8/01/2012

News Round Up - Skinny Jeans, Sippy Cups and Silos

Posted by Andrew |


  • Fears grow for rise in food prices - FT.com
    The increase in grain prices is already being felt around the world. In Indonesia, the tofu industry has threatened to strike over rising soyabean prices; in Mexico, the cost of corn tortillas is on the rise; and Iran last week witnessed a rare protest over the cost of chicken.

  • Man shot after argument over sippy cup | www.whiotv.com
    DAYTON, Ohio — An altercation that allegedly started over a sippy cup Saturday evening in Desoto Bass ended with a man being shot in the chest. A fight began when a pregnant resident of 69 Benning Place went to 94 Benning to get a sippy cup that she thought the neighbor had taken. A 20-year-old woman who was visiting 94 Benning said she didn’t know where it was, and a physical fight ensued and the pregnant woman allegedly scratched the the visitor, according to the report.

  • A really smart guy in Iowa exposed 12 people in a bar to 40lbs of liquid mercury | Death and Taxes
    So this guy walks into a bar carrying a 40lb plastic bottle of liquid mercury. He’s a construction worker, and found the bottle on a site he was working on. It’s a bar, and it’s a really heavy bottle, so naturally it gets dropped – exposing the bar patrons to a high level of liquid mercury which can cause kidney failure and even death.

  • Unlucky guy drops $77,000 bottle of Cognac on Playboy Club floor | Death and Taxes
    A customer at London’s Playboy Club dropped a bottle of Cognac Clos du Griffier 1788 – one of the most expensive bottles of anything – after he had previously asked to see the bottle.

  • America has a skinny jeans problem | Death and Taxes
    There’s something in the air in America. An air of change. It has been coming for many years; since the wayward feral years of the early 2000′s when we thought anything was possible. We showed this to the world by wearing skinny jeans – jeans so skinny that they got the names “matchstick” or “carrot jeans” due to the extreme tapering.
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