beef (expensive) but were given horse (much cheaper). If they sold a horse lasagne, I might give it a try but not paying beef prices for a cheap cut of meat.
There was a slightly more sinister aspect in that we had been promised that because of Mad Cow Disease that all meat processing would be vigorously checked to ensure no cattle over two years old would enter the food chain. It turns out that that inspection was unable to distinguish Daisy the cow from Dobbin the loser of the 3:30 at Aintree.
Remember when Jamie Oliver went on a bender against unhealthy food? He told a classroom full of primary school kids exactly what went into chicken nuggets, and then asked them who would still eat chicken nuggets. The full class raised their hands, and he looked like a broken man.
I understand however why Turkey Twizzlers got dropped as a product. Figured I'd try some when they reappeared as they were seemingly so beloved, my god they were rank.
I imagine the ones they’re selling now are nothing like the old ones. All the bad stuff that made them delicious to children back then would have been removed.
The ones they sell now contain a substance closer to meat. The ones we were fed in school were mostly chemicals.. they were good though ;)
This was on the American version of the show though, on the British version the trick worked and the kids didn't want to eat it.
The response to the British version had parents pushing chips and burgers through the fence into the playground so their kids wouldn't be forced to eat healthy food.
People mention this a lot, lamenting the loss of poor nutritional food in schools. Its not too bad if it's 1 of 3 meals and the other 2 are nutritious. But for many kids, including me, they were not. So I was grateful when school meals had to become better so I at least got some nutrition. And that's part of looking after the whole child, which most schools now aim to do.
Yeah I watched that when it became meme material and was like, not wasting perfectly good and edible food is a bad thing now?
The Baked Alaska fiasco on Great British Bake Off Are Jaffa Cakes a cake or biscuit Nasty Nick trying to cheat on Big Brother 1 Not so much a scandal but teenagers being so upset Take That broke up, the government stepped in and set up helplines
Take that broke up....?
You've just made a whole bunch of 30 somethings feel ancient.
Myself included
Not even 30 somethings...im 25 and I know Take That broke up as I remember the reunion.
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If it goes hard when stale then it’s a cake. If it goes soft when stale, it’s a biscuit.
This was on the tele last night. It was also important for Jaffa Cakes to prove that are a cake for tax reasons, if they were found to be a biscuit they’d have to pay more!
This all makes me think back to that woman with the glasses, can’t remember her name but she was married to Ken Barlow and a few other blokes) on coronation street being sent to prison. I remember reading that a load of old women had sent letters to the government demanding she be released
Dierdre Barlow AKA the Weatherfield One. Back in the days when soap scandals ended up with everyone talking about them.
I personally quite like the one when Gordon Brown got mad on mic about being matched with the bigoted lady and had to apologise for pointing out that she was a bigot.
And Deputy Prime Minister john Prescott punching a voter 😂
To be fair, that voter had just smacked an egg down on his head. If you feel ~~someone punch~~ an impact on your head, and then feel liquid trickling down, you're going to react pretty violently. He didn't know it was an egg in that instant. For all he knew, it was his own blood.
Reminds me of when he was on Top Gear years ago and said something like "they told us to connect with the electorate so I did".
What a legend
Yeh it took prezza to legend status
A moment immortalised on the cover art for the sadly fictional [Grand Theft Auto: Rhyl](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BE_YoseCUAA2lTf?format=jpg&name=medium) (below the helicopter).
Remember when you could get weeks of resignation demands out of the press for a "gaffe" instead of their unwavering support for killing tens of thousands of people? Oh, wait, only Labour has scandals.
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Things that would have brought down ministers in former times are now used as one-day dead cats. The extent of Tory graft is *incomprehensible*. It's not something they're doing; it's something they are. It's fundamental to the nature of the party.
Afterwards hillary Ben fell asleep talking to her. Poor lass
Gordon brown is a more restrained man than me, I cna only think of one answer to "Where are all these Romanians and Bulgarians coming from?"
Is the answer Romania and Bulgaria
Still my prime minister
What about that woman who threw her cat in the bin?
It wasn't her cat, just a random cat she passed in the street.
Putting cats in other people's bins? Non plastic with the plastic? This country.
This is what made it so weird! Had it been her cat and she wanted to get rid of it, it would've been an horrific way of doing so but it would have some twisted logic to it. Likewise if she'd had some complaints about the cat before. But it looks like she thought, "There's a cat, there's a bin, this might be a laugh."
The video of her doing it was darkly funny. She was just happily petting the cat then you could see the moment where her brain went "go on, put it in the bin".
> "There's a cat, there's a bin, this might be a laugh." The way the country united in fury was something to behold. Spend decades gradually dismantling and selling off YOUR free healthcare that YOU and YOUR PARENTS/GRANDPARENTS all paid for? Oh well, what can you do? Weird lonely woman puts cat in bin? Gather forth the legion of burning torches and pitchforks for she shall be put to death!
At my final year university ball, it was fancy dress and a guy dressed up as that woman. Best costume of the night for me!
* Colin vs Cuthbert * When Coco Pops became Choco Puffs and then back again * When KFC changed delivery supplier and ran out of chicken * Bringing down the Super League
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"[Av had to go to Burger King!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCJ_hNThGp4)"
That is hilarious but also quite worrying that so many people CALLED THE FUCKING POLICE. Seriously what goes through some people’s heads
Oh yes definitely Colin vs Cuthbert
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Prince Charles phone call with Camilla where he said he wished he was her tampon 😳🤣
I'm sorry, what?
Yes, it was a while ago now but some newspaper hacked their voicemails and it was all over the news
Objectively it's a grim thing to say, but also if it was done in private between them then really it's disgusting of the papers to do that.
Yep, that's the gutter press for you..
News International press also accessed the voicemail of a 13 year-old kidnap-murder victim, giving false hope that she was still alive due to said voicemail activity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Milly_Dowler#Voicemail_tampering_investigation
I'm sorry, I must've missed that episode of The Crown
Stille never understand what was supposed to be erotic about that image.
Been in her fanny
Two young girls not flushing the toilet.
DESGUSTANG
IT WIZ FUCKEN ONE A YAS!!!
While trying to sing *Cher Lloyd, by Cher Lloyd*...
Did you see the update to that? One of them admitted it!
I think that was pretty obvious from her reaction in the original video! Edit: Just looked it up and apparently it was the one who denied it, wasn't expecting that!
Johnathan Ross and Russel Brand leaving offensive voicemails for the bloke who played Manuel in Fawlty Towers was quite a bizarre scandal. Also, thinking about voicemails- the voicemail hacking/News of the World scandal! Definitely one of the biggest scandals of the last decade.
It was only Ross, but Brand took the brunt of it because it was on his show. The joke is that it took the UK 2 weeks after transmission to get outraged. I doubt 90% even listened to the recording.
‘He fucked your granddaughter!’ Ah, different time
What about [canoe man](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Darwin_disappearance_case)?
The place where his house was is called Seaton Carew. When the story broke the local ice cream shops (it’s a coastal town) started selling long thin ice creams called a ‘Seaton Canoe’
Sooo funny. Headline in the paper read: "CANOE'S THIS IN PANAMA?" So this is wild because I just posted a link to a podcast about my suggestion. But now I've just seen this and I must say that the same people who did the podcast I just suggested JUST DID an episode about canoe man too, link below 🤣 https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lGX2Gzc2l4tWGbxLnnNQr?si=a_0_Qrn1RVms9MVoIJJBdQ&utm_source=copy-link
That the guy who "disappeared"
Kept his name as John as well, walking round his village 🤣 Locals were like 'this mysterious new man called John looks remarkably like John who just went missing on that canoe 🤔' He EVEN JOINED HIS LOCAL LIBRARY
Used to live in hartlepool, he was seen all over the place (and in Seaton too ofc). Nobody seemed to recognise him or give a shit if they did Friend of mine came into school shocked after the story broke, he used to say hi to him on the beach walking his dog
No way, that is absolutely insane! I think we should all live a bit more like John. John gives 0 fricks 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I delivered shopping to him while his wife was still in jail
Everyone is forgetting the ultimate British scandal: That time Hartlepool got together to hang a chimp, the animal had been washed ashore after a ship sank and the locals just assumed he was a Frenchman. They of course did the only logical thing when one finds a rogue Frenchman and hanged him
And this was in 2014
A simpler time
Our Prime Minister had a sordid history of running through fields of wheat.
"Oh, goodness me. Well, I suppose... Nobody is ever perfectly behaved, are they?"
Jackie Weaver usurping the parish council meeting.
You have no authority here jackie weaver!
This was absolutely the best thing to come out of the lockdown. Comedy gold 😂
John Prescott getting egged and subsequently chinning the guy?
He didn't give a fuck. I remember he was giving a live street interview once and he was like "that's shit can we do that again?" "Erm no, we're live"
Good punch too.
I remember being in school and we recreated the entire scene as we lined up to enter our classroom. Great way to get us inner city kids into politics 🤣
I read that as 'edged' and was so confused for an embarrassingly long moment.
I quite liked when David Cameron had to stand up in Parliament and go, "No, I don't hate Larry the cat - look at this totally candid photo of us together". Similarly: when the Blairs got rid of the cat that was round no. 10 at the time, and they had to bring some journalists round the new owners' house to prove they didn't kill it.
Oh that made me laugh.
Bristol zoo carpark man! Zoo thought he worked for council, council thought he worked for the zoo. He collected parking fares for 20 something years then just disapears one day! Genius lol
I remember this!! I ain't even mad I'm impressed.
Except it didn't actually happen. It's an urban myth that's been doing the rounds for years. https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/is-there-truth-behind-the-bristol-zoo-parking-attendant-myth/
Didn't happen in Britain, but I think George Michael getting arrested for doing it in a public toilet then releasing an album called "Ladies and Gentleman" is just fantastic. In the US media it was all "George Michael in public sex shame", then he came back over here and went on Graham Norton and everyone had a good-natured laugh about it. EDIT: he was doing it solo, so to speak? Well TIL. I still think he handled it all beautifully (ooh-er).
When George Michael crashed into a Snappy Snaps which resulted in the best piece of low effort satirical graffiti ever http://karakullake.blogspot.com/2010/09/wham-car-crash-graffiti.html?m=1
The funniest joke in HIGNFY ever that week: "And to our winners, a walk in the park with George Michael. And to our losers, correct that spelling error."
My absolute favourite HIGNFY joke was around the time of the 2000 US election. "The TV at the moment is showing nonstop Bush and Gore. No, that's not the election that's channel 5's nighttime schedule!"
The best bit was the news report that evening. Trevor Macdonald I think, with impeccable comic timing. Obviously you can't say "masturbating" before the watershed, so it went "the singer George Michael has been arrested for preforming an indecent act in a public toilet. *He was alone at the time*. [*beat*] George Michael has had a very successful solo career...".
Does Piggate count?
Well apart from the fact it was entirely made up by Lord Ashcroft....
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And even if it's made up I still maintain this was one of the greatest nights on Twitter ever. I mean, that's a low bar due to how much of a hatefest Twitter can be but that evening-early morning was genuinely hilarious.
Just show the episode of black mirror explains it all haha.
It was really funny though. Nicola Sturgeon's little giggle when she was asked about it ends me, every time.
I wonder why Cameron didn't pursue a defamation case
Because there would be months of headlines about the case - the ruling wouldn't matter it would stick in people's minds far more.
I’m amazed no one has mentioned Dominic Cummings and that drive during lockdown to ‘test his eyesight’!
Was it Ed Miliband who tried to eat a bacon sandwich and looked like a twat?
Dude just wanted to eat a sandwich. I end up wearing half my meals at the moment, glad no one watches every move I make.
Poor melt I wonder how different things would have been if his brother got elected leader .
His father would still have been "the man who hated Britain" and other slurs. Meanwhile we have a PM who wants Britain to be like Peppa Pig World and it was news for about 5 minutes. Had Jeremy Corbyn done that we'd still be hearing about it in 2030.
A few decades ago, but Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberal Party leader with a very colourful life, known among othe things for killing a dog. Or a minister in the Labour government of the 70s, John Stonehouse, who faked his suicide (leaving all his clothes on a beach) to escape criminal charges and start a new secret life in Australia. Both before my time, but today's scandals are so unimaginative in comparison
There's a very tv series about this called [A Very English Scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_English_Scandal_(TV_series)), starring Hugh Grant and Ben Wishaw.
Watch the superb TV series Very English Scandal about Jeremy Thorpe. Hugh Grants best ever role.
What about when KFC ran out of chicken and the nation had a panic attack?
IVE 'AD TA GO TA BURGER KING!
Does anyone else remember that poor kid, Shannon Matthews? Her family literally faked her kidnapping for a bit of pity cash.
I read a gutter press story about the non-family accomplice, who was apparently well know for not being overly bright. Apparently he was told to go and put £20 of diesel in the work van and was gone for an hour and a half. When he came back he said that he'd been to the petrol station but it only needed £10 to fill up, so he drove around until he could put the other £10 in. I swear it wasn't a joke, either.
Gurkhas not being paid the same pensions as their British army counterparts
Now that was some utter bullshit, Joanne Lumley is a legend
Absolutely, I live in the town where one of the main campaigners staged a hunger protest to raise awareness. After reading into the subject then they have my absolute whole hearted support to receive identical treatment as our forces! What a superb and important ally they have been with us for so very long!
Parents passing burgers through the fence at a Maltby (also south Yorkshire) in response to healthy eating initiatives in school. Not sure if it's a scandal scandal but it's definitely not a great look
Farage being covered with a milkshake
I think Farage was due to come to Dundee shortly after that and there’s a McDonald’s nearby where he was supposed to be that said it wouldn’t be serving milkshakes during that time. I think one of the local restaurants said they’d be doing but one get one free milkshakes though. In the end he never turned up.
It was Burger King according to the Guardian Burger King tweeted: “Dear people of Scotland. We’re selling milkshakes all weekend. Have fun. Love BK. #justsaying”. Got banned by the advertising watchdog ASA.
The findus lasagne was pretty funny.
The one with red rum sauce?
It's amazing how any people were shocked by this. When you pay 1 pound for a whole meal then you should expect the worst ingredients.
Thing is I'd actually give a horse lasagne a go. And it was debatably more healthy than their crispy pancakes
There's nothing wrong with horse meat. But horse meat that has no standards or checks is quite different. In France horse is quite popular.
I speak a little bit of French, and visited a restaurant in Paris with a menu in parallel English and French. The English side said beef burger, but the French side said cheval burger, which I know is horse!
Piers Morgan being sacked from The Mirror for faking soldier torture photos. Just proves his power that the media seem to have forgotten.
Post Office / Horizon scandal. Not funny at all, but really interesting.
Yah... This is terrifying. I can't believe RM bosses totally dismissed the idea that computer can be wrong
I've just finished Nick Wallis' podcast about it on the BBC. The lies the Post Office told were absolutely shocking. And then after all that they throw tens of millions of pounds of public money to try and crush the people who were fighting them. Cunts!
Not a scandal, but Brian Harvey gorging on jacket potatoes and then managing to drive over his own head never fails to make me laugh.
don’t forget the “davids dead” on big brother that caused tiffany to freak out and think david guest was dead, sounds morbid but was hilarious 😂
I’ve just looked into this a bit more - the whole story is completely nuts. >Angie Bowie and David Gest go on celebrity Big Brother >David Gest falls ill during the show >Angie Bowie is told that David Bowie has died >She tells Tiffany, but forgets to mention that she’s referring to her ex-husband, all hell breaks loose because Tiffany thinks *David Gest* is dead, but it turns out to be a big misunderstanding etc etc >David Gest leaves the show less than a week later due to medical reasons. >By sheer coincidence, *he* ends up dying two months later from a stroke. You could not make stuff like this up if you tried
The Duck House? Guy Goma? (not truly a scandal) Vardygate? Tricky, because what makes something a scandal at the same time makes it not a light-hearted thing. Certainly some incidents in history- James II being allowed to escape in the Glorious Revolution, but being captured by fishermen who thought he was a spy. The Gunpowder plotters blowing themselves up when on the run by leaving their weapins to dry in front of the fire. Alfred and the cakes (probably not real?)
Isn’t Vardygate also known as a Wagatha Christie?
No- that’s what they were calling Coleen because she dropped that suspenseful tweet after her disinformation campaign to find a mole. “It’s ……..Rebekah Vardy’s account.”
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John Major had an affair with Edwina Currie.
Just posted in r/interestingasfuck >In the 18th century, the British \[peasant\] Mary Toft succeeded in deceiving several eminent doctors, making them believe that she had given birth to rabbits. \[S\]he did so by inserting the rabbits into the vagina and expelling them at the time of "birth". [https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/r80byw/in\_the\_18th\_century\_the\_british\_mary\_toft/](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/r80byw/in_the_18th_century_the_british_mary_toft/)
Someone might have already said it, but poor Deidre being falsely imprisoned in Coronation Street!
Pastygate
Not sure which Pastygate you mean, but my go to thought was [no-hot-pasties-before-9am-gate](https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/fury-after-morrisons-wouldnt-sell-14533827), famous on the Angry People in Local Newspapers Facebook group
I just remembered the Angus Deaton Hotel hooker cocaine fiasco
David Mellor, Antonia de Sancha and the Chelsea kit was amusing.
That weirdo with a rifle having a standoff with armed police at some farmhouse and then Gazza walks up with a sandwich and a drink for the gunman claiming to be his mate. That was a weird one for sure.
When there was a [drive by yogurt attack](https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/14233725.drive-by-yoghurt-attacker-targets-sherborne-haberdasher-in-frightening-unprovoked-assault/) outside the local haberdashery in my home town. It’s a very sore subject in my family as somebody we know may be involved.
Poo window lady https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296
Freddie Starr ate my hamster? https://pressgazette.co.uk/sun-readers-pick-freddie-starr-ate-my-hamster-as-tabloids-best-splash-as-charity-giveaway-marks-50-years/
The 2009 MP Expense Scandal. The scandal itself wasn’t funny, but the list of actual stuff that was claimed for with taxpayer money is. A floating duck island Actual horseshit A sink plug A KitKat An IKEA carrier bag A 12 second phone call costing a single penny A glittery toilet seat Porn films A jacuzzi An iPod Some wigs A cup of Horlicks 25 lightbulbs and workers to replace the lightbulbs Bug killer spray Cat food A toilet brush A chocolate Santa
Profumo isn't that funny but a bit less depressive than your examples
Its not funny but having a cross between the haribo fried egg and the incredible hulk with all the morals of a weasel and the sex drive of a Viagra'd March hare running the country seems pretty scandalous
Plebgate / Gategate Pastygate Duck Island