News of the Weird

[Rhyfelwyr]

German court rules that men have right to pee while standing

This bit caught me eye:

There is some debate in Germany about whether men should sit or stand to pee.

I just presumed that all men stood to pee unless they were physically unable to. Its not that hard to aim is it?

[Fragony]

Germany is sometimes even worse than Sweden when it comes to feminist demands, who the hell thought it up anyway

[Husar]

Germany is sometimes even worse than Sweden when it comes to feminist demands, who the hell thought it up anyway

What are you talking about?
The guy got sued by his landlord who claimed that sprinkles of pee would damage the expensive marble floor around the toilet bowl.
It's even in the linked article...

I'm also in favor of sitting down.

[Beskar]

[Fragony]

What are you talking about?
The guy got sued by his landlord who claimed that sprinkles of pee would damage the expensive marble floor around the toilet bowl.
It's even in the linked article...

I'm also in favor of sitting down.

Yeah, it is linked.. No matter that it's rediculous it may be, it is linked. In a stepherd-wife society like the ultra-creepy Sweden you would expect this, didn't expect it in Germany, the country of bratwurst and beer.

[Husar]

Yeah, it is linked.. No matter that it's rediculous it may be, it is linked. In a stepherd-wife society like the ultra-creepy Sweden you would expect this, didn't expect it in Germany, the country of bratwurst and beer.

What is linked? The gender of the landlord was not revealed and the comment of the judge about problems with women had nothing to do with the case itself. Might as well be an old conservative man who sued the guy over the loss of his precious marbles.
In fact german articles use the male term when they mention the landlord, not 100% proof of anything, but the issue was the property damage and not domesticating men anyway.

[Fragony]

What is linked? The gender of the landlord was not revealed and the comment of the judge about problems with women had nothing to do with the case itself. Might as well be an old conservative man who sued the guy over the loss of his precious marbles.
In fact german articles use the male term when they mention the landlord, not 100% proof of anything, but the issue was the property damage and not domesticating men anyway.

It isn't like feminists aren't campaigning for sitting down when peeing of course. This case is a welcome stfu.

[lars573]

German court rules that men have right to pee while standing

This bit caught me eye:



I just presumed that all men stood to pee unless they were physically unable to. Its not that hard to aim is it?

I've sat to pee almost exclusively since I was 4 or 5. Hated getting whiz on my socks, which alway happened standing. Still does....

[Hooahguy]

I've sat to pee almost exclusively since I was 4 or 5. Hated getting whiz on my socks, which alway happened standing. Still does....

The key is to aim at a 45 degree angle. 90 will get you the splashback but I have yet to get anything with 45.

[Beskar]

I think lars is trying to say that his hangs around his knees.

[Husar]

It isn't like feminists aren't campaigning for sitting down when peeing of course. This case is a welcome stfu.

Eh, maybe you misread something. The judge said that men are not liable for any damage to the floor caused by peeing in a standing position, but he also noted that men will continue to have to deal with the complaints of female co-inhabitants. He never said that complaints are not legit or anything.

But concluding, he said men who insist on standing "must expect occasional rows with housemates, especially women" but cannot be held to account for collateral damage.

You're trying to squeeze the case into something it's not about.

[naut]

Sheriff's office rug with 'In Dog We Trust' typo sells for nearly $10,000



The Pinellas County Sheriff's office ordered a new rug, which turned up last week with a typo. The large green rug with the
black and yellow Pinellas County Sheriff's Office logo included the phrase "In Dog We Trust" within one of its crests.

That could have been the end of the story except Sheriff Bob Gualtieri had an idea.

He decided to auction off the unique item -- the "doggone rug," as he called it -- and donate the proceeds to a local rescue.

[rajpoot]

Mummified monk not dead, just in very deep meditation

Well I hope I look half as good as him after meditating in a cave for 200 years.

[Husar]

http://www.thelocal.de/20150218/fear...eets-of-munich

Terry Swartzberg has been wearing a kippah around Germany for two years – and has never encountered any hostility to his religious headgear from the people he meets.

Swartzberg's experience stands in stark contrast to that of other people who have tried the experiment, with a kippah wearer in Paris recently subjected to curses and spitting attacks while having himself secretly filmed.

A little over a year before, The Local's reporter in Malmö, Sweden, was laughed and stared at and insulted when he tried wearing a kippah around the town for a day.

“But it's such a cheap shot and so unfair [to say Jews aren't safe in Germany], because Germany has done amazing things that I wish my own country, the USA would do."

[InsaneApache]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tX98AqP9l5...00/parking.gif

LMFAO

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Urban-m...ail/story.html

Shit! ;)

[Gregoshi]

Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction. Other times, not so much.

[Kadagar_AV]

This groupon employee made my day...

Knowing fully well what would happen when they posted about a dildo-look-alike-thingy... They answered EVERY consumer question brilliantly ;)

http://distractify.com/megan-mccormi...a-bunka-lovin/

[HopAlongBunny]

Is this a little troubling for the perception of justice in America?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...baltimore.html

When two notorious street gangs form an alliance to combat police brutality, one might be inclined to think that justice in America might need some work.

[Hooahguy]

Is this a little troubling for the perception of justice in America?

False.

http://www.wbaltv.com/news/gang-memb...-cops/32609810

[HopAlongBunny]

No they didn't make a truce to harm police officers; that's not what the article says, as I read it.
Rather they are making common cause to protect the community, and rebuild.
The troubling part is gangs uniting to act as a buffer against the police.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10212225.html

The hysteria about "taking out" cops seems to have come from a police dep't source.

[Gregoshi]

Let's put a little weird into this Baltimore discussion: Weird Al Yankovic at the Pier Six Pavilion, Baltimore, June 13

[Kralizec]

Sweden deploys underwater gay man to scare off Russian submarines

[Crandar]

An eye for an eye and an anti-aircraft gun for a nap.

[Gregoshi]

An eye for an eye and an anti-aircraft gun for a nap.

Anti-aircraft guns are necessary to execute someone in the High Command.

[Gregoshi]

Fruit of the Doom

[InsaneApache]

A young man who was drinking and celebrating the Fourth of July tried to launch a firework off the top of his head, fatally injuring himself, authorities said on Sunday.

Devon Staples and his friends had been drinking and setting off fireworks on Saturday night in the backyard of a friend’s home in the small eastern Maine city of Calais, said Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for the state department of public safety.

Staples, 22, of Calais, placed a fireworks mortar tube on his head and set it off, McCausland said.

The firework exploded, killing Staples instantly.

His death is the first fireworks fatality in Maine since the state legalised fireworks on 1 January 2012, authorities said.

Calais is on the Canadian border near New Brunswick.

State fire marshals were investigating several other Fourth of July fireworks accidents involving injuries in Friendship, Jefferson, Lebanon and Woodstock. They said most of the accidents involved burns and eye injuries. McCausland said further details were expected to be released later on Sunday.

In 2011, lawmakers voted to repeal a 1949 state law banning fireworks, reasoning that the industry would create jobs and generate additional revenue

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...kills-man-head

A bit of a hot head if you ask me.

[Beskar]

Random Americans thinks Gibberish sounds like "What the fuck".


I am not hearing it at all...

[Crandar]

According to Umm Layth, a wahabbi (and a member of Al-Baghdadi's organisation) blogger, ISIS has published the following announcement, in an effort to solve some rather pressing matters:



Apparently, during those mass-weddings, we didn't recognize the real victim.

[rvg]

...Apparently, during those mass-weddings, we didn't recognize the real victim.

I can sooo relate to this. Having so far endured six weeks of house renovations, I am also seeking martyrdom.

[Veho Nex]

Random Americans thinks Gibberish sounds like "What the fuck".


I am not hearing it at all...

0:59 Robbie Broadway is a concerned mother.