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The "son" who moved her to North Carolina.
The "son" who moved her to North Carolina.
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Whilst the others scattered to the winds. But he seems to have done alright by her for 13 years and then...I dunno...she got really old, and whoever wrote that blames him for her premature death at 93? It's fucked up.Comment
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Going to be a bitch to recycle, that.Comment
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This isn't WTF at all, it's just incredibly cute, but this is the closest we have to a 'general laughs and fun' thread, so...
Sophie's Princess Chewbacca birthday cake.
That obituary is really something.Comment
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It appears to have been taken down.Comment
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Stay classy, Denmark
I mean, that doesn't have any specific historical resonance or anything. Maybe they should wear some kind of identifying symbol too. Fucking people.Comment
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Highway Robbery
Russia has detained a senior prison service official on suspicion of stealing a 30-mile (50km) stretch of public road, investigators said.
Alexander Protopopov oversaw the dismantling of a concrete highway and sold off the slabs while prison service chief in the far-northern Komi region, the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
The road, which was made up of more than 7,000 reinforced concrete slabs, was “dismantled and driven away” over more than a year, between 2014 and 2015.
The slabs were subsequently used by a company that sold them on for a profit, investigators saidComment
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Argh, dammit.Comment
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I read that this morning. Truly WTF.Comment
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Bear in mind this is all in the context of a huge scandal around 1MDB, the Malaysian second sovereign wealth fund (effectively), run by Najib. The reason this was being investigated was because Najib was accused of embezzling the money from 1MDB, which seems to have a pretty large hole in its books (though its latest accounts haven't been filed.Comment
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That's appalling. I'm going to use a different site from now on for looking up info about actors and films.Comment
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You have all sorts with a job as a teacher from using lego to teach fractions, discussing the Qu'ran with kids, marking books, teaching kids rugby and, it seems, being sworn at and threatened by parents. Give me a slide rule and a sharp pencil and I will show you how I blame Thatcher for this.Comment
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The Donald and his 15 year old daughter Ivanka, in 1996.Comment
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"I've said that if Ivanka weren't my daughter, I'd perhaps be dating her."Comment
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In an eerily remarkable 'caught this act before', top chef Benoit Violier has taken his own life.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/02/01/acclaimed-chef-benoit-violier-found-dead-in-apparent-suicide.html
Absurdly similar was the earlier tale of Bernard Loiseau, which was the central story of The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine, which I strongly recommend.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Perfectionist-Death-Haute-Cuisine/dp/B000MGAHXMComment
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I was particularly struck by this because his restaurant had been recommended to us during our recent visit to Lausanne (we didn't go).
It seems to me that the stress on these guys just gets worse every year.Comment
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Indeed. The gain or loss of one star can literally be a life or death thing. I can't imagine that kind of pressure.Comment
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