Won £107 on the Lottery - blimey 
I won £6.70 tonight !! Tomorrow . . . the World !!
@Former Member posted:Found this website...
You upload your child’s artwork and they convert it into a plush toy!
What a clever idea - looks amazing
@Former Member posted:Found this website...
You upload your child’s artwork and they convert it into a plush toy!
Brilliant Roxan 
Speaking of the haystack, least 8 and still counting..... 
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@Dame_Ann_Average posted:Speaking of the haystack, least 8 and still counting.....
Spoken by a man who has just had a baby
Outrage at £750/mth London flat where front door is a WINDOW
House hunters have reacted with outrage after a 'family friendly' studio flat was listed online where the door appears to be a repurposed WINDOW.
Those searching for properties on the website Rightmove couldn't believe their eyes when they spotted the apartment being put up for rent.
The studio flat on London's Edgware Road is on offer for a staggering £750 a month and has been advertised as having 'great location for transport links'.
But it can only be accessed through what appears to be a window with steps leading down to the main room.
The tiny bathroom also appears to be converted out of a former cupboard, while the kitchen appeared to have only a sink, microwave and a small fridge.
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@slimfern posted:Outrage at £750/mth London flat where front door is a WINDOW
House hunters have reacted with outrage after a 'family friendly' studio flat was listed online where the door appears to be a repurposed WINDOW.
Those searching for properties on the website Rightmove couldn't believe their eyes when they spotted the apartment being put up for rent.
The studio flat on London's Edgware Road is on offer for a staggering £750 a month and has been advertised as having 'great location for transport links'.
But it can only be accessed through what appears to be a window with steps leading down to the main room.
The tiny bathroom also appears to be converted out of a former cupboard, while the kitchen appeared to have only a sink, microwave and a small fridge.
Wow ….that’s appalling Slim ….daylight robbery ….and how the heck did that get past the planners!
@Baz posted:Wow ….that’s appalling Slim
I don't suppose it had to go through planning as it looks like a converted ground floor room of someone's property..
Agree about it being daylight robbery but that's London for you ...makes no sense to me why anyone would want to live there
@Saint posted:
My husband had a Mercedes ….he’d wanted one all his life , and luckily he managed to get one 18months before he died …it was his pride and joy
Or should it go in the nostalgia thread? Amazing footage of true legends
Brainwashed - Tom Macdonald
"How did monkeys become people and people turned into sheep?
Step 1: Train the people only to consume.
Step 2: Infiltrate adults with the news.
Step 3: Indoctrinate the children through the schools and the music and the apps on the phones that they use.
Step 4: Separate the right from the left.
Step 5: Separate the white from the black.
Step 6: Separate the rich from the poor. Use religion and equality to separate them more.
Step 7: Fabricate a problem made of lies.
Step 8: Put it on the news every night.
Step 9: When people start to fight and divide, take control.
This is called situational design."
DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU SICK.!!!
In 2009, the paedophile Jimmy Savile was interviewed under caution by police in Surrey and Sussex.
Subsequently, the police referred 4 cases to the CPS alleging that Jimmy Savile had abused 3 girls under the age of 16.
Subsequently, the police referred 4 cases to the CPS alleging that Jimmy Savile had abused 3 girls under the age of 16.
The CPS, after receiving the files from the police, refused to prosecute Savile and dropped the case claiming 'insufficient evidence".
After Savile's death, and despite multiple attempts of high level cover ups, we now know that he abused up to 500 victims over a four-decade period.
Why am I sharing this with you?
The man in charge of the CPS at the time, that decided there was 'insufficient evidence' to charge Savile, is the now
Leader of the Labour Party "Sir Kier Starmer".
Kier Starmer Assange. What a feckin spanner he is. Look at his face - can you not read.
Some of the weirdest, most expensive celebrity items ever sold:
1. Lady Gaga's false nail: $ 12,000
2. Marilyn Monroe's X-rays: $ 45,000
3. Marilyn Monroe's "Happy birthday" dress: $ 4.8 million
4. Helen Churchill's Jewel from the Titanic: £ 58,000
5. A letter written on the Titanic: £ 119,000
6. Kate Winslet's dress in the movie 'Titanic': $ 330,000
7. Jackie Kennedy's watch: $ 379,500
8. Kurt's "Unplugged" guitar: $ 6 million
9. Ringo Starr's drum set: $ 2.2 million
10. Marie-Antoinette's pearl pendant: $ 32 million
11. Audrey Hepburn's script for the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's": $ 811,615
12. Elvis Presley's dirty underpants: $ 8,000
13. Elizabeth Taylor's jewellery: $ 116 million
14. Katy Perry's trampoline-cupcake: $ 1,600
15. Justin Timberlake's toast: $ 3,000
16. Scarlett Johansson's handkerchief: $ 5,300
17. The air exhaled by Brangelina: $ 523
18. Britney Spears' chewing gum: $ 14,000
19. Michael Jackson's jacket from Thriller: 1.8 million dollars
20. John Lennon's tooth: $ 31,000
Do some people have more money than sense?
@slimfern posted:Some of the weirdest, most expensive celebrity items ever sold:
1. Lady Gaga's false nail: $ 12,000
2. Marilyn Monroe's X-rays: $ 45,000
3. Marilyn Monroe's "Happy birthday" dress: $ 4.8 million
4. Helen Churchill's Jewel from the Titanic: £ 58,000
5. A letter written on the Titanic: £ 119,000
6. Kate Winslet's dress in the movie 'Titanic': $ 330,000
7. Jackie Kennedy's watch: $ 379,500
8. Kurt's "Unplugged" guitar: $ 6 million
9. Ringo Starr's drum set: $ 2.2 million
10. Marie-Antoinette's pearl pendant: $ 32 million
11. Audrey Hepburn's script for the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's": $ 811,615
12. Elvis Presley's dirty underpants: $ 8,000
13. Elizabeth Taylor's jewellery: $ 116 million
14. Katy Perry's trampoline-cupcake: $ 1,600
15. Justin Timberlake's toast: $ 3,000
16. Scarlett Johansson's handkerchief: $ 5,300
17. The air exhaled by Brangelina: $ 523
18. Britney Spears' chewing gum: $ 14,000
19. Michael Jackson's jacket from Thriller: 1.8 million dollars
20. John Lennon's tooth: $ 31,000
Do some people have more money than sense?
Seems like they have Slim !
The only items I’d be vaguely interested in are the titanic ones .
From the web . . .
My dad says, “Google is doing this stupid thing where the blur the top left part of the results. Facebook is doing it too actually.” He melted the top left corner of his screen’
10 of the strangest medical cases:
Green Urine
Having your pee turn green can be scary. But as a man in Chicago found out, green pee can be a rare side effect of some medications. The 62-year-old man was hospitalized after he was found to have high levels of carbon dioxide in his blood, a condition that can be life threatening. The man was placed on a ventilator and given a general anaesthetic called Propofol. Five days later, the man's urine, which was being collected in a catheter bag, turned green.
While green urine can be due to a number of factors, in this case, the culprit was Propofol. This medication is widely used for general anaesthesia, but in rare cases, it can turn a person's urine green.
Fortunately, this discoloration is benign and goes away once the medication is stopped. Indeed, the man's urine returned to a normal colour once he was taken off Propofol.
Cold allergy
People can develop allergies to pretty much anything, including cold air. That was the case for a man in Colorado, whose allergic reaction to the cold was so severe, he almost died.
The 34-year-old old man collapsed after he stepped out of a hot shower into a cold bathroom. The man was struggling to breathe and his skin was covered in hives. He was experiencing a life-threatening, whole-body allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis.
Doctors diagnosed him with cold urticaria, an allergic reaction of the skin after exposure to cold temperatures, including cold air or cold water. The most common symptom is a red, itchy rash (hives) after exposure to the cold; but in more serious cases, people can develop anaphylaxis, which can cause their blood pressure to plummet and airways to narrow, making breathing difficult.
The man was treated with an antihistamine and steroids, and his condition improved. He was prescribed an epinephrine auto-injector, which can treat anaphylaxis in emergency situations.
Lethal Liquorice
It is possible to overdose on candy, at least if you're eating black liquorice. That's because it contains a compound known to be toxic in large doses. In an extreme case of this happening, a man in Massachusetts died after eating too much black liquorice.
Black liquorice often contains a compound called glycyrrhizin, which is derived from liqurice root, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Consuming too much liquorice root or candies flavoured with liquorice root can be dangerous because glycyrrhizin lowers the body's potassium levels. This, in turn, can lead to high blood pressure and abnormal heart rhythms.
The FDA says that eating just 2 ounces of black liquorice a day for two weeks can cause heart rhythm problems, particularly for people ages 40 and older.
Pierced Heart
A teen's chest pain had a surprising cause — there was a sewing pin in his heart.
The 17-year-old went to the emergency room after he experienced a sharp pain in his chest that radiated to his back.
A CT scan of his chest showed there was an "linear metallic foreign" object lodged in his heart, the report said.
That object turned out to be a 1.4-inch (3.5 centimetres) sewing pin, which doctors removed through open-heart surgery.
The teen initially told the doctors he hadn't ingested any foreign objects or experienced physical trauma to his chest. But in a later interview, he revealed that he tailors his clothes and sometimes holds sewing pins in his mouth. Still, he said he wasn't aware of ingesting a sewing pin.
Bladder Brewery
A woman's bladder turned into a brewery of sorts when it started fermenting sugar into alcohol.
The 61-year-old woman needed a liver transplant because she had cirrhosis, or scarring of the liver. But her doctors were puzzled when her urine repeatedly tested positive for alcohol, even though she denied drinking.
After some careful sleuthing, doctors discovered that microbes in the woman's bladder were fermenting glucose (sugar) into alcohol.
The woman's condition is similar to a rare disorder called "auto-brewery syndrome" (ABS), in which microbes in the gastrointestinal tract convert carbohydrates into alcohol. People with ABS can get drunk just from eating carbs, Live Science previously reported. But in the woman's case, the fermentation was taking place in her bladder, which makes her condition distinct from ABS, the report said. In her case, the alcohol didn't get from the bladder into the bloodstream, so the woman didn't appear intoxicated.
The woman's condition was so rare that it didn't even have a name yet. Her doctors proposed calling it "urinary auto-brewery syndrome" or "bladder fermentation syndrome."
Wandering Spleen
Although your mind may wander from time to time, you usually expect your physical organs to stay in the same spot inside your body. But that's not always the case, as a woman in Michigan found when her spleen travelled a whole foot inside her body over 48 hours.
The woman had a rare condition known as "wandering spleen," which happens when the ligaments that keep the spleen in its usual spot become weakened and allow the organ to migrate inside the body.
CT scans of the woman's abdomen taken just two days apart showed that her spleen had travelled from the upper left quadrant of her abdomen to the lower right quadrant. That's about a 1-foot (0.3 meters) distance.
The woman had a liver condition that resulted in her spleen getting larger, which in turn caused the ligaments surrounding her spleen to stretch out.
Persistent Coronavirus
People with COVID-19 are typically contagious for about eight days after they contract the infection. But a woman in Washington state shed infectious virus particles for a record 70 days, meaning she was contagious during that entire time. However, she never showed symptoms of the disease.
The 71-year-old woman had a type of leukemia, or cancer of the white blood cells, and so her immune system was weakened and less able to clear her body of the new coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2.
The woman was infected in late February during the country's first reported COVID-19 outbreak, which occurred at the Life Care Centre rehabilitation facility in Kirkland, Washington. Over a period of 15 weeks, the woman would be tested for COVID-19 more than a dozen times. The virus was detected in her upper respiratory tract for 105 days; and infectious virus particles — meaning they were capable of spreading the disease — were detected for at least 70 days.
Eventually, the woman was able to clear the virus, although doctors don't know how this happened. The findings suggest that immunocompromised patients with COVID-19 may be contagious for much longer periods than typical.
Three Kidneys
A man in Brazil surprised his doctors when a scan showed he had not two, but three kidneys — a very rare condition.
The 38-year-old man initially sought medical care for severe back pain. A CT scan showed that his back pain was due to a herniated or "slipped" disk, a relatively common condition in which part of a cushion-like disk between the spinal vertebrae moves out of place.
But his doctors couldn't help but notice that the man had an unusual anatomical feature. Instead of the usual two kidneys seen in a typical person, the man had three: a normal-looking kidney on his left side and two fused kidneys located near the pelvis, the report said.
Having three kidneys is rare, with fewer than 100 cases reported in the medical literature. The condition is thought to arise during embryonic development, when a structure that typically forms a single kidney splits in two. The man didn't need any medical attention for his extra kidney, but he did receive oral painkillers for his back pain.
Hot Tub Lung
So-called hot tub lung is a rare condition caused by bacteria that can thrive in warm water. But it's not always linked to hot tubs, as a teen in Australia found when he contracted the disease from his indoor swimming pool.
The teen developed severe breathing difficulties that sent him to the emergency room. Prior to his hospitalization, the teen had been recovering from ankle surgery and spent most of his time in his home's media room, which was next to their indoor swimming pool.
He was diagnosed with hot tub lung, a disease that can occur when people inhale certain aerosolized bacteria that belong to the genus Mycobacterium, including Mycobacterium avium.
An analysis of the pool water from the teen's home found that it was contaminated with this bacteria. The family said that they had recently switched the sanitizer they used for their pool, from chlorine to a non-chlorine alternative, and this allowed the bacteria to grow.
Several other people in the teen's family developed respiratory problems, also likely due to hot tub lung. Two years later, the family had recovered but their lungs still showed signs of mild damage from the illness.
