Miss England finalist: Size 16

A 16-year-old has become the first size 16 model to be selected as a finalist for the Miss England competition. Chloe Marshall, who has taken the title of Miss Surrey, says she wants to boost "curvy" girls.

Chloe, from Guildford, is 12st 8lb, 5ft 10in tall and has a 38DD bust. But although she is the average size for a woman, in the age of the size zero model she stands out.

Yes. Yes, she does. Rrrawrr!

From The Daily Mail

Never hurts to ask...

Drunk Hispanic teen: How do I get to Times Square?
Older white lady: I am not sure... Maybe two stops. [Teen whispers to her.] Good Lord, no! I am old enough to be your mother!

--F train, 57th St

 

from Overheard in New York

time to buy that boy a clock tower...

Young boy skipping by elevators, singing: Step on a crack and you break your mother's back... [Begins stomping] Take that, mother! And that, mother! And that, mother...!

 

--Museum of Natural History

 

from Overheard in New York

Just in case

Goodnight, sleep tight...

don't let the bedb... oh, nevermind.

While grappling with MSNBC and CNN for viewers, Fox News has also been battling a smaller, more insidious enemy closer to home: bed bugs in its Midtown Manhattan newsroom. In an interview on Monday, Warren Vandeveer, senior vice president for operations and engineering at Fox News, said the cable channel had realized it had a problem a few weeks ago, when an employee “caught a bug and showed it to us.” An exterminator determined that the incursion was limited to a “very small area in the newsroom.” But the source of the bugs was not determined until the exterminator inspected the homes of about 20 employees. Mr. Vandeveer said the exterminator later described one employee’s home as having “the worst infestation he had seen in 25 years in the business.”

7 wonders: city streets

Everyone hates traffic, but how about trying to wind around 8 switchbacks in one city block, crossing 12 lanes at a single intersection or parking on a 38 degree incline? The latest in the ever-popular 7 Wonders Series, here are the scariest, steepest, longest, widest, narrowest, most confusing and most crooked urban streets in the world!


From Web Urbanist

Eyes

The FSM was right!

Eats shoots and leaves

quote of the day...

"The House Republican brand is so bad right now that if it were a dog food, they'd take it off the shelf," said retiring Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (Va.)

John Denver karaoke sparks Thai killing spree

A gunman in Thailand shot-dead eight neighbours, including his brother-in-law, after tiring of their karaoke versions of popular songs, including John Denver's Country Roads.

Weenus Chumkamnerd, 52, put his gun to the head of a respected female doctor and seven of her guests as they partied at her home in Songkhla Province, South Thailand.

"When I began shooting nobody pleaded for his life because they were all drunk," he said after his arrest.

He said he was so furious with their awful singing that he did not notice he had murdered his own brother-in-law.

"I warned these people about their noisy karaoke parties. I said if they carried on I would go down and shoot them. I had told them if I couldn't talk sense into them I would come back and finish them off," he added.

Mr Chumkamnerd, who works as a rubber tapper, was arrested after going on the run after his killing spree in the townn of Hat Yai, near the Malaysian border.

The doctor who was hosting the party, Dr Suthathip Thammachart, 36, was the director of a local hospital who was due this month to get an award for her services to medicine.

One of the revellers survived by playing dead, convincing the gunman that he too had been killed.

When he realised he had shot his brother-in-law, Boontip Desaro, Mr Chumkamnerd said he was filled with remorse.

He got his son to take Boontip to hospital, but he was already dead.

A neighbour said that the karaoke group normally sang Thai pop and southern Thai ballads, but one particular western tune could be heard often - John Denver's 'Country Roads'.

Country Roads is a hugely popular song in south east Asia andthe neighbour said the revellers had been singing it over and over again.

It's a Simple Process Involving an Ice Bath in My Basement

Woman: Excuse me, miss... Can I ask you a question?
Chick: Um, sure.
Woman: This might sound kind of strange, but I have a patient that looks just like you and... Have you ever considered donating your eggs?

--Brooklyn-bound L train

from Overheard in New York

 

I'm not dead yet! I feel better...

rawr!

Tortise hotel

Mrs Neely who runs the Jersey-based Tortoise Sanctuary, had to set up the fridges because of the particularly mild winter.

Her tortoises hibernate for up to three months between December and March, and need steady temperatures between 3c and 8c.

They are in danger of waking early if it heats up - and then do not have enough body weight to keep themselves warm and not enough energy to eat or drink.

But fridges, at a steady 4c to 6c, are the perfect environment.

Mrs Neely said: "It's much easier to maintain a constantly cool temperature with a fridge than it is with our ever-warming climate."

On Saturday night a guest said she would get a bottle of wine and was stunned when she opened the fridge.

Mrs Neely said: "I do sometimes keep a bottle of wine inside because it helps stabilise the temperature."

me, in 62 years...

This British gentleman is Buster Martin, and he is 101 years old. The father of 17 returned to work as a plumber three years ago "because he was bored." But apparently that wasn't enough to keep him entertained, because now he has taken up running marathons.

First he ran the Roding Valley half-marathon in Essex (with a time of 5 hours and 13 minutes,) and is now focusing on the full-length London Marathon. If he makes it, he will officially become the world's oldest competitive athlete. His trainer has experience in these matters, having previously helped Fauja Singh, 96, break the London marathon record for the over-90 category.

His personal secret to staying young, of course, is no secret. The BBC reports that, on finishing the half-marathon run, the first words of the working plumber were: "Where's my beer?"

uh, what?

sports widows rejoice

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Via Street Anatomy

Norma Jean, 1949

Atheists

and furthermore...

Bag lady: Please, can someone help me? Call 911...
Cop: You're talking to a goddamn cop! Are you fucking retarded?

--Times Square

from Overheard in New York

Also

Guy randomly wipes out on the sidewalk, flat on his stomach with arms stretched out in front of him. Everyone stares.

Nearby cop: Safe!

--Outside Penn Station

from Overheard in New York

if i had a nickle...

Student: ... And I was all, 'Dude, don't touch my side of the cadaver!'

--Albert Einstein College of Medicine

from Overheard in New York