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Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Depends if they can detect all approaching vehicles, including mopeds, cyclists. I know of several traffic-operated signals that won’t work for bikes.
Johnny Doe
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I'd imagine the police requested drivers to passata low speed.....
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Books, not bombs
Bride dies while exchanging vows so groom marries her younger sister. Bride dies of heart attack during wedding so groom marries her sister instead
baldrick
hmmmmm
Well, they've spent all that money and everyone was looking forward to a party....
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
'We found a fortune in the belly of a whale'
A lucky find in the belly of a whale has changed the lives of a group of poor Yemeni fishermen.
www.bbc.co.uk
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
I had an isue at the M11/M25 junction once and thought it was a cocaine bust but turned out to be oveturned lard instead
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
'We found a fortune in the belly of a whale'
A lucky find in the belly of a whale has changed the lives of a group of poor Yemeni fishermen.www.bbc.co.uk
Sad that the whale died, but also fabulous for those men and the other people in their village. Those men seem really nice.
A Hero’s Retirement For Cambodia's Landmine-Hunting Rat
"famous landmine-hunting “hero rat” will retire this month due to old age after a stellar five-year career in which he located 71 mines and 38 pieces of unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, according to the charity that cares for him....Born in Tanzania and trained by Belgian non-profit organization APOPO, which teaches African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and even diseases like tuberculosis, Magawa rose to international fame in September when he was awarded a gold medal by the British charity People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA), the animal equivalent of the George Cross....
in a statement this week, APOPO said Magawa was “slowing down” and would retire after a new group of 20 landmine detection rats arrived in Cambodia in March.
The group added that he would “mentor” and settle in the new recruits before taking a bow."
"famous landmine-hunting “hero rat” will retire this month due to old age after a stellar five-year career in which he located 71 mines and 38 pieces of unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, according to the charity that cares for him....Born in Tanzania and trained by Belgian non-profit organization APOPO, which teaches African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and even diseases like tuberculosis, Magawa rose to international fame in September when he was awarded a gold medal by the British charity People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA), the animal equivalent of the George Cross....
in a statement this week, APOPO said Magawa was “slowing down” and would retire after a new group of 20 landmine detection rats arrived in Cambodia in March.
The group added that he would “mentor” and settle in the new recruits before taking a bow."
maomao
普費斯
You could report the OP (with an explanation) if you wanted to move forum but it's more likely to stay on the first page of a smaller forum.
Magawa's got a bit
of Basil Brush about him.
Though 'Boom Boom' is very much not the plan when looking for land mines
Not good but definitely wierd:
Police seek Sunderland prankster who steals lambs and leaves them in gardens
Police seek Sunderland prankster who steals lambs and leaves them in gardens
tonysingh
Random Clever and Witty Strapline
He's for the chop when they find him.
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Books, not bombs
It is nothing to bleat about
Charlie Bit Me NFT sale: Brothers to pay for university with auction money
"Harry, who is now 17, tells Radio 1 Newsbeat he wants to study "some kind of engineering" at either University College London or Imperial College London.
Charlie, now 15, isn't yet sure what he wants to study. But he says the money generated by the video will also cover the uni fees of his two younger brothers, Jasper and Rupert, if they want to go.
"I can't even remember doing it so making money off it, and having experiences off it, is really cool," Charlie says."
"Harry, who is now 17, tells Radio 1 Newsbeat he wants to study "some kind of engineering" at either University College London or Imperial College London.
Charlie, now 15, isn't yet sure what he wants to study. But he says the money generated by the video will also cover the uni fees of his two younger brothers, Jasper and Rupert, if they want to go.
"I can't even remember doing it so making money off it, and having experiences off it, is really cool," Charlie says."
Donald Trump suspended from Facebook for two years
"the ban could be extended at the end of the two years if it was determined there was still a “serious risk to public safety”." - by which time I hope that the good news will be that he's dead, in prison, or both.
"the ban could be extended at the end of the two years if it was determined there was still a “serious risk to public safety”." - by which time I hope that the good news will be that he's dead, in prison, or both.
24,000-year-old organisms found frozen in Siberia can still reproduce
"A microscopic worm-like creature, labelled an “evolutionary scandal” by biologists for having thrived for millions of years without having sex, has now been shown to persist for at least 24,000 years in Siberian permafrost and then reproduce, researchers have found."
"A microscopic worm-like creature, labelled an “evolutionary scandal” by biologists for having thrived for millions of years without having sex, has now been shown to persist for at least 24,000 years in Siberian permafrost and then reproduce, researchers have found."
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
I mean, fair play to this microscopic worm like creature, but who wants to live 24,000 years without having sex?
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
In good news today, not everyone is an establishment-shill-in-waiting Why I turned down an MBE for services to homeless people | Gill Taylor
Nailed it: man, 82, builds bench for wife in 30 minutes after council plea ignored
"The bench is already proving popular with people in A Estrada but Souto is keen for it to be used by those most in need of respite – hence the message, inked in marker pen, along the back: “Respeten. Para mallores” (Be thoughtful. For older people)."
"The bench is already proving popular with people in A Estrada but Souto is keen for it to be used by those most in need of respite – hence the message, inked in marker pen, along the back: “Respeten. Para mallores” (Be thoughtful. For older people)."
This isn't exactly "news" as he's been doing it for over a year now, but it's nice that he's getting more recognition:
Hackney trader praised for low-price masks
"A Ridley Road market trader has been selling masks at "rock bottom" prices since the pandemic began, as well as giving them out for free to anyone short of cash.
Hemin Abdullah, also known as Mr Hamma, has been trading in Ridley Road market for 15 years selling spices.
But for more than a year now, he has been offering boxes of 50 masks for £1, to help local people social distance."
Hackney trader praised for low-price masks
"A Ridley Road market trader has been selling masks at "rock bottom" prices since the pandemic began, as well as giving them out for free to anyone short of cash.
Hemin Abdullah, also known as Mr Hamma, has been trading in Ridley Road market for 15 years selling spices.
But for more than a year now, he has been offering boxes of 50 masks for £1, to help local people social distance."
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Books, not bombs
Given Mac's propensity for suing for breach of copyright it will be interesting to see if the golden m lasts long.
Really? For me that's about the least interesting part of that story.
Colin Hunt
Active Member
To add to this, NPR did a radio show on this McDonald's in 2019 which explains a lot more of the background, and then did a second show in April 2021 updating the story. It includes interviews with all the key figures, with a particular focus on the manager who threatened to set himself on fire and the franchise owner who refused to buy the McDonald's. You can find the 2021 show (or a transcript if you prefer) here. It's roughly 50 mins long.
The story is quite complicated, and the interviewees in the linked show will explain it far better than I can in a short post, but the employees took over the McDonald's because they wanted it to remain a McDonald's. The initial plan was to sell it separately from other local McDonald's and turn it into a halal restaurant (because the person who wanted to buy the other franchises didn't like the manager's politics), which many people in the community saw as potentially turning their area into a Muslim ghetto. The more radical stuff came about as a result of the pandemic.
I don't pretend to know the workings of the minds of corporate capitalists, but I would imagine that McDonald's France have realised that this is relatively good publicity for their brand, or at least isn't hurting their brand as much as them suing a group of community activists and long-term McDonald's employees to stop them from giving out free couscous would do.
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