Category: Society
Welcome to Portland
[The following is a message from the Portland, Oregon Visitors’ Bureau.] Welcome to Portland, Oregon, America’s Most Liberal City. If you’re planning to spend a few days in the Rose City, we at the Portland Visitor’s Bureau would like to…
Uncouth Act at Remembrance Day Inspires Award-Winning Poem
London Poet Alan Wright has won ‘Poem of the year 2018’ – an impromptu poem recital, inspired by the actions of an uncouth man in the crowd at London’s Remembrance Day. Wright 52, told Glossy News: “I was asked to…
Glossy News Has Published Our First Book! Never Have I Ever: the Game in Book Form
You know those $30 board games you play that are really wicked and really fun? Yeah, we made our own version, and it’s in book form; and it’s available for $5.99 on the first edition. The second edition promises to…
OMG! World’s Logic Scholars Left Reeling in Mass Suicide: Donald Trump Makes ‘Impossible Discovery!’
Since the days of Aristotle, logic has been considered a cornerstone of civilisation. Logicians have been highly respected (and despised) scholars, and while nobody particularly likes them, their intellectual credentials have generally been considered second to none. Despite the cavils…
Saudi Arabia Drops Travel Ban on Australians, Condemns ‘Disrespectful Behaviour’
Australians are well renowned (some would say infamous!) for their straight talking, a national trait which is enough to send even the customarily forthright Dutch and Russians screaming into their safe spaces.
Incel Culture & Neurodiversity: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
I recently moved towards a dialogue on Twitter; and while I knew debates over Neurodiversity were pretty ugly things, even I was shocked at the bizarre distortions of my calls for autistic males to reject victimhood; whether out of malice,…
London Doctor Gets Head Stuck in Patient’s Anus
London doctor Mary Silverstein accidentally got her whole head trapped inside a patient’s anus during a routine prostate examination. Patient Walter Bottomley 54, told Glossy News:
My Private Workout with Obama
[The following is a 100% partially true story]. People routinely accuse me of telling over-the-top fabricated stories in Glossy News. They make these outrageously unfair accusations just because I may bend the truth a tiny bit occasionally – and by…
Brainy Sacramento Solve Police Brutality Problem: African Americans Banned from Carrying Cell Phones!
Most of you will have seen the recent scandal where the police shot an unarmed black man multiple times in the back while he was standing in his own grandmother’s back yard, holding a cell phone that officers mistook for…
Alleged Faked Photographs Challenge Credibility Of Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Awards
London’s Natural History Museum has been forced to rethink the entry requirements for its Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards. Once again, a prizewinning entry has been subsequently disqualified. That image, entered in the 2017 competition and called The Night…