Oh, well, fuck that then.

Don't fall for that bullshit, you can fly straight into Adelaide.

Jeez, RyanAir has really gone downhill.

Tell 'em Maj. Kong said "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/bear-falls-safely-tree-tranquilized-police-photo-211524912.html

What a great picture! Ballerina Bear!

It looks like they're bouncing the bear in a blanket. Weeee! Woo hooooo!

Jeez those Dropbears have got fucking big.

A) see - what I like about america is the no terribly horrifying
wildlife rule we have here. Alligstors and snakefish (an import!)
are as bad as I want things to get. NO SNAKE EATING SPIDERS THANK YOU!!!

B) Dropbear is fabulous. Poetry in motion.

Someone wanna p'shop Maj. Kong riding that bear as it falls? :D

I keep having to mentally correct myself from Mah Jong, to Maj. Kong.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...mma_Island.jpg

A somewhat slightly smaller (but still really intimidating) variety of golden orb spiders is really common in Taiwan. The photo (via wikipedia) is of a really similar one on Lamma Island (near Hong Kong). They're why I never liked traipsing around the jungle up in the national park behind my apartment. I'm no major arachnophobe but...

I would not want to come around a corner or open a door and encounter that at face height. Or any height.

and of course, face height is exactly where they tend to be. I don't think i've ever seen one inside anywhere, though.

Wildlife tennis: angling the pad so that the bear bounces in the opposing team's fileld. - It worked with the bison, didn't it?

Best I could do on short notice...

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He's quite dead you know...they moved him 50 miles and then he got hit by a car.


Stupid bear.

I for one welcome ... anything's better than the liberal parties :p:

As posted elsewhere, the Lib-Dem candidate came utterly last of eight in my ward.

If you're not fond of the Lib-Dems I hate to imagine what you'd think of the rest of Scottish politics!

I've heard, didn't realise that was your neck of the woods!
We didn't have elections here.

I feel sorry for all the decent LibDem councillors who are out.
The ones I know are fantastic and work really hard.
Saying that, I've drifted away from the party since they got into bed with the Tories.
I no longer distribute leaflets and have let my party membership lapse.

I still went to the Quiz Night the other month. And won a raffle prize. We came 4th in the Quiz, which wasn't bad for a table of 6 when others had 8. Well, I say 6 - two old ladies joined us, one of whom had led a fascinating life but the questions were just too fast for her, the other paid no attention whatever and just drank Lemon Barley Water all night. And poor old Da couldn't hear a thing over the shuffling, muttering and squeaking chairs.

It's always sad when good local councillors lose their seat because of national politics. We lost a few good councillors on ours this time around. Most of the gains were for the labour party, so I should be pleased, but I know a couple of the libs and cons who lost that are really decent. One in particular is a tory, but a really decent bloke with an incredible work ethic and genuine caring for his local community. The woman who beat him is from my party, but she's a fucking witch, who couldn't give a flying fuck for the people who've elected her.

China to reinvestigate human flesh capsule claims
 

China to reinvestigate human flesh capsule claims


Tue, 08 May 2012 07:46:28 -0400
BEIJING (AP) — China will reinvestigate allegations that Chinese-made drug capsules containing powdered remains of dead babies are being smuggled into South Korea, state media reported Tuesday.

Ministry of Health spokesman Deng Haihua said an investigation launched last August found no proof that such capsules were being manufactured in China, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Some people believe the capsules can cure a variety of diseases.

Deng said in a statement that China would investigate again following new reports of such pills being smuggled into South Korea, Xinhua reported.

The statement was not posted on the ministry's website and calls to the ministry rang unanswered.

The Korea Customs Service said Monday it had seized capsules made in northeastern China from dead babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder.

Deng said Chinese health departments would work with police, customs agencies and commerce authorities to investigate the latest claims, Xinhua said.

The South Korean customs agency began investigating after receiving a tip a year ago. No sicknesses have been reported from ingesting the capsules.

South Korean customs officials have refused to say where the dead babies came from or who made the capsules, citing possible diplomatic friction with Beijing.

They said they had discovered 35 smuggling attempts since August of about 17,450 capsules disguised as stamina boosters. Some people believe the capsules are a panacea for disease. However, they contain bacteria and other harmful ingredients, the customs agency said.

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What exactly do these freaks think it cures?

Great article. "THEY (you know, the ubiquitous 'they') think the pills might cure some things or a couple things and stuff, but really sometimes there's like bacteria and other stuff that is bad, and stuff."

:cool:

(No offense, 'vana...you didn't write it. I just spent too much time reading CNN comments on an unrelated matter and my blood is near boiling!) :lol:

I would recommend the book "Tokyo" by Mo Hayder on that subject. Disturbing. Very Disturbing.

via SkyNews

One thing is fer sure: 'Tweren't no dolphin.

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I'll take you up on it with used copies selling for 1p.

In return I reccomend you a real Japanese novel, as opposed to one set there.
Out by Natsuo Kirino. Fantastic book and also disturbing. You may have already read it of course, it's been around for years.

Except I've only just found it it was called Out.
The edition I read had a blood spattered cover (by design, not personal use) and I thought it was called Cut!
It's not slash-horror. It's well written, well considered and a great lesson in Japanese niceties while cutting close to the bone.

If you're interested DO NOT READ THE AMAZON PRECIS.
It gives away some real shocks. Buy it blind. You might like it, you might not, but at least it won't be spoiled for you.

I hate it when they do that.

Like blurbs on the back of books which say things like "After the death of her daughter, Marie finds it difficult to cope. Moving back to the childhood home she meets a old friend, Raina. But does Raina have her best interest in mind?"

You've got to page 50 and Marie's daughter is still alive. Ho-hum, you know she's off to the boneyard.
Raina arrives in Chapter 5. You know not to trust her.

ARRRRRRGH!

Ohmigod, that poor creature. What an agonizing death.

Just needed to be said again.

I wonder if that's a post mortem photo. The sea foam is awfully white for a creature with holes that big and a still beating heart.

I was thinking it was post mortem too. The foam is just the wake of the speeding boat. So the foam should be ignored. But it looks the shark is arching its head back. I think it would have to still be alive to do that. I think if it was dead, it would be straighter. But I'm not sure. It could be dead. Do sharks get rigor? That might explain the pose.

Yeah, I knew the foam came from the prop action, but I'd figure there would be more red in it if the shark was still bleeding. Even if it's just a little bit of pink towards the top or right around the wounds. But it's pure white.

In the article they do say it was alive when they started hauling it in.

I've caught and steaked sharks. They don't bleed much from where those bite marks are. Thats all meat. Looks perfectly acceptable.
Also, sharks are very strange. They can bite even after they are dead.

Wtf? Seriously?

I remember fishing a conger about 4-5 feet long. One hour out of the water and nailed to the gunwale with a 5 inches nail, it was still willing to bite. And if you get caught, it's a nasty one.

Absolutely Dana. We dragged on backwards for 30 mins. (Supposed to drown it)
Then shot it in the head with a shotgun. 2 hour ride back to the dock and that thing was still active as it was being steaked.
The friggin things are worse than Zombies!

Yech. I'm pretty sure I'd have lost my appetite for shark by then

Oh no, dana. Getting home after all that work and then slappin those freshly caught steaks on a sizzling hot grill ...
OMG... :drool: - :yum:

Myself, I was wondering if a shark bite would be that clean. I was wondering if that might be a an injury inflicted by a beak.

Such as that found on a giant squid.

a giant squid that size... God, i cant imagine. Perish the thought.
Though, I'm fairly convinced that would be physically impossible. A shark's bite is bigger than the width of the shark in some cases. A great white basically pushes its jaws fully out of its head when it bites. A giant squid's beak is quite small compared to the size of the squid. A squid with a beak big enough to take those kinds of chunks out would have to be tens of not hundreds of times the size of anything we've ever seen.. wouldn't it?
edit: i'm totally confident there's shit down there we have no clue about. Possibly even MUCH bigger than anything we've met. But I'm not sure a squid COULD grow to that size and still support its own mass.

I don't trust anything that lives in water. Why don't they drown? Could the shark be faking?

orca?

Ali, can you refer this to Professor Dazza?

I'm pretty sure that Flipper was the culprit. Its obvious from the show he's a racist against sharks.

A shark that special...

I don't know, man, I've heard giant squids can have tentacles fifty-sixty feet. And isn't there a colossal squid, even bigger than a giant squid? I think there are pictures of whales with beak marks and tentacle marks on them.

Word.

Kraken.

The Colossal Squid is actually shorter than the Giant Squid, but with a larger head. They're nearly the same size. That shark was 10 ft long. Wikipedia says that scientists agree that giant squids can get up to 45 feet or so, with a 7 or 8 foot mantle. The beak is less than half the width of the mantle, which you can see in photos, narrows greatly at the mouth area - so the maximum beak size couldnt be more than a foot around. That bite on the shark is at least two, if not three, feet across, i'd say, given that they say that shark is 10 feet long.

I don't trust anything that bleeds monthly and doesn't die.

Could the women be faking?

Would you trust yourself?

:)

Worry about those that don't bleed, Gun.
I have an implant.
I fly under your radar.

Which begs the question: which of us should be concerned about enemy penetration?

http://gizmodo.com/5909961/kodak-had...-in-a-basement

Touché ;)

That's French, right?

:D

Right. It is used to recognize that another person scored a point. Comes from fencing.

Touché

Touché Turtle!

I'm gonna live FOREVER!
 

This is more like WooHOOOOO news but I'll put it here.

Coffee drinking leads to longer life:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/16/health...html?hpt=hp_t2

Tomorrow coffee will rot your face off, but this is good news for today!

I'm waiting for the study that says beer makes you lose weight and cigarettes make you gorgeous. :jig:

I've been drinking more coffee lately, but I've been putting two sugars in it. I think the extra sugar negates the good aspects. Need to train myself to drink it unsweetened.