Monday, December 31, 2007
Topless Woman Lured Perverts in Police Sting
Robin Garrison, an off-duty 42-year-old firefighter, was walking in Berliner Park in Columbus, Ohio, in May when he saw a woman sunbathing topless under a tree.
He approached her and they started talking and getting comfortable, the woman smiling and resting her foot on his shoulder at one point.
Eventually, she asked to see Garrison's penis; he unzipped his pants and complied.
Seconds later, undercover police officers pulled up in a van and arrested Garrison; he was later charged with public indecency, a misdemeanor, based on video footage taken by cops who were targeting men having sex or masturbating in the park.
From ABC News
He approached her and they started talking and getting comfortable, the woman smiling and resting her foot on his shoulder at one point.
Eventually, she asked to see Garrison's penis; he unzipped his pants and complied.
Seconds later, undercover police officers pulled up in a van and arrested Garrison; he was later charged with public indecency, a misdemeanor, based on video footage taken by cops who were targeting men having sex or masturbating in the park.
From ABC News
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Merry Christmas!
Santa on cell: Bro, I totally almost fucked a girl dressed as a reindeer last night
Monday, December 24, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Shocking!
re: jamie spears pregnancy announcement...
"Jamie and her mom both said this was shocking, which means one of us need to look up the term "shocking". Because I don't think they're using it the way the person who invented the term shocking meant it to be used. I think he meant it to mean like if you're sleeping and someone whacks you in the balls with a shovel. I think he meant, like, "surprising". "Unexpected". Like if you saw a unicorn.
But some bony teen getting on top of a Spears girl and nervously fucking her then not pulling out and getting her pregnant?
Yeah. Yeah, that sounds about right."
From the always funny What Would Tyler Durden Do?
"Jamie and her mom both said this was shocking, which means one of us need to look up the term "shocking". Because I don't think they're using it the way the person who invented the term shocking meant it to be used. I think he meant it to mean like if you're sleeping and someone whacks you in the balls with a shovel. I think he meant, like, "surprising". "Unexpected". Like if you saw a unicorn.
But some bony teen getting on top of a Spears girl and nervously fucking her then not pulling out and getting her pregnant?
Yeah. Yeah, that sounds about right."
From the always funny What Would Tyler Durden Do?
11AM So, "My Face, Ma'am."
Office girl arriving in meeting: Is there anywhere I can sit?
Manager: My face, but I can't say that because I just got out of sensitivity training.
North Hollywood, California
Overheard by: I have a face too
via Overheard in the office
Manager: My face, but I can't say that because I just got out of sensitivity training.
North Hollywood, California
Overheard by: I have a face too
via Overheard in the office
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
King pardons Saudi rape victim
Saudi King Abdullah has pardoned a rape victim who had been sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison in a case that sparked international attention, a Saudi newspaper has reported.
Al-Jazirah newspaper quoted a Saudi Justice Ministry official saying King Abdullah issued a royal pardon Monday -- the same day that the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, begins in Saudi Arabia.
Via CNN
Good. It's the right thing to do. They might want to think about the whole 2 - 9 years for the seven men who raped her...
Al-Jazirah newspaper quoted a Saudi Justice Ministry official saying King Abdullah issued a royal pardon Monday -- the same day that the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, begins in Saudi Arabia.
Via CNN
Good. It's the right thing to do. They might want to think about the whole 2 - 9 years for the seven men who raped her...
Monday, December 17, 2007
Could be worse, could have been "Secretary"
Secretary: Can you believe the new temp said her favorite movie was Blow?!?
HR director: I am not familiar with that. Look up 'blow' on Google.
Accounting manager: I wouldn't do that if I was you
1250 Broadway
New York, New York
via Overheard in the Office, Dec 11, 2007
Author of nasty letters from Santa sought
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's post office and police are trying to track down a "rogue elf" who wrote obscene letters to children on behalf of Santa Claus, a newspaper reported on Friday.
The Ottawa Citizen said at least 10 nasty letters had been delivered to little girls and boys in Ottawa who wrote to Santa this year care of the North Pole, which has a special H0H 0H0 Canadian postal code. Return letters from Santa are in fact written by an 11,000-strong army of Canada Post employees and volunteers.
"We firmly believe there is just one rogue elf out there," a Canada Post spokeswoman told the paper.
Canada Post's popular "Write to Santa" program -- which last year delivered more than a million letters to children in Canada and around the world -- has been shut down in Ottawa until the offender is caught.
From : Reuters
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Photographer captures trout's great escape
The owners of a trout farm were left baffled when fish were going missing. But then a wildlife photographer caught their extraordinary escape route on camera.
He pictured the trout making giant leaps out of their pond straight into the metal feed pipe three feet above the water level.
From: Telegraph.co.uk
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
Captain Kidd's Ship Located Off Dominican Island
"When I first looked down and saw it, I couldn't believe everybody missed it for 300 years," said Charles Beeker, a scuba-diving archaeologist who teaches at Indiana University. "I've been on thousands of wrecks and this is one of the first where it's been untouched by looters."
From Discovery News
From Discovery News
No. No. No. No.
Simroid, a robotic dental patient with an eerily realistic appearance, has been spotted at the 2007 International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo. Designed primarily as a training tool for dentists, the fembot patient can follow spoken instructions, closely monitor a dentist’s performance during mock treatments, and react in a human-like way to mouth pain.
From pinktentacle.com
Dear uncanny valley
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Boggle boggle boggle goes the braincase...
Aliens Apart
For years scientists have wrestled with a puzzling fact: The universe appears to be remarkably suited for life. Its physical properties are finely tuned to permit our existence. Stars, planets and the kind of sticky chemistry that produces fish, ferns and folks wouldn't be possible if some of the cosmic constants were only slightly different.
Well, there's another property of the universe that's equally noteworthy: It's set up in a way that keeps everyone isolated.
We learned this relatively recently. The big discovery took place in 1838, when Friedrich Bessel beat out his telescope-wielding buddies to first measure the distance to a star other than the sun. 61 Cygni, a binary star in our own back yard, turned out to be about 11 light-years away. For those who, like Billy Joel, are fond of models, think of it this way: If you shrank the sun to a ping-pong ball and set it down in New York's Central Park, 61 Cygni would be a slightly smaller ball near Denver.
From Space.com
For years scientists have wrestled with a puzzling fact: The universe appears to be remarkably suited for life. Its physical properties are finely tuned to permit our existence. Stars, planets and the kind of sticky chemistry that produces fish, ferns and folks wouldn't be possible if some of the cosmic constants were only slightly different.
Well, there's another property of the universe that's equally noteworthy: It's set up in a way that keeps everyone isolated.
We learned this relatively recently. The big discovery took place in 1838, when Friedrich Bessel beat out his telescope-wielding buddies to first measure the distance to a star other than the sun. 61 Cygni, a binary star in our own back yard, turned out to be about 11 light-years away. For those who, like Billy Joel, are fond of models, think of it this way: If you shrank the sun to a ping-pong ball and set it down in New York's Central Park, 61 Cygni would be a slightly smaller ball near Denver.
From Space.com
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
Antibody Therapy Shows Promise for Diabetes
An antibody therapy that's approved to treat certain cancers and arthritis has helped prevent--and even beat back--type 1 diabetes in mice. The news is heartening to researchers, who had already launched a human trial of the therapy, rituximab. But it also raises concerns that diabetes patients and their doctors will start trying the drug before it's been shown to work in humans.
Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system attacks and destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. For years, T cells were considered enemy number one, because they commit the actual attacks. But more recently, scientists have eyed another potential culprit: B cells, which may be setting the T cells off by presenting them with antigens, proteins that stimulate the immune system. The drug rituximab, made by Genentech, is an antibody that depletes B cells and has been shown to combat rheumatoid arthritis, another autoimmune disease. With that in mind, an international network of researchers successfully lobbied for a clinical trial of the drug in type 1 diabetes, even though mouse studies were lacking. That trial, begun last year, has enrolled 82 people--the youngest being 8 years old--and will take another year or so to finish.
From ScienceNOW
Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system attacks and destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. For years, T cells were considered enemy number one, because they commit the actual attacks. But more recently, scientists have eyed another potential culprit: B cells, which may be setting the T cells off by presenting them with antigens, proteins that stimulate the immune system. The drug rituximab, made by Genentech, is an antibody that depletes B cells and has been shown to combat rheumatoid arthritis, another autoimmune disease. With that in mind, an international network of researchers successfully lobbied for a clinical trial of the drug in type 1 diabetes, even though mouse studies were lacking. That trial, begun last year, has enrolled 82 people--the youngest being 8 years old--and will take another year or so to finish.
From ScienceNOW
Sickle Cell Cured by Stem Cells in Mice
Dec. 7, 2007 -- Scientists have the first evidence that those "reprogrammed stem cells" that made headlines last month really have the potential to treat disease: They used skin from the tails of sick mice to cure the rodents of sickle cell anemia.
From Discovery News
From Discovery News
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Friday, December 7, 2007
Quote of the day
"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth."
- Billy, age 4
Shamelessly ganked from Liz
- Billy, age 4
Shamelessly ganked from Liz
Thursday, December 6, 2007
holy crap!
Vatican: Michelangelo Sketch Found
VATICAN CITY (AP) - A long-missing Michelangelo sketch for the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, possibly his last design before his death, has been discovered in the basilica's offices, the Vatican newspaper said Thursday.
The sketch, drawn in blood-red chalk for stonecutters who were working on the construction of the basilica, was done by the Renaissance master in the spring of 1563, less than a year before his death, L'Osservatore Romano reported.
More at Breitbart.com
VATICAN CITY (AP) - A long-missing Michelangelo sketch for the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, possibly his last design before his death, has been discovered in the basilica's offices, the Vatican newspaper said Thursday.
The sketch, drawn in blood-red chalk for stonecutters who were working on the construction of the basilica, was done by the Renaissance master in the spring of 1563, less than a year before his death, L'Osservatore Romano reported.
More at Breitbart.com
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
I'm Convinced -- Can You Just Hold Me?
Lady: Excuse me, miss, could you move over a little?
Preggers: No, I'm pregnant. [Lady tries to squeeze in, pushing preggers.] If you push me again, I swear to God I'll give birth on your feet right here on this train. Then everyone will be mad at you 'cause you pissed off the pregnant woman and made them all late for work!
--PATH train, 33rd St
Overheard by: Marz22
via Overheard in New York, Dec 4, 2007
Preggers: No, I'm pregnant. [Lady tries to squeeze in, pushing preggers.] If you push me again, I swear to God I'll give birth on your feet right here on this train. Then everyone will be mad at you 'cause you pissed off the pregnant woman and made them all late for work!
--PATH train, 33rd St
Overheard by: Marz22
via Overheard in New York, Dec 4, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Who The @#$%$# is Jackson Pollack?
Toddler fools the art world into buying his tomato ketchup paintings
To the untrained eye, they appear to be simple daubs that could have been created by a two year old. Which is precisely what they are.
But that didn't stop the supposed experts falling over themselves to acclaim them.
The toddler in question is Freddie Linsky, who has fooled the art world into buying and asking to exhibit his paintings.
From Daily Mail
To the untrained eye, they appear to be simple daubs that could have been created by a two year old. Which is precisely what they are.
But that didn't stop the supposed experts falling over themselves to acclaim them.
The toddler in question is Freddie Linsky, who has fooled the art world into buying and asking to exhibit his paintings.
From Daily Mail
Now Help Me Apply Direct Pressure before I Bleed Out
Wife, playing Uno: Skip, skip, skip, skip, wild card, draw four, blue, draw two, uno, I win.
Husband: Wow. I'm bleeding.
Wife: I hope it's from the ass, because that's where I just raped you.
Husband: God, I love you.
--Central Park
via Overheard in New York, Dec 3, 2007
Husband: Wow. I'm bleeding.
Wife: I hope it's from the ass, because that's where I just raped you.
Husband: God, I love you.
--Central Park
via Overheard in New York, Dec 3, 2007
I'm pretty sure posting this is a bad idea...
Science isn’t something that necessarily needs to be done in the closed quarters of a lab. Many of the most brilliant experiments can be done in your own home and literally cost you almost nothing to make! So, just by using a bit of household equipment and items you would likely have anyway spend some time impressing your friends with a few of these! Here are ten of the most impressive!
Top 10 Coolest Home Science Experiments
Top 10 Coolest Home Science Experiments
Monday, December 3, 2007
awesome!
10AM And They Need Hard Numbers
via Overheard in the Office, Dec 3, 2007
Manager: I just want to know -- what is the penetration of 12 to 17-year-old girls?
Analyst: I'm not sure we want to show that...
Manager: They need to know how many 12 to 17-year-olds have been penetrated!
28 State Street
Boston, Massachusetts
via Overheard in the Office, Dec 3, 2007
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Ken Schram: Someone should be fired
I don't think things can get more screwed up with airport security.
This isn't about how investigators were able to smuggle liquid explosives and detonators past TSA screeners earlier this year.
It's about the atrocious treatment endured by some Fort Lewis soldiers who were escorting the remains of a colleague home to Virginia earlier this month.
From KOMO-TV
This isn't about how investigators were able to smuggle liquid explosives and detonators past TSA screeners earlier this year.
It's about the atrocious treatment endured by some Fort Lewis soldiers who were escorting the remains of a colleague home to Virginia earlier this month.
From KOMO-TV
Friday, November 30, 2007
Mom Had Quite a Mouth on Her
Customer: How you doin'?
Postal worker: I'm working harder than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.
Customer: Sounds pretty bad.
Postal worker: Well, it's better than my mother. She used to say she was working harder than a one-legged whore working both sides of the street.
--Grand Central Post Office, 45th & Lex
via Overheard in New York, Nov 30, 2007
Postal worker: I'm working harder than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.
Customer: Sounds pretty bad.
Postal worker: Well, it's better than my mother. She used to say she was working harder than a one-legged whore working both sides of the street.
--Grand Central Post Office, 45th & Lex
via Overheard in New York, Nov 30, 2007
Just to mess with your head...
Astronomers used five years of Chandra observations to show that the rogue star is careening away from the Puppis A supernova remnant, leftovers of a star that exploded about 3,700 years ago. The neutron star is racing out of our Milky Way Galaxy at about 3 million mph (4.8 million kph).
From Space.com
You got money for fake moustaches, huh?
Woman in fake moustache holds up N. Portland Denny's
Portland Police were looking for a woman in disguise who held up a local Denny's last week.
Detectives said on Tuesday, the woman, dressed as a man and sporting a fake moustache, sat down at the restaurant on North Center Avenue around 1:30 a.m. and drank coffee for nearly three hours.
From kgw.com
Portland Police were looking for a woman in disguise who held up a local Denny's last week.
Detectives said on Tuesday, the woman, dressed as a man and sporting a fake moustache, sat down at the restaurant on North Center Avenue around 1:30 a.m. and drank coffee for nearly three hours.
From kgw.com
Thursday, November 29, 2007
How Could You Not Love This Town?
Cashier: How are you?
Customer: Do you want the honest answer?
Cashier: Yes.
Customer: I feel like the business end of a donkey. I am extremely hungover and did a mountain of cocaine last night. Now I have to make dinner for a 68-year-old gay artist who is trying to fuck me.
Cashier: I'm... sorry.
Customer: And the woman I love is in another state pregnant with her ex-boyfriend's baby, and I wish the baby was mine. And I'm sleeping with a dominatrix. And it's all true.
--Whole Foods
via Overheard in New York, Nov 29, 2007
Customer: Do you want the honest answer?
Cashier: Yes.
Customer: I feel like the business end of a donkey. I am extremely hungover and did a mountain of cocaine last night. Now I have to make dinner for a 68-year-old gay artist who is trying to fuck me.
Cashier: I'm... sorry.
Customer: And the woman I love is in another state pregnant with her ex-boyfriend's baby, and I wish the baby was mine. And I'm sleeping with a dominatrix. And it's all true.
--Whole Foods
via Overheard in New York, Nov 29, 2007
Missing baroque masterpiece is discovered in pizza restaurant
It was the missing section of a 17th-century masterpiece, worth £1 million, presumed lost for ever. But the table that forms part of one of the most important pieces of Roman baroque furniture to appear at auction had in fact been standing outside the lavatory of a pizza restaurant.
From Times Online
From Times Online
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
Secret Brain Lab
"These guys penetrated the abandoned and sealed science lab of Russian Army which conducted sophisticated experiments studying human and animal brains."
Kinda creepy medical stuff...
From English Russia
Friday, November 23, 2007
It's probably not your Spidey Sense
Blonde: You're seeing your astrologist tomorrow?
Tattooed girl: Yeah, my pussy's been tingling lately, and I need to find out why.
--Washington Square
via Overheard in New York
Tattooed girl: Yeah, my pussy's been tingling lately, and I need to find out why.
--Washington Square
via Overheard in New York
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
Only for Catholics
Teen: That guy is jerkin' it right there in public!
Mother: Look away. He just has a disease.
Teen: What? So chronic masturbation is a disease now?
--42nd St subway
Overheard by: come again?
Headline by: gerard
Runners-Up:
· "Cause Dad Said Its a Cure for Fat Wife Syndrome" - angelica cayne
· "Come Again?" - Mary Beth
· "Ironically, NOT Healed by Laying on Of Hands" - JohnnyB
· "Momma Don't Know Jack." - jason daniel
· "No. I Was Referring To The Pus Pockets On The Head Of His Penis." - Redneck Jedi
· "There's Even a 12 Stroke Program" - Grantakerous
· "We're Tivoing _That_ Telethon!" - Vera Vaughan Hough
Click here to see the new Headline Contest
via Overheard in New York, Nov 19, 2007
Mother: Look away. He just has a disease.
Teen: What? So chronic masturbation is a disease now?
--42nd St subway
Overheard by: come again?
Headline by: gerard
Runners-Up:
· "Cause Dad Said Its a Cure for Fat Wife Syndrome" - angelica cayne
· "Come Again?" - Mary Beth
· "Ironically, NOT Healed by Laying on Of Hands" - JohnnyB
· "Momma Don't Know Jack." - jason daniel
· "No. I Was Referring To The Pus Pockets On The Head Of His Penis." - Redneck Jedi
· "There's Even a 12 Stroke Program" - Grantakerous
· "We're Tivoing _That_ Telethon!" - Vera Vaughan Hough
Click here to see the new Headline Contest
via Overheard in New York, Nov 19, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
German engineering
"These days many Russian online communities hit by the discussion of these photos. They were published in one popular Russian blog and the guy who published claimed that he has found the unique rare photographs of his grandfather from WW2 when he encountered the Nazi Robots. Of course many didn't believe this and found the same things are in Lucas "Star Wars" movie, but many were fooled and this caused a big buzz, spread across many blogs."
From English Russia
Oil discovery rocks Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- A huge offshore oil discovery could raise Brazil's petroleum reserves by a whopping 40 percent and boost this country into the ranks of the world's major exporters, officials said.
CNN
CNN
25 Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Time
Timing is everything, particularly in the case of amazing photography. Sometimes that means waiting through a whole sports game and getting lucky to catch just the right shot. Other times than means trudging through nature for weeks to get the perfect environmental photograph. Here are 25 examples of perfectly timed images from around the world and in various genres.
From Sawse - Stir it Up!:
Temple built 4,000 years ago unearthed in Peru
LIMA (Reuters) - A 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals has been unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, making it one of the oldest finds in the Americas, a leading archaeologist said on Saturday.
The temple, inside a larger ruin, includes a staircase that leads up to an altar used for fire worship at a site scientists have called Ventarron, said Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva, who led the dig.
From Reuters
The temple, inside a larger ruin, includes a staircase that leads up to an altar used for fire worship at a site scientists have called Ventarron, said Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva, who led the dig.
From Reuters
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Kadykchan. The City of Broken Dreams
"No, this isn’t Chernobyl and there isn’t any dangerous radioactive background or toxic pollution. You can even live in this town… but there is no reason for. This place has become absolutely useless after the collapse of the USSR, like many other Soviet industrial settlements."
From English Russia
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Over There — and Gone Forever
BY any conceivable measure, Frank Buckles has led an extraordinary life. Born on a farm in Missouri in February 1901, he saw his first automobile in his hometown in 1905, and his first airplane at the Illinois State Fair in 1907. At 15 he moved on his own to Oklahoma and went to work in a bank; in the 1940s, he spent more than three years as a Japanese prisoner of war. When he returned to the United States, he married, had a daughter and bought a farm near Charles Town, W. Va., where he lives to this day. He drove a tractor until he was 104.
But even more significant than the remarkable details of Mr. Buckles’s life is what he represents: Of the two million soldiers the United States sent to France in World War I, he is the only one left.
From NY Times
But even more significant than the remarkable details of Mr. Buckles’s life is what he represents: Of the two million soldiers the United States sent to France in World War I, he is the only one left.
From NY Times
Monday, November 12, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
I love New York
God That Felt Good. I'm Shivering Here
via Overheard in New York, Nov 6, 2007
Conductor over loud speaker: In case you didn't stop to look at what train this is, listen up, because I'm telling you now. This is the C Train. This train will be running express from here to Canal Street. I repeat: This train is running express from here to Canal Street. If you need to get to a local stop in between, you must go to 14th Street and take the C uptown. Uptown trains are stopping at all stations. Next stop: 42nd Street.
Teen girl, as train approaches 42nd: Excuse me, is this train stopping at 23rd Street?
Conductor: You didn't listen to the announcement at all, did you?
Teen girl: No.
Conductor: Then I'm not telling.
--C train, Columbus Circle
Overheard by: i love a tube with tude
via Overheard in New York, Nov 6, 2007
Many-limbed India girl in surgery
Doctors in India operating on a two-year-old child who was born with four arms and four legs say that the surgery is going well.
Lakshmi Tatma is joined at the pelvis to what is, in effect, a headless, undeveloped twin.
A team of surgeons in the southern city of Bangalore is working in shifts to separate Lakshmi's spinal column and kidney from that of her twin.
It is hoped the procedure will allow her to survive beyond adolescence.
The rest of the article here: BBC NEWS
Lakshmi Tatma is joined at the pelvis to what is, in effect, a headless, undeveloped twin.
A team of surgeons in the southern city of Bangalore is working in shifts to separate Lakshmi's spinal column and kidney from that of her twin.
It is hoped the procedure will allow her to survive beyond adolescence.
The rest of the article here: BBC NEWS
Sunday, November 4, 2007
School kid speaks 10 languages
A boy genius of 10 has stunned teachers by learning to speak 10 languages.
Arpan Sharma taught himself French, Spanish, German, Italian, Swahili, Mandarin, Polish, Thai and the difficult Lugandan language of Uganda. He also learned Hindi from his mum and dad.
The gifted primary school pupil from Oldbury, West Mids, studied using CD-roms.
He learned Italian fluently at seven, German at eight, and Spanish when he was nine.
But he admitted: "Learning Swahili was probably one of the biggest challenges I've faced and Mandarin Chinese was hard too."
Deputy Headmaster Richard Lynn, of Blue Coat School, Edgbaston, Birmingham, said: "Arpan is a language genius, a natural when it comes to listening to an exact pronunciation and repeating it perfectly."
Arpan wants to be a surgeon and work in hospitals abroad and speak each country's tongue.
From Mirror.co.uk
Arpan Sharma taught himself French, Spanish, German, Italian, Swahili, Mandarin, Polish, Thai and the difficult Lugandan language of Uganda. He also learned Hindi from his mum and dad.
The gifted primary school pupil from Oldbury, West Mids, studied using CD-roms.
He learned Italian fluently at seven, German at eight, and Spanish when he was nine.
But he admitted: "Learning Swahili was probably one of the biggest challenges I've faced and Mandarin Chinese was hard too."
Deputy Headmaster Richard Lynn, of Blue Coat School, Edgbaston, Birmingham, said: "Arpan is a language genius, a natural when it comes to listening to an exact pronunciation and repeating it perfectly."
Arpan wants to be a surgeon and work in hospitals abroad and speak each country's tongue.
From Mirror.co.uk
Is That Mayonnaise in Your Coffee?
Middle-aged white lady: What are you trying to do? You are so rude! I can't believe you! I am going to get you fired!
Clerk: [Silence.]
Middle-aged white lady, to entire line: Can you believe these people? They are so rude! I can't believe they are trying to short me my coffee! It's unbelievable!
Young black man: Stop being so white.
--Dunkin' Donuts, Atlantic & 4th, Brooklyn
via Overheard in New York, Nov 4, 2007
Clerk: [Silence.]
Middle-aged white lady, to entire line: Can you believe these people? They are so rude! I can't believe they are trying to short me my coffee! It's unbelievable!
Young black man: Stop being so white.
--Dunkin' Donuts, Atlantic & 4th, Brooklyn
via Overheard in New York, Nov 4, 2007
Saturday, November 3, 2007
I should pay more tax, says US billionaire Warren Buffett
This man is my hero.
The United States' second-richest man has delivered a blunt message to the Bush administration: he wants to pay more tax.
Warren Buffett, the famous investor known as the 'Sage of Omaha', has complained that he pays a lower rate of tax than any of his staff - including his receptionist. Mr Buffett, who is worth an estimated $52bn (£25bn), said: 'The taxation system has tilted towards the rich and away from the middle class in the last 10 years. It's dramatic; I don't think it's appreciated and I think it should be addressed.'
From The Guardian
The United States' second-richest man has delivered a blunt message to the Bush administration: he wants to pay more tax.
Warren Buffett, the famous investor known as the 'Sage of Omaha', has complained that he pays a lower rate of tax than any of his staff - including his receptionist. Mr Buffett, who is worth an estimated $52bn (£25bn), said: 'The taxation system has tilted towards the rich and away from the middle class in the last 10 years. It's dramatic; I don't think it's appreciated and I think it should be addressed.'
From The Guardian
Head Like A Hole?
Man With A Nine Inch Knife In His Head, Survives
A NINE-INCH knife juts out of a US soldier’s brain in an X-ray taken after he was stabbed in Iraq.
Sergeant Dan Powers was probing the cause of an explosion when a teenager ran up and plunged the blade into his head.
Sgt Powers, 39, said of the July attack in Baghdad: “I felt a bump but didn’t know I had a knife in my head as the brain has no pain-sensory nerves.”
Sgt Powers, who serves with the 118th Military Police Company, has since made a near-full recovery.
His teenage attacker was arrested."
From thesun.co.uk
A NINE-INCH knife juts out of a US soldier’s brain in an X-ray taken after he was stabbed in Iraq.
Sergeant Dan Powers was probing the cause of an explosion when a teenager ran up and plunged the blade into his head.
Sgt Powers, 39, said of the July attack in Baghdad: “I felt a bump but didn’t know I had a knife in my head as the brain has no pain-sensory nerves.”
Sgt Powers, who serves with the 118th Military Police Company, has since made a near-full recovery.
His teenage attacker was arrested."
From thesun.co.uk
Overheard in NYC
Should I Not Add That It's for My Husband's Infantalism Fetish?
via Overheard in New York, Nov 2, 2007
also:
Every Lifetime Movie, in a Nutshell
via Overheard in New York, Nov 1, 2007
Woman: Oh, I gotta defrost my breast milk!
Lady friend: There's something everyone doesn't want to overhear...
--80th & West End
Overheard by: Nikki... so did not want to overhear that
via Overheard in New York, Nov 2, 2007
also:
Every Lifetime Movie, in a Nutshell
Girl: Get the fuck outta here! I'll fucking kill you!
Guy: So, I was thinking about...
Girl: I just threatened your life and you have nothing to say?!
Guy, shrugging: I love you.
--Park Ave
Overheard by: LiveNY
via Overheard in New York, Nov 1, 2007
IED near freaking miss
Jesus.
The next time you see a member of the armed services, past / present / future, remember to thank them for their service.
The next time you see a member of the armed services, past / present / future, remember to thank them for their service.
Friday, November 2, 2007
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Happy Freaking Halloween
Man in N.J. Charged with Having Sex with a Corpse
TEANECK, N.J. (1010 WINS) -- Police in Teaneck arrested a man for allegedly having sex with a corpse. Anthony Merino, a 24-year-old lab technician, was arrested Sunday after a security guard saw him having sex with a dead 92-year-old woman in the Holy Name Hospital morgue, police said. The suspect works part time at Holy Name Hospital, holds a full time job at Overlook Hospital and another part time position at Bio Reference Labs in New Jersey.
Merino is charged with desecrating human remains in the second degree. His bail has been set at $400,000.
Merino is also expected to undergo a psychological evaluation and is restricted from working in a health care facility. ya think?
From www.1010wins.com
TEANECK, N.J. (1010 WINS) -- Police in Teaneck arrested a man for allegedly having sex with a corpse. Anthony Merino, a 24-year-old lab technician, was arrested Sunday after a security guard saw him having sex with a dead 92-year-old woman in the Holy Name Hospital morgue, police said. The suspect works part time at Holy Name Hospital, holds a full time job at Overlook Hospital and another part time position at Bio Reference Labs in New Jersey. Merino is charged with desecrating human remains in the second degree. His bail has been set at $400,000.
Merino is also expected to undergo a psychological evaluation and is restricted from working in a health care facility. ya think?
From www.1010wins.com
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
The 10 Most Terrifyingly Inspirational '80s Songs
#10 - "The Final Countdown" by Europe
The synthesizer riff in this 1986 track is as fist-pumping as music gets without involving an actual instrument. We're not clear on what he's counting down to, but somebody's about to get their ass kicked. If we were wrestlers and it was 1986 again, we'd totally have this as our intro music.
The Only Way It Could Be Better:
The song takes a sharp decline after the chorus, when it slips from the vaguely threatening line "It's the final countdown!" into sci-fi-gibberish wails like "we're heading for Venus, and still we'll stand tall!"
"The Final Countdown" needs some serious trimming. If a remix were to come out that consists only of that synthesizer riff and the cry of "It's the final countdown!," it would doubtlessly rank higher on this list. But, hey, it's European. Just be grateful it's not about scat fetishes and exceedingly thin cigarettes.
Also, let's face it. That distinctly '80s synthesizer sound didn't exactly age well. Those too young to remember the Cold War, in fact, tend to laugh upon hearing it.
Best Things to Do While Listening:
Any activity which may seem like a good idea initially, but soon becomes completely ridiculous. May we suggest Ultimate Frisbee, riding a pocket bike or watching the second season of Lost.
More here from Cracked.com
The synthesizer riff in this 1986 track is as fist-pumping as music gets without involving an actual instrument. We're not clear on what he's counting down to, but somebody's about to get their ass kicked. If we were wrestlers and it was 1986 again, we'd totally have this as our intro music.
The Only Way It Could Be Better:
The song takes a sharp decline after the chorus, when it slips from the vaguely threatening line "It's the final countdown!" into sci-fi-gibberish wails like "we're heading for Venus, and still we'll stand tall!"
"The Final Countdown" needs some serious trimming. If a remix were to come out that consists only of that synthesizer riff and the cry of "It's the final countdown!," it would doubtlessly rank higher on this list. But, hey, it's European. Just be grateful it's not about scat fetishes and exceedingly thin cigarettes.
Also, let's face it. That distinctly '80s synthesizer sound didn't exactly age well. Those too young to remember the Cold War, in fact, tend to laugh upon hearing it.
Best Things to Do While Listening:
Any activity which may seem like a good idea initially, but soon becomes completely ridiculous. May we suggest Ultimate Frisbee, riding a pocket bike or watching the second season of Lost.
More here from Cracked.com
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Tax Dollars At Work
Desire and deception, lust and fetish, pleasure and pain - it's all happening beneath the waves, according to a new book about sex in the marine world.
"It's just mind blowing what these creatures get up to," says Victorian aquatic scientist Sheree Marris, author of KamaSEAtra: Secrets of Sex in the Sea.
Raunch and randiness are rampant among sea creatures, Marris says.
"There's jealousy, there are creatures who cheat on their partners, they do the same sort of things as us in terms of courting - they spray scented perfumes, they do amazing dances, they dress up and change colours.
"As humans we think we're such sexual beasts but compared to sea creatures we're just so boring."
More here: Extreme sex under the sea
"It's just mind blowing what these creatures get up to," says Victorian aquatic scientist Sheree Marris, author of KamaSEAtra: Secrets of Sex in the Sea.
Raunch and randiness are rampant among sea creatures, Marris says.
"There's jealousy, there are creatures who cheat on their partners, they do the same sort of things as us in terms of courting - they spray scented perfumes, they do amazing dances, they dress up and change colours.
"As humans we think we're such sexual beasts but compared to sea creatures we're just so boring."
More here: Extreme sex under the sea
Zombie Sex Guide
If your necrophilia or poor judgment tempts you to get intimate with a zombie…don’t! It will not end well. Zombies come on strong and won’t take no for an answer, but they only want you for your juicy flesh and your brains. Not your intelligence – your BRAINS. On the other hand, if you are dumb enough or hard up enough to have sex with a zombie, maybe it’s just as well that you get taken out of the gene pool.More Here
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