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I don't know if this is over reaching or not, but there was at least one death and a number of serious injuries back in 2008 in these mass water fight events.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1499810.ece

If every time one of these events happened, there were serious injuries, I can see the logic behind trying to prevent the gatherings in the first place.

Well then by that logic you must be in favour of banning sports clubs, churches, mother's clubs, and schools for that matter. How often do interactions in those places lead to violence?

I don't know if this is over reaching or not, but there was at least one death and a number of serious injuries back in 2008 in these mass water fight events.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1499810.ece

If every time one of these events happened, there were serious injuries, I can see the logic behind trying to prevent the gatherings in the first place.

Don't know what exact event the parent was talking about, but it brought back memories of the guy at Heathrow Airport who was threatened with arrest unless he changed his t-shirt. The offending t-shirt showed Optimus Prime with a gun. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1234193.ece

How would The Sun unleash a solar flare?

I could see that to a point, but this looks way beyond that. From looking at some of the debris there, there are chunks of AC ducting from the walls on the street, pieces of desks, and parts of interior walls. Also the higher floors are more damaged than the lower walls.

This one has some good pictures, and yes people are still reporting that it may have been a car bomb. I have my doubts, but I'm known to be wrong.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3709878/At-least-32-feared-dead-as-terror-grips-Norway.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News

How can a three-wheeler lose tyre contact ?

It depends on the nut holding the wheel.

All that being said.... THIS makes me feel sick.

I don't know what to say, really.... journalists at the news of the world seem to have broken into the phone of a child who was killed, possibly hampering police investigations.

She apparently says : "It feels like a friend had just died, I'm so shocked, all of those decent, hardworking, uninvolved people out of a job - just like that."

I was going to throw a hate filled tirade on why "Sarah's law" is wrong on so many levels, and why this woman makes me so angry, but I won't.

It's also being reported on The Sun and linked via Drudge.

Apparently someone just discovered this two-week-old non-news.

The fact they have never had a fatal crash (the only such major airline) is reason I would rather NOT fly with anyone else.

They had a fatal crash in 1951 So that one is a myth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QANTAS#Airline_incidents

Given their abysmal safety record of late (a lot of engine trouble and hull loss incidents not including the problems with the Trent engines on the A380, QANTAS cant fairly be held responsible for a design fault). The Wikipedia list is a bit incomplete missing, including a pair of engine fires in a B747 (Link 1) (Link 2) in late in 2010. Not to mention Flight QF30

QANTAS have seriously dropped in the last few years from one of the safest western airlines to one of the least safest. But it's everything else that makes me want to fly Singapore Air, Air Asia, Virgin Blue or even Tiger instead of QANTAS, bad service, surly flight attendants, dodgy luggage collection, uncompetitive prices, bad food. Why pay $1100 to fly QANTAS from PER-BKK when I can pay Singapore $1050 for the same trip (Air Asia is often around $500 but they are a budget airline).

All prices in AUD, just add 5% to get USD.

wrong. I submit these as proof:
New record sniper distance, 2 kills at 8,120ft
Sniper kills 5 in 28 seconds range 1+ miles

hummm: I read too much summeries... you might say that number is not entirely correct. However I can not edit my previous post.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372787/Japan-Fukushima-nuclear-plant-months-control-2-deaths-confirmed.html

But after closer reading their death may have been originated in the tjunami. I thought those 2 with radion burns died.

On the other hand: it is almost sure some of the daily staff at plant 1 2 and 3 got too high levels of radiation:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3504160/Fukushima-50-deaths-imminent.html

Apparently they had conducted further experiments related to this 32D thing.

Seems legit to me. See, they even reported on the important Russian lingerie calendar -> http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3516859/Activists-strip-off-for-calendar.html.

This is The Sun of:

UFO Hits Wind Turbine

Haunted Hospital Calls in Exorcist

and famously of course from the 1980s:

Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster Puh-lease!

See my post's title.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/

Newspaper! Riiiiiiight

Japan Tsunami = massive natural disaster - GUN TOTING POPULATION -> no looting & roving gangs -> no murder, assault -> no need for way to "protect" self and family

Thai Tsunami = massive natural disaster - GUN TOTING POPULATION -> no looting & roving gangs -> no murder, assault -> no need for way to "protect" self and family

See a pattern here?

Yes, I do see a pattern - you either don't know what you are talking about or are making things up.

There was looting in Thailand after the 2004 Tsunami (and after their recent unrest), and in Japan now.

Thailand 2004: Thai looters cash in on tsunami destruction
Thailand 2010: Thai forces to fire on looters and arsonists
Japan 2011: Japan earthquake: Looting reported by desperate survivors

Now, is it firearms that causes people to form mobs with ill intent? Apparently not as they will form with makeshift weapons:

Recently in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, dozens of men, armed with machetes and make-shift weapons, broke into and looted stores along the capital's main commercial street. Natural Disasters in Chile and Haiti the Psychology of Looting

And what of Sweden, who lost a number of citizens in the 2004 disaster in Thailand?

Even famously law-abiding Sweden and Norway have been hit by scammers who have robbed and looted the homes of tourists who vanished in the chaos.

"It is, unfortunately, a reality that people who are known to be missing . . . have had their homes gone through and partly emptied," Swedish State Secretary Lars Danielsson said.......

Fearing an outbreak of looting akin to what occurred after the 1994 sinking of the ferryboat Estonia that killed 551 Swedes, police refused to release the names of the dead and missing. Somehow, though, the names got out, and now police are standing watch over hundreds of homes scattered across the country. Gangs pillage tsunami villages, stealing corpses & selling orphans

And more of the same: Robbery, rape and kidnap

Sri Lanka Churches Worried about Looting in Tsunami-hit Areas

Referring to the looters, the Sri Lanka church council said: "We appeal to them to kindly desist from such dastardly conduct and join with the several who are helping those in need," as it urged more church volunteers and others to join in the relief work.

The criticism came after reports that thugs were looting homes of some tsunami victims and rapists were preying on homeless survivors.

"We have received reports of incidents of rape, gang rape, molestation and physical abuse of women and girls in the course of unsupervised rescue operations," the Women and Media Collective group in Sri Lanka was quoted saying by the Reuters news agency.

But don't only bad people have guns? No. For example, Dr. Martin Luther King owned guns for protection.

I also suggest that you become clear on this point: Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone . This has been the law for quite some time.

You can't necessarily count on the police:

If, when I and my children lived in the UK, a teacher had tried to do this I would have sued s/his ass off.

What's a "shis"?

Now I would insert the barrel of my SIG 210 up their left nostril and politely ask them NOT to do it again.

Overreact much? Funny, I thought the barrel of the SIG P210 was far larger than any nostril, well, except maybe this guy's: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article112380.ece

What do those people think they are?

Educators of children? Hopefully they're doing a better job than those that educated you, judging from your entertaining comment history. A connoisseur of transsexuals, are you? Italy has "some of the most passable/beautiful TS outside asia". Awesome. Maybe you could publish a field guide to the world's she-males.

Like this one.

And meanwhile, Roman Polanski is still free, and it took almost thirty years for the United States to get around to having an international warrant for his arrest issued despite his having actually admitted to sex crimes involving a thirteen year old girl. I guess that doesn't count very much compared to embarrassing powerful people.

And why exactly is Assange being harrassed for doing something that is far less serious than what this English woman has admitted doing in a major newspaper: having sex with men using condoms deliberately tampered with so she can get pregnant?

Is the government of England really concerned with the sexual integrity of Swedish womanhood? Or are they just using the legal system to harrass someone who has made them look like the bunch of wankers they are?

If what Assange did is considered "rape," then this must be, as well.

No, that's a fucking massacre!

If what Assange did is considered "rape," then this must be, as well.

Is that you, Jeremy Clarkson?

Another evidence life on Mars: http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00366/F_200709_September1_366368a.jpg

Coincince?. Maybe....

1. This piece of "reporting" comes from a trashy Rupert Murdoch rag (the Rupert Murdoch claim might have to be fact-checked), the most valuable journalistic contribution of which is always on this page: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/virals/superbabes/ 2. Why opine about freedom of speech on something we clearly don't have the facts on? Who knows what sort of threats he made in the email. 3. No pooftahs! 4. Spam!

Their latest scoop is the amazing "magnetic woman". http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3102005/Iron-mam-Brenda-Allison-a-is-human-magnet.html

And if the picture is right, a men repellent aswell.

That would be par for the course for the Sun.

Their latest scoop is the amazing "magnetic woman".
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3102005/Iron-mam-Brenda-Allison-a-is-human-magnet.html

I'm guessing that the FBI/secret service would be pretty busy if they took this route for all "you suck" emails - so presumably they'd only bother calling across the pond when the content is a little more suggestive or threatening than usual. Kind of difficult to say without seeing the original.

The article is from The Sun, a newspaper known mostly for its page 3 girls(NSFW). The Sun is slightly more reliable than the Weekly World News slightly less reliable than most guests on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory.

The FBI won't even investigate international fraud if they can get out of it and will lie to you to prevent you pushing hard enough to make it an official case.

Of course they won't. They are busy with more important things.

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet... you guys are slacking.

Who are you to decide how people want to spend their lives?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3114238/Lap-dancers-not-just-pretty-faces.html

All of this is true... so long as the person making the accusation is female and the person being accused of abusing the kids is male. If you're a guy and make accusations in a divorce case that your wife abused the kids - well, best not to go there unless you have rock-solid proof, and think carefully even then because it's a good way to lose all access to them. (Believe it or not, a lot of kids out there are abused by women - sexually, physically and emotionally.)

Also, it's not a simple case of protecting the kids at the expense of wrongfully seperating them from one of their parents. Denying the other parent access is an obvious move for an abuser to make - it ensures that the kids have nowhere else to go and eliminates someone they could otherwise talk about the abuse to. (Well, as long as said abuser is female, anyway.)

There was a lovely case earlier this year here in the UK where a mother of two kids told the police that her ex-husband had harassed her and got them to keep him away from the house where they were staying. She used this opportunity to murder both kids in peace. The reason he was there in the first place was that it was his house - she had a home elsewhere but had broken in. He told the police he was worried about her halming the kids, but because he was male they saw him as the only potential danger.

Interestingly enough... The social insecurity seems to pay off in this department!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/article2439786.ece

Aw, come on. People trust in The Sun. Well, as much as they trust in The National Enquirer, Fox News, and The Weekly World News.

The Times is daily. The paper version costs £1, which is similar to comparable newspapers. A subscription seems to be about 90p per issue, including delivery.

There are cheap daily newspapers but they're tabloids. The Sun is 20p, including Page 3. The Daily Star is only 10p, which gets you even more topless women and even less actual news.

I think The Sun is definitely part of the problem in England.

Wait, but I thought the USA won 1-1? (Oh god, apologies for the Sun link, it's not where I originally read about this but was the only one I could find, forgive me? :)

Ah - this story was reported by The Sun in the UK. As mentioned further down, the hospital has commented and said that The Sun made up this story - the hospital has never had this policy.

The story is from The Sun. It would be worth checking if the story was true before getting worked up about it...

the sun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_sun

and not the Sun http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ -

two entirely different things in those lands where one speaks the Queen's English and the word take is not extinct.

I thought that Jamie Oliver failed because he cooked up food the kids hated and he was a pretentious jerk while doing it.

That's pretty much the reaction the media reported when he changed the food in some schools here in Britain. Then there were pictures of obese women handing fast food over a fence to their children at lunchtime, and opinion seemed to change.

The children got used to it, health improved, academic results improved and (an unexpected bonus) illness reduced.

(It seems appropriate to cite The Sun -- it calls the women "sinner ladies", which is pretty much opposite to what you'd expect (think Fox News, kinda). Note that in the UK "poor" children get free school meals; buying their own is daft.)

We're you thinking of German cars by any chance?

That was the alleged response of the Tesco supermarket when faced with a similar situation. 'A Tesco spokesman said: "We would ask Jedis to remove hoods. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Luke Skywalker all went hoodless without going to the Dark Side."'

A much better, not to mention more informed, response than the Job Centre's. I know it's reported in The Sun, but I do hope it was true.

Don't be silly, those are obviously the footprints of the Martian gorillas.

This guy's story trumps all lost cell phone stories: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2277640.ece His Nokia phone spent a week in the belly of a fish and it still worked after a fisherman found it.

Personally, I had a Motorola phone that didn't survive being dunked in a toilet bowl. And a Samsung one that seemed to cave into the extreme heat of a radiator.

13,000 pictures of the surface of mars, and still no clear photos of the aliens. It's a coverup I tell you. The government doesn't want us to know the truth! They're hiding it until they can take these natural resources for themselves. It's the man taking away from us what rightfully belongs to all of us! If you let them get their way, well, just be left with these.

Even more inexplicably, large parts of the British public supports Murdoch newspapers like The Sun.

The homepage is funny, until you remember this is the only source of news for many people.

He does put a robots.txt file in his sites. See for example
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/robots.txt
http://www.thesun.co.uk/robots.txt

He's put loads of crawlers on it. Googlebot isn't one of them, because he presumably is happy for it to visit.

Well, I'd object to their purchasing the sun as well!!

I'm not so much against it as completely flabbergasted. What does a database vendor want with a newspaper? And especially one as arguably despicable at The Sun: http://www.thesun.co.uk?

An interesting concern, since the UK's waiting lists are forcing people to pull their own teeth with pliers and vodka. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article105238.ece