every day mt goes to work
she descends from her fairytale castle
via the teleferico
each morning she gazes down on the antelope and shoe people
each grazing at the undergrowth
and asks herself
what would i rather be?
an antelope or a shoe person?
and which would make the world a better place?
but before she has time to ponder too profoundly
she arrives at the terminus
of the mt private teleferico
and she thanks the bowing, scraping staff
and walks the 3 blocks to the ygo
the ygo is another universe entirely
it is staffed by retired gringos
and thrusting young go getters
hoping to outreach eachother
as the retired gringos bumble about
gently caressing their companion golden retreivers
a scratch behind the ear
a belly rub
a 'good girl'
they all look on in wonderment
as mt casts her spell
not a nasty, turning you into a salamander spell
just a calming relaxing spell
that puts them all at ease
something golden and light
then
bosh!
they snap out of their reverie
and shuffle off to their next well meaning effort
mt
unaware of her aura
proceeds dutifully to her days work
and looks at her missions for today
where to start?
1.continue writing the script for her award winning yucatec language drama series?
2.try to forget how to fly (it makes others envious, and she is thoughtful like that)
3.translate the secret mayan script from below chichen itza which explains the meaning of life and how to attain world peace
no!
these all can wait
her first task is to help these melancholy old gringos
with their sense of displacement and low self esteem
her first task of today
is to speak with them
these kindly if slightly confused refugees from the north
in her reassuring, mellifluous and precise yet natural english
the whole world can wait
today she will start small...
recentemente eu comencei a aprender o portugues
o e' muito complicado quando nao posso estudar
assim
depois de escrever uma coisa sobre o brasil eu pensei que deveria ter feito isso em portugues
mas
e tarde demais
ups!
desculpe!
en el cuarto pais mas grande del mundo
un pais de gente super simpatico
un pais donde se habla portugues (la version mejor)
y de donde vienen los mejores futbulistas de la galaxia
y conzco lo super bien
nop, no es timor leste!
es brasil!
en el sur del sur del pays
donde hay la grande mayoria de la poblacion del pays
hay una ciudad de mas o menos 350,000
y es casa del famoso equipaje de futbol, gremio
y bla bla
y mas bla
Scientists grow human tooth using stem cells taken from urine
Team in China say their slightly
unsavoury work could realise the 'final dream' of regenerating adult
teeth to replace those lost through aging or decay
Scientists in China have grown a human tooth using stem cells taken from urine
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Scientists in China say they have successfully grown a human tooth using stem cells taken from urine.
Researchers say the technique could one day be used as a way to
replace teeth lost through aging and poor dental hygiene, with the added
bonus that urine is deemed a less controversial source of stem cells
than human embryos.
The team at the Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health
extracted cells contained in the urine which would normally be passed
from the body, such as those from the lining of the body's waterworks,
and managed to coax them into becoming stem cells.
They then used these to implant the teeth-like structures in
mice, and said the resulting bundle of cells eventually contained
“dental pulp, dentin, enamel space and enamel organ,” researchers said.
The report, published in Cell Regeneration Journal, added that
this could lead to further studies resulting in “the final dream of
total regeneration of human teeth for clinical therapy”.
However the project has received has attracted criticism, and not
just because it has only a 30 per cent success rate in its current
form.
Prof Chris Mason, a stem cell scientist at University College
London, told the BBC urine was “probably one of the worst sources” of
stem cells.
He said: “There are very few cells in the first place and the
efficiency of turning them into stem cells is very low. You just
wouldn't do it in this way.“
He also said the risk of contamination was much higher than with
other sources of cells, and that there was a long way to go before
science overcame “the big challenge” of getting nerve and blood vessels
to integrate in newly-formed permanent teeth.
asi finalmente yo vi el documental excelente sobre maradona
se llama 'diego maradona'
que imaginacion!
que creatividad!
communque!
e' un documentario molto ben fatto
si racconta la storia della sua vita
e la maggiore parte e' quella parte quando era in italia
e cosi
il film e' meta in italiano y mitad en espanol!
lo que me hace mucho placer
porque son mis dos juguetes favoritos!
asi
escribo mi recension el la misma forma!
(y a quien no le gusta un pretexto!)
woo fucking hoo!
para mi el parte mas interesante
que es se vi maradonna en una luz distincto
al menos para mi
y no soy para nada experto sobre el
lo poco que conoci de maradonna
era que fue un gran jugador
y un tonto drogado
y amigo de la mafia
en breve
una basura famosa
y obviamente yo era muuuy demasiado joven
(y ignorante)
para haberlo visto jugar
en vivo, claro
tampoco en la tele
ma ho imparato che la pressione che si e subito
sopratutto quella mediatica
che ha quasi impossibile reso la sua vit
e parlo del suo tempo a napoli
qualsiasi cosa che faceva
e lo dico letteralmente
c'erano millioni de persone che lo seguivono
lo adoravano
come quasi solo i napoletani sanno fare
e simbolizzava la sud d'italia
da sempre disprezzata dal nord
la sua casa a napoli era sempre circondata da una marea di gente
non poteva vivere un attimo di pace
le speranze di millioni di napoletani
sarebbero dovuto pesare su di lui
in una maniera insupportabile
poi
la storia con la camorra
e' ovvio che nessun gran societa napolitano
non potevo (puo?) esistere senza contatto con la camorra
e la ssc napoli non poteva che essere la stessa
quindi e' assolutamente comprensibile
che sia entrato nel giro della camorra
ademas
el era el capitan de la seleccion de argentina
con toda la locura que incluye
con quizas mas presion y obsesion que los napoletanos
y ayudo a argentina ganar a la italia
en el mundial
en italia!
y todo la mierda que llueve sobre el
despues del hecho
incluyendo la policia y la media
en fin
con tanta idolatracion
de los locos napoletanos
de los locos argentinos
no deberia de ser una sorpresa que el se comportio
a veces
como una mierda
porque
al contrario de lo que pensaban esos chiflados
no era un dios
era un humano
how fucking cool is this?
real film nerdery stuff
they fookin loves it!
schmiki wiki says
" TheWilhelmscream is a stock sound effect that has
been used in at least 416 films and TV series (as of July 2015),
beginning in 1951 for the film Distant Drums."
i should have gone up tokyo tower
the view would have been really cool
but it was pricy
not more outrageously than a lot of things in japan
but i got to the base
saw the price
and said
ファック!
i dont recall how many yen it was
and how it converted into insert local currency here
which is a pity
as it would have added colour to this particular bag of wank
but heres something that someone prepared earlier
which in hindsight looks quite fucking reasonable!
its the famous catch 25
that tourists face
somewhere famous has a stupidly expensive entry
because theyve got you by the swingers
so you pay the stupid money
and see the famous thing
(often suffering mega underwhelmyness)
so i usually do
spaff the money
coz its once in a lifetime
blah blah blah
but this time
i said
oi! tokyo tower del cazzo!
fucking no!
at least in the top 43 all time most engerlish events in history...
(from the independent)
A ‘niggle’ of Nigels – the collective noun agreed by the revellers
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World’s biggest gathering of Nigels attracts 433 Nigels to ‘celebrate Nigelness’
‘It was peak Nigel’
Four hundred and thirty-three people named Nigel converged on a Worcestershire pub on Sunday to “celebrate Nigelness”.
Nigel Smith, 56, the landlord of the Fleece Inn in Bretforton,
organised the gathering in a bid to stop the name dying out after he
discovered that there had been no babies named Nigel in 2016.
The event is believed to have set a new world record
for the largest gathering of Nigels in one place, with attendees
presenting photo identification and signing the ‘Book of Nigel’ for
Guinness verification purposes.
All Nigels were given a free pint and a Nigel badge, while other guests were given a non-Nigel badge.
“A man who changed his name from Nigel to Niall came and we convinced him to pull himself together,” said Mr Smith.
Attendees signing the ‘Book of Nigel’ (SWNS)
Awards were given for the furthest travelled, the youngest and
oldest Nigels, with the youngest coming in at just seven months old,
suggesting a future for the denigrated name.
The group even agreed a collective noun for Nigels: a niggle of Nigels.
Mr Smith said: “In the year I was born, 1963, there were over 5,000 Nigels born.
“It was peak Nigel.
“It was so ubiquitous and it became much maligned. At school I used to have the mickey taken out of me,” he said.
Mr Smith suggested that the Nigel Farage effect – “the Nigel who
shall not be named” – may have contributed to the demise in popularity
of the name.
Nigels travelled from Scotland, Newcastle and Cornwall for for Nigel-related revelry, with some coming as far as the US.
“Texan Nigel”, who lives in Denver, Colorado, had his trip to the
soiree crowdfunded by friends and family, making him “not only our
Texan Nigel, but also our crowdfunded Nigel”.
The event raised funds for the British Heart Foundation “because us Nigels are getting to a certain age”.
Mr Smith believes the event has served to improve the name’s reputation.
“I think we’ve brought it back,’ he said.
‘We will resurge – there’ll be a lot more Nigels next year than this year, I’d definitely put money on that.
“And we’ve just taken away a little bit of that stigma and
reaffirmed what a fantastic name Nigel is – once you’ve grown into it.
It takes a little while,” he added.
The
Melbourne suburb of Flemington is largely composed of ‘character
buildings’, otherwise known as ‘butt-ugly state housing slum towers’.
Despite being home to a diverse array of deadshits and deros, the suburb
is known by most Australians for one thing only: the annual Melbourne
Cup.
Australasia’s pre-eminent public horse-abuse holiday, the
Melbourne Cup is the only iconic sporting event where you can eat the
losers. Internationally renown as ‘the race that stops a nation’ the
Melbourne Cup has been won by a slew of famous nags such as Phar Lap,
Makybe Diva and Pauline Hanson. Despite its pretension towards
sophistication horse racing is basically bullfights for the bourgeois,
an excuse to let suburbanites dress a bit fancy and watch a midget flog
half a tonne of future dog roll while losing a week’s wages on a poorly
constructed trifecta. Most of the horses are owned by truly
objectionable people like minor royals, oil sheiks and property
developers.
The Melbourne
Cup is celebrated with a massive orgy of public spewing and fighting,
something it shares with other national holidays such as Australia Day
and Kylie Minogue’s birthday. Post-race news coverage is dominated by
footage of half-cut slags collapsing into hedges and fishing piss-soaked
fascinators out of the gutter. A common sight at Flemington is tradies
who turn up buzzing after an intensive spell of preloading, only to be
disappointed when they find out that a handicap race doesn’t feature
Down syndrome people doing hurdles.
Phlemington might be best
known for a racecourse but the only race worth winning is being the
first person on the last tram out of town.
