I read the news today oh boy! Page 244

Quote: DaButt @ October 8 2010, 6:52 PM BST

An interesting story about crumbling Dubai:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html

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I'm just glad I got out before it all went tits up.
Ok it was just a holiday.

[quote name="sootyj" post="305229" date="November 12 2008, 11:02 PM BST"]A thread for discussing what's happening in the news, we don't seem to have a specific one. And not just a sneaky way of cribbing ideas for NR/TS.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7725218.stm

Bloody hell! They drugged and tethered her to get money from the McCannes.

Is this evil or just numbingly pathetic?
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Yea, what a waste of time, everyone knows that Arther Daley never paid Terry that much anyway !!

Apparently Lilly Allen has sued a magazine that quoted her as saying that she called Cheryl Cole stupid and superficial and Victoria Beckham a monster.

WHY DENY IT LILLY?

Nice bit of silliness from The Guardian: Insane Clown Posse, America's nastiest rappers, in shocking revelation - they've been evangelical Christians all along: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/09/insane-clown-posse-christians-god

Quote: Kenneth @ October 9 2010, 9:01 AM BST

Nice bit of silliness from The Guardian: Insane Clown Posse, America's nastiest rappers, in shocking revelation - they've been evangelical Christians all along: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/09/insane-clown-posse-christians-god

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That is, beyond doubt, the single best article I have ready in my entire life.

F**kin' magnets, how do they work?

I was pissing myselves laughing at those lyrics. It's amazing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8048844/Brits-sense-of-humour-fails-at-the-age-of-52-study-finds.html

Another worthwhile focus of scientists, time and money.

This is cool science: http://www.thespec.com/news/business/article/266177--google-cars-drive-themselves-in-traffic

Watch out Woodward and Bernstein!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1319432/X-Factor-2010-Why-Cheryl-Cole-orange.html

... civil cases against police/...../
"Currently for every pound paid out in compensation, up to £10 or sometimes more has to be paid out in legal costs to the claimants' lawyers,"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11511716

So since we pay the police, then whenever the police fail society, the lawyers cost us ten times more than that failure.

This is rather interesting. I might start eating amino acid on toast.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11482764

Oops!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/13/family-appeal-missing-malaria-nurse

Is it like a bizarre suicide attempt?