Saint in Paradise

Chicago chef opens all-bacon restaurant. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/22/burkes-bacon-bar_n_3797455.html Also did you know this:- An ice-cream company have broken boundaries by concocting the world's first burger-flavoured ice-cream. http://recipefinder.msn.co.nz/article/foodnews/8713634/burger-flavoured-ice-cream-concocted-by-evil-geniuses

Genuine story this time. An Australian couple holidaying in Thailand say they came close to being "framed" for drug trafficking after a hotel porter allegedly planted drugs in their suitcases. Dave, 33, and Georgia, 29, from Melbourne, stored their luggage with staff at their hotel ahead of their afternoon flight out of Bangkok. "As we let the bags down, [the hotel porter] wanted to know our itinerary, when we were going to fly, where we were going to and how long we were going to be there for," Dave told A Current Affair. The couple went for a walk but decided to return to the hotel after feeling uneasy about the number of questions the staff member asked. They collected their luggage, headed to the airport and proceeded to check in. "I realised my bag was heavy so took both bags off and started re-arranging things," Dave said. "I noticed Georgia's lock was gone, my bag had been tampered with and then and there realised something was wrong." While Georgia said she just wanted to check in, Dave decided to take the suitcases to a nearby hotel. "Dave basically said to me 'check these suitcases now, I think there's something in these suitcases'," she said. They located what appeared to be drugs. "I've grabbed it and just ran straight to the toilet and flushed it down and rinsed out the bag," Dave said. "I went back to my suitcase… searching and searching and searching." The couple contacted the Australian Embassy who instructed them to get rid of the suitcases and wash their clothes. They spent another two days in Bangkok before changing their travel plans. The Australian Consular Division helped Dave and Georgia flee Thailand. "Our responsibility as the Australian Government is for the welfare and safety of Australian citizens abroad," Justin Brown from the department said. http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8714318/drugs-planted-in-couples-bag-on-thai-holiday .

A quite interesting article here:- http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/08/the-debate-over-intervention-in-syria.html .

Bearsy is indeed rather "different" but not as bad as Spudgun or Tokyo.

CWAB, you can't hold a candle to a certain poster who knows all the stats about everything and who likes to bring them out and be pedantic quite a lot. :lol: I won't post his name as he has too much publicity already, however it isn't Turkish or Batman.

I recently bought an LG TV and when I was setting it up I discovered that it has a setting for "Home Use" and another for ""Store Use". This was a bit brighter than normal.

For all the oppressed Muslims in the U.S.A. http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/061213-659753-all-intrusive-obama-terror-dragnet-excludes-mosques.htm Posted to promote a discussion and I wonder when the U.K. Govt. was told to do the same ? .

Sorry but light meters were brought in because "common sense" wasn't evenly applied as humans differ in their judgement of what is bad light. Humans can be influenced by other humans but a light meter can't. Also don't forget that the TV picture always makes it look a lot lighter than the real life scene so a red ball would be more difficult to pick up.

Just think if you don't use it your daughter could look like this one day:- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401524/Former-model-Christine-Keeler-71-unrecognisable-50-years-Profumo-affair.html 50 years ago when I was a young teenager I always wanted to "meet" an older woman like this who could teach me things.

Leaked documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) indicate that the organization has become suspicious of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technology built into an increasing number of Windows 8 PCs and tablets. Documents uncovered and leaked by German news outlet Zeit Online found that the German Ministry of Economic Affairs was displaying significant unease with the combined technologies, suggesting the possibility that a backdoor could be created for further covert NSA surveillance operations. The backdoor in question would allow Microsoft to control the computer remotely. “Trusted Computing,” a method developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group, is nothing new - fears were being aired over its capabilities and potential as early its founding in 1999. TPM appeared in 2006 as security technology. However, version 2.0 would implant a chip on every single PC, allowing it to control which programs could and couldn’t be executed because under Windows 8, there is no override. The users thus basically surrender control over their computers. http://rt.com/news/windows-8-nsa-germany-862/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhnSsM40loA

Over 80% of the people buried are in above ground tombs because of the water table height.

The height of stupidity IMHO :mcinnes:

Of all the life lessons your dad taught you, having awesome sex probably wasn’t one of them. Unless you’re the daughter of blogger Ferrett Steinmetz, who on Monday, penned a post called “Dear Daughter. I Hope You Have Some F****ing Awesome Sex.” Steinmetz’s post was in response to a Fetlife story titled “10 Rules For Dating My Daughter” which included tidbits such as, “Rule Four: I’m sure you’ve been told that in today’s world, sex without utilizing some kind of ‘barrier method’ can kill you. Let me elaborate: when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.” Frustrated that society barraged his two daughters with messages that pre-marital sex makes them slutty, men are sex-crazed beasts, ( I think that 99% of young men are ) and at the notion that it’s a father’s job to prevent both from happening, Steinmetz wrote the following to his daughter: http://nz.lifestyle.yahoo.com/general/features/article/-/18522313/this-dad-wants-his-daughter-to-have-good-sex-is-that-so-wrong/ http://www.theferrett.com/ferrettworks/2013/08/random-thoughts-on-going-viral-some-follow-up-thoughts-on-dear-daughter/

Ah Turkish don't forget a lot of footballers think that they "work". To me normal "work" is rather different to getting paid millions for doing something you really enjoy.

Watch this video:- from about the 5.00 minute to about 7.00 minutes. He talks about the execution of Anne Boleyn - here eyes kept moving and so did her lips for several seconds. Whitey Grandad first posted the first of the set of these videos and I still watch them from time to time they are really excellent.

How long have they been known as "Smoggies" ? Anyone have a rough idea please? The decade is good enough doesn't have to be the actual year.

With almost a half of Bolivian territory completely out of police control, citizens resort to delivering their own controversial justice. As a warning from lynch mobs to criminals, rag dolls in faded clothes hang limply by the neck from telegraph poles. In the first half of 2013, Bolivia’s Office of the Ombudsman reported the deaths of ten people from such lynchings. The practice is most common in rural and deprived areas of Bolivia where police and local authorities do not wield much influence through their scarcity. “Citizens of La Paz no longer believe in the police and have chosen to deliver their own justice. That is why they put up the rag dolls, they are a warning. They hope to keep the thieves and criminals in line this way,” said RT’s Bricio Segovia from Bolivia’s capital de facto, La Paz. “Lynching is on the rise,” the organization commented at the time, noting 46 cases between November 2005 and mid-January 2008. “Often, individuals in these mobs cite “communal justice” to justify barbaric actions such as hanging, crucifixion, stoning, live burial, and burning,” said a statement from the organization. http://rt.com/news/bolivia-lynching-rag-dolls-524/ .

Used British Crews to "Confuse the Soviets" and Overflew French Nuclear Sites US Spy Planes Targeted China to Help India; Groom Lake/Area 51 Finally Declassified Less Redacted CIA History Released Under FOIA National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 434 Posted – August 15, 2013 Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson For more information contact: Jeffrey T. Richelson 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu Full Article can be seen here:- http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB434/

Yes I also found that a bit odd. Mind you they might use the excuse that their families would be attacked if they had blabbed to the airport cops.

Far too many Govts and people making a fortune from this situation for my liking. Notice how the subject has quietly been re-named from "Global Warming" to the new "Climate Change"? Couldn't possible because the Earth is cooling rather than warming surely ?

The dangers of texting and driving are well documented but a Hamilton woman has increased those risks even further - doing both while asleep. The woman, who suffers from a sleep condition and was taking sleeping pills, was asleep when she drove more than 300 kilometres from her Hamilton home to Auckland and then to Mt Maunganui late on Tuesday night. Police say she was texting throughout her unconscious drive and has no recollection of the incident, which began around midnight on Tuesday. Police were tracking the woman's movements via her mobile phone throughout the five hour ordeal after they received a 111 call from a concerned friend. ( So why didn't they find her, wake her up and stop her ???? ) "Last night's events could have so easily ended in tragedy which is something I am sure, we all want to avoid," Senior Sergeant Dave Litton said. They have sought an urgent order forbidding the woman to drive Yeah that will work http://news.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=8705774 .

Spoken by a person who is unable to properly understand what I wrote. Actually after thinking about it just shows/proves that "Barry Sanchez" is the sort of person the writer of the phrase "There are none as dense as those that want to be" had in mind at the time.

All very brave words, but I wonder what you would really do IF someone did offer to pay for your flights ? Surely if you really are as strongly opposed to that Russian Law as you and Mr Fry claim to be then you and him would use any means possible to actually go there in person and not just find minor excuses not to. ??? To further use your own words:- Things change through the actions of brave people. So find a way and go to Moscow then. A lot of folks who fought and died in the Spanish civil war paid their own way to Spain as they strongly believed in the cause they supported. I also read the other day that even some charity workers pay their own way to go to Africa to help and well done to them. As many have said before in many different threads it is very easy to be an internet warrior - who does not actually physically go to the real front line.

:lol::lol: Thanks, I haven't laughed so much in ages and my we are all a bunch of precious flowers aren't we :lol: Well when I say "we" I do of course mean most of you.