I read a book about a woman held imprisoned in Thailand for drug smuggling.
She was guilty and freely admitted it, although she was coerced and some of it was a bit "wah wah wah".

Still, she said that her time in the "Bangkok Hilton", one of the most notoriious prisons in the world, was better than prison in the UK when she was released back here to serve the rest of her sentence. Because there she had work to do, she met and conversed with other women, she felt her time was served - if not usefully - then at least productively. Prison in the UK in comparison was a death of the mind and the soul.

She might not have had the "three hots and a cot" that people so resent here, but she certainly had the punishment. Not sure why. It certainly wasn't intended as protection for society, or even rehab. What kind of stupid of numb cunt would ever try to smuggle drugs after a conviction?

I quite like what the Dutch do.
Take the drugs, destroy them, send the mules back home.
They don't pay for their upkeep, they don't pay for trials, they just pack them off. Now that's a deterrant, surely? To anyone so desperate for food and housing to want to go to prison? Which according to our right wing press, all crimials secretly want to do.

@ Dana

Y'all don't never want to go to a South American prison.

yeah, destroy them, right. Just the thing I'd do if I were a Dutch narcotics officer.


Hey! New career idea coming!!!

Isn't destroy a synonym for re-sell?

Not in my Dutch-to-English book. It's a synonym for 'partake of yourself why don't you?'

Well, they don't specify how the drugs were destroyed, did they? I imagine after they've been used once they're really no good to anyone anymore.

Not unless it's a suppository and you accidentally poop it out.


(shades of Trainspotting) The Filthiest Toilet in Edinborough

Oh, wow.

The nurse who was the subject of a prank call about Kate being in the hospital (some DJ's called and pretended to be Queen and Duke or whatever) and this nurse has now been found dead.

Apparently a suicide.

Who'd think that a little joke like that could go so wrong?

Horrible, in every way, for everyone.

"yes, lieutenant, I burned the entire shipment. Yes, the whole pound of it. What? Oh, yes sir, it did take a while, but only a week or so, sir. I had some help."

Umm, I recently heard some rather disturbing stories contradicting this.

Apparently, some of the gay parties linked to the Mardi Gras in Sydney become "sweat parties". Most people there would have had something, and a small percentage of it comes out through sweat, which the other party-goes would then lick off. Mutually.

And there was one other chap, who reasoned that a much larger percentage is passed out through urine, and ... [censored in the name of good taste] ... and thus earned the nickname "trough-man".

Humans are weird.


The dicks behind that have a long record of poor taste and bad judgement and have been pulled off air before. Then let back on. :right: The station is again in crisis management, all ads have been pulled, and last night seven of the top ten most read stories on my city's newspaper website were connected to this.

Why are news stories finding it important to specify that the nurse was from India?
The fact that she possibly killed herself over this would be diminished if she was from Poland or China?

Maybe for the people scratching their head trying to figure out why she took it so seriously to off herself. That doesn't sound like keep calm and carry on.

But probably because there is so little facts to the story, you can tell the whole thing in a paragraph even if you use $2 words, they need filler.

Because there have been rumors that she was already suffering from workplace discrimination, like MANY people of Indian and Pakistani descent working in Britain do. There isn't major anti-polish sentiment in Britain, and not nearly as much anti-chinese sentiment as anti-Indian, either. It was the ridicule and racism connected to her screw-up on the phone that pushed her over the edge, supposedly.

She died of embarrassment.

Not quite that simple. Different Indian and Asian communities are treated quite differently and face different levels of discrimination. There's a broad colour based discrimination which might hit anybody of Indian descent, but that kind of discrimination is as likely to hit someone of Chinese descent also. Of the various ethnic groups, people of Indian origin are second only to white british in terms of employment levels and economic status. The relationship between 'British' and Indian cultures and communities is a complex one.


Pakistanis almost universally face discrimination and outright hostility in mainstream culture. Anti-muslim violence generally, and anti-Pakistani and Kashmiri more specifically is rife. Much of what does exist of anti-Indian sentiment is actually a confusion of terms and a spill-over from this anti-muslim stance. Even the BNP draw a distinction between Indians (they claim to have a Sikh writer on their political newspaper, and they have definitely had Sikh members) and Pakistanis.

Poles on other hand are now facing rising levels of mistrust and racism because of the influx of new workers from the EU. Most of the 'they're taking our jobs' type muttering now is directed at Central and Eastern Europeans.

whatever she was ethnically, nationally, whatever---she felt bad about what had been done to her and it pushed her over the edge.

people are fragile (Fra-jill-eh; it's Italian) and some more so than others. We walk this earth and do not consider our brothers and sisters; I'm one of the worst offenders. We are all here together so why don't we try to have a cuddlefest (as bruce so nicely put it) instead of creating hatred and chaos (which certain energy fields really love and feed off of)? I'm really through with the negativity around here; I"ve contributed to it and I don't like who and what it makes me. If you want to call me Pollyanna-go right ahead. I'm going to feed the good wolf in me and try to starve the bad wolf so that i am a better human being. IF you want to call me a wuss or whatever-have at it. I don't care. I really am going to try to participate in positive threads about positive things and shoot you all later; let Goddess figure it all out (I kid) --- If refusing to argue/fight/flame makes me a pussy---good for me. I want GOOD things in my life. Some want chaos. Some want a bit of both. s'okay. It's YOUR path after all.

the tragedy this woman faced-the embarrassment, the self-loathing that comes from being a 'sucker'----for falling for it. I understand that pain. Those DJ's should be permanently banned from any radio/tv/video feed/youtube and sent to that big rock you all have over there to do some soul searching----a lost art IMHO.

The frist wave of stories I read only mentioned her name, no discussion of her roots.

The second or third story I saw about it mentioned her nationality.
I guess I was looking at it in terms of light green and dark green.

or brown as the case may be... :bolt:

Never quite that simple, thanks for the detail!

OregonLive.com
Emily E. Smith
12/12/12

Cornelius woman ordered to leave cul-de-sac after years of neighbor disputes
The rest of the story is too involved for TheCellar,
but I think it is an new extreme in court judgements.

My neighbor ('crazypants') and I have a relationship similar to that.

We've both been trespassed from the other's property. Officially. With police records and everything. She's the woman who had a video camera pointed at my house lo those many years ago. She's batshit insane but it's okay. She's gonna lose her house. She bought it free and clear but mortgaged it to sue her brother (who she wants a DNA test to prove he really ISN'T her brother) for 250,000 inheritance. She's spent 100,000 dollars fighting over 250,000 dollars. Oh, and she's suing her own lawyer, too.

She's a real peach, that crazypants bitch. AND she's in her late sixties. and yes, she does have 11 cats----at least.

I remember her, she's the Almond Joy of neighbors.

You know, I have been calling her crazypants but I like Almond Joy much much better. It's more....respectful somehow.

thanks!

Yes there is a delicious irony in Almond Joy.

Rather like a wedding called on account of rain.

yes, and when questioned, you can say it's because she's so sweet. when she objects, you can say you didn't think she'd rather be known for her Mounds.

My pleasure!

12-12-12 is a "holy day" so this guy carved a pentagram in his 6-year-old son's back.

W. T. F.???

Insane? Criminal? Criminally insane?

Poor kid.

Actually it might have be a good deal for the kid. It didn't sound like he was seriously hurt, and maybe this will keep that crazy bastard away from him before he's sacrificed.

the guy is clearly mentally ill.

or else he's a fucking asshole.

sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

Naw.... he's pious.:rolleyes:

He's a toyota? :eek:

Yes, the Toyota Pius, with the revolutionary new demonic-energy power with evil-force drive system.

Again, a Simpson's ref.

Burns was in the pokey and a big black guy wanted to convert him to Christianity. The BBG told Burns to 'reject Satan!' and Burns answered 'Why can't you reject your guy?'


ah, good times. Love that show. Absolutely love it.

Guns don't kill people. Sexually frustrated elephants do!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-2...ampage/4437032

A herpetological two-for.

Mummy, I found these eggs in the garden so I put them in a plastic box in my closet....

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-2...snakes/4438746

:eek: #$%&ing eastern brown snakes. :reaper:

Mummy, at the childcare centre today, they wouldn't let us in!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-2...centre/4439972

Aww, just a dozen baby pythons... :grouphug:

awww... I could have been that kid. I raised snakes as a child. I understand the appeal. I wasn't as lucky as him though, having been bitten a few times. very very scary.

You're not that much into self-preservation, are you, BigV?

Meh, safety is over-rated.

hahahahahaha


Hey... probably there's a different/better thread for this one, but I'm here, now, and it does qualify as weird.

Check out this vehicle.

You're not with the tourism board are you?

Sharks! Crocs! venomous jellyfish!

Nope, just a #$%& garfish stabbing someone in the ear.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/n...-1226542388183

It is now OK to fire a woman if you can't keep your weinie in your pants. Well, it might be a bit more complicated than that, but still...

Not sure how to copy/paste from my phone. It is a recent Iowa Supreme Court ruling. I saw it on CNN.

I read that article. If only it were also ok to divorce your wife because your secretary was really hot...

:lol:


If the presence of a hot secretary is a threat to a marriage, that marriage is in big trouble regardless of what is done about the secretary.

So Iowa has decreed that men aren't responsible for controlling themselves. Wait ... I'm confused. What've we been trying to do in Afghanistan all these years, again?

All right, the woman and her lawyer brought the lawsuit under the wrong grounds; it wasn't a case of gender discrimination. The Supreme Court didn't have a lot of options with the case as it was presented. And if the woman was too stupid to recognize her boss's comments as sexual harrassment ... :facepalm:

cite please :)

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/22/us/iow...html?hpt=hp_t3

I'm not sure this will work, but if not - check CNN for 'Irresistible worker' stories.

Google is your friend, bv.

Thanks Ortho.

And you're right. Wrong charges...weird case.

How can it be permissible?
She compromise my principle, yeah, yeah
That kind of love is mythical
She's anything but typical

She's a craze you'd endorse, she's a powerful force
You're obliged to conform when there's no other course
She used to look good to me, but now I find her

Simply irresistible
Simply irresistible

Her loving is so powerful, huh!
It's simply unavoidable
The trend is irreversible
The woman is invincible

She's a natural law and she leaves me in awe
She deserves the applause, I surrender because
She used to look good to me, but now I find her

Simply irresistible
Simply irresistible

Simply irresistible she's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went
Simply irresistible she's all mine, there's no other way to go

She's unavoidable, I'm backed against the wall
She gives me feelings like I never felt before
I'm breaking promises, she's breaking every law
She used to look good to me, but now I find her

Simply irresistible
She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went
Simply irresistible, she's all mine
There's no other way to go!

Her methods are inscrutable
The proof is irrefutable, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
She's so completely kissable, huh
Our lives are indivisible

She's a craze you'd endorse, she's a powerful force
You're obliged to conform when there's no other course
She used to look good to me, but now I find her

Simply irresistible
Simply irresistible

She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went
Simply irresistible she's all mine, there's no other way to go
She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went
Simply irresistible she's all mine, there's no other way to go

Simply irresistible

Now here's a headline:

Drunk man arrested driving stolen car on runway

"Beer now considered alcohol, not food, in Russia as new restrictions take hold"
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2...ions-take-hold

Oh yeah, when I was there beer was considered a soft drink. I used to buy two-litre bottles of ready mixed gin and tonic for a couple of bucks. And it was good.

Sent by thought transference.

As I recall from some of your Russian stories, it's not really alcohol unless it can strip the furniture.

I'd settle for the grade that can strip the ladies. ;)

:D

Sent by thought transference.

:D

MUCH less "weird news" than "funny internet commentary", but, thank you tumblr:

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Liquid panty remover, exactly.

'Swat I'm talkin' 'bout.