News of the Weird [Archive] - Page 18

Lemur

01-22-2010, 06:31

Unclear on the concept: Woman Found Guilty of Stalking Herself (http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2010/01/14/121411_scalesofjustice.html)

A WOMAN has been found guilty of stalking, in a bizarre case in which she tried to organise acts of violence – against herself. [...] The Hobart Magistrates Court heard Bronte Park general store owner Wayne Turale started receiving a series of disturbing letters in October 2006.

Over 18 months, he received 10 of the poorly written letters, instructing him to perform or organise acts of violence against Mrs Triffett, who was one of his customers.

Each letter was signed with the name "Mick".

The court heard a crossbow was mentioned in at least one letter and the implication was that "something had to be done" about Mrs Triffett.

"I think it was 'get someone to run her over or shoot her'," Mr Turale said. [...]

The letters continued until March 2008 and were passed on to Mr Turale by the new store owner.

The sinister mail was extremely disturbing and upsetting, he said. [...]

When police visited Mrs Triffett, she denied writing the letters.

But forensic scientists later found a likely match between her DNA and DNA found on some of the letters, stamps and envelopes.

Hosakawa Tito

01-22-2010, 18:38

Urban Cavemen. (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/fashion/10caveman.html) (Remaining issue: Real Paleolithics' lives maxed out at about age 30.)

Vladimir

01-22-2010, 21:22

Urban Cavemen. (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/fashion/10caveman.html) (Remaining issue: Real Paleolithics' lives maxed out at about age 30.)

If it's stupid and it works, it's not that stupid. :2thumbsup:

Strange, but if it gets people to pay more attention to their health I'm for it.

Lemur

01-23-2010, 20:28

Floor collapses at Weight Watchers meeting (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6989291.ece)

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/fattestguysonearth.jpg

A floor collapsed beneath a group of about 20 members of Weight Watchers as they gathered to compare how many pounds they had shed over Christmas.

Members of the weight-loss club were lining up to compare readings on the scales when they heard a bang as the floor came away from the walls of their meeting room in Växjö in southern Sweden.

“We suddenly heard a huge thud – we almost thought it was an earthquake and everything flew up in the air. The floor collapsed in one corner of the room and along the walls,” one of the those present told the Smålandsposten newspaper.

They abandoned the room as the floor started to give way in other areas.

Gregoshi

01-23-2010, 21:02

A floor collapsed beneath a group of about 20 members of Weight Watchers as they gathered to compare how many pounds they had shed over Christmas.
On the bright side, their weight was down... :laugh4:

CountArach

01-23-2010, 23:14

It's an improvement. At their previous meeting it only took 19 people to collapse the flooring.

@ Greg - That was a great one :laugh4:

Fragony

01-24-2010, 00:39

I must have one of these moods but this cracks me up https://i.imgur.com/0PJCj.jpg

Gregoshi

01-24-2010, 07:14

I must have one of these moods but this cracks me up https://i.imgur.com/0PJCj.jpg
Frag, I clicked on your link and it opened a new browser window...

...then my mouse ran scared. :clown:

Furunculus

01-24-2010, 11:08

WTF?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/7060947/Killer-cant-be-deported-because-he-might-kill-again.html

Killer can't be deported because he might kill again
An Iraqi immigrant who stabbed two doctors to death has won the right to stay in Britain after a judge ruled that he would pose a danger to the public in his homeland.

By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent
Published: 8:30PM GMT 23 Jan 2010

An immigration tribunal decided that Laith Alani, a paranoid schizophrenic, should not be deported to Iraq because it would breach his human rights and put people there at risk.

Alani has spent the past 19 years in a secure hospital after he killed two NHS consultants in a frenzied attack because he believed he had received a "command from Allah".

The Home Office wanted to deport him on his release to protect the British public, but he appealed to the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) where a panel led by Lance Waumsley, a senior immigration judge, ruled that he could remain in the UK.

The widows of the two doctors, who were not informed of the killer's legal victory or the plans to release him back into society until they were contacted by The Sunday Telegraph, expressed their shock at the decision.

One of the reasons given by the judges is that if Alani was sent back to Iraq he would be unlikely to receive medicine which keeps his paranoid schizophrenic under control.

They said in their judgement: "If his present treatment ... were to be discontinued, as would most likely be the case if he were to be removed to Iraq, the potential consequences would be extremely serious for (Alani) himself, and potentially life-threatening for innocent third parties around him in the event of his likely, indeed almost inevitable, relapse into a state of paranoid schizophrenia."

Alani, now 41, has been receiving the drug clozapine on the NHS for 10 years, and the AIT was told it was the only medication found suitable to treat his mental condition.

The judgement, which was delivered in October but has only just been revealed, also states that deportation would breach the killer's right to a private and family life because he moved to the UK with his parents as a child.

Alani killed Michael Masser and Kenneth Paton, both consultant cosmetic surgeons, at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in November 1990.

Mr Paton's widow, Dorothy, who still lives at the home she shared with him in Ossett, near Wakefield, said last night of Alani: "I think he should be deported. I argued that at the time of the trial.

"I think he is going to be a danger to people in Britain. He is a dangerous man."

Dr Jasmina Masser, who like her late husband specialises in plastic surgery, said: "I am very shocked by this news. I was once very hurt by these events."

The case comes after The Sunday Telegraph revealed how the AIT regularly overturns attempts by the Home Office to deport foreign criminals at the end of their sentences.

Last year this newspaper disclosed how dangerous offenders from overseas, including killers and paedophiles, had used the Human Rights Act to avoid deportation despite a pledge by Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, to remove any foreigner who breaks the law.

Mr Brown said in 2007 that foreigners must "play by the rules or face the consequences", adding: "If you commit a crime you will be deported from our country."

Alani had come into contact with the two doctors after being referred to their clinic for removal of a tattoo from his arm – a picture of an eagle above the words "Republic of Iraq" – because he claimed the adornment was against his religion.

He became concerned about how long he would have to wait for the procedure, and even tried to remove the tattoo himself by scraping his arm with a knife.

Mr Masser, 42, was stabbed six times in the throat and chest with a sheath knife. His widow gave birth to son Harry six weeks before Alani's trial; the couple already had a seven-year-old daughter.

Mr Paton, who was 56, and married with three grown-up children, suffered 24 stab wounds in the chest and abdomen.

The surgeons' bodies were discovered by Mr Paton's secretary, Pamela Mackay, when blood was seen coming from underneath the door of a consulting room.

After his arrest, Alani told detectives: "It was a command from Allah. I have had visions from Allah and you can't be more right than Allah."

He told police he believed one of the doctors was Satan and one was Lucifer, and said he had added their names to a death list which also included James Whale, the broadcaster, who had earlier 'cut off' Alani during a radio phone-in during which he expressed anti-Semitic views.

At his trial at Leeds Crown Court in 1991, Alani, who was unemployed and living in Wakefield at the time of the crimes, admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He was sent to Rampton maximum security hospital indefinitely.

But he was transferred to a smaller "regional secure unit" in 2005.

The AIT said that in 2008, as part of his "staged preparation for his intended release into normal society", Alani was moved again, this time to a 12-bed residential care home which operates as a "therapeutic community" for people with mental health problems.

He could be set free next year.

Beskar

01-24-2010, 11:17

Actually, it is probably because Iran told the UK to "not go there" and with the sentence of death... they relented.

Furunculus

01-24-2010, 12:11

we should have sent him back anyway.

CountArach

01-24-2010, 12:20

Please keep this thread for discussion of News of the Weird items.

Thanks :bow:

Hosakawa Tito

01-24-2010, 14:08

William Wallace reincarnate. (http://news.stv.tv/scotland/149759-naked-rambler-could-spend-rest-of-life-behind-bars/)

Gregoshi

01-24-2010, 16:21

William Wallace reincarnate. (http://news.stv.tv/scotland/149759-naked-rambler-could-spend-rest-of-life-behind-bars/)
Free Willy!

Louis VI the Fat

01-24-2010, 16:38

Free Willy!Zen-like perfection. :bow:

Lemur

01-24-2010, 17:18

Gregoshi is the only Orgah whom I can say honestly as a super-power.

Who Caused the Earthquake in Haiti? XENU! (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100123/lf_afp/haitiquakehealthreligionscientology_20100123063004)

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – Amid the mass of aid agencies piling in to help Haiti quake victims is a batch of Church of Scientology "volunteer ministers", claiming to use the power of touch to reconnect nervous systems.

Clad in yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of the controversial US-based group, smiling volunteers fan out among the injured lying under makeshift shelters in the courtyard of Port-au-Prince's General Hospital.

A wealthy private donor provided his airplane to fly in 80 volunteers from Los Angeles, along with 50 Haitian-American-doctors, in a gesture worth 400,000 dollars, said a Parisian volunteer who gave her name as Sylvie.

"We're trained as volunteer ministers, we use a process called 'assist' to follow the nervous system to reconnect the main points, to bring back communication," she said.

"When you get a sudden shock to a part of your body the energy gets stuck, so we re-establish communication within the body by touching people through their clothes, and asking people to feel the touch."

Next to her lay 22-year-old student Oscar Elweels, whose father rescued him from the basement of his school where he lay with a pillar on his leg for a day after the deadly January 12 quake.

His right leg was amputated below the knee and his left leg was severely bruised and swollen.

More than half of his fellow students died in the rubble of his school, although the rest of his family was unscathed, he said, thanking God.

"One hour ago he had no sensation in his left leg, so I explained the method to him, I touched him and after a while he said 'now I feel everything'," said Sylvie.

"Otherwise they might have had to amputate his other leg. Now his sister knows the method and she can do it."

Asked about the method being used on him, a smiling Elweels described it as "a sort of harmony between the nerves, a kind of exercise. I couldn't feel at all, but then I could."

Does he know Scientology? "Yes, it's a French organization," he said.

"All the patients are happy with the technique," said Sylvie. "But some doctors don't like the yellow T-shirts. It's a color thing," she insisted.

naut

01-24-2010, 18:09

Crazies.

Pity they didn't send people who can actually be of assistance.

Furunculus

01-24-2010, 19:29

piracy and lunacy in one sad little tale:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100023495/why-is-new-labour-so-reluctant-to-arrest-somali-pirates/

Crazed Rabbit

01-24-2010, 20:51

I will have to cede the crown for political stories in the NotW thread.
:shame:

Though that is some really weird news. :inquisitive:

CR

CountArach

01-25-2010, 00:58

British political news stories belong in the British Election thread, this is solely for strange news threads, such as the two posted prior to that.

Gregoshi

01-25-2010, 05:38

...claiming to use the power of touch to reconnect nervous systems.
Isn't there an iPod Touch app for that already? :thumbsup:

InsaneApache

01-25-2010, 18:21

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1245200/Foam-party-Brussels-covered-foam-firefighters-protest.html

:2thumbsup:

Fisherking

01-25-2010, 18:49

That is deserving of its own thread! :laugh4:

Love it!

:2thumbsup:

Husar

01-25-2010, 19:22

Yeah, great story! :2thumbsup:

Vladimir

01-25-2010, 19:44

If those firemen don't loose their jobs I take back all the good things I said about Belgium. That's unbelievable! Firemen setting fires to get attention.

Fisherking

01-25-2010, 19:54

Some how, being that they are civil servants of the Belgian State, I don't think that is going to happen...

Vladimir

01-25-2010, 20:05

Some how, being that they are civil servants of the Belgian State, I don't think that is going to happen...

Well than that better be beer foam!

Hosakawa Tito

01-26-2010, 00:21

Meanwhile, over on the left tail of the bell curve... (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/crime/os-car-burglary-suspect-20100115,0,7087245.story)

Fragony

01-26-2010, 03:37

Best wallpaper ever http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1223/a_little_motivation.html

Lemur

01-26-2010, 06:58

Best wallpaper ever http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper_beta/details/1223/a_little_motivation.html
Fragony, what the heck, I can't view the image unless I download it from the site? Sheesh. I'm sure it's very amusing and, uh, weird. Whatever it is.

This thread ain't your personal dumping ground, bub.

Fragony

01-26-2010, 08:55

If you click download it just appears, think that's normal with desktops as they are big files. I think.

Husar

01-26-2010, 10:01

[QUOTE=Lemur;2422192]Fragony, what the heck, I can't view the image unless I download it from the site? Sheesh. I'm sure it's very amusing and, uh, weird. Whatever it is.[QUOTE]

It says "DO YOUR WORK. DON'T BE STUPID." No, I didn't download it. You may worship me now. :sweatdrop:

Fragony

01-26-2010, 11:29

Lemur

01-26-2010, 15:36

California School District to Consider Un-banning Dictionary (http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_W_dictionary23.466f8d4.html)

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/dictionary_EVIL.jpg

The Menifee Union School District is forming a committee to review whether dictionaries containing the definitions for sexual terms should be permanently banned from the district's classrooms, a district official said Friday.

The 9,000-student K-8 district this week pulled all copies of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary after an Oak Meadows Elementary School parent complained about a child stumbling across definitions for "oral sex." [...]

The committee will "determine the extent to which the challenged material supports curriculum, the educational appropriateness of the material and its suitability to the age level of the students," according to school district policy.

Cadmus wouldn't estimate how long the committee might take to review the dictionaries.

The collegiate dictionaries were purchased several years ago to allow advanced readers in the fourth and fifth grades to look up words that they didn't know, Cadmus said.

Other less extensive and more elementary dictionaries remain available to students, she said.

The committee will decide what to do with the Merriam-Webster dictionaries if the ban becomes permanent. The district paid $24 for each dictionary, which are currently stored away from students. They might be sold or exchanged for other dictionaries, Cadmus said.

naut

01-26-2010, 15:39

:wall:

drone

01-26-2010, 17:22

:laugh4: Good to see some things never change. When I was growing up, looking up dirty words in the dictionary was all the rage...

Lemur

01-27-2010, 02:12

Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Court Forbids Inmates to Play Dungeons & Dragons (http://volokh.com/2010/01/25/7th-circuit-upholds-prison-rule-forbidding-inmates-to-play-dungeons-and-dragons/)

The prison’s rationale for the ban is that playing D&D might stimulate “gang activity” by inmates. But the government conceded that there is no evidence that Dungeons and Dragons actually had stimulated gang activity in the past, either in this prison or elsewhere. The only evidence for the supposedly harmful effects of Dungeons and Dragons were a few cases from other states where playing the game supposedly led inmates to indulge in “escapism” and become divorced from reality, one case where two non-inmates committed a crime in which they “acted out” a D&D story-line, and one where a longtime D&D player (not an inmate) committed suicide. [...]

The court also cited statements by a “gang expert” who argued that playing D&D might stimulate gang activity because Dungeons and Dragons has a structure similar to a gang.

CountArach

01-27-2010, 06:52

:laugh4: Good to see some things never change. When I was growing up, looking up dirty words in the dictionary was all the rage...
Yep, I have several memories when I was 7 or 8 looking up swear words and giggling uncontrollably.

Furunculus

01-28-2010, 11:29

one thirtieth of the population of france is a brother/uncle/father or daughter/mother/niece, in short; they like to keep it in the family:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7085759/France-makes-incest-a-crime.html

Cute Wolf

01-28-2010, 12:49

Pork is better than Viagra

Sexed-up president says pork better than Viagra

Argentina's president has recommended pork as an alternative to Viagra, saying she spent a satisfying weekend with her husband after eating the barbecued meat.

"I've just been told something I didn't know, that eating pork improves your sex life," President Cristina Fernandez said to leaders of Argentina's pig farming industry.

"I'd say it's a lot nicer to eat a bit of grilled pork than take Viagra."

Ms Fernandez also said she recently ate pork and "things went very well that weekend, so it could well be true".

Argentines are the world's biggest per capita consumers of beef, but the government has sought to promote pork as an alternative in recent years due to rising steak prices and as a way to diversify the meat industry.

"Trying it doesn't cost anything, so let's give it a go," Ms Fernandez said in the televised speech.

- Reuters

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/28/2803837.htm

The Wizard

01-28-2010, 14:28

Oh lawd :laugh4:

CountArach

01-28-2010, 14:30

Pigs lead to more porking I guess.

Gregoshi

01-28-2010, 15:08

Pigs lead to more porking I guess.
Yeah. Pork loins - a cut of meat AND a sentence.

Vladimir

01-28-2010, 15:47

So us white guys are in luck if we want to shag a president?

Gregoshi

01-28-2010, 15:55

So us white guys are in luck if we want to shag a president?
:laugh4: "The other white meat"? Brilliant! :2thumbsup:

Furunculus

01-30-2010, 00:25

Lingerie-Football:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/picturegalleries/7102275/pictures-of-Lingerie-Football-Teams-of-scantily-clad-ladies-take-to-the-field-for-a-chance-to-play-at-the-Super-Bowl.html

i recommend pics four and nine!

Crazed Rabbit

01-30-2010, 02:54

Scotland; the land that reason forgot. (http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/01/28/Man-fights-ticket-for-blowing-nose/UPI-37101264719585/)

PRESTWICK, Scotland, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A Scottish motorist who was ticketed for blowing his nose while his car was stopped in clogged traffic said he will take the charge to court.

Michael Mancini, 39, of Prestwick, said he was in stationary traffic with his parking brake on when he reached for a handkerchief to wipe his runny nose, leading police Constable Stuart Gray to issue him a $97 fine because he was "not in control of his vehicle" while blowing his nose

This could be at the center of a venn diagram on weird and police and political news, so I'm posting here. :book:

CR

Lemur

01-30-2010, 16:02

Australia bans small-boobed porn (http://guyism.com/2010/01/australia-bans-small-boobs-in-porn.html)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/no_small_boobs_mug-p168477252461917.jpg
The proposed Australian Government clampdown on smut just got a whole lot broader, as news emerged of a ban on small breasts [...] Breasts came under the spotlight a year ago, as Senators Barnaby Joyce and Guy Barnett commenced a campaign against publicly available porn. Rounding up magazines from corner shops and filling stations, Senator Joyce claimed that publications featuring small-breasted women were encouraging paedophilia.

The result of this campaign is now visible in the decisions being made by the Australian Classification Board, which is beginning to apply RC (refused classification) categories to such material, as opposed to the previous X-rating. According to Fiona Patten, Convenor of the Australian Sex Party: “We are starting to see depictions of women in their late 20s being banned because they have an A cup size.

“It may be an unintended consequence of the Senator’s actions but they are largely responsible for the sharp increase in breast size in Australian adult magazines of late.”

Lemur

01-30-2010, 19:18

The Wasabi-smell Smoke Alarm (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10443919-1.html)

The Japanese are getting teary-eyed over a smoke alarm for deaf people that emits a strong odor of wasabi, according to a recent Nikkei Net article.

Instead of an ear-piercing wail, the device unleashes the chemical compound allyl isothiocyanate, which gives horseradish, mustard, and wasabi their bite. A red LED on the alarm also starts flashing when smoke is detected.

In tests on sleeping people with normal or no hearing, the device woke nearly all subjects up within two and a half minutes after the stench hit their nostrils. Further tests determined the ideal intensity of airborne wasabi to wake people up but not hurt their eyes in the process.

Gregoshi

01-30-2010, 21:41

Further tests determined the ideal intensity of airborne wasabi to wake people up but not hurt their eyes in the process.
Good thinking. We wouldn't want wasabi AND the smoke from the fire to both hurt the eyes. :laugh4:

Gregoshi

01-30-2010, 21:46

Senator Joyce claimed that publications featuring small-breasted women were encouraging paedophilia.

This will lead to government sponsored breast implants which will lead to the creation of the Ministry of Small Breasts which will envitably lead to this headline: "Study Finds Ministry of Small Breasts Overrun with Pedophiles". :laugh4:

Aemilius Paulus

02-01-2010, 04:31

California School District to Consider Un-banning Dictionary (http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_W_dictionary23.466f8d4.html)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/dictionary_EVIL.jpg
Hmm, does it not sound suspicious that a child 'accidentally' stumbled on a definition of oral sex and asked her mother, as if noting its signficace? Or did his/her mother look it up herself? This gives us two probable realities: 1 the child already knew what it was, or 2 the parent was such a an oddball (?) or perrvert (?) that she looked it up herself... Hmm...

Australia bans small-boobed porn (http://guyism.com/2010/01/australia-bans-small-boobs-in-porn.html)
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/no_small_boobs_mug-p168477252461917.jpg
Ugh, it is this sort of big government peculiarities that make me question my rather slightly authoritarian outlooks on politics and ponder if the American system of small gov't is really the best of them all. :dizzy2:

Furunculus

02-01-2010, 09:18

trucker takes out pedestrian bridge in turkey:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/7090792/Truck-smashes-into-motorway-bridge-in-Turkey.html

Hosakawa Tito

02-02-2010, 00:11

Great moments in schadenfreude. (http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/25/scotus.killers.letter/index.html?hpt=Sbin) ~:doh:

drone

02-02-2010, 00:43

Great moments in schadenfreude. (http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/25/scotus.killers.letter/index.html?hpt=Sbin) ~:doh:

Ah, Manassas. This area would be so much more boring without you. Anyplace where rednecks meet the suburbs ensures hilarity (a man named Bobbitt once had an unfortunate accident there).

Crazed Rabbit

02-02-2010, 21:47

https://img683.imageshack.us/img683/5346/article1265108349824081.jpg

The snake who's hooked on cigarettes. (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/811367-the-snake-whos-hooked-on-cigarettes)

You don't want to deny Po the pit viper his regular morning cigarette - he's guaranteed to throw a hissy fit.

That's because the three-year-old reptile from Taipei in Taiwan has become hooked on nicotine, thanks to his owner Sho Lau's 20-a-day habit.

'He is very tame and one day when I threw a cigarette butt away he went for it and seemed to enjoy having it in his mouth,' said 33-year-old Lau.

'One thing led to another and before long he was having one cigarette in the morning and another at night.'

'He gets very agitated if I don't have any to spare,' he added.

CR

Louis VI the Fat

02-02-2010, 21:59

It's official: US military to build AT-ATs (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/02/bigdog-military-robot).

https://www.youtube.com/user/bostondynamics?blend=6&ob=4&rclk=cti#p/a/f/0/W1czBcnX1Ww

Now a new BigDog - even bigger than this one - is in development. Last week the US military research wing Darpa awarded a $32m contract to the same developers to create a that can go nearly double the distance, carry more weight and last for up to 24 hours.

According to the press release put out by Darpa (PDF (http://www.darpa.mil/news/2009/LS3DARPA.pdf)), the Legged Squad Support System (LS3) will "develop a walking quadruped platform that will augment squads by carrying traditional and new equipment autonomously".

Let's see where this one goes.

Now who's the evil empire bend on dominating the entire universe, eh?

Edit: how the daisy do the cool people on this forum manage to embed videos?

Crazed Rabbit

02-02-2010, 22:12

Edit: how the daisy do the cool people on this forum manage to embed videos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=W1czBcnX1Ww#

:cool:

CR

Louis VI the Fat

02-02-2010, 22:44

:cool:

CR.

https://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7087/pleurir.png

Curses. :shame:

naut

02-02-2010, 23:32

That is a massive double-headed fly.

Crazed Rabbit

02-03-2010, 06:03

https://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7087/pleurir.png

Curses. :shame:

Who's that dude? Also, the video embed code is conveniently located to the right of the insert image code, as a general FYI.

CR

Fragony

02-03-2010, 08:25

Paris just got pwned, pretty famous image

oh noes http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/07/

The Wizard

02-03-2010, 17:11

That is a massive double-headed fly.

It will annoy the enemy into submission.

Lemur

02-03-2010, 20:13

Nine year old launches lingerie line for kids (http://celebrities.ninemsn.com.au/blog.aspx?blogentryid=585857&showcomments=true&rss=yes)

Insert pedophilia joke here

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/blog161009_noah2.jpg

Seems like every time we hear about Noah Cyrus she's doing something totally innapropriate for her age.

Whether it's dressing like a dominatrix for Halloween, skipping around a pole-dancing pole or performing the totally un-PG hits 'Smack That' and 'Tik Tok', we suspect this nine-year-old could easily notch up more scandals than her big sis by the time she hits her teens.

The latest news that's got us scratching our heads and wondering, yet again, 'what were her parents thinking?' ...little Noah is set to become a lingerie model.

She'll be teaming up with her pint-sized best friend Emily Grace to launch a children's lingerie collection for 'Ohh! La, La! Couture'.

The company's website describes The Emily Grace Collection as having a “trendy, sweet, yet edgy feel, reminiscent of Emily’s true personality. She is collaborating with Ooh! La, La! Couture designers to create versatile styles that can be worn with sweet ballerina slippers, funky sneakers or paired with lace stockings and boots for more of a rock and roll look. [...] We weep for the future.

Gregoshi

02-03-2010, 22:10

Let's use father Billy Ray's song Achy Breaky Heart for this one:

You can tell the world
You're a wicked little girl
When wearin' trashy clothes and skimpy thong
Or you can make your friends
Attract some nasty men
Wearing lingerie to turn them on.

Chorus
But don't be a tart, a nine year old tart
I just don't think you understand
But you're gonna be a tart, a pedophile's mark
The fantasy of creepy, dirty men.

drone

02-03-2010, 22:21

Now where did I put that Pedobear jpg? :inquisitive:

Gregoshi

02-03-2010, 22:36

Now where did I put that Pedobearbare jpg? :inquisitive:
Fixed it. And BTW drone, that statement sounds a little creepy. :laugh4:

Hosakawa Tito

02-05-2010, 02:21

^^^ Pic should be titled "Britney Spears: The Early Years".

Here's a rather creepy interesting babe. Teenage Taxidermist. (http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/Self-described_wolf_woman_severed_lost_dogs_head.html) Hmmm, she's from San Antonio....I double dog dare Strike to slap a collar on her and show her who the real alpha-male is in Texas.

Gregoshi

02-05-2010, 06:41

....I double dog dare Strike to slap a collar on her and show her who the real alpha-male is in Texas.
Sorry, she's already wearing a collar, which means she's spoken for.

Cute Wolf

02-05-2010, 06:46

All images must be hosted by you, not hot linked. This image was in poor taste as well.

drone

02-05-2010, 07:41

That's the one...

The Wizard

02-05-2010, 12:00

In after pedo bear.

Also, that article Tito posted defined "troll" as "a savvy, anonymous Internet user" :laugh4:

Louis VI the Fat

02-05-2010, 15:50

Extinct: Andaman tribe’s extermination complete as last member dies

[/URL]The last member of a unique tribe has died on India’s Andaman Islands.

Boa Sr, who died last week aged around 85, was the last speaker of ‘Bo’, one of the ten Great Andamanese (http://assets.survivalinternational.org/pictures/522/Boa_Sr_chachi_2005_screen.jpg) languages. The Bo are thought to have lived in the Andaman Islands for as much as 65,000 years, making them the descendants of one of the oldest human cultures on Earth.

‘With the death of Boa With the death of Boa Sr and the extinction of the Bo language, a unique part of human society is now just a memory'.

** See the 'Last of the Bo' sing her song here: [URL]http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5509 **
Not really weird news, but where else to share this.

There is something unspeakably sad about this. A 65.000 year old line has been broken. An entire world has come to an end with the passing away of this woman.

Just because they were a small tribe, does not make them secondary, or a mere subgroup. Owing to its complete isolation, and early split of the rest of humanity, this single tribe is as much an entire group of humans as much as far larger groups are. 'Celts' or 'Latins' are a few thousand years old. Indo-Europeans six to eight thousand years old. The Bo are an estimated 30-60 thousand year old.

Now they are extinct. :embarassed:

(There are several roughly related tribes left. Their total population combined is estimated at fifty. They will die out one by one in our lifetime. Ending a human line, a race if one wishes, that is older than that of East Asians, Europeans or Aboriginals)

Crazed Rabbit

02-05-2010, 18:12

From Milwaukee, (http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/83626547.html) Heartland of Pranks:

It happened when a 21-year-old man thought it would be funny to scare his mother when she got home from shopping Thursday night.

He put on a ski mask, confronted her behind their home and pretended to rob her.

That's when she pulled out a .357 revolver and fired several times.

Her son was hit at least twice by bullets, one of them to the groin.

He is in the hospital this morning, but there is no word on his condition.

CR

Gregoshi

02-05-2010, 20:45

So much for grandchildren.

Also, that is quite sad about the Bo.

Subotan

02-05-2010, 20:57

Breaking News: Charles Darwin was white (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dna-test-reveals-the-origins-of-the-species-of-charles-darwin-1889951.html)

Cute Wolf

02-05-2010, 21:44

Well, after wearing that lingerie in previous posts..... This story was not a surprise...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584936,00.html

11 Year Old Girl Give Birth to a Baby Boy

http://www.foxnews.com/images/596889/3_61_11_year_old_baby_320.jpg

Friday, February 05, 2010
By Jessica Ryen Doyle

An 11-year-old girl in the Northeast recently gave birth to a baby boy, the girl’s family told Fox News.

"My daughter and (her) baby are fine, and the baby is absolutely beautiful," said the mother of the 11-year-old girl. The girl and her family are not being named in order to protect the new parent's privacy.

According to Dr. Manny Alvarez, managing health editor of FoxNews.com, the girl’s age places her in significant danger.

"A very comprehensive approach to her care needs to be instituted early in her pregnancy," Alvarez said.

A recent report by the Guttmacher Institute said teen pregnancies in the U.S. were up 3 percent in 2006. But this case is not about a teenager, noted Dr. Abdulla Al-Khan, a leading high-risk obstetrician — it’s about a pre-teen whose body is not yet built to carry a child.

"Her body is clearly not defined for pregnancy with its short stature," Al-Khan said. "Her chest is not extensively developed for breast tissue, her bones aren't quite fused, and once you expose a child this young to high amounts of progesterone and especially estrogen, there is (a possibility) that it could halt her growth."

Al-Khan said other medical challenges facing a pregnant girl as young as 10 or 11 include:

— The pelvis is not defined for natural childbirth;

— The vagina could sustain injury during a natural birth;

— The patient is at high risk for preeclampsia, a pregnancy condition marked by high blood pressure and protein in the urine, and which can lead to convulsions and multi-system organ failure;

— A higher risk of pre-term labor and delivery, which would mean the baby’s size would be compromised, leaving the baby at risk for developmental issues, fetal growth restriction and chromosomal abnormalities;

— Higher incidence of stillbirth;

— Higher incidence of cholestasis of pregnancy, a condition caused by the blockage of bile, which can lead to stillbirth and placenta issues;

— A chance of developing fatty liver, which can be fatal.

"The textbooks don’t even tell you how to deal with a 10-year-old; it’s completely different even though we understand the basics," Al-Khan said.

Al-Khan said a patient like this would benefit from early intervention and would have to be seen on a weekly basis during the pregnancy to prevent complications.

"Think about how difficult a pregnancy is for someone in their 20s or 30s ... the aches, pains, the sleep deprivation," Al-Khan said. "Now imagine it in a child."

There are also psychological issues associated with pre-teen pregnancy because a 10-year-old cannot be mentally ready to give birth, Al-Khan said.

"This is heart-wrenching because you have a kid whose mental capacities can’t possibly wrap themselves around what it means to be a mother," agreed Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist and Fox News contributor. "There are so many psychological minefields in store for her. Feelings of guilt, feelings of wanting to nurture another human being, and yet this is all very, very complex and intense when she looks to her own family to essentially support, and if you will, father her child."

Ablow pointed out that the girl is dependent on her own family to take care of her, yet she now has a child who is dependent on her.

"She has her own life plan, and yet there’s another life that should take precedence," Ablow said.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, nearly half of all 15-19 year-olds in the U.S. have had sex at least once.

In 2002, some 13 percent of never-married females aged 15-19 had had sex before the age of 15, according to the think tank.

Al-Khan said it was likely that the possibility of terminating the baby would have come up in this case, because as sensitive a subject as it is, going through with the pregnancy would be a greater risk than having an abortion.

The youngest documented case of a child pregnancy was in 1939 in Lima, Peru, Al-Khan said. Lina Medina was six years old when she became pregnant and gave birth to a baby.

Lemur

02-05-2010, 22:36

Saudis Reject Ambassador Whose Names Means "Biggus Dickus" (http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/02/03/ambassador_at_very_large)

Despite having served for years as a distinguished Pakistani diplomat, Akbar Zeb reportedly cannot receive accreditation as Pakistan's ambassador to Saudi Arabia. The reason, apparently, has nothing to do with his credentials, and everything to do with his name -- which, in Arabic, translates to "biggest dick." [...]

According to this Arabic-language article in the Arab Times, Pakistan had previously floated Zeb's name as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, only to have him rejected for the same reason. One can only assume that submitting Zeb's name to a number of Arabic-speaking countries is some unique form of punishment designed by the Pakistani Foreign Ministry -- or the result of a particularly egregious cockup.

InsaneApache

02-05-2010, 23:21

Shame. He's a high wanking officwal, you know. One of the highest wankers in Wome.

drone

02-06-2010, 01:16

He has a wife, you know....

Lemur

02-06-2010, 19:16

We have no choice but to review the video evidence, which begins at 1:24.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K8_jgiNqUc#t=1m23s

The Wizard

02-06-2010, 19:32

You just can't think stuff like this up :laugh4:

Gregoshi

02-06-2010, 20:57

Akbar Zeb wants to know why the Arabs titter so.

Crazed Rabbit

02-06-2010, 21:29

Clearly the Saudis are just a bunch of small-minded men.

CR

Lemur

02-07-2010, 03:57

Lesbian youth at high risk for pregnancy: UBC study (http://www.vancouversun.com/news/teens+higher+risk+pregnancy+study/1082366/story.html)

Lesbian and bisexual youth are up to seven times more likely to get pregnant than their heterosexual peers, a study of British Columbia students has found.

Gregoshi

02-07-2010, 20:36

Hosakawa Tito

02-09-2010, 01:53

Indiscriminate anti-discrimination. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7108021/Taxi-drivers-offered-their-Hackney-Carriage-licence-forms-in-Braille.html) hoo boy

InsaneApache

02-09-2010, 12:54

Indiscriminate anti-discrimination. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7108021/Taxi-drivers-offered-their-Hackney-Carriage-licence-forms-in-Braille.html) hoo boy

That's right up there with the ridiculous notion of having wheelchair access in the Yorkshire Dales. I sometime think I'm living in a Monty Python movie. I'm off to find a one-legged, deaf, dumb and blind black single parent lesbian to co-ordinate.

Hosakawa Tito

02-09-2010, 23:52

That's right up there with the ridiculous notion of having wheelchair access in the Yorkshire Dales. I sometime think I'm living in a Monty Python movie. I'm off to find a one-legged, deaf, dumb and blind black single parent lesbian to co-ordinate.

That is precious.:laugh4::laugh4::laugh4:

Louis VI the Fat

02-10-2010, 00:07

Blimey, he's onto us. Should we tell him, or hope this will pass too - I mean, the silly little bugger didn't even get the hint when we showed him the Truman Show either.

Gregoshi

02-10-2010, 01:34

Blimey, he's onto us. Should we tell him, or hope this will pass too - I mean, the silly little bugger didn't even get the hint when we showed him the Truman Show either.
Whopsy. Bad pun...(on my part).

Actually, I keep buggering up my corrections too...Ah ha, got it now. Awful pun, take two.

Blimey, he's onto us. Should we tell him, or hope this will pass too - I mean, the silly little bugger didn't even get the hint when we showed him the Truman Show either.
Poor IA can't tell friend from faux.

Lemur

02-10-2010, 03:26

Getting paid to spank the monkey ... at a morgue (http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/02/monkey_spankings_at_the_morgue.php?rss)

Was it good government practice for morgue staffers to provide the King County medical examiner with samples of their sperm at $20 a pop? The voluntary ejaculations were a bit unseemly, a new county investigations report reveals, but at least the self-abuse wasn't an abuse of authority. [...]

A whistle-blower had raised the question of Chief Medical Examiner Richard Harruff's sperm-gathering in a 2007 complaint, but it wasn't until two weeks ago that the county Ombudsman's Office issued its report, along with findings on whether or not the ME's office had properly handled brain tissue and fetal remains.

The morgue, located in a corner of Harborview Medical Center on Pill Hill, has long been a controversial workplace where employees have sued over sexual harassment and unusual practices. The new ombudsman's report, issued January 29, looked into some of those issues, first raised in a 16-page complaint filed in August, 2007 by former ME staffer Robinette Struckel.

The sperm-donation practice was at the top of her list. It seemed, at the least she said, inappropriate to ask fellow workers to masturbate--perhaps on county time--and ejaculate into a specimen catcher in return for a cash award from the boss.

But the office of ombudsman Amy Calderwood determined no harm was done.

Hosakawa Tito

02-10-2010, 20:34

Neil Armstrong's Poop. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/29/MNLE1BPV5E.DTL#ixzz0eIW8ta5x) Dang, another investment opportunity gone to ****.

Viking

02-10-2010, 21:59

A random drive with Google Street View (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=35+Rugdeveien,+Bergen,+Hordaland,+Norge&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Rugdeveien+35,+5097+Bergen,+Hordaland,+Norway&gl=us&ei=_cdyS_HECsbN8QbLz4SMDQ&ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA&ll=60.360883,5.369267&spn=0.000688,0.002755&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=60.360884,5.369468&panoid=vIlVwLm8kDoxekaRJ0MwdQ&cbp=12,296.48,,0,17.77).

Hosakawa Tito

02-11-2010, 14:50

Xtreme Ministeries (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/us/02fight.html)

Pastor John Renken leads his flock in solemn prayer to the Heavenly Father and then, not an hour later in the back room of their meeting house, he's screaming at his parishioners: "Hard punches! Finish the fight! To the head! To the head!"

Turn the other cheek and then two quick left jabs and a right cross.

Fragony

02-11-2010, 18:19

LOLOLOLOLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL marketing-muppets do your homewwork

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/826491/93f0c859/pedobear_everywhere.html

Tellos Athenaios

02-11-2010, 21:34

LOLOLOLOLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL marketing-muppets do your homewwork

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/826491/93f0c859/pedobear_everywhere.html

Fragony, do your homework! (http://www.torontosun.com/sports/vancouver2010/news/2010/02/10/12823326-qmi.html)

IOW: it is a photoshopped picture created by a critic of the Winter Games. Not official PR material.

Crazed Rabbit

02-11-2010, 23:30

Fragony, do your homework! (http://www.torontosun.com/sports/vancouver2010/news/2010/02/10/12823326-qmi.html)

IOW: it is a photoshopped picture created by a critic of the Winter Games. Not official PR material.

Whoa, that article had intelligent reporting on the internet and 4-chan.
:dizzy2:
CR

Fragony

02-13-2010, 15:01

The latest development in anti-air tech, the high velocity dumdum eagle

Contact Fragony directly for picture if you wish to see it. Image is (to all appearances) the gore spattered results of an eagle having hit an aircraft and punctured the fuselage. Please note, the image is quite graphic. SF

Lemur

02-13-2010, 19:33

Thanks for that tasteless, disgusting and unexplained picture, Frag. Are you sure you didn't mean to post that at 4chan instead?

Meanwhile, everybody look out for CRABZILLA (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/8504132.stm).

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/crabzilla.jpg

The crabs are commonly found in the Pacific in 1,000 ft (300m) deep waters but have been known to live deeper.

Curator Graham Burrows said: "It is rumoured these crabs can grow as big as four metres, big enough to straddle a car.

"He will absolutely dwarf the other crabs in there, but he's not aggressive and they should have nothing to worry about."

The crustacean has been flown to the UK en route to a permanent home in Belgium from Japan and has been quarantined in Dorset.

Husar

02-14-2010, 00:25

Well, Fragony, I'd put that in spoiler tags and a warning next to it.

And Lemur, my guess is that it hit the cockpit window of some aircraft.

That's a nice crab, btw.

Fragony

02-14-2010, 02:05

Sorry guys, I thought it was hilarious but then again I have a vulgar sense of humor.

Louis VI the Fat

02-14-2010, 16:35

West Bank (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/feb/14/west-bank-barrier-avatar-protest)

Fun, but I think they can protest until they're blue in the face and nothing will change.

Edit: gives us a link, Frag, love. Some background information. As it is , the only one who gets the bird is you.

The Wizard

02-14-2010, 20:12

Sorry guys, I thought it was hilarious but then again I have a vulgar sense of humor.

Your caption made it quite funny, actually

Hosakawa Tito

02-16-2010, 01:37

Government By Finger. (http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/02/12/nb-abel-leblanc-suspended-1028.html) Politics WWF style.:2thumbsup:

Lemur

02-16-2010, 02:38

In honor of Crazed Rabbit: The World's Biggest Bunny (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250918/Ralph-rabbit-breaks-mums-record-worlds-biggest-bunny.html)

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/article-1250918-0848F9BB000005DC-57.jpg

As the son of the world's biggest bunny, it was always likely that Ralph the rabbit was going to be a big buck.

But he has well and truly proved a chip off the old block after breaking the record set by his mother Amy - weighing in at more than three stone.

Ralph, a continental giant rabbit, is just 12 months old but already weighs more than Amy did before her death in 2009.

Owner Pauline Grant relies on handouts from neighbours to feed Ralph - who weighs more than an average three-year-old child and has already become too heavy for her to lift.

'He is just so big. You do not fully realise until you pick him up and he has quite the appetite,' she said.

'It really hits us in the pocket having to feed him but thankfully Ralph is so famous in the area people stop me in supermarkets and offer to fit the bill.'

'I have no idea how big he is going to get, it could be a ridiculous size but everyone loves him and he laps up the attention.'

Pauline is waiting on Guinness World Records to confirm Ralph as the biggest rabbit in the world after they changed their rules on measuring animals for size.

Ralph's dad Roberto is also a previous record holder for the world's biggest rabbit after weighting in at 35lb and measuring 3ft 1inches.

Hosakawa Tito

02-16-2010, 14:02

35lbs is a lot of bunny. The carrot bill must be outrageous indeed.

Aemilius Paulus

02-17-2010, 05:23

Tehehee, too bad Kim Jong Il is too sick to devour this one. Or is he?

aimlesswanderer

02-17-2010, 05:41

If you were a diplomat, what would happen if your name meant, in a major language, something descriptive about the size of your genitalia? Would this be a problem if you wanted to be ambassador where people spoke said major language?
Ambassador rejected because of boastful genital related name (http://trueslant.com/nealungerleider/2010/02/04/%E2%80%98the-biggest-dick%E2%80%99-cant-be-saudi-ambassador/)

A DVD featuring pretty ladies is coming out in Japan - nothing new there. However, this DVD features pretty ladies crying. Yes, crying.
Buy your DVD full of of crying women!! You know that's what has been missing in your life. (http://inventorspot.com/articles/crying_girl_dvd_helps_men_feel_strong_36913?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+inventorspot/articles+(Inventor+Spot+Articles))

Lemur

02-17-2010, 05:43

If you were a diplomat, what would happen if your name meant, in a major language, something descriptive about the size of your genitalia? Would this be a problem if you wanted to be ambassador where people spoke said major language?
Ambassador rejected because of boastful genital related name (http://trueslant.com/nealungerleider/2010/02/04/%E2%80%98the-biggest-dick%E2%80%99-cant-be-saudi-ambassador/)
If you want to post a penis-related diplomacy story (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?80840-News-of-the-Weird&p=2427939&viewfull=1#post2427939), you'd better get up pretty early in the morning if you want to get it ahead of lemur.

aimlesswanderer

02-17-2010, 05:50

Oops, you're right, too fast for me.

Hosakawa Tito

02-17-2010, 12:44

Sweet Justice. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/05/AR2010020503413.html)

Even the pros are taking a beating. The Mortgage Bankers Association, its membership expert in real estate, sold its $90 million headquarters in downtown Washington on Friday for $41 million.

So who's still an atheist?

The Wizard

02-17-2010, 12:55

Weatherman gets bit by pelican (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hrDEneB4OXtAf0F1mJNAG95zYuJw)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc11g8d6IvA

EDIT: This could possibly also go in the video thread...

Beskar

02-17-2010, 15:34

I wonder why he was bending over for the beak?

Hosakawa Tito

02-17-2010, 18:52

I wonder if that pelican is Steve Irwin reincarnate?

Gregoshi

02-17-2010, 19:52

I wonder why he was bending over for the beak?
He was turning the other cheek, of course.
Or was he showing the bird his Pelican Briefs? ~D

Reverend Joe

02-17-2010, 20:11

What the hell? Did he have fish in his pockets or something? I've never seen the slightest bit of aggression from a pelican, except for one time when one decided to take a giant dump in front of a family of tourists.

naut

02-17-2010, 23:41

Good to see that here in Australia we are progressive enough for a man to not throw a punch, or even fight back, against a chick.

Fragony

02-18-2010, 05:56

Fragony

02-18-2010, 13:08

I wonder what his alignment is http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/02/james_swan_chokes_mom_smashes.php

Gregoshi

02-18-2010, 14:44

I wonder what his alignment is http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/02/james_swan_chokes_mom_smashes.php
Chaotic Hood?

Hosakawa Tito

02-19-2010, 00:18

Price of Overthrowing the Government: $5 (http://rawstory.com/2010/02/south-carolinas-subversive-activities-registration-act-force/) There's even a PDF Subversive Agents Form link for all you anarchists/terrorists so you can register.

Fragony

02-19-2010, 13:03

Mac haters are radicalizing, this doesn't look good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhWtJ2OwZ4A

edit: good quality by the way, takes a while

Gregoshi

02-19-2010, 14:23

Price of Overthrowing the Government: $5 (http://rawstory.com/2010/02/south-carolinas-subversive-activities-registration-act-force/) .
Crap. Subway (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHIo4VruGZY) already got my $5. The revolution is off.

Ronin

02-21-2010, 17:40

Mac haters are radicalizing, this doesn't look good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhWtJ2OwZ4A

edit: good quality by the way, takes a while

that is just ridiculous...

that apple fashion accessory doesn´t deserve that much time wasted on it.

Gregoshi

02-21-2010, 18:10

that apple fashion accessory doesn´t deserve that much time wasted on it.
The thing that struck me about the video was how many (big) drops it took before the Macbook started to show damage - at least on the outside. I think that if my wife's Dell went through that exercise, it would have been in pieces on the first drop.

Viking

02-21-2010, 18:33

Mac haters are radicalizing, this doesn't look good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhWtJ2OwZ4A

edit: good quality by the way, takes a while

Those haters are from the Norwegian public broadcasting (http://nrkp3.no/radioresepsjonen/crazy-mac-haters/)- I hope no license money was hurt in the creation of that video. :laugh4:

Ronin

02-21-2010, 18:34

the outside looks sturdy....yes...

but I would say that no laptop, of any brand, would actually work after taking that first spill down the stairs.

Fragony

02-22-2010, 09:47

Big Brother is watching you, at home

http://info.kopp-verlag.de/news/big-brother-im-kinderzimmer-schueler-und-eltern-ueber-von-den-schulen-verschenkte-laptops-ausgesp.html (german)

InsaneApache

02-22-2010, 11:46

Big Brother is watching you, at home

http://info.kopp-verlag.de/news/big-brother-im-kinderzimmer-schueler-und-eltern-ueber-von-den-schulen-verschenkte-laptops-ausgesp.html (german)

That's got to be the story of the school spying on it's victims pupils using laptop webcams. Outrageous.

Tellos Athenaios

02-22-2010, 21:45

I am perplexed. Not that this spying thing happens; I mean it's been coming the USA for a loooooong time with an unhealthy "if you would not do anything wrong you would not care about your privacy" attitude (one that is apparently prevalent in the UK as well). But did that school basically say "okay, here you have a shiny laptop: go and use it as you see fit" or did it say "here you can borrow one of the school laptops to do homework on"??? Either way seems awfully irresponsible spending of a school budget.

Hosakawa Tito

02-22-2010, 22:02

American Sophisticates. (http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/new-poll-shows-support-for-repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell/)

11% of them (according to a New York Times/CBS News poll) think it's OK for "gays and lesbians" to serve openly but not "homosexuals."

Evelyn Woodhead must be proud.:shame:

Crazed Rabbit

02-22-2010, 23:09

A German Love Story: (http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/offbeat/dpgonc-man-breaks-into-jail-for-sex-with-girlfriend-fc-20100222_6200697)

Man Breaks into Jail for Sex with Girlfriend

Updated: Monday, 22 Feb 2010, 7:42 AM EST
Published : Monday, 22 Feb 2010, 7:36 AM EST

(The Sun) - A horny German man who broke into jail at night for sex romps with his imprisoned girlfriend faces a stretch behind bars himself, The Sun reported Monday.

Daniele Eberhardt, 33, was arrested after other female prisoners complained that he and his unnamed lover's "grunts and groans" kept them awake at night and made them feel "frustrated."

"It was like a bad porno movie," one inmate said.

Eberhardt climbed up a ten foot fence, evaded surveillance cameras and used a skeleton key to get in the jail in the city of Bielefeld, northern Germany.

Prosecutors said he will go on trial for trespassing next month.

CR

Fragony

02-23-2010, 10:51

Lady's en gentlemen, we got him http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1252928/Measuring-7ft-Giant-George-enters-record-books-worlds-tallest-dog.html

Furunculus

02-23-2010, 10:56

the people communist front of britain don't like the british communist front, and neither reside in judea:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100026946/is-there-a-moral-difference-between-nazis-and-communists/

roflmao!

InsaneApache

02-23-2010, 12:22

It’s like comparing Fred West to Peter Sutcliffe. :laugh:

Gregoshi

02-23-2010, 14:21

A German Love Story: (http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/offbeat/dpgonc-man-breaks-into-jail-for-sex-with-girlfriend-fc-20100222_6200697)
The fool should have known she was jail bait.

The Wizard

02-23-2010, 16:03

Maid whipped 200 times for urinating in food (http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article20781.ece)

:dizzy2:

Hosakawa Tito

02-23-2010, 16:41

Maid whipped 200 times for urinating in food (http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article20781.ece)

:dizzy2:

And while we're on the subject, more Free-Range Urination. (http://www.wtsp.com/news/watercooler/story.aspx?storyid=125520) You mean it's not like horse-shoes and hand-grenades?

The Wizard

02-23-2010, 17:21

This is what happens when you drink that much Natty Light

Gregoshi

02-23-2010, 17:23

Maid whipped 200 times for urinating in food (http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article20781.ece)
Twas merely Minute Maid Lemonade. :yes:

jabarto

02-24-2010, 02:26

Fragony

02-24-2010, 14:40

Louis is going to have a heart attack when he reads this http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8524000/8524558.stm

"Genetic tests have revealed that male and females of one species of Peruvian poison frog remain utterly faithful."

Tellos Athenaios

02-24-2010, 16:44

Guess how much the top earners in America are taxed?

http://www.taxanalysts.com/www/features.nsf/Articles/4862392C0AC24550852576CD0077FEA7?OpenDocument

Yeah, that's right. 16%. Meanwhile our education system is crap and 45,000 people a year die from inadequate medical care, and the people who should be mad about this - the poor - are defending it. Wlecome to America, I guess.

Oh to live in America. Over here, if you are of Dutch nationality, you end up at a whopping 52% but that includes other benefits (and the first €2700 or so are tax-free) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_Netherlands Also: those forms get pretty complex quickly.

Crazed Rabbit

02-24-2010, 19:18

A fine show of the art of drunken climbing. (http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/to-save-this-drunken-yob/story-e6frfq80-1225833671678)

A NIGHT of drunken skylarking has left a Ukrainian tourist with a hangover he will always remember - and taxpayers with a huge bill.

After a night on the drink, the 19-year-old man scaled down a cliff at Sydney's northern beaches suburb of Manly but got stuck half way and passed out, The Daily Telegraph reports.

After being alerted by a fisherman, rescue workers found him asleep on his back on a ledge 30m above sea level at North Head early yesterday morning.

The rescue operation will cost taxpayers at least $10,000.

But the man will only be charged the cost of the road trip to hospital - likely to be as little as $700.

Garth Thomson, who repeatedly shook the man's leg to wake him up so he could be winched to safety, said he had not seen anything like it in his 15-year ambulance career.

I'm not sure a rescue was needed. He got pretty far drunk, he probably could have made it to the bottom hungover.

Guess how much the top earners in America are taxed?

http://www.taxanalysts.com/www/features.nsf/Articles/4862392C0AC24550852576CD0077FEA7?OpenDocument

Yeah, that's right. 16%. Meanwhile our education system is crap and 45,000 people a year die from inadequate medical care, and the people who should be mad about this - the poor - are defending it. Wlecome to America, I guess.

Spoilered response so as not to politicize NotW.

That's a bit misleading.

Right now the top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all Federal income taxes (a percentage that went up in the Bush years).

These 400 households only have a low effective rate because the capital gains tax is relatively low compared to income tax, and apparently they made most of their money from capital gains.

CR

Lemur

02-25-2010, 02:12

Enough with the tax talk! Go get a room make your own thread!

Meanwhile, big scandal, hot star caught sucking off neighbor (http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/02/host-star-caught-sucking-the-atmosphere-off-a-hot-jupiter.ars)!

[R]esearchers have spotted [an exoplanet similar to Jupiter] that's so close and so hot that its host star has distorted its atmosphere into the shape of an American football and is gradually sucking it off the planet.

The planet was the 12th found by the Wide Angle Search for Planets project, and it's got some pretty unusual stats: 1.4 times Jupiter's mass, an orbital period of just over a day, and a distance from its host star's surface of only about three times the radius of the star itself. But the real surprise is that WASP-12b has a radius that's roughly 1.8 times that of Jupiter. It's close enough to its host star to get hot, but not that hot.

The authors apparently considered alternative sources of heat, and focused on the tidal forces that arise given its proximity to the host star. They calculated that, assuming properties similar to Jupiter, the tidal heating of WASP-12b would be strong enough to "drive ongoing envelope expansion." In other words, the atmosphere would blow up like a balloon. Thanks to the gravitational pull of the star, it wouldn't be spherical though; in the accompanying press material, comparisons were made to the balls used in rugby or US football.

In fact, the gravity would be so intense that the atmosphere would expand past the Lagrange point on the side closest to the star, allowing it to be sucked away from the planet.

Gregoshi

02-25-2010, 06:30

Meanwhile, big scandal, hot star caught sucking off neighbor (http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/02/host-star-caught-sucking-the-atmosphere-off-a-hot-jupiter.ars)!

Astro Pornography? That wasn't an option when I got my degree.

Fragony

02-25-2010, 12:20

priceless

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/Fragony/nT3b8.jpg

InsaneApache

02-25-2010, 12:51

:laugh4:

He should set Dennis Hoppers wife on him!

:laugh4:

Furunculus

02-26-2010, 09:36

Automatic rifle fire no match for Bulgarian air-bags:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7318788/Womans-size-D-breast-implants-save-her-from-gunshot.html

The Wizard

02-26-2010, 15:40

Gadhafi calls for jihad on Switzerland (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/25/muammar-gaddafi-libya) :laugh4:

Cute Wolf

02-26-2010, 16:08

Gadhafi calls for jihad on Switzerland (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/25/muammar-gaddafi-libya) :laugh4:

Just don't listen to this megalomaniacal man... :wink: if you give him attention, that's what he want you do.... he's the real political troll....

Gregoshi

02-26-2010, 17:01

Gadhafi calls for jihad on Switzerland (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/25/muammar-gaddafi-libya) :laugh4:
And this has nothing to do with the cheese? I guess Gadhafi needs help in his war as he withdrew from Switzerland once already.

HoreTore

02-26-2010, 20:46

http://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/wer-genau-schaut-sieht-zuviel-140254

I think the picture says it all.... It's a product photo from a website btw.

johnhughthom

02-26-2010, 20:50

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8539560.stm

gaelic cowboy

02-26-2010, 20:52

What an ejit

Gregoshi

02-26-2010, 21:37

[url]I think the picture says it all.... It's a product photo from a website btw.
That pricture is rather reveling.

Actually it reminds me of a rather revealing camera shot of a bobsled crewman from the Vancouver Olympics in one of those skin tight body suits - I saw more of the guy's trophy than I cared to.

Lemur

02-27-2010, 01:45

Eric Cartman steals 200-plus rifles from Afghan Police (http://washingtonindependent.com/77476/blackwater-the-senate-and-south-park)

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/481679-cartman_super.jpg

Blackwater personnel appear to have gone to exceptional lengths to obtain weapons from U.S. military weapons storehouses intended for use by the Afghan police. According to the committee, at the behest of the company’s Afghanistan country manager, Ricky Chambers, Blackwater on at least two occasions acquired hundreds of rifles and pistols from a U.S. military facility near Kabul called 22 Bunkers by the military and Pol-e Charki by the Afghans. Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of all U.S. military forces in the Middle East and South Asia, wrote to the committee to explain that “there is no current or past written policy, order, directive, or instruction that allows U.S. Military contractors or subcontractors in Afghanistan to use weapons stored at 22 Bunkers.”

On one of those occasions, in September 2008, Chief Warrant Officer Greg Sailer, who worked at 22 Bunkers and is a friend of a Blackwater officer working in Afghanistan, signed over more than 200 AK-47s to an individual identified as “Eric Cartman” or possibly “Carjman” from Blackwater’s Counter Narcotics Training Unit. A Blackwater lawyer told committee staff that no one by those names has ever been employed by the company. Eric Cartman is the name of an obnoxious character from Comedy Central’s popular “South Park” cartoon.

Lemur

02-27-2010, 20:07

Now that's what I call a "surprise" (http://www.sltrib.com/ci_14454828)

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/bloody-hammer-attack.jpg

[Amy Teresa] Ricks and her husband, Joel Ricks, were out on a date when she drove him to her mother's Holladay condo.

Saying she had a surprise for him, Ricks blindfolded her husband and led him to the basement, where she spun him around, told him to count to 100 and then began striking him with a hammer, according to court documents.

After suffering several blows, Joel Ricks removed the blindfold and grabbed the hammer, although he was unable to get it away from his wife, who continued trying to hit him. [...]

Joel Ricks, who suffered only minor injuries, told sheriff's deputies that sleeping bags had been spread on the floor under his feet, and that nearby he saw a 9-inch-long kitchen knife inside a plastic bag.

Crazed Rabbit

02-27-2010, 20:54

Now that's what I call a "surprise" (http://www.sltrib.com/ci_14454828)

Gustin said Tuesday's resolution will provide closure to both spouses, who are still married but are separated.

Whoa! And the attack happened three years ago!

CR

Gregoshi

02-28-2010, 09:52

Now that's what I call a "surprise" (http://www.sltrib.com/ci_14454828)

Here's one wife who clearly doesn't mind if her husband gets hammered.

Cute Wolf

03-01-2010, 05:24

Just today.... 5200 nude people gather in Sydney opera house for a big nude photo..... what the :grin:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/image.cfm?c_id=2&gal_objectid=10629264&gallery_id=109634#6849001

EDIT BY CA - These pics are definitely not work-safe. I'll leave the link up however (so to speak), as they are clearly artistic and posted in a major newspaper that isn't The Sun. Please feel free to complain if you find this offensive and the link shall be removed.

naut

03-01-2010, 12:03

Hosakawa Tito

03-01-2010, 13:21

Gone with the wind. (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/02/13/warehouse-worker-sacked-for-for-excessive-farting-115875-22039532/) Some people just can't catch a break.

Gregoshi

03-01-2010, 16:55

Gone with the wind. (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/02/13/warehouse-worker-sacked-for-for-excessive-farting-115875-22039532/) Some people just can't catch a break.
Be strong Daniel. This too shall pass.

Lemur

03-02-2010, 03:19

'Tis the season for goat weddings (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100226/wl_africa_afp/mozambiquecrimeanimalsoffbeat)

Two young men accused of having sex with a goat in central Mozambique are facing criminal charges, and the goat's owner is demanding they make traditional wedding arrangements, state media said Friday.

The young men, whose names and ages were not released, were caught in the act by police and arrested outside the rural town of Mbucuta in central Mozambique, said the website of the state broadcaster.

"One of the young men was naked and holding the goat's head, and the other was having sex with the animal," witness Mario Creva told Radio Mozambique. [ ...]

The owner is demanding the young men pay him damages and initiate a traditional wedding ceremony by paying "lobolo", a dowry, a family member told Radio Mozambique.

Cute Wolf

03-02-2010, 06:20

miotas

03-02-2010, 11:48

It's a few weeks old, but I checked back a few pages and didn't spot this.

Apparently black and asian people can be white supremacists now too.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/white-wing-british-party-changes-policy/story-e6frg6so-1225830664746

Hosakawa Tito

03-02-2010, 11:51

Fragony

03-02-2010, 13:18

lololol I must have one of these moods, but it's a miracle, the famous Mohammed cartoon appeared on a dutch model's leg.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/Fragony/kniekevanlexmond477.jpg

http://nick.tn-uk.net/uploaded/2006/09/mohammed_cartoon.jpg

Louis VI the Fat

03-02-2010, 13:27

I would so love to give Frags a Rorschach test one day. :beam:

Fragony

03-02-2010, 13:41

I would so love to give Frags a Rorschach test one day. :beam:

Your lack of faith is disturbing

https://jimcee.homestead.com/tortilla_jesus.jpeg

Lemur

03-02-2010, 20:50

-NM-

Furunculus

03-02-2010, 23:53

miotas

03-03-2010, 00:50

Heroic Ozzy accidental cracks the paintwork of his Harleys fuel tank with his nuts while attempting a record breaking jump:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/7350684/US-daredevil-breaks-motorcycle-jump-record.html?utm_source=tmg&utm_medium=TD_moto&utm_campaign=video0203pm

It was actually an American doing the jump in australia, but whats even funnier than cracking the tank is that he was doing an interview not long after the jump and he was standing there icing his nuts with his hands down his pants on live television.

Viking

03-03-2010, 21:15

Kid directing NY airport traffic

US officials are investigating how a child was apparently allowed to direct planes at New York's JFK airport - one of the country's busiest.

The probe comes after an audiotape caught the boy directing several pilots preparing for take-off last month.

In one exchange, the boy is heard saying: "JetBlue 171 contact departure." The pilot responds: "Over to departure JetBlue 171, awesome job."

Adios, amigo! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8547875.stm) (sound tape)

Crazed Rabbit

03-03-2010, 21:19

Washington State; pretty laid back. (http://www.kirotv.com/news/22729872/detail.html)

Naked Woman Tied To Tree In Tacoma Park Not A Problem

TACOMA, Wash. -- Several police officers responded to a 911 report of a naked woman tied to a tree in Point Defiance Park in Tacoma.

Spokesman Mark Fulghum told The News Tribune officers talked with the woman and a man Tuesday in the Owen Beach area and determined it was a "consensual rendezvous."

No one was arrested.

CR

Pannonian

03-04-2010, 02:14

Fox breaks into coop, is killed by chickens (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7356009/Fowl-play-hens-and-cockerel-peck-fox-to-death.html)

Remember cute Knut the Polar Bear? (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100303/tod-oukoe-uk-germany-knut-1a5e080.html)

Fragony

03-04-2010, 07:56

Louis VI the Fat

03-04-2010, 13:05

Swiss government feels the need to introduce extra tiny condoms (german) http://www.innsalzach24.de/nachrichten/welt/das-erste-kondom-fuer-jugendliche-652258.html

I could say why but it's more fun like this:laugh4:

Those silly underendowed Swiss. :laugh4:

Listen, erm, the article doesn't say where you can buy these tiny condoms. I, erm, I want to order me a few, for, uh, for laughs. Yeah. Got any more links?

Gregoshi

03-04-2010, 14:03

Listen, erm, the article doesn't say where you can buy these tiny condoms.
In a condominium perhaps? :inquisitive:

miotas

03-04-2010, 16:31

drone

03-04-2010, 17:38

Since they introduced magnum condoms here, nobody buys anything else...

Pannonian

03-04-2010, 17:53

Since they introduced magnum condoms here, nobody buys anything else...

Is it possible to decline a magnum condom? Although, with the modern tendency to use nouns as verbs, perhaps conjugation needs to be considered as well.

Hosakawa Tito

03-05-2010, 00:44

Since they introduced magnum condoms here, nobody buys anything else...

Hehehe, kinda like jumbo shrimp...

And while we're on the subject, Vancouver is King of the Prophylactic Winter Rings. (http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/03/01/condoms.vancouver.olympics/?hpt=Sbin)

Louis VI the Fat

03-05-2010, 14:55

Weird in a freakish, sad way:
Australian woman died after 'head was cut off during freak lawnmower accident'

An Australian woman walking to work was killed during a freak accident after she was struck in the head by flying metal thrown up by a grass cutter, which left her decapitated.
The 42 year-old woman, who has not been named, is believed to have been struck by a 60cm piece of steel pipe, in what witnesses described as a “freak accident”.

Police said a tractor pulling a grass cutter ran over a steel pipe that had been lying in the long grass, which was then sent flying through the air at great speed. Initial reports (http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2010/03/03/119495_news.html) suggested she had been hit by a lawnmower blade due to the horrific nature of her injuries. Police are investigating whether it was a blade that struck her.
The male tractor driver, an unnamed 48 year-old private contractor, is in hospital suffering shock.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/7358857/Australian-woman-decapitated-during-freak-lawnmower-accident.htmlVery sad. Poor woman, poor bystanders.
I saw Final Destination 3D recently. I actually love that movie series. They leave me freaked out and scared too. What horrific accidents can occur from a seemingly random chain of events!

This one scenario unfolded in real life then. Freaky.

Beskar

03-05-2010, 22:42

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8551122.stm

South Korean couple allowed their three-month baby die due to spending all their time with a virtual online baby instead.

Fragony

03-05-2010, 23:22

lol https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/Fragony/wildersraar.jpg

Geert

They mis-spelled the name? Hardly news of the wierd fare Frags. Please, keep your contribs here in keeping with the quality Lemur has started.

KukriKhan

03-06-2010, 15:22

I don't get the "lol" or weirdness. ??

Lemur

03-06-2010, 16:35

Fragony's just posting as many Dutch political links as he can, with no regard for the thread's content or purpose. I'm going to go on vacation until he's bored with playing spoiler.

Hosakawa Tito

03-06-2010, 16:36

I don't get the "lol" or weirdness. ??

Maybe a true UK or Euro version of Archie Bunker could, but I don't get it either.

Louis VI the Fat

03-06-2010, 17:20

'Welcome president Obuma, England salutes you'.

The name's misspelled, by his fans no less, which is not entirely devoid of comical effect.
Wilders is perhaps a bit too political for the NOTW thread.

~~o~~o~~<<oOo>>~~o~~o~~

Weird in a rather astonishing way:
The oral traditions of the Lemba tribe of Zimbabwe claims they are descendants of a Jewish tribe that left Israel 2500 years ago.

Modern genetics says they may be right too...

In many ways, the Lemba tribe of Zimbabwe and South Africa are just like their neighbours.

But in other ways their customs are remarkably similar to Jewish ones.
They do not eat pork, they practise male circumcision, they ritually slaughter their animals, some of their men wear skull caps and they put the Star of David on their gravestones.

Their oral traditions claim that their ancestors were Jews who fled the Holy Land about 2,500 years ago.
It may sound like another myth of a lost tribe of Israel, but British scientists have carried out DNA tests which confirm their Semitic origin.

These tests back up the group's belief that a group of perhaps seven men married African women and settled on the continent. The Lemba, who number perhaps 80,000, live in central Zimbabwe and the north of South Africa.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8550614.stm

Fragony

03-06-2010, 17:47

Fragony's just posting as many Dutch political links as he can, with no regard for the thread's content or purpose. I'm going to go on vacation until he's bored with playing spoiler.

Sorry, they spelled his name wrong I thought that was funny

Cute Wolf

03-07-2010, 06:45

Sorry, they spelled his name wrong I thought that was funny

Actually his name was so hard to ponounce... in the right fashion :wink:

And I think he should be sent here...

Louis VI the Fat

03-08-2010, 19:40

Fish boy:

Boy develops fish scales at 14 months old

This 14-month-old boy born without pores in his skin has baffled medics by developing fish scales.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7344225/Boy-develops-fish-scales-at-14-months-old.html

Coral man:

Coral man has 'shells' cut from his body

A man dubbed the human coral reef has been successfully treated for a rare condition that covered his whole body in shell-like growths.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6214323/New-tree-man-coral-man-has-shells-cut-from-his-body.html
I'm not taking my chances. For the foreseeable future no fruits de mer for me at a Chinese restaurant.

Tree man leaves hospital!

The Indonesian fisherman who became known around the world as “tree man” has returned home after successful surgery to remove the bark-like growths covering his body.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2630883/Tree-man-leaves-hospital-with-warts-removed.html

*Pictures in links!*

Cute Wolf

03-08-2010, 20:12

Guys.... I just get this ridiculously shocking news....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1256290/Man-chopped-virgin-wifes-head-refused-children.html#ixzz0hb7ggMBd

Man 'chopped his virgin wife's head off because she refused to have children'

A postal inspector went on trial in France today accused of chopping his wife’s head off because she refused to have children.
Philippe Cousin, 53, said he suffered a ‘mid life crisis’ when he approached his half century without a son or daughter.
He blamed it on his 47-year-old wife, Nicole, who was still a virgin despite having been married to him for more than 21 years.

On April 16th 2007, Cousin telephoned his local police station in Arras, northern France, and told an officer: ‘Excuse me for disturbing you, I’ve killed my wife.’
In a fit of rage following a domestic argument, he had taken a kitchen knife to her neck before slicing her head off.
This morning he appeared before a judge at the Pas-de-Calais assizes at Saint-Omer, near Calais, facing life in prison for murder.
He denies the charge, pleading diminished responsibility, but faces life in prison.
The court heard how Cousins also told police: ‘I’m sorry for the work which I’ ve given you.
'My wife shouted my name out, I decapitated her. You realise that, and I’m not mad!’

While on remand he said his wife’s inability to have children lay at the heart of the couple’s domestic difficulties.
She feared that she would pass on her father’s multiple sclerosis through his genes, the court heard.
This meant that every time he tried to have sex he was rebuffed. An autopsy confirmed that Mrs Cousins was indeed a virgin when she died, even though she married aged 21.

Defending barrister Didier Robiquet said that the problems came to a head two weeks before Cousin’s 50th birthday in what was described as ‘pressure cooker’ syndrome.
‘His wife had threatened to leave him but he had never undergone any psychiatric treatment because of this,’ said Mr Robiquet.
‘He had been hugely frustrated over more than twenty years and this built up into a terrifying repressed aggression which finally exploded. He did not feel he was completely in control of his actions.’
Cousins was described as being of otherwise good character, with a distinguished record as a postal inspector in the Calais region.
He told officers that he was generally feel down about life as he approached 50, and that he had been previously used to sorting out his problems with his wife, whom he loved dearly.

===========================================

Poor Guy.... I bet he was still a virgin too... :grin:
Yeah... sometimes, abstience is good (I was still a virgin too...) but over-abstience will result in.... :daisy:

naut

03-09-2010, 06:09

Severe case of sexual frustration there.

CountArach

03-09-2010, 08:42

Chicks dig a guy who cuts off heads.

Beskar

03-09-2010, 08:53

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/7400893/California-state-senator-who-opposed-gay-rights-announces-he-is-homosexual.html

Another Republican out of the closet.

I think the reason people like he strongly opposed gay rights is because they were in denial about their true feelings, and decided to take it out on those outside of the closet in order to try to convince himself he is not homosexual. This is akin to the addum where those who are strongly homophobic my infact be homosexuals.

Gregoshi

03-09-2010, 16:33

Man 'chopped his virgin wife's head off because she refused to have children'
Must...resist...pun...:wall:

Crazed Rabbit

03-09-2010, 17:19

Stay classy, New Jersey: (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/black-market_cosmetic_surgerie.html)

Black-market cosmetic surgeries hospitalize six N.J. women
By Rohan Mascarenhas/The Star-Ledger
March 07, 2010, 9:46PM

NEWARK -- Six women from the Essex County area who wanted fuller bottoms ended up in hospitals after receiving buttocks-enhancement injections containing the same material contractors use to caulk bathtubs, officials said.

The women checked into hospitals in the county after their procedures, apparently administered by unlicensed providers, went horribly wrong, state health officials said. The women underwent surgery and were given antibiotics. No arrests have been made.

Different from medical-grade silicone, the substance used in the botched procedures was believed to be a diluted version of nonmedical-grade silicone.

CR

Viking

03-09-2010, 20:18

Fish boy:

Coral man:
I'm not taking my chances. For the foreseeable future no fruits de mer for me at a Chinese restaurant.

Tree man leaves hospital!

*Pictures in links!*

You forgot about the horned woman:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1256398/Chinese-grandmother-grows-devil-horns.html

Gregoshi

03-09-2010, 21:09

Black-market cosmetic surgeries hospitalize six N.J. women
NEWARK -- Six women from the Essex County area who wanted fuller bottoms ended up in hospitals after receiving buttocks-enhancement injections containing the same material contractors use to caulk bathtubs, officials said....

The botched procedure is said to have made the women look tubby.

...No arrests have been made.

...but police vow to get to the bottom of it.

Lemur

03-10-2010, 03:33

Eric Cartman steals 200-plus rifles from Afghan Police (http://washingtonindependent.com/77476/blackwater-the-senate-and-south-park)
Just a little update: Cartman caught in the act. (http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/267339)

drone

03-10-2010, 17:53

Thank God for Florida. (http://keysnews.com/node/21349)

As authorities nationwide warn motorists of the dangers of driving while texting, Florida Keys law enforcement officers add a new caution: Don't try to shave your privates, either.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers say a two-vehicle crash Tuesday at Mile Marker 21 on Cudjoe Key was caused by a 37-year-old woman driver who was shaving her bikini area while her ex-husband took the wheel from the passenger seat.

"She said she was meeting her boyfriend in Key West and wanted to be ready for the visit," Trooper Gary Dunick said. "If I wasn't there, I wouldn't have believed it. About 10 years ago I stopped a guy in the exact same spot ... who had three or four syringes sticking out of his arm. It was just surreal and I thought, 'Nothing will ever beat this.' Well, this takes it."
The best part is her ex being involved.

Furunculus

03-10-2010, 18:11

£100/annum on welsh language tv programming...................... and nobody cares:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/10/welsh_tv/

Fragony

03-13-2010, 19:37

If there will be no movie about this.... http://nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/11/100-photos-found-in-serial-killers-locker/

Dear god. Reality beats fiction.

Louis VI the Fat

03-14-2010, 04:27

Meet Chantal Jouanno.

She is a twelve time karate champion. She is also Secretary of State for the environment:

NSFW:
https://img716.imageshack.us/img716/1561/chantaljouannoplaybloy.jpg

More importantly, she is the new mistress of Sarkozy, who four months after election divorced and took Carla Bruni for his third wife.

No need to feel sorry for Carla though!. She for her part has been romantically involved with Benjamin Biolay, who is a singer, songwriter, and actor. He is the ex-husband of the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni.

https://img709.imageshack.us/img709/5313/224sv.jpg

gaelic cowboy

03-14-2010, 04:32

I thought this was all cleared up as a practical joke on twitter yes no

Louis VI the Fat

03-14-2010, 04:38

I thought this was all cleared up as a practical joke on twitter yes noThat's what I thought last week too, but the rumours persist...

It's so in character for Carla 'monogamy bores me' Bruni and Nicolas 'What dignity of the presidency?' Sarkozy. I wouldn't put it beyond them!

gaelic cowboy

03-14-2010, 04:44

Well seeing as he was at it with Carla during the election while pretending to be with the ex whose name escapes now it does not surprise me. Anyway this rubbish is for the "Sun Neuwspaper" so they can show Carla's boobs again

Fragony

03-14-2010, 12:41

Thought our tax agency was bad http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/13/2604016/irs-suits-pay-visit-to-car-wash.html

Gregoshi

03-14-2010, 17:39

Thought our tax agency was bad http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/13/2604016/irs-suits-pay-visit-to-car-wash.html
That doesn't seem right. Considering when doing federal taxes you round to the nearest dollar, how can you end up owing 4 cents? This sounds even too absurb for the IRS.

Fragony

03-14-2010, 18:49

That doesn't seem right. Considering when doing federal taxes you round to the nearest dollar, how can you end up owing 4 cents? This sounds even too absurb for the IRS.

Probably an ICT failure but it's much more fun a story that they just wanted it. To me at least.

KukriKhan

03-15-2010, 14:28

That doesn't seem right. Considering when doing federal taxes you round to the nearest dollar, how can you end up owing 4 cents? This sounds even too absurb for the IRS.

My tax-preparing buddy tells me that the rounding dealee is voluntary, but almost everyone does it (and the instructions allow it), BUT if you do file using the cents columns anywhere on the 1040 form, you have to be consistent and use it throughout the form - and IRS follows the same procedure when checking. But hey! At least they didn't spend $2.94 on a certified letter to collect that 4 cents - instead sending two $50 per hour employees to do the deed. Our taxdollars at work.

Gregoshi

03-15-2010, 16:20

The lesson: beware morons spending your money...more or less. :wall:

Tellos Athenaios

03-15-2010, 18:51

Isn't/Won't your election theme (be) “jobs for Americans”? Well there you have it: the IRS proactively putting policy into practice?

Lemur

03-16-2010, 19:13

Could parachute-wearing bears sniff out Osama bin Laden? (http://www.military.com/news/article/could-airborne-bears-catch-bin-laden.html)

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/animalbearonparachute.gif

That's one suggestion the Pentagon has received from someone who noted, quite correctly, that a bear's sense of smell is much more powerful than a bloodhound's.

"Overnight, Parachute some bears into areas [bin Laden] might be," the innovator wrote. "Attempt to train bears to take off parachutes after landing, or use parachutes that self-destruct after landing."

The bears-in-the-air idea, and scores of others, came from people who clicked on the "contact us" button on the Defense Department's Web site, which allows the general public to ask questions or make suggestions. [...]

The Defense Department provided Stars and Stripes a sampling of some of the more bizarre feedback it gets through its Web site, www.defense.gov. The authors' names were withheld, but all spelling, grammar and paranoia are authentic.

"Would there be time to construct a Noah's Ark Biosphere in North America if there is an emerging Global War starting in the Middle East?" asked one concerned citizen. "I don't know ... I only know that I have worked on such a project for many years now."

The specifications for the recommended ark are outlined in the Bible, the writer noted, adding that it could preserve a specimen of the human population for up to 300 years.

"Then after the period of ‘Hibernation' people and materials would emerge to repopulate the Earth," the person wrote.

Another correspondent asked for help with some personal issues.

"I still have people torturing my pelvis and lungs with dispersed sound waves and my eye and stomach, hip, pelvic region with other types of sound waves," the person wrote. "When the secret service came out they had a letter all prepared by my mother to force me on disability and not let me live with her and try to leave me penniless and homeless again."

One writer let the Defense Department know of a dream something was about to happen. Likely on a Friday.

"I have no idea what this might be, do you?" the person asked.

InsaneApache

03-16-2010, 21:24

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/the-axis-of-adorable

I like Stalin the bestest. :book:

naut

03-16-2010, 23:26

Mussolini! :smitten:

Gregoshi

03-17-2010, 19:17

Did you know Idi Amin's first word was "Dada"?

Louis VI the Fat

03-17-2010, 22:28

Man uses penis to assault female police officer

Fined for assaul by Willy.

A YOB was fined £600 yesterday for assaulting a cop with his WILLY.

Marium Varinauskas, 28, tried to strike the WPC on the head with his manhood.

The officer had to duck to avoid being hit in the face by the standing Lithuanian as she sat on a couch. Officers were called to his Aberdeen flat in the early hours when his girlfriend complained he was drunk.

They arrived to find the self-employed engineer wearing just his pants, the city's sheriff court was told. Fiscal depute Elaine Lynch said Varinauskas then got to his feet over the female officer. She said: "The accused was standing over her exposing his penis and thrusting it in her face forcing her to take evasive action."

His lawyer John Hardie added: "He can't remember anything. But he accepts that if that's what the police say then that is what happened. He has never been so drunk before that day. He apologises profusely and is extremely embarrassed." Speaking after the attack, Varinauskas said: "I feel bad about it but it's difficult as I don't remember."

He was due to go on trial before admitting last November's attack.

A police spokesman said: "This was a distasteful experience for the officer."
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/2895237/Marium-Varinauskas-is-fined-for-assault-by-willy.htmlI've beaten Lemur to penis news. :knight:

Lemur

03-18-2010, 01:34

I've beaten Lemur to penis news.
Your penis beating has been noted and approved. Never let it be said that the lemur beat Louis to a penis. Gah, there must be a hyper-eloquent three-way pun on this, but I'm not Gregoshi, so it's eluding me ...

Louis VI the Fat

03-18-2010, 03:01

The key to penis proficiency is simply to try as hard as you can. That way next time you can get it in before me. :book:

Gregoshi

03-18-2010, 03:47

Gah, there must be a hyper-eloquent three-way pun on this, but I'm not Gregoshi, so it's eluding me ...
Sorry to disappoint you Lemur. I must be suffering from erectile dyspunction.

Louis VI the Fat

03-18-2010, 14:17

Leprechaun (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1258796/Leprechaun-shot-dead-US-St-Patricks-Day-shoot-out.html) bank robbers die in St Patrick's Day shoot-out.

gaelic cowboy

03-18-2010, 15:16

Where's me gooold

Sigurd

03-18-2010, 16:25

In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimplike creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.
- NASA -
http://www.statesman.com/news/world/nasa-discovers-shrimp-like-critter-under-antarctica-365810.html?cxtype=ynews_rss&imw=Y

LOL - says Norwegian marine biologists (http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/artikkel.php?artid=591795).
This is a very common species of an amphipod called "tangloppe" (sea weed flea) found commonly under both the polar caps and has been studied for over 30 years.
Earth calling NASA - life in the dark under polar ice? A fact for many decades.

"Had NASA turned the camera around and lowered it further down, in stead of looking back up the hole - they would have seen an abundant bottom society".
- Bjørnar Ellertsen, scientist at Havforskningsinstituttet. (The Institute of Ocean research).

This article reminded me of the book I once read by Dan Brown called - Deception Point.

Furunculus

03-19-2010, 11:11

Hitler worship in india and pakistan - "we like nazi":
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,683966,00.html

CountArach

03-19-2010, 13:29

Hitler worship in india and pakistan - "we like nazi":
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,683966,00.html
The irony of non-whites liking Hitler... oh wow...

Viking

03-19-2010, 15:33

Hitler worship in india and pakistan - "we like nazi":
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,683966,00.html

Neat image gallery. :laugh4:

Furunculus

03-19-2010, 19:04

Neat image gallery. :laugh4:

haha, i hadn't noticed that, thanks. :D

Viking

03-20-2010, 16:10

A Welsh road sign contains interesting information

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7702913.stm

When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.

Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated".

Furunculus

03-20-2010, 17:58

A Welsh road sign contains interesting information

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7702913.stm

the welsh obsession with bilingualizing everything is retarded, but ocassionally funny. :D

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33 U-boats surrendered to a scottish village, villages sworn to secrecy for ever afterwards:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/7479898/Mass-surrender-of-Nazi-U-boats-documented-in-new-book.html

cegorach

03-21-2010, 07:58

Hitler worship in india and pakistan - "we like nazi":
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,683966,00.html

Good find!

I've read about it some time ago, but this article is better.

I was recently at the hairdresser, an elderly man who doesn't resort to electric clippers. All he has is creaky pair of scissors, a comb, an aerosol with water. He did a neat job but I wasn't entirely happy.

I said: "I look like Hitler."

He looked at me in the mirror, gave a satisfied smile and said: "Yes, yes, very nice."

Now, my hairdresser isn't that bad after all. :)

Furunculus

03-21-2010, 10:28

Gregoshi

03-21-2010, 14:47

wnat to know how important the country you are ambassador for is, check the quality of the artwork in your official residence:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/7487343/Ambassadors-artworks-give-insight-into-the-diplomatic-pecking-order.html
"The art of diplomacy" taken a little to literally? I wonder which country gets Crayon drawings from the amdassador's five year old stuck on the fridge with magnets?

InsaneApache

03-21-2010, 20:17

My monies on Argentina.

Cute Wolf

03-22-2010, 13:47

Eating Brain to cure Epilepsy, But this man forgot that Traditional Chinese Medicine suggest eating Monkey-Brains... not Human
http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/news11038.html

Yunnan, China - A CHINESE cannibal is alleged to have killed an 11-year-old boy and eaten his BRAIN in order to cure his epilepsy.
Wang Chaoxu, of Qixian village, in Yunnan, south west China, is said to have believed an old wives' tale that eating a child's brain can cure fits.

Police said the boy Li Xuetang was found buried three miles away in a grain field in a neighbouring village.
The top of his head had been peeled back and part of his brain removed.
Heartbroken mum Yu Chaohu became anxious when her son disappeared late at night.

She said: "It was getting dark, but I couldn't find my son anywhere in the village.
"I even asked the village head to broadcast on the radio to ask my son to come back home for dinner."
A few hours later Li was found, after a villager Zhang Huansheng saw a man kneeling over him, and holding him by the neck.
The boy's mum was desperate to see her son but was told the body was too badly damaged.
Yu added: "I can't bear to think about what happened to him. I have nightmares thinking about it."

Wang Wenzhong, the village leader, found two blood stained rocks in the field and some fractured bones, before the boy's body was discovered buried nearby.
Wang Chaoxu was arrested and told police he believed eating the brain with earthworms and ants would cure his illness.
Wang said he was married to a nurse, but she left him because his illness meant he was unable to work.

It was claimed a three-year-old girl, who was reported missing on the same day, may also have become one of his victims.
The girl was found dead in public toilets with a knife cut to her head. Police are investigating whether the cases are linked.

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Note : so better keep monkey eating, and not humans.....