Lots of scrapey, scrapey stuff on the Honda, even more solar
stuff, not a cough of atmospheric movement and a dribble of condensed skywater at
the Castle this morn, the saga of the study is finally coming to an end-just a
few more trips to the “recycling centre” a dash of furniture movement and I can
close the door on the bleedin place.
As the wevver was clement-ish yesterday I took a day orf and
went somewhere nice for a while, I must remember to take the camera next time.
And his Maj has discovered the top of the kitchen cupboards.
Clone “B” has apparently had a psychotic break and thinks
that he is Margaret (I fucked up Blighty good and proper) Thatcher, and is
allegedly trying to emulate her appeal as a "conviction politician"
at the next general election.
The Ed Mili-band compared his call for an end to the
"irresponsible capitalism" resulting from the political consensus
since the Thatcher era with the former prime minister's economic reforms
following the 1978-79 "winter of discontent".
And reckons that in his quest for radical change, he was
inspired by his late father, Ralph Miliband, a Marxist academic.
According to “Power firms” a new government “green” charge
will add significantly to household energy bills, the energy industry has
accused ministers of underestimating the impact on households of its Energy
Company Obligation (ECO) rules.
They will force companies to provide energy efficiency
technology and home improvements to low-income households and others considered
to be at risk of fuel poverty.
The scheme, due to start next year, will oblige firms to
fund expensive modifications including cavity wall insulation.
Energy firms say ministers have understated the costs of the
work, which will be recouped from other customers.
Energy UK, which represents the industry, is expected to
publish a report by independent economic consultants suggesting the scheme will
add as much as £50 to the average household bill.
That contradicts assurances from the Department for Energy
and Climate Change, which is insisting that the changes will not mean
additional costs for consumers.
Thanks a lot chaps: pot calling the kettle black? More like
the kettle calling the kettle a kettle....
Council staff have removed a litter bin - after installing it
around seven feet in the air attached to a bus stop sign in London Road, Stoke
on Wednesday afternoon.
Don’t know why she is bothering, that Kiddly will never fit
in the slot....
Some surfers made a discovery near Santa Cruz, Calif.,
yesterday, when they found what looked to be a fossilized row of vertebrae
jutting out of some rocks during an "extremely low tide."
Apparently the bones are from an “extinct” Whale.
One surfer, Reddit user "Donkahones," snapped a
picture of the old bones and uploaded it to the social news site with the
light-hearted headline, "So I went surfing and saw a dinosaur."
14-year-old Jason Gessel was cycling along throwing
papers into front gardens on his routine paper
route when
he was viciously attacked by Voldemort, the 18-month-old neighbourhood fainting
goat In Smithfield, Utah.
Voldemort forced Gessel off his bike by head butting him,
and then trampled him with his hooves.
“”It just freaked me out when it stood up on its hind legs
and just wrapped its front legs around me and pulled me off,’” recounted
Gessel.
The paperboy managed to get away but was then chased up a
tree by Voldemort where he remained until being rescued by local police.
According toHuang Demin a farmer in
Guanshan village, Ningxiang County, in China’s Huang Province encouraging his
pigs to dive headfirst into a pond each day makes them taste better.
And reckons that his diving pigs also bring visitors
flocking to his farm. He built a 10ft
tall wooden diving board close to his pigsty so his livestock can enjoy a dive
into the pond every day.
He thinks it makes
the animals grow healthier and faster - and says they love it, although some of
them need a gentle nudge.
And Huang says
their aquatic antics improve their flavour so much he is able to charge three
times the price of normal pork for their meat.
The first layer of white crusty stuff, an absence of
atmospheric movement, a vast amount of solar stuff and not an atom of skywater
at the Castle this morn.
Had an “interesting” day on Monday, my lovely young lady
arrived to trim what is left of my hair, the interweb thingy went totally tits
up, and after a couple of hours I gave up completely, so I decided to “sort out”
the study and as I was dismantling shelves and stuff the phone rang and it was
a mate who was in more than a state of panic, his laptop had frozen and all he
had was a “page” telling him that the Police had taken over his computer
because of “illegal use”, but if he paid them £100 it would all go away and he
could compute away to his heart’s content.
Luckily he didn’t oblige and brought the laptop to me, it
was of course a scam, so I did the old ctrl-alt-del thing and ended up with
just his desktop background, the next step was to shut dahn the offending pieces
of electronics and press f7/f8 during boot; boot up in “safe mode” and do a
restore to a couple of days before-sorted.
So beware; if it
happens to you, follow the advice above, and do not click on anything if you
are attacked by these thieving, fuckwit tosspots they are only after your
money.
Lord Tyler who used to be the Liberal Democrats’ former
shadow Leader of the Commons has come up with a cunning plan to totally balls
up the electoral system.
He wants to extend the right to vote to 16 and 17 year olds
in all elections and referenda in the United Kingdom.
The Voting Age (Comprehensive Reduction) Bill which is being
published would make this change with a simple amendment to electoral law.
Lord Tyler’s Bill was backed Lord Adonis, by former Labour
Transport Secretary, Lord Lucas, former Conservative Government Whip, and
Independent Crossbench Peer and Baroness Young of Hornsey.
Lord Adonis said: “Young people should be able to vote at
16, so that political debate and democracy fully include them, and so that they
start to consider and discuss while still at school how to use their vote.”
A Cabinet Office spokesman said: “The Government has no
plans to change the current voting age.”
Nice to see that Cupid Stunts are still rife in Gov.....
According to the shit for brains MPs on a typical litre of
petrol costing 138.3p, 81p goes to the Treasury in fuel duty and VAT.
Under current Treasury plans, duty on petrol and diesel will
rise by 3p a litre on Jan1 next year.
Motoring groups and campaigners, including Conservative MPs,
are urging the Chancellor to scrap the planned rise, which they say will
squeeze household budgets further and dampen Britain’s economic recovery.
The Commons library, which is politically neutral, tracks
data on fuel and produces regular reports for MPs on prices and tax levels.
Its latest report shows that, after gradually falling over
the summer, pump prices are close to levels seen in April, when a typical litre
of petrol cost 141.7p.
The library’s researchers report that this year’s higher
prices have mainly been caused by rising global oil prices, forced up by
political tensions in the Middle East, especially over Iran’s nuclear
programme.
However, tax has contributed to longer-term rises: “The
price increases since late 2010 have been as a consequence of rising oil
prices, the weaker pound and increases in duty and VAT,” the report said.
The library reported that overall, British fuel duty was the
second highest in the European Union.
According to data from the European Commission, British
diesel is the most expensive in the EU, “despite relatively low pre-tax
prices”, the report said.
Petrol prices are the fourth highest in the EU, after
Greece, the Netherlands and Italy.
A spokesman said: “The Government recognises that the rising
price of petrol is a significant part of households’ day-to-day spending.
“Since coming to office the Government has listened to the
concerns of motorists about high pump prices and acted. Fuel is now 10p a litre
lower than under the previous government’s plans.”
When husband Jian
Feng saw his newborn baby for the first time he was horrified.
The girl was so
ugly he refused to believe he and his stunning wife could have produced such a
child.
And he rounded on
his partner, accusing her of having an affair.
But she told him
the terrible truth, her good looks were due to £62,000 of plastic surgery and
the baby was indeed theirs.
Furious Feng took
her to court claiming she had tricked him into marriage – and won his lawsuit.
Feng said: “I
married my wife out of love, but as soon as we had our first daughter, we began
having marital issues.
“Our daughter was
incredibly ugly, to the point where it horrified me.” He told lawyers his wife
had fooled him by having plastic surgery to make her beautiful and it was only
the birth of their daughter that gave her away.
Incredibly, the
court agreed and awarded Feng £75,000 after his wife admitted she had not told
him about the surgery.
A judge in the
northern Chinese court said she had tricked Feng into marrying her – and also
granted a divorce. He ruled that since Feng had not been aware of the surgery,
his wife had used “false premises”.
A nun with a
gambling addiction was accused of stealing $128,000 from two rural parishes
where she worked.
Sister Mary Anne
Rapp was treated for a gambling addiction and is in recovery, her order said
Monday, but she still faces a criminal charge of grand larceny following the
thefts from the St. Mary and St. Mark congregations. She was expected to plead
not guilty at an initial appearance in Kendall Town Court on Monday evening.
In 2010, two linked parishes were assigned a new pastor who
sought a routine audit, said Kevin Keenan, spokesman for the Roman Catholic
Diocese of Buffalo. The audit turned "some irregularities" that were
turned over to a county prosecutor, he said.
Rapp is accused of taking the money between 2006 and 2010,
Keenan said.
She was placed on leave from her position as pastoral
associate in February 2011 and fired in April 2011, he said. St. Mary's in
Holley and St. Mark's in nearby Kendall serve a combined total of about 600
families.
Officials believe Rapp spent the money at casinos. She is a
member of the Sisters of St. Francis, based in Lewiston, north of Buffalo.
Sister Edith Wyss, provincial minister of the 138-member order, said that when
Rapp was placed on leave, she agreed to seek treatment for a gambling
addiction.
"She spent 9 1/2 months in an in-patient treatment
program and has maintained her recovery in the year since," Wyss said.
Wyss said the order does not condone the conduct but
continues to pray for Sister Mary Anne as she deals with her addiction.
That'll help the
poor and starving who are poorer and even hungrier whilst “sister” Rapp lived
it up...
Have a bash at Face
Yoga, developed by Annelise Hagen, who calls is the ultimate face-lift.
The New York yoga instructor says her technique is meant to
be a natural alternative to Botox and cosmetic procedures, which cost Americans
billions of dollars every year. She started working on her unique set of facial
exercises after she learned that her students, most of them well-educated
professionals, were practicing yoga, but also getting Botox shots during their
lunch breaks to hide their wrinkles.
Hagen just didn’t feel that was in the spirit of yoga, so
she decided to create a proper alternative. Based on the premise that, like any
other muscles in the human body, facial muscles need exercise to stay toned,
face yoga offers a range of exercises to help people looking younger for
longer.
The Hubble Bubble telescope thingy has snapped the faint
irregular galaxy NGC 3738, which is located about 12 million light-years from
Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, which turns out to be a Dwarf galaxy
giving birth to oodles of new stars.
NGC 3738 is a type of galaxy known as a blue compact dwarf,
researchers said. Unlike elliptical galaxies or spirals, blue compact dwarfs
tend to be chaotic in appearance, lacking distinctive features such as central
bulges or spiral arms. They're thought to resemble some of the universe's
earliest galaxies and could provide clues about how stars looked shortly after the
Big Bang, researchers said.
Lubbly Jubbly, hope there aren’t any rugby players about....
The ex chief lash has finally got
the hint and buggered orf to pastures new without admitting whether he said
the ‘Pleb or moron’ word.
About bloody time...
Alien reptile in disguise son of a B......aronet George
(why should I travel with the moronic plebs) Osborne has had to cough up 160
squids when he tried to steal a first class seat from Virgin (where’s my
franchise) chuff-chuff between Wilmslow
and the Smoke with a few of his ‘mates’.
He will of course claim the cost of the ticket on his
expenses and we will pay for it.
And U-Turn
Cam is not talkingafter avoiding
questions for the fifth consecutive day about a cache of private emails between
him and Rebekah Brooks.
He sidestepped five parliamentary questions over electronic
communications with Ms Brooks, the former News International chief executive,
that were not released to the Leveson Inquiry into media standards.
The Prime Minister also refused to release any further
information in reply to a letter on the same subject from Harriet Harman, the
deputy Labour leader.
Nice to see that “open” Government thingy is working so
well...
Counterfeit ketchup
collaborators are being a bit saucy by buying bulk quantities of
traditional Heinz ketchup, transferring the condiment via large bladders into
individual containers labelled "Simply Heinz," one of the company's
premium recipes, then shunt the result off to unwitting consumers at a cushy mark-up.
Unfortunately the non top knob red stuff has got its revenge
by making the fake bottles explode, probably due to carb-hungry microbes that moved
in during the transfer and started building pressure inside a bottle as they
convert their feast into gas.
Doesn’t bother me I can’t afford Heinz, I have to make do
with Tesco.
Apparently organisers of the Scottish Conker Championships
have had to call off this year’s event at the last minute - due to a shortage
of conkers.
Efforts to find an
emergency supply of conkers for the event at Peebles, in the Borders, on
Saturday drew a blank.
The Borders Forest
Trust, which has organised the event for the last five years, said the move was
unavoidable due to the bad weather over the last few months.
Spokeswoman Louisa
Finch said: “The first championships were a real success, so we are saddened
that the event won’t be happening this year.
“Many horse
chestnut trees are bare this year or only have very small conkers which
wouldn’t have fared well in competition.
The maker of Banana Boat sunscreen is recalling some
half-million bottles of spray-on lotion after reports that a handful of people
have caught on fire after applying the product and coming in contact with an
open flame.
Energizer Holdings said Friday that it is pulling 23
varieties of UltraMist sunscreen off store shelves due to the risk of the
lotion igniting when exposed to fire.
The recall includes aerosol
products like UltraMist Sport, UltraMist Ultra Defense and UltraMist Kids.
A company spokesman said there have been five reports of
people suffering burns after using the sunscreen in the last year. Four burn
cases were reported in the U.S. and one in Canada.
More than 20 million units have been sold since UltraMist
launched in 2010, the spokesman said.
The problem appears to be caused by UltraMist’s spray valve,
which is over applying the product, Energizer said in a statement. As a result
the lotion is taking longer to dry, which raises the flammability risk.
“If a consumer comes into contact with a flame or spark
prior to complete drying of the product on the skin, there is a potential for
the product to ignite,” the company said.
In the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan, near the 350 person
village of Derweze, is a hole 328 feet wide that has been on fire. For 38 years
it has constantly been active. This hole is known as the Darvaza Gas Crater or
the "Gates of Hells" by locals, the crater can be seen glowing for
miles around.
The hole is the outcome not of nature but of an industrial
accident. In 1971 a Soviet drilling rig accidentally punched into a massive
underground natural gas cavern, causing the ground to collapse and the entire
drilling rig to fall in. Having punctured a pocket of gas, poisonous fumes
began leaking from the hole at an alarming rate. To head off a potential
environmental catastrophe, the Soviets set the hole alight. The crater hasn't
stopped burning since.
Lack of lack of cold, less solar stuff, limited atmospheric
movement and lower amounts of sky water at the Castle this morn.
Took a day orf yesterday, back to putting non coloured stuff
on both sides of eight doors, the woodwork dahn the staircase and twenty yards
of skirting boards today.
According to Three Core Cable what is left of Europe could
be plunged into war if the Euro goes tits up, he thinks that “the consequences
would be “incalculable” and added there was “no automatic guarantee” that Europe
would not disintegrate into conflict.”
Just one thought;
which countries can afford to go to war? Most of the European population is in
Blighty.
Tory minister Owen Paterson is busy getting everyone around
him up to speed… on the use of grammar.
The new Food Secretary has issued a strict guide detailing
exactly how staff should draw up his paperwork – including the proper use of
semicolons
Privately educated Mr Paterson is accused of losing sight of
the big picture after instructing Whitehall mandarins never to start a sentence
with “and” or “but” – and insisting neither word must appear next to a comma.
They are also told to “maximise the use of semicolons to
link related clauses” and “there should be a verb either side of the
semicolon”.
In the document, revealed under freedom of information laws,
staff have been ordered to avoid dashes, limit colons to lists and “minimise
the use of brackets”.
They are warned: “You will only ever get away with one set
of brackets in a sentence.”
Mr Paterson, 56, who studied at £30,000-a-year Radley
College and Cambridge, produced his nit-picking charter after David Cameron promoted
him in last month’s Cabinet reshuffle following the sacking of Caroline Spelman.
Pillock Paterson's rules
Keep sentences
short – the simpler the better
Avoid jargon,
dashes and brackets
Use maximum of one
‘and’ per sentence
Never begin with
‘and’ or ‘but’ and never use them with a comma
Maximise semicolons
to link related clauses; use a verb either side
Use colons to start
lists; commas between items
Nice to see that the Tory Tosspot has his priorities right, “if”
he read-this blog; he would have a seizure: (wanker)....
Forget about the lunatic that threw himself out of a balloon
23 miles up, here are some real free fallers, Montana wildlife officials on
Thursday had to sedate a black bear and her two cubs after they had climbed up
a tree on the grounds of a hotel in Missoula. The bears fell into a net, and
the hotel even provided pillows to help break their fall.
Solenne San Jose,
from Pessac, in the Bordeaux region of France, terminated her contract with
Bouygues Telecom in September, reports the French newspaper Sud Ouest. When she
got her bill on Sept. 28 with the cancellation fee, she said she "almost
had a heart attack."
She was told
11,721,000,000,000,000 Euros — which is about $15 quadrillion or nearly 6,000
times more than her country's GDP — would automatically be withdrawn from her
account.
"It was so
many zeroes I couldn't even figure out how much it was," she told the
newspaper.
Eventually,
Bouygues admitted the amount was a mistake, but not before many frustrating
hours of San Jose pleading and arguing with customer service reps on the phone.
One operator told
her she could pay in instalments — 11,721 million, million of them.
Finally, they
admitted the error. Her actual bill? $149.
Not much lack of cold, even less atmospheric movement, quite
a lot of skywater, and not a glimmer of solar stuff at the Castle this morn.
Just returned from the stale bread, gruel and his Maj’s food
run dahn Tesco, still a mess, still expensive but there are fewer “shoppers”
staggering about and even less interweb trolley robots.
A slight pause in putting the coloured stuff on me, the
floors, walls and ceilings due to the unfortunate fact that I need to do a bit
of plastering in the bedroom and the stairwell, but the good news is that I
have finally got the hang of the ‘super duper’ paint pad system thingy...
U-Turn Cam informed Mandrew Arr on Auntie yestermorn that
there would not be a “mansion tax” on houses valued at over two squillion squids,
instead together with the other unelected bit of the Piss Poor Policies Millionaires
Club Coalition will be targeting the rich with new measures to help balance the
books.
The Prime Monster said his party would "level"
with the public about the need for another £16 billion of spending cuts in
2015-16.
"We have to find these spending reductions and if we
want to avoid cuts in things like hospitals and schools, services that we all
rely on, we have to look at things like the welfare budget," he said.
Too fucking late knobhead, and let me guess who will not
have to pay the “mansion tax”-U-Turn Cam, George (alien reptile in disguise) Osborne,
the Irritable Bowel Twins and probably most of the rest of the Downing Street
sideboard.
Son of a.....Baronet George (my mansion’s bigger than your
mansion) Osborne is apparently going to thrill the young, sick, needy and
unemployed with a cunning plan to hack yet another £10bn orf the cost of
welfare.
Apparently George O has reached an agreement with the
Irritable Bowel Twins to reduce welfare spending by another £10bn by 2016-17.
The planned £10bn cuts will be in addition to the reduction
in welfare spending of £18bn by 2014 which the “Chancellor” announced in the
Budget in March. They will be driven through in conjunction with the
introduction of the Universal Credit, which replaces means-tested benefits and
tax credits and will be rolled out from next year.
I suppose the only good bit is that by 2016 there may not be
a Piss Poor Policies Millionaires Club Coalition.
Is that the Irritable Bowel Twins have drawn up proposals
for a significant reduction in benefit payments after 2015.
Young unemployed people could be forced to live with their
parents rather than be allowed to claim housing benefit, and there are plans to
cut the benefits of unemployed families who continue to have more children, and
child benefit, income support or tax credits could be withheld from jobless
families.
According to the GridIron
nearly 1.2 million working adults will for the first time next year face losing
some of their benefits if they do not comply with new state requirements to
work longer hours, find an additional job or seek higher wages.
The aim is to
increase the incentives to work but it means that people will lose money if
they don't find extra work, even if there is none available where they live.
There are currently 1.4 million people working part-time
because they are unable to find full-time work – compared to 500,000 in 2004.
Don’t blame me-I didn’t vote for this load of dickheads,
then again nor did anyone else...
Jamie Fox a graduate in music and English has bagged himself
a Worzel of a job as a temporary scarecrow; he spends his days sitting, reading
and strumming his ukulele and then leaps into action when birds begin to
circle, scaring them with his bright orange coat, accordion and cow bell.
Jolly Jamie is halfway through a fortnight-long stint scaring partridges
from a field of oilseed rape near Aylsham, Norfolk.
He said: "I get to sit and read for a lot of the time, but
whenever the partridges appear I have to get up and scare them off.
"I ring a cowbell and I've even played the accordion, but the ukulele
doesn't seem to have any effect on them."
Mr Fox, who lives in Aylsham, earns £250 a week for his efforts policing the
10-acre field for eight hours each day. He is saving for a planned trip to New
Zealand next year.
Worth every penny of his thirty grand “education”...
Comes the HotTug, a floating thingy with about 2000 litres
of water on board and a wood stove in the front of the boat to heat the water in
about 2.5 hours up to 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees F.) just by making a little fire with normal logs.
And you and up to seven “friends” can enjoy this experience
for as little as € 8.950, or if you want to go the whole log € 16.450 for the HotTugboat
E-power+ Boat + stainless steel wood burning heater + electric Minnkota RT 160
EM, 4 Zenith batteries of 6 volt / 400 Ah + charger.
At the annual meeting of nonentities dahn on the sarf coast the
non-gay deputy Prime Monster said giving free television licences, winter fuel
payments and free bus passes to everyone was increasingly “difficult to
explain”.
He called on well-off pensioners to help “make ends meet” by
surrendering the handouts, warning it was not fair that Lord Sugar, the tycoon,
for example, should be entitled to receive state assistance.
No nuts however pledged to continue to support universal
benefits for the elderly, worth hundreds of pounds per person every year, until
2015 but suggested that the handouts are then reconsidered.
A Lib Dem health minister also indicated yesterday that the
elderly would face paying higher taxes to fund their care in old age under
reforms to be introduced later in the decade.
Still; the silver voters will sort this bollocks out at the
next election...
The row continues over the chief lash and “Plebs”, shadow
home secretary Yvette Cooper said the Prime Minister appeared determined to
prevent the truth coming out.
While he has apologised for showing a lack of respect to the
police, Mr Mitchell insisted he did not use the words attributed to him -
prompting angry complaints from the Police Federation that he was effectively
accusing the officers involved of lying.
The Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood last night
attempted to draw a line under the matter, arguing that there was no purpose in
holding an inquiry as the officer concerned had accepted Mr Mitchell's apology
and did not wish to pursue the matter.
According to the Telegraph, the police log describes Mr
Mitchell speaking to a female officer on Wednesday evening and "demanding
exit through the main vehicle gate into Whitehall".
He was told that it was "policy" for cyclists to
use the pedestrian gate.
"Mr Mitchell refused, stating he was the Chief Whip and
he always used the main gates," the report goes on.
"I explained to Mr Mitchell that the policy was to use
the side pedestrian gates and that I was happy to open those for him, but that
no officer present would be opening the main gates as this was the policy we
were directed to follow.
"Mr Mitchell refused. Repeatedly reiterating he was the
Chief Whip... After several refusals Mr Mitchell got off his bike and walked to
the pedestrian gate with me after I again offered to open that for him.
"There were several members of public present as is the
norm opposite the pedestrian gate and as we neared it, Mr Mitchell said: 'Best
you learn your f****** place... you don't run this f****** Government... You're
******* plebs.'
"The members of public looked visibly shocked and I was
somewhat taken aback by the language used and the view expressed by a senior
Government official. I cannot say if this statement was aimed at me
individually, or the officers present or the police service as a whole."
The log states that the officer warned Mr Mitchell that he
could be arrested for swearing.
"I warned Mr Mitchell that he should not swear, and if
he continued to do so I would have no option but to arrest him under the Public
Order Act, saying ‘Please doesn’t swear at me, sir. If you continue to I will
have no option but to arrest you under the Public Order Act'," it states.
"Mr Mitchell was then silent and left saying 'You
haven't heard the last of this' as he cycled off."
Comes the Shopper Chopper, a nine-foot-tall small-block-Chevy-poweredattention-grabbing
shopping cart with a 350 cubic-inch engine and 500+ LED lights.
I want one! Imagine driving that dahn the aisles in Tesco’s
and you wouldn’t even need to put a quid in the chainy lock thingy....
According to “experts” Taking magic mushrooms (psilocybin)
can have a lasting change on the individual's personality, making them more
open about their feelings and the way they perceive things.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA, wrote in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
The authors explained that those who had mystic experiences while on
psilocybin were more likely to subsequently exhibit certain personality
changes, making them more forthcoming about their feelings, becoming more
focused on being creative, curious, and appreciative about artistic things.
Psilocybin is a psychedelic drug - a substance whose main action is to alter
perception and cognition. Its molecular formula is C12H17N2O4P.
Its mind-altering effects are similar to those of mescaline and LSD. It effects
may include, an altered sense of time, spiritual experiences, perceptual
distortions, and thinking processes.
Chen Guangbiao, a famous Chinese businessman and
philanthropist, has launched a line of canned fresh air collected from various
parts of China and Taiwan. The product is called “Chen Guangbiao: Nice Guy” and
sells for about $0, 80.
He has recently started selling canned fresh air collected
from “revolutionary” areas of China, including Jinggang Mountain in Jiangxi
Province and some ethnic minority areas and Taiwan. ”One only has to open the
can, directly ‘drink’ it or put the nose close to the can to breathe deeply,”
Chen said. He also mentioned there is a chip in the can, and during the
“packaging process”, when the negative oxygen ions reach a certain
concentration the lid is triggered by the chip and closed. And since the air is
compressed, it stays inside the can even without a lid,
And the gullible bit?
”Chen Guangbiao: Nice Guy” air
cans were flying off the shelves from the first day they were introduced, and
they sold out in a matter of days-100,000 cans.
I’ve got a load of old empty milk containers full of ‘Ampshire
air if anyone wants to make an offer...
Jayme John Leonwalked
into a local McDonald's in Oregon on September 23 and ordered a quarter pounder
burger without onions. But when he returned home, Leon discovered the burger
was in fact topped with onions.
When he called the restaurant to complain, Leon was
told he was entitled not only to a refund but also to a free replacement
burger.
Leon reportedly ate the offending burger anyway but
still showed up at the McDonald's demanding a refund and fresh burger.
"Since he ate the quarter pounder, McDonald's
would not refund his money, sending Mr. Leon into a McFury," Sgt. Claudio
Grandjean, Gresham Police spokesman, told the paper.
After tossing the drink and breaking the register,
Leon then left the restaurant and headed back home.
He was intercepted by police and has been charged
with first-degree criminal mischief, second-degree disorderly conduct, and
harassment.