The English Guy’s Personal Blog

It’s funny some of the things that journalists write about, especially the high class glad-rag ones. This little story comes from the Times Online:

It might seem like a statement of the obvious, but sword-swallowers are prone to suffering from sore throats.

However, practitioners of the art can suffer more serious injuries such as perforated intestines, internal bleeding and even major haemorrhages.

My God, no way! Putting swords down your throat into your stomach could cause perforated intestines, internal bleeding and major haemorrhages? How strange. And here’s me thinking that the swords are made from marzipan…

Here’s something that popped up Fark today, that I thought I would chat about:

Members of a Chicago family are trying to get a warning out after they said a computer they bought as a child’s gift turned out to be laden with pornography.

Hmm, wonder if Dell has that as an extra package?

Rick Donaldson said he purchased the computer from a Comp USA store in Skokie, Ill. It was a floor model Donaldson bought at a discount, but the father never imagined that such content would be on the computer. He said the URL that appeared wasn’t just pornographic, but racist, too.

Does no-one check these computers after they’re done on the ‘floor’? Apparently so, so they say:

Comp USA said it is common practice for the store to erase hard drives. A store representative said this was “very rare and we’re very apologetic.”