What's the world coming to?

Richard Pinnell · Post by **Richard Pinnell** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:29 pm

Dohol wrote:I'm totally at a loss for words over this one.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080204/od ... oryoffbeat

I was at a loss until I read the last line of that article... "UKTV Gold interviewed 3000 people"... The average UKTV Gold audience isn't exactly known for its abundance of brain cells.....

fearandpanic · Post by **fearandpanic** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:42 pm

I'm at a loss to see "World War II" used as an adjective.

Stephen · Post by **Stephen** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:39 pm

I'm guessing it must have been discussed here before as it's been around for a few years, but the UK media recently caught on to 'Mosquito'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/ ... ung.people" onclick= "window.open(this.href);return false;

bryan · Post by **bryan** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:10 pm

90 Day Jane

Suicide blog. "Art project".

That's just a link to an archive of it, because the original was taken down by the author.

p_ano · Post by **p_ano** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:08 pm

Between 50 and 64% of rats will self administer diazepam.

Smart rats.

fearandpanic · Post by **fearandpanic** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:51 am

More suicides, unfortunately.

Number of suicides reaches 17 in the Bridgend area of Wales:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/20/wales

Dohol · Post by **Dohol** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:47 pm

Now here's a first...Space kimchi!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/world ... imchi.html

Post by **grisha** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:00 pm

Dohol wrote:Now here's a first...Space kimchi!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/world ... imchi.html

kinchi always reminds me of the third erstquake.

Richard Pinnell · Post by **Richard Pinnell** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:30 pm

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080304/t ... a1618.html

fearandpanic · Post by **fearandpanic** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:52 pm

Richard Pinnell wrote:http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080304/t ... a1618.html

Finally.

Richard Pinnell · Post by **Richard Pinnell** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:09 pm

"A poll will be carried out on Brick Lane to gauge the response of locals.

If successful, the concept will be rolled out in Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool."

I imagine that "success" will be gauged by how many of the polled locals could remember the phone number of the directory enquiries service advertised on the cushions....

vegetable mind · Post by **vegetable mind** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:14 pm

prozac no longer the drug of a generation?

Post by **mudd** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:41 pm

please use link tags for long urls.

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sound plague · Post by **sound plague** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:36 pm

Woman stuck on toilet for 2 years.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/wom ... 58743.html

I still can't get my head around it.

flies · Post by **flies** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:04 pm

sound plague wrote:Woman stuck on toilet for 2 years.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/wom ... 58743.html

I still can't get my head around it.

"She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body," Sheriff Whipple said.

"It is hard to imagine. ... I still have a hard time imagining it myself."

wtf

bombinthebeehive · Post by **bombinthebeehive** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:00 am

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/13/skittl ... index.html" onclick= "window.open(this.href);return false;

"I am sorry this has happened," Turner said in a statement. "My hope is that we can get back to the normal school routine, especially since we are in the middle of taking the Connecticut mastery test."

free math · Post by **free math** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:52 pm

flies wrote:
sound plague wrote:Woman stuck on toilet for 2 years.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/wom ... 58743.html

I still can't get my head around it.
"She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body," Sheriff Whipple said.

"It is hard to imagine. ... I still have a hard time imagining it myself."

wtf

this is the best part:
"It really doesn't surprise me," Mr Ellis said. (her neighbor)

i want to see photos of this woman, and her boyfriend.

MRS · Post by **MRS** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 1:58 pm

Wichita = asshole of the world

surfer · Post by **surfer** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:44 pm

MRS wrote:Wichita = asshole of the world

if I lived in Wichita, I wouldnt leave the bathroom either.

RFKorp · Post by **RFKorp** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:49 pm

A little more info about the situation in this article:

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/st ... lid=inform