the 2012 trivial drivel thread

[Lady Cop]

Associated Press

LUXOR, Egypt – The funeral of a 28 year-old waiter in southern Egypt turned into a celebration when he woke up after being declared dead.

Hospital officials had pronounced dead Hamdi Hafez al-Nubi, who came from the village of Naga al-Simman in the southern province of Luxor, after he suffered a heart attack while working.

His family says grieving relatives took him home and, according to Islamic tradition, washed his body and prepared him for burial Friday evening.

A doctor sent to sign the death certificate found it strange that his body was warm. At closer observation she discovered he was still alive.

His mother fainted upon hearing the good news.

With the doctor's assistance, both al-Nubi and his mother were awakened and soon were celebrating with guests.

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NewsCore

HAMBURG – Swimmers have killed about 500 fish in a northern Germany lake, with their urine causing algae that poisons marine life.

The mass death in the past two weeks has occurred in Eichbaum lake, in the port city of Hamburg, The Local reported.

"Swimmers who urinate in the lake are introducing a lot of phosphate," fishermen's spokesman Manfred Siedler told Bild newspaper. "We're calculating half a liter [0.15 of a gallon] of urine per swimmer per day."

Applying anti-phosphate -- at a reported cost of $667,000 -- hasn't worked, fueling an ongoing feud between fishermen and those who swim in the lake.

Swimmers have been banned from the lake until the algae outbreak is addressed.

[Duchess]

I'm being totally lazy today.

[Duchess]

I have time to hangout & it's so quiet it echos.

Bitches, how dare you all have lovely plans on Mothers Day.

[username]

does LL ever do anything but piss and moan and whine and complain?

No.

[IMaDick]

I have time to hangout & it's so quiet it echos.

Bitches, how dare you all have lovely plans on Mothers Day.

You hurt my feelings, Im sensitive you know? I have feelings and I bleed when I get cut, Im only human dammit.

[Duchess]

Im sensitive you know?

If I thought you were I wouldn't say 97% of the things I do to you.

[Maggot]

I have noticed how one sided yahoo has become. It seems almost every news item they post is either derogatory towards conservatives or beneficial towards liberals. Moreso in the last few months. They pick and choose what headline rates exposure.

[HairOfTheDog]

The highest res photos of the earth, taken by the Russian weather satellite Electro-L, have been released. Very cool images.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11...10538.html

[Maggot]

Funny how they said the red color is vegetation.

[HairOfTheDog]

Funny how they said the red color is vegetation.

I like how NASA claims their photos are just as detailed. Seeing them side by side, sure doesn't look like it, at least not in a single frame like the Electro-L image. It's so damn cool.

[Maggot]

Amazing some of the images that are coming out today. well that sounded kinda gay.

[Duchess]

Queer!

[Lady Cop]

i love some of those NASA/Hubble photos! simply out of this world!

some more here:

http://mockforums.net/thread-5565.html

[HairOfTheDog]

i love some of those NASA/Hubble photos! simply out of this world!

some more here:

http://mockforums.net/thread-5565.html

Thanks, hadn't seen that thread. Great shots too. The Omega Centauri image is breathtaking.

[Lady Cop]

a few are worthy Christmas decoration~

[Maggot]

:

Queer!

EMO lezzie!!!

[Lady Cop]

poor girl!! doctors weren't even sure she'd live the first few days. she's a strong brave girl, what a freak thing!


ATLANTA – The parents of a young Georgia woman battling a flesh-eating bacterial infection said Monday they've learned to read lips and are now able to communicate with their daughter despite a breathing tube in her throat.

Speaking on NBC's "Today" show Monday, Andy Copeland says his daughter Aimee told them she was thirsty, and that ice cream is the first thing she wants when she's able to eat on her own.

"We just take it each day at a time," he said. "My daughter's strong, she really is."

Aimee Copeland, 24, has already lost most of one leg and will lose her fingers but doctors hope to save the palms of her hands, which could allow her to someday use prosthetics, her father said in an online update.

"Aimee is alert and trying to mouth questions," Andy Copeland wrote on a website created to provide updates to friends and supporters. "Her breathing tube has been reoriented to increase her comfort and allow them to try to read her lips. She said: `I can't talk!' We told her it was because of the tube, and we explained the need for it. `Take it out!' She also asked `What happened?' and `Where am I?"'

The illness has already led doctors in Augusta to amputate most of her left leg. She contracted the rare infection, called necrotizing fasciitis, after falling from a broken zip line and gashing her leg on May 1.

She remained in critical condition on Monday in the Joseph M. Still Burn Center at Doctors Hospital in Augusta, hospital spokeswoman Stacey Snyder said.

Infections by so-called flesh-eating bacteria are rare but sometimes can run rampant after even minor cuts or scratches. The affliction can destroy muscle, fat and skin tissue. The bacteria that infected Copeland is a bug called Aeromonas hydrophila.

[Duchess]

Don't mind me. I just needed someplace to fall on the floor laughing.

Goddamn I love fuckin' with people.

[JsMom]

That girl looks alot like Lisa Straub. :( That is terrible. Poor girl.

[Lady Cop]

well THERE is a sign from the heavens!
almost had fried froggie legs!

Paris (CNN) -- François Hollande became the president of France on Tuesday and promptly flew toward Germany to discuss the European debt crisis with his German counterpart -- but lightning struck his plane and prompted a return to Paris, CNN affiliate BFM-TV reported.

No one was hurt, the station reported. The president switched to another plane and flew again toward Berlin, Hollande spokesman Faouzi Lamdaoui told BFM-TV.

He becomes France's first Socialist president since François Mitterrand left office in 1995. He secured election victory this month over incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, one of the most U.S.-friendly French presidents in decades.