cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/32975068

What do you think of this idea? I had this image of people going to the petrol pump and taking a swig, but if the boffins can do something useful with all the warehoused unsellable wine it might help in various ways.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/64879515

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/onion/p/1147539/nurse-convicted-in-patient-s-death-is-now-a-national-speaker-on-hospital-safety

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/onion/p/1147554/head-of-state-owned-vtb-bank-says-russians-should-be-satisfied-with-their-economy-tells

Otherwise, if you will excuse me, consider this joke: A patient comes to the doctor and says, ‘Doctor, I have a complaint: when I have sex, there’s a whistling in my ears.’ ‘How old are you?’ the doctor asks. ‘80,’ the pensioner replies. ‘And what were you expecting — applause?

Apparently, nines are the hardest to grasp for primary school children. If only they’d learned how to cheat like me, says Adrian Chiles

Oak would not resort to these tactics.

Radio Caroline, a radio station based in the UK, has issued an apology after they incorrectly announced the death of Britain’s King Charles III to its listeners.

When a British monarch dies, radio stations in the U.K. immediately enact a strictly rehearsed "Death of a Monarch" protocol.

“Due to a computer error at our main studio the Death of a Monarch procedure, which all UK stations hold in readiness while hoping not to require, was accidentally activated on Tuesday afternoon (19 May), mistakenly announcing that HM the King had passed away,” the station manager for Radio Caroline, Peter Moore, said in a statement shared on social media Wednesday.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/64673855

Well, I would say the test results were conclusive, if nothing else.

A city councillor in Cork, Ireland is advocating to erect a public statue of a mosquito. It wouldn’t be a statue of just any mosquito , but the pest that some — at least in Cork–believe bit the English invader, Oliver Cromwell — sending him home to die of what was once known as 'Cork fever,' an old name for malaria.

How was this not yet crossposted here?!