Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners

[Beardy]

Your attention please! Normal Florida has been resumed:

Florida mom tries to hire hit man on parody website to kill her 3-year-old son, police say

I got a pop-up all over the that article that said I had to disable my ad-blocker! I will have to remain ignorant of the foibles of Floridian motherhood.

[Mr Larrington]

Try this: https://archive.li/Rhb8v

[Beardy]

 
So many questions…

[Mr Larrington]

And more than 21 million inhabitants.

[mark]

18 years old and has a 3 year old son. That explains a fair bit.

[T42]

Sneaky website thobut.

[quixoticgeek]

18 years old and has a 3 year old son. That explains a fair bit.

Yes, it means she lives in a country where the right to an abortion is not enshrined in law. Where even in states where it's available to get to the clinic you have to go through the crowds of protesters. If you have the money, and the ability to get to an abortion clinic in the first place.

Not to mention living in a country where there are people actively trying to ban birth control.

We have no idea about the history of this woman. It's grossly offensive to make judgements about her being a mother at 15.

Punch up, not down.

J

[andrewc]

https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/07/24/polands-monk-firefighters-given-new-engine-to-help-protect-planned-mega-airport/


Firefighting monks.... that's a dodgy habit...

[Pingu]

Not fryers then.

[Canardly]

Come in handy if they don't go to Heaven.

[T42]

https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/07/24/polands-monk-firefighters-given-new-engine-to-help-protect-planned-mega-airport/

"Planned-mega-airport": just what the world needs just now.  Let the bloody thing burn would be the saintly thing to do.

[MattH]

A boat crashed into a home near the Lake of the Ozarks on Saturday night, injuring all eight people on board and extensively damaging the house, according to Missouri law enforcement ...  The driver of the boat, aged 46, was arrested for boating while intoxicated.


https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/23/us/lake-ozarks-boat-crash-house/index.html

[Pingu]

He'd had a few too many schooners.

[Cudzoziemiec]

https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/07/24/polands-monk-firefighters-given-new-engine-to-help-protect-planned-mega-airport/


Firefighting monks.... that's a dodgy habit...

The firefighting unit was established in 1931 by Maksymilian Kolbe at the Niepokalanów monastery he had founded four years earlier. Kolbe, now recognised as a saint by the Catholic church, died in 1941 at Auschwitz concentration camp after volunteering to take the place of a man condemned to death by starvation.

The second part is well known but it's the first I'd heard of the fire-fighting monks.

https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/07/24/polands-monk-firefighters-given-new-engine-to-help-protect-planned-mega-airport/

"Planned-mega-airport": just what the world needs just now.  Let the bloody thing burn would be the saintly thing to do.

First I'd heard of this too.

The transport hub, located halfway between Warsaw and Łódź, is forecast to serve 65 million passengers a year by 2060

That's about 150% of Poland's entire (current) population. It could end up being an expensive, grandiose white elephant.

[Jaded]

Airport firefighting is very specialist.

The ability to get a large engine as quick as possible to a burning plane takes skill and practice.

[ian]

Nah. Some bloke on the internet could do it better.

[spesh]

A zoo in eastern China has reassured visitors its sun bears are real rather than humans in disguise, after footage of one animal standing like a person sent rumours flying online.

Responding to a viral video of a bear on its hind legs, Hangzhou Zoo said people "don't understand" the species.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-66362970

[Jaded]

Wasn’t sure where to slip this in, so here it is.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-66406043

A positive I gleaned from reading the story of this unpleasant holiday experience was that at least he was able to polish the dolphin.

[Beardy]

Wasn’t sure where to slip this in, so here it is.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-66406043

A positive I gleaned from reading the story of this unpleasant holiday experience was that at least he was able to polish the dolphin.

I can’t imaging how big the tap was that refilled the pool twice a day.

[chrisbainbridge]

Wasn’t sure where to slip this in, so here it is.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-66406043

A positive I gleaned from reading the story of this unpleasant holiday experience was that at least he was able to polish the dolphin.

In the context of the whole story, I presumed that was some sort of euphemism.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Wasn’t sure where to slip this in, so here it is.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-66406043

A positive I gleaned from reading the story of this unpleasant holiday experience was that at least he was able to polish the dolphin.

Just remember that TUI is an anagram of UTI

[Jaded]

Wasn’t sure where to slip this in, so here it is.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-66406043

A positive I gleaned from reading the story of this unpleasant holiday experience was that at least he was able to polish the dolphin.

In the context of the whole story, I presumed that was some sort of euphemism.

It was a mixed metaphor. It wasn't meant to be. Not quite waxing lyrically.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

The most dangerous places in England


Be afraid..

[rogerzilla]

The most dangerous places in England


Be afraid..

I know London is quite cosmopolitan, but I'm not sure even it qualifies for this thread.

[Efrogwr]

The most dangerous places in England


Be afraid..

I know London is quite cosmopolitan, but I'm not sure even it qualifies for this thread.

The perpetrator of the item linked to lives in Pennsylvania... I assume the foreign one, not the village near Bath.