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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 20, 2020 20:30:57 GMT
Bear in mind it is the Daily Mail....
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 20, 2020 20:32:57 GMT
That makes it even more pertinent if they are perplexed.
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Post by htmb on Jul 20, 2020 20:33:32 GMT
Kanye is (at the least) bipolar at his own admission and takes meds. Maybe he needs them adjusted.
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Post by patricklondon on Jul 24, 2020 13:48:26 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 24, 2020 15:51:55 GMT
Well, I hope that this terrible situation has been remedied since 2004.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 26, 2020 18:59:40 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 27, 2020 4:09:58 GMT
When I think baboons, I automatically think Sands of the Kalahari, a movie I saw in high school & remember to this day as apparently my mind has endless space for the inconsequential.
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 4, 2020 6:27:08 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 4, 2020 7:46:39 GMT
I suppose he doesn't wear short sleeved shirts too often.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 4, 2020 21:46:34 GMT
I like the way the headline identifies him as a father, as if to reassure readers that it was a perfectly fine, functioning organ until it, you know, fell off.
Surely they can't really build/graft a penis onto a limb, can they?!
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 5, 2020 8:14:16 GMT
Surely they can't really build/graft a penis onto a limb, can they?! Assuming the story is close to the truth (apparently it was in the D**ly M**l), surgeons do have a reputation for a pretty puerile sense of humour.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 5, 2020 8:51:26 GMT
It was in the i too...so I thought that it was probably nonsense...but you never know.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 5, 2020 9:04:29 GMT
I was going to say..." That sounds like bollocks...." but being a Lady I wouldn't use such a term...
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 5, 2020 9:49:22 GMT
Actually, they do (temporarily) graft things like ears and noses onto other parts of the body. Not sure why. Probably the face has to heal from horrible wounds before they can use the spare parts.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 5, 2020 9:59:41 GMT
Reminds mevof the story of a guy who wants to have a di k as lo g as hus black friend. Friend says they attach stones to their penis when they are yiung to make them bigger. 3 weeks after they meet and the white guy shows his ustensil, to which he attached stones. The black says : the size is not yet as mine but the color is now the right one.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 5, 2020 10:56:01 GMT
And then it drops off like in the headline.
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 8, 2020 6:53:28 GMT
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Post by bjd on Aug 8, 2020 7:14:05 GMT
Interestingly, the Guardian's picture showed the whole guy running after the boar (from the back), on the BBC website this morning, he is cut off to show just a bit of his bum.
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 9, 2020 11:17:49 GMT
Canada brewery apologises for beer named 'pubic hair' in Maori. www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53706732Must be difficult finding a unique name. Reminds me of something I mentioned somewhere some time back that I've had three Mitsubishi Pajero's at one time or another. In Spain though they are called a Montero (and some Sth American countries) because pajero can mean wanker. In the UK they are called a Shogun I think. No idea why.
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Post by bjd on Aug 9, 2020 11:25:54 GMT
I thought large companies did research to find out whether the names they give products have unwanted meanings in other languages. Mind you, Hell's Basement is probably a small brewery in Alberta, but surely even they know how to use Google.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 9, 2020 14:28:25 GMT
Big companies pay a huge amount of money to research any potential problems with their names. Medium sized companies pay a bit less. And any company can be caught "at fault" in a rare language or inappropriate imagery. My own islamic employer was denounced when a crucifix was discovered in its logo and had to change everything. Some people just like to stir shit for the fun of it.
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Post by fumobici on Aug 9, 2020 15:22:49 GMT
I propose as a just solution that all expat Maoris in Alberta boycott this brewery. That should fix it.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 9, 2020 18:49:42 GMT
And check dead languages too. Seems Renault called a car Koleos and that would mean 'bollocks' in ancient greek.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 9, 2020 18:51:46 GMT
However i remember a guy selling bags on industrial scale that was called Filtisac. For fil tisse sac - woven bags. I was about 25 and had to tell him such a name was not an advantage in.UK - filthy sacks... He had never thought of it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 9, 2020 19:12:19 GMT
That's funny! Poor guy, though.
Good thing he wasn't selling in Mexico, where the most innocent word or comment gets turned into a double entendre.
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 15, 2020 19:19:59 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 15, 2020 19:32:20 GMT
How did they know that the fox was mangy? I would have voted for rabid if it really attacked him.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 15, 2020 19:58:56 GMT
The one in the poorly photoshopped picture looks mangy. But yes -- ditto on rabid if any part of this story is true. Also, if anyone went to hospital with skin broken by a wild fox, surely the hospital would have reacted with more than band-aids.
You have to admire how the story is padded with all kinds of details: "I didn’t even have time to wipe myself." His partner-of-10-years his 14-year-old rescue cat "It was like a wild animal." former Deptford Park Primary School pupil
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 16, 2020 15:27:37 GMT
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Post by questa on Aug 17, 2020 13:18:16 GMT
I am in the wrong time zone...I miss all the good stuff.Here are a few tidbits. During WW2 there were many fighter pilots who sustained terrible burns to face and hands before parachuting to safety. Plastic surgeon Archie McIndoe set up a special hospital where a team of experts could rebuild faces and arms. It was highly experimental and his patients called themselves "the Guinea Pigs" . McIndoe developed the technique of taking a healthy area of skin from the back or thigh,roll it up and stitch the ends out so the patients had a graft growing with blood supply etc.Often it was connected to the thigh which gave rise to ribald humour.After the graft had settled and growing well it was removed to the skinless burns area, and men with no faces started to rebuild them.
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