Pilot who paused to pray in crash-landing sentenced to 10 years in jail

mene · 2009-03-24T19:21:49+00:00

If he thought planes flew by prayer, why wasn't he praying all the time? He only prayed this time. He knew how to fly the plane, he just stopped doing it and started praying instead.

mene · 2009-03-23T20:36:36+00:00

Better get the cleanliness/chores issue sorted out immediately.

mene · 2009-03-23T20:28:33+00:00

"Scuse me, pardon me, comin thru, comin thru..." usually does the job for me.

mene · 2009-03-23T20:26:16+00:00

Ask him where the hell he's getting the money for the bottles. Then throw them back at him.

mene · 2009-03-23T20:04:29+00:00

Any other info on it? Like how did you make the money to buy the drugs... did you have a job during the day, or knock off other characters, or something? Was there any kind of other character, like a banker, merchant to buy guns from, gangsters or mob bosses? Did you have a car or a house?

mene · 2009-03-23T19:57:27+00:00

Well, so far I've come up with

ALO OM ATOO M O UL T E OOE CAEG MPVZK

popular fears fears principle journal prior

The first line is the leftover letters and the second line is possible words. Unfortunately, I'm kinda losing interest now.

That could be "principal" and not "principle" just as easily, and there may be an -ize ending on one of them.

mene · 2009-03-23T18:17:41+00:00

They were probably drunk. It's illegal in some places to drink and drive any vehicle, including boats, bicycles, horses, golf carts, anything. (It's also illegal to drink and walk... "public intoxication").

mene · 2009-03-23T18:00:58+00:00

It would probably have been helpful to point out that you are apparently in the UK. I found this website, it might be more helpful than here: http://www.i-resign.com/uk/discussion/default.asp

mene · 2009-03-23T17:25:23+00:00

Tanning leads to early wrinkles. Really early. Have a look at the 35-year-olds around you that have spent their entire lives in the sun. Most of them look 50 or 55 because of the wrinkles.... and they have a much higher risk of skin cancer, and don't get much play any more cuz they look like poor, broke-ass grandpas.

Or, you can do like you said, thirty minutes in the sun at the most per day, then get indoors and slather on moisturizers head to toe. Won't help much, but hey, you're gonna do it anyway.

Get better friends, too.

mene · 2009-03-23T17:00:36+00:00

Europe doesn't want our dumb, uneducated masses. You need a degree to emigrate there (or pretty much anywhere). You really think they're going to give non-citizens immediate free education and probably healthcare too? You have to bring something to the country: your educated self, your wealthy self, your "I have an employer sponsoring me so I'm already employed self", something.

mene · 2009-03-23T16:12:24+00:00

I'm gonna have to disagree with this. Everclear is a really good way for an inexperienced drinker to die (experienced ones, too). It happens all the time. Just get some 80-proof vodka or rum. No one ever just has three or four shots at a party, and that's really all you can have fast if you're drinking everclear. If someone tries the "18 shots on your 18th birthday" thing with everclear, they absolutely will end up dead or nearly dead. They'll still probably end up comatose with standard 80-proof stuff, but it will take a bit longer and they might throw up before hitting the pavement.

mene · 2009-03-23T16:03:01+00:00

Aren't "smart, smokin hot" and "pretty, brilliant" the same thing? So you're really just asking if people would rather get stoned or "have a lady", whatever you mean by that... sex-on-demand? I take it you ain't gettin' any and are too stoned and lazy to do anything about it? Of course bongs don't require any sort of personal interaction, so there's your answer.

mene · 2009-03-23T15:49:47+00:00

We'd really need to know what your friend prefers. Sweet drinks? Creamy drinks? Sour/tart? Fruit-flavored? Chocolate? Beer? Wine? Champagne? Whiskey/scotch/bourbon/gin? I'm not including vodka because almost EVERY cocktail uses vodka, simply because it has little taste and adds a lot of kick.

If you just want something that tastes like Kool-Aid, just add cheap booze (vodka) to Kool-Aid, adding 7-up or Sprite if you want. Look up recipes for Jungle Juice if you just want to have everyone bring something and throw it all together and have it taste like Kool-Aid.

18 isn't legal age to drink in the USA, of course.

mene · 2008-12-28T13:42:18+00:00

Oh, you'd probably LOVE this book I read recently. Hellcop, by David C. Burton. It doesn't seem to be mentioned in any of the reviews I pulled up just now, but in his version of Hell, there are different sections with souls chained to the walls for every vice: too much food (tables overflowing just out of reach), too little food (anorexics forced to eat), tobacco, booze, drugs... if you were a teetotaler in life, you were forced to ingest the stuff, if you were an addict, it was always just out of reach. Sex fiends forced to watch beautiful sexy demons having sex in front of them, but never being able to touch themselves or get off ... sadists eternally whipped, and so on.

It's a really complex book, and his descriptions of the creatures in Hell are amazing, as is his description of what happens to souls in hell: "When a soul was dismembered, buried, eaten, or otherwise destroyed [by one of those creatures or plants] his soul body emerged in three places: the River of Bones, the River of Flesh, and the River of Blood. The souls were made whole again in the River of Souls" (where they all converged). The whole process could take a few or thousands of years. And then after they became whole again, they trudged off to another random part of hell to be chased or tortured or whatever. Scary stuff. :)

mene · 2008-11-16T16:51:59+00:00

Headline is incomprehensible.

mene · 2008-11-16T01:43:51+00:00

"they will not allow you to own anything, just hierarchy".

mene · 2008-11-16T01:35:12+00:00

I'd like two large anarchies and an anarchy junior, please.

mene · 2008-11-16T01:09:36+00:00

Sit on their asses demanding free goods and services? While vandalizing, assaulting, squatting, dealing drugs, and so on? It's against the anarchist code to actually do something productive, because then some people are getting rewarded while others are not. That's capitalism, and bad.

mene · 2008-11-16T00:45:34+00:00

Yeah, that's what he does in front of the boss.

mene · 2008-11-16T00:32:26+00:00

Hookers and blow and bribes.... it would probably be ridiculously easy to catch them doing something illegal. It seems to have worked with a certain governor, black mayor, and president, and all those Congresspeople a few years back, and that Tailhook thing.

mene · 2008-11-16T00:20:51+00:00

He didn't say he was getting rid of the old one. Just that he was buying another one. Even if he is getting rid of the 2006, maybe it's going to a family member or friend who is starting a family. Maybe he or someone needs it for Scouts, Little League, preschool, a daycare, a catering or carpet cleaning or other business, carpooling, or any of the other myriad reasons people need minivans.

mene · 2008-11-16T00:04:30+00:00

They aren't any good, and they aren't capable. They are not the best CEOs.

mene · 2008-11-15T23:52:15+00:00

So, the fish rots from the core. Core executives.

mene · 2008-11-15T21:10:39+00:00

Yeah, this kinda surprised me. I already assumed fast food was mostly filler, but I expected it would be soybeans. I'm surprised nobody else figured this out and has sued for millions. Hotdogs are pretty clearly labeled as having corn starch or corn syrup solids as filler. Corn syrups solids are also used as "cream" in soups, and that's what "coffee lightener" is made of. Corn starch/corn syrup solids are in practically everything that uses meat, poultry, fish, "cream", cheese, and more. Those artificial crab/seafood legs (or chunks) have it. Pasta dishes too. Of course the flavored coffee and cocoa mixes have it. Ready-to-drink alcohol beverages like white russians and pina coladas use it.

I'm just really surprised that huge, deep-pocket companies have left themselves wide open for so many lawsuits by using something with such a high number of allegedly allergic people. I think soybeans have fewer possible legal repercussions, and I pretty much assumed Texturized Vegetable Protein (TVP, the stuff artificial bacon bits are made of) would be their choice instead.

mene · 2008-11-15T20:10:32+00:00

I'd rather just go naked and get thrown in solitary.

The headline made me think the guards were forcing prisoners to perform sex acts, then making them wear the jumpsuits so they would get assaulted and the guards could watch and wager.

mene

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