News of the Weird

[gaelic cowboy]

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]

Thought our tax agency was bad http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/13/260...-car-wash.html

[Gregoshi]

Thought our tax agency was bad http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/13/260...-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]

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]

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]

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

[Tellos Athenaios]

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

[Lemur]

Could parachute-wearing bears sniff out Osama bin Laden?



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]

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

I like Stalin the bestest.

[naut]

Mussolini!

[Gregoshi]

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

[Louis VI the Fat]

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.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

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/scot...-by-willy.html

I've beaten Lemur to penis news.

[Lemur]

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]

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.

[Gregoshi]

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]

Leprechaun bank robbers die in St Patrick's Day shoot-out.

[gaelic cowboy]

Where's me gooold

[Sigurd]

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/...news_rss&imw=Y

LOL - says Norwegian marine biologists.
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]

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

[CountArach]

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

The irony of non-whites liking Hitler... oh wow...

[Viking]

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

Neat image gallery.

[Furunculus]

Neat image gallery.

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

[Viking]

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]

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/news...-new-book.html

[cegorach]

Hitler worship in india and pakistan - "we like nazi":
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...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]

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/c...ing-order.html

[Gregoshi]

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/c...ing-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]

My monies on Argentina.

[Cute Wolf]

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.....

[Fragony]

lololol http://workplacefail.com/2009/08/facebook-fail/

EDIT BY CA: Language warning