[B]One caller to Ryans 2FM show blamed the recession for the vitriol directed at the singer.
The problem is that there is such a level of aggression at the moment in the country and this was just a catalyst, she said. [/B]
Good lord:rolleyes:
In Limerick they were to erect a floating xmas tree in the shannon yesterday evening but the tree came away from the platform only to travel down the river and crash into the shannon bridge a few hundred yards downstream. 
[quote=“The Dunph”]In Limerick they were to erect a floating xmas tree in the shannon yesterday evening but the tree came away from the platform only to travel down the river and crash into the shannon bridge a few hundred yards downstream.
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What a bunch of fuckwits to attemped this in these weather conditions, they have used this tree for the last couple of years it looks shit.
They have had emergency services and salvage experts at the scene all weekend. The bill for this is going to be massive!
Awake through a 23-year ‘coma’
He suffered through a 23-year-long night of the living dead.
Doctors were convinced that an accident had left Ron Houben in a vegetative state, unable to understand anything happening around him.
He was, in fact, totally conscious and heard every word spoken around his hospital bed – but not able to let people know, according to a startling report in last night Britain’s Daily Mail.
Houben’s bizarre nightmare began in 1983, when the then-23-year-old Belgian student was in a car wreck that left him totally paralyzed. When he woke, he tried to communicate.
“I screamed,” Houben said recently, tapping out the message on a computer. “But there was nothing to hear.”
Doctors had performed all the standard tests before deciding his consciousness was “extinct,” the paper said.
But three years ago, new high-tech scans showed his brain was functioning almost completely normally, according to the Mail’s report, which cited a scientific paper by the doctor who made the breakthrough, Steven Laureys. Now, after extensive therapy, Houben is able to communicate using the computer and a special device that allows him to read books.
“I shall never forget the day when they discovered what was truly wrong with me,” said Houben, now 46. “It was my second birth.”
Although he’ll probably never be able to leave the hospital, “I want to read, talk with my friends via the computer and enjoy my life now that people know I am not dead,” he said.
what a champ
[FONT=Tms Rmn]From yesterdays Bristol Evening Post:
Outside Bristol Zoo is the car park, with spaces for 150 cars and 8 coaches.
It has been manned 6 days a week for 23 years by the same charming and very polite car park attendant with the ticket machine. The charges are 1. per car and 5. per coach.
On Monday 1 June, he did not turn up for work. Bristol Zoo management phoned Bristol City Council to ask them to send a replacement parking attendant.
The Council said “That car park is your responsibility.” The Zoo said “The attendant was employed by the City Council… wasn’t he?” The Council said “What attendant?”
Gone missing from his home is a man who has been taking daily the car park fees amounting to about 400. per day for the last 23 years…! (3,600,000)
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That story is the bones of a year old sledge…Think it was even posted on this thread before
Did they ever find him?
That’s ingenious to be fair…
[quote=“The Dunph”]Did they ever find him?
That’s ingenious to be fair… :D[/quote]
It’s a fake
Fair enough I’ll be off out of your thread now lads
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sledge is not to be trusted
A German bank employee who secretly transferred money from rich to poor clients has been given a 22-month suspended prison term.
The 62-year-old woman, dubbed the ‘Robin Hood Banker’, moved more than $11m (7m) in 117 transfers.
The court in Bonn was told that the employee, who has not been named, took no money for herself.
The bank made a loss of more than $1.5m (1m) when poor customers were unable to pay back unauthorised overdrafts.
The employee was accused of allowing overdrafts for customers who would not normally qualify for them.
Small pension
She then used the money from richer customers to temporarily disguise the loans during the bank’s monthly audit of overdrafts.
The woman has begun reimbursing the bank for the losses, reportedly from a small retirement pension.
She could have faced a four-year prison sentence, but the court decided on leniency as she had confessed immediately and did not profit personally.
The woman was also considered to have suffered enough, through the loss of her job and the requirement that she pay back the lost funds.
Jesus may have visited UK - claim
The documentary, And Did Those Feet, explores the story behind the legend which survives in the hymn, for which William Blake wrote the words.
The legend claims Jesus visited several places in the West Country, such as the Roseland peninsula and Glastonbury, with his uncle, Joseph of Arimathaea.
In the film, Scottish researcher Dr Gordon Strachan said it is plausible Jesus may have visited Britain to further his learning.
Ted Harrison, the film’s director and producer, said: "There is a very much closer connection between early Christianity and the classical Greek and Roman world than previously thought.
“If somebody was wanting to learn about the spirituality and thinking not just of the Jews but also the classical and Greek world he would have to come to Britain, which was the centre of learning at the time. But there is nothing specific by way of archaeological finds; Jesus’s shoe has not turned up.”
Dr Strachan, a Church of Scotland minister who lives in Edinburgh, lectures on the history of architecture at Edinburgh University.
The film also explores how St Augustine heard the legend of Jesus’s visit when he came to England around 597AD. He heard that Jesus built a chapel in Glastonbury and wrote to the Pope to tell him about it. Mr Harrison said: “The concrete evidence is this reference by St Augustine that at Glastonbury there was a small building or church that was put up by Jesus, built by the hand of the Lord himself. But the medieval Glastonbury Abbey has been built on top of it.”
The documentary also claims Britain was at the forefront of learning and scholarship in the first century AD, particularly in mathematics. And it looks at the maths involved in structures such as Stonehenge and the standing stones in Calanish on the Isle of Lewis, and relates it to mathematics in the Bible, medieval cathedrals and the modern-day credit card.
The 45-minute film will be launched at the British Film Institute in London on Friday.
Pair gatecrash
Michaele and Tareq Salahi managed to gatecrash a White House state dinner for the Indian prime minister and posted pictures of their escapade on Facebook. Photo: Getty Images
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Thursday November 26 2009
The US Secret Service has launched an urgent investigation into its own security procedures after a couple gatecrashed a glittering White House state dinner for the Indian prime minister and posted the pictures on Facebook.
Michaele and Tareq Salahi were not on the guest list for the dinner, agency spokesman Ed Donovan said.
President Barack Obama was never in any danger because the party crashers went through the same security screening for weapons as the 300-plus people actually invited to the dinner honouring Indian premier Manmohan Singh, Mr Donovan said.
The Washington Post, which first reported on the Salahis’ evening out, said the couple were well-known in the Virginia horse-country set.
The Secret Service learned about the security breach after a media inquiry prompted by the Salahis’ online boasts about having attended the private event, Mr Donovan said. One of the many photos from the dinner posted on Michaele Salahi’s Facebook page shows the couple with a smiling US vice president Joe Biden.
In other photos, they appear alone or together with White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty, CBS News anchor Katie Couric, Republican Rep Ed Royce and three US Marines in their dress blues.
Mr Donovan would not comment on whether the couple had been contacted by the Secret Service, how long they were on the White House grounds or other details of the investigation.
The Post said uninvited guests who got in could face a potential trespassing charge unless someone from inside the White House staff slipped them in.
The agency’s Office of Professional Responsibility was reviewing what occurred. An initial finding indicated that a checkpoint did not follow proper procedures to ensure the two were on the guest list, Mr Donovan said.
Press Association
Kind of weird story with the guy sleeping on top of the bridge but the real story is my first sighting of the word reveller over the Christmas/New Year season. A word that only gets used over the 3 week period up to 2 January. Lovely.
Alarm call for reveller sleeping on top of bridge
By Anne Lucey
Monday December 14 2009
A Christmas reveller sparked a major rescue operation yesterday after he climbed a bridge in Kenmare, Co Kerry, and promptly fell asleep… 30ft above the late-night traffic.
The man, oblivious to the danger of his situation, was sleeping soundly when he was spotted by a passer-by who raised the alarm at 1am.
Gardai closed Our Lady’s bridge to traffic amid fears the man could plunge to his death and called the fire brigade, who used ladders to reach the slumberer and secure him with a safety line before rousing him.
A spokesman for the fire service said their greatest fear was the man would turn over in his sleep or be startled suddenly. “We crept up nice and gently and put a safety line over him,” he said.
The man, who is in his late 20s, was interviewed by gardai.
Climbing the bridge used to be a common prank in Kenmare after a night out. However, one man sustained serious injuries when he fell from the bridge after a similar escapade some years ago.
Railings were erected to stop daredevils scaling the bridge but there have been a number of daring climbs again in recent months and the fire service confirmed that this was the second rescue in recent times.
what is happening with the complaint i made last week??
[quote=“Bandage”]Kind of weird story with the guy sleeping on top of the bridge but the real story is my first sighting of the word reveller over the Christmas/New Year season. A word that only gets used over the 3 week period up to 2 January. Lovely.
:rolleyes:
Tesco has apologised after complaints that a Christmas card it sold was offensive to people with ginger hair.
The card in question shows a child with red hair sitting on the lap of Santa Claus under the banner: ‘Santa loves all kids. Even ginger ones.’
Davinia Phillips, whose three children all have red hair, was enraged when she saw the card at one of Tesco’s stores in northern England.
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‘It’s discrimination, pure and simple. I have shown it to a lot of friends and they are all disgusted by it,’ she said.
‘I just don’t find it funny at all. If it had been about a black child or an overweight child the store would have been shut down by now.’
Tesco said the offending card had now been withdrawn from all its stores.
‘It is never our intention to offend any customer and we are sorry if this card caused any upset,’ a spokeswoman said.
Car crash leaves woman constantly aroused
A mother in the US has told how a car crash injury sparked a rare condition which left her sexually aroused 24 hours a day.
Joleen Baughman, 39, from New Mexico, told the Mirror newspaper her life became hell after a car accident two years ago damaged a nerve in her pelvis.
The nerve, which regulates arousal, was permanently switched in a condition known as Restless Genital Syndrome or Persistent Sexual Arousal.
The disorder is extremely rare, with less than 30 documented cases in women worldwide.
Ms Baughman told the Mirror simple activities such as bending over, walking across a room, vacuuming and sitting on a bus were enough to trigger her arousal.
“It’s unbearable … just my clothes rubbing gets me so aroused that I can hardly think straight,” the newspaper quoted her as saying.
“It’s very embarrassing and it’s impossible to concentrate.”
Ms Baughman, who has to take sleeping pills in order to sleep at night, said her only relief came when she lay down very still in a spot where there were no vibrations.
According to Dutch neuropsychiatrist Marcel Waldinger, who examined the condition in 18 women, the disorder is not caused by sexual or psychological problems and is almost always unwanted.