snowychap Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Man has 'world's worst' super-gonorrhoea Quote A man in the UK has caught the world's "worst-ever" case of super-gonorrhoea. He had a regular partner in the UK, but picked up the superbug after a sexual encounter with a woman in south-east Asia. Public Health England says it is the first time the infection cannot be cured with first choice antibiotics. Health officials are now tracing any other sexual partners of the man, who has not been identified, in an attempt to contain the infection's spread. He picked up the infection earlier in the year. The main antibiotic treatment - a combination of azithromycin and ceftriaxone - has failed to treat the disease. Dr Gwenda Hughes, from Public Health England, said: "This is the first time a case has displayed such high-level resistance to both of these drugs and to most other commonly used antibiotics." Discussions with the World Health Organization and the European Centres for Disease Control agree this is a world first. ...more on link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted March 28, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted March 28, 2018 I thought Rugeley had been quiet.... 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted March 29, 2018 Moderator Share Posted March 29, 2018 18 hours ago, snowychap said: A man in the UK has caught the world's "worst-ever" case of super-gonorrhoea. That's not the sort of story you want to clap eyes on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 That'll be a six foot rabbit riding a chopper through town, then Quote It is a sight that might make somebody question whether they were having a cheese-fuelled dream. The sight of a six foot rabbit, dressed in a fine suit and riding a chopper through the streets of Wrexham would be enough for anybody to look twice and wonder whether they had fallen into a psychedelic music video. But that is exactly what happened on the streets of Wrexham when the bizarre sight was caught on camera. The moment a 6ft rabbit is seen cycling through Wrexham on a chopper (Image: UGC TNW) The Peter Rabbit lookalike was seen nonchalantly cycling the highly customized bike along Grosvenor Road in Wrexham by a confused motorist. No explanation has yet been provided as to why the furry creature was in the town, or what destination they were trying to get to 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Read this the other day - staggering that this happens and people can be so cruel to each other. Poor bloke. Mental to think the amount of control she had over him. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-43799850 Quote A male domestic abuse survivor said he was "10 days away from death" before he was helped by police and medics. Alex Skeel, 22, from Stewartby, Bedfordshire has urged other victims in abusive relationships to speak out. His former partner, Jordan Worth, 22, subjected him to multiple physical injuries, denied him food and isolated him from his family, a court was told. Pleading guilty to grievous bodily harm and coercive controlling behaviour, she was jailed for seven-and-a-half years. The prosecution is the UK's first conviction for coercive control involving a female offender, Bedfordshire Police said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BOF Posted April 24, 2018 Author Moderator Popular Post Share Posted April 24, 2018 Study reveals Uranus smells of farts Well I couldn't NOT post this now could I ? Quote Study Reveals Uranus Smells Of Farts Uranus, the first planet discovered in modern times, has the poetic name of the Greek god of the heavens. In the English language, it is, unfortunately, the literal butt of every astronomy joke and I’m afraid that this latest discovery will make things worse. Astronomers have discovered that the upper atmosphere of Uranus is dominated by hydrogen sulfide, a molecule that smells like rotten eggs and is often found in human flatulence. I’ll give you a moment to crack a few jokes. Got it out of your system? Good. Let’s get down to the science. These observations, presented in Nature Astronomy, have an impact beyond Uranus. They not only expand our knowledge of the ice giant planet's composition but also provide important clues about the formation of the Solar System itself. The composition of the highest clouds of Uranus has never been unambiguously identified before. Planetary scientists could detect hints of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide but there was not enough evidence to determine their presence. Many suspected that the latter was responsible for the extra haze seen in radio and microwave observations. The height of the top clouds also seemed wrong if ammonia was the dominant component. But scientists lacked positive proof. The new observations change that. “We have definitely detected the presence of hydrogen sulfide gas above the main cloud deck, and this is the smoking gun that the main cloud deck is mostly made by hydrogen sulfide ice,” lead author Professor Patrick Irwin, from the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “We finally have a more definite detection of what the clouds are made of. This means that on Uranus, and we think probably on Neptune, the bulk abundance of sulfur is greater than that of nitrogen. On Jupiter and Saturn, you end up with an ammonia cloud layer at the top.” This discovery places a strong constraint on the formation of planets. Where Uranus and Neptune are located (over 18 times the Earth-Sun distance), both ammonia and hydrogen sulfide are solid, so they could have been easily absorbed by fledgling planets. But closer in, hydrogen sulfide is less easily absorbed by the giant planets. And this is a key factor. It suggests that the four giant planets of the Solar System roughly formed where they are now. If they have migrated, they haven’t migrated that much. And they definitely haven't swapped positions. There are important discussions of planetary formation in our own and other Solar Systems. Planetary migration is often key to explain objects like hot Jupiters, giant planets found closer to their star than Mercury is to the Sun. The observations were performed almost a decade ago but researchers were lacking an extensive spectral analysis of hydrogen sulfide. When that became available a few years ago, the team went back to the data to search for these signatures. It’s a testament to the good quality data collected that this was possible. The team is now looking a bit further out at Neptune to see if they can spot the same signature there as well. “For Neptune, there’s more overlying haze and we are not sure. It’s likely to be there but if it’s there, it’s even harder to see,” added Professor Irwin. If you truly want to know what Uranus smells like, be aware that hydrogen sulfide only smells of rotten eggs at concentrations of about 3-5 parts per million. Above 30, it actually smells sweet although it has been described as sickeningly sweet and at that dosage causes fatigue, loss of appetite, and dizziness. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 1, 2018 Author Moderator Share Posted June 1, 2018 Transavia flight forced to make an emergency landing after foul-smelling man causes fellow passengers to faint and vomit on board Quote Transavia flight forced to make an emergency landing after foul-smelling man causes fellow passengers to faint and vomit on board A Transavia flight en route from Schipol Airport to Gran Canaria had to make an emergency landing, after a man with reportedly unbearable body odour spread disease on board. The plane was carrying groups of holiday makers to the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, when a lot of them began to faint and vomit due to a smelly passenger. The crew’s desperate attempts to contain the stench failed, even after the man was quarantined inside the lavatory. As more and more passengers succumbed to the miasma, the flight crew decided to divert and land as soon as possible to evacuate the stinking aircraft. The flight landed safely in Faro, Portugal, a short time later. It is not immediately clear what the fate of the odorous passenger was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 1, 2018 Moderator Share Posted June 1, 2018 1 hour ago, BOF said: a man with reportedly unbearable body odour spread disease on board. Wut? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Strange local story here..a severely drunk woman drove onto a baseball field and hit and killed a coach in his 70's. Turns out he recently confessed to a hit-and-run homicide of a small girl 50 years ago. No connection at all to the drunk woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rodders Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 the baby alligator is a wonderful cherry on the top of that story 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 On 20/04/2018 at 18:07, Xela said: Read this the other day - staggering that this happens and people can be so cruel to each other. Poor bloke. Mental to think the amount of control she had over him. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-43799850 In a previous employment i worked on a notorious council estate as a housing official and i had to deal with more than the occasional domestic violence case, including "male dv" which IS rarer in my experiences. Any bloke who slaps his missus around (and worse) is total dogshite on my shoe. Same goes when the roles are reversed. Vermin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 20, 2018 Moderator Share Posted June 20, 2018 2 hours ago, choffer said: Well known Fake News Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted June 20, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted June 20, 2018 (edited) Just now, bickster said: Well known Fake News I know that, you know that. Doesn't make it any less amusing though Edited June 20, 2018 by choffer ....and significantly more interesting than the majority of fake news we're fed every day through the media 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 22, 2018 Author Moderator Share Posted June 22, 2018 Could go into F1 thread but needs a wider audience McLaren F1 staff revolt over 25p chocolate bars given to them as a reward for their hard work Quote McLaren's Formula One staff are considering strike action after being rewarded for their hard work with a chocolate bar each. Irate workers have contacted Sportsmail to complain about the atmosphere within the struggling team, describing it as ‘toxic’ and their bosses as ‘clueless’. One employee, speaking under the guarantee of anonymity, said: ‘We have been working all hours of the day, sweating blood, and they give us 25p Freddo bars. ‘The management hand them to the supervisors to divide them out to employees in their team. Strictly one each.’ Despite McLaren having won 20 world championships and with an annual budget of some £200million, the source explained: ‘The Freddos are handed out when a package is produced on a tight schedule. For example, we were given two weeks to produce the Spain upgrade package in May. ‘We all worked 24/7 to meet the deadline. We got it done in time. So a week later a Freddo was handed out to all staff involved as “a bonus”. Supervisors are embarrassed to hand them out. ‘We also got a Freddo last year after building the car.’ The complaints from McLaren’s shop floor follow Sportsmail’s recent revelation that staff grew so disgruntled with their plight — 166 points off leaders Mercedes — that they planned to take their grievances to former team principal Martin Whitmarsh. The anonymous source claimed executives even appealed to staff to build prototypes out of wood if they had any ideas how to improve their sub-standard car. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Man stuck up 32ft lamp-post in Birmingham Quote A man thought to have taken an illegal high became stuck at the top of a lamp-post and was rescued by firefighters. The man somehow scaled the 32ft (10m) lamp-post in Birmingham and became stranded at the top for an hour. Crews used a ladder from a hydraulic platform to get him down. A spokesman said they had no idea how he got there. ...more on link 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 On 01/06/2018 at 14:41, BOF said: Transavia flight forced to make an emergency landing after foul-smelling man causes fellow passengers to faint and vomit on board Apparently the guy had caught a flesh eating a bacteria, gotten gangrene and his body was rotting. He has since died in the hospital. No wonder he smelled. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 3, 2018 Author Moderator Share Posted July 3, 2018 8 hours ago, sne said: Apparently the guy had caught a flesh eating a bacteria, gotten gangrene and his body was rotting. He has since died in the hospital. No wonder he smelled. Jesus if that's true it's a horrible ending to the whole thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, BOF said: Jesus if that's true it's a horrible ending to the whole thing. Apparently he was a rather famous Russian musician Quote ROTTING IN THE SKY Man dies after flight diverted due to stench caused by flesh-eating disease that left fellow travellers vomiting Russian musician Andrey Suchilin was flying with Dutch airline Transavia from the Canary island of Gran Canaria to Amsterdam when passengers complained of the unbearably bad smell A MAN has died after suffering such severe gangrene it left passengers vomiting and forced a plane into an emergency landing. Russian musician Andrey Suchilin, was flying with Dutch airline Transavia from the Canary island of Gran Canaria to Amsterdam when travellers complained of the unbearably bad smell. Andrey Suchilin died from a flesh eating disease that caused such a bad smell that a flight he was on had to be diverted According to local media, passengers, who thought Suchilin simply had poor hygiene, started fainting and vomiting after the flight took off. But now it has transpired he was suffering from a serious bacterial infection that had caused part of his body to die and the flesh was literally rotting away. When the plane landed, he was taken to hospital where medics confirmed he was suffering from gangrene, a form of necrosis, or premature tissue death, caused by a lack of blood and oxygen to the tissue. Medics believe he had begun to suffer from the condition while on holiday causing the rancid smell. He was flying with Transavia from the Canary island of Gran Canaria to Amsterdam when passengers complained of the unbearably bad smell The Dutch airline was forced to divert its jet and perform an emergency landing in southern Portugal According to local media, Suchilin slipped into a coma after a couple of days and one month after being removed from the flight he died in hospital. Belgian passenger Piet van Haut who had been on the plane, described the stench as "unbearable". He said: "It was like he hadn't washed himself for several weeks. Several passengers got sick and had to vomit." Staff on board the Transavia service who apparently did not know the man was sick even reportedly tried to quarantine him in a toilet of the Boeing 737 before the pilots decided to divert the flight. They landed in the city of Faro, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal, so Suchilin could be removed from the flight. A Transavia spokesman confirmed at the time that "the aeroplane diverted because of medical reasons, but it is indeed right that he smelled quite a bit". In February, a Transavia plane from Dubai to Amsterdam was forced to make an emergency landing in the Austrian capital of Vienna after a passenger could not stop farting, which caused a brawl between several passengers. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6643691/man-dies-after-flight-diverted-due-to-stench-caused-by-flesh-eating-disease-that-left-fellow-travellers-vomiting/ edit: Classy headline by The Sun... Edited July 3, 2018 by sne 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Quote Sheffield topiarist 'disgusted by drunk hedge sex' Sheffield man upset by people 'having sex with hedge' A topiarist says he is having to make regular repairs to his hedge due to drunk people pretending to have sex with it. Keith Tyssen has maintained his "privet lady" at his Sheffield home since 2000, but is often woken up in the night by distracted passers-by. "They're climbing on top of her and pulling her legs apart - you know, it's disgusting," he said. Mr Tyssen has considered putting up a sign or an alarm to curb the behaviour. The hedge, which he has sculpted over the past 40 years, started off as a Greek god but he changed it into a reclining woman at the turn of the millennium. "I just peered out at about 04:30 in the morning and there was a guy on top of her and going through the motions of having sex with her," he said. "It makes me feel a bit sick, really. That's just not the way to behave - in lots of ways." He added: "It's not always a guy actually, sometimes it's women who climb on her." BBC Pearl necklace *snigger* 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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