The Official Nonsense Thread

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(10-03-2013 09:30 AM)Caspin Wrote:   That is one strange-sounding bird!

I can see why it might be a favourite. You've shown me yours so I'll show you mine. This is one of my favourite birds:




I mean look at him! His feet are blue and he's tap-dancing (at least in my mind he is).

Ten points to Ravenclaw if you can tell me his name!

He's a Blue-footed Boobie They're a mad cousin of the gannets.

How about the lyrebird, which can imitate anything, right down to car alarms & chainsaw!





I see that's North Korea having a touch of the crazies. What a totally screwed up wee country that is. If you want a story that sums up all its madness in one neat tootie-fruitie package, here you go:

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/glo...orth-korea

A 14-year-old North Korean schoolgirl who drowned in a flash flood while saving portraits of late rulers Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il has been given a posthumous award.

Han Hyon-Gyong died on June 11 trying to keep the plastic-wrapped portraits above the surface of floodwaters that engulfed her home in Sinhung county in the eastern province of South Hamkyong.

Images of founding father Kim Il Sung and his son Jong Il are hung in homes, offices and public buildings across North Korea. They must be placed in the center of a wall that has no other adornments or pictures.

Any country where people are so indoctrinated & so afraid of the people in charge that pictures of "Dear Leader" come before personal safety is long overdue being toppled & those running it brought to book.