MuckleJoannie Posted June 16, 2010 Report Share Posted June 16, 2010 A parent has been banned from sending an 11-year-old child to their end-of-year primary school prom in a helicopter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Para Handy Posted July 6, 2010 Report Share Posted July 6, 2010 Must be a very slow news day. German 'psychic' octopus predicts victory for Spain http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/10521867.stm Big budget' porn film shot in London hospital http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/10518917.stm I can give them spam emails links for viagraIf that would help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Para Handy Posted July 7, 2010 Report Share Posted July 7, 2010 New mothers at a hospital in Glasgow are no longer being offered toast after giving birth because the toasters have been classed as a fire hazard. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/10540175.stm Maybe they will ban custard?As in the right amounts it can be used to make bombs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeAyBee Posted July 7, 2010 Report Share Posted July 7, 2010 German 'psychic' octopus predicts victory for Spain http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/10521867.stm I guess the Octopus was right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted July 7, 2010 Report Share Posted July 7, 2010 I know it's schoolboy humour but this headline did make me laugh. http://www.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUSTRE6622I420100703 (*** Mod - Merged for neatness ***) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeAyBee Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 I know it's schoolboy humour but this headline did make me laugh. Ain't nothing wrong with schoolboy humour. It just stuns me that people publish these things without standing back and reading them first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GypsyScy Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 ^^ Similarly, this had us going for a while this time last year...... http://queerid.com/topic.aspx?topicid=19635 it did turn out to be a hoax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Para Handy Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 German 'psychic' octopus predicts victory for Spain http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/10521867.stm I guess the Octopus was right.It would swwm so TeeAyBee No can it give me six lotto numbers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustMe Posted July 15, 2010 Report Share Posted July 15, 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-10650160 Back in the days when I worked for a living I think I would have got sacked if I had done this!.[/b] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Para Handy Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 council in Gloucestershire has given staff chocolates as a reward for turning their computer monitors off. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-10710458 For the woman. I wonder what they will offer the men? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 Tokyo's 'oldest man' had been dead for 30 years He was thought to be the oldest man in Tokyo - but when officials went to congratulate Sogen Kato on his 111th birthday, they uncovered mummified skeletal remains lying in his bed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooter Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 You beat me to it, just been reading this. Why do people conceal remains of family members like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinner72 Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-10650160 Back in the days when I worked for a living I think I would have got sacked if I had done this!. Ironically noo you'd be more liable to be sacked if you moved it! Sad as it is, I can see why they did that.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamnSaxon Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 The Big Brother Watch site is well worth visiting once a week or so. A scan through the (true) stories there will definitely confirm any impression you may have that the world (or at least the UK) is, indeed, going completely barking mad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooter Posted August 24, 2010 Report Share Posted August 24, 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-11068063 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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