News of the Weird

[Lemur]

Is that hydrogen peroxide in your colon, or are you just glad to see me?

Unhealthy enemas put tourists in hospital

Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:02pm EST

MOSCOW - Russians visiting a health resort received a rude shock when a nurse used hydrogen peroxide instead of water to give them enemas.

Itar-Tass news agency reported Thursday that 17 tourists in the Caucasus spa town of Yessentuki had to be treated in hospital after the mix-up.

Sources at the sanatorium said the mistake was explained by water and hydrogen peroxide looking the same. Hydrogen peroxide, which can be used to bleach hair, is used as a disinfectant but should not be ingested.

[Gregoshi]

Is that hydrogen peroxide in your colon, or are you just glad to see me?

With enemas like that, who needs friends?

[Lemur]

British store sells special "Lolita" beds for pre-teens, doesn't see what the fuss is about. Apparently nobody on staff reads books. Light of my life, fire of my loins, my sin, my soul, my Lolita ...

Shop pulls "Lolita" bed for young girls

Fri Feb 1, 2008 2:01pm EST

LONDON - A chain of retail stores in Britain has withdrawn the sale of beds named Lolita and designed for six-year-old girls after furious parents pointed out that the name was synonymous with sexually active pre-teens.

Woolworths said staff who administer the web site selling the beds were not aware of the connection.

In "Lolita," a 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov, the narrator becomes sexually involved with his 12-year-old stepdaughter -- but Woolworths staff had not heard of the classic novel or two subsequent films based on it.

Hence they saw nothing wrong with advertising the Lolita Midsleeper Combi, a whitewashed wooden bed with pull-out desk and cupboard intended for girls aged about six until a concerned mother raised the alarm on a parenting website.

"What seems to have happened is the staff who run the website had never heard of Lolita, and to be honest no one else here had either," a spokesman told British newspapers.

"We had to look it up on (online encyclopedia) Wikipedia. But we certainly know who she is now."

Woolworths said the product had now been dropped.

"Now this has been brought to our attention, the product has been removed from sale with immediate effect," the chain said.

"We will be talking to the supplier with regard to how the branding came about."

[CountArach]

British store sells special "Lolita" beds for pre-teens, doesn't see what the fuss is about. Apparently nobody on staff reads books. Light of my life, fire of my loins, my sin, my soul, my Lolita ...

Shop pulls "Lolita" bed for young girls

Fri Feb 1, 2008 2:01pm EST

LONDON - A chain of retail stores in Britain has withdrawn the sale of beds named Lolita and designed for six-year-old girls after furious parents pointed out that the name was synonymous with sexually active pre-teens.

Woolworths said staff who administer the web site selling the beds were not aware of the connection.

In "Lolita," a 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov, the narrator becomes sexually involved with his 12-year-old stepdaughter -- but Woolworths staff had not heard of the classic novel or two subsequent films based on it.

Hence they saw nothing wrong with advertising the Lolita Midsleeper Combi, a whitewashed wooden bed with pull-out desk and cupboard intended for girls aged about six until a concerned mother raised the alarm on a parenting website.

"What seems to have happened is the staff who run the website had never heard of Lolita, and to be honest no one else here had either," a spokesman told British newspapers.

"We had to look it up on (online encyclopedia) Wikipedia. But we certainly know who she is now."

Woolworths said the product had now been dropped.

"Now this has been brought to our attention, the product has been removed from sale with immediate effect," the chain said.

"We will be talking to the supplier with regard to how the branding came about."

Sex sells, but this is ridiculous.

[English assassin]

Sources at the sanatorium said the mistake was explained by water and hydrogen peroxide looking the same.

Ah. The old "if its a colourless liquid it must be water" ploy, eh?

Lucky for the patients there wasn't a bottle of concentrated sulphuric acid to hand.

[Lemur]

Best. Correction. Ever.

In the Jan. 23 issue of Wednesday Journal, River Forest Village President Frank Paris is quoted saying, “I’ll answer any question except if you ask me how many times I sodomized my parent. Those kinds of questions can’t be asked.” What Mr. Paris actually said was, “I’ll answer any question except if you ask me how many times I sodomized my parrot.” Wednesday Journal regrets the error.

[Fragony]

Martian lolcrater

[KukriKhan]

Best. Correction. Ever.

In the Jan. 23 issue of Wednesday Journal, River Forest Village President Frank Paris is quoted saying, “I’ll answer any question except if you ask me how many times I sodomized my parent. Those kinds of questions can’t be asked.” What Mr. Paris actually said was, “I’ll answer any question except if you ask me how many times I sodomized my parrot.” Wednesday Journal regrets the error.

Har, matey. You said we'd never speak of that again! Avast ye!

And he probably said "solemnize" or "Simonize" anyway.

[Crazed Rabbit]

This is news? I thought everyone...oh, wait:

Police: Crack Found in Man's Buttocks

CR

[Gregoshi]

Lynch was charged with possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine

Interesting distribution system...

And he was also charged with obstructing justice. Justice wasn't the only thing he was obstructing...

[Fragony]

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/m...532660,00.html

kewl a railgun, now a lightninggun and war is just as fun as quake

[Vladimir]

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/m...532660,00.html

kewl a railgun, now a lightninggun and war is just as fun as quake

Damn, for a second there I was reading in German!!!

For us barbarians: http://www.defensenews.com/story.php...6975&C=america

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/m...532660,00.html

kewl a railgun, now a lightninggun and war is just as fun as quake

I saw that, wasn't it back in January?

[Vladimir]

Back in January?

It's Feb 6th here.

[InsaneApache]

Back in January?

It's Feb 6th here.

Hehe...... the wonder of t'interwebs.

I imagine he meant he saw it back in January.

[Conqueror]

Film 'reveals' Putin's love life

The film, called A Kiss - Off the Record, is due to come out on Valentine's Day, but only on DVD.

Its fictional hero is a German-speaking St Petersburg Russian with a secretive job who marries a stewardess, has two daughters and rises to the presidency.

[Fragony]

Dutchies only,



Uit het nieuwe lespakket uit, uiteraard, Amsterdam

[Vladimir]

Aww look, little Fragony and his family.

[Fragony]

Aww look, little Fragony and his family.

NooooO, I am from an upperclass family and had a protected childhood, that is what common sense told me at least. And he was right. They never used protection.

[Vladimir]

Hello, I have become a Muslim.

What have you done?!

Betrayer!!!

Get 'em pa!



As you can see, I'm no Dutchman.

[Peasant Phill]

But it isn't that far off, it reads:

Hi, I'm Adir, a muslim

What do you have against us?

Trouble maker

Get'm dad.



For all translation work please contact the following number at a rate of 10€/min. 0032 056 66 60 80

[Fragony]

the 10000000000000th useless offensive of scared people against 'Triumph des Wilders'

http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven....html#comments

[Fragony]

http://www.boycotbeijing.org/?q=node/7

Boycot Beijing!!! Made in China

[Fragony]

Surprisingly this comes from england, that odd thing that once was

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7232661.stm

[Lemur]

If possible, could you post about Holland v. Islam elsewhere? This is News of the Weird. If it does not involve an exploding penguin, an electrocuted penis, a sex dwarf or freakish sea foam, it doesn't belong in here. You've got the whole Backroom in which to shout about Sharia; let us have this quiet preserve for weirdness.

Speaking of which ...

Drunk threatened city with TV remote

CANBERRA - A drunken man's threat to blow up half a city with his television remote control forced Australian police to declare a state of emergency at a luxury golf resort, a local court heard Thursday.

[Crazed Rabbit]

A fantastic new surgical procedure:
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...006007,00.html

Key quote:

Men who change their minds about having children would then simply point the remote handset at their testicles and press a button to open up the valve.

Ah, the innovations of science.

CR

[Gregoshi]

CANBERRA - A drunken man's threat to blow up half a city with his television remote control forced Australian police to declare a state of emergency at a luxury golf resort, a local court heard Thursday.

...the police were much relieved when they located Mr. Fryatt's "bomb" and found its timer was flashing "12:01"...

[Gregoshi]

Men who change their minds about having children would then simply point the remote handset at their testicles and press a button to open up the valve.

Not to be confused with the remote that can blow up half a city...

[Lemur]

Space roaches are stronger, faster, tougher, destined to rule the Earth.

Cosmic cockroaches faster developers, Russian scientists say

VORONEZH, January 17 (RIA Novosti) - Cockroaches conceived in space onboard the Russian Foton-M bio satellite have developed faster and become hardier than 'terrestrial' ones, a research supervisor said on Thursday.

The research team has been monitoring the cockroaches since they were born in October. The scientists established that their limbs and bodies grew faster.

"What is more, we have found out that the creatures... run faster than ordinary cockroaches, and are much more energetic and resilient," Dmitry Atyakshin said.

Cockroaches, as well as other types of insects, can give birth several times after one impregnation, and the cockroaches that conceived during the bio-satellite's September 14-26 flight have since given birth to their second and third batches of offspring.

"The second and third batches did not show these peculiarities of growth and physiology," the scientist noted.

'Ordinary' cockroaches are already known for their extraordinary resilience. Some species can last almost an hour without oxygen or a month without food, and are able to withstand high doses of radiation.

The September 14-26 flight was part of an ongoing experiment into the effects of space flight by the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP). The creatures were sealed in special containers, and a video camera filmed them during the flight.

[Gregoshi]

Space roaches are stronger, faster, tougher, destined to rule the Earth.

You are right Lemur. I just know one of these space roaches will escape into terrestial roachdom and then we're doomed.