Category Archives: Fark!

Exam hand cramp = bouncer on the forearm

July 2, 2008 – 3:26 am

I did my third exam today, and for the first time in my life experienced what I’ve only heard about before - hand cramp. Maybe it’s because Oxford exams are longer than other exams (three or three and a half hours, depending on subject). The longest written exam I’ve ever encountered in the past was [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Academia, Cricket | Comments (14)

Yowch…

June 18, 2008 – 10:07 pm

I pity the poor Cambodian lad in this report:
A Cambodian teenager was recovering in hospital after a puffer fish attacked him in the groin, local media reported on Tuesday.
The Khmer-language Koh Santepheap daily ran a picture of the unnamed 13-year-old in a hospital bed with heavy strapping around his testicles, saying he was lucky to [...]

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Who let the loons out?

June 18, 2008 – 6:43 pm

I’ve always been a bit suspicious of the concerns about leftist academic bias common on the right. The central issue for me is fairness, not politics. As long as academics and teachers mark fairly, I’m not too worried if they believe that we’re all secretly manipulated by a race of purple midgets living on Mars [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Academia, Middle east | Comments (22)

A new way of policing “doof-doof”

June 17, 2008 – 8:20 pm

When my husband and I first moved in together, we lived in a set of terrace houses. We’d lived there about two years when new tenants moved in two doors down. The new tenants were Columbian exchange students, and I don’t think they took their studies seriously. What they did take seriously was partying hard [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in England, Intellectual property, Law, Media, Music, Personal liberty, Society | Comments (4)

“Officer, that lion is a hoon!”

May 30, 2008 – 8:46 pm

I just can’t get over this picture of a lion enjoying himself on a “wall of death” ride in a sidecar. He looks like he’s having so much fun. Apparently this was taken in Massachusetts in 1929. Seriously.

(Via The Stumblng Tumblr)

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Animals | Comments (7)

Much worse than crying “Wolf”…

May 14, 2008 – 10:01 am

What a crazy situation:
In late 2006, Darrell Roberson came home from a late-night card game to find his scantily clad wife with another man in a pickup in the driveway. Tracy Roberson was with her lover but cried rape, and her husband fired four shots into the truck as Devin LaSalle drove off, killing him.
Darrell [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Law | Comments (10)

Riding the porcelain plane?

May 13, 2008 – 10:28 pm

Apparently a New York man is suing an airline for US$2mill because the pilot forced him to sit on a toilet during part of the flight. He was given a last minute seat on a plane, but then a flight attendant complained her jump seat was uncomfortable, so the pilot moved him to the toilet so [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Law | Comments (6)

The Spirit and the Law - consumer protection and mediums

April 24, 2008 – 10:19 pm

A certain section of the British spiritualist community is protesting again the repeal of the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 (UK). The Independent reported the other day that the recently formed Spiritualist Workers Association (SWA) believes that the repeal of the legislation is discriminatory towards spiritualism. The Spiritualists’ National Union (SNU) which is a long-established body, backed [...]

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The Force definitely wasn’t with him…

April 24, 2008 – 8:35 pm

A drunken man in Wales dressed up in a black bin bag and cape and attacked two cousins with a metal crutch. Why would he do that? Well, apparently he wished to join the Dark Side of the Force. The cousins had recently set up a Jedi church in Holyhead, and were making a film [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Law, Religion | Comments (0)

Jah on their side…

April 16, 2008 – 5:18 pm

This article about the collapse of a legal trial against some Rastafarians cracks me up.
Apparently the five Rastas had been charged with cannabis dealing, and the trial had been running for two weeks when one of the police officers recognised a paralegal from the defence team for one of the defendants. The paralegal was said to have [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Drugs, Law, Religion, Society | Comments (4)