the news thread

calstro · Post by **calstro** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:06 pm

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ ... 25813.html

fckn ouch!!!

Post by **huge** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:08 pm

augers are dangerous motherfuckers.

a mate of my dad's got his arm ripped off in one!

kronz · Post by **kronz** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:11 pm

calstro wrote:http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ ... 25813.html

fckn ouch!!!

Poor fucking dude.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:52 am

Does it strike anyone as a little odd that 54 people in Japan died while using Tamiflu and 63 people in Indonesia have died from the bird flu itself??

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/flu ... 09262.html

valuetime · Post by **valuetime** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:16 pm

"Britney Spears cutting her hair off is the least-worthy front page news story in the history of humanity."

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/48278/

another about this anonymous letter by a US FA18 pilot: "God, I do love killing these bastards. ... Morale is high, the Marines can smell the barn. It's hard to keep them focused. I still have 20 days of kill these motherfuckers, so I don't wanna take even one day off. "

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/48601/

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:16 am

Full body condoms for the future

http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Swe ... 31878.html

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:23 pm

Merri Creek dodge

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=230469

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:08 am

This made my blood boil. I'm fucking speechless

grrrr

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=252865

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:11 am

Causing issues...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/fashion/d ... 45075.html[/img]

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:35 pm

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21 ... 00,00.html

High cholesterol? Try a Big Mac with fries

By Peter Wilson in Lipkoning, Sweden, and John Stapleton

March 07, 2007 12:00am
Article from: The Australian

SUPER Size Me, the US documentary that attacked the nutritional standards of the McDonald's food chain, may have seriously overstated the damaging consequences of a fast food-heavy diet.

Fredrik Nystrom, an associate professor at Sweden's Lipkoning University, will this week submit for publication the first results of an experiment in which 18 healthy students reproduced the experience of filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who lived for a month on a McDonald's diet.

Spurlock's 2004 film shocked filmgoers around the world by showing his weight balloon by 13 per cent while his cholesterol profile and liver health deteriorated dangerously. He reported mood swings, depression and loss of libido.

But in Dr Nystrom's experiment, the first to apply laboratory conditions to Spurlock's experience, the subjects did not suffer depression and on average their cholesterol profiles actually improved.

Like Spurlock, some of the subjects suffered signs of possible liver damage during the first two weeks of their burger-heavy diet but, unlike him, they generally saw any damage level off or reduce as their bodies apparently adjusted to their new low-exercise, high-calorie regime.

Spurlock has refused to comment on the Swedish results, with a spokesman in Los Angeles telling The Australian that the filmmaker had "moved on to other projects".

The negative publicity sparked by his film helped to push McDonald's into introducing healthier menus and putting less emphasis on encouraging people to eat large meals. Super Size Me was popular in Australia, but the Golden Arches seem to have lost little of their popularity.

Dr Nystrom, who spent an estimated $250,000 of research funds on the study, including $25,000 on fast food, said the project had no links with the fast food industry but he believed McDonald's would not be unhappy with the results.

The surprising finding that there was an improvement in the proportion of "good cholesterol" in subjects' blood meant that fast food "cannot really be called junk food," Dr Nystrom told The Australian.

"On the basis of my research, you certainly can't refer to this food as junk food. It's fast food because it is a fast way of taking on a lot of calories but it is not just junk."

Post by **Friday** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:54 pm

The Mixtress wrote:Causing issues...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/fashion/d ... 45075.html[/img]

that is shit! how could they be so stupid as to think that advert is ok....

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:27 pm

Friday wrote:
The Mixtress wrote:Causing issues...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/fashion/d ... 45075.html[/img]
that is shit! how could they be so stupid as to think that advert is ok....

fuckin oath! its terrible!!!!

i wonder what they were thinking?

really?

Post by **huge** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:36 pm

in advertising land there is nothing wrong with it lol

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:52 pm

come on huge, there is obvious things wrong with it. they would know it, just pushing "boundaries" or some shit

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:57 pm

Sad...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ ... 68943.html

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:50 am

12 year old boy charged with sexually assaulting a 23 year old lady.

whatthefuck.com/someonegetmeastiffdrink

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=68374

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:52 am

thats fucked up

Rob M · Post by **Rob M** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:53 pm

The Mixtress wrote:12 year old boy charged with sexually assaulting a 23 year old lady.

whatthefuck.com/someonegetmeastiffdrink

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=68374

damn...did anyone get these ads that went along with the article?! WTF...

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:58 pm

Rob M

If you look up the word respect on Google you get the sidebar ad "Respect - a bargain on Ebay!"

Rob M · Post by **Rob M** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 2:01 pm

yeh, just frustrated the lack of foresight that goes into automated technologies.

That's like promoting Virgin Blue flights on articles of the downed Indonesian plane from recent news. POOR FORM.

FoundationStepper · Post by **FoundationStepper** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:55 am

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007 ... kip300x250

Scientists say nerves use sound, not electricity

The common view that nerves transmit impulses through electricity is wrong and they really transmit sound, according to a team of Danish scientists.

The Copenhagen University researchers argue that biology and medical textbooks that say nerves relay electrical impulses from the brain to the rest of the body are incorrect.

"For us as physicists, this cannot be the explanation," said Thomas Heimburg, an associate professor at the university's Niels Bohr Institute. "The physical laws of thermodynamics tell us that electrical impulses must produce heat as they travel along the nerve, but experiments find that no such heat is produced."...

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:54 am

^^That's big news FS^^
Nice find.

calstro · Post by **calstro** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:10 pm

Rob M wrote:yeh, just frustrated the lack of foresight that goes into automated technologies.

That's like promoting Virgin Blue flights on articles of the downed Indonesian plane from recent news. POOR FORM.

I opened up said article... this time a lavalife 'SINGLE?' ad was there...

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:32 am

Stellar effort

http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Isr ... 15135.html

Any reference to a ball-gag and my ears prick up

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:17 am

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/ ... LNO0.shtml

Jews find cool old bugs in big hole

Mellogs · Post by **Mellogs** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:07 pm

Fishy end for TV stars

Daniel Ziffer
March 7, 2007

One of the longest-running programs on Melbourne television has been axed.

Channel 31's Fishcam - which consisted of a camera trained onto a fish-tank - was an enduring filler program for the community station, calming late-night audiences since 1996.

In their original taxing schedule, the fish performed from 11.30pm to 8.00am Monday to Friday and all weekend.

However, station manager Greg Dee said increasing numbers of original local programs had trimmed the Fishcam broadcast down to just two hours between 3am and 5am.

"The station felt that after 13 years the show had started to flounder," he said yesterday. Now they are gone completely.

"Melbourne's insomniac community deserves quality programming in the middle of the night," Dee said, before assuring viewers the fish have not been forgotten.

"After so many years of TV exposure, being out of the limelight is a real concern," he joked.

"We've got a redundancy package lined up . . . we're going to tip a few out in Port Phillip Bay. Also, they're believed to be considering an offer from Eddie McGuire to host a new quiz show called 3 Second Memory and bringing out an exercise video with Chuck Norris and Christie Brinkley."

The not-for-profit station sold "heaps" of DVDs of the fish at play, Dee said, many of them to committed fans of the show who would call the station to discuss their favourite fish.

theage.com.au

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:45 am

This is shithouse...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/ ... 65942.html

Will · Post by **Will** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:26 pm

Mellogs wrote:"The station felt that after 13 years the show had started to flounder," he said yesterday.

Post by **huge** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:56 am

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/sto ... d=10428897

Waitakere City Council has taken itself to court and won ... and lost.

The authority chose to prosecute itself in the name of even-handed administration of regulations after it failed to get consents to move six houses.

In Waitakere District Court, the council was fined $4800 and ordered to pay $780 court costs.

It will now pay most of the money - aside from the court's 10 per cent share of the fines - to itself.

"We feel vindicated by this decision," said councillor Vanessa Neeson

kiwis

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:50 am

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 62,00.html

the parents are upset and angry? with themselves i would hope, for bloody leaving their kids alone in a department store. fuckin idiots

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:56 am

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 62,00.html

Go Northsyde

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:24 pm

Lizkins wrote:http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 62,00.html

the parents are upset and angry? with themselves i would hope, for bloody leaving their kids alone in a department store. fuckin idiots

Totally agree with you. Paedophiles do what they do...it's up to the parents to either be with their kids 24/7 or else teach them not to be gullible targets.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:56 pm

You're fucking WHAT???

http://www.theage.com.au/news/people/jo ... 13509.html

I don't think I need to point out the obvious contradictions in this fucked up article

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:00 pm

seriously, get the fuck out.....

Charlie73 · Post by **Charlie73** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:00 pm

The Mixtress wrote:You're fucking WHAT???

http://www.theage.com.au/news/people/jo ... 13509.html

I don't think I need to point out the obvious contradictions in this fucked up article

oh dear..... this is a sad tale of the state of British parenting then isn't it?

Post by **breaksRbest** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:15 pm

It's only Celebrity Mum of the Year.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:28 pm

Still, I woulda voted Gwyneth. Someone who actually looks after themselves and their kid...

valuetime · Post by **valuetime** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:02 pm

"Last year's award winner was Sharon Osbourne."

well, that explains it.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:16 pm

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:49 am

Good Lord. Major accident in the Burnley tunnel, people dead, fire raging...

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=256344

calstro · Post by **calstro** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:09 pm

The Mixtress wrote:Good Lord. Major accident in the Burnley tunnel, people dead, fire raging...

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=256344

yeah fckn hardcore...

this was bound to happen sooner or later.

calstro · Post by **calstro** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:22 pm

http://www.theage.com.au/news/cricket/w ... 38078.html

Woolmer was strangled!

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:27 pm

Are you surprised Cal? I knew when they said he's died the same night Pakistan lost to a virginal Ireland that something was awry

calstro · Post by **calstro** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:29 pm

The Mixtress wrote:Are you surprised Cal? I knew when they said he's died the same night Pakistan lost to a virginal Ireland that something was awry

no suprise at all...

I even won a bet with someone over it.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:29 pm

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:34 pm

Mellogs wrote:
Daniel Ziffer
March 7, 2007

thats weirder for me. I went to School with Dan, his bro and I have been mates since like grade 5.

dengelman · Post by **dengelman** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:37 pm

mrj wrote:
Mellogs wrote:
Daniel Ziffer
March 7, 2007
thats weirder for me. I went to School with Dan, his bro and I have been mates since like grade 5.

Which bro? I went to uni with one of them. Dan is doing really well for himself at the age.

"it's a small world after all..."

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:49 am

http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaking- ... 55602.html

Does this bother anyone else?? I'm disturbed by the whole scenario

calstro · Post by **calstro** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:09 am

The Mixtress wrote:http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaking- ... 55602.html

Does this bother anyone else?? I'm disturbed by the whole scenario

I'm sure there's several jokes to be made from that article...

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:26 pm

some rather depressing news...a man committed suicide while on-line

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=256671