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We’re not saying that Russell Brand‘s late-in-the-day conversion to born again Christianity isn’t sincere – Heaven forfend! – but he sure did seem to struggle to find his favourite Bible passage when asked live on air by Piers Morgan. Brand, as you’ll be aware, is awaiting trial over allegations of rape and sexual assault, which […] The post Religious scholar Russell Brand can’t find the Bible passages that he read in court, and Piers Morgan just leaves him hanging for an excruciating minute of dead air appeared first on The Poke.

Math is objective. There is a right answer and a wrong answer. The right answer can be proven with a step-by-step outline of equations. So when Donald Trump gathered some sycophants to stand behind him while he broke down his latest drug price reductions, it stood to reason that he’d be able to explain his […] The post Donald Trump has been explaining how maths works in his world and it’s 600% nuts appeared first on The Poke.

Look, it makes sense. Work meetings suck. They’re boring, they’re pointless, they almost always can just be an e-mail. That being said, when work is “running America” and America is currently at war with at least two other countries, everyone there should probably be counted on to stay awake for the duration of said meeting. […] The post It appears that Donald Trump scheduled a press conference during his afternoon nap time again – 15 responses worth waking up for appeared first on The Poke.

Donald Trump’s war with Iran has gone through more phases than a moody teenager trying to figure out what kind of music they like. Emo. Grunge. Hip-hop. Metal. It’s something new every week. And it rarely sticks. Same for the President. Who can’t seem to make up his mind about what exactly is happening in […] The post Donald Trump was asked when his war on Iran will be over and his answer was a glorious self-own for the history books appeared first on The Poke.

I have a dream. And in that dream, Donald Trump shuts the hell up for just one second so I can catch my breath. But until then, the big orange man keeps talking and what comes out is some of the most outrageous nonsense ever shared in front of a microphone. The President’s latest demented […] The post Donald Trump says he draws bigger crowds than Martin Luther King, Jr. and nobody in the room corrected him – but these 17 replies did appeared first on The Poke.

There’s certainly no shortage of influencers trying to get free or discounted stuff in exchange for that well-known currency – exposure. One of them, Antonio Malik, @antonio_eats_la, sent a message to Corner 17 in St. Louis, trying to get a $100 discount, and this is how that panned out. Not only did Corner 17’s owner, […] The post A petty influencer left a bad review because the restaurant wouldn’t give him a discount, and their response was A++ appeared first on The Poke.

The UK is a country with an enormously long history, which means that we end up mainly learning about the big hitting events, like the Battle of Hastings, the Industrial Revolution and World War II. But what about the more obscure but still fascinating things that have almost been forgotten? Over on the AskUK subreddit, […] The post Somebody asked historians about their favourite piece of obscure UK history – 19 fascinating stories almost lost to the mists of time appeared first on The Poke.

There’s nothing so mundane that the brilliant Jimmy Rees can’t tease out the absurdity of it to amazing comedic effect. In this edition of The Guy Who Decides, he becomes the spokesperson for cycling – and his own long-suffering assistant. “What happens on busy roads?” “Drivers of cars will lose their minds because they get […] The post Getting the bike out for the summer? Check out the hilarious ‘guy who decides cycling’ first appeared first on The Poke.

There’s no doubt that Britain is a unique place. From morris dancing to hun culture to places with names like Bishop’s Itchington, we have a wealth of weirdnesses to be proud of. However, to an outsider it can be understandably confusing, even the things that to us natives seem incredibly banal. Over on the AskUK […] The post People shared the British things that are totally normal to us but utterly baffling to visitors – 23 proper eye-openers appeared first on The Poke.

We’ve featured no end of idiot men on these pages being given exactly the treatment they deserve, and this one is from the very top drawer. Except in this case, ‘idiot men’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. It’s someone called Tamira who went viral back in the day after they shared a long exchange […] The post This woman was relentlessly bothered by a creepy old classmate to the point where she had no choice but to go nuclear and it was just fabulous appeared first on The Poke.