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What news story has caught your attention today.

Post 15821

Pastey

smiley - bubbly


What news story has caught your attention today.

Post 15822

Pastey

Replica England football shirts go on sale for £90, people get annoyed:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26826554

One footballer called it "appalling" and "taking the mickey", and I'm not surprised, he only earns £3.12 million a year so would only be able to buy almost 35 thousand of them each year.

The FA said it "is a not-for-profit organisation that puts £100m back into the game every year." Which'll be its share of the profits from these shirts and others, the rest will be going to Nike.

If you've not heard of Nike, they're a small clothing manufacturer based in the UK who only use locally sourced, high quality materials and champion above minimum wage salaries. Oh, no, hang on, that's not them is it? Nike are the massive multi-national corporation with an annual revenue in excess of $24.1 billion.

Okay sports fans, if you really are fed up with being taken for a ride, here's a suggestion:

Don't Buy The Shirt.

It's not a difficult or complicated thing, just don't give them your money. If you've got a kid who wants one, explain to them about how large multi-nationals are destroying competition and sports, and bleeding every dollar and pound they can get while fobbing the sports organisations off with a pittance as feel good media fodder.


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Post 15823

swl

Real fans will buy the shirt and wear it at every opportunity to demonstrate that they are real fans.



Still, £90 for a white t-shirt smiley - laughsmiley - laughsmiley - laughsmiley - laugh


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Post 15824

Pink Paisley

When I were a lad, and played for my school team, we just wore a t-shirt the right colour.

Mind, we used to have to lick pitch clean wi' our tongues before 't match as well.

PP.


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Post 15825

Superfrenchie

Buy a white tee shirt.
Buy a blue sharpie.
smiley - magic
Ta dah!


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Post 15826

swl

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/30/andrew-frey-meth-masturbating_n_4518225.html

"Man 'High On Meth, Fights Off 15 Police Officers While Masturbating'"


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Post 15827

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

smiley - yuk
Yes, my curiosity is piqued by that headline,
but no, I won't be clicking that URL.
smiley - rolleyes
~jwf~


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Post 15828

Baron Grim

Considering that today is 1 April, I'm skipping a LOT of links today.

1 April just means the internet is even more annoying than usual.


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Post 15829

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

smiley - jester
smiley - ok
~jwf~


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Post 15830

Baron Grim

I used to enjoy the more imaginative hoaxes and pranks, but now it's been turned into something obligatory and dull mostly. And some of the hoax news stories are just dumb which makes it very hard to differentiate against the normal "News" from the Daily Mail or Fox News.


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Post 15831

swl

It's dated 30/12/13


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Post 15832

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

A couple of days ago California was rattled by an medium strength
earthquake around 4.1 on the scale. Tonight (Tuesday) Chile was
hit with an 8.3 and the entire west coast of South America is under
a tsunami watch. Most people live on the coast and now everyone is
heading inland up into the hills. Traffic is snarling nastily.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/04/01/chile-earthquake-tsunami/7182981/
smiley - bus
~jwf~


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Post 15833

Pastey

Bad Hair Day?

A light-hearted story with potentially sinister undertones:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27038723

It's a short article, but hard to describe smiley - biggrin


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Post 15834

Pink Paisley

Hilarious.

And I'm gobsmacked that nobody has asked for the 'Un'.

If I had sufficient hair, I'd definitely have one. smiley - rofl

PP.


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Post 15835

quotes

Tens of thousands of pounds have been raised for charity in the name of the runner who died at the London Marathon. He's not the first to die though, fatalities and many lesser complaints are common at such events. Shouldn't fund-raising be safer than this?


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Post 15836

Pastey

People put their heart and soul into their efforts to help people.


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Post 15837

Icy North

Yes, but they wouldn't if they believed it carried that level of risk.


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Post 15838

Pastey

Thousands and thousands of people do fund raising activities each year. Strangely enough it's not actually that dangerous.


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Post 15839

SiliconDioxide

If you gather enough people in one place for one purpose, statistically it becomes likely that some are not going to survive the experience. I don't think the participants are at any great danger compared to the rest of us who spent the day up ladders, crossing roads, stepping on toys in the dark, etc.

At such events there is a great deal of support and medical equipment and experience available. People die none-the-less.


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Post 15840

Icy North

California coastline ravaged by carnivorous sponges:

http://www.mbari.org/news/news_releases/2014/killersponges/killersponges-release.html


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