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Stumbled over this and couldn't stop laughing, although it's not supposed to be funny

"Feng told a court in China he had been deeply in love with his beautiful wife until they had a baby girl.

Gazing into his baby daughter's eyes, Feng was repulsed.

He apparently then went on to describe his child as horrifically ugly, with no resemblance to him or his wife.

Chinese Man Jian Feng 'Divorces And Sues Wife For Being Ugly, Before Plastic Surgery'

In the UK at the moment, and I've no doubt this has gone round the world by now, child abuse scandals are reaching hysteria proportions mainly fuelled by the media after the revelations of Jimmy Saville came to light.

It looks like there are a lot of unanswered questions, mainly why subsequent police investigations never seem to get anywhere, a lack of confidence in the system, and the feeling there are few public high flyers out there who have a sordid past who have yet to be revealed.

But regardless of faults or perceived faults with previous Police Investigations, there seems to be a genuine attempt to try and put right some wrongs of the past and bring people to justice. So shouldn't we now leave this to the Police and let them investigate properly, who have the spot light firmly on them, instead of media fuelled hysteria and speculation?

A daytime talkshow host, Philip Schofield decided to ambush the Prime Minister on his show by handing a list of names, including MP's that were rumoured to be involved in child abuse. As if this wasn't bad enough, he then inadvertently held the list so it was picked up by a camera on live TV, a mistake but a shocking one.

I thought we had moved on from the days of witch hunts, and it looks like TV presenters have now taken over as Judges.

Personally I think he should be sacked and thank god I don't have to watch daytime telly!

He was in ecstasy and a huge smile spread across his face as his girlfriend moved slowly forwards and then backwards again.

Forwards then backwards. Back and forth. Back and forth. In and out. In and out. Her heart was pounding faster now. Her face was flushed and she moaned, softly at first, then progressively louder...

Finally, exhausted, she let out one almighty scream, then sighed heavily and relaxed her vice-like grip!!!


"Oh! Okay! You'd better park the bloody car yourself you SMUG GIT!"

credit to Fri humour Archives

Superb article

How I Hijacked Rand Fishkin's Blog | DEJAN SEO

So as long suspected, duplicated or scraped content can rank higher than the original

Fascinating that he also managed to get the google info: results to show for the duplicate content!

It's a shame there isn't an agreed defence for this yet. We use the publisher and canonical tags, but how effective this is in reality is yet to be proven. Seems it's more of a "can help" rather than a fix.

If you can use the author/publisher tag on your content, then it's well worth it.

We don't normally like complete copy and paste posts, but I can see you have copied from your own blog, and you're not pitching, plus it's interesting

I first came across the term freemium business model a few years ago after attending a business seminar by Doug Richards (was an original member of the UK Dragons Den).

It was interesting because the way he explained it, was exactly what we were doing, but we just didn't have a label.

His version was the freemium model is used as a hook to draw in interest and potential customers, by giving away a usable cutdown/reduced feature version of your product, and with the opportunity to upsell to the full version if a customer saw the benefits.

We apply this model on our business directories, offering a free listing, but with a chance to upgrade. I think it is pretty much the standard model these days at least in the directory world, but it seems the definition is slightly different in the UK to maybe the States? Or I wonder if the freemium model can be broken down into sub models? Curious, because Doug himself is American, although I think probably Anglicised by now!

But agree totally that you would be cautious being offered a free product from a startup if it became a tool, product or service you came to rely on, if you didn't have the confidence the company had the backing to survive.

Hi Peter, you have done 10 posts now, so your account will be upgraded and you will be able to leave web links in your forum signature. Go to your user control panel to set up your sig. Any probs, PM me.


Very true, but as someone told me years ago, big guns normally have big shiny offices with lots of staff which means high overheads which need paying for

But best of luck and glad we've been of some help.

As dreamraven says, email doesn't matter.

Just think though if you want your personal account associated with this analytics account long term.

It's quite humbling isn't it. The lottery of birth and where you end up. Doesn't make it right, just a sad reality.

We couldn't have a complete forum blackout on the American election

I saw on the news this morning that the Presidential campaign actually started 2 years ago!?! So for a 4 year term, they now spend 50% of it campaigning for re-election

With the sheer amount of money involved, media frenzy and power plays behind the scenes by people with vested interests, you do wonder if the term "democracy" is getting a bit thin. Especially when we (the West) seem to criticise every other form of government.

Maybe it's time for the Queen to invoke the hidden clause that nobody knows about, where the USA lease expires and to take over, with Dr Ian as her right hand man