How much money did we just spend to tell people that teenagers are inconsiderate? I thought that much was obvious.
In another sense: how much money did we just spend to give teenagers another reason to say, "It's just the way I am"?
How much money did we just spend to tell people that teenagers are inconsiderate? I thought that much was obvious.
In another sense: how much money did we just spend to give teenagers another reason to say, "It's just the way I am"?
Por una cabeza
Si ella me olvida
Qué importa perderme
Mil veces la vida
Para qué vivir
Now, now, now - you are speaking Eminem-ishly.Originally Posted by RobinHood3000
Current obsession, perhaps?
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
I think it was a good research...it's interesting to know. But it's still no real excuse for teenagers.
If only I had known this 10 years earlier.
There is no darkness, there is no light, there is only Lasagne!
It is interesting that it is the 'teens' of the Forum who have responded to this article!
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Hey, I'm not a teen! my brain is still in its infancy though, it's like a smelly little baby, all wrinkly and stuff
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Madrid fashion week, one of Spain's most prestigious shows, is banning underweight models on the basis of their body mass index (BMI). UN health experts recommend a BMI of between 18.5 and about 25, and some models may fall well below the minimum.
The Spanish Association of Fashion Designers has decided to ban models who have a BMI of less than 18.
Unhealthily skinny models at last year's fashion shows led to protests from doctors and women's rights groups.
The association agreed to use the BMI - a calculation based on height and weight - in response to local government pressure.
It suggests that 30% of would-be participants fail this test and this year's fashion week, which begins on 18 September, will offer medical treatment to excessively thin models.
Outrage
"The restrictions could be quite a shock to the fashion world at the beginning but I'm sure it's important as far as health is concerned," Leonor Perez Pita, director of the Madrid fashion show, was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
Madrid's local government says it wants to set a more positive, healthy image of beauty for teenagers to follow.
"Fashion is a mirror and many teenagers imitate what they see on the catwalk," said regional official Concha Guerra.
Spain's Anorexia and Bulimia Association says if designers refuse to follow these voluntary restrictions the government should legislate to ban thin models.
However, some sections of the fashion world have expressed outrage at the idea of weight restrictions.
Cathy Gould, of New York's Elite modelling agency, said the fashion industry was being used as a scapegoat for weight-related illnesses.
"I understand they want to set this tone of healthy beautiful women but what about discrimination against the model and what about the freedom of the designer?" she asked, adding that the careers of naturally "gazelle-like" models could be damaged.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5341202.stm
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This could be good and could be very very badHowever, some sections of the fashion world have expressed outrage at the idea of weight restrictions.
Cathy Gould, of New York's Elite modelling agency, said the fashion industry was being used as a scapegoat for weight-related illnesses.
On the other hand this is weightisim and isnt fair.
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The set of CSI: Miami became a real-life police investigation scene when a body washed up during filming. An off-duty police officer working on the set was alerted to a body floating in Bicentennial Park.
An autopsy will be carried out but police are not treating the death as suspicious at this time.
Earlier in the week a mummified body was found inside a building in Los Angeles where spin-off drama CSI: New York was being filmed.
The cast and crew of CSI: Miami were filming offshore to get aerial shots from a helicopter when the body was spotted.
"Unfortunately, it's not unusual during certain times of the year that people who have fallen in the bay, either homeless people or people who were asleep or in some cases boaters who had a mishap, fall into the bay and turn up days later," said Detective Delrish Moss.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5353704.stm
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A drunken Chinese tourist says he bit a panda who attacked him after he jumped into a zoo enclosure to "hug" the bear. Zhang Xinyan, 35, had drunk four draught beers before deciding to enter the Beijing Zoo pen belonging to six-year-old male panda Gu Gu.
The startled Gu Gu bit both legs of his intruder, who responded by biting "the panda on its back", Mr Zhang was quoted by state media as saying.
Mr Zhang said he had not realised pandas could be violent.
He told the Beijing Morning Post that he had come to the Chinese capital "only to see the pandas".
"The seven-hour train ride was exhausting, and I drank bottles of beer when I arrived then had a nap," he added.
Punishment
The newspaper said Mr Zhang had a "sudden urge" to touch Gu Gu with his hand, so he jumped over the waist-high railing into the enclosure.
"When he got closer and was undiscovered, he reached out to hug it," the newspaper added.
Mr Zhang was bitten first on his right leg, and then on his left.
Newspaper photographs showed him lying on a hospital bed with blood-soaked bandages over his legs.
"I bit the panda on its back but its fur was too thick," Mr Zhang recalled.
He went on: "No one ever said they would bite people. I just wanted to touch it."
Zoo spokeswoman Ye Mingxia said the panda was unharmed and they were not considering punishing Mr Zhang yet.
"He's suffered quite a bit of a shock," she told the Associated Press by telephone.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/5364058.stm
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Yeah, pandas are violent, but cute.
If you believe even a half of this post, you are severely mistaken.
Tourism officials in Israel did little to sell the city of Jerusalem as a must-see for visitors when a brochure suggested it did not exist. The sightseeing pamphlet was translated from Hebrew and should have read: "Jerusalem - there's no city like it!".
But instead the slogan in English read: "Jerusalem - there's no such city!", reported the Israeli newspaper Maariv.
Tens of thousands of the leaflets were distributed before the Jerusalem municipality realised its mistake.
The flyers were promoting a musical and arts festival held in the city in August.
Gidi Shermling, spokesman for the Jerusalem municipality, said: "The flyer was apparently translated by someone outside the municipality. In new publications this mistake has been removed."
Israel currently claims sovereignty over the entire city of Jerusalem, and claims it as its capital, after capturing East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 war.
That claim is not recognised internationally and East Jerusalem is considered to be occupied territory.
Palestinians hope to establish the capital of an independent state in East Jerusalem.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/5364192.stm
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Poof.
Por una cabeza
Si ella me olvida
Qué importa perderme
Mil veces la vida
Para qué vivir
Mouthy parrot 'reveals sex secret'
LONDON, England -- A computer programmer found out his girlfriend was having an affair when his pet parrot kept repeating her lover's name, British media reported Tuesday.
The African grey parrot kept squawking "I love you, Gary" as his owner, Chris Taylor, sat with girlfriend Suzy Collins on the sofa of their shared flat in Leeds, northern England.
But when Taylor saw Collins's embarrassed reaction, he realized she had been having an affair -- meeting her lover in the flat whilst Ziggy looked on, the UK's Press Association reported.
(EVIDENTLY HAVING QUITE A BIRDS EYE VIEW!)
Ziggy even mimicked Collins's voice each time she answered her telephone, calling out "Hiya Gary," according to newspaper reports.
Call-center worker Collins, 25, admitted the four-month affair with a colleague called Gary to her boyfriend and left the flat she had shared with Taylor, 30, for a year.
Taylor said he had also been forced to part with Ziggy after the bird continued to call out Gary's name and refused to stop squawking the phrases in his ex-girlfriend's voice, media reports said.
"I wasn't sorry to see the back of Suzy after what she did, but it really broke my heart to let Ziggy go," he said.
"I love him to bits and I really miss having him around, but it was torture hearing him repeat that name over and over again.
"I still can't believe he's gone. I know I'll get over Suzy, but I don't think I'll ever get over Ziggy." (OKaaaaaaAY! LOL)
Taylor acquired Ziggy as a chick eight years ago and named him after the David Bowie character Ziggy Stardust.
The bird has now found a new home through the offices of a local parrot dealer. Collins, who admitted the affair, said: "I'm not proud of what I did but I'm sure Chris would be the first to admit we were having problems. (YOU'RE KIDDING? LOL)
"I am surprised to hear he got rid of that bird," she added to The Guardian newspaper. "He spent more time talking to it than he did to me."
(...AND I WONDER WHY? HAHAHA!)
So, perhaps if I ever find myself married or in relationship again, I too will invest in a loud mouth parrot, to keep me abreast of the activities in a day! Hahahaha! Polly wanna cracker?
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
~C.S. Lewis
http://michellerichmond.com/fictionattic/?page_id=9
I dunno, Writer, that smells of urban legend to me. It sounds very familiar. It's a great story though.
More on that here : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5412632.stmCricket machine masters bowling
The robotic bowler has been created at Loughborough University as part of a virtual reality project to improve match training for cricket.
"Cricketers want to be able to face bowlers like Shane Warne," said project lead Dr Andy West.
"The machine is helping us to figure out the science of bowling and the mysteries of spin and swing," he added.
Dr West demonstrated the machine at a conference at Loughborough University organised by the Institute of Physics on Thursday.
What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it.
- Gertrude Stein
A washerwoman with her basket; a rook; a red-hot poker; th purples and grey-greens of flowers: some common feeling which held the whole together.
- Virginia Woolf
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