News of the Weird

[Fragony]

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

[Husar]

[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.

[Fragony]

[QUOTE=Husar;2422234][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.

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

Indeed it does and it helps.

[Lemur]

California School District to Consider Un-banning Dictionary



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]

[drone]

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

[Lemur]

Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Court Forbids Inmates to Play Dungeons & 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]

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]

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/worl...t-a-crime.html

[Cute Wolf]

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/2...28/2803837.htm

[The Wizard]

Oh lawd

[CountArach]

Pigs lead to more porking I guess.

[Gregoshi]

Pigs lead to more porking I guess.

Yeah. Pork loins - a cut of meat AND a sentence.

[Vladimir]

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

[Gregoshi]

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

"The other white meat"? Brilliant!

[Furunculus]

Lingerie-Football:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/pic...uper-Bowl.html

i recommend pics four and nine!

[Crazed Rabbit]

Scotland; the land that reason forgot.

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.

CR

[Lemur]

Australia bans small-boobed porn

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]

The Wasabi-smell Smoke Alarm

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]

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.

[Gregoshi]

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".

[Aemilius Paulus]

California School District to Consider Un-banning Dictionary

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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

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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.

[Furunculus]

trucker takes out pedestrian bridge in turkey:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...in-Turkey.html

[Hosakawa Tito]

Great moments in schadenfreude.

[drone]

Great moments in schadenfreude.

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]

The snake who's 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]

It's official: US military to build AT-ATs.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bostond.../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), 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]

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

CR

[Louis VI the Fat]

CR.

Curses.

[naut]

That is a massive double-headed fly.