The interesting thread

[springrite]

Don't know if anyone has seen this photo, but this family from Chongqing in China refuse to move for the amount of money offered (about 3 times the market value). They went ahead with the construction.

[Lethevich]

Don't know if anyone has seen this photo, but this family from Chongqing in China refuse to move for the amount of money offered (about 3 times the market value). They went ahead with the construction.

Hehe, that dude was in the news half a year or so ago, although at that time his house wasn't on an island of mud.

[Lethevich]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wobbly_hedgehog_syndrome

[knight66]

This one got a mention in the London Times yesterday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baked_potato

Seemingly there was also a coma inducing item about the uniforms worn by employees of the supermarket Waitrose; but it has disappeared.

Mike

[Lethevich]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War

[knight66]

I think calling it the 'Pig and Potato War' allows it more gravitas.

Mike

[Lethevich]

For want of a better place to put this, the response to this review made me giggle:

Click

[knight66]

I am always grateful for you keeping this thread alive. Of course the reviewer need fear no further from king, whose career has been ended at Her Majesty's Pleasure.

Mike

[karlhenning]

I think calling it the 'Pig and Potato War' allows it more gravitas.

Mike

Only tangentially, I was reading in a history of the potato, and it seems that at the time when it was first brought over to Europe, the interest was in the foliage and flower, not in the edible tuber . . . .

[knight66]

Glasgow Bus Driver's blog, Sunday Times.

The Driver's diary

Seven minutes break until my last run of the night. Doesn't sound like much, but seven whole minutes sitting at a putrid terminus deep within that dribbling colostomy bag known as Drumchapel was something to be endured rather than enjoyed. I buried my head in the Metro and hoped my presence would go unnoticed.

Knock, knock, knock, went the skinny wee junkie who had slithered up to my door unnoticed. "Orite, pal. I've loast somethin' on wan o' yer buses. Is it orite if ah come oan an' have a wee look fur it?" Ever wanted to pull out your shoe laces and just strangle someone?

"Aye, help yourself," I said with a shiver. And on he came.

He was tiny. A voodoo doll. The Devil's chihuahua. The scabs, scars, wheals and welts on his face were like fungal outgrowths from a dead tree stump.

"What is it we're looking for?" I asked.

"My bail conditions," he said.

"Bail conditions?" I choked.

"Aye, it's just a wee bit o' paper. Ah've got tae huv ma bail conditions oan me at all times. Else the polis could lift us," he said, getting down on his hands and knees.

"What was the offence?" I ventured.

"Eh? Oh, ah got busted under eh misuse o' drugs act," he replied.

The rummaging got louder and the swearing more frequent.

Then there was a "clunk", followed by an odd silence.

The junkie stood up holding a long, black, rectangular object and studied it carefully. What had he found?

"Here, driver!" said the midget. "Want tae buy a snooker cue?"

"But wait a minute. You just found that on my bus," I said.

"Aye."

"Well, don't you think I should hand it in at the depot?"

"F*** off! Finders keepers!"

Full article here.......

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6300978.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1

Mike

[Lethevich]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Township,_Indiana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Township,_Ohio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Township,_Missouri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Township,_Iowa

what

[Lethevich]

This thread is an amazing failure, so I am going to humiliate it some more:

http://www.5ad.org/AmazingFacts.htm

[karlhenning]

This thread is an amazing failure, so I am going to humiliate it some more:

http://www.5ad.org/AmazingFacts.htm

The highest ranking American killed in WWII was lost to friendly fire?

[Brian]

I enjoyed this hilarious review of London's worst restaurant the other day.

[bwv 1080]

chaotic motion of a triple double pendulum

http://www.youtube.com/v/foZHjI8Lydo&feature=related

[Lethevich]

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11281.pdf

[Lethevich]

http://www.thestarphoenix.com/business/Study+debunks+myths+organic+farms/5462520/story.html

[eyeresist]

I case you were wondering, every day in every way, things are getting better and better:

http://edge.org/conversation/mc2011-history-violence-pinker

[Lethevich]

Danke, that is neat.

The non-clickable graphs can be enlarged by modifying their url to match the format of the clickable one.

[Sergeant Rock]

http://www.5ad.org/AmazingFacts.htm

"At the time of Pearl Harbor, the shoulder patch of the US Army's 45th Infantry division was the Swastika"

The Division recruited in Arizona and New Mexico. The swastika was a Native American symbol. It was changed to the Thunderbird.

The highest ranking American killed in WWII was lost to friendly fire?

The General and 111 men died that day from bombs dropped by the Eighth Air Force. 490 were wounded.


Sarge