News of the Weird

Inter-species sex - more common than we think?


Weird.

Nerds of the sea need lovin' too.

Sometimes it is not good to be king (penguin).

Man tries to cash 360 billion dollar cheque.

I especially like the fact that he was carrying both drugs and an illegal gun at the time. He's not exactly Paul Newman in The Sting, is he?

Everything is bigger in Texas - even its morons.

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Originally Posted by Gregoshi

Everything is bigger in Texas - even its morons.

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Don't underestimate Pennsylvania. Keystone cops, meet Keystone robber.

In October last year a man in the city of Pittsburgh was arrested after he handed over a counterfeit $1m bill to a cashier at a supermarket and asked for change.

Anyway, what are these people thinking? I mean, cashing $360 billion..

'Small bills, Sir?'
'Yeah, just dump them in my two mile truck convoy.'

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Originally Posted by Adrian II

I mean, cashing $360 billion..

'Small bills, Sir?'
'Yeah, just dump them in my two mile truck convoy.'

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Good luck moving 360.000 tonnes of dollar bills with only a two mile truck convoy. :laugh4:

I wonder if it's even legal, you would create an extreme shortage of bills in the country by doing that (it's about half of the currency circulation in the US atm).

40% rise of brittish men who don't want to have sex anymore. Half of the men questioned lost all sexual drive.

I wonder why.

In today's world, time is money - and, hey, two minutes is two minutes!

Is it correct to describe such a statistic as a "rise"? :inquisitive:

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Originally Posted by Fragony

40% rise of brittish men who don't want to have sex anymore. Half of the men questioned lost all sexual drive.

I wonder why.

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Lost it on the way to the pub? I mean alcoholism is all I can think of. Well, except in the case of Welshmen and their beauty queens.

My (not even) two cents.

I'm hungry.

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A "clear majority" of the panel adopted what it called a "biocentric" moral view, meaning that "living organisms should be considered morally for their own sake because they are alive." Thus, the panel determined that we cannot claim "absolute ownership" over plants and, moreover, that "individual plants have an inherent worth."

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So the Swiss have discovered Buddhism. This is news?

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What is clear, however, is that Switzerland's enshrining of "plant dignity" is a symptom of a cultural disease that has infected Western civilization, causing us to lose the ability to think critically and distinguish serious from frivolous ethical concerns. It also reflects the triumph of a radical anthropomorphism that views elements of the natural world as morally equivalent to people.

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The writer needs to take a horse-sized chill pill. Some Swiss people have decided they're into universal respect for life. This has been a functioning worldview for millennia (cf. Buddhism, Hinduism, pantheism, etc.) and does not warrant all of the heavy breathing. You would think the Weekly Standard could find something a little more worthy to panic about.

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But then, while walking home, he casually "decapitates" some wildflowers with his scythe. The panel decries this act as immoral, though its members can't agree why.

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Die daisys, die! ~:mad :daisy: :beadyeyes2: :sneaky:

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Originally Posted by Lemur

So the Swiss have discovered Buddhism. This is news?

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Dang, I ate snails tonight and I didn't read them their rights. Can I still enter Switzerland?

get rich or die trying indeed :laugh4:

Rapper 50 Cent gets robbed while on stage in Angola


I'm so disappointed in 50...a 'gangsta' like him gets robbed like that!
he didn´t bust a cap on the *****'s ass or nothin! :2thumbsup: :clown: :laugh4:

Crime doesn't pay when you're robbin' 50 Cent.

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I'm hungry.

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:inquisitive: Europe needs another war to put things in perspective.

Maybe the counsel should have just held their breath and counted to 1024 before making such a decision.

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Originally Posted by Vladimir

Maybe the counsel should have just held their breath and counted to 1024 before making such a decision.

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Inhale and have to listen to the screams of the oxygen and carbon atoms? You're a heartless fiend Vlad.

Vlad the Inhaler :no:

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Originally Posted by Vladimir

:inquisitive: Europe needs another war to put things in perspective.

Maybe the counsel should have just held their breath and counted to 1024 before making such a decision.

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the medium IQ level on the room where that was voted must have been the same as the room temperature.

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Originally Posted by Gregoshi

Inhale and have to listen to the screams of the oxygen and carbon atoms? You're a heartless fiend Vlad.

Vlad the Inhaler :no:

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Next we'll hear that the altering of O2 to form CO2 is inhumane.

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Next we'll hear that the altering of O2 to form CO2 is inhumane.

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Time to get in touch with my inner molecule.

Those Brazilians have some nuts

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-who held three Brazilian Jewish youths hostage in a Warsaw hotel room.-

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I can't tell if I should find this funny.

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I can't tell if I should find this funny.

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I bloody well can. I think it's a great gesture. These days every Brit is caught on cctv if he so much as farts, let alone if he ventures outside his home.

Jeremy Forsberg, of the Northumbria Safer Roads Initiative, said: "This behaviour is simply ridiculous - it's clear what he was thinking with what he had on show.

It is. He's fed up with nanny watching him.

"Not only is it disrespectful, but distasteful and offensive, particularly to children who may have been exposed to this nonsense."

Oh, think of all the little children. :drama2:

Since when are children are measure of public life in the UK?

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Jeremy Forsberg, of the Northumbria Safer Roads Initiative, said: "This behaviour is simply ridiculous - it's clear what he was thinking with what he had on show.

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Looks to me like he was checking the rearview mirror.

Remember everything we've heard about the Brits?

It's true.

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Originally Posted by EMFM's Article

Government officials planning food supplies said the tea situation would be "very serious" after a nuclear war.

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But what about the crumpets, man? What about the crumpets?

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But what about the crumpets, man? What about the crumpets?

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Good sir, are you insinuating that you would actually ever go so far as to eat a crumpet? EAT it? What about the crumpet's feelings? Doesn't the crumpet get to have a chance to defend itself against the savage, imperialist humans bent on its consumption?

And the tea. Cut, dried and boiled. :skull: Can murder be civilized? The English seem to think so. Heathens!

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Originally Posted by Lemur

But what about the crumpets, man? What about the crumpets?

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My dear fellow, the crumpet would have been well taken care of. :toff:

"I say, ding dong."

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For the foreign non-tea-drinking masses, look up Leslie Phillips and this. :wink: