The time-honoured practice of wearing nothing beneath the kilt has been condemned - by an organisation dedicated to upholding Scottish traditions.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... rwear.html
Highlands and Islands Tory MSP Jamie McGrigor, who campaigned for the introduction of a Scottish Tartan Register, said: "I have normally worn underwear with my kilt. In the West Highlands, midges can mount alarming and unexpected attacks on so-called true Scotsmen."
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Swimming pool bans child floats under health and safety laws:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/child ... -laws.html
"What are they going to do next? Ban the pools from having water in them in case someone drowns. It is ludicrous."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/child ... -laws.html
"What are they going to do next? Ban the pools from having water in them in case someone drowns. It is ludicrous."
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(Reuters) - It was Big Macs, chicken nuggets and fries at a wedding banquet in Northern Mexico on Friday.
Fast-food fanatics Carlos Munoz and Marisela Matienzo tied the knot at a McDonald's in an upscale district of Monterrey, Mexico's most Americanized city.
"Some of our guests thought it was a joke. Our parents were resigned to it," Matienzo told local media.
The local franchise for McDonald's Corp said the wedding was the first in one of its outlets in Latin America, a custom that has already taken off in Hong Kong for people seeking to depart from traditional marriage protocols.
Fast-food fanatics Carlos Munoz and Marisela Matienzo tied the knot at a McDonald's in an upscale district of Monterrey, Mexico's most Americanized city.
"Some of our guests thought it was a joke. Our parents were resigned to it," Matienzo told local media.
The local franchise for McDonald's Corp said the wedding was the first in one of its outlets in Latin America, a custom that has already taken off in Hong Kong for people seeking to depart from traditional marriage protocols.
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Woman dials 999 to report snowman theft in Kent
A woman who dialled 999 to report the theft of a snowman from outside her home has been branded "completely irresponsible" by Kent Police.
The force said the woman, from Chatham, thought the incident required their involvement because she used pound coins for eyes and teaspoons for arms.
During the call the woman said: "It ain't a nice road but you don't expect someone to nick your snowman."
Kent Police said officers had given her advice on real 999 emergencies.
The force said the call was made at the same time as operators fielded thousands of other phone calls about the heavy snowfall and sub-zero temperatures in the county.
During the conversation she said: "There's been a theft from outside my house.
"I haven't been out to check on him for five hours but I went outside for a fag and he's gone."
When she was asked who had gone, the woman replied: "My snowman. I thought that with it being icy and there not being anybody about, he'd be safe."
She was then asked whether it was an ornament, and answered: "No, a snowman made of snow, I made him myself.
"It ain't a nice road but at the end of the day, you don't expect someone to nick your snowman, you know what I mean?"
The operator then told her she had rung an emergency line and she should not be calling it to report the theft of a snowman.
Ch Insp Simon Black said: "This call could have cost someone's life if there was a genuine emergency and they couldn't get through.
"It was completely irresponsible.
"We have spoken to her and advised her what is a 999 call, and this clearly was not."
(BBC)
A woman who dialled 999 to report the theft of a snowman from outside her home has been branded "completely irresponsible" by Kent Police.
The force said the woman, from Chatham, thought the incident required their involvement because she used pound coins for eyes and teaspoons for arms.
During the call the woman said: "It ain't a nice road but you don't expect someone to nick your snowman."
Kent Police said officers had given her advice on real 999 emergencies.
The force said the call was made at the same time as operators fielded thousands of other phone calls about the heavy snowfall and sub-zero temperatures in the county.
During the conversation she said: "There's been a theft from outside my house.
"I haven't been out to check on him for five hours but I went outside for a fag and he's gone."
When she was asked who had gone, the woman replied: "My snowman. I thought that with it being icy and there not being anybody about, he'd be safe."
She was then asked whether it was an ornament, and answered: "No, a snowman made of snow, I made him myself.
"It ain't a nice road but at the end of the day, you don't expect someone to nick your snowman, you know what I mean?"
The operator then told her she had rung an emergency line and she should not be calling it to report the theft of a snowman.
Ch Insp Simon Black said: "This call could have cost someone's life if there was a genuine emergency and they couldn't get through.
"It was completely irresponsible.
"We have spoken to her and advised her what is a 999 call, and this clearly was not."
(BBC)
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Al Qa'eda to go on strike.
Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day strike next Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to in the afterlife. Emergency talks with Al Qaeda have so far failed to produce an agreement.
The unrest began last Tuesday when Al Qaeda announced that the number of virgins a suicide bomber would receive after his death will be cut by 25% this November from 72 to only 60. The rationale for the cut was the increase in recent years of the number of suicide bombings and a subsequent shortage of virgins in the afterlife.
The suicide bombers' union, the British Organization of Occupational Martyrs (or B.O.O.M.) responded with a statement that this was unacceptable to its members and immediately balloted for strike action. General Secretary Abdullah Amir told the press,
"Our members are literally working themselves to death in the cause of Jihad. We don't ask for much in return but to be treated like this is like a kick in the teeth".
Speaking from his shed in Tipton in the West Midlands in which he currently resides, Al Qaeda chief executive Osama bin Laden explained,
"We sympathize with our workers' concerns but Al Qaeda is simply not in a position to meet their demands. They are simply not accepting the realities of modern-day Jihad in a competitive marketplace. Thanks to Western depravity, there is now a chronic shortage of virgins in the afterlife. It's a straight choice between reducing expenditure and laying people off. I don't like cutting wages but I'd hate to have to tell 3000 of my staff that they won't be able to blow themselves up."
Spokespersons for the union in Newcastle , Middlesbrough, Essex and Australia stated that they would be unaffected as there are no virgins in these areas anyway.
Apparently the drop in the number of suicide bombings has been largely put down to the emergence of the Scottish singing star, Susan Boyle. Now that Muslims know what a virgin looks like, they are not so keen on going to paradise.
Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day strike next Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to in the afterlife. Emergency talks with Al Qaeda have so far failed to produce an agreement.
The unrest began last Tuesday when Al Qaeda announced that the number of virgins a suicide bomber would receive after his death will be cut by 25% this November from 72 to only 60. The rationale for the cut was the increase in recent years of the number of suicide bombings and a subsequent shortage of virgins in the afterlife.
The suicide bombers' union, the British Organization of Occupational Martyrs (or B.O.O.M.) responded with a statement that this was unacceptable to its members and immediately balloted for strike action. General Secretary Abdullah Amir told the press,
"Our members are literally working themselves to death in the cause of Jihad. We don't ask for much in return but to be treated like this is like a kick in the teeth".
Speaking from his shed in Tipton in the West Midlands in which he currently resides, Al Qaeda chief executive Osama bin Laden explained,
"We sympathize with our workers' concerns but Al Qaeda is simply not in a position to meet their demands. They are simply not accepting the realities of modern-day Jihad in a competitive marketplace. Thanks to Western depravity, there is now a chronic shortage of virgins in the afterlife. It's a straight choice between reducing expenditure and laying people off. I don't like cutting wages but I'd hate to have to tell 3000 of my staff that they won't be able to blow themselves up."
Spokespersons for the union in Newcastle , Middlesbrough, Essex and Australia stated that they would be unaffected as there are no virgins in these areas anyway.
Apparently the drop in the number of suicide bombings has been largely put down to the emergence of the Scottish singing star, Susan Boyle. Now that Muslims know what a virgin looks like, they are not so keen on going to paradise.
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
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(Reuters) - A BBC Radio 4 presenter apologised on Monday after he mangled the phrase "Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt" and produced a profanity heard live on air.
"I'm afraid many of you will have noticed that I landed in one of those awful verbal tangles just before eight o'clock," Today presenter James Naughtie said in an apology some 20 minutes after his slip-up.
"All I can say is occasionally in live broadcasting these things happen and I'm very sorry to anyone who thought it wasn't what they wanted to hear over their breakfast."
"Neither did I, needless to say," he added.
"I'm afraid many of you will have noticed that I landed in one of those awful verbal tangles just before eight o'clock," Today presenter James Naughtie said in an apology some 20 minutes after his slip-up.
"All I can say is occasionally in live broadcasting these things happen and I'm very sorry to anyone who thought it wasn't what they wanted to hear over their breakfast."
"Neither did I, needless to say," he added.
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Dozing cat dials emergency
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wo ... emergency/
Police in the UK responding to an early-hours emergency call were stunned to discover a slumbering cat at the other end of the line.
Ginger never dreamed of the trouble he would dial up when he took to regularly sleeping on top of a telephone.
Howard Moss, 64, was at a loss to explain how an emergency call had been traced to his home when police turned up on his doorstep.
The retired lecturer was woken in the early hours of Tuesday at his home in Swansea, South Wales.
In bleary-eyed embarrassment he assured the officers that he was alone in the house and had certainly not made the call.
"The police insisted that it was not a spook call because it had originated from inside the house," Mr Moss said on Thursday.
"Then one of them noticed Ginger the cat sitting on the phone and he twigged right away. He said 'The cat's done it', it was the only possibility."
He said his 12-year-old pet had recently taken to sprawling over a small downstairs telephone table in the evenings.
"Ginger had somehow managed to ease off the receiver and by a bit of a miracle one of his paws had pushed the 9 button on the large keypad three times.
"Obviously, he couldn't leave a message but when the police got no answer they treated the call seriously."
He added: "When the police realised what had happened they were quite amused. I asked them if they had ever had a call-out like that before and they shook their heads.
"The thing with Ginger is that he moves around from place to place when he sleeps and he had only started sleeping there a few days ago.
"You would think that he would be uncomfortable on the telephone and the chances of him doing something like this is really remote.
"But since it happened, the more I think about it, the funnier it seems."
South Wales Police confirmed that officers had responded to an emergency call in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wo ... emergency/
Police in the UK responding to an early-hours emergency call were stunned to discover a slumbering cat at the other end of the line.
Ginger never dreamed of the trouble he would dial up when he took to regularly sleeping on top of a telephone.
Howard Moss, 64, was at a loss to explain how an emergency call had been traced to his home when police turned up on his doorstep.
The retired lecturer was woken in the early hours of Tuesday at his home in Swansea, South Wales.
In bleary-eyed embarrassment he assured the officers that he was alone in the house and had certainly not made the call.
"The police insisted that it was not a spook call because it had originated from inside the house," Mr Moss said on Thursday.
"Then one of them noticed Ginger the cat sitting on the phone and he twigged right away. He said 'The cat's done it', it was the only possibility."
He said his 12-year-old pet had recently taken to sprawling over a small downstairs telephone table in the evenings.
"Ginger had somehow managed to ease off the receiver and by a bit of a miracle one of his paws had pushed the 9 button on the large keypad three times.
"Obviously, he couldn't leave a message but when the police got no answer they treated the call seriously."
He added: "When the police realised what had happened they were quite amused. I asked them if they had ever had a call-out like that before and they shook their heads.
"The thing with Ginger is that he moves around from place to place when he sleeps and he had only started sleeping there a few days ago.
"You would think that he would be uncomfortable on the telephone and the chances of him doing something like this is really remote.
"But since it happened, the more I think about it, the funnier it seems."
South Wales Police confirmed that officers had responded to an emergency call in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil know`s you`re dead!
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Man castrates daughter's boyfriend
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/mp ... boyfriend/
A German man castrated his daughter's boyfriend with a bread knife because he was angry about their relationship and the 40-year age difference between them.
Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper says Helmut Seifert will stand trial for attempted murder after severing the testicles of 57-year-old Phillip Genscher, who was dating Seifert's 17-year-old daughter.
Police say Genscher was attacked by Seifert and two other men and forced to remove his pants before the deed was done.
But Seifert has defended his action, saying it was his duty as a father.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/mp ... boyfriend/
A German man castrated his daughter's boyfriend with a bread knife because he was angry about their relationship and the 40-year age difference between them.
Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper says Helmut Seifert will stand trial for attempted murder after severing the testicles of 57-year-old Phillip Genscher, who was dating Seifert's 17-year-old daughter.
Police say Genscher was attacked by Seifert and two other men and forced to remove his pants before the deed was done.
But Seifert has defended his action, saying it was his duty as a father.
May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil know`s you`re dead!
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Yeah Nereus, extreme action that shouldn't be condoned from that guy but must admit that that one would be a hard one to swallow for any father.
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When I was 17 (just turned) I dated a 43 yr old. I later finished it because he started to creep me out. About six months later he was on the run with a 13yr old girl... Maybe the guy in the above story deserved it.....Nereus wrote:Man castrates daughter's boyfriend
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/mp ... boyfriend/
A German man castrated his daughter's boyfriend with a bread knife because he was angry about their relationship and the 40-year age difference between them.
Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper says Helmut Seifert will stand trial for attempted murder after severing the testicles of 57-year-old Phillip Genscher, who was dating Seifert's 17-year-old daughter.
Police say Genscher was attacked by Seifert and two other men and forced to remove his pants before the deed was done.
But Seifert has defended his action, saying it was his duty as a father.
- It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt...
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EEEK!! 17yo is one thing...but 13yo goes to far for me.lilmolfie wrote: When I was 17 (just turned) I dated a 43 yr old. I later finished it because he started to creep me out. About six months later he was on the run with a 13yr old girl... Maybe the guy in the above story deserved it.....
Not sure what I'd do if my under age daughter cavorted with an older man. Probably nothing...
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Fast forward 20 years and that could be a few falang residents in Thailandlilmolfie wrote:When I was 17 (just turned) I dated a 43 yr old. I later finished it because he started to creep me out. About six months later he was on the run with a 13yr old girl... Maybe the guy in the above story deserved it.....Nereus wrote:Man castrates daughter's boyfriend
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/mp ... boyfriend/
A German man castrated his daughter's boyfriend with a bread knife because he was angry about their relationship and the 40-year age difference between them.
Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper says Helmut Seifert will stand trial for attempted murder after severing the testicles of 57-year-old Phillip Genscher, who was dating Seifert's 17-year-old daughter.
Police say Genscher was attacked by Seifert and two other men and forced to remove his pants before the deed was done.
But Seifert has defended his action, saying it was his duty as a father.
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He was just a bad, bad man I guess but initially I saw beyond the 26yr age gap until I started to question why a man of his age would be interested in someone so young and (not so) naive.... I've always had a thing for older guys but as I get older the guys get younger
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Gabor's prince mistakes glue for eye drops
By Alan Duke, CNN
December 21, 2010 -- Updated 2146 GMT (0546 HKT)
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband holds the title of prince but he may look more like a movie pirate for the next two weeks as he wears a patch over an eye.
The patch protects an eye that Prince Frederic Von Anhalt accidentally glued shut Tuesday morning, publicist John Blanchette said.
"It was dark and he grabbed his wife's nail glue instead of eye drops," Blanchette said.
"It was stupid," Von Anhalt said after a doctor repaired the damage at a Beverly Hills eye clinic.
When Von Anhalt returned to his Bel Air, California, home later Tuesday morning he moved his wife's nail glue from the couple's bathroom. "She doesn't use it anymore," Von Anhalt said.
Von Anhalt, 68, will have to wear the patch over his right eye for two weeks, he said.
Gabor, 93, suffered an eye injury years ago when she mistakenly used "crazy glue" on her eyelashes, her daughter Francesca Hilton said.
She has been frail and "pretty much confined to a wheelchair" since a 2002 car accident, Von Anhalt said. The crash happened when the car in which she was riding with her hairdresser slammed into a light pole on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Gabor underwent hip replacement surgery last summer after she fell from her bed.
The Hungarian-born actress, the second of the three celebrated Gabor sisters, is most famous for her many marriages. Among her husbands was Oscar-winning actor George Sanders.
Her more prominent films include John Huston's Toulouse-Lautrec biopic, "Moulin Rouge," in 1952, "The Story of Three Loves" in 1953, "The Girl in the Kremlin" in 1957, and Orson Welles' 1958 cult classic, "Touch of Evil."
Her sisters are deceased -- Eva in 1995 and Magda in 1997.
By Alan Duke, CNN
December 21, 2010 -- Updated 2146 GMT (0546 HKT)
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband holds the title of prince but he may look more like a movie pirate for the next two weeks as he wears a patch over an eye.
The patch protects an eye that Prince Frederic Von Anhalt accidentally glued shut Tuesday morning, publicist John Blanchette said.
"It was dark and he grabbed his wife's nail glue instead of eye drops," Blanchette said.
"It was stupid," Von Anhalt said after a doctor repaired the damage at a Beverly Hills eye clinic.
When Von Anhalt returned to his Bel Air, California, home later Tuesday morning he moved his wife's nail glue from the couple's bathroom. "She doesn't use it anymore," Von Anhalt said.
Von Anhalt, 68, will have to wear the patch over his right eye for two weeks, he said.
Gabor, 93, suffered an eye injury years ago when she mistakenly used "crazy glue" on her eyelashes, her daughter Francesca Hilton said.
She has been frail and "pretty much confined to a wheelchair" since a 2002 car accident, Von Anhalt said. The crash happened when the car in which she was riding with her hairdresser slammed into a light pole on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Gabor underwent hip replacement surgery last summer after she fell from her bed.
The Hungarian-born actress, the second of the three celebrated Gabor sisters, is most famous for her many marriages. Among her husbands was Oscar-winning actor George Sanders.
Her more prominent films include John Huston's Toulouse-Lautrec biopic, "Moulin Rouge," in 1952, "The Story of Three Loves" in 1953, "The Girl in the Kremlin" in 1957, and Orson Welles' 1958 cult classic, "Touch of Evil."
Her sisters are deceased -- Eva in 1995 and Magda in 1997.
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A suicidal man jumped from a building in New York City and fell nine stories -- but was saved when he landed on a huge pile of garbage that had piled up since last week's blizzard.
The New York Daily News reported that Vangelis Kapatos, 26, leaped from his family's apartment on 45th Street in Manhattan just after noon today.
"He landed on a garbage pile," one official told the Daily News. "That's the only reason he's alive."
Kapatos, who had recently been released from a pyschiatric institution, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was in critical but stable conditon, the paper said. His injuries were not life-threatening.
The city sanitation department suspended trash collection after a Dec. 26 storm dumped 2 feet of snow on New York, causing mountains of garbage bags to pile up on the streets.
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The New York Daily News reported that Vangelis Kapatos, 26, leaped from his family's apartment on 45th Street in Manhattan just after noon today.
"He landed on a garbage pile," one official told the Daily News. "That's the only reason he's alive."
Kapatos, who had recently been released from a pyschiatric institution, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was in critical but stable conditon, the paper said. His injuries were not life-threatening.
The city sanitation department suspended trash collection after a Dec. 26 storm dumped 2 feet of snow on New York, causing mountains of garbage bags to pile up on the streets.
(AOL News)