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| zolita1908 |
Articles that make you laughFrom todays Evening NewsBoozed-up scooter mum gets road ban A MUM has been banned from the roads after she was caught drink-driving whilst on a mobility scooter. Patricia McHugh, 26, was stopped by police in the motorised wheelchair in Greenock town centre at midnight. Officers found carrier bags full of lager cans draped over the handlebars and she was later found to be three times over the drink drive limit. advertisement McHugh, who was given an interim road ban when she appeared at Greenock Sheriff Court, told officers she had borrowed the scooter, normally used by disabled or elderly people, from a friend's uncle to get home. The mother-of-four, of the town's Kenilworth Crescent, admitted driving the vehicle while unfit through drink and drugs. The alarm was raised after CCTV operators spotted McHugh weaving across pavements on October 9 last year. Her solicitor said she was seeking treatment for an alcohol problem. Sheriff Colin McKay deferred her sentence for reports and disqualified her meantime. |
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| glasgowken |
Mum of four at 26, and an alcoholic, sounds a charming lass 
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| zolita1908 |
exactly, I'm 30 and still got gotten all that done!
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| Hugo Drax |
This one made me laugh.
Free Tibet Flags Made In China! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7370903.stm |
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| zolita1908 |
We thought we were making colourful flags, that's the excuse |
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| Hugo Drax |
The Problem With Music by Steve Albini
http://www.petdance.com/actionpark/albini/the-problem-with-music.html Steve Albini is a very respected engineer and producer who has worked on lots of great records. In this essay he explains the economics of recording and touring music. It will burst the bubble of any aspiring musicians. It is very true to life. I can remember recording with a drummer from a hit band back in the 1980's. This guy had a couple of very recent number 1 singles and couldn't afford a new jacket. |
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| scallopboy |
Musicians need to spend more on jackets and less on drugs 
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| Hugo Drax |
This made me laugh and then I cried....
US Has Mandela on Terrorist List Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls the situation "embarrassing," and some members of Congress vow to fix it. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-04-30-watchlist_N.htm |
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| Stuball |
Oh the irony
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7378259.stm
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| Hugo Drax |
That is brilliant. | ||
| Stuball |
hahahahahaha, oh dear oh dear, nuclear subs navigated by primary kids
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7416411.stm |
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| zolita1908 |
I seen that
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| Doorstop |
It's not the tracing paper that was at fault . it was the big, fat chubby crayons they were using to plot the course. | ||
| cybers |
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| Hugo Drax |
This is superb...
Cannabis blunder at Tokyo airport http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7419969.stm |
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| james73 |
James H |
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| cybers |
Honest tae f*** its no mine....
Sure it's no big man take a seat in the back of the van....lol Hope Tommy Sheridan's No on his hols there... It's aw he needs
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| Stuball |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7441585.stm
Well they would put it in Leith! Should have been brought home to the clyde |
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| Scary |
No worky stu 
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| Stuball |
Does now :) had brain freeze |
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| cybers |
Lol the police will no doubt be turning the screw in nautical terms to find her majesty's big twirly things...
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| Stuball |
The mind boggles... what the fcuk are they going to do with them? Some new styled novelty car spoilers or rims? Senga's supersized earings to beat all the rest? How big are they? They going to sit them in the corner of their living room and polish them daily? | ||
| Edward Fox |
The police will doubtless be checking The News of The Screws today. | ||
| wee minx |
Kitten rescued by vacuum cleaner
Firefighters used a vacuum cleaner to suck the kitten out of its hiding place Firefighters have used a vacuum cleaner with a sock on the end of the nozzle to rescue a six-hour-old kitten which had become trapped down a drain. 
The fire crew was called to a house in Dunbar, East Lothian, in the early hours of Monday morning. It is thought the kitten's mother had climbed behind the kitchen sink to give birth. Rescuers used a vibrascope camera to locate the kitten, before using the vacuum cleaner to pull it to safety.  Brilliant
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| zolita1908 |
Sudoku-playing jurors halt trial
Playing Sudoku One juror said the number puzzle helped keep her "mind busy". A drugs trial has been abandoned in Australia after several jurors admitted they had spent much of their time playing Sudoku in the courtroom. Judge Peter Zahra aborted proceedings after the jury forewoman admitted she and four others had been playing the popular puzzles to fight off boredom. The problem was discovered when some of the jurors were observed writing notes vertically rather than horizontally. Sudoku involves completing a grid of numbers in the correct sequence. The three-month trial had cost taxpayers more than A$1m (US$945,000) and the two accused men faced possible life sentences. Copious 'note-taking' One of the jurors explained that the puzzle had helped keep her "mind busy" as she listened to repeated testimonies from the witness box. HAVE YOUR SAY The right to be tried by a jury of your peers is a fundamental human right. To abdicate those freedoms and duties because it is boring is pure selfishness Andy, USA Send us your comments "Some of the evidence is rather drawn out, and I find it difficult to maintain my attention the whole time," the juror told the Australian Associated Press. Lawyers had presumed the scribbling they could see jurors doing was note-taking. "We actually all thought they were quite a diligent jury," lawyer Robyn Hakelis told ABC local radio. "The judge had made many comments about what a good jury they were, how they were taking copious amounts of notes." There is no legal action that can be taken against jurors for doing puzzles during a trial, so they will face no penalty for their behaviour. A fresh trial is expected to begin in a few weeks, once a new jury has been called. |
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| wee minx |
http://franksemails.com/pics/misc-pics-13-6-08/ATT00380.jpg | ||
| Scary |
Hear ! hear ! There`s nothing like a nice cooked meal
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| Fjord |
No such thing as too many cooks 
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| HollowHorn |
Whatever.
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| cybers |
Surely a good dinner would be more fitting
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7450986.stm |
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| Hugo Drax |
Britain shamed as Iraqi interpreters are resettled in squalid tower blocks (In Glasgow)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4124673.ece Make sure you read the comments at the bottom Quote: You'd only send someone to live in Glasgow - surely by far the worst city in Britain - if you truly hated them.. I suppose the sad Marxists that Labour hired to run the MoD and Foreign Office regard anyone who helps British troops to be beneath contempt and therefore fair game. End Quote |
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| wee minx |
Offbeat News
Street-sweeper sucks up dog 16 Jun, 2:39 AM A dog owner in New York saw his pet sucked up and killed by a street-sweeping truck and was left holding just the lead. Robert Machin, 57, had just finished walking his two Boston terriers in a Bronx street and was about to put them into his car when the truck appeared. The retired public transport worker said he was suddenly whipped around and saw one of the dogs, Ginger, being swallowed by the sweeper's round bristles. .....sorry 
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| wee minx |
Offbeat News
Flat cap 'a security risk' 21 Jun, 7:37 AM A pensioner has had to take off his flat cap in a Staffordshire pub because it posed a security risk. Staff at Yates's Wine Lodge in Newcastle-under-Lyme told 81-year-old Harvey Talbot to remove his hat because it could hide his face during a crime. Mr Talbot, who lives in the market town, was dressed in a suit when he called into the pub for a pint on his way home from the shops. It's just getting too silly now!!
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| Scary |
That`s the case in most pubs now minxy a sad state of affairs 
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| Hugo Drax |
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Councils using the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) to spy on families to check if they live in the correct catchment area for school.
RIPA was pushed onto the statute books on the basis of being required to tackle serious crime and terrorism and now council officials can use it to spy on our kids. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7343445.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7468430.stm |
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| Hugo Drax |
Men like casual sex more than women – scientific fact
http://www.independent.co.uk/news...ndash-scientific-fact-854323.html |
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| falseface |
 When's the next drinks night!
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| Hugo Drax |
Good question! It is nearly the end of the month and I get paid tomorrow. 
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| wee minx |
Where are you going to find some Casuals these days? | ||
| cybers |
Aberdeen .... They will still have Casuals up there till about 2145-AD when they notice that the rest of the world has moved on and Showaddywaddy is not Number 1. Though Having it awaywith a 70's jumper is not my idea of a good time
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| Hugo Drax |
Amusing response to the Gordon Brown's appeal for us to waste less food..
http://www.order-order.com/2008/07/let-them-eat-crusts.html "Zimbabwe in crisis. Iraq still a mess. Iran developing nuclear weapons. Roads system approaching gridlock. Filthy hospitals killing people. House prices collapse. Economy in meltdown. Treasury demoralised. Banks propped up by state money. Auditors say Government is fiddling national accounts. What then does the PM choose to focus on? Why, a lot of it is all our fault. We are throwing away too much food that could be eaten. Thank you Gordon. Your intellectual prowess is astounding. The scales have fallen from my eyes. Now I see it. Owing to the butterfly effect in chaos theory, that mouldy carrot in my kitchen has precipitated a global ecenomic crisis. That jar of pasta sauce just past its sell by date may be the key to our salvation - nay may even save the world. Thanks Gordon, what would we do without you." And just to heighten the potential irony here is the menu Gordon will be enjoying at today's G8 summmit. 
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| Edward Fox |
It's not amusing. It's pathetic. It's saying that all the responsibility falls on figureheads, and that we can do anything we like - none of it can be my fault, I'm an individual and my one little indulgence can't do any harm.
Nonsense. What an individual does makes a difference. It may not be discernible to that individual, but it is on a macro scale. Misplaced cynicism is the curse of our age. |
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| Hugo Drax |
Thanks for sharing Edward but your response is unusually heated. | ||
| HollowHorn |
For shame! In my day, the working classes would never have dared to speak to a holder of the Order of the British Empire with such direspect. Bring back flogging, I say. | ||
| james73 |
In your day, were they not burning witches at the stake?... James H |
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| HollowHorn |
If only that were true, the wife and her mother would have been gone long ago.
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| Edward Fox |
Well said, sir. Makes one pine for the days of Rum, Sodomy and The Lash. Although my good friend Max Mosely is doing his best to revive them, I hear. |
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| Hugo Drax |
Quite! Anyway to get back on topic.....
The customer isn't always right.... http://www.violentacres.com/archives/59 |
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| wee minx |
Good one Hugo
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| Hugo Drax |
Best quote ever:
......But Downing Street said there had been "no stickiness of any significance". Campaigner 'glues himself to PM' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7520401.stm |
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| Doorstop |
Very thought provoking post Hugo, I found myself agreeing with every word. |
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| Hugo Drax |
Thanks Doorstop. The rest of the blog posts are well worth reading too. | ||
| Hugo Drax |
Georgia: Russia steps up 'peace enforcement' - translated as we will start an invasive war and blow the country back to the stone age.
The UN security council can't agree on a statement calling for a ceasefire as Russia is a permanent member with power of veto! http://www.independent.co.uk/news...-up-peace-enforcement-889421.html |
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| Hugo Drax |
What a show off. 
Duchovny enters sex rehab clinic http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7587376.stm |
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| cybers |
PMSL might sign up for that one myself. Weaned off sex seems like a good rehab plan to me
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| Stuball |
His right hand was becoming noticably bigger than the left :o | ||
| Hugo Drax |
Science Proves Exotic Cars Turn Women On
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/09/weve-got-some-b.html I wonder if my Honda counts.
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| Hugo Drax |
Why didn't they just shoot her.....
Two wheels: good. Two legs: terrorist suspect http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article579334.ece |