http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18460 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 23 May 2013 09:57:28 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18460#post-49758 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:14:41 +0000 Dexter 49758@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A silent vacuum cleaner - what a brilliant idea. Not nearly as useful as a silent telephone for the deaf, however. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18460#post-49725 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:00:37 +0000 DiY 49725@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like it....<strong>5 's</strong> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18460#post-49717 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:40:08 +0000 flim-flam 49717@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A wealthy business man who was taking part in Channel 4’s popular reality show, The Secret Millionaire, has drowned after the refugee boat he was on broke up in heavy storms off the coast of Australia’s Easter Island.</p> <p>Disguised as a people smuggler, Martin Pringle, 45, had agreed to smuggle dozens of asylum seekers to Australia so that he could surreptitiously film them during the journey and decide which ones ultimately deserved his cash. </p> <p>In keeping with the show’s formula - which documents obscenely rich participants making life-changing decisions for other people - the Liverpudlian millionaire and inventor of the world’s first completely silent vacuum cleaner, was to give two refugees £3000 and a top of the range Smoother Hoover Mk2 to help them start new lives. </p> <p>A spokesperson from Channel 4 said that they were ‘saddened’ by the incident and have invited Mr Pringle’s widow, Marlene, to take part in their next series of Wife Swap to help ‘ease the blow.’ </p>