Meet the impregnable bed barrier :
Helpful medics – you must not worry when having a heart attack.
If feeling like you have a piano sitting on your chest is not bad enough, helpful medics now warn against worrying about dying at the same time : People with an intense fear of dying during a heart attack could suffer a worse outcome, research suggests. London-led...
Our wonderful NHS – Im sorry you don’t have an appointment today, the system says you are dead.
Still think it's a good idea to have a massive online database of records accessible by all and sundry when they get up to this kind of thing : A woman who arrived at a hospital for an appointment was told she had died as staff searched her medical records. Sylvia...
One statistic that demonstrates why the UK has got to do something about welfare payments.
From a Telegraph article, the following figures even after Labour created a few million non-jobs in the ever growing field of prodnoses are an indication to me that not working is the easy option : The number of homes in which no one has ever had a job rose sharply...
Inventive people – amazing levitating balls.
What happens when you take one enormous scrapyard electromagnet, some cunning electronic controls and a load of balls? Why this of course : _ _ H/T Rain
Is an iPad worth a kidney? Someone in China certainly thinks so.
Would you swap one of yours for an iPad? If you really, really must get your hands on an IPad I am sure there are easier ways to go about it than selling off your vital organs : A 17-year-old student in Anhui Province sold one of his kidneys for 20,000 yuan only to...
If not Spanish cucumbers then what? Al-Qaeda cucumbers anyone?
Slightly risque vegetable related photograph. As Spaniards take umbrage at their cucumbers being falsely maligned, I haven't seen terrorists mentioned yet as a possible source but would not be too surprised to see it trotted out somewhere in the MSM in the coming days...
Does The Telegraph consider its readers to be particularly stupid I wonder?
One for the "what on earth were they thinking when they wrote that" files, the screengrab below has me wondering whether it's The Telegraph who thinks we are all stupid or if it just confirms that the web version is written by journalists kids on a work experience...
Charities fail in their remit and then complain when their funding is cut.
Outrage amongst AIDs charities in London as their funding gets squeezed : London's HIV prevention groups have said they are "concerned" and "outraged" at a 20% funding cut. Inner North West London Primary Care Trust (PCT), which manages the Pan London HIV Prevention...
South Yorkshire Police hunt for Doncaster woman who can crack coconuts between her thighs!
The woman in the following BBC article will either have thighs like Fattima Whitbread or has spent far too long doing reps with her kegel exercise weights (you may wish to skip that link if you are work) : South Yorkshire Police have released CCTV images of woman...