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The former manager of Aldershot Town FC, Mark Molesley, gave an interview ahead of his team’s FA Trophy match against Bromley in 2022. The interviewer asked a standard question. “Mark – FA trophy tie against Bromley this weekend. What are your thoughts?” The answer was anything but standard, and has gone down in football interview […] The post This may still be the greatest, and it’s definitely the weirdest, pre-match interview by a football manager appeared first on The Poke.

The architects of the internet must have believed that everyone having literally all the knowledge in the world at their fingertips would have produced a global population of incredibly intelligent people. And yet, somehow, we all seem to be getting stupider. They’ve been mulling this over on the AskUK subreddit after user darkel2001 posted this: […] The post ‘What’s the worst bit of general knowledge you’ve heard someone get wrong?’ – 21 stupidly confident people appeared first on The Poke.

Jake Tapper continues to try to win back the public’s trust after he got rich off of a book about Joe Biden’s aging while Donald Trump slithered his way back into the White House. His latest on-air confrontation with Kristi Noem will go a long way towards that trust. Tapper had the head of the […] The post Jake Tapper lay a Trump-shaped elephant trap for homeland security chief Kristi Noem about ICE double standards and she fell right into it appeared first on The Poke.

We’re only a couple of weeks into the new year and such have been the exploits of Donald Trump’s White House that we’re already getting nostalgic for 2025. And of all Donald Trump’s cabinet of no talents, it’s homeland security chief Kristi Noem who has really struck out on her own as the leading contender […] The post If ever 15 seconds totally nailed the state of Trump’s White House right now then it’s this jaw-dropping Q&A with his homeland security chief, Kristi Noem appeared first on The Poke.

If you’re waiting for the White House to issue a humane response to the senseless killing of Renee Good, don’t hold your breath. First the White House trotted out anyone except Donald Trump for their takes on the ICE murder in Minneapolis. That went poorly. JD Vance, Kristi Noem, Karoline Leavitt, and more went public […] The post Donald Trump set the bar for use of ‘deadly force’ so low it shocked even seasoned Trump watchers – 15 totally on-point responses appeared first on The Poke.

Nadhim Zahawi – you remember, the former chancellor for 15 minutes who admitted to claiming expenses for electricity used in the stables on his private estate – has become the latest high profile Conservative to defect to Reform UK. Nigel Farage welcomed his newest recruit with open arms in spite of Reform UK basically turning […] The post Tory turned Reform UK-er Nadhim Zahawi was gloriously owned by his own words and no amount of deleting on Twitter could save him appeared first on The Poke.

It’s been a little while since Andrew Tate stepped back into the boxing ring and had his backside handed back to him on a silver platter. We mention it again because this video of the clown prince of the toxic manosphere being the ‘final boss’ has just gone viral on Twitter, presumably an attempt by […] The post This clip of Andrew Tate being the ‘final boss’ wasn’t the slam dunk he thought it was – 14 knockout takedowns appeared first on The Poke.

To the offices of the Daily Telegraph now, where a couple blamed something called the ‘cliff edge tax trap’ for not having children. Matthew and Nicole Griffiths apparently earn a combined £225,000 a year which is by their account not enough to pay for bringing up kids, having totted up (hypothetically, presumably) ‘£40,000 in childcare […] The post A couple on £225k told the Telegraph they paid too much tax to have children and these 17 A++ responses all come tax free appeared first on The Poke.

Despite what we have been reassured by its techbro overlords, AI is a bit of a worry. Whether you’re a woman who has non-consensually ‘stripped’ by Grok or a graphic designer who has lost all their work thanks to AI ‘art’, it appears to be more of a hindrance to society than the help it […] The post ‘Which jobs are 100% safe from AI?’ – 22 professions to get into if you don’t want your work stolen by computers appeared first on The Poke.

We now cross live to ‘WTF is wrong with the US Right? Episode 2,788’, where we find Kyle Rittenhouse, the man who was just 17 when he shot three people who were protesting against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha Wisconsin – two of them fatally. The now-23-year-old has become the darling of […] The post Kyle Rittenhouse, the baby-faced darling of the American Right, claims water is turning people gay – 18 scathing takedowns appeared first on The Poke.