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If you can recall playing SimCity, the video game in which the player created simulated groups of people, controlling their environment and actions, then we hope those pains in your knees aren’t bothering you too much today – and don’t forget to pack your reading glasses when you head to work or you’ll be in […] The post You might want to get the tissues ready to learn this fact about how dogs die in the classic video game Sims 3 appeared first on The Poke.

You know those cutesy couple-centred ads for stuff like supermarkets, food brands, and cars? Well, this isn’t one of those. No way they made this pic.twitter.com/zjQmcdoNFZ — Community Notes & Violations (@CNviolations) March 19, 2025 The tongue-in-cheek ad, written and directed for the 2015 Super Bowl by Dave Hill, was called ‘Road Trip’, and we […] The post There are cutesy couples car ads, and then there’s this 2015 Fiat commercial with an undeniably dark twist appeared first on The Poke.

United States Senate Budget Committee Chairman, Lindsey Graham, has a case for being Maga’s #1 fan. He’s only ratcheted up his support for the movement since Donald Trump slithered his way back into the White House. But nothing can get Graham to budge from his top priority. Here is the South Carolina Senator preaching the […] The post Maga mascot-in-chief Lindsey Graham didn’t just say the quiet part about the war on Iran out loud – he bellowed it – and it’s a frankly terrifying rant appeared first on The Poke.

To the world now of one-time Late Review pundit turned Daily Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson, who’s got the hump with Keir Starmer for not slavishly following Donald Trump’s lead in the presidential war on Iran. Pearson says Starmer has single-handedly put the special relationship to the sword, and used as her example the Falkland Islands […] The post Allison Pearson said Keir Starmer had left the UK ‘billy no mates’ if Argentina invaded the Falklands again and was schooled around the globe and back appeared first on The Poke.

As the war in Iran continues to trudge into its third week, Karoline Leavitt left the White House press room to engage in a more friendly conversation about the conflict on Fox News. And yet when she was lobbed this softball question from Fox News host, Maria Bartiromo, she completely bungled her opportunity to put […] The post Fox News asked Karoline Leavitt if the White House would institute a draft for the Iran war and her answer should terrify every parent in the country appeared first on The Poke.

It’s well known that Donald Trump has a thing for stupid handshakes, yanking away on his opposite number’s hand as if he suspected them of incorporating the false arm Rod Hull once wrapped around Emu (one for younger readers there). It was more a feature of his first than second term in the White House, […] The post Donald Trump tried his stupid handshake thing on the president of Paraguay and it backfired to supremely satisfying effect appeared first on The Poke.

The US continues to attack Iran, resulting in disturbing scenes of literal fire and brimstone. Imagine watching these horrors and genuinely believing the US is there to help the Iranian people https://t.co/r2g289pFMa — mason (@onehandpolitics) March 8, 2026 The man who set this all into motion must be torn up inside. Let’s see how the […] The post Donald Trump went golfing with his billionaire buddies while Iran burns and these each of these 15 responses totally aced it appeared first on The Poke.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is predictably unhappy that Keir Starmer didn’t immediately drop everything (bombs, mostly) to join Donald Trump’s war on Iran. And Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin – you remember – embraced the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to troll the PM on Twitter, suggesting the late PM would ‘never have hesitated’ to climb […] The post Sarah Pochin embraced the spirit of Thatcher to troll Keir Starmer and was magnificently owned into next week appeared first on The Poke.

Weddings are supposed to be one of the happiest days of your life. But they can also be fraught with tension. As well as the stress of the cost and the logistics, there’s also the little issue of whether the couple in question are actually a good match. IndependentTune3994 decided to dredge up people’s worst […] The post What wedding moment screamed ‘they are not going to last long’? – 17 signs the bride and groom were doomed from the start appeared first on The Poke.

Pete Hegseth took time out of his busy schedule yelling at reporters about a war he claims isn’t a war to speak at a summit with Latin American leaders. Somehow, it was even less pleasant than his updates on Iran. Hegseth was brought up to the podium by President Donald Trump. The two joked about […] The post Pete Hegseth bragged he ‘only speaks American’ at a summit with Latin American leaders and these 15 A++ replies needed no translation appeared first on The Poke.