Darren Young, 45, is allergic to a component regularly used in common creams and body lotions, reports The Sun.Of course, it makes him allergic to his wife when she puts on the war colors.
Mr Young, a bus driver from Sprotbrough, says he cannot get close to his wife Sue unless she is free of all creams. He said: "When it comes to bedtime Sue doesn't need a headache as an excuse. She just says she has been using body lotion and it might kill me.Stuff of some people's dreams, I bet.
At least according to the official version:
The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.Knowing the inherent tendency of any PR officer to whitewash the truth, even when it's totally unnecessary, I doubt some of the details:
The picture above is billed as "Re-enacted according to eyewitness accounts." The relative location of the bird and the item it released seems to be true. However, the nature of the item... oh well.This incident won't delay the reactivation of the facility later this month...So don't stop your activities related to the coming end of the world, please. We are on schedule.
One of the most mind-boggling statements I've ever seen, this time by Lebanese officialdom:
"The FRANCOP ship entered Lebanese territorial waters at noon today and, upon its arrival off Beirut port, the navy in cooperation with UN naval forces searched the vessel," an army statement said.Probably searching for the wrappings of the ammo (that never was there to start with, according to same people who are now doing the "search"). And then a topper:
Military intelligence began interrogating the crew on the motives for the seizure of the vessel while the concerned authorities... will take all the necessary measures to ensure it does not carry banned goods.Banned goods? What banned goods?
Now that one is really funny and has a cooling effect of its own. Enjoy.
The NYT Lede Blog discovers something that is tentatively attributed to the Fort Hood murderer, psychiatrist turned killer:
There was a grenade thrown amongs a group of American soldiers. One of the soldiers, feeling that it was to late for everyone to flee jumped on the grave with the intention of saving his comrades. Indeed he saved them.Whether the quote above belongs to the murderer or not, suffice to read this poisonous "essay" and to see how a twisted mind (be it the major who swallows the bait or the "scholar" who creates it) equals an act of self-sacrifice that saves human lives to an act of self-sacrifice that destroys human lives. No need for further analysis.
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Scholars have paralled this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers.
It is a sign of the times, probably, that the term "international law" is brandished like and all-purpose club by some people. Frequently their limited understanding of the law doesn't interfere with the freedom of use of catchy slogans. Some of these people are journalists, needless to say, and unfortunately their references to "international law" frequently mirror their political beliefs instead of anything having to do with law.
The highly contentious issue of injudicious use of international law was taken up in a roundtable discussion organized by Just Journalism.
The summary of the discussion is contained in a relatively short document. In a remarkably muted tones, the discussion board came to the following conclusions:
It is early days, and the investigation into the murderer's motives has barely started. Meanwhile it looks pretty grim.
More from Dick Stanley.
The considerable quantity of weaponry fished recently by our navy in Mediterranean is resting on dry land in the port of Ashdod, but the waves made by it are still churning. Our media is milking the story for what it is worth and then some. So does our foreign office, including a compulsory travel to the Ashdod exposition by the accredited diplomats. Cocktail hour amid hand grenades and rockets... It's quite impossible these days to switch on an electric appliance here without getting some Francop-related news. Relax, folks, we miss many more shipments than we catch, I bet. Anyway, I love our Shayetet (naval commando) boys as much as the next geezer, but let's be a bit less provincial, shall we?
But this is all in a day's work, so move on, there are better things to watch. Which is, to start with, the hilarious responses from our neighbors and cousins.
Two days before Israel's capture of a ship that was apparently ferrying arms to Hezbollah, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon released a report to the UN Security Council in which he said the United Nations took the Israeli allegations about weapons smuggling to Hezbollah seriously, but lacked the ability to independently verify the information.And how do we know this (pay attention, please):
In the report, Ban wrote that the Lebanese government had not informed the UN of a single incident of weapons smuggling to its territory, whether by land, sea or air.Lebanese government hadn't informed... I will be... how is it for a... what the...
Our defense minister is getting so large lately that he already deserves a zip code of his own, not to mention perimeter patrols. Well, the Ynet folks meant "tours", of course....
At the time of the infamous assbomber incident I have posted a relatively short notice on the subject.
It so happens that Allen of The Whited Sepulchre performed a really detailed, no nonsense, in-depth and hilarious analysis of the occasion in:
From The Jihadist Safety Consultant, on appropriate methods of martyrdom
Enjoy.
A naked man who climbed out of a window and hid on the ledge to escape his lover's furious husband has been caught on camera.
Dear Sun,
Having your best interests in mind and to prevent frostbites, we have also added a pair of specialized woolen underwear (by ACE):
Special navy forces discovered weapons and ammunition on a cargo ship overnight Tuesday, after boarding a cargo ship some 100 nautical miles west of Israel flying an Antiguan flag.And they say that Mediterranean fishing is not what it used to be...
The elite Navy Commando unit Shayetet 13 soldiers, who didn't encounter resistance on board, found the weapons and ammunition cache hidden behind what appeared to be a civilian cargo.
It is not a secret that from time to time humanity is facing outbreaks of that curious disease. Such as "Palestinian Nakba" or PETA's "Chicken Holocaust".
Of course, there is a strong element of weirdness in these outbreaks. But still, nothing invented so far prepared me to the level of bizarreness reached in the recent outbreak:
David Wilshire, the disgraced Conservative MP, has compared the treatment of politicians over their expense claims to the plight of Jews in Nazi Germany.I can easily imagine the scene: malnourished skeletal MPs stumbling and crawling toward gas chambers between the whips and machine guns brandished by black-coated goons of Her Majesty's government, while Hi-Fi loudspeakers permeate the air by cabaret-style renderings of "God save the Queen", Handel and Sting.
Mr Wilshire, who was forced to resign after paying more than £100,000 in expenses to his own company, said the “witch hunt” against MPs “will undermine democracy”.
Mr Wilshire wrote: “The witch hunt against MPs in general will undermine democracy. It will weaken parliament - handing yet more power to governments. Branding a whole group of people as undesirables led to Hitler's gas chambers.”
For many years the media informs us about various stupid burglars. Many entertaining cases go by, without (as far as I know) being noticed by Guinness. Well, recently a case of two incredibly stupid wannabe burglars surfaced.
Two burglary suspects who drew 'masks' on their faces with a permanent marker pen have been arrested in the US.A revealing detail:
Both suspects were charged with attempted second-degree burglary and have been released on bail.Apparently law enforcement people considered the two being more of a Social Security case than a police matter...
First to preempt some overexcited commentators:
It's a simple ploy, actually: Arnie or his ghostwriter used acrostic** to convey a "fuck you" message to a Democrat who earlier heckled him ("you lie", "kiss my ass", etc) during the Governator's presentation to a Democratic convention.People who cringe at strong expressions are just cowards who shy real life, such weaklings cause most harm to the culture and public morality. They would turn the people into the sentimental fellows, onanists of pseudo-culture of St. Aloisius type. Eustace the Monk in his book says that when St. Aloisius heard one person breaking wind, he burst into tears and was calmed only by a prayer.Adding in the same regard:
Several years ago I read a review of a story. The critic was beside himself over the fact that the author wrote: "He blew and wiped his nose." This, according to him, runs counter to the aesthetic and the sublime that literature should bring to the people.Yes, and speaking about the morons:
This is only one and not the most vivid example of the kind of morons that are born under the sun.
