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

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ONeill

I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.


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QuoteA Dutch architectural firm might try to find a silver lining in its cloud that critics say resembles a World Trade Center under attack on Sept. 11, 2001.

The firm, MVRDV, apologized on its website Monday after being criticized for the resemblance between the exploding Twin Towers and the "pixelated cloud" designed to bridge two skyscrapers planned to rise above Seoul, South Korea.

"There is nothing finalized about the design," Seo Hee Seok, a spokesman for the project's developer, told Bloomberg News Tuesday.

The Seoul skyscrapers, designed to stretch 57 and 60 stories high, is planned for a development near U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan, the headquarters for U.S. armed forces in the country, which is slated to return to South Korean control by 2016, Bloomberg reported.

In its apology, the firm said it wasn't its intention for the building to resemble the attacks and that no issues were raised about it while designing the structure.

"Don't insult our intelligence," John Feal, a first responder who lost part of his foot after being injured at ground zero, told CBS News station WCBS-TV in New York. "To many, the wound hasn't closed, so when you see pictures like that it keeps that wound open."

But to Washington Post art and architecture critic Phil Kennicott, the controversy appears to be an effort "to use the meaning of the terrorist attack for larger, more overbearing cultural control."

Kennicott writes further: "Even if the Dutch design firm, MVRDV intended a reference to 9/11, there's no reason that reference should be read as mocking or ironic. It might easily be seen as an effort to freeze frame a traumatic event, in architectural form, and neutralize its shock and pain."

tyssam5

Quote from: LeoMc on December 10, 2011, 10:06:55 PM
Quote from: Denn Forever on December 07, 2011, 01:11:11 PM
This a  real case o What the F**k.

150mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. Is the limit not 80mg/100ml blood?  No drink had nothing to do with it.

He had drunk 8 pints but drink had nothing to do with it!!!
Had the €25,000 he offered up anything to do with his getting off?

The truth of it is probably that the guy he kiilled wasn't Irish, so the judge saw fit to let him off lightly.

muppet

Quote from: Gabriel_Hurl on December 13, 2011, 08:35:00 PM


QuoteA Dutch architectural firm might try to find a silver lining in its cloud that critics say resembles a World Trade Center under attack on Sept. 11, 2001.

The firm, MVRDV, apologized on its website Monday after being criticized for the resemblance between the exploding Twin Towers and the "pixelated cloud" designed to bridge two skyscrapers planned to rise above Seoul, South Korea.

"There is nothing finalized about the design," Seo Hee Seok, a spokesman for the project's developer, told Bloomberg News Tuesday.

The Seoul skyscrapers, designed to stretch 57 and 60 stories high, is planned for a development near U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan, the headquarters for U.S. armed forces in the country, which is slated to return to South Korean control by 2016, Bloomberg reported.

In its apology, the firm said it wasn't its intention for the building to resemble the attacks and that no issues were raised about it while designing the structure.

"Don't insult our intelligence," John Feal, a first responder who lost part of his foot after being injured at ground zero, told CBS News station WCBS-TV in New York. "To many, the wound hasn't closed, so when you see pictures like that it keeps that wound open."

But to Washington Post art and architecture critic Phil Kennicott, the controversy appears to be an effort "to use the meaning of the terrorist attack for larger, more overbearing cultural control."

Kennicott writes further: "Even if the Dutch design firm, MVRDV intended a reference to 9/11, there's no reason that reference should be read as mocking or ironic. It might easily be seen as an effort to freeze frame a traumatic event, in architectural form, and neutralize its shock and pain."

Seriously?

Anyway it looks more like an H-block than Twin Towers.
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Olly

I was at Lidl this morning buying wipes and saw this BMW reversing brilliantly into a narrow parking space between two white vans. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this blonde woman step out of it. I immediately thought wtf?.
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muppet

MWWSI 2017

JUst retired

Olly, why should two white vans make you go WTF?  :)

Olly

No I meant the woman made me go WTF. I have never seen a woman reversing that well. My own mother refused to reverse at all and just drove straight ahead for 35 years. She never parked facing a wall or a fence. There was one time we missed our turn in Lissan and instead of reversing back 12 yards she drove the whole way to Portrush and turned at the roundabout there. It meant we completely missed her da's funeral.
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Dante Autullo took the opportunity to post his x-ray to Facebook in the ambulance between hospitals

Man shoots nail into brain without noticing
Dante Autullo took the opportunity to post his x-ray to Facebook in the ambulance between hospitals A suburban Chicago man accidentally shot a 3.25in (8.25cm) nail into his skull but is recovering after doctors successfully removed it from the centre of his brain.

Dante Autullo, 34, was in his workshop when a nail gun recoiled near his head.

But he had no idea the nail had entered his brain until the next day, when he began feeling nauseous.

Doctors told Mr Autullo that the nail came within millimetres of the area used for motor function.

His fiancee, Gail Glaenzer, told the Associated Press on Friday that he was in good spirits after the two-hour surgery to remove the nail at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois.

Sensor triggered

"He feels good. He moved all his limbs, he's talking normal, he remembers everything," she said. "It's amazing, a miracle."

Ms Glaenzer said she had no idea the nail had entered his skull when she cleaned a cut on his forehead.


Gail Glaenzer said he jokingly told her to get the TV cameras: "I'm one of those medical miracles" She convinced him to go to the hospital after he felt nauseous for much of Wednesday.

Mr Autullo thought that the nail gun had simply hit his forehead, but realised later that when the gun came in contact with his head, the sensor recognised a flat surface and fired.

While there are pain-sensitive nerves on a person's skull, there are none within the brain itself.

Hospital spokesman Mike Maggio said the part of the skull that was removed for surgery had to be replaced with a titanium mesh amid worries that it might have been contaminated by the nail.

how in the name of feck would you not notice shotting yourself in the napper with a nail gun?
Hospitals are not equipped to treat stupid

ONeill

I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.