A Romanian entrepreneur has come under fire for putting plastic prostitutes on the street to advertise his garden gnome business. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago tags Garden gnome maker plastic prostitutes |
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This is a sad day for Garden Gnome revolutionaries worldwide. picked by mutil8or 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share entertainment |
Can we garden our way out of this hole? 3 comments edit related share plime.comJust a few years ago, the road to riches was clear. We could all sit on our porches drinking mint juleps while our houses appreciated 30% a year. Now, our houses are falling in value by 30% a year. Forget about them. The real money maker, it turns out, was always our backyard. By planting a vegetable garden, we can slash our food bill while eating healthier. picked by bingo 7 months ago |
Is Big Plastic is out to get me? Will my story be told on 60 Minutes? Cashiers who cannot understand the concept of not wanting to use plastic and finding bags in mailboxes. It makes a guy wonder. picked by sbcea 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share science |
Crochet a handbag from those outdated plastic bags! Refers to AutumnLotus's posting here. 5 comments edit related share plime.comLearn how to make "yarn" from bags here. picked by hypnotode 3 years ago |
It is sometimes said that beautiful women can look good dressed in any old rubbish. 0 comments edit related share plime.comWell now they can test that theory. Designers from Debenhams have come up with a £55 trouser suit that is made entirely from recycled plastic bottles. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago |
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A woman with an inoperable brain tumour is spending £40,000 on plastic surgery – so she can die looking like movie star Demi Moore. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago 13 comments edit related share weird |
John Manley complained of fatigue, coughing fits and pneumonia spells and now, after two years of agony, doctors at Duke University Hospital believe a small piece of plastic is to blame. Manley, 50, apparently inhaled the 1-inch plastic fragment while eating at a Wendy's restaurant. The Wendy's logo can still be seen on the side of the plastic. picked by TraumaMamma 2 months ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
Claims of biology-based oil and plastic usually bear the caveat "in five years." But a San Diego-based company claims they will have a pilot plant for production of E. coli-based 1,4 butanediol (BDO), the base chemical for plastic products ranging from Spandex to car bumpers, next year. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share science |
Patients are demanding better results from their plastic surgeons and looking for doctors to perform revision plastic surgery. picked by KEROberos32 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share science |
A Swedish woman has been banned from smoking in her garden in a trial headed by the Environmental Court in Vaxjo. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
It's not your average garbage dump: Out in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean lies the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," an area of open sea hundreds of miles across littered with floating bits of plastic debris. picked by Bornbad 4 months ago 1 comments edit related share science |
The Prince of Wales has opened the only public garden in Britain allowed to grow cannabis and coca leaf. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
It began with a line of plastic bags ghosting the surface, followed by an ugly tangle of junk: nets and ropes and bottles, motor-oil jugs and cracked bath toys, a mangled tarp. Tires. A traffic cone. Moore could not believe his eyes. Out here in this desolate place, the water was a stew of plastic crap. It was as though someone had taken the pristine seascape of his youth and swapped it for a lan... read full post picked by psycmoe 1 year ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
So she had them lifted, adored the results, and became so fascinated with cosmetic surgery that her next two husbands were plastic surgeons. picked by kirbykirst 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share science |
A 49-year-old woman banned from smoking in her own garden has appealed the decision to the Environmental High Court. Update on this story. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
I needed about 4 or 5 plastic fetuses for an art project I'm doing (maybe one day ill finish it and link it from here), but I could only find them in 50-bags. One can never really have TOO MANY plastic fetuses, so I went ahead and bought them and began giving the extras away to friends and enemies. picked by Doggylives 4 months ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
A new transparent, composite plastic as strong as steel and as thin as a sheet of paper has been developed. The plastic could be used one day to produce lighter, stronger armour for soldiers or police and their vehicles. It also has potential to reduce the energy required to separate gasses in chemical factories and improve microtechnology such as microchips or biomedical sensors. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 9 comments edit related share science |
This Has been a favorite website of mine for a while now. They point out celebrities who look like they have had bad plastic surgery. I am not really into celebrities, but there is a lot of interesting stuff on plastic surgery. There is a lot of good stuff in the archives too. picked by nickyrocks 2 years ago 24 comments edit related share plime.com |
PDSA vets saved the life of a mischievous puppy who swallowed a full-length plastic arrow, measuring 10.5 inches, almost as long as the puppy herself! picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
An elderly Japanese businessman buried 2.8 million pounds in his garden for safekeeping only to find it dug up by a thief picked by topofall 10 months ago 2 comments edit related share weird |