QUIRKY WORLD... The 10 signs you're turning into your dad
Falling asleep in the living room has been named the most obvious sign that men are turning into their fathers, a survey has found.
Having a favourite chair in the living room, spending more time in the shed and an inability to recognise the names of stars in the top 40 are other clear examples that men have reached that time in their lives.
The survey of 2,000 people, which also found that 38 was thought to be the average age when they turned into their dads, was carried out for TV channel Gold.
One-fifth of the female respondents said they thought they had married a man like their own father.
The top signs a man is turning into his father according to the survey:
* Falling asleep in front room;
* Having a favourite chair;
* Public “dad dancing”;
* Spending time in the shed;
* Making awful jokes only they find funny;
* Don’t know artists in the top 40;
* Spending longer on the toilet;
* Keeping an eye on the thermostat;
* Excitement about discounts on tools;
* Finding it funny to embarrass younger members of the family.
Firefighters have rescued a kitten which got stuck in a watering can.
One fire engine attended a property in Cleatlands Close, Tweenaway, Paignton, Devon, after reports of a small kitten being trapped. The crew rescued the kitten, which was stuck by its head in the spout, using small tools.
A mystery car vandal being hunted by police has finally been collared — and revealed to be a dog.
Residents were upset that car tyres had been left repeatedly punctured over the past six months so set up CCTV in the village of Brampton, Cumbria.
The culprit caught on camera was not a feral youth but a border collie called Jess. The dog had been sinking her teeth into tyres while on a daily walk with her owner, leaving slow punctures and flat tyres in her wake.
A sign resembling a large, red Google Maps pin has been spotted on an Oxfordshire roundabout.
The origin of the giant “A” at the Playhatch roundabout on the A4155 Reading to Henley road is not yet known.
The roundabout is near Sonning-on-Thames, where a red letterbox “appeared” on a bridge last year.
#sonning roundabout #googlepin in Playhatch...I wonder where the B pin is? @rdgchronicle pic.twitter.com/c8PWcVffTB
— Chris Forsey (@ChrisForsey1) April 16, 2014
US president Barack Obama has commuted the sentence of an inmate who got a longer prison sentence because of a typo.
Ceasar Cantu, of Katy, Texas, is serving 15 years for trafficking marijuana and money laundering but the judge based the sentencing on a mistake in his pre-sentencing report which resulted in three and a half years’ extra time.
The typo occurred in the “offence level” — a numerical rating based on the severity of the crime and the defendant’s sentence, among other factors. The pre-sentence report specified “36” when it should have been “34”.
Cantu pleaded guilty in 2006 in federal court in Danville, Virginia. A judge ruled that because Cantu’s lawyer did not object at sentencing, the court could not change it. The White House said it could only be rectified by the president. Cantu will now serve 11 and a half years.
A Tyrannosaurus rex is joining the dinosaur fossil collection on the National Mall in Washington DC after a 3,000-mile journey from Montana.
For the first time, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will have a nearly complete T rex skeleton. FedEx is delivering the dinosaur bones in 16 crates.
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