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Dappy recovering after being kicked in face by a horse

Recovering?

How would one go about getting a refund from horseassassins.com?

Recovering?

How would one go about getting a refund from horseassassins.com?

I done a lol right there.

Does super horsey kick reverse his villiage idiot status?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131126-oldest-javelins-stone-weapons-projectiles-human-evolution-science?source=sailthru

along with monkey tennis, javelin was part of the primate olympics

http://mobileorigin.spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/san-franciscos-secret-dc-grid

^ Cool, passed on to others.

Great. There are 'tens' of potential things that can go wrong and make a police helicopter fall out of the sky.

A friend of mine, a light aircraft pilot, always described a helicopter as 'thousands of parts trying very hard not to fly'

^Yep, heard something very similar to that from an Apache pilot.

http://jalopnik.com/fast-and-furious-star-paul-walker-reportedly-dead-in-ca-1474200748?utm_campaign=socialflow_jalopnik_twitter&utm_source=jalopnik_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

The amount of English butthurt over Salmond and Scottish independence never ceases to amaze me. That it's the default response to a horrible accident that happened to occur in Scotland is pretty extraordinary. Bit of sensitivity, please.

You misunderstand. The point was that the whole independence issue had no place in a story about a tragedy.

^ indeed that was what was meant

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25176496

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/01/boris-johnsons-views-like-brave-new-world-dystopia

Just for the Indy's photo+headline really:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/800000-people-lifted-out-offuel-poverty--by-redefining-it-8976232.html

Come 2015 the government will be counting the 800k as an achievement.

No, they will be hoping all the poor people die in the next two winters and the figures will be substantially below that.

It would mean more free houses to buy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25180906

Amazon trying out drone deliveries. May not catch on in certain parts of the world. Like Norn Ire, where the peelers use them ;)

My colleague was telling me about that.

There are already some memes going around.

HAHAHA that's harsh but good

http://www.london24.com/news/crime/police_are_shot_at_while_investigating_camberwell_burglary_1_3064376

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25156510

More proof on how DNA can change due to environmental changes. Mice made to fear a smell passed it on to their offspring.

Interesting, but also scary due to pollution etc.