Monthly Archives: July 2012

Meanwhile At Summerland Wave Pool, Tokyo

Niall Murphy at 11:34 am July 27, 2012

Yikes! It’s like Sandycove on a Thursday afternoon.

National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita tells My Modern Met:

It seems a number of viewers are horrified, appalled, nauseated and generally grossed out by the sheer number of swimmers squeezed into these mega-pools. There’s no question that given the heat, humidity, and population of Tokyo in the summer, the throngs at any swimming pool there are going to, by definition, test the limits of crowd control and sanitation….[But] Japanese people, by tradition and habit, are arguably the cleanest – not to mention the most cleanliness-conscious – in the world. The water in these pools is clean enough to drink!”

Ri-ight.

22words/mymodernmet

Celbridge Bus Hostage Drama

Admin at 11:31 am July 27, 2012

UPDATE: And by ‘bus hostage drama’ we do mean ‘a minor, fairly amusing first person account of a trifling incident on a bus’.

BP writes:

Myself and some friends caught the Dublin-Edenderry bus yesterday to our usual stop, two after Celbridge village. We have been taking this bus for two years paying the standard fare to Celbridge of €3.60 without incident.
Today however as we approached the door at the usual stop the driver stopped my friend and asked had he got a ticket. “I have, I paid you for it.”, my friend replied. He then refused to let us off the bus until we paid a further €1.70 for the journey from Celbridge village to the stop above (which happens to be next to a sign that says Celbridge on it).
This is a bit odd as it only costs €4.60 to go to Clane which is a good 10 minutes further down the road. So my two friends paid up and as I went to place the cash on the shelf part of the ticket machine the driver freaked out and grabbed my hand. I told him to let us off or we were calling the police and after shoving the new ticket in my face he opened the door. Long story short, he was a total a***hole. Here’s a photo of him jovially waving goodbye when he let us off the bus after a ten minute hostage situation!

Bane

Niall Murphy at 11:11 am July 27, 2012

jimbenton

July Fails

Admin at 11:08 am July 27, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnToqWy6x-k

The monthly roundup of pratfalls, boo-boos and eye-watering impacts from maim-montager, Twisternederland.

As always, don’t watch, unless.

He Was Told He Would Never Walk Again

Admin at 10:40 am July 27, 2012

Kieran Behan.

5ft 4ins of pluck.

“Doctors told me, stop thinking about your crazy dreams because you’ll never walk again and you must accept that it’s over for you,” Behan said. “But I just kept saying: ‘No, no, no — this is not the rest of my life. This is not how it’s going to play out.’ And look at me now, an Olympian. They said it was impossible, but I did it.”

Behan, 23, barely clinched an Olympic berth in January, qualifying second to last at the Olympic test event to become the first Irish gymnast to make it to the Games by his own talent, not by wild card.

Once Told He’d Never Walk Again, Irish Gymnast Is Now Olympian (Juliet Macur, New York Times)

Thanks ellybabes

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