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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Majority of men perfectly happy with the amount of porn they watch

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A study has discovered that 75% of men are perfectly happy with the amount of Internet porn they use, thank you very much.

In a survey by the BBC it was reported that only a quarter of men reported any kind of problems with the amount of Internet adult material they have access too, focusing mainly on the concern that they might one day ‘run out’.

One of the 25% concerned, Stephen Jameson told us, “Several hours a week allows me to keep on top of any new developments, but what happens if I get ahead of the curve?”

“Oh God, imagine if that was it. Imagine if I’d seen it all?”

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What are some of the most important, iconic, and/or beautiful scientific images? - Quora

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A brilliant collection of scientific images. Not sure if you have to sign in to Quora to see it.

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Mysterious Mirror Man Spotted in Los Angeles

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

First Aid Training







This must have been my sixth or seventh first aid training. More fun than I thought it would be. Not as gruesome as some of the scenarios. Interesting to see the integration of modern technology. We don't do the Heimlich Manoeuvre any more in Australia. Also I still hate doing CPR.

Do you think I look good in a turban?

Camille - Katie's Tea

Sounds great when you are a bit drunk.

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David Cameron blocks Gordon Brown as head of IMF - Telegraph

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Good. We would all be rooned.

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The Governments Chaplaincy Programme. Fundamentally Flawed.

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So agree with this from Scott Stephens.

I have serious doubts about the theological and ethical legitimacy of any National School Chaplaincy Program.

I should clarify that I am not opposed to chaplains per se.

But under the current arrangement, because of the top-down provision of government funds, the mediation of state-level providers and the lack of training the relationship between the chaplain and the school is marred from the outset.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

EX-TRA-PO-LATE! Moral philosophy and the Daleks - Research - University of Cambridge

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It shouldn’t work, but somehow it does. Ever since Doctor Who first aired in 1963, the series has been internationally recognisable thanks to one of the most ridiculous space-creatures ever conceived; a master race of intergalactic pepperpots, armed with a sink plunger and an egg whisk, who (according to popular mythology), are hell-bent on conquering anywhere, provided it doesn’t involve stairs.

But don’t let that fool you. For more than 45 years, the Doctor’s arch-enemies, the Daleks, have been striking fear into young viewers with their chilling war-cry of “Exterminate!”. Like the Doctor himself, they have become an icon of British culture. For many, hiding behind the sofa when they appear is virtually a rite of passage.

Now, with the new season of Doctor Who nearly upon us, a Cambridge University academic has turned his mind to what makes the Daleks so terrifying. Writing in a new paper, Dr Robin Bunce – normally a researcher in intellectual history – explores why these unlikeliest of sci-fi foes bettered the rest, and became the most menacing alien ever to invade the small screen.

His answer has nothing to do with their often-cited, non-human appearance, nor their weird, electronic voices. In fact, Dr Bunce believes that the Daleks succeed because they offer us a moral lesson in what it means to be human in the first place. They terrify us because the evil they represent is a more precise definition than that of philosophers stretching from Socrates to Kant. They are chilling, he argues, because they are a vision of what we ourselves might become.

“The reason the Daleks are evil is because we recognise that they were once better,” Dr Bunce explained. “They are the nightmare future we dread.”

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Guy rescues baby hummingbird after it was attacked. [VIDEO]

cod liver oil and the orange juice (trance dance version)

In the UK just after the war the National Health Service instituted a programme for the benifit of young children which involved the distribution of cod liver oil (did they know about Omega-3 back then) and orange juice (vitamin C). Perhaps they were items for the underprivileged and the people growing up in the slums of glasgow like the Gorbals.

Cod liver oil and orange juice was what a woman who was expecting a baby got, free. That was in the days before Margaret Thatcher became minister of health. She also stopped free distribution of milk to school children and became known as "Thatcher Thatcher the baby's milk snatcher"

This song was made by Hamish Imlach and takes a wry look at the "hard man" from Brigton a predominately protestant area and "Hairy Mary who most likely was a catholic from the Gorbals.

The dialogue between Mary and her "hard man" is what you would encounter at the Denistoun Palais or even the Locarno ballroom or up the Barrowlands and it uses lots of Glasgow slang and consists of Mary rebuffing the protestant "Billy Boy" from Brigton.

Sectarianism is rife in Glasgow as is still evidenced at the ol' Firm football matches between protestant/Rangers/Blue and Catholic/Celtic/Green

"So don't wear a green scarf in Brigton
Or a blue scarf in Cumberland Street
No unless your a heavy weight champion
Or hell o a quick on yer feet"

Cumberland Street was located in the Gorbals slums which which provides further evidence that "Hairy Mary" was Catholic. The frisson that exists in the dance hall captures the dichotomy that endures between Catholic/Protestant "what a hell of a mixture" VP/Cider.

You have to listen to Hamish Imlach singing the song and his comic timing is superb and with all good folk songs from the 60's it had to have a chorus for audience participation.

But he did have a serious side also have a listen to his Macpherson's Farewell

Here are the words of the song with some annotation provided mostly by Hamish himself.

http://www.mysongbook.de/msb/songs/c/codliver.html

Or there is an interesting discussion in the mudcat cafe

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.CFM?threadID=2157#7944

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Alexis Korner- Get Off My Cloud


I remember his gravelly voice on his Blues and Soul Show in the 70s in the UK.

Mary Wells - My Guy

Will you be my guy?

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Barbara Harmer From Hairdresser to Concorde Pilot

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For 10 years she remained Concorde's only woman pilot to fly regular commercial services, until October 2003 when the world's only Mach 2 civil jet was withdrawn from service by its two operators, British Airways and Air France, in the wake of the catastrophic accident to an Air France Concorde in July 2000.
Barbara Harmer had been flying the long-haul DC 10 with British Caledonian when the airline merged with British Airways in 1987. One of only 60 women pilots flying with the national airline at that time, she was chosen in 1992 for the intensive six-month conversion course for Concorde.
In May 1999 she took the Manchester United football team to play Bayern Munich in the Champions' League final in Barcelona, a flight which she described as one of the most exciting of her career. "I felt quite emotional as I taxied the Concorde out on to the runway," she remembered later, "with British flags flying and thousands of people wishing the team luck on the way."
Most of her flying was on the North Atlantic route, but she never lost her sense of wonder at seeing the world from 60,000 feet as she travelled at 1,350 mph.
The youngest of four daughters, Barbara Harmer was born in Loughton, Essex on September 14 1953. Educated at a convent school after the family moved to Bognor Regis, she left at 15 to become an apprentice hairdresser.
But after five years she decided that she wanted more excitement in her life.
She applied for a job as a trainee air traffic controller at Gatwick Airport, at the same time paying for flying lessons. For the five years she worked at Gatwick she scraped together the money for enough lessons to gain her private pilot's licence.
She obtained a bank loan of £10,000 to build up her flying hours and flew as an instructor at Goodwood Flying School. For two years she studied by correspondence course for her commercial pilot's licence, which she finally obtained in May 1982.
Her tenacity to succeed was put to a stern test after she had qualified to be a commercial pilot. It took 100 applications before she found a job with Genair, a small commuter airline operating from Humberside Airport. She joined British Caledonian in March 1984 to fly the BAC 111, later converting to the DC 10.
After Concorde was withdrawn from service Barbara Harmer retrained and became a British Airways captain on long-haul routes flying the Boeing 777 until she took voluntary redundancy from the airline in 2009.

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Monday, April 18, 2011

Run Rabbit Run

A rabbit walks into a pub and says to the barman, 'Can I have a pint of beer, and a Ham and Cheese Toastie?'

The barman is amazed, but gives the rabbit a pint of beer and a ham and cheese toastie.

The rabbit drinks the beer and eats the toastie. He then leaves.

The following night the rabbit returns and again asks for a pint of beer, and a Ham and Cheese Toastie.

The barman, now intrigued by the rabbit and the extra drinkers in the pub, (because word gets round), gives the rabbit the pint and the Toastie. The rabbit consumes them and leaves.

The next night, the pub is packed.

In walks the rabbit and says, 'A pint of beer and a Ham and Cheese Toastie, please barman.'

The crowd is hushed as the barman gives the rabbit his pint and toastie, and then burst into applause as the rabbit wolfs them down

The next night there is standing room only in the pub.

Coaches have been laid on for the crowds of patrons attending.

The barman is making more money in one week than he did all last year

In walks the rabbit and says, 'A pint of beer and a Ham and Cheese Toastie, please barman,

The barman says, 'I'm sorry rabbit, old mate, old mucker, but we are right out of them Ham and Cheese Toasties...'

The rabbit looks aghast. The crowd has quietened to almost a whisper, when the barman clears his throat nervously and says, 'We do have a very nice Cheese and Onion Toastie.'

The rabbit looks him in the eye and says, 'Are you sure I will like it.'

The masses' bated breath is ear shatteringly silent.

The barman, with a roguish smile says, 'Do you think that I would let down one of my best friends. I know you'll love it.'

'Ok', says the rabbit, 'I'll have a pint of beer and a Cheese and Onion Toastie.'

The pub erupts with glee as the rabbit quaffs the beer and guzzles the toastie. He then waves to the crowd and leaves....




NEVER TO RETURN!!!!!!




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One year later, in the now impoverished public house, the barman, (who has only served 4 drinks tonight, 3 of which were his), calls time.

When he is cleaning down the now empty bar, he sees a small white form, floating above the bar. The barman says, 'Who are you?',

To which he is answered, 'I am the ghost of the rabbit that used to frequent your public house.'

The barman says, 'I remember you. You made me famous. You would come in every night and have a pint of beer and a Ham and Cheese Toastie. Masses came to see you and this place was famous.'

The rabbit says, 'Yes I know.' The barman said, 'I remember, on your last night we didn't have any Ham and Cheese Toasties. You had a Cheese and Onion one instead.'

The rabbit said, 'Yes, you promised me that I would love it. The barman said, 'You never came back, what happened?'

'I DIED', said the rabbit. 'NO!' said the barman. 'What from?'

After a short pause, the rabbit said...

'Mixin-me-toasties.'

Soy sauce company symbolises Japan's determination after the tsunami | World news | The Guardian

There is no doubt in my mind that we will be back in business," the 37-year-old says. "My family has been making soy sauce in Rikuzentakata since the Edo era, and we owe it to our customers to get back on our feet.

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Tarzan Sex Lesson

When Jane initially met Tarzan in the jungle, she was attracted to him, and during her questions about his life, she asked him how he had sex? 'Tarzan not know sex' he replied. Jane explained to him what sex was. Tarzan said ‘Oh ...Tarzan use knot hole in trunk of tree.' Horrified Jane said, 'Tarzan you have it all wrong, but I will show you how to do it properly.' She took off her clothing and laid down on the ground. 'Here' she said, pointing to her privates, 'you must put it in here.' Tarzan removed his loincloth, stepped closer to her and kicked her in the crotch! Jane rolled around in agony for what seemed like an eternity. Eventually she managed to gasp for air and screamed 'What did you do that for?' Tarzan replied, 'Tarzan check for squirrel.'

Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties

I am always close to the fridge.

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Product Placement?

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