News of the Weird

Hey, I'm getting Good Vibrations...

I, I can see by her looks she's scared
And the way her trembling dances her long hair
I ask for cash with a single word
While waving my girl's vibrator in the air.


I'm pickin up good vibrations
Its giving me excitations
I'm pickin up good vibrations
(oom cops cops good vibrations)
Its giving me excitations
(oom cops cops excitations)...


It is disguised
Oh please don't turn on right now
'Cuz they think I've got a gun here in my hand.
Oh, I can't look in my girlfriend's eyes
As she IDs the sex toy on the witness stand.


I ain't gettin' no probation
My picture's on every station
I ain't gettin' no probation
(oom cops cops no probation)
Biggest fool in the whole nation
(oom ha ha the whole nation)...

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/...462212841.html

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A dwarf performer at the Edinburgh fringe festival had to be rushed to hospital after his penis got stuck to a vacuum cleaner during an act that went horribly awry.

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The attachment broke before the performance and Blackner tried to fix it using extra-strong glue, but unfortunately let it dry for only 20 seconds instead of the 20 minutes required.

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:sweatdrop:

Pape, this has already been reported in post #738 above by BG.

Oops... still paying out on the Dan in our team :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by Gregoshi

Hey, I'm getting Good Vibrations...

I, I can see by her looks she's scared
And the way her trembling dances her long hair
I ask for cash with a single word
While waving my girl's vibrator in the air.


I'm pickin up good vibrations
Its giving me excitations
I'm pickin up good vibrations
(oom cops cops good vibrations)
Its giving me excitations
(oom cops cops excitations)...


It is disguised
Oh please don't turn on right now
'Cuz they think I've got a gun here in my hand.
Oh, I can't look in my girlfriend's eyes
As she IDs the sex toy on the witness stand.


I ain't gettin' no probation
My picture's on every station
I ain't gettin' no probation
(oom cops cops no probation)
Biggest fool in the whole nation
(oom ha ha the whole nation)...

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:laugh4:

I bet that thief got a buzz out of that! :laugh4:

Anyways on the frontiers of science...

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A MIRACLE material for the 21st century could protect your home against bomb blasts, mop up oil spillages and even help man to fly to Mars.

Aerogel, one of the world’s lightest solids, can withstand a direct blast of 1kg of dynamite and protect against heat from a blowtorch at more than 1,300C.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2284349.ece

Amazing. :jawdrop:

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The attachment broke before the performance and Blackner tried to fix it using extra-strong glue, but unfortunately let it dry for only 20 seconds instead of the 20 minutes required.

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I don't get it. Shouldn't the glue fail if it didn't dried long enough?

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Originally Posted by Peasant Phill

I don't get it. Shouldn't the glue fail if it didn't dried long enough?

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Don't worry. It's a tacky story.

Well, that's Dan's story and he's sticking to it.

Man fakes his own death ... to get out of a cellphone contract.

Fed up with dropped calls and a string of defective cellphones, Corey Taylor said he became irate when he learned he'd have to pay $175 to get out of his long-term contract with Verizon Wireless. So he resorted to a rather extreme measure. He faked his own death.

After reading on a blog that wireless companies would cancel the contracts of deceased customers, "I thought, 'What have I got to lose, besides a cellphone I despise?' " Taylor said. The Chicago consultant fashioned a fake death certificate and had a friend fax it to Verizon Wireless, his carrier.

It's amazing that U.S. cellphone companies are allowed to charge such high fees for leaving their service. Really kills the competitiveness of the market, if you ask me. Rather than get stuffed with a $250 bill for the pleasure of leaving, people stay with service they don't much like. Anti-competitive, and anti-free-market.

Unfortunately, Corey's faked death didn't work, and he wound up having to pay Verizon anyway. But here's a toast to his lateral thinking!

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Originally Posted by Lemur

It's amazing that U.S. cellphone companies are allowed to charge such high fees for leaving their service. Really kills the competitiveness of the market, if you ask me. Rather than get stuffed with a $250 bill for the pleasure of leaving, people stay with service they don't much like. Anti-competitive, and anti-free-market.

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I don´t know what these contracts are like in the US but over here these monthly fees are effectively the price the customer pays for the new cellphone he receives at the beginning. I think it´s only fair if the company gets a compensation for the loss of the monthly fees, after all the customer got a brand new cellphone (worth several hundred euros) for almost no (instant) cost.

Point taken, but here we run into another bad issue in the U.S.: most phone companies issue handsets that will not work with other carriers' networks. Nice, eh? So they subsidize the purchase of a phone you can only use with them. It's all a bit rotten, frankly.

As long as we're talking about products, who here needs a bulletproof baby?

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ulletproof.jpg

Click the link to view a highly disturbing video in which mom puts her toddler in a bulletproof stroller, and then empties a clip into it. Who says Americans are violent?

They also sell bulletproof cribs. English Assassin and other new dads should look at this stuff. You can never be too careful.

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From the product description:

A must for mobile baby protection, the Heavy weight bulllet proof stroller provides 100% protection against all modern ballistics including Armor Piercing rounds. It’s heavy enough to maintain stability even under a heavy barrage, and yet has light steering enabling the stroller to turn on a dime if required. For the smart urban baby, this stroller is the ultimate in style, comfort and extreme combat protection.

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Originally Posted by Peasant Phill

I don't get it. Shouldn't the glue fail if it didn't dried long enough?

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The vacuum prossibly speeded up the rate at which it cured and the length of time attached to it probably didn't help either...

Lemur, that's a fake gun. The way it reacts, the way she holds it, the fact that it's a new, expensive H&K gun you can't get in the US, the fact that the muzzle flashes are faked, the fact that there are no bullet casings coming out - all fake shooting.

CR

You could take the link seriously or as a satire...

as a commercial venture you could question it being posted at a .net site...
you could read the product quotes:

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“I was at the recent Christmas sales with my newborn and it quickly turned into a riot like situation as everyone rushed to pick up a bargain. Thanks to my Bullet proof baby riot shield I was able to protect little Gavin and pick up a fabulous romper suit at half price!”..

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It looks more like a uni assignment then anything else...

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Originally Posted by Lemur

Point taken, but here we run into another bad issue in the U.S.: most phone companies issue handsets that will not work with other carriers' networks.

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Wow, didn´t know that. But in the light of this, the anger against those companies is quite understandable, I must say.

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Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

Lemur, that's a fake gun. The way it reacts, the way she holds it, the fact that it's a new, expensive H&K gun you can't get in the US, the fact that the muzzle flashes are faked, the fact that there are no bullet casings coming out - all fake shooting.

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Yup, it's a fake site. Fooled me for a bit, however. So ridiculous, I just wanted it to be true. Now I will never get an armored buggy for my little lemur girl. Sigh.

OK so the bulletproof stroller is fake, but the bullet proof bagpack isn't
bullet-proof bagpack

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Originally Posted by Peasant Phill

OK so the bulletproof stroller is fake, but the bullet proof bagpack isn't
bullet-proof bagpack

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Not much good against the weird guns in the adjacent link. Now that's a Zombie-fighter.

Rubber baby buggy bumpers
Rubber baby baaggy bumpers
Rubber baby buggy bunkers
Rugger baby bunky buggers :dizzy2:

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They also sell bulletproof cribs. English Assassin and other new dads should look at this stuff. You can never be too careful.

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That's why I bought my armoured car. CR and others may think that firearms are the best safeguard for a citizen against an oppressive government, but I'm calling them lightweights. No man who is not his own armoured division* can truly call himself free.

(*or light recon company, anyway.)

Not strictly news of thw weird this, but news of the cool: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2284349.ece Its a slow news day in August, and the Times takes the chance to update us on bomb proof frozen smoke. See, even material science can be sexy. Sort of.

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Originally Posted by English assassin

Not strictly news of thw weird this, but news of the cool: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2284349.ece Its a slow news day in August, and the Times takes the chance to update us on bomb proof frozen smoke. See, even material science can be sexy. Sort of.

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IA beat you to it by a day.

~;p

In other news, lighting candles is not always romantic.

EA, with the new baby your car really needs rumper baky bubby bunkers...:wall:

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Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost

IA beat you to it by a day.

~;p.

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Don't depress him anymore BQ, he's got three kids as it is. :laugh4: The armoured car will come in handy when they're teenagers though. :laugh4:

When this guy flips you the bird, you stay flipped.

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Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost

In other news, lighting candles is not always romantic.

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The article said they were divorced, so that would make her an old flame. I wonder if he still carries the torch for her as she obviously had the hots for him.

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Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost

When this guy flips you the bird, you stay flipped.

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I guess he couldn't pick his nose, unless... :worried2:

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Originally Posted by Gregoshi

The article said they were divorced, so that would make her an old flame. I wonder if he still carries the torch for her as she obviously had the hots for him.

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Well, the spark was still there...

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Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost

Well, the spark was still there...

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:laugh4: That story has so much potential.

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Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost

IA beat you to it by a day.

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Sleep deprivation :yes: