UK : LDN: Old luvvies never die… don't understand why the rest of the drama queens were so paranoid, the dead pianist dude was in full agreement to his skull being used for this purpose, and I've not heard of any "phantom of the opera" style hauntings...
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts & Culture | Bequeathed skull stars in Hamlet
FR: Village road sign it says "Slow down - think of us.."
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UK : LDN : Separated at birth? On the BBC today, there is some article about dangerous dogs in London
in it are these two pics..
thats an ugly, aggressive looking creature - and the pit bull isn't the best looking of its breed either!
(article can be found here)
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Politics Show | Dangerous dogs
DE : Drug dealer posts himself out of jail.. if he didn't use violence for his crimes I have to admit I've got a fair bit of sympathy for the bloke!
A manhunt is under way in western Germany for a convicted drug dealer who escaped by mailing himself out of jail.
The 42-year-old Turkish citizen - who was serving a seven-year sentence - had been making stationery with other prisoners destined for the shops.
At the end of his shift, the inmate climbed into a cardboard box and was taken out of prison by express courier. His whereabouts are still unknown.
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Inmate escapes German jail in box
UK : East : Essex girl spends £40k on 4 dogs actually I think £10000 per dog for 4 years (£2500 per year) is less than the cost of raising a similar number of human babies!
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THE cost of bringing up children is part of being a parent, but a dog-lover from Essex has been raising eyebrows after lavishing up to £40,000 on her “children” - her pet pooches.
Evening Star - Puppy love... at a cost of £40k
SuperGod and the Son of man wonder! Frighteningly relevent methinks! Viz presents...
followed by...
Thank Denke there is always Garry, to see ya right! raaa
MX : Cops arrest three tigers after chicken entrapment sting.. Why did the chicken cross the road? To catch the escaped tigers | World news | guardian.co.uk
Authorities say three tigers that escaped from a Mexican circus truck were recaptured after police distracted them by throwing them chickens.
The local newspaper Cambio de Michoacan said the escaped cats holed up in a house in the western city of Zitacuaro. When they started breaking down the home's fence, police lobbed them chickens to eat until a dog catcher and the animals' trainer arrived.
An officer at the state police office in Zitacuaro said the tigers were loose for less than an hour.
They were recaptured yesterday and taken to a local police station where they were held until the owner agreed to pay for the chickens and damage to the fence.
translation cock up :laugh_at:
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E-mail error ends up on road sign
When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.
Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated".
So that was what went up under the English version which barred lorries from a road near a supermarket, Swansea Council became lost in translation when it was looking to halt heavy goods vehicles using a road near an Asda store in the Morriston area All official road signs in Wales are bilingual, so the local authority e-mailed its in-house translation service for the Welsh version of: "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only".
The reply duly came back and officials set the wheels in motion to create the large sign in both languages.
The notice went up and all seemed well - until Welsh speakers began pointing out the embarrassing error.
Other confusing signs
The blunder is not the only time Welsh has been translated incorrectly or put in the wrong place:
• Cyclists between Cardiff and Penarth in 2006 were left confused by a bilingual road sign telling them they had problems with an "inflamed bladder".
• In the same year, a sign for pedestrians in Cardiff reading 'Look Right' in English read 'Look Left' in Welsh.
• In 2006, a shared-faith school in Wrexham removed a sign which translated the Welsh for staff as "wooden stave".
• Football fans at a FA Cup tie between Oldham and Chasetown - two English teams - in 2005 were left scratching their heads after a Welsh-language hoarding was put up along the pitch. It should have gone to a match in Merthyr Tydfil.
• People living near an Aberdeenshire building site in 2006 were mystified when a sign apologising for the inconvenience was written in Welsh as well as English.
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Toilet Humour
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Man's arm trapped in train toilet
A passenger on a French train had to be rescued by firemen after having his arm sucked down the on-board toilet.
The 26-year-old victim was trapped when he tried to fish out his mobile phone, which had fallen into the toilet bowl, and fell foul of the suction system.
The high-speed TGV train had to stop for two hours while firemen cut through the train's pipework.
The man was carried away by emergency services, with the toilet still attached to his arm.
"He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off," said Benoit Gigou, a witness to the man's plight.
The incident happened on Sunday evening, aboard a train travelling in western France between La Rochelle and Paris.
:laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at:
UK : East : Yanks to Suffolk residents – "have you seen our aircraft door?" ooops...
US Air Force staff in Suffolk have appealed for help in finding a landing gear door which fell off an aircraft mid-flight.
The door dropped from a KC-135 refuelling plane during a flight from RAF Mildenhall to the Wash.
I know if some people round here found it they'd probably try and weigh it in :laugh_at:
BBC NEWS | England | Suffolk | Door falls off plane mid-flight
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