GuardianTempest, on 22 Aug 2010, 2:55, said:
I'd like to see a drug addict used to predict the future...or even hippies.
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The ancient greeks used to drug their oracles to predict the future.
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Sgt. Nuker, on 21 Aug 2010, 20:41, said:
CodeCat, on 19 Aug 2010, 6:35, said:
What, an octopus wasn't enough?
Apparently not. Who knows, perhaps there will be a psychic bear or Bengal Tiger next.
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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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BEIJING (Aug. 24) -- A massive traffic jam in north China that stretches for dozens of miles and hit its 10-day mark on Tuesday stems from road construction in Beijing that won't be finished until the middle of next month, an official said.
Bumper-to-bumper gridlock spanning for 60 miles (100 kilometers) with vehicles moving little more than a half-mile (one kilometer) a day at one point has improved since this weekend, said Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office.
Some drivers have been stuck in the jam for five days, China Central Television reported Tuesday. But Zhang said he wasn't sure when the situation along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou highway would return to normal.
Bumper-to-bumper gridlock spanning for 60 miles (100 kilometers) with vehicles moving little more than a half-mile (one kilometer) a day at one point has improved since this weekend, said Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office.
Some drivers have been stuck in the jam for five days, China Central Television reported Tuesday. But Zhang said he wasn't sure when the situation along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou highway would return to normal.
Wow.
Only in China. And how can you not see something like this coming!?
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Posted 25 August 2010 - 02:19
I thought our traffic jams were bad, China's worse. The carbon dioxide rating there must be so high birds die instantly 
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Must be a time of big bucks for snack vans.
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Ghostrider, on 25 Aug 2010, 1:02, said:
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BEIJING (Aug. 24) -- A massive traffic jam in north China that stretches for dozens of miles and hit its 10-day mark on Tuesday stems from road construction in Beijing that won't be finished until the middle of next month, an official said.
Bumper-to-bumper gridlock spanning for 60 miles (100 kilometers) with vehicles moving little more than a half-mile (one kilometer) a day at one point has improved since this weekend, said Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office.
Some drivers have been stuck in the jam for five days, China Central Television reported Tuesday. But Zhang said he wasn't sure when the situation along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou highway would return to normal.
Bumper-to-bumper gridlock spanning for 60 miles (100 kilometers) with vehicles moving little more than a half-mile (one kilometer) a day at one point has improved since this weekend, said Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office.
Some drivers have been stuck in the jam for five days, China Central Television reported Tuesday. But Zhang said he wasn't sure when the situation along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou highway would return to normal.
Wow.
Only in China. And how can you not see something like this coming!?
.Destiny, on 25 Aug 2010, 4:19, said:
I thought our traffic jams were bad, China's worse. The carbon dioxide rating there must be so high birds die instantly
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Posted 29 August 2010 - 16:34
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A toilet belonging to Beatles legend John Lennon sold at auction in Liverpool on Saturday for 9,500 pounds ($16,400) - nearly 10 times its guide price, organisers said.
Lennon used the porcelain lavatory, which is painted with blue flowers and a blue border at the rim and at the base, when he lived at Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire, south-east England, from 1969 to 1972.
The loo was removed when the house was being refurbished, and Lennon suggested the builder, John Hancock, take it home and "put some flowers in it".
Instead, the builder carefully stored it in a garden shed, where it remained for 40 years until he died, and his son-in-law put it up for sale.
At the auction at the 33rd annual Beatles Convention in Liverpool, the toilet was expected to fetch about 1,000 pounds.
"It is unbelievable," said auction organiser Stephen Bailey after it sold for almost 10 times that.
"We had bids coming in from all over the place but it went to a private overseas buyer."
Lennon used the porcelain lavatory, which is painted with blue flowers and a blue border at the rim and at the base, when he lived at Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire, south-east England, from 1969 to 1972.
The loo was removed when the house was being refurbished, and Lennon suggested the builder, John Hancock, take it home and "put some flowers in it".
Instead, the builder carefully stored it in a garden shed, where it remained for 40 years until he died, and his son-in-law put it up for sale.
At the auction at the 33rd annual Beatles Convention in Liverpool, the toilet was expected to fetch about 1,000 pounds.
"It is unbelievable," said auction organiser Stephen Bailey after it sold for almost 10 times that.
"We had bids coming in from all over the place but it went to a private overseas buyer."
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Posted 29 August 2010 - 18:17
That's a lot of money down the drain.
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Golfer's swing sparks 25-acre California blaze
You can use a golf club for all kinds of non-golfy purposes -- walking stick, fishing rod, club, to name three. And now we can add to that list -- firestarter.
Over the weekend, a golfer's routine swing in the rough at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine, Calif., struck a rock. Not so different from the way you play, right? Only this time, the impact caused a spark, and the spark set off a blaze that eventually covered 25 acres, according to the Steven Buck, General Manager of Shady Canyon Golf Course, and required the efforts of 150 Orange County firefighters, writes the Associated Press.
Wow. And I felt bad the time I shanked a ball through the window of a house too close to the fairway. That was nothing compared to this!
The golfer's name is being withheld, which is probably for the best, and no charges are going to be filed. Fortunately, it all could have been much worse. As it was, the blaze required both helicopters and on-the-ground crews.
The conditions were ripe for a blaze, with dry brush from a recent heat wave just waiting for the right spark. Like, say, one caused by metal on rock.
And now, your turn. This is going to inspire a raft of bad Sportscenter-esque "When we say he set the course on fire, he really set the course on fire!" jokes. So let's get ahead of the curve. Best bad golf-and-fire-related pun in the comments wins a round of applause. Go!
You can use a golf club for all kinds of non-golfy purposes -- walking stick, fishing rod, club, to name three. And now we can add to that list -- firestarter.
Over the weekend, a golfer's routine swing in the rough at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine, Calif., struck a rock. Not so different from the way you play, right? Only this time, the impact caused a spark, and the spark set off a blaze that eventually covered 25 acres, according to the Steven Buck, General Manager of Shady Canyon Golf Course, and required the efforts of 150 Orange County firefighters, writes the Associated Press.
Wow. And I felt bad the time I shanked a ball through the window of a house too close to the fairway. That was nothing compared to this!
The golfer's name is being withheld, which is probably for the best, and no charges are going to be filed. Fortunately, it all could have been much worse. As it was, the blaze required both helicopters and on-the-ground crews.
The conditions were ripe for a blaze, with dry brush from a recent heat wave just waiting for the right spark. Like, say, one caused by metal on rock.
And now, your turn. This is going to inspire a raft of bad Sportscenter-esque "When we say he set the course on fire, he really set the course on fire!" jokes. So let's get ahead of the curve. Best bad golf-and-fire-related pun in the comments wins a round of applause. Go!
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Posted 01 September 2010 - 11:43
Rai, on 1 Sep 2010, 13:16, said:
Fire in the hole
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Edited by SquigPie, 01 September 2010 - 11:44.
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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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Smoke and drink more, Russia's finance minister Alexei Kudrin urged citizens, explaining that higher consumption would help lift tax revenues for spending on social services.
"If you smoke a pack of cigarettes, that means you are giving more to help solve social problems such as boosting demographics, developing other social services and upholding birth rates," Mr Kudrin said, quoted by the Interfax news agency.
"People should understand: Those who drink, those who smoke are doing more to help the state," he said, offering unconventional advice as the Russian government announced plans to raise excise duty on alcohol and cigarettes.
Alcohol and cigarette consumption are already extremely high in Russia, where 65 per cent of men smoke and the average Russian consumes 18 litres of alcoholic beverages per year, mainly vodka, according to official statistics.
Russian duties on cigarettes are among the lowest in Europe, with most brands priced at around 40 rubles $1.30 per pack and unfiltered cigarettes selling for much less.
The finance ministry in June announced plans to more than double excise duty on cigarettes over the next three years from 250 roubles per 1,000 filtered cigarettes to 590 roubles in 2013.
The move is likely to be unpopular in the nicotine-addicted nation where a cigarette shortage in the late 1980s and early 1990s incited protests and led then-president Mikhail Gorbachev to appeal for emergency outside shipments.
The state recently imposed a new minimum legal price for vodka, implemented a zero tolerance ban on drink-driving and banned night-time sales of alcohol to curb abuse blamed for the deaths of thousands of Russians every year.
Alcohol abuse kills around 500,000 Russians annually and greatly impacts male life expectancy, which is lower than in such developing countries as Bangladesh and Honduras, according to official figures.
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"If you smoke a pack of cigarettes, that means you are giving more to help solve social problems such as boosting demographics, developing other social services and upholding birth rates," Mr Kudrin said, quoted by the Interfax news agency.
"People should understand: Those who drink, those who smoke are doing more to help the state," he said, offering unconventional advice as the Russian government announced plans to raise excise duty on alcohol and cigarettes.
Alcohol and cigarette consumption are already extremely high in Russia, where 65 per cent of men smoke and the average Russian consumes 18 litres of alcoholic beverages per year, mainly vodka, according to official statistics.
Russian duties on cigarettes are among the lowest in Europe, with most brands priced at around 40 rubles $1.30 per pack and unfiltered cigarettes selling for much less.
The finance ministry in June announced plans to more than double excise duty on cigarettes over the next three years from 250 roubles per 1,000 filtered cigarettes to 590 roubles in 2013.
The move is likely to be unpopular in the nicotine-addicted nation where a cigarette shortage in the late 1980s and early 1990s incited protests and led then-president Mikhail Gorbachev to appeal for emergency outside shipments.
The state recently imposed a new minimum legal price for vodka, implemented a zero tolerance ban on drink-driving and banned night-time sales of alcohol to curb abuse blamed for the deaths of thousands of Russians every year.
Alcohol abuse kills around 500,000 Russians annually and greatly impacts male life expectancy, which is lower than in such developing countries as Bangladesh and Honduras, according to official figures.
- AFP
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Posted 01 September 2010 - 16:26
Life as a Russian must suck a lot if you drink and smoke that much to compensate .
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A retired Chinese coal miner has found an underground solution to the country's sky-high housing costs, by carving out a new home beneath the shack he lives in, state media reported.
Needing more room for his family but priced out of a soaring market, Chen Xinnian, 64, has spent four years digging out the subterranean chamber under his tiny house in the city of Zhengzhou, the China Youth Daily said.
He has excavated 50 square metres of living space in the chamber six metres underground in the capital of Henan province, and plans to eventually have a residence with three bedrooms and a living room, it said.
Mr Chen bought mining lights, helmets and other equipment for the project, using expertise from his previous work as a labourer building coal mines.
The report quoted Mr Chen as saying the underground home can withstand a magnitude-eight earthquake and is cool in summer and warm in winter.
A housing boom over the past few years has sent property prices skyrocketing across China and propelled the issue to the top of the national agenda, with untold millions finding themselves unable to buy a home.
The government has responded this year with a series of measures to cool prices, such as tightening curbs on advance sales in new property developments, restricting loans for third home purchases and raising minimum down payments for second homes.
Needing more room for his family but priced out of a soaring market, Chen Xinnian, 64, has spent four years digging out the subterranean chamber under his tiny house in the city of Zhengzhou, the China Youth Daily said.
He has excavated 50 square metres of living space in the chamber six metres underground in the capital of Henan province, and plans to eventually have a residence with three bedrooms and a living room, it said.
Mr Chen bought mining lights, helmets and other equipment for the project, using expertise from his previous work as a labourer building coal mines.
The report quoted Mr Chen as saying the underground home can withstand a magnitude-eight earthquake and is cool in summer and warm in winter.
A housing boom over the past few years has sent property prices skyrocketing across China and propelled the issue to the top of the national agenda, with untold millions finding themselves unable to buy a home.
The government has responded this year with a series of measures to cool prices, such as tightening curbs on advance sales in new property developments, restricting loans for third home purchases and raising minimum down payments for second homes.
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Posted 02 September 2010 - 10:08
Im shocked! It should have stayed a mystery.
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Posted 02 September 2010 - 10:29
*Doesn't know who The Stig is*
*Looks it up on Wikipedia*
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Yeah, it's cooler when the character is anonymous.
*Looks it up on Wikipedia*
*Sad Puppy face*
Yeah, it's cooler when the character is anonymous.
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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 02 September 2010 - 13:38
[quote name='Major Fuckup' post='802844' date='2 Sep 2010, 11:08']
Im shocked! It should have stayed a mystery.[/quote]
Ah a pity, but I imagine by revealing himself before the book was put into print, he has probably lost alot of sales, or maybe not, I don't buy autobiographys anyway.
Oh and there will likely just be a new Stig, thats what happened before when the Stig revealed his identity. I think theres even something in the contract that states if he reveals his identity, he loses the job.
Im shocked! It should have stayed a mystery.[/quote]
Ah a pity, but I imagine by revealing himself before the book was put into print, he has probably lost alot of sales, or maybe not, I don't buy autobiographys anyway.
Oh and there will likely just be a new Stig, thats what happened before when the Stig revealed his identity. I think theres even something in the contract that states if he reveals his identity, he loses the job.
Edited by Ion Cannon!, 02 September 2010 - 14:06.
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Posted 02 September 2010 - 16:11
[quote name='Ion Cannon!' post='802924' date='2 Sep 2010, 15:38'][quote name='Major Fuckup' post='802844' date='2 Sep 2010, 11:08']
Im shocked! It should have stayed a mystery.[/quote]
Ah a pity, but I imagine by revealing himself before the book was put into print, he has probably lost alot of sales, or maybe not, I don't buy autobiographys anyway.
Oh and there will likely just be a new Stig, thats what happened before when the Stig revealed his identity. I think theres even something in the contract that states if he reveals his identity, he loses the job.
[/quote]I don't know what colour they'll make him this time though, since black and white are already out and black and white are awesome.
Im shocked! It should have stayed a mystery.[/quote]
Ah a pity, but I imagine by revealing himself before the book was put into print, he has probably lost alot of sales, or maybe not, I don't buy autobiographys anyway.
Oh and there will likely just be a new Stig, thats what happened before when the Stig revealed his identity. I think theres even something in the contract that states if he reveals his identity, he loses the job.
[/quote]I don't know what colour they'll make him this time though, since black and white are already out and black and white are awesome.
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—The Book of Cataclysm
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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Posted 02 September 2010 - 20:42
Hmm Ben Collins?
Also I always assumed there were "multiple stigs" so to speak. I'm fairly sure Schumi was the one behind the wheel of the FXX.
Also I always assumed there were "multiple stigs" so to speak. I'm fairly sure Schumi was the one behind the wheel of the FXX.
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scope, on 2 Sep 2010, 22:42, said:
Hmm Ben Collins?
Also I always assumed there were "multiple stigs" so to speak. I'm fairly sure Schumi was the one behind the wheel of the FXX.
Also I always assumed there were "multiple stigs" so to speak. I'm fairly sure Schumi was the one behind the wheel of the FXX.
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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
The brave hide behind technology. The stupid hide from it. The clever have technology, and hide it.
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Posted 03 September 2010 - 10:20
I hope you haven't forgotten our own Ben Collins 
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Posted 03 September 2010 - 16:14
scope, on 3 Sep 2010, 12:20, said:
I hope you haven't forgotten our own Ben Collins
! good pointI hope he hasn't forgotten US though
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Posted 04 September 2010 - 02:49
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A Japanese man drove the wrong way down an expressway for 90 kilometres and broke through five police barricades because his cat had died, he told police.
Tsutomu Mizumoto, 31, was arrested early on Wednesday (local time) on the northern island of Hokkaido, the Mainichi daily reported.
Police said they responded to an emergency call about 5:45am about a car driving the wrong way on a motorway near the city of Otaru.
They spotted the vehicle 15 minutes later and pursued the driver, ordering him to stop.
Mizumoto ignored them and drove on, smashing through five emergency blockades and passing through a tollgate.
He finally stopped at about 7:15am when police detained him.
"I was sad that my pet cat died," he was quoted as telling police.
"I wanted to do something crazy."
Tsutomu Mizumoto, 31, was arrested early on Wednesday (local time) on the northern island of Hokkaido, the Mainichi daily reported.
Police said they responded to an emergency call about 5:45am about a car driving the wrong way on a motorway near the city of Otaru.
They spotted the vehicle 15 minutes later and pursued the driver, ordering him to stop.
Mizumoto ignored them and drove on, smashing through five emergency blockades and passing through a tollgate.
He finally stopped at about 7:15am when police detained him.
"I was sad that my pet cat died," he was quoted as telling police.
"I wanted to do something crazy."
http://www.abc.net.a.../04/3002566.htm
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Posted 04 September 2010 - 03:00
Can't...really blame him...but...five? Wow, he must be driving a tank.
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Posted 04 September 2010 - 07:39
tell him to play Touhou.
at least it's better than driving in wrong lane, grazing incoming traffics, collecting pedestrian for extra points, and even breaking police barricade patterns.
at least it's better than driving in wrong lane, grazing incoming traffics, collecting pedestrian for extra points, and even breaking police barricade patterns.
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Posted 04 September 2010 - 13:23
Destiny, on 4 Sep 2010, 11:00, said:
Can't...really blame him...but...five? Wow, he must be driving a tank.
Yeah you gotta watch out for crazy jap men in their tanks in Hokkaido!
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