`The Vatican’s attorney general Nicola Picardi released the astounding statistic at the start of 2007: The tiny nation’s justice department in 2006 had to contend with 341 civil and 486 criminal cases. In a population of 492, that measures out to 1.5 cases per person — twenty times the corresponding rate in Italy.
[..] About 90 percent of these crimes go unpunished, which is not a measure of Christian mercy but a sign of the perpetrators’ favorite method of escape. They can break for the border — a few meters away — to Italy. [..]
Pope Benedict XVI recommended another strategy in a speech to Vatican security personnel. “Let us pray,” he said, “for the maternal protection of the Virgin Mary.” [..]’
`Pornography has long helped drive the adoption of new technology, from the printing press to the videocassette. Now pornographic movie studios are staying ahead of the curve by releasing high-definition DVDs.
They have discovered that the technology is sometimes not so sexy. The high-definition format is accentuating imperfections in the actors � from a little extra cellulite on a leg to wrinkles around the eyes. [..]
Producers are taking steps to hide the imperfections. Some shots are lit differently, while some actors simply are not shot at certain angles, or are getting cosmetic surgery, or seeking expert grooming.
“The biggest problem is razor burn,” said Stormy Daniels, an actress, writer and director.’
‘A young gymnast screws up her jump and lands directly on her neck. Watch as she struggles to recover and finish in style.’
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`An Australian family favourite – the perfect bar accessory for anyone who likes to impress their mates with their toys.
This, is a genuine kangaroo scrotum folks, if you click on the picture to enlarge it you’ll notice an abundance of hair… yes, the kangaroo has hairy balls too!’
`He was an 18-year-old Marine headed to war.
She was an attractive young woman sending him off with pictures and lingerie.
Or so each one thought. [..]
“When you’re on the Internet talking, you haven’t got a clue who that is on the other end,” Erie County Sheriff’s Lt. Ron Kenyon said. “You don’t have a clue.”‘
`Drinking tea can reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke, but only if milk is not added to the brew, German scientists have said.
Research has shown tea improves blood flow and the ability of the arteries to relax, but researchers at the Charite Hospital at the University of Berlin in Mitte found milk eliminates the protective effect against cardiovascular disease.
“The beneficial effects of drinking black tea are completely prevented by the addition of milk, said Dr Verena Stangl, a cardiologist at the hospital.’
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There’s something funny about a police man running down a highway being chased by a bull.
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`Ambling our way from one pile to the next (and totally dependent on the other for further movement), Rod pointed out a Taco Mayo cup with the straw still inserted jammed between a spy thriller called SOVIET HOUSE and a sci-fi sex-’em-up titled VERONIQUE alongside an empty Prince Albert pasta package. Bill soon had stumbled into the only space he left empty – we suppose one might generously grace it with the euphemism “office space” – and sat down on a chair beside one of those refrigerator doors inscribed with the word “MEATS.”
“I’ve got about 200,000 books in here,” he said. “There’s another 160 pounds of books in my van out there. Y’know that tan van outside? It’s full of books. Books I don’t have room for in here!” Bill laughed..’
He was doing so well, until he came to such a sudden stop.
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PfQJQNUj`Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki proposed to President George W. Bush in November to withdraw US troops from Baghdad and let the Iraqi government take over security in the capital, a US newspaper reported.
Citing interviews with several unnamed administration officials, the Washington Post wrote that Maliki made the suggestion in a presentation to Bush on November 30 in Amman, Jordan.
But soon after, Bush rejected the idea, the paper said.
Instead, the president opted for a strategy announced this month to deploy an additional 21,500 US troops to Iraq, focusing on quelling sectarian violence in Baghdad and the western al-Anbar province.’
zK p AiQYG ge eoVcvTW e GDB `A man who tried to commit suicide by throwing himself onto the tracks of the Mexico City subway was later beaten to death by police, prosecutors said Saturday.
Mexico City attorney general’s office announced in a press statement that two city policemen who took custody of the man after he was removed from the tracks have been charged with homicide for allegedly beating him to death later in a patrol car. [..]
A forensic report showed the man died of blows to the chest and head that were not caused by his jumping onto the tracks.’
This is the third bad fuckup of hers I’ve seen in the past month or so.
Crazy bitch.
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`There are ‘bare bones’ kits from some manufacturers, but you are still expected to pay through the nose. To have one designed around standard Mini-ITX components would be great for the kind of people who do not want a laptop that we can fit in an envelope, rather a unit that we can use all around the house for a decent price.
I decided to create a laptop that at any point, I could upgrade every component as they grew too old. For very little money, I have created a 2GHz processor laptop with 1GB Ram, and an ATI Radeon 9200 128MB graphics card. OK, so it is a PCI graphics card and could be faster, but everything is upgradable – I could slot in a motherboard with PCI Express in the future.’
Chopper Read manages to put up a pretty good argument for why you shouldn’t beat up women.
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VrewU zX `GDAY CUNTS! MY NAME IS SHANE SKILLZ – I AM THE MOST GANGSTA CUNT ON MYSPACE AND I RECKON ONE OF THE BEST EVR RAPPERZ IN AUSTRALIA. I LUV REPRESENTIN AND BASHIN THE FUCK OUT OF WACK CUNTS WHO DESERVE IT. MY FIRST EVR SONG (I FUCKEN REPRESENT CUNT) IS A NUMBER ONE HIT THAT EVERYONE IN AUSTRALIA LOVES AND I AM WORKIN ON MY DAYBUE ALBUM RIGHT NOW. I ALSO LOVE ROOTIN HOT BITCHES AND DRINKIN MELBOURNE BITTER AND DOIN DOPE PIECES ON DUNNY BLOCKS. MY CREW IS CALLED SKILL UNIT AND INCLUEDS DJ SCREWY AND PC WHO IS A TUFF CUNT THAT CAN FUCK YOU UP. I GET A LOT OF FAN MAIL SO DONT GET PISSED IF I CANT GET BACK TO YOU. HATERZ CAN SUCK A CHODE.. WERD. SHANE SKILLZ I FUCKEN REPREZENT CUNTS!’
I quite like the song. :)
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‘A guy has taught his six month old baby how to balance on one foot. To make it even cooler the little guy is able to balance while his dad holds him on one hand!’
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‘A Ukrainian couple have killed and eaten their neighbor who popped in for a drink, the Gazeta-po-Ukrainsky (Newspaper in Ukrainian) reports.
The accident took place in the town of Makeyevka. A 36-year old resident of the city and his 34-year-old girlfriend invited their 48-year old neighbor for a drink. After the party that lasted several hours the two men entered started argument that developed into a fight. Eventually, the couple killed their neighbor with a knife and a hammer.
At first, the killers wanted to get rid of the body, but the woman persuaded her partner to eat the meat, so they cut off the tender parts of the body and put them in the fridge. Then, they carried what was left of the cadaver out of their home and dumped it in a sewage well.’
It seems that Ukrainian newspapers have no qualms about publishing full colour pictures of mutilated/partially consumed corpses. And, neither do I. :)
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U XQNPu TEUBThis is a pretty crazy home aquarium, but it’s cool.
Lots of places it could leak from, by the looks of things. That would suck.
`Earlier this afternoon, a reader sent in an image highlighting what he claimed was the Silver Surfer’s chromy nut sack. He said this screen grab came from the currently posted trailer for FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER.
Initially, I had my doubts — who wouldn’t? It HAD to be fake. I mean, the notion of Surfer cruising around with his metallic junk swinging in the wind just didn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Finally, curiosity got the best of me (it wasn’t the homo-erotic kind of curiosity…not that there’s anything wrong with that), so I jumped to the QuickTime HD version of the trailer and started frame-by-framing through the scene in question.
And, sure enough, there it was…the Silver Surfer’s shiny package!’
`Eleven employees of a West Seattle automobile dealership allegedly were involved in a plot that resulted in the theft of more than $100,000 from a mentally ill man, King County Prosecutors say.
First, salesmen sold the man a high-priced truck, then they broke into his home to steal more cash, say prosecutors and Seattle Police. They also allege that one salesman then talked the man — by then committed to a mental health unit at Harborview Medical Center — into selling the truck to him at a fraction of its value.’
YKFvLorCXEVT mmSbgeyv‘During a soccer game in South America sudden gusts of winds blew signs off the stadium and at the players. Check out the guys dodge these 200-300 lb signs.’
Although, you could probably read “dodge” as “get hit in the head by” in some cases. :)
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`Jeffrey Sanger picked the optimal place to have a heart attack: his Fire Department paramedic class. [..]
The drama started when he felt chest pains as about a dozen paramedics prepared to begin a training session at the Emergency Medical Service Training Center in Fort Totten, Queens. He suspected it was just indigestion, and stayed in the locker room.
But his instructors followed him, worried that he was experiencing the typical symptoms of a heart attack.
Sanger at first protested that he was all right, but collapsed within minutes and stopped breathing.’
m CeG `Smithfield Foods actually faces a more difficult task than transmogrifying the populations of America’s thirty-two largest cities into edible packages of meat. Hogs produce three times more excrement than human beings do. The 500,000 pigs at a single Smithfield subsidiary in Utah generate more fecal matter each year than the 1.5 million inhabitants of Manhattan. The best estimates put Smithfield’s total waste discharge at 26 million tons a year. That would fill four Yankee Stadiums. Even when divided among the many small pig production units that surround the company’s slaughterhouses, that is not a containable amount.’
Long article, but interesting. I didn’t realise pig shit turned ponds pink. :)
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