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Junie Hoang: actress loses her cases against IMDB for revealing her true age
JUNIE Hoang lost her Privacy Lawsuit. When she was 40, the the ageing actress sued Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for reporting her real age. She’s now 41.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports:
Returning a verdict Thursday afternoon, a federal jury in Seattle ruled that the popular entertainment website didn’t breach its contract with actress Junie Hoang, a 41-year-old Texas woman featured in a number of low-budget horror movies and the upcoming television program “Exotic Dancers of Houston.”
Hoang sued IMDb and its parent company Amazon in 2011 claiming her privacy was invaded and career impacted by the release of her age. Responding to Hoang’s claim, attorneys for IMDb asserted it has the right to publish true and accurate information, and that Hoang attempted to lie about her age.
Writing the court, Hoang attorney Keith Scully contended IMDb violated its customer services agreement when it published Hoang’s true birthdate after she signed up for a “professional” membership to the service. IMDb contended Hoang invalidated the agreement she sought to have enforced when she violated its terms by lying on her profile.
Because 41 is sooooooo old. Although, Ms Hoang can act younger. And older.
Pig caught in Greensboro, North Carolina (photo)
TO Greensboro, North Carolina, where a pig has been captured:
Posted: 12th, April 2013 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews | Comment
The Langauge of Legs: how a girl deploys her gams reveals far more then just her lower limbs
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Posted: 12th, April 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Your dead gran, recycled into road signs
PEOPLE who say old-folks are useless clearly are idiots aren’t they? For a start, old people are the main source of institutionalised racism and without pensioners, the makers of fig rolls would go out of business overnight. Pensioners are so useful that they even help us all when they’re dead.
The steel hips, plates and screws from legs and skulls can be collected after they’re cremated and the metal is sent off for recycling, used by automobile and aeronautical industries.
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Posted: 12th, April 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True, Technology | Comment
Pet owners are dreadful… and here’s the proof
PET-OWNERS online are, without doubt, worse than fascists. Endless photographs are taken of their pets doing very little, accompanied by captions like “Oh LOOK! He’s TOTES ADORBS!” while a dog lies motionless on the floor. Or indeed, people take a dozen photos of a cat, sleepily glaring at its owner who insists on shooting it from absolutely every angle before flooding Instagram with their absolutely typical pet.
The petfood commercials where people treat their pets like lovers were once disregarded as ridiculous, but thanks to social networking, we now know that these monsters actually exist, coochie cooing at these blasted creatures every move.
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Paul Simonon: The Clash bassist we all wanted to be and star of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll photo of all time
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Rapping Teacher – Mark Grist
RAPPING Teacher – Mark Grist.
I’m a poet and Educational Consultant based in Peterborough. I became Poet Laureate of Peterborough in 2008, Chief Bard of the Fens in 2009 and Edinburgh Fringe Slam Champion in 2010. I’ve recently been on two national tours, whilst also completing an MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmith’s University in London.
Adding in his rap with Blizzard, aka Bradley:
‘I went to university? Is that the best that you’ve got?
I’ll take your mother to the opera, and destroy her private box.’
Langauge is NSFW:
Posted: 12th, April 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Britain’s Best Dad assaulted wife in row over Christmas shopping
At Croydon magistrates, Preddie, 44, admits assault. He is ordered to pay £100 compensation to his wife.
Madeleine McCann: tabloids monster James Lawlor
THE Daily Star’s alleged “NEW MADDIE CHILD SNATCHER” is said by the Sun to be one James Lawlor, a 62-year-old father of two. He was arrested at his London home after a British man claimed he had stopped a man taking his three-year-old daughter from a shopping mall in Costa Teguise, Lanzarote.
The Sun has more:
Landscape gardener Lawlor lives in Harrow with cleaner wife Ann, 56, and has two daughters — solicitor Rowena, 27, and council worker Denise, 22.
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Posted: 12th, April 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (3)
Tiny Tim entertains the kids with a song about mass death and destruction
TINY TIM is entertaining the kids in the late 1960s. Tiny Tim‘s version of The Other Side captivates the girls before him.
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Posted: 12th, April 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback, TV & Radio | Comment
Madeleine McCann: appeal leads to arrest of man suspected of attempting kidnap in Costa Teguise, Lanzarote
“HUNT FOR NEW MADDIE FIEND,” declares the Daily Star’s front-page headline.
Keyan Milanian reports:
A BRIT has spoken of the “shocking” moment his daughter was caught up in a suspected kidnap bid that mirrored the Madeleine McCann case.
A child was asleep in her rented apartment? Her parents were out? Then she vanished? And what of Ben Needham?
The dad of three, from Milton Keynes, Bucks, had been shopping on holiday in Costa Teguise, Lanzarote, when his girl vanished.
He spotted her flashing trainers disappearing round a corner.
She was wearing them:
He told the Daily Star: “There was a man leading her off by the wrist. I shouted, ‘Oi! What the f*** are you doing?’ I grabbed her but he wouldn’t make eye contact and walked off. I think she was in shock and knew something was very wrong.”
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Posted: 11th, April 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comments (3)
1983: The first video game World Championship (video)
IT’S 1983. The first video game “World Championship” is underway. Twin Galaxies remembers when it was all lacquered whipped hair and lettering ironed onto T-shirts. In the best traditions of US-based ‘World’ sporting event, only North Americans entered:
Twin Galaxies first Coronation Day Tournament is recognized as history’s first video game “World Championship”—held January 8-9, 1983 at the the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA.
Co-sponsored by Twin Galaxies and ABC-TV’s That’s Incredible, the event featured nineteen of North America’s top players competing on five current titles: Frogger, Millipede, Joust, Super Pac-Man, and Donkey Kong, Jr.
The top three finalists won complimentary subscriptions to Joystik, RePlay and Playmeter Magazine and were invited to compete on the “That’s Incredible” finals in Los Angeles.
The show was aired to an international TV audience on February 21, 1983.
Posted: 11th, April 2013 | In: Flashback, Technology | Comment
Couple caught having sex on Street View (5 of the Best)
A COUPLE have been caught on Google Street View, doing the sex outdoors while the Google car drove by.
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Posted: 11th, April 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
The Chosen Few Motorcycle Club was America’ first black biker set
NOT all biker sets are white boys. The Chosen Few Motorcycle Club were formed in 1959 in LA:
“The 60s was a hell of a time. With the Civil Rights Movement, The Viet Nam War, Flower Power & Free Love. Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll. Also the Crazy World of the Outlaw Bikers.”
Some history:
“When you talk of the Outlaw Bikers you automatically think of ‘Them Crazy White Boys’ doing what a lot of folk wish they could do. Live Life Like You Want & F*ck You And Your Rules. Well Guess What? There was some crazy Black bikers who felt the same way, and didn’t give a F*ck. Thus was born the Black Outlaw Bikers!”
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NRA makes a big noise about gun silencers
THE gun debate dribbles on in the US. The NRA wants the government to relax gun silencer regulations. To buy a silencer you need an FBI background check. Silencers are a Class III weapon regulated under theNational Firearms Act. But silencers, say the fans, means that when hunting you don’t scare the prey. When shooting varmints, you don’t annoy your neighbours. Silencers make shots more accurate, say the manufacturers. But aren’t silencers about killing people, well, silently?
Goldblog argues:
Silencers, in civilian life, have an important purpose — to help criminals commit violent crimes without drawing too much attention to themselves. A person defending his or her home from a violent criminal does not need a silencer. Quite the opposite — the sound of a racked shotgun (as Joe Biden will attest) is often enough to scare an intruder out of your house, without a shot being fired.
Unless that sound causes them to panic and fire madly…
Posted: 11th, April 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Left wing applaud Thatcher’s decision to close coal pits (she saved the polar bears)
MARGARET Thatcher is, perhaps, best remembered for closing the coal mines. Some on the Left hate her for it. Fast forward to today and voices on the Left are beseeching the powers that be to close the mines.
‘’If the world ever takes climate change seriously, that coal simply has to stay in the ground,’’ Mr McKibben said. ‘’There’s no physical way to burn it, or Canada’s tar sands, or Venezuela’s shale oil, and not go over the red line that almost all governments, including Australia’s, have drawn at two degrees.’’
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Posted: 11th, April 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (9)
Hospital cleaner playing doctor chops off child’s finger
TO Rajasthan, India. With no medics available, a cleaner named Badri Lal is treating one-year-old Sadiq Khan. He’s attempting to remove an intra-cath from the child’s wrist.
It’s tricky. He spots some scissors. He tries gain.
“He was trying to take the adhesive tapes off the intra-cath with the scissors when he chopped off the child’s finger,” said an official. Ever the cleaner, Lal then dropped the the finger in a bin. <
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South Koreans prepare for war and death by sleeping in coffins
AS North Korean makes bloodcurdling cries of war and what not, we recall the La Times article about the South Korea death cult:
Jung runs a seminar called the Coffin Academy, where, for $25 each, South Koreans can get a glimpse into the abyss. Over four hours, groups of a dozen or more tearfully write their letters of goodbye and tombstone epitaphs. Finally, they attend their own funerals and try the coffin on for size.
In a candle-lighted chapel, each climbs into one of the austere wooden caskets laid side by side on the floor. Lying face up, their arms crossed over their chests, they close their eyes. And there they rest, for 10 excruciating minutes.
“It’s a way to let go of certain things,” says Jung, a former insurance company lecturer. “Afterward, you feel refreshed. You’re ready to start your life all over again, this time with a clean slate.”
Across South Korea, a few entrepreneurs are conducting controversial forums designed to teach clients how to better appreciate life by simulating death. Equal parts Vincent Price and Dale Carnegie, they use mortality as a personal motivator for a variety of behaviors, from a healthier attitude toward work to getting along with family members.
Many firms here see the sessions as an inventive way to stimulate productivity. The Kyobo insurance company, for example, has required all 4,000 of its employees to attend fake funerals like those offered by Jung.
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1979: The lunatic Schlitz malt liquor advert
IN 1979, consumers were turned onto the flavours of Schlitz Malt Liquor with a group of Afro-American space voyagers, their pet jive-bot and a massive rampaging bull. Good to know that in the future, all space pioneers will drinking malted booze:
Posted: 10th, April 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
North Korean children sing about shooting ‘the American bastards’
BARBARA Demick book on North Korea, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea” is a good read. One passage stand outs. The Norther Korean kinder are taught to sing a song called “Shoot the Yankee Bastards”. One verse goes:
Our enemies are the American bastards
Who are trying to take over our beautiful fatherland.
With guns that I make with my own hands
I will shoot them. BANG, BANG, BANG.
American kids can buy their guns in Walmart, ready made…
Former vice mayor drive at 90 mph with his genitals dangling from car window
“Waving, grabbed his shirt, kind of pulled it up. “
“After the waving, it turned into a lot of beeping, him grabbing his chest area, and asking me going ‘please, please’ (clasping hands together) with his hands, may I… show me yours.”
Woman divorces husband because he has a little wang
WHILE it is completely fair that women complain about pressure from media outlets to look a certain way, one fact remains: you ladies can do something about it either way. If blonde hair and a small waist is required, you can go for a run and buy hair dye.
Should you feel forced to? Of course not. However, if you’re a man with a small penis, you’re doomed. And the size of a man’s penis looms large in his legend, thanks to having seen countless gay men and straight ladies waggling their little finger while shrieking about manhood which, as Shania Twain pointed out, doesn’t impress her much.
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Which gamers are best at sex?
GAMERS are derided for their social skills, often depicted as lonely people, sat in their mum’s spare room, pale and wan. However, that’s a complete nonsense. That’s like saying movie fanatics are all 3 feet tall and live inside tinfoil pyramids eating socks.
People who play video games, believe it or not, have sex. But which gamers are the best in the bedroom? Well, thank god someone did a survey to find out exactly that!
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Posted: 9th, April 2013 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment
All hail the drunk Russian tank driver!
REMEMBER during the Cold War, everyone being thunderingly terrified of the Russians? They were efficient like Germans, but brutal like they were feral! And they had gnarly scars and punched bears for a laugh!
Oh the Russians! So strong, tough and well-drilled!
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