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How to Trap Children in the Dark and Lonely Water

August 29, 2009

Somehow, fear as a motivator has fallen out of favor. Back in the day, though, scaring the tar out of kids was a perfectly acceptable method for keeping them in [...]

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Hold It! Code 3!

July 30, 2009

Were Scotland Yard’s phone operators playing it too loose with trips to the loo? You can’t manage what you can’t measure, so the bosses have devised an unintentionally-hilarious new procedure [...]

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Soak Up The View From This Fab Garden Bench

June 18, 2009

Some people can look at things cast off and thrown aside and imagine something new and wonderful. Katie’s artistic eye and creative vision gave new life to an old tub as [...]

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Your Towering English Country Estate

June 10, 2009

For less than the price of a slightly-fancy European automobile, you could own your very own European water tower! That’s the kind of status symbol that could completely deflate those [...]

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Anything for a Good Cause. Well, Almost.

April 10, 2009

I’ve seen this twice, so that makes it a trend! For now, it seems centered in the UK, but it’s a matter of time before they’re descending giant water towers [...]

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Flip this Tower

January 23, 2009

Another opportunity to quench your thirst for one-of-a-kind digs. For £100,000 (that’s about US$135,000) plus renovation expenses, you could turn this abandoned concrete tower into a 4-story monument to to [...]

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Old price points get smashed

November 30, 2008

The (UK) Times Online reports today, Supermarkets selling alcohol cheaper than water Research has found that it costs less to quench your thirst with alcohol than bottled water at leading [...]

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