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Remember that scene in Fight Club where the main character shows how he urinated in a tank full of soup?

Three idiots in Australia decided to one-up the movie by adding something more dangerous to some hamburges as a joke:

Two ill after eating burgers laced with multi-purpose cleaner in Australia

A prank by three young kitchen staff at Hungry Jack's fast food restaurant in the Central-Western New South Wales city of Bathurst went wrong when two customers required medical treatment after eating burgers they had laced with multi-purpose cleaner.

According to staff at the Emergency Department of Bathurst Hospital, two Hungry Jack's customers became ill Sunday night after eating burgers contaminated with a chemical believed to be multi-purpose cleaner. One of the patrons was in a serious condition upon arrival at Bathurst Hospital due to being allergic to an ingredient in the cleaning product. "He presented to the emergency department as he was having an allergic reaction after eating a burger from Hungry Jacks, he was in a really bad way when he arrived here and if he had waited much longer it could have been much worse," said a Greater Western Area Health Service employee. "We called Hungry Jacks and they said that three of their employees had been goofing off and sprayed multi-purpose cleaner inside the burgers so we then treated the patients for poisoning."

More if you click this link.

But whoa: the chimps who sprayed the cleaner onto the burgers are still employed by the burger joint? I hope they're not allowed near the food. I hope they're made to lick the toilets clean. Why weren't they fired immediately?
 

The smallest dog on record was a Yorkshire terrier, who was 2.5 inches tall at the shoulder, 3.75 inches long from the tip of his nose to the base of the tail, and weighed 4 ounces. According to "The Book of General Ignorance," the dog died in 1945. For the smallest dogs living today, the current world record is shared by a Yorkshire terrier (shortest in height) and a Chihuahua (shortest in length). Whitney, the Yorkie, lives in England and is 3 inches tall at the shoulder. The Chihuahua, called Danka Kordak Slovakia, is 7.4 inches long and lives in Slovakia. Extremely tiny dogs are known for their frail health, so we hope others won't be trying for this dubious record.

Here's the link, and here's what I'm puzzling out.

The doctor who ran the study admitted that their was an inherent bias in the study, since you can't have a control group of mothers who don't bf and a control group of those who do (ethics, you see). Apparently the neglect isn't kept from happening if someone else feeds the baby with breastmilk. See, it *has* it *must* come from the mother and directly from her breast for neglect to be short-circuited.

I think there are assumptions being made here in the background.

A) that babies fed any other way aren't cared for as much as children who are breastfed
B) that mothers who give their babies formula, or who must use other methods of feeding their infants, even with expressed breast milk, are more likely to neglect their infants and children; this includes women who must work in order to support their families
C) and that other source-feeders of infants (fathers, grandparents, other caregivers) aren't going to make that connection with the infant that a breastfeeing mommy would

Have I covered everything here?

My bias? I tried bfing my first born, but had difficulties (thanks to bad advice given to me by male doctors and clueless nurses and a spasming back I needed medication for). For my second child, I managed to bf him for almost two years. And I homebirthed the second one in order to circumvent the clueless advice and indifferent treatment I got in the hospital. So, yes, I'm one of those women who agree with the doctor who ran that study that yes, it IS important and is *wonderful* for the baby and the mom to have that bfing connection. However. It's not necessary, and it's not all mom.

I think women who breastfeed in Western cultures (including Australia, where this study was conducted) are predisposed to want to go that extra mile for their babies and more likely to be, I don't know, crunchy granola types. Or not. Or they are simply smarter and of a higher economic class that is less likely to get child protective services and police called on them. Poorer women don't have the same choices as the middle class ones, and are more likely to have neighbors notice neglectful behavior and are more likely to have the authorities called on them. I don't think this factor was taken into account.

I'm not so sure that one (neglect) has to do with the other (not breastfeeding).

You are vindicated for all those cups of joe you inflict upon yourself everyday. A Finnish/Swedish study (aren't they awesome, these inventive Finns and Swedes?) has discovered   "... that coffee drinkers at midlife had lower risk for dementia and AD later in life compared to those drinking no or only little coffee. The lowest risk (65% decreased) was found among moderate coffee drinkers (drinking 3-5 cups of coffee/day). Adjustments for various confounders did not change the results. Tea drinking was relatively uncommon and was not associated with dementia/AD."

Read the article and prove to your unjittered coworkers and friends that yes, overcaffienating IS the thing to do, in order to preserve those sets of neurons that keep you thinking.

I only wonder how many people were in the study.

Can Dolphins Survive in winter in New Jersey rivers?




The real question here is, why would they want to, dudes?

I mean, look at these happy bottle noses. Can YOU think of why they'd want to be in a New Jersey river in the dead of winter? I sure as heck can't. I mean, really. They have fins. They have fat deposits. They can SWIM, and swim they should to somewhere warm like the Bahamas, or Florida.

And if they swim to Florida, they might even be able to try out for the Miami Dolphins football team. Why not? It's still better than living in a New Jersey river during the winter. If you're gonna be a loser, be a loser where it's warm!

This site is hysterical! I'm sure the romance novel afficiandos on my flist already know about it, but if you don't, you must take a quick look.

My favorite cover is the "Lord of the Hissy-Fit".

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Raunchiness: click at your own risk!

Did anyone on my flist hear about this, and yet not *say* anything?  A 24 year old guy was found dead under a bridge in Puerto Rico (the articles do not say what he died from, that I recall). His mother, who said his final wish was to be present at his own funeral/wake, had him embalmed and propped up against a corner of her living room (behind the coffin, full of flowers) for THREE DAYS!

Is this just not one of the creepiest things you've heard of?

moonshayde , this one's for you! Seems the artist for Head Case reads the same wanks you do!  8-D