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

A group of old people, pensioners, most of them, protest against a law this fascist govt. wants to put into force, a law against the right to protest in the streets.

Some of the banners say : We don´t want Franco backs"

The things is... that franquoists never left the power in this country.

http://disopress.com/gallery.php?mode=all&id=MjQyMTMxZTZmMjk3Nw==&page=1

Here's a Utoob vid (posted today) of a man found in an air pocket
in a sunken ship 3 days after it sank. The look in his eyes as the
divers surface beside him...
Wow.
http://youtu.be/J04rf2Qp2_M

~jwf~

Nelson Mandela dies. Knew it was coming, but still sad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25249520

PP.

It's very sad.

It was probably him alone that was the reason that people like me knew about the situation in South Africa.

Good news for moderate drinkers.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/life/health/a-sobering-truth-drinkers-live-longer-than-non-drinkers/article/363956


~jwf~

I know it has been all over the news and isn't news any more, but I just keep hoping that Nelson Mandela would have enjoyed the non-sign language translator who seems to have blagged his way onto the platform at the memorial service alongside world leaders.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-25337850

PP.

China comes up with a cure for itchy feet - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25405543

Genius!

Aarrghhh!

Facebook follower falls off pier in Oz.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25426263


~jwf~

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Liu Chen's status has changed to 'floating on back in the sea.'

PP.

>>Constable Kelly called on people to pay more attention when using social media around water.<<


Yessir

Fracking is the biggest thing in the news. Could sort all our energy problems out!

Only in the short term, and cause more problems than it solves. I still say magnets are the way forward.

Yes, I'm quite attracted to magnets.

I thought you'd be repulsed by them Icy

Fracking was good enough for Battlestar Galactica

Possibly the saddest story of the year -

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/daily-world/grandpa-who-won-romp-with-2-hookers-as-prize-dies-on-way-to-threesome


"A grandfather who won a tryst with two hookers choked to death before he could enjoy his threesome."

That's not sad, it's just weird. We don't get headlines about every person who chokes on their food and dies. The fact that he was travelling hopefully at the time makes it on balance happier, not sadder, Shirley?

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