Dundrum On Ice breaks out the big guns. Your move, Swords On Ice.
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I picked the wrong people who led me down the wrong path.
Columbus Blue Jackets ice hockey player Jack Johnson, who has filed for bankruptcy. The people who led him down the wrong path were his parents. After dumping hockey super-agent Pat Brisson in 2008, Johnson turned over control to his parents. His mother, Tina, reportedly took out at least $15 million in high-interest loans from nonconventional lenders against her son’s future earnings. Johnson’s parents also reportedly bought a multi-million dollar home in Manhattan Beach, California and spent more than $800,000 on upgrades. Johnson now claims assets of “less than $50,000” and debts of “more than $10 million.” He has reportedly cut off all contact with his family. -
mymodernmet: Portuguese street artist Artur Bordalo, aka Bordalo II, uses mixed media to create his own interpretations of the urban landscape and environment. He often composes his works using various found items that he merges together into beautiful, three-dimensional forms.
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The circle of wipe
The only thing that the people in Cobh are good at is talking shit
— LaurenBurns 🙂 (@laaaaaauuuureen) November 20, 2014
42 towns where raw sewage runs into rivers and seas untreated – including Arklow, Cobh, Youghal and Bundoran
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) November 19, 2014
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christiannightmares: There’s a creationist vending machine featuring books by Ken Ham in a Massachusetts mall (For more info, visit Friendly Atheist)
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I think women need to be more aware of a man’s sexual desire that when you’re in that position that you are about to engage in sexual activity there’s a huge amount of energy in the male body, there’s a huge amount of will and intent, and it’s very difficult for many men to say no when they are whipped up into a bit of a storm. And it’s the old adage about if you yank a dog’s tail, then don’t be surprised when it bites you. Or you can’t keep snakes in the garden and think they’ll only bite your neighbours.
Nick Conrad, a talkshow host on BBC Radio Norfolk, putting the partridge among the pigeons. In Conrad’s Monday show, he went on to suggest feminists had “hijacked” or “jumped on” the debate and appear to be “anti-men”.
“The onus has to be on the men,” he said. “And the men have to be condemned if a woman says no and they persist, then that’s absolutely abhorrent.”
“But they then [feminists], in their fury against men and masculinity, they actually forget to stop and say if you tease, if you jump into bed naked with a man, if you give him all the signals and then he acts upon them, then you are partially responsible.”
He concluded his comments saying: “What I’m trying to say is that women also have to understand that when a man’s given certain signals he’ll wish to act upon them and if you don’t wish to give out the wrong signals, it’s best, probably, to keep your knickers on and not get into bed with him. Does that make sense?”
He later apologised.
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