bickster Posted January 28, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 28, 2021 1 minute ago, sne said: Voltaire? No, Saltaire 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted January 28, 2021 I bet the ferret came out nice and clean, though. And all fluffy after ten minutes in the tumble drier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 Just wait until the ferret is put through the mangle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 36 minutes ago, Xela said: Just wait until the ferret is put through the mangle. Is that a euphemism for a titw**k? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 29, 2021 Moderator Share Posted January 29, 2021 Quote Four Men Get Mouth Ulcers after Eating 30 Kg Oranges at Airport to Avoid Paying Extra Baggage Fee In a bizarre incident, four men paid a heavy price after they resorted to some drastic steps to reduce their extra baggage fee at an airport. In an incident that is now going viral, four men got mouth ulcers after they decided to eat 30 kg of oranges at the airport to avoid paying extra baggage fee. The incident occurred at an airport in Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan Province. The four travelers in question ate the oranges inside the airport itself in record 30 minutes. According to a January 20 report by Global Times, a man surnamed Wang, and his three colleagues bought a box of oranges weighing 30 kilograms worth 50 yuan (Rs 564) during their business trip to Kunming. During their purchase, they did not realise that the airlines would ask them to shell out extra money as shipping charges for the oranges. As they prepared to board the plane back home, the airport said it was going to charge them 10 yuan for each kilogram in shipping fees for the oranges, totaling to 300 yuan (Rs 3384). Not willing to pay the extra fee, which was much more than the price of their purchase, the four colleagues reached a census to eat the fruits there and then. It took them under 30 minutes to finish the box. "We just stood there and ate the whole thing up. It took about 20-30 minutes," Wang told Global Times. While it may seem as a daring feat, the four men suffered from mouth ulcers after eating so many citrus fruits in one go. Post this ordeal, they were rightly left feeling like never eating oranges again. Global Times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 2020's in a video 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 2, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted February 2, 2021 Why was she filming it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 2 hours ago, mjmooney said: Why was she filming it? Apparently it's the spot where she regularly films herself doing exercise videos and uploads them, her Facebook page is full of them. Been doing it for 11 months. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 There’s been a farmer protest in Delhi for a few months now due to a proposed change in laws which will cripple livelihoods. Some say it’s the largest protest in history. The treatment by police towards protestors has been pretty horrific with all sorts of human rights violations taking place. Today Rihanna tweeted about it and there’s hope the world might finally take note of what’s going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Quote Prickly customer: Sniffer dog on point as Kiwi cactus smuggler pinched New Zealand authorities have snagged a woman who tried to smuggle hundreds of cactus plants hidden in stockings strapped to her body through airport security. Auckland woman Wenqing (Wendy) Li, 38, pleaded guilty to breaching strict biosecurity laws when she tried to sneak in the plants from China in March 2019. She was sentenced to 12 months intensive supervision and 100 hours community work in an Auckland court, the Ministry of Primary Industries said Wednesday. "She strapped stockings containing 947 succulents and cacti on to her body and attempted to smuggle them into the country," it said in a statement. "The cacti included eight endangered and threatened species. The plants were worth over NZ$10,000 ($7,200)." When a sniffer dog began to show interest, she tried to dispose of the plants in the airport toilets, where they were found by enforcement officials. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210203-prickly-customer-sniffer-dog-on-point-as-kiwi-cactus-smuggler-pinched 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 What do you do when you have too much money, smoke too much weed and watch too much Marvel series and films? Quote Lil Uzi Vert diamond: American rapper implant '$24m' for im for forehead https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-55937318 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 4, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted February 4, 2021 The revelation for me wasn't the diamond implant, it was the fact that there is a BBC News channel in pidgin! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 A guy in Scotland had been arrested and charged after tweeting about the nations here Tom Moore. Sure, the tweet was in bad taste but there were no profanities. Where does this end? Literally close to having thought police now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 8, 2021 Moderator Share Posted February 8, 2021 22 minutes ago, bannedfromHandV said: A guy in Scotland had been arrested and charged after tweeting about the nations here Tom Moore. Sure, the tweet was in bad taste but there were no profanities. Where does this end? Literally close to having thought police now. You know it's ludicrous, when you agree with a Lawrence Fox tweet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 1 minute apart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 Quote Englishman disappeared on snowmobile - again An Englishman in his 50s disappeared during a snowmobile trip in northern Värmland on Saturday night - for the second time in a few days, writes Värmlands folkblad . The man called his wife to tell him that he had gotten problems with his snowmobile and was going home. But he never showed up and the police were alerted. They had an approximate position on where the man was and a force with police, military and mountain rescuers was mobilized. A couple of hours after the disappearance, the man appeared after wading 500 meters in waist-deep snow. He was in relatively good condition, the newspaper writes. It was the second time during the week that the Englishman became a matter for the police. A similar incident occurred on February 9. - Then he had got stuck with the scooter. Maybe he should think once before he goes out again, says Jens auf der Heide to VF. https://live.aftonbladet.se/supernytt/news/engelsman-foersvann-paa-snoeskoter-igen.a_tEzSVcm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 20, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted February 20, 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56136249 Quote Alaska woman attacked by bear while using toilet Quote A woman in Alaska says she "jumped up and screamed" after she was attacked by a bear while using the toilet. Shannon Stevens sustained a puncture wound while using a remote outhouse toilet at Chilkat Lake last weekend. After hearing her scream, Ms Stevens' brother went to see what had caused the injury, only to find a bear's head in the hole of the toilet. Quote "I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt as I sat down," she told the Associated Press news agency. Quote Ms Stevens told the Anchorage Daily News that she will practice a "look before you sit" policy in the future 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 How very Donnie Darko/Breaking Bad. Quote United Airlines flight suffers engine failure, sending debris falling on neighborhoods outside Denver United Flight 328 returned to the airport around 1:30 p.m. after suffering an engine issue, an airport spokesperson told CNN. The flight had been bound for Honolulu. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed in a statement that the Boeing 777-200 safely returned to the Denver International Airport after "experiencing a right-engine failure shortly after takeoff." "The FAA is aware of reports of debris in the vicinity of the airplane's flight path," the statement said. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/20/us/united-airlines-flight-returns-debris/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Looks like Matty Cash and John McGinn are unwelcome at Pontins Quote Pontins has agreed to change its working practices after disclosure it had a blacklist of Irish surnames used to screen out bookings for its holiday parks from Gypsies and Travellers. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56246848 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Xela said: Looks like Matty Cash and John McGinn are unwelcome at Pontins https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56246848 You can’t do that this day and age, particularly as, I assume, the vast majority of people with those surnames are not arseholes. But, equally, there’s a good reason that most public pieces of land now have barriers and gates built to stop certain sections of folk rocking up...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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