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NORWEGIAN workers are legally entitled to look at porn on the internet during company time after a ruling by the country?s supreme court.

Two oil workers sacked for viewing net porn in 2002 were unfairly sacked, a judge decided.

Meanness in girls can start when they still are toddlers, a Brigham Young University study found. It found that girls as young as 3 or 4 will use manipulation and peer pressure to get what they want.

"It could range from leaving someone out to telling their friends not to play with someone to saying, 'I'm not going to invite you to my birthday party,'" said Craig Hart, study co-author and professor of marriage, family and human development at BYU. "Some kids are really adept at being mean and nasty."

"Hart said other research has found that about 17 percent to 20 percent of preschool and school-age girls display such behavior. It also shows up in boys, but much less frequently."

A MOTHER who underwent an abortion after learning that she was pregnant with twins is suing the NHS for ?250,000 after one of the babies survived.

Stacy Dow, who was 16 when she found out that she was pregnant, is seeking compensation and damages for the ?financial burden? of raising her daughter. Miss Dow, whose father has had to take on a second job to help to pay for his granddaughter, is claiming for ?loss, injury and damage? suffered at the hands of Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Maybe the UK taxpayer should sue Miss Dow for failing to use contraception.

The above was actually suggested in more than one newspaper editorial when this story appeared, which I think gives you an idea of how fed up people are getting in the UK with both the compensation culture and the epidemic levels of teenage pregnancy.

An 86-year-old woman was jailed after police said she called 911 dispatchers 20 times in a little more than a half-hour ? all to complain that a pizza parlor wouldn't deliver.

A woman almost lost her hand after putting it into a tank filled with piranhas.

The woman from Saransk, Russia was trying to clean the tank when the carnivorous fish attacked her in a feeding frenzy during which they stripped the flesh from two fingers.

A Sicilian court condemned road authorities Monday for suspending the driving license of a man after finding out he was gay.

The court on the Mediterranean island said being gay was merely "a personality disturbance" which had no bearing on a person's ability to drive, Ansa news agency reported.

The 23-year-old man, who was identified as Danilo G., got into trouble with the road license authorities in the city of Catania after they discovered he had been exempted from military service because he was gay.

The authorities suspended his driving license ahead of further checks on his "suitability" to take the wheel.

The Singapore government has opened a landfill island, made entirely from garbage incinerator ash, to its citizens in a bid to share its "rich natural environment."

alx5962 wrote:A Sicilian court condemned road authorities Monday for suspending the driving license of a man after finding out he was gay.

The court on the Mediterranean island said being gay was merely "a personality disturbance" which had no bearing on a person's ability to drive, Ansa news agency reported.

The 23-year-old man, who was identified as Danilo G., got into trouble with the road license authorities in the city of Catania after they discovered he had been exempted from military service because he was gay.

The authorities suspended his driving license ahead of further checks on his "suitability" to take the wheel.

Some days, you could line the Great Wall of China with idiots you'd love to shoot. [evil]

I suppose this counts as strange news! I think it's strange anyway...

I spotted a crop-circle today, in a field of unharvested crop opposite the trainline I use. Only a simple flower pattern, but it's quite pretty. How do they get there? Do they happen in fields outside the UK too?

Hate to disappoint anyone who believes otherwise,but people make them.(I've participated in a few myself).
Anyone who attributes them to aliens is forgetting the limitless capacity of human beings.

Hehehe! That's so cool! Thanks for clearing that up! I had a feeling that they were man-made. They always appear where loads of people are going to see them, never in some random field in a village.

So, what's it like to participate in them? [crazy]

Well,actually,maybe i'm an alien. [:o]
Hard work!!
And that's all i'm saying...

sound world wrote:Well,actually,maybe i'm an alien. [:o]
Hard work!!
And that's all i'm saying...

Go here :- http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/clangers/
and scroll down to ELECTION in video clips and see Mr Soundworld and his cohorts planning the next crop circle site.

Haha!
Actually when we made crop circles I played the swanee whistle to keep everyone's spirits up