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Wesley J
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'Tell loved ones they are overweight this Christmas'
Even if they're horribly thin.
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Wesley J
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Obesity pioneer given knighthood
One of the McDonald brothers? Fat chance.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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Russia Nuclear Submarine Burns with Sailors Still Onboard [not BBC ]
And no one in the reactor room cautioned them that marshmallows and hot dogs can blaze up quickly....
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Eutychus
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Simultaneous links to the same article currently on BBC's main page:
Eurozone manufacturing decline eases
Eurozone factory decline persists
(head explodes in spin meltdown)
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joan knox
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Women march over breast implants
this, I assume, once they've been extracted?
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Chorister
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quote:
Originally posted by joan knox:
Women march over breast implants
this, I assume, once they've been extracted?
For me, this raised the image of the effect of bubblewrap! poppopopopopopopopopoppop
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![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Wesley J
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The pill 'does ease period pain'
Helps you sit through 'Pride and Prejudice' et al.
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Wesley J
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Peacocks to enter administration
Aren't there already quite a few specimen of those?
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Eutychus
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Army A&E medics plan 'worrying'
Some slight anxiety is scheduled for Monday, followed by the screaming heebie-jeebies on Tuesday before a zen Wednesday.
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Sioni Sais
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Gap between UK cities widening
And I thought traffic jams were the problem.
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Wesley J
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Rapist psychic found dead in cell
That was predictable.
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Wesley J
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Porn firm fined over condom use
Rubbish headline - it should be 'condom non-use', if anything. The length of characters (ehem...) can't be an issue here, as there are RSS feed headlines which are much longer. (Size doesn't matter, it appears.)
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Sioni Sais
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UK economy shrinks by 0.2% in Q4
Ancient Spike Milligan TV programme gets blamed for the continued recession.
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Eutychus
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Search for Rio collapse missing
So somebody had better go and look for it.
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Sioni Sais
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Argentina to take Falklands to UN
Hauling a few hundred square miles of land from the South Atlantic to New York will take a lot of money Argentina hasn't got.
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Hedgehog
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Whales 'stressed by ocean noise'
In which case, they've picked a real bummer of a place to live...
(Alternative quip: "Well, the older whales call it noise. The younger ones call it music.")
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are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
--Bertrand Russell
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Wesley J
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Sun 'will continue' says Murdoch
Media tsar diversifies into forecasting weather
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Jahlove
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quote:
Originally posted by Hedgehog:
Whales 'stressed by ocean noise'
In which case, they've picked a real bummer of a place to live...
(Alternative quip: "Well, the older whales call it noise. The younger ones call it music.")
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Wesley J
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Not an RSS feed as such, but noteworthy as equally confusing, from the BBC's Panorama:
quote:
Ice weighs down the roofs of tents, and rain regularly drips onto the sleeping campers' faces as they sleep. (Italics mine)
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Wesley J
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Councils handed 'power of prayer'
... by government in attempt to compensate for severe budget cuts
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Sioni Sais
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Border Agency to be split in two
One part each side of the border, I suppose.
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Wesley J
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Why do men become Catholic priests?
Because women can't?
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Wesley J
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Foster home moves 'lack warning'
What?? ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Wesley J
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Burger King leaves jobless scheme
What are the jobless plotting now?
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Eutychus
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Whitney's daughter 'doing good'
Nice to see her involved in some sort of charity work despite her loss.
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Wesley J
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Unfortunate headline not from the BBC, but a local newspaper website, including Facebook link:
Young man kills himself with father's gun
16 people recommend this
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Wesley J
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Heads 'illegally exclude pupils'
And then go blind.
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Sioni Sais
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'Fine schools' for poor literacy
Strange, I would have thought poor literacy would be more common in bad schools.
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Sioni Sais
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Gove 'wants new set of A-levels'.
He should have studied harder then.
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Wesley J
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Height linked to ovarian cancer
Apparently, it's about how tall women are, and not - as I initially thought - whether they live in the mountains or not. Confusing!
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Sioni Sais
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Jaguar to build F-type sports car
That'll be 'F' as in Four-wheeled penis then.
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Eutychus
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Stardust recycling mystery solved
Why "My Coo-ca-Choo" still occasionally gets airtime.
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Sioni Sais
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Not an RSS but a sub headline I couldn't resist in the Education section.
MPs call for better porn blocks
Which will make a change from science blocks, tech blocks and art blocks I suppose.
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joan knox
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Consultation on doctors' language
Meh, just get them a swear box and donate the proceeds to the NHS... should keep it afloat for years.
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Sioni Sais
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Murdoch 'not a fit boss' say MPs
He does seem to be very forgetful.
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Wesley J
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King rejects criticism for crisis
Hasn't there been a Queen, not a King, for more than 60 years? And aren't most crises nowadays the government's fault, not the monarch's? Well done for protesting, then!
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Wesley J
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WWII profile of Hitler uncovered
On Facebook?
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Wesley J
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Nine to be sentenced for grooming
Another Enid Blyton story gone horribly wrong?
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Matt Black
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Pressure piles on Clintons Cards
Bill is ordered by Hillary to disclose all the messages he sent to Monica Lewinsky
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Eutychus
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Olympic flame to be it in Greece
I didn't realise the torch relay was actually a game of tag!
[Hostly codefix]
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Eutychus
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They've caught it now (the error, not the flame). But I did not have time to correct my own tag.
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Wesley J
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Hollande meets Merkel (Grauniad)
A head of state named after another country is bound to cause considerable confusion!
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Sioni Sais
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Parent classes 'not nanny state'
Of course not, they're 'mummy and daddy state'.
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Wesley J
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Zara Phillips to ride with torch
Given up on those horses, has she?
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Stejjie
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Chronic pain under-treated - NICE
Doesn't sound very nice...
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Matt Black
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Virgin and BT in broadband row.
Ann Widdecombe turns nasty on the phone about her poor internet connection
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Sioni Sais
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Not an RSS (yet) but 'Breaking News'
The government has made a policy U-turn on how to control buzzards
How the hell does that get to be worthy of being 'breaking news'?
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Wesley J
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Everything to create a buzz, Sioni. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Sky blocks access to Pirate Bay
The sky's the limit!
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