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Fun With Escalators
Tube skiing, despite all the security.Wheeee!
Physics in action: how to spin on a escalator as if by magic.
Go On, Get Your Nads Out For The Girls
Hey sugarbuns! Yeah you! Smile darlin’, it might never happen! What? Waddaya mean, that’s harassment? What are you, gay?
Oh those poor builders, they can’t take what they dish out, can they….
Girls banned from whistling at builders
A further education college has banned its female students from wolf-whistling at builders.
Girls at West Kent College have been advised that whistling constitutes harassment and is unacceptable
Officials sent an email to all pupils warning that the behaviour was “totally unacceptable”, and saying any students caught harassing contractors would face disciplinary action.
The email was sent after a demolition team started work on a £94 million, three-year building project at the campus.
The email read: “It has come to the attention of the college that some female students have been making comments to, or whistling at, the builders both whilst on site and as they walk around the campus.
“Although we are sure no offence is meant, this constitutes harassment and is wholly unacceptable.
What a bunch of limp wimps.
The Future’s Here Already
You could use this building as a set for an Ian Banks novel:
I can imagine that if you lived in this building complex in Osaka the rest of the ugly urban landscape would be completely obscured – but even the curtain walls and clever angles of this garden within a fortress won’t hide residents from the smog.
The pic is one of a Flickr photostream of Japanese architecture from PoshSentinel.
Happy Happy Day
Today is officially the happiest day of the year – really, it’s scientific, so it must be true so just ignore those negative vibes they’re not real – and in keeping with the theme, here is the happiest picture I can find.
California has an outbreak of love and common sense:
Congratulations to all who are now able to marry the love of their life. Just don’t read the comments or that happy glow will vanish in a puff of bitter cynicism.