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Posted 31 March 2010 - 20:10
Can't it be a Squig just this once?
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As long as the dark foundation of our nature, grim in its all-encompassing egoism, mad in its drive to make that egoism into reality, to devour everything and to define everything by itself, as long as that foundation is visible, as long as this truly original sin exists within us, we have no business here and there is no logical answer to our existence.
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
- Vladimir Solovyov
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
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Posted 08 April 2010 - 20:24
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A bizarre creature, dubbed the “oriental yeti”, has baffled scientists after emerging from ancient woodlands in remote central China.
The hairless beast was trapped by hunters in Sichuan province after locals reported spotting what they thought was a bear.
One hunter, Lu Chin, said: “It looks a bit like a bear but it doesn’t have any fur and it has a tail like a kangaroo.
“It also does not sound like a bear — it has a voice like a cat and it is calling all the time — perhaps it is looking for the rest of its kind or maybe it's the last one.
"There are local legends of a bear that used to be a man and some people think that’s what we caught," he added.
Now stumped local animal experts have shipped the mystery beast to scientists in Beijing for DNA tests.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/scie...amp;attr=797093
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Librarians in New York's oldest library have uncovered a surprising book thief.
Apparently, George Washington, the first president of the United States of America, borrowed two books from the New York Society Library in 1789 but failed to return them.
Adjusted for inflation, the former president now owes more than $US300,000 in late fees.
On October 5, 1789, the first president borrowed two books from what was then the only library in Manhattan: Law of Nations, a dissertation on international relations, and a volume of debate transcripts from Britain's House of Commons.
George Washington did not even bother to sign his name in the borrower's ledger; an aide simply scrawled "president" next to the title to show who had taken them out.
Perhaps not wanting to add to the US government's already hefty deficit, the New York Society Library says it will not pursue the fine.
It would simply like the books back.
Apparently, George Washington, the first president of the United States of America, borrowed two books from the New York Society Library in 1789 but failed to return them.
Adjusted for inflation, the former president now owes more than $US300,000 in late fees.
On October 5, 1789, the first president borrowed two books from what was then the only library in Manhattan: Law of Nations, a dissertation on international relations, and a volume of debate transcripts from Britain's House of Commons.
George Washington did not even bother to sign his name in the borrower's ledger; an aide simply scrawled "president" next to the title to show who had taken them out.
Perhaps not wanting to add to the US government's already hefty deficit, the New York Society Library says it will not pursue the fine.
It would simply like the books back.
http://www.abc.net.a.../18/2875863.htm
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Posted 18 April 2010 - 16:28
Bahaha. That's pretty neat.
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Posted 18 April 2010 - 17:09
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Cambridge University society offers pole dancing tuition
A renowned debating society at Britain's Cambridge University said Monday it would offer pole dancing tuition to members, in a building more used to the presence of international statesmen.
The Cambridge Union Society said female students would be offered lessons in the sensuous dance more often associated with strip clubs than the historic chambers of one of the world's top universities.
Lessons would be given in the Blue Room at the union's building, which is more commonly used for debates, said the society.
The organisation has welcomed countless world leaders in the almost 200 hundred years it has existed, but now also puts on a range of other activities.
Speakers to have addressed students include wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, former US president Theodore Roosevelt and India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
A Cambridge Union spokeswoman defended the move, saying there was "nothing degrading" about it.
"We are of the opinion that classes like these are a way of empowering women, as well as being a fantastic way to exercise and have fun together with other women," she said.
"If an intelligent, independent woman wishes to learn a particular form of dance in respectable surroundings, we see nothing degrading in that."
A renowned debating society at Britain's Cambridge University said Monday it would offer pole dancing tuition to members, in a building more used to the presence of international statesmen.
The Cambridge Union Society said female students would be offered lessons in the sensuous dance more often associated with strip clubs than the historic chambers of one of the world's top universities.
Lessons would be given in the Blue Room at the union's building, which is more commonly used for debates, said the society.
The organisation has welcomed countless world leaders in the almost 200 hundred years it has existed, but now also puts on a range of other activities.
Speakers to have addressed students include wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, former US president Theodore Roosevelt and India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
A Cambridge Union spokeswoman defended the move, saying there was "nothing degrading" about it.
"We are of the opinion that classes like these are a way of empowering women, as well as being a fantastic way to exercise and have fun together with other women," she said.
"If an intelligent, independent woman wishes to learn a particular form of dance in respectable surroundings, we see nothing degrading in that."
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Posted 18 April 2010 - 18:26
We have a pole-dancing society here at Plymouth. They put on a lovely show a month or so ago.
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Posted 18 April 2010 - 18:31
I missed it? ):
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Posted 18 April 2010 - 18:36
Yup, you idiot. Was in the SU about a few weeks before the end of term.
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Posted 18 April 2010 - 19:39
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Cambridge University society offers pole dancing tuition
A renowned debating society at Britain's Cambridge University said Monday it would offer pole dancing tuition to members, in a building more used to the presence of international statesmen.
The Cambridge Union Society said female students would be offered lessons in the sensuous dance more often associated with strip clubs than the historic chambers of one of the world's top universities.
Lessons would be given in the Blue Room at the union's building, which is more commonly used for debates, said the society.
The organisation has welcomed countless world leaders in the almost 200 hundred years it has existed, but now also puts on a range of other activities.
Speakers to have addressed students include wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, former US president Theodore Roosevelt and India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
A Cambridge Union spokeswoman defended the move, saying there was "nothing degrading" about it.
"We are of the opinion that classes like these are a way of empowering women, as well as being a fantastic way to exercise and have fun together with other women," she said.
"If an intelligent, independent woman wishes to learn a particular form of dance in respectable surroundings, we see nothing degrading in that."
A renowned debating society at Britain's Cambridge University said Monday it would offer pole dancing tuition to members, in a building more used to the presence of international statesmen.
The Cambridge Union Society said female students would be offered lessons in the sensuous dance more often associated with strip clubs than the historic chambers of one of the world's top universities.
Lessons would be given in the Blue Room at the union's building, which is more commonly used for debates, said the society.
The organisation has welcomed countless world leaders in the almost 200 hundred years it has existed, but now also puts on a range of other activities.
Speakers to have addressed students include wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, former US president Theodore Roosevelt and India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
A Cambridge Union spokeswoman defended the move, saying there was "nothing degrading" about it.
"We are of the opinion that classes like these are a way of empowering women, as well as being a fantastic way to exercise and have fun together with other women," she said.
"If an intelligent, independent woman wishes to learn a particular form of dance in respectable surroundings, we see nothing degrading in that."
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Posted 19 April 2010 - 17:28
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Becoming a police officer demands agile dexterity, mammoth strength and big balls of steel, which is why it’s no wonder so few of us ever achieve such an esteemed status. And besides us humans, the only other mammal allowed to patrol the streets is the domesticated canine, aka the dog. This fact has recently changed, however, thanks to Santisuk the monkey.
Santisuk Phromdao is a pig-tailed macaque monkey from Sai Buri district, Patttani province, southern Thailand. Although only five years old, Santisuk patrols the streets of Thailand everyday dressed in a blazer with the words ‘Monkey Police’ laced across it.
According to Thailand’s Nation newspaper, Santisuk was adopted by Pol Col Yutthapol Phromdao Yutthapol, who, after discovering the injured monkey at a local clinic, recruited him into his squad, thereby turning the simple-minded primate into the first-ever monkey cop.
Satisuk’s tour of duty began at a local checkpoint, where Yutthapol taught him how to collect coconuts and other fruits from locals by enticing him with bottles of delectable Vitamilk. Soon afterward, Satisuk’s duties grew from mundane tasks into full-fledged public relations.
For you see, the checkpoint, one of many installed by the Thai government in response to recent attacks by Islamic separatist insurgents, was angering motorists who sought only to reach their destination as quickly as possible.
By introducing Satisuk to his checkpoint, Yutthapol inadvertently calmed tensions between local police and the public. The amusing diversion—the public could take pictures or play with the furry flatfoot, instead of sitting idly by and ranting/raving about the long wait—helped calm motorists, thereby serving as a public relations ploy, per se, although that certainly wasn’t Yutthapol’s original intent.
Satisuk hopefully is one of many future monkey cops to come, as the concept of improving public relations by putting a monkey police officer on the beat has inspired other departments to also try and follow suit.
As for Satisuk, he’s having the time of life. According to Yutthapol, he can be found sitting in a nearby chair, nodding his head, winking, and even monkey-talking to passing motorists.
Santisuk Phromdao is a pig-tailed macaque monkey from Sai Buri district, Patttani province, southern Thailand. Although only five years old, Santisuk patrols the streets of Thailand everyday dressed in a blazer with the words ‘Monkey Police’ laced across it.
According to Thailand’s Nation newspaper, Santisuk was adopted by Pol Col Yutthapol Phromdao Yutthapol, who, after discovering the injured monkey at a local clinic, recruited him into his squad, thereby turning the simple-minded primate into the first-ever monkey cop.
Satisuk’s tour of duty began at a local checkpoint, where Yutthapol taught him how to collect coconuts and other fruits from locals by enticing him with bottles of delectable Vitamilk. Soon afterward, Satisuk’s duties grew from mundane tasks into full-fledged public relations.
For you see, the checkpoint, one of many installed by the Thai government in response to recent attacks by Islamic separatist insurgents, was angering motorists who sought only to reach their destination as quickly as possible.
By introducing Satisuk to his checkpoint, Yutthapol inadvertently calmed tensions between local police and the public. The amusing diversion—the public could take pictures or play with the furry flatfoot, instead of sitting idly by and ranting/raving about the long wait—helped calm motorists, thereby serving as a public relations ploy, per se, although that certainly wasn’t Yutthapol’s original intent.
Satisuk hopefully is one of many future monkey cops to come, as the concept of improving public relations by putting a monkey police officer on the beat has inspired other departments to also try and follow suit.
As for Satisuk, he’s having the time of life. According to Yutthapol, he can be found sitting in a nearby chair, nodding his head, winking, and even monkey-talking to passing motorists.
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A woman has become the first person to be banned from buying or drinking alcohol anywhere in England and Wales.
Laura Hall, 20, was issued with a Drinking Banning Order - nicknamed Booze Asbos - which bars her from entering any pub, club, off-licence or bar.
The two-year order also bans Hall from buying alcohol at any other establishment or shop, carrying it in an unsealed container or drinking it in a public place.
Police applied to magistrates after Hall was convicted of breaching an Asbo imposed for drink-related anti-social behaviour.
She has been convicted of a series of public order offences, and had flouted bans from pubs and clubs through local Pub-Watch schemes in her home town of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
Kidderminster Magistrates' Court heard yesterday that Hall faces a £2,500 fine if she breaks the conditions of the order.
Sergeant David Roberts, of West Mercia Police, said: 'There have been some Drinking Banning Orders issued already but this is the first to be issued on a nationwide basis.
'It bans Laura Hall from drinking or buying alcohol in any licensed premises across England and Wales. The conditions will also help to protect the public from the anti-social effects of Laura's behaviour.'
Officers applied for a DBO rather than another Asbo because Hall would be at risk of prison if she breached it again.
'We want to rehabilitate her rather than send her straight to jail, and hope the banning order will help Laura address her problems,' he said.
Under the terms of the order, Hall must attend an approved alcohol-misuse course. If she completes it without breaching any of its terms, the DBO could be lifted after 12 months.
Since their introduction in September, police and local authorities can ask magistrates to impose the orders on anyone responsible for alcohol-fuelled crime or anti- social behaviour to stop them drinking or entering licensed premises.
They cannot be issued to anyone with mental health problems or alcoholics.
But Rachel Seabrook, spokesman for the Institute of Alcohol Studies, said: 'I think most of the disorder problems we see around alcohol reflects a lack of police enforcement powers and policing laws.
'I am not opposed in principle but I do have doubts about whether it's a realistic thing to enforce. How can a police officer in, say Wales, know whether this women has been banned if she turns up in his town?'
A study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation last year found that female binge drinking had almost doubled over the last decade. According to Government statistics, the number of women involved in alcohol-related crime rose 30 per cent between 2005 and 2007.
Laura Hall, 20, was issued with a Drinking Banning Order - nicknamed Booze Asbos - which bars her from entering any pub, club, off-licence or bar.
The two-year order also bans Hall from buying alcohol at any other establishment or shop, carrying it in an unsealed container or drinking it in a public place.
Police applied to magistrates after Hall was convicted of breaching an Asbo imposed for drink-related anti-social behaviour.
She has been convicted of a series of public order offences, and had flouted bans from pubs and clubs through local Pub-Watch schemes in her home town of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
Kidderminster Magistrates' Court heard yesterday that Hall faces a £2,500 fine if she breaks the conditions of the order.
Sergeant David Roberts, of West Mercia Police, said: 'There have been some Drinking Banning Orders issued already but this is the first to be issued on a nationwide basis.
'It bans Laura Hall from drinking or buying alcohol in any licensed premises across England and Wales. The conditions will also help to protect the public from the anti-social effects of Laura's behaviour.'
Officers applied for a DBO rather than another Asbo because Hall would be at risk of prison if she breached it again.
'We want to rehabilitate her rather than send her straight to jail, and hope the banning order will help Laura address her problems,' he said.
Under the terms of the order, Hall must attend an approved alcohol-misuse course. If she completes it without breaching any of its terms, the DBO could be lifted after 12 months.
Since their introduction in September, police and local authorities can ask magistrates to impose the orders on anyone responsible for alcohol-fuelled crime or anti- social behaviour to stop them drinking or entering licensed premises.
They cannot be issued to anyone with mental health problems or alcoholics.
But Rachel Seabrook, spokesman for the Institute of Alcohol Studies, said: 'I think most of the disorder problems we see around alcohol reflects a lack of police enforcement powers and policing laws.
'I am not opposed in principle but I do have doubts about whether it's a realistic thing to enforce. How can a police officer in, say Wales, know whether this women has been banned if she turns up in his town?'
A study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation last year found that female binge drinking had almost doubled over the last decade. According to Government statistics, the number of women involved in alcohol-related crime rose 30 per cent between 2005 and 2007.
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Hall must attend an approved alcohol-misuse course
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Posted 06 May 2010 - 13:47
US Senator gets bored of abortion vote, so looks at some porn instead 
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Abortion debate Senator viewed porn as TV cameras rolled
A US senator caught watching porn in a debate on abortion has claimed he was 'bored'.
Mike Bennett was filmed by a local news station in Florida ogling at four topless beach babes while an abortion bill was being discussed.
The senator looked at the girls for several seconds before closing the image.
Mr Bennet claims the picture came attached to an email sent from a friend and 'former court administrator', according to The Sun.
He explained he was 'bored' during the debate and moved straight on to a video of a dog running along a beach.after he realised what he was looking at.
He said: "I opened it up and said holy ****! What's on my screen?"
He claimed he would never knowingly watch pornography when the senate was in session.
A US senator caught watching porn in a debate on abortion has claimed he was 'bored'.
Mike Bennett was filmed by a local news station in Florida ogling at four topless beach babes while an abortion bill was being discussed.
The senator looked at the girls for several seconds before closing the image.
Mr Bennet claims the picture came attached to an email sent from a friend and 'former court administrator', according to The Sun.
He explained he was 'bored' during the debate and moved straight on to a video of a dog running along a beach.after he realised what he was looking at.
He said: "I opened it up and said holy ****! What's on my screen?"
He claimed he would never knowingly watch pornography when the senate was in session.
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Posted 06 May 2010 - 16:10
We need to make a tv-show about that monkey, right now!
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As long as the dark foundation of our nature, grim in its all-encompassing egoism, mad in its drive to make that egoism into reality, to devour everything and to define everything by itself, as long as that foundation is visible, as long as this truly original sin exists within us, we have no business here and there is no logical answer to our existence.
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
- Vladimir Solovyov
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
- Vladimir Solovyov
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Oh US senators 
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Australian physicist spots dictionary error!
SYDNEY (AFP) – A physicist has uncovered an error in dictionary definitions that has likely stood uncorrected for a century.
University of Queensland academic Stephen Hughes found that entries for the word 'siphon' incorrectly said atmospheric pressure is the force that allows the device to move liquids from one place to another.
"It is gravity that moves the fluid in a siphon, with the water in the longer downward arm pulling the water up the shorter arm," he said.
"An extensive check of online and offline dictionaries did not reveal a single dictionary that correctly referred to gravity being the operative force in a siphon," he added.
Hughes, whose fields of study include astronomy, meteors, planets and the moon, said he first found the error in the Oxford English Dictionary last year.
He said a spokeswoman for the Oxford English Dictionary had told him he was the first person to question the definition of siphon, which dated from 1911 and had been written by editors who were not scientists.
But she said that his views would be taken into account as they updated the entire reference book which, according to the dictionary's website, is now up to the letter R.
"I thought, 'oh good, just in time', because S is next," Hughes said.
A siphon is a tube -- often u- or v-shaped -- that is used to move liquids from one container to another. It is commonly used to drain fish tanks or petrol tanks.
SYDNEY (AFP) – A physicist has uncovered an error in dictionary definitions that has likely stood uncorrected for a century.
University of Queensland academic Stephen Hughes found that entries for the word 'siphon' incorrectly said atmospheric pressure is the force that allows the device to move liquids from one place to another.
"It is gravity that moves the fluid in a siphon, with the water in the longer downward arm pulling the water up the shorter arm," he said.
"An extensive check of online and offline dictionaries did not reveal a single dictionary that correctly referred to gravity being the operative force in a siphon," he added.
Hughes, whose fields of study include astronomy, meteors, planets and the moon, said he first found the error in the Oxford English Dictionary last year.
He said a spokeswoman for the Oxford English Dictionary had told him he was the first person to question the definition of siphon, which dated from 1911 and had been written by editors who were not scientists.
But she said that his views would be taken into account as they updated the entire reference book which, according to the dictionary's website, is now up to the letter R.
"I thought, 'oh good, just in time', because S is next," Hughes said.
A siphon is a tube -- often u- or v-shaped -- that is used to move liquids from one container to another. It is commonly used to drain fish tanks or petrol tanks.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100511/ts_af..._20100511102011
The only oddity is that it stood for more than a centruy...
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Posted 17 May 2010 - 17:29
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Japan has hosted the world's first wedding to be conducted by a robot.
The automated creature, known as the I-Fairy, oversaw the wedding of Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue in the capital, Tokyo.
The couple decided to use the robot as they are both connected with Japan's thriving robotics industry.
Since robots had brought them together in the first place, they said, having one officiate at their wedding was a natural choice.
During the ceremony, I-Fairy - which has flashing eyes and plastic pigtails - instructed the groom to lift the bride's veil for the kiss.
The wedding took part in a rooftop restaurant in the Japanese capital.
The automated creature, known as the I-Fairy, oversaw the wedding of Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue in the capital, Tokyo.
The couple decided to use the robot as they are both connected with Japan's thriving robotics industry.
Since robots had brought them together in the first place, they said, having one officiate at their wedding was a natural choice.
During the ceremony, I-Fairy - which has flashing eyes and plastic pigtails - instructed the groom to lift the bride's veil for the kiss.
The wedding took part in a rooftop restaurant in the Japanese capital.
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Only in Japan...
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Posted 17 May 2010 - 18:46
Oh Japan. 
What will the next be? A tentacle monster overseeing a funeral?
What will the next be? A tentacle monster overseeing a funeral?
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As long as the dark foundation of our nature, grim in its all-encompassing egoism, mad in its drive to make that egoism into reality, to devour everything and to define everything by itself, as long as that foundation is visible, as long as this truly original sin exists within us, we have no business here and there is no logical answer to our existence.
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
- Vladimir Solovyov
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
- Vladimir Solovyov
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Posted 18 May 2010 - 00:55
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A psychic has been accused of cheating customers out of hundreds of thousands by telling them 'money is evil'.
Nancy Marks also persuaded gullible clients to hand over their credit card numbers because she wanted to check there were not too many sixes on them.
The 54-year-old used the information to go on wild spending sprees at top fashion stores.
Police in Colorado believe she has able to get more than £250,000 out of people who came to use her psychic services.
One woman handed over more than £180,000 after being told money was evil and that it contained bad energy.
Victim Scott Temple said he consulted Marks because he was having marriage problems.
'She preyed on my faith in God and my generosity and trusting nature,' Mr Temple said.
'I don't know if she did know things or if she was just really good at telling me what I wanted to hear. Either way, I started to believe in what she was saying.'
He said Marks told him the money he handed over 'needed to suffer' rather than him.
Prosecutors in Lafayette, Colorado, said Marks told her victims they had to hand over money to stop 'something bad' happening to them.
Marks has been charged with theft and false impersonation and faces up to ten years in jail.
She is also wanted in the state of Arkansas on similar charges.
Nancy Marks also persuaded gullible clients to hand over their credit card numbers because she wanted to check there were not too many sixes on them.
The 54-year-old used the information to go on wild spending sprees at top fashion stores.
Police in Colorado believe she has able to get more than £250,000 out of people who came to use her psychic services.
One woman handed over more than £180,000 after being told money was evil and that it contained bad energy.
Victim Scott Temple said he consulted Marks because he was having marriage problems.
'She preyed on my faith in God and my generosity and trusting nature,' Mr Temple said.
'I don't know if she did know things or if she was just really good at telling me what I wanted to hear. Either way, I started to believe in what she was saying.'
He said Marks told him the money he handed over 'needed to suffer' rather than him.
Prosecutors in Lafayette, Colorado, said Marks told her victims they had to hand over money to stop 'something bad' happening to them.
Marks has been charged with theft and false impersonation and faces up to ten years in jail.
She is also wanted in the state of Arkansas on similar charges.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/...money-evil.html
People get dumber by the second!
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Posted 18 May 2010 - 06:33
Bob, on 18 May 2010, 2:55, said:
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'She preyed on my faith in God and my generosity and trusting nature,' Mr Temple said.
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The brave hide behind technology. The stupid hide from it. The clever have technology, and hide it.
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Posted 18 May 2010 - 07:18
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Weather-obsessed Britons will spend six months of their lives discussing rain, sun and all things related to the climate, according to a survey.
The survey by an insurance company appears to confirm the traditional adage that the weather is indeed the favourite topic of conversation among Britons, with the topic beating sport, jobs and their love lives.
The subject is so popular that 58 per cent of Britons will use the weather as an ice-breaker when striking up a conversation with a stranger or business acquaintance, the survey found.
No doubt a hot topic for Britons this weekend will be the forecast that the country will finally enjoy a warm spell next week after recent chilly conditions.
The survey by an insurance company appears to confirm the traditional adage that the weather is indeed the favourite topic of conversation among Britons, with the topic beating sport, jobs and their love lives.
The subject is so popular that 58 per cent of Britons will use the weather as an ice-breaker when striking up a conversation with a stranger or business acquaintance, the survey found.
No doubt a hot topic for Britons this weekend will be the forecast that the country will finally enjoy a warm spell next week after recent chilly conditions.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05...0.htm?site=news
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Posted 18 May 2010 - 12:30
Bob, on 18 May 2010, 1:55, said:
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A psychic has been accused of cheating customers out of hundreds of thousands by telling them 'money is evil'.
Nancy Marks also persuaded gullible clients to hand over their credit card numbers because she wanted to check there were not too many sixes on them.
The 54-year-old used the information to go on wild spending sprees at top fashion stores.
Police in Colorado believe she has able to get more than £250,000 out of people who came to use her psychic services.
One woman handed over more than £180,000 after being told money was evil and that it contained bad energy.
Victim Scott Temple said he consulted Marks because he was having marriage problems.
'She preyed on my faith in God and my generosity and trusting nature,' Mr Temple said.
'I don't know if she did know things or if she was just really good at telling me what I wanted to hear. Either way, I started to believe in what she was saying.'
He said Marks told him the money he handed over 'needed to suffer' rather than him.
Prosecutors in Lafayette, Colorado, said Marks told her victims they had to hand over money to stop 'something bad' happening to them.
Marks has been charged with theft and false impersonation and faces up to ten years in jail.
She is also wanted in the state of Arkansas on similar charges.
Nancy Marks also persuaded gullible clients to hand over their credit card numbers because she wanted to check there were not too many sixes on them.
The 54-year-old used the information to go on wild spending sprees at top fashion stores.
Police in Colorado believe she has able to get more than £250,000 out of people who came to use her psychic services.
One woman handed over more than £180,000 after being told money was evil and that it contained bad energy.
Victim Scott Temple said he consulted Marks because he was having marriage problems.
'She preyed on my faith in God and my generosity and trusting nature,' Mr Temple said.
'I don't know if she did know things or if she was just really good at telling me what I wanted to hear. Either way, I started to believe in what she was saying.'
He said Marks told him the money he handed over 'needed to suffer' rather than him.
Prosecutors in Lafayette, Colorado, said Marks told her victims they had to hand over money to stop 'something bad' happening to them.
Marks has been charged with theft and false impersonation and faces up to ten years in jail.
She is also wanted in the state of Arkansas on similar charges.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/...money-evil.html
People get dumber by the second!
So shes being imprisoned because people are morons? That seems rather unfair, if people are that fucking dumb they deserve to be victimised.
What she did wasn't theft. She asked you to hand over your money and the idiots went ahead and did it. She didn't steal it, you gave it to her because you lack a brain.
Edited by Ion Cannon!, 18 May 2010 - 12:31.
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Posted 18 May 2010 - 16:47
Chyros, on 18 May 2010, 8:33, said:
Bob, on 18 May 2010, 2:55, said:
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'She preyed on my faith in God and my generosity and trusting nature,' Mr Temple said.
.As usual, people blame it on God...
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As long as the dark foundation of our nature, grim in its all-encompassing egoism, mad in its drive to make that egoism into reality, to devour everything and to define everything by itself, as long as that foundation is visible, as long as this truly original sin exists within us, we have no business here and there is no logical answer to our existence.
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
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Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
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Posted 18 May 2010 - 20:38
SquigPie, on 18 May 2010, 18:47, said:
Chyros, on 18 May 2010, 8:33, said:
Bob, on 18 May 2010, 2:55, said:
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'She preyed on my faith in God and my generosity and trusting nature,' Mr Temple said.
.As usual, people blame it on God...
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Posted 19 May 2010 - 21:38
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A young mother died after doctors failed to spot a toilet brush handle embedded in her buttock, a UK inquest has heard.
It took two years to diagnose why Cindy Corton, 35, was suffering constant pain after a drunken fall in a friend's bathroom in 2005.
Mrs Corton went to her local hospital in Lincolnshire, east England, after the incident but she was discharged with painkillers that night.
Despite more hospital visits and an X-ray, doctors still missed a 15cm serrated plastic handle stuck in her flesh, UK media report.
An MRI scan in 2007 finally spotted the brush handle but by then it was embedded in her pelvis and two operations failed to remove it.
The mother-of-one was in so much pain she agreed to a third operation in June 2009, despite being told it could be fatal.
She died of massive blood loss after more than 10 hours of surgery.
Coroner Stuart Fisher of Grantham Magistrates Court said it was a "serious failure" the hospital failed to spot the brush handle earlier.
"Mrs Corton's quality of life was dire and almost unliveable," he was quoted by the BBC as saying.
Her husband is suing the hospital.
It took two years to diagnose why Cindy Corton, 35, was suffering constant pain after a drunken fall in a friend's bathroom in 2005.
Mrs Corton went to her local hospital in Lincolnshire, east England, after the incident but she was discharged with painkillers that night.
Despite more hospital visits and an X-ray, doctors still missed a 15cm serrated plastic handle stuck in her flesh, UK media report.
An MRI scan in 2007 finally spotted the brush handle but by then it was embedded in her pelvis and two operations failed to remove it.
The mother-of-one was in so much pain she agreed to a third operation in June 2009, despite being told it could be fatal.
She died of massive blood loss after more than 10 hours of surgery.
Coroner Stuart Fisher of Grantham Magistrates Court said it was a "serious failure" the hospital failed to spot the brush handle earlier.
"Mrs Corton's quality of life was dire and almost unliveable," he was quoted by the BBC as saying.
Her husband is suing the hospital.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1054161/m...et-brush-in-bum
ROFL!!! this would suck
This place still exists?
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Genrail, on 19 May 2010, 23:38, said:
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A young mother died after doctors failed to spot a toilet brush handle embedded in her buttock, a UK inquest has heard.
It took two years to diagnose why Cindy Corton, 35, was suffering constant pain after a drunken fall in a friend's bathroom in 2005.
Mrs Corton went to her local hospital in Lincolnshire, east England, after the incident but she was discharged with painkillers that night.
Despite more hospital visits and an X-ray, doctors still missed a 15cm serrated plastic handle stuck in her flesh, UK media report.
An MRI scan in 2007 finally spotted the brush handle but by then it was embedded in her pelvis and two operations failed to remove it.
The mother-of-one was in so much pain she agreed to a third operation in June 2009, despite being told it could be fatal.
She died of massive blood loss after more than 10 hours of surgery.
Coroner Stuart Fisher of Grantham Magistrates Court said it was a "serious failure" the hospital failed to spot the brush handle earlier.
"Mrs Corton's quality of life was dire and almost unliveable," he was quoted by the BBC as saying.
Her husband is suing the hospital.
It took two years to diagnose why Cindy Corton, 35, was suffering constant pain after a drunken fall in a friend's bathroom in 2005.
Mrs Corton went to her local hospital in Lincolnshire, east England, after the incident but she was discharged with painkillers that night.
Despite more hospital visits and an X-ray, doctors still missed a 15cm serrated plastic handle stuck in her flesh, UK media report.
An MRI scan in 2007 finally spotted the brush handle but by then it was embedded in her pelvis and two operations failed to remove it.
The mother-of-one was in so much pain she agreed to a third operation in June 2009, despite being told it could be fatal.
She died of massive blood loss after more than 10 hours of surgery.
Coroner Stuart Fisher of Grantham Magistrates Court said it was a "serious failure" the hospital failed to spot the brush handle earlier.
"Mrs Corton's quality of life was dire and almost unliveable," he was quoted by the BBC as saying.
Her husband is suing the hospital.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1054161/m...et-brush-in-bum
ROFL!!! this would suck
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The brave hide behind technology. The stupid hide from it. The clever have technology, and hide it.
—The Book of Cataclysm
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