Eurgh. The very fact it's in The Soaraway Sun makes me disbelieve the whole phenomenon! Also they said that one swing moved while the other two stayed still - completely disproved by other video evidence. Lazy, lazy journalists.

I like this:
Well if you let children watch films rated 18 (R to you) of course they are going to come up with ridiculous suggestions. As a responsible adult you should be discouraging this.

Idiots.

Well, why do they swing? Who has the answer for 50 American Dollars?

Why don't they ride the swings, and get a free push?

Better yet, can't they generate electricity from it?

"But so far the boffins have failed to find a logical explanation."

What is a boffin?

Technical/scientist type. Like Q in James Bond.

Wind.

A small, flightless aquatic bird, smaller than a penguin, but larger than a puffin.

Boffin - Colloquial term for sexual intercourse.
Yeah, I was boffin her, when her old man pulled in the driveway. ;)

A boffin is a big box to put cead people in.

What, was he watching?


I'm putting this in weird news, but it could also go as a WTF?

Jail terms for Israeli neo-Nazis

If you don't like Jewish people, why the hell did you move to Israel???

I'm not sure yet Zen, but someone, some how will make this Bush's fault too.

Yeah, link it to Russia and oil prices. Done.

Meanwhile, this Japanese freak has decided to spend his entire Mexican vacation in the airport, for no apparent reason.

Totally bizzare.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/992343.html

What, hasn't everyone always wanted to do this?

And as for "cleaned in three minutes", I believe that. I have seen the "vomit squad" do a subway car - four men to wipe excess vomit off the seat, mop the floor, remove the seat cushions and install new ones, and spray air freshener ... in less than 60 seconds (I'd say closer to 30). In Japan, the trains run on time.

Not really weird but very very dumb.

Man Says Wife Was Accidentally Shot During Sex

Heh, saw that on the local news.

Why, it's not fishy at all! :)

I saw that on the news, too. Yep. We're a wild bunch.

Do you reckon that bloke still has a job? lol

Didja see wifey on the news last night? It was totally an accident, and she wants him home. He was only reaching to the nightstand. Or they were having sex and it went off. Or he threw it and it went off. Who knows? :blush:

I've watched enough CourtTV to know that in a year or so it'll happen again.

Those crazy scots
 

They're testing the effects of Christmas music on sharks.

All I can say is they're lucky those sharks don't have fricken lasers.

Aha, but I do! :rubs hands gleefully:
The guy down the hall in the high-power laser lab will be happy to lend me one...

(We need a mad-scientist smilie.)

I remember years ago, in my mid-twenties heavy metal phase, I worked in a fruit packing house next to 3 old ladies who played the same country christmas tape at least 3 times a day. I was ready to go postal on them :evil3:

[quote]...(all that crazy shit)...
Weatherley pleaded guilty to offensive behaviour, resisting police and disobeying a police direction.

He was convicted and fined $600. /quote]
Thank god he wasn't given community service.

Brits like squirells! As in eating them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/di...uirrel.html?em

Hey, I ain't judgin, vittles is vittles.

SQUIRREL FRICASSEE

4 servings.

2 dressed young squirrels (2 lbs.)
1 1/2 tsp. salt
Pepper
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 - 3/4 cup water
1 1/2 cups milk
1 tsp. grated onion (optional)


Wipe squirrel thoroughly with a damp cloth. Remove any hair and scent glands. Examine carefully to locate imbedded shot and remove with a sharp pointed knife.

Wash thoroughly inside and out in warm water.

Drain well and cut into serving pieces. (Never wash after cutting up.)

Combine salt, pepper, and flour.

Dredge meat and coat well.

Heat shortening in a heavy skillet; brown meat slowly on all sides to a rich brown (about 15 minutes).

Add 1/4 cup of water; cover tightly; reduce heat and simmer gently until tender (about 30 minutes).

Add remaining water as needed.

Squirrel should be very tender when done.

Remove squirrel to a hot platter; cover and keep hot.

Blend any leftover seasoned flour into the fat remaining in skillet.

Add milk gradually and cook until gravy boils and thickens, stirring constantly. Serve at once with squirrel. Add the grated onion for additional flavor, if desired.

Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
Can the food really be that bad? Recipe anyone? Ewwwwwwwww

*shrugs*

Must have offended him.

Don't remember anything specified about the appropriate method of disposal, however. It's not yet Lent, so even if the Vitreous Humor is classed as a meat that's not a problem ...

:lol2: that is funny as hell.

Don't use Mary Kay products, they stink.

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/jan/...-womans-porch/

I want my kidney back!

http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/N...Y&pageId=3.2.1

Damn it! lol

That is so terrible.

I am shaking my head. At all of it.

I can't believe some people. Give me my kidney or pay up. WTF?

Maybe it's more like, give me my kidney or forget about taking me to the cleaners, beyotch. It's a bargaining chip.

Stupid Criminal News

Text messages nab carjacking suspects (CNET

- If texting is dangerous while driving a car, it's downright idiotic while stealing one.

An Ohio man used a friend's cell phone to get back his car, cell phone, and cash, all of which were stolen in a car jacking, according to a local TV report. Alan Heuss was sitting in his running BMW in Columbus on Wednesday when an armed man opened a passenger door, stuck a gun in his face, and made off with his stuff.

After filing a police report, Heuss was meeting with some friends to drown his sorrows when one suggested that they try to contact the thieves by texting Heuss' stolen cell phone.

"He said, 'I'm going to text these guys, I'm going to blow some smoke their way,'" Heuss told the station. "He said, 'I'm going to tell them I've got a bunch of hot chicks, as if I'm texting you, and that we've got some drugs, too.'"

The carjacking suspects fell for the ruse and went to an address sent to them by Heuss' friend just seven hours after the carjacking. But instead of the "hot chick with drugs" they were expecting, they were met with by cops with cuffs.

And to make things easier for the officers, the suspects showed up in the stolen car.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/cnet/2009...03531013969394

lol - thats great.

Boss jailed after stabbing employee in bottom with pitchfork
A company managing director has been jailed for a series of violent attacks on an employee, including stabbing him in the bottom with a pitchfork.

By Murray Wardrop
Last Updated: 8:07AM GMT 23 Dec 2008

Michael Parker lost his temper with Mark Reene and committed five separate assaults, on one occasion attacking him with a chainsaw.

In another incident, the 51-year-old gouged at Mr Reene's eyes and punched him in the face while calling him "thick" and threatening to kill him.

The court heard that the 44-year-old put up with the abuse for six months because Parker threatened to hurt Mr Reene's family if he told anyone about the attacks.

But the final straw came when Parker punched out two of Mr Reene's front teeth and skewered his left buttock with a pitchfork.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...pitchfork.html

Man Punched Dophin!

A snorkeller in Australia has survived a shark attack by punching the predator, forcing it to let go of his leg so he could swim to safety.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ve-attack.html

We had three shark bites in two days last week. You should see the papers over here. The media is rabid. All sorts of claims such as sharks hunting people, shark plagues and too many more to count.

Shark numbers have increased due to tighter laws surrounding their capture and also some species being declared protected.

Some of these claims by the media and other 'noted authorities' on the subject seem just a bit melodramatic to me.

If these sharks were 'hunting' people, why didn't they kill them? About punching the shark; that's how a lot of people have survived shark attacks. Apparently sharks are just big pussies (or sea kittens as PETA would like us to think) ;)

Yea, the press loves news when Jaws attack. Makes for great reads and sells papers. Did you see the pic of the guys board? That beast was hungry. That board would hang on my wall forever.

They are out there, believe. :) :alien2:

UFO Crash site sealed off.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ealed-off.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...destroyed.html

Yeah, I saw the pic. Pretty impressive. He's got a good story to tell when he's old...or drunk. lol

This could be a movie. Reminds me of Fargo.

The cops had found him earlier, but he escaped.
cites: 1, 2

Heh...Fargo indeed.

I guess those kinds of things are what very wealthy people do in lieu of actually committing suicide.

275-Pound Woman Says Hospital Told Her to Use Zoo MRI

Uh, at 5 foot tall - I think I would describe her as more than "big".

And the last line - “They should have machines that fit most everybody,” I think they already do. Her height/weight is way outta the "most everybody" category.

This is a non-story. Millions of people, every day, can't have a radiological etc. study for various reasons (contrast allergy, for example). This is a boring fact of life, and not noteworthy in any way whatsoever. Yet I've read about this on two websites today. Why?

I know you are in the field, and know more about this than I do, but that number is obviously pure horseshit. You made it up, and it is orders of magnitude off the correct number. I might believe that 1000 people a day can't get this done. But "millions" is untrue.

I believe that "1000 people a day" are subject to some factor which contraindicates a diagnostic imaging study they would otherwise have, in every moderately-populated metropolitan area. This is not rare or uncommon in any way, and there are a lot of people in the world.

The number I stated was an extrapolated speculation which may be slightly hyperbolic

Yes, but this could be said about almost everything printed as "news." (Replace XXX with robberies, rapes, murders, car accidents, starving dogs, lost, missing, football games won and lost, explosion, fire, rain, cold, ...)

This paper reports, according to MEPS, 644 imaging studies "per 1000 persons (all ages) in the U.S. population" in the year 1999. Today, there are 305,614,860 people in the US; at 1999 rates that's 196,815,970 imaging studies performed. If only one half of one percent of that many people needed a study but couldn't have it (for a variety of very common reasons) that would be almost one million (984,080) people in the US alone.

Heh, if millions of people every day couldn't fit into MRIs, they probably would have zoo-sized MRI machines in hospitals.

That figure is astounding to me. It's much higher than I figured. I bow down to your superior knowledge in this area.

I'm guessing it includes x-rays at the dentist, which are routine every 2-3 years. Still, it's much higher than I thought.

I take back my "horseshit" comment and embrace your "slightly hyperbolic" characterization. Dammit.

In the weeks before he died, it seemed like my father was getting 1-2 'imaging studies' done per day. I bet there is a subset of patients that skew the statistics mightily.
For which the rest of us (mostly healthy) people should be glad.

Oooh, I want in on Fun Math:

1 million people x 365 days a year = 365 million people. The study is for a year's worth of fail. He said a million people a day, originally. Well, actually, he said "millions of people a day."

slightly hyperbolic

just sayin'

:blush:

people can't have rad. procedures coz they're too big, pregnant, allergic, not followed the "cleansing" routine (ie. too full of poop to see), can't hold an enema, freak at getting their boob squished, loads, loads of reasons. Even some US can't be done if someone is too fat or too gassy or can't hold the twenty gallons of water needed to do a uterine/pelvic US. so many appointments get cancelled. It's great! :)

Did he die at the hospital or at home?

I used to do daily portable chest Xrays on tons of patients who were clearly only days away from passing.

Hospital. After a bmt.