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I know there's been millions and trillions of similar using-small-scaled-models-to-make-life-like-photography pics out there, but i found this one particularly amusing
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Today in Pictures - Desert Beasts - TIME
Rated • 1 review • photography • time.com
"Pigeons and camels make an appearance at a cattle market near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia"
Another great shot from today in pictures, at Time
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Worlds biggest animal sacrifice held in Nepal - Telegraph
Rated • 2 reviews • animals, religion, slaughter • telegraph.co.uk
Around 20,000 buffalo were slaughtered, by 250 'butchers' (basically men with swords) in a two day 'festival' to honour the Hindu goddess, Gadhimai.
For once, i'll be brief (ish)
I was a vegetarian for 19 years, so any animal cruelty based story especially gets to me and whilst i can appreciate and respect the religion of others, when it comes to something this barbaric, i can't help but think 'neanderthals!'.
You may think me hypercritical as i now eat meat, but i'm not saying eating animals is wrong (when they've lived a happy, free range life and then get killed in the most humane way possible), just that having a mass gathering to celebrate some deity should be a positive thing, not involve horrifically slitting the throats of 20,000 beasts (actually, 20,000+, because a chicken and goat or some such were also used in a sacrificial ceremony)
I just don't understand this 'in the name of religion' stuff. Yeh, i'm sprirtual, but can't imagine ever commiting such attrocities and then fooling myself into believing it's ok 'cos i 'did it for god'
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Nocton on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Rated • 1 review • photography, flickr, abandoned • flickr.com
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I traced my dad... and discovered he is Charles Manson |...
Rated • 31 reviews • family, bizarre, tabloid • thesun.co.uk
When you see a headline like "I traced my dad... and discovered he is Charles Manson" in tabloid trash The Sun, you'd be foolish to not find it dubious. Afterall, much of what this tabloid paper prints is over-sensationalised hearsay (see 'classic' headline of yesteryear, "Freddie Starr ate my hamster", as one example of this)
So, with that in mind, i half expected the Charles Manson in question to be a Charlie Manson, binman from Surrey, but, nah, in this case it is the actual NutJob, murdering b@stard Charles Manson.
It turns out that, through searching for his biological parents, Matthew Roberts discovered that his Mum had been allegedly raped by Manson, on a bus, when the 'cult' had been indulging in a drug fuelled binge back in the 60s
One huge problem i have with the whole Manson thing is, the way he and his 'followers' seem to blame a lot on being high. Yeh, we all know they were in some way 'unbalanced', but having orgies and commiting murder whilst high was a result of them being unbalanced, confused, odd, evil, sometimes misguided individuals, not because they were high - ffs, i spent most of my years at uni out of my tiny mind on many illegal delights, yet still managed to do all my work, keep a house and get dressed every morning. Not once did i have a mass orgy or slit any-one's throat (well, not that i'm aware of anyway...though i never did see my housemate again after that time i had those scissors and...ah, nevermind)
Anyway, Matthew Roberts (the adopted dude that the story's about - keep up!) discovered his Mum had given him up for adoption after realising he was NutJob's offspring. He does have contact with his Dad, mainly through bizarre notes and letters, but doesn't call him, despite being sent his prison 'phone number.
The odd thing here is, if i found out i was Charles Manson's child, i'd probably not tell many people. Yeh, the dude does look the spitting image of his Dad, but, c'mon, so do half the biker dudes in any town. I just find it odd that Matthew Roberts'd want to make it world-wide public knowledge...unless he's impressed by those loons who think Manson is cool (making young girls kill, in your name, whilst writing the Beatles' 'Helter Skelter' on the wall, backwards, is not cool - he was just a bossy, strange, deranged, yet charismatic, brain-washer, not some-one to be impressed by - unless you have quite f'd up morals!).
The only reason i can think Matthew Roberts allowed this story to be published is the ££££ signs flashing before his eyes. "Hmm, i have the misfortune of being Charles Manson's son and also the added misfortune of looking very similar to him....do i get on with my life and try and ignore this awful connection? Nah, i know, i'll go sell my story (and probably soul) to Brit Trash tabloid, the Sun - then i'll gain lots of money and the respect of pretentious, emo-type teens the world over!"
Like Father, like Son : along with their matching mouth, nose and eyes,
Matthew plans on getting a matching swastika tattoo at some point in the near future. or not
Charles Manson : steady yourselves, ladies!
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BBC News - Queens new card for 110-year-old
Rated • 1 review • uk, video, the queen • bbc.co.uk
When Katie Masters reached the grand old age of 100, she was delighted to receive a birthday card off the Queen. But, after a few years of receiving the same card, with a photo of the Queen in a yellow dress on the front, she got a little irked and decided to write a letter of complaint to Lizzy.
In 2009, Prince William turned up at Katie Masters' care home to apologise on behalf of his Gran and to assure the then 109 year old that the next card would be different.
This video clip shows the BBC interviewing Katie Masters on her 100th birthday and capture her reaction on opening her card from Queen Liz.
On seeing a new photo of the Queen on the card (wearing blue instead of that same yellow dress) she cooed "That's lovely, that'll do"
The amusing part is when the interviewer asks "What colour would you like next year?" - let's hope the Queen dons a nice, glittery number when posing for Katie's card next year ;)
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BBC News - Trump golf course plan faces legal challenge
Rated • 1 review • uk, news • bbc.co.uk
In cases like this, i'm usually for the underdog...especially when the underdog is an OAP, fighting against a multi-millionaire, for the right to save her home...but, in this case, i'm making an exception.
84 year old Molly Forbes is fighting against Donald Trump building a golf course which, if the build went ahead, would mean Mrs. Forbes would lose her house "Mr Trump has been granted planning permission to demolish my home, but I do not wish to sell, and I do not wish to be forced out"
Yeh, fair play Molly, i'm totally with you...apart from the fact that Trump is, in some ironic way, a semi-hero of mine. Yeh, he's a bit of a joke - always marries women years younger than him, who are obviously only interested in his money; has the worst 'looks like a wig but isn't' hair ever; had so little imagination, he named his son after himself, BUT he's got 'something' about him. Not brains (though he must have some, to get as far as he has!), maybe not even charisma, but Something.
Take the tv show The Apprentice as an example.
Over here in the UK we have the Jewish Sid James (Sir Alan Sugar) as the expert who shapes and moulds would-be business mogels. Even in the opening titles he's 'ffinf anf geffing at the contestants, calling them work shy fops, or something equally condescending and is forever reminding us that 'i started from nuffink, i did - opened my own company with only a tenner from a council flat. We was so poor, i couldn't even afford all di letters in di alphabet, dat's why i talk like dis, innit'. Over several months, Sir Sugar appears to set a task for the two teams of hopefuls, then disappears for the majority of the show, only to turn up at the end, ridicule the teams and tell one of them 'you're fired!'
Then let's look at the US version - Donald Trump's Apprentice. We're not greeted by 'oi, you worthless shite' or a downbeat BBC voice-over man, instead it's glamorous shots of the shiny-shiny contestants (who all have crazy names and, for a few each season, at least, seem to be living stereotypes) and big-budget saxa-maphones, a smiling, ginger-Trump...it's a world away from the doom and gloom of the grubby old Brit version.
Don't get me wrong, i loves me a bit o' Sugar, but, for many reasons, i also loves me some Trump - he's big, he's brash, he's flashy....he's everything i usually despise in a human being, but, for some reason, he charms the hell out of me.
I'll have to send Mrs.Forbes some VHSs of the US Apprentice and, in time, i'm pretty sure she'll say 'hey, that Donald guy's brilliant...i think i will sell him my home and let him go ahead with that golf course afterall!' - nobody can resist Trump, well, not for ever anyway
Donald Trump: the Owen Wilson of the business world (sort of)
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BBC News - U2 to headline Glastonbury 2010
Rated • 1 review • uk, music, festival • bbc.co.uk
Super-smug Bono, who had his sunglasses surgically attached to his head sometime in the late 80s,(whilst on a short break from his charity work)is to be the headline act at next year's Glastonbury festival. The 97 year old Irish 'rocker' will be joined by his band, U2 (though no-one really remembers much of the others, so that's irrelevant) to ruin, erm, sorry, 'celebrate' the festival's 40th birthday
Ah well, that's me not going to another Glastonbury next year then!
It seems (to me, anyway) that the last decent Glasto was circa 1997...after that it got tragically more and more commercial...there were less hippies each year, their places being filled by Scousers in shellsuits and the wellies replaced by cheap ShoeFayre heels. I'll keep fingers crossed that the Reading festival will have a better line-up!
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BBC News - Rare Darwin book kept in toilet
Rated • 1 review • literature, bizarre, books, darwin • bbc.co.uk
A rare first edition of the infamous book, the Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin, has been discovered recently...on a shelf in somebody's bathroom
The book, which was purchased around 40 years ago, is expected to raise the pricely sum of £60,000 when it is put up for auction next week.
The reason it's extra special is, apart from the author himself, the fact that it's a first edition and also that when the book was first published, back in 1859, it was limited to only 1250 copies
The auction house, Christy's, who will be conducting the sale of the book, have described the copy as being "lightly bumped" around the corners" - no mentions of any faecal splatterings, thankfully (sorry, that was slightly gross of me!)
I thought this was quite a 'nice' story - not only because the family who 'discovered' the book had a nice little surprise, hopefully followed by a little windfall, but because, for years and years, my Dad has been ridiculed by my family (in a lighthearted jibes kind of way, of course) for reading whilst on the loo. I don't criticise him for it - may sound disgusting to some, but i have been known to pick up a magazine or book, to pass the time, whilst i've been 'chilling' in the bathroom. It's quite relaxing and, on the odd ocassion, can turn loo time into learning time! (haha)
I just hope that next time i visit my Mum & Dad's bathroom, i'm fortunate enough to discover some first edition lurking on the towel stand. Knowing my Dad though, it'd probably be a Stephen King and'd only fetch a tenner in a carboot sale ;)
he may not show it, but Darwin was secretly chuffed by the fact that people had evolved to such a level of multi-tasking, they were now able to read books whilst simultaneously unloading their bowels
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Today in Pictures - Massive - TIME
Rated • 1 review • photography • time.com
I think this is a brilliant shot. A lone tree, dwarfed by electricity pylons in the Dubai desert.
From today in pictures, at Time
