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Monthly Archives: December 2010
By Redditor Flargenhargen.
Previously: Slide Show! Toons In Real Life
Oh. The humanity
Olympian
“Hundreds of people tried to run like Olympian hurdlers, leaping over large suitcases and small children in a bid to get ahead of the posse.”
War Zone
“But the next morning Euston Station was like a war zone. And when the platform was announced for the train to Holyhead, the transformation in the mood was dramatic.”
Bail-Out
“It wasn’t long before we were swopping horror stories and having a laugh about how the English would have to ‘bail us out again’.”
Italia ’90
“When the announcement came over the tannoy that they had decided to take the whole train to Holyhead a cheer went up the likes of which has not been heard since Italia 90.”
Short Flight Turned Into 24-Hour Odyssey (Edel O’Connell, Irish Independent)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtxDWHKkh5g&feature=player_embedded
Aaand straight into the basket. We’re done here.
PetTube
At the ‘Council of State’ meeting yesterday at the Aras.
Someone’s been ordering chasers with their Smithwicks at Fagan’s.
(Photocall Ireland)
A $19 billion development in Zhengzhou, packed with blocks of empty apartments
The New District Residential Towers: all empty.
Glamorous public buildings in Zhengzhou which have never been used.
China is in the midst of a huge economic boom right now and, in the spirit of Communist nanny-statehood, the government has taken it upon itself to construct vast urban developments wherever it sees fit and – seemingly – without factoring in what the people actually want.
The result: places like Zhengzhou New District (above), home to just some of the country’s 64,000,000 vacant homes.
Wen Jiabao: a word in your ear.
And Now Presenting: Amazing Satellite Images Of The Ghost Cities Of China (Business Insider)