The Off Topic Topic

[Ideologue]

No one wants to hear about that.

[garbon]

[Ideologue]

[The Brain]

I love antique malls. I like to get old signs for my dad.

Are those really necessary?

[Ed Anger]

I love antique malls. I like to get old signs for my dad.

Are those really necessary?

Wut?

[Admiral Yi]

A sign that tells people he is old.

[Ed Anger]

Oh. 

[Admiral Yi]

The New York Times is angry at the Pentagon for not providing PFC Chelsea Manning hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery. 

[Ed Anger]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11218338/Life-in-France-Now-is-our-winter-of-discontent.html



They better leave my Norman holdings alone. 

[Ed Anger]

[MadImmortalMan]

Yeoman Rand.

Best hair ever. Gotta be a wig though--no way they re-wove that every time.

[mongers]

Film of the world's first bungee jump:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29819029

World's 'first' bungee jump in Bristol captured on film

BBC Inside Out reveals the newly discovered footage of the world's first bungee jump from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol 35 years ago.

The jump took place on 1 April, 1979, and was undertaken by members of the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club. It led to the birth of a worldwide sport.

BBC Inside Out tracked down the footage, which has not been seen for decades, from the original jump in 1979.

The film shows the Dangerous Sports Club practising in a garage on the morning of the jump. David Kirke jumped off the bridge in top hat and tails with champagne in his hand followed by Simon Keeling going over the edge in the second jump.

The final section of the video shows David Kirke being placed in the back of a police car.

The jumpers were arrested shortly afterwards and then released on the promise they would never do it again, but they continued with jumps in the US from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Royal Gorge Bridge, spreading the concept worldwide.

By 1982, they were jumping from mobile cranes and hot air balloons.
......

[Syt]

Two weeks ago, a 26 year old father in Vienna wanted to discipline his 2 year old daughter by putting her under a hot shower. She suffered severe burns on her back, and internal organs were also damaged.

Today she died from her injuries.  

[Grey Fox]

How hot is Vienna water ?!

[Malthus]

Film of the world's first bungee jump:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29819029

World's 'first' bungee jump in Bristol captured on film

BBC Inside Out reveals the newly discovered footage of the world's first bungee jump from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol 35 years ago.

The jump took place on 1 April, 1979, and was undertaken by members of the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club. It led to the birth of a worldwide sport.

BBC Inside Out tracked down the footage, which has not been seen for decades, from the original jump in 1979.

The film shows the Dangerous Sports Club practising in a garage on the morning of the jump. David Kirke jumped off the bridge in top hat and tails with champagne in his hand followed by Simon Keeling going over the edge in the second jump.

The final section of the video shows David Kirke being placed in the back of a police car.

The jumpers were arrested shortly afterwards and then released on the promise they would never do it again, but they continued with jumps in the US from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Royal Gorge Bridge, spreading the concept worldwide.

By 1982, they were jumping from mobile cranes and hot air balloons.
......

Oddly, the concept of bungee jumping was allegedly copied from an initiation ritual performed by neolithic villagers on the island of Vanuatu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_diving