Weird News

[Sundae]

In many places around the world, the parental tie isn't actually cut until the parent dies.
It's still common for men to live with their parents after marriage even in this country if they are second generation immigrants. It makes financial sense, especially if they work in a family business. Free childcare, shared bills, communal cooking and the parents are looked after in old age.

Certainly my Grandparents still lived in Nanny Doyle's house after marriage, it was only WWII that got in the way. My Nanny always said it was a mixed blessing. Auntie Alice lived with her parents until they died, as was expected of a spinster. The War changed many expectations as councils built new houses in new places and suddendly families weren't on the next landing or down the hall. And freedom and privacy, once tasted, are hard to take back.

[Sundae]

Meh. Part of that is conditioning too.

If I was told NOT to eat something, I would never have eaten it, no way.
Because I would have been terrified of the repercussions.

If I was told I COULD eat it, but it would be better if I waited, I would have eaten it. Because grown-ups lie.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Sundae

Because grown-ups lie.

We knew you could not trust anyone over 30. Today, it means we cannot trust anyone over 77 (Deja vue Nam).

[glatt]

Maybe this isn't so weird, but it is remarkable. China is planning to build a canal through Nicaragua. And Nicaragua just approved it. $40 Billion.

China is flexing its muscle. Building a bigger better canal than the Panama canal and controlling it for the next 50 years.

[tw]

Originally Posted by glatt

China is planning to build a canal through Nicaragua. And Nicaragua just approved it. $40 Billion.

Only $40 billion? That number is many times too small. Suggesting these are only speculators; not serious builders.

[glatt]

Articles say there have been at least 3 attempts in the past to build a canal through Nicaragua, and none succeeded. Apparently the fractured political climate in Nicaragua is not conducive to getting big projects done. That's why I made sure to say they were "planning" a canal. We will see.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by tw

Only $40 billion? That number is many times too small. Suggesting these are only speculators; not serious builders.

That's the price of the shovels... China will provide all the hand-laborers.

[footfootfoot]

You're gonna get Monsanto testing kids at school randomly then suing the parents...

[orthodoc]

Agree, it's murky. All involved parties think they've won, which is an immediate red light. Allowing Myriad's patents to stand where they've introduced a few new nucleotides has opened Pandora's box. This is NOT a victory for those who oppose the patenting of human genes. Frankly, the battle was lost when patenting of ANY genes was permitted.

eta: arrgh, foot3, you always manage to say what I meant to say but with wit! I should just wait until you post.

[footfootfoot]

Thanks Ortho, You're a peach among peaches.

[Griff]

Hmmm... think I'll go read up on Pirate Party literature. Between this patent nonsense and the lack of a 4th Amendment those guys might be well positioned.

[ZenGum]

Man dressed as giant penis attacked; woman in vagina costume tries to intervene.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013...n_3472550.html

[BigV]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Man dressed as giant penis attacked; woman in vagina costume tries to intervene.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013...n_3472550.html

This is exactly what happend last Friday when a man dressed as a giant penis was set upon by an offended gent as a woman dressed as a huge vagina tried to calm the teste situation.

*groan*

[footfootfoot]

My faith in humanity is partially restored.

But not in Apple, they still blow filthy, diseased donkeys.

[footfootfoot]