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Recent annoyance: the bottom of a cup of tea thats all inky and bitter, blech

A lot of strange things are going on across the pond in Great Britain and I don't just mean the Anglican Church and meat pies.

Goat Crowned 'King of Ireland'
"A wild mountain goat was crowned King of Ireland overnight in an annual ritual whose origins are lost in the mists of history.

For three days, Charlie, a grey billygoat with brown trimmings, will reign over this year's Puck Fair - one of Ireland's oldest and best-loved street festivals - in Killorglin, in the south-western county of Kerry."Nobody really knows how it came about or when," said Jean Kearney, a spokeswoman for the festival, which is expected this year to attract more than 100,000 visitors for a marathon of music, drinking and dancing.

"It has been traced back to the 1600s, but some say it dates back to a festival held in pagan times."

One theory is that the event pays tribute to a wild goat that alerted the town to the advancing armies of English military leader Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century."

Ah yes, the patented goat alarm. Those Irish, absolutely brilliant.

Man spends two days in thorn bush

"A 32-year-old man has been winched to safety by a military helicopter after a harrowing two days stranded in 3.3 metres of gorse bushes in the north of England." You read that right. 32 years old. 2 days. Thorn bush.

The sargeant who resuced the man said, "We've no idea how he got there. He was right in the middle of the gorse. It was like he had been dropped there by a spaceship. When we arrived we could just see this hand poking out above the top of the gorse. Luckily there was a small hole in the bushes so I could be winched down and get this guy out... It was certainly one of our stranger rescues."

Door named the oldest in Britain

"It has been in continuous use for almost 1000 years, and for a long time people wrongly believed it was covered in flayed human skin.

Now a battered portal in London's famous Westminster Abbey has been officially named the oldest door in Britain."

Yep. A door. Awesome.