^Witty and an enjoyable read, but probably the work of on-the-clock idlers who should have been applying their funding to more productive pursuits.

Oops - nearly forgot. Bah, humbug...

http://newsthump.com/2013/01/15/ba-guilty-of-discriminating-against-woman-wholl-believe-any-old-shit/

British Airways has been found guilty of discriminating against an employee simply because she was so feeble-minded that she believed everything she read in a two thousand year-old book.

The European Court of Human Rights said it was duty bound to protect the interests of people who lack the basic intellect to spot bullshit when they see it.

“British Airways took advantage of Nadia Eweidai by not playing along with her little harmless game of make-believe.”

“They should have noted she was very religious and then treated her with the generosity of spirit you would use with a toddler coming in from the garden to present a ‘pretty stone’ that is actually an old dog turd.”

“Just because she’s very clearly deluded in a potential dangerous way, doesn’t mean she shouldn’t get her way.”

“You have to remember that the religious don’t know any better, they don’t have the mental capacity to realise how ridiculous their actions are, and British Airways should have given in.”

BA religious discrimination

Corporate lawyer Simon Williams explained that the ruling set a very dangerous precedent for his client, and across the industrialised west as a whole.

He told us, “The European courts don’t seem to understand, if we have to start giving full rights to stupid people we’re in real danger as a society.”

“This will lead to a theocracy, and we could be stoning senior executives in the streets within the decade.”

“Only not for the right reasons.”

With the PC crap happening these days......

THIS IS POSSIBLE, rite?

Edited March 11, 201313 yr by Morakot

I bet his underwear took some rinsing out.

Just said goodbye to my boyfriend at the airport.
Gone for another 3 months of work.

Its a taxing state of affairs this long distance malarky.
Been a rocky three years of it ..with lots of ups and downs, and times where things have gone pear-shaped.

But ..we get through it. ...and when he is gone.... damn does it sting!

Don't it just.

Where did everybody go?

Where did everybody go?

I think this one went too fast!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-21916129

Where did everybody go?

I think this one went too fast!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-21916129

Was Harry Potter driving?

^ no way.
Mustve been a Thai! (im gonna get shot now eh!)

^ no way.

Mustve been a Thai! (im gonna get shot now eh!)

No, Eek, it's a young lad (early twenties) who is now in critical condition in Addenbrookes (the best hospital in Europe) (in Cambridge of course).

The car used to be an Audi F1, which is designed for wealthy young idiots to kill themselves in.

No one in the house was injured, as it happened around 1.30 in the morning, so I expect all were tucked up warm in bed, while it was freezing outside.

Just tried to Tweet and got a message that Twitter is over-capacity. Sigh....... So sad when a meaningless couple of words is deemed even more meaningless by the system......

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-29/82yo-man-arrested-in-savile-abuse-investigation/4601546

Doesn't take much to work out.

It gives Two Little Boys a whole new meaning ...............

And Jake the Peg.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-29/82yo-man-arrested-in-savile-abuse-investigation/4601546

Doesn't take much to work out.

It gives Two Little Boys a whole new meaning ...............

Surely not him an all.....

^ no way.

Mustve been a Thai! (im gonna get shot now eh!)

No, Eek, it's a young lad (early twenties) who is now in critical condition in Addenbrookes (the best hospital in Europe) (in Cambridge of course).

The car used to be an Audi F1, which is designed for wealthy young idiots to kill themselves in.

No one in the house was injured, as it happened around 1.30 in the morning, so I expect all were tucked up warm in bed, while it was freezing outside.

Oh dear..i do hope things took the turn for the better.

I have a little Satnav,
It sits there in my car.
A Satnav is a driver's friend,
It tells you where you are

I have a little Satnav,
I've had it all my life.
It isn’t like the normal ones -
My Satnav is my wife


It gives me full instructions,
Especially how to drive -
"It's thirty miles an hour", it says,
"You're doing thirty five."

It tells me when to stop and start
And when to use the brake,
And tells me that it's never ever
Safe to overtake.

It tells me when a light is red
And when it goes to green -
It seems to know instinctively
Just when to intervene.

It lists the vehicles just in front
And all those to the rear,
And taking this into account
It specifies my gear.

I'm sure no other driver
Has so helpful a device,
For when we leave and lock the car
It still gives its advice!

It fills me
up with counselling
Each journey's pretty fraught,
So why don't I exchange it
And get a quieter sort?

Ah well, you see, it cleans the house,
Makes sure I'm properly fed,
It washes all my shirts and things
And - keeps me warm in bed!

Despite all these advantages
And my tendency to scoff,
I do wish that once in a while . . .
I could turn
the damned thing off.

.

Edited April 17, 201313 yr by LeungKen

Wankhede stadium, Mumbai.

home of the IPL cricket team the Mumbai Indians.

it just isn't cricket !

There are lots of great old words that have fallen out of fashion, perhaps we should make an effort to re-introduce them.

What's your favourite ?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/27-delightful-obsolete-words-its-high-time-we-revived?sub=2094395_995046

Vertical horizons: Hong Kong's skyscrapers – in pictures

French photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze has been been fascinated with Hong Kong's tall buildings, with which the city has become synonymous.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2013/may/06/vertical-horizons-hong-kong-skyscrapers

Edited May 7, 201313 yr by Morakot

^Must have been some very loooong bits of bamboo scaffold to get that lot up...

There are lots of great old words that have fallen out of fashion, perhaps we should make an effort to re-introduce them.

What's your favourite ?

Jigger.

^Must have been some very loooong bits of bamboo scaffold to get that lot up...

Not necessarily - you just lash them together with plastic ties.

When I was in HK - Tai Po Market - some 36-floor blocks of flats with shopping centres in the podia were built by IIs (illegal immigrants) and they were using bamboo scaffolding. It was OK while it was up, but when they dismantled it they just cut the plastic ties and let the bamboo drop. Many lengths hit the ground vertically and either stuck in like javelins or bounced. Those that bounced were very dangerous - many came high over the boundary fences and bounced in the main road going past these tower blocks. Some hit cars and trucks, but what worried me most was that I was walking down the street to TPM station (on the KCR) to get lunch and these bamboo poles could have killed me.

Sort of like a bear kebab.

^Must have been some very loooong bits of bamboo scaffold to get that lot up...

On my first visit to Honkers, late 70s, I was amazed to see all the scaffolding being bamboo.

It was all 'lashed' together. An englishman on one site told me it was stronger and safer than steel pipe scaffolding.

Apparently it was the ability of bamboo to be more flexable.

The buildings were all shrouded with fabric to help avoid objects dropped, falling and doing harm.

^Must have been some very loooong bits of bamboo scaffold to get that lot up...

On my first visit to Honkers, late 70s, I was amazed to see all the scaffolding being bamboo.

It was all 'lashed' together. An englishman on one site told me it was stronger and safer than steel pipe scaffolding.

Apparently it was the ability of bamboo to be more flexable.

The buildings were all shrouded with fabric to help avoid objects dropped, falling and doing harm.

The buildings being shrouded in scrim meant that it was probably one of the main (foreign-run) construction companies. Local firms never understood the 'elf-n-safety regime that the gweilo government insisted on publishing, same as they couldn't understand the objections to IIs in the labour force.

It's true the bamboo scaffolding was effective - when put up properly. The bits to see were when there was a specialist company working on the 35th floor, with an arrangement like a bird's nest attached to the building and a lot of air underneath it. I used to have some photos, but they're probably still in Pattaya.

Good vid to show children, great computer imaging showing the beginning of life.

I think that is what it is called.

I thought this was pretty cool

http://www.go4joke.com/index.php/videos/item/10456-9-months-
in-35-minutes-wonderful-animation-of-life-before-birth-a-mus
t-see-video

Very funny scooter crash

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6543788/c7bef8d7/scooterrijder_wtf_.html