`An English women’s rugby team have had a strip torn off them after performing a topless haka.
The girls from the Canterbury women’s rugby team in Kent went topless in their version of the sacred war dance for their raunchy 2007 calendar.
But Maori academics have labelled their interpretation of the All Blacks’ Ka Mate haka as racially ignorant.
“It looks like misuse of the haka to me,” said Dr Poia Rewi, senior lecturer in the School of Maori Studies at Otago University.
“I think Maori would be offended by this,” he said.’
‘By putting chunks of raw graphite in the microwave with a clear dome to capture the plasma…’
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‘Home video of a costumed Tigger character apparently punching a boy in the face and knocking him back at a Walt Disney World theme park has prompted an Orange County Sheriff’s investigation into the incident and led to the suspension of the cast member, according to a Local 6 News report. [..]
“The general manager apologized to me,” Monaco Sr. said. “Everybody will come up and apologize to me but Tigger. He won’t be a man about it and get out of the costume and come out and apologize to my son. I didn’t want VIP treatment. I didn’t want an extra day at Disney. I didn’t want any of that. I wanted him to apologize and that is the one thing that they won’t do.”‘
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From the French Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Possible answers are the moon, the sun, mars and venus.
People are retards. 🙂
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‘The deputy is on paid leave.’
Heh.
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`The leading certifier of US electronic voting systems, Colorado outfit Ciber, Inc., is no longer permitted to issue certifications, after federal investigators discovered appallingly haphazard testing regimes, the New York Times reports.
Ciber, which certifies the majority of US election devices, was unable to document how it supposedly tested the machines for accuracy and security. Due to the oddities of US elections regulations, no government agency is assigned this role; rather, device manufacturers pay whoever they wish to rubber-stamp their kit.’
`A former World War II fort in the North Sea off England, which was settled 40 years ago and declared a state with its own self-proclaimed royal family, is up for sale.
The Times newspaper reports the tiny Principality of Sealand, which began life as Roughs Tower in 1941, is a 550 square metre steel platform perched on two concrete towers 11 kilometres off the coast of Harwich in eastern England.
It is accessible only by helicopter and boat but according to its owners, who want offers of eight digits or more, boasts uninterrupted sea views, guarantees complete privacy and is a tax haven.’
`Until recently, scholars thought only 8 or 10 of these important early telescopes _ made between 1608 and 1650 of tightly rolled paper and crudely ground lenses _ had survived to the present day.
Then two historians on a visit to a museum in Berlin last fall had an “aha!” moment. One of the oldest known surviving telescopes at the German museum gave them an idea of places to look for other, as yet undiscovered examples.
Their insight apparently was correct. According to Marvin Bolt of Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, he and his colleague found a previously unreported 1627 telescope in a Dresden museum storage room within 24 hours of their brainstorm. Less than a day later, they found a second, slightly earlier telescope that had lain unnoticed in the storage room of a museum in Kassel.’
Glad I wasn’t in that car. 🙂
`Juan Catlett claims that Gibson used scenes from his 1991 film, Return to Aztlan, in Apocalypto. The storylines basically cover the same ground, depicting the Mayan civilisation imploding in a time of great drought.
Catlett alleges that Gibson asked for a copy of his film while shooting Apocalypto and that scenes from Return to Aztlan ended up in Gibson’s film. Catlett has now started legal proceedings against Gibson.’
‘An Australian family mortgages their house to pay for their frumpy daughter’s plastic surgery. She goes from swamp donkey to a smokin hot after several surgeries. Too bad there’s no surgery to remove awful accents.’
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`I was just fooling around on my computer and I came across a strange color. Whenever you have a video playing in Windows Media Player, this color will become transparent no matter what program you are in, and let you see through to the video.’
This is pretty cool actually. 🙂 The magic colour, btw, seems to be #100010.
This goes through the whole performance step by step with images and descriptions.
SRS, btw, stands for Sexual Reassignment Surgery.
She sounded so reasonable at first. 🙂
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This page has a lot of pictures of power generating wind turbines.
These things are huge. The shot of the fan blade on the back of a truck gives you a good idea of scale.
`A devoted mother is battling a rare medical condition that puts her into a coma every time she tells her children: ‘I love you.’
Wendy Richmond, 53, slips into a ‘waking sleep’ that leaves her almost paralysed every time she becomes emotional or wants to laugh or cry.
But drugs to treat the condition are expensive and not funded by her local NHS trust, meaning she has to shut off her emotions to avoid collapsing.’
‘A drunken redneck dude tries out skateboarding. He doesnt do too well at all.’
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`The Bush administration is expected to announce next week a major step forward in the building of the country’s first new nuclear warhead in nearly two decades. It will propose combining elements of competing designs from two weapons laboratories in an approach that some experts argue is untested and risky.
The new weapon would not add to but replace the nation’s existing arsenal of aging warheads, with a new generation meant to be sturdier, more reliable, safer from accidental detonation and more secure from theft by terrorists.’
`So much development so many job Dubai is the place of oppotunity itself. However if you are a born idiot and have no repsect for other people then I guess you have no chance of getting a job no matter what. Check out the email converstation below and to think this guy actually applied for a job at the company North 55. I don’t think this man will ever get a job in Dubai as the whole agency network will know about him by now, total loser.’
Tapeworms in your intestines are bad enough. But erk.
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This is a fun little IRC trivia channel where you can play trivia, funnily enough. 🙂
Link goes to the website. You’ll need an IRC client to play.
‘I will not accept that its a highly dangerous road..’
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`Who is going to care for your pets after you are raptured into heaven?
Many Christians believe that animals do not go to heaven. So when Jesus comes back and you return with him to heaven, will there be somebody to take care of your dog or cat? [..]
With the imminent collapse of the global economy and rampant godlessness, even the community shelters will not have the resources to care for your poor, hungry animals. So you need to make preparations.
That’s what JesusPets is for. We are assembling a community of heathen pet-lovers to care for pets that are “left-behind.” We are coordinating with feed mills and kennels in preparation for your post-apocalyptic pet care needs.’
`Cooler, quieter computers and [possibly] warmer pool water with very little extra cost and added energy savings.’
‘The Army said Friday it would apologize to the families of about 275 officers killed or wounded in action who were mistakenly sent letters urging them to return to active duty.
The letters were sent a few days after Christmas to more than 5,100 Army officers who had recently left the service. Included were letters to about 75 officers killed in action and about 200 wounded in action.’
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‘Simple physics, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thats why you dont hold the butt of a shotgun close to your face when shooting. The same is also true for less powerful objects like this potato gun launcher.’
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