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

"Batman, Robin, David Hasselhoff and a Smurf helped police officers catch a criminal in an East Lothian supermarket."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-24854508

at the tweet

Thank you for that one swl

Last seasons top scorer in the South Korean women's football league, Park Eun-Seon, is accused of being a bloke: six teams refuse to play unless the player is gender tested (check the three pictures yourself):
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/08/sport/football/south-korea-gender-boycott-football/

Artist nails his scrotum to the ground in Red Square

Performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky stages protest at 'apathy, political indifference and fatalism of Russian society'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/11/artist-nails-testicles-red-square-pyotr-pavlensky

I can't bring myself to watch the video

I suppose his encore would be his pièce de résistance.

Along the same lines

>> football/south-korea-gender-boycott-football/ <<

or would that be girlcott?



I'm confused!

That's an excellent point.

OMG. It's one of them newspaper coined words like Watergate.

>>
boycott
1880, from Irish Land League ostracism of Capt. Charles C. Boycott (1832-1897), land agent of Lough-Mask in County Mayo, who refused to lower rents for his tenant farmers. Quickly adopted by newspapers in languages as far afield as Japanese (boikotto). The family name is from a place in England.
<<
-Dictdotcom


~jwf~

Also the response of 83% of Englishmen and 105% of Yorkshiremen in response to the question

"If your life depended on it, who would you want to open the batting."

A blast from the past.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24945134
Remember when your doctor was one of the pillars of society, one of the few who owned a car and as such made home visits.

Furious sun god about to flip - might disrupt satellite communications:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24977823

On the bright side, it may improve Vodafone's coverage.

Icy
Not a hoped...

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(Just adding a link in English, although the title of the Spanish article is clear enough).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24979129

From the BBC article :
A compelling storyteller with a fierce intellect and a warm heart”
Charlie Redmayne
Harper Collins UK

I don't know about her heart or her intellect, but a compelling storyteller, she was indeed!

Thanks for that superfrenchie, I don't speak spanish

Sorry about Doris but grateful we had her for so long

Would it have been lawful for Britain to have sunk the Spanish ship when it refused to leave British waters:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25008237

It is probably worthwhile to point out Spain has retained territory dotted along the African coast:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_of_sovereignty_(Spain)

What would we have sunk it with - a dirty look? Our ship is in the Phillipines providing humanitarian aid. That leaves us with Trident which some might say would be escalating the situation a tad.

Personally, I think the Spanish economy is so knackered they're trying to do a "Mouse That Roared" trick.

School clubs feeding families caught in eat or heat trap

http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/19/school-clubs-feeding-families-caught-in-eat-or-heat-trap-4193493/

Science and Engineering trumps common sense to explain the phenomenon of the movement of the ancient Egyptian statuette within a display cabinet at a Manchester Museum. Yes the scientific explanation is that the road outside the Museum with its heavy traffic of massive lorries and heavy good vehicles caused vibrations that caused the statuette to move. This trumps the common sense explanation that the Egyptian statuette was demonically possessed:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25034950