The 'What the fuck!' thread

[Gravdigr]

I agree 100%.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by classicman

That was awful. Interesting in a morbid, sorta WTF kinda way, but prolonged listening will make your ears bleed.

Then you'll LOVE I had the inch and the mm screaming at me tonight.

[Gravdigr]

If you listen to all 23 minutes of that, I am certain you will never be quite the same as before.

[footfootfoot]

I have the cassette and the mp3, the whole thing is 48mins. I love it.

[DanaC]

I think it's awesome.

[Spexxvet]

This is called Chakra Activation & Healing Meditation.

[Gravdigr]

"...somewhere in the northern hemisphere."

I think I've been there.

[Carruthers]

This might narrow it down a bit...



Wikipedia - Great grey owl

I've looked at www.catersnews.com, to whom the picture is credited, but can't find any further information. Can't even find the picture!

ETA Found the original image on www.ardea.com but that doesn't help either.

[Carruthers]

Farmer Johann Huber walks with his nappy-wearing cow Doris on his farm in Gmund am Tegnersee, Germany. New EU regulations being discussed are proposed to forbid manure from areas with a gradient of more than 15 per cent.

Bavarian farmer puts nappies on his cows in EU protest

[limey]

I encountered Tuvan throat singing for the first time, live, when I was living in Moscow. I had no idea what to expect and it totally blew me away. I bought about five CDs (Hun Huur Tu was the band) and I love them all.


Sent by thought transference

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

Bavarian farmer puts nappies on his cows in EU protest

I followed the link - was quite interesting. The bit that made me chuckle though was this :

The European Commission has denied the EU responsibility and pointed to how Germany has implemented the legislation.

The commission has begun legal action against Germany for failing to enforce the EU directive which restricts "land application of fertilisers to steeply sloping ground, to avoid leaching of nitrates and water pollution".

"The nitrates directive does not foresee a ban on grazing animals on sloping land," said a spokesman.

"Germany is revising its national nitrates action programme. However, it is not likely that the German authorities will propose any ban on grazing animals on sloping land."

A Brussels source added: "Bavarian farmers should raise this issue with the German Federal authorities in Berlin, rather than with the Commission in Brussels."

So often this is the case. Big headlines about what the crazy Eurocrats are up to now - except that the original legislation wasn't that crazy at all and nobody was suggesting that farmers can't graze their cattle on hillsides.

You can almost here the resigned sigh when the spokesperson says "Bavarian farmers should raise this issue with the German Federal authorities in Berlin, rather than with the Commission in Brussels."

[Griff]

German farmers do have to be watchful though. In the US incrementally over many many years the Federal Government put regulations and subsidies in place that centralized agriculture into the big player system we have now. Push-back is difficult once the regulated big industry starts writing the regulations as the organic movement has realized. From my perspective the EU is a big mistake like our own Federal system it moves power away from the people to powerful organizations.

[Griff]

Not too hijack: Elizabeth Warren talks about the thousands of little decisions a day that go against the people in DC because the rabble can't afford lobyists. School lunch by ConAgra involves many of those.

[BigV]

School lunch???

I don't get it, no breaking news there, but maybe you had a "stale" copy buffer when you made your post. Is the link in your post the one you intended?

[Griff]

Amusing mix up. I intended to post a piece by a Dad who ate the lunch at his kids school. The food was pretty grim.