You know, I thought about it. "Is this sexy?" I think maybe it was for like 1/2 a second. But the cops were all white-bread. Now if a Cillian Murphy/Colin Farrell pairing had been doing the cuffing, yeah.

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Developers have turned a house into an island in China after the owner refused to move out.

Developers turned a house into an island after the owner refused to move out in Chongqing city, China /Lu Feng

The villa now stands alone in a 30ft deep man-made pit in Chongqing city, reports Jinbao Daily.

The Chongqing Zhengsheng Real Estate Company wants to turn the area into a £40m 'Broadway' square, including apartments and a shopping mall.

But the owner of the villa says he won't move out unless the company pays his price - the equivalent of £1.3 million.

"The villa owner refuses to move, so the real-estate developer has had to dig out all around it to force him to," says a saleswoman at Weilian Real Estate Sales Company.

"He wants 20 million yuan, or he'll stay till the end of the world."

Check out the picture - I don't know how the hell he climbs up to his house.

I like veggies

I always feel like I'm from another species when people say things like that. I have tried various vegetables, but the ones I can stand to eat are either an excuse for cheese sauce or high in carbs. Otherwise, they're far too bitter/acidic or of a texture that makes me want to gag.

God bless turkeys and chickens and cows and all the tasty critters on two and four legs. And the ones that swim, too.

Are Type O, connie? My sister is, and when she went on one of these blood type diets she was supposed to eat a lot of meat. The reasoning was something about O being the earliest blood type so you should eat like a hunter, or something, I don't remember what the justification was, but she was eating a lot of meat on that one.

God bless turkeys and chickens and cows and all the tasty critters on two and four legs. And the ones that swim, too.

You forgot those creatures that crawl along on their... what are those things that snails crawl around on?

You forgot those creatures that crawl along on their... what are those things that snails crawl around on?

Pseudopods. I didn't include them because I don't consider them food, so I don't have to bless them for giving up their allegedly-tasty selves for my appetites.

I'm type A+, which probably means I should be living on rutabagas or something. I did find out that I am not alone in having weird taste buds that find some foods more bitter than others. I've also gotten acid burns from tomatos that are insufficiently processed.

Pseudopods.

That's what I thought. But Wikipedia said no. I must have been looking at a different specific meaning.

I'm impressed that I remembered that term.

Well, I got pseudopods off the top of my head--and boy, is my hair sticky!

Sorry.

No, I'm not.

I would have called it a foot. Psudopods are something one-celled creatures use, I thought.

Yikes, Erin -- I take it things are sorted out by now?

Sometimes I am smarter than I know -- I came home to have soup for dinner, but was thinking it was too bad that now it's all spring and shit, so I didn't really feel like eating hot soup, but there was just one mugful left! Perfect. I froze the rest after I made it.