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A drink with a friend before your wedding is a tradition Siobahn Watson was determined to follow. Now she wishes she hadn't.

Watson, 24, of Manchester, England, a telesales assistant, was engaged to Aaron Todd, also 24, a bricklayer. A white Rolls-Royce had been hired, the bridal party's gowns had been designed, fitted and paid for, guests had been invited and a lot of money had been spent on the function at which everyone would celebrate the happy day.

Unfortunately, Watson's final drink as a single woman turned into something of a final fling as a single woman. Not all the details have been released, but we can read between the sheets.

Some hours before her wedding, Watson went out for that fateful drink with the unnamed "friend". They drank. They drank some more. At some point Watson lost her mobile phone. At some other point, the two stopped drinking and went to a motel.

We know only two things for certain that went on in that motel room. One is that Siobahn Watson went to sleep. We know that because we have been told the other thing that happened: she woke up.

She woke at about the same time that she was supposed to be saying, "I do."

Later, Watson was quoted as saying, "When I realised I had missed my own wedding, I started shaking. I could not believe I had been so stupid."

Aaron Todd, who had spent longer than expected standing, alone, by the altar, while friends and family tried continuously to ring Siobahn on her lost mobile phone, was quoted as saying, "She won't get a second chance.''

dailystar.co.uk; image: firstpersonsingular.org

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Dating, Europe, UK, Human nature, Odd Spot, Romance, Sex

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Today's news: woman fails to save the Earth

March 10th 2010 06:18

The Large Hadron Collider

A woman in Europe has failed to save the world after a court in Germany yesterday dismissed her claim that Earth is likely to be sucked into a black hole if scientists resume testing at the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher.

The woman, who has not been named, was convinced a resumption of scientific work at the collider, which has had a checkered and controversial history, posed a serious threat to the planet. She was so worried, she took her case to the German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe.

The Large Hadron Collider is a high-energy particle collider. Built in a 27-kilometre tunnel under the border between Switzerland and France, it was designed primarily to simulate the conditions prevalent during the Big Bang, and thus help scientists explain the origins of the universe.

The facility was opened, with great fanfare, in September 2008, only to break down after nine days. It stayed broken down for 14 months, opening again briefly in December last year before shutting down again, this time to get it ready for collisions at new "unfathomed" levels. It was these tests, which began last month, that the unidentified woman believed placed the world in danger of being sucked into a black hole.

It is thought she feared that scientists would find the answer to the biggest question of all — how do particles acquire mass? This is the holy grail of the scientists at work at the Large Hadron Collider. They are looking specifically for a surmised entity known as the Higgs Boson which could provide the answer. The Higgs Boson is more commonly referred to as the God Particle.

This is not to be confused with another theoretical particle called a strangelet which earlier opponents of the Large Hadron Collider said posed a great danger. If a strangelet was released, they claimed, it would turn the Earth to goo.

The German Constitutional Court, in its ruling on the latest protest against the collider, said: "The overwhelming scientific opinion is that the experiments carried out at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) present no dangers."

They then said the woman who feared we were all destined to become dinner for a black hole was "unable to give a coherent account of how her fears would come about".
Agence France Presse

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Addressing the blues

April 13th 2009 23:37

I like architects. I like wacky, you see, and architects provide some of the best wackiness around.

Take this latest example, from Klagenfurt in Austria. The house used to be pretty much what you would expect in a quiet street in an idyllic Austrian town. The architect owner, Peter Kasching, chose to change all that with a truckload of blue paint.

He painted all the inside blue too. He even painted the pot plants blue.

Kasching said he wanted to see the psychological effects of living surrounded by just one colour. He claims that the human has a different perception if natural contrasts are missing.

The neighbours say they want their pretty street back.

“It looks ridiculous and out of place and all the visitors it attracts are a real nuisance," said Heidi Manning. "You can’t park any more and there is no privacy. This used to be a quiet neighbourhood,” she seethed.

Kasching said, “It really does have an amazing impact on the senses to have everything in one colour. It changes the whole 3-D impact of a room. I know there are critics but there are also a lot of people who are very interested in my project."

He can only be referring to other architects.

thesun.co.uk, austrianews.co.uk; image: EuroPics/CEN

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Austria, Odd Spot

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