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I have found a new (to me) site that ROCKS! Miss Cellania is a contributor to mental_floss and comes up with some of the most fascinating things ever. She has her own blog and posts very funny stuff. Today she posted a very funny video of a unique interpretation of the classic Patsy Cline song "I've Got Your Picture." HYSTERICAL!! Check it out, stay awhile, and I'm sure you'll go back for more.

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According to mental_floss, it seems as if these signs are popping up everywhere these days at public swimming pools:




This seems to be absolutely ludicrous, but a comment on this post said:

"The problem with breath holding is what we refer to in scuba classes as “shallow water blackout”. It goes something like this:

Simply put, you don’t breathe because you’re low on oxygen. Your normal, healthy body has basically no idea how much oxygen you have left. What it *does* have a decent handle on is the amount of carbon dioxide hanging around. When the amount of carbon dioxide in your blood reaches a certain point, you feel that distinct urge to breathe.

Well, normally, that wonderful “time to get air” feeling is triggered in plenty of time. However, if you artificially lower your carbon dioxide level (e.g. by hyperventilating just prior to going under the water), you can actually lower your carbon dioxide level to such an extent that you “run out” of oxygen before your carbon dioxide level has built up enough that you feel the need to breathe.

Because your body does not sense oxygen level, there is effectively no warning that your blood oxygen level is about to cross from “can sustain consciousness” to “cannot sustain consciousness”. One moment you’re fine; the next moment you’d better hope someone is there to rescue you, as loss of consciousness underwater tends to result in drowning.

In a public pool, chances are any breath holding would naturally result in breath holding contests between swimmers. Such contests naturally result in hyperventilating to try to extend times, and the potential for that to possibly result in unconsciousness is the reason for the rule.

(In the skin diving section of our scuba classes, the printed rule is that you must not hyperventilate in an attempt to extend breathe holding time. You are to take no more than three of four deep breaths before a surface dive. I doubt that would be easy to enforce in a public pool.)"

Well, in THAT case, maybe it makes sense. However, it seems as if this is just another example of the legal system getting WAY out of hand. Here is a link to the original post.

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Cake Wrecks is a site I visit every day--simply because I can't believe some of the things I see there. The baby shower cakes are some of the most disturbing things I have EVER seen. For example:

If you really MUST, here are links to other 'belly cake' pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

THESE are something I would rather not see in person.