News of the Weird

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Meet Finlands man of the year, Bubi. Beating the always tricky national team of Belgium, the feared red devils is is quite the event no? So thought Bubi.

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Some links on Bubi the Eagle-Owl (Huuhkaja in Finnish):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMKGuoLGvo8
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/latest/...name_page.html

Those Southern Elves


Drunken Antarctic Christmas party goes wrong? (surprise?)

Brawling at the south pole sounds expensive, man. Airlifting the guy, a nurse and a paramedic to New Zealand? THat's gonna cost some.

In other weird news, the final sign of the Antichrist has burst upon us: Hello Kitty for Men. "The usual bubble-headed shape of Hello Kitty was slightly changed for a more rugged, cool look to appeal to men in their teens and early 20s." Dude, it's Hello Kitty.

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Hello Kitty turns attention to young men

By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer Fri Dec 28, 7:05 AM ET

TOKYO - Hello Kitty is no sexist.

The cute cuddly white cat from Japan's Sanrio Co., usually seen on toys and jewelry for girls and young women, will soon don T-shirts, bags, watches and other products targeting young men, company spokesman Kazuo Tohmatsu said Friday.

"We think Hello Kitty is accepted by young men as a design statement in fashion," he said.

The feline for-men products will go on sale in Japan next month, and will be sold soon in the U.S. and other Asian nations, according to Sanrio.

The usual bubble-headed shape of Hello Kitty was slightly changed for a more rugged, cool look to appeal to men in their teens and early 20s.

For example, a picture of the cat on a $36 black T-shirt has the words, "hello kitty," instead of the usual dots for the eyes and nose.

Hello Kitty is one of mascot-obsessed Japan's biggest "character" hits, decorating everything from a humble eraser to a $48,000 diamond necklace.

The planned products mark the first time Sanrio is developing Hello Kitty items especially for males, Tohmatsu said.

But Sanrio had tried a "limited edition" collaboration in men's clothing with designers in Tokyo's chic Harajuku section earlier this year, and they proved popular, he said.

"Young men these days grew up with character goods," said Tohmatsu. "That generation feels no embarrassment about wearing Hello Kitty."

:laugh4: Dear God.
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They went wrong. Seriously.

No guns
No gals
No gin

They fail to understand the male's psyche, and lost to the 3 Gs.

Example:

Lone Ranger
A prime masculine cowboy with lots of guns, lots of gals, lots of drinking.
Davy Crockett
Same as the Lone Ranger, but a frontiersman
Jesus
He had Mary Magdalene, he must've carried a knife at least, and drank wine. Heck, he spurts it out.

All three understood how to appeal to men.

If this thing sells then I bet the next step will be a masculinized version of the Hello Kitty vibra- er, massager.

A tale of two headlines. Brought to this thread because it's just so darn amusing.

Pope's exorcist squads will wage war on Satanism!

The Pope has ordered his bishops to set up exorcism squads to tackle the rise of Satanism.

Vatican chiefs are concerned at what they see as an increased interest in the occult.

They have introduced courses for priests to combat what they call the most extreme form of "Godlessness."

Each bishop is to be told to have in his diocese a number of priests trained to fight demonic possession.

The initiative was revealed by 82-year-old Father Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican "exorcist-in-chief," to the online Catholic news service Petrus.

Um, no, they won't. Anyone possessed by Satanic forces will just have to get in line.

The Vatican is denying reports it plans to install more exorcists around the world so possessed people can get help quickly.

"Pope Benedict XVI has no intention of ordering local bishops to bring in garrisons of exorcists to fight demonic possession,'' Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told reporters in Rome Friday.

On Thursday, the Roman Catholic Web site Petrus said the pope planned to install more exorcists in every diocese next year and reintroduce a prayer during mass to Mark the Archangel, believed to be the prime protector against evil, The Telegraph in Britain reported Saturday.

Paolo Scarafoni, a priest at Vatican University who teaches how to recognize and expel Satan, said exorcists increasingly are in demand because devil worship has become so common, reported ANSA, the Italian news agency. "Priests are being bombarded," Scarafoni told ANSA.

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That's got to be a course worth taking. I wonder if they do local night classes? :devil:

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You probably pass the class by being the soul survivor.

IT HAS BEGUN. The octosquids appear to be making their first move ... in Scotland. I should have seen the connection between undersea overlords and haggis a long time ago. Is it too late for our kilt-wearing friends?

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Mystery container found on beach

Experts are trying to identify a huge metal container that has been washed up on a beach in the Western Isles.

The tank, which is 27m tall standing upright, has no markings and is thought to have fallen from a ship before being washed up on the west of Benbecula.

It was discovered by a dog walker on Poll Na Crann beach - known locally as Stinky Bay - near Griminish.

Stornoway Coastguard is using two numbers on the container to try to find out where the item has come from.

The beach is known as Stinky Bay because of the fermenting seaweed found there.

Alasdair MacEachen, assistant director of environmental services at Comhairle nan Eilean Siar told BBC Scotland: "It's certainly generated a fair bit of interest with people walking on the beach or just travelling along the road, because you can actually see it from the main road along the west side of Benbecula.

"It's a big object so you can't miss it, and it's not often you see something like that on the beach.

"It would be standing almost 30m tall and really looks pretty much like a silo. I think it's a bulk storage tank of some sort, possibly for storing some liquids."

Mr MacEachen said they may decide to anchor the container to the beach to stop it from floating out to sea and becoming hazardous to ships, but in the meantime he advised onlookers to keep a safe distance.

"Although it looks as if it's empty and it's been ruptured, my advice would be not to go too close to it," he said. "It's a fairly light construction so you don't want it rolling on top of someone, and with that sort of thing you can never tell.

"My advice would be to just observe it from a distance."

Is any other org. member thinking that the octosquids might be trying to pull a Trojan horse on the Scotts?

It looks like a giant baby bottle to me. I don't want to see the baby...

Not only does Hello Kitty want young men, the beast also wants to live in your eyeballs. Hello Kitty contact lenses. I, for one, welcome our new Kitty overlords ...

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Retiree wants to ride a bison? What could possibly go wrong?

Man, 75, hurt while riding pet buffalo

MESA, Ariz. - A man who took one of his pet buffaloes for a ride at a ranch north of Phoenix on New Year's Eve ended up being bucked off the animal and trampled, authorities said.

The unidentified 75-year-old man was flown to a Scottsdale hospital with non-life threatening injuries after the incident in rural Cave Creek, a chief with the Rural/Metro Fire Department said.

"He saddled up, got bucked off and was mauled," said John Kraetz, a district chief for the fire department. Kraetz said he's never been on a similar call.

"People do have buffalo on their property, but it's pretty darn uncommon," he said.

I've heard of sheep shagging, but that is ridiculous.

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"Pope Benedict XVI has no intention of ordering local bishops to bring in garrisons of exorcists to fight demonic possession,'' Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told reporters in Rome Friday.

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What, I would like to know, is the point of being pope if you do not establish garrisons of exorcists to fight demonic possession?

If I was pope I'd establish a special order of foxy catsuit wearing exorcist nuns, no one over 30, and have them on 24 hr rapid reaction with their own private jets. We'd really kick Satan's arse.

Twelve-year-old versus 551-pound bull shark. And the kid wins.

12-year-old lands record shark

PALM BEACH SHORES, Fla., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A 12-year-old boy has caught a 551-pound shark, believed to beat the Florida state record, in Palm Beach Shores, Fla.

Aidan Murray Medley, who has been fishing since he was 5, hooked the 9.58-foot bull shark Tuesday while fishing north of the Palm Beach Inlet, The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post reported Wednesday.

"This thing was huge," Medley said.

The massive shark is believed to top a 1981 record for largest shark landed in Florida -- a 517-pound behemoth captured at Panama City Beach. The boy's family said it planned to submit the catch for certification as a record.

"Of course, I'm happy. I'm proud," said Maureen Murray, Aidan's mother. "It's not really surprising to me. I'm still pretty happy."

Murray had reason not to be surprised by the catch -- last summer Medley reeled in a 461-pound shark.

How!?!?!

Hmm, perhaps he softened it up with an elephant gun?

Or every Southern fisherman's secret weapon.

DYNAMITE!

A technology journalist is encouraging kids to "Make bouncy bouncy." It is, as he explains, "a game that can be controlled with one hand and is suitable for the whole family."

There's family friendly games, and then there's....well....

Mental note to self: If I ever get employed by Apple, run away screaming if the boss is bragging about the company's family-friendly policies...

I've got nowhere else to post this, so:

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You'd think mummies would have a food pyramid before zombies do. The mummy food pyramid would allow for lots of dessert.

Man fell from 47-high and survived.

Gays are completily lost

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0103135205.htm

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Gays are completily lost

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It has to do with their orientation...

2007 in Review

I'm glad to see that at least some of those stories were already posted in this thread, although how we missed the rabid beavers story is beyond me.

Meanwhile: Texas man calls 911, explains that he is eating his girlfriend. And not in the good way.

Christopher McCuin called 911 early Saturday morning to report a particularly grisly crime. The Dallas Morning News says he "calmly described murdering his girlfriend and cooking her ear."

When police arrived at his house in Tyler, Texas, the paper says the 24-year-old tried to hold them off with a kitchen knife but eventually surrendered after a short standoff. When cops entered the residence, the paper says they "found a human ear boiling in a stovetop pan and raw flesh on a nearby plate, with a fork stuck in it."

"Either he was going to eat it, had been eating it, or that's what he wanted it to look like," Sheriff J.B. Smith says.

How often have you viewed a pornographic video and thought, "I wish they made this more accessible for deaf people"? Well, you are not alone! Finally, a company has emerged to produce nothing but hearing-impaired pornography.

Think about it this way: You, with your perfectly good ears, can hear an actress say, "But I didn't order a pizza!" But what's there for a deaf viewer? How can he know why the buff man has walked into the apartment? Won't he feel lost? Won't he wonder why they're taking off their clothing?

No more. This wrong has been righted.

Here's a YouTube preview. It contains absolutely nothing offensive, so I don't understand why they have an age check on it. Maybe they just don't want viewers seeing suggestive hand motions?

Here's the company's statement:

It’s here. It’s FINALLY here. The first adult film with D/HH actors using ASL produced by Deaf Bunny, a Deaf owned and operated adult entertainment business. Yes, indeed. The making of “Naughty Deaf Roommates” has been a courageous and phenomenal feat that has astounded the Deaf community near and far. It’s about time that we, Deaf folks, get a taste of the “naughtiness” that’s out there in the REAL world. “Naughty Deaf Roommates” does just that. Not only does it have oh-so-naughty scenes, it features safe sex training, personal comments by the actresses, and bloopers. All in ASL, of course. Oh, we didn’t stop there. We are aware that not every Deaf person is proficient in ASL, so there are subtitles and voice carry-overs for those who rely on other modes of communication. Talk about a film for ANYONE to enjoy and actually learn a thing or two along the way...so, here’s to sparkin’ up those sexual urges that have been layin’ low and embrace your sexuality in a healthy and positive way.

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A deaf blogger responds: "Huh, so that’s what they talk about in porn. Interesting idea. I hope they keep it up."