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It seems that some of the monarchists in Canada have come up with a solution to being ruled from some far away little island and that is to have the third in line to the throne, Prince Harry, come across and rule as King of Canada. I can't see...
According to sources, she has. I know that she is 100% confident that he did it, and all that's left now is for him to say so. Also, that it was the one thing she's wanted to accomplish that she hasn't (at least, at the time I saw her talking...
Not the individual cases that Walmart has been dealing with, but the large class action suit that was being put forward on the general principle of so many individual cases of sexual discrimination by the company. The case was dismissed on the...
Sad and creepy pictures of the amusement park, which has been abandoned since Katrina. :(
Oregan has drained one of its large reservoirs after a man was spotted urinating into it. Eight million gallons of water flushed away due to the actions of one drunk man, who was caught in the act on a security camera. The main reason given was...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/16/scientist-poop-burger-video_n_878210.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/09/gabrielle-giffords-congress-rehab-speech_n_874355.html Most of us pretty much knew this; she wasn't coming back. It's interesting that buried in all the would-be good news about the pace of her...
Facebook has now decided to roll out is face recognition software to most countries across the world allowing it to recognise people in uploaded photos. This is currently an opt-out service, so if you don't know anything about it, congratulations...
It appears that one of the worst outbreaks of E.Coli in Europe has been caused a batch of contaminated beansprouts from a farm in Germany. This strain has never been seen before and has already caused 20+ deaths with 300 severely injured and over...
A little compilation of Prince Phillip's most obnoxious comments. I think (I hope) that these are attempts at humor. But dude...so, so not funny. Talk about being a walking anachronism; this style of "humor" has been out of date since WWII.
It appears that Goldman Sachs is perhaps not the greatest bank in the world when it has apparently lost $1.3bn of the Libyan sovereign investment fund. After all was said and done only $25m was left. Upsetting one of the world's dictators with...
100 years ago, the Titanic was launched from its Belfast shipyards. It was the largest moving man-made object at its time and as everyone remembers sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. A service was held at he dockyards to...
Using the new scanning techniques from a satellite, it appears that multiple hidden pyramids have been found in Egypt. They have found 17 sites possibly covered by deposits from the Nile with the possibility of many more being hidden in the...
Huge twister kills 89 in Missouri Knowing the area and seeing what the damage looks like, I think the fire chief is making some incredibly conservative estimates so far. Here's a panoramic view from down by the hospital. That was all city...
Another volcano has erupted in Iceland and another ash cloud has now moved down over northern Europe and so lots of flights have been cancelled again. The ash cloud is being unpredictable and so it may only be a few days or it could be more...
A farmer in China mistimed the application of various growth chemicals to his watermelon crop resulting in the literal explosion of his crop. Now, I knew that the Chinese were slightly lax when it came to chemicals in food, then again they have a...
Samoa sits on the International Date Line and is currently on the Western side of it, sitting about 5 or 6 hours behind America. It was set up this way 119 years ago because its main export markets were with the USA. However, their main markets...
Anyone else watch it? This bit with Ron Paul really stood out for me: T9n4nwxgaQg
A referendum was held yesterday to determine whether Britain should change its electoral system from the First Past the Post (FPTP) system to the Alternative Vote (AV) system. By a margin of approx 70%-30%, AV has been rejected. :dumbo: This...
This is everywhere at the moment, but there aren't any particularly good articles on it yet (little surprise) so I'll just toss this CNN link here for now. From what I understand they verified it was Bin Laden via DNA from his sister who died in the...
Claude Choules, the last known combat veteran of World War One died today aged 110, and with his passing a last link to that war has gone. Here's hoping that the sacrifices that he and others like him made are never forgotten. Details here
Marriage, vows, royalty, yadda yadda yadda... WTF IS UP WITH THESE HATS And what is wrong with everyone not gouging out their eyes over that?
Following the failure of the existing coalition a few months ago, Canada went to the polls yesterday and returned a majority Conservative government, which will no longer have to rely on partners to try and push through legislation. The biggest...
It looks like its one of the biggest pieces of data theft so far. 70 Million users account on the Playstation Network have been compromised, with the result being that the service has been down for the last 7 days and is likely to be down for a few...
The last factory producing mechnical typewriters finished production in 2009 and now only has 500 of them left. They have been superceeded in all areas by computers, although there impact has yet to fade seeing as the QWERTY keyboard most people...
http://www.bls.gov/web/metro/laummtrk.htm Our current unemployment rate is 18.2%. Or, as a friend put it, almost 1 in 5 people. Awesome.
M&S have a very distinct brand in the marketplace and it seems that Ann Summers decided to parody it, with its usual tongue-in-cheekk humour. Following their M&S Meal Deal adverts you get the following. In response, M&S decided it was a...
One brave soul went extreme ironing on Britain's busiest motorway. Ok, the fact the road has been shut down, due to a fire under a bridge that meant a large portion of it was closed, might have helped. :D More here
I was really very, very surprised to see Standard & Poor, the normally hawkish credit rating agency, change their debt outlook on the USA, putting it's AAA status at risk. Not only is it an indictment of the US governments inability to get its...
Yes, that's right a gay couple, Jonathan Williams and James Bull, were thrown out of a pub for kissing. They claim they were thrown out for obscene behaviour, as it was apparently bothering the landlord. On the one hand, if the landlord says...
From the fall out of the banking disaster when several Iceland banks collapsed and a lot of funds held by British companies and councils just vanished, the UK and Netherlands are going to sue Iceland (the country, not the fast food chain) for the...
There seems to just be soemthing wrong about this. A team from China has introduced human genes into cows to produce milk with the same properties as human milk. The idea being that it could produce an alternative to breast milk or formula for...
First of all... :smack That's how all of the headlines are putting it, though, so there you go. Here's one of the many articles on this. The cave-dweller was placed in his grave with his head pointing eastward, along with several domestic pots...
Surpising news from the Submarine Dock at Southhampton where a crew member has just shot and killed an officer and wounded another crew member during a guard changeover, before he was overpowered and arrested. The submarine in question, is HMS...
I saw this link from another blog I read today and found it very interesting. The United State Department of Agriculture’s loss-adjusted food availability data is one window into where those extra calories come from. While the data does not quite...
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/content/amendment-could-require-%E2%80%98family-values%E2%80%99-centers-ut The amendment text defines alternative sexual practices as “gay, lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, transsexual, transgender, gender...
It seems as though FOX network have had enough of the falling ratings, disappearing advertisers and general outrage caused by Glenn Beck and his show is now on the way out. Does this mean the Republicans have lost a major voice or was he becoming...
Wendy Cobb was videoing a pair of trucks that were playing chicken and holding up the traffic, in order to send it to their companies. When one of the trucks clipped a plank of wood sending it straight through her windscreen. Fortunately, she...
They're at it again. They killed a 25 year old policeman because he was Catholic. :sad: Just to be clear, he was killed because he was a Catholic and had joined the police. http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0402/omagh.html
Barack Obama, the current POTUS, has already kicked off his campaign to be re-elected for a second term. He is looking to make a tour of Democrat donors and start fundraising again. He is also looking to restart the grassroots campaign that...
I found this TED clip fairly interesting, as it touches on the environment, mothehood, developing countries and the freedom of the magic washing machine. Transcript via Dot Sub: I was only four years old when I saw my mother load a washing...
BAM. Gotcha suckas. April Fools.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/22/AR2011022205740.html This is how we know the "mainstream media" isn't really all that left. How? Because the media is (can't use are here, sorry) covering this at all. ...
Last weekend, the British unions arranged a major demonstrations with a march through London and a rally being held in Hyde Park. The rally was to protest against the upcoming austerity measure being set out by the current coalition government and...
It seems that without enough effective shielding on a spacecraft, any embyro conceived in space would have problems and would be rendered infertile by space radiation. The same is also likely to occur with male fetuses as well. More on the story...
The US Military has awarded a contract to allow personnel to control multiple online accounts allowing them to put forward the pro-US POV across the Internet. Apparently, the contract means that each online account must have a convincing...
Thought you all would like this one... N5pw9o9EmEA&feature=youtu.be
Google's plans to digitise as many of the world's books as possible and create the biggest online library have been quashed in a ruling by a US Judge. In a ruling, the proposal put forward by Google was mentioned as going too far and giving...
Sex Can Kill You, According To US Study Well it looks like I'm immortal for the time being.
Story here. WASHINGTON — Federal drug regulators on Friday approved a new form of emergency contraceptive pill that prevents pregnancies if taken as many as five days after unprotected intercourse. The pill, called ella, will be available by...
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