* I once wrote (on some blog or another) how the advice to live each day like it's your last is Very Bad Advice. And here's proof! "A breast cancer sufferer who thought she was going to die lavished £50,000 on her family - only to be given the all-clear." (read here) The weird thing is she spent it after all her treatments, before finding out whether they had worked. And that's all debt money. How did she think her husband would pay for it after she died??
* Dude strikes it rich by finding buried Saxon hoard with metal detector. "Mr Herbert, 55, a former factory worker on disability benefit, discovered the hoard while searching the field between Lichfield and Tamworth on July 5. Armed with an 18-year-old metal detector, he unearthed beautiful gold sword hilts, jewels from Sri Lanka, exquisitely carved helmet decorations and early Christian crosses. Within days he had filled 244 bags, including gold objects alone weighing more than 11lb (5kg). Archaeologists believe the loot was buried at the site by a king or warlord who was most likely killed before being able to retrieve it.(here)
*Alligator wedding cake.
* Crazy deep sea animals. "This is a female Pacific giant octopus who guards her eggs in a den for six months. Gradually she starves, and her last act of devotion is blowing water over her eggs to help them hatch. And then she dies."
* Homeless kid falls asleep in a garbage skip and dies when the truck emptied it! Eeep!! Sad.
* "
A football-mad benefits scrounger refereed more than 40 soccer matches - despite claiming he could barely walk.
Stephen Southern, 50, pocketed more than £11,000 in disability handouts after telling benefits officials that severe back pain meant he could barely hobble 30 yards.
He claimed he suffered 'chest pain and dizziness', could not dress himself, needed help to sit and stand, and wasn't able to lift his arms above his head.
But the Department for Work and Pensions secretly filmed him sprinting, twisting and turning as he officiated in a string of football matches." (here)
* Hey they're filming the new A-Team in Vancouver! It's so exciting.
* Poor Susan Boyle isn't having a very good time.
And with that... I'm finally feeling sleepy again. Back to bed for a bit, and then on to nanowrimo.
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But the Department for Work and Pensions secretly filmed him sprinting, twisting and turning as he officiated in a string of football matches." (here)
While I was on disability insurance related to my pilot's licence I used to imagine stories like this and wonder what a video of my "disabled" activities would look like ... ;-) I kept reminding myself that my case was not the same but I used to walk more slowly to the mail box just in case ... then go skiing... ha ha!! Paranoid much?
Liam Neeson, 57, who plays Hannibal
... good choice. The toughest shoes to fill will be Mr. T's .... ? no? ...
Before her audition on Britain's Got Talent she was living in complete obscurity, ... And we can't be surprised at a desire to return to that comfort zone in some way.
I just hope her fans will realize her fragile emotional nature and leave her live in peace. She needs the space to just be her small-town self if she's to keep her sanity.
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