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Never really thought about it before, but apparently people use Amazon to sell stolen goods. This case involved Amazon drivers and goods stolen from Amazon itself as well.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...bi/1894681001/

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It's from the spoof news site The ManateeYou could imagine this one was quite real though :ohmy:
New mom narrates for baby on social media

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Does anyone here stand on the toilet seat when taking a dump?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ette-1.5233594

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This channel on youtube is interesting at times, someone with a security cam posts the most interesting events they catch, its in Chilliwack, BC....

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Very few BE members, probably... But anybody who has "travelled poor" in most parts of the Third World would recognise the need for the signs!

I remember my shock when first in France, with its "footprints in the snow" bogs, and after that nothing really shocked me. As a young man, I stayed in the slums of the Middle East, where the bogs were literally shit-holes. They became so familiar to me and my companion (later, wife) that our letters home didn't even mention them. Also, we understood why the natives never touched food with their left hands. We've never been surprised by Third World customs since then.

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Yes. I experienced some at some sort of local sports club that hosted a refreshment/recharge stop when I did a sponsored bike ride along the Nile.

But I most definitely was shocked by the public toilet at the Cairo museum on an earlier trip. It was the sort of toilet we'd be more used to. Except it seemed there'd been an H Block protest in there. :ohmy: I walked straight back out without using the place.

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That takes me back to being a visitor to a commune in China in the 70's where the toilet block was a disused pig sty with walls that came to hip height (if you were short like me) and no doors anywhere (we took it in turns to stand in front of each other to block the full frontal view, lol); holes in the ground and a bucket of water and a ladle to use to flush anything away. The local women had trousers with a split in the crotch so they never had to expose anything... could have done with some myself!

I've been many other places where there were pit latrines, a slit in the ground and if you were lucky concrete footprints to place your feet.

In the wilds of South Africa I used a wooden hut (single person size) with an open top and a pit latrine - with a warning to be on the lookout for leopards on the door - apparently a woman had been attacked and killed by a leopard sitting in the tree above a few weeks prior... yes, that scared the **** out of me! :D

Worst toilet I ever visited was in Domme, France.. liberally pebble dashed and the floor awash... stank to high heaven. Luckily I had used that old trick of taking a packet of toilet paper and wet wipes in my bum bag! (DYSWIDT) :D

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United Airlines flight from Glasgow to Newark had to be cancelled today, was scheduled to depart at 9am local time. The 2 pilots were arrested on suspicion of being drunk.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-sc...mpression=true

Not the first time this has happened with United at Glasgow in August 2016, 2 United pilots were arrested for being drunk, they were sentenced in 2017 to 10 & 15 months in jail.


My wife needed to go to Squamish today to help her mom, and oh man I am so glad I decided to stay home, its so much traffic, on a normal day its 55-60 minute trip, today over 95 minutes possibly longer as she left an hour ago and is still not even past Lions Bay.

I am just glad I decided to stay home, I can't stand sitting in traffic.

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Also turned out my wife took both sets of keys with her on accident, so I have been stuck in the apartment all day.

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I'm in the Philippines right now visiting my in-laws. It's the rainy season, 28c and 92% humidity....great place to b e if you want to lose weight.

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Found this very interesting reading.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/e...=pocket-newtab

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Chase pulled it's Marriott and Amazon credit cards from Canada last year, and have decided to forgive debt owed by customers holding those cards.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cha...debt-1.5239411