Tired-Chinese delegates choose to snooze through conference
Fox News reporter falls asleep during live broadcast (video)
Why-Man dies in buried alive record attempt
Funny-Pants have sexist washing instructions
Decimation-Model wins lawsuit after being fired for too-large hips
How- U.K.
Why-Man dies in buried alive record attempt
A SRI Lankan man has died while trying to set a record for the longest time spent buried alive.
Police said Janaka Basnayake, 24, buried himself over the weekend with the help of family and friends in a trench sealed with wood and soil in the town of Kantale, about 220km north of Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo. A local newspaper reported that the trench was three metres deep.Basnayake was buried about on Saturday. Police said when he was brought to the surface at , he was unconscious and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Dr D G Costa of the Kantale hospital said a post-mortem examination could not determine the cause of death and further medical investigations are being conducted. Basnayake's mother, L D Leelawathi, said her son had enjoyed performing unusual acts since his childhood - a liking that grew after watching movies, the Lankadeepa newspaper reported. It quoted her as saying that her son had been buried alive on two previous occasions - for two and a half hours and six hours respectively
What-Fox News reporter falls asleep during live broadcast (video)
During a segment to mark Super Tuesday, the presenter on duty was utterly flummoxed when he went live to the US
For many Americans, Super Tuesday will have been an exciting, thrill-a-minute affair full of twists and turns. Not for reporter Doug Luzader though, it seems.
Fox's presenter commented: 'Well, Super Tuesday is in the rear-view mirror and the results show a little something for everybody.
'Doug Luzader is live at the scene with an update on all of this. Doug, good morning, good to see you. I guess six, three, one is pretty much the way it breaks down?'
It's clear from the broadcast picture that Luzader was not fully au fait with the situation and had in fact fallen asleep.
The presenter's attempts to awaken him into life proved fruitless before he finally admitted defeat by saying 'I guess not'.
The broadcast did take place at local time which could go some way to explain Luzader's need for 40 winks.
Funny-Pants have sexist washing instructions
And the week of outrage continues! The latest controversy to come across our desk involves an exceptionally sexist pair of pants.
It all started when the Daily Telegraph‘s Digital Media Editor Emma Barnett found a pair of her boyfriend’s pants while she was cleaning her house. The pants’ large white tag caught her eye, and a closer look caused her to tweet a photo of its washing instructions on Monday:
In a post for the Telegraph, Barnett picked apart the tag’s sexist message, writing: “Even the language — ‘Your Woman’ — presupposed some kind of Neanderthal mentality from my boyfriend, an unwilling shopper after some affordable chinos — preferably not lined with sexist imperatives.” The pants come from British discount brand Madhouse. She reached out to the company, who were slow to reply, though they eventually responded that they had no clue the tag read as such. This seems pretty unlikely — someone at Madhouse had to have given the text the okay. (A message Wednesday on the Madhouse homepage says the web site is "closed for maintenance work and will be back online shortly." Hmmm, sewing new labels on all their pants, perhaps?)
Barnett’s thoughts on the matter echo our own, If the comment had been remotely funny — I would have been the first to laugh and shrug it off — as it really wouldn’t have bothered me enough to photograph it, tweet it, and then write about it. But it was the lack of any implied humour and the horrible surprise of such an incongruous message hidden away inside some trousers, that left me just plain stunned.
Discrimination-Model wins lawsuit after being fired for too-large hips
She’s 25, she’s gorgeous, and now she’s the victor in a high-profile lawsuit: Model Ananda Marchildon will be reimbursed for her losses after being dismissed because of the size of her hips.
Marchildon received a three-year modeling contract worth nearly $100,000 when she was named “Holland
Marchildon received a three-year modeling contract worth nearly $100,000 when she was named “
On Wednesday, the Amsterdam District Court ruled that Marchildon was entitled to the value of her original prize and awarded her around $85,000 in damages along with interest and legal fees. The court also said Elite could not require the 5-foot-11 model to shrink her hip size to about 35.4 inches — almost a full inch smaller than her hip size when she won the competition.
How- U.K.
Presumably in a move to inject some cultured class into their latest line, UK clothiers Topshop recently unveiled a new line of T-shirts printed with one of the most beloved lines of English literature: “Romeo Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo?” But as Britain
British shoppers with a bit more reverence for their nation’s fabled literary heritage were quick to point out the gaffe, sending Topshop scrambling for a fix. My favorite line from the Metro’s story: According to the Daily Mail, when informed of the error, a Topshop spokesperson responded: "Oh my God."
In the wake of the textile typo, the shirt has since vanished from Topshop’s website. While armies of literature professors are doubtlessly calling for a plague on Topshop’s house, it is an admonition from Shakespeare himself that they should take to heart. “Ignorance is the curse of God,” wrote the Bard in “King Henry VI.” “Knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
Tired-Chinese delegates choose to snooze through conference
Do the ayes have it at the conference attended by these delegates?
Looks more like they are just nodding off, rather than nodding in agreement…
Yawns were hardly stifled in Beijing China
police powers to secretly hold dissidents and other suspects of security crimes. Drowsy reps at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference unsuccessfully battled boredom as a draft amendment to the Criminal Procedural Law at the second plenary meeting of the National… gosh, it does sound boring. Hopefully no-one was caught snoring on the job: apneas that would probably prove a real kip in the teeth of any reps’ political aspirations.
police powers to secretly hold dissidents and other suspects of security crimes. Drowsy reps at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference unsuccessfully battled boredom as a draft amendment to the Criminal Procedural Law at the second plenary meeting of the National… gosh, it does sound boring. Hopefully no-one was caught snoring on the job: apneas that would probably prove a real kip in the teeth of any reps’ political aspirations.
