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Melancholia is 'a mental illness' - Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk)"We believe that melancholia is a separate diagnosis, a separate condition that requires quite different treatment to most of the other depressive conditions that are able to be diagnosed,"
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Scientists reveal how snakes 'see' at night (www.physorg.com)"The neurochemical pathway involved suggests that snakes feel heat rather than see it."
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Fake surgeon used plumbing filler for J Lo-style backside surgery - Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk)I expect that the police will get to the bottom of this case.
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4.New Zealand man tries to sell two ghosts on internet - Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk)
As ethereal as an "air guitar" perhaps? I prefer the spirit in the picture...
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Man's best Friend? Not this time! (news.bbc.co.uk)Oh dear, the little Jack Russell will be most unpopular now.
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BBC News - Indonesian man loses his teeth in a cigarette explosion (news.bbc.co.uk)Good: Slinkset is working again!
Meanwhile one thinks of "Nuit gravement à la santé"
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Switzerland to hold referendum on lawyers for animals - Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk)The piggies in the picture are nice, but really...
Judge to lawyer defending cat:
"To the charge that he crept into the crypt, crapped and crept out, how does your client plead?"
Lawyer "Guilty, your honour."
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Cigarettes May Cause Infections | Wired Science | Wired.com (www.wired.com)More alarmist rubbish: if it's not the stupid "warmists", it's the anti-tobacco fascists!
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Google's 'older sister' launches in China - Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk)Google now has a Chinese sister it seems!
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BBC News - McDonald's 'wrong' to fire worker over cheese slice (news.bbc.co.uk)Another place where one would not like to work...
Said the court: "It is just a slice of cheese"!
How very true - and McDonald's cheese at that.
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'Spiderman' to scale Dubai skyscraper - Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk)Georges Simenon wrote a Maigret story called "Le fou de Sainte-Clotilde" . I think that M. Robert should be known as "Le fou du gratte-ciel"!
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Anti-piracy agency's logo broke copyright - Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk)Ha ha! The biter bit! Serve 'em right - c'est l'oeuf sur la visage bien-sûr!
Hadopi? Schadopi!
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Foxy 'Roxxxy': world’s first 'sex robot' can talk about football - Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk)Amusing, this story. Given the coast of these "robottes" one might imagine that those with the necessary disposable income could arrange to meet a real woman; however it's true: life is complicated.
Mind you if she talks to me about football - well, that's the END!
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Swiss motorist given £180,000 speeding fine - Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk)Best to be very discreet if you are a) Rich and b) in Switzerland!
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BBC News - The medical secret behind Mona Lisa's smile? (news.bbc.co.uk)Oh dear! Interesting and bound to happen I suppose, but I doubt that La Giaconda is bothered!
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Boyfriend pillow for Japan singles (news.bbc.co.uk)From what I have read over recent months, the Japanese are becoming increasingly creative in terms of "relationship substitutes."
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I cannot stand chewing gum: horrible stuff. This was brought home to me when I remarked to a friend that a particular girl was quite attractive. He replied "The gum will have to go."
How right he was!
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Beer at 32% achohol - and £30 per bottle (news.bbc.co.uk)As hard on the head as on the wallet perhaps?
I must say that I like the name of the producers' alcohol-free product : "Nanny State!"
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His Tremendousness dies, aged 73 - Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk)Reminds me of the wonderful Ealing film "Passport to Pimlico."
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Goalie Saves Cat (news.bbc.co.uk)After the Thiery Henry hand-ball row where apparently the referee saw nothing, this story would appear to be grossly unfair. the crowd was quite rightly outraged
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21.Cat banned from visiting Buddhist bank robber in jail - Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Seems a bit mean to me I must say.
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22.BBC NEWS | Americas | Bank claim that is out of this world (news.bbc.co.uk)
Big money...
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Perhaps American men take politics more seriously than previously thought?
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A wonderful story about an extraordinary material
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For the escapist (www.wired.com)From comic-book fantasy to reality: the "Jet-Pack"
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