7 foetuses found in sewers

I notice a lot of this N&CA stuff sneaking into off topic again....

My thoughts on the matter are that if it is a link from NEWS24 or IOL it usually belongs under NEWS & Current Affairs.

Some things I don't want to know about unless I actively decide to read those doom and gloom websites they call news providers! :)
 
You sound like my partner, he never want's to know anything about news or whats happening... I on the other hand would rather be clued up than no knowing :) But this is really sick, I wish I haven't read it...
 
FaNIX said:
You sound like my partner, he never want's to know anything about news or whats happening... I on the other hand would rather be clued up than no knowing :) But this is really sick, I wish I haven't read it...
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Well thank you so much for sharing it then!!!! :)
 
LancelotSA said:
Some things I don't want to know about unless I actively decide to read those doom and gloom websites they call news providers! :)
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Oh lord. They ARE in fact news providers, and they actually report what is happening. Face it, ZA is not as perfect as you think. :rolleyes:
 
Speaking of sewers...

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Heroes in a half shell. Turtle power!"

Sorry, this thread needed a pick me up.
 
phenom said:
I think that they meant fetuses, then why on earth is this even news?
PS to Arthur, A fetus, is NOT a baby.
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foetus = correct (English) spelling.
fetus = American (simplified) spelling.

Not all foetuses are human.
But all human foetuses are babies. Ab initio.

It is news because all humans are of transcendant value and therefore to be reverenced. Even ones with dead bodies.
 
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phenom said:
Wiki:" A fetus (or foetus or fœtus)... The plural is fetuses, or sometimes feti.

The word fetus is from the Latin fetus, meaning offspring, bringing forth, hatching of young.[4] It has Indo-European roots related to sucking or suckling.[5]

Fœtus is an English variation on the Latin spelling, and has been in use since at least 1594, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, which describes "fœtus" as "incorrectly written". The variant fœtus may have originated with an error by Saint Isidore of Seville, in AD 620.[6] The preferred spelling in the United States is fetus, but the variants foetus and fœtus persist in other English-speaking countries and in some medical contexts, as well as in some other languages (e.g., French). In technical usage, fetus is now the standard spelling throughout the English-speaking world.
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The wiki author has it wrong. The Latin is fetus, but it was adopted into the vulgate from the antique Greek phoetos with a Latin masculine ending, which transliterates as foetus. Most English newspapers still write 'foetus'.
 
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