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Man burns his head after mistaking iron for phone
telegraph ^
| 12-12-12
| Matthew Day
Posted on 12/12/2012 2:03:29 PM PST by TurboZamboni
Tomasz Paczkowski from the northern Polish town of Elblag now sports bandages around his head after a request from his wife to help with the housework while he enjoyed a few days off work backfired. My wife had gone to work and asked me to help with the housework, the 32-year old told the Polish newspaper Fakt. After breakfast I started to work. I turned on the boxing channel on the TV, opened a beer and started ironing. I was really getting involved in the boxing and was not really thinking about what I was doing, he continued. Suddenly the phone rang and I mucked things up: instead of grabbing the receiver I picked up the iron and put it to my ear.
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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: housework; iron; napl; phone; poland
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To: TurboZamboni
the rise of 0 scares me -- I'm 34 and to me it seems incredible that people of my age or younger would want to turn our country into a communist state. Come on -- I've travelled to China and India and the middle east and now eastern europe and I see how they are turning their backs on the failed policies of socialism. Why would we choose those same failed policies????
It makes no sense at all -- communism has failed, socialism has failed -- they've failed so badly people are turning from them. The quality of life in these places has completely changed from 1990 to 2012
What madness can make an electorate follow failed policies?
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posted on
12/12/2012 9:06:46 PM PST
by
Cronos
(**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
12/12/2012 9:23:22 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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To: TurboZamboni
Arrest the liquor store clerk for selling booze to an obvious drunk!!!!
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posted on
12/12/2012 9:42:44 PM PST
by
dalereed
To: Revolting cat!
My ex once got too inebriated and passed out on the couch..the house phone rang and in his stupor he grabbed and answered a Coors beer can. Right there in front of the whole family who had just walked in the door to visit for Christmas. Good times.....we still laugh at him!
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posted on
12/12/2012 10:04:30 PM PST
by
JouleZ
(You are the company you keep.)
To: Daffynition
More sad iron.
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posted on
12/12/2012 10:08:08 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Tzar
Just one little wrinkle in that theory...
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posted on
12/12/2012 10:10:23 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
To: Slings and Arrows
I feel demotivated. Let's liven up the partaaay.:(
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posted on
12/12/2012 11:01:35 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
To: Joe 6-pack
The phone lines were burning up! probably having a streamy conversation
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posted on
12/13/2012 7:25:53 AM PST
by
TheRightGuy
(I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
To: Responsibility2nd
To: Slings and Arrows
This sounds like the type of thing that I might do...
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posted on
12/13/2012 8:08:32 AM PST
by
AFPhys
((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
To: TruthWillWin
I have done things like this without beer making its appearance on the scene. Perhaps I am very easily distracted, or let my body work on autopilot too much...
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posted on
12/13/2012 8:11:00 AM PST
by
AFPhys
((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
To: AFPhys
Yes, we have all done dumb things. This one however is a few steps above my “dumb things”
pay grade.
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posted on
12/13/2012 8:36:55 AM PST
by
TruthWillWin
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: Cronos
Do you perchance know the term equivalent to “Polack” for Germans? I have been casting around for it, but keep failing.
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posted on
12/13/2012 9:10:20 AM PST
by
AFPhys
((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
To: Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!
I have never made that mistake although I did wind up with some dog doo in my ear once.
To: Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!; Daffynition
I suspect that the man in this news item was ironing his hair and too embarrassed to disclose to the press what really happened.
To: TheRightGuy
Do you think he kept a straight face?
To: TurboZamboni
He was calling the National Burn Center Hotline.
To: AFPhys
unfortunately the Germans have a lot of bad terms to call them -- Hun, Fritz, Heinies, Kraut, Boche (in French "cabbage-head")
In Polish I was amused to find out that the word for Germany: Niemcy and the word for a German: Niemiec are derived from the word nem meaning "mute" -- its similar in other Slavic languages -- presumably the early Slavs came upon the Germans saying "ach, die zu" and went "Eh? What are you saying? are you unable to speak?" :-P
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posted on
12/13/2012 7:56:02 PM PST
by
Cronos
(**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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