Labyrinth, and other kids' movies adults wang on about

LABYRINTH has hit 40, while the knobheads who endlessly quote it turned 40 quite some years ago. It, and these children’s films, are apparently impossible to get over.

Entering text on telly still as primitive as in 1980s

NONE of the advances in technology of the last half-century have made it any easier to enter text via a remote control.

WAGS alone and horny in Miami, Britain notified

THE UK’s lotharios have been notified that the England squad’s wives and girlfriends are hot and undefended 1,250 miles from the team’s base.

Cat Deeley, Amanda Holden and other celebrities your mum inexplicably despises
SHE doesn’t know why she hates them, but she does. These celebrities are subject to decades-long maternal vendettas beyond any understanding.
Spare a thought for us, say online predators

SICK deviants who use social media to prey on young people have asked you to consider their feelings during this difficult time.

A Gen X man's guide to looksmaxxing, by our TikTok beauty influencer

GETTING older is a natural process and nothing to be ashamed of. And if you believe that, please exit the dating market and go to an open space to die.

Hydration breaks ruining VAR

OVERLONG hydration breaks during the World Cup are ruining the spontaneous flow and raw emotion of VAR.

We will still be dicks, affirm under-16s

UNDER-16s have explained that whether on social media or not, they will still be completely unbearable dickheads.

Scottish co-worker obviously still drunk

THE Scottish man two desks across is very clearly still inebriated which nobody has yet had the courage to mention.

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Politics

How to put a nice positive spin on race riots, by Britain's press

CARS and homes were set ablaze by riots in Belfast last night. But for reasons some newspapers broadly approve of, which is why they get this spin.

You call that a night of violence, laughs Belfast old-timer

AN elderly Belfast resident is chuckling at the relatively small scale of last night’s violence.

Britain forced to suffer televised opinions of yokels again

THE Makerfield by-election campaign means that once again, the UK is being forcibly exposed to the political opinions of bewildered troglodytes.

Robert Jenrick, and the rest of the happy crew riding the 'two-tier' bandwagon

THE police acted incompetently in the Henry Nowak case, but opportunists have turned it into a bandwagon about two-tier, anti-white policing. Here’s who couldn’t wait to get on board.

Twats not helping

VIOLENT twats who believe themselves to be helping are emphatically not helping, Britain has agreed.

Brave Western man determined to fight for his Asian fetish
A BRITISH man with a passion for Japanese women has proclaimed that he will campaign tirelessly for his human right to fetishise.

Society

Toddler allowed screen time if it's prestige dramas

A SMALL child is allowed as much TV and tablet time as they like if they are watching an iconic BAFTA or Emmy-winning drama.

We ask you: Which iconic British creature must be on banknotes or you'll riot?

THE Bank of England has announced the 18-strong shortlist of beasts for British banknotes and the country is in uproar. Which will you go to war to be included?

University once again the preserve of rich idiots

TUITION fees and high-interest student loans have returned Britain’s universities to the domain of the wealthy and stupid, as they were intended to be.

Young people: If we ignore the evidence, can we still blame them?

YOUNG people are unable to get jobs, locked out of education and suffering poor mental health. But if we really try, can we find a way for it to be their fault?

How to survive an endless series of crises when you're in a safe, distant country

UKRAINE, Gaza, Iran, Sudan, melting glaciers. But, through it all, you’ve remained in a nice house in Sussex eating crisps in your joggers. Here’s how to cope.

Backpacker finds himself two hours into gap year
A 20-YEAR-OLD taking a gap year to find who he really is has inconveniently done so in a service station on the way to the airport.

Lifestyle

Man fails to get himself in mood for wank

A MAN’s attempt to treat himself to a solo sexual experience while on a business trip has foundered on his own lack of interest.

Come to Spain, to laugh at the people who'd normally be in Dubai

THE Spanish tourist board is encouraging Britons to visit this summer for a good chuckle at all those miserable because they cannot be in Dubai.

Woman agonising over wedding outfit as if anyone gives a shit

A WOMAN is subjecting herself to enormous stress over what she will wear for an upcoming wedding, irrespective of the fact nobody will notice.

How to share someone else's bad news without looking too excited about it

WHEN events such as divorce, redundancy and disastrous tweakments befall other people it’s natural to be excited. Here’s how to yap about it without sounding too pleased.

Only well-off people spontaneous

SPONTANEITY is limited to people who have the financial means to go on exciting adventures at the last minute, it has emerged.

Job hunting in this market impossible, says teen without CV

A 18-YEAR-OLD who has made no effort to find any kind of job has decided his unemployment is down to global economic factors far beyond his control.

Your astrological week ahead for June 13th, with Psychic Bob
Impossible to believe Jordan Pickford was born in 1994. That is a face that went over the top at the Somme.

Relationships

Throuples are solution to cost of living crisis

YOUNG Britons are entering into three-way romantic and sexual relationships because they are a great way to keep rent and bills down.

45-year-old who says girls in their 20s are mature asked how many men in their 20s he hangs out with

A 45-YEAR-OLD who exclusively dates women in their 20s while claiming they are ‘emotionally mature’ does not seem to have any male friends of that age.

Flight attendants, and other women your boyfriend saves a creepy little smile for

THAT sickly, ingratiating grin isn’t for everyone. It isn’t for you. It seems to specifically be for women employed to serve him, like these.

Man sleeps with woman to prevent second date

A MAN who wanted to avoid the awkwardness of turning a woman down after their first date achieved the same result by having sex with her instead.

Boyfriend subject to hour-long monologue about need for more communication

A MAN has nodded through a 60-minute monologue from his girlfriend on how they need to sit down and have a proper talk about their relationship.

Asking what you are to each other, and other ways to get a man to ditch you

WANT to terminate a relationship abruptly? Say any of the following and you’ll never see him again.

Completely sedentary man protein-maxxing
A MAN who performs the bare minimum of physical activity nonetheless believes it necessary for him to consume three large steaks a day.

Science & Technology

22 the only age anyone should have a phone

THE only age it is healthy and useful for anyone to have a phone is 22, it has been confirmed.

We ask you: What is Nasa hoping to find on the Moon?

POPULAR T-shirt manufacturer Nasa is racing China to land a manned flight on the lunar surface. What do they expect to find there?

VR headsets, and other technologies you got bored of after 20 minutes

ONCE it was the next big thing, now you can’t even Freecycle it. Were you one of the visionaries who bought a piece of the future that turned out to be a dusty piece of crap?

Baby names, long emotional messages to men, unattainable life goals: what girls have in their phone notes

CAMERON, Ezra, Hector? 22 reasons why you’re emotionally dead and need therapy, Mark. Become size eight. A woman’s Notes app offers regrettable insights.

Is this email spam, or is Elon Musk offering you sperm to have his children?

IS this a spam email, or is it a genuine offer from Elon Musk to send you frozen sperm to birth yet more of his legion of children? You decide!

Clickbait headline admittedly rather intriguing

A MAN cannot help but admit that a clickbait headline has done an incredible job of piquing his fickle interest.

We ask you: Which World Cup game are you watching off your box at 3am?
WORLD Cup games are being held at unsociable times to suit Americans, of all bloody people. Which are you watching at 5am totally f**ked up?

Arts & Entertainment

I am so delighted to be the new James Bond. By Phoebe Waller-Bridge

GOSH, this is just such amazing news, isn’t it? I’m the new James Bond! Me, the posh Fleabag woman! And I've got some brilliant ideas for the script!

Successful 19-year-old filmmaker gives false hope to millions

A YOUTUBER turned filmmaker’s successful debut feature means tens of thousands of teenagers now believe they can do the same, wrongly.

Star Wars, and other franchises it's hard to believe you ever loved

CERTAIN fictional universes have been so polluted with mediocre new content you’re wondering what you ever saw in them. Such as these.

Clarkson forced to bugger sheep to distract from farm's success

JEREMY Clarkson has made such a success of his farm that in his new series he engages in sexual congress with a sheep so nobody notices.

Boards of Canada, and other artists great for working to because they're so ignorable

HEADPHONES in the office? But real, good music too distracting? These meticulous peddlers of dullness have created oeuvres with your eight-hour shift in mind.

Celebrity

The nightmare of dating Ariana Grande, by her ex

YEAH, it’s over between me, Ethan Slater the Munchkin from Wicked, and elfin Ariana. Honestly it’s a relief. This is what I’ve had to put with for three years.

Who twatted Andrew? A Daily Mash investigation

ANDREW Mountbatten-Windsor, who remains beloved by his public, has somehow been on the wrong end of a right twatting. But who could have done it? We investigate.

15 idiotic things I believe about Britain from going on the internet. By Elon Musk

YES, I’ve been sticking my oar in again, but that’s fine because I’m an expert on Britain from surfing the internet while high. Here’s what I've learned.

Six unmarried pop stars you still have a chance with: a guide for deluded men

DUA Lipa is off the market. But do not let that deter you, an overweight man in Reading, from your quest to land a hot, high-earning pop princess. All these are still available.

Why was Tom Hardy fired? Six scurrilous and verifiably untrue rumours

TOM Hardy has been dismissed from hit drama MobLand, which is on a channel you do not watch and have never heard of. But why? We make up the reasons.

World's first trillionaire to be evil
THE world is delighted to learn that its first ever trillionaire will be a demented white supremacist ideologue with a burning desire to overthrow governments.

Work

'That's summer over then' proclaims twat who's probably right

AN office arsehole has greeted the end of the May heatwave by saying ‘Hope you enjoyed summer,’ and the worst of it is that he may well be correct.

Five weekend plans you shouldn't share with your colleagues

IT’S only a matter of hours until office chat turns to what people are doing at the weekend. But probably keep these plans to yourself.

All homeworkers naked

ALL homeworkers are completing their allotted tasks and attending meetings entirely naked, they have confirmed.

'It's probably AI,' says man who doesn’t understand what AI is

YOUR middle-aged co-worker who confidently opines on any subject he does not understand has begun stating everything is ‘probably AI’.

Man hates the snivelling maggot he becomes in covering letters

THE grovelling sentences a man comes out with when writing a covering letter disgust him to his core, it has emerged.

32-year-old has crush

A 32-YEAR-OLD man has been forced to confront the fact that, as well as a mortgage and back pain triggered by sleeping the wrong way, he also has a crush.

The Archbishop of Canterbury on… the BBC's mysterious spontaneous combustion in Belfast
WAKING with a hangover so excruciating that only by injecting coffee directly into my eyeballs can I mitigate its ill effects, I look back on the start of the World Cup and what it might hold for the church. 

Alcohol

UK trains best enjoyed four beers in

NEW research has found making a train journey in Britain can be survived and even enjoyed if the passenger has drunk enough.

We ask you: Should children should be given their own pubs?

CHILDREN are disturbing heavy-drinking adults at their serious work of getting shitfaced, so should they be given pubs of their own?

Ireland's rich culture and complicated history celebrated via beer

IRELAND’S proud Celtic heritage and long, complex history is being celebrated by millions drinking ceremonial pints of beer.

Man never more than eight hours from beer

A MAN is never more than 480 minutes from being able to neck pints of delicious, refreshing beer, it has emerged.

Wow. And just when I thought my job was safe
TWO resignations? Government destabilised again? My authority threatened? Stunned. And just when I was thinking I was in this for the long haul.