Things that make you go What the F**k?

[cadence]

not as good as mcclaren speaking english with a dutch accent, but still, this shows great potential...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/video/2012/nov/26/joey-barton-english-french-accent-video

[EagleLord]

For me, nowhere near as bad as Shteve McLaren's effort.

[Never beat the deeler]

For me, nowhere near as bad as Shteve McLaren's effort.

Put the two together and what do you get?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_0iWshkLBrM

[Harold Disgracey]

Unicorn lair 'discovered' in North Korea
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/30/unicorn-lair-discovered-north-korea

Normally, North Korea's official state news agency is the place to go for reports ranging from the reclusive totalitarian state's unparalleled scientific achievements to the limitless love which its inhabitants reserve for their successive leaders.

Yet in what appears to be a genuine world exclusive, the inimitable Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) has now broken the incredible news that archaeologists in Pyongyang have discovered a unicorn's lair.

Or rather, the report says that they have "recently reconfirmed" the lair of one of the unicorns ridden by the ancient Korean King Tongmyong, founder of a kingdom which ruled parts of China and the Korean peninsula from the the 3rd century BC to 7th century AD.

The KCNA goes on to state that the location happens to be 200 metres from a temple in the North Korean capital, adding: "A rectangular rock carved with words "Unicorn Lair" stands in front of the lair."

"The carved words are believed to date back to the period of Koryo Kingdom (918-1392)," says the report.

Archaeologists from the Academy of Social Sciences at North Korea's History Institute were credited with making the discovery.

The news story comes days after eyebrows were raised by another news story relating to the state officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

On that occasion, it was the online version of China's Communist party newspaper which hailed a report by The Onion naming North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un as the sexiest man alive – not realising it was satire.

[trileacman]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20644402

[andoireabu]

A woman pulled out in front of me earlier with a mobile in her hand, a child under 6 in the fron seat with no belt on, a child under 4 in the back with no seat belt on and the passenger door wasn't closed properly.

[johnneycool]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20644402

That's mental - in this day and age it isn't that hard to break into a phone, any phone.

I was thinking that myself.

Similarly the disputed 5 phone calls the Australian radio channel alleged they made to that hospital in England over the prank call wouldn't be hard to confirm or deny by the metropolitan police.

[maggie]

15 stone babies (channel 4)

[orangeman]

KATHRYN HAYES

A man who arranged for a woman he met through the Internet to engage in an act of bestiality with his dog has been given a three year suspended jail term.

Seán McDonnell (58), a father of three formerly of Rathmore, Churchill Meadows, Raheen, Limerick, pleaded guilty to one count of buggery with an animal, namely a German Shepherd type dog, on October 7th 2008.

The unemployed bus driver was charged following the death of a 43-year-old woman who died hours after she had sexual intercourse with the animal.

Before imposing sentence at Limerick Circuit Court today, Judge Carroll Moran said acts of bestiality were "socially repugnant...even in these tolerant times" and described this an aggravating factor in the case.

Judge Moran said it was also "quite shocking" that a computer belonging to McDonnell showed 1.5 million hits to a bestiality website over a five month period.

Another computer seized by gardaí belonging to the deceased woman, a mother of four, revealed extensive material on pornography and bestiality, the court heard.

Evidence was given that gardaí received a call from the accused man shortly after 6.30pm on October 7th, 2008 to go to his house in Patrickswell, Co Limerick, where he was living at the time.

A woman wearing unusual clothing was found in the house in an unresponsive state and taken to the Mid Western Regional Hospital where she was pronounced dead two hours later. A postmortem revealed a heart attack as a possible cause of death "but in the absence of positive findings the cause of death remained undetermined", the court heard.

Judge Moran said a DNA profile from semen swabs found in the woman's body matched that of McDonnell's dog. He said the woman went to McDonnell's house of her own will and mobile phone records showed there had been contact between the two parties. "Both were aware that the purpose of the visit to the accused house was to have sex with the dog," Judge Moran said.

Notwithstanding the "unusual circumstances" of that case, Judge Moran said he felt it right to extend his condolences to the family and friends of the deceased woman, some of whom were present in court today.

Counsel for McDonnell, Isobel Kennedy, said her client was regretful and remorseful for what happened. She said he would not have been prosecuted had the woman not died and insisted there was no form of coercion or duress involved.

Ms Kennedy said her client - who was forced to emigrate to the UK because of the publicity surrounding the case - had lost his job and his family and had sought help at the Priory Clinic. Due to financial constraints, he was availing of treatment elsewhere.

Judge Moran noted McDonnell's previous good record prior to this incident and said his guilty plea was a great relief to the relatives of the deceased woman. Had the matter been contested, it would have added to their "grief and torment", he said.

Judge Moran said the mother had engaged in bestiality of her own free well and she was not coerced by the accused, who did not anticipate the outcome.

He said McDonnell, although he was charged and pleaded guilty, was not the principal offender but had aided and abetted the crime.

Judge Moran noted McDonnell had sought immediate medical help when he saw there was a problem and did not try to alter the scene, change the woman's clothing or interfere with forensic evidence.

The judge said McDonnell already been punished and exposed to "an enormous amount of adverse publicity", and gardaí accepted he is unlikely to re-offend again.

McDonnell's name has already been added to the sex offenders register for five years.

According to the European Communities Road Haulage Regulations of 2009, he is also prohibited from holding a haulage licence on a vehicle which carries more than nine people for a period of five years.

Before imposing sentence, Judge Moran said "notwithstanding the disgusting nature of the offence", he did not think an immediate custodial sentence was appropriate.

"The woman herself was the principal offender and a willing participant and her death was not anticipated," he said.

Judge Moran imposed a three-year suspended jail sentence on condition that Mr McDonnell continues to engage in counselling.

McDonnell hugged his daughter who was present in court after the hearing.

[laoislad]

In Love/Hate the other night Fran is driving Nidge back from Drogheda to Dublin.
They are seen driving over the Boyne bridge and the very next scene they are driving up the Naas road near Kill.
Anyone else notice that?

[orangeman]

AN Englishman has woken up after a stroke and started speaking Welsh.

Alun Morgan, 81, was evacuated to Wales during the Second World War and during his time there he never picked up the native tongue.

When he woke up from his recent stroke, his wife Yvonne was the only person who could understand him and had to translate for doctors.

Mr Morgan, from Bathwick, Bath, Somerset, said: "I don't remember anything from the time of my stroke.

"But gradually I started speaking a few words in Welsh.

"This was strange because I'd not lived in Wales since I was evacuated there during the war."

Doctors have diagnosed Mr Morgan with aphasia, a form of brain damage that causes a shift in the brain's language centre.

The most common cause of aphasia is stroke, but gunshot wounds, blows to the head, other traumatic brain injuries and brain tumours can also cause aphasia.

It can also result in a disorder known as Foreign Accent Syndrome, which causes a sudden change to speech so that a native speaker talks with a foreign accent.

Researchers at Oxford University have found that patients with Foreign Accent Syndrome have suffered damage to tiny areas of the brain that affect speech.

The result is often a drawing out or clipping of the vowels that mimic the accent of a particular country, such as Spain or France, even if the sufferer has limited exposure to that accent.

The syndrome was first identified during the Second World War when a Norwegian woman suffered shrapnel damage to her brain and developed a strong German accent.

[Hardy]

It can also result in a disorder known as Foreign Accent Syndrome, which causes a sudden change to speech so that a native speaker talks with a foreign accent.

Finally, an explanation for this.

[fitzroyalty]

This should maybe be in the Christmas thread but anyway...

Why do people have weird stuff for their Christmas dinner? Seen someone talk about steak along with their turkey! Another on twitter was going on about having lamb, with turkey and chicken... and saw a picture posted up by a certain Cross player of beans on the plate. What is the world coming to !?

[Hardy]

I'd have done with the turkey and ham long ago, but the rest of the family won't have it. Turkey hasn't much going for it by comparison to almost any other meat, poultry, game or fish. Bland, tasteless, dry. It's an awful pity that the biggest festival of the year isn't celebrated with the best food available.

[ziggy90]

Same here Hardy, turkey is just a cheap substitute for much tastier meats such as a leg of lamb cooked Portuguese style (Maddog's recipe). The rest of the family insist on turkey and ham though and I've given up trying to convert them.