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[BarcelonAl]

Erm...spot the difference!





p.s. For the non-footballers (Mike), the sobbing fool in blue is Chelsea's John Terry!

[stimpsonslostson]

Office pranks I've been known to pull the odd practical joke in my time, but No.17 takes some beating.

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[mr_e]

Those pranks make me wish we had cubicles. Number 17 is indeed mind-boggling. How bored are these people!?

[Mike]

The one filled with packing fluff was the best. That takes a special amount of boredom - they need to make some people there redundant to make the other work a little bit more effectively.

[Fez]

german tries to ban nazi from garden party

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090522/tuk ... a1618.html

[stimpsonslostson]

I wasn't sure whether this belongs in the youtube thread or here, but its on the Telegraph website. So here ya go: CRAZY bike rider gets 2.5mil hits on youtube for riding around Edinburgh.
I can locate MOST of the places he uses, but don't think I'll be attempting a recreation any time soon!

[Mike]

Air France Plane either lost or kidnapped by aliens over the Atlantic Ocean.

[Mike]

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned although, in my humble opinion she is taking this one rather too far.

[stimpsonslostson]

AAAAHHH!!!! NO NEED FOR THAT AT THIS TIME IN THE MORNING! (Or any other time for that matter).

To even the scores Woman faces prison for adultery in Dubai after her jilted husband tipped off authorities! She stands to loose custody of the kids permanently too.

[BarcelonAl]

It really is the day for these stories isn't it?

A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own penis to spite his family after he was refused permission to marry a girl from a lower class family, police reported Sunday.

After unsuccessfully petitioning his father for two years to marry the girl, the man heated up a knife and sliced off his reproductive organ, said a police official.

The young man came from a prominent family in the southern Egyptian province of Qena, one of Egypt's poorest and most conservative areas that is also home to the famed ancient Egyptian ruins of Luxor.

The man was rushed to the hospital but doctors were unable to reattach the severed member, the official added citing the police report filed after the incident.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press, added that the man was still recovering in the hospital.

Traditionally, marriages in these conservative part of southern Egypt are between similar social classes and often within the same extended families — and are rarely for love.

[mr_e]

Moral of Russian story: don't date mentally unstable women, let alone have one as your long-term mistress. Still, ouch, and she made sure it couldn't be reattached.

Moral of Dubai story: Maybe she should've chopped something off her husband.

Moral of Egypt story: don't cut things off you may need later! I'm calling Darwinism on this one though.

[stimpsonslostson]

I agree with you on the egyptian one... Maybe it should be an honorable mention on darwin awards

[Mike]

Liverpool FC has £300 million debt and the owners holding company has made a loss of £43million this year mainly based on £36 million of interest payments. The future of the company has been placed as 'in doubt' by the auditors siting that the owners need to re-finance by 26 July 2009. The good news is that Liverpool FC made a £10.2 million pound profit this year, however, this was achieved by selling some high profile players.

[Fez]

some high profile players? robbie keane is the only one i can think of and we shouldn't have bought him in the first place - anyone one else we sold was 'shit' not high profile. dont worry about the debt, we're having a new stadium built; just living slightly beyond our means at the moment

[Mike]

Peter Crouch? I knew who he was so that is how I was judging 'high profile'.