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Sauce?

One of the photogs lurking outside the embassy:

http://twitter.com/LewisWhyld/status/239016685175201792/photo/1

Unusual smell in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel

ChainBreaker's Sidi's?

There's a lion on the loose in Clacton.

obre assaulted in a pub. zero eyebrows raised
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/obree-assaulted-in-scottish-pub

There's a lion on the loose in Clacton.

just two weeks before the forum rides there
coincidence ? i don't think so

mumsnet ? bikeradar ? getting their revenge ?

I think I just saw a Lion. Oh no, actually...yeah sorry, I didn't. I just remembered I'm a pathological liar

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-19391572

There's lions in woburn countryshire, they must have escaped to current scenes.

they caught it

http://i46.tinypic.com/2uyhyr6.jpg

imagine meeting that on a dark night

eeeekkkkkk

looks like a finger that went through the tissue.

^you mean like a brown finger poncho?

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Israel >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I just learned (about 10 years late), that more veterans of the Falklands War killed themselves in the years since the 1982 conflict than died during the war itself.

This has blown my mind.

I was not approached for comment

that looks like a human ^

Father Ted explains perspective - YouTube

lion my arse... a Maine Coon cat and trouble understanding perspective....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19353039

discuss.

"I feel like a virgin," she croons, although the advert makes it clear she is not.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that the first time is shit for most people.

...fills a gap in the market...

That is the only amusing thing about that. The rest is probably a logical next step in a mainstream culture that also tries to tell women they need to make themselves look white in order to be beautiful. Very troubling.

Agreed. If it were to become available to our society I think it would spark the next level of '50 shades of grey' discussion. Not empowering, just choice.

I just learned (about 10 years late), that more veterans of the Falklands War killed themselves in the years since the 1982 conflict than died during the war itself.

This has blown my mind.

Suicide is the most common cause of death for young males in the UK (well, first or second most common cause, depending on the year and method of sampling).

Britain suffered 258 casualties during the Falklands war. I can't seem to track down exactly how many served to work out a percentage, but I think this statistic would be less impressive when compared to the percentage of men that would have killed themselves anyway.

Still, it's sad that anyone would take their own life after risking it to serve their country.

That is the only amusing thing about that. The rest is probably a logical next step in a mainstream culture that also tries to tell women they need to make themselves look white in order to be beautiful. Very troubling.

This always annoys me. Indian beauty norms are not about wanting women to look white. It's not to do with that at all, they (in general obviously) favour the light-skinned-Indian look, not a white-as-in-Caucasian look.

Their culture around beauty and skin colour is no more 'troubling' than ours, it's exactly the same, but we favour tanning as opposed to lightening.

Now I think both are slightly troubling, we risk skin cancer to get darker skin through UV light, they risk similar problems through bleaching their skin to go lighter, but it needs to be highlighted that 'they' are not trying to look like 'us', any more than 'we' are trying to look like 'them'.

^ This.