You mean I should have married an ugly girl? :p :pQuote:
Pretty women 'anger more easily'
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You mean I should have married an ugly girl? :p :pQuote:
Pretty women 'anger more easily'
A Malaysian court has fined a man and a woman four buffaloes and a pig after they were found guilty of an extra-marital affair, a local report says.
The pair were convicted by the Native Court in Penampang on Borneo island, after the man's wife lodged a complaint last year, said the Star newspaper.
She had found her husband wearing shorts at his second home with her colleague, who was wearing a sarong.
The court in Sabah state rejected their claim they were just "best friends".
Convicting the pair under customary local laws, Judge William Sampil said on Friday there was strong evidence the pair had had an affair, reported the Star.
They were ordered to compensate their communities with the livestock, valued at about 6,500 ringgit ($1,900; £1,200) for their tryst.
They were also reportedly each fined 1,000 ringgit.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/8490212.stm
Today in class, someone read this headline out loud:
Wikipedia Suffers Global Collapse
We then started to imagine possible sub-headlines...
Wikipedia Suffers Global Collapse
High School Students Everywhere Panic
Wikipedia Suffers Global Collapse
Reality Suddenly Plunged Into Doubt
Wikipedia Suffers Global Collapse
Productivity In Workplace Increases By Over 60%
Wikipedia Suffers Global Collapse
Did God Smite Website?
Wikipedia: The New Tower Of Babel?
Well, at least they weren't stoned to death.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I wonder what the spent on travel, bags, sand, and salt. Other articles said the sand was aquarium sand. Doesn't that cost more than Jello?Quote:
Suffolk County police have arrested an East Northport couple in connection with a bizarre case of Jell-o tampering. The couple face multiple counts of petit larceny and tampering with a consumer product. They were arrested on Sunday, March 28, 2010 and face arraignment later on the charges against them.
Alexander Clement, 68-years-old, and Christine Clement, 64-years-old, are accused of buying Jell-O pudding, replacing the contents of the boxes with a mixture of sand and salt, resealing the packages and returning them to the stores for a refund. Apparently, they hit four Long Island stores a total of five times. Three of the markets are in Brookhaven, Smithtown and Huntington, all in Suffolk County, and the fourth is in Woodbury, in Nassau County.
The allegation is that Alexander would drive Christine to the store where she would buy ten boxes of Jell-O pudding at a time. Pistachio and butterscotch are said to have been their choice flavors. When back at home, she would replace the contents of the boxes with a mixture of sand and salt in plastic sandwich bags. Then her husband would drive her back to the store where she would return the boxes for a refund. It appears that she did such a good job of this that the tampering was not noticeable and the boxes were placed back on the shelves for re-sale.
The Clement’s scheme wasn’t detected until other customers started bringing the salt and sand filled boxes back to the store and complaining. The police were notified and authorities were able to traced the suspicious Jell-O thefts by reviewing surveillance videos.
Suffolk Police Lt. Michael Murphy says he doesn’t believe the couple meant any harm. They just wanted Jell-O without having to pay for it. And its not that they are destitute. According to reports, the jell-o tampering couple are well-off financially and have been married for over 40-years. It is also reported that Christine is suffering from ‘an age-related mental issue’. Neither Alexander Clement or Christine Clement have a history of run-ins with the law. Now they face charges in this food tampering case.
This story is more tragic than criminal.
I have no idea what a country does when it loses nearly its entire government in a tragedy such as this.
A Danish hotel is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike attached to a generator.
The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen says the idea is to get people fit and reduce their carbon footprint.
Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness.
The hotel already produces renewable energy with solar panels on its facade.
Guests staying at Plaza Hotel will be given meal vouchers worth $36 (26 euros; £23) once they have produced 10 watt hours of electricity, hotel spokeswoman Frederikke Toemmergaard told the BBC News website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8621038.stm
thats actually a pretty cool incentive! :p
I usually go to a hotel for one of two reasons. Either I'm on a business trip and I have no time to go to the gym or I'm on vacation and I have no desire to exercise. That said, I bet there will be plenty of people who will be attracted to this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
In the coming days, DO NOT open any message with an attachment called: Black in the White House, regardless of who sent it to you. It is a virus that opens an Olympics torch that burns the whole hard disk C of your computer. This virus comes from a known person who you have in your list.
Directions: You should send this message to all of your contacts. It is better to receive this e-mail 25 times than to receive the virus and open it. If you receive a message called Black in the White House even if sent by a friend, do not open, and shut down your machine immediately. It is the worst virus announced by CNN. This new virus has been discovered recently it has been classified by Microsoft as the virus most destructive ever.
This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee. There is no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the hard disk, where vital information function is stored.
I like this part. Very creative! All the more reasons to use a normal user account on your Windows machine, as opposed to one with Admin privileges.Quote:
Originally Posted by dizzydoll
Latest update.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/black-in-...rus-hoax.shtml
It's only a hoax.
Dizzydoll, I thought that was going to be about politics. :lol:
I can only imagine what was going through your head. lol. :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Nope I can't stand politics, war and all the fat cats in charge of the world. :devil:
I only like artists, and writers are artists too. :smile5:
You're ok Dizzydoll. We made have had our differences on that war/violence thread, but you're someone I can relate to. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dizzydoll
Well I never usually watch the news at all because of what it does to me as I have said before, but this last couple of weeks I have for certain reasons. :santasmil Of course now I am stressed, not just because of the main events but because all of the stories. So now my nurse says that I have high blood pressure and I have to go back to the doctors in a few weeks to be tested again! Naturally though I am fighting back by attending classical music concerts and reading Jeeves and Wooster on regular occasions, but let that be a warning for avoiding the news at all costs, tut, tut.
Be smart, don't watch the news. :crash:
my dad had a great quote about the news:
"People that watch the news like to watch the same movie over and over again"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_ronnie_james_dioQuote:
Metal legend Ronnie James Dio dead at 67
:frown5:
OH I didn't hear this thanks for posting it.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Hopefully he will be back before too long. :coolgleamA:
Researchers said most children lied Toddlers who tell lies early on are more likely to do well later, researchers claim.
The complex brain processes involved in formulating a lie are an indicator of a child's early intelligence, they add.
A Canadian study of 1,200 children aged two to 17 suggests those who are able to lie have reached an important developmental stage.
Only a fifth of two-year-olds tested in the study were able to lie.
But at age four, 90% were capable of lying, the study found. The rate increases with age to a peak at age 12.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/10119297.stm
Mm, Scheher... I thought they peaked when they entered public service as local councillors or politicians.
My word, spot the error on this one:
http://i40.tinypic.com/bi5745.jpg
Brilliant!Quote:
Originally Posted by TurquoiseSunset
Only in America...Quote:
Originally Posted by TurquoiseSunset
:D
lol! Thats too great.Quote:
Originally Posted by TurquoiseSunset
That just made my morning!!! PMSL!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Neely
Or, for goddes' sake, don't watch the Corporate™ News: it's all spectacle and doublespeak.
Try independant news: LinkTV (DirectTV 375) and Pacifica Radio and Alternative Radio:
http://www.linktv.org/schedule
http://www.kpfk.org/index.php
http://www.alternativeradio.org/programs/STIJ003.shtml
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Originally Posted by TurquoiseSunset
My God, I dont believe that. Unreal. And in this day and age the world relies on these guys in the media to be well-informed. :banghead: Well we in South Africa know all too well what rubbish they sell the world in emotionalism, HA and they dont even know where South Africa is.!!
man, South Africa is a big country
Craig Venter is my hero, first he sequences the human genome and now this.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20005533-1.html
Sounds like Dr Frankenstein...what kind of monster has he created?Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
This has so much amazing potential for vaccine development. It's brilliant, I'm sure this technology will be saving lives 20 years from now. Venter will probably never get the Nobel prize, he's unpopular amongst a lot of scientist, but he's genius at getting things done and securing funding for ground breaking research. People throw money at the guy for any little idea he has.Quote:
Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
Don’t be too offended; at least they got the south part right. :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by dizzydoll
I have to say i'm highly impressed by this! :)
http://news.ie.msn.com/article.aspx?...ntid=153507543
be more impressed if they were streaking the length of IrelandQuote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
:biggrin5:
I understand Dizzy's reaction, it's almost exactly the same reaction I had... We've had years and years and years of crap from the rest of the world and the people selling that crap to ignorant others can't even pin point us on a map. It's frustrating. People judge us so easily without knowing a thing about us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madame X
Oxford Scientist argues the Earth Does NOT rotate on its Axis. ''Quick ! Where's the remote'' ???? (LOL) !!! That man should be fired, of course !! (And was) !!!!!
Scientist Dr Neville Thomas Jones (formerly of Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University) offers verifiable proof the Earth cannot possibly be 'rotating on its axis once each day'. That it's fixed in space and does NOT rotate on its axis. Able to be conclusively demonstrated by measuring satellite positions relative to the Earth. And it can be confirmed by the various proofs provided in this paper.
No answer from NASA, of course ! Nor from supporters of Galileo and Copernicus. As usual !!!
'Geostationary Satellites in a Geocentric Universe' (2002)
http://www.geocentricperspective.com/geosat.pdf
There's an entirely verifiable provable refutation of Dr Jones's findings here: http://www.xmission.com/~jwindley/bibjones.html