News of the Weird

[InsaneApache]

Well I see my explosive erections didn't get much play.

More bang from your duck.

That better?

[Hosakawa Tito]

Old Media. vs New Media.

After calculating the maths I must say I prefer the good old days.

[Ser Clegane]

Missing Dachshund Turns Itself In at Lost-and-Found

[Banquo's Ghost]

Steady hand indeed.

Given the freezing conditions in the UK, I think he would have been better off standing outside for a while.

[InsaneApache]

It seems the fireman has no pier.

[Gregoshi]

It seems the fireman has no pier.

And balls of steel.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Steady hand indeed.

Given the freezing conditions in the UK, I think he would have been better off standing outside for a while.

That guy was lucky he didn't get shafted permanently.

CR

[Furunculus]

perfidious albion a greater threat to france than hitler:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...Nazis-did.html

[Gregoshi]

perfidious albion a greater threat to france than hitler:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...Nazis-did.html

Hypocrites! I couldn't help but notice that all the French quoted in the article had no issue in speaking English for it.

[Fragony]

Now I know that the Mexicans like their food spicy but when airport scanners identify your traditional mole-sause as an explosive substance you might have been overdoing it, lol.

link when I find it

[InsaneApache]

perfidious albion a greater threat to france than hitler:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...Nazis-did.html

Is that a grave or acute threat?

[Louis VI the Fat]

Now I know that the Mexicans like their food spicy but when airport scanners identify your traditional mole-sause as an explosive substance you might have been overdoing it, lol.

Overdoing it?

Do you have any idea what havoc I can wreak with some spicy chili con carne, a few hours of fermentation, and a lighter strategically placed near my behind?

~~-~~-~~<<oOo>>~~-~~-~~

Also, you people just don't understand France. You Anglosaxon hordes can continue to strip me of my rights, liberty, dignity and language. I'll survive.

No, what you should've linked to, is:

French try to 'disguise' wine as New Zealand produce

With a pedigree dating back thousands of years, the vineyards of France have long regarded themselves as the toast of the wine world. But in a humiliating blow to Gallic pride, winemakers have been accused of trying to pass off their bottles as New Zealand produce to cash in on the popularity of brands from down under.

La fin du monde

~~-~~-~~<<oOo>>~~-~~-~~

Is that a grave or acute threat?

Several hours later, and it's still puzzling my mind. Do I not get your pun, or did you just really pun in French?

[Gregoshi]

Several hours later, and it's still puzzling my mind. Do I not get your pun, or did you just really pun in French?

I was (unsurprisingly) puzzled too. The article sub-title said "grave threat". A little Google found "grave" and "acute" accents in the French language. If there is more to it than that - something with these accents and "threat" perhaps? IA goes deep for this one.

[InsaneApache]

Moi pun?

Just goes to show that five years being tortured taught French wasn't a total waste of time.

[Tellos Athenaios]

It was. If you could have waited a few more years there would apparently not have been a need to learn French at all since the French are -finally- about to read, speak and write English. <_< I can hardly wait.

[InsaneApache]

Unfortunately it was compulsory. After 30 years it has faded quite a bit. Unlike my memories of Miss. Boulanger.

[Gregoshi]

...After 30 years it has faded quite a bit. Unlike my memories of Miss. Boulanger.

Aw, how sweet. You and Miss Boulanger will always have Paris, eh?

[Fragony]

Overdoing it?

Do you have any idea what havoc I can wreak with some spicy chili con carne, a few hours of fermentation, and a lighter strategically placed near my behind?

You have obviously never tasted my chili con carnage. You better don't, you will always have Paris.

No, what you should've linked to, is:

pffffffft arrogant frog

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

http://media.vinoo.eu/wine/38/509-arrogant-frog-ribet-red-rood-2006-46.jpg-80.jpeg

[Furunculus]

God bless america:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...a-drivers.html

New speed cameras enrage Arizona drivers
An attempt to introduce UK-style fixed speed cameras in America has ended in a public revolt, with motorists binning speeding tickets worth $90 million (£60 million).

Published: 7:00AM GMT 11 Jan 2010

The Arizona scheme, which was the first statewide effort to bring speed camera enforcement to the US, is now on the verge of bankruptcy and could be dumped.

Many Americans, including judges and elected officials, regard the devices as an unconstitutional tax collection method and have flatly refused to pay the fines, the Times reports.

"I see all the cameras in Arizona completely coming down," Shawn Dow, who is leading the public revolt via his chairmanship of Arizona Citizens Against Photo Radar, told the paper. "The citizens of Arizona took away the cash cow of Arizona by refusing to pay." He is now trying to get the cameras banned in November's elections.

Although about 700,000 tickets have been issued since Arizona's 76-camera plan was rolled out last year, a mere $37 million of the $127 million in fines and surcharges has been collected. That is because Arizonans have realised that they can simply ignore tickets sent to them in the post, and the authorities cannot prove that they have received them. Unless the tickets are served in person something Arizona cannot afford to do they become void after three months.

Motorists have shown their opposition to the machines in other ways, placing large cardboard boxes over them, decorating them with sticky notes, attacking them with pickaxes and, in one case, setting off the cameras while standing in front wearing a monkey mask.

The company hired to install Arizona's cameras, Redflex, is under financial pressure, because it invested $16 million upfront in the equipment. But it says it is persevering. "Redflex is in this for the long haul," it said.

[Lemur]

South African Crime Lord's Fake Penis Falls Off in Raid

South African police caught more than they expected in a Cape Town drug raid when a strap-on dildo fell off a suspected crime lord during a search, the Sunday Times reported.

Fat Murphy, feared on the streets of Cape Town's notorious Cape Flats suburb, told a court that he is a hermaphrodite who holds male and female identity documents — one under the name Fadwaan, the other under Hilary.

Police and a tearful Murphy recounted the saga during a bail hearing for Murphy's charges of possession of stolen property, which come on top of earlier charges of kidnapping and intimidation, the paper said.

"I had a vagina that could not be penetrated. But I also had male organs, testes. But I always knew I was really a man and that was what I wanted to be," he told the court, according to the newspaper.

"God created me with both sexual organs. It was God's decision, not mine."

[Gregoshi]

South African Crime Lord's Fake Penis Falls Off in Raid

He should have hired a private dick instead. As long as you pay them, they will stay on the job.

[Vladimir]

First that "female" athlete and now this? What's up with the freak show in SA?

[Louis VI the Fat]

What's up with the freak show in SA?

Something's wrong there, isn't it? I think it's something in their water:

Tourist killed by 'dinosaur-sized' shark off South African beach

Zimbabwean holidaymaker eaten by shark described by onlookers as 'longer than a minibus'



Witnesses today described their horror at seeing a tourist being eaten by a "gigantic" shark in South Africa's most popular holiday destination.


Lloyd Skinner was pulled under the surf and dragged out to sea by the shark, believed to be a great white, off Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town. His diving goggles and a dark patch of blood were all that remained in the water.


"Holy shit. We just saw a gigantic shark eat what looked like a person in front of our house," witness Gregg Coppen posted on Twitter. "That shark was huge. Like dinosaur huge."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/13/cape-town-giant-shark-attack

[Vladimir]

The Guardian is using Twitter as a source?

[Gregoshi]

The Guardian is using Twitter as a source?

Only a net-Twit would do that...

[spmetla]

Sheep Gives Birth to Human-faced lamb

[Cute Wolf]

Sheep Gives Birth to Human-faced lamb

So... the interspeciess crossbreeding can be happened afterall...

[Hosakawa Tito]

Taking one for the team. Here's hoping her the breast.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Seattle is considering having parks ban sex, smoking and spitting.

No spitting. No smoking. No sex.

The list of rules in Seattle parks may be about to grow.

A proposed ban on spitting in parks — one of 13 behaviors Seattle Parks and Recreation wants to regulate, including a ban on smoking on its grounds — already is generating heated public comment.

The proposal was presented Thursday night to the park commissioners.

But after reports about the proposed ban, even before the meeting, commissioners were getting e-mail.

"Spitting? Are the players not allowed to chew tobacco and spit sunflower seeds?" said one e-mail to the parks board obtained by The Times. "Why not farting? It's the big elephant in the room.

"While we're at it, we should use the opportunity to ban women's hair spray and other bodily spray that in total smells like DDT."

CR

[Gregoshi]

The Daily Show now has its own News of the Weird segment. It starts at about 1:30 into the show. I think I prefer our version though.