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‘Human Barbie’ Gives 7-Year-Old Daughter Liposuction Voucher
ABC

She's spending quite big figures on her own figure. I wonder where she got the money.

Stupid husband?

I've been thinking that by the end of this year I might need cosmetic surgery for all the spare skin I'm going to have, but i don't think I'll be spending even six thousand pounds on it. lol There's no way I could justify it for one thing.

Can she use the voucher for the counselling for her inevitable body-image disorders?

Not the very worst parent in the world, but damn, she's trying.

Gun, whatever else you lay at her door, the woman pays her own way.
She works as a referral agent for plastic surgery, and on any slow news day she knows she can get her name and face in the paper. She's a self-promotor of course. But it's always the right-wing reactionary press that feature her and encourage her.

Whether this is as bad or worse than the purported gifts is open to discussion.
Many D-list celebs use their children to make news.

There are plenty of worse off children out there. She is growing up in her mother's skewed world, but it's a world many women understand.

She's not being starved, beaten, sexually abused, kept away from school or exposed to drugs/ alcohol/ prostitution. I'm not comparing like for like, I'm just saying as a way of preparing a child to exist in the outside world, she's not really warping her. Better she thinks perfect boobs will make her popular than that Daddies can hit Mummies when they're drunk.

I don't support her, I've just shifted my moral balance a little since meeting children who face problems at home. And I work in a generally affluent area.

The ideal is educated children with a safe home life and a positive self image.
And yummy healthy snacks for all and parent(s) that tuck you in at night and read you stories.

Oh nicely put.


[eta] Especially given perfect boobs will probably make her popular...

The mother is a self serving attention-whore and she is teaching her daughter to be the same way.
This has nothing to do with daddy hitting mommy.

Children learn from their parent(s)/ primary carers.
A girl brought up to believe image is everything still has a better start in life than many children.

It's not ideal. It's certainly not my ideal.
But it's not abuse.

I think she's promoting self-esteem. That woman is FUGLY and thinks all the work has made her BEEYOOTEEFUL.

Maybe her daughter won't mind being ugly too. :right:

Sometimes I hate you IM, mostly right now because I totally agree with you.

pssst, don't tell anyone!

That's it. 2012, dogs and cats, living together, Classic and Infi agreeing ... we're doomed, I tell ya, doooooomed!

Look Zen, I'm just trying to keep this up for another 11 months and 11 days.

two of the four posters of the apocalypse...

Trolling Newb
Flame war
Apostrophe's
Blue screen of death

Beds of death?

Death Bed 2000

Arizona Wants to Buy Back State Capitol It Inexplicably Sold
 

Totally WTF, but I guess it could have gone in politics as well ...

The rest of the story on Mother Jones

Abolish the 12th grade! And what, have them go directly from 11th to 13th grade? That sounds nuts.

Pa. Man Jailed for Having Sex With Horses, Cow - Again

Slut.

Yer allowed ta kill 'em and eat em, yer allowed to rope 'em and throw 'em, yer allowed ta brand 'em with hot iron, yer allowed to cut their horns and their balls off, but yer not allowed to stick yer dick in 'em. Cause that would be animal cruelty, right?

"It's half full."
"It's half empty."
"It's twice as big as it needs to be."
"Make up your minds, I'm dyin' here."

Did he get them off or did he rape them?

The former should be considered as deep petting (pun intended) while the latter is just animal cruelty.

As an animal lover, he should ask PETA to vouch for him.

Check what the 'E' in PETA stands for.

Edible?

People Eating Tasty Animals

Like throwing a hotdog down a hallway.

Like opening a window and fucking the world.

Like a mote in a moat.

That's all I got.

Sausage up the High Street
Sausage in a Cathedral

Laughed so loud I woke up the cat. He was in the bedroom, I'm in the living room. Really.

Dude has his dangly bits damn near torn from his body. Where do they take him?

Ball Memorial Hospital of course.

:lol2:

via The Smoking Gun

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Damn. I guess it is true what they say about a woman scorned! I have a question though. I seriously doubt if she could done that type of damage through clothes. That leads me to believe that he MAY have been "working at his computer" in a less than fully clothed manner. The article does not specify.

Correction: that's Ball Me Morial Hospital. That's what the sign says.

Ball'Me Mor'ial Hos'pit'al.

Okay, this is a WTF news item, and it's not a WTF news item.

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Sure, you can't just go door to door handing out retired wardogs. But, just kill 'em? That seems extremely callous, especially when you take into account what these dogs did. No telling the lives that were saved by these dogs. No telling the things these dogs did for their handlers. If you use such a noble animal in such a way, the least you can do is let the poor thing live out his life. They should keep the dogs up for the rest of their lives.

I hope whoever had the final sayso on killing these dogs, lives a long, healthy, prosperous life. And when he/she does die, hopefully in their sleep, at 100+ yrs of age, I hope they get to heaven.

To find that God is a retired wardog.

:mad:

If fighting pit bulls can be rehab'd (and, no, not all of them can be), I'd be willing to bet that the majority of these dogs wouldn't have to be killed.

They are trained to follow commands , after all.

I don't know anything about training dogs, but I wouldn't want a dog that was trained to attack people to be living next door.

Maybe they could put them on a farm somewhere. With a tall fence. Patrol a base or something.

"Smithers, release the hounds."

I'm with Glatt here.
But if everyone signing the petition was willing to pay The Dog's Trust to support a war dog for life, then they could work out a way to stop this happening.

Also have to take into account that some of these dogs will be suffering from post traumatic stress. Not for a moment suggesting that dogs with pts can't be rehabilitated, but if it is manifesting in ways that make the dog dangerous and unapproachable, then adds further complications to an already fraught situation. Not to mention the suffering of the animal in the meantime.

I'd be interested to know how many have been rehoused. The dogs who've been put down may represent the most damaged and difficult cases. Given the nature of their work, that's likely to be quite a high proportion I'd imagine.

That's the sort of thing I was talking about. I wasn't suggesting they keep the retired wardogs down at the local daycare, or kindergarten playground.

Somewhere appropriate.

Also, people's taxes paid for these dogs and their training. The allocations should include providing for them after they've "served their usefulness".

Don't most of these type dogs actually have a rank? I know most police dogs do. They're treated as soldiers, while they're "useful", and like garbage, to be thrown away, when they're used up.

This has bothered me way more than I thought it would.

Hang on, I thought all Americans were anti-tax to the extent that they don't even want to pay to educate other people's children?
But English tax-payers should pay for pensions for dogs?

ETA that was s'posed to be a joke but came off xenophobic and a bit nasty, sorry.

But we're also the people who donate thousands to repair anonymous broken doggehs. I would like to believe that this (the wardog problem) doesn't happen here, but, I'm sure we do the same thing.

Sadly enough.

We donate ridiculous amounts to animal charities in the UK.

There's a shortage of donkeys.

They're a real money-spinner.

People are so keen to hand over cash to 'save' the cute little things that groups/charities/whatever are trying to import them and paying over the odds for any available. Some owners are getting several 'wanna sell your donkey' calls every week from these folk.

I like animals (well, most of them) but I wouldn't hand a penny over to 'save' one while there are still humans in the world going hungry.

Oh, I will. But I also give to human charitiies.

The two are very much linked to me.

IMHO, the first priority is that the VA pay for Big Sarge's goddam meds like they should, and fix Buster's eyes properly.*

I suspect that quite a few of these dogs could work as watchdogs and guard dogs, but maybe some are too old or otherwise physically or mentally not up to it. Some kind of comfortable retirement seems appropriate, but even then, all dogs come to an end and often the vet's needle is in fact the kindest way to go. We need more details about the condition of each dog. Were they actually old and sick, or were they just inconvenient?


*Yeah, I know, different country, but I'll assume the Brit system has much the same issues as the VA, and the US has dogs in much the same situation.

I'm not understanding the state of these dogs, I guess. They're trained animals. We have to assume very well-trained. Why would the military allow anything but very-well-trained dogs near our soldiers? So why is it they magically turn into monsters when they come back from overseas? I mean, sure, I can see the possibility of PTSD, and maybe you don't want to be a stranger walking onto their home property at night... but aren't police dogs trained in a similar fashion? Surely police departments across the country could find a use for a free, military-trained animal.

I donate to the Dog's Trust. For a very selfish reason. John Barrowman is a patron and often offers personal belongings, or things he has been given (a Day Out Rally Driving, a signed photo, a first edition of his book) as prizes.

But I respect what they do, same way I respect the Celia Hammond Animal Trust; they never put a healthy cat down and have a large country facility for cats that cannot be rehomed (especially ferals). They are into lifelong support. They've had money from me in the past, when I have had it.

I have also given to humans when I could. Save the Children and Help the Aged especially. Children in Need, Sport Relief, Comic Relief every year. Sometimes it's been just making a cake. Sometimes it's just been organising collections, selling raffle tickets, raising awareness. I don't think it has to be either/ or when it comes to animals and humans. I just know of animals helped by various charities and trusts. Whereas when giving to humans it's just... out there. Never met them, never will. I take it on trust.

I used to find that people who refused to give to "foreigners" i.e. starving people abroad "because there are people hungry in this country" actually didn't give to UK causes either. Each to their own - I don't volunteer any more although I have the time to (except the extra hours at school), so I'm not any kind of shining angel.

The worth of the aminals far outweighs the worth of teh huboons.

Hmmmm.
Not knowing Keith Moon is dead.
Thinking Johnny Rotten would be appropriate to play in the closing ceremony?
I suspect pranking aomewhere along the line.

Oh ye gods.

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From http://www.cairns.com.au/article/201...ocal-news.html

Damn, that's one of the few snakes that isn't particularly dangerous to humans.

More nightmares/pics at the link.

omgomgomgomgomgomg...

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH

:mad:

:bolt:

Woah!

The snake I like, the spider and the fact that it is eating the snake freaks me out.

(races to airport, hops on a plane to Australia, runs to Zen's house, slaps him across the face, runs back to airport, jumps on plane home...cartoon style.)

Late to this thread but, exactly what kind of scrotum attack isn't brutal?
/pedant

I doubt you'd get a direct flight to Adelaide.
You'd need to have a stop-over.

In Cairns.

You may be late, but you'll be glad you came.

A tongue lashing.
/pervert