Odd news story of the day

[JK0]

You Know The London Real Estate Market Is Out Of Control When...

For just $1000 per month, you too can live in Chiswick High Street, London - in a studio flat with a shower in the kitchen...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...t-control-when

Be handy when you have a lot of dishes to wash though?

[nukecad]

Did you see the one that the Evening Standard article links to from last year?

You can turn the shower on or cook a meal almost without getting out of the bed.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...-a3150496.html

[JK0]

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

[JK0]

Texas anti-masturbation bill moves closer to becoming law

Any “unregulated masturbatory emissions outside of a woman’s vagina, or created outside of a health or medical facility, will be charged a $100 civil penalty for each emission, and will be considered an act against an unborn child, and failing to preserve the sanctity of life.”

http://www.independent.ie/world-news...-35602322.html

[jpkeates]

Not that "odd", but the figures and timescales being set out means it's a useful link to be able to point people at.
https://www.landlordtoday.co.uk/brea...icting-tenants

It's spoiled a bit by having the costs accumulate as a running total, because the tendancy is to add the figures up as you read.

[JK0]

The unusual sport girls in Finland love

You'll never guess.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_...n-finland-love

BTW, am I naughty for thinking I know why girls like running around with a stick pressed against their crotch?

[JK0]

Germany Confiscating Homes To Use For Migrants

Strewth. I'm glad I don't have property in Germany.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...s-use-migrants

[JK0]

Don't rush for your train - it's already gone

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...stop-rush.html

Elf'n'Safety gone mad?

[theartfullodger]

So there I was, giving blood & reading the "Times" obituary report for Aleshia Brevard (no, me neither..)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/r...uary-jz355rgpw
- you can probably only read if you're a subscriber...

Drag artist who did a convincing turn as Marilyn Monroe before becoming an actress and author after sex-change surgery in 1962

- two sections caught my eye, I was, shall we say, suddenly taken sober...

She wanted to be rid of her testicles and, unable to find a doctor who would carry out the procedure, she performed her own castration.

&

Aleshia Brevard, as she was now known, kept her reassignment secret, even from two of her husbands.

The mind boggles....

[JK0]

Cuteness overload:

https://twitter.com/roger_zhat/statu...27865947574272

[JK0]

Jackson... We got a problem...

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There was I thinking the eviction system in America was so much better than ours with the bailiffs actually removing tenant furniture. However, it seem that bailiffs 'find' bed bugs, and 'find' cockroaches, each of which add $200 to the cost. I'm wondering if the bugs and roaches don't travel round in a matchbox in the bailiff's pocket.

Go to 18 minutes in to skip the preamble.

[JK0]

Can you believe this PC nonsense?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41625402

[theartfullodger]

Today's Times

New research shows that underwater flatulence off the coast of Sweden is creating as much gas as 20,000 cows. Mussels, oysters and clams were found to produce a tenth of all methane and nitrous oxides released by the Baltic Sea as a byproduct of digestion.

See
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f...ists-c8p9wq6cl

[JK0]

These photos are so funny. Enjoy.

[theartfullodger]

Energetic on-the-job marketing activity by Agent..
https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/p...s-a115231.html

The agent, who operated as a one-man band, always found him good-quality tenants, his properties were always let and maintenance issues were dealt with efficiently. In short, my friend had no complaints.

A few months ago the agent informed him that he had sold his business and a new letting agent would take over managing his portfolio......
....etc etc etc...
Apparently, the decorator had interrupted a couple of guys who were entertaining several… ahem… ladies, and from the state of the place, they'd been having quite a lot of fun, not all of which was entirely legal. According to my friend, it was a pretty debauched affair involving substance abuse.

Gosh I do seem to lead a quiet life....