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    Incandenza wrote:
    Originally posted by Sam
    Haha, they do that kind of thing here too. Not on sale signs maybe, but there is a Ted Hardy-style brand of t-shirts called Fucking Clothes.

    I'm surprised our New York contingent haven't already mentioned the Nazi- and Imperial Japan-themed decor on the Subway recently.
    I assumed it was advertising for that show without having read the article. It's not really the kind of thing you want to market like crazy, and you have to wonder if the MTA ever has any input on the appropriateness of advertising. The billboards for the show show the Statue of Liberty giving the Heil Hitler salute. It's really subtle!
    Well, the article itself says they don't allow political or potentially offensive advertising, but allowed this as it wasn't political or potentially offensive.

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      ad hoc wrote: Woman presumed dead was just playing video games in internet cafes for 10 years
      http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/271782/woman-presumed-dead-was-just-playing-video-games-in-internet-cafes-for-10-years/?utm_source=sc-fb&utm_medium=ref&utm_campaign=ref
      Before I opened that I guessed it would be China. The internet cafes are crazy there. I used to tutor the teenage daughter of the head of the Chongqing police (it was an offer I couldn't refuse) and one of her less lurid stories involved lying to her parents about being ill so she didn't have to go on holiday with them and could instead stay up 5 days straight playing computer games, drinking coke and eating pot noodles.

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          Ah, yeah, 'cos that explains everything.

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            IIRC the story about the Woman who falsely alleged she was prevent from breastfeeding in a Leicester Primark store was covered in this thread. Well, she was sentenced today for intending to pervert the course of justice. 8 months in prison, suspended. However that isn't the reason for bringing this back-up. No, it was a biographical detail about her that says she has had 17 miscarriages. Whoah.

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              sorry, Janik, what? she WASN'T breastfeeding?

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                17 miscarriages is horrific. And in the UK, that would suggest she is avoiding having a GP as they would obviously consult about how to try and improve the potential. Any way you try and shape and frame it, that is tragic.

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                  Hey caja.

                  There is no good way to frame something like that, if true.

                  So, I avoided it. Breast-feeding in public? de-scusting.

                  I sincerely hope, that the story I just tried to ignore, is not true, because that is a ... red squirrel?

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                    No, it's not true.

                    gerontophile wrote: sorry, Janik, what? she WASN'T breastfeeding?
                    She breastfed in the store without incident. However she then falsely claimed on Facebook that a security guard had ripped her baby from her breast as she was feeding it and demanded she leave the store. This never happened. She made it up to try and scam the store into quickly paying compensation to keep the story quiet. And, it turns out, she had invented a similar allegation before.

                    The same report that included the detail about the miscarriages also reported she has mental health issues. Well, no shit. Sounds like someone living a tough life.

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                      2nd and 3rd place in Time magazine's "Person of the Year" competition go to:

                      Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - head of the Islamic State militant group
                      and

                      Donald Trump - business magnate seeking Republican nomination as US presidential candidate

                      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35048796

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                        I think both are quite fair. Falling into the had a big impact this year but by god no we can't put them on the cover catagory.

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                          Wu Tang Clan have a contract clause for their single copy Once Upon A Time In Shaolin allowing them or Bill Murray to try and steal it back.

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                            How did this not kill someone?

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                              There's a woman walking away from the camera who is just missed by it and afterwards she just carries on walking as if nothing has happened (or - it seems - she didn't even notice it)

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                                For those who don't know the Red Line as well as I do, that means that the driverless train traveled through five stations before it was brought to a halt.

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                                  Man forced off tube train for "turning off iPad"

                                  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/muslim-man-forced-off-london-underground-after-commuter-accuses-him-of-acting-suspiciously-with-an-a6766941.html

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                                    Woman in hospital refuses to be treated by Muslims -

                                    http://www.thejournal.ie/doctor-refusal-tallaght-2496379-Dec2015/?utm_source=twitter_self

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                                      Cross-posting with the well-regulated militia thread...

                                      “It’s a fake mass shooting, and we’ll use fake blood,” he said. He said gun noises will be blared from bullhorns. Other people will then play the role of rescuers, also armed with cardboard weapons.
                                      No prizes for guessing which state this is happening in. (Clue: starts with 'Texa'.)

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                                        Not just in Texas, but at the exact site of the first mass shooting on the grounds of a US school/university

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                                          Have we done the "Citadel" post?

                                          Apologies if it's been done

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                                            Actually, we have not

                                            An old school South Carolina Christmas

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                                              Guess the State!

                                              US town bans solar panels amid fears it will "suck up all the energy from the Sun and also stop plants photosynthesizing"

                                              http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-town-rejects-solar-panels-amid-fears-they-suck-up-all-the-energy-from-the-sun-a6771526.html

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                                                Robert Dyas. Where straight people and gay people can buy Christmas gifts.

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                                                  eh?

                                                  The people behind the "Mr and Mrs Smith" hotel recommendation / booking brand

                                                  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35060319

                                                  The final straw for Mr Lohan and Ms Heber-Percy came in 2001, when the couple, then still dating, booked into a spa in the Lake District.

                                                  What they had imagined would be a modern, Asian-style spa of massage and martinis turned out to be an austere sanatorium, complete with a public weigh-in, a blood pressure test, and a calorie-controlled menu with no alcohol.
                                                  Why would you expect a "spa" in the UK to be anything other than a UK-style "spa"?

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                                                    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35093799

                                                    A teacher at a French preschool who said he had been stabbed by a man shouting "Islamic State" has admitted he made the story up, prosecutors say.

                                                    The teacher said he had been attacked while alone in a classroom in Aubervilliers, a suburb of Paris.

                                                    The local prosecutor's office said he was now being questioned as to why he lied about the incident.
                                                    Quite.

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