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[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Crimson Ghost

Next up - ManBearPig

that episode was on Monday night.

[TheMercenary]

In honor of Vets Day UK style I give you a living memorial:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ooed-body.html

God Bless to all those in the UK who served in one of the Armed Forces on this day as well.

[classicman]

There are people looking, but its tough to know at what.

[ZenGum]

This stinger is in the last paragraph.

A LONG-DISTANCE swimmer says he was injured in a freak accident with a sea turtle off Adelaide while in training to swim the length of the Great Barrier Reef. [i.e. 1,800km - ZG]
The Cairns Post reports South Australian chiropractor Dr Rob Hutchings said he suffered "shell shock" after encountering a large turtle while training for his reef swim next year off the coast of Adelaide last Friday.

"I was just swimming along thinking about how wonderful life was, and my left arm came crashing down on the back of a very large turtle," Dr Hutchings said.

"I was quite shocked by it, because I didn’t think turtles were down here.

"I've been swimming down here for about six years and never seen them down here. For a split second, I thought I had run into a shark."

The encounter exacerbated an injured shoulder Dr Hutchings had suffered, after he had accidentally crashed into a kangaroo the week earlier while mountain biking in the Grampians.

[ZenGum]

A RUSSIAN man survived after guzzling three bottles of vodka before leaping from a fifth floor balcony - twice.
Moscow man Alexei Roskov says he jumped the second time because he couldn't stand anymore of his wife's nagging after the first time.

His wife Yekaterina watched in horror as her sozzled husband opened the kitchen window of their Moscow apartment, and dived out.

Astonishingly 22-year-old Muscovite survived - staggering back upstairs with barely a scratch after the 15m fall.

But while his wife called for an ambulance and began to scold him, he decided to jump again.

Paramedics treated Mr Roskov for minor cuts and bruises before releasing him.

Mr Roskov said he was now teetotal after giving up drinking, and added: "Now I can say just one thing - I was very lucky.

"I have no idea why I jumped the first time but when I came back up and I heard my wife screaming angrily at me I thought it was best if I left the room again - out of the window."

Lets see... three bottles by five floors by two jumps = 30bottlefloorjumps. That should be enough to kill anyone. Must be Rasputin's great-grandson.

[Cicero]

OOOh interesting fail here..........lol!!! This is weird and funny at the same time..

http://failblog.org/2009/11/13/friday-rewind-cop-fail/

[TheMercenary]

I put it here because I found it so weird and a bit shocking as well. I have never heard this before. Is this commonly known? It was in the NYT today.

Australian Leader Apologizes for Child Migrants

The children were gathered up by the tens of thousands, some of them as young as 3, taken from single mothers and impoverished families in Britain, then sent abroad for what was supposed to be a better start in life. What they found was isolation, physical and sexual abuse, and what the prime minister of Australia said Monday was “the absolute tragedy of childhoods lost.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/wo...ef=global-home

[DanaC]

It's pretty well-known over here. Or, has been for a few years.

[ZenGum]

There was a BBC/ABC documentary called "The Leaving of Liverpool" about that particular group, but the apology covers many Australian-born, institutionalised peple too. It puts the treatment of Aboriginal children into a slightly less shameful perspective.

[Clodfobble]

Not that it makes it any better, but weren't the circumstances for these unfortunate kids generally the same back in Britain? I guess maybe there was more starving going on in the overcrowded orphanages, and less abuse?

[TheMercenary]

One thing I read was it might also have been an attempt to lessen the burden on the social system that was straining.

[ZenGum]

Also, Australia was in a "populate or perish" mindset, after WWII.

It must have seemed like such a good idea at the time.

[Pie]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Also, Australia was in a "populate or perish" mindset, after WWII.

Yes, with good white stock.

[TheMercenary]

Definately racially motivated.

[ZenGum]

Absolutely.

There was a big contention about taking migrants even from Italy and *gasp* the Balkans. I guess we were more afraid of the "Yellow Peril" than we were of the wogs.

"They do not assimilate, the do not learn our language, they will from ghettoes where criminal gangs will rule..." which turned out to be 98% BS but is still being repeated about Chinese and African migrants today.