Admin_2 Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 I Hurricane Bawbag is the colloquial name given to an intense mid-latitude storm that brought hurricane-force winds to Scotland during the week beginning on 5 December 2011. The storm also brought prolonged gales and rough seas to many other regions within the British Isles. On 8 December, winds reached up to 165 mph (265 km/h) at elevated areas, with sustained wind speeds of up to 80 mph (135 km/h) reported across populous areas. The winds uprooted trees and resulted in the closure of many roads, bridges, schools and businesses. Overall the storm was the worst to affect Scotland in 10 years.Have to laugh at this; 'hurricane bawbag' was trending #1 on Twitter worldwide for a while yesterday. And most folk did not know what a 'bawbag' was (other than a scrotum) [TABLE=width: 475] [TR] [TD=class: word]bawbag[/TD] [TD=class: tools][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD=class: text, colspan: 2]Glasgow, Scotland origin, derogitary name given to one who is annoying, useless or just plain stupid. To compare one with such an ugly part of the male anatomy should be insult enough... "Look you fuckin' bawbag, you are about as useful as a tit with no nipple."[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] In the end, there was a lot less damage than expected; few trees and fences down and this spectacular pic of a turbine blowing up. Bawbag bells, bawbag bells...bawbag all the way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKYWARRIOR Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/penis_enhancement_death.html Death thru penis enhancement. Bizzare!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/penis_enhancement_death.htmlDeath thru penis enhancement. Bizzare!! Interesting...I've also heard recent rumors that EB has fallen ill. Coincidence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funky_house Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/penis_enhancement_death.htmlDeath thru penis enhancement. Bizzare!! Ahh! Penis enhancement. Now I think I know what Rob was getting at with his "30 + 39" thread. I suppose every millimetre counts. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 Ahh! Penis enhancement. Now I think I know what Rob was getting at with his "30 + 39" thread. I suppose every millimetre counts. :-) Ooooo...Good one, but you spelled "meter" wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKYWARRIOR Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 I don’t care WHAT your politics are, this is FUNNY: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) Eye in Vagina X-rated X-rays Edited December 13, 2011 by Japamerican added second link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoodKarma Posted December 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 @Skywarrior ...Coco is the man He's funny as shat @Japamerican..those objects are a real WTF? LOL... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stramash Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 (edited) "In Washington DC , at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in2007, a man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After about four minutes,a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds, and then he hurried onto meet his schedule. About four minutes later, the violinist received his first dollar. A woman threw money in the hat and,without stopping, continued to walk. At six minutes, a young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again. At ten minutes, a three-year old boy stopped, but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head the whole time. This action was repeated by several other children, but every parent - without exception - forced their children to move on quickly. At forty-five minutes: The musician played continuously. Only six people stopped and listened for a short while. About twenty gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32. After one hour: He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed and no one applauded. There was no recognition at all. No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before, Joshua Bell sold-out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100 each to sit and listen to him play the same music. Thisis a true story. Joshua Bell, playing incognito in the D.C. MetroStation, was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities. This experiment raised several questions: In a common-place environment,at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? If so, do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context? One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made… How many other things are we missing as we rush through life? <font color="#808080"><font face="lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myq8upzJDJc Edited December 14, 2011 by Stramash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stramash Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/ebb1/?cpg=fbl_ebb1#tabs<a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/ebb1/?cpg=fbl_ebb1#tabs"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoXUkvA9ge4&feature=player_embedded#! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 "In Washington DC , at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in2007, a man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After about four minutes,a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds, and then he hurried onto meet his schedule. About four minutes later, the violinist received his first dollar. A woman threw money in the hat and,without stopping, continued to walk. At six minutes, a young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again. At ten minutes, a three-year old boy stopped, but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head the whole time. This action was repeated by several other children, but every parent - without exception - forced their children to move on quickly. At forty-five minutes: The musician played continuously. Only six people stopped and listened for a short while. About twenty gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32. After one hour: He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed and no one applauded. There was no recognition at all. No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before, Joshua Bell sold-out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100 each to sit and listen to him play the same music. Thisis a true story. Joshua Bell, playing incognito in the D.C. MetroStation, was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities. This experiment raised several questions: In a common-place environment,at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? If so, do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context? One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made… How many other things are we missing as we rush through life? Not too amazing TBH. How many of those subway riders are classical music fans? Out of those, how many appreciate solo violin? And of those, how many have the time to stop and smell the flowers at 8:00 AM while headed to work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/ebb1/?cpg=fbl_ebb1#tabs My first thought after geeky and cool was, "how do you wash it?" Answer: "Fully washable. Electronics and drum pads easily remove from shirt." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 Police: Thieves Pocket-Dial 911, Leading to Arrest Police in Wisconsin's capital city barely had to try to catch a pair of unlucky suspected thieves. Madison police say two men in their late 20s stole DVDs and computer games from a Target store Tuesday and discussed their plans to fence the goods while driving away. Investigators say the duo didn't realize one of them had accidentally pocket-dialed 911. A dispatcher listened in for nearly an hour as they discussed what they had stolen and where they might sell it. Police say they even described their vehicle. Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain says the pair decided to sell their goods at a video store. When they pulled into the store's parking lot, officers surrounded their vehicle with guns drawn. (so how does one accidentally dial 911?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangFarang Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 Yo Yo Ma laying on a bathroom floor with a wombat. I bet Rob's fantasized about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangFarang Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 BERLIN (AP) - A man dressed as Santa drugged a 15-year-old girl at a Berlin Christmas market over the weekend - the latest such attack that has seen holiday revelers left either sickened or unconscious, police said Monday. At about 10 p.m. Saturday the suspect approached the girl and her friend at Berlin's downtown Alexanderplatz Christmas market, offering both of them what he said was a shot of alcohol in a paper cup, police said. One girl refused, but the other girl drank both of the shots. She soon started vomiting and had to be taken to the hospital, where she underwent a blood test, before being released. Police said it appeared she had been slipped some type of a date rape drug, but released no further details, citing the ongoing investigation. Eight other people at various Berlin Christmas markets have fallen prey to similar attacks - usually with an unidentified man in regular clothes handing out single-shot bottles of alcohol, asking people to join him in celebrating the birth of his child. Police say some of the victims - mostly young women - have lost consciousness and many have been briefly hospitalized. All have experienced dizziness and nausea. It's not yet clear whether all the attacks are linked, or whether some may be copycat crimes, and police spokesman Ivo Habedank said authorities did not yet have a good description of the suspect. "Intense investigations are ongoing," Habedank said. Most recently, a 31-year-old woman who had read media reports of the attacks reported to police Sunday night that she and her friend, a 33-year-old man, had both fallen ill Dec. 7 after drinking small bottles of alcohol given to them at the Alexanderplatz Christmas market by a man saying he was celebrating becoming a first-time father. She described the man as about 40-years-old and 5-foot 9-inches (180 centimeter) tall but no further details were released. In Germany, Christmas markets are traditional outdoor holiday markets that are popular with residents and tourists alike throughout December, bringing together stands selling handicrafts, ornaments and small gifts along with a wide array of food and drink, including multiple varieties of hot mulled wine. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/berlin-christmas-markets_n_1142862.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stramash Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 Yo Yo Ma laying on a bathroom floor with a wombat. I bet Rob's fantasized about this. That IS Rob in a wombat suit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangFarang Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 Woman Busted Smuggling $150,000 Worth Of Coke In Dreadlocks Authorities at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok removed 3.3 pounds of cocaine from 23-year-old Nolubabalo “Babsi” Nobanda's fake dreadlocks. Thai media was there to shamelessly record the bust, and officials say it's possible the South African native could receive the death penalty. "The embassy will give all the assistance she requires," said Douglas Gibson, South Africa’s ambassador to Thailand. "I cannot speculate as to what punishment will be meted to her. In the past 10 years only two drug smugglers were executed taking into consideration the number of dealers in prisons, and these were not South Africans." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted December 16, 2011 Report Share Posted December 16, 2011 That IS Rob in a wombat suit... No, I was the photographer...with my pants down to my ankles. Yoma gets jealous of this shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy Posted December 16, 2011 Report Share Posted December 16, 2011 Christopher Hitchens dies after battle with cancer British-born author, literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens has died, aged 62, according to Vanity Fair magazine. He died from pneumonia, a complication of the oesophageal cancer he was suffering from, at a Texas hospital. Vanity Fair said there would "never be another like Christopher". He is survived by his wife, Carol Blue, and their daughter, Antonia, and his children from a previous marriage, Alexander and Sophia. Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter described the writer as someone "of ferocious intellect, who was as vibrant on the page as he was at the bar". "Those who read him felt they knew him, and those who knew him were profoundly fortunate souls." Mr Hitchens was born in Portsmouth in 1949 and graduated from Oxford in 1970. He began his career as a journalist in Britain in the 1970s and later moved to New York, becoming contributing editor to Vanity Fair in November 1992. 'Cynical contrarian'He was diagnosed with cancer in June 2010, and documented his declining health in his Vanity Fair column. In an August 2010 essay for the magazine he wrote: "I love the imagery of struggle. "I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient." Speaking on the BBC's Newsnight programme, in November that year, he reflected on a life that he knew would be cut short: "It does concentrate the mind, of course, to realise that your life is more rationed than you thought it was." Radicalised by the 1960s, Hitchens was often arrested at political rallies and was kicked out of the Labour Party over his opposition to the Vietnam War. He became a correspondent for International Socialism magazine. In later life he moved away from the left. Following the September 11 attacks he argued with Noam Chomsky and others who suggested that US foreign policy had helped cause the tragedy. He supported the Iraq War and backed George W Bush for re-election in 2004. It led to him being accused of betrayal: one former friend called him "a lying, opportunistic, cynical contrarian", another "a drink-sodden ex-Trotskyist popinjay". But he could dish out scathing critiques himself. Bill Clinton he called "a cynical, self-seeking ambitious thug", Henry Kissinger a war criminal and Mother Teresa a fraudulent fanatic. 'A great voice'He also famously fell out with his brother, the Mail On Sunday journalist Peter Hitchens, though the pair were reconciled. Christopher Hitchens could also be a loyal friend. He stood by the author Salman Rushdie during the furore that followed the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses. Writing on Twitter after the announcement of Mr Hitchens death, Mr Rushdie said: "Goodbye, my beloved friend. A great voice falls silent. A great heart stops." The MP Denis McShane was a student at Oxford with Mr Hitchens. He said: "Christopher just swam against every tide. He was a supporter of the Polish and Czech resistance of the 1970s, he supported Mrs Thatcher because he thought getting rid of the Argentinian fascist junta was a good idea. "He was a cross between Voltaire and Orwell. He loved words. "He would drink a bottle of whisky when I would manage two glasses of wine and then be up in the morning writing 1,000 perfect words. "He could throw words up into the sky, they fell down in a marvellous pattern." Prolific writerThe publication of his 2007 book 'God Is Not Great' made him a major celebrity in his adopted homeland of the United States, and he happily took on the role of the country's best-known atheist. He maintained his devout atheism after being diagnosed with cancer in 2010, telling one interviewer: "No evidence or argument has yet been presented which would change my mind. But I like surprises." The author and prominent atheist Richard Dawkins described him as the "finest orator of our time" and a "valiant fighter against all tyrants including God". He said Mr Hitchens had been a "wonderful mentor in a way". "He encouraged me and I shall miss him terribly and so will everybody who values the life of the intellect, of rationality of reason," said Mr Dawkins. Mr Hitchens wrote for numerous publications including The Times Literary Supplement, the Daily Express, the London Evening Standard, Newsday and The Atlantic. He was the author of 17 books, including The Trial of Henry Kissinger, God is not Great, How Religion Poisons Everything, and a memoir, Hitch-22. A collection of his essays, Arguably, was released this year. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16212418 Sad to hear this. He was funny, incredibly intelligent and one of the best speakers I have ever heard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiaranM Posted December 17, 2011 Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 Sad to hear this. He was funny, incredibly intelligent and one of the best speakers I have ever heard. he did some good (arguably great) stuff ... but lost a lot of respect for him after his support for the neo cons and the invasion of iraq !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English_Bob Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 Not news.... but a Craigslist ad... (where's the Facepalm icon?) HI,I need your help. 3 years ago I was in bangkok for 10 days. It was the most outstanding, great time I have ever had in my life. I met the most beautiful girl that I have ever dated. We went everywhere, temples, palace, floating market, tiger village, everywhere, I am sure you get the point. I was planning on coming back to Thailand in january to see my sweetheart again, her name is Pom. The problem is, I think something has happened to her and I am very worried. When I left 3 years ago, I was planning om coming back sooner, but problems with work and family have kept me away. I now am able to come back again. The 3 years I have always sent money every month to her, we exchange emails and talk on the phone all the time. I was sending 25,000 baht every month to make sure she and her family are taken care of. I have also sent momey when her fathers buffalo died last year, so they could get a new younger one. I know her whole family likes me because she tells me all the time. her brother got into an auto accident 18 months ago and I felt so sorry for her. She wouldnt ask for my help, but I had to help her and sent 250,000 baht for his medical bills, he is doing fine now. But last week, I called and her mobile number is not working, I sent emails and they are coming back undelivered, I am afraid somethimg has happened to her. If anyone is in bangkok, she works for starbucks on sukimvit near soi 7, she quit her job at a bar as hostess so I would not worry about men trying to pick her up. She had told me she never goes with men, but I felt better her working at a coffee shop. Can anyone go and let her know that I can not get in touch with her. I just sent another 25,000 baht for this month and want to be sure she is getting it and not having a problem. Please help me, I will be leaving in 7 weeks and I am worried. I have divorced my wife now and am ready to ask her to marry me. I'm pretty sure she's getting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stramash Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 Not news.... but a Craigslist ad... (where's the Facepalm icon?)I'm pretty sure she's getting it. Pretty obvious it's a piss take... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiaranM Posted December 19, 2011 Report Share Posted December 19, 2011 Pretty obvious it's a piss take... no **** sherlock !!! ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin_2 Posted December 19, 2011 Report Share Posted December 19, 2011 Kim Jong Il is DEAD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy Posted December 19, 2011 Report Share Posted December 19, 2011 Kim Jong Il is DEAD. I didn't even know he was Il. What a strange, strange country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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