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Modern medicine is a wonderful thing, and the ability to go to A&E, or ER as the Americans call it, when we havean emergency is indeed a blessing. However, sometimes the reasons we need to go are highly embarrassing, or we just panicked and didn’t need to go in the first place. These are the […] The post ‘What’s the cringiest reason you went to A&E?’ – 21 incredibly embarrassing medical ’emergencies’ appeared first on The Poke.

Magas are suddenly VERY concerned about voter fraud. The issue you heard absolutely nothing about during the the last Presidential election, or even the last time Senate and House seats were up for grabs, has now become the number one issue plaguing America right now. There seems to be one constant at the center of […] The post The US house majority leader shared their voter fraud theory and it took a reporter just five words to totally debunk it appeared first on The Poke.

We’re a year and a half into the second Trump term and it’s becoming pretty clear that the truth will not be a cornerstone of the administration. The big orange guy at the top sets the tone with his loose interpretation of the facts. At the core of many of his lies is one central […] The post Trump’s agriculture secretary tried to shift blame for the latest cock-up onto Joe Biden and it was such an obvious self-own it fell at the very first hurdle appeared first on The Poke.

Jealousy is an emotion with a bad reputation, and for good reason. Yet we all experience it, even if we’re not prepared to admit it. They’ve been discussing the ways in which we manage to keep our envy on the down low on the AskUK subreddit after VarangianWRLD asked this: ‘What are you secretly jealous […] The post People shared their secret little jealousies and it turned out we’re more envious than we thought – 23 things people put at the very top of their wish list appeared first on The Poke.

The World Cup football tournament is upon us again, and its expanded format of a 48-team group stage is causing a certain amount of confusion. But the World Cup group system has always been a little baffling as this following clip from the groundbreaking The Day Today goes to show. It features Alan Partridge (Steve […] The post This hilarious Day Today clip of Alan Partridge’s ‘Soccermeter’ for the 1994 World Cup went viral again to welcome in the new tournament appeared first on The Poke.

Pick a metric and it’s pretty easy to see that Donald Trump is not doing so great lately. Can he walk a straight line? Nope. Can he stay awake for an entire press conference? Try again. Can he keep his face a normal, flesh-colored tone throughout a conversation? Sorry. And yet, he continues to carry […] The post A Democratic congressman just demanded full disclosure from the White House about Donald Trump’s well-being and he’s really not messing around appeared first on The Poke.

To PMQs – again! – where the Green Party’s newest MP Hannah Spencer had a question about hospitality for Keir Starmer. But it wasn’t Starmer at the front of her mind – rather, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK – when she stood up to ask her question with a two-word takedown that was already good, but […] The post Green MP Hannah Spencer’s two-word takedown of Reform UK was already good but the furious response of its supporters took it to a whole new level appeared first on The Poke.

To PMQs now where Nigel Farage – only kidding, Farage wasn’t there, obviously – Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice was busy looking to make political gain out of human tragedy. And Keir Starmer – who’s performance at the Dispatch Box appears to get better the less chance he has of staying on as PM […] The post Richard Tice was hit so hard by Keir Starmer’s PMQs comeback that he erased it from his Twitter feed but don’t let that stop you from enjoying it appeared first on The Poke.

To the world – briefly – of the clown prince of the toxic manosphere, Andrew Tate, who’s been playing soldiers with the Russian army along with his brother Tristan. 🚨🇷🇺 BREAKING: The Tate brothers are getting Russian army training. 😳🔥 pic.twitter.com/jFiDaszD5M — Prime Tate (@primetateHQ) June 8, 2026 And we mention it because the video […] The post Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been relentlessly mocked for ‘training with the Russian Army’ – 14 funniest and most on-point responses appeared first on The Poke.

There are some things we do without consciously thinking about them that are vital, like breathing. And there are some things we do without consciously thinking about them that are practical, like driving a car. But there are some things we do without thinking about them that are utterly stupid, or at the very least, […] The post People shared the most mortifying things their brains ever did on autopilot – 23 hilarious times our synapses left us hanging appeared first on The Poke.