A gunman in Thailand shot-dead eight neighbours, including his brother-in-law, after tiring of their karaoke versions of popular songs, including John Denvers "Country Roads."
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03/08/2008 14:35 ||
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I gotta say I'd have a tough time voting to convict...
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Oh, I certainly have wanted to kill after hearing that song. That, the Carpenters, Hey Jude, and Hotel California are endlessly replayed again and again. There was an experiment by a fellow here in China who made a CD with just Hotel California repeated again and again for 70 minutes. The patrons of the pool hall he played it in loved it, and asked for more mix CDs.
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"MacArthur Park" ("Someone left a cake out in the rain . . . .")
"Let's Dance" by Bowie ("Put on your red shoes and dance the blues . . . .")
"Surfin' Bird"
"Achy Breaky Heart"
Anything by Cake, the Cure, Annie Lennox, or Kate Bush.
Posted by: Mike ||
03/08/2008 19:48 Comments ||
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Nope, Mike, none of those are available in English karaoke in Asia. We're talking: Country Roads, the Carpenters, Hey Jude, and Hotel California. Don't worry, you won't find anything by Kate Bush, nor any artist from the last 30 years.
MOSCOW - An apparently drunk Russian tank driver rammed his 25-tonne fighting machine into a remote village cottage while on a vodka run, footage aired on Friday on state television showed.
The soldier was filmed driving the tank, armed with an anti-aircraft gun, through a tiny street in Oktyabrskaya, in the Ural mountains Sverdlovsk region. He clambered unsteadily into his vehicle with two freshly purchased bottles, then rammed a fence and a house while attempting to leave.
He was drunk, a villager said on Channel One television.
No, reeeeaaaallly?
An assistant at the local shop said the soldier had purchased two bottles of vodka. Army spokesman Konstantin Lazutkin promised the military would pay for repairs.
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And the soldier will go to a Siberian Gulag for the rest of his life.
Actually, I think they are a lot more tolerant of that sort of thing than we are. He'll probably get slapped around a little and have to do some extra chores for the week.
Scientists and environmentalists have attacked a global campaign to ban plastic bags which they say is based on flawed science and exaggerated claims.
Boy howdy that's never happened before.
The widely stated accusation that the bags kill 100,000 animals and a million seabirds every year are false, experts have told The Times. They pose only a minimal threat to most marine species, including seals, whales, dolphins and seabirds.
Gordon Brown announced last month that he would force supermarkets to charge for the bags, saying that they were one of the most visible symbols of environmental waste. Retailers and some pressure groups, including the Campaign to Protect Rural England, threw their support behind him.
Vietnam has launched a crackdown on hamsters, a wildly popular pet here in the current lunar Year of the Rat, fearing an influx of the foreign-bred rodent furballs could spread disease and destroy crops.
From next Monday, anyone possessing or trading hamsters faces stiff fines of up to 30 million dong ($1,875), the Vietnam News daily reported, citing a new agriculture ministry directive to enforce a ban imposed last month. The communist government aims to end a youth craze for the fast-breeding animals, which were previously only imported for scientific research, but which have now spawned online hamster forums and real-life hamster clubs.
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"Destroying them all is really a big problem," agriculture ministry official Nguyen Thanh Son was quoted as saying. "I think the Vietnam animal health department should take some samples, conduct tests and see how dangerous the hamsters in Vietnam really are."
Heh heh, we ate the tart girl reporter AND that grotesque official right after we made them file that report!
fyi, gubmint officials are poor quality stringy eats no matter how fat they are... but Young Children.. now they are the BEST GRUB OF ALL Buwahahaha..
#5
Oh hah hah hah. It's a furry little rodent story so let's throw Richard Gere's name in there for some cheap laughs. Very funny assholes hah hah hah...
Posted by: Richard Gere ||
03/08/2008 11:11 Comments ||
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Besides, everyone knows it was a gerbil!
Posted by: Richard Gere ||
03/08/2008 12:28 Comments ||
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revenge is best served cold..
1975: Hanoi & the NVA celebrated their takeover in the South a little too damn early.
SOG teams inserted back into South Vietnam in the Fall of 1975 and planted 30 colonies of *Humping Hamsters.
*WMD HH [WMD Hamsters] were bred on a farm in Virginia USA circa 1966.
They proved to be so dangerous that they had to be contained in Maraging steel Cages.
[so secrete it may not have been invented yet]
French women are becoming increasingly assertive in their sexual habits, while one-in-five younger French men "has no interest in sex", according to one of the most comprehensive surveys of the nation's love lives. Women now have more than twice as many partners as they did in the 1970s, according to the study by the French Aids research agency, which is backed by the government. Well, they are admitting it at least.
"Are women just like men?" asked Le Nouvel Observateur yesterday, which released extracts of the Study on Sexuality in France, a 600-page tome that brings together 12,000 in-depth interviews with people of all ages conducted during 2005-06. One of the biggest changes in recent years, according to the report, was that male and female sexual behaviour had become increasingly similar. Beware the girlfriend with a strapon.
The proportion of French women who claim to have had only one partner has dropped from 68 per cent in 1970, to 43 per cent in 1992 and 34 per cent in 2006. A woman's average number of partners has risen from under two in 1970 to over five today, while a man's has remained the same for four decades, almost 13. So how did the women (who averaged usually one or two partners) service twice as men, who averaged way more?
French women's first experience of sex is now almost as early as that of the opposite sex: in 1950 there was a two-year difference, but the gap has narrowed to four months, to around 17 and a half. Meanwhile, more women remain sexually active for longer than previously: nine-out-of-10 women over 50 are sexually active today, compared to just 50 per cent of that age group in 1970.
"The good old dichotomy (male predators, females patiently awaiting the warrior's return in front of the cave entrance) is in big trouble", said Le Nouvel Observateur. Woohoo! I can't wait to be used!
Female sexual emancipation has been a hot topic in France ever since President Nicolas Sarkozy met Carla Bruni, the Italian model and singer. The couple married last month. Ms Bruni recently declared monogamy "terribly boring" and spoke in relaxed fashion about her numerous past conquests, including Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton. Hey, what about me?!
"I am a tamer [of men], a cat, an Italian", she told Le Figaro last year. "I am faithful... to myself. I am monogamous from time to time but I prefer polygamy and polyandry [its female equivalent]."
At the same time, she reinforced old stereotypes that link status and virility, by reportedly declaring: "I want a man with nuclear power." Hey, baby, ever tried coal?
Despite the changes in female behaviour observed in the study, some things have not altered in 40 years. Men found it easier than women to disassociate sex from love, but the research suggested this was due to nurture rather than nature. The study said: "Young women are still educated to consider their entrance into sexuality as a sentimental-relationship experience."
One of the more surprising findings was that one-in-five French men aged between 18 and 24 "manifests no interest in sexuality", while abstinence rates for men under 35 was twice as high as for women.
The two sociologists who compiled the research said that the French had fewer sexual taboos and inhibitions than before, but were more anxious about lovemaking. Never have sex counsellors been so busy in France: according to one estimate, they treat half a million patients per year. There's no way they can do it alone. Let's all head over to France and see what we can do to help out. We can meet at JFM's house.
#1
Kevin the Crazy French Guy hasn't been letting us in on this. Wants it all to himself, apparently. Greedy bastard
Posted by: Frank G ||
03/08/2008 16:02 Comments ||
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One in 5 French men has no interest in sex because a) they're lying, b) they like goats better, being followers of the Great Prophet Mo,, or c) they're pansified metrosexual/homosexual Eurofied wusses who, if they ever met a member of the French Foreign Legion, would be down on their knees in a heartbeat salivating so long as they brought their kneepads so they wouldn't scuff their delicately-skinned kneecaps.
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Nah, it's just the usual "all men are evil" that the current generation has been raised with. Knowing that they are the horrible creators of all that is bad, they naturally wish to withhold themselves from women who unknowingly wish to be exploited. Women, being the contradictory beings that they are, are now all bent out of shape that men have actually taken their dictates to heart.
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Russian tank rams house on vodka run
Scientists and environmentalists have attacked a global campaign to ban plastic bags which they say is based on flawed science and exaggerated claims. 
French women are becoming increasingly assertive in their sexual habits, while one-in-five younger French men "has no interest in sex", according to one of the most comprehensive surveys of the nation's love lives. Women now have more than twice as many partners as they did in the 1970s, according to the study by the French Aids research agency, which is backed by the government.
