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10 Things to do in a public toilet

1. Introduce yourself to the guy at the next urinal.

2. Use a stopwatch to time people going to the bathroom. Cheer them on to encourage good performance.

3. Say to the guy at the next urinal: “This is the best part about being gay.”

4. Point at someone’s crotch while they’re using a urinal and yell, “Ha ha, your fly is down!”

5. Complain about the size of your penis.

6. Have (mobile) phone sex while standing at a urinal.

7. Identify people who have not washed their hands. Follow them out of the bathroom and publicly announce this fact.

8. Stick your head over an occupied stall and ask for the time.

9. Turn the light off while stalls are occupied.

10. Demand to know where the glory holes are.

10 Celebrities that need a slap

In no particular order

1, Tom Cruise

2. Paris Hiltom

3. Lady Gaga

4. Jessica Simpson

5. Kanye West

6. Amy Winehouse

7. Lindsay Lohan

8. Madonna

9. Jordan

10. Cheryl Cole

does tapioca harm unborn baby?

Sorry its been a while since my last post, I’ve been very busy moving house and whatnot. I was just pondering what to write my next blog post about and having a quick look through the number of hits my blog gets and the keywords people have used to find it, and I saw this one: “Does tapioca harm unborn baby?” Now I’m not sure how they managed to get to my site with that search term but on the off chance they come back to the site, I thought I would answer the question… No, no it can’t.

This is of course going under the assumption that its prepared correctly (which I’m glad to say most of it is). However  tapioca  is made from Cassava which, despite being a staple food in various places across the world, can kill you.

If not prepared correctly before consumption (or eaten raw), then it turns into wondrous hydrogen cyanide, which is quite poisonous and will kill you.

Cassava comes in two varieties, known as the “bitter” and “sweet” types, depending on how much potential death they carry within them. The “sweet” variety produces 50 times less death (around 20mg/kg of cyanide/kilogram of fresh root) but is still poisonous enough to kill a cow. Poor cow.

Even though it’s common knowledge in cassava-consuming countries to make damn sure you prepare it properly, there are still dangers to be had. If the cassava is treated/processed insufficiently, then it can lead to what’s known as konzo, a debilitating paralytic disease. A safe method of preparation is to mix any cassava flour (for the roots, cooking is generally all that’s needed) with water, make a paste and spread it over a basket, then let the paste stand for five hours. The cyanide produced by the cassava is then broken down and released into the atmosphere, making it safe to consume.

Hope this helps.

Regarding Catgirls

Cat girl persecution

Today cat girls are often persecuted for their dietary habits and they face endangerment due to decreasing numbers of forests, adventurers, dungeons to hide in, kamikaze snowmen, and pirates. Most cat girls today hide in anime DVDs, in manga books, in outer space, in the livers of the mooses who rule under the dictatorship of Antarctica, at sci-fi or anime conventions, at Star Trek conventions, at Star Wars conventions, at star-shaped fork conventions, at stamp collecting conventions, at any other kind of convention, on the Internet, in the bodies of lawyers, in the bodies of highschool girls, in the bodies of Chick-Fil-A cow costume wearers, in the bodies of college football quarter backs, in the bodies of nerds who pretend to be adventurers by rolling dice and casting magic missile at the darkness, at furry conventions, and behind the sofa.

Note: Neko-chan habitatologists and quantum researchers have begun to speculate that cat girls may be found “behind the milk,” a realm that exists in a state of quantum unrest. However, since nobody ever looks there, no hard evidence has been found to prove or disprove this. This hypothesis is sometimes referred to as “Schrödinger’s Cat Girl”.

A handy chart for identifying different types of feline humanoids

Cat girls and furries

Most people don’t consider cat girls to be furry despite their definite feline traits and personality. Even furries generally exclude cat girls from their numbers[1]. This is probably because cat girls, unlike furries, are more monstrous than animal-like. To make this clear, furries want to wear fur suits while engaged in intercourse in order to become closer to the animal spirit inside of them, whereas cat girls, just like every other sexy critter to step foot in a dungeon, just want to eat you now and cough up fur balls later. There’s probably a deeper meaning here somewhere; we’ll get back to you when we figure it out[2]. Another reason furries exclude cat girls from their ranks may be that they are jealous of the pure awesomeness/cuteness of cat girls that furries can never hope to achieve; or, possibly, it’s because furries hate cat girls because of the occasional furry they lure into a sleazy back corner to devour.

Can cat girls use magic?

Yes, but most don’t have the attention span to, since spell component pouches closely resemble the dangly mouse toys with little jingly bells that cat girls play with, most cat girls think their staffs are scratching posts, and they spend too much time in magic academies napping all day. They also tend to get kicked out of magic academies and guilds for seducing all the guys and devouring them.

Most cat girls that use magic get blown up after some time once curiosity takes over and forces them to wonder what happens when you mix the spooky death-looking potion and the glowy green potion together, or when they push the big red button on the random magical item they found lying around.

Are there any male cat girls?

Yes, but most they are for the most part just nerds dressed up as cat girls and are therefore not of the same species. However, they’re not exactly considered human either, as being a male cat girl grants these nerds stat boosts similar to those that a cat girl has. They are the half-breeds. One should note that although fake cat guys aren’t disgustingly cute like cat girls, they are almost as dangerous. Thankfully, they are fewer in number than Dog Guys. Those things will REALLY fuck you up. Many male cat girls are epic level wizards and randomly cast magic missile at the darkness. As well, they know how to go Super Saiyan, are proficient with photon torpedoes, and they can recite quotes from Monty Python and Star Trek endlessly. Cat girls are still probably more dangerous though, since they’re just so cute! However the rare and elusive Cat Boy does exist but it takes years and years of training (or boobs) to lure him out of the dark corner he resides in.

If there aren’t any real males, how is the population maintained?

It is commonly misunderstood that since it’s impossible for there to be any real male cat girls, and fake male cat girls not being able to effectively impregnate females, they cannot reproduce. However, the cat girl population, just like the unlimited amount of monsters encountered through random battles, is able to maintain itself. Why? Because there ARE cat boys, although they are very few in number. Through scientific research, divine communication, and random speculation, scientists have discovered that the ratio of males to females in the cat girl population is inversely proportional to the ratio of male to female players in Runescape; that is, 1 male cat girl per 100. Even rarer of a treasure is footage of a consenting cat boy and cat girl copulating. Good luck finding this hentai delicacy though, as the legend says there is only one picture in existence. Because of the scarcity of true cat boys in the cat girl population, they are usually very protective of their males, often setting up side by side with the cat guys, adamantium fortresses complete with photon cannons, at least 5 squads of Protoss carrier ships, every single epic-level trap, a laser forcefield, 12 colossal red dragons, and a ninja midget (“Minja” for short) dressed up as Santa Claus. On top of this, the cat boys themselves compensate for their low numbers with incalculable combat and sexual strength, each males power equaling that of 100 cat girls, and each being able to impregnate just as many without taking a break. All authentic cat boys are level 420 Krav Maga brawlers and many already are, among other things, epic level mages, sith lords, serial killers, drug lords, and probably has a crew of about 20 females with him. Good fuckin luck if you want to try your hand at infiltrating the base!

Cat boys are, for the most part, nearly physically indistinguishable (not counting the penis, of course) from their more common female counterparts and are thus often mistaken for females. This is mainly due to real male cat girls adapting an androgynous appearance over history to protect their less common population of the species from the ever-growing threat of persecution by angry adventurers, lawyers, and møøses. However, anyone with a basic knowledge of the Japanese language can distinguish between the two in that to say the word “I”, cat boys and male cat girls alike use the word “boku” and females use the word “watashi”. The males can also be distinguished from the females in that male cat girls can pee standing up and use men’s restrooms. Because of their feminine appearances, however, many males are persecuted for using the wrong restroom.

Experts know that you’ll never hear a female cat girl say “boku” to refer to herself because the Japanese language strictly forbids female cat girls to say the word, and any that do say “boku” will explode immediately in a big puff of explodiness. However, male cat girls are allowed to say “watashi” since it is considered more polite than “boku” to refer to oneself in formal conversation. Why? Because it’s just sexist like that.

Hunting behavior differs in males as opposed to the females in that the male cat girls won’t try to seduce male prey; cat boys prefer to skip the fluffy wuffy cutesiness part and will go straight for your eyeballs. Of course, if their prey is seduced in mistaking them for a female anyways, they won’t let down a free meal.

It is considered racist to say that there are only female cat people. That’s right, it’s racist.

Can I become a cat girl?

No, don’t be retarded. But you can always pretend! It is possible to become a partial cat humanoid with the same stat bonuses, though. Just do the following:

* Learn at least the basics of Japanese.
* Go to your local costume store and buy cat ears and a cat tail. You may also choose to get furry gloves and shoes and add claws to them later. Wear this costume regularly and preferably in public.
* Stuff a bunch of socks in your shirt. (Any and all poachers and møøses will attack on sight, despite the fact that a single catboy could rip through their ranks. You, however, cannot. Because you suck. They will do anything to eliminate male cat girls to make the cat girl species extinct, for the sole purpose that they couldn’t be born a badass catdude that has sex 50 times a day.)
* Develop a taste for sushi and liver.
* Become a wizard and cast magic missile at random intervals for no good reason at all.
* say mew,nya,or nyu excessively after every sentence.

Ladies can’t become cat guys, but they can still dress up like cat girls and gain the same stat bonuses.

Other Breeds of Cat girl

100ft Giant Cat Girl Robot

If you use nuclear weaponry on a cat girl, they’ll turn into a giant robot and suffer no ill effects. Their immunity to radiation’s aftereffects is mainly due to the fact that radioactivity is easily seduced by cat girls and is likely to get its head bitten off by one, removing the radiation permanently and making the area safe again. Giant cat girl robots are pretty much just like cat girls, except they have eye lasers, they’re made of metal, they’re 102ft tall (despite their name saying 100ft), and their claws are armed with rapid-firing photon guns. Other than those minor details, however, 100ft tall giant cat girl robots are exactly the same as ordinary cat girls.

100ft giant cat girl robots are common in Tokyo where giant monsters and mechs are abundant and make up 5% of the city’s population. However, 100ft giant cat girl robots don’t usually get along well with the friendly giant monster civilians, and they have a penchant for getting into fights with them. The Power Rangers theme song plays in the background any time that there is a battle between a 100ft giant cat girl robot and a giant monster. In such a battle, the city in which the battle takes place inevitably gets reduced to rubble, there are tons of explosions, and somehow there are no civilian casualties other than adventurers the cat girl decides to snack on mid-battle. Exactly one day after a fight between a 100ft giant cat girl robot and a giant monster, the city will be spontaneously rebuilt as if there was no battle at all.

100ft giant cat girl robots are one of the leading causes of deaths among giants who have taken up adventuring as a hobby. To normal sized adventurers, 100ft giant cat girl robots aren’t as dangerous as normal cat girls since their size and mech appearance makes them more badass than cute, but for giants, a 100ft giant cat girl robot is just as cute as a normal cat girl. Thus, giants are easy and filling prey for 100ft giant cat girl robots.

Cat Girl Pirate

Sometimes cat girls manage to devour entire crews of pirates and then take over their ship. These cat girls then may decide to become cat girl pirates and go out plundering the seven seas for booty, fighting other pirate ships overseas, and devouring the crews of any other ships they may encounter with their newly acquired ship. Cat girl pirates usually have no idea what they’re doing and often become lost due to their inability to use a map and compass. However, when encountered, a cat girl pirate is oftentimes far more dangerous than an ordinary pirate. As far as piracy goes, cat girls go overboard with it and try way too hard to be pirates; it is very common for a cat girl pirate to blast cannons and lasers (all pirates have lasers) at everything in sight regardless of whether it is another pirate ship or just a large floating piece of debris left over from a rival ship she already plundered. No sea-worthy pirate would dare try to attack an cat girl pirate’s ship, especially since cat girl pirates are so cute, soft, and fluffy. Even the pirates who know not to try to attack a cat girl pirate usually don’t last long if they encounter one. While the unfortunate pirates are gawking over and running away from the cuteness of the cat girl, their ship is already getting blasted to splinters. Cat girls don’t usually get a lot of treasure from raiding other vessels because of this.

Although cat girl pirates are usually horrible at acquiring treasure from other vessels at sea, they have no trouble at all in plundering seaside villages and towns. The citizens of these ports are so awed by the cuteness of the cat girl in full pirate regalia that they hand out treasure to the cat girl like candy on Halloween. Most villagers aren’t adventurers and have no need to fear about the cat girl eating them. Cat girl pirates are mainly there for the treasure anyways. However, if the cat girl picks up a boyfriend or two whilst plundering, a little snack is always nice.

Siamese Cat Girl(s)

Siamese cat girls are always twins. Sometimes they can be Siamese twins, but this is rare. Siamese cat girls tend to be more mischievous than normal cat girls and are known for cleverly placing large bowls of spicy tapioca pudding so that somebody WILL fall face first into it. Siamese cat girls know how to meditate and can float more than two feet above the ground and shoot kamehamehas out of their hands without having to charge up to go Super Saiyan over a period of 5 episodes. Despite their ability to float and shoot kamehamehas, Siamese cat girls can’t go Super Saiyan. Thankfully, cat girls are only Siamese if you please. But then again, they can be Siamese if you don’t please.

Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls

Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls or SPANCs are the most dangerous sexy fighting force known to man. Capible of making an entire planet shout “But… wha… huh… but!” in utter confusion, these deadly fighting ladies will then steal everything nailed down and throw everything not nailed down back.

Weaknesses

If you ever encounter a cat girl, do the following:

* Throw a bucket of water at her. Cat girls aren’t as adorable when they’re wet with all their hair sticking out all funny. However, be warned that wet cat girls, like wet cats, smell terrible.
* Use a hairdryer on her. It’ll make her hair stick out all poofy causing her to float 2 feet off the ground.
* Step on her tail. She’ll make a funny yelping noise and run away.
* Take allergy medication.
* Call Confuse-a-Cat. The cat girl may need to be confused.
* Feed your buddy who’s dressed in a mouse suit to her while you run away.
* Use your pants. Pants have a variety of uses, including: clothing, flotation device, hair dryer, pocket-sized sandwich dispenser, long range explosive projectile, +5 battle axe, portable helicopter, bunny factory, and much more!
* In a pinch, towels can also serve the same purposes as pants.
* If you’re a guy, cosplay as a hot female anime character. This will probably humiliate you immensely and you’ll still fall victim to the cuteness of the cat girl, but at least she won’t eat you, having mistaken you for a female adventurer rather than a yummy male adventurer.
* If you’re a girl, hit on her. Cat girls hate lesbians and will become very confused and disturbed by your antics. Unless the cat girl is Canadian, then you’re fucked (literally).
* If you can, summon some kind of tentacle monster and then GTFO. As a cat girl is essentially an even cuter version of the magical girl, the tentacle monster should keep her busy for quite a while. Strangely, some varieties of cat girl and even some catboys are known to enjoy this. Even if they do, they’ll more than lose interest in you. After all, tentacles are a delicacy in Japan and smell of tasty fish. What? You thought this wasn’t about food?
* RAPE: If all else fails… Grab them and pull a Japan-esque rape. All Japanese females become completely vulnerable and lose the ability to fight back if you give them some unwanted dick. Works everytime.
* listen,I dont care how despret you are for a pet if you bring in a homeless kitten in a box she will change form and rape you while you sleep….and then eat you.
* Use hunting/fighting tactics discussed in the Zombie Survival Guide.
* When in doubt, chainsaw out.
* Use the big gun!
* Pet them! They usully feel laid when you do and start taking off there clothes like in any anime hentai make sure you get behind there ears- that’s their horny spot that renders them helpless to eat you or fight back.
* CATNIP see above.
* Meow Mix- that food fules ther hornyness enough time for you to excape.
* summon a foxgirl they usully hate nekos and will eat them before they eat you so gtfo before she does.
* Do a barrel roll.
* Finally, just always remember that these tactics are effective only against catgirls. If you ever see a catboy, then you’re just straight fucked. Both figuratively and literally speaking.
* If all else fails, then the only option left is to give them another cat girl to play with.

Natural Enemies of Cat Girls

* Chuck Norris, nuff said.
* Jackie Chan, more affective then the leading brand shown above.
* Michael Phelps, nuff said, he’s a water demon powered by weed.
* Ryu Hayabusa, he’s the ultimate Ninja, who else do you need to summon?
* Sub-Zero, He will appear, Freeze the cat girl, shatter the ice, causing the catgirl to die. If he is happy he will give you a snow cone.
* R. Lee Ermey, nuff said, not looking foward to 2 million push-ups today.

* There are a rare few people immune to the cuteness of the cat girl. Generally, these people are found in stuffy institutions such as law (not the kind like Phoenix Wright or Judge Judy, the boring one) and education (only once the students and poor salary drain their souls and crush their hopes into a singularity). Another, less mind-numbingly boring category (marginally) involves those who bring discussions of realistic physics into unrealistic settings, such as a zombie survival simulation. As an added defense, this has been known to provoke God, in a fit of pure boredom-alleviating sanity, to strike up to five cat girls dead per argument.

* Vikings are ALWAYS immune to cat girls, due to the fact that their terrifying aura overpowers the cuteness.

* Ninjas, Their pure awesomeness gives them invisablilty to the cuteness. For this same reason the cat girls hunt ninjas to no end. That and it is true about the soft and chewiness of ninjas. The deciding factor of cat girl vs. ninja battles are wheather which ones detects the other first. If the ninja detects the cat girl, he will siftly kill her with a suriken to the head, skin her and wear her head as a disguise for futher killing. If the cat girl were to sense the ninja, she would decend upon him, quickly devour him, use his sword to pick her teeth, and curl into a ball to await the next victim.

* Scorpion should be used as a weapon of last resort, and only if you TRULY want to kill the catgirl instead of just driving it away. Upon being summoned, Scorpion will challenge the catgirl to Mortal Kombat. Whether the catgirl accepts or tries to run away doesn’t matter; Scorpion will immediatly shoot out his rope-spear, drag the catgirl in, and uppercut off their head. Beware, there’s a chance he may turn against you as well for summoning him. Either that, or he’ll just give you an autograph ’cause he’s such a cool guy. Maybe not.

* Deadpool, though part kitten, is also half-grue, the Catgirl’s natural enemy. Deadpool is always happy to kill Catgirls, and might even decide not to kill you afterwards as a way of showing his appreciation. However, he may want to show you some of his celebrity impressions, so it might not be worth summoning him.

* Curiosity endangers the population by making cat girls blow themselves up. If a cat girl encounters a big red button, she must make a successful will save or be forced by curiosity to push the button. This is perhaps the most common cause of cat girl deaths.

* Mooses and cat girls don’t get along very well and often fight over territory. Such disputes often involve both parties charging up over the period of several 30-minute episodes until they finally reach Super Saiyan 50 million or something. Eventually they both just get tired from going all Super Saiyan and settle the fight over a drinking contest.

* Like most other monsters, a Grue can kill cat girls. If you encounter a cat girl, you may choose to unleash a Grue on them. However, a Grue will most likely kill you as well, making this a bad idea.

* Dokuro-Chan: if you should walk into a room with both Dokuro-Chan and a catgirl, STAY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND TAPE IT! Since Dokuro-chan is an angel, she can´t die. After killing the Catgirl she will kill you, but don´t worry. If you´re lucky, she’ll revive you:).

* Ewan. Actually, he is an unnatural enemy of cat girls. And everybody else for that matter. Contrary to popular belief, cat girls can – and sometimes do – eat Ewan, but as any who do instantly sprout ginger hair and begin to talk like a coward, they usually give him a wide berth. And anyway, he tastes foul.

* Lu Bu. Those things on his head look A LOT like cat toys, and cat girls love them.

* Hole-Spikers, a subspecies of Mosque, are considered to be natural predators of cat girls, both in the sexual and actual sense, and will violently attack (and tentacle rape) any cat girl on sight. Sadly, most cat girls die because of this and feel no pleasure whatsoever when this occurs.

* Transformers can kill catgirls, as they are robotic and are immune to cuteness. However, they can be killed by cat girls and used as scratching posts. Ironhide, Ratchet, and that truck guy had an encounter with a cat girl, and barely escaped. But Powerglide didn’t. But that’s OK, ‘cos nobody liked him anyways.

* Power Rangers are extremely dangerous to cat girls, due to the fact that they change their powers every two months, thus making them nigh invulnerable. Power Rangers, if eaten by cat girls, will cause the cat girls to flip out and get involved in various questionable acts, such as the consumption of Azumanga Daioh.

* Pie can kill a cat girl in seconds. For some strange reason, when a cat girl ever sees anything that looks like pie, it will pass out or die. Probably because they have seen red buttons that they wanted to push but were prevented from doing so.

* That guy with a machete who wears a hockey mask He just tries to be friends with people, and they always die. Same goes for cat girls too.

* That guy with a scarred face who has a clawed glove Sweet dreams, little pussycat!

* Billy Dee Williams No one can resist Billy Dee Williams. Works every time.

* Dr. Ivo Robotnik He rapes the shit out of them on a daily basis. Invulnerable to their cuteness, he just tells them to stop snooping as usual, or he’ll ride a wheel-barrow full of dicks straight up their asses.

* Ichigo kurosaki Has a grudge against cat girls because they called him a pervert anyone who calles me a pervert deserves to be killed.

* The Cat Girls one true enemy is, youve guessed it, THE DOG GIRLS. One the two ever fighting species encounter, god help us all.

Cat girl disease

A little known secret is that if one is to survive a Cat girl attack, they become cat girls themselves, weither they are male or female. The male turned cat girl becomes sexually active and rapes 5 year old men alive or dead.

Cat girl’s make-up

Cat girls have ears, whiskers, tails, and paws of a cat, sweet taste buds of a cow (Over 9000 buds), and everything else of a human.

Cat girls in history

*  In AD 2101, although not a cat girl himself( he is just a cat), CATS, the leader of an army of cat girls from space, set up us the bomb. Also, he will give his famous speech that “all your base are belong to us!”

* IN AD 2006, cat girl advocate and pi mage Snerlin Avogadro, inspired by a fish’s protest to legalize tacos, began the LEGALIZE IT! movement in which he and a team of cat girls posted propaganda in random places in public displaying cat girls with picket signs protesting for the legalization of tacos.

* In AD 1337, Caturday became an official holiday celebrated by cats, cat girls, computer nerds, spammers and kittens alike!

* In AD 1162, German Prof. Blah Blahson, along with a team of cat girls invented the anime convention. Thankfully Prof. Blah Blahson was a stickman(which is a type of monster rather than an adventurer) so they didn’t eat them. However, the convention itself was pretty much a huge failure since the cat girls ate all the adventurers that came there(except the ones cosplaying as cat girls or hot female anime characters).

* In 500 B.C. an ancient tribe of cat girls defeated the mooses at the Battle of Sashimi Salad, and learned thus pillaged from them the secret recipe of making sticky rice and how to make a pirate ship entirely out of sushi. Using their new ship, they sailed off the coast of Bobland ( a small country off the coast of Mongolia) and discovered what is today Japan.

* During The Great Fur War a Vicious Male Cat girl hired by NSAMA to assassinate the Yiffs’ leader, Robin Williams.

* In UC 0083, the male cat girl/tart Anavel Gato/Gateaux stole a Gundam, nuked an asteroid base and died at the hands of a Earth Federation fleet. This is the only known case of a male catgirl in a robot being defeated.

* In the Invasion of Uncyclopedia, one managed to wound Jimbo Wales, but was killed when her factual accuracy was disputed.

* In State Day of Cycle 32455432, the Maximal Cheetor married Haru, a catgirl, forever cementing the union between Transformers and anime characters.

* In the Isle of Mann, the native cat girl species have short, stubby tails. This is becaue the locals are a bunch of barbarian scientologists who shoot off the ends of their tails on sight. To explain further, Tom Cruise is in fact the reincarnation of Tom the cat (of Tom and Jerry fame) who wishes to seek revenge on his fellow cat kind for abandoning him in his numerous times of need, when being outsmarted by a pesky mouse.

* on september 27 2009 it is revealed that a cat girl gave birth to the anti christ.

* when humans die out, Cat Girls (catamonolious femininionus) will thrive and take over our planet, because, obviously, we killed them off by their one true weakness. (drawing them into furry porn and hapilly playing with ourselves while doing so.)

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Things that according to the Daily Mail “Give You Cancer”

Below is a list of things that the daily mail claim can give you cancer, there all real and all link tot he article on the papers website, i have to admit the few ive read to appear to have very loose links if any and are rarely supported by science.

I should also add that this list only covers the retarded articles, not the serious ones like smoking or the sun.

AGE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-449783/Women-birth-age-30-double-risk-breast-cancer.html
AIR POLLUTION http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-358875/Pollution-cars-linked-child-cancer.html
AIR TRAVEL http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-200443/Frequent-fliers-raise-cancer-risk.html and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-591109/Cancer-risk-frequent-fliers.html
ALCOHOL http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-147083/Drink-day-increases-breast-cancer-risk.html and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-471910/Bowel-cancer-danger-just-glass-wine-day.html
ALLERGIES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-324732/Child-allergies-raise-cancer-risk.html
ARTIFICIAL FLAVOURS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-55023/Cancer-causing-chemicals-soy-sauce.html
ARTIFICIAL LIGHT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-391267/Artificial-light-increases-breast-cancer-risk.html
ASBESTOS (as if it wasn’t bad enough already) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1170584/Asbestos-schools-kill-pupils-warns-teacher-dying-lung-cancer.html
ASPIRIN http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-205490/Asprin-link-cancer-risk.html
BABIES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-157683/Birth-size-link-breast-cancer.html
BABY BOTTLES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1038697/EU-rejects-ban-baby-bottles-linked-early-puberty-breast-cancer-miscarriage-infertility.html
BABY FOOD http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-199887/Baby-food-cancer-alert.html
BACON http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1102368/Additives-used-bacon-ham-chicken-make-cancers-grow.html
BARBEQUES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-326153/Australians-warned-backyard-cancer-risk.html
BEEF http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-393666/Alarm-beef-link-breast-cancer.html
BEER http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1161843/Just-pint-beer-day-raise-risk-prostate-cancer.html
BEING A BLACK PERSON http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1064547/Black-men-times-likely-prostate-cancer.html and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-508753/Black-women-develop-breast-cancer-decades-earlier-white-women.html
BEING A WOMAN http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-63976/Cancer-risk-higher-women-smokers.html
BEING A MAN http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-306543/Men-twice-likely-die-cancer-women.html
BEING SOUTHERN http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1027331/Why-affluent-women-South-likely-die-breast-cancer.html
BISCUITS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-126342/Cancer-foods-avoid.html
BLOWJOBS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-453843/Oral-sex-cause-throat-cancer.html
BRAS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-182370/Is-bra-bad-you.html
BREAD http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-411506/White-bread-increases-cancer-risk.html
BREAST FEEDING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-178756/Whos-risk-breast-cancer.html
BREAST IMPLANTS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-41443/Breast-implants-cancer-scare.html
BROKEN HEARTS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-450049/How-heart-broken-grief-send-early-grave.html
BUBBLE BATH http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-403703/Is-bubble-bath-safe.html
BURGERS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-467360/Cancer-scare-food-colour-added-sausages-burgers.html
CAFFINE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1127473/Coffee-raise-child-cancer-risk-New-evidence-caffeine-damage-babies-DNA.html
CALCUIM http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052127/Fatal-cancer-risk-men-high-blood-calcium-levels-say-US-researchers.html
CANDLE-LIT DINNERS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1207726/Candles-release-scents-laced-cancer-chemicals-warn-scientists.html#ixzz0dufFps6a
CANNED FOOD http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-44676/Gender-bending-chemicals-tin-cans.html
CARBOHYDRATES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-313227/Low-carb-diets-beat-breast-cancer.html
CARS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-358875/Pollution-cars-linked-child-cancer.html
CEREAL http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-115696/How-safe-favourite-foods.html
CHEESE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1002424/Italy-shuts-mozzarella-production-toxin-fears-spread.html
CHICKEN http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-429303/Families-risk-toxic-imported-foods.html
CHILDLESSNESS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-474820/SUZANNE-MOORE-Im-sick-told-fault.html
CHILDREN http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-506501/Prostate-risk-having-family-according-new-study.html
CHILDREN’S FOODhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-201390/Health-warning-childrens-food.html
CHILLIS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-347287/Cancer-checks-spices-new-food-dyes-alert.html
CHINESE MEDICINE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-75547/Warming-cancer-risk-Chinese-medicines.html
CHIPS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-487571/Parents-told-chips-cause-cancer.html
CHLORINE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-431777/Chlorine-bathwater-linked-cancer.html
CHOCLATE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-386625/Cancer-fears-chocolate-snacks.html
CITY LIVING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-496495/City-life-blamed-higher-risk-breast-cancer.html
CLIMATE CHANGE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-452789/Warmer-climate-mean-thousands-deaths-skin-cancer.html
COCA COLA http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-337178/Carrot-day-reduces-cancer-risk.html
COD LIVER OIL http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-379918/Cancer-fears-cod-liver-oil-capsules.html
COFFEE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3027/How-healthy-cup-coffee.html
CONSTAPATION http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-193698/Atkins-diet-cancer-risk.html
CONTRASEPTIVE PILLS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-181273/Cancer-risk-45-higher-Pill.html
COOKING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-382571/Frying-increase-cancer-risk.html
CORDLESS PHONES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-515970/After-cancer-warnings-mobiles-home-phone-putting-health-danger.html
CRAYONS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6706/Safety-alert-best-selling-crayons.html
CURRY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-342632/Cancer-dye-Grossman-curry-sauce.html
DEODRANT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-205705/Deodorants-linked-cancer.html
DIETING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-73056/Is-diet-lifestyle-putting-risk-breast-cancer.html
DOGS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-490581/Can-dogs-breast-cancer-Bizarre-medical-theories-experts-claim-actually-true.html
EGGS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-50995/Cancer-chemicals-eggs.html
ELECTRICITY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-449679/Power-lines-link-cancer-new-alert.html
ENGLISH BREAKFAST http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1049142/Traditional-English-fry-raise-risk-bowel-cancer-63-cent.html
FACEBOOK http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-Facebook-raise-risk-cancer.html
FALSE NAILS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1174768/Having-nails-skin-cancer-doctors-warn-women.html
FATHERHOOD http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-506501/Prostate-risk-having-family-according-new-study.html
FIBRE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4903/Fibre-cancer-risk-warning.html
FISH http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-117840/Fish-cancer-scare.html
FLIP FLOPS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1025915/Wearing-FLIP-FLOPS-skin-cancer-doctors-warn.html
FLY SPRAY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-459938/Using-pesticide-sprays-home-double-risk-brain-tumours.html
FRUIT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-371260/Breast-cancer-drug-cuts-death-risk.html
GARDENS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-326153/Australians-warned-backyard-cancer-risk.html
GRAPEFRUIT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-468559/Eating-grapefruit-increase-breast-cancer-risk-third.html
HAIR DYE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1017259/How-using-hair-dye-increase-risk-cancer.html
HAM http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-490845/Is-safe-eat-Cancer-report-adds-bacon-ham-drink-danger-list.html
HEIGHT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1064454/Bigger-taller-baby-girls-higher-risk-breast-cancer-says-study.html
HONEY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-429303/Families-risk-toxic-imported-foods.html
HOT DRINKS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-115696/How-safe-favourite-foods.html
HRT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1214782/HRT-increases-risk-dying-lung-cancer.html#ixzz0dueJ7qOY
INTERNET http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-312505/Cancer-patients-risk-websites.html
IVF http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-148228/How-IVF-raises-cancer-risks.html
KIDNEY TRANSPLATS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-459097/TV-prize-kidney-carries-risk-cancer.html
LAMB http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-446559/Red-meat-link-higher-risk-breast-cancer.html
LARGE HEADS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-370870/Big-headed-babies-prone-cancer.html
LEFT-HANDEDNESS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-363477/Left-handers-likely-breast-cancer.html
LIVER TRANSPLANTS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-207838/Cancer-liver-transplant-killed-husband.html
MENOPAUSE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-395201/Weight-gain-menopause-increases-breast-cancer-risk.html
MENSTRUATION http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-68946/Do-women-need-periods.html
METAL http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1081692/The-metals-daily-glass-wine-linked-cancer-Parkinsons.html
MILK http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-328863/Milk-linked-ovarian-cancer.html
MOBILE PHONES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-473553/Orange-remove-mobile-mast-tower-doom-cancer-rate-soared.html
MODERN LIVING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-474157/Modern-living-blame-cancer-epidemic.html
MONEY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1025375/Wealthy-background-raise-risk-cancer-teenagers.html
MORPHINE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1230208/Pain-drug-morphine-cause-cancer-spread.html#ixzz0dudlHqN2
MOUTHWASH http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1113422/Mouthwash-causes-oral-cancer-pulled-supermarkets-say-experts.html
NUCLEAR POWER (there is no hint of irony in this article) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-42066/New-study-links-nuclear-sites-cancer.html
OBESITY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-245997/Obesity-raises-risk-cancer.html
OESTROGEN http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4098/Oestrogen-link-breast-cancer.html
OLDER FATHERs http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1223025/Why-older-fathers-likely-children-genetic-disorders.html#ixzz0dudLlJsP
PASTRY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-115696/How-safe-favourite-foods.html
PEANUT BUTTER http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164417/Food-watchdog-warning-peanut-butter-brand-containing-cancer-causing-fungus.html
PERFUME http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1051130/How-perfumes-scented-creams-make-unborn-baby-infertile.html
PICKLES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-115696/How-safe-favourite-foods.html
PIZZA http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-341698/New-food-dye-warning.html
PLASTIC BAGS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1207840/Plastic-decomposes-sea-releases-cancer-causing-chemicals-study-warns.html#ixzz0duexZlFs
PORK http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1093039/After-alert-Irish-pork-safe-beef.html
POTATOES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-115037/Cancer-chemical-link-cooked-food.html
POVERTY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-474820/SUZANNE-MOORE-Im-sick-told-fault.html
PREGNANCY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-82458/Breast-cancer-risk-career-women.html
RADIOACTIVITY (again, just no irony whatsoever) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-421140/As-radioactive-spy-buried-bar-staff-served-facing-cancer-risk.html
RICE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-444222/Rice-tainted-arsenic-raises-risk-cancer.html
SAUSAGES http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-550729/Why-eating-just-sausage-day-raises-cancer-risk-20-cent.html
RETIREMENT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1220446/Oh-Work-good-especially-youve-retired.html#ixzz0ducbviCE
SEX http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-191219/Did-sex-cancer.html
SHAVING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-206459/Shaving-raise-cancer-risk.html
SKIING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-206243/Skiers-warned-cancer-risk.html
SOUP http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1132814/Salty-soups-increase-cancer-risk-says-expert.html
SPACE TRAVEL http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1015482/How-astronauts-risk-cancer–premature-ageing–travelling-space.html
SUN CREAM http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-592076/Cancer-fear-childrens-sun-creams.html
TALCUM POWDER http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1063040/Cancer-alert-talc-Women-using-powder-day-risk.html
TEA http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-87131/Too-tea-treble-cancer-risk-women.html
TEEN SEX http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1237530/Girls-sex-teens-greater-risk-developing-cervical-cancer.html#ixzz0dudvXOF7
VITAMINS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-320006/Vitamin-pills-cause-early-deaths.html
WATER http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13620/Cancer-link-tap-water-radon-hotspots.html
WI-FI http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-456534/The-classroom-cancer-risk-wi-fi-internet.html
WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-338899/Dye-alert-spreads-school-meals.html
WORKING http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1031934/Why-men-desk-jobs-higher-risk-prostate-cancer.html
X-RAYS http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-207035/X-rays-bring-risk-cancer.html

The only thing they don’t appear to think will give you cancer is having someone else’s cancer cut out of them and transplanted into you, and of course, reading there paper.

I think looking at there list the only way to not get cancer is to die, right now….

How does popping candy work?

I brought some popping candy for my other half and it arrived today (eBay) and I was curious as to how it works. turns out its made the same way as normal candy but in the final stage they pump carbon dioxide into it (about 600 psi) as it cools this causes most of it to crack (that’s why it comes in such small parts) but alot of the gas remains inside the cooled candy shards, when you put this in your mouth the candy starts melting and the gas gets released making the popping sound :)

On a side note it makes a good oral sex aid…..and someone’s even selling it as that http://www.amazon.com/Adult-Candy-Shoppe-Popping-Assorted/dp/B000RDZVH2

Woman accused of breaching noisy sex asbo

Seriously. A woman has appeared in court after breaching her asbo which doesent allow her to make excessive noise during sex…….

How shit must your life be to complain about your neighbours having sex that you consider too loud anyway?

And of course on a more serious note if you’re anything like me and enjoy your sex life this is a big concern, the goverment now think it’s ok to arrest and put people on trial for doing the same thing that produces the next generation of humans. I decided the best way to try and make this make sense was to find out what consituates anti social behaviour. It’s defined as “Any act that causes a nuisance or disturbance to those living in and around a surrounding area. Such acts of anti-social behaviour can take on many different forms”. Now i could be wrong but if i was having noisy sex and my neighbours called the police and they came round to arrest me for it, I would say that both the neighbours and the police are a nuisance to myself. Could I try and get asbo’s for them as well? It seems like one of those laws (very much like the anti terror laws) that were put in place for a good reason but are now being abused so that people can enforce their way of life on others (in this case their way of life is clearly quite boring sex)

And if anyone is thinking I’m being a little silly here and that it’s not that bad I would just quote one other asbo inicdent that i remember which kinda proves my point. Julie Brown, from Burton-on-Trent was sent a letter from the court threatening her son with an asbo, and at the time he hadn’t even been born, despite this fact there had been complaints made that her son had annoyed neighbours and they just didnnt bother checking. Is this a system that works? No

Between learning that noisy sex can land you in court, the extreme pornography laws that were introduced in 2008 (most BDSM porn is illegal in the UK these days and producing it here is a real no-no) and of course that the British law does not recognize the possibility of consenting to bodily injury. Such acts are illegal, even between consenting adults, and these laws are enforced. I have to wonder what the hell is going on, personally I think what happens between two consenting adults is their business and fuck all to do with anyone else, if there looking at some “exetreme pornography” that was shot legally and consensually, if there enjoying themselves and make a bit of noise or if they beat each other black and blue then it’s between them. This is something I feel is very close to home and not appropiate for this day and age.

On a separate rant the only reason we have the extreme porn law in this country is because some mentally unhinged guy killed a girl and them himself and on his pc they found some BDSM porn and so that’s clearly to blame…really? Fucking hilarious, I’m sure they also found he had been to some normal website, maybe used online banking, why arn’t they also banned for making people go mental and kill others? Because the dead girl’s mum didn’t go round causing a fuss about them because she doesn’t think there “wrong” seriously, fucktard

Swans Vs Parrots

Working on the basis that swans are invincible and know karate, I think that makes them the ninja of the animal world, and parrots have long been associated with pirates. But who would win in a fight? well I’ve investigated.

When looking on YouTube for “swans fighting” and “Parrots fighting” these are the first results I got.

First “Parrot fighting” result

First “Swan fighting” result

Results

Swan video courtesy of www.ninjitsuwarrior.com for the serious ninja
Parrot video courtesy of Freckles the Parrot

In Soviet Russia, Lake Contaminates You

In late 1945, along the banks of the Techa River in the Soviet Union, a dozen labor camps sent 70,000 inmates to begin construction of a secret city. Mere months earlier the United States’ Little Boy and Fat Man bombs had flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leaving Soviet leaders salivating over the massive power of the atom. In a rush to close the gap in weapons technology, the USSR commissioned a sprawling plutonium-production complex in the southern Ural mountains. The clandestine military-industrial community was to be operated by Russia’s Mayak Chemical Combine, and it would come to be known as Chelyabinsk-40.

Within a few years the newfangled nuclear reactors were pumping out plutonium to fuel the Soviet Union’s first atomic weapons. Chelyabinsk-40 was absent from all official maps, and it would be over forty years before the Soviet government would even acknowledge its existence. Nevertheless, the small city became an insidious influence in the Soviet Union, ultimately creating a corona of nuclear contamination dwarfing the devastation of the Chernobyl disaster.

By June 1948, after 31 months of brisk construction, the first of the Chelyabinsk-40 “breeder” reactors was brought online. Soon bricks of common uranium-238 were being bombarded with neutrons, resulting in loaves of pipin’-hot weapons-grade plutonium. In their haste to begin production, Soviet engineers lacked the time to establish proper waste-handling procedures, so most of the byproducts were dealt with by diluting them in water and squirting the effluent into the Techa River. The watered-down waste was a cocktail of “hot” elements, including long-lived fission products such as Strontium-90 and Cesium-137–each with a half-life of approximately thirty years.

The village of Metlino on the Techa River

In 1951, after about three years of operations at Chelyabinsk-40, Soviet scientists conducted a survey of the Techa River to determine whether radioactive contamination was becoming a problem. In the village of Metlino, just over four miles downriver from the plutonium plant, investigators and Geiger counters clicked nervously along the river bank. Rather than the typical “background” gamma radiation of about 0.21 Röntgens per year, the edge of the Techa River was emanating 5 Röntgens per hour. Such elevated levels were rather distressing since that the river was the primary source of water for the 1,200 residents there. Subsequent measurements found extensive contamination in 38 other villages along the Techa, seriously jeopardizing the health of about 28,000 people. In addition, almost 100,000 other residents were being exposed to elevated-but-not-quite-as-deadly doses of gamma radiation, both from the river itself and from the floodplain where crops and livestock were raised.

In an effort to avoid serious radiological health effects among the populace, the Soviet government relocated about 7,500 villagers from the most heavily contaminated areas, fenced off the floodplain, and dug wells to provide an alternate water source for the remaining villages. Engineers were brought in to erect earthen dams along the Techa River to prevent radioactive sediments from migrating further downstream. The Soviet scientists at Chelyabinsk-40 also revised their waste disposal strategy, halting the practice of dumping effluent directly into the river. Instead, they constructed a set of “intermediate storage tanks” where waste water could spend some time bleeding off radioactivity. After lingering in these vats for a few months, the diluted dregs were periodically piped to the new long-term storage location: a ten-foot-deep, 110 acre lake called Karachay. For a while these measures spared the Techa River residents from further increases in exposure, but the Mayak Chemical Combine had only begun to demonstrate its flair for misfortune.

By the mid 1950s the workers at the plutonium production plant began to complain of soreness, low blood pressure, loss of coordination, and tremors–the classic symptoms of chronic radiation syndrome. The facility itself was also beginning to encounter chronic complications, particularly in the new intermediate storage system. The row of waste vats sat in a concrete canal a few kilometers outside the main complex, submerged in a constant flow of water to carry away the heat generated by radioactive decay. Soon the technicians discovered that the hot isotopes in the waste water tended to cause a bit of evaporation inside the tanks, resulting in more buoyancy than had been anticipated. This upward pressure put stress on the inlet pipes, eventually compromising the seals and allowing raw radioactive waste to seep into the canal’s coolant water. To make matters worse, several of the tanks’ heat exchangers failed, crippling their cooling capacity.

The workers were aware of these faults, but the ambient radiation in the cooling trench forestalled any repairs. A flurry of calculations indicated that most of the waste water in the tanks would remain in a stable liquid state even without the additional cooling, so technicians continued to operate the plutonium plant in spite of these problems. Their evaporation calculations were in error, however, and the water inside the defective tanks gradually boiled away. A radioactive sludge of nitrates and acetates was left behind, a chemical compound roughly equivalent to TNT.

Former main street in the village of Muslyumovo © Greenpeace / Robert Knoth

Unable to shed much heat, the concentrated radioactive slurry continued to increase in temperature within the defective 80,000 gallon containers. On 29 September 1957, one tank reached an estimated 660 degrees Fahrenheit. At 4:20pm local time, the explosive salt deposits in the bottom of the vat detonated. The blast ignited the contents of the other dried-out tanks, producing a combined explosive force equivalent to about 85 tons of TNT. The thick concrete lid which covered the cooling trench was hurled eighty feet away, and seventy tons of highly radioactive fission products were ejected into the open atmosphere. The buildings at Chelyabinsk-40 shuddered as they were buffeted by the shock wave.

While investigators probed the blast site in protective suits, a mile-high column of radionuclides dragged across the landscape. The gamma-emitting dust cloud spread hazardous isotopes of cesium and strontium over 9,000 square miles, affecting some 270,000 Soviet citizens and their food supplies. Over twenty megacuries (MCi) of radioactivity were released, almost half of that expelled by the Chernobyl incident.

In the days that followed, strange reports began to emerge from downwind villages. According to author Richard Pollock in a 1978 Critical Mass Journal article, residents of the Chelyabinsk Province became “hysterical with fear with the incidence of unknown ‘mysterious’ diseases breaking out. Victims were seen with skin ’sloughing off’ their faces, hands and other exposed parts of their bodies.” After the customary ten-day period of hand-sitting, the government ordered the evacuation of many villages where skin-sloughers and blood-vomiters had appeared. This mass migration left the landscape littered with radioactive ghost towns.

The facilities at Chelyabinsk-40 were swiftly decontaminated with hoses, mops, and squeegees, and soon plutonium production was underway again. The intermediate storage system had been partially compromised by the accident, but the factory was still able to squirt its constant flow of radioactive effluence into Lake Karachay. The lake lacked any surface outlets, so optimistic engineers reasoned that anything dumped into the lake would remain entombed there indefinitely.

Many locals were hospitalized with radiation poisoning in the weeks after the waste-tank blast, but the Soviet state forbade doctors from disclosing the true nature of the illnesses. Instead, physicians were instructed to diagnose sufferers with ambiguous “blood problems” and “vegetative syndromes.” The Russian government likewise withheld the colossal calamity from the international community. Within two years, the radiation killed all of the pine trees within a twelve mile radius of Chelyabinsk-40. Highway signs were erected at the edges of the contaminated zone, imploring travelers to roll up their windows while traversing the deteriorated swath of Earth, and to not stop for any reason.

Welcome to Chelyabinsk, comrade. No Loitering.

Ten years later, in 1967, a severe drought struck the Chelyabinsk Province. Much to the Russian scientists’ alarm, shallow Lake Karachay gradually began to shrink from its shores. Over several months the water dwindled considerably, leaving the lake about half-empty (or half-full, if you’re more upbeat). This exposed the radioactive sediment in the lake basin, and fifteen years’ worth of radionuclides took to the breeze. About 900 square miles of land was peppered with Strontium-90, Cesium-137, and other unhealthy elements. Almost half a million residents were in the path of this latest dust cloud of doom, many of them the same people who had been affected by the 1957 waste-tank explosion.

Soviet engineers hastily enacted a program to help prevent further sediment from leaving Lake Karachay. For a dozen or so years they dumped rocks, soil, and large concrete blocks into the tainted basin. The Mayak Chemical Combine conceded that the lake was an inadequate long-term storage system, and ordered that Karachay be slowly sealed in a shell of earth and concrete.

In 1990, as the Soviet Union teetered at the brink of collapse, government officials finally acknowledged the existence of the secret city of Chelyabinsk-40 (soon renamed to Chelyabinsk-65, then later changed to Ozersk). They also acknowledged its tragic parade of radiological disasters. At that time Lake Karachay remained as the principal waste-dumping site for for the plutonium plant, but the effort to fill the lake with soil and concrete had halved its surface area.

Thirty-nine years of effluent had saturated the lake with nasty isotopes, including an estimated 120 megacuries of long-lived radiation. In contrast, the Chernobyl incident released roughly 100 megacuries of radiation into the environment, but only about 3 megacuries of Strontium-90 and Cesium-137. A delegation who visited Lake Karachay in 1990 measured the radiation at the point where the effluent entered the water, and the needles of their Geiger counters danced at about 600 Röntgens per hour–enough to provide a lethal dose in one hour. They did not linger long.

A report compiled in 1991 found that the incidence of leukemia in the region had increased by 41% since Chelyabinsk-40 opened for business, and that during the 1980s cancers had increased by 21% and circulatory disorders rose by 31%. It is probable, however, that the true numbers are much higher since doctors were required to limit the number diagnoses issued for cancer and other radiation-related illnesses. In the village of Muslyumovo, a local physician’s personal records from 1993 indicated an average male lifespan of 45 years compared to 69 in the rest of the country. Birth defects, sterility, and chronic disease also increased dramatically. In all, over a million Russian citizens were directly affected by the misadventures of the Mayak Chemical Combine from 1948 to 1990, including around 28,000 people classified as “seriously irradiated.”

Karachay, the concrete lake

Today, there are huge tracts of Chelyabinsk land still uninhabitable due to the radionuclides from the river contamination, the 1957 blast, and the 1967 drought. The surface of Lake Karachay is now made up of more concrete than water, however the lake’s payload of fission products is not completely captive. Recent surveys have detected gamma-emitting elements in nearby rivers, indicating that undesirable isotopes have been seeping into the water table. Estimates suggest that approximately a billion gallons of groundwater have already been contaminated with 5 megacuries of radionuclides. The neighboring Norwegians are understandably nervous that some of the pollution could find its way into their water supply, or even into the Arctic Ocean.

Russia has long been fond of producing the most massive specimens of military might: the monstrous Tsar Cannon, the 200-ton Tsar Bell, the cumbersome Tsar Tank, and the 50-megaton Tsar Bomba. In that “biggest-ever” tradition, the Mayak Chemical Combine is now credited by the Worldwatch Institute as the creator of the “most polluted spot” in history, a mess whose true magnitude is yet to be known.

This article was written by Alan Bellows and published on Damn Intresting

Pear Cider

One of my pet hates is pear cider. Not all of them, a pear cider made from both pear and apple juice is fine but with the ones like Bulmers pear cider that make a big deal out of the fact its just pear juice… Well then its not cider is it, cider is fermented apples, fermented pears make perry.

Also, while on the subject of cider I decided to look into its value towards your 5 a day :) This fares a little better than trying to eat sweets to obtain it. It takes about 40 apples to make a gallon of cider so each pint contains the juice of about 6 apples. So yes, one pint = one of your 5 a day, sadly only one a day can be from fruit juice because of the lack of fibre and because the fruit sugars are pressed from the fruit which isn’t as good for you. Still 1 pint a day = 1 of your 5 a day so not bad.