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Top Ten Driven By Rage

In Comment, Multifarious, Top Tens on October 12, 2010 at 6:54 pm

This is our most viewed post ever, so I thought I’d  bring it back to the the top.

As the author I’m particularly pleased with this one.

Enjoy.

Rage is everywhere – the roads, the workplace, the classroom, the home – everywhere.

Some people try not to lose their tempers.
Others thrive on it, and live their lives very angry about everything.

This is the top ten angry people.

10. The Reverend Ian Paisley.

How can a man so devout be so enraged by everything?

His reign of 37 years as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland featured countless terrifying rants against everything from terrorists to the Pope, who he referred to as “The Antichrist.”

Here’s some clips of him in action

9.

Roy Keane

Another Irishman, this time from the Republic.
The Man Utd midfielder was well known for being a bit angry.
Famous moments include his massive fall-out with Republic of Ireland manager Mick McCarthy where he said “You’re not even Irish you English c**t, so stick it up your b******s.”
Not sure it makes much sense, but it’s very enraged.
Other highlights include the horrific tackle on Alfie Inge Haaland, which he later admitted he did on purpose after a bust up in a previous game.
He also always used to try and fight with the equally angry Patrick Viera of Arsenal.

Here is the aformentioned tackle.

7. Yosemite Sam

Not technically a real person, but he used to get well lairy when he was outsmarted by Bugs Bunny, to the point where he’d pull out his guns and start blasting.

Here’s some of their antics

7. BA Baracus

BA, standing for BadAss, used to become incandescent when faced with his A-team colleague Howlin’ Mad Murdoch and when anyone tried getting him on a plane.
However, when faced with milk before a flight, he lapped it up and instantly became unconcious.

Here’s some examples

6.

The Incredible Hulk

You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry,

Damn right, he becomes massive, green and develops an unusual skill of jumping miles.

Bruce Banner’s alter-ego the Hulk was seriously angry

This is the classic 80s cartoon intro


5.

The Ultimate Warrior

One of the greatest wrestlers was famous for two things, his incoherent shoutings and rampant steroid abuse.

Here’s an example of his work

4.

Trevor off Eastenders

The mad Scot who little Mo eventually clobbered with an iron was a seriously unstable chap, whispering in his scary accent before exploding.

Here’s a scary scene with Trev at his most evil

3. Trevor Brennan

Strangely another Trevor, and one you probably won’t have heard of.
Trevor was a rugby player well known for a short fuse on the field, one day, playing in France, some abuse from the crowd led to the Big Irishman wading in the crowd to attack the gobby spectator, thus earning himself a life ban.

Sadly there don’t seem to be any videos of it, but it was likely to have been spectacular.

2.  Mike Tyson

Where do we start? Prison, ear-biting, brawls, mental tattoos, Tyson is a man who lived in a perpetual world of extreme rage.

We know he was one of the greatest boxers ever, but boy oh boy was he driven by rage.

Here’s the famous ear-biting of Evander Holyfield.

1.  Number one is William Foster from the film Falling Down

The mild mannered unemployed defence worker just decides to lash out against the world in a spectacularly violent and oh-so angry way.

The breakfast scene is a classic.

Top Ten Mean Animals

In Comment, Multifarious, News, Top Tens on October 8, 2010 at 10:01 pm

None of your fluffy nonsense here, this is the definitive list of things that will eat you or kill you in an extremely unpleasant way.

This is the top ten mean animals.

10. Komodo dragon

This cheery customer is a massive 10ft long flesh eating lizard which only eats rotting flesh.

So, it will bite you, then let you escape.

Hurrah, you think, but what you don’t realise that that it is following you, waiting for you to die from its venomous bite , before waiting for a few more days days and then eating you.

They are seriously sinister looking animals.

Here’s one in action.

9.

African elephant

None of its wimpy Indian cousin here, this is the only vegetarian to make the list and is here because it is bloody clever.

It will trample you, gore you with its tusks and it’ll beat you over the head with its trunk and throw you into a tree, just for shits and giggles.

Apparently, 500 people are killed by elephants every year and they’re bloomin’ gigantic, so they’re in.

This is a herd of elephants winning a turf war with a pride of lions, look closely and you’ll see one of the buffalo has impaled a lion on it’s horn, right at the beginning.

 

8.

Anaconda

The world’s biggest snake is a mean hombre, it’ll wrap its coils around you,crush you to death and then spend a month digesting you.

It’s also a truly terrible film starring Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube.

The largest one ever seen was 28ft long and thought to weigh over 500lbs.

They get in on pure evil looks alone. Scary.

7.

Stonefish

For god’s sake, do not tread on one of these ugly brutes.

It’s Latin name is Horrida, which pretty much sums this fish up.

It’s small, but horrendously poisonous, the most poisonous fish in the world.

The internet tells me if you are poisoned by one of these it’s some of the worst pain known to man.

The worst thing? Their hunting technique involves lying, camouflaged on the sea bed, waiting for fish to swim past.

The thing is, its super mega-powerful venom is only for defence. Cheery. It’s like shooting someone for brushing past you.

Here’s a vid, presented by the most annoying man in the world, hopefully he steps on one.

6.

Giant Squid

Most giant things are badass, apart grom giant African land snails, which are rubbish.

The giant squid gains points for hardly being seen alive in the wild, for something that massive that’s pretty good.

It also gets points for its other name, the devilfish.

A dead one found was 59 feet long. Yikes.

They’ve also got the biggest eyes in the animal world, so can give you a good staring while crushing you with its TEN tentacles.

Evidence also suggests they attack and eat whales.

They have two longer feeding tentacles, which have suckers that are equipped with actual genuine teeth, so while it’s crushing you it’ll rip big holes in you as well.

Here’s some of the only footage of them around.

5.

Sperm Whale

Moby Dick is above the giant squid for one simple reason – it eats them.

The sperm whale not only has a funny name, it has teeth which weigh a kilo each and the thickest hide in the animal world, up to 35cm.

Up to 67 ft long, it is the deepest diving mammal and can dive up to 3km deep, that’s about two miles folks.

I think the best thing about it is that it’s head takes up most of its body.

Here’s some more on whale squid rivalry, for some reason presented by Kryten from Red Dwarf.

4.

Box Jellyfish

The biggest killer of man has to feature high up.

Found in Australia, they like to tangle swimmers up in their tentacles.

They’re not very big but boy oh boy are they venomous.

It’s apparently caused more than 5,000 deaths.

Cheerfully, it’s poison is so potent and painful, most people die of shock before they even get to shore.

Here’s a vid starring the late, great, Steve Irwin.

3. Killer Whale

The scariest looking animal around likes to eat humpback whales tongues and throw big seals around for fun.

The “wolf of the sea” is fast, hard, has loads of teeth and is very, very clever.

They hunt in packs and science folk reckon they can devise different ways of attacking different types of prey.

Here’s another vid of them attacking sea lions with very annoying American commentary.

2. Salt Water Crocodile

The massive, armour plated primitive reptiles are super-scary and, as their name suggests, they can survive both in fresh and salt water.

Which means twice as many chances to eat swimmers.

It’s known as an “Apex predator” which essentially means “Top dog, no-one eats me”.

Someone has put together some of Salties finest moments to a very angry song called “let the bodies hit the floor” by Drowning Pool, which kind of works.

  1. Great White Shark

No surprises here, Jaws has to be number one.

Not many people have fears about crocodiles, whales or elephants, but a lot of people are distinctly uncomfortable at the idea of having their legs bitten off when swimming.

As the beardy science bloke says in Jaws, “What we are dealing with is a perfect engine, an eating machine. It’s really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and makes little sharks, and that’s all.”

And that’s all, the thing is, it’s brilliant at it.

And boy is it ugly.

Loads and loads of massive teeth, big fin, scary, classic film.

Only one winner here.

during my search I came across this ridiculous creature, it’s called the megamouth shark and looks properly retarded.

Enjoy.

Top ten worst Christmas number ones

In Top Tens on December 19, 2009 at 12:36 pm

Tis the season of musical garbage.

As Joe Somebody from X Factor battles it out with a song released more than 10 years ago by a band which has split up for the prestigious Christmas Number one slot,  Themultifarious takes a look back at some of the other tragically bad songs to hit the top spot.

This is the top ten worst ever Christmas number ones.

10.

Mr Blobby

The pink idiot from Noel’s House Party somehow became very popular in the early 90s.

One of the least funny characters ever, Blobby spent most of his time falling over.

This is his hit single from 1993, if you can bear it, personally I think it’s more vomit inducing than our top ten sports injuries the other day.

9.

Cliff Richard – Saviour’s Day

Cliff could make a top ten of his own with his sickening overly religious preachy nonsense.

I’ve decided on this one as it features a tin whistle.

Number one from 1990, lots of idiots bought it.

8. Shakin’ Stevens -  Merry Christmas Everyone

This guy used to be a sex symbol, but this song, heard from October time in shopping centres around the country is a dreadful piece of festive filth.

Number one from 1985, this Shaky wearing a really terrible jumper on Top of the Pops.

7 . St Winifred’s School Choir – there’s no-one quite like grandma

My own grandmother, 95, would say “What is this ridiculous music? Turn it off” to this, and as always, she’d be spot on.

Ghastly, cringing, cheesy pap from 1980.

6. Benny Hill – Ernie (the fastest milkman in the west).

Benny Hill is a national treasure, but in my mind the bloke is about as funny as serious bowel surgery (he was irritatingly successful in America, which says it all).

This is his “song” about Ernie, a speedy milkman, number one in 1971

5. Wings – Mull of Kintyre/Girls School

Paul McCartney’s godawful band after The Beatles proved he was very much being carried by the rest of them.

His famous Christmas song, the grotesque “simply having a wonderful Christmas time”,  mercifully didn’t get to number one.

However, this did and it’s bloody awful.

4. Renee and Renato, “Save your love”.

I think this was meant to be a joke, but not a very good one, as droves of halfwits sent it to the top spot in 1982.

It was a collaboration between Renato, an Aston Villa fan from the West Midlands, and Renee, British singer Hilary Lester to produce this sickly rubbish.

He died earlier this year after brain surgery.

That’s quite sad but there’s no excuses for this.

3. Michael Jackson – Earth Song

Jacko is a legend, but he had a horrible tendency to be ever so preachy.

This is one of his finest efforts, and the song which prompted Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker to invade the stage at the Brit Awards to point to his arse, signaling his displeasure at Jacko apparently making himself out to be Jesus.

Number one in 1995, here’s the video, and Jarvis’s legendary protest.

2. Boney M – Mary’s Boy Child-Oh My Lord

Number one from 1978, hilarious 70′s clothes, awful music and preachy music means this is flying high.

I love the guy’s hair.

1.  Cliff Richard – mistletoe and wine

Yup, he’s back, topping all his other religious rubbish with his.

Cliched, cringy lyrics, choirs, cheesy images and old Cliff himself sends this flying to the top.

Why hasn’t there ever been a sniper handy when he gets his singsongs going at Wimbledon?

Top Ten cheats

In Sport, Top Tens on December 1, 2009 at 5:44 pm

Here we go again, moments that drive us all absolutely barmy, we see it, everyone in the stadium sees it, the world sees it but the idiot in the black uniform who matters the most misses it.

This is the top ten cheats

10.  Rivaldo dive

This pathetic incident happened in the World Cup in 2002 in the game between Turkey and Brazil.

The Turkish player boots the ball to Rivaldo, who is waiting to take a corner.

It strikes Rivaldo gently in the leg, yet he goes down clutching his face as if he’s been on the end of a particularly good right hook.

Stupid ref then sends off Turkish player, much to the annoyance of the rest of the team, the management and the watching world.

Rivaldo was subsequently banned, on the grounds of being a twat you’d guess.

9. Neil Back

England rugby legend Back is playing for Leicester Tigers in the European Cup final.

His team were leading, but opponents Munster got a scrum not very far out, dead centre in the last minute.

Irish scrum half goes to put the ball in, as he does, the originally nicknamed “Backy” taps it with his hand back into his own side of the scrum.

For those of you not au fait with rugby, this is akin to punching the ball into the goal in football, a no no.

The ref, however, is standing on the other side, keeping an eye on one of the props, and so misses it.

8. Trevor Chappell

The least well-known of the famous Australian cricketing dynasty is probably the most notorious.

This is a clip from a one-day game against New Zealand in the 1970s.

After you’ve finished laughing at their kits, you’ll need to know New Zealand needed six of the last ball to win.

As a result, Chappell rolls it gently underarm along the ground, thus making it impossible.

The rules were changed after this.

I particularly like the way the batsman reacts.

Despite being a pro sportsman, he reacts in the way anyone else would, by giving him a look which says “you utter c**t’.

7. Tonya Harding

Ice skating is not well-known for scandal, but this is pretty unbelievable.

American Harding was embroiled in scandal after her husband hired a man to attack and injure herbiggest rival, Nancy Kerrigan.

The injury put Kerrigan out of the US figure skating championships in 1994, which Harding went on to win.

She was found guilty of helping to cover up the incident, but has always denied masterminding it.

It’s still a blatant act of cheating though, whoever is responsible, and there’s no doubt she benefited.

6.

Thierry Henry

Old Thierry is a fabulous player, but may well be remembered for a piece of handling Jonny Wilkinson would be proud of.

Running down the wing, the ball bounces up and he scoops it along with his hand before crossing it to William Gallas who whacks it in, thus winning France the game and sending poor old Republic of Ireland out of the World Cup.

Cue rage in Ireland, where there were demands for a replay.

They also conveniently forgot they won one of their earlier games thanks to an extreme dodgy penalty, but there was outcry nonetheless.

This is one of those things where you wonder how no-one saw it as it is so obvious, and anyway, who wants to see a load of Championship cloggers playing in the World Cup at the expense of messrs Henry, Anelka and Ribery.

5. Spain’s Paralympic basketball team

The sheer brass and morally wrong-ness of this is brilliant.

In the Paralympics of 2000, the Spanish team was stripped of the gold medal it had won in the intellectual disability competition after it was revealed 10 of the 12 players had nothing wrong with them.

The rules stated that to be allowed to play, players had to have an IQ of less than 70 (they could’ve asked the majority of Premiership footballers).

Spain didn’t bother to do the tests and were rightly stripped of the medals.

4. F1 Crash

I hate Formula 1 with a passion, so when I read about this I smiled.

The second most interesting thing that’s ever happened in the sport, after the tragic death of Ayrton Senna, was when Flavio Briatore, the mega-rich owner of the Renault team, instructed their driver Nelson Piquet junior to deliberately crash to help their lead driver, Fernando Alonso, win the Grand Prix in Singapore last year.

I know what I’d say if someone told me to crash while driving at 200mph but here’s the clip

 

3.Ronald Koeman

This is still the single moment that has enraged me most in any sporting ocassion.

This is the famous incident from the must win World Cup Qualifier in 1994.

First, Koeman hauls down David Platt when clean through on goal inside the penalty area.

Red card and a penno you must think?

No no, Koeman then convinces the ref not only was the foul outside the box, it was a mere yellow card.

As the script then suggests, the blond-haired get went and scored at the other end, meaning England didn’t qualify.

Happily, it did lead to the sacking of Graham Taylor.

A few points to make, if you look, he grabs Platt’s shirt just outside the area, however, he’s still got hold of it when he goes down very much inside the area.

He is also clearly the last man who has prevented a clear goalscoring opportunity, therefore a red card.

But the good old ref sums up why everyone hates refs by getting two massive decisions completely wrong, allowing good old Ron to stay on and score admittedly a very good free kick.

That said, have a look at who’s playing for England,  Carlton Palmer, Tony Dorigo, no wonder we didn’t qualify.

Also check out the Dutch manager’s combover.

For some reason I can only find highlights in Dutch, which somehow makes it even more annoying.

And yes, David Seaman should’ve saved both, especially Bergkamp’s, which was rolling gently across the ground.

2. Ben Johnson

Somehow athletics officials failed to notice Ben Johnson’s yellow eyes and bodybuilder’s physique at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

His time of 9.79  seconds smashed the then world record and is only slightly slower than Usain Bolt’s 9.58 seconds record 21 years on.

Of course, he was found to have pumped himself full of steroids.

You’ll notice a young Linford Christie finishing in third, which was pushed to second when Johnson was found to have more drugs inside him than an NHS Foundation Trust.

1. Diego Maradonna

Yes, who else could it be? Another dirty cheating foreigner who cheated our heroic footballers out of  World Cup glory.

We all know about the “Hand of God”, but I have a few questions, why did no-one twig that it was very unlikely that Maradonna, about 5ft 3in, would be able to outjump a 6ft plus goalkeeper stretching as high as he could for the ball?

We also have to applaud the little twat for his first goal, probably the best ever, but why didn’t any of England’s lumbering midfield do what you or I would have done and booted him up in the air?

Mind you, they probably couldn’t even get close enough to do that.

As you marvel at the nimble feet of the Argentinian genius, take stock of how incredibly slow England midfielder Peter Reid is.

Here’s his amazing goal (with some really terrible commentary), which actually made it 2-0 after the handball debacle.

and here’s his ridiculous cheating.

Top Ten Sport Injuries

In Sport, Top Tens on November 30, 2009 at 12:51 pm

Not for the faint hearted this one, but we’ve all seen something horrible happen to our heroes on the pitch.

These are the very worst sports injuries.

10. Djibril Cisse

The flamboyant Frenchman is one of the most unfortunate players around as he has not one horrific leg break but two, one on each leg, very unlucky.

However, if you look at how spindly his legs are, then you can maybe understand why they are so brittle.

Here’s leg break number 1

and number 2

9. Sid Vicious

Not the dead Sex Pistol, but a wrestler who decided to rip off the name.

It’s another leg break, watch it flapping freely.

8.  Wayne Shelford

The famous All Black rugby hard man was a bit of a headcase, as proven when during a game against France in 1986.

After a particularly vigorous trampling at a ruck, “Buck” as he was known suffered a split scrotum and ended up running about with one of his testicles hanging out.

Blood, screaming, hospital you might think, but not Buck.

“Stitch it up mate” he said to the phsyio, who did as he was told, by the side of the pitch.

Five minutes later Buck was back, proving the theory that rugby is indeed played by men with funny shaped balls.

Sadly, there’s no video for this one.

7.

Owwww.

Check out this massive weightlifter whose leg simply can’t take the strain. CRACK.

There’s also some amusing ice-hockey fights here too.

6. Eye Gouge

This is in Australian rugby league, apparently, it’s not as bad as it looks, which its pretty bad.

5.

Phil de Glanville

The young Bath rugby player was playing for the South West against the All Blacks in the 1990s when he found himself on the floor in a ruck.

Next thing you know 20 odd pairs of massive boots worn by a group of mean, heavy men have pumped into his face, leaving him with blood streaming from an horrific eye wound.

There’s no pics of de Glanville sporting stitches across his eyelid but being the All Blacks they got away with it.

No pics or video of this one either sadly.

4.

Kickboxing injury

Another broken leg here, not only does it look unimaginably painful, but he’s also got his wounded pride by breaking his leg by kicking someone.

3. Eduardo

Broken ankle this time and the Brazilian Croatian’s foot is very much hanging on by a small piece of bone.

Watch how hard defender Martin Taylor gets him.

2. David Busst

The poor Coventry defender suffered the worst broken leg football has ever seen in a game against Manchester United in and has had numerous operations on his leg.

Massive United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel had to have counselling after seeing the injury close up.

1. Richard Zednik

Viewer discretion advised.

This is the horrific moment when ice hockey player Richard Sednik’s throat was cut by a flailing skate.

Horrid. It’s one of his team mates as well.

so that’s the top ten, but I’m interested in something I’ve heard about an athlete who tried to dry the sweat off his face using a crisp packet and ended up slicing off his retina.

If anyone knows about that one, please put up info, or even better a vid.

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