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[Steve Sensible]

*I would not eat this, not even if I was urinatingly drunk.

... I'd try it.

[brucegray666]

I've had a deep fried Mars Bar before. I'd happily try a chocolate bar pizza crust.

[steveuk]

The hotdog crust is sold out, due to popular demand; http://delivery.pizz...uk/Default.aspx

[Christian U]

*I would not eat this, not even if I was urinatingly drunk.

Pussy!

[Sanjay]

Well, I can be persuaded in gormandizing that

[Christian U]

Can you believe I didn't see that answer coming?



...quick, some weird news! Uh!

Philly police: Activist who complained about vandalism was the vandal

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By NBC10.com
PHILADELPHIA -- A neighborhood activist who spoke out about the vandalizing of dozens of cars near his home now has been arrested in the case, police say.
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hope the cops get them before the neighbors find out who it is because something bad is going to happen," Toledo said after some cars were vandalized in mid-March. "My wife said 'somebody is watching us, watching the cops' because when they're here nothing happens."
Now police say that it was Toledo who was causing sleepless nights for neighbors concerned that their cars would be vandalized while they slept. A town watch was formed and police even offered a big reward for an arrest in the case.
All along, Toledo, who lives on Aldine Street, was there speaking out against the vandalism.
"This will be the last time that you're going to get my car because you will get caught," Toledo told NBC10 after just his tires were slashed on March 20. "The $10,000 reward, I don't want the money, all I want is their hands so I can smash them so they can never do it again."
It's unclear if Toledo is responsible for all the area vandalism but police do believe he at least committed some of the tire slashings on Teesdale, Aldine and Erdrick Streets, McGinnis said.

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http://usnews.msnbc....the-vandal?lite

[Adam Wednesdays]

Well, at least he was keeping himself busy. Idle hands and all that.

[Steve Sensible]

Surely the most scaremongering headline ever: Poisonous caterpillars could bring misery to Olympics.

[Nicholas Taggart]

Mysterious 'Hum' Only Canadians Can Hear Is Debated

The cities of Windsor, Ontario, and Rogue River, Mich., are separated geographically by only a river, but when it comes to one highly annoying noise they are worlds apart.

That noise, described as a low-pitched rumble, has rankled citizens of Windsor since last year, prompting hundreds of complaint calls, leading one resident to create a Facebook page and spurring a senior aide to Canada's foreign minister to visit the city to investigate.

Testing conducted by the Canadian government determined the sound, known by locals as the "Windsor hum," came from the area of Zug Island, a 600-acre, steel industrial site on the U.S. side of the Detroit River, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.

The only problem? The residents of the Detroit suburb have no idea what their Canadian friends are talking about, or hearing.

The mayor of River Rogue, under whose jurisdiction Zug Island lies, told Canadian questioners last year that his city's budget does not allow for testing to track down the noise, according to the CBC. Further, the city's residents say they can't even hear the noise that Windsor residents say shakes their windows, rattles their shelves and may even be making them sick.

"The only place I am hearing noise from is Canada-from politicians complaining," the mayor, Michael Bowdler, told the Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the American response.

Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality did look into the issue last year - examining whether noise could be caused by new machinery used at Zug - but found nothing, according to the Journal.

And pleas made by the Canadians to both the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have fallen short, with each saying it is a state, not a federal issue.

Meanwhile, Canadian officials are plugging on to try to quiet the noise.

Bob Dechert, the parliamentary secretary to Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister, visited Windsor and Detroit late last month and met with both American and Canadian officials to address the issue, according to the CBC.

Still, the mysterious hum continues.

"The government of Canada takes this issue seriously," Dechert said in a statement. "It is important that we find a solution that works for the people of Windsor."

http://gma.yahoo.com...topstories.html

[garjones]

Surely the most scaremongering headline ever: Poisonous caterpillars could bring misery to Olympics.

I'm amazed it wasn't the Daily Mail, they could have blamed the EU as they came from Holland.

[Ogul]

The only problem? The residents of the Detroit suburb have no idea what their Canadian friends are talking about, or hearing.

Heh, best prank ever.

[Adam Wednesdays]

Here's one for all the Simpsons fans out there:

350 lb Man Calls Police After All-You-Can-Eat Restaurant Cuts Him Off


An unusually large man in Wisconsin called the police recently after an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant decided he’d had enough fried fish and cut him off at 20 pieces.

Standing 6-foot-6 and weighing 350 pounds, Bill Wisth certainly looks like trouble for any buffet restaurant. Chuck’s Place in Thiensville, Wisconsin recently learned this the hard way, according to Wisconsin news station Today’s TMJ4.

After watching Wisth devour 12 individual pieces of fried fish on Friday, May 11, the management decided that was quite enough. They intervened, explaining the restaurant was running out of fish and simply could not allow him to stay any longer.

Giving him eight more pieces as a courtesy, for a total of 20, the restaurant’s management sent Wisth on his way in hopes that the costly episode was behind them. That hope, however, was severely misplaced.

According to reporter Annie Scholtz, Wisth left the restaurant incensed, then he called the police. He returned two days later with a protest sign, and the television cameras were soon to follow.

“It’s false advertising,” he explained in a local news segment broadcast Monday night. “I think people have to stand up for consumers.”

A waitress at the restaurant told Scholtz that Wisth has been a problem customer before, and that he’s even been allowed to carry a tab with them that remains unpaid.

Despite their prior generosity, Wisth said he still plans to picket the restaurant every Sunday until his demand for a truly endless supply of food is met.

This video is from Today’s TMJ4 in Wisconsin, broadcast Monday, May 14, 2012.

[Miqque Loveland]

"The sign says 'ALL YOU CAN EAT FOR $6.95!"

"That's right, bub. That IS all you can eat for $6.95!"

I once saw a guy eat four complete breakfasts at Denny's for a midnight snack. Need I mention he was huge? These stories show up every couple of years, with the basic response of "Have they no shame?"

What the weird news is, really, is that there is barely any news. What are they keeping from us?

[garjones]

I had a colleague come over from an office in Las Vegas, he was skinny but got into a conversation about two of his staff that weighed over 350lbs (25 stone or 160kg). He ate 5 Big Macs and 5 large fries every day for lunch.

The thing that amazes me is not the usual greed element but just the difference in capacity. I'd be like Morgan Spurlock and vomit it up somewhere during the second burger.

[jamon g]

yeah but they're fat because of a gland problem don't forget!

[garjones]

yeah but they're fat because of a gland problem don't forget!

There's an amazing BBC Horizon documentary I saw a few years back that not only scuppers the 'gland' argument (although to be fair that is true for a very small minority) but also the 'metabolism' one. Overweight people had a faster metabolism, not slower. Every single test ended with the conclusion of energy in and energy out, when they did a deep dive into the character we all know, the guy that eats crap and never exercises and is still skinny they found it was fidgeting, even when asleep, that was burning off calories to the level of running 3km a day.

[Ogul]

There's an amazing BBC Horizon documentary I saw a few years back that not only scuppers the 'gland' argument (although to be fair that is true for a very small minority) but also the 'metabolism' one. Overweight people had a faster metabolism, not slower. Every single test ended with the conclusion of energy in and energy out, when they did a deep dive into the character we all know, the guy that eats crap and never exercises and is still skinny they found it was fidgeting, even when asleep, that was burning off calories to the level of running 3km a day.

So then the trick to dieting would be somehow training the body to fidget, especially while sleeping. I've also heard that thinking burns calories, so maybe get people to think more.

[garjones]

So then the trick to dieting would be somehow training the body to fidget, especially while sleeping. I've also heard that thinking burns calories, so maybe get people to think more.

Yeah there are other tricks, eating slowly has been shown to have good results and also spicy food as the body uses energy to process the chili or curry.

This is notable over here where almost nobody diets but most people are thin despite being obsessed by food and talking about it all day. They 'graze' and eat spicy food.

In the end it still goes back to energy in and out. That's why of all the commercial diets Weightwatchers always has the best long term results as it is based on that concept.

[Ogul]

Yeah there are other tricks, eating slowly has been shown to have good results and also spicy food as the body uses energy to process the chili or curry.

I'd heard that latter one was debunked, but I forget where. . .

I tend to blame the American issue on sloth, we tend to drive everywhere, even tiny distances, and spend the rest of our time sitting at desks or on couches, so even on fairly strict diets they're unable to burn it all off. In many other countries they do a lot more walking.

[Steve Sensible]

It never ceases to amaze me how the simple truth that you lose weight by eating less and exercising more somehow eludes people.