rayven80 
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Cheese spread is a gel? Interesting. Did anyone else see the story of the airport evacuation caused by a few pop bottles filled with honey? That's the second one that I know of that was honey caused. Do they know something we don't?
Reply #281. Jan 16 10, 10:14 AM
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REDVIKING57
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Perhaps we need to ask Judy - Honeybee4?
Reply #282. Jan 16 10, 10:35 AM
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honeybee4
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All I know is that the airport in Bakersfield, California was closed down a week or so ago because of a man who had bottles of honey. It was detected as an explosive at first.
Reply #283. Jan 16 10, 11:33 AM
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A McDonald's employee asked his colleague for a hamburger. She made it, he paid. Easy.
Then he asked her for cheese. She put a slice of cheese in it, he ate it, she got the sack - for not charging him the cheeseburger rate.
They have been ordered to pay her a rather small amount of compensation, but it doesn't look like she's been reinstated. Not sure I'd want to work there now.
"The ruling comes days after McDonald's reported an increase in net profits by almost a quarter in the last three months of 2009."
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8481827.stm
Apparently McD's forbid gifts to friends, family and colleagues, and the cheese counted as a gift. I wonder how the bosses found out that he had had a cheeseburger but only paid for a hamburger. And, if McD's are going to be that narky and paranoid, why he wasn't sacked for theft; or
fraud, for getting a cheeseburger by stealth.
Reply #286. Jan 27 10, 6:18 AM
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| lesley153
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It took me a while to decide where to put this. There's a twelve-year-old boy at the centre of it, so it could go in Children, for the benefit of the younger site members. There's also a hamster, so perhaps it could go in Animals, where people who love everything, from the stick insect to the newly-endangered blobfish, could read about the boy's cuddly pet hamster. Or there's the boy's mother, but we haven't got a Parents thread, which is probably just as well. So I gave up - and here it is.
*** Mother 'forced son to kill hamster' ***
" A woman is in jail after police say she forced her 12-year-old son to kill his pet hamster with a hammer as punishment for bad grades.
" The sheriff of a rural Georgia county said that the boy told his teacher about the killing. The teacher then reported it to state child welfare authorities, who in turn contacted police.
" Lynn Middlebrooks Geter, 38, faces charges of animal cruelty, child cruelty and battery. "
http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=151888431
Reply #287. Jan 27 10, 12:40 PM
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tobyone
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The hamster incident is appalling.
I only hope it's not too late to redeem the child - I don't imagine the mother went from loving, apple pie baking paragon to fiend overnight.
Reply #289. Jan 27 10, 1:44 PM
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| lesley153
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I hope the boy is redeemable. Perhaps they'll teach her to bake apple pie in prison, while he lives with people who, one hopes, will be a little less fiendish.
I wonder if she thought any further than punishment? What she did was certainly punishment, but I hope she didn't think that battering his pet to death would encourage him to work harder.
I've just had a horrible thought. A lot of children who kill children started off with cruelty to small and then larger animals. I'm sure that what he was forced to do was out of character for him, otherwise he wouldn't have told his teacher. We can only hope that he never does decide that it was acceptable. The horrible thought was that it might be better for them to have minimal contact when he's old and big and strong enough to progress from hamsters to parents.
Reply #290. Jan 27 10, 2:30 PM
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rayven80
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There was a story from California about a school that has banned the dictionary because a student found the defanition for "oral sex" and his parents were offended.
Reply #291. Jan 29 10, 11:51 AM
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REDVIKING57
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Hmmm! That'll work well - running a school without dictionaries. Perhaps they can educate the kids in binary code?
Reply #292. Jan 29 10, 12:41 PM
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tobyone
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"I wore my best ones today, so I'd look tidy".
It's a glamorous presentation, the footwear is particularly fetching.
Reply #294. Jan 29 10, 2:18 PM
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spidersghost43
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I have never hit a woman but the hamster story has got me balling up my fists. Not only cruelty to an innocent animal but mental torture of her son. One wonders what kind of punishments he will give his children if he doesn't get psychiatric help?
Reply #295. Jan 29 10, 2:23 PM
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daver852
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I am not completely devoid of compassion for my fellow creatures, but I doubt I could summon a tear for the blobfish if it went the way of all flesh. What a hideous fish!
Reply #297. Jan 31 10, 8:46 AM
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tezza1551
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Now I'm totally confused.. I'm not sure if the picture that link went to was the blobfish.. or our local Federal member of parliament !
I've also seen its landlubber cousin, the naked mole rat ... very scary, but can't find a good link to post.. try a search on it !
Reply #299. Feb 01 10, 5:00 AM
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redwaldo
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The Attorney-General in my state (South Australia ) tried to censor the internet as he didn't want critical comments in this election year.
After public complaints,he had to back down;there is such a thing as people power!
Reply #300. Feb 02 10, 4:52 PM
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