UK : W : Real life catdog in Circencester A CIRENCESTER dog who has suffered a bizarre identity crisis is being offered up for adoption - by the Cats Protection League.
Chippy was rescued from a house in the town alongside 40 cats but staff at the charity said he never learned how to be a dog.
The Jack Russell, thought to be between 13 and 15 years old, rarely barks and even uses a litter tray.
Cirencester dog Chippy is 'feline' like a cat (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)
http://www.stroudcatsprotection.com/re-homing.html#Chippy
UK : Wales/Cymru : reporter gets pwned worth turning the sound up. you don't need to know much Welsh (I only know a very little bit), but HTV sent their reporter Dai Jones (who has a fear of cats) to interview a Welsh lady running a cats home..
unfortunately they only had a single camera crew so couldn't get the whole picture but you get to see what "fierce animal" he was running away from :laugh_at:
Dai a'r gath - S4C / ITV - Y Dydd
SG : 1970s Latrine facilities for national service soldiers In Singapore, every bloke aged 18-40 still has to do NS (National Service). you do two years when you are young, and a week refresher training until age 40 or 50!! Lam Chun See, a 57 year old Chinese chap (now a management consultant) explains the toilet facilities found in the army camp..
And that reminds me of yet another interesting system which only our NS (national service) boys would have experienced – the Taiwanese army camp system. For those army boys like my friend Victor who missed out on this unique experience, I shall describe it below. Unfortunately I do not have any photos to illustrate.
Basically the toilets were made up of 2 rows of cubicles built over 2 long narrow drains over which you have to squat. The partitions were only about chest high, and so sometimes, when you and you neighbour happened to finish your missions at the same time, you would get bit of a shock to see another person face to face when you stood up. There were no individual flushes. Occasionally, somebody would turn on the tap and the water would flow from one end of the drain to the other. If you happen to be occupying the last cubicle, you would be treated to quite an unforgettable sight. I hope this is sufficient to motivate some of our reluctant young men to look forward to their NS.
the military latrine he refers to is in fact not a Taiwanese design but an old British/Commonwealth one - its mentioned in a lot of the military history books I tend to read.. an opportunity arises for a joke here - normally if one soldier only is going to the latrine, he occupies the furthest seat away to try and get peace and privacy...by setting alight to damp newspapers and using the aforementioned tap to float them down the latrine, the unfortunate toilet user can be smoked out :laugh_at:
but these latrines are rarely used today. Modern Singapore has the Western style toilet in most areas (based on old British designs) but you are advised to flush before and after, so any pythons or other snakes in the sewage system (a not uncommon occurence) are frightened away...
http://goodmorningyesterday.blogspot.com/2006/09/tribute-to-humble-profession.html
thanks for all your f***ing help, says river mouse A MOUSE which survived a terrifying ordeal in a freezing river has thanked all the humans who stood on the bank taking pictures with their mobile phones.
Simpson is considering legal action
Ian Simpson, a three year-old mouse from Carlisle, described the human response to his plight as 'incredibly fucking heart-warming'.
He said last night: "I'd had a long lunch with my mate Geoff and on the way back to work I tripped and fell into the river. So yes, to some degree, it was my fault.
"Anyway, the water was absolutely bloody freezing, meanwhile I'm using my tail and my tiny little claws just desperately trying to grab onto a twig or something.
"Then, all of a sudden, I'm aware of this looming presence so I look up and not two feet away is a mobile phone with some arsehole behind it shouting 'check this little mouse, I think it might drown'.
"I start shouting 'Oi, mate, can you just put down the phone for a minute and grab my tail', but he just carries on taking pictures.
"I know he probably didn't hear me, but to be perfectly honest that shouldn't have made the slightest fucking difference. I was clearly in peril.
Simpson added: "I've no doubt if it had been some kitten fighting for its life they'd have called out the army while the Daily Telegraph cleared its front page.
"But anyway, rant over, I just wanted to say - thanks a fucking bunch. Twats."
MY : Bird attracting sound system shut down and confiscated by Council This is a common practice in Malaysia. The Chinese community put these speakers in empty buildings to attract the Edible-nest Swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus) which as its name suggests is where the nest in Birds Nest Soup comes from ....
its not as harsh as most Chinese cuisine as the birds themselves aren't eaten and nests are only harvested after the birds have finished with them - they do also get a safe warm place to build them and raise their families (in a country otherwise overrun with wild cats and other predators) but its a noisy process which annoys the other ethnic groups....
(this is where it all happened)
Segamat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> China Press reported that enforcement officers from the Segamat district council had dismantled 100 sets of loudspeakers which were used to attract swiftlets in a 20-storey building, following a court order.
Residents living near the building in the town area had often complained about the noise from the building.
Apparently, three swiftlet farming operators had been using the building to breed swiftlets which are prized for their nests.
The paper quoted council secretary Mustaffa Kamal Shamsuddin as saying the council faced difficulty in acting against swiflet farming because although the state government had banned it, the federal government continued to issue permits.
UK : East : Lonely chinchilla finds love in Stowmarket… It took just three days for the pair to accept each other and even share a cage, and now their owner, Wendy Woodward, believes there may even be a blossoming romance on the cards.
Miss Woodward, of Melford Road, Stowmarket, said: “I saw the picture of Luscious in the paper and I thought she was adorable. I felt sorry for her because she was homeless and as I have a chinchilla, I thought I could give her a home.
“My chinchilla has been on his own for four years so I was thinking of getting him some company anyway. I've definitely noticed a change-he is more active and seems a lot happier. I think he is in love!
Luscious the lonely chinchilla finds a home - Evening Star 24
UK : N : They’re not going on a summer holiday… just going down to HMP….. not the best idea for a romantic evening out...
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bradford | Couple in court over stolen bus
Couple in court over stolen bus
A man and woman have appeared in court charged with stealing a bus which had to be stopped on a motorway by police using stinger devices.
The single-decker Arriva bus was stolen in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, just after 1600 BST on Sunday.
It crashed into a shop and hit vehicles before it was stopped on the M1.
Shane Oldroyd, 26, of Ossett, and Sarah Smith, 20, of Portobello, were remanded in custody by Wakefield magistrates until 21 August.
They have been charged with aggravated vehicle taking, dangerous driving, driving while over the prescribed limit and other motoring offences.
US : Man blames cat for illegal porn downloads whilst cats are notorious for jumping on keyboards and can cause tech problems (including triggering the NVIDIA hot key sequence which turns monitor screens upside down), I doubt they have learned to trigger downloads...
and if they did they'd be looking for pics of other cute kittehs or if they were hungry looking here.. Home Page of the LSCMRC :laugh_at:
Florida man blames cat for downloading child pornography | World news | guardian.co.uk
Dogs have been blamed for eating homework - now a Florida man says his cat downloaded child pornography.
Police are charging Keith Griffin of Jensen Beach, Florida with 10 counts of possession of child pornography after finding more than 1,000 images on his personal computer.
Griffin told police he had been downloading music, and that his cat jumped on the keyboard when he left the room. He said "strange things" appeared on the computer when he returned.
He is being held in Martin county jail on $250,000 bond. No word on any charges against the cat.
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