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—>An unemployed man in England, scouring a farmer's fields with his metal detector, made a fantastic discovery of gold treasure. No, really, Ancient gold treasure. More »
—>Culturally bankrupt shoppers are now buying twice as many forks as knives, according to a British department store. The Brits blame the erosion of their cherished culture on "the American habit of using a single fork." And that's not all. Apparently we're also ruining their understanding and respect for the elegant tradition of proper place settings. More »
—>Sure, if you're dissatisfied with your vehicle, you could complain to the company. You could write to Consumerist, or even start your own Web site. Or you could park it in front of the dealership that it came from, with a list of the vehicle's flaws and a warning to potential buyers plastered on in vinyl letters. A man in Colchester, England did just that. More »
—>Nick paid the UPS store in Woburn, Massachusetts $600 to ship his computer with insurance to and from England. UPS smashed the computer somewhere along the way and insisted that Nick would need to wait 4-6 weeks for a decision on his claim. After a month, Nick called the UPS store and was told that they needed additional documentation. Another month later, Nick decided to get a new computer and asked for the damaged computer back so he could use it for parts, only to find out that the UPS store had inexplicably shipped it to headquarters, which then delivered it to a stranger in New York named Ken. More »
—>Jeremy Clarkson, a British TV star, wrote an editorial describing privacy activism as "palaver," and just to prove how safe we all are, included his bank account number. Soon afterwards someone snagged £500 from the Top Gear host's account. "I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake," the presenter later told reporters. Needless to say, you should never share your bank account information with anyone who doesn't need it, for instance, millions of faceless readers. More »
—> A shop in England refused to sell two bottles of wine to a white-haired, balding grandfather—you know, the kind with wrinkles on his face—because he balked when the cashier asked him to prove he was over 21. The man, being ornery in that way that old folks just naturally embrace, refused: "I felt like saying 'What do I look like? Are you a fool?'" More »
- A 12-year-old orange tabby cat named "Pumpkin" is said to be doing well, after going three weeks without food or water in the cargo hold of a passenger jet that flew from England to Germany. More »
—>UPDATE: Imran works as a system administrator at Orange, the mobile arm of France Telecom. More »
—>UPDATE: Finder Of Apple Porn On His Daughter's Laptop Interviewed More »
—>Here's a suspect little piece of reporting from The Sun claiming that women prefer skinny models: More »
—>Here in America, we're in the digital stone age, at least as far as how widespread the adoption of some cool new technologies are. There's not universal broadband (which the US Government paid the telcos to implement; instead they built up more DSL because there's more money to be made on it), wi-fi coverage is intermittent and text message use is a lot less pervasive than in most European countries. In Italy they have tons of teenagers showing up in hospitals with repetive stress injuries directly resulting from punching out reams of text messages. More »
