Posted: 9 Apr 2008, 3:52pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yeah I know dilly-dally, I've never heard shilly-shally either so I wanted to find out if it was a real word.
Can't believe it actually is though!
Can't believe it actually is though!
2007The SMF boardIn The News Today (page 3)
its either something in the water, or too many arranged marriages between cousins imo
its either something in the water, or too many arranged marriages between cousins imo
:E
You could toss her fuckin miles.
You could toss her fuckin miles.
Curry too hot...
Sure they do
Curry too hot...
cute??
Sure they do :lol:
cute??
That was my first thought as well.
Classic!
that IS gold
Yeah Me too...
I clearly remember, One day in particular a girl called Amanda lost control of her bladder while passing out.. She awoke to about 15 people standing over her and pointing & laughing.. Poor Girl, she never lived in down either...
Anything & Everything is possible with a little bit of persuasion...
And some amyl... Yeah Me too...
I clearly remember, One day in particular a girl called Amanda lost control of her bladder while passing out.. She awoke to about 15 people standing over her and pointing & laughing.. Poor Girl, she never lived in down either...
yup, never saw that happen tho
Whoa! 82 children in 7 years... that's a fucking epidemic!
Police Taser naked man in cavity
POLICE used a stun gun on a naked man who refused to come out of a roof cavity he had been hiding in at a house in Western Australia.
Police were called to the house in Hilton yesterday afternoon after a report of a man jumping a back fence.
Officers found a pair of jeans and when they searched the house, found a naked man hiding in among rafters in the roof cavity.
He refused to come down and began trying to smash through the roof to escape, police said.
Police, concerned he might be hurt if he jumped or fell the 6m to the ground, used a Taser stun gun on him.
He was brought down before being taken to Fremantle Hospital with minor injuries.
A 23-year -old Willagee man will appear in Fremantle Magistrates Court today charged with damaging property, stealing a motor vehicle; breach of bail and two counts of outstanding warrants.
Yeah I was a little disappointed when I finished reading it.
Its double tax, not double price.
They reckon an extra $1 per drink.
It's still bullshit.
Yep, tis certainly getting ridiculous.
Like I posted the other week.. nearly $6 for a glass of coke at the tap inn the other week.
NEVER!!!
NEVER!!! :lol:
I don't think it will make a difference. When I was rowdy binge drinking teenager, we always bought bottles to mix our own drinks and have shots, we only bought pre mixed drinks occasionally.
No shit man! We got the rudest shock when we hit down the other week. We were expecting cheap living and a good exchange rate, didn't get either. Totally outrageous imo. In comparison London is cheaper in some things or almost equal. Alcohol is def cheaper here!
I seriously think good on em.
If that's what it takes to get some progress in this city then do it.
The council can't block it. If the state government wanted a permanent grand stand there they could build one and the council couldn't do shit. The reason everyone thinks this is so stupid is cause the state government are acting like children and basically saying "we realise you don't want a permanent grand stand and we don't like it so stuff you, have this for 11 months of the year".
Regardless of what you think about the structure, having something temporary that goes up and down every year for a 1 week (if that) long event is bloody idiotic. The ongoing costs of having a temporary structure are no doubt going to be bigger than just building something then maintaining it. And all this comes at a time when there are other areas where the state government actually SHOULD be spending money like on infrastructure, healthcare, etc... Ie. Shit that matters and not some retarded structure to keep a few petrol heads happy.
The council did block the permanent grandstand where have you been for the past 12 months?
The state government could have legislated under the motor sport events act (I think that's what it's called, title may be slightly different) to basically override anything the Adelaide city council did. It may have cost the state government the seat of Adelaide but they could have if they really wanted to.
i wish i was there soooo bad!
Prince covers Radiohead at Coachella Festival
Prince surprised the sold-out crowd at Coachella tonight with a cover of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’, plus The Beatles and Sarah McLachlan covers, as well as a a mind-blowing selection of his greatest hits.
The purple one’s highly-anticipated set on the Main Stage kicked off around 30-minutes later than scheduled, as a crowd of tens of thousands anxiously awaited his arrival.
Emerging onstage amid a fog of dry ice, wearing a white tunic and white trousers, Prince said simply "Coachella, I am here" before launching into ‘Jungle Love’, joined by Morris Day who took on vocal duties on the track.
In front one of the biggest crowds ever seen at the main stage, he told the audience "You are the coolest place on earth", before being joined by another guest Sheila E, who performed her hit ‘The Glamorous Life’.
It was 20 minutes in when he kicked off the first of his biggest hits, with ‘1999’, and went on to perform ‘Little Red Corvette’, ‘Cream’ and 'Controversy', among others.
“Look around you. So many different faces from so many different places all bonded by music. I’m tired of debates,” he said before launching into The Beatles ‘Come Together’ during which the singer rallied the enormous crowd to chant “War no more’” between verses,
The audience was nothing short of awestruck at the nine-minute ‘Creep’ jam which saw the singer change lyrics slightly to ‘Baby I think you’re special’, and add in a trademark guitar solo, but in general staying true to the original version.
The Radiohead cover was followed by a touching version of Sarah McLachlan’s ‘In The Arms Of An Angel’, sung by one of his backing singers, who sang the track as Prince made a quick costume change into an orange tunic ensemble.
The star-studded crowd watching Prince’s set from the packed VIP area included a veritable motley crue of celebrities including David Hasselhoff, Melanie Griffith, Steven Tyler, Sienna Miller, Scott Speedman, Jared Leto and a host of other Hollywood types.
In typical Prince style, he stuck around for an hour after the usual midnight curfew, and even then he wasn't done.
"They're telling me that we got to go, but I can't leave!" he said “Coachella, did we have a good time at this party or what? You deserve it. From now on, this is Prince’s house!” before launching into final song ‘Let’s Go Crazy’.
Prince played:
‘Jungle Love’
‘The Glamorous Life’
‘1999’
‘I Feel For You’
‘Controversy’
‘Little Red Corvette’
‘Musicology’
‘Cream’
‘U Got The Look’
‘Shhh’
‘Another Lover Holen Yo Head’
‘Creep’
‘In The Arms Of An Angel’
‘7’
‘Come Together’
‘Purple Rain’
‘Let’s Go Crazy’
That's our state government. Bloody idiots.
what a wanker. it's always gonna take longer to build the first time round cos all the contractors have to get in a work out how they are gonna fit it and document it. good on em, big up KBR and SA motorsport board.
how is it the state governments' fault that the council blocks everything cos afew people kick up a fuss? they aren't even gonna have any horse racing there cos the jockey club have had enough of it, and who can blame them.
The council can't block it. If the state government wanted a permanent grand stand there they could build one and the council couldn't do shit. The reason everyone thinks this is so stupid is cause the state government are acting like children and basically saying "we realise you don't want a permanent grand stand and we don't like it so stuff you, have this for 11 months of the year".
Regardless of what you think about the structure, having something temporary that goes up and down every year for a 1 week (if that) long event is bloody idiotic. The ongoing costs of having a temporary structure are no doubt going to be bigger than just building something then maintaining it. And all this comes at a time when there are other areas where the state government actually SHOULD be spending money like on infrastructure, healthcare, etc... Ie. Shit that matters and not some retarded structure to keep a few petrol heads happy.
The council did block the permanent grandstand where have you been for the past 12 months?
The state government could have legislated under the motor sport events act (I think that's what it's called, title may be slightly different) to basically override anything the Adelaide city council did. It may have cost the state government the seat of Adelaide but they could have if they really wanted to. 
And thanks to him Adelaide Uni has one of the most amazing music technology departments. Although I may not have liked their Music Technology course, the older room with the Moog and various other older synthesisers was amazing.
Big ups Tristram. R.I.P.
Fo' sure, hows he lived to 102...... thats amazing, ive gotta get myself some of that stuff!
Fountain of youth!
Fo' sure, hows he lived to 102...... thats amazing, ive gotta get myself some of that stuff!
Fountain of youth! :biggrin:
I'm gunna be one ooooooooooold bastard then
I'm gunna be one ooooooooooold bastard then
truly a sad day
that man has given me more fun than the inventor of any other chemical invented
'Trip of a lifetime' for LSD maker
THE man who synthesised LSD and became the first person to ever have an "acid trip" has died at the age of 102.
Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann died of a heart attack at his home in Basel yesterday, a friend and colleague said.
truly a sad day
that man has given me more fun than the inventor of any other chemical invented :E
:fire: :fire:
Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'
Some computer keyboards harbour more harmful bacteria than a toilet seat, research has suggested. Consumer group Which? said tests at its London offices found equipment carrying bugs that could cause food poisoning. Out of 33 keyboards swabbed, four were regarded as a potential health hazard and one harboured five times more germs than one of the office's toilet seats.
Microbiologist Dr Peter Wilson said a keyboard was often "a reflection of what is in your nose and in your gut". During the tests in January this year, a microbiologist deemed one of the office's keyboards to be so dirty he ordered it to be removed, quarantined and cleaned.
It had 150 times the recommended limit for bacteria - five times as filthy as a lavatory seat tested at the same time, the research found. Should somebody have a cold in your office, or even have gastroenteritis, you're very likely to pick it up from a keyboard The equipment was swabbed for bugs, such as those that can cause food poisoning like E.coli and staphylococcus aureus.
Dr Wilson, a consultant microbiologist at University College London Hospital, told BBC Radio 5 Live sharing a keyboard could be passing on illnesses among office workers. "If you look at what grows on computer keyboards, and hospitals are worse, believe it or not, it's more or less a reflection of what's in your nose and in your gut," he said. "Should somebody have a cold in your office, or even have gastroenteritis, you're very likely to pick it up from a keyboard."
Which? said one of the causes of dirty keyboards was users eating lunch at their desk, with crumbs encouraging the growth of bacteria. Poor personal hygiene, such as not washing hands after going to the toilet, could also be to blame, it said. computing editor Sarah Kidner advised users to give their computer "a spring clean". "It's quite simple to do and could prevent your computer from becoming a health hazard," she said. She said dust and food crumbs should be shaken out of keyboards and they should be wiped with a soft, lightly dampened, lint-free cloth. They should also be disinfected with alcohol wipes.
Research by the University of Arizona last year found the average office desktop harboured 400 times more bacteria than the average office toilet seat. They also found that, compared to men, on average women have three to four times the amount of germs in, on and around their work area.
I have been in them... they are delightful
I have been in them... they are delightful :)
Handbags too. We put our handbags down almost everywhere, then the bag gets put on desks, beds etc.
Major germage...
coz ppl like u buy them
Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'
They also found that, compared to men, on average women have three to four times the amount of germs in, on and around their work area.
Handbags too. We put our handbags down almost everywhere, then the bag gets put on desks, beds etc.
Major germage...
coz ppl like u buy them
Take part in pyjama-led recovery
By Scott Steensma
May 03, 2008 04:39am
MONDAY morning. Your alarm goes off. Your hand lashes out from under the doona, smacking your snooze button.
You make a croaky call to your boss and contentedly go back to sleep.
There will be No Work Today.
For most of us the sickie, doona day or case of the can't-be-bothereds is part of the laid-back Australian attitude to life. It confirms our belief that we're take-it-easy, anti-authority types who work to live and not vice-versa.
Of course, business groups see the sickie as a threat to the future of the nation - a pyjama-clad economic time bomb.
The Federal Government and the chamber of commerce would have you believe that half the nation is off sick every day, leaving shops unstaffed, planes unflown and taxes unraised.
They condemn us as a nation of slackers and, from the depths of our hot afternoon baths, we agree with them.
But, while we reach for the soap and try not to drop our book into the tub, we can reconcile our guilt with the knowledge that our purported slackness is a myth. Australians are some of the least slack slackers in the world.
Despite what our business leaders would have you believe, Australians work hard and work long. According to a 2006 OECD report, we put in an average of 1714 hours a year.
With holidays, we're averaging 38 hours a week.
This may sound normal to you, but next to some of our trading partners we're cash-crazed workaholics.
The French, Dutch, Germans, Norwegians, Belgians and the Irish all work fewer hours than we do and, in the case of the Dutch, a whole lot fewer.
The Dutch, when they can be bothered showing up at all, put in a leisurely 1391 hours - three months a year less than we do.
If we followed their example we could reduce our workload to four days a week or take summer off, which would give us plenty of time to build our own windmills and make bad jokes about dykes.
Of course, even the thought of this sort of slackness makes our business leaders feel ill, but not ill enough to call in sick.
That would be un-Australian.
Despite our jokes about calling in crook and hitting the beach, we take fewer sickies than almost anyone. Not that you would know it.
Our business leaders ominously declare that on any given day, 2.4 per cent of the Australian workforce is off sick - ignoring the optimistic reading that 97.6 per cent of us valiantly managed to make it in.
Any examination of our alleged absenteeism shows that Australia is a 21 million-strong Codral advertisement.
A recent survey revealed that Aussies take only 5.2 sick days a year - barely enough to cover three mild colds, let alone a serious sleep-in habit.
The world sickie average is eight days, enough for a couple of bouts of flu and four long surfing weekends.
Even the supposedly workaholic Americans take the full eight days, while the Dutch take a mighty 10, probably from the shock of going back to work after a three-month holiday in Australia watching us bust our backsides all summer.
Aussies have an unhealthy attitude to employment. We work hard, but we think we're lazy, and we take fewer days off than almost everyone else but are berated as slackers.
Our culture of hard work is hurting us - we're frantically sprinting on our economic treadmill, while other nations lazily amble past on the way to another long weekend.
If we worked fewer hours we could be fresher, happier and more productive, so next time you call in sick, don't feel guilty, feel righteous.
Do the economy a favour. Stop soldiering on, and start sleeping in.
I only have to work 7.5 hours here, when I can be bothered. The minimum I have to work is 6 hours a day, so long as I make up the right amount of hours eventually (over a month or so). Lucky for me I am always in credit, thanks to many hours of travel and business trips.
I only have to work 7.5 hours here, when I can be bothered. The minimum I have to work is 6 hours a day, so long as I make up the right amount of hours eventually (over a month or so). Lucky for me I am always in credit, thanks to many hours of travel and business trips.
grrrr.
If it offends then don't watch it.
Aren't PARENTS responsible for their children's viewing? Therefore, it doesn't matter what time it's on, if the PARENTS are monitoring the bloody TV.
we usedta watch country practice and neighbours upstairs in my parents room..they never realised...our house was big enuff that we could get away with it! i am sure kids do the same.
that said, soooo many families have 2 PLUS tvs in their houses, thats WAY too much imo!!
I hear of many families who have TVs and computers in all their kids' rooms...very bad...but, hey it's their choice I suppose...
Well, that's the PARENTS problem then, isn't it?
I never had a TV in my room until I was 15.
Hahahahahaha
Fucking same here mate, couldn't have worded the cunt better my fucking self.
QFT!
Has to be one of the contenders for sentence of the year for me!
And this ladies and gentlemen comes from the mouth of a product of not only the Paradise Assembly of God but also it's partner in corruption, the Sunshine Christian College.
Lord, imagine what he'd be like if he had a non-religious upbringing!
Ah well. I knew it was some religious whacko school! My bad
Still a gold post mate, good to see you reformed...
I'll lay hands on you for that comment.
I've got a sore back and neck at the moment, that'd be great cheers!
wow, you're so lucky you didn't turn out to be a bad egg after that anna.
i had that kind of upbringing. as long as my folks were with me, i could watch anything. big thanks to them for introducing me to boyz n the hood and new jack city at about 7 or 8!
Agreed, all we have is stupid fires
That picture is fuckin nuts though, new desktop background for sure...
sydney gets good storms. dont forget, the volanoes around mt gambier are only DORMANT...would be cool if they erupted again sometime soon
Haven't they been dormant longer than volcanoes on every other continent though? I thought as far as geological stability/change goes Australia was about as inactive as it gets compared to every other continent on earth...
Pretty much.
that completely cool
like some war of the worlds shit with aliens about to invade and enslave
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For sure. Just got to hunt down a higher res version!
Let me know when you find a 2560x1600px version please.
fantasy much??
bwahahahahaha. gold!
http://galacticcentral.org/imagebucket/volcano.jpg
2996x2000 enough for you?
Yes, sure is.
Thanks
Yeah but I will be soon!
P.S. You'll never be a graduated geophysicist, so there.
P.P.S. I'm going to give you a call soon, I need some advice re jobs. 
wouldve taken some work getting that sucker airtight
wouldve taken some work getting that sucker airtight
I was thinking the exact same thing
bout time!! and no probs, lemme know cause i can give ya some cool resume and cv tips too
ps shit aint fake, that sorta thing happens all the time! the ash cloud hits the upper atmosphere and the hot ash is full of charged particles which create that disturbance
http://www.money.co.uk/article/1000390-13-year-old-steals-dads-credit-card-to-buy-hookers.htm
A 13 year old from Texas who stole his Dad's credit card and ordered two hookers from an escort agency, has today been convicted of fraud and given a three year community order.
Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father's existing credit card company, and took his friends on a $30,000 spending spree, culminating in playing "Halo" on an Xbox with a couple of hookers in a Texas motel.
The credit card company involved said it was regular practice to send extra credit cards out as long as all security questions are answered.
The escort girls who were released without charge, told the arresting officers something was up when the kids said they would rather play Xbox than get down to business.
Police said they were alerted to the motel by a concerned delivery clerk, whom after delivering supplies of Dr Pepper, Fritos and Oreos had been asked by the kids where they could score some chicks and were willing to pay. They explained they had just made a big score at a "World of Warcraft" tournament and wanted to get some relaxation. On noting the boys age the delivery clerk informed the authorities.
When police arrived at the motel they found $3,000 in cash, numerous electronic gadgets, an Xbox video console with numerous games, and the two local escort girls.
Ralph had reportedly told police that his father wouldn't mind, as it was his birthday last week and he had forgot to get him a present. The father, a lawyer said he had been too busy, but would take him on a surprise trip to Disneyland instead.
Asked why he ordered two escorts, Ralph said he thought it was the thing to do when you win a "World of Warcraft" tournament. They told the suspicious working girls they were people of restricted growth working with a traveling circus, and as State law does not allow those with disabilities to be discriminated against they had no right to refuse them.
The $1,000 a night girls sensing something up played "Halo" on the Xbox with the kids, instead of selling their sexual services.
Ralph's ambition is to one day become a politician.
He's already most of the way there
Alert as stomach bug hits
A HIGHLY infectious stomach bug has now hit 64 South Australians, a rate that is about five times higher than average. Shigella is a severe infection that prompted a public health alert earlier this year. The number of cases so far has already surpassed the total number of cases in any year for the past five years.
SA Health Communicable Disease Control Branch director Dr Ann Koehler said South Australians had less resistance to newer strains of infections like Shigella. "Due to a more mobile population, we are now seeing strains of some infections that have not often been seen in metropolitan Adelaide," she said. "We would urge anyone who is unwell with a gastro-like illness to practice simple hygiene, such as hand-washing, and to see their GP." Last year at this time there were only five recorded cases of Shigella. The five-year average is about 13.
The warning to protect against infections comes after 57 people fell ill from Norovirus at a conference in rural SA. SA Health said one person was responsible for spreading the infection and emphasised that it was not the fault of the facility. "I would like to stress the importance of proper hygiene, particularly among those suffering from gastroenteritis or caring for someone with diarrhoea," Dr Koehler said.
Same here. Oh wait I never do as well!
Alert as stomach bug hits
A HIGHLY infectious stomach bug has now hit 64 South Australians, a rate that is about five times higher than average. Shigella is a severe infection that prompted a public health alert earlier this year. The number of cases so far has already surpassed the total number of cases in any year for the past five years.
SA Health Communicable Disease Control Branch director Dr Ann Koehler said South Australians had less resistance to newer strains of infections like Shigella. "Due to a more mobile population, we are now seeing strains of some infections that have not often been seen in metropolitan Adelaide," she said. "We would urge anyone who is unwell with a gastro-like illness to practice simple hygiene, such as hand-washing, and to see their GP." Last year at this time there were only five recorded cases of Shigella. The five-year average is about 13.
The warning to protect against infections comes after 57 people fell ill from Norovirus at a conference in rural SA. SA Health said one person was responsible for spreading the infection and emphasised that it was not the fault of the facility. "I would like to stress the importance of proper hygiene, particularly among those suffering from gastroenteritis or caring for someone with diarrhoea," Dr Koehler said.
Welcome to my world.
luckily, no beer was harmed or broken in the arrest. Poor chook!
'Fusionman' dons wings and flies
From correspondents in Bax, Switzerland May 15, 2008 02:09am
ICARUS crashed and burned when he flew too close to the sun but a modern-day Swiss adventurer has had a happier landing after testing his new jet-powered "wing". Yves Rossy, the self-styled "Fusionman", leapt into the skies 2500m above the small town of Bex in western Switzerland today clad in his new carbon wing.
He performed various manoeuvres for five minutes before landing with the aid of a parachute.
His "wing" is 2.5m in diameter and comes with four tiny jets, which are lit inside the plane just before he jumps.
Once in full flight, Rossy can reach speeds of up to 300km/h, but he can only stay in the air for a maximum of ten minutes due to the small fuel capacity of his jets.
Rossy, a 48-year-old former air force pilot who now works for the airline Swiss, first unveiled his design in 2004.
It hasn't always been an easy ride though - during one jump in 2005, he lost control of his wing and didn't open his parachute until he was just 500m above ground.
I read that story this morning and laughed... have a fuckin cry.
The best bit is the medicare surcharge rant, it's actually gone up to $150K from $100K for a family. These cunts should have private health insurance anyway, that's what the surcharge is for.
Ahhh The Advertiser... Today Tonight and A Current Affair.... now in print.
theyre upset howards high-income welfare is a thing of the past.
fuck me. if anyone has their address, can someone drive-by egg their luxury car for us?
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its not even that. its that they are whingeing their tits off over their luxury car tax, paying for private schools.
besides, theyre lucky theres no bogan tax for naming your kids 'Taylah' or 'Jorja' or 'Pepsee' or whatever the fuck misspelled advertising product name seems to be the hot baby name of the week.
doing it tough, lol.
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Does anyone know these cunts? The Tanners? Fuck me dead.
LOL
I actually knew these people reasonably well. Used to work with Wayne at Westpac.
He is a financial adviser. Ex Norwood player. Great bloke to be honest.
We got drunk together on many occasions. Stayed at his pub in Clare (yes his pub)
He used to jokingly say he was a millionaire back then because he owed a million dollars on property investments. This is going back 7 or 8 years so the rates may have hit him hard I haven't spoken to him for probably 4 years.
Wah fucking wah!
Nah I actually like the guy but this is ridiculous.
"the couple work a combined 80 hours a week" OH FUCKING NO! THAT'S A 40 HOUR WORKING WEEK! EACH!OMGWTF!!11
My god I fucking hate people. Hate them.
Does anyone know these cunts? The Tanners? Fuck me dead.
wernt they on a series called "full house"
150 k between them. thats 75 fucking k each a year!!! i thought i was doing it tough.
That's at least $150k. I would be saying their earnings would be well over that.
I cannot believe the nerve of them LMAO
Their house was amazing from what I hear, near the beach.
The shame was they promised their son his own tropical island this year, looks like he won't get it now.
that article is a joke. Real battlers are people earning the minimum wage, people who are on and off the street, Indigenous people with a life expectancy less than the average Bangladeshi citizen, etc...
I can't believe how what was actually a valid colloquialism has been so badly assaulted over the past decade (in particular by Howard and co.). It really is disgusting.
That family and anyone who had any part in that story needs to get out of whatever bubble they're living in and realise just how lucky they are with their house and kids at a private school and so on. Mortgage stress? As if you can blame anyone but yourself for that!
I believe the Tanners lived with this lil' fella!
that story really fucked me off yesterday. ali and i earn half what they do combined and we're not complaining yet.
did anyone else notice the 120cm wall mounted plasma in the background of their photo there too? yeah real tough. saying shit like they have to pay for their kids PRIVATE EDUCATION on top of everything else is making it so hard was the biggest joke in the article. send them to PUBLIC SCHOOL then you arrogant fucks.
what a funny story tho, they've really shot themselves in the foot!
Ain't that the truth. Not really getting any better either!
didnt we just say that teachers take work home with them? and often work over weekends too? and you are using your experiences of just one person, to generalise that ALL teachers must have got it wrong when they say they are 'struggling'...for all you know, he could be renting in a sharehouse, single and without any major debts (mortgage, car etc)...course he wouldnt be struggling!
noone is saying that teachers are being hypocrites by accepting a lower-paying profession and then asking for raises... lets just say that the majority of peopel go into teaching cause they WANT to help people learn, and be part of the community, but thanks to their VERY active union, they are often in the news campaigning. i dont blame them, the amount of flack they get from parents and the public is nuts. in many other western countries, teaching is VERY well regarded and well paid too.
i agree though, welfare should exist for those who really need it, but who is to say that social security systems like that in norway and sweden (i believe EVERYONE gets very well looked after, lots of free healthcare services and education?) wouldnt work here also?
PS replied to that before i saw ur responses
top discussion all round!
Bingo, but this is also the same for lecturers depending on what faculty they below in. An arts lecturer doesn't and probably wont receive the pay as an engineering lecturer who would be on at least $100k.
I don't know if I'd agree in saying that they get a lot of flack from parents but they certainly do from the "right" side of the political spectrum/public, in particular because of the strong union movement. This doesn't help while our media is so lopsided either cause it means that all the coverage they get paints teachers in a pretty bad light.
Also Anna you're right about teaching being much better regarded in other countries, in particular in Europe. At least in Germany if you ask people what professions they respect most teaching is up at the same level as working in medical fields (eg. being a GP). Ask the majority of people here and they wouldn't rate it very highly.
Australia has always under invested in education because we've always been fortunate enough to have plenty of well educated people from elsewhere in the world come here. After all, the government's attitude has generally been "why invest in a quality education system when we can just let people in from elsewhere who have had their education paid for by someone else?"
Why? Why shouldn't they receive the same amount?
This is another issue I have about Australian culture in general. People have a dislike of anything in the social sciences and humanities field as if it's something that is not valuable at all. I really can't understand it.
Department incomes are higher (due to external/company funding) and wages need to be relevant compared to what a lectureer could earn outside of the uni... You should know Anna, geology departments wouldnt have a problem with getting external funding...
That's because you have to do the work of the useless cunts around you that aren't doing there job and are not given the sack (in most cases not even repremanded). The public service can be funny, the buckets of money to spend each year and the amount of staff at hand within a particular department just with doesn't correlate to the actual work that needs to be done.
From what I can see that's the only welfare these fucking 'Tanners' are going to miss out on due to Tuesday's budget, if Mrs Tanner decides to squeeze out another kid. They got a tax cut FFS.
yeah but the lecturers are paid by the uni, not the department. in fact the earth sciences lecturers here are really screwed over at the moment, massive classes and little to no extra funding to compensate, we have to get sponsorship from companies instead. which, really, diminishes the academic strengths of the degree, cause we have to cater to the sponsors wishes. its much better to stay independent!
its a set scale, and all lecturers get paid the same as far as i know, depending on their level. but differences probably lie in their research budgets, which may be topped up by outside consulting and stuff. if i were to stay in academia, i'd be starting on $40 or $50K, which is pretty crap compared to industry.
It's cases like this where the UN should force the military there to accept aid. Sitting on your hands cause the military government doesn't give a shit about their own people goes against one of the founding principles of the UN which is to "protect livelihood" or some relevant article in the UN declaration of human rights...
yeh
Its all to do with power though, they are scared that if we go in and help thier people will revolt, where as if we dont go in it solidifys thier point that the west are assholes etc... so thier people follow them even more.
Its harsh !!
Ive donated money to global giving.
Diplomatic Entity? It's an organisation of many countries. I don't think the member states agree on ANYTHING enough to call it a very well organised organisation either. That said it's better than nothing and the world would probably be worse off if it didn't exist at all.
I seriously hope not.
The word 'degenerate' springs to mind...
harder to get jobs than you think mate. everyone wants 15yr olds working for then because they can charge minimum wage. pittance.
So get some qualification or training so that you can get something a step above what 15 year olds can get. Surely that is an obvious and uncomplicated pathway to take?
No that I think they would be struggling... but they will also lose their child benefits from the government. This can be a considerable amount every year. But I think it's a great idea, they earn a very nice amount of coin so fuck them!!!
Bigups Labour for starting to undo Howards plans for helping out his mates (the wealthy)!!!
i reckon you'll struggle more in goolwa finding a job just quietly. especially in hospitality.
only a small town.
there's so much building going on up that way, why not try and get some work with a builder or plumber or something?
good luck either way mate. and if it ever does come down to appearance, that's really just bad luck for you. you have to make sacrifices if you expect an employer to make one by employing you.
Lol.
Not really what I asked though.
I was trying to understand why Nathan is not able to secure work, as it sounds like he has been trying.
Is he getting to the interview stage? If not, is it because his CV or introduction letter needs work/updating?
If he is getting to the interview stage, what kinds of questions is he having trouble answering? What kind of feedback is he getting from employers when they say they have chosen another candidate?
There are plenty of jobs out there, it depends on what standard of work you expect to do.
Oliver has a great point - if your CV lacks training, certificates or experience in the particular market verticals you're showing interest in, it will be harder and harder to get a job.
If you're getting turned down by places like Woolies and Maccas for work, you have to take a serious look at how your present yourself and how you handle the interview process. Those jobs don't require much brain power, but they do require their staff to be profssional, presentable and team-oriented.
Would you rather have your 'individualistic' hair and no money, or money and just regular hair? Shouldn't be that difficult a decision.
sorry mate i have certified qualifications in 2 different specified areas of work and i have still had to go for the shittiest of shit jobs just to keep c/link happy. thats after applying at every other place that deals in those 2 areas. plus walking up and down streets and emailing for jobs i know i had no chance getting anyway. its bloody hard especially if you cant afford uni or even tafe courses. c/link are fucked and dont help you much in that area anyway. so that was a rather lame reply imo.
rob. spot on. all of those things help alot. just depends on what there looking for.
on a brighter note for the news today/yesterday, laura and i may have our own business in a week. just waiting for finances. if all goes well i'll be fuckin stoked!
What areas?
And yes if you're about to start your own business good on you. Very sensible path to take if you're confident you can manage it yourself. I started one in high school and ran it as an "along the side" thing while at TAFE and Uni. Now I'm finished with TAFE and Uni and I'm only working for myself!
coopering/cabinetmaking and dog grooming. if that helps. working for yourself is the only way to go. working for the man sux.
in high school i was to busy being a kid and having fun to bother with work. probably should have listened more though. 
I honestly find it hard to believe you could have problems if you tried hard enough going down either of those paths.
I do some work with large wineries (admittedly in a completely different area to where you might have potential) and the amount of money and growth in that industry is absolutely astounding if you wanted to pursue the coopering, IMO.
Instead of "walking up and down streets" have you thought about making a list of wineries in Adelaide/SA and contacting their employment people to explain your qualification and ask to meet someone to discuss opportunities? Might seem like an obvious question but there are many people who don't take what others would say are obvious steps so don't be offended if you have already done this and had no luck!
I don't know how closely related the cabinetmaking industry is to the general building industry, but it can't be that remotely related that you simply can not get a job in Adelaide doing it.
I have to say that perhaps I'm living in a bit of a bubble cause everything is working out reasonably well for me personally. But when I read about general economic growth in Australia and low unemployment I just have trouble believing anyone who says they "can't find a job".
Oli, you have no idea of the industrial sector do you
nowadays.... coopering = machines
nowadays, most stuff = machines
a few years ago, trades were in super bullshit demand. now, manufacturing, and even mining (both the big moneymakers in trades) are going to China, the up-and-coming global superpower, have bugger all going for them. SOME mining is in dire need but pretty much moot.
i rode in on a big wave, now i need to change ships to ride it out...
Where are you applying, and why are you not getting call backs?
Have you followed them up? Asked why they chose to employ someone else?
Most HR people will explain what was lacking with your CV and/or interview, which will enable you to make adjustments as to how you a) get your foot in the door through introductory letters and CVs and b) handle the interview process.
What is in Goolwa that you are so keen to get back to? Wouldn't you think that there are more job opportunities in the metropolitan area to try?
What is it you want to do? What did you enjoy doing in Highschool?
PS - Please post a pic of your hair. Maybe getting it cut BEFORE the interview might help your chances of securing work?
Coopering makes use of machinery (what physical profession doesn't?), but there's still a physical skill involved in making quality oak wine barrels. My point was that there is surely demand for quality oak wine barrels considering this state is a big producer of quality wines. If coopering equalled machines then why would it still exist as a profession? If it was genuinely some kind of profession that had been taken over by machines why would the qualification exist?
Edit: Just out of interest (and because you saying I had "no idea" riled me a bit) I googled for Australian cooperage companies and there are at least half a dozen of them in SA (unsurprisingly mostly in the Barossa Valley area) that are making barrels for the local wineries, and in one case (Yalumba) they make their own barrels within the company. Also, go search for "how are wine barrels made" and you'll see a few sites indicating that it's one of those professions that hasn't actually changed that much even though it is centuries old.
4 companies in the barossa actually. 1 or 2 are mass produced (A.P. Johns is where i got my trade) yalumba only cooper for themselves with 5 or so people and 1 in adelaide (if its still even running) i'll be fucked if im moving or driving back to the barossa everyday to fuck my back up even more, let alone petrol on top of it. wouldn't be worth it.
on the machinery side of it. 75% of it is machine work. how else do you bend the fuckers/press/shape the angles of the staves/ drill the hole? by hand? thats what trade school is for and like i said, most employers want very young ppl that dont complain, get paid $6 p/h and that dont know shit about ie. work agreements, workers comp, "fair go", harassment/ getting there bodies thrashed beyond recognition.. etc.
After all, what good is wine stored in a quality oak barrel made by a qualified cooper and his machinery if you don't have a website designed by a graphic designer and developed by someone like me to display and sell the products to a growing international group of customers?
its not all about computers/internet mate. half of the companies i have worked for dont even have a computer.
p.s. dont think i'll need you for advertisement, i can do myself but thanks anyway.
Smirnoff double black cans which are 7% have gone up from $20 per sixer to $30 at my work but these ice tea things that are 10% (which are quite tasty actually) havnt changed price. neither have the pulses. its all a joke really. stick to the passion pop. :spew:
OK so if it's so hard to get a job in coopering go into another trade, or get some qualification in another area completely. That's going to help more than whinging about how hard it is to find a job in a trade with no opportunities (if that's genuinely the case).
I wasn't trying to imply that it was. Not sure what the advertisement comment is supposed to mean.
After all, what good is wine stored in a quality oak barrel made by a qualified cooper and his machinery if you don't have a website designed by a graphic designer and developed by someone like ME to display and sell the products to a growing international group of customers?
finished. this news was yesterday. im me if you want to go on.
When I used to work at Tescos - we used to have to throw out black bags full of cakes and bread that wasn't eaten every day, and the amount of food that was chucked for one tiny tesco express store was shocking... and then multiply that by 1000's of Tescos stores across the country. I don't shop there any more because of it.. complete waste of resources and food.
I thought that was the loophole they closed...
Could be wrong though.
How do these cunts continually get money to fund all these fucking stupid pointless research projects?
BECAUSE I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS!
Look, government cunts (and I know you read these boards!) if you want to know something, save your money and just ask me, OK?
FUNKY J FOR PM IMO TBH
Penis museum gets new members
By Bob Strong May 20, 2008 09:45am
A German, an American, an Icelander and a Briton have promised to donate their organs to the Icelandic Phallological Museum after death, according to certificates on display.
The museum, which began in 1974 with a single bull's penis that looked something like a riding crop, boasts 261 preserved members from 90 species.
The largest, from a sperm whale, is 70 kg and 1.7 metres long. The smallest, a hamster penis bone, is just 2mm and must be viewed through a magnifying glass.
One species conspicuous by its absence is homo sapiens, until the four donors contacted museum owner Sigurdur Hjartarson.
The American donor, 52-year-old Stan Underwood, supplied a written description of his penis – which he nick-named "Elmo" – for display alongside a life-size plastic mould of the member as well as his pledge to donate it.
Mr Hjartarson said the Icelandic donor, a 93-year-old from nearby Akureyri, was a womanizer in his youth who thought having his penis in the collection might bring him eternal fame.
"He has mentioned lately that his penis is shrinking as he gets older and he is worried it might not make a proper exhibit," said Mr Hjartarson.
The museum, originally opened in Reykjavik in 1997, has now moved to the quiet fishing village of Husavik, 480 km northeast of the capital.
Open from May to September, it is housed in a plain brown building, the entrance marked by a tall brown phallus near the door and a penis-shaped sign over the front porch.
A growing number of people from all over the world view the collection each year, 60 per cent of them women.
In Soviet Russia, penis fly you!
Oh dear.
yeh I agree, the complete waste of packaging as well that goes into land fills... its a massive problem, we cant keep sticking it in the ground and hoping it will go away because it wont.
Unfortunately the old adage of buying in bulk to save money is a problem in this area. So many time I've wanted just a small amount of something but you're either unable to get it in a small amount or it's outrageously cost ineffective versus buying a larger pack...which you end up throwing away because you don't need to use it for anything else in a short amount of time!
Welcome to last month.....
That's something that a relative of mine who is living in Berlin noticed immediately after living there for a few weeks. Berlin is a big city but there is a huge proportion (over 50% of households I think) with only 1 person in them. This means that shops cater in a much better way to these people and there aren't so many huge advantages to buying in bulk.
I guess this probably causes more waste overall, but if the packaging is all made of recyclables or biodegradable then it's probably still better than throwing out so much food.
In response to your earlier post, I think the hospitality industry would be far more efficient than households when it comes to food wastage, packaging, and also energy and water use. I have no facts to back this up though, and I'm not going to find you any.
But yeah in my experience it's a relatively efficient industry when compared to private households due to economies of scale and of course the profit motive (which obviously stops things from being thrown out needlessly).
Jailed mexican donkey proves law is an ass
May 22, 2008 08:05am
A DONKEY has been freed from a Mexican jail after serving three days for assaulting two men.
Local TV showed showed Blacky the donkey eating from a bucket after three days in a jail that normally holds people for public drunkenness and other disturbances, the Associated Press reported.
Blacky was jailed for biting and kicking two men near a ranch outside Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of the southern state of Chiapas.
Officials freed the donkey after its owner paid a $US36 ($38) fine and the $US115 hospital bill for the men.
They were bitten on the chest and one suffered a broken ankle
"you're free to go ee-aww"
Im down for the next one for sure awesome. I should keep an eye on the site. I'd come along as a photographer.
They started a topic a while back, for their train ride de-pantsing idea. Apparently that one was an epic failure, but obviously they have improved their recruitment process.
yeah only two people did that.
saw the american who created that idea on sunrise the other day who still claimed it though. :lol: 
do it...
DOOOO IIIIITT!!!!!
Surgeons cut 16 washers from penis
A MAN was operated on in Hornsby Hospital early today to remove 16 stainless steel washers from his penis.
Berowra Fire Rescue officers were called to alleviate the man from his awkward predicament at 3am.
It was not clear how the situation arose.
The man may well have thought long and hard about placing himself in the difficult situation.
Fire Rescue Officers spent more than an hour unsuccessfully attempting to remove the washers, before the man was taken into an operating theatre about 4.30am.
Surgeons took about 90 minutes to remove the washers using fire brigade equipment.
A hospital spokesman said equipment normally used to remove rings from fingers was ineffective because of the thicker nature of the washers.
The man was in a satisfactory condition.
It is believed the only lasting damage may be to his pride
thats fucked! & i was pissed that some fuckwhit cliped me on the way to work this morning!
thats fucked! & i was pissed that some fuckwhit cliped me on the way to work this morning!
They really need to can the Simpsons. I guess it muct be rating alright though.
The new eps suck. I download the odd one here and there and they are terrible 90% of the time! Pale imititations of a once great show
I agree, but on the other hand, for all the great moments and untouchable laughs they have given me over the years I have no problems with them lining their pockets with another season.
AFAIC they've earned the right to cash in from the show.
I agree, but on the other hand, for all the great moments and untouchable laughs they have given me over the years I have no problems with them lining their pockets with another season.
AFAIC they've earned the right to cash in from the show.
Atheists get busted for doing it in cathedral...
(CNN) -- A man and a woman have been charged by police in Italy after they were found having sex in a confession box, it was reported Wednesday.
The Italian ANSA news agency said the young man and woman were taken into custody by police in the northern city of Cesena following a telephone complaint from a man attending morning Mass in the city's cathedral.
Authorities were alerted after a parishoner heard "rustling and groaning" coming from inside the confession box and pulled back the curtains to reveal a goth-rock couple engaged in oral sex, ANSA said.
The agency said the pair -- a 31-year-old laborer and a 32-year-old teacher -- defended their conduct saying: "We are atheists and for us, having sex in church is like doing it any other place."
However, Bishop Antonio Lanfranchi of Cesena-Sarsina took said the couple's behavior was "an outrage of notable proportions which bespeaks unutterable squalor."
He added that a special ceremony would be held to purify the confession box.
Couldn't be more different in their approaches could they?
:rofl:
Couldn't be more different in their approaches could they?
fuck he must have been rockin!!
That dude is lucky he didn't get killed himself by the rest of the cyclist before the cops arrive...
fuck he must have been rockin!!
That dude is lucky he didn't get killed himself by the rest of the cyclist before the cops arrive...
Should have seen the shit hit the fan when Ratbag released screen shots of Dukes of Hazzard without the confederate flag on the General!
:lol:
Should have seen the shit hit the fan when Ratbag released screen shots of Dukes of Hazzard without the confederate flag on the General!
That is so pathetic.
:lol:
That is so pathetic.
Good. Firstly for the assistance this research can give fighting diseases. Secondly cause it pisses off those stupid religious extremists.
Good. Firstly for the assistance this research can give fighting diseases. Secondly cause it pisses off those stupid religious extremists.
Its not even extremist is the Catholic Church. I would like to challenge ANYONE who thinks embryonic research is un ethical to live with a type 1 Diabetic for a week, day or even just an hour & then try I say its un ethical
Its not even extremist is the Catholic Church. I would like to challenge ANYONE who thinks embryonic research is un ethical to live with a type 1 Diabetic for a week, day or even just an hour & then try I say its un ethical :funkyj:
And why the fuck haven't they killed it yet? Surely they aren't going to care the toad back to health and then release it back in to the environment?
Nah fuck fighting disease.
I want clones to settle the Nurture Vs Nature arguments once and for all.
Clone Manson a few times, and raise him as he was, and also in a less caring, and in a more caring environment, maybe as catholic, buddhist, atheist, etc, and raise one with computer games and one without, one with ROCK and once with country, etc, and then see which one goes on murderous rampages...
Then just eliminate "the bad one" and the culture that raised him from society.
are you gonna go cold turkey or get some dickorette patches to sooth your cravings?
fish in a barrel
Humans could all be aliens
GENETIC material from outer space found in a meteorite in Australia may well have played a key role in the origin of life on earth, according to a study to be published on Sunday.
European and US scientists say they have proved for the first time two bits of genetic coding, called nucleobases, contained in the meteor fragment, are truly extraterrestrial.
Previous studies had suggested the space rocks, which hit earth about 40 years ago, might have been contaminated upon impact.
Both of the molecules identified, uracil and xanthine, "are present in our DNA and RNA," said lead author Zita Martins, a researcher at Imperial College London.
RNA, or ribonucleic acid, is another key part of the genetic coding that makes up our bodies.
These molecules would also have been essential to the still-mysterious alchemy that somehow gave rise, about four billion years ago, to life itself.
"We know that meteorites very similar to the Murchison meteorite, which is the one we analysed, were delivering the building blocks of life to earth 3.8 to 4.5 billion years ago," Martins said.
Competing theories suggest nucleobases were synthesised closer to home, but Martins said the atmospheric conditions of early earth would have rendered that process difficult or impossible.
A team of European and US scientists showed the two types of molecules in the Australian meteorite contained a heavy form of carbon - carbon 13 - which could only have been formed in space.
"We believe early life may have adopted nucleobases from meteoric fragments for use in genetic coding, enabling them to pass on their successful features to subsequent generations," Martins said.
If so, this would have been the start of an evolutionary process leading over billions of years to all the flora and fauna - including human beings - in existence today.
The study, to be published in Earth Planetary Science Letters, also has implications for life on other planets.
"Because meteorites represent leftover materials from the formation of the solar system, the key components of life - including nucleobases - could be widespread in the cosmos," said co-author Mark Sephton, also at Imperial College London.
"As more and more of life's raw materials are discovered in objects from space, the possibility of life springing forth wherever the right chemistry is present becomes more likely," he said.
Uracil is an organic compound found in RNA, where it binds in a genetic base pair with another molecule, adenine.
Xanthine is not directly part of RNA or DNA, but participates in a series of chemical reactions inside the RNA of cells.
The two types of nucleobases and the ratio of light-to-heavy carbon molecules were identified through gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, technologies that were not available during earlier analyses of the now-famous meteorite.
Even so, said Martins, the process was extremely laborious and time-consuming, one reason it had not be carried out up to now by other scientists.
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Not exactly news considering it happened in 2001…
Then again, ironically enough, a New Zealand National Party MP also fell for it recently
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10463579
Guy kidnaps ex-girlfriend to get ironing done
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL164524920080616
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said Monday.
The 43-year-old man dragged the woman out of a pub in the port city of Genoa, shoved her into a car and took her to his home where he made her iron and wash dishes after threatening her, they said.
Police arrived at his house after being tipped off by a friend of the woman who watched the scene at the pub.
The man, who was apparently furious at his ex-girlfriend for leaving him, was arrested on charges of kidnapping, police said.
SA parliament passes laws to put sniffer dogs in nightclubs
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23882996-2682,00.html
SNIFFER dogs will be used in South Australian nightclubs to detect drug users and dealers after a Bill passed the Upper House last night.
The Government Bill, which will be effectively rubber stamped when it is debated in the Lower House, will allow police to use the dogs in targeted raids around the state.
Police Minister Paul Holloway said the laws would be an "increasingly important" tool used to make entertainment venues safer.
"Currently some ambiguity exists as to the extent to which police can carry out people-screening operations using drug detection dogs," he said.
"These amendments will clarify this matter and ensure that there is a sound legal basis for using the dogs for drug detection purposes.
"The new laws will target dealers and users of such drugs as heroin, amphetamines, cannabis and cocaine. These drugs can kill a user and some can cause explosions of lethal violence."
You gotta love a good Advertiser beatup, this last sentence is great.
may have already been posted
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-au&brand=ninemsn&vid=037e0704-7237-4538-879d-74ebe110e405
Can't see anything on the net about it...she had some fake death video last November apparently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hanson#.22Death.22_video
lol funy.
a aussie guy we were talking to said a guy on the street was trying to sell them a sydney morning herald news paper and it was on the front cover lol
scam!
I think i have it as a MP3 somewhere
Personally id rather see random arrests like this than become more like the US
ps jesus is a cunt
The thing is, do you really believe you could wear that shirt in the US?
That's why the NRA loves it. People wearing shirts like that make good targets...
You could, but what i am saying is that don't you think it would cause a huge fuss?
Well I have watched a lot of US television.
Nah fair enough.
have been myself
That shit wouldn't fly in Texas- They'd fuck your shit up
Then whatever you do, do NOT go to Detroit.
lmfao
Court documents alleged security guards were negligent because they allowed uninvited bikies into the venue and were not manning exit points when the crows spilled out of the room.
FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF!!!
i know weslo guards are all a bunch of fat white boys but seriously has the dude ever had to deal with a bike brawl before.
What's Dwell's last name?
This makes me so pissed off, how can you call a completely innocent picture of a 6yr old undressed illegal!!!
FFS
Next you wont be able to show your feet without shoes for fear of being arressted for indecent exposure.
This country is fucked, seriously fucked.
yeah there was some tit who tripped and fell when everyone was walking down the stairs once they called it a night...
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This story has been pissing me off as well. My only problem with the piece is just that it's not that good. You can't punish an artist for lacking talent though.
Sadly both Kevin Rudd and Brendan Nelson are fighting over the chance to be the next Paedofinder General though.
Have you actualy seen the photos? I dont think a six year old should be posing like that let alone naked. What you see on the clip on news.com.au is nothing. I work for Channel 9 and actualy saw the other pics that he published. I can tell you that they are far from innocent. I think that its pretty wrong.
Chocolate rain, some stay dry and others feel the pain...
I don't find them sexual at all. Young people wearing not much can be seen down at the beach all the time. What's the big deal? Do you personally find the pictures / kids at the beach sexual? I reckon most don't, so we should punish those that do, rather than inform young children that they are being sexualised therefore their sexuality and nudity should be hidden from the world.
2c.
Have already tried explaining it this way in court. Trust me, it won't take your name of the registered sex-offender list.
So? There are pedos getting their jollies from looking at pictures of CLOTHED children as well.
What, we going to ban all photos of children next?
I posted this in another forum:
Let me be frank here: A pedophile is going to get sexual joy from kids with or without clothes on.
They're sick in the head. It's a mental illness. Someone doesn't wake up and say "oh, I'm sick of men / women, I'm going to go f*ck little children instead".
These urges are not something that can be controlled by controlling art / pornography / advertising or whatever media you want to control.
What we need are better services for these people, better ways to identify this illness and address it before it gets out of hand.
Banning and restricting and outlawing this and that is just a knee jerk reaction by people too impotent and short sighted to face the real problems.
no more than the current Babyco catalouge hey Keys? "Say hello to Babyco!"
Agreed. No matter the pose I just don't find any pictures of a 6 year old girl/boy to be sexual. The man makes a good point
That's the worst example ever
link?
I always used to fall over/fall off things/get hit by balls/get hit by other kids/scrape knees etc and a hug from a teacher when you're little is reassuring! It's sad that it's come to this.
I always used to fall over/fall off things/get hit by balls/get hit by other kids/scrape knees etc and a hug from a teacher when you're little is reassuring! It's sad that it's come to this.
I find it hard to believe.
Surely thats not the kind of the thing you ask your brother and your mate to help you with? WTF
Thats a concern, 2 judges are OK with it. I guess it is Southern US tho...
First this - next thing you know 'Weekend at Bernie's' will be classed as fetish porn. The situation seems perfectly understandable though when I picture the Rankine brothers!!
PS Trist - Wisconsin is about as north as it gets
Honestly, how do you bring that up with your mates?
And then they actually agreed?????????
PS Trist - Wisconsin is about as north as it gets
bwahahah, told.
ps your from around that way hey? doing much tonite? I got an idea...
fuck that is some seriously funny shit!
CRACK A JACK JUICE!
I've had some great juice in my time but never been randy enough to contemplate rooting a corpse.
Did enough of that when I was married.
haha ZING!
Yeah, but you know what American's are like... Suggest they limit any aspect of their "freedoms", the next thing is they're thinking is the King of England is going to be taking their guns away...
Same thing here - first, rule against having sex with dead people, next making it illegal to marry your sister... I mean, they don't want to make an outlaw of the president or the presidents father now, do they?
The Bushes are married to their sisters? Huh?
HARSHED!
Kinda OT, but did anyone see any footage of the Creamfields Festival in the Czech Republic get hit by storms?! Crazy stormfront - funny how even nature knows where enough electro is enough electro!
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Dalek-voice changer at centre of bizarre kidnap plot
A jilted boyfriend hatched a bizarre plot to kidnap the woman who had rejected him - using a Dalek voice-changer helmet.
James Wakefield hoped to win back his girlfriend's affections by having her abducted by a friend, then "heroically" rescuing her, a court heard.
He offered his friend Aaron Rawson £20,000 to take the woman to a wood and threaten to attack her, while wearing the helmet to disguise his voice.
Wakefield, 28, would then turn up and "save" her in the hope of winning her back, the court heard.
Rawson, 21, claimed he thought Wakefield was joking until he turned up with the £40 helmet he had bought at Woolworths, along with night vision goggles, handcuffs, an air pistol, a balaclava, a boiler suit and a knife block.
James Hett, prosecuting, told Nottingham Crown Court: "Any reservations that Wakefield was being less than serious were soon dispelled by those purchases."
The court was told that Rawson was meant to go to the woman's home in Newark, Nottinghamshire, hold the knife to her throat, then bundle her into the boot of a car and take her to the woods.
But after waiting outside her home twice, Rawson abandoned the plan.
On the first occasion, he ran away after he was "spooked" by a cat. The second time he ran off after being caught in the glare of an approaching car's headlights, the court heard.
Wakefield had lived with the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, for six months before she ended their relationship three days before Christmas.
He denied conspiracy to kidnap but was found guilty and sentenced to 14 months in prison.
Rawson, of Newark, admitted the same charge at an earlier hearing and was given nine months in jail, suspended for 18 months.
He was also handed a supervision order, made the subject of a curfew and ordered to attend an alcohol treatment programme.
Sentencing, Mr Justice McCombe told the pair they were guilty of "a despicable and cowardly plot."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2460541/Dalek-voice-changer-at-centre-of-bizarre-kidnap-plot.html
They're people
Huh? And that makes it okay for people to do fucked up shit?
What is wrong with people? Oh, its because they are people.
"Hell, they are only Human, its in their nature to stab someone 60 times on public transport- chop their head off and gut them then flaunt it."
Righto
That shit is not Human.
Huh? And that makes it okay for people to do fucked up shit?
What is wrong with people? Oh, its because they are people.
"Hell, they are only Human, its in their nature to stab someone 60 times on public transport- chop their head off and gut them then flaunt it."
Righto
That shit is not Human.
I blame videogames.
We should put them on the banned list with the bicycles.
Unfortunately it is! Anything that humans do is human
No one said it did
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In The News Today
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Posted: 9 Apr 2008, 4:04pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
yeah and it seems even more legit than dilly-dally! rudd has his finger on the pulse! wonder what it is in mandarin?
oh here we go..
中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 猶豫不決, 遊手好閒
n. - 優柔寡斷, 猶豫不決
adj. - 猶豫不決的, 優柔寡斷的
adv. - 猶豫不決地
oh here we go..
中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 猶豫不決, 遊手好閒
n. - 優柔寡斷, 猶豫不決
adj. - 猶豫不決的, 優柔寡斷的
adv. - 猶豫不決地
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Posted: 9 Apr 2008, 4:11pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
i spose so, but who says shilly shally instead?! :lol:
weird:
March 19, 2008
Man Builds Robot to Kill Him
An 81-year-old man from Burleigh Heads, Australia, downloaded plans to build a killer robot from the Internet, built the complex machine, and then used it to kill himself in his driveway. The robot could be remotely operated to fire a gun, and the man attached the machine to a .22 semi-automatic pistol loaded with four bullets. He positioned the device so that it fired multiple shots into his head after he activated it.
In his notes, the man explained that he chose the driveway location because construction workers at a nearby site would hear the shots and find his body, which they did. His notes also talked about his struggles with relatives who thought that he should move out of his home and into an assisted care facility.
http://www.adelaidemassive.com/index.php?action=post;topic=66.0;num_replies=917
Like someone at the site commented, there goes the 3 laws!!
weird:
March 19, 2008
Man Builds Robot to Kill Him
An 81-year-old man from Burleigh Heads, Australia, downloaded plans to build a killer robot from the Internet, built the complex machine, and then used it to kill himself in his driveway. The robot could be remotely operated to fire a gun, and the man attached the machine to a .22 semi-automatic pistol loaded with four bullets. He positioned the device so that it fired multiple shots into his head after he activated it.
In his notes, the man explained that he chose the driveway location because construction workers at a nearby site would hear the shots and find his body, which they did. His notes also talked about his struggles with relatives who thought that he should move out of his home and into an assisted care facility.
http://www.adelaidemassive.com/index.php?action=post;topic=66.0;num_replies=917
Like someone at the site commented, there goes the 3 laws!!
Posted: 9 Apr 2008, 4:13pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yeah but look what it is in Dutch:
Nederlands (Dutch)
aarzelen, aarzelend, besluiteloosheid
Haha, Arseland!
Nederlands (Dutch)
aarzelen, aarzelend, besluiteloosheid
Haha, Arseland!
Posted: 9 Apr 2008, 4:21pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
haha thats awesome
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"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
Posted: 9 Apr 2008, 4:31pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Can you all stop shilly-shallying about and keep this thread on topic with news articles please?
Posted: 9 Apr 2008, 4:38pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Fine!!
Don't be the only gay in the cemetery
HOMOSEXUALS have been designated an area in a Copenhagen cemetery for those who want to be buried among people who shared their sexual orientation. "We founded an association called Regnbuen (Rainbow) and our goal is that gays and lesbians can be buried next to each other,'' Ivan Larsen said.
The association has rented spots that can hold up to a total of 45 urns at Assistens cemetery. Each space costs 2500 kroner ($565). The cemetery already hosts figures as diverse as the Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen and the philosopher Soeren Kierkegaard. The area the group has booked is separated from the rest of the cemetery by a large triangle of pebbles on the ground, with a huge rock on one of the angles.
"The triangle is our old symbol, but it is also a sign of suffering,'' Mr Larsen said. The rainbow flag, a universal symbol for homosexuals representing diversity, would be placed on the rock, he said. "We don't want to isolate ourselves but we also feel a need to be together. We see this as a family grave, one that will be taken care of by our family,'' said Mr Larsen.
Don't be the only gay in the cemetery
HOMOSEXUALS have been designated an area in a Copenhagen cemetery for those who want to be buried among people who shared their sexual orientation. "We founded an association called Regnbuen (Rainbow) and our goal is that gays and lesbians can be buried next to each other,'' Ivan Larsen said.
The association has rented spots that can hold up to a total of 45 urns at Assistens cemetery. Each space costs 2500 kroner ($565). The cemetery already hosts figures as diverse as the Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen and the philosopher Soeren Kierkegaard. The area the group has booked is separated from the rest of the cemetery by a large triangle of pebbles on the ground, with a huge rock on one of the angles.
"The triangle is our old symbol, but it is also a sign of suffering,'' Mr Larsen said. The rainbow flag, a universal symbol for homosexuals representing diversity, would be placed on the rock, he said. "We don't want to isolate ourselves but we also feel a need to be together. We see this as a family grave, one that will be taken care of by our family,'' said Mr Larsen.
Munkee Snaps
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
Posted: 9 Apr 2008, 5:21pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
haha thats awesome :lol:
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Posted: 9 Apr 2008, 8:54pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Smallest Girl in the World
A teenager from India who stands at a tiny 1ft 11in (58cm) tall is the smallest girl in the world. Jyoti Amge, 14, is shorter than the average two-year-old child and only weighs 11lb (5kg).
She has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia and won't grow any taller than her current height.
Due to her size, Jyoti has to have clothes and jewellery made for her. She sleeps in a tiny bed and uses special plates and cutlery to eat, as normal-sized utensils are too big. Despite this, she goes to a regular school in Nagpur, central India, where she has her own small desk and chair, and her classmates treat her like any other student.
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=557762&in_page_id=1811
A teenager from India who stands at a tiny 1ft 11in (58cm) tall is the smallest girl in the world. Jyoti Amge, 14, is shorter than the average two-year-old child and only weighs 11lb (5kg).
She has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia and won't grow any taller than her current height.
Due to her size, Jyoti has to have clothes and jewellery made for her. She sleeps in a tiny bed and uses special plates and cutlery to eat, as normal-sized utensils are too big. Despite this, she goes to a regular school in Nagpur, central India, where she has her own small desk and chair, and her classmates treat her like any other student.
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=557762&in_page_id=1811
Posted: 9 Apr 2008, 9:10pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
cuuutteee! what is with india and freaky birth defects...checkout this news story!
Baby born with two faces
A baby with two faces - two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes - was born in an Indian village, where she is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess.
Hundreds of pilgrims have visited Lali, the 1-month-old baby, and her parents in the dusty village of Saini, 40km from New Delhi.
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Baby born with two faces
A baby with two faces - two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes - was born in an Indian village, where she is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess.
Hundreds of pilgrims have visited Lali, the 1-month-old baby, and her parents in the dusty village of Saini, 40km from New Delhi.
image not archived: baby2302.jpg
Munkee Snaps
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
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Posted: 9 Apr 2008, 9:28pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
cuuutteee! what is with india and freaky birth defects...checkout this news story!
its either something in the water, or too many arranged marriages between cousins imo
Posted: 9 Apr 2008, 9:30pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
true dat, that lil 14 yo is such a cuterns, madonna or brangelina should totally buy it as a toy for their kids
Munkee Snaps
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
Posted: 9 Apr 2008, 10:28pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
cuuutteee! what is with india and freaky birth defects...checkout this news story!
its either something in the water, or too many arranged marriages between cousins imo
:E
Posted: 9 Apr 2008, 10:54pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
It's almost like one of those optical illusions.
I originally saw a lamp in that picture.
I originally saw a lamp in that picture.
Testing the limits of the human heart since 1973.
Posted: 9 Apr 2008, 11:23pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
true dat, that lil 14 yo is such a cuterns, madonna or brangelina should totally buy it as a toy for their kids
You could toss her fuckin miles.
When I die. I want to be frozen. And if they have to freeze me in pieces, so be it. I will wake up stronger than ever, because I will have used that time, to figure out exactly why I died. And what moves I could have used to defend myself better now that I know what hold he had me in.
Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 12:23amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
true dat, that lil 14 yo is such a cuterns, madonna or brangelina should totally buy it as a toy for their kids :E
You could toss her fuckin miles.
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Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 7:38amSubject: Re: In The News Today
cuuutteee! what is with india and freaky birth defects...
Curry too hot...
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Smallest Girl in the World
and her classmates treat her like any other student.
Sure they do
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Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 8:38amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
cuuutteee! what is with india and freaky birth defects...
Curry too hot...
Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 8:54amSubject: Re: In The News Today
cuuutteee! what is with india and freaky birth defects...checkout this news story!
cute??
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Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 9:13amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Smallest Girl in the World
and her classmates treat her like any other student.
and her classmates treat her like any other student.
Sure they do :lol:
Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 9:54amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
cuuutteee! what is with india and freaky birth defects...checkout this news story!
cute??
Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 11:27amSubject: Re: In The News Today
the little girl is cute, the baby with two faces is freaky!
Munkee Snaps
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 11:34amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 11:39amSubject: Re: In The News Today
ooh.... 
Italian mafia floods Australia with ecstasy
THE Italian mafia has joined forces with Dutch and Chinese criminals to flood Australia with ecstasy in a re-emergence of a crime network not seen here since the 1980s.
Dutch authorities have warned Australian counterparts that shipping containers with tonnes of concealed ecstasy pills are being sent to Australian ports, with the nation now topping the world's market-demand for the drug.
The Netherlands-based elite Synthetic Drugs Unit, which co-ordinates the international fight against illicit substances, said criminals had formed multinational alliances to service the high-demand, high-returns being offered in Australia.
The market is so big, the Dutch have closed their anti-drugs bureau in Miami in the US and instead, just three weeks ago, permanently stationed a top police officer in Canberra to liaise directly with the Australian Federal Police.
Millions of tablets
Cees van Spierenburg, the Dutch national public prosecutor who runs the multi-agency counter synthetic drug operations, told The Daily Telegraph intelligence had uncovered plans for mass production and shipment of drugs to southern shores.
"We are talking about shipments of millions of tablets," Mr van Spierenburg said yesterday.
"When you talk about shipments of millions of tablets, those are the world's major shipments and those shipments are going to Australia.
"It's a question of supply and demand. Organised crime groups are trying to earn as much money the easy way as possible in the shortest amount of time, so if you are able to sell a tablet for $20 or more and it costs you a quarter of a Euro dollar to make, you can make a lot of money."
The drugs are also "made to order" and even have logos stamped on them with local images as demanded by Australian underworld criminal network chiefs.
The national prosecutor, who co-ordinates the running of police operations against synthetic drugs, said his officers had found the Chinese were sending precursor drugs such as PMK to Holland to manufacture into illegal drugs.
Italian mafia
These were then driven to ports throughout Europe, particularly Italy, for exporting to Australia.
"The Italian mafia is now being the intermediary in the exportation from Europe to Australia," he said, adding the criminal group used its extensive network of contacts to ensure the movements remained undetected.
The direct involvement of the Italians is significant because they have not been a strong feature of the Australian crime scene for more than two decades, since the days of Griffith-based Robert Trimbole and the Woodward royal commission.
A scattergun approach was also suspected, where dozens of containers are sent to various Australian ports, particularly along the east coast, in the anticipation that some will be found but others will not.
"It's like what we have here with cocaine swallowers, you can have 30 swallowers in one plane but we only have the capacity to find two, three or four of them so you take the risk that some get caught but others get through," Mr van Spierenburg said.
The Synthetic Drugs Unit had also found evidence that Chinese criminals were exporting PMK chemicals illegally to the Netherlands but also directly to countries like Australia and Canada for local mass production of ecstasy.
The chemicals were being moved about the world in sea containers, disguised as shipments of goods like soy sauce.
Italian mafia floods Australia with ecstasy
THE Italian mafia has joined forces with Dutch and Chinese criminals to flood Australia with ecstasy in a re-emergence of a crime network not seen here since the 1980s.
Dutch authorities have warned Australian counterparts that shipping containers with tonnes of concealed ecstasy pills are being sent to Australian ports, with the nation now topping the world's market-demand for the drug.
The Netherlands-based elite Synthetic Drugs Unit, which co-ordinates the international fight against illicit substances, said criminals had formed multinational alliances to service the high-demand, high-returns being offered in Australia.
The market is so big, the Dutch have closed their anti-drugs bureau in Miami in the US and instead, just three weeks ago, permanently stationed a top police officer in Canberra to liaise directly with the Australian Federal Police.
Millions of tablets
Cees van Spierenburg, the Dutch national public prosecutor who runs the multi-agency counter synthetic drug operations, told The Daily Telegraph intelligence had uncovered plans for mass production and shipment of drugs to southern shores.
"We are talking about shipments of millions of tablets," Mr van Spierenburg said yesterday.
"When you talk about shipments of millions of tablets, those are the world's major shipments and those shipments are going to Australia.
"It's a question of supply and demand. Organised crime groups are trying to earn as much money the easy way as possible in the shortest amount of time, so if you are able to sell a tablet for $20 or more and it costs you a quarter of a Euro dollar to make, you can make a lot of money."
The drugs are also "made to order" and even have logos stamped on them with local images as demanded by Australian underworld criminal network chiefs.
The national prosecutor, who co-ordinates the running of police operations against synthetic drugs, said his officers had found the Chinese were sending precursor drugs such as PMK to Holland to manufacture into illegal drugs.
Italian mafia
These were then driven to ports throughout Europe, particularly Italy, for exporting to Australia.
"The Italian mafia is now being the intermediary in the exportation from Europe to Australia," he said, adding the criminal group used its extensive network of contacts to ensure the movements remained undetected.
The direct involvement of the Italians is significant because they have not been a strong feature of the Australian crime scene for more than two decades, since the days of Griffith-based Robert Trimbole and the Woodward royal commission.
A scattergun approach was also suspected, where dozens of containers are sent to various Australian ports, particularly along the east coast, in the anticipation that some will be found but others will not.
"It's like what we have here with cocaine swallowers, you can have 30 swallowers in one plane but we only have the capacity to find two, three or four of them so you take the risk that some get caught but others get through," Mr van Spierenburg said.
The Synthetic Drugs Unit had also found evidence that Chinese criminals were exporting PMK chemicals illegally to the Netherlands but also directly to countries like Australia and Canada for local mass production of ecstasy.
The chemicals were being moved about the world in sea containers, disguised as shipments of goods like soy sauce.
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"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
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Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 12:26pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Nice.
Hopefully that means things will improve on that front as we havent seen anything slightly good on these shores for years. The past 12 months in particular have been dismal.
Hopefully that means things will improve on that front as we havent seen anything slightly good on these shores for years. The past 12 months in particular have been dismal.
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Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 1:45pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
This story is so strange!
I'll take your heart, your wife and then kill myself in the same way
Man's mystery suicide mirrors that of organ donor
Wednesday Apr 9 10:00 AEST
By Erin Tennant
ninemsn
A "happy-go-lucky" man who killed himself with a shotgun died in the same manner and using the same method as the man from whom he received a transplanted heart over a decade earlier.
Sonny Graham was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the throat in his backyard shed last Tuesday, US media reports.
The owner of local online newspaper Vidalia Trader, Jeffery Luke, described the retired plant manager as "a good hearted, outgoing, happy-go-lucky kinda fellow".
"People would say that he never met a stranger," Mr Luke told ninemsn.
"If he saw someone in need of help, he'd help without thinking twice."
Mr Graham, 69, never met Terry Cottle, who fatally shot himself 13 years ago, but took the heart of the 33-year-old South Carolina man in an organ transplant operation when on the verge of congestive heart failure.
Mr Graham contacted widow Cheryl Cottle a year later expressing his gratitude.
They continued their correspondence before meeting in person and eventually falling in love.
The couple married in 2004 and moved to the US state of Georgia with the six children they had from previous marriages.
In a 2006 interview with a local newspaper, Mr Graham said he felt an instant and unusual attachment when he met his donor's widow.
"I felt like I had known her for years," Mr Graham was quoted by The Island Packet as saying.
"I couldn't keep my eyes off her — I just stared."
His suicide sent a ripple of shock through the community.
"You never know what goes on in a person's mind," Mr Luke said.
"Sonny was well known to many people and they all thought highly of him... He never seemed to be that kind of person [to commit suicide]."
Mr Graham was laid to rest at a memorial service last Friday.
I'll take your heart, your wife and then kill myself in the same way
Man's mystery suicide mirrors that of organ donor
Wednesday Apr 9 10:00 AEST
By Erin Tennant
ninemsn
A "happy-go-lucky" man who killed himself with a shotgun died in the same manner and using the same method as the man from whom he received a transplanted heart over a decade earlier.
Sonny Graham was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the throat in his backyard shed last Tuesday, US media reports.
The owner of local online newspaper Vidalia Trader, Jeffery Luke, described the retired plant manager as "a good hearted, outgoing, happy-go-lucky kinda fellow".
"People would say that he never met a stranger," Mr Luke told ninemsn.
"If he saw someone in need of help, he'd help without thinking twice."
Mr Graham, 69, never met Terry Cottle, who fatally shot himself 13 years ago, but took the heart of the 33-year-old South Carolina man in an organ transplant operation when on the verge of congestive heart failure.
Mr Graham contacted widow Cheryl Cottle a year later expressing his gratitude.
They continued their correspondence before meeting in person and eventually falling in love.
The couple married in 2004 and moved to the US state of Georgia with the six children they had from previous marriages.
In a 2006 interview with a local newspaper, Mr Graham said he felt an instant and unusual attachment when he met his donor's widow.
"I felt like I had known her for years," Mr Graham was quoted by The Island Packet as saying.
"I couldn't keep my eyes off her — I just stared."
His suicide sent a ripple of shock through the community.
"You never know what goes on in a person's mind," Mr Luke said.
"Sonny was well known to many people and they all thought highly of him... He never seemed to be that kind of person [to commit suicide]."
Mr Graham was laid to rest at a memorial service last Friday.
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''Dwight: At 8 a.m. today, someone poisons the coffee. Do not drink the coffee. More instructions will follow. Cordially, Future Dwight'
Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 1:45pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
This story is so strange!
I'll take your heart, your wife and then kill myself in the same way :S
Man's mystery suicide mirrors that of organ donor
Wednesday Apr 9 10:00 AEST
By Erin Tennant
ninemsn
A "happy-go-lucky" man who killed himself with a shotgun died in the same manner and using the same method as the man from whom he received a transplanted heart over a decade earlier.
Sonny Graham was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the throat in his backyard shed last Tuesday, US media reports.
The owner of local online newspaper Vidalia Trader, Jeffery Luke, described the retired plant manager as "a good hearted, outgoing, happy-go-lucky kinda fellow".
"People would say that he never met a stranger," Mr Luke told ninemsn.
"If he saw someone in need of help, he'd help without thinking twice."
Mr Graham, 69, never met Terry Cottle, who fatally shot himself 13 years ago, but took the heart of the 33-year-old South Carolina man in an organ transplant operation when on the verge of congestive heart failure.
Mr Graham contacted widow Cheryl Cottle a year later expressing his gratitude.
They continued their correspondence before meeting in person and eventually falling in love.
The couple married in 2004 and moved to the US state of Georgia with the six children they had from previous marriages.
In a 2006 interview with a local newspaper, Mr Graham said he felt an instant and unusual attachment when he met his donor's widow.
"I felt like I had known her for years," Mr Graham was quoted by The Island Packet as saying.
"I couldn't keep my eyes off her â I just stared."
His suicide sent a ripple of shock through the community.
"You never know what goes on in a person's mind," Mr Luke said.
"Sonny was well known to many people and they all thought highly of him... He never seemed to be that kind of person [to commit suicide]."
Mr Graham was laid to rest at a memorial service last Friday.
I'll take your heart, your wife and then kill myself in the same way :S
Man's mystery suicide mirrors that of organ donor
Wednesday Apr 9 10:00 AEST
By Erin Tennant
ninemsn
A "happy-go-lucky" man who killed himself with a shotgun died in the same manner and using the same method as the man from whom he received a transplanted heart over a decade earlier.
Sonny Graham was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the throat in his backyard shed last Tuesday, US media reports.
The owner of local online newspaper Vidalia Trader, Jeffery Luke, described the retired plant manager as "a good hearted, outgoing, happy-go-lucky kinda fellow".
"People would say that he never met a stranger," Mr Luke told ninemsn.
"If he saw someone in need of help, he'd help without thinking twice."
Mr Graham, 69, never met Terry Cottle, who fatally shot himself 13 years ago, but took the heart of the 33-year-old South Carolina man in an organ transplant operation when on the verge of congestive heart failure.
Mr Graham contacted widow Cheryl Cottle a year later expressing his gratitude.
They continued their correspondence before meeting in person and eventually falling in love.
The couple married in 2004 and moved to the US state of Georgia with the six children they had from previous marriages.
In a 2006 interview with a local newspaper, Mr Graham said he felt an instant and unusual attachment when he met his donor's widow.
"I felt like I had known her for years," Mr Graham was quoted by The Island Packet as saying.
"I couldn't keep my eyes off her â I just stared."
His suicide sent a ripple of shock through the community.
"You never know what goes on in a person's mind," Mr Luke said.
"Sonny was well known to many people and they all thought highly of him... He never seemed to be that kind of person [to commit suicide]."
Mr Graham was laid to rest at a memorial service last Friday.
Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 1:49pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
yah there is a lot of evidence to suggest that people who receive donated organs 'take on' characteristics or experience memories from the donor...weird!
thats sad
thats sad
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- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
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Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 1:51pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
yeah would be awful for the wife dealing with it twice!
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yeah would be awful for the wife dealing with it twice!
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Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 4:14pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
makes you wonder how much of a total bitch she must be to drive two men to suicide
Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 4:19pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
makes you wonder how much of a total bitch she must be to drive two men to suicide
That was my first thought as well.
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Posted: 10 Apr 2008, 9:32pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
makes you wonder how much of a total bitch she must be to drive two men to suicide
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Posted: 11 Apr 2008, 7:10pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
this is gold
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=141054&in_page_id=34
It had four wheels and cost a lot of money but, sadly for one impatient teenager, the similarity ended there.
A teenager was greeted by a display cabinet instead of a taxi because her 'Ali G-style' slang confused a series of phone operators.
The girl hurriedly dialled directory inquiries to book a taxi from her home in London to Bristol airport, using the cockney rhyming slang Joe Baxi.
But the operator told her they were unable to find anyone by that name.
Seething, the youngster snapped back: 'It ain't a person, it's a cab, innit.'
The operator duly gave her what she asked for and put her through to the nearest supplier of cabinets, Displaysense.
The teenager must have felt the world was against her when a cabinet saleswoman seemed equally confused.
'Look love, how hard is it?' she fumed. 'All I want is your cheapest cab, innit. I need it for 10am. How much is it?' The sales adviser told her £180. The tantrum-throwing teenager quickly left her address details before ringing off.
The next morning, rather than being picked up by a cab, the young woman had the cabinet dropped off.
The huffy teenager's use of 'Ali G-style slang' caused the mix-up, said marketing manager Steve Whittle.
'Our sales team deal with thousands of customers and a range of different accents but, on this occasion, they were really stumped,' he added.
The company has since apologised, offered her a refund and suggested she should perhaps speak a bit clearer on the phone in future.
Mr Whittle added: 'We don't know if she made it to the airport but she did ask our driver if he could give her a lift.'
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=141054&in_page_id=34
It had four wheels and cost a lot of money but, sadly for one impatient teenager, the similarity ended there.
A teenager was greeted by a display cabinet instead of a taxi because her 'Ali G-style' slang confused a series of phone operators.
The girl hurriedly dialled directory inquiries to book a taxi from her home in London to Bristol airport, using the cockney rhyming slang Joe Baxi.
But the operator told her they were unable to find anyone by that name.
Seething, the youngster snapped back: 'It ain't a person, it's a cab, innit.'
The operator duly gave her what she asked for and put her through to the nearest supplier of cabinets, Displaysense.
The teenager must have felt the world was against her when a cabinet saleswoman seemed equally confused.
'Look love, how hard is it?' she fumed. 'All I want is your cheapest cab, innit. I need it for 10am. How much is it?' The sales adviser told her £180. The tantrum-throwing teenager quickly left her address details before ringing off.
The next morning, rather than being picked up by a cab, the young woman had the cabinet dropped off.
The huffy teenager's use of 'Ali G-style slang' caused the mix-up, said marketing manager Steve Whittle.
'Our sales team deal with thousands of customers and a range of different accents but, on this occasion, they were really stumped,' he added.
The company has since apologised, offered her a refund and suggested she should perhaps speak a bit clearer on the phone in future.
Mr Whittle added: 'We don't know if she made it to the airport but she did ask our driver if he could give her a lift.'
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Posted: 11 Apr 2008, 7:54pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
that IS gold
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Posted: 12 Apr 2008, 4:19amSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 2:10pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Nice to see this game is still around! We used to play the passout game.... but I only ever helped with the choking and never did the passing out... that would be stupid
Teen choke game dices with death
SCHOOL students are dicing with death by playing a bizarre and dangerous game in which they partially strangle themselves to get a "high".
Teenagers claim the Choking Game, in which they become semi-asphyxiated, enables them to achieve an hypoxia-induced euphoric state.
They are said to suffer a partial or complete loss of consciousness brought about by the intentional deprivation of oxygen to the brain for a short period.
Doctors yesterday warned families about the dangerous behaviour while child psychologists and academics said they feared Choking Game videos posted on the internet could entice teens or even younger children to experiment. One site attracted 83,000 hits.
The practice - also known as the "pass-out game", "space monkey" or "trip to heaven" - is believed to be responsible for the deaths of least 82 mostly male children in the US between 1995 and 2007.
Teen choke game dices with death
SCHOOL students are dicing with death by playing a bizarre and dangerous game in which they partially strangle themselves to get a "high".
Teenagers claim the Choking Game, in which they become semi-asphyxiated, enables them to achieve an hypoxia-induced euphoric state.
They are said to suffer a partial or complete loss of consciousness brought about by the intentional deprivation of oxygen to the brain for a short period.
Doctors yesterday warned families about the dangerous behaviour while child psychologists and academics said they feared Choking Game videos posted on the internet could entice teens or even younger children to experiment. One site attracted 83,000 hits.
The practice - also known as the "pass-out game", "space monkey" or "trip to heaven" - is believed to be responsible for the deaths of least 82 mostly male children in the US between 1995 and 2007.
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Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 2:21pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Wow I never actually realised that was dangerous. That used to happen heaps at school. Hell I've probably done it nearly a hundred times and I'm still perfectly fine. Well I'm still alive anyway. This could explain some things though.
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Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 2:24pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
We used to play the passout game....
Yeah Me too... I clearly remember, One day in particular a girl called Amanda lost control of her bladder while passing out.. She awoke to about 15 people standing over her and pointing & laughing.. Poor Girl, she never lived in down either...
Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 2:28pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I always knew it had to be dangerous, but who am I to stand in the way of youthful high jinx! We used to do it by getting three or four of us to press against someones chest while they stood against a tree or wall until they passed out then catch them so they didn't fall.... good times
I don't remember any girls being stupid enough to to it though!
I don't remember any girls being stupid enough to to it though!
Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 2:41pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I don't remember any girls being stupid enough to to it though!
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Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 2:54pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Anything & Everything is possible with a little bit of persuasion...
And some amyl...
Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 3:29pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yeah Me too... I clearly remember, One day in particular a girl called Amanda lost control of her bladder while passing out.. She awoke to about 15 people standing over her and pointing & laughing.. Poor Girl, she never lived in down either...
yup, never saw that happen tho
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Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 6:22pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Next thing you know, they will be cheesing their balls off...
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Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 7:58pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Bosses' power to check email
COMPANIES will be able to intercept the emails and internet communications of their employees without their consent under new laws being considered by the Federal Government to protect the nation's critical infrastructure from a cyber attack.
Wow, how absolutely stupid. This just shows how little clue our lawmakers have about the way email (and IT systems in general work).
As someone who runs a mail server with a few hundred users I think I can say that these proposals are absolutely unworkable (people can just not use the employer provided systems but some webmail instead), unhelpful (they won't help to reduce the risk of any attack or reduce the outcome of any attacks), and just plain wrong (privacy wise).
COMPANIES will be able to intercept the emails and internet communications of their employees without their consent under new laws being considered by the Federal Government to protect the nation's critical infrastructure from a cyber attack.
Wow, how absolutely stupid. This just shows how little clue our lawmakers have about the way email (and IT systems in general work).
As someone who runs a mail server with a few hundred users I think I can say that these proposals are absolutely unworkable (people can just not use the employer provided systems but some webmail instead), unhelpful (they won't help to reduce the risk of any attack or reduce the outcome of any attacks), and just plain wrong (privacy wise).
Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 8:48pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
People are stupid.
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Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 10:09pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The practice - also known as the "pass-out game", "space monkey" or "trip to heaven" - is believed to be responsible for the deaths of least 82 mostly male children in the US between 1995 and 2007.
Whoa! 82 children in 7 years... that's a fucking epidemic!
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Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 10:12pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Didn't do too well in Maths at school?
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Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 10:27pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 14 Apr 2008, 10:30pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 17 Apr 2008, 9:09pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Holey fucking moley! Not today's news, but news all the same....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=484097&in_page_id=1811
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=484097&in_page_id=1811
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Posted: 17 Apr 2008, 9:12pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
damn, just as well they cut it out of her... she wouldnt have been able to sit on bar stools anymore if it came out naturally!!
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Posted: 20 Apr 2008, 7:49pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
TV reporter arrested with 'rope tied around genitals'
'as well as a sex toy tucked into his boot.' - do you think they mean his back door?
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A CNN journalist who was arrested in New York was not only carrying drugs, but also had a rope tied around his neck and his genitals.
British reporter Richard Quest was arrested wandering around Central Park at 3.40am on Friday with methamphetamine in his jacket pocket, the New York Post reports.
Quest, 46, was approached by police for loitering, before voluntarily admitting "I've got some meth in my pocket", police claim.
A routine search then found the rope, as well as a sex toy tucked into his boot.
A New York judge ordered Quest to undergo six months of counselling.
A well-known face on CNN International, Quest is renowned for his boisterous and quirky style.
British reporter Richard Quest was arrested wandering around Central Park at 3.40am on Friday with methamphetamine in his jacket pocket, the New York Post reports.
Quest, 46, was approached by police for loitering, before voluntarily admitting "I've got some meth in my pocket", police claim.
A routine search then found the rope, as well as a sex toy tucked into his boot.
A New York judge ordered Quest to undergo six months of counselling.
A well-known face on CNN International, Quest is renowned for his boisterous and quirky style.
'as well as a sex toy tucked into his boot.' - do you think they mean his back door?
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Posted: 23 Apr 2008, 12:37pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Good, i hope we get snow @ Mt Lofty...
'Forget global warming, prepare for Ice Age'
Aussie scientist Phil Chapman monitors sun spots
Says forget warming - we could be heading into Ice Age
Check out your local weather forecast
SUNSPOT activity has not resumed up after hitting an 11-year low in March last year, raising fears that - far from warming - the globe is about to return to an Ice Age.
Astronaut and geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become an astronaut with NASA, said pictures from the US Solar and Heliospheric Observatory showed no spots on the sun.
He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C.
"This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," Dr Chapman writes in The Australian today.
"If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over."
The Bureau of Meteorology says temperatures in Australia have been warmer than the 1960-90 average since the late 1970s, barring a couple of cooler years, and are now 0.3C higher than the long-term average.
A sunspot is a region on the sun that is cooler than the rest and appears dark.
Some scientists believe a strong solar magnetic field, when there is plenty of sunspot activity, protects the earth from cosmic rays, cutting cloud formation, but that when the field is weak - during low sunspot activity - the rays can penetrate into the lower atmosphere and cloud cover increases, cooling the surface.
But scientists from the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Bolder, Colorado published a report in 2006 that showed the sun had a negligible effect on climate change.
The researchers wrote in the journal Nature that the sun's brightness varied by only 0.07per cent over 11-year sunspot cycles, and that that was far too little to account for the rise in temperatures since the Industrial Revolution.
Dr Chapman proposes preventive, or delaying, moves to slow the cooling, such as bulldozing Siberian and Canadian snow to make it dirty and less reflective. "
My guess is that the odds are now at least 50:50 that we will see significant cooling rather than warming in coming decades," he writes.
'Forget global warming, prepare for Ice Age'
Aussie scientist Phil Chapman monitors sun spots
Says forget warming - we could be heading into Ice Age
Check out your local weather forecast
SUNSPOT activity has not resumed up after hitting an 11-year low in March last year, raising fears that - far from warming - the globe is about to return to an Ice Age.
Astronaut and geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become an astronaut with NASA, said pictures from the US Solar and Heliospheric Observatory showed no spots on the sun.
He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C.
"This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," Dr Chapman writes in The Australian today.
"If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over."
The Bureau of Meteorology says temperatures in Australia have been warmer than the 1960-90 average since the late 1970s, barring a couple of cooler years, and are now 0.3C higher than the long-term average.
A sunspot is a region on the sun that is cooler than the rest and appears dark.
Some scientists believe a strong solar magnetic field, when there is plenty of sunspot activity, protects the earth from cosmic rays, cutting cloud formation, but that when the field is weak - during low sunspot activity - the rays can penetrate into the lower atmosphere and cloud cover increases, cooling the surface.
But scientists from the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Bolder, Colorado published a report in 2006 that showed the sun had a negligible effect on climate change.
The researchers wrote in the journal Nature that the sun's brightness varied by only 0.07per cent over 11-year sunspot cycles, and that that was far too little to account for the rise in temperatures since the Industrial Revolution.
Dr Chapman proposes preventive, or delaying, moves to slow the cooling, such as bulldozing Siberian and Canadian snow to make it dirty and less reflective. "
My guess is that the odds are now at least 50:50 that we will see significant cooling rather than warming in coming decades," he writes.
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Posted: 23 Apr 2008, 12:57pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Police Taser naked man in cavity
POLICE used a stun gun on a naked man who refused to come out of a roof cavity he had been hiding in at a house in Western Australia.
Police were called to the house in Hilton yesterday afternoon after a report of a man jumping a back fence.
Officers found a pair of jeans and when they searched the house, found a naked man hiding in among rafters in the roof cavity.
He refused to come down and began trying to smash through the roof to escape, police said.
Police, concerned he might be hurt if he jumped or fell the 6m to the ground, used a Taser stun gun on him.
He was brought down before being taken to Fremantle Hospital with minor injuries.
A 23-year -old Willagee man will appear in Fremantle Magistrates Court today charged with damaging property, stealing a motor vehicle; breach of bail and two counts of outstanding warrants.
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Posted: 23 Apr 2008, 1:21pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I saw that story and had to read it because I was wondering which cavity they were talking about
Posted: 23 Apr 2008, 1:27pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I saw that story and had to read it because I was wondering which cavity they were talking about
Yeah I was a little disappointed when I finished reading it.
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Posted: 23 Apr 2008, 4:23pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
They would have to be a really good shot to get him in his cavity!
Bin-bag Darth Vader strikes Jedi
A DRUNK man wearing a bin-liner and a cape attacked the founder of a Jedi church while shouting "Darth Vader", a court has heard.
Hopes fade for missing 'party balloon' priest
HOPE are fading for a Brazilian priest who floated aloft tied to 1000 giant party balloons after several of the helium-filled globes were found floating at sea.
Bin-bag Darth Vader strikes Jedi
A DRUNK man wearing a bin-liner and a cape attacked the founder of a Jedi church while shouting "Darth Vader", a court has heard.
Hopes fade for missing 'party balloon' priest
HOPE are fading for a Brazilian priest who floated aloft tied to 1000 giant party balloons after several of the helium-filled globes were found floating at sea.
Posted: 23 Apr 2008, 7:09pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
That balloon story is gold. Wouldn't God just zap the balloons with lightning though and provide a soft bed of sheep or something for him to land on if he was in trouble though? 
Posted: 24 Apr 2008, 2:19amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Darwin award for sure for that balloon guy.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2008, 2:55amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Must admit I'm a little disappointed Khem's making me search for the rest of that story..
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Posted: 24 Apr 2008, 2:57amSubject: Re: In The News Today
how hard is it to click the link? no searching required...
Posted: 24 Apr 2008, 8:53amSubject: Re: In The News Today
At very least i guess the car was being driven not hidden
First Bugatti Crash
Below are pictures of the First Bugatti Veyron accident (that we know of anyway).
The 1001BHP car was reportedly doing 100mph in a 40mph zone when it crashed in heavy rain on Sunday 3rd March near Chertsey, Surrey.
Apparently the £830,000 ($1,600,000) Bugatti Veyron was bought only a week ago by a company who rent out high performance cars with the owner having paid a large premium for a quick delivery, reportedly £925,000!
The Bugatti was being driven by a man who had rented the car for £20,000 ($40,000) per day when lost control and hit a Vauxhall Astra that had a pregnant woman in. The car then went up a bank and into some trees, the pregnant woman underwent tests and was released from hospital.
It is still unsure if the car is repairable or going to be one of the most costliest car write-offs in history!
The driver of thw Bugatti that crashed, Ajay Soni, was fined £400 for the accident and also given 9 points on his licence.
http://www.bugatticrash.com/first-crash.php
First Bugatti Crash
Below are pictures of the First Bugatti Veyron accident (that we know of anyway).
The 1001BHP car was reportedly doing 100mph in a 40mph zone when it crashed in heavy rain on Sunday 3rd March near Chertsey, Surrey.
Apparently the £830,000 ($1,600,000) Bugatti Veyron was bought only a week ago by a company who rent out high performance cars with the owner having paid a large premium for a quick delivery, reportedly £925,000!
The Bugatti was being driven by a man who had rented the car for £20,000 ($40,000) per day when lost control and hit a Vauxhall Astra that had a pregnant woman in. The car then went up a bank and into some trees, the pregnant woman underwent tests and was released from hospital.
It is still unsure if the car is repairable or going to be one of the most costliest car write-offs in history!
The driver of thw Bugatti that crashed, Ajay Soni, was fined £400 for the accident and also given 9 points on his licence.
http://www.bugatticrash.com/first-crash.php
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Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 6:11pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
sooo gutted about "alcopops" being doubled in price
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Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 6:11pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
sooo gutted about "alcopops" being doubled in price :cry:
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Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 6:38pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
sooo gutted about "alcopops" being doubled in price
Its double tax, not double price.
They reckon an extra $1 per drink.
It's still bullshit.
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Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 6:42pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
ahh not as bad but still sucky! they cost heaps already in pubs!
i want to take my vote for rudd back :p
can understand the price hike in bottle-o's tho coz they have the specials where you get 8 cruisers/breezers for just 18 bucks!
and 10 UDLs for 20.
i want to take my vote for rudd back :p
can understand the price hike in bottle-o's tho coz they have the specials where you get 8 cruisers/breezers for just 18 bucks!
and 10 UDLs for 20.
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Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 6:42pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
ahh not as bad but still sucky! they cost heaps already in pubs!
i want to take my vote for rudd back :p
can understand the price hike in bottle-o's tho coz they have the specials where you get 8 cruisers/breezers for just 18 bucks!
and 10 UDLs for 20.
i want to take my vote for rudd back :p
can understand the price hike in bottle-o's tho coz they have the specials where you get 8 cruisers/breezers for just 18 bucks!
and 10 UDLs for 20.
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Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 6:57pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The prices on everything is whack these days. Got a Redbull on Friday night at soho. 7 dollars. Seriously, why jack Red Bull prices, I might as well get an alcoholic drink for cheaper.
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Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 7:00pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
So are all the ladies going to stop binge drinking now?
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Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 7:02pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The prices on everything is whack these days. Got a Redbull on Friday night at soho. 7 dollars. Seriously, why jack Red Bull prices, I might as well get an alcoholic drink for cheaper.
Yep, tis certainly getting ridiculous.
Like I posted the other week.. nearly $6 for a glass of coke at the tap inn the other week.
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Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 7:12pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
So are all the ladies going to stop binge drinking now?
NEVER!!!
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Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 7:12pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
So are all the ladies going to stop binge drinking now?
NEVER!!! :lol:
Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 7:22pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
wont this be worse for binge drinking as kids will now go to bottles of spirits, mixing drinks far more potent than the pre mixers. At least with each can/bottle you could tell exactly how much alcohol it contained.
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Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 7:26pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Surreal: Looks like Rudd's 'War on Binge Drinking' might fail then! Who would have thought!
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Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 7:44pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
wont this be worse for binge drinking as kids will now go to bottles of spirits, mixing drinks far more potent than the pre mixers. At least with each can/bottle you could tell exactly how much alcohol it contained.
I don't think it will make a difference. When I was rowdy binge drinking teenager, we always bought bottles to mix our own drinks and have shots, we only bought pre mixed drinks occasionally.
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Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 8:23pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The prices on everything is whack these days. Got a Redbull on Friday night at soho. 7 dollars. Seriously, why jack Red Bull prices, I might as well get an alcoholic drink for cheaper.
No shit man! We got the rudest shock when we hit down the other week. We were expecting cheap living and a good exchange rate, didn't get either. Totally outrageous imo. In comparison London is cheaper in some things or almost equal. Alcohol is def cheaper here!
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Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 9:37amSubject: Re: In The News Today
note: goon didnt go up.
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Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 2:40pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
What a fuckin joke!!!
New farce in Victoria Park grandstand row
THE State Government has trumped opponents of a permanent Victoria Park grandstand with a temporary structure exactly the same size as last year's failed plan.
In a move Deputy Premier Kevin Foley said could happen "only in Adelaide", the park will now be a construction zone for up to 11 months while the temporary grandstand is erected and dismantled.
Final designs for the stand were obtained by The Advertiser yesterday.
The temporary stand will be the same dimensions – three storeys high, 200m long and 15m wide – as the Government's revised $55 million permanent grandstand rejected by the Adelaide City Council.
Do you agree with Kevin Foley's suggestion this could only happen in Adelaide? Vote in our poll on the right of this page and leave your comments below.
Work is scheduled to begin in June, with infrastructure for the race unlikely to be entirely removed until at least late April next year.
The State Government was forced to build the temporary stand after fierce lobbying convinced Adelaide City Council to block plans for a permanent structure.
The temporary stand, expected to be completed by December, will cost $600,000 each year to erect and dismantle.
Mr Foley yesterday said "only in Adelaide" could the original plan to build a permanent stand be scrapped in favour of a temporary structure.
"Some cynics might say only in Adelaide could this be the resolution," he said.
"Our preferred option was a permanent facility that would have given the community thousands of square metres of green space returned.
"It would have cleaned up an ugly part of Adelaide, it would have left horse racing as a beautiful feature of our city but that's not what the opponents wanted.
"The Adelaide City Council has kicked an own goal."
Adelaide Parklands Preservation Association president Jim Daly, who is concerned about the size of the temporary stand, accused the Government of "planning by stealth".
Mr Foley, however, warned any complaints should not be directed towards the State Government.
"Sometimes, you should be careful what you wish for," he said.
"If you are unhappy with what the Government is doing, just direct your complaints to the Adelaide City Council at the door of (Lord Mayor) Michael Harbison and (councillor) Anne Moran."
Mr Foley said the time required to build the stand was likely to reduce once constructors were used to erecting it. The stand and shadecloths over the seating would take at least a month longer to assemble and to remove after the first race.
"Over time, we hope we can get that construction period down closer to what it was previously but only time will tell," Mr Foley said.
"Any complaints or protests from the Adelaide City Council will fall on deaf ears with the Government."
As part of the $20 million project, the Government also will resurface the race track in Victoria Park. New barriers and kerbing will be built.
Mr Foley said the temporary grandstand would be "cutting edge". "What South Australia is getting is the most technically advanced temporary buildings available anywhere in the world," he said.
"Importantly, the new pit structure and garages provide more room for race officials, teams and their sponsors, which, in turn, should mean additional investors and sponsors will become involved in the event."
Mr Daly said he was concerned by the size of the stand and questioned if it was a genuine temporary stand.
"I think the height and size of the building is a concern and it seems to be planning by stealth to sneak in a building that is virtually the same" as the one rejected by the council, he said.
"I would be very suspicious of the planning which is trying to manipulate a decision that was made by council to reject the lease to the Government in the first place.
Ms Moran said the construction time was "unacceptable".
"If the construction time is so long, then it really is a permanent temporary structure and if the park is never free from it then they need to redesign it," she said.
Parliament's public works committee will receive the grandstand design next month.
An Advertiser poll found two-thirds of people wanted a permanent grandstand for horse and motor racing. Only 29 per cent of voters were opposed to building a permanent grandstand in Victoria Park.
The South Australian Jockey Club will abandon its lease on Victoria Park by the end of this month.
New farce in Victoria Park grandstand row
THE State Government has trumped opponents of a permanent Victoria Park grandstand with a temporary structure exactly the same size as last year's failed plan.
In a move Deputy Premier Kevin Foley said could happen "only in Adelaide", the park will now be a construction zone for up to 11 months while the temporary grandstand is erected and dismantled.
Final designs for the stand were obtained by The Advertiser yesterday.
The temporary stand will be the same dimensions – three storeys high, 200m long and 15m wide – as the Government's revised $55 million permanent grandstand rejected by the Adelaide City Council.
Do you agree with Kevin Foley's suggestion this could only happen in Adelaide? Vote in our poll on the right of this page and leave your comments below.
Work is scheduled to begin in June, with infrastructure for the race unlikely to be entirely removed until at least late April next year.
The State Government was forced to build the temporary stand after fierce lobbying convinced Adelaide City Council to block plans for a permanent structure.
The temporary stand, expected to be completed by December, will cost $600,000 each year to erect and dismantle.
Mr Foley yesterday said "only in Adelaide" could the original plan to build a permanent stand be scrapped in favour of a temporary structure.
"Some cynics might say only in Adelaide could this be the resolution," he said.
"Our preferred option was a permanent facility that would have given the community thousands of square metres of green space returned.
"It would have cleaned up an ugly part of Adelaide, it would have left horse racing as a beautiful feature of our city but that's not what the opponents wanted.
"The Adelaide City Council has kicked an own goal."
Adelaide Parklands Preservation Association president Jim Daly, who is concerned about the size of the temporary stand, accused the Government of "planning by stealth".
Mr Foley, however, warned any complaints should not be directed towards the State Government.
"Sometimes, you should be careful what you wish for," he said.
"If you are unhappy with what the Government is doing, just direct your complaints to the Adelaide City Council at the door of (Lord Mayor) Michael Harbison and (councillor) Anne Moran."
Mr Foley said the time required to build the stand was likely to reduce once constructors were used to erecting it. The stand and shadecloths over the seating would take at least a month longer to assemble and to remove after the first race.
"Over time, we hope we can get that construction period down closer to what it was previously but only time will tell," Mr Foley said.
"Any complaints or protests from the Adelaide City Council will fall on deaf ears with the Government."
As part of the $20 million project, the Government also will resurface the race track in Victoria Park. New barriers and kerbing will be built.
Mr Foley said the temporary grandstand would be "cutting edge". "What South Australia is getting is the most technically advanced temporary buildings available anywhere in the world," he said.
"Importantly, the new pit structure and garages provide more room for race officials, teams and their sponsors, which, in turn, should mean additional investors and sponsors will become involved in the event."
Mr Daly said he was concerned by the size of the stand and questioned if it was a genuine temporary stand.
"I think the height and size of the building is a concern and it seems to be planning by stealth to sneak in a building that is virtually the same" as the one rejected by the council, he said.
"I would be very suspicious of the planning which is trying to manipulate a decision that was made by council to reject the lease to the Government in the first place.
Ms Moran said the construction time was "unacceptable".
"If the construction time is so long, then it really is a permanent temporary structure and if the park is never free from it then they need to redesign it," she said.
Parliament's public works committee will receive the grandstand design next month.
An Advertiser poll found two-thirds of people wanted a permanent grandstand for horse and motor racing. Only 29 per cent of voters were opposed to building a permanent grandstand in Victoria Park.
The South Australian Jockey Club will abandon its lease on Victoria Park by the end of this month.
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Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 6:08pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I seriously think good on em.
If that's what it takes to get some progress in this city then do it.
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Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 6:27pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
That is so awesome!!
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Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 6:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
what a wanker. it's always gonna take longer to build the first time round cos all the contractors have to get in a work out how they are gonna fit it and document it. good on em, big up KBR and SA motorsport board.
how is it the state governments' fault that the council blocks everything cos afew people kick up a fuss? they aren't even gonna have any horse racing there cos the jockey club have had enough of it, and who can blame them.
The council can't block it. If the state government wanted a permanent grand stand there they could build one and the council couldn't do shit. The reason everyone thinks this is so stupid is cause the state government are acting like children and basically saying "we realise you don't want a permanent grand stand and we don't like it so stuff you, have this for 11 months of the year".
Regardless of what you think about the structure, having something temporary that goes up and down every year for a 1 week (if that) long event is bloody idiotic. The ongoing costs of having a temporary structure are no doubt going to be bigger than just building something then maintaining it. And all this comes at a time when there are other areas where the state government actually SHOULD be spending money like on infrastructure, healthcare, etc... Ie. Shit that matters and not some retarded structure to keep a few petrol heads happy.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 6:44pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The council can't block it. If the state government wanted a permanent grand stand there they could build one and the council couldn't do shit.
The council did block the permanent grandstand where have you been for the past 12 months?
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Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 6:47pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The council did block the permanent grandstand where have you been for the past 12 months?
The state government could have legislated under the motor sport events act (I think that's what it's called, title may be slightly different) to basically override anything the Adelaide city council did. It may have cost the state government the seat of Adelaide but they could have if they really wanted to.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 7:01pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
i wish i was there soooo bad!Prince covers Radiohead at Coachella Festival
Prince surprised the sold-out crowd at Coachella tonight with a cover of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’, plus The Beatles and Sarah McLachlan covers, as well as a a mind-blowing selection of his greatest hits.
The purple one’s highly-anticipated set on the Main Stage kicked off around 30-minutes later than scheduled, as a crowd of tens of thousands anxiously awaited his arrival.
Emerging onstage amid a fog of dry ice, wearing a white tunic and white trousers, Prince said simply "Coachella, I am here" before launching into ‘Jungle Love’, joined by Morris Day who took on vocal duties on the track.
In front one of the biggest crowds ever seen at the main stage, he told the audience "You are the coolest place on earth", before being joined by another guest Sheila E, who performed her hit ‘The Glamorous Life’.
It was 20 minutes in when he kicked off the first of his biggest hits, with ‘1999’, and went on to perform ‘Little Red Corvette’, ‘Cream’ and 'Controversy', among others.
“Look around you. So many different faces from so many different places all bonded by music. I’m tired of debates,” he said before launching into The Beatles ‘Come Together’ during which the singer rallied the enormous crowd to chant “War no more’” between verses,
The audience was nothing short of awestruck at the nine-minute ‘Creep’ jam which saw the singer change lyrics slightly to ‘Baby I think you’re special’, and add in a trademark guitar solo, but in general staying true to the original version.
The Radiohead cover was followed by a touching version of Sarah McLachlan’s ‘In The Arms Of An Angel’, sung by one of his backing singers, who sang the track as Prince made a quick costume change into an orange tunic ensemble.
The star-studded crowd watching Prince’s set from the packed VIP area included a veritable motley crue of celebrities including David Hasselhoff, Melanie Griffith, Steven Tyler, Sienna Miller, Scott Speedman, Jared Leto and a host of other Hollywood types.
In typical Prince style, he stuck around for an hour after the usual midnight curfew, and even then he wasn't done.
"They're telling me that we got to go, but I can't leave!" he said “Coachella, did we have a good time at this party or what? You deserve it. From now on, this is Prince’s house!” before launching into final song ‘Let’s Go Crazy’.
Prince played:
‘Jungle Love’
‘The Glamorous Life’
‘1999’
‘I Feel For You’
‘Controversy’
‘Little Red Corvette’
‘Musicology’
‘Cream’
‘U Got The Look’
‘Shhh’
‘Another Lover Holen Yo Head’
‘Creep’
‘In The Arms Of An Angel’
‘7’
‘Come Together’
‘Purple Rain’
‘Let’s Go Crazy’
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Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 7:21pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
What a fuckin joke!!!
New farce in Victoria Park grandstand row
New farce in Victoria Park grandstand row
That's our state government. Bloody idiots.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 7:34pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
What a fuckin joke!!!
New farce in Victoria Park grandstand row
Ms Moran said the construction time was "unacceptable".
"If the construction time is so long, then it really is a permanent temporary structure and if the park is never free from it then they need to redesign it," she said.
New farce in Victoria Park grandstand row
Ms Moran said the construction time was "unacceptable".
"If the construction time is so long, then it really is a permanent temporary structure and if the park is never free from it then they need to redesign it," she said.
what a wanker. it's always gonna take longer to build the first time round cos all the contractors have to get in a work out how they are gonna fit it and document it. good on em, big up KBR and SA motorsport board.
how is it the state governments' fault that the council blocks everything cos afew people kick up a fuss? they aren't even gonna have any horse racing there cos the jockey club have had enough of it, and who can blame them.
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Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 7:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Father of electronic music dies
April 28, 2008 - 3:29PM
The father of electronic music wore tweed jackets, had a refined English accent and smoked a pipe.
Tristram Cary, who has died in Adelaide, aged 82, came up with the idea of electronic and tape music while a naval radar officer during World War II.
Mr Cary is renowned for composing the theme for the television sci-fi series Dr Who and co-designing a synthesiser used by rock artists including Pink Floyd, The Who and Roxy Music.
He founded the electronic music studio at London's Royal College of Music in 1967 and, seven years later, migrated to Australia to establish a similar studio at the University of Adelaide's Elder Conservatorium of Music.
The conservatorium's head of music technology studies, Stephen Whittington, said Mr Cary's contribution to music was "impossible to quantify".
"He laid the foundations," Mr Whittington said today.
"Without him, we wouldn't have techno, hip-hop or any kind of music which is sustained by technology."
Mr Cary's father was prominent Irish-born novelist Joyce Cary.
"He had a really unusual childhood, his father was an author and TS Eliot and James Joyce were always coming around for tea," Mr Whittington said.
Mr Cary's interest in technology was heightened during his service in World War II where he developed the idea of what would become tape music.
"After the war, the Americans, British and Germans had a huge amount of electronic gear which came onto the market and was incredibly cheap," Mr Whittington said.
"That is when he began fiddling with things."
Mr Cary was "a very English person" - in name, in a resonant English clip in his voice, and in his clothes. He wore tweed jackets and smoked a pipe, Mr Whittington said.
"What was really notable about him was his incredible curiosity about things. He was never content to rest on his laurels and he always kept up with modern technology ... he had a tremendous thirst for knowledge."
Mr Cary composed for feature Hollywood films, television, theatre and concert music.
In 1991, he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to Australian music.
He died last week at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
April 28, 2008 - 3:29PM
The father of electronic music wore tweed jackets, had a refined English accent and smoked a pipe.
Tristram Cary, who has died in Adelaide, aged 82, came up with the idea of electronic and tape music while a naval radar officer during World War II.
Mr Cary is renowned for composing the theme for the television sci-fi series Dr Who and co-designing a synthesiser used by rock artists including Pink Floyd, The Who and Roxy Music.
He founded the electronic music studio at London's Royal College of Music in 1967 and, seven years later, migrated to Australia to establish a similar studio at the University of Adelaide's Elder Conservatorium of Music.
The conservatorium's head of music technology studies, Stephen Whittington, said Mr Cary's contribution to music was "impossible to quantify".
"He laid the foundations," Mr Whittington said today.
"Without him, we wouldn't have techno, hip-hop or any kind of music which is sustained by technology."
Mr Cary's father was prominent Irish-born novelist Joyce Cary.
"He had a really unusual childhood, his father was an author and TS Eliot and James Joyce were always coming around for tea," Mr Whittington said.
Mr Cary's interest in technology was heightened during his service in World War II where he developed the idea of what would become tape music.
"After the war, the Americans, British and Germans had a huge amount of electronic gear which came onto the market and was incredibly cheap," Mr Whittington said.
"That is when he began fiddling with things."
Mr Cary was "a very English person" - in name, in a resonant English clip in his voice, and in his clothes. He wore tweed jackets and smoked a pipe, Mr Whittington said.
"What was really notable about him was his incredible curiosity about things. He was never content to rest on his laurels and he always kept up with modern technology ... he had a tremendous thirst for knowledge."
Mr Cary composed for feature Hollywood films, television, theatre and concert music.
In 1991, he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to Australian music.
He died last week at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 7:39pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
what a wanker. it's always gonna take longer to build the first time round cos all the contractors have to get in a work out how they are gonna fit it and document it. good on em, big up KBR and SA motorsport board.
how is it the state governments' fault that the council blocks everything cos afew people kick up a fuss? they aren't even gonna have any horse racing there cos the jockey club have had enough of it, and who can blame them.
how is it the state governments' fault that the council blocks everything cos afew people kick up a fuss? they aren't even gonna have any horse racing there cos the jockey club have had enough of it, and who can blame them.
The council can't block it. If the state government wanted a permanent grand stand there they could build one and the council couldn't do shit. The reason everyone thinks this is so stupid is cause the state government are acting like children and basically saying "we realise you don't want a permanent grand stand and we don't like it so stuff you, have this for 11 months of the year".
Regardless of what you think about the structure, having something temporary that goes up and down every year for a 1 week (if that) long event is bloody idiotic. The ongoing costs of having a temporary structure are no doubt going to be bigger than just building something then maintaining it. And all this comes at a time when there are other areas where the state government actually SHOULD be spending money like on infrastructure, healthcare, etc... Ie. Shit that matters and not some retarded structure to keep a few petrol heads happy.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 7:44pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
The council can't block it. If the state government wanted a permanent grand stand there they could build one and the council couldn't do shit.
The council did block the permanent grandstand where have you been for the past 12 months?
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 7:47pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
The council did block the permanent grandstand where have you been for the past 12 months?
The state government could have legislated under the motor sport events act (I think that's what it's called, title may be slightly different) to basically override anything the Adelaide city council did. It may have cost the state government the seat of Adelaide but they could have if they really wanted to.
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Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 7:49pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
He founded the electronic music studio at London's Royal College of Music in 1967 and, seven years later, migrated to Australia to establish a similar studio at the University of Adelaide's Elder Conservatorium of Music.
The conservatorium's head of music technology studies, Stephen Whittington, said Mr Cary's contribution to music was "impossible to quantify".
"He laid the foundations," Mr Whittington said today.
"Without him, we wouldn't have techno, hip-hop or any kind of music which is sustained by technology."
And thanks to him Adelaide Uni has one of the most amazing music technology departments. Although I may not have liked their Music Technology course, the older room with the Moog and various other older synthesisers was amazing.
Big ups Tristram. R.I.P.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 8:36pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
no shit! he lived in adelaide? rip tristam carey
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Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 8:46pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
RIP
There was an electronic music conference in Adelaide about 8 years ago that I signed up to go to some lectures and never went for some reason or another. Cary was a prominent speaker at the event. I really wish I had gone...big ups to him. There'd be no Adelaide Massive without him!
There was an electronic music conference in Adelaide about 8 years ago that I signed up to go to some lectures and never went for some reason or another. Cary was a prominent speaker at the event. I really wish I had gone...big ups to him. There'd be no Adelaide Massive without him!
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 8:49pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lighter:
And thanks to him Adelaide Uni has one of the most amazing music technology departments. Although I may not have liked their Music Technology course, the older room with the Moog and various other older synthesisers was amazing.
Big ups Tristram. R.I.P. :lighter:
He founded the electronic music studio at London's Royal College of Music in 1967 and, seven years later, migrated to Australia to establish a similar studio at the University of Adelaide's Elder Conservatorium of Music.
The conservatorium's head of music technology studies, Stephen Whittington, said Mr Cary's contribution to music was "impossible to quantify".
"He laid the foundations," Mr Whittington said today.
"Without him, we wouldn't have techno, hip-hop or any kind of music which is sustained by technology."
The conservatorium's head of music technology studies, Stephen Whittington, said Mr Cary's contribution to music was "impossible to quantify".
"He laid the foundations," Mr Whittington said today.
"Without him, we wouldn't have techno, hip-hop or any kind of music which is sustained by technology."
And thanks to him Adelaide Uni has one of the most amazing music technology departments. Although I may not have liked their Music Technology course, the older room with the Moog and various other older synthesisers was amazing.
Big ups Tristram. R.I.P. :lighter:
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 9:36pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
no shit! he lived in adelaide? rip tristam carey :lighter:
Posted: 28 Apr 2008, 9:46pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
RIP :fire:
There was an electronic music conference in Adelaide about 8 years ago that I signed up to go to some lectures and never went for some reason or another. Cary was a prominent speaker at the event. I really wish I had gone...big ups to him. There'd be no Adelaide Massive without him!
There was an electronic music conference in Adelaide about 8 years ago that I signed up to go to some lectures and never went for some reason or another. Cary was a prominent speaker at the event. I really wish I had gone...big ups to him. There'd be no Adelaide Massive without him!
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Posted: 29 Apr 2008, 1:41pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Buswell fesses up to chair-sniffing
WEST Australian Opposition Leader Troy Buswell has broken down at a press conference and confessed to sniffing the chair of a female Liberal party staff member after she got up.
Mr Buswell confirmed details of the woman's account reported in a Western Australian newspaper.
The unnamed woman said Mr Buswell started sniffing the chair she had been sitting on in front of other staff members at the opposition leader's Parliament House office in December 2005.
She said he did it to get a laugh and that she had told him she was shocked and outraged.
At a media conference today Mr Buswell had to break off after he was asked about the effect of the reports on his wife and children.
WEST Australian Opposition Leader Troy Buswell has broken down at a press conference and confessed to sniffing the chair of a female Liberal party staff member after she got up.
Mr Buswell confirmed details of the woman's account reported in a Western Australian newspaper.
The unnamed woman said Mr Buswell started sniffing the chair she had been sitting on in front of other staff members at the opposition leader's Parliament House office in December 2005.
She said he did it to get a laugh and that she had told him she was shocked and outraged.
At a media conference today Mr Buswell had to break off after he was asked about the effect of the reports on his wife and children.
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Posted: 29 Apr 2008, 1:44pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 29 Apr 2008, 1:55pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
there is nothing wrong with that!! i see no problem with it. yes i am a chair sniffer
Posted: 29 Apr 2008, 2:41pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Buswell fesses up to chair-sniffing :rofl:
WEST Australian Opposition Leader Troy Buswell has broken down at a press conference and confessed to sniffing the chair of a female Liberal party staff member after she got up.
Mr Buswell confirmed details of the woman's account reported in a Western Australian newspaper.
The unnamed woman said Mr Buswell started sniffing the chair she had been sitting on in front of other staff members at the opposition leader's Parliament House office in December 2005.
She said he did it to get a laugh and that she had told him she was shocked and outraged.
At a media conference today Mr Buswell had to break off after he was asked about the effect of the reports on his wife and children.
WEST Australian Opposition Leader Troy Buswell has broken down at a press conference and confessed to sniffing the chair of a female Liberal party staff member after she got up.
Mr Buswell confirmed details of the woman's account reported in a Western Australian newspaper.
The unnamed woman said Mr Buswell started sniffing the chair she had been sitting on in front of other staff members at the opposition leader's Parliament House office in December 2005.
She said he did it to get a laugh and that she had told him she was shocked and outraged.
At a media conference today Mr Buswell had to break off after he was asked about the effect of the reports on his wife and children.
Posted: 29 Apr 2008, 2:44pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:rofl:
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Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 3:20pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
GO JIMI!
Jimi Hendrix in sex video scandal
A US pornography company says it is releasing a 40-year-old amateur sex video allegedly starring legendary musician Jimi Hendrix and two women.
"Jimi Hendrix, the iconic rock-n-roll guitarist, will be seen in a new role - as an adult film star - in Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape," said Vivid Entertainment, the world's biggest producer of adult films, in a statement.
The Los Angeles-based company said it obtained the footage from a collector, and said it had been authenticated by experts, including Pamela Des Barres, a former groupie and lover of Hendrix.
Cynthia "Plaster Caster" Albritton, "famous for creating plaster moulds of the penises of rock stars, including that of Hendrix", was also cited as authenticating the video.
Bob Merlis, a spokesman for Experience Hendrix, which manages the guitarist's estate, told AFP it had no comment on the alleged video.
However, Kathy Etchingham, one of Hendrix's steady girlfriends in the 1960s, told the New York Times the man in the tape "is not him. His face is too broad and nose and nostrils too wide for Jimi".
Hendrix, whose repertoire included Foxy Lady and Hey Joe, died of an overdose in 1970 aged 27.
Celebrity sex videos are a highly lucrative part of the adult movie industry, with hotel heiress Paris Hilton and actress Pamela Anderson among those who found themselves unwitting porn stars
http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/hendrix-in-sex-scandal/2008/04/30/1209234900740.html
Jimi Hendrix in sex video scandal
A US pornography company says it is releasing a 40-year-old amateur sex video allegedly starring legendary musician Jimi Hendrix and two women.
"Jimi Hendrix, the iconic rock-n-roll guitarist, will be seen in a new role - as an adult film star - in Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape," said Vivid Entertainment, the world's biggest producer of adult films, in a statement.
The Los Angeles-based company said it obtained the footage from a collector, and said it had been authenticated by experts, including Pamela Des Barres, a former groupie and lover of Hendrix.
Cynthia "Plaster Caster" Albritton, "famous for creating plaster moulds of the penises of rock stars, including that of Hendrix", was also cited as authenticating the video.
Bob Merlis, a spokesman for Experience Hendrix, which manages the guitarist's estate, told AFP it had no comment on the alleged video.
However, Kathy Etchingham, one of Hendrix's steady girlfriends in the 1960s, told the New York Times the man in the tape "is not him. His face is too broad and nose and nostrils too wide for Jimi".
Hendrix, whose repertoire included Foxy Lady and Hey Joe, died of an overdose in 1970 aged 27.
Celebrity sex videos are a highly lucrative part of the adult movie industry, with hotel heiress Paris Hilton and actress Pamela Anderson among those who found themselves unwitting porn stars
http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/hendrix-in-sex-scandal/2008/04/30/1209234900740.html
deathmazePosts: 3,010
Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 3:40pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
With the father of electronic music and this dude the pearly gates must be going off right now
'Trip of a lifetime' for LSD maker
THE man who synthesised LSD and became the first person to ever have an "acid trip" has died at the age of 102.
Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann died of a heart attack at his home in Basel yesterday, a friend and colleague said.
Dr Hofman was working as a chemist in Basel when he synthesised lysergic acid diethylamide.
On April 19, 1943, he took the substance before cycling home.
That day has become known among aficionados as “Bicycle Day” as it was while he was riding home that he experienced the most intense symptoms brought on by the drug.
Dr Hofmann was also the first person to synthesise psilocybin, the active constituent of “magic mushrooms”.
He also discovered the hallucinogenic principles of Ololiuqui (Morning Glory), lysergic acid amide and lysergic acid hydroxyethylamide.
He disapproved of the appropriation of LSD by the youth movements of the 1960s, but regretted that its potential uses had not been explored.
In retirement, Dr Hofmann served as a member of the Nobel Prize Committee. He was a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences, and a Member of the International Society of Plant Research and of the American Society of Pharmacognosy.
Dr Hofmann was married and had three children.
'Trip of a lifetime' for LSD maker
THE man who synthesised LSD and became the first person to ever have an "acid trip" has died at the age of 102.
Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann died of a heart attack at his home in Basel yesterday, a friend and colleague said.
Dr Hofman was working as a chemist in Basel when he synthesised lysergic acid diethylamide.
On April 19, 1943, he took the substance before cycling home.
That day has become known among aficionados as “Bicycle Day” as it was while he was riding home that he experienced the most intense symptoms brought on by the drug.
Dr Hofmann was also the first person to synthesise psilocybin, the active constituent of “magic mushrooms”.
He also discovered the hallucinogenic principles of Ololiuqui (Morning Glory), lysergic acid amide and lysergic acid hydroxyethylamide.
He disapproved of the appropriation of LSD by the youth movements of the 1960s, but regretted that its potential uses had not been explored.
In retirement, Dr Hofmann served as a member of the Nobel Prize Committee. He was a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences, and a Member of the International Society of Plant Research and of the American Society of Pharmacognosy.
Dr Hofmann was married and had three children.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 4:05pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
freaking crazy party, thats for sure! what a cool guy 102, respeckt!
102, respeckt! Munkee Snaps
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 4:07pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
And they say drugs are bad...
MmmmmK.
MmmmmK.
Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 4:20pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
GO JIMI! :slayer:
Jimi Hendrix in sex video scandal
A US pornography company says it is releasing a 40-year-old amateur sex video allegedly starring legendary musician Jimi Hendrix and two women.
"Jimi Hendrix, the iconic rock-n-roll guitarist, will be seen in a new role - as an adult film star - in Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape," said Vivid Entertainment, the world's biggest producer of adult films, in a statement.
The Los Angeles-based company said it obtained the footage from a collector, and said it had been authenticated by experts, including Pamela Des Barres, a former groupie and lover of Hendrix.
Cynthia "Plaster Caster" Albritton, "famous for creating plaster moulds of the penises of rock stars, including that of Hendrix", was also cited as authenticating the video.
Bob Merlis, a spokesman for Experience Hendrix, which manages the guitarist's estate, told AFP it had no comment on the alleged video.
However, Kathy Etchingham, one of Hendrix's steady girlfriends in the 1960s, told the New York Times the man in the tape "is not him. His face is too broad and nose and nostrils too wide for Jimi".
Hendrix, whose repertoire included Foxy Lady and Hey Joe, died of an overdose in 1970 aged 27.
Celebrity sex videos are a highly lucrative part of the adult movie industry, with hotel heiress Paris Hilton and actress Pamela Anderson among those who found themselves unwitting porn stars
http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/hendrix-in-sex-scandal/2008/04/30/1209234900740.html
Jimi Hendrix in sex video scandal
A US pornography company says it is releasing a 40-year-old amateur sex video allegedly starring legendary musician Jimi Hendrix and two women.
"Jimi Hendrix, the iconic rock-n-roll guitarist, will be seen in a new role - as an adult film star - in Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape," said Vivid Entertainment, the world's biggest producer of adult films, in a statement.
The Los Angeles-based company said it obtained the footage from a collector, and said it had been authenticated by experts, including Pamela Des Barres, a former groupie and lover of Hendrix.
Cynthia "Plaster Caster" Albritton, "famous for creating plaster moulds of the penises of rock stars, including that of Hendrix", was also cited as authenticating the video.
Bob Merlis, a spokesman for Experience Hendrix, which manages the guitarist's estate, told AFP it had no comment on the alleged video.
However, Kathy Etchingham, one of Hendrix's steady girlfriends in the 1960s, told the New York Times the man in the tape "is not him. His face is too broad and nose and nostrils too wide for Jimi".
Hendrix, whose repertoire included Foxy Lady and Hey Joe, died of an overdose in 1970 aged 27.
Celebrity sex videos are a highly lucrative part of the adult movie industry, with hotel heiress Paris Hilton and actress Pamela Anderson among those who found themselves unwitting porn stars
http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/hendrix-in-sex-scandal/2008/04/30/1209234900740.html
EzPosts: 4,532
Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 4:43pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
freaking crazy party, thats for sure! what a cool guy
Fo' sure, hows he lived to 102...... thats amazing, ive gotta get myself some of that stuff!
Fountain of youth!
Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 5:05pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
freaking crazy party, thats for sure! what a cool guy :D 102, respeckt! :lighter:
Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 5:07pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
And they say drugs are bad...
MmmmmK.
:biggrin:
MmmmmK.
:biggrin:
Erk
Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 5:43pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
freaking crazy party, thats for sure! what a cool guy :D 102, respeckt! :lighter:
Fo' sure, hows he lived to 102...... thats amazing, ive gotta get myself some of that stuff!
Fountain of youth! :biggrin:
Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 5:54pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Fountain of youth!
I'm gunna be one ooooooooooold bastard then
Straight Edge since 1994.
Dyslexics are teople poo.
Dyslexics are teople poo.
Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 6:54pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Fountain of youth! :biggrin:
I'm gunna be one ooooooooooold bastard then
Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 8:11pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
'Trip of a lifetime' for LSD maker
THE man who synthesised LSD and became the first person to ever have an "acid trip" has died at the age of 102.
Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann died of a heart attack at his home in Basel yesterday, a friend and colleague said.
truly a sad day
that man has given me more fun than the inventor of any other chemical invented
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Kobra Kai @ RocketBar, Friday 25th Nov
The Levitators @ Crown & Sceptre, Sat 3rd Dec
Nuclear Summer @ Queens Theatre, 13-14 Jan 2012
1994-2006 D&B vinyl sale - classics, well looked after and priced to sell!
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Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 9:11pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
'Trip of a lifetime' for LSD maker
THE man who synthesised LSD and became the first person to ever have an "acid trip" has died at the age of 102.
Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann died of a heart attack at his home in Basel yesterday, a friend and colleague said.
truly a sad day
that man has given me more fun than the inventor of any other chemical invented :E
:fire: :fire:
Posted: 2 May 2008, 9:21amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'
Some computer keyboards harbour more harmful bacteria than a toilet seat, research has suggested. Consumer group Which? said tests at its London offices found equipment carrying bugs that could cause food poisoning. Out of 33 keyboards swabbed, four were regarded as a potential health hazard and one harboured five times more germs than one of the office's toilet seats.
Microbiologist Dr Peter Wilson said a keyboard was often "a reflection of what is in your nose and in your gut". During the tests in January this year, a microbiologist deemed one of the office's keyboards to be so dirty he ordered it to be removed, quarantined and cleaned.
It had 150 times the recommended limit for bacteria - five times as filthy as a lavatory seat tested at the same time, the research found. Should somebody have a cold in your office, or even have gastroenteritis, you're very likely to pick it up from a keyboard The equipment was swabbed for bugs, such as those that can cause food poisoning like E.coli and staphylococcus aureus.
Dr Wilson, a consultant microbiologist at University College London Hospital, told BBC Radio 5 Live sharing a keyboard could be passing on illnesses among office workers. "If you look at what grows on computer keyboards, and hospitals are worse, believe it or not, it's more or less a reflection of what's in your nose and in your gut," he said. "Should somebody have a cold in your office, or even have gastroenteritis, you're very likely to pick it up from a keyboard."
Which? said one of the causes of dirty keyboards was users eating lunch at their desk, with crumbs encouraging the growth of bacteria. Poor personal hygiene, such as not washing hands after going to the toilet, could also be to blame, it said. computing editor Sarah Kidner advised users to give their computer "a spring clean". "It's quite simple to do and could prevent your computer from becoming a health hazard," she said. She said dust and food crumbs should be shaken out of keyboards and they should be wiped with a soft, lightly dampened, lint-free cloth. They should also be disinfected with alcohol wipes.
Research by the University of Arizona last year found the average office desktop harboured 400 times more bacteria than the average office toilet seat. They also found that, compared to men, on average women have three to four times the amount of germs in, on and around their work area.
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"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
bezzPosts: 956
Posted: 2 May 2008, 9:28amSubject: Re: In The News Today
man the computer keyboards in IST at flinders are so feral, all the keys have brown gunk all over em. Damn filthy computer science geeks. However engineering next door houses the cleanest area at flinders.. the female toilets. Dont think anyones ever been in there
deathmazePosts: 3,010
Posted: 2 May 2008, 10:01amSubject: Re: In The News Today
engineering next door houses the cleanest area at flinders.. the female toilets. Dont think anyones ever been in there
I have been in them... they are delightful
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Posted: 2 May 2008, 11:01amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
engineering next door houses the cleanest area at flinders.. the female toilets. Dont think anyones ever been in there
I have been in them... they are delightful :)
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Posted: 2 May 2008, 7:50pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'
They also found that, compared to men, on average women have three to four times the amount of germs in, on and around their work area.
Handbags too. We put our handbags down almost everywhere, then the bag gets put on desks, beds etc.
Major germage...
orchiePosts: 243
Posted: 2 May 2008, 7:56pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Seriously, why jack Red Bull prices
coz ppl like u buy them
fiendethics
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Posted: 2 May 2008, 8:34pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 2 May 2008, 8:50pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'
They also found that, compared to men, on average women have three to four times the amount of germs in, on and around their work area.
Handbags too. We put our handbags down almost everywhere, then the bag gets put on desks, beds etc.
Major germage...
Posted: 2 May 2008, 8:56pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Seriously, why jack Red Bull prices
coz ppl like u buy them
Posted: 2 May 2008, 9:34pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
coz ppl like u buy them
:lol:
Posted: 3 May 2008, 1:33pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Take part in pyjama-led recovery
By Scott Steensma
May 03, 2008 04:39am
MONDAY morning. Your alarm goes off. Your hand lashes out from under the doona, smacking your snooze button.
You make a croaky call to your boss and contentedly go back to sleep.
There will be No Work Today.
For most of us the sickie, doona day or case of the can't-be-bothereds is part of the laid-back Australian attitude to life. It confirms our belief that we're take-it-easy, anti-authority types who work to live and not vice-versa.
Of course, business groups see the sickie as a threat to the future of the nation - a pyjama-clad economic time bomb.
The Federal Government and the chamber of commerce would have you believe that half the nation is off sick every day, leaving shops unstaffed, planes unflown and taxes unraised.
They condemn us as a nation of slackers and, from the depths of our hot afternoon baths, we agree with them.
But, while we reach for the soap and try not to drop our book into the tub, we can reconcile our guilt with the knowledge that our purported slackness is a myth. Australians are some of the least slack slackers in the world.
Despite what our business leaders would have you believe, Australians work hard and work long. According to a 2006 OECD report, we put in an average of 1714 hours a year.
With holidays, we're averaging 38 hours a week.
This may sound normal to you, but next to some of our trading partners we're cash-crazed workaholics.
The French, Dutch, Germans, Norwegians, Belgians and the Irish all work fewer hours than we do and, in the case of the Dutch, a whole lot fewer.
The Dutch, when they can be bothered showing up at all, put in a leisurely 1391 hours - three months a year less than we do.
If we followed their example we could reduce our workload to four days a week or take summer off, which would give us plenty of time to build our own windmills and make bad jokes about dykes.
Of course, even the thought of this sort of slackness makes our business leaders feel ill, but not ill enough to call in sick.
That would be un-Australian.
Despite our jokes about calling in crook and hitting the beach, we take fewer sickies than almost anyone. Not that you would know it.
Our business leaders ominously declare that on any given day, 2.4 per cent of the Australian workforce is off sick - ignoring the optimistic reading that 97.6 per cent of us valiantly managed to make it in.
Any examination of our alleged absenteeism shows that Australia is a 21 million-strong Codral advertisement.
A recent survey revealed that Aussies take only 5.2 sick days a year - barely enough to cover three mild colds, let alone a serious sleep-in habit.
The world sickie average is eight days, enough for a couple of bouts of flu and four long surfing weekends.
Even the supposedly workaholic Americans take the full eight days, while the Dutch take a mighty 10, probably from the shock of going back to work after a three-month holiday in Australia watching us bust our backsides all summer.
Aussies have an unhealthy attitude to employment. We work hard, but we think we're lazy, and we take fewer days off than almost everyone else but are berated as slackers.
Our culture of hard work is hurting us - we're frantically sprinting on our economic treadmill, while other nations lazily amble past on the way to another long weekend.
If we worked fewer hours we could be fresher, happier and more productive, so next time you call in sick, don't feel guilty, feel righteous.
Do the economy a favour. Stop soldiering on, and start sleeping in.
"Real Drum & Bass is not something that sounds like a 17yr old rock band who have just listened to slipmat on thir first E & decided to make Drum & Bass" - Marcus Intalex
Posted: 3 May 2008, 2:33pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:biggrin:
Take part in pyjama-led recovery
By Scott Steensma
May 03, 2008 04:39am
MONDAY morning. Your alarm goes off. Your hand lashes out from under the doona, smacking your snooze button.
You make a croaky call to your boss and contentedly go back to sleep.
There will be No Work Today.
For most of us the sickie, doona day or case of the can't-be-bothereds is part of the laid-back Australian attitude to life. It confirms our belief that we're take-it-easy, anti-authority types who work to live and not vice-versa.
Of course, business groups see the sickie as a threat to the future of the nation - a pyjama-clad economic time bomb.
The Federal Government and the chamber of commerce would have you believe that half the nation is off sick every day, leaving shops unstaffed, planes unflown and taxes unraised.
They condemn us as a nation of slackers and, from the depths of our hot afternoon baths, we agree with them.
But, while we reach for the soap and try not to drop our book into the tub, we can reconcile our guilt with the knowledge that our purported slackness is a myth. Australians are some of the least slack slackers in the world.
Despite what our business leaders would have you believe, Australians work hard and work long. According to a 2006 OECD report, we put in an average of 1714 hours a year.
With holidays, we're averaging 38 hours a week.
This may sound normal to you, but next to some of our trading partners we're cash-crazed workaholics.
The French, Dutch, Germans, Norwegians, Belgians and the Irish all work fewer hours than we do and, in the case of the Dutch, a whole lot fewer.
The Dutch, when they can be bothered showing up at all, put in a leisurely 1391 hours - three months a year less than we do.
If we followed their example we could reduce our workload to four days a week or take summer off, which would give us plenty of time to build our own windmills and make bad jokes about dykes.
Of course, even the thought of this sort of slackness makes our business leaders feel ill, but not ill enough to call in sick.
That would be un-Australian.
Despite our jokes about calling in crook and hitting the beach, we take fewer sickies than almost anyone. Not that you would know it.
Our business leaders ominously declare that on any given day, 2.4 per cent of the Australian workforce is off sick - ignoring the optimistic reading that 97.6 per cent of us valiantly managed to make it in.
Any examination of our alleged absenteeism shows that Australia is a 21 million-strong Codral advertisement.
A recent survey revealed that Aussies take only 5.2 sick days a year - barely enough to cover three mild colds, let alone a serious sleep-in habit.
The world sickie average is eight days, enough for a couple of bouts of flu and four long surfing weekends.
Even the supposedly workaholic Americans take the full eight days, while the Dutch take a mighty 10, probably from the shock of going back to work after a three-month holiday in Australia watching us bust our backsides all summer.
Aussies have an unhealthy attitude to employment. We work hard, but we think we're lazy, and we take fewer days off than almost everyone else but are berated as slackers.
Our culture of hard work is hurting us - we're frantically sprinting on our economic treadmill, while other nations lazily amble past on the way to another long weekend.
If we worked fewer hours we could be fresher, happier and more productive, so next time you call in sick, don't feel guilty, feel righteous.
Do the economy a favour. Stop soldiering on, and start sleeping in.
Take part in pyjama-led recovery
By Scott Steensma
May 03, 2008 04:39am
MONDAY morning. Your alarm goes off. Your hand lashes out from under the doona, smacking your snooze button.
You make a croaky call to your boss and contentedly go back to sleep.
There will be No Work Today.
For most of us the sickie, doona day or case of the can't-be-bothereds is part of the laid-back Australian attitude to life. It confirms our belief that we're take-it-easy, anti-authority types who work to live and not vice-versa.
Of course, business groups see the sickie as a threat to the future of the nation - a pyjama-clad economic time bomb.
The Federal Government and the chamber of commerce would have you believe that half the nation is off sick every day, leaving shops unstaffed, planes unflown and taxes unraised.
They condemn us as a nation of slackers and, from the depths of our hot afternoon baths, we agree with them.
But, while we reach for the soap and try not to drop our book into the tub, we can reconcile our guilt with the knowledge that our purported slackness is a myth. Australians are some of the least slack slackers in the world.
Despite what our business leaders would have you believe, Australians work hard and work long. According to a 2006 OECD report, we put in an average of 1714 hours a year.
With holidays, we're averaging 38 hours a week.
This may sound normal to you, but next to some of our trading partners we're cash-crazed workaholics.
The French, Dutch, Germans, Norwegians, Belgians and the Irish all work fewer hours than we do and, in the case of the Dutch, a whole lot fewer.
The Dutch, when they can be bothered showing up at all, put in a leisurely 1391 hours - three months a year less than we do.
If we followed their example we could reduce our workload to four days a week or take summer off, which would give us plenty of time to build our own windmills and make bad jokes about dykes.
Of course, even the thought of this sort of slackness makes our business leaders feel ill, but not ill enough to call in sick.
That would be un-Australian.
Despite our jokes about calling in crook and hitting the beach, we take fewer sickies than almost anyone. Not that you would know it.
Our business leaders ominously declare that on any given day, 2.4 per cent of the Australian workforce is off sick - ignoring the optimistic reading that 97.6 per cent of us valiantly managed to make it in.
Any examination of our alleged absenteeism shows that Australia is a 21 million-strong Codral advertisement.
A recent survey revealed that Aussies take only 5.2 sick days a year - barely enough to cover three mild colds, let alone a serious sleep-in habit.
The world sickie average is eight days, enough for a couple of bouts of flu and four long surfing weekends.
Even the supposedly workaholic Americans take the full eight days, while the Dutch take a mighty 10, probably from the shock of going back to work after a three-month holiday in Australia watching us bust our backsides all summer.
Aussies have an unhealthy attitude to employment. We work hard, but we think we're lazy, and we take fewer days off than almost everyone else but are berated as slackers.
Our culture of hard work is hurting us - we're frantically sprinting on our economic treadmill, while other nations lazily amble past on the way to another long weekend.
If we worked fewer hours we could be fresher, happier and more productive, so next time you call in sick, don't feel guilty, feel righteous.
Do the economy a favour. Stop soldiering on, and start sleeping in.
Posted: 3 May 2008, 3:30pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
its so true! aussies are workaholics!
Munkee Snaps
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
Posted: 3 May 2008, 3:45pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I wouldn't go quite that far... I think we just don't have much fuckin choice about how much we work.
If I don't put in the hours to get projects done on time then I won't have a job for much longer.
I know I sure as fuck would rather be at home smoking a few bongs instead of being at work right now!!!
If I don't put in the hours to get projects done on time then I won't have a job for much longer.
I know I sure as fuck would rather be at home smoking a few bongs instead of being at work right now!!!
"Real Drum & Bass is not something that sounds like a 17yr old rock band who have just listened to slipmat on thir first E & decided to make Drum & Bass" - Marcus Intalex
Posted: 3 May 2008, 4:12pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
oh yeah its true, we have a small population and a big economy too. but apparently aussies work a WHOLE PILE of unpaid overtime too. its that same argument from the drug tests thread - employment figures are great, we as jobseekers SHOULD be able to push that we want paid overtime, that we shouldnt feel threatened by medical checks and random drug tests etc...somehow tho, we are, and i think employers use it to their advantage in the workplace!
good article tho
good article tho
Munkee Snaps
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
Posted: 4 May 2008, 5:13pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I'd love it if 'business hours' were shortened ! 7 hours a day instead of 8. Mmmm an extra hour of sleep !
Everything is so f*cking green
khemPosts: 16,665
Posted: 5 May 2008, 6:23amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Bush Signs Bill To Take All Newborns' DNA
President Bush last week signed into law a bill which will see the federal government begin to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months, a move critics have described as the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database.
Described as a "national contingency plan" the justification for the new law S. 1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is that it represents preparation for any sort of "public health emergency."
The bill states that the federal government should "continue to carry out, coordinate, and expand research in newborn screening" and "maintain a central clearinghouse of current information on newborn screening... ensuring that the clearinghouse is available on the Internet and is updated at least quarterly".
Sections of the bill also make it clear that DNA may be used in genetic experiments and tests.
President Bush last week signed into law a bill which will see the federal government begin to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months, a move critics have described as the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database.
Described as a "national contingency plan" the justification for the new law S. 1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is that it represents preparation for any sort of "public health emergency."
The bill states that the federal government should "continue to carry out, coordinate, and expand research in newborn screening" and "maintain a central clearinghouse of current information on newborn screening... ensuring that the clearinghouse is available on the Internet and is updated at least quarterly".
Sections of the bill also make it clear that DNA may be used in genetic experiments and tests.
YakPosts: 1,772
Posted: 5 May 2008, 6:42amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I'd love it if 'business hours' were shortened ! 7 hours a day instead of 8. Mmmm an extra hour of sleep !
I only have to work 7.5 hours here, when I can be bothered. The minimum I have to work is 6 hours a day, so long as I make up the right amount of hours eventually (over a month or so). Lucky for me I am always in credit, thanks to many hours of travel and business trips.
"You'd be surprised how quickly you forget what's important when you've suddenly got everything you'd never thought you'd have" - Slash
Posted: 5 May 2008, 7:23amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Bush Signs Bill To Take All Newborns' DNA (http://infowars.net/articles/may2008/020507DNA.htm)
President Bush last week signed into law a bill which will see the federal government begin to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months, a move critics have described as the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database.
Described as a "national contingency plan" the justification for the new law S. 1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is that it represents preparation for any sort of "public health emergency."
The bill states that the federal government should "continue to carry out, coordinate, and expand research in newborn screening" and "maintain a central clearinghouse of current information on newborn screening... ensuring that the clearinghouse is available on the Internet and is updated at least quarterly".
Sections of the bill also make it clear that DNA may be used in genetic experiments and tests.
President Bush last week signed into law a bill which will see the federal government begin to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months, a move critics have described as the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database.
Described as a "national contingency plan" the justification for the new law S. 1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is that it represents preparation for any sort of "public health emergency."
The bill states that the federal government should "continue to carry out, coordinate, and expand research in newborn screening" and "maintain a central clearinghouse of current information on newborn screening... ensuring that the clearinghouse is available on the Internet and is updated at least quarterly".
Sections of the bill also make it clear that DNA may be used in genetic experiments and tests.
Posted: 5 May 2008, 7:42amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I'd love it if 'business hours' were shortened ! 7 hours a day instead of 8. Mmmm an extra hour of sleep !
I only have to work 7.5 hours here, when I can be bothered. The minimum I have to work is 6 hours a day, so long as I make up the right amount of hours eventually (over a month or so). Lucky for me I am always in credit, thanks to many hours of travel and business trips.
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Posted: 5 May 2008, 12:48pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Word is that the Lawyer for that incestuous Austrian fella is trying to get him off on "Insanity."
I say put him in gaol, and see how long he lasts!
I say put him in gaol, and see how long he lasts!
Cait
Posted: 5 May 2008, 12:48pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Word is that the Lawyer for that incestuous Austrian fella is trying to get him off on "Insanity."
I say put him in gaol, and see how long he lasts!
I say put him in gaol, and see how long he lasts!
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Posted: 5 May 2008, 3:53pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
This guy is more hardcore than Noddy!
Civil servant gets through porn like lightning
Japanese bloke clocks up 10,000 pages per day
A JAPANESE civil servant was been fined and demoted after techies discovered he'd viewed an impressive 780,000 pornographic pages in just nine-months.
The 57 year-old from Kinokawa in southern Japan, is reckoned to have been viewing 10,000 pages a day, or 20 every minute when his frenzied wibbling was at its most vigorous.
Kinokawa official Tomiko Waki told journalists the porn king's surfing habits had gone unnoticed since the he was seated away from other staff who could not see what was on his screen.
They put his strange noises down to personal peccadillos, it seems.
The lightning surfer was found out after he picked up a computer virus and technical support examined his browser's history. He was subsequently demoted and suffered a pay cut.
It is not clear whether the man will now have his desk anywhere near less distracted workers.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/02/civil-servant-gets-pron
Civil servant gets through porn like lightning
Japanese bloke clocks up 10,000 pages per day
A JAPANESE civil servant was been fined and demoted after techies discovered he'd viewed an impressive 780,000 pornographic pages in just nine-months.
The 57 year-old from Kinokawa in southern Japan, is reckoned to have been viewing 10,000 pages a day, or 20 every minute when his frenzied wibbling was at its most vigorous.
Kinokawa official Tomiko Waki told journalists the porn king's surfing habits had gone unnoticed since the he was seated away from other staff who could not see what was on his screen.
They put his strange noises down to personal peccadillos, it seems.
The lightning surfer was found out after he picked up a computer virus and technical support examined his browser's history. He was subsequently demoted and suffered a pay cut.
It is not clear whether the man will now have his desk anywhere near less distracted workers.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/02/civil-servant-gets-pron
Posted: 5 May 2008, 4:32pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Catholic church wants Ramsay off air
May 05, 2008 04:35pm
THE Catholic church has taken a swipe at foul-mouthed British chef Gordon Ramsay and demanded his reality television shows be either taken off air or shown at a later time.
The move comes as the Senate holds an inquiry into swearing on television, prompted by Ramsay's antics in his series Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen .
One episode broadcast recently featured Ramsay using a four-letter expletive more than 80 times, while he also shouts at a chef saying: "You French pig."
"There can be no excuse for vilification of this sort. We conclude that this episode should never have been aired on Australian television," the Adelaide Catholic diocese said in a submission to the parliamentary inquiry.
Ramsay's reality programs are ratings drawcards for Channel Nine but they have also prompted complaints from schools and parent groups who are angry that the shows are broadcast at times when children may be watching television.
Two of the Ramsay programs air at 8:30 pm, while one of the shows, Hell's Kitchen, where contestants compete to win a restaurant, is aired at a later 9:30 pm time slot.
Liberals Senator Cory Bernardi initiated a Senate inquiry into swearing after his office received several complaints about Ramsay's programs.
The inquiry has received more than 50 public submissions, with the overwhelming majority in favour of tighter regulation and calling for Nine to censor Ramsay.
But the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties said it has no problems with Ramsay's programs, which regularly attract more than 1 million viewers.
"This inquiry is yet another attempt to restrict the freedom of expression of ordinary Australians. Not everyone is offended by coarse language," the council said in its submission.
May 05, 2008 04:35pm
THE Catholic church has taken a swipe at foul-mouthed British chef Gordon Ramsay and demanded his reality television shows be either taken off air or shown at a later time.
The move comes as the Senate holds an inquiry into swearing on television, prompted by Ramsay's antics in his series Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen .
One episode broadcast recently featured Ramsay using a four-letter expletive more than 80 times, while he also shouts at a chef saying: "You French pig."
"There can be no excuse for vilification of this sort. We conclude that this episode should never have been aired on Australian television," the Adelaide Catholic diocese said in a submission to the parliamentary inquiry.
Ramsay's reality programs are ratings drawcards for Channel Nine but they have also prompted complaints from schools and parent groups who are angry that the shows are broadcast at times when children may be watching television.
Two of the Ramsay programs air at 8:30 pm, while one of the shows, Hell's Kitchen, where contestants compete to win a restaurant, is aired at a later 9:30 pm time slot.
Liberals Senator Cory Bernardi initiated a Senate inquiry into swearing after his office received several complaints about Ramsay's programs.
The inquiry has received more than 50 public submissions, with the overwhelming majority in favour of tighter regulation and calling for Nine to censor Ramsay.
But the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties said it has no problems with Ramsay's programs, which regularly attract more than 1 million viewers.
"This inquiry is yet another attempt to restrict the freedom of expression of ordinary Australians. Not everyone is offended by coarse language," the council said in its submission.
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Posted: 5 May 2008, 4:58pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Fuck me that's stupid!
Never heard the term sticks and stones eh?
As far as I knew 8:30 has been the cutoff point for 'family friendly' viewing for as long as I've been watching TV anyway. As a kid I used to love having the chance in holidays, etc. to stay up and watch a 'proper' movie with some violence etc.
Normally though it was bed at 8:30 so I guess these days parents are allowing their kids to stay up past this time if the quote 'the shows are broadcast at times when children may be watching television.' is anything to go by.
And the Australia Becoming a Nanny Country saga continues...
Never heard the term sticks and stones eh?
As far as I knew 8:30 has been the cutoff point for 'family friendly' viewing for as long as I've been watching TV anyway. As a kid I used to love having the chance in holidays, etc. to stay up and watch a 'proper' movie with some violence etc.
Normally though it was bed at 8:30 so I guess these days parents are allowing their kids to stay up past this time if the quote 'the shows are broadcast at times when children may be watching television.' is anything to go by.
And the Australia Becoming a Nanny Country saga continues...
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Posted: 5 May 2008, 5:00pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
grrrr.
If it offends then don't watch it.
Posted: 5 May 2008, 5:09pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Ramsay's reality programs are ratings drawcards for Channel Nine but they have also prompted complaints from schools and parent groups who are angry that the shows are broadcast at times when children may be watching television.
Aren't PARENTS responsible for their children's viewing? Therefore, it doesn't matter what time it's on, if the PARENTS are monitoring the bloody TV.
And the Australia Becoming a Nanny Country saga continues...
grrrr.
If it offends then don't watch it.
If it offends then don't watch it.
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Posted: 5 May 2008, 5:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Aren't PARENTS responsible for their children's viewing? Therefore, it doesn't matter what time it's on, if the PARENTS are monitoring the bloody TV.
we usedta watch country practice and neighbours upstairs in my parents room..they never realised...our house was big enuff that we could get away with it! i am sure kids do the same.
that said, soooo many families have 2 PLUS tvs in their houses, thats WAY too much imo!!
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Posted: 5 May 2008, 5:47pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
we usedta watch country practice and neighbours upstairs in my parents room..they never realised...our house was big enuff that we could get away with it! i am sure kids do the same.
that said, soooo many families have 2 PLUS tvs in their houses, thats WAY too much imo!!
that said, soooo many families have 2 PLUS tvs in their houses, thats WAY too much imo!!
I hear of many families who have TVs and computers in all their kids' rooms...very bad...but, hey it's their choice I suppose...
Posted: 5 May 2008, 6:32pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
we usedta watch country practice and neighbours upstairs in my parents room..they never realised...our house was big enuff that we could get away with it! i am sure kids do the same.
that said, soooo many families have 2 PLUS tvs in their houses, thats WAY too much imo!!
that said, soooo many families have 2 PLUS tvs in their houses, thats WAY too much imo!!
Well, that's the PARENTS problem then, isn't it?
I never had a TV in my room until I was 15.
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Posted: 5 May 2008, 6:41pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
yeah-huh, i wasnt disagreeing with ya babe.
i was just pointing out that if parents dont want kids to see stuff, then they shouldnt provide em with the means. that being said, kids are super tricky and will always find a way to see shows they arent allowed to watch!
i was just pointing out that if parents dont want kids to see stuff, then they shouldnt provide em with the means. that being said, kids are super tricky and will always find a way to see shows they arent allowed to watch!
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Posted: 5 May 2008, 6:49pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
When I was a fucking young cunt I used to be able to watch whatever the fuck I wanted with no fucking repercussions from any motherfucka. Fuck any fucking tossbag who thinks they can make decisions for anyone else. They can get fucked, the fucking cunts. I remember watching 'Goodfellas', 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Scarface' when I was just fucking 8 years old. Look how the fuck I turned out, cunts. Not a fucking thing wrong with me. Fucking Catholics. Don't like a bit of fucking heat in the fucking kitchen, but when a fucking statue of a fucking virgin bleeds out it's fucking eyes they do fucking somersaults.
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Posted: 5 May 2008, 6:52pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
When I was a fucking young cunt I used to be able to watch whatever the fuck I wanted with no fucking repercussions from any motherfucka. Fuck any fucking tossbag who thinks they can make decisions for anyone else. They can get fucked, the fucking cunts. I remember watching 'Goodfellas', 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Scarface' when I was just fucking 8 years old. Look how the fuck I turned out, cunts. Not a fucking thing wrong with me. Fucking Catholics. Don't like a bit of fucking heat in the fucking kitchen, but when a fucking statue of a fucking virgin bleeds out it's fucking eyes they do fucking somersaults.
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Posted: 5 May 2008, 7:16pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Posted: 5 May 2008, 7:37pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
When I was a fucking young cunt I used to be able to watch whatever the fuck I wanted with no fucking repercussions from any motherfucka. Fuck any fucking tossbag who thinks they can make decisions for anyone else. They can get fucked, the fucking cunts. I remember watching 'Goodfellas', 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Scarface' when I was just fucking 8 years old. Look how the fuck I turned out, cunts. Not a fucking thing wrong with me. Fucking Catholics. Don't like a bit of fucking heat in the fucking kitchen, but when a fucking statue of a fucking virgin bleeds out it's fucking eyes they do fucking somersaults.
Fucking same here mate, couldn't have worded the cunt better my fucking self.
Posted: 5 May 2008, 9:53pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I once had this battery with an alkaline problem. I took it to AA meetings.
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Posted: 5 May 2008, 11:17pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Don't like a bit of fucking heat in the fucking kitchen, but when a fucking statue of a fucking virgin bleeds out it's fucking eyes they do fucking somersaults.
QFT!
Has to be one of the contenders for sentence of the year for me!
And this ladies and gentlemen comes from the mouth of a product of not only the Paradise Assembly of God but also it's partner in corruption, the Sunshine Christian College.
Lord, imagine what he'd be like if he had a non-religious upbringing!
Posted: 6 May 2008, 2:30amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Easy mate. I ain't a product of the good old AOG, just got dragged there a few times. Motherfuckas saw I was banking some major paper and wanted in on the action. As for SCC (Sunrise Christian School)- close but no cigar. Secondary education courtesy of Temple Christian College. Do your research Lachie!
PS. I did use to teach Sunday School. So be on the look-out for more Spirit of Truth style evangelists near you in the next decade.
PS. I did use to teach Sunday School. So be on the look-out for more Spirit of Truth style evangelists near you in the next decade.
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Posted: 6 May 2008, 2:34amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Easy mate. I ain't a product of the good old AOG, just got dragged there a few times. Motherfuckas saw I was banking some major paper and wanted in on the action. As for SCC (Sunrise Christian School)- close but no cigar. Secondary education courtesy of Temple Christian College. Do your research Lachie!
PS. I did use to teach Sunday School. So be on the look-out for more Spirit of Truth style evangelists near you in the next decade.
PS. I did use to teach Sunday School. So be on the look-out for more Spirit of Truth style evangelists near you in the next decade.
Ah well. I knew it was some religious whacko school! My bad
Still a gold post mate, good to see you reformed...
Posted: 6 May 2008, 2:55amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Ah well. I knew it was some religious whacko school!
I'll lay hands on you for that comment.
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Posted: 6 May 2008, 3:28amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I'll lay hands on you for that comment.
I've got a sore back and neck at the moment, that'd be great cheers!
Posted: 6 May 2008, 9:53amSubject: Re: In The News Today
we usedta watch country practice and neighbours upstairs in my parents room..they never realised...our house was big enuff that we could get away with it! i am sure kids do the same.
wow, you're so lucky you didn't turn out to be a bad egg after that anna.
When I was a fucking young cunt I used to be able to watch whatever the fuck I wanted with no fucking repercussions from any motherfucka. Fuck any fucking tossbag who thinks they can make decisions for anyone else. They can get fucked, the fucking cunts. I remember watching 'Goodfellas', 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Scarface' when I was just fucking 8 years old. Look how the fuck I turned out, cunts. Not a fucking thing wrong with me. Fucking Catholics. Don't like a bit of fucking heat in the fucking kitchen, but when a fucking statue of a fucking virgin bleeds out it's fucking eyes they do fucking somersaults.
i had that kind of upbringing. as long as my folks were with me, i could watch anything. big thanks to them for introducing me to boyz n the hood and new jack city at about 7 or 8!
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Posted: 6 May 2008, 1:41pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Man arrested after dead cats found in freezers
Around 300 dead cats were found stuffed into three freezers after police raided a home in northern California, local media reports said.
The Sacramento Bee reported that a 47-year-old man was arrested on Saturday after police made the grisly discovery at his home in Sacramento.
Thirty cats were found alive and placed in the care of city animal control workers, the report said.
Police said the house was littered with cat feces and that an 81-year-old woman described as the man's mother was also living at the address.
Around 300 dead cats were found stuffed into three freezers after police raided a home in northern California, local media reports said.
The Sacramento Bee reported that a 47-year-old man was arrested on Saturday after police made the grisly discovery at his home in Sacramento.
Thirty cats were found alive and placed in the care of city animal control workers, the report said.
Police said the house was littered with cat feces and that an 81-year-old woman described as the man's mother was also living at the address.
Posted: 7 May 2008, 4:40pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Potentially deadly virus found in SA
The potentially deadly mosquito-borne Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE) virus has been found in the South Australian Riverland. Health authorities said testing of local birds, following the discovery of the virus in Victoria and New South Wales over summer, had returned positive results for MVE. Birds were considered a good indicator of the presence of MVE because they had the ability to carry the virus without developing symptoms.
SA Health communicable disease control branch director Ann Koehler said the presence of the virus in birds would not necessarily have an impact on human health. There had been no confirmed cases of MVE in humans in South Australia for the past 30 years. "Only about one in 1,000 people infected with the virus develop any symptoms," Dr Koehler said. "Of those who do develop symptoms, approximately 20 per cent die from brain infection and 40 per cent of the survivors have permanent disability."
Symptoms of MVE include fever, headache, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, irritability, drowsiness, confusion and seizures. It is transmitted by mosquito bites and is always present in parts of northern Australia. After heavy wet seasons in the north it is sometimes found further south after being carried by various species of wild waterfowl.
Dr Koehler said while people should continue to take the usual protective steps against mosquito bites, there was no reason for Riverland residents to be alarmed. "And the arrival of colder weather will have a significant impact on the amount of mosquitoes in the area, helping halt the breeding," she said. Regular monitoring and control of mosquito breeding sites was being conducted by local councils, with support from SA Health.
In March this year, MVE was found in two chickens around Kerang, 280km north-east of Melbourne. A man died last month after contracting the virus in Western Australia's Kimberley region.
The potentially deadly mosquito-borne Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE) virus has been found in the South Australian Riverland. Health authorities said testing of local birds, following the discovery of the virus in Victoria and New South Wales over summer, had returned positive results for MVE. Birds were considered a good indicator of the presence of MVE because they had the ability to carry the virus without developing symptoms.
SA Health communicable disease control branch director Ann Koehler said the presence of the virus in birds would not necessarily have an impact on human health. There had been no confirmed cases of MVE in humans in South Australia for the past 30 years. "Only about one in 1,000 people infected with the virus develop any symptoms," Dr Koehler said. "Of those who do develop symptoms, approximately 20 per cent die from brain infection and 40 per cent of the survivors have permanent disability."
Symptoms of MVE include fever, headache, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, irritability, drowsiness, confusion and seizures. It is transmitted by mosquito bites and is always present in parts of northern Australia. After heavy wet seasons in the north it is sometimes found further south after being carried by various species of wild waterfowl.
Dr Koehler said while people should continue to take the usual protective steps against mosquito bites, there was no reason for Riverland residents to be alarmed. "And the arrival of colder weather will have a significant impact on the amount of mosquitoes in the area, helping halt the breeding," she said. Regular monitoring and control of mosquito breeding sites was being conducted by local councils, with support from SA Health.
In March this year, MVE was found in two chickens around Kerang, 280km north-east of Melbourne. A man died last month after contracting the virus in Western Australia's Kimberley region.
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 6:20amSubject: Re: In The News Today
righto so apparently the writer's strike has stopped people watching tele altogether:
No one is watching TV
BUT ALSO now the fucking actors are threatening strike! Yeh like they are so ahrd done by with fuck all pay!
Another Hollywood strike is upon us
No one is watching TV
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Has the writer's strike hurt TV ratings more than expected?
Many of the former top shows have hit their lowest ratings EVEr just in recent weeks. Such as CSI: Miami, The Simpsons, and Grey's Anatomy.
Even reality shows are feeling the decline in viewers, such as American Idol and Deal or No Deal.
ABC prime-time research chief Larry Hyams says, "I'm not convinced people realized their shows were back. It's not like there was a premiere week."
Yeah, okay. Sure.
Whatever you say, Larry!
Maybe people are just watching TV online????
Many of the former top shows have hit their lowest ratings EVEr just in recent weeks. Such as CSI: Miami, The Simpsons, and Grey's Anatomy.
Even reality shows are feeling the decline in viewers, such as American Idol and Deal or No Deal.
ABC prime-time research chief Larry Hyams says, "I'm not convinced people realized their shows were back. It's not like there was a premiere week."
Yeah, okay. Sure.
Whatever you say, Larry!
Maybe people are just watching TV online????
BUT ALSO now the fucking actors are threatening strike! Yeh like they are so ahrd done by with fuck all pay!
Another Hollywood strike is upon us
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Things aren't looking good. Hollywood may have another strike on their hands!
This times, it's the thespians at war with the big media moguls.
The studio/producer suits have broken off contract talks with the Screen Actors Guild cuz - they claim - SAG's DVD sales and online demands are "unreasonable."
The suits say there's no reason for another extension of talks.
The first rounds of talks lasted 18 days.
SAG president Alan Rosenberg said the decision to halt talks was unfortunate and deeply troubling.
SAG's contract for films and primetime TV shows expires June 30th.
Another strike would be DISASTROUS for Hollywood!
As we mentioned before, the smaller actors union, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is not working together with SAG on a unified deal.
It's AFTRA that will be meeting with the suits on Wednesday at the bargaining table.
Hopefully, SAG and the suits work something out before the June deadline.
This times, it's the thespians at war with the big media moguls.
The studio/producer suits have broken off contract talks with the Screen Actors Guild cuz - they claim - SAG's DVD sales and online demands are "unreasonable."
The suits say there's no reason for another extension of talks.
The first rounds of talks lasted 18 days.
SAG president Alan Rosenberg said the decision to halt talks was unfortunate and deeply troubling.
SAG's contract for films and primetime TV shows expires June 30th.
Another strike would be DISASTROUS for Hollywood!
As we mentioned before, the smaller actors union, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is not working together with SAG on a unified deal.
It's AFTRA that will be meeting with the suits on Wednesday at the bargaining table.
Hopefully, SAG and the suits work something out before the June deadline.
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 11:58amSubject: Re: In The News Today
WOAH!!!
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Earth and sky in electrifying battle of the elements
TWO spectacular forces of nature produced an incredible brew in the skies of Chile yesterday as a volcanic eruption met a lightning storm.
Tonnes of dust and ash from the eruption of the Chaiten volcano poured into the night sky just as an electric storm was passing overhead.
The resulting collision created an extraordinary sight as lightning flickered around the dust cloud in the fiery, orange glow of the volcano.
The eruption was all the more spectacular because the Chaiten volcano, 1300km south of Santiago, has been dormant for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, The Australian reported today.
The volcano, whose eruption has forced the evacuation of 4000 nearby residents, is part of a string of volcanoes running along the so-called Ring of Fire - an arc of active volcanoes extending north from the west coast of the Americas across the Alaskan-Siberian rim and south to Indonesia.
Chile hosts the second-most active volcanoes in the world behind Indonesia.
The Chaiten volcano began erupting on Friday. But the violence of the event increased dramatically yesterday as dust, gas and lava blasted fiercely out of the volcano, spreading ash across the region.
Residents living closest to the eruption were forced to use facemasks to avoid inhaling the ash, which is up to 15cm deep on the ground in some areas.
Chile's National Emergency Office said fine ash was still falling and that visibility was poor.
Interior Minister Edmundo Perez Yoma said: "We don't know if this is a situation that will last days or weeks or even more."
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Earth and sky in electrifying battle of the elements
TWO spectacular forces of nature produced an incredible brew in the skies of Chile yesterday as a volcanic eruption met a lightning storm.
Tonnes of dust and ash from the eruption of the Chaiten volcano poured into the night sky just as an electric storm was passing overhead.
The resulting collision created an extraordinary sight as lightning flickered around the dust cloud in the fiery, orange glow of the volcano.
The eruption was all the more spectacular because the Chaiten volcano, 1300km south of Santiago, has been dormant for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, The Australian reported today.
The volcano, whose eruption has forced the evacuation of 4000 nearby residents, is part of a string of volcanoes running along the so-called Ring of Fire - an arc of active volcanoes extending north from the west coast of the Americas across the Alaskan-Siberian rim and south to Indonesia.
Chile hosts the second-most active volcanoes in the world behind Indonesia.
The Chaiten volcano began erupting on Friday. But the violence of the event increased dramatically yesterday as dust, gas and lava blasted fiercely out of the volcano, spreading ash across the region.
Residents living closest to the eruption were forced to use facemasks to avoid inhaling the ash, which is up to 15cm deep on the ground in some areas.
Chile's National Emergency Office said fine ash was still falling and that visibility was poor.
Interior Minister Edmundo Perez Yoma said: "We don't know if this is a situation that will last days or weeks or even more."
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 11:59amSubject: Re: In The News Today
That looks awesome!
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 12:38pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Wow that kicks some serious ass!
Australia is such a boring continent.
We need volcanoes imo.
Australia is such a boring continent.
We need volcanoes imo.
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 12:48pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Australia is such a boring continent.
Agreed, all we have is stupid fires
That picture is fuckin nuts though, new desktop background for sure...Said we was garbage, so fuck college
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 1:28pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Wow that kicks some serious ass!
Australia is such a boring continent.
We need volcanoes imo.
Australia is such a boring continent.
We need volcanoes imo.
sydney gets good storms. dont forget, the volanoes around mt gambier are only DORMANT...would be cool if they erupted again sometime soon
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 2:52pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
sydney gets good storms. dont forget, the volanoes around mt gambier are only DORMANT...would be cool if they erupted again sometime soon
Haven't they been dormant longer than volcanoes on every other continent though? I thought as far as geological stability/change goes Australia was about as inactive as it gets compared to every other continent on earth...
Posted: 8 May 2008, 3:25pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Haven't they been dormant longer than volcanoes on every other continent though? I thought as far as geological stability/change goes Australia was about as inactive as it gets compared to every other continent on earth...
Pretty much.
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 6:15pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
mm that MAY be true but its not like australia doesnt have ANY intraplate volcanism or tectonism, the mt lofty ranges are very recent mountain ranges that will only get bigger over time
PS dont listen to leezee he isnt a graduated geologist!
PS dont listen to leezee he isnt a graduated geologist!
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 7:08pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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that completely cool
like some war of the worlds shit with aliens about to invade and enslave
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 7:27pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
new desktop background for sure...
For sure. Just got to hunt down a higher res version!
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 7:43pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
For sure. Just got to hunt down a higher res version!
Let me know when you find a 2560x1600px version please.
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 8:05pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
that completely cool
like some war of the worlds shit with aliens about to invade and enslave
like some war of the worlds shit with aliens about to invade and enslave
fantasy much??
Wow that kicks some serious ass!
Australia is such a boring continent.
We need volcanoes imo.
Australia is such a boring continent.
We need volcanoes imo.
bwahahahahaha. gold!
Posted: 8 May 2008, 8:06pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Let me know when you find a 2560x1600px version please.
http://galacticcentral.org/imagebucket/volcano.jpg
2996x2000 enough for you?
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 8:18pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yes, sure is.
Thanks
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 8:25pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
*Sets as Desktop Background*
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 8:27pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Shit's fake.
*walks away
*walks away
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 8:34pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 8 May 2008, 10:53pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
mm that MAY be true but its not like australia doesnt have ANY intraplate volcanism or tectonism, the mt lofty ranges are very recent mountain ranges that will only get bigger over time
PS dont listen to leezee he isnt a graduated geologist!
PS dont listen to leezee he isnt a graduated geologist!
Yeah but I will be soon!
P.S. You'll never be a graduated geophysicist, so there.
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Posted: 9 May 2008, 10:36amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Off their heads:corpse thieves use skull as bong
Authorities in Texas have filed corpse-abuse charges against two men who allegedly removed a skull from a grave and used it as a bong.
The Harris County District Attorney's Office confirmed today that misdemeanor abuse of corpse charges have been filed in the case.
One of the men allegedly told police they dug up a grave in an abandoned cemetery in the woods, removed a head from a body and smoked marijuana using the skull as a bong.
Police found the cemetery and a grave that had been disturbed but are still investigating the rest of the story, officials said.
Authorities in Texas have filed corpse-abuse charges against two men who allegedly removed a skull from a grave and used it as a bong.
The Harris County District Attorney's Office confirmed today that misdemeanor abuse of corpse charges have been filed in the case.
One of the men allegedly told police they dug up a grave in an abandoned cemetery in the woods, removed a head from a body and smoked marijuana using the skull as a bong.
Police found the cemetery and a grave that had been disturbed but are still investigating the rest of the story, officials said.
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Posted: 9 May 2008, 10:42amSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 9 May 2008, 10:44amSubject: Re: In The News Today
wouldve taken some work getting that sucker airtight I was thinking the exact same thingDOWN FOR WHATEVER!
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Posted: 9 May 2008, 11:02amSubject: Re: In The News Today
just heard on the radio one of the guys that killed that bloke in the road rage incident has given himself up to police.
Posted: 9 May 2008, 11:04amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yeah but I will be soon!
P.S. You'll never be a graduated geophysicist, so there.
P.P.S. I'm going to give you a call soon, I need some advice re jobs.
P.S. You'll never be a graduated geophysicist, so there.
P.P.S. I'm going to give you a call soon, I need some advice re jobs.
bout time!! and no probs, lemme know cause i can give ya some cool resume and cv tips too
ps shit aint fake, that sorta thing happens all the time! the ash cloud hits the upper atmosphere and the hot ash is full of charged particles which create that disturbance
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Posted: 9 May 2008, 5:36pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
craziness!
Texas sinkhole
A massive sinkhole has opened up in south-eastern Texas in the US, swallowing up vehicles and oil field equipment.
Texas sinkhole
A massive sinkhole has opened up in south-eastern Texas in the US, swallowing up vehicles and oil field equipment.
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Posted: 9 May 2008, 5:37pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Oh man those things are sweet! There is a website with heaps of em somewhere, huge holes in the middle of cities in the middle east!
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Posted: 9 May 2008, 7:11pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Stupid fuckers dividing by zero!!!
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Posted: 10 May 2008, 10:39amSubject: Re: In The News Today
checkit, in this one an oil drillhole went into a salt mine, the freshwater lake then drained into the salt mine...dissolved all the salt within hours, collapsing the mine and creating a ginormous hole in the ground! apparently the river which drained from the lake to the gulf of mexico actually REVERSED its flow direction back into the lake. u can see boats get sucked under!!
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[video: www.youtube.com]
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Posted: 10 May 2008, 12:41pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
crazy. love the old guy that was out to catch some catfish, he had the hat on to say that he had survived it, and he thought it was the end of the world
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Posted: 13 May 2008, 4:38amSubject: Re: In The News Today
http://www.money.co.uk/article/1000390-13-year-old-steals-dads-credit-card-to-buy-hookers.htm
A 13 year old from Texas who stole his Dad's credit card and ordered two hookers from an escort agency, has today been convicted of fraud and given a three year community order.
Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father's existing credit card company, and took his friends on a $30,000 spending spree, culminating in playing "Halo" on an Xbox with a couple of hookers in a Texas motel.
The credit card company involved said it was regular practice to send extra credit cards out as long as all security questions are answered.
The escort girls who were released without charge, told the arresting officers something was up when the kids said they would rather play Xbox than get down to business.
Police said they were alerted to the motel by a concerned delivery clerk, whom after delivering supplies of Dr Pepper, Fritos and Oreos had been asked by the kids where they could score some chicks and were willing to pay. They explained they had just made a big score at a "World of Warcraft" tournament and wanted to get some relaxation. On noting the boys age the delivery clerk informed the authorities.
When police arrived at the motel they found $3,000 in cash, numerous electronic gadgets, an Xbox video console with numerous games, and the two local escort girls.
Ralph had reportedly told police that his father wouldn't mind, as it was his birthday last week and he had forgot to get him a present. The father, a lawyer said he had been too busy, but would take him on a surprise trip to Disneyland instead.
Asked why he ordered two escorts, Ralph said he thought it was the thing to do when you win a "World of Warcraft" tournament. They told the suspicious working girls they were people of restricted growth working with a traveling circus, and as State law does not allow those with disabilities to be discriminated against they had no right to refuse them.
The $1,000 a night girls sensing something up played "Halo" on the Xbox with the kids, instead of selling their sexual services.
Ralph's ambition is to one day become a politician.
Posted: 13 May 2008, 8:27amSubject: Re: In The News Today
hahahahaha thats great
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Posted: 13 May 2008, 8:47amSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 13 May 2008, 9:50amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Ralph's ambition is to one day become a politician.
He's already most of the way there
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Posted: 13 May 2008, 1:32pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Alert as stomach bug hits
A HIGHLY infectious stomach bug has now hit 64 South Australians, a rate that is about five times higher than average. Shigella is a severe infection that prompted a public health alert earlier this year. The number of cases so far has already surpassed the total number of cases in any year for the past five years.
SA Health Communicable Disease Control Branch director Dr Ann Koehler said South Australians had less resistance to newer strains of infections like Shigella. "Due to a more mobile population, we are now seeing strains of some infections that have not often been seen in metropolitan Adelaide," she said. "We would urge anyone who is unwell with a gastro-like illness to practice simple hygiene, such as hand-washing, and to see their GP." Last year at this time there were only five recorded cases of Shigella. The five-year average is about 13.
The warning to protect against infections comes after 57 people fell ill from Norovirus at a conference in rural SA. SA Health said one person was responsible for spreading the infection and emphasised that it was not the fault of the facility. "I would like to stress the importance of proper hygiene, particularly among those suffering from gastroenteritis or caring for someone with diarrhoea," Dr Koehler said.
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Posted: 13 May 2008, 1:47pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Not leaving the house now. Oh wait I don't do that anyway.
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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Posted: 13 May 2008, 1:53pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Not leaving the house now. Oh wait I don't do that anyway.
Same here. Oh wait I never do as well!
Posted: 13 May 2008, 2:12pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Sweet!
Slab of beer buckled up safely, but not boy
* Police pull over man driving with unrestrained boy
* Find case of beer was buckled up instead
POLICE were shocked when they pulled over a driver near Alice Springs and found that while he had buckled up his slab of beer, the five-year-old boy next to it was unrestrained.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23690644-2,00.html
Slab of beer buckled up safely, but not boy
* Police pull over man driving with unrestrained boy
* Find case of beer was buckled up instead
POLICE were shocked when they pulled over a driver near Alice Springs and found that while he had buckled up his slab of beer, the five-year-old boy next to it was unrestrained.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23690644-2,00.html
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Posted: 13 May 2008, 9:12pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Alert as stomach bug hits
A HIGHLY infectious stomach bug has now hit 64 South Australians, a rate that is about five times higher than average. Shigella is a severe infection that prompted a public health alert earlier this year. The number of cases so far has already surpassed the total number of cases in any year for the past five years.
SA Health Communicable Disease Control Branch director Dr Ann Koehler said South Australians had less resistance to newer strains of infections like Shigella. "Due to a more mobile population, we are now seeing strains of some infections that have not often been seen in metropolitan Adelaide," she said. "We would urge anyone who is unwell with a gastro-like illness to practice simple hygiene, such as hand-washing, and to see their GP." Last year at this time there were only five recorded cases of Shigella. The five-year average is about 13.
The warning to protect against infections comes after 57 people fell ill from Norovirus at a conference in rural SA. SA Health said one person was responsible for spreading the infection and emphasised that it was not the fault of the facility. "I would like to stress the importance of proper hygiene, particularly among those suffering from gastroenteritis or caring for someone with diarrhoea," Dr Koehler said.
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Posted: 13 May 2008, 11:11pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Sweet!
Slab of beer buckled up safely, but not boy
* Police pull over man driving with unrestrained boy
* Find case of beer was buckled up instead
POLICE were shocked when they pulled over a driver near Alice Springs and found that while he had buckled up his slab of beer, the five-year-old boy next to it was unrestrained.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23690644-2,00.html
Slab of beer buckled up safely, but not boy
* Police pull over man driving with unrestrained boy
* Find case of beer was buckled up instead
POLICE were shocked when they pulled over a driver near Alice Springs and found that while he had buckled up his slab of beer, the five-year-old boy next to it was unrestrained.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23690644-2,00.html
luckily, no beer was harmed or broken in the arrest.
Posted: 14 May 2008, 12:14pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 1:14pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
gross, i thought gecko's were cute! but really, they are nasty pleasure seekers!
Gecko in chicken egg may be salmonella breakthrough
The Northern Territory president of the Australian Medical Association says he may have accidentally discovered how the potentially deadly salmonella bacteria gets inside chicken eggs. Dr Peter Beaumont was cooking when he discovered a dead gecko between the inner shell and the membrane of a chicken egg he cracked open. He believes the discovery is a world first and has handed the egg shell over to health authorities who will look for the presence of bacteria in the yolk and try to work out how the gecko got into the egg.
Dr Beaumont says he suspects the gecko entered the chicken before it entered the egg. "Eggs are made inside chooks up this tube from their bottom. Now obviously this tube is in contact with the whole outside world. "It has to be that the gecko climbed up inside the chook and died up there while the egg was being formed before the shell was put on it."
He says the discovery could have wide reaching implications for the egg farming industry, as it may explain how the potentially deadly salmonella bacteria gets into eggs. He says this could be something geckoes do regularly, and they could be responsible for infecting some eggs with salmonella. "There are still people poisoned from salmonella from eggs and particularly from chickens that aren't cooked properly and if there is a simple way of preventing eggs from becoming infected with salmonella, then it could have have a significant public health gain."
Gecko in chicken egg may be salmonella breakthrough
The Northern Territory president of the Australian Medical Association says he may have accidentally discovered how the potentially deadly salmonella bacteria gets inside chicken eggs. Dr Peter Beaumont was cooking when he discovered a dead gecko between the inner shell and the membrane of a chicken egg he cracked open. He believes the discovery is a world first and has handed the egg shell over to health authorities who will look for the presence of bacteria in the yolk and try to work out how the gecko got into the egg.
Dr Beaumont says he suspects the gecko entered the chicken before it entered the egg. "Eggs are made inside chooks up this tube from their bottom. Now obviously this tube is in contact with the whole outside world. "It has to be that the gecko climbed up inside the chook and died up there while the egg was being formed before the shell was put on it."
He says the discovery could have wide reaching implications for the egg farming industry, as it may explain how the potentially deadly salmonella bacteria gets into eggs. He says this could be something geckoes do regularly, and they could be responsible for infecting some eggs with salmonella. "There are still people poisoned from salmonella from eggs and particularly from chickens that aren't cooked properly and if there is a simple way of preventing eggs from becoming infected with salmonella, then it could have have a significant public health gain."
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 1:21pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
seekers or providers???
But that is fuckin horrid!!!
Can you imagine crackin an egg into the fryingpan and there bein a lil gecko curled around the yoke?!?!?!
But that is fuckin horrid!!!
Can you imagine crackin an egg into the fryingpan and there bein a lil gecko curled around the yoke?!?!?!
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 1:21pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
What dirty chicken would let a gecko crawl up their egghole?
Not this little black duck
"Doctor it was an accident, I was just in the bath and I slipped and fell on a gecko and it just happened to get stuck in my egghole"
Not this little black duck
"Doctor it was an accident, I was just in the bath and I slipped and fell on a gecko and it just happened to get stuck in my egghole"
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 2:59pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Poor chook! 'Fusionman' dons wings and flies
From correspondents in Bax, Switzerland May 15, 2008 02:09am
ICARUS crashed and burned when he flew too close to the sun but a modern-day Swiss adventurer has had a happier landing after testing his new jet-powered "wing". Yves Rossy, the self-styled "Fusionman", leapt into the skies 2500m above the small town of Bex in western Switzerland today clad in his new carbon wing.
He performed various manoeuvres for five minutes before landing with the aid of a parachute.
His "wing" is 2.5m in diameter and comes with four tiny jets, which are lit inside the plane just before he jumps.
Once in full flight, Rossy can reach speeds of up to 300km/h, but he can only stay in the air for a maximum of ten minutes due to the small fuel capacity of his jets.
Rossy, a 48-year-old former air force pilot who now works for the airline Swiss, first unveiled his design in 2004.
It hasn't always been an easy ride though - during one jump in 2005, he lost control of his wing and didn't open his parachute until he was just 500m above ground.
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 2:59pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol: Poor chook!
'Fusionman' dons wings and flies
From correspondents in Bax, Switzerland May 15, 2008 02:09am
ICARUS crashed and burned when he flew too close to the sun but a modern-day Swiss adventurer has had a happier landing after testing his new jet-powered "wing". Yves Rossy, the self-styled "Fusionman", leapt into the skies 2500m above the small town of Bex in western Switzerland today clad in his new carbon wing.
He performed various manoeuvres for five minutes before landing with the aid of a parachute.
His "wing" is 2.5m in diameter and comes with four tiny jets, which are lit inside the plane just before he jumps.
Once in full flight, Rossy can reach speeds of up to 300km/h, but he can only stay in the air for a maximum of ten minutes due to the small fuel capacity of his jets.
Rossy, a 48-year-old former air force pilot who now works for the airline Swiss, first unveiled his design in 2004.
It hasn't always been an easy ride though - during one jump in 2005, he lost control of his wing and didn't open his parachute until he was just 500m above ground.
'Fusionman' dons wings and flies
From correspondents in Bax, Switzerland May 15, 2008 02:09am
ICARUS crashed and burned when he flew too close to the sun but a modern-day Swiss adventurer has had a happier landing after testing his new jet-powered "wing". Yves Rossy, the self-styled "Fusionman", leapt into the skies 2500m above the small town of Bex in western Switzerland today clad in his new carbon wing.
He performed various manoeuvres for five minutes before landing with the aid of a parachute.
His "wing" is 2.5m in diameter and comes with four tiny jets, which are lit inside the plane just before he jumps.
Once in full flight, Rossy can reach speeds of up to 300km/h, but he can only stay in the air for a maximum of ten minutes due to the small fuel capacity of his jets.
Rossy, a 48-year-old former air force pilot who now works for the airline Swiss, first unveiled his design in 2004.
It hasn't always been an easy ride though - during one jump in 2005, he lost control of his wing and didn't open his parachute until he was just 500m above ground.
Posted: 15 May 2008, 5:10pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Meet Rudd's new 'rich' battlers
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has identified families earning more than $150,000 a year as the new rich. But try telling that to SA's Tanner family.
Wayne and Rebecca Tanner join many other families in saying they are "doing it tough every single day".
Their combined income of more than $150,000 is quickly swallowed by the cost of raising two children, an average-sized mortgage, running a financial planning business and meeting car payments and private school fees.
' "The Government may class us as rich in their Budget but I can tell you we do it tough every single day," Mr Tanner said.
"It's not cheap raising a young family and, when you throw in higher food prices and higher petrol prices, everything adds up."
While the family benefits from Treasurer Wayne Swan's $46.7 billion tax cuts, that is about where the generosity ends as $150,000 is the cut-off point where "middle-class welfare" no longer applies for families.
From January 1, such families as the Tanners no longer will be entitled to the $5000 Baby Bonus if they decide to have more children.
Also gone is the childcare benefit but the Government claims wealthy families would be better off by simply claiming the increased 50 per cent childcare tax rebate.
The Tanners also lose the Family Tax Benefit B, which equates to about $2500 a year for their children Taylah, 9, and Jack, 7. The Tanners, who live on the metropolitan coast, also would miss out on tax breaks for solar panels.
They would have been hit with the luxury car tax, which jumped to 33 per cent for $57,000-plus cars, had they delayed buying a 4WD.
Another measure targeting the hip pockets of the wealthy is the Medicare levy surcharge, which affects couples earning more than $150,000 who have not taken out private health insurance.
Mr Tanner says the Budget takes away an important Australian ethic – the incentive to work. The couple works a combined 80 hours a week.
Mr Swan said: "The Government does not believe hard-earned tax dollars are best spent on cash payments to the wealthiest Australians. It is simply not defensible."
Mr Tanner said inflationary pressures were putting a strain on their finances and every little thing they missed out in the Budget would hurt.
Oh fucking PLEASE! :palmface:
"the couple work a combined 80 hours a week" OH FUCKING NO! THAT'S A 40 HOUR WORKING WEEK! EACH!OMGWTF!!11
"Another measure targeting the hip pockets of the wealthy is the Medicare levy surcharge, which affects couples earning more than $150,000 who have not taken out private health insurance." So I can assume that these people have private health insurance since they don't mention it...
"They would have been hit with the luxury car tax, which jumped to 33 per cent for $57,000-plus cars, had they delayed buying a 4WD." Well lucky they didn't delay spending that $60000 on a car, that would have been financial suicide!
"The Tanners also lose the Family Tax Benefit B, which equates to about $2500" Fuck. That's 0.017% of their income. They're gonna be fucked.
"The Government may class us as rich in their Budget but I can tell you we do it tough every single day," with their mortgage and their business and their car payments and their private school fees... RIGHT. Lucky they don't keep guns in the house.
My god I fucking hate people. Hate them.
Does anyone know these cunts? The Tanners? Fuck me dead.
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has identified families earning more than $150,000 a year as the new rich. But try telling that to SA's Tanner family.
Wayne and Rebecca Tanner join many other families in saying they are "doing it tough every single day".
Their combined income of more than $150,000 is quickly swallowed by the cost of raising two children, an average-sized mortgage, running a financial planning business and meeting car payments and private school fees.
' "The Government may class us as rich in their Budget but I can tell you we do it tough every single day," Mr Tanner said.
"It's not cheap raising a young family and, when you throw in higher food prices and higher petrol prices, everything adds up."
While the family benefits from Treasurer Wayne Swan's $46.7 billion tax cuts, that is about where the generosity ends as $150,000 is the cut-off point where "middle-class welfare" no longer applies for families.
From January 1, such families as the Tanners no longer will be entitled to the $5000 Baby Bonus if they decide to have more children.
Also gone is the childcare benefit but the Government claims wealthy families would be better off by simply claiming the increased 50 per cent childcare tax rebate.
The Tanners also lose the Family Tax Benefit B, which equates to about $2500 a year for their children Taylah, 9, and Jack, 7. The Tanners, who live on the metropolitan coast, also would miss out on tax breaks for solar panels.
They would have been hit with the luxury car tax, which jumped to 33 per cent for $57,000-plus cars, had they delayed buying a 4WD.
Another measure targeting the hip pockets of the wealthy is the Medicare levy surcharge, which affects couples earning more than $150,000 who have not taken out private health insurance.
Mr Tanner says the Budget takes away an important Australian ethic – the incentive to work. The couple works a combined 80 hours a week.
Mr Swan said: "The Government does not believe hard-earned tax dollars are best spent on cash payments to the wealthiest Australians. It is simply not defensible."
Mr Tanner said inflationary pressures were putting a strain on their finances and every little thing they missed out in the Budget would hurt.
Oh fucking PLEASE! :palmface:
"the couple work a combined 80 hours a week" OH FUCKING NO! THAT'S A 40 HOUR WORKING WEEK! EACH!OMGWTF!!11
"Another measure targeting the hip pockets of the wealthy is the Medicare levy surcharge, which affects couples earning more than $150,000 who have not taken out private health insurance." So I can assume that these people have private health insurance since they don't mention it...
"They would have been hit with the luxury car tax, which jumped to 33 per cent for $57,000-plus cars, had they delayed buying a 4WD." Well lucky they didn't delay spending that $60000 on a car, that would have been financial suicide!
"The Tanners also lose the Family Tax Benefit B, which equates to about $2500" Fuck. That's 0.017% of their income. They're gonna be fucked.
"The Government may class us as rich in their Budget but I can tell you we do it tough every single day," with their mortgage and their business and their car payments and their private school fees... RIGHT. Lucky they don't keep guns in the house.
My god I fucking hate people. Hate them.
Does anyone know these cunts? The Tanners? Fuck me dead.
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 5:24pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Meet Rudd's new 'rich' battlers
My god I fucking hate people. Hate them.
Does anyone know these cunts? The Tanners? Fuck me dead.
My god I fucking hate people. Hate them.
Does anyone know these cunts? The Tanners? Fuck me dead.
I read that story this morning and laughed... have a fuckin cry. The best bit is the medicare surcharge rant, it's actually gone up to $150K from $100K for a family. These cunts should have private health insurance anyway, that's what the surcharge is for.
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 5:24pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
yeah its shit isnt it! get rid of the ten tvs in the house, walk more and buy 2nd hand clothes instead of new stuff all the time!
fuck, when i think back to when i was young, and even before i was born, we only ever had 2nd or 3rd hand clothes, had fruit for all our snacks and went to the library for entertainment!!!! its pretty rough expecting that your lifestyle wont change AT ALL when u have kids.
fuck, when i think back to when i was young, and even before i was born, we only ever had 2nd or 3rd hand clothes, had fruit for all our snacks and went to the library for entertainment!!!! its pretty rough expecting that your lifestyle wont change AT ALL when u have kids.
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 5:26pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
My god I fucking hate people. Hate them.
Does anyone know these cunts? The Tanners? Fuck me dead.
Does anyone know these cunts? The Tanners? Fuck me dead.
theyre upset howards high-income welfare is a thing of the past.fuck me. if anyone has their address, can someone drive-by egg their luxury car for us?
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 5:28pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
of course my rant was all about my experiences as a childless young woman haha! but u know what i mean. i wouldnt expect at all to do it easyfor the first 10 or 15 years of having kids.
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 5:35pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
its pretty rough expecting that your lifestyle wont change AT ALL when u have kids.
its not even that. its that they are whingeing their tits off over their luxury car tax, paying for private schools.
besides, theyre lucky theres no bogan tax for naming your kids 'Taylah' or 'Jorja' or 'Pepsee' or whatever the fuck misspelled advertising product name seems to be the hot baby name of the week.
doing it tough, lol.
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 5:44pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
That's exactly it. I hope to be earning that kind of money by myself in a (probably long) while. But who the fuck calls themselves a struggling family when they have a house, a brand new 4wd (and probably a 30k "runabout"), sends their kids to private school etc etc.
Fuck me!
exactly.
P.S. I only read them for the comments...
Fuck me!
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 5:52pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Does anyone know these cunts? The Tanners? Fuck me dead.
LOL
I actually knew these people reasonably well. Used to work with Wayne at Westpac.
He is a financial adviser. Ex Norwood player. Great bloke to be honest.
We got drunk together on many occasions. Stayed at his pub in Clare (yes his pub)
He used to jokingly say he was a millionaire back then because he owed a million dollars on property investments. This is going back 7 or 8 years so the rates may have hit him hard I haven't spoken to him for probably 4 years.
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 5:54pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Holy shit, people like that make me want to fucking stab.
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 5:55pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
sell ur story to current affair, they love welfare cheats and dobbing in whingers even more than they love the whingers!!
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 5:57pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Nah I actually like the guy but this is ridiculous.
Posted: 15 May 2008, 8:59pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
"the couple work a combined 80 hours a week" OH FUCKING NO! THAT'S A 40 HOUR WORKING WEEK! EACH!OMGWTF!!11
My god I fucking hate people. Hate them.
Does anyone know these cunts? The Tanners? Fuck me dead.
wernt they on a series called "full house"
150 k between them. thats 75 fucking k each a year!!! i thought i was doing it tough.
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 9:07pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
That's at least $150k. I would be saying their earnings would be well over that.
I cannot believe the nerve of them LMAO
Their house was amazing from what I hear, near the beach.
The shame was they promised their son his own tropical island this year, looks like he won't get it now.
Posted: 15 May 2008, 9:12pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 9:21pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
that article is a joke. Real battlers are people earning the minimum wage, people who are on and off the street, Indigenous people with a life expectancy less than the average Bangladeshi citizen, etc...I can't believe how what was actually a valid colloquialism has been so badly assaulted over the past decade (in particular by Howard and co.). It really is disgusting.
That family and anyone who had any part in that story needs to get out of whatever bubble they're living in and realise just how lucky they are with their house and kids at a private school and so on. Mortgage stress? As if you can blame anyone but yourself for that!
Posted: 15 May 2008, 10:24pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I think it's awesome they're getting rid of middle class welfare.
Welfare should be for people who *really* need it, who are on the poverty line, who are struggling to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads... shall I go on?
These people are NOT struggling, they are not "battlers". It's disgusting that they have the *nerve* to say they are doing it tough everyday. If they want to ease the financial pressure on themselves, then why don't they get cheaper cars, or move their kids into a public school? I'm sure there are loads of places they could make cuts to save money in their household budget.
Welfare should be for people who *really* need it, who are on the poverty line, who are struggling to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads... shall I go on?
These people are NOT struggling, they are not "battlers". It's disgusting that they have the *nerve* to say they are doing it tough everyday. If they want to ease the financial pressure on themselves, then why don't they get cheaper cars, or move their kids into a public school? I'm sure there are loads of places they could make cuts to save money in their household budget.
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Posted: 15 May 2008, 10:28pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I think we can conclude from that article that 'battler' officially means nothing now.
Posted: 15 May 2008, 11:00pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
wernt they on a series called "full house"
I believe the Tanners lived with this lil' fella!
Posted: 16 May 2008, 9:33amSubject: Re: In The News Today
that story really fucked me off yesterday. ali and i earn half what they do combined and we're not complaining yet.
did anyone else notice the 120cm wall mounted plasma in the background of their photo there too? yeah real tough. saying shit like they have to pay for their kids PRIVATE EDUCATION on top of everything else is making it so hard was the biggest joke in the article. send them to PUBLIC SCHOOL then you arrogant fucks.
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 1:16pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
OH MY GOD
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 1:48pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I reckon though for a family of five people, these days you wouldnt save much from it by end of the year. (Isnt that pretty much what 2 teachers would make these days? A public school teacher I know, who is a Junior high PE teacher started on 55k and is now just under 60k. Senior school & higher level edn teachers make more than him. And Teachers are forever saying they struggle. )
I dont think this family deserves any welfare payouts though.
hmm, I am speaking from experience here but both my parents were involved in education, my mom had 15 years plus experience and was even head of the social sciences curriculum, and was only earning 55K. For someone who was almost 60, thats pretty low! And doesnt leave you much super to save up. My dad only ever made $70K, as a UNIVERSITY LECTURER with 40 years experience. Shocking eh! Teachers DO struggle, they do a LOT of overtime (bringing work home, etc) which really doesnt get remunerated. sure, they get some holidays, but alot of that is taken up doing inservices, end of year stuff and preparation for classes for the next term. and marking!) I dont think this family deserves any welfare payouts though.
what a funny story tho, they've really shot themselves in the foot!
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 2:07pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
That couple must have some serious balls to come out and say that kind of thing though.
FunkyJ, comments like that really show how distorted some peoples views are towards society. You'd be surprised (or maybe not, I don't know) at the number of people who genuinely have attitudes like that.
Erika, teachers do struggle. There's a pretty low limit on what teachers can earn no matter how senior they get within the education system. Teachers at all levels bring a lot of work home and it is quite a stressful job for many. As Anna just mentioned after decades of experience even university lecturers aren't paid that much... In the private sector I'd say people with 40 years of experience and with the same level of tertiary qualifications that most senior university lecturers would have are earning significantly more than 70K a year.
FunkyJ, comments like that really show how distorted some peoples views are towards society. You'd be surprised (or maybe not, I don't know) at the number of people who genuinely have attitudes like that.
Erika, teachers do struggle. There's a pretty low limit on what teachers can earn no matter how senior they get within the education system. Teachers at all levels bring a lot of work home and it is quite a stressful job for many. As Anna just mentioned after decades of experience even university lecturers aren't paid that much... In the private sector I'd say people with 40 years of experience and with the same level of tertiary qualifications that most senior university lecturers would have are earning significantly more than 70K a year.
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 2:55pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Well there are always going to be some people who manage any job more easily than others. Sorry, perhaps I should not have used the word struggle but the point about teachers workloads vs their salaries and long term potential income stands...
I don't know if anyone working full time who isn't earning near the minimum wage should get welfare. Depends on how you define welfare I guess... That's another discussion altogether. The baby bonus is welfare and everybody gets that (except I think that's about to be changed).
Yes public and private teachers get paid different amounts, the differences aren't huge though and it's certainly not that all in one are getting more than all in the other.
Your point about the public service thing is perfectly valid. Many people go into that simply for the job security. I am in discussions with senior figures within an educational institution in relation to some work I am doing and they basically admit that you can fuck up in a huge way in the public service and you simply will not lose your job.
I don't know if anyone working full time who isn't earning near the minimum wage should get welfare. Depends on how you define welfare I guess... That's another discussion altogether. The baby bonus is welfare and everybody gets that (except I think that's about to be changed).
Yes public and private teachers get paid different amounts, the differences aren't huge though and it's certainly not that all in one are getting more than all in the other.
Your point about the public service thing is perfectly valid. Many people go into that simply for the job security. I am in discussions with senior figures within an educational institution in relation to some work I am doing and they basically admit that you can fuck up in a huge way in the public service and you simply will not lose your job.
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 3:00pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I do agree that about workloads... but all public servants (who do their work properly) are actually under resourced and over worked.
Ain't that the truth. Not really getting any better either!
Posted: 16 May 2008, 3:03pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yeh I guess each to their own.
The guy I knew didnt seem to be struggling much. He took work home but he worked 9 til 4, whereas I work 9 til 6 or 9 til 7, so I didnt have too much sympathy for him. If people on here are going to say that 75 k per year isnt struggling then how can 60k plus be struggling? I dont get that. hmm Maybe im confused?
Do you think two teachers on 60k plus a year = 120k plus a year deserve welfare? hmmm
I totally agree though, at Uni it is higher level and they should be paid more as the level of learning is far more difficult. Im talking about kiddies though- not young adults
I mean also, we need to realise that teachers in the public system are PUBLIC servants. Most average public servants dont make much more than 50k a year.
They make more than the normal public servant does. (I guess people are going to say the public servants dont deserve more than that ) We must understand that they make the decision to be in a job that limits their income to less than 100k a year.... when they started their degree. Thats the life choice they make when they decide to go into the profession.
The guy I knew didnt seem to be struggling much. He took work home but he worked 9 til 4, whereas I work 9 til 6 or 9 til 7, so I didnt have too much sympathy for him. If people on here are going to say that 75 k per year isnt struggling then how can 60k plus be struggling? I dont get that. hmm Maybe im confused?
Do you think two teachers on 60k plus a year = 120k plus a year deserve welfare? hmmm
I totally agree though, at Uni it is higher level and they should be paid more as the level of learning is far more difficult. Im talking about kiddies though- not young adults
I mean also, we need to realise that teachers in the public system are PUBLIC servants. Most average public servants dont make much more than 50k a year.
They make more than the normal public servant does. (I guess people are going to say the public servants dont deserve more than that
) We must understand that they make the decision to be in a job that limits their income to less than 100k a year.... when they started their degree. Thats the life choice they make when they decide to go into the profession. didnt we just say that teachers take work home with them? and often work over weekends too? and you are using your experiences of just one person, to generalise that ALL teachers must have got it wrong when they say they are 'struggling'...for all you know, he could be renting in a sharehouse, single and without any major debts (mortgage, car etc)...course he wouldnt be struggling!
noone is saying that teachers are being hypocrites by accepting a lower-paying profession and then asking for raises... lets just say that the majority of peopel go into teaching cause they WANT to help people learn, and be part of the community, but thanks to their VERY active union, they are often in the news campaigning. i dont blame them, the amount of flack they get from parents and the public is nuts. in many other western countries, teaching is VERY well regarded and well paid too.
i agree though, welfare should exist for those who really need it, but who is to say that social security systems like that in norway and sweden (i believe EVERYONE gets very well looked after, lots of free healthcare services and education?) wouldnt work here also?
PS replied to that before i saw ur responses
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 3:04pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
We must understand that they make the decision to be in a job that limits their income to less than 100k a year.... when they started their degree. Thats the life choice they make when they decide to go into the profession.
Bingo, but this is also the same for lecturers depending on what faculty they below in. An arts lecturer doesn't and probably wont receive the pay as an engineering lecturer who would be on at least $100k.
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 3:11pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
i dont blame them, the amount of flack they get from parents and the public is nuts. in many other western countries, teaching is VERY well regarded and well paid too.
i agree though, welfare should exist for those who really need it, but who is to say that social security systems like that in norway and sweden (i believe EVERYONE gets very well looked after, lots of free healthcare services and education?) wouldnt work here also?
PS replied to that before i saw ur responses top discussion all round!
i agree though, welfare should exist for those who really need it, but who is to say that social security systems like that in norway and sweden (i believe EVERYONE gets very well looked after, lots of free healthcare services and education?) wouldnt work here also?
PS replied to that before i saw ur responses
top discussion all round!I don't know if I'd agree in saying that they get a lot of flack from parents but they certainly do from the "right" side of the political spectrum/public, in particular because of the strong union movement. This doesn't help while our media is so lopsided either cause it means that all the coverage they get paints teachers in a pretty bad light.
Also Anna you're right about teaching being much better regarded in other countries, in particular in Europe. At least in Germany if you ask people what professions they respect most teaching is up at the same level as working in medical fields (eg. being a GP). Ask the majority of people here and they wouldn't rate it very highly.
Australia has always under invested in education because we've always been fortunate enough to have plenty of well educated people from elsewhere in the world come here. After all, the government's attitude has generally been "why invest in a quality education system when we can just let people in from elsewhere who have had their education paid for by someone else?"
Bingo, but this is also the same for lecturers depending on what faculty they below in. An arts lecturer doesn't and probably wont receive the pay as an engineering lecturer who would be on at least $100k.
Why? Why shouldn't they receive the same amount?
This is another issue I have about Australian culture in general. People have a dislike of anything in the social sciences and humanities field as if it's something that is not valuable at all. I really can't understand it.
Posted: 16 May 2008, 3:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Why? Why shouldn't they receive the same amount?
Department incomes are higher (due to external/company funding) and wages need to be relevant compared to what a lectureer could earn outside of the uni... You should know Anna, geology departments wouldnt have a problem with getting external funding...
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 3:44pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I do agree that about workloads... but all public servants (who do their work properly) are actually under resourced and over worked.
That's because you have to do the work of the useless cunts around you that aren't doing there job and are not given the sack (in most cases not even repremanded). The public service can be funny, the buckets of money to spend each year and the amount of staff at hand within a particular department just with doesn't correlate to the actual work that needs to be done.
The baby bonus is welfare and everybody gets that (except I think that's about to be changed).
From what I can see that's the only welfare these fucking 'Tanners' are going to miss out on due to Tuesday's budget, if Mrs Tanner decides to squeeze out another kid. They got a tax cut FFS.
Posted: 16 May 2008, 3:52pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Department incomes are higher (due to external/company funding) and wages need to be relevant compared to what a lectureer could earn outside of the uni... You should know Anna, geology departments wouldnt have a problem with getting external funding...
yeah but the lecturers are paid by the uni, not the department. in fact the earth sciences lecturers here are really screwed over at the moment, massive classes and little to no extra funding to compensate, we have to get sponsorship from companies instead. which, really, diminishes the academic strengths of the degree, cause we have to cater to the sponsors wishes. its much better to stay independent!
its a set scale, and all lecturers get paid the same as far as i know, depending on their level. but differences probably lie in their research budgets, which may be topped up by outside consulting and stuff. if i were to stay in academia, i'd be starting on $40 or $50K, which is pretty crap compared to industry.
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 4:21pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Uh ha, i wasn't separating the consulting income from the uni income, so fair enough. It does make it hard to gauge actual salary then if a lecturer receives multiple income streams (and not necessarily dedicating a full 40hrs a week to their uni-only work)
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 4:22pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
In the news today... the Burma storms and the chinese earthquakes are pretty devastating.
the lack of aid getting into burma as well is disgusting.
the lack of aid getting into burma as well is disgusting.
Posted: 16 May 2008, 4:24pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
oh yeah, i was watching the news last nite...and, 20 000 people wiped out, the whole city a ghost town in just this one news story? sad.
that burma stuff is infuriating also!
that burma stuff is infuriating also!
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 4:42pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Holy crap teachers actually do earn more than I thought: http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/recruit/files/links/link_63468.doc
Lowest $43000, highest $82000. Not that I care, but I just thought that will all that complaining they were on really shit money.
I know, that's what shits me off the most! They almost certainly have private health insurance, they already bought their $60000+ car...
So all they got out of the budget was a fucking tax cut! And they lose the baby bonus as you said, but then again, if they're struggling, they surely wouldn't want to bring another child into this world would they? So they don't need the baby bonus either. Same goes for the luxury car tax.
So not only are they complaining when they earn $150k a year, but they haven't even lost anything, in fact they're better off. Fucking cunts. I'd like to see how well "Waynes" financial advisory business goes after this debacle... Can't see him being very good with money
Lowest $43000, highest $82000. Not that I care, but I just thought that will all that complaining they were on really shit money.
From what I can see that's the only welfare these fucking 'Tanners' are going to miss out on due to Tuesday's budget, if Mrs Tanner decides to squeeze out another kid. They got a tax cut FFS.
I know, that's what shits me off the most! They almost certainly have private health insurance, they already bought their $60000+ car...
So all they got out of the budget was a fucking tax cut! And they lose the baby bonus as you said, but then again, if they're struggling, they surely wouldn't want to bring another child into this world would they? So they don't need the baby bonus either. Same goes for the luxury car tax.
So not only are they complaining when they earn $150k a year, but they haven't even lost anything, in fact they're better off. Fucking cunts. I'd like to see how well "Waynes" financial advisory business goes after this debacle... Can't see him being very good with money
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 5:00pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
that burma stuff is infuriating also!
It's cases like this where the UN should force the military there to accept aid. Sitting on your hands cause the military government doesn't give a shit about their own people goes against one of the founding principles of the UN which is to "protect livelihood" or some relevant article in the UN declaration of human rights...
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 5:05pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 5:08pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Send in John Rambo
In all seriousness if Burma had oil or was of strategic importance the US could invade and liberate them from the oppressive regime. I'm sure they learnt a thing or two about jungle warfare between 1963 and 1975
In all seriousness if Burma had oil or was of strategic importance the US could invade and liberate them from the oppressive regime. I'm sure they learnt a thing or two about jungle warfare between 1963 and 1975
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 5:15pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
It's cases like this where the UN should force the military there to accept aid. Sitting on your hands cause the military government doesn't give a shit about their own people goes against one of the founding principles of the UN which is to "protect livelihood" or some relevant article in the UN declaration of human rights...
yeh
Its all to do with power though, they are scared that if we go in and help thier people will revolt, where as if we dont go in it solidifys thier point that the west are assholes etc... so thier people follow them even more.
Its harsh !!
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 5:22pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Newsflash, in reality the UN is a diplomatic entity.
Diplomatic Entity? It's an organisation of many countries. I don't think the member states agree on ANYTHING enough to call it a very well organised organisation either. That said it's better than nothing and the world would probably be worse off if it didn't exist at all.
Posted: 16 May 2008, 5:29pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 5:48pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
If I donate to the good start breakfast club can I go along? I actually would donate to this but I'm feeling kind of strapped for cash. I.e. donating money to the breakfast club might mean I can eat breakfast every once in a while. I really don't understand how I can't get Centerlink. I earn zero money but am above the poverty line somehow. All I get is a bit from the parents every week, which has to end now because they can't afford to give me money. So now I have to move to Goolwa (which will be good really). But thankyou Centerlink. You are doing a good job.
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 7:08pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
natho, this might be a stupid question because I know next to nothing about you, but why don't you get a job?
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 7:35pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Complicated story but I was trying for a while, but then my parents couldn't lend me any more money for living expenses, so I have to move to Goolwa. Catch 22 for me, because I need to live here to get a job, but need a job to live here. Goolwa will be better in the long run though. Probably save more money and I will have a job also. It just annoys me that I could have stayed up here if Centerlink had helped out. Now I have to move to Goolwa, save money etc. then try and get reastablished for the second time.
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 7:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
So...why can't you get a job?
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 7:43pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
something about a haircut....
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 7:45pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
something about a haircut....
I seriously hope not.
The word 'degenerate' springs to mind...
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 7:47pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 8:09pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Sorry, I will rephrase.
What types of jobs are you going for, and why can't you seem to get them?
What types of jobs are you going for, and why can't you seem to get them?
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 8:16pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I went for a huge range of jobs, but the main reason I didn't get an interview was because I have no experience in the fields, as it seems most employers want people with experience these days. I imagine I could easily get a job in hospitality, but I wanted to avoid that if possible. I might do hospitality work back in Goolwa though, would be better than in the city.
Most of the jobs I was going for were fairly simple jobs, i.e. working in shops, courier drivers, packing and so on.
Most of the jobs I was going for were fairly simple jobs, i.e. working in shops, courier drivers, packing and so on.
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 9:18pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
worked with an apprentice who said he was earning $25 an hour working behind the bar at the Vic.
dude.... seriously!!
dude.... seriously!!
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 11:17pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Sorry, I will rephrase.
What types of jobs are you going for, and why can't you seem to get them?
What types of jobs are you going for, and why can't you seem to get them?
harder to get jobs than you think mate. everyone wants 15yr olds working for then because they can charge minimum wage. pittance.
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Posted: 16 May 2008, 11:40pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
harder to get jobs than you think mate. everyone wants 15yr olds working for then because they can charge minimum wage. pittance.
So get some qualification or training so that you can get something a step above what 15 year olds can get. Surely that is an obvious and uncomplicated pathway to take?
Posted: 17 May 2008, 1:24pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Holy crap teachers actually do earn more than I thought: http://www.decs.sa.gov.au/recruit/files/links/link_63468.doc
Lowest $43000, highest $82000. Not that I care, but I just thought that will all that complaining they were on really shit money.
I know, that's what shits me off the most! They almost certainly have private health insurance, they already bought their $60000+ car...
So all they got out of the budget was a fucking tax cut! And they lose the baby bonus as you said, but then again, if they're struggling, they surely wouldn't want to bring another child into this world would they? So they don't need the baby bonus either. Same goes for the luxury car tax.
So not only are they complaining when they earn $150k a year, but they haven't even lost anything, in fact they're better off. Fucking cunts. I'd like to see how well "Waynes" financial advisory business goes after this debacle... Can't see him being very good with money
Lowest $43000, highest $82000. Not that I care, but I just thought that will all that complaining they were on really shit money.
I know, that's what shits me off the most! They almost certainly have private health insurance, they already bought their $60000+ car...
So all they got out of the budget was a fucking tax cut! And they lose the baby bonus as you said, but then again, if they're struggling, they surely wouldn't want to bring another child into this world would they? So they don't need the baby bonus either. Same goes for the luxury car tax.
So not only are they complaining when they earn $150k a year, but they haven't even lost anything, in fact they're better off. Fucking cunts. I'd like to see how well "Waynes" financial advisory business goes after this debacle... Can't see him being very good with money
No that I think they would be struggling... but they will also lose their child benefits from the government. This can be a considerable amount every year. But I think it's a great idea, they earn a very nice amount of coin so fuck them!!!
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 3:25pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I went for a huge range of jobs, but the main reason I didn't get an interview was because I have no experience in the fields, as it seems most employers want people with experience these days. I imagine I could easily get a job in hospitality, but I wanted to avoid that if possible. I might do hospitality work back in Goolwa though, would be better than in the city.
Most of the jobs I was going for were fairly simple jobs, i.e. working in shops, courier drivers, packing and so on.
Most of the jobs I was going for were fairly simple jobs, i.e. working in shops, courier drivers, packing and so on.
i reckon you'll struggle more in goolwa finding a job just quietly. especially in hospitality.
only a small town.there's so much building going on up that way, why not try and get some work with a builder or plumber or something?
good luck either way mate. and if it ever does come down to appearance, that's really just bad luck for you. you have to make sacrifices if you expect an employer to make one by employing you.
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 3:57pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
'Cotton wool kids' losing basic skills
PANICKY parents are breeding a generation of "cotton wool kids" too afraid to climb trees or ride their bikes, NSW's most senior child guardian has warned. Mums and dads are so fixated on keeping their children safe that children are growing into nervous adults without acquiring basic survival skills along the way. NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People Gillian Calvert has cautioned that alarm over stranger danger and traffic means that today's children are missing out on simple pleasures. "Over the past 10 years we have seen a real reduction in the range at which children can leave their family home and move freely," Ms Calvert told The Saturday Daily Telegraph. "Kids tell us they can't ride their bikes around streets any more."
The simple joys of childhood such as bike riding, climbing trees and even just crossing the road are basic skills that are in danger of being entirely lost. And doctors report that robbing kids of their freedom is pushing up rates of anxiety disorders in even the very young, while reducing play is denying children motor skills. The data were presented at a From Page 1NSW Commission of Children and Young People and University of NSW conference.
"There are real concerns about reduced play opportunities," the university's Sports Medicine Unit director Dr Carolyn Broderick said.
"Fundamental motor skills are developed through play as well as balance co-ordination and strength. And a lot of play equipment has gone from parks because of fear of litigation. "Children now have a fear that wasn't there in the past." Dr Broderick said research shows a significant drop in free play time and a quarter of parents were actually discouraging their children from playing sport because they were worried about injury. But it is not just backyard cricket that has gone missing - research in state schools found international events such as terrorist attacks were making children feel insecure.
"Some children expressed fear of global threats such as war and terrorism and had a general insecurity about their own future and their community's," Ms Calvert said.
"These concerns meant they lived life in a restrictive, guarded way, either as a result of restrictions imposed by others or themselves." Child expert Robyn Monro Miller warned fearful children would grow into fearful adults. "Even the RTA says children shouldn't cross the road by themselves until they are 10. How does the magic age of 10 mean you can cross a road?"
Sydney University's Brain and Mind Research Institute director Ian Hickie confirmed rates of anxiety in children were on the rise because of parents obsessed with keeping their child safe. "Parents think the world is more threatening and the idea is you have to protect them from the world," he said. Recent research found children as young as two were being treated for anxiety.
PANICKY parents are breeding a generation of "cotton wool kids" too afraid to climb trees or ride their bikes, NSW's most senior child guardian has warned. Mums and dads are so fixated on keeping their children safe that children are growing into nervous adults without acquiring basic survival skills along the way. NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People Gillian Calvert has cautioned that alarm over stranger danger and traffic means that today's children are missing out on simple pleasures. "Over the past 10 years we have seen a real reduction in the range at which children can leave their family home and move freely," Ms Calvert told The Saturday Daily Telegraph. "Kids tell us they can't ride their bikes around streets any more."
The simple joys of childhood such as bike riding, climbing trees and even just crossing the road are basic skills that are in danger of being entirely lost. And doctors report that robbing kids of their freedom is pushing up rates of anxiety disorders in even the very young, while reducing play is denying children motor skills. The data were presented at a From Page 1NSW Commission of Children and Young People and University of NSW conference.
"There are real concerns about reduced play opportunities," the university's Sports Medicine Unit director Dr Carolyn Broderick said.
"Fundamental motor skills are developed through play as well as balance co-ordination and strength. And a lot of play equipment has gone from parks because of fear of litigation. "Children now have a fear that wasn't there in the past." Dr Broderick said research shows a significant drop in free play time and a quarter of parents were actually discouraging their children from playing sport because they were worried about injury. But it is not just backyard cricket that has gone missing - research in state schools found international events such as terrorist attacks were making children feel insecure.
"Some children expressed fear of global threats such as war and terrorism and had a general insecurity about their own future and their community's," Ms Calvert said.
"These concerns meant they lived life in a restrictive, guarded way, either as a result of restrictions imposed by others or themselves." Child expert Robyn Monro Miller warned fearful children would grow into fearful adults. "Even the RTA says children shouldn't cross the road by themselves until they are 10. How does the magic age of 10 mean you can cross a road?"
Sydney University's Brain and Mind Research Institute director Ian Hickie confirmed rates of anxiety in children were on the rise because of parents obsessed with keeping their child safe. "Parents think the world is more threatening and the idea is you have to protect them from the world," he said. Recent research found children as young as two were being treated for anxiety.
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 3:57pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yeah I was looking at the trades side of thing, but I'm probably going to Uni mid year, so that would make it hard. If all else fails I should be able to get a job at Woolies. The main problem with the hospitality business down there now is the lack of water in the river. Unless we get a significant flood of rain into the river I think Goolwa will be a ghost town compared to what it has been like. I always have the chance of getting a job in a coffee shop or restaurant hopefully though. Still know a few people around town.
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 4:02pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
children as young as two were being treated for anxiety.
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 4:32pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
harder to get jobs than you think mate. everyone wants 15yr olds working for then because they can charge minimum wage. pittance.
Not really what I asked though.
I was trying to understand why Nathan is not able to secure work, as it sounds like he has been trying.
Is he getting to the interview stage? If not, is it because his CV or introduction letter needs work/updating?
If he is getting to the interview stage, what kinds of questions is he having trouble answering? What kind of feedback is he getting from employers when they say they have chosen another candidate?
There are plenty of jobs out there, it depends on what standard of work you expect to do.
Oliver has a great point - if your CV lacks training, certificates or experience in the particular market verticals you're showing interest in, it will be harder and harder to get a job.
If you're getting turned down by places like Woolies and Maccas for work, you have to take a serious look at how your present yourself and how you handle the interview process. Those jobs don't require much brain power, but they do require their staff to be profssional, presentable and team-oriented.
Would you rather have your 'individualistic' hair and no money, or money and just regular hair? Shouldn't be that difficult a decision.
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 6:27pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I'm failing to see how my hair is the point at the moment, as I would happily get it cut if I needed. A moot point really considering I haven't even made it to interviews. I imagine I would quite easily get a job at Maccas or Woolies, but I was trying to avoid that as much as possible, although it seems I will more than likely be working in woolies at Goolwa. My CV is also up to scratch after I was helped out by a professional Job Skills person.
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 9:18pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
So get some qualification or training so that you can get something a step above what 15 year olds can get. Surely that is an obvious and uncomplicated pathway to take?
sorry mate i have certified qualifications in 2 different specified areas of work and i have still had to go for the shittiest of shit jobs just to keep c/link happy. thats after applying at every other place that deals in those 2 areas. plus walking up and down streets and emailing for jobs i know i had no chance getting anyway. its bloody hard especially if you cant afford uni or even tafe courses. c/link are fucked and dont help you much in that area anyway. so that was a rather lame reply imo.
rob. spot on. all of those things help alot. just depends on what there looking for.
on a brighter note for the news today/yesterday, laura and i may have our own business in a week. just waiting for finances. if all goes well i'll be fuckin stoked!
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 9:34pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
sorry mate i have certified qualifications in 2 different specified areas of work
What areas?
And yes if you're about to start your own business good on you. Very sensible path to take if you're confident you can manage it yourself. I started one in high school and ran it as an "along the side" thing while at TAFE and Uni. Now I'm finished with TAFE and Uni and I'm only working for myself!
Posted: 17 May 2008, 10:55pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
What areas?
And yes if you're about to start your own business good on you. Very sensible path to take if you're confident you can manage it yourself. I started one in high school and ran it as an "along the side" thing while at TAFE and Uni. Now I'm finished with TAFE and Uni and I'm only working for myself!
And yes if you're about to start your own business good on you. Very sensible path to take if you're confident you can manage it yourself. I started one in high school and ran it as an "along the side" thing while at TAFE and Uni. Now I'm finished with TAFE and Uni and I'm only working for myself!
coopering/cabinetmaking and dog grooming. if that helps. working for yourself is the only way to go. working for the man sux.
in high school i was to busy being a kid and having fun to bother with work. probably should have listened more though.
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Posted: 17 May 2008, 11:23pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
coopering/cabinetmaking
I honestly find it hard to believe you could have problems if you tried hard enough going down either of those paths.
I do some work with large wineries (admittedly in a completely different area to where you might have potential) and the amount of money and growth in that industry is absolutely astounding if you wanted to pursue the coopering, IMO.
Instead of "walking up and down streets" have you thought about making a list of wineries in Adelaide/SA and contacting their employment people to explain your qualification and ask to meet someone to discuss opportunities? Might seem like an obvious question but there are many people who don't take what others would say are obvious steps so don't be offended if you have already done this and had no luck!
I don't know how closely related the cabinetmaking industry is to the general building industry, but it can't be that remotely related that you simply can not get a job in Adelaide doing it.
I have to say that perhaps I'm living in a bit of a bubble cause everything is working out reasonably well for me personally. But when I read about general economic growth in Australia and low unemployment I just have trouble believing anyone who says they "can't find a job".
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Posted: 18 May 2008, 1:27amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Oli, you have no idea of the industrial sector do you
nowadays.... coopering = machines
nowadays, most stuff = machines
a few years ago, trades were in super bullshit demand. now, manufacturing, and even mining (both the big moneymakers in trades) are going to China, the up-and-coming global superpower, have bugger all going for them. SOME mining is in dire need but pretty much moot.
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Posted: 18 May 2008, 1:47amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Fluke, What's the industrial sector got to do with my response to writa's post?
If coopering is in the industrial sector because producing wine is part of agriculture and agriculture is in the industrial sector, then I could just as well say me working in IT building websites for wineries is part of the industrial sector. After all, what good is wine stored in a quality oak barrel made by a qualified cooper and his machinery if you don't have a website designed by a graphic designer and developed by someone like me to display and sell the products to a growing international group of customers?
Coopering makes use of machinery (what physical profession doesn't?), but there's still a physical skill involved in making quality oak wine barrels. My point was that there is surely demand for quality oak wine barrels considering this state is a big producer of quality wines. If coopering equalled machines then why would it still exist as a profession? If it was genuinely some kind of profession that had been taken over by machines why would the qualification exist?
Edit: Just out of interest (and because you saying I had "no idea" riled me a bit) I googled for Australian cooperage companies and there are at least half a dozen of them in SA (unsurprisingly mostly in the Barossa Valley area) that are making barrels for the local wineries, and in one case (Yalumba) they make their own barrels within the company. Also, go search for "how are wine barrels made" and you'll see a few sites indicating that it's one of those professions that hasn't actually changed that much even though it is centuries old.
Saying mining is "going to China" is quite frankly, bullshit. We can't exactly send them a chunk of our continent can we? China can't get enough of what we are digging out. We have dozens of ships queuing up at the major export ports all the time now waiting to ship more off to China!
There's a huge demand for qualified people working in engineering and other mining related fields. Anyway I don't know why you brought mining up since it has nothing to do with what writa is qualified in...
If coopering is in the industrial sector because producing wine is part of agriculture and agriculture is in the industrial sector, then I could just as well say me working in IT building websites for wineries is part of the industrial sector. After all, what good is wine stored in a quality oak barrel made by a qualified cooper and his machinery if you don't have a website designed by a graphic designer and developed by someone like me to display and sell the products to a growing international group of customers?
Coopering makes use of machinery (what physical profession doesn't?), but there's still a physical skill involved in making quality oak wine barrels. My point was that there is surely demand for quality oak wine barrels considering this state is a big producer of quality wines. If coopering equalled machines then why would it still exist as a profession? If it was genuinely some kind of profession that had been taken over by machines why would the qualification exist?
Edit: Just out of interest (and because you saying I had "no idea" riled me a bit) I googled for Australian cooperage companies and there are at least half a dozen of them in SA (unsurprisingly mostly in the Barossa Valley area) that are making barrels for the local wineries, and in one case (Yalumba) they make their own barrels within the company. Also, go search for "how are wine barrels made" and you'll see a few sites indicating that it's one of those professions that hasn't actually changed that much even though it is centuries old.
Saying mining is "going to China" is quite frankly, bullshit. We can't exactly send them a chunk of our continent can we? China can't get enough of what we are digging out. We have dozens of ships queuing up at the major export ports all the time now waiting to ship more off to China!
There's a huge demand for qualified people working in engineering and other mining related fields. Anyway I don't know why you brought mining up since it has nothing to do with what writa is qualified in...
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Posted: 18 May 2008, 9:47amSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 18 May 2008, 3:51pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Fire up Oliver!
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Posted: 18 May 2008, 3:57pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I'm failing to see how my hair is the point at the moment, as I would happily get it cut if I needed. A moot point really considering I haven't even made it to interviews. I imagine I would quite easily get a job at Maccas or Woolies, but I was trying to avoid that as much as possible, although it seems I will more than likely be working in woolies at Goolwa. My CV is also up to scratch after I was helped out by a professional Job Skills person.
Where are you applying, and why are you not getting call backs?
Have you followed them up? Asked why they chose to employ someone else?
Most HR people will explain what was lacking with your CV and/or interview, which will enable you to make adjustments as to how you a) get your foot in the door through introductory letters and CVs and b) handle the interview process.
What is in Goolwa that you are so keen to get back to? Wouldn't you think that there are more job opportunities in the metropolitan area to try?
What is it you want to do? What did you enjoy doing in Highschool?
PS - Please post a pic of your hair. Maybe getting it cut BEFORE the interview might help your chances of securing work?
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Posted: 18 May 2008, 4:17pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Coopering makes use of machinery (what physical profession doesn't?), but there's still a physical skill involved in making quality oak wine barrels. My point was that there is surely demand for quality oak wine barrels considering this state is a big producer of quality wines. If coopering equalled machines then why would it still exist as a profession? If it was genuinely some kind of profession that had been taken over by machines why would the qualification exist?
Edit: Just out of interest (and because you saying I had "no idea" riled me a bit) I googled for Australian cooperage companies and there are at least half a dozen of them in SA (unsurprisingly mostly in the Barossa Valley area) that are making barrels for the local wineries, and in one case (Yalumba) they make their own barrels within the company. Also, go search for "how are wine barrels made" and you'll see a few sites indicating that it's one of those professions that hasn't actually changed that much even though it is centuries old.
4 companies in the barossa actually. 1 or 2 are mass produced (A.P. Johns is where i got my trade) yalumba only cooper for themselves with 5 or so people and 1 in adelaide (if its still even running) i'll be fucked if im moving or driving back to the barossa everyday to fuck my back up even more, let alone petrol on top of it. wouldn't be worth it.
on the machinery side of it. 75% of it is machine work. how else do you bend the fuckers/press/shape the angles of the staves/ drill the hole? by hand? thats what trade school is for and like i said, most employers want very young ppl that dont complain, get paid $6 p/h and that dont know shit about ie. work agreements, workers comp, "fair go", harassment/ getting there bodies thrashed beyond recognition.. etc.
After all, what good is wine stored in a quality oak barrel made by a qualified cooper and his machinery if you don't have a website designed by a graphic designer and developed by someone like me to display and sell the products to a growing international group of customers?
its not all about computers/internet mate. half of the companies i have worked for dont even have a computer.
p.s. dont think i'll need you for advertisement, i can do myself but thanks anyway.
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Posted: 18 May 2008, 4:29pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
good to see i'm not the only one who was infuriated by those chumps bringing in $150k a year with 2 kids in private schools and a luxury SUV saying "we're doing it tough every single day"
wtf!
i must agree that the alcohol tax is not very well thought out. making that distinction between bulk buy from the bottle - o vs. buying over the bar when you've had to show ID to get into the place to begin with is an important one.
perhaps a fair argument for taxing those 10 for 20 UDLs but it doesn't justify increasing what's already ridiculously priced over the bar
wtf!
i must agree that the alcohol tax is not very well thought out. making that distinction between bulk buy from the bottle - o vs. buying over the bar when you've had to show ID to get into the place to begin with is an important one.
perhaps a fair argument for taxing those 10 for 20 UDLs but it doesn't justify increasing what's already ridiculously priced over the bar
someone will see to it that the questions remain questions, getting lost amongst the crowd and the noise...
Posted: 18 May 2008, 4:36pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
good to see i'm not the only one who was infuriated by those chumps bringing in $150k a year with 2 kids in private schools and a luxury SUV saying "we're doing it tough every single day"
wtf!
i must agree that the alcohol tax is not very well thought out. making that distinction between bulk buy from the bottle - o vs. buying over the bar when you've had to show ID to get into the place to begin with is an important one.
perhaps a fair argument for taxing those 10 for 20 UDLs but it doesn't justify increasing what's already ridiculously priced over the bar
wtf!
i must agree that the alcohol tax is not very well thought out. making that distinction between bulk buy from the bottle - o vs. buying over the bar when you've had to show ID to get into the place to begin with is an important one.
perhaps a fair argument for taxing those 10 for 20 UDLs but it doesn't justify increasing what's already ridiculously priced over the bar
Smirnoff double black cans which are 7% have gone up from $20 per sixer to $30 at my work but these ice tea things that are 10% (which are quite tasty actually) havnt changed price. neither have the pulses. its all a joke really. stick to the passion pop. :spew:
im number 1 gangster. superman. king fucking kong!
you cant break me coz you didnt make me
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Posted: 18 May 2008, 5:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I read something that there is a loophole that some of the manufacturers are using. Something about if they can prove their product is a wine based drink then the new tax doesn't apply. And supposedly it is very easy to make the alcopops with a wine base.
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Posted: 18 May 2008, 5:40pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
wouldn't be worth it.
OK so if it's so hard to get a job in coopering go into another trade, or get some qualification in another area completely. That's going to help more than whinging about how hard it is to find a job in a trade with no opportunities (if that's genuinely the case).
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its not all about computers/internet mate. half of the companies i have worked for dont even have a computer.
p.s. dont think i'll need you for advertisement, i can do myself but thanks anyway.
p.s. dont think i'll need you for advertisement, i can do myself but thanks anyway.
I wasn't trying to imply that it was. Not sure what the advertisement comment is supposed to mean.
Posted: 18 May 2008, 6:48pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
After all, what good is wine stored in a quality oak barrel made by a qualified cooper and his machinery if you don't have a website designed by a graphic designer and developed by someone like ME to display and sell the products to a growing international group of customers?
finished. this news was yesterday. im me if you want to go on.
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Posted: 18 May 2008, 8:16pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
K we'll leave it...
Anyway back on topic. Check out this rather disturbing article relating to the food crisis and America's (and probably other rich countries) consumption: One Country’s Table Scraps, Another Country’s Meal[/quote]
Guess it's just another area where "wealth" (in this case food) isn't distributed fairly and so much is wasted...
Anyway back on topic. Check out this rather disturbing article relating to the food crisis and America's (and probably other rich countries) consumption: One Country’s Table Scraps, Another Country’s Meal[/quote]
Guess it's just another area where "wealth" (in this case food) isn't distributed fairly and so much is wasted...
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Posted: 19 May 2008, 4:30pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
K we'll leave it...
Anyway back on topic. Check out this rather disturbing article relating to the food crisis and America's (and probably other rich countries) consumption: One Country’s Table Scraps, Another Country’s Meal
Guess it's just another area where "wealth" (in this case food) isn't distributed fairly and so much is wasted...
Anyway back on topic. Check out this rather disturbing article relating to the food crisis and America's (and probably other rich countries) consumption: One Country’s Table Scraps, Another Country’s Meal
Guess it's just another area where "wealth" (in this case food) isn't distributed fairly and so much is wasted...
When I used to work at Tescos - we used to have to throw out black bags full of cakes and bread that wasn't eaten every day, and the amount of food that was chucked for one tiny tesco express store was shocking... and then multiply that by 1000's of Tescos stores across the country. I don't shop there any more because of it.. complete waste of resources and food.
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Posted: 19 May 2008, 4:32pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
where do you get your groceries from then? im pretty sure the same thing would be happening at each and every supermarket around the world... products past their use-by date have to get thrown out if not sold.
Posted: 19 May 2008, 4:34pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
its horrible huh! we really need to demand changes now, there's no need for such excessive wasteage. and when i say demand changes, i mean in both the hospitality industry (as conscientious consumers) as well as in our own houses (daily eating and weekly shopping habits)
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Posted: 19 May 2008, 6:19pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I read something that there is a loophole that some of the manufacturers are using. Something about if they can prove their product is a wine based drink then the new tax doesn't apply. And supposedly it is very easy to make the alcopops with a wine base.
I thought that was the loophole they closed...
Could be wrong though.
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How do these cunts continually get money to fund all these fucking stupid pointless research projects?
BECAUSE I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS!
Look, government cunts (and I know you read these boards!) if you want to know something, save your money and just ask me, OK?
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Posted: 20 May 2008, 2:24amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Look, government cunts (and I know you read these boards!) if you want to know something, save your money and just ask me, OK?
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Posted: 20 May 2008, 12:46pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Penis museum gets new members
By Bob Strong May 20, 2008 09:45am
A German, an American, an Icelander and a Briton have promised to donate their organs to the Icelandic Phallological Museum after death, according to certificates on display.
The museum, which began in 1974 with a single bull's penis that looked something like a riding crop, boasts 261 preserved members from 90 species.
The largest, from a sperm whale, is 70 kg and 1.7 metres long. The smallest, a hamster penis bone, is just 2mm and must be viewed through a magnifying glass.
One species conspicuous by its absence is homo sapiens, until the four donors contacted museum owner Sigurdur Hjartarson.
The American donor, 52-year-old Stan Underwood, supplied a written description of his penis – which he nick-named "Elmo" – for display alongside a life-size plastic mould of the member as well as his pledge to donate it.
Mr Hjartarson said the Icelandic donor, a 93-year-old from nearby Akureyri, was a womanizer in his youth who thought having his penis in the collection might bring him eternal fame.
"He has mentioned lately that his penis is shrinking as he gets older and he is worried it might not make a proper exhibit," said Mr Hjartarson.
The museum, originally opened in Reykjavik in 1997, has now moved to the quiet fishing village of Husavik, 480 km northeast of the capital.
Open from May to September, it is housed in a plain brown building, the entrance marked by a tall brown phallus near the door and a penis-shaped sign over the front porch.
A growing number of people from all over the world view the collection each year, 60 per cent of them women.
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Posted: 21 May 2008, 11:43amSubject: Re: In The News Today
LEGENDARY chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov was a pawn in a bizarre protest in Russia when his political speech was interrupted by a remote-controlled flying penis.
Kasparov - a noted critic of the Kremlin and recently retired president Vladimir Putin - was giving a speech to opposition forces a few days ago when a radio-controlled penis buzzed across the room.
The surreal prank was promptly cut short when one of his minders smashed the penis out of the air.
Kasparov - a noted critic of the Kremlin and recently retired president Vladimir Putin - was giving a speech to opposition forces a few days ago when a radio-controlled penis buzzed across the room.
The surreal prank was promptly cut short when one of his minders smashed the penis out of the air.
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Posted: 21 May 2008, 11:57amSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 21 May 2008, 11:58amSubject: Re: In The News Today
In Soviet Russia, penis fly you!
Posted: 21 May 2008, 12:33pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 21 May 2008, 2:56pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
MAGISTRATE has jailed a teen for answering his mobile phone in court.
The 17-year-old let his mobile ring with the music of US rapper Akon before he answered the call while sitting in the front row of Darwin Magistrates Court yesterday.
When the teen "backchatted'' after he was told off, magistrate Daynor Trigg shouted across the courtroom and sent him to the court cells for three hours.
The magistrate said he could have confiscated the phone for 28 days for the "rude'' act.
"How dare you answer a phone in court ... that allows transmissions from court ... which is a serious contempt,'' he shouted at the teen when he answered the phone.
When the teen waved it off as "my bad'', Mr Trigg ordered he be taken away.
The teen was in court to face two charges of entering a dwelling with intent and stealing when his phone rang, and Mr Trigg charged him with contempt of court.
When the youth was brought back into court he apologised.
"Sorry your honour for um ... having my phone on and answering it during court and backchatting,'' the teen said.
The 17-year-old let his mobile ring with the music of US rapper Akon before he answered the call while sitting in the front row of Darwin Magistrates Court yesterday.
When the teen "backchatted'' after he was told off, magistrate Daynor Trigg shouted across the courtroom and sent him to the court cells for three hours.
The magistrate said he could have confiscated the phone for 28 days for the "rude'' act.
"How dare you answer a phone in court ... that allows transmissions from court ... which is a serious contempt,'' he shouted at the teen when he answered the phone.
When the teen waved it off as "my bad'', Mr Trigg ordered he be taken away.
The teen was in court to face two charges of entering a dwelling with intent and stealing when his phone rang, and Mr Trigg charged him with contempt of court.
When the youth was brought back into court he apologised.
"Sorry your honour for um ... having my phone on and answering it during court and backchatting,'' the teen said.
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Posted: 21 May 2008, 3:00pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Oh dear.
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Posted: 21 May 2008, 3:22pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
i know as if you answer it the say "oh my bad"
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Lauren 15/07/08 - "thats like me saying i dislocated my jaw from eating a big sandwich"
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Posted: 21 May 2008, 4:33pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
its horrible huh! we really need to demand changes now, there's no need for such excessive wasteage. and when i say demand changes, i mean in both the hospitality industry (as conscientious consumers) as well as in our own houses (daily eating and weekly shopping habits)
yeh I agree, the complete waste of packaging as well that goes into land fills... its a massive problem, we cant keep sticking it in the ground and hoping it will go away because it wont.
Posted: 21 May 2008, 6:12pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
ooh yes the wasteage of packaging is crap, but i meant the wholesale wasteage of FOOD. we throw SO much stuff out! we (and I mean myself too) need to stop buying so much that we dont have time to cook it, or have to throw fresh food out cause it goes bad.
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Posted: 21 May 2008, 6:59pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
A CATHOLIC priest who floated away under hundreds of helium balloons in a bid to raise money for his parish is missing off Brazil.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23579179-2,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23579179-2,00.html
Posted: 21 May 2008, 7:01pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
ooh yes the wasteage of packaging is crap, but i meant the wholesale wasteage of FOOD. we throw SO much stuff out! we (and I mean myself too) need to stop buying so much that we dont have time to cook it, or have to throw fresh food out cause it goes bad.
Unfortunately the old adage of buying in bulk to save money is a problem in this area. So many time I've wanted just a small amount of something but you're either unable to get it in a small amount or it's outrageously cost ineffective versus buying a larger pack...which you end up throwing away because you don't need to use it for anything else in a short amount of time!
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Posted: 21 May 2008, 7:06pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
A CATHOLIC priest who floated away under hundreds of helium balloons in a bid to raise money for his parish is missing off Brazil.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23579179-2,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23579179-2,00.html
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Posted: 21 May 2008, 7:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Unfortunately the old adage of buying in bulk to save money is a problem in this area. So many time I've wanted just a small amount of something but you're either unable to get it in a small amount or it's outrageously cost ineffective versus buying a larger pack...which you end up throwing away because you don't need to use it for anything else in a short amount of time!
That's something that a relative of mine who is living in Berlin noticed immediately after living there for a few weeks. Berlin is a big city but there is a huge proportion (over 50% of households I think) with only 1 person in them. This means that shops cater in a much better way to these people and there aren't so many huge advantages to buying in bulk.
I guess this probably causes more waste overall, but if the packaging is all made of recyclables or biodegradable then it's probably still better than throwing out so much food.
Posted: 21 May 2008, 10:04pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
ooh yes the wasteage of packaging is crap, but i meant the wholesale wasteage of FOOD. we throw SO much stuff out! we (and I mean myself too) need to stop buying so much that we dont have time to cook it, or have to throw fresh food out cause it goes bad.
In response to your earlier post, I think the hospitality industry would be far more efficient than households when it comes to food wastage, packaging, and also energy and water use. I have no facts to back this up though, and I'm not going to find you any.
But yeah in my experience it's a relatively efficient industry when compared to private households due to economies of scale and of course the profit motive (which obviously stops things from being thrown out needlessly).
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Posted: 21 May 2008, 10:56pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Mainly because the scum fucks steal everything that will be thrown out! Yes I am talking about me as well there. I had to laugh when our manager wanted us to ring up the exact amount of wastage there was when running off beer lines.
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Posted: 22 May 2008, 2:33pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Jailed mexican donkey proves law is an ass
May 22, 2008 08:05am
A DONKEY has been freed from a Mexican jail after serving three days for assaulting two men.
Local TV showed showed Blacky the donkey eating from a bucket after three days in a jail that normally holds people for public drunkenness and other disturbances, the Associated Press reported.
Blacky was jailed for biting and kicking two men near a ranch outside Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of the southern state of Chiapas.
Officials freed the donkey after its owner paid a $US36 ($38) fine and the $US115 hospital bill for the men.
They were bitten on the chest and one suffered a broken ankle
Posted: 22 May 2008, 2:55pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 22 May 2008, 4:56pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Aftershock from Chinese earthquake knocks over American glass of water in "major tragedy"
CLEVELAND, OHIO -- Wallace Cornbag, owner of eight used car dealerships in upper-class Ohio, was sitting down for breakfast yesterday morning when he was unexpectedly struck by what many American news stations have deemed one of the worst natural disasters to strike the United States. His glass of water was knocked down after his home was struck by a mild aftershock from the recent Chinese earthquake.
Wallace managed to get a picture of his glass of water before it was tragically destroyed. The lemon has not yet been found.
Wallace managed to get a picture of his glass of water before it was tragically destroyed. The lemon has not yet been found.
"The room started to shake," says Wallace from the hospital bed (he was hospitalized for trauma), "I didn't really notice. But the gerbil was kind of alarmed. Then my glass of water tipped off the table. I was terrified. I cried for hours." When informed of the tragedy that had unfolded in their own backyards, many Cleveland residents were incredibly shocked. Over three thousand dollars of donations have gone to Mr. Cornbag after the "tragedy" of his destroyed glass of water. Many American churches have devoted hours of prayer to Mr. Cornbag after his terrible loss.
Wallace's destroyed glass of water has earned much attention from the American media, which has deemed it the Living Room Disaster of '08. President Bush is planning to give a speech on the tragedy, and it is rumoured that he will declare Mr. Wallace's living room a federal disaster area until all the bits of broken glass are cleaned and the floor is dried.
"God, we Americans have it tough," said Ohio resident Nubbs Burgleton in an interview on his reaction to the tragedy, "This reminds me of a similarly devastating event in my own life. I wanted to watch a football game, but the TV was on some news station that was rambling about a major crisis in Myanmar. I wanted to watch the game, not some boring story about a bunch of poor black people in some other country! But...I couldn't find the remote! I had to spend five minutes looking under the mattress for it! It was so inconvenient! A true tragedy. My heart truly goes out to Mr. Wallace and his lost glass of water."
The glass of water was knocked down by an aftershock from an earthquake in China that killed 34,000 people and injured 245,000 with countless more people missing. When asked about these people, Wallace said, "Ah, well, that's an awful shame, but look at my kitchen floor! That glass fuckin' EXPLODED! I know four thousand people died, but they're Chinese! They're all weird looking and they live far away! Besides, they're all Communists! The real tragedy here is my lost glass of water. It was good water. There weren't as many chemicals in it as there usually are."
This issue led us at UnNews to question just how distant the average American is from the outside world. We asked a prominent senator just that, and he said, "Wait a minute...there are PEOPLE outside America?"
CLEVELAND, OHIO -- Wallace Cornbag, owner of eight used car dealerships in upper-class Ohio, was sitting down for breakfast yesterday morning when he was unexpectedly struck by what many American news stations have deemed one of the worst natural disasters to strike the United States. His glass of water was knocked down after his home was struck by a mild aftershock from the recent Chinese earthquake.
Wallace managed to get a picture of his glass of water before it was tragically destroyed. The lemon has not yet been found.
Wallace managed to get a picture of his glass of water before it was tragically destroyed. The lemon has not yet been found.
"The room started to shake," says Wallace from the hospital bed (he was hospitalized for trauma), "I didn't really notice. But the gerbil was kind of alarmed. Then my glass of water tipped off the table. I was terrified. I cried for hours." When informed of the tragedy that had unfolded in their own backyards, many Cleveland residents were incredibly shocked. Over three thousand dollars of donations have gone to Mr. Cornbag after the "tragedy" of his destroyed glass of water. Many American churches have devoted hours of prayer to Mr. Cornbag after his terrible loss.
Wallace's destroyed glass of water has earned much attention from the American media, which has deemed it the Living Room Disaster of '08. President Bush is planning to give a speech on the tragedy, and it is rumoured that he will declare Mr. Wallace's living room a federal disaster area until all the bits of broken glass are cleaned and the floor is dried.
"God, we Americans have it tough," said Ohio resident Nubbs Burgleton in an interview on his reaction to the tragedy, "This reminds me of a similarly devastating event in my own life. I wanted to watch a football game, but the TV was on some news station that was rambling about a major crisis in Myanmar. I wanted to watch the game, not some boring story about a bunch of poor black people in some other country! But...I couldn't find the remote! I had to spend five minutes looking under the mattress for it! It was so inconvenient! A true tragedy. My heart truly goes out to Mr. Wallace and his lost glass of water."
The glass of water was knocked down by an aftershock from an earthquake in China that killed 34,000 people and injured 245,000 with countless more people missing. When asked about these people, Wallace said, "Ah, well, that's an awful shame, but look at my kitchen floor! That glass fuckin' EXPLODED! I know four thousand people died, but they're Chinese! They're all weird looking and they live far away! Besides, they're all Communists! The real tragedy here is my lost glass of water. It was good water. There weren't as many chemicals in it as there usually are."
This issue led us at UnNews to question just how distant the average American is from the outside world. We asked a prominent senator just that, and he said, "Wait a minute...there are PEOPLE outside America?"
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Posted: 22 May 2008, 8:15pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Hahahaha. Liam = awesome!
It has come to our attention that a mysterious force is loose, somewhere in outer space. The mysteries of creation are there. Up in the sky? Up in the sky. The moon & the planets are there & new hopes for knowledge & peace are there. & therefore as we set sail we ask gods blessing on the most hazardous & dangerous & greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked. Prepare for lift off.
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Hahahaha. Liam = awesome! :lol:
Posted: 23 May 2008, 3:44amSubject: Re: In The News Today
That joke article reminds me of one I read today about what they call 'donor fatigue'. The article I read was in a newspaper and explained things a little neater but I found the basic gist here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501316.html
Of course it comes as no surprise that Americans shelled out big for their own backyard, but have been very stingy with donations to Pakistan, a country often portrayed in their media as a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism. I'm not US bashing here (much) either because I'm sure Australians would give more to the local drought relief fund than other causes not directly affecting us as well. The media would definitely play a role in highlighting certain plights more than others as well, which is a concern.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/15/AR2005101501316.html
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The amount of donations for the deadly earthquake in Pakistan and flooding in Central America have come in at a slower pace than for other recent calamities, officials say. Two major disasters during the past year -- Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsunami -- have sapped funding for other causes and contributed to what experts call "donor fatigue" among governments that finance the United Nations' efforts and individual givers who support private agencies.
Private contributors gave more than $40,000 this August in response to a Care USA Internet appeal for Niger famine victims. But the donations dried up immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, driving hundreds of thousands from their homes and inundating large sections of New Orleans. "In August, we were getting a surprisingly large number [of donations] for Niger after the BBC and CNN started flashing pictures of children starving, but Katrina knocked Niger off the map," said Lurma Rackley, the head of public relations for Care USA.
The American Red Cross raised $1.2 billion for Katrina and $556 million for the tsunami. But it has so far raised $1.6 million for Pakistan and does not keep figures on the Central American floods.
Private contributors gave more than $40,000 this August in response to a Care USA Internet appeal for Niger famine victims. But the donations dried up immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, driving hundreds of thousands from their homes and inundating large sections of New Orleans. "In August, we were getting a surprisingly large number [of donations] for Niger after the BBC and CNN started flashing pictures of children starving, but Katrina knocked Niger off the map," said Lurma Rackley, the head of public relations for Care USA.
The American Red Cross raised $1.2 billion for Katrina and $556 million for the tsunami. But it has so far raised $1.6 million for Pakistan and does not keep figures on the Central American floods.
Of course it comes as no surprise that Americans shelled out big for their own backyard, but have been very stingy with donations to Pakistan, a country often portrayed in their media as a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism. I'm not US bashing here (much) either because I'm sure Australians would give more to the local drought relief fund than other causes not directly affecting us as well. The media would definitely play a role in highlighting certain plights more than others as well, which is a concern.
Posted: 25 May 2008, 5:49pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
This was cool
WHAT THE? That was the question which greeted dozens of "Ninjas" who invaded the Adelaide shopping precinct this afternoon.
The masked black clad figures armed with plastic swords ran, stalked, crouched and jumped through Rundle Mall and adjacent arcades to the puzzlement of thousands of shoppers, including Sarah Holtman.
"It was a little bit scary at first to see all these Ninjas but it was funny as well," the 24-year-old from Mile End said.
The Ninja invasion was organised by a lose collection of mainly teenagers called the Adelaide Flash Mob – named after the overseas trend of people suddenly assembling in a public place, doing something unusual for a brief period of time and then quickly dispersing.
Now we know what they were doing the next question is why do they do it?
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23751379-2682,00.html
ANNNNNNDDDDD
http://www.adelaideflashmob.com/
Ninja Raid on Adelaide Event Report
May 24th, 2008
Thanks to all those who came out today, we estimate that we had over 100 people which made for a great event. We had an Advertiser/Sunday Mail reporter and a camerman from Channel 7 covering the event. Unfortunately we didn’t get on the 7 News tonight but we did get a story and a bunch of photos on the Adelaide Now website, and keep your fingers crossed for a story in the Sunday Mail tomorrow.
We’ll have all of our photos and videos up on the website in the next few days, in the meantime we’d love to hear your comments of how you think the event went. We’d especially like to hear any personal experiences you had or funny spectator reactions you saw (leave your comments below). If you have any photos from the event then add them to the group page on Facebook or upload them to Flickr.
We had a bunch of guys from Parkour SA doing tricks and stunts throughout the event. If you’d like to learn more about what they do or get involved yourself, check out their website and forum.
WHAT THE? That was the question which greeted dozens of "Ninjas" who invaded the Adelaide shopping precinct this afternoon.
The masked black clad figures armed with plastic swords ran, stalked, crouched and jumped through Rundle Mall and adjacent arcades to the puzzlement of thousands of shoppers, including Sarah Holtman.
"It was a little bit scary at first to see all these Ninjas but it was funny as well," the 24-year-old from Mile End said.
The Ninja invasion was organised by a lose collection of mainly teenagers called the Adelaide Flash Mob – named after the overseas trend of people suddenly assembling in a public place, doing something unusual for a brief period of time and then quickly dispersing.
Now we know what they were doing the next question is why do they do it?
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23751379-2682,00.html
ANNNNNNDDDDD
http://www.adelaideflashmob.com/
Ninja Raid on Adelaide Event Report
May 24th, 2008
Thanks to all those who came out today, we estimate that we had over 100 people which made for a great event. We had an Advertiser/Sunday Mail reporter and a camerman from Channel 7 covering the event. Unfortunately we didn’t get on the 7 News tonight but we did get a story and a bunch of photos on the Adelaide Now website, and keep your fingers crossed for a story in the Sunday Mail tomorrow.
We’ll have all of our photos and videos up on the website in the next few days, in the meantime we’d love to hear your comments of how you think the event went. We’d especially like to hear any personal experiences you had or funny spectator reactions you saw (leave your comments below). If you have any photos from the event then add them to the group page on Facebook or upload them to Flickr.
We had a bunch of guys from Parkour SA doing tricks and stunts throughout the event. If you’d like to learn more about what they do or get involved yourself, check out their website and forum.
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Posted: 25 May 2008, 5:56pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Oh shit yeah my mate txted me a while back and asked if i wanted to participate in that Maybe i should've...
Maybe i should've...Said we was garbage, so fuck college
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Posted: 25 May 2008, 6:43pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Oh shit yeah my mate txted me a while back and asked if i wanted to participate in that Maybe i should've...
Maybe i should've...Im down for the next one for sure
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Posted: 25 May 2008, 7:13pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Haha I was just skimming through the members list - there's actually an AM profile for AdelaideFlashMob They haven't made any posts or anything though...but yeah i reckon i'd be down for the next one as well
They haven't made any posts or anything though...but yeah i reckon i'd be down for the next one as wellSaid we was garbage, so fuck college
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Posted: 25 May 2008, 7:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
awesome. I should keep an eye on the site. I'd come along as a photographer. Posted: 25 May 2008, 8:54pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Haha I was just skimming through the members list - there's actually an AM profile for AdelaideFlashMob :lol: They haven't made any posts or anything though...but yeah i reckon i'd be down for the next one as well
They started a topic a while back, for their train ride de-pantsing idea. Apparently that one was an epic failure, but obviously they have improved their recruitment process.
Posted: 26 May 2008, 10:46amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
They started a topic a while back, for their train ride de-pantsing idea. Apparently that one was an epic failure, but obviously they have improved their recruitment process.
yeah only two people did that.
saw the american who created that idea on sunrise the other day who still claimed it though. :lol:
Posted: 26 May 2008, 9:43pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7419969.stm
An unwitting passenger arriving at Japan's Narita airport has received 142g of cannabis after a customs test went awry, officials say.
A customs officer hid a package of the banned narcotic in a side pocket of a randomly chosen suitcase in order to test airport security.
Sniffer dogs failed to detect the cannabis and the officer could not remember which bag he had put it in.
Anyone finding the package has been asked to contact customs officials.
The cannabis is estimated at having a street value of nearly $10,000 (£5,000).
"This case was extremely regrettable. I would like to deeply apologise," said Narita International Airport's customs head Manpei Tanaka.
:lol:
An unwitting passenger arriving at Japan's Narita airport has received 142g of cannabis after a customs test went awry, officials say.
A customs officer hid a package of the banned narcotic in a side pocket of a randomly chosen suitcase in order to test airport security.
Sniffer dogs failed to detect the cannabis and the officer could not remember which bag he had put it in.
Anyone finding the package has been asked to contact customs officials.
The cannabis is estimated at having a street value of nearly $10,000 (£5,000).
"This case was extremely regrettable. I would like to deeply apologise," said Narita International Airport's customs head Manpei Tanaka.
:lol:
Posted: 26 May 2008, 9:45pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol:
GOLD!!!
GOLD!!!
Posted: 26 May 2008, 11:12pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Monday May 26, 06:27 PM ~ Massive squid hauled off Victorian coast
Fishing trawler skipper Rangi Pene knew he'd netted the catch of the day when he winched his net up from the ocean floor.
About halfway down the net was a large mass which, as the net drew closer, Mr Pene knew was not your everyday fish.
It was in fact the catch of a lifetime - a six-metre long, 230kg squid, which is now in a freezer in Portland, waiting for collection by Museum Victoria.
"As soon as we seen it, we (thought) we'll have to save this," the excited skipper said.
The trawler, Zeehaan, was fishing about 40km off the coast of Portland in Victoria's west, when it netted the squid on Sunday night in waters more than 500 metres deep.
"What we do is we shoot the net away and we tow the net for five hours," Mr Pene, 55, said.
"When we winched it up about six o'clock, we seen a big ball in the net, halfway down.
"We were wondering, what's this?
"We got it closer to the boat and it was that squid.
"You couldn't put it anywhere down in the ice room with the rest of the fish because it was just too big.
"We left it on the deck and we put bags of ice on it and covered it with sacks to keep it in good condition."
Paul McCoy, a Fisheries Research Biologist with Victoria's Department of Primary Industries, said it took 10 men to lift the squid onto a stretcher and place it in the freezer.
The squid will be frozen until a representative from Museum Victoria collects the specimen this week.
Mr McCoy said analysis by the museum would determine the type of squid, its age and, possibly, how it died.
He said the squid was already dead when it was caught.
It's the third giant squid Mr McCoy has seen in 15 years.
The find comes more than a year after New Zealand trawler skipper John Bennett caught what is believed to be the world's largest squid during an Antarctic fishing trip.
Scientists in New Zealand last month defrosted the 495kg colossal squid and determined it was 4.2 metres long, much shorter than earlier predictions of eight to 10 metres.
Colossal squid grow to be shorter, but much heavier, than giant squid, which are a different species.
(http://l.yimg.com/au.yimg.com/i/hp/pics/squid080526aap160.jpg)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/080526/2/170hb.html (http://au.news.yahoo.com/080526/2/170hb.html)
hmm im thinkin giant crumbed calamari :lol:
Fishing trawler skipper Rangi Pene knew he'd netted the catch of the day when he winched his net up from the ocean floor.
About halfway down the net was a large mass which, as the net drew closer, Mr Pene knew was not your everyday fish.
It was in fact the catch of a lifetime - a six-metre long, 230kg squid, which is now in a freezer in Portland, waiting for collection by Museum Victoria.
"As soon as we seen it, we (thought) we'll have to save this," the excited skipper said.
The trawler, Zeehaan, was fishing about 40km off the coast of Portland in Victoria's west, when it netted the squid on Sunday night in waters more than 500 metres deep.
"What we do is we shoot the net away and we tow the net for five hours," Mr Pene, 55, said.
"When we winched it up about six o'clock, we seen a big ball in the net, halfway down.
"We were wondering, what's this?
"We got it closer to the boat and it was that squid.
"You couldn't put it anywhere down in the ice room with the rest of the fish because it was just too big.
"We left it on the deck and we put bags of ice on it and covered it with sacks to keep it in good condition."
Paul McCoy, a Fisheries Research Biologist with Victoria's Department of Primary Industries, said it took 10 men to lift the squid onto a stretcher and place it in the freezer.
The squid will be frozen until a representative from Museum Victoria collects the specimen this week.
Mr McCoy said analysis by the museum would determine the type of squid, its age and, possibly, how it died.
He said the squid was already dead when it was caught.
It's the third giant squid Mr McCoy has seen in 15 years.
The find comes more than a year after New Zealand trawler skipper John Bennett caught what is believed to be the world's largest squid during an Antarctic fishing trip.
Scientists in New Zealand last month defrosted the 495kg colossal squid and determined it was 4.2 metres long, much shorter than earlier predictions of eight to 10 metres.
Colossal squid grow to be shorter, but much heavier, than giant squid, which are a different species.
(http://l.yimg.com/au.yimg.com/i/hp/pics/squid080526aap160.jpg)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/080526/2/170hb.html (http://au.news.yahoo.com/080526/2/170hb.html)
hmm im thinkin giant crumbed calamari :lol:
Posted: 26 May 2008, 11:24pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I am pretty sure Rangi (the ships captain) is my Aunty's boyfriend lol
Posted: 28 May 2008, 12:04pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Is there anything they can't do!
Taser shock knocks man's heart into rhythm
A MAN'S irregular heartbeat returned to normal after he was shot with a Taser gun in a hospital emergency room, according to a medical report.
The man had been taken to hospital experiencing atrial fibrillation after jumping into an icy lake while trying to escape police in April.
"I don't know exactly what he had done but he fled capture from them and he hid in a lake," said Dr Kyle Richards, a cardiologist at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut.
After treatment, the patient was eager to leave and became aggressive.
"He got very combative and started yelling in my face and that's when I left the room and got security," Dr Richards said.
Police and security used a Taser stun gun, which shoots out a lead connected to two barbs that can deliver up to 50,000 volts, to subdue the man.
They used a low-voltage charge meant to cause pain rather than a longer, higher-voltage jolt meant to incapacitate.
The patient calmed down and another electrocardiogram showed his heart rhythm was normal.
Dr Richards and others said the incident was evidence that the stun guns may affect the heart, as critics allege.
"This is the first report of a patient receiving a shock of this kind and having a positive outcome," he said in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Amnesty International claims that since 2001 more than 290 people have died in the US and Canada in incidents involving the weapon. Taser International says there is no evidence the gun directly caused the deaths.
Dr Richards said studies done in pigs show the weapon can affect the heart muscle.
This case provided a controlled situation, with almost continuous monitoring of the patient's heart.
Dr Richards noted that the patient was not hooked up to the electrocardiogram at the precise moment of being shocked.
"People can spontaneously go from atrial fibrillation into a normal rhythm without any intervention at all. You cannot conclusively say that the Taser did it," he said.
But Dr Richards said he believed the weapon was responsible.
"It's just one more thing that says, hey, Tasers can actually affect the heart."
Taser shock knocks man's heart into rhythm
A MAN'S irregular heartbeat returned to normal after he was shot with a Taser gun in a hospital emergency room, according to a medical report.
The man had been taken to hospital experiencing atrial fibrillation after jumping into an icy lake while trying to escape police in April.
"I don't know exactly what he had done but he fled capture from them and he hid in a lake," said Dr Kyle Richards, a cardiologist at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut.
After treatment, the patient was eager to leave and became aggressive.
"He got very combative and started yelling in my face and that's when I left the room and got security," Dr Richards said.
Police and security used a Taser stun gun, which shoots out a lead connected to two barbs that can deliver up to 50,000 volts, to subdue the man.
They used a low-voltage charge meant to cause pain rather than a longer, higher-voltage jolt meant to incapacitate.
The patient calmed down and another electrocardiogram showed his heart rhythm was normal.
Dr Richards and others said the incident was evidence that the stun guns may affect the heart, as critics allege.
"This is the first report of a patient receiving a shock of this kind and having a positive outcome," he said in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Amnesty International claims that since 2001 more than 290 people have died in the US and Canada in incidents involving the weapon. Taser International says there is no evidence the gun directly caused the deaths.
Dr Richards said studies done in pigs show the weapon can affect the heart muscle.
This case provided a controlled situation, with almost continuous monitoring of the patient's heart.
Dr Richards noted that the patient was not hooked up to the electrocardiogram at the precise moment of being shocked.
"People can spontaneously go from atrial fibrillation into a normal rhythm without any intervention at all. You cannot conclusively say that the Taser did it," he said.
But Dr Richards said he believed the weapon was responsible.
"It's just one more thing that says, hey, Tasers can actually affect the heart."
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Posted: 29 May 2008, 7:29amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Deadly brown snake bites man's penis
A ROADSIDE toilet stop ended in pain, embarrassment and almost death for a tourist when a highly venomous snake bit the end of his penis.
The deadly brown snake slithered between his legs and lunged at his manhood as he crouched on a roadside near Laura, 300km northwest of Cairns, about a month ago.
Details of the incident only came to light yesterday after they were confirmed by a paramedic, cairns.com.au reports today.
"It certainly had a swipe at him," an ambulance spokesman said yesterday.
"But it didn’t envenomate him.
"As it came through it must have got a bit of a shock."
The snake beat a hasty retreat, leaving its victim with a scratch, vomiting and abdomen pain.
Emergency workers raced to the scene to treat the man.
The wound was wrapped in plastic in case poison had penetrated the skin but medical staff gave the man the all-clear after conducting tests.
He was taken to Cooktown Hospital where he spent a night recovering.
The ambulance spokesman described him as "lucky", given his near encounter with one of Australia’s most poisonous snakes.
"I think he was a bit shocked and embarrassed," he said.
A ROADSIDE toilet stop ended in pain, embarrassment and almost death for a tourist when a highly venomous snake bit the end of his penis.
The deadly brown snake slithered between his legs and lunged at his manhood as he crouched on a roadside near Laura, 300km northwest of Cairns, about a month ago.
Details of the incident only came to light yesterday after they were confirmed by a paramedic, cairns.com.au reports today.
"It certainly had a swipe at him," an ambulance spokesman said yesterday.
"But it didn’t envenomate him.
"As it came through it must have got a bit of a shock."
The snake beat a hasty retreat, leaving its victim with a scratch, vomiting and abdomen pain.
Emergency workers raced to the scene to treat the man.
The wound was wrapped in plastic in case poison had penetrated the skin but medical staff gave the man the all-clear after conducting tests.
He was taken to Cooktown Hospital where he spent a night recovering.
The ambulance spokesman described him as "lucky", given his near encounter with one of Australia’s most poisonous snakes.
"I think he was a bit shocked and embarrassed," he said.
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Lauren 15/07/08 - "thats like me saying i dislocated my jaw from eating a big sandwich"
LD 19/11/08 - "Just look for the bright green and yellow sign, yea just like my wardrobe"
James M chillin @ Ali & Chris' - "I'd hit it... Is it a chick?"
Lauren 15/07/08 - "thats like me saying i dislocated my jaw from eating a big sandwich"
LD 19/11/08 - "Just look for the bright green and yellow sign, yea just like my wardrobe"
Posted: 29 May 2008, 3:33pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Monkeys control robots with power of mind
Boring story, fucking sweet headline!
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23773214-5014108,00.html
Boring story, fucking sweet headline!
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23773214-5014108,00.html
Posted: 30 May 2008, 7:45amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Bill Murray sex addict, abusive: wife
05:56 AEST Fri May 30 20082 hours 49 minutes ago
Jennifer Butler and Bill Murray have been married 10 years. so farThe wife of US actor Bill Murray has filed for divorce, accusing him of drug abuse, violence and abandonment, court documents in South Carolina show.
Jennifer Butler and Murray were married for 10 years and had four children, but they separated more than a year ago, her petition filed in Charleston county this week showed.
In 2006 Butler moved with her children to Sullivan's Islands, South Carolina, "due to defendant's adultery, addiction to marijuana and alcohol, abusive behavior, physical abuse, sexual addictions, and frequent abandonment," the petition said.
"The latest altercation occured in November 2007 at Sullivan's Island when the defendant hit her in the face and then told her she was 'lucky he didn't kill her," it added.
Butler charged that Murray's "violent, abusive and erratic behavior toward plaintiff destroyed the marital relationship between the parties and plaintiff no longer feels safe being in the presence of defendant."
Murray, 57, a Hollywood star of films such as Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day, was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Lost in Translation.
He also has two sons with his first wife, Margaret Kelly, from whom he divorced in 1994.
05:56 AEST Fri May 30 20082 hours 49 minutes ago
Jennifer Butler and Bill Murray have been married 10 years. so farThe wife of US actor Bill Murray has filed for divorce, accusing him of drug abuse, violence and abandonment, court documents in South Carolina show.
Jennifer Butler and Murray were married for 10 years and had four children, but they separated more than a year ago, her petition filed in Charleston county this week showed.
In 2006 Butler moved with her children to Sullivan's Islands, South Carolina, "due to defendant's adultery, addiction to marijuana and alcohol, abusive behavior, physical abuse, sexual addictions, and frequent abandonment," the petition said.
"The latest altercation occured in November 2007 at Sullivan's Island when the defendant hit her in the face and then told her she was 'lucky he didn't kill her," it added.
Butler charged that Murray's "violent, abusive and erratic behavior toward plaintiff destroyed the marital relationship between the parties and plaintiff no longer feels safe being in the presence of defendant."
Murray, 57, a Hollywood star of films such as Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day, was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Lost in Translation.
He also has two sons with his first wife, Margaret Kelly, from whom he divorced in 1994.
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Posted: 31 May 2008, 1:59pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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:rofl:
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Posted: 2 Jun 2008, 12:48amSubject: Re: In The News Today
China kept earthquake forecasts 'secret'
CHINESE officials ignored warnings from five eminent seismologists that a strong earthquake would strike the mountainous province of Sichuan this year, including one forecast that almost exactly predicted the date of thetremor that killed almost 69,000 people.
The Government appeared to be trying to suppress evidence of the warnings last week and none of the seismologists could be traced for an interview.
News of the warnings, first disclosed on a Chinese scientist's blog, has created a storm of criticism on the internet and deepened the rage of bereaved parents in ruined towns such as Mianzhu, where schools collapsed on their pupils, The Australian reports.
Sichuan journalists even dared to question the head of the State Earthquake Bureau.
They demanded to know if it was true that the forecasts were dismissed because officials did not want anything to disturb preparations for the Olympic torch relay to pass through this month.
The journalists did not receive answers and there has since been little mention of the warnings in the official media; but there is no doubt that the documents cited are authentic.
The first forecast came in a highly technical article published by four seismologists in September 2006 in China's Journal of Catastrophology.
The four, Long Xiaoxia, Yan Junping, Sun Hu and Wang Zuzheng, calculated that stress factors along the Sichuan-Tibet tectonic fault indicated that a quake measuring above 6.7 on the Richter scale would strike this year.
They suggested the Government should set up emergency headquarters and organise local disaster teams to train city dwellers and farmers how to protect themselves.
There is no evidence that anything was done.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23794481-2,00.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23793264-25837,00.html
CHINESE officials ignored warnings from five eminent seismologists that a strong earthquake would strike the mountainous province of Sichuan this year, including one forecast that almost exactly predicted the date of thetremor that killed almost 69,000 people.
The Government appeared to be trying to suppress evidence of the warnings last week and none of the seismologists could be traced for an interview.
News of the warnings, first disclosed on a Chinese scientist's blog, has created a storm of criticism on the internet and deepened the rage of bereaved parents in ruined towns such as Mianzhu, where schools collapsed on their pupils, The Australian reports.
Sichuan journalists even dared to question the head of the State Earthquake Bureau.
They demanded to know if it was true that the forecasts were dismissed because officials did not want anything to disturb preparations for the Olympic torch relay to pass through this month.
The journalists did not receive answers and there has since been little mention of the warnings in the official media; but there is no doubt that the documents cited are authentic.
The first forecast came in a highly technical article published by four seismologists in September 2006 in China's Journal of Catastrophology.
The four, Long Xiaoxia, Yan Junping, Sun Hu and Wang Zuzheng, calculated that stress factors along the Sichuan-Tibet tectonic fault indicated that a quake measuring above 6.7 on the Richter scale would strike this year.
They suggested the Government should set up emergency headquarters and organise local disaster teams to train city dwellers and farmers how to protect themselves.
There is no evidence that anything was done.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23794481-2,00.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23793264-25837,00.html
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Posted: 2 Jun 2008, 11:34amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Kurt Cobain's ashes stolen, says his 'suicidal' widow Courtney LoveArticle from
THE ashes of legendary grunge musician Kurt Cobain have been stolen, according to his distraught widow Courtney Love.
The Nirvana frontman's ashes were taken from Love's Los Angeles residence.
Cobain's ashes had reportedly been stored in a pink bear-shaped bag, along with a lock of his trademark blonde hair.
Clothes and jewellery were also taken from the rock-star widow's home.
Love was horrified by the theft and has told the media she is "suicidal".
"They were all I had left of my husband," said Love.
"I can't believe anyone would take Kurt's ashes from me. I find it disgusting and right now I'm suicidal. If I don't get them back I don't know what I'll do."
Relive this Nirvana classic, Heart-Shaped Box - one of the band's last filmclips
The majority of Cobain's ashes were scattered near his Washington home and at a Buddhist temple, with Love retaining the rest.
Nirvana has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, with classic Nevermind selling more than 26 million copies alone.
But in 1994, tragedy struck when Cobain committed suicide with a shotgun, leaving his daughter Frances Bean without a father, Love without a husband and a sense of emptiness in the music community.
"I used to take them everywhere with me just so I could feel Kurt was still with me," said Love.
"Now it feels like I have lost him all over again."
THE ashes of legendary grunge musician Kurt Cobain have been stolen, according to his distraught widow Courtney Love.
The Nirvana frontman's ashes were taken from Love's Los Angeles residence.
Cobain's ashes had reportedly been stored in a pink bear-shaped bag, along with a lock of his trademark blonde hair.
Clothes and jewellery were also taken from the rock-star widow's home.
Love was horrified by the theft and has told the media she is "suicidal".
"They were all I had left of my husband," said Love.
"I can't believe anyone would take Kurt's ashes from me. I find it disgusting and right now I'm suicidal. If I don't get them back I don't know what I'll do."
Relive this Nirvana classic, Heart-Shaped Box - one of the band's last filmclips
The majority of Cobain's ashes were scattered near his Washington home and at a Buddhist temple, with Love retaining the rest.
Nirvana has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, with classic Nevermind selling more than 26 million copies alone.
But in 1994, tragedy struck when Cobain committed suicide with a shotgun, leaving his daughter Frances Bean without a father, Love without a husband and a sense of emptiness in the music community.
"I used to take them everywhere with me just so I could feel Kurt was still with me," said Love.
"Now it feels like I have lost him all over again."
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James M chillin @ Ali & Chris' - "I'd hit it... Is it a chick?"
Lauren 15/07/08 - "thats like me saying i dislocated my jaw from eating a big sandwich"
LD 19/11/08 - "Just look for the bright green and yellow sign, yea just like my wardrobe"
James M chillin @ Ali & Chris' - "I'd hit it... Is it a chick?"
Lauren 15/07/08 - "thats like me saying i dislocated my jaw from eating a big sandwich"
LD 19/11/08 - "Just look for the bright green and yellow sign, yea just like my wardrobe"
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Posted: 3 Jun 2008, 8:31amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Quote from: GRIMEY
Love was horrified by the theft and has told the media she is "suicidal".
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Quote from: GRIMEY
"I can't believe anyone would take Kurt's ashes from me. I find it disgusting and right now I'm suicidal. If I don't get them back I don't know what I'll do."
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Posted: 3 Jun 2008, 2:47pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
fuuuuuuck!
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June 03, 2008: A HORRIFYING photograph has emerged showing the instant an American driver high on cocaine ploughed into a group of Mexican cyclists, killing one.
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June 03, 2008: A HORRIFYING photograph has emerged showing the instant an American driver high on cocaine ploughed into a group of Mexican cyclists, killing one.
Posted: 3 Jun 2008, 2:59pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
holy shit, that's a bit disturbing.
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GRIMEYPosts: 1,064
Posted: 3 Jun 2008, 3:07pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Surgeons cut 16 washers from penis
A MAN was operated on in Hornsby Hospital early today to remove 16 stainless steel washers from his penis.
Berowra Fire Rescue officers were called to alleviate the man from his awkward predicament at 3am.
It was not clear how the situation arose.
The man may well have thought long and hard about placing himself in the difficult situation.
Fire Rescue Officers spent more than an hour unsuccessfully attempting to remove the washers, before the man was taken into an operating theatre about 4.30am.
Surgeons took about 90 minutes to remove the washers using fire brigade equipment.
A hospital spokesman said equipment normally used to remove rings from fingers was ineffective because of the thicker nature of the washers.
The man was in a satisfactory condition.
It is believed the only lasting damage may be to his pride
DOWN FOR WHATEVER!
James M chillin @ Ali & Chris' - "I'd hit it... Is it a chick?"
Lauren 15/07/08 - "thats like me saying i dislocated my jaw from eating a big sandwich"
LD 19/11/08 - "Just look for the bright green and yellow sign, yea just like my wardrobe"
James M chillin @ Ali & Chris' - "I'd hit it... Is it a chick?"
Lauren 15/07/08 - "thats like me saying i dislocated my jaw from eating a big sandwich"
LD 19/11/08 - "Just look for the bright green and yellow sign, yea just like my wardrobe"
Posted: 3 Jun 2008, 3:08pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
fuuuuuuck!
http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6072852,00.gif
June 03, 2008: A HORRIFYING photograph has emerged showing the instant an American driver high on cocaine ploughed into a group of Mexican cyclists, killing one.
thats fucked! & i was pissed that some fuckwhit cliped me on the way to work this morning!
Posted: 3 Jun 2008, 4:07pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Surgeons cut 16 washers from penis
A MAN was operated on in Hornsby Hospital early today to remove 16 stainless steel washers from his penis.
Berowra Fire Rescue officers were called to alleviate the man from his awkward predicament at 3am.
It was not clear how the situation arose.
The man may well have thought long and hard about placing himself in the difficult situation.
Fire Rescue Officers spent more than an hour unsuccessfully attempting to remove the washers, before the man was taken into an operating theatre about 4.30am.
Surgeons took about 90 minutes to remove the washers using fire brigade equipment.
A hospital spokesman said equipment normally used to remove rings from fingers was ineffective because of the thicker nature of the washers.
The man was in a satisfactory condition.
It is believed the only lasting damage may be to his pride
Surgeons cut 16 washers from penis
A MAN was operated on in Hornsby Hospital early today to remove 16 stainless steel washers from his penis.
Berowra Fire Rescue officers were called to alleviate the man from his awkward predicament at 3am.
It was not clear how the situation arose.
The man may well have thought long and hard about placing himself in the difficult situation.
Fire Rescue Officers spent more than an hour unsuccessfully attempting to remove the washers, before the man was taken into an operating theatre about 4.30am.
Surgeons took about 90 minutes to remove the washers using fire brigade equipment.
A hospital spokesman said equipment normally used to remove rings from fingers was ineffective because of the thicker nature of the washers.
The man was in a satisfactory condition.
It is believed the only lasting damage may be to his pride
Posted: 3 Jun 2008, 4:08pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
fuuuuuuck!
http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6072852,00.gif
June 03, 2008: A HORRIFYING photograph has emerged showing the instant an American driver high on cocaine ploughed into a group of Mexican cyclists, killing one.
http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6072852,00.gif
June 03, 2008: A HORRIFYING photograph has emerged showing the instant an American driver high on cocaine ploughed into a group of Mexican cyclists, killing one.
thats fucked! & i was pissed that some fuckwhit cliped me on the way to work this morning!
Posted: 4 Jun 2008, 12:04pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Simpsons stars get hefty pay rise
By staff reporters June 04, 2008 10:11am
THE cast of The Simpsons will be paid a whopping $420,000 per episode under a new four-year deal negotiated by the cartoon's top stars, it has been reported. Have your say!Add your comments or
read what others are saying
While this is less than the $526,000 per episode they reportedly wanted, it's considerably more than the $316,000 they are currently earning, according to Hollywood Reporter.
Key cast members - Dan Castellaneta (Homer), Julie Kavner (Marge), Nancy Cartwright (Bart), Yeardley Smith (Lisa) and Hank Azaria (Moe) - are due to begin work on the upcoming 20th season this week.
However it is not yet clear when Harry Shearer (Mr Burns) would be returning, as his contract was yet to be finalised, Hollywood Reporter said.
Contract negotiations dragged on for so long the new season has had to be made two episodes shorter than usual.
By staff reporters June 04, 2008 10:11am
THE cast of The Simpsons will be paid a whopping $420,000 per episode under a new four-year deal negotiated by the cartoon's top stars, it has been reported. Have your say!Add your comments or
read what others are saying
While this is less than the $526,000 per episode they reportedly wanted, it's considerably more than the $316,000 they are currently earning, according to Hollywood Reporter.
Key cast members - Dan Castellaneta (Homer), Julie Kavner (Marge), Nancy Cartwright (Bart), Yeardley Smith (Lisa) and Hank Azaria (Moe) - are due to begin work on the upcoming 20th season this week.
However it is not yet clear when Harry Shearer (Mr Burns) would be returning, as his contract was yet to be finalised, Hollywood Reporter said.
Contract negotiations dragged on for so long the new season has had to be made two episodes shorter than usual.
"Real Drum & Bass is not something that sounds like a 17yr old rock band who have just listened to slipmat on thir first E & decided to make Drum & Bass" - Marcus Intalex
Posted: 4 Jun 2008, 12:08pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
They really need to can the Simpsons. I guess it muct be rating alright though.
The new eps suck. I download the odd one here and there and they are terrible 90% of the time! Pale imititations of a once great show
When I die. I want to be frozen. And if they have to freeze me in pieces, so be it. I will wake up stronger than ever, because I will have used that time, to figure out exactly why I died. And what moves I could have used to defend myself better now that I know what hold he had me in.
Posted: 4 Jun 2008, 12:11pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
19 seasons down... I guess anyone would be struggling for decent ideas now.
"Real Drum & Bass is not something that sounds like a 17yr old rock band who have just listened to slipmat on thir first E & decided to make Drum & Bass" - Marcus Intalex
Posted: 4 Jun 2008, 10:34pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The new eps suck. I download the odd one here and there and they are terrible 90% of the time! Pale imititations of a once great show
I agree, but on the other hand, for all the great moments and untouchable laughs they have given me over the years I have no problems with them lining their pockets with another season.
AFAIC they've earned the right to cash in from the show.
Testing the limits of the human heart since 1973.
Posted: 4 Jun 2008, 11:34pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
The new eps suck. I download the odd one here and there and they are terrible 90% of the time! Pale imititations of a once great show :lighter:
I agree, but on the other hand, for all the great moments and untouchable laughs they have given me over the years I have no problems with them lining their pockets with another season.
AFAIC they've earned the right to cash in from the show.
Posted: 5 Jun 2008, 6:22amSubject: Re: In The News Today
it's a 4 year deal though not 1 more season. agreed they deserve to milk it one last time but 4 years....hmmm
Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls pants | Use it to get into their heads.
Posted: 5 Jun 2008, 9:42amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Atheists get busted for doing it in cathedral...
(CNN) -- A man and a woman have been charged by police in Italy after they were found having sex in a confession box, it was reported Wednesday.
The Italian ANSA news agency said the young man and woman were taken into custody by police in the northern city of Cesena following a telephone complaint from a man attending morning Mass in the city's cathedral.
Authorities were alerted after a parishoner heard "rustling and groaning" coming from inside the confession box and pulled back the curtains to reveal a goth-rock couple engaged in oral sex, ANSA said.
The agency said the pair -- a 31-year-old laborer and a 32-year-old teacher -- defended their conduct saying: "We are atheists and for us, having sex in church is like doing it any other place."
However, Bishop Antonio Lanfranchi of Cesena-Sarsina took said the couple's behavior was "an outrage of notable proportions which bespeaks unutterable squalor."
He added that a special ceremony would be held to purify the confession box.
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- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
Posted: 5 Jun 2008, 10:42amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol: :lol:
Atheists get busted for doing it in cathedral...
(CNN) -- A man and a woman have been charged by police in Italy after they were found having sex in a confession box, it was reported Wednesday.
The Italian ANSA news agency said the young man and woman were taken into custody by police in the northern city of Cesena following a telephone complaint from a man attending morning Mass in the city's cathedral.
Authorities were alerted after a parishoner heard "rustling and groaning" coming from inside the confession box and pulled back the curtains to reveal a goth-rock couple engaged in oral sex, ANSA said.
The agency said the pair -- a 31-year-old laborer and a 32-year-old teacher -- defended their conduct saying: "We are atheists and for us, having sex in church is like doing it any other place."
However, Bishop Antonio Lanfranchi of Cesena-Sarsina took said the couple's behavior was "an outrage of notable proportions which bespeaks unutterable squalor."
He added that a special ceremony would be held to purify the confession box.
Atheists get busted for doing it in cathedral...
(CNN) -- A man and a woman have been charged by police in Italy after they were found having sex in a confession box, it was reported Wednesday.
The Italian ANSA news agency said the young man and woman were taken into custody by police in the northern city of Cesena following a telephone complaint from a man attending morning Mass in the city's cathedral.
Authorities were alerted after a parishoner heard "rustling and groaning" coming from inside the confession box and pulled back the curtains to reveal a goth-rock couple engaged in oral sex, ANSA said.
The agency said the pair -- a 31-year-old laborer and a 32-year-old teacher -- defended their conduct saying: "We are atheists and for us, having sex in church is like doing it any other place."
However, Bishop Antonio Lanfranchi of Cesena-Sarsina took said the couple's behavior was "an outrage of notable proportions which bespeaks unutterable squalor."
He added that a special ceremony would be held to purify the confession box.
Posted: 6 Jun 2008, 11:49amSubject: Re: In The News Today
The agency said the pair -- a 31-year-old laborer and a 32-year-old teacher -- defended their conduct saying: "We are atheists and for us, having sex in church is like doing it any other place."
However, Bishop Antonio Lanfranchi of Cesena-Sarsina took said the couple's behavior was "an outrage of notable proportions which bespeaks unutterable squalor."
Couldn't be more different in their approaches could they?
GRIMEYPosts: 1,064
Posted: 6 Jun 2008, 12:47pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Puzzle Quest developer receives death threats
AN Australian video game developer has received death threats over a glitch in one of its puzzle games.
Infinite Interactive, based in Melbourne, received threatening emails from gamers frustrated by a battle malfunction in Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords.
The game studio is not accustomed to death threats, chief executive officer Steven Fawkner said this week at Capcom's Captivate 08 event in Las Vegas.
"One death threat in 25 years of game development," he said.
"Puzzle Quest comes out and I had six death threats and one bomb threat."
The award-winning Puzzle Quest game series combines Tetris-style puzzles with strategy and role-playing elements.
The glitch in Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords affects how computer-controlled characters operate in battle sequences. It only occurs in the Playstation Portable (PSP) version of the game.
Mr Fawkner said he thought at least two of the threats were serious but did not report them to police as most of the emails came from the US, he told gaming news website Eurogamer.
"They actually left their email addresses on them, so we know who they came from," he said.
The studio's email address is still listed on gaming websites including gamespy.com.
Mr Fawkner was in Las Vegas to promote the studio's upcoming title, Neopets Puzzle Adventure.
AN Australian video game developer has received death threats over a glitch in one of its puzzle games.
Infinite Interactive, based in Melbourne, received threatening emails from gamers frustrated by a battle malfunction in Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords.
The game studio is not accustomed to death threats, chief executive officer Steven Fawkner said this week at Capcom's Captivate 08 event in Las Vegas.
"One death threat in 25 years of game development," he said.
"Puzzle Quest comes out and I had six death threats and one bomb threat."
The award-winning Puzzle Quest game series combines Tetris-style puzzles with strategy and role-playing elements.
The glitch in Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords affects how computer-controlled characters operate in battle sequences. It only occurs in the Playstation Portable (PSP) version of the game.
Mr Fawkner said he thought at least two of the threats were serious but did not report them to police as most of the emails came from the US, he told gaming news website Eurogamer.
"They actually left their email addresses on them, so we know who they came from," he said.
The studio's email address is still listed on gaming websites including gamespy.com.
Mr Fawkner was in Las Vegas to promote the studio's upcoming title, Neopets Puzzle Adventure.
DOWN FOR WHATEVER!
James M chillin @ Ali & Chris' - "I'd hit it... Is it a chick?"
Lauren 15/07/08 - "thats like me saying i dislocated my jaw from eating a big sandwich"
LD 19/11/08 - "Just look for the bright green and yellow sign, yea just like my wardrobe"
James M chillin @ Ali & Chris' - "I'd hit it... Is it a chick?"
Lauren 15/07/08 - "thats like me saying i dislocated my jaw from eating a big sandwich"
LD 19/11/08 - "Just look for the bright green and yellow sign, yea just like my wardrobe"
Posted: 6 Jun 2008, 12:49pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
The agency said the pair -- a 31-year-old laborer and a 32-year-old teacher -- defended their conduct saying: "We are atheists and for us, having sex in church is like doing it any other place."
However, Bishop Antonio Lanfranchi of Cesena-Sarsina took said the couple's behavior was "an outrage of notable proportions which bespeaks unutterable squalor."
However, Bishop Antonio Lanfranchi of Cesena-Sarsina took said the couple's behavior was "an outrage of notable proportions which bespeaks unutterable squalor."
:rofl:
Couldn't be more different in their approaches could they?
fictionPosts: 3,646
Posted: 6 Jun 2008, 1:26pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
fuuuuuuck!
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June 03, 2008: A HORRIFYING photograph has emerged showing the instant an American driver high on cocaine ploughed into a group of Mexican cyclists, killing one.
fuck he must have been rockin!!
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stocking dnb, dubstep, jungle, old skool, 80's vinyl and cds (new and secondhand)
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online store : www.inbound-sound.com
Posted: 6 Jun 2008, 1:53pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
fuck he must have been rockin!!
That dude is lucky he didn't get killed himself by the rest of the cyclist before the cops arrive...
Posted: 6 Jun 2008, 2:26pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
fuuuuuuck!
http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6072852,00.gif
June 03, 2008: A HORRIFYING photograph has emerged showing the instant an American driver high on cocaine ploughed into a group of Mexican cyclists, killing one.
http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6072852,00.gif
June 03, 2008: A HORRIFYING photograph has emerged showing the instant an American driver high on cocaine ploughed into a group of Mexican cyclists, killing one.
fuck he must have been rockin!!
Posted: 6 Jun 2008, 2:53pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
fuck he must have been rockin!!
That dude is lucky he didn't get killed himself by the rest of the cyclist before the cops arrive...
FunkyJPosts: 4,503
Posted: 6 Jun 2008, 3:28pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Puzzle Quest developer receives death threats
AN Australian video game developer has received death threats over a glitch in one of its puzzle games.
Infinite Interactive, based in Melbourne, received threatening emails from gamers frustrated by a battle malfunction in Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords.
The game studio is not accustomed to death threats, chief executive officer Steven Fawkner said this week at Capcom's Captivate 08 event in Las Vegas.
"One death threat in 25 years of game development," he said.
"Puzzle Quest comes out and I had six death threats and one bomb threat."
Should have seen the shit hit the fan when Ratbag released screen shots of Dukes of Hazzard without the confederate flag on the General!
Posted: 6 Jun 2008, 4:28pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Puzzle Quest developer receives death threats
AN Australian video game developer has received death threats over a glitch in one of its puzzle games.
Infinite Interactive, based in Melbourne, received threatening emails from gamers frustrated by a battle malfunction in Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords.
The game studio is not accustomed to death threats, chief executive officer Steven Fawkner said this week at Capcom's Captivate 08 event in Las Vegas.
"One death threat in 25 years of game development," he said.
"Puzzle Quest comes out and I had six death threats and one bomb threat."
AN Australian video game developer has received death threats over a glitch in one of its puzzle games.
Infinite Interactive, based in Melbourne, received threatening emails from gamers frustrated by a battle malfunction in Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords.
The game studio is not accustomed to death threats, chief executive officer Steven Fawkner said this week at Capcom's Captivate 08 event in Las Vegas.
"One death threat in 25 years of game development," he said.
"Puzzle Quest comes out and I had six death threats and one bomb threat."
:lol:
Should have seen the shit hit the fan when Ratbag released screen shots of Dukes of Hazzard without the confederate flag on the General!
Pseudo CoupPosts: 2,699
Posted: 6 Jun 2008, 7:07pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Should have seen the shit hit the fan when Ratbag released screen shots of Dukes of Hazzard without the confederate flag on the General!
That is so pathetic.
"There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this. They argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, tho' they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences. Absurd and blasphemous notion."
Posted: 6 Jun 2008, 8:07pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
:lol:
Should have seen the shit hit the fan when Ratbag released screen shots of Dukes of Hazzard without the confederate flag on the General!
Should have seen the shit hit the fan when Ratbag released screen shots of Dukes of Hazzard without the confederate flag on the General!
:lol:
That is so pathetic.
Posted: 8 Jun 2008, 10:03amSubject: Re: In The News Today
AUSTRALIA'S first licences to clone human embryos could be granted as early as this week.
A National Health and Medical Research Council panel met in Canberra on Friday to consider applications from two separate research groups.
The green light for the controversial science could lead to a cure for such afflictions as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases and type 1 diabetes in less than 10 years.
A Monash University team and another based at the Melbourne lab of the Australian Stem Cell Centre have each partnered with Sydney IVF to submit licence requests.
The teams want permission to create cloned human embryos using spare eggs left over from fertility treatment.
The applications are the first submitted since federal government legislation allowing therapeutic cloning came into a force a year ago.
The laws forbid licence holders merging a sperm and an egg to create an embryo.
The licences, if granted, will allow only somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), where cloned embryos are created by fusing spare, unfertilised IVF eggs with genetic material - a skin cell, for example - from another person.
The cloned embryos would be destroyed once stem cells were collected, and before the embryos reached seven days old.
Embryonic stem cells excite researchers and patients because they can be turned into every type of tissue or structure in the body with the ability to replenish damaged or diseased cells.
The licence applications are likely to reignite emotional debate among political leaders, religious groups and ethicists.
Religious groups and ethicists have raged against the science, saying it it tantamount to the destruction of human life.
They are also concerned about where the supply of human eggs will come from.
In Australia, human eggs - an essential ingredient in therapeutic cloning - can only be donated by IVF couples who don't need them.
The nine-member NHMRC embryo research licensing committee could reach a decision on the applications this week.
Both the research teams have applied for $1 million grants under a joint Victorian and NSW government stem-cell research program. Sydney IVF research director Tomas Stojanov said he was confident that both applications - involving staff from Monash and the Australian Stem Cell Centre - would be approved.
Sydney IVF has successfully established embryonic stem-cell lines using other methods and already holds five NHMRC licences for other techniques.
"We're very experienced in this science," he said.
Mr Stojanov confirmed the NHMRC contacted him on Friday after the licensing committee meeting in Canberra.
He said stem cells produced by therapeutic cloning could offer good opportunity in drug discovery and determining mechanisms of disease.
"If we did this, we'd be the first in the world," he said.
"We're very skilful at this and believe we can be the first."
Mr Stojanov was quick to point out the research would involve excess human embryos and embryos that were not clinically viable. Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories director Professor Richard Boyd said he was hopeful his team could produce the world's first cloned SCNT embryos.
The team would "see the world in our rear-vision mirrors" if they received Federal Government approval, he said.
An NHMRC spokeswoman confirmed the licensing committee was considering "a number of applications".
But it could not say when a decision would be made
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23827796-2,00.html
A National Health and Medical Research Council panel met in Canberra on Friday to consider applications from two separate research groups.
The green light for the controversial science could lead to a cure for such afflictions as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases and type 1 diabetes in less than 10 years.
A Monash University team and another based at the Melbourne lab of the Australian Stem Cell Centre have each partnered with Sydney IVF to submit licence requests.
The teams want permission to create cloned human embryos using spare eggs left over from fertility treatment.
The applications are the first submitted since federal government legislation allowing therapeutic cloning came into a force a year ago.
The laws forbid licence holders merging a sperm and an egg to create an embryo.
The licences, if granted, will allow only somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), where cloned embryos are created by fusing spare, unfertilised IVF eggs with genetic material - a skin cell, for example - from another person.
The cloned embryos would be destroyed once stem cells were collected, and before the embryos reached seven days old.
Embryonic stem cells excite researchers and patients because they can be turned into every type of tissue or structure in the body with the ability to replenish damaged or diseased cells.
The licence applications are likely to reignite emotional debate among political leaders, religious groups and ethicists.
Religious groups and ethicists have raged against the science, saying it it tantamount to the destruction of human life.
They are also concerned about where the supply of human eggs will come from.
In Australia, human eggs - an essential ingredient in therapeutic cloning - can only be donated by IVF couples who don't need them.
The nine-member NHMRC embryo research licensing committee could reach a decision on the applications this week.
Both the research teams have applied for $1 million grants under a joint Victorian and NSW government stem-cell research program. Sydney IVF research director Tomas Stojanov said he was confident that both applications - involving staff from Monash and the Australian Stem Cell Centre - would be approved.
Sydney IVF has successfully established embryonic stem-cell lines using other methods and already holds five NHMRC licences for other techniques.
"We're very experienced in this science," he said.
Mr Stojanov confirmed the NHMRC contacted him on Friday after the licensing committee meeting in Canberra.
He said stem cells produced by therapeutic cloning could offer good opportunity in drug discovery and determining mechanisms of disease.
"If we did this, we'd be the first in the world," he said.
"We're very skilful at this and believe we can be the first."
Mr Stojanov was quick to point out the research would involve excess human embryos and embryos that were not clinically viable. Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories director Professor Richard Boyd said he was hopeful his team could produce the world's first cloned SCNT embryos.
The team would "see the world in our rear-vision mirrors" if they received Federal Government approval, he said.
An NHMRC spokeswoman confirmed the licensing committee was considering "a number of applications".
But it could not say when a decision would be made
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23827796-2,00.html
Posted: 8 Jun 2008, 10:50amSubject: Re: In The News Today
AUSTRALIA'S first licences to clone human embryos could be granted as early as this week.
A National Health and Medical Research Council panel met in Canberra on Friday to consider applications from two separate research groups.
The green light for the controversial science could lead to a cure for such afflictions as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases and type 1 diabetes in less than 10 years.
Good. Firstly for the assistance this research can give fighting diseases. Secondly cause it pisses off those stupid religious extremists.
Posted: 8 Jun 2008, 11:50amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
AUSTRALIA'S first licences to clone human embryos could be granted as early as this week.
A National Health and Medical Research Council panel met in Canberra on Friday to consider applications from two separate research groups.
The green light for the controversial science could lead to a cure for such afflictions as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases and type 1 diabetes in less than 10 years.
A National Health and Medical Research Council panel met in Canberra on Friday to consider applications from two separate research groups.
The green light for the controversial science could lead to a cure for such afflictions as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases and type 1 diabetes in less than 10 years.
Good. Firstly for the assistance this research can give fighting diseases. Secondly cause it pisses off those stupid religious extremists.
Posted: 8 Jun 2008, 9:02pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Good. Firstly for the assistance this research can give fighting diseases. Secondly cause it pisses off those stupid religious extremists.
Its not even extremist is the Catholic Church. I would like to challenge ANYONE who thinks embryonic research is un ethical to live with a type 1 Diabetic for a week, day or even just an hour & then try I say its un ethical
Posted: 8 Jun 2008, 10:02pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Good. Firstly for the assistance this research can give fighting diseases. Secondly cause it pisses off those stupid religious extremists.
Its not even extremist is the Catholic Church. I would like to challenge ANYONE who thinks embryonic research is un ethical to live with a type 1 Diabetic for a week, day or even just an hour & then try I say its un ethical :funkyj:
Posted: 9 Jun 2008, 12:09pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
LoL ;p
A DISGUARDED smoke alarm in a rubbish truck caused Gouger St in the City to be locked down for more than two hours this morning.
The driver of a rubbish truck who had just emptied the contents of an industrial waste bin into his truck at the rear of a premises off Market St about 7am, called police and told them there was a suspicious noise coming from the rear of his truck.
Police immediately sealed off Gouger St between King William and Morphett streets calling bomb disposal technicians the scene along with the Metropolitan Fire Service and paramedics.
After the load was emptied onto the ground and searched the suspicious item was found to be a smoke alarm.
A DISGUARDED smoke alarm in a rubbish truck caused Gouger St in the City to be locked down for more than two hours this morning.
The driver of a rubbish truck who had just emptied the contents of an industrial waste bin into his truck at the rear of a premises off Market St about 7am, called police and told them there was a suspicious noise coming from the rear of his truck.
Police immediately sealed off Gouger St between King William and Morphett streets calling bomb disposal technicians the scene along with the Metropolitan Fire Service and paramedics.
After the load was emptied onto the ground and searched the suspicious item was found to be a smoke alarm.
Everything is so f*cking green
Posted: 9 Jun 2008, 12:16pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
fuckern hell who does the spell checks at the crapvertiser!!
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"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
Posted: 9 Jun 2008, 1:16pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
fuckern hell who does the spell checks at the crapvertiser!!??
Posted: 10 Jun 2008, 8:39amSubject: Re: In The News Today
who didnt see this coming becuase im suuuuuuuuure banning bongs will really slow down the chronic
AN Adelaide business is rebadging outlawed cannabis bongs to beat tough new laws making the sale of drug implements illegal.
Attorney-General Michael Atkinson and a reformed cannabis addict say they saw illegal bongs on sale at Off Ya Tree in Hindley St, but they were labelled water-pourers.
"I'm advised that re-naming drug-use products does not protect a retailer from being subject to the new drug paraphernalia laws," Mr Atkinson said. He said he had alerted police to Off Ya Tree's alleged sale of illegal items.
Former addict Ryan Hidden says he was offered a bong by staff about 2.45pm on Sunday – more than 14 hours after the sale of bongs became illegal – and again yesterday.
Mr Hidden says bongs in the store were advertised as "water-pourers" but they were simply bongs by another name.
Mr Hidden, 20, who co-founded the Reformed Drug Addicts League of SA volunteer group, said there was no doubt the "water-pourer" was a bong.
"There's no difference," he said. "They've just taken down the sign saying `bongs' and replaced it with one saying `water-pourers'. It was still a bottle with a stem, a cone piece and shotty hole (for releasing smoke) at the bottom."
Mr Hidden said he had beaten a five-year addiction to cannabis and had been campaigning against its use for more than a year.
He went to several tobacconists on Sunday and yesterday to check on compliance with the new laws, but Off Ya Tree was the only business offering "water-pourers" and other drugs paraphernalia for sale.
A spokesman for Off Ya Tree said yesterday the company no longer sold bongs.
"We don't actually sell bongs at all," he said, identifying himself as Ben. He said the company had no further comment.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23839976-5006301,00.html
AN Adelaide business is rebadging outlawed cannabis bongs to beat tough new laws making the sale of drug implements illegal.
Attorney-General Michael Atkinson and a reformed cannabis addict say they saw illegal bongs on sale at Off Ya Tree in Hindley St, but they were labelled water-pourers.
"I'm advised that re-naming drug-use products does not protect a retailer from being subject to the new drug paraphernalia laws," Mr Atkinson said. He said he had alerted police to Off Ya Tree's alleged sale of illegal items.
Former addict Ryan Hidden says he was offered a bong by staff about 2.45pm on Sunday – more than 14 hours after the sale of bongs became illegal – and again yesterday.
Mr Hidden says bongs in the store were advertised as "water-pourers" but they were simply bongs by another name.
Mr Hidden, 20, who co-founded the Reformed Drug Addicts League of SA volunteer group, said there was no doubt the "water-pourer" was a bong.
"There's no difference," he said. "They've just taken down the sign saying `bongs' and replaced it with one saying `water-pourers'. It was still a bottle with a stem, a cone piece and shotty hole (for releasing smoke) at the bottom."
Mr Hidden said he had beaten a five-year addiction to cannabis and had been campaigning against its use for more than a year.
He went to several tobacconists on Sunday and yesterday to check on compliance with the new laws, but Off Ya Tree was the only business offering "water-pourers" and other drugs paraphernalia for sale.
A spokesman for Off Ya Tree said yesterday the company no longer sold bongs.
"We don't actually sell bongs at all," he said, identifying himself as Ben. He said the company had no further comment.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23839976-5006301,00.html
Posted: 10 Jun 2008, 2:44pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I once had this battery with an alkaline problem. I took it to AA meetings.
To all the virgins out there: THANKS FOR NOTHING!
Sleeping bags. They're intense!
To all the virgins out there: THANKS FOR NOTHING!
Sleeping bags. They're intense!
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Posted: 10 Jun 2008, 3:33pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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The toad is being kept at the animal hospital where staff have named it Spew.
And why the fuck haven't they killed it yet? Surely they aren't going to care the toad back to health and then release it back in to the environment?
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Posted: 10 Jun 2008, 3:53pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
cool news application for google earth... not sure where to post it
http://www.abc.net.au/apps/earth/
http://www.abc.net.au/apps/earth/
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- Ava Gardner......
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- Ava Gardner......
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Posted: 10 Jun 2008, 5:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Good. Firstly for the assistance this research can give fighting diseases.
Nah fuck fighting disease.
I want clones to settle the Nurture Vs Nature arguments once and for all.
Clone Manson a few times, and raise him as he was, and also in a less caring, and in a more caring environment, maybe as catholic, buddhist, atheist, etc, and raise one with computer games and one without, one with ROCK
and once with country, etc, and then see which one goes on murderous rampages...Then just eliminate "the bad one" and the culture that raised him from society.
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Posted: 11 Jun 2008, 9:13amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Oral sex blamed for throat cancer rise
For five gruelling months in 2006 and 2007, Carol Kanga suffered through treatment for a life-threatening case of throat cancer linked to an unlikely source: a sexually transmitted viral infection.
Unable to swallow food or water during chemotherapy and radiation treatment, Kanga was fed through a stomach tube. Her one respite came on Thanksgiving, when she savoured a single spoonful of weak broth.
"The radiation basically burns the skin off the outside and inside of your throat," said Kanga, 52. "It's like there's a fire inside your neck."
Kanga's treatment was successful, but the virus that struck her is causing increasing concern among some researchers who think it is causing a small-scale epidemic of throat cancer.
That virus, scientists have proved only in the last two years, is human papillomavirus, or HPV - the same virus that's behind most cases of cervical cancer.
With 6,000 cases per year and an annual increase of up to 10 per cent in men younger than 60, some researchers say the HPV-linked throat cancers could overtake cervical cancer in the next decade.
"It's almost a new disease, in a sense," said Dr Ezra Cohen, an oncologist at the University of Chicago Medical Centre. "It's now becoming a dominant sub-type of the disease that we see in our clinic."
The HPV infections likely took root decades ago as the Baby Boomers were reaching adulthood, and only now are spurring a rise in throat cancer cases, mostly among men and women in their 50s.
No one understands the precise reason for the increase, though experts suspect it's linked to changes in sexual practices that emerged in the 1960s and '70s. For example, oral sex is a known risk factor for HPV-related throat cancers, and studies have shown that people who have come of age since the 1950s are more likely to have engaged in oral sex than those who were born earlier.
"Those people were in their teens during the sexual revolution, so they may be leading the wave," said Dr Maura Gillison, a professor of oncology and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Centre who has published numerous studies indicating that HPV-related throat cancer is a distinct type of disease.
The virus targets a specific portion of the upper throat called the oropharynx, which includes the tonsils and base of the tongue. Just a decade ago, doctors believed nearly all such cancers were linked with smoking or extremely heavy drinking.
Last year, however, Gillison's team published a major study that found stark differences between the risky behaviours of throat cancer patients with HPV and those without. The HPV-positive cancer patients tended to have had higher numbers of sex partners than the others and were far more likely to have had multiple oral-sex partners.
The virus-linked cancer appears somewhat less deadly than throat cancers that arise from smoking or drinking. A paper published this year found that 96 per cent of HPV-positive patients survived at least two years after diagnosis, compared with 62 per cent survival for HPV-negative cancers.
"They have a better prognosis, but these are still very aggressive cancers," said Dr Marshall Posner, medical director of head and neck oncology at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre in Boston.
While doctors had hoped for an overall drop in throat cancer as the percentage of Americans who smoke declined, the rise of HPV-related throat cancers seems to be offsetting any such benefit.
Gillison's group tested hundreds of head and neck tumours that doctors began saving in the early 1970s, long before anyone knew such cancers might be linked to HPV. The work showed that the number of HPV-positive tumours increased by about 1 per cent a year on average, though the trend has quickened in the last decade, especially in men younger than 60.
The virus thrives in the outer layer of skin and is transmitted mostly by skin-to-skin contact, researchers think. Sexual transmission tends to cause infection near the site of contact; intercourse is linked with cervical cancer, while oral sex can cause cancer of the upper throat.
Recent increases in HPV-positive throat cancers could be an aftershock of changes in sexual behaviour that began decades ago. A landmark 1994 study of sexual behaviour showed that oral sex had become commonplace only in the generations born in the 1950s or later. Fewer than 60 per cent of people born in the 1930s were found to have had oral sex, compared with more than 80 per cent of people born since 1950.
"The older people simply did not do it as much," said Edward Laumann, a University of Chicago professor of sociology who led the National Health and Social Life Survey.
"It's a very complicated social story that nobody's really worked out in detail," he said.
Other causes may have contributed to the spread of HPV cancers, including the increased movement of people around the country and the world in the last half-century, experts said. Scientists aren't even sure yet whether the virus might be spread by kissing, though data suggest oral sex is a major route of transmission.
One implication of the cancer trend is that oral sex does not constitute "safe sex," Kanga said.
"We can't be afraid to talk about this," Kanga said. "The message that oral sex carries risks is just not out there."
Conservative groups say the emergence of HPV-related throat cancer is an additional argument for abstaining from sex until marriage.
But many researchers focus on expanded use of the HPV vaccine, which since 2006 has been recommended for girls ages 11 to 12. Just as the vaccine lessens the risk of cervical cancer for those girls, it may offer protection from HPV-positive throat cancer, though studies have not yet addressed that question.
Vaccine maker Merck & Co hopes to submit an application this year to the US Food and Drug Administration for use of its HPV vaccine in males. Although the company's studies will not show specifically whether the vaccine protects against throat cancer, they should reveal whether the shots prevent infection with HPV.
"We expect the vaccine to work just as well in male and female populations," said Dr Richard Haupt, director of Merck's clinical program for the vaccine, Gardasil, which was developed using technology pioneered in Australia.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/06/10/1212863620224.html
For five gruelling months in 2006 and 2007, Carol Kanga suffered through treatment for a life-threatening case of throat cancer linked to an unlikely source: a sexually transmitted viral infection.
Unable to swallow food or water during chemotherapy and radiation treatment, Kanga was fed through a stomach tube. Her one respite came on Thanksgiving, when she savoured a single spoonful of weak broth.
"The radiation basically burns the skin off the outside and inside of your throat," said Kanga, 52. "It's like there's a fire inside your neck."
Kanga's treatment was successful, but the virus that struck her is causing increasing concern among some researchers who think it is causing a small-scale epidemic of throat cancer.
That virus, scientists have proved only in the last two years, is human papillomavirus, or HPV - the same virus that's behind most cases of cervical cancer.
With 6,000 cases per year and an annual increase of up to 10 per cent in men younger than 60, some researchers say the HPV-linked throat cancers could overtake cervical cancer in the next decade.
"It's almost a new disease, in a sense," said Dr Ezra Cohen, an oncologist at the University of Chicago Medical Centre. "It's now becoming a dominant sub-type of the disease that we see in our clinic."
The HPV infections likely took root decades ago as the Baby Boomers were reaching adulthood, and only now are spurring a rise in throat cancer cases, mostly among men and women in their 50s.
No one understands the precise reason for the increase, though experts suspect it's linked to changes in sexual practices that emerged in the 1960s and '70s. For example, oral sex is a known risk factor for HPV-related throat cancers, and studies have shown that people who have come of age since the 1950s are more likely to have engaged in oral sex than those who were born earlier.
"Those people were in their teens during the sexual revolution, so they may be leading the wave," said Dr Maura Gillison, a professor of oncology and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Centre who has published numerous studies indicating that HPV-related throat cancer is a distinct type of disease.
The virus targets a specific portion of the upper throat called the oropharynx, which includes the tonsils and base of the tongue. Just a decade ago, doctors believed nearly all such cancers were linked with smoking or extremely heavy drinking.
Last year, however, Gillison's team published a major study that found stark differences between the risky behaviours of throat cancer patients with HPV and those without. The HPV-positive cancer patients tended to have had higher numbers of sex partners than the others and were far more likely to have had multiple oral-sex partners.
The virus-linked cancer appears somewhat less deadly than throat cancers that arise from smoking or drinking. A paper published this year found that 96 per cent of HPV-positive patients survived at least two years after diagnosis, compared with 62 per cent survival for HPV-negative cancers.
"They have a better prognosis, but these are still very aggressive cancers," said Dr Marshall Posner, medical director of head and neck oncology at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre in Boston.
While doctors had hoped for an overall drop in throat cancer as the percentage of Americans who smoke declined, the rise of HPV-related throat cancers seems to be offsetting any such benefit.
Gillison's group tested hundreds of head and neck tumours that doctors began saving in the early 1970s, long before anyone knew such cancers might be linked to HPV. The work showed that the number of HPV-positive tumours increased by about 1 per cent a year on average, though the trend has quickened in the last decade, especially in men younger than 60.
The virus thrives in the outer layer of skin and is transmitted mostly by skin-to-skin contact, researchers think. Sexual transmission tends to cause infection near the site of contact; intercourse is linked with cervical cancer, while oral sex can cause cancer of the upper throat.
Recent increases in HPV-positive throat cancers could be an aftershock of changes in sexual behaviour that began decades ago. A landmark 1994 study of sexual behaviour showed that oral sex had become commonplace only in the generations born in the 1950s or later. Fewer than 60 per cent of people born in the 1930s were found to have had oral sex, compared with more than 80 per cent of people born since 1950.
"The older people simply did not do it as much," said Edward Laumann, a University of Chicago professor of sociology who led the National Health and Social Life Survey.
"It's a very complicated social story that nobody's really worked out in detail," he said.
Other causes may have contributed to the spread of HPV cancers, including the increased movement of people around the country and the world in the last half-century, experts said. Scientists aren't even sure yet whether the virus might be spread by kissing, though data suggest oral sex is a major route of transmission.
One implication of the cancer trend is that oral sex does not constitute "safe sex," Kanga said.
"We can't be afraid to talk about this," Kanga said. "The message that oral sex carries risks is just not out there."
Conservative groups say the emergence of HPV-related throat cancer is an additional argument for abstaining from sex until marriage.
But many researchers focus on expanded use of the HPV vaccine, which since 2006 has been recommended for girls ages 11 to 12. Just as the vaccine lessens the risk of cervical cancer for those girls, it may offer protection from HPV-positive throat cancer, though studies have not yet addressed that question.
Vaccine maker Merck & Co hopes to submit an application this year to the US Food and Drug Administration for use of its HPV vaccine in males. Although the company's studies will not show specifically whether the vaccine protects against throat cancer, they should reveal whether the shots prevent infection with HPV.
"We expect the vaccine to work just as well in male and female populations," said Dr Richard Haupt, director of Merck's clinical program for the vaccine, Gardasil, which was developed using technology pioneered in Australia.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/06/10/1212863620224.html
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Posted: 11 Jun 2008, 3:33pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Oral sex blamed for throat cancer rise
are you gonna go cold turkey or get some dickorette patches to sooth your cravings?
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Posted: 11 Jun 2008, 3:36pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
are you gonna go cold turkey or get some dickorette patches to sooth your cravings?
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Posted: 13 Jun 2008, 1:50amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Stupid hippies!!
Greens Support Ban On Water!
Thursday, 25 October 2001, 9:43 am
Press Release: New Zealand National Party
"The Green Party's support for a ban on water in New Zealand shows how naïve and unscientific the Greens are and illustrates why the Government should ignore their extreme views to ban genetic technologies from New Zealand", says National's Environment spokesperson Nick Smith.
In an email response to a spoof highlighting all the dangers and deaths from water, Green MP Sue Kedgley's office said she was 'absolutely supportive' of a ban on dihydrogen monoxide in New Zealand.
"The Greens' support for a ban on dihydrogen monoxide shows just how scientifically illiterate the party is. They would ban anything if it has a slightly scientific name, regardless of the fact that all life would cease without water," Dr Smith said.
The email on dihydrogen monoxide points out it is a colourless, odourless, tasteless chemical used in all sorts of dangerous industries and that in gaseous form it causes thousands of burns; in liquid form millions of deaths from overdose (drowning), and in its solid state causes tissue damage.
"This spoof pulled on the Greens is not indifferent to that which they have pulled on New Zealanders in their campaign against gene technology. They have highlighted all of the dangers of gene technology, but ignored the huge benefits the new technology can offer to mankind. The 31,000 diabetics who survive because of GM-produced insulin is just one example.
"Gene technology, just like water, offers both benefits and risks. The Government must reject the scientifically illiterate Greens and instead support the Royal Commission's proposals for sensible controls on this new technology," Dr Smith said.
Greens Support Ban On Water!
Thursday, 25 October 2001, 9:43 am
Press Release: New Zealand National Party
"The Green Party's support for a ban on water in New Zealand shows how naïve and unscientific the Greens are and illustrates why the Government should ignore their extreme views to ban genetic technologies from New Zealand", says National's Environment spokesperson Nick Smith.
In an email response to a spoof highlighting all the dangers and deaths from water, Green MP Sue Kedgley's office said she was 'absolutely supportive' of a ban on dihydrogen monoxide in New Zealand.
"The Greens' support for a ban on dihydrogen monoxide shows just how scientifically illiterate the party is. They would ban anything if it has a slightly scientific name, regardless of the fact that all life would cease without water," Dr Smith said.
The email on dihydrogen monoxide points out it is a colourless, odourless, tasteless chemical used in all sorts of dangerous industries and that in gaseous form it causes thousands of burns; in liquid form millions of deaths from overdose (drowning), and in its solid state causes tissue damage.
"This spoof pulled on the Greens is not indifferent to that which they have pulled on New Zealanders in their campaign against gene technology. They have highlighted all of the dangers of gene technology, but ignored the huge benefits the new technology can offer to mankind. The 31,000 diabetics who survive because of GM-produced insulin is just one example.
"Gene technology, just like water, offers both benefits and risks. The Government must reject the scientifically illiterate Greens and instead support the Royal Commission's proposals for sensible controls on this new technology," Dr Smith said.
Posted: 14 Jun 2008, 3:13pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Humans could all be aliens
GENETIC material from outer space found in a meteorite in Australia may well have played a key role in the origin of life on earth, according to a study to be published on Sunday.
European and US scientists say they have proved for the first time two bits of genetic coding, called nucleobases, contained in the meteor fragment, are truly extraterrestrial.
Previous studies had suggested the space rocks, which hit earth about 40 years ago, might have been contaminated upon impact.
Both of the molecules identified, uracil and xanthine, "are present in our DNA and RNA," said lead author Zita Martins, a researcher at Imperial College London.
RNA, or ribonucleic acid, is another key part of the genetic coding that makes up our bodies.
These molecules would also have been essential to the still-mysterious alchemy that somehow gave rise, about four billion years ago, to life itself.
"We know that meteorites very similar to the Murchison meteorite, which is the one we analysed, were delivering the building blocks of life to earth 3.8 to 4.5 billion years ago," Martins said.
Competing theories suggest nucleobases were synthesised closer to home, but Martins said the atmospheric conditions of early earth would have rendered that process difficult or impossible.
A team of European and US scientists showed the two types of molecules in the Australian meteorite contained a heavy form of carbon - carbon 13 - which could only have been formed in space.
"We believe early life may have adopted nucleobases from meteoric fragments for use in genetic coding, enabling them to pass on their successful features to subsequent generations," Martins said.
If so, this would have been the start of an evolutionary process leading over billions of years to all the flora and fauna - including human beings - in existence today.
The study, to be published in Earth Planetary Science Letters, also has implications for life on other planets.
"Because meteorites represent leftover materials from the formation of the solar system, the key components of life - including nucleobases - could be widespread in the cosmos," said co-author Mark Sephton, also at Imperial College London.
"As more and more of life's raw materials are discovered in objects from space, the possibility of life springing forth wherever the right chemistry is present becomes more likely," he said.
Uracil is an organic compound found in RNA, where it binds in a genetic base pair with another molecule, adenine.
Xanthine is not directly part of RNA or DNA, but participates in a series of chemical reactions inside the RNA of cells.
The two types of nucleobases and the ratio of light-to-heavy carbon molecules were identified through gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, technologies that were not available during earlier analyses of the now-famous meteorite.
Even so, said Martins, the process was extremely laborious and time-consuming, one reason it had not be carried out up to now by other scientists.
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Posted: 14 Jun 2008, 4:21pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Wu Tang’s Check Mate
The Wu Tang Clan expanded the multi-media empire imaginatively this week with the launch of ‘the world’s first online chess and Hip-Hop community’ WuChess.com.
“The game of chess is like a swordfight,” the notorious New York rap crew explained on the site’s home page. “You must think first, before you move. Toad style is immensely strong, and immune to nearly any weapon. When it's properly used, it's almost invincible.”
Promising ‘hardcore chess without the stuffiness’ the Clan said the site will offer subscribers the opportunity to ‘triumph over enemies on the 64 squares’ and promised to donate some of the revenues raised to the Hip Hop Chess Federation's scholarship fund.
The game’s most infamous player remains now deceased US former world champion Bobby Fischer, who played so viciously that fellow grandmaster Arthur Bisguier once declared; “if Bobby Fischer wasn't a chess player, he might have been a dangerous psychopath.”
His most famous victory came against Russian ace Boris Spassky in a tournament in 1972, who speaking after his defeat admitted "When you play Bobby, it is not a question of whether you win or lose. It is a question of whether you survive."
“There was talk among grandmasters that Fischer hypnotized his opponents, that he undermined their intellectual powers with a dark, mystic, insidious force. Time after time, in long matches, Fischer's opponents would suffer a psychosomatic collapse,” David Edmonds and John Eidinow recalled in their book ‘Bobby
Fischer Goes to War’,” an account of the legendary battle.
“There is no doubt that, like a psychopath, Fischer enjoyed that feeling of complete power over his opponent. Like a psychopath, he had no moral compunction about using his power,” they said.
In more hip hop news, Ibiza aficionado Puff Daddy also revealed an unexpectedly socially aware side in an interview with the Telegraph this week, insisting his greatest pleasure comes from putting kids ‘that aren’t my own’ through college.
"I'm not the party monster people make me out to be. I wouldn't even say I'm a big drinker, but I do love Cîroc vodka. Actually, I put out a statement that I have given up champagne and tequila,” Puffy claimed, “Champagne doesn't agree with my palate any more, you see.”
http://m1e.net/c?79527499-Tuj5LfSAyy5lc%403399428-iaEvI7jgtfI9o
The Wu Tang Clan expanded the multi-media empire imaginatively this week with the launch of ‘the world’s first online chess and Hip-Hop community’ WuChess.com.
“The game of chess is like a swordfight,” the notorious New York rap crew explained on the site’s home page. “You must think first, before you move. Toad style is immensely strong, and immune to nearly any weapon. When it's properly used, it's almost invincible.”
Promising ‘hardcore chess without the stuffiness’ the Clan said the site will offer subscribers the opportunity to ‘triumph over enemies on the 64 squares’ and promised to donate some of the revenues raised to the Hip Hop Chess Federation's scholarship fund.
The game’s most infamous player remains now deceased US former world champion Bobby Fischer, who played so viciously that fellow grandmaster Arthur Bisguier once declared; “if Bobby Fischer wasn't a chess player, he might have been a dangerous psychopath.”
His most famous victory came against Russian ace Boris Spassky in a tournament in 1972, who speaking after his defeat admitted "When you play Bobby, it is not a question of whether you win or lose. It is a question of whether you survive."
“There was talk among grandmasters that Fischer hypnotized his opponents, that he undermined their intellectual powers with a dark, mystic, insidious force. Time after time, in long matches, Fischer's opponents would suffer a psychosomatic collapse,” David Edmonds and John Eidinow recalled in their book ‘Bobby
Fischer Goes to War’,” an account of the legendary battle.
“There is no doubt that, like a psychopath, Fischer enjoyed that feeling of complete power over his opponent. Like a psychopath, he had no moral compunction about using his power,” they said.
In more hip hop news, Ibiza aficionado Puff Daddy also revealed an unexpectedly socially aware side in an interview with the Telegraph this week, insisting his greatest pleasure comes from putting kids ‘that aren’t my own’ through college.
"I'm not the party monster people make me out to be. I wouldn't even say I'm a big drinker, but I do love Cîroc vodka. Actually, I put out a statement that I have given up champagne and tequila,” Puffy claimed, “Champagne doesn't agree with my palate any more, you see.”
http://m1e.net/c?79527499-Tuj5LfSAyy5lc%403399428-iaEvI7jgtfI9o
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- Ava Gardner......
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Posted: 16 Jun 2008, 8:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Not exactly news considering it happened in 2001…
Then again, ironically enough, a New Zealand National Party MP also fell for it recently
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10463579
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Posted: 18 Jun 2008, 1:50amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Guy kidnaps ex-girlfriend to get ironing done
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL164524920080616
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said Monday.
The 43-year-old man dragged the woman out of a pub in the port city of Genoa, shoved her into a car and took her to his home where he made her iron and wash dishes after threatening her, they said.
Police arrived at his house after being tipped off by a friend of the woman who watched the scene at the pub.
The man, who was apparently furious at his ex-girlfriend for leaving him, was arrested on charges of kidnapping, police said.
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Posted: 18 Jun 2008, 9:48amSubject: Re: In The News Today
SA parliament passes laws to put sniffer dogs in nightclubs
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23882996-2682,00.html
SNIFFER dogs will be used in South Australian nightclubs to detect drug users and dealers after a Bill passed the Upper House last night.
The Government Bill, which will be effectively rubber stamped when it is debated in the Lower House, will allow police to use the dogs in targeted raids around the state.
Police Minister Paul Holloway said the laws would be an "increasingly important" tool used to make entertainment venues safer.
"Currently some ambiguity exists as to the extent to which police can carry out people-screening operations using drug detection dogs," he said.
"These amendments will clarify this matter and ensure that there is a sound legal basis for using the dogs for drug detection purposes.
"The new laws will target dealers and users of such drugs as heroin, amphetamines, cannabis and cocaine. These drugs can kill a user and some can cause explosions of lethal violence."
You gotta love a good Advertiser beatup, this last sentence is great.
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Posted: 18 Jun 2008, 9:57amSubject: Re: In The News Today
of course, coz my weed might suddenly explode in my pocket. FFS.
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Posted: 18 Jun 2008, 10:19amSubject: Re: In The News Today
rofl... I once had some killer gear cut with TNT, great stuff
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Posted: 18 Jun 2008, 10:39amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Yeah coz we all know there is so much more violence at events where everyone is on drugs as opposed to everyone being tanked on alcohol.
Posted: 18 Jun 2008, 10:48amSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 19 Jun 2008, 8:55pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
may have already been posted
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-au&brand=ninemsn&vid=037e0704-7237-4538-879d-74ebe110e405
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Posted: 21 Jun 2008, 12:37amSubject: Re: In The News Today
so, in vietnam and got told that pauline hanson died today......
Posted: 21 Jun 2008, 12:52amSubject: Re: In The News Today
so, in vietnam and got told that pauline hanson died today......
Can't see anything on the net about it...she had some fake death video last November apparently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hanson#.22Death.22_video
Posted: 21 Jun 2008, 9:15amSubject: Re: In The News Today
US rapper 50 Cent has been ordered to surrender any guns he might have after a judge issued a temporary restraining order requested by the rapper's ex-girlfriend.
A lawyer for the rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, said he would contest the order and that 50 Cent did not have guns or access to guns.
"To my knowledge, he has no guns,'' said lawyer Brett Kimmel.
The order bars 50 Cent from being in contact with Shaniqua Tompkins, the mother of his 10-year-old son, without the court's permission, lawyers said.
50 Cent and Tompkins have been locked in a legal fight over money.
Tompkins has argued that she is entitled to half of 50 Cent's estate, based on an oral agreement.
The dispute escalated last month after a fire destroyed the rapper's $US2.4 million ($A2.5 million) Long Island home, where Tompkins lived with their son.
Police said they were investigating the fire as suspicious.
The Stamford, Connecticut-based rapper has denied any involvement in the fire and separately today filed a $US20 million ($A21 million) defamation lawsuit in a Connecticut Superior Court against Tompkins for statements she made to the media.
"It's completely baseless and it's retaliatory,'' Tompkins' lawyer, Paul Catsandonis, said of the defamation suit.
"It's nothing more than an attempt to rehabilitate his image.''
Since his debut album in 2003, 50 Cent has built a business with a record label, a clothing and footwear line, ringtones and video games.
He has also starred in a movie based on his life, Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
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http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23898838-5005962,00.html
A lawyer for the rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, said he would contest the order and that 50 Cent did not have guns or access to guns.
"To my knowledge, he has no guns,'' said lawyer Brett Kimmel.
The order bars 50 Cent from being in contact with Shaniqua Tompkins, the mother of his 10-year-old son, without the court's permission, lawyers said.
50 Cent and Tompkins have been locked in a legal fight over money.
Tompkins has argued that she is entitled to half of 50 Cent's estate, based on an oral agreement.
The dispute escalated last month after a fire destroyed the rapper's $US2.4 million ($A2.5 million) Long Island home, where Tompkins lived with their son.
Police said they were investigating the fire as suspicious.
The Stamford, Connecticut-based rapper has denied any involvement in the fire and separately today filed a $US20 million ($A21 million) defamation lawsuit in a Connecticut Superior Court against Tompkins for statements she made to the media.
"It's completely baseless and it's retaliatory,'' Tompkins' lawyer, Paul Catsandonis, said of the defamation suit.
"It's nothing more than an attempt to rehabilitate his image.''
Since his debut album in 2003, 50 Cent has built a business with a record label, a clothing and footwear line, ringtones and video games.
He has also starred in a movie based on his life, Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
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http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23898838-5005962,00.html
Posted: 22 Jun 2008, 8:28amSubject: Re: In The News Today
200 from a little 4banger not bad
A 34-year-old western Sydney man will face court next month after he was caught doing more than 200km/h in a 110km/h zone, police say.
Highway patrol officers clocked the Penrith man's Subaru WRX Impreza travelling at 209km/h on a stretch of the Hume Hwy, near Mittagong in the southern highlands, at 2.15am (AEST) today.
The driver has been charged with speeding, and will appear in Moss Vale Local Court on July 7.
His licence has also been suspended.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23903168-5005962,00.html
A 34-year-old western Sydney man will face court next month after he was caught doing more than 200km/h in a 110km/h zone, police say.
Highway patrol officers clocked the Penrith man's Subaru WRX Impreza travelling at 209km/h on a stretch of the Hume Hwy, near Mittagong in the southern highlands, at 2.15am (AEST) today.
The driver has been charged with speeding, and will appear in Moss Vale Local Court on July 7.
His licence has also been suspended.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23903168-5005962,00.html
Posted: 22 Jun 2008, 7:30pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Can't see anything on the net about it...she had some fake death video last November apparently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hanson#.22Death.22_video
lol funy.
a aussie guy we were talking to said a guy on the street was trying to sell them a sydney morning herald news paper and it was on the front cover lol
scam!
Posted: 22 Jun 2008, 8:24pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
i'd love to find that song about her by pauline pantsdown that got banned, didn't it get no.3 in the hottest 100 back in the day and they couldn't play it? classic!
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Posted: 22 Jun 2008, 11:42pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
i'd love to find that song about her by pauline pantsdown that got banned, didn't it get no.3 in the hottest 100 back in the day and they couldn't play it? classic!
I think i have it as a MP3 somewhere
Posted: 24 Jun 2008, 11:35amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Just quietly, I wish that cunt Belinda Neal would die in an aids fire.
Who does she think she is? Fucking Corey the party boy?
Who does she think she is? Fucking Corey the party boy?
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Sleeping bags. They're intense!
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Sleeping bags. They're intense!
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Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 11:27amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Teen arrested for 'blasphemous T-shirt'
A GOLD Coast teenager who wore a T-shirt by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth that reads 'Jesus is a cunt' has been charged with offensive behaviour.
Above the offensive slogan a nun is depicted masturbating.
A 16-year-old was arrested on Monday for wearing the shirt and was charged with offensive behaviour under the Summary Offences Act 2005 for public nuisance.
Senior Sergeant Arron Ottaway said the teen was walking along Hollywell Road, in Biggera Waters, when a officer saw him.
Police conducted inquiries at Australia Fair, where the teen said he bought the shirt, to find any shops selling it.
The Reverend Matt Hunt of the Helensvale Baptist Church said it was sad people spoke about the Lord in such a way.
"It's fairly common language these days to express sadness, anger or hurt," he said. "It's a degrading word to use and Jesus is anything but that. It's like calling white black."
Mr Hunt said using the Lord's name in vain was a serious sin.
"When someone comes to the point of saying Jesus is the devil or Jesus is 'expletive', the Bible does say be very careful because you're on thin ice."
Gold Coast lawyer Bill Potts said the arrest highlighted Australia's need for a Bill of Rights.
"One of the great problems with our country is that we talk about rights such as privacy and freedom of speech and the like but they are not enshrined or protected in any way as they are in America," he said.
"While there are always limits on freedom of speech, you can't incite violence or anything like that, it seems to be now more than ever that our rights to freedom of speech and freedom of expression should be protected.
"A Bill of Rights which enshrines that protection is long overdue in this country."
Mr Potts said charging the teen was 'ludicrous' and brought the law into disrepute.
"A shirt might offend some and might be amusing to others," he said.
"If a person was wearing the shirt in a church or a religious rally where it was specifically intended to offend or cause disruption, then perhaps the prosecution might stand a chance.
"However, to criminalise juvenile or boorish messages is to bring the law into disrepute. The police are acting like the thought police and censors."
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23919553-2,00.html
A GOLD Coast teenager who wore a T-shirt by English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth that reads 'Jesus is a cunt' has been charged with offensive behaviour.
Above the offensive slogan a nun is depicted masturbating.
A 16-year-old was arrested on Monday for wearing the shirt and was charged with offensive behaviour under the Summary Offences Act 2005 for public nuisance.
Senior Sergeant Arron Ottaway said the teen was walking along Hollywell Road, in Biggera Waters, when a officer saw him.
Police conducted inquiries at Australia Fair, where the teen said he bought the shirt, to find any shops selling it.
The Reverend Matt Hunt of the Helensvale Baptist Church said it was sad people spoke about the Lord in such a way.
"It's fairly common language these days to express sadness, anger or hurt," he said. "It's a degrading word to use and Jesus is anything but that. It's like calling white black."
Mr Hunt said using the Lord's name in vain was a serious sin.
"When someone comes to the point of saying Jesus is the devil or Jesus is 'expletive', the Bible does say be very careful because you're on thin ice."
Gold Coast lawyer Bill Potts said the arrest highlighted Australia's need for a Bill of Rights.
"One of the great problems with our country is that we talk about rights such as privacy and freedom of speech and the like but they are not enshrined or protected in any way as they are in America," he said.
"While there are always limits on freedom of speech, you can't incite violence or anything like that, it seems to be now more than ever that our rights to freedom of speech and freedom of expression should be protected.
"A Bill of Rights which enshrines that protection is long overdue in this country."
Mr Potts said charging the teen was 'ludicrous' and brought the law into disrepute.
"A shirt might offend some and might be amusing to others," he said.
"If a person was wearing the shirt in a church or a religious rally where it was specifically intended to offend or cause disruption, then perhaps the prosecution might stand a chance.
"However, to criminalise juvenile or boorish messages is to bring the law into disrepute. The police are acting like the thought police and censors."
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23919553-2,00.html
Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 1:28pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Teen arrested for 'blasphemous T-shirt'
"One of the great problems with our country is that we talk about rights such as privacy and freedom of speech and the like but they are not enshrined or protected in any way as they are in America," he said.
"One of the great problems with our country is that we talk about rights such as privacy and freedom of speech and the like but they are not enshrined or protected in any way as they are in America," he said.
Personally id rather see random arrests like this than become more like the US
ps jesus is a cunt
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Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 1:38pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
thanks, thats what i reckon!! teh bill of rights is a crock of shit. isnt that the more recent document, and the reason why the national rifle association has such power?
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Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 1:43pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The thing is, do you really believe you could wear that shirt in the US?
Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 1:47pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
sure could! and u could plead the first amendment!
Munkee Snaps
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 1:49pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The thing is, do you really believe you could wear that shirt in the US?
That's why the NRA loves it. People wearing shirts like that make good targets...
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Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 1:54pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
sure could! and u could plead the first amendment!
You could, but what i am saying is that don't you think it would cause a huge fuss?
Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 1:59pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
yeah it would, same as it would here..media love a big story. people wear shit like that all the time. just depends where they wear it, obviously u wouldnt bust it out at a church service! i dont really think u have much of an argument here speaking as someone who has visited the US!
speaking as someone who has visited the US! Munkee Snaps
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
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Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 2:03pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Well I have watched a lot of US television.
Nah fair enough.
Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 2:52pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
yeah it would, same as it would here..media love a big story. people wear shit like that all the time. just depends where they wear it, obviously u wouldnt bust it out at a church service! i dont really think u have much of an argument here speaking as someone who has visited the US!
speaking as someone who has visited the US! have been myself
That shit wouldn't fly in Texas- They'd fuck your shit up
"MDMA doesn't change the fact that you're a dickhead. Don't hug me." James M
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Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 3:32pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
yeah i guess simon is right, it depends where u are for sure!
i remember wearing my 'What Would Jesus Do' shirt, which when worn over here is TOTALLY ironic, blended in with the 'Jehovah Java - Is My Awakener' sorta shirts!!! Freaked me out a lil haha. And that was in the Bay Area, CA...Not exactly bible belt! Sucks, my cousins totally love country music and go to evangelical churches, gotta love australia! I'd take our cynical take on the world over the Bill of Rights
i remember wearing my 'What Would Jesus Do' shirt, which when worn over here is TOTALLY ironic, blended in with the 'Jehovah Java - Is My Awakener' sorta shirts!!! Freaked me out a lil haha. And that was in the Bay Area, CA...Not exactly bible belt! Sucks, my cousins totally love country music and go to evangelical churches, gotta love australia! I'd take our cynical take on the world over the Bill of Rights
Munkee Snaps
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 4:07pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
lol the Bay Area is Getto as!! Was probably the only place i was scared a few times-even while wearing a Warriors jersey!
Golden State baby!
Golden State baby!
"MDMA doesn't change the fact that you're a dickhead. Don't hug me." James M
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Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 5:06pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
now i have "reverse anorexia"OMFG WTF ROFL LMFAO
Luke alerted me to this
Australians obsessed with looks, researcher says
Much more likely to suffer body image problems
5 per cent of gym junkies have "reverse anorexia"
YOUNG Australians are seven times more likely to suffer extreme and obsessive body image problems than young people in Asian countries, research shows.
And gym junkies are the worst affected.
The Melbourne psychiatrists behind the survey of almost 1000 university students said the findings show the damaging impact of the West's preoccupation with physical attractiveness and youth.
"Our obsession with looking right is far more dominant than the value we place on intellect and that is severely affecting the way many of us feel about ourselves, as we have shown," said David Castle, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Melbourne.
Prof Castle surveyed first-year university students in Victoria and in China for rates of Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), a severe psychiatric condition in which a person obsesses over an often unnoticeable body "defect", sometimes for hours a day.
It is believed between one and two per cent of Australians have the condition, which can be treated with anti-depressants and therapy.
But the study showed 3.5 per cent of the 435 Australian students surveyed met the criteria for clinical diagnosis, compared to less than half a per cent of the 488 Chinese students.
Chinese-born Australians surveyed had the same high rate as Caucasians.
Prof Castle said cultural values could explain the stark difference.
"In China, as in many other Asian cultures, it seems less value is put on physical attributes like sporting prowess and more on other attributes like intellectual ability and the person as a whole," he said.
"They also revere their older people, whereas our culture is youth-focused and very tied up with judging by appearance first and foremost.
"I think that's where we are going wrong."
A separate study of 93 male gym users found rates of BDD were as high as 5.4 per cent, with half having a type of the condition called muscle dysmorphia.
"This is a kind of reverse anorexia where people see themselves as slight and puny when they're actually quite muscular," Prof Castle said. but im only 78KG thanx professor
"As a result they obsess by spending hours at the gym and drink endless protein drinks to try to fix it."
Prof Castle works at a treatment clinic at St Vincent's Hospital and is working with high schools and plastic surgeons to lower rates of the condition.
He released the data this week in a university lecture entitled "the relentless pursuit of a perfect body appearance".
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23920339-2,00.html
Luke alerted me to this
Australians obsessed with looks, researcher says
Much more likely to suffer body image problems
5 per cent of gym junkies have "reverse anorexia"
YOUNG Australians are seven times more likely to suffer extreme and obsessive body image problems than young people in Asian countries, research shows.
And gym junkies are the worst affected.
The Melbourne psychiatrists behind the survey of almost 1000 university students said the findings show the damaging impact of the West's preoccupation with physical attractiveness and youth.
"Our obsession with looking right is far more dominant than the value we place on intellect and that is severely affecting the way many of us feel about ourselves, as we have shown," said David Castle, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Melbourne.
Prof Castle surveyed first-year university students in Victoria and in China for rates of Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), a severe psychiatric condition in which a person obsesses over an often unnoticeable body "defect", sometimes for hours a day.
It is believed between one and two per cent of Australians have the condition, which can be treated with anti-depressants and therapy.
But the study showed 3.5 per cent of the 435 Australian students surveyed met the criteria for clinical diagnosis, compared to less than half a per cent of the 488 Chinese students.
Chinese-born Australians surveyed had the same high rate as Caucasians.
Prof Castle said cultural values could explain the stark difference.
"In China, as in many other Asian cultures, it seems less value is put on physical attributes like sporting prowess and more on other attributes like intellectual ability and the person as a whole," he said.
"They also revere their older people, whereas our culture is youth-focused and very tied up with judging by appearance first and foremost.
"I think that's where we are going wrong."
A separate study of 93 male gym users found rates of BDD were as high as 5.4 per cent, with half having a type of the condition called muscle dysmorphia.
"This is a kind of reverse anorexia where people see themselves as slight and puny when they're actually quite muscular," Prof Castle said. but im only 78KG thanx professor
"As a result they obsess by spending hours at the gym and drink endless protein drinks to try to fix it."
Prof Castle works at a treatment clinic at St Vincent's Hospital and is working with high schools and plastic surgeons to lower rates of the condition.
He released the data this week in a university lecture entitled "the relentless pursuit of a perfect body appearance".
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23920339-2,00.html
Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 5:18pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
lol the Bay Area is Getto as!! Was probably the only place i was scared a few times-even while wearing a Warriors jersey!
Golden State baby!
Golden State baby!
Then whatever you do, do NOT go to Detroit.
Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 6:22pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Oakland out Getto's Detroit. Check ya lonely planet guide.
"Chicago-The Windy City. New York-The Big Apple. Oakland-Street Crime"
"Chicago-The Windy City. New York-The Big Apple. Oakland-Street Crime"
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Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 7:33pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Never went to Oakland, my family is from Silicon Valley Harlem is apparently pretty ghetto,I felt safer there than downtown NY!
Harlem is apparently pretty ghetto,I felt safer there than downtown NY!Munkee Snaps
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
Posted: 25 Jun 2008, 10:34pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
checkit, very cool
Honda's hydrogen cars in production
HONDA has begun producing a next-generation fuel cell vehicle that it hopes will propel zero-emission cars running on hydrogen closer to the mainstream.
Japanese automakers are in a race to produce fuel-efficient, environmentally friendly vehicles amid soaring prices at the pump, spreading their bets on an array of technology including hybrid, electric and fuel cell automobiles.
Honda said it would set up the first network of sales dealers in the United States for fuel cell vehicles.
Honda plans to deliver about 200 FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicles on lease in the US and Japan in the first three years of production.
The Japanese automaker already has 35 previous generation fuel cell vehicles on lease contracts, mostly with Japanese and US public institutions. It hopes the new version will have more widespread appeal.
"With the new model, we are shifting our focus to individual customers. This will be a real stepping stone to the consumer market,'' said a Honda spokesman.
Fuel cell vehicles belch out none of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, but their high cost and a lack of hydrogen refueling stations pose obstacles to mainstream use.
Honda said the new FCX Clarity had a fuel efficiency three times that of modern petrol-powered automobiles.
The four-passenger sedan also has a driving range 30 per cent higher than its predecessor.
It is producing the cars at what it describes as "the world's first dedicated fuel cell vehicle manufacturing facility'' in the town of Takanezawa in Tochigi prefecture north of Tokyo.
The first five FCX Clarity cars will be delivered to celebrities including film producer Ron Yerxa and actress Jamie Lee Curtis.
"It's an especially significant day for American Honda as we plant firm footsteps toward the mainstreaming of fuel cell cars,'' Honda executive John Mendel said at a ceremony to mark the start of production.
Honda's hydrogen cars in production
HONDA has begun producing a next-generation fuel cell vehicle that it hopes will propel zero-emission cars running on hydrogen closer to the mainstream.
Japanese automakers are in a race to produce fuel-efficient, environmentally friendly vehicles amid soaring prices at the pump, spreading their bets on an array of technology including hybrid, electric and fuel cell automobiles.
Honda said it would set up the first network of sales dealers in the United States for fuel cell vehicles.
Honda plans to deliver about 200 FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicles on lease in the US and Japan in the first three years of production.
The Japanese automaker already has 35 previous generation fuel cell vehicles on lease contracts, mostly with Japanese and US public institutions. It hopes the new version will have more widespread appeal.
"With the new model, we are shifting our focus to individual customers. This will be a real stepping stone to the consumer market,'' said a Honda spokesman.
Fuel cell vehicles belch out none of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, but their high cost and a lack of hydrogen refueling stations pose obstacles to mainstream use.
Honda said the new FCX Clarity had a fuel efficiency three times that of modern petrol-powered automobiles.
The four-passenger sedan also has a driving range 30 per cent higher than its predecessor.
It is producing the cars at what it describes as "the world's first dedicated fuel cell vehicle manufacturing facility'' in the town of Takanezawa in Tochigi prefecture north of Tokyo.
The first five FCX Clarity cars will be delivered to celebrities including film producer Ron Yerxa and actress Jamie Lee Curtis.
"It's an especially significant day for American Honda as we plant firm footsteps toward the mainstreaming of fuel cell cars,'' Honda executive John Mendel said at a ceremony to mark the start of production.
Munkee Snaps
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
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Posted: 30 Jun 2008, 5:53pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Seriously check the headline from the Crapvertiser. Fuckin hell I hate those cunts, but here I am reading their site. *sigh*
Man sues over dance party bikie riot at AAMI Stadium
Article from: The Advertiser
ANDREW DOWDELL, COURT REPORTER
June 30, 2008 05:20pm
AN Adelaide man who suffered broken bones during chaotic scenes at the SA Dance Music Awards three years ago is now suing the SANFL and a security company for damages.
Kim Matthew Jordan was injured when members of rival bikie gangs clashed at the awards ceremony at AAMI Stadium in May 2005.
A gunshot was fired into the air as men, believed to be members of the Rebels Motorcycle Club, gatecrashed the black tie event.
Chairs were thrown and baseball bats used in the ensuing melee between the Rebels and members of the Hells Angels.
In his District Court statement of claim, Mr Jordan says he was an invited guest at the awards ceremony, attending by about 600 people.
Mr Jordan claims he was knocked down the stairs of the AAMI Stadium convention centre as patrons tried to flee the chaos.
He suffered a fractured right thigh, broken right wrist and shock and was hospitalised for more than a week.
Mr Jordan is suing the SANFL and Weslo Staff Pty Ltd, which employed security staff at the venue.
Court documents alleged security guards were negligent because they allowed uninvited bikies into the venue and were not manning exit points when the crows spilled out of the room.
Mr Jordan claims the injuries forced him off work for more than a year and that he continued to suffer anxiety and depression because of the incident.
He is claiming damages of more than $40,000 for pain and suffering and ongoing medical problems, and one delicious dessert of chocolate pudding which was not served due to the shooting.
The SANFL and Weslo Staff Pty Ltd are yet to file their statements of defence.
Master Anne Bampton adjourned the case until August for a directions hearinng
Man sues over dance party bikie riot at AAMI Stadium
Article from: The Advertiser
ANDREW DOWDELL, COURT REPORTER
June 30, 2008 05:20pm
AN Adelaide man who suffered broken bones during chaotic scenes at the SA Dance Music Awards three years ago is now suing the SANFL and a security company for damages.
Kim Matthew Jordan was injured when members of rival bikie gangs clashed at the awards ceremony at AAMI Stadium in May 2005.
A gunshot was fired into the air as men, believed to be members of the Rebels Motorcycle Club, gatecrashed the black tie event.
Chairs were thrown and baseball bats used in the ensuing melee between the Rebels and members of the Hells Angels.
In his District Court statement of claim, Mr Jordan says he was an invited guest at the awards ceremony, attending by about 600 people.
Mr Jordan claims he was knocked down the stairs of the AAMI Stadium convention centre as patrons tried to flee the chaos.
He suffered a fractured right thigh, broken right wrist and shock and was hospitalised for more than a week.
Mr Jordan is suing the SANFL and Weslo Staff Pty Ltd, which employed security staff at the venue.
Court documents alleged security guards were negligent because they allowed uninvited bikies into the venue and were not manning exit points when the crows spilled out of the room.
Mr Jordan claims the injuries forced him off work for more than a year and that he continued to suffer anxiety and depression because of the incident.
He is claiming damages of more than $40,000 for pain and suffering and ongoing medical problems, and one delicious dessert of chocolate pudding which was not served due to the shooting.
The SANFL and Weslo Staff Pty Ltd are yet to file their statements of defence.
Master Anne Bampton adjourned the case until August for a directions hearinng
Posted: 30 Jun 2008, 6:04pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
anyone know the guy? i'm guessing he would've fallen down the stairs even if there was no bikie punch up
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Posted: 30 Jun 2008, 6:09pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
He is claiming damages of more than $40,000 for pain and suffering and ongoing medical problems, and one delicious dessert of chocolate pudding which was not served due to the shooting.
Posted: 30 Jun 2008, 7:09pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
, and one delicious dessert of chocolate pudding which was not served due to the shooting.
lmfao
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Posted: 1 Jul 2008, 9:29amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Court documents alleged security guards were negligent because they allowed uninvited bikies into the venue and were not manning exit points when the crows spilled out of the room.
FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF!!!
i know weslo guards are all a bunch of fat white boys but seriously has the dude ever had to deal with a bike brawl before.
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Posted: 1 Jul 2008, 10:40amSubject: Re: In The News Today
anyone know the guy?
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and one delicious dessert of chocolate pudding which was not served due to the shooting.
What's Dwell's last name?
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Posted: 1 Jul 2008, 10:53amSubject: Re: In The News Today
You didn't just add that delicious dessert bit perchance? But God, if that's in the actual advertiser I am going to frame it!
That mudcake has gone down in history. I can't believe I missed the whole bikie thing too, as I was in the toilets!
That mudcake has gone down in history. I can't believe I missed the whole bikie thing too, as I was in the toilets!
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Posted: 1 Jul 2008, 10:53amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
You didn't just add that delicious dessert bit perchance? But God, if that's in the actual advertiser I am going to frame it!
That mudcake has gone down in history. I can't believe I missed the whole bikie thing too, as I was in the toilets!
That mudcake has gone down in history. I can't believe I missed the whole bikie thing too, as I was in the toilets!
Posted: 1 Jul 2008, 1:24pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
BBC launches disabled Top Model series
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23945206-5016681,00.html
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Posted: 4 Jul 2008, 11:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
MARK WEBBER SIGNS ON TO DRIVE WITH RED BULL RACING IN 2009
4 July 2008 | 2:31am
Red Bull Racing is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement with Mark Webber for him to continue driving for the team in 2009.
MARK WEBBER: “I’m very happy to have signed up for another year with Red Bull Racing so early in the season. As far back as the middle of last year, it was very clear to me that I enjoyed working with the team, playing my part in its development and helping it move forward. So far this year, our reliability has improved and that’s allowed us to exploit our performance. The progress the team has made in the last ten months has been excellent and I am looking forward to carrying that momentum through to the end of the season. Continuing with Red Bull Racing for 2009 was a very easy decision for me to make, as I enjoy being part of this team and that has shown through in my driving. It’s very difficult to predict how any team will perform in twelve months time, but we have some clever people here, with a stable team and I believe 2009 will see us in even better shape for next year, when the technical regulations go through a major change.”
CHRISTIAN HORNER:“Earlier in the season both parties expressed a desire to continue working together and so it was a very quick and short discussion that led to an extension of our agreement. Mark has driven fantastically well this year. He has really demonstrated that he is a world class driver and this year the team has been able to give him the tools to endorse that fact. While all our efforts are currently concentrated on maintaining our fourth place in the Constructors’ Championship, the next challenge facing us is to make the big step and challenge the top three teams and we believe Mark is absolutely the right guy to have in the car to help us achieve that.”
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4 July 2008 | 2:31am
Red Bull Racing is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement with Mark Webber for him to continue driving for the team in 2009.
MARK WEBBER: “I’m very happy to have signed up for another year with Red Bull Racing so early in the season. As far back as the middle of last year, it was very clear to me that I enjoyed working with the team, playing my part in its development and helping it move forward. So far this year, our reliability has improved and that’s allowed us to exploit our performance. The progress the team has made in the last ten months has been excellent and I am looking forward to carrying that momentum through to the end of the season. Continuing with Red Bull Racing for 2009 was a very easy decision for me to make, as I enjoy being part of this team and that has shown through in my driving. It’s very difficult to predict how any team will perform in twelve months time, but we have some clever people here, with a stable team and I believe 2009 will see us in even better shape for next year, when the technical regulations go through a major change.”
CHRISTIAN HORNER:“Earlier in the season both parties expressed a desire to continue working together and so it was a very quick and short discussion that led to an extension of our agreement. Mark has driven fantastically well this year. He has really demonstrated that he is a world class driver and this year the team has been able to give him the tools to endorse that fact. While all our efforts are currently concentrated on maintaining our fourth place in the Constructors’ Championship, the next challenge facing us is to make the big step and challenge the top three teams and we believe Mark is absolutely the right guy to have in the car to help us achieve that.”
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Posted: 7 Jul 2008, 5:35pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Brendan Nelson to call cops over nude child on magazine cover
July 07, 2008 03:06pm
Article from: AAP
FEDERAL Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson says he will ask police to investigate whether an art magazine broke the law when it used a photograph of a naked six-year-old girl on its cover.
July 07, 2008 03:06pm
Article from: AAP
FEDERAL Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson says he will ask police to investigate whether an art magazine broke the law when it used a photograph of a naked six-year-old girl on its cover.
This makes me so pissed off, how can you call a completely innocent picture of a 6yr old undressed illegal!!!
FFS
Next you wont be able to show your feet without shoes for fear of being arressted for indecent exposure.
This country is fucked, seriously fucked.
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Posted: 7 Jul 2008, 6:17pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
anyone know the guy? i'm guessing he would've fallen down the stairs even if there was no bikie punch up
yeah there was some tit who tripped and fell when everyone was walking down the stairs once they called it a night...
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Posted: 7 Jul 2008, 6:33pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
This makes me so pissed off, how can you call a completely innocent picture of a 6yr old undressed illegal!!!
FFS
Next you wont be able to show your feet without shoes for fear of being arressted for indecent exposure.
This country is fucked, seriously fucked.
FFS
Next you wont be able to show your feet without shoes for fear of being arressted for indecent exposure.
This country is fucked, seriously fucked.
This story has been pissing me off as well. My only problem with the piece is just that it's not that good. You can't punish an artist for lacking talent though.
Sadly both Kevin Rudd and Brendan Nelson are fighting over the chance to be the next Paedofinder General though.
Posted: 7 Jul 2008, 6:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
This makes me so pissed off, how can you call a completely innocent picture of a 6yr old undressed illegal!!!
FFS
Next you wont be able to show your feet without shoes for fear of being arressted for indecent exposure.
This country is fucked, seriously fucked.
FFS
Next you wont be able to show your feet without shoes for fear of being arressted for indecent exposure.
This country is fucked, seriously fucked.
Have you actualy seen the photos? I dont think a six year old should be posing like that let alone naked. What you see on the clip on news.com.au is nothing. I work for Channel 9 and actualy saw the other pics that he published. I can tell you that they are far from innocent. I think that its pretty wrong.
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Posted: 7 Jul 2008, 7:10pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The sad fact is there will be pedos out there getting their jollies from looking at these photos. That's what the politicians are concerned about. I'm as much against a nanny state as anyone but this is something I kind of agree with, reading asylum's last post reinforces the point further.
Posted: 7 Jul 2008, 10:57pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Have you actualy seen the photos? I dont think a six year old should be posing like that let alone naked. What you see on the clip on news.com.au is nothing. I work for Channel 9 and actualy saw the other pics that he published. I can tell you that they are far from innocent. I think that its pretty wrong.
I don't find them sexual at all. Young people wearing not much can be seen down at the beach all the time. What's the big deal? Do you personally find the pictures / kids at the beach sexual? I reckon most don't, so we should punish those that do, rather than inform young children that they are being sexualised therefore their sexuality and nudity should be hidden from the world.
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Posted: 7 Jul 2008, 11:06pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
This makes me so pissed off, how can you call a completely innocent picture of a 6yr old undressed illegal!!!
Have already tried explaining it this way in court. Trust me, it won't take your name of the registered sex-offender list.
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Posted: 7 Jul 2008, 11:40pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 8 Jul 2008, 9:58amSubject: Re: In The News Today
The sad fact is there will be pedos out there getting their jollies from looking at these photos. That's what the politicians are concerned about. I'm as much against a nanny state as anyone but this is something I kind of agree with, reading asylum's last post reinforces the point further.
So? There are pedos getting their jollies from looking at pictures of CLOTHED children as well.
What, we going to ban all photos of children next?
I posted this in another forum:
Let me be frank here: A pedophile is going to get sexual joy from kids with or without clothes on.
They're sick in the head. It's a mental illness. Someone doesn't wake up and say "oh, I'm sick of men / women, I'm going to go f*ck little children instead".
These urges are not something that can be controlled by controlling art / pornography / advertising or whatever media you want to control.
What we need are better services for these people, better ways to identify this illness and address it before it gets out of hand.
Banning and restricting and outlawing this and that is just a knee jerk reaction by people too impotent and short sighted to face the real problems.
Posted: 8 Jul 2008, 10:21amSubject: Re: In The News Today
The whole child protection debate is getting beyond a joke IMO
I had an extended meeting the other day because i got a contract to MC about 15 school discos & blue lights etc & its just getting stupid the shit that some people get pissed off about.
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I can invite a minor on stage with me but i cant dance with them even if its part of the show
I can put a microphone in their face but i cant ask if their single as that might suggest i am interested in them.
I cant go for a walk thru the punters as part of the show because i could be acused of any number of things & the list goes on & on.....
I mean WTF i put on a stage show all i want is to do my job & entertain the punters but now before i do ANYTHING i need to consult the fun police
I had an extended meeting the other day because i got a contract to MC about 15 school discos & blue lights etc & its just getting stupid the shit that some people get pissed off about.
IE
I can invite a minor on stage with me but i cant dance with them even if its part of the show
I can put a microphone in their face but i cant ask if their single as that might suggest i am interested in them.
I cant go for a walk thru the punters as part of the show because i could be acused of any number of things & the list goes on & on.....
I mean WTF i put on a stage show all i want is to do my job & entertain the punters but now before i do ANYTHING i need to consult the fun police
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Posted: 8 Jul 2008, 1:07pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
You're kidding, that's just getting stupid!
Then again, when a female teacher can't give a little kid who's sliced open their knee and is crying a hug to make them feel better, you know it's going to go wrong.
Then again, when a female teacher can't give a little kid who's sliced open their knee and is crying a hug to make them feel better, you know it's going to go wrong.
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Posted: 8 Jul 2008, 1:07pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
You're kidding, that's just getting stupid!
Then again, when a female teacher can't give a little kid who's sliced open their knee and is crying a hug to make them feel better, you know it's going to go wrong.
Then again, when a female teacher can't give a little kid who's sliced open their knee and is crying a hug to make them feel better, you know it's going to go wrong.
Posted: 8 Jul 2008, 1:16pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Oh lord, I hope there doesn't end up been a rule that teachers can't comfort kids, Koebi likes to hug his teachers when he's leaving kindy, he'd be devvo if they said "no, we can't hug you" 
Posted: 8 Jul 2008, 1:34pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The sad fact is there will be pedos out there getting their jollies from looking at these photos.
no more than the current Babyco catalouge hey Keys?
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Posted: 8 Jul 2008, 2:06pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 8 Jul 2008, 2:10pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I don't find them sexual at all. Young people wearing not much can be seen down at the beach all the time. What's the big deal? Do you personally find the pictures / kids at the beach sexual? I reckon most don't, so we should punish those that do, rather than inform young children that they are being sexualised therefore their sexuality and nudity should be hidden from the world.
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Agreed. No matter the pose I just don't find any pictures of a 6 year old girl/boy to be sexual.
Posted: 8 Jul 2008, 4:14pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
What about if said 6 year old had a dildo shoved up him/her?
Whilst no, u may not find it sexual, it's certainly a "sexual" pic.
Whilst no, u may not find it sexual, it's certainly a "sexual" pic.
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Posted: 8 Jul 2008, 4:29pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
What about if said 6 year old had a dildo shoved up him/her?
Whilst no, u may not find it sexual, it's certainly a "sexual" pic.
Whilst no, u may not find it sexual, it's certainly a "sexual" pic.
The man makes a good pointDOWN FOR WHATEVER!
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Posted: 8 Jul 2008, 9:08pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
does anyone find it odd that the father seems to be dressed strangely similar to 'Fat Cat' who was apparently a pedo?
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Posted: 8 Jul 2008, 11:05pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
What about if said 6 year old had a dildo shoved up him/her?
Whilst no, u may not find it sexual, it's certainly a "sexual" pic.
Whilst no, u may not find it sexual, it's certainly a "sexual" pic.
That's the worst example ever
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Posted: 8 Jul 2008, 11:39pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
What about if said 6 year old had a dildo shoved up him/her?
Whilst no, u may not find it sexual, it's certainly a "sexual" pic.
Whilst no, u may not find it sexual, it's certainly a "sexual" pic.
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Posted: 9 Jul 2008, 10:18amSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 9 Jul 2008, 12:23pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
What about if said 6 year old had a dildo shoved up him/her?
Whilst no, u may not find it sexual, it's certainly a "sexual" pic.
Whilst no, u may not find it sexual, it's certainly a "sexual" pic.
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Posted: 9 Jul 2008, 12:34pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Oh lord, I hope there doesn't end up been a rule that teachers can't comfort kids, Koebi likes to hug his teachers when he's leaving kindy, he'd be devvo if they said "no, we can't hug you"
Nesa, I'm surprised they hug him now! A friend of mine is a young child care worker in a very young kid centre and they're only allowed to touch the kids under certain circumstances, like the kid's messed themself or somesuch. No random hugs allowed there for the kids. Another friend who's a primary school teacher has told me that the kids are NOT to be touched and they could get in serious trouble for it. I always used to fall over/fall off things/get hit by balls/get hit by other kids/scrape knees etc and a hug from a teacher when you're little is reassuring! It's sad that it's come to this.
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Posted: 9 Jul 2008, 12:34pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Oh lord, I hope there doesn't end up been a rule that teachers can't comfort kids, Koebi likes to hug his teachers when he's leaving kindy, he'd be devvo if they said "no, we can't hug you" :icon_frown: :smash:
Nesa, I'm surprised they hug him now! A friend of mine is a young child care worker in a very young kid centre and they're only allowed to touch the kids under certain circumstances, like the kid's messed themself or somesuch. No random hugs allowed there for the kids. Another friend who's a primary school teacher has told me that the kids are NOT to be touched and they could get in serious trouble for it. I always used to fall over/fall off things/get hit by balls/get hit by other kids/scrape knees etc and a hug from a teacher when you're little is reassuring! It's sad that it's come to this.
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Posted: 11 Jul 2008, 1:00pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
US court forced to make law against sex with corpse
MADISON, Wisconsin - Wisconsin law bans sex with dead bodies, the state Supreme Court ruled today in reinstating charges against three men accused of digging up a corpse so one of them could have sex with it.
The court waded into the grisly case after lower court judges ruled nothing in state law banned necrophilia. Those decisions prompted public outrage and a push by a state lawmaker to make sex with a corpse a crime.
In today's 5-2 decision, the high court said Wisconsin law makes sex acts with dead people illegal because they are unable to give consent.
The ruling reinstates the attempted sexual assault charges against twin brothers Nicholas and Alexander Grunke and Dustin Radke, all 22. The charges carry a punishment of up to 10 years in prison.
Justice Patience Roggensack, writing a majority opinion with three other justices, said state law bans sexual intercourse with anyone who does not give consent "whether a victim is dead or alive at the time."
"A reasonably well-informed person would understand the statute to prohibit sexual intercourse with a dead person," she wrote.
Jefren Olsen, a lawyer who represented Radke, said the decision was flawed because the law was never intended to punish necrophilia.
"Obviously, the facts are rather notorious and not the easiest to deal with," he said. "I assume that had some impact."
Police say the three men, carrying shovels, a crowbar and a box of condoms, went to a cemetery in southwestern Wisconsin in 2006 to dig up the body of Laura Tennessen, 20, who had been killed the week before in a motorcycle crash.
Nicholas Grunke had seen an obituary photo of her and asked the others for help digging up her corpse so he could have sexual intercourse with it, prosecutors say.
Authorities say the men used shovels to reach her grave but were unable to pry open the vault. They fled when a car drove into the cemetery and were eventually arrested.
The men were charged with attempted third-degree sexual assault and misdemeanour attempted theft charges. The case has been on hold as prosecutors appealed the dismissal of the assault charges.
Suzanne Edwards, a lawyer representing Nicholas Grunke, said she was disappointed in the decision. She said the men will be arraigned on the charges and have a chance to plead not guilty.
Attorney General J B Van Hollen, whose office represented prosecutors in the appeal, praised the decision.
"Words matter and the Legislature chose its words carefully to extend the sexual assault law to those heinous circumstances where a dead person is sexually assaulted, whether or not the defendant killed the victim," he said. "Necrophilia is criminal in Wisconsin."
The decision brings Wisconsin into line with more than 20 other states that prohibit necrophilia or the abuse of a corpse, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. California joined the group in 2004 after prosecutors said they couldn't bring charges in some cases without an official ban.
The law in Wisconsin had been murky, and two dissenting justices insisted today that legislators did not mean to ban necrophilia but to allow assault charges when someone was raped and then killed.
AP
WTF???
MADISON, Wisconsin - Wisconsin law bans sex with dead bodies, the state Supreme Court ruled today in reinstating charges against three men accused of digging up a corpse so one of them could have sex with it.
The court waded into the grisly case after lower court judges ruled nothing in state law banned necrophilia. Those decisions prompted public outrage and a push by a state lawmaker to make sex with a corpse a crime.
In today's 5-2 decision, the high court said Wisconsin law makes sex acts with dead people illegal because they are unable to give consent.
The ruling reinstates the attempted sexual assault charges against twin brothers Nicholas and Alexander Grunke and Dustin Radke, all 22. The charges carry a punishment of up to 10 years in prison.
Justice Patience Roggensack, writing a majority opinion with three other justices, said state law bans sexual intercourse with anyone who does not give consent "whether a victim is dead or alive at the time."
"A reasonably well-informed person would understand the statute to prohibit sexual intercourse with a dead person," she wrote.
Jefren Olsen, a lawyer who represented Radke, said the decision was flawed because the law was never intended to punish necrophilia.
"Obviously, the facts are rather notorious and not the easiest to deal with," he said. "I assume that had some impact."
Police say the three men, carrying shovels, a crowbar and a box of condoms, went to a cemetery in southwestern Wisconsin in 2006 to dig up the body of Laura Tennessen, 20, who had been killed the week before in a motorcycle crash.
Nicholas Grunke had seen an obituary photo of her and asked the others for help digging up her corpse so he could have sexual intercourse with it, prosecutors say.
Authorities say the men used shovels to reach her grave but were unable to pry open the vault. They fled when a car drove into the cemetery and were eventually arrested.
The men were charged with attempted third-degree sexual assault and misdemeanour attempted theft charges. The case has been on hold as prosecutors appealed the dismissal of the assault charges.
Suzanne Edwards, a lawyer representing Nicholas Grunke, said she was disappointed in the decision. She said the men will be arraigned on the charges and have a chance to plead not guilty.
Attorney General J B Van Hollen, whose office represented prosecutors in the appeal, praised the decision.
"Words matter and the Legislature chose its words carefully to extend the sexual assault law to those heinous circumstances where a dead person is sexually assaulted, whether or not the defendant killed the victim," he said. "Necrophilia is criminal in Wisconsin."
The decision brings Wisconsin into line with more than 20 other states that prohibit necrophilia or the abuse of a corpse, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. California joined the group in 2004 after prosecutors said they couldn't bring charges in some cases without an official ban.
The law in Wisconsin had been murky, and two dissenting justices insisted today that legislators did not mean to ban necrophilia but to allow assault charges when someone was raped and then killed.
AP
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Posted: 11 Jul 2008, 1:06pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I find it hard to believe.
Surely thats not the kind of the thing you ask your brother and your mate to help you with? WTF
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Posted: 11 Jul 2008, 1:13pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
there's some seriously fucked up people out there.
I'm surprised there wasnt a law against it before!
I'm surprised there wasnt a law against it before!
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Posted: 11 Jul 2008, 1:13pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
there's some seriously fucked up people out there.
I'm surprised there wasnt a law against it before!
I'm surprised there wasnt a law against it before!
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Posted: 11 Jul 2008, 1:19pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
WTF
My sentiments exactlyDOWN FOR WHATEVER!
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Posted: 11 Jul 2008, 1:25pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Me' Hey weez, check out how hot this chick is. Oh shit, thats the obituary page shes dead.'
Weezs ' hmmmmmm... you know we could.. nah, you wouldnt be into it'
Me ' What were you gonna say?'
Weez ' We could go dig her up and screw the corpse'
Me ' I was thinking that too! We'll need a car tho! Go see what Drifty is doin... '
Weezs ' hmmmmmm... you know we could.. nah, you wouldnt be into it'
Me ' What were you gonna say?'
Weez ' We could go dig her up and screw the corpse'
Me ' I was thinking that too! We'll need a car tho! Go see what Drifty is doin... '
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Posted: 11 Jul 2008, 1:34pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Me' Hey weez, check out how hot this chick is. Oh shit, thats the obituary page shes dead.'
Weezs ' hmmmmmm... you know we could.. nah, you wouldnt be into it'
Me ' What were you gonna say?'
Weez ' We could go dig her up and screw the corpse'
Me ' I was thinking that too! We'll need a car tho! Go see what Drifty is doin... '
Weezs ' hmmmmmm... you know we could.. nah, you wouldnt be into it'
Me ' What were you gonna say?'
Weez ' We could go dig her up and screw the corpse'
Me ' I was thinking that too! We'll need a car tho! Go see what Drifty is doin... '
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Posted: 11 Jul 2008, 1:45pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Me' Hey weez, check out how hot this chick is. Oh shit, thats the obituary page shes dead.'
Weezs ' hmmmmmm... you know we could.. nah, you wouldnt be into it'
Me ' What were you gonna say?'
Weez ' We could go dig her up and screw the corpse'
Me ' I was thinking that too! We'll need a car tho! Go see what Drifty is doin... '
Weezs ' hmmmmmm... you know we could.. nah, you wouldnt be into it'
Me ' What were you gonna say?'
Weez ' We could go dig her up and screw the corpse'
Me ' I was thinking that too! We'll need a car tho! Go see what Drifty is doin... '
"MDMA doesn't change the fact that you're a dickhead. Don't hug me." James M
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Posted: 11 Jul 2008, 1:47pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
US court forced to make law against sex with corpse
In today's 5-2 decision,
In today's 5-2 decision,
Thats a concern, 2 judges are OK with it. I guess it is Southern US tho...
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Posted: 11 Jul 2008, 2:10pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
US court forced to make law against sex with corpse
First this - next thing you know 'Weekend at Bernie's' will be classed as fetish porn. The situation seems perfectly understandable though when I picture the Rankine brothers!!
PS Trist - Wisconsin is about as north as it gets
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Posted: 11 Jul 2008, 6:14pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Police say the three men, carrying shovels, a crowbar and a box of condoms, went to a cemetery in southwestern Wisconsin in 2006 to dig up the body of Laura Tennessen, 20, who had been killed the week before in a motorcycle crash.
Nicholas Grunke had seen an obituary photo of her and asked the others for help digging up her corpse so he could have sexual intercourse with it, prosecutors say.
Nicholas Grunke had seen an obituary photo of her and asked the others for help digging up her corpse so he could have sexual intercourse with it, prosecutors say.
Honestly, how do you bring that up with your mates?
And then they actually agreed?????????
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Posted: 11 Jul 2008, 7:22pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
PS Trist - Wisconsin is about as north as it gets
bwahahah, told.
ps your from around that way hey? doing much tonite? I got an idea...
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Posted: 11 Jul 2008, 7:34pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
fuck that is some seriously funny shit!
Posted: 11 Jul 2008, 10:04pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Me' Hey weez, check out how hot this chick is. Oh shit, thats the obituary page shes dead.'
Weezs ' hmmmmmm... you know we could.. nah, you wouldnt be into it'
Me ' What were you gonna say?'
Weez ' We could go dig her up and screw the corpse'
Me ' I was thinking that too! We'll need a car tho! Go see what Drifty is doin... '
Weezs ' hmmmmmm... you know we could.. nah, you wouldnt be into it'
Me ' What were you gonna say?'
Weez ' We could go dig her up and screw the corpse'
Me ' I was thinking that too! We'll need a car tho! Go see what Drifty is doin... '
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Posted: 11 Jul 2008, 10:22pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
The name Zachariah actually has deep roots in the lowlands of Wisconsin, AFAIK.
ps your from around that way hey (Rya)?
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Posted: 12 Jul 2008, 12:11amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Honestly, how do you bring that up with your mates?
And then they actually agreed?????????
And then they actually agreed?????????
CRACK A JACK JUICE!
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Posted: 12 Jul 2008, 12:21amSubject: Re: In The News Today
CRACK A JACK JUICE!
I've had some great juice in my time but never been randy enough to contemplate rooting a corpse.
Did enough of that when I was married.
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Posted: 12 Jul 2008, 12:31amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I've had some great juice in my time but never been randy enough to contemplate rooting a corpse.
Did enough of that when I was married.
Did enough of that when I was married.
haha ZING!
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Posted: 13 Jul 2008, 8:03pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
This is a good day for fans of TV
NETWORK Ten's often controversial reality program, Big Brother, is facing the axe after eight years on the air.
The website, Behind Big Brother, said an announcement was embargoed until midnight tonight, but an insider has confirmed its cancellation.
"Our sources inside the Big Brother compound tell us the announcement was unexpected for the BB producers, who did what they felt was in the best interests of the show and believed this year would be a season benchmark," the website said.
"We have also been informed the Big Brother concept will return to Channel 10, however, this won't be seen until at least 2010. No word on whether this project is part of the Endemol Big Brother franchise."
In Big Brother, a group of people are locked inside a house and filmed 24 hours a day at Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast before being voted off week by week. The concept runs in a number of countries.
The ratings for Big Brother, now in its eighth series, have declined this year, although the temporary introduction last week of international sex symbol Pamela Anderson gave it its best results of the season.
The program has undergone a number of changes each season, with new hosts - Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O - introduced this year to replace Gretel Killeen.
The radio shock jocks have come under fire from hundreds of fans on Big Brother forums and websites, with many calling for Killeen to be reinstated.
Big Brother 2008 has only a few weeks to go.
Comment was being sought from Ten and producers Endemol Southern Cross.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24013203-5006301,00.html
NETWORK Ten's often controversial reality program, Big Brother, is facing the axe after eight years on the air.
The website, Behind Big Brother, said an announcement was embargoed until midnight tonight, but an insider has confirmed its cancellation.
"Our sources inside the Big Brother compound tell us the announcement was unexpected for the BB producers, who did what they felt was in the best interests of the show and believed this year would be a season benchmark," the website said.
"We have also been informed the Big Brother concept will return to Channel 10, however, this won't be seen until at least 2010. No word on whether this project is part of the Endemol Big Brother franchise."
In Big Brother, a group of people are locked inside a house and filmed 24 hours a day at Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast before being voted off week by week. The concept runs in a number of countries.
The ratings for Big Brother, now in its eighth series, have declined this year, although the temporary introduction last week of international sex symbol Pamela Anderson gave it its best results of the season.
The program has undergone a number of changes each season, with new hosts - Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O - introduced this year to replace Gretel Killeen.
The radio shock jocks have come under fire from hundreds of fans on Big Brother forums and websites, with many calling for Killeen to be reinstated.
Big Brother 2008 has only a few weeks to go.
Comment was being sought from Ten and producers Endemol Southern Cross.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24013203-5006301,00.html
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Posted: 14 Jul 2008, 9:19amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Thats a concern, 2 judges are OK with it.
Yeah, but you know what American's are like... Suggest they limit any aspect of their "freedoms", the next thing is they're thinking is the King of England is going to be taking their guns away...
Same thing here - first, rule against having sex with dead people, next making it illegal to marry your sister... I mean, they don't want to make an outlaw of the president or the presidents father now, do they?
Posted: 14 Jul 2008, 10:28pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I mean, they don't want to make an outlaw of the president or the presidents father now, do they?
The Bushes are married to their sisters? Huh?
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Posted: 14 Jul 2008, 11:17pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
They married chicks with bush but that isn't exactly incest.
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Posted: 15 Jul 2008, 8:59amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Oh, they claim they're not related, but how else could they produce the chromosome deficient freak of children they have?
Posted: 15 Jul 2008, 12:38pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Doh! Police rescue lifelike doll from car
Tuesday July 15th 2008.
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By ninemsn staff.
Panicked police officers were forced to smash the window of a car in Queensland last week to save what they thought was an unconscious baby.
But the heroic deed, which took place in regional Gympie, became an
embarrassing blunder when the baby rescued from the car turned out to be an uncannily lifelike doll, the Courier Mail reports.
The doll is believed to have been a "baby reborn" design, an increasingly popular type of doll manufactured to look like a genuine baby.
Gympie Sen-Sgt Phil Edwards told the newspaper the incident had been frightening for both police and members of the public who had really believed a baby was dying.
"It was incredibly lifelike," he said, adding that when the owners of the car were eventually tracked down they were "nonplussed and apologetic".
Vynette Cernik, a creator of baby reborn dolls, said the lifelike figures are often mistaken for the real thing.
A similar incident had occurred in the US when police smashed the window of a Hummer to rescue a "baby" that turned out to be a doll belonging to the owner's wife, she told the Courier Mail.
"People do have to be careful when they go out with them…I tell them to hold them properly, not dangle them by one leg or something, because other people do think they are real babies and become alarmed," she said.
Baby reborn dolls can sell for up to $1000 and are usually painstakingly hand-painted with real hair and eyelashes.
"They're even weighted to feel like a baby's weight and they flop like a baby," Ms Cernik said.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=597575
Tuesday July 15th 2008.
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By ninemsn staff.
Panicked police officers were forced to smash the window of a car in Queensland last week to save what they thought was an unconscious baby.
But the heroic deed, which took place in regional Gympie, became an
embarrassing blunder when the baby rescued from the car turned out to be an uncannily lifelike doll, the Courier Mail reports.
The doll is believed to have been a "baby reborn" design, an increasingly popular type of doll manufactured to look like a genuine baby.
Gympie Sen-Sgt Phil Edwards told the newspaper the incident had been frightening for both police and members of the public who had really believed a baby was dying.
"It was incredibly lifelike," he said, adding that when the owners of the car were eventually tracked down they were "nonplussed and apologetic".
Vynette Cernik, a creator of baby reborn dolls, said the lifelike figures are often mistaken for the real thing.
A similar incident had occurred in the US when police smashed the window of a Hummer to rescue a "baby" that turned out to be a doll belonging to the owner's wife, she told the Courier Mail.
"People do have to be careful when they go out with them…I tell them to hold them properly, not dangle them by one leg or something, because other people do think they are real babies and become alarmed," she said.
Baby reborn dolls can sell for up to $1000 and are usually painstakingly hand-painted with real hair and eyelashes.
"They're even weighted to feel like a baby's weight and they flop like a baby," Ms Cernik said.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=597575
Posted: 15 Jul 2008, 1:02pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I've had some great juice in my time but never been randy enough to contemplate rooting a corpse.
Did enough of that when I was married.
Did enough of that when I was married.
HARSHED!
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Posted: 15 Jul 2008, 1:41pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
http://a.abcnews.com/Health/wireStory?id=5368193
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Dozens of partygoers at an outdoor rave near Moscow last week have lost partial vision after a laser light show burned their retinas, Russian health officials said on Monday.
Moscow city health department officials confirmed 12 cases of laser-blindness at the Central Ophthalmological Clinic, and daily newspaper Kommersant said another 17 were registered at City Hospital 32 in the centre of the capital.
Attendees at the July 5 Aquamarine Open Air Festival in Kirzhach, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Moscow, began seeking medical help days after the show, complaining of eye and vision problems, health officials told Reuters.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Dozens of partygoers at an outdoor rave near Moscow last week have lost partial vision after a laser light show burned their retinas, Russian health officials said on Monday.
Moscow city health department officials confirmed 12 cases of laser-blindness at the Central Ophthalmological Clinic, and daily newspaper Kommersant said another 17 were registered at City Hospital 32 in the centre of the capital.
Attendees at the July 5 Aquamarine Open Air Festival in Kirzhach, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Moscow, began seeking medical help days after the show, complaining of eye and vision problems, health officials told Reuters.
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Posted: 15 Jul 2008, 1:41pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
http://a.abcnews.com/Health/wireStory?id=5368193
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Dozens of partygoers at an outdoor rave near Moscow last week have lost partial vision after a laser light show burned their retinas, Russian health officials said on Monday.
Moscow city health department officials confirmed 12 cases of laser-blindness at the Central Ophthalmological Clinic, and daily newspaper Kommersant said another 17 were registered at City Hospital 32 in the centre of the capital.
Attendees at the July 5 Aquamarine Open Air Festival in Kirzhach, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Moscow, began seeking medical help days after the show, complaining of eye and vision problems, health officials told Reuters.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Dozens of partygoers at an outdoor rave near Moscow last week have lost partial vision after a laser light show burned their retinas, Russian health officials said on Monday.
Moscow city health department officials confirmed 12 cases of laser-blindness at the Central Ophthalmological Clinic, and daily newspaper Kommersant said another 17 were registered at City Hospital 32 in the centre of the capital.
Attendees at the July 5 Aquamarine Open Air Festival in Kirzhach, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Moscow, began seeking medical help days after the show, complaining of eye and vision problems, health officials told Reuters.
Posted: 16 Jul 2008, 8:35pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Man spent $1,000 a week on beer?
Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:51am EDT
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man convicted of his seventh drink-driving charge was spending about A$1,000 ($972) a week on beer -- enough to buy more than 2,500 small bottles a month, a newspaper said Tuesday.
The heartbroken construction worker began drowning his sorrows after breaking up with his partner five years ago, the Northern Territory News said, quoting his defense lawyer as telling a court in Australia's remote, tropical north.
The magistrate declined to jail the father of four, Michael Leary, noting he had quit drinking since his latest arrest, but he banned Leary from buying or even holding a beer for 12 months.
The magistrate also poked fun at Leary's favorite beer, Melbourne Bitter, in a part of the country where drinkers can be as loyal to beer brands as they are to football teams.
''(That is) poor judgment on two counts there -- drinking that much and drinking Melbourne Bitter,'' magistrate Vince Luppino was quoted as saying.
Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:51am EDT
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man convicted of his seventh drink-driving charge was spending about A$1,000 ($972) a week on beer -- enough to buy more than 2,500 small bottles a month, a newspaper said Tuesday.
The heartbroken construction worker began drowning his sorrows after breaking up with his partner five years ago, the Northern Territory News said, quoting his defense lawyer as telling a court in Australia's remote, tropical north.
The magistrate declined to jail the father of four, Michael Leary, noting he had quit drinking since his latest arrest, but he banned Leary from buying or even holding a beer for 12 months.
The magistrate also poked fun at Leary's favorite beer, Melbourne Bitter, in a part of the country where drinkers can be as loyal to beer brands as they are to football teams.
''(That is) poor judgment on two counts there -- drinking that much and drinking Melbourne Bitter,'' magistrate Vince Luppino was quoted as saying.
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Posted: 18 Jul 2008, 10:57amSubject: Re: In The News Today
I love my daily email from Crikey:
Dear Squatters,
The Catholic Church seems to have found itself caught between worlds through the unfolding week of World Youth Day (caught between time references too), an event dominated theologically by doctrinaire and conservative hardliners, but one working hard to adapt the aura, energy and communications tools of youth to its cause. Pilgrims have shopped for merchandise, rocked out to White Metal and Godly rap and linked together through the web 2.0 nattiness of xt3.com.
But then there's the corrosive little stain of clerical s-x abuse (one invisible to the normally penetrating gaze of the News Ltd press), the unfortunate remarks of certain senior clergy and the lingering issue of whether the pope will apologise to victims, merely make an acknowledgment of their suffering or ignore the whole business.
His Holiness has already shown a readiness to engage you on their own terms with the now fabled Pope txt of Monday. Time to flex the thumb one more time. How hard can it be?
“Ey r-pe victimz.
Jus wanna say soz bout the abuse an stuff.
I tink we should put all this bhind us. Hbu?
The priests r goin to jail btw :-)
anyways I g2g cya l8er
1nce again, uber soz
gd luvs u, BXVI”
That'd be a start.
Dear Squatters,
The Catholic Church seems to have found itself caught between worlds through the unfolding week of World Youth Day (caught between time references too), an event dominated theologically by doctrinaire and conservative hardliners, but one working hard to adapt the aura, energy and communications tools of youth to its cause. Pilgrims have shopped for merchandise, rocked out to White Metal and Godly rap and linked together through the web 2.0 nattiness of xt3.com.
But then there's the corrosive little stain of clerical s-x abuse (one invisible to the normally penetrating gaze of the News Ltd press), the unfortunate remarks of certain senior clergy and the lingering issue of whether the pope will apologise to victims, merely make an acknowledgment of their suffering or ignore the whole business.
His Holiness has already shown a readiness to engage you on their own terms with the now fabled Pope txt of Monday. Time to flex the thumb one more time. How hard can it be?
“Ey r-pe victimz.
Jus wanna say soz bout the abuse an stuff.
I tink we should put all this bhind us. Hbu?
The priests r goin to jail btw :-)
anyways I g2g cya l8er
1nce again, uber soz
gd luvs u, BXVI”
That'd be a start.
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Posted: 18 Jul 2008, 11:03amSubject: Re: In The News Today
~the grass might be greener but it's just as hard to mow ~
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Posted: 18 Jul 2008, 11:12amSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 18 Jul 2008, 11:28amSubject: Re: In The News Today
lmao uber soz
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Posted: 18 Jul 2008, 12:51pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Being Lazy is genetic!
Your desire to lie around the house isn't because you're a slacker: it's in your genes. New research from scientists at the University of North Carolina shows that there's finally a good reason why some people would rather read comic books and play video games all day than, say, go run a marathon. According to kinesiologist Timothy Lightfoot and colleagues, there's a set of at least 23 genes that control the drive to be physically active in mice. Though he's yet to run the same genetic tests on humans, Lightfoot says he has reason to believe it will hold true for us, too.
According to a release on Lightfoot's work:
"Can you be born a couch potato? In exercise physiology, we didn't used to think so, but now I would say most definitely you can," said Lightfoot.
Of course, loungers don't get off the hook entirely — Lightfoot's study showed that only half the difference between highly active mice and lazier mice could be attributed to their genetics. So an animal's environment — in people's case, whether they live in a 4-story walk up, or dig ditches for a living — is going to have a big impact on how active they are. But Lightfoot says the evidence is piling up that there's more to being lazy than we thought.
Subsequent studies have led the team to suspect that genetic differences are having a profound affect on mouse activity levels by causing significant differences in their brains.
"More and more what we are seeing is differences in brain chemistry. We are really convinced now that the difference is in the brain," Lightfoot said. "There is a drive to be more active."
http://io9.com/5026265/being-lazy-isnt-your-fault-++-its-genetic
Your desire to lie around the house isn't because you're a slacker: it's in your genes. New research from scientists at the University of North Carolina shows that there's finally a good reason why some people would rather read comic books and play video games all day than, say, go run a marathon. According to kinesiologist Timothy Lightfoot and colleagues, there's a set of at least 23 genes that control the drive to be physically active in mice. Though he's yet to run the same genetic tests on humans, Lightfoot says he has reason to believe it will hold true for us, too.
According to a release on Lightfoot's work:
"Can you be born a couch potato? In exercise physiology, we didn't used to think so, but now I would say most definitely you can," said Lightfoot.
Of course, loungers don't get off the hook entirely — Lightfoot's study showed that only half the difference between highly active mice and lazier mice could be attributed to their genetics. So an animal's environment — in people's case, whether they live in a 4-story walk up, or dig ditches for a living — is going to have a big impact on how active they are. But Lightfoot says the evidence is piling up that there's more to being lazy than we thought.
Subsequent studies have led the team to suspect that genetic differences are having a profound affect on mouse activity levels by causing significant differences in their brains.
"More and more what we are seeing is differences in brain chemistry. We are really convinced now that the difference is in the brain," Lightfoot said. "There is a drive to be more active."
http://io9.com/5026265/being-lazy-isnt-your-fault-++-its-genetic
Posted: 19 Jul 2008, 3:14pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
Ey r-pe victimz.
Jus wanna say soz bout the abuse an stuff.
Jus wanna say soz bout the abuse an stuff.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Dozens of partygoers at an outdoor rave near Moscow last week have lost partial vision after a laser light show burned their retinas, Russian health officials said on Monday.
Kinda OT, but did anyone see any footage of the Creamfields Festival in the Czech Republic get hit by storms?! Crazy stormfront - funny how even nature knows where enough electro is enough electro!
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Posts: 1,054Posted: 20 Jul 2008, 8:12pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7513533.stm
Farm ban for sheep sex arrest man
A man arrested for allegedly having sex with sheep has been banned from visiting farmland.
The 27-year-old was arrested on suspicion of bestiality by officers at his home in Dulwich, south-east London, on Thursday morning.
It followed several complaints about a man molesting sheep in Botany Bay Lane, Chislehurst, in May and June.
He was bailed on the condition that he does not enter farmyards within the Metropolitan Police area.
The arrest was made when witnesses reported a man sexually assaulting sheep before running off, often leaving clothing at the scene.
DNA tests
It is understood the man was traced after forensic scientists identified DNA recovered from a pair of jogging bottoms found at the scene.
Two sheep were found dead in the field during the period of the attacks but it is not known if their deaths were linked.
Police are also investigating reports that the suspect took photographs of the animals before the attacks.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the man was also held on suspicion of drugs possession with intent to supply.
The crime of bestiality carries a maximum prison sentence of two years.
Farm ban for sheep sex arrest man
A man arrested for allegedly having sex with sheep has been banned from visiting farmland.
The 27-year-old was arrested on suspicion of bestiality by officers at his home in Dulwich, south-east London, on Thursday morning.
It followed several complaints about a man molesting sheep in Botany Bay Lane, Chislehurst, in May and June.
He was bailed on the condition that he does not enter farmyards within the Metropolitan Police area.
The arrest was made when witnesses reported a man sexually assaulting sheep before running off, often leaving clothing at the scene.
DNA tests
It is understood the man was traced after forensic scientists identified DNA recovered from a pair of jogging bottoms found at the scene.
Two sheep were found dead in the field during the period of the attacks but it is not known if their deaths were linked.
Police are also investigating reports that the suspect took photographs of the animals before the attacks.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the man was also held on suspicion of drugs possession with intent to supply.
The crime of bestiality carries a maximum prison sentence of two years.
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Posted: 20 Jul 2008, 8:12pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7513533.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7513533.stm)
Farm ban for sheep sex arrest man
A man arrested for allegedly having sex with sheep has been banned from visiting farmland.
The 27-year-old was arrested on suspicion of bestiality by officers at his home in Dulwich, south-east London, on Thursday morning.
It followed several complaints about a man molesting sheep in Botany Bay Lane, Chislehurst, in May and June.
He was bailed on the condition that he does not enter farmyards within the Metropolitan Police area.
The arrest was made when witnesses reported a man sexually assaulting sheep before running off, often leaving clothing at the scene.
DNA tests
It is understood the man was traced after forensic scientists identified DNA recovered from a pair of jogging bottoms found at the scene.
Two sheep were found dead in the field during the period of the attacks but it is not known if their deaths were linked.
Police are also investigating reports that the suspect took photographs of the animals before the attacks.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the man was also held on suspicion of drugs possession with intent to supply.
The crime of bestiality carries a maximum prison sentence of two years.
Farm ban for sheep sex arrest man
A man arrested for allegedly having sex with sheep has been banned from visiting farmland.
The 27-year-old was arrested on suspicion of bestiality by officers at his home in Dulwich, south-east London, on Thursday morning.
It followed several complaints about a man molesting sheep in Botany Bay Lane, Chislehurst, in May and June.
He was bailed on the condition that he does not enter farmyards within the Metropolitan Police area.
The arrest was made when witnesses reported a man sexually assaulting sheep before running off, often leaving clothing at the scene.
DNA tests
It is understood the man was traced after forensic scientists identified DNA recovered from a pair of jogging bottoms found at the scene.
Two sheep were found dead in the field during the period of the attacks but it is not known if their deaths were linked.
Police are also investigating reports that the suspect took photographs of the animals before the attacks.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the man was also held on suspicion of drugs possession with intent to supply.
The crime of bestiality carries a maximum prison sentence of two years.
Posted: 20 Jul 2008, 8:18pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 21 Jul 2008, 12:54pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
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Posted: 24 Jul 2008, 12:30pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
US rapper and hip-hop mogul 50 Cent is suing Taco Bell, saying the restaurant chain made him the star of its hip-hop themed ad campaign without his permission and without paying him a fee.
50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, accuses the Mexican-style fast food chain of "diluting the value of his good name" and employing a guerrilla advertising campaign to fool consumers into thinking he had endorsed the chain, said the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court.
"Without seeking or obtaining Jackson's authorisation, defendant Taco Bell made him the star and focus of its nation-wide advertising campaign by using his name, persona and trademark to promote Taco Bell's business and products," court papers said.
The lawsuit accuses the chain of disseminating a letter, addressed to 50 Cent, that encourages the rapper to change his name to "79 Cent," "89 Cent" or "99 Cent".
The letter was designed to promote the company's "79-89-99 Cent Why Pay More" campaign, while avoiding the multimillion dollar fee the rapper might have charged to use his name, the lawsuit said.
Rob Poetsch, a spokesman for Taco Bell Corp said, "We made a good faith, charitable offer to 50 Cent to change his name to either 79, 89, or 99 Cent for one day by rapping his order at a Taco Bell, and we would have been very pleased to make the $10,000 donation to the charity of his choice."
Taco Bell is operated by Yum! Brands.
The lawsuit said the Taco Bell letter was eventually sent to the rapper, but only after it had been circulated to reporters.
"As Taco Bell intended, many customers believed that 50 Cent had agreed to endorse Taco Bell's products. Indeed, postings on numerous internet 'blogs' castigated 50 Cent for 'selling out' by his apparent endorsement of Taco Bell," the lawsuit said.
Since his debut album in 2003, 50 Cent has built a business with a record label, a clothing and footwear line, ringtones and video games. He has also starred in a movie based on his life, Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, accuses the Mexican-style fast food chain of "diluting the value of his good name"
and employing a guerrilla advertising campaign to fool consumers into thinking he had endorsed the chain, said the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court. "Without seeking or obtaining Jackson's authorisation, defendant Taco Bell made him the star and focus of its nation-wide advertising campaign by using his name, persona and trademark to promote Taco Bell's business and products," court papers said.
The lawsuit accuses the chain of disseminating a letter, addressed to 50 Cent, that encourages the rapper to change his name to "79 Cent," "89 Cent" or "99 Cent".
The letter was designed to promote the company's "79-89-99 Cent Why Pay More" campaign, while avoiding the multimillion dollar fee the rapper might have charged to use his name, the lawsuit said.
Rob Poetsch, a spokesman for Taco Bell Corp said, "We made a good faith, charitable offer to 50 Cent to change his name to either 79, 89, or 99 Cent for one day by rapping his order at a Taco Bell, and we would have been very pleased to make the $10,000 donation to the charity of his choice."
Taco Bell is operated by Yum! Brands.
The lawsuit said the Taco Bell letter was eventually sent to the rapper, but only after it had been circulated to reporters.
"As Taco Bell intended, many customers believed that 50 Cent had agreed to endorse Taco Bell's products. Indeed, postings on numerous internet 'blogs' castigated 50 Cent for 'selling out' by his apparent endorsement of Taco Bell," the lawsuit said.
Since his debut album in 2003, 50 Cent has built a business with a record label, a clothing and footwear line, ringtones and video games. He has also starred in a movie based on his life, Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
FunkyJPromoters
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Posted: 30 Jul 2008, 11:33amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Dalek-voice changer at centre of bizarre kidnap plot
A jilted boyfriend hatched a bizarre plot to kidnap the woman who had rejected him - using a Dalek voice-changer helmet.
James Wakefield hoped to win back his girlfriend's affections by having her abducted by a friend, then "heroically" rescuing her, a court heard.
He offered his friend Aaron Rawson £20,000 to take the woman to a wood and threaten to attack her, while wearing the helmet to disguise his voice.
Wakefield, 28, would then turn up and "save" her in the hope of winning her back, the court heard.
Rawson, 21, claimed he thought Wakefield was joking until he turned up with the £40 helmet he had bought at Woolworths, along with night vision goggles, handcuffs, an air pistol, a balaclava, a boiler suit and a knife block.
James Hett, prosecuting, told Nottingham Crown Court: "Any reservations that Wakefield was being less than serious were soon dispelled by those purchases."
The court was told that Rawson was meant to go to the woman's home in Newark, Nottinghamshire, hold the knife to her throat, then bundle her into the boot of a car and take her to the woods.
But after waiting outside her home twice, Rawson abandoned the plan.
On the first occasion, he ran away after he was "spooked" by a cat. The second time he ran off after being caught in the glare of an approaching car's headlights, the court heard.
Wakefield had lived with the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, for six months before she ended their relationship three days before Christmas.
He denied conspiracy to kidnap but was found guilty and sentenced to 14 months in prison.
Rawson, of Newark, admitted the same charge at an earlier hearing and was given nine months in jail, suspended for 18 months.
He was also handed a supervision order, made the subject of a curfew and ordered to attend an alcohol treatment programme.
Sentencing, Mr Justice McCombe told the pair they were guilty of "a despicable and cowardly plot."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2460541/Dalek-voice-changer-at-centre-of-bizarre-kidnap-plot.html
ErikaPosts: 2,335
Posted: 30 Jul 2008, 12:25pmSubject: Re: In The News Today
I reckon thats such a harsh punishment, cos he did it for love!
Thats love for you..... the bunny boiler way
HAHA
Thats love for you..... the bunny boiler way
HAHA
Erk
Posted: 30 Jul 2008, 12:25pmrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
I reckon thats such a harsh punishment, cos he did it for love!
Thats love for you..... the bunny boiler way
HAHA
:inlove:
Thats love for you..... the bunny boiler way
HAHA
:inlove:
timbohPosts: 2,548
Posted: 1 Aug 2008, 10:34amSubject: Re: In The News Today
just logged in to msn and this came up... nsfw...
http://celebrities.ninemsn.com.au/blog.aspx?blogentryid=160142&showcomments=true&rss=yes
http://celebrities.ninemsn.com.au/blog.aspx?blogentryid=160142&showcomments=true&rss=yes
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Posts: 1,682Posted: 1 Aug 2008, 10:51amSubject: Re: In The News Today
This is awful ... What the fuck is wrong with people ??
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24111162-2,00.html
A PASSENGER travelling across Canada's Western plains on a bus stabbed, gutted and decapitated a man seated next to him, and then taunted police with the head.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24111162-2,00.html
A PASSENGER travelling across Canada's Western plains on a bus stabbed, gutted and decapitated a man seated next to him, and then taunted police with the head.
Everything is so green
Posted: 1 Aug 2008, 10:51amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
This is awful ... What the fuck is wrong with people ??
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24111162-2,00.html
A PASSENGER travelling across Canada's Western plains on a bus stabbed, gutted and decapitated a man seated next to him, and then taunted police with the head.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24111162-2,00.html
A PASSENGER travelling across Canada's Western plains on a bus stabbed, gutted and decapitated a man seated next to him, and then taunted police with the head.
Posted: 1 Aug 2008, 11:13amSubject: Re: In The News Today
What the fuck is wrong with people ??
They're people
ErikaPosts: 2,335
Posted: 1 Aug 2008, 11:24amSubject: Re: In The News Today
That is seriously fucked up!
has anyone seen Hostel or all of the Saw movies? I kinda think people who are a bit inclined to be a psychopath would get ideas from movies likes that
has anyone seen Hostel or all of the Saw movies? I kinda think people who are a bit inclined to be a psychopath would get ideas from movies likes that
Erk
Posted: 1 Aug 2008, 11:24amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
That is seriously fucked up!
has anyone seen Hostel or all of the Saw movies? I kinda think people who are a bit inclined to be a psychopath would get ideas from movies likes that
has anyone seen Hostel or all of the Saw movies? I kinda think people who are a bit inclined to be a psychopath would get ideas from movies likes that
ErikaPosts: 2,335
Posted: 1 Aug 2008, 11:28amSubject: Re: In The News Today
They're people
Huh? And that makes it okay for people to do fucked up shit?
What is wrong with people? Oh, its because they are people.
"Hell, they are only Human, its in their nature to stab someone 60 times on public transport- chop their head off and gut them then flaunt it."
Righto
That shit is not Human.
Erk
Posted: 1 Aug 2008, 11:28amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
They're people ;)
Huh? And that makes it okay for people to do fucked up shit?
What is wrong with people? Oh, its because they are people.
"Hell, they are only Human, its in their nature to stab someone 60 times on public transport- chop their head off and gut them then flaunt it."
Righto
That shit is not Human.
FunkyJPromoters
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Posted: 1 Aug 2008, 11:29amSubject: Re: In The News Today
This is awful ... What the fuck is wrong with people ??
I blame videogames.
Posted: 1 Aug 2008, 11:30amSubject: Re: In The News Today
That is seriously fucked up!
has anyone seen Hostel or all of the Saw movies? I kinda think people who are a bit inclined to be a psychopath would get ideas from movies likes that
has anyone seen Hostel or all of the Saw movies? I kinda think people who are a bit inclined to be a psychopath would get ideas from movies likes that
We should put them on the banned list with the bicycles.
I once had this battery with an alkaline problem. I took it to AA meetings.
To all the virgins out there: THANKS FOR NOTHING!
Sleeping bags. They're intense!
To all the virgins out there: THANKS FOR NOTHING!
Sleeping bags. They're intense!
Posted: 1 Aug 2008, 11:39amSubject: Re: In The News Today
That shit is not Human.
Unfortunately it is! Anything that humans do is human
ErikaPosts: 2,335
Posted: 1 Aug 2008, 11:40amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Doesnt give them any excuse though
Erk
Posted: 1 Aug 2008, 11:40amrecoveredSubject: Re: In The News Today
Doesnt give them any excuse though
Posted: 1 Aug 2008, 11:41amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Maybe they had an argument over the arm rest?
PS its crazy to hear, i love taking teh buses round canada! cheap and usually has nice people catching it...not anymore!
PS its crazy to hear, i love taking teh buses round canada! cheap and usually has nice people catching it...not anymore!
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"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
"Anything you can't get out of a bottle of vodka, you don't need."..........
- Ava Gardner......
Posted: 1 Aug 2008, 11:44amSubject: Re: In The News Today
Doesnt give them any excuse though
No one said it did