Random News Article Thread

[Macky]

Evidence proved that relaxing the licensing laws would reduce drunkenness and that by banning the cane schools would be less violent.

How did that work out?

I've no idea, but I don't see the point that you're making.

 

[Mawsley]

This would never happen in education - teachers never get the perks everybody in other jobs get:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13454160

 

[Steven]

Who is more advanced them or us?

An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say researchers.

The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate time and space - as in our idea of, for example, "working through the night".

 

[From Gradel to Grave]

Who is more advanced them or us?

An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say researchers.

The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate time and space - as in our idea of, for example, "working through the night".

Us.

 

[The Major]

I've no idea, but I don't see the point that you're making.

Really?!

 

[Macky]

Really?!

Yes, really.
You seem to be trying to conflate corporal punishment and licencing laws with removing the very lucrative drugs trade from the hands of criminals

 

[Jeff]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ligious-followers-plagued-guilt.html?ITO=1490

 

[Blue Maniac]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ligious-followers-plagued-guilt.html?ITO=1490

:thumbs_up

 

[SJN-Fox]

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0521/1224297465718.html

 

[Blue Maniac]

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0521/1224297465718.html

Last sentence:

He takes PayPal.

 

[GazLCFC]

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0521/1224297465718.html

The was a comment on the BBC from him......

They would be disappointed twice, he told the Wall Street Journal. "Once because they weren't raptured and again because I don't do refunds."

 

[spionfox]

Gotta be a pisstake surely?

 

[Steven]

More dangerous? I appreciate the death rate from obesity is higher than death caused by drug taking but I wouldn't say more dangerous. There is a lot less chance of me dying when I eat a burger than taking an ecstasy tablet.

Certainly every bit as dangerous. :icon_wink

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1390152/Junk-food-wont-just-make-fat-shrink-brain.html

WHY FATTY FOOD IS IRRESISTIBLE

Research from the Scripps Institute in Florida suggests high-calorie foods may affect the brain in the same way as class A drugs.

These foods produce increased levels of the chemical dopamine, which produces a sense of reward.

Drugs such as cocaine and heroin also trigger a rise in dopamine levels. The theory is that both junk food and drugs overload the ‘pleasure centres’ in the brain, so achieving the same pleasure requires more stimulus. Essentially, becoming fat can cause us to develop brains that resemble a drug addict’s.

Others are less convinced about the addictive nature of junk food, however.

Deanne Jade, founder of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, says: ‘You can say food is like a drug, but it doesn’t have the same properties as cocaine. We need food to live, but we don’t need drugs.’

 

[Macky]

Deanne Jade, founder of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, says: ‘You can say food is like a drug, but it doesn’t have the same properties as cocaine. We need food to live, but we don’t need drugs.’

Speak for yourself Deanne

 

[Billyjof]

Crazy footage coming from Joplin Missouri. I appreciate there was a significant tornado in Birmingham a few years back, most of use are lucky not to witness these events.



If you can tolarate the whiney guys in the footage (excused as not sure how I would react) This is quite compelling footage.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Speak for yourself Deanne

In the category Most Predictable Post...

 

[pork pie fox]

Ouch:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13537084

A New Zealand truck driver who fell on a compressed air hose that pierced his buttock has survived being blown up like a balloon.

 

[spionfox]

Ouch:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13537084

A New Zealand truck driver who fell on a compressed air hose that pierced his buttock has survived being blown up like a balloon.

What would we give to see a picture of that!!

 

[bocadillo]

What would we give to see a picture of that!!

Running short of question marks?

 

[spionfox]

Running short of question marks?

I thought two exclamation marks would be an adequate substitute.