Buzzfeed: Near Fatal Fact Check Fail

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…and now, so does Jack Stuef. Image via contentconverts.

If you’re going to post a harsh critique of an individual with a significant web presence and following, you better make damn sure you get your facts straight.  If you don’t, and the target of your ire is sufficiently pissed off, you might find yourself on the receiving end of a public flaming that will leave your reputation (and your clothing) carrying the sharp smell of smoke for the duration of your career.

Even more so, it seems, when you’re calling out a guy who made a rape joke.

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Mormons & Gays: A Step In The Right Direction?

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Mormons Building Bridges at Utah Pride parade in June this year. Image via gayldsactor.

With an eternal perspective, a person’s attraction to the same sex can be addressed and borne as a mortal test. It should not be viewed as a permanent condition. Though some people, including those resisting same-sex attraction, may not have the opportunity to marry a person of the opposite sex in this life, a just God will provide them with ample opportunity to do so in the next.

This, gentlepeople, is the Mormon church’s attempt to cope with the reality of gay marriage. Historically, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has bitterly opposed same sex unions, heavily contributing to campaigns against it. But having realised that this stance is affecting individuals already committed to the church, they appear to be softening their approach. Their  new website, mormonsandgays.org, advises that if one simply can’t resist their gay urges, they can make up for it by marrying a member of the opposite sex in the afterlife.

Alright, it’s early days. But at least they’re making an effort, no?

Jennifer Lopez: Tipping Point

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Terrifying scenes at the Rod Laver Arena, as Jennifer Lopez fights to maintain vertical equilibrium after a stylist applies a squirt of hairspray to her hair during a press call.

Fortunately for the music world, JLo was able to keep her balance, despite the weight of her hair superseding that of her entire body.

She lives to sing another day.

Brian Blessed: Your Reputation Precedes You

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Brian Blessed, you are a British institution, beloved of everyone who enjoys big beards and shouting.

But with the best will in the world, no one is going to be foolish enough to stand next to you as you lustily sing your way through the Holy Trinity Church Carol Concert in London. Unless they’re actively seeking a festive bout of tinnitus, of course.

Carcasses On The Carpet: Torrill & Friend:

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Torrill and unfortunate companion at the ‘Edge Of Salvation’ premiere in Los Angeles last night. Image: Tibrina Hobson/FilmMagic.

There’s something about staring into those cold, dead eyes that sends a shiver down my spine.

But enough about Norwegian singer Torrill. Let’s just hope that thing around her neck is dead. You don’t want stunned wild animals wandering around a dark movie theatre when you’re trying to watch a film, do you?

Ki Suk Han: The Privilege Of The Few

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Image via gawker.com.

If you don’t have an opinion on the New York Post’s decision to run this image of Ki Suk Han on their front page last Tuesday, you almost certainly have something to say about R. Umar Abbasi’s decision to take it in the first place.

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Julie Bindel: Rift & Separate

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According to feminist writer Julie Bindel, if women aren’t prepared to toe the party line and consciously define themselves by a set of rules imposed by other people, they should be treated as second class citizens.

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Victoria Derbyshire: There. So You Don’t Have To Be

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The friendly face of animal testing put in an appearance on Victoria Derbyshire’s Radio 5 show this morning.

Derbyshire, whose abilities as a journalist are frequently wasted on the human interest stories that have become the staples of mid-morning radio, was stripped, disinfected and encased in some sort of hazmat suit before being plonked into the lab, where staff strained to demonstrate how humane and necessary their experiments on mice are to our future survival.

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Shen Jianzhong: What Would Bruce Lee Do?

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Shen Jianzhong does not subscribe to the theory that violence in the movies is much sexier and exciting than in real life.

We know this, because when 50 blokes who had been harassing local residents to sign over their homes to a property developer, turned up on his doorstep and started threatening his wife, he didn’t figure that his idol, legendary martial arts expert and movie star Bruce Lee, would probably have locked the door and called the damned police.

Shen, a fitness instructor who has dedicated 20 years of his life to learning his idol’s techniques, instead applied some hefty movie logic to the situation and set about the thugs with the help of his son. By the time they had finished, the guys who remained on their feet were cowering outside. The less fortunate ones, about seven of them, according to reports, lay in an unconscious and embarrassing heap by the front door.

Their views regarding the relative glamour of movie violence compared to real life have yet to be canvassed, but presumably someone will ask them when they come round.

Yoko Ono: Lost In Translation. Or Maybe There Just Aren’t Enough Words.

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In case you missed it, Yoko Ono recently unleashed a clothing collection inspired by her late husband, John Lennon, on an unsuspecting and, let’s be honest, entirely unprepared, world.

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