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We can’t argue with Twitter user @justflapjack that this gym activity is hard. Very hard, in fact. We won’t be trying it anytime soon*. *ever What’s harder than this? pic.twitter.com/9GGXn6x6AN — flapjack 〽️ (@justflapjack) June 29, 2025 But when they challenged the internet to name something harder, people really stepped up. 1. Entering a password […] The post 17 everyday things that are way more challenging than they should be appeared first on The Poke.

The US Secretary of Treasury, Scott Bessent, really wants you to believe he’s a struggling farmer just like the rest of us. At least, that’s the only explanation for why he keeps going on national TV and lying about it. Bessent’s latest attempt at relating to the average, struggling American was on the CBS show, […] The post Trump’s Treasury Secretary was challenged over his claim to be a ‘soybean farmer’ and his reverse ferret was so rapid it almost broke the sound barrier appeared first on The Poke.

A warm welcome back to Helen Whateley, the Conservative MP who has appeared frequently on these pages in the past and will doubtless do so again. Here the shadow work and pensions secretary was talking about the Motability scheme about which she is getting especially hot under the collar. But the numbers she was talking […] The post Helen Whately’s numbers were so far from reality even Laura Kuenssberg felt compelled to correct her appeared first on The Poke.

Marjorie Taylor Greene was going through some sort of metamorphosis over the last six months. She was denouncing Trump and playing nice with the media. Everyone was embracing her surprising candor when it came to the faults of her party. Welp, that’s over now. MTG let the mask slip off in this grade school-level exchange […] The post Marjorie Taylor Greene had a chance to take accountability for her actions and her totally on-brand response suggested she really hasn’t changed at all appeared first on The Poke.

In case you missed it, Donald Trump is President of the United States of America right now. Joe Biden hasn’t been President in a year. In that time, President Trump has been so busy helping the country improve across a wide swath of issues that he keeps falling asleep in public and rambling on incoherently […] The post America’s biggest gossip site called out Joe Biden for a speech slip-up and it was a double standard so gratuitous it was visible from space appeared first on The Poke.

Here’s what happens to a GB News presenter when they turn up on a channel that isn’t GB News. Not every time, obviously, but specifically in this case when Matt Goodwin, a Conservative activist, GB News commentator and regular speaker at Reform UK events turned up on Al Jazeera to be interviewed by Mehdi Hasan. […] The post This Reform UK-er and GB News commentator was brutally fact-checked into next week and it made everyone’s day so much better appeared first on The Poke.

Nigel Farage isn’t happy with the BBC. No surprise there. But specifically he’s not happy with BBC1’s Question Time and the direction last week’s programme took on immigration, in the presence of QT panellist, entirely unelected Reform UK-er, Zia Yusuf. BBC Question Time is an utterly discredited programme. No wonder half a million people refuse […] The post Nigel Farage said Question Time was an ‘utterly discredited programme’ and global supply’s of irony just hit record lows – 14 totally on-point responses appeared first on The Poke.

Tommy Robinson wannabe Stephen Yaxley-Lennon memorably describes himself as a ‘journalist’ in his Twitter bio, although it’s probably not too much of a a stretch to presume that he’s not a member of the National Union of Journalists or anything. If it’s a stretch for credibility then it’s surely one that only his most devoted […] The post Tommy Robinson was fact checked til he farted and Piers Morgan’s final word had everyone cheering (even if you don’t like Piers Morgan) appeared first on The Poke.

It’s always an event when the great Miriam Margolyes turns up on the sofa of the Graham Norton Show, and it turns out it’s even better when sitting alongside her is the brilliant Alexander Skarsgård. The actor was in town to talk about his new gay BDSM drama Pillion, in which he plays Ray, a […] The post Miriam Margolyes asked Alexander Skarsgård how he prepared for his gay BDSM film Pillion and it’s the funniest Graham Norton exchange of the year appeared first on The Poke.

If there’s one thing the internet loves, it’s a life hack, which is a strategy to manage your time or activities in a more efficient way. Given that efficiency is the aim here, you’d expect all life hacks to be logical and sane, but it turns out that this is not always the case. They’ve […] The post Somebody asked for people’s ‘unhinged life hacks’ – 23 wildly unconventional tips and tricks you might want to avoid appeared first on The Poke.