h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Pfft - in Britain, teachers tell bullied kids to act "less gay" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-15552623

Maybe teachers should act less like morons and more like intelligent human beings...oh no, if they did that they'd have a proper job.

Acid attack survivors network in Bangladesh - in pictures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/gallery/2011/nov/24/women-acid-attacks-bangladesh#/?picture=382316232&index=0

There are animals in this world...and some have self-awareness...but seemingly no morals or compassion.

Only human animals are capable of that sort of premeditated cruelty, but as Wilde said while all of us are in the gutter, some of us are looking at the stars......

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10220

..don't get mad get active

A 79 year old woman who tried to keep hold of her handbag which contained the ashes of her dead husband, dies during a mugging. Her late husbands ashes were stolen and have yet to be found.

Two boys aged 14 and 17 have been arrested Manchester England. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-15903146

>>in Britain, teachers tell bullied kids to act "less gay<<

I suppose they give ginger kids bottles of hair dye so they fit in

The "truth" about the crackdown on the Occupy protests in the US.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy

Sounds a little overblown, but interesting nonetheless.

Overblown perhaps but certainly damning in its
implications that local repressions were coordinated
by the national government through Homeland Security.

The communication mechanism for such a coordination
is definitely in place. But tracking the blame back
to the White House could be a political move to lay
it all on Obama and undermine his 'popular' support.


~jwf~

Pope Benedict XVI Sued For Not Wearing Seat Belt In Popemobile
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/28/pope-benedict-seatbelt-lawsuit_n_1116514.html
Am I the only one who chuckled at the attorney's middle name?

He should be more careful....

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://greg.org/archive/cattelan_pope_meteor.jpg&imgrefurl=http://greg.org/archive/2005/04/07/weekly_world_news_pope_struck_by_meteor_again.html&h=264&w=400&sz=20&tbnid=vTn9Mng_OPMBxM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=136&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dpope%2Bmeteor%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=pope+meteor&docid=4ToiJkPf-rF7cM&hl=en-GB&sa=X&ei=PqPUTu23Iu-N4gTx2aGNAQ&ved=0CCkQ9QEwAg&dur=614

Somebody phoned Radio 4 this morning to ask if the Marmite lorry that had crashed on the M1 was in the yeast bound lane

Yes, the 'Marmite' accident.

20 tonnes. Can you imagine how much toast would have been required to deal with that!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-15933599

PP

OK. I just did a quick calculation based on 4mg servings.

5,000,000 slices of toast.

PP

~jwf~

'The British government has been secretly working with Canada to fight a European proposal that would officially label fuel from the Alberta oil sands as dirtier than conventional sources, according to the Guardian newspaper in London.'


Thank you, Britain.

'Jeffrey Sundquist, managing director for the Government of Alberta's U.K. office, said Monday that the EU proposal is discriminatory.

"It ignores crudes that have as high or higher emitting GHGs that are actually entering the eurozone," he said. "Canada does not export in any meaningful way crudes to Europe, so we find it very interesting that we are somehow going to enable them to hit their reduction targets."'

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2011/11/28/canada-britain-uk-oil-sands.html

in a remarkable speech in Berlin yesterday Radek Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister, threw caution aside and made a dramatic appeal (couched more as a demand) to Germany.

I haven't read the text of the actual speech, but based on this article, I'm impressed.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/11/polands-appeal-germany

Re the Marmite spill.

If I had two slices of toast with marmite every morning for the rest of my life to use up the 20 tonne spill, I would be about 6,900 years old before I ran out of breakfast.

End of marmite messages.

PP

If I had two slices of toast with marmite every morning for the rest of my life to use up the 20 tonne spill, I would be going BLARGH before I ran out of breakfast to spit the toast into the garden.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15923434

Still not as good as the old fashion trough and fag butt* game

* Not what you think yanks