News of the Weird

[Lemur]

NYC buzzing as hot dog carts distribute free vibrators



Two "Pleasure Carts" emblazoned with punny slogans such as "getcha vibes here" and "relish the moment" will be employed by the makers of Trojan Vibrations to distribute some 10,000 free sex toys on the streets of New York starting tomorrow.

"What we're doing is taking something like a hot dog cart that is so everyday and so mainstream, and we're showing people that vibrators are mainstream," Trojan's VP for marketing Bruce Weiss told the New York Times.

The company expects to hand out 5,000 Tri-Phoria "intimate massagers" and another 5,000 Vibrating Pulse devices during the two day promotional event. All told, the giveaway will set the company back about $350,000.

"It sounds fantastic and I'm just delighted that there is a company that has the resources and the sex-positivity to do it," Claire Cavanah, co-owner of the sex shop Babeland, is quoted as saying.

[Vladimir]

[Lemur's note: What is it with crazy religious Russians and going underground?]

Some cultural thing. An Idiot Abroad recently featured it.

[naut]

[Lemur's note: What is it with crazy religious Russians and going underground?]

Russia is also the home of being buried alive. They find it... therapeutic.

[Lemur]

Man orders TV from Amazon, receives sweet SIG 716 instead (foolishly turns it over to police)



WASHINGTON D.C—Police have confirmed to FOX 5 that they are investigating why an Army-style assault rifle was mistakenly mailed to a D.C. man in an online order.

Seth Horvitz says he ordered a flat-screen television from a third party through Amazon.com. He received a package that was left in the hallway outside of his Northeast D.C. apartment Tuesday, but instead of a television, he found a black semi-automatic rifle inside the box.

Unsure about what to do with the rifle, Horvitz says he contacted police about it Tuesday evening. Police confiscated the rifle when they came to his apartment.

"[Police] were a little confused at first, they've never seen anything quite like it," says Horvitz. "They just took my information and then said we'll handle this weapon because it's illegal to keep here. It's illegal to transport in a car, so it can't be returned."

The shipping label on the box had Horvitz's name and address, but the invoice inside the box indicated it should have been shipped to a gun shop in Pennsylvania.

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[Doesn't this idiot know that a SIG 716 goes for about $1800? Re-sell, brother, re-sell!]

[Hooahguy]

[Doesn't this idiot know that a SIG 716 goes for about $1800? Re-sell, brother, re-sell!]

From the picture in the article it looks like the guy is one of those idiots who thinks every weapon with a stock is a machine gun.

[Fragony]

I don't undersand the guy I would hide it to keep it.Not to shoot at anything but to able to hug it every day. If you accidently get an assault rifle and you actually call the police I don't think you are the type that sees a stack of wood as a cabin with an identity crisis.

[Montmorency]

From the picture in the article it looks like the guy is one of those idiots who thinks every weapon with a stock is a machine gun.

It's nice to see a proper, law-abiding citizen keeping out of trouble.

[Lemur]

If you accidently get an assault rifle

Point of order: An unbelievably nice rifle. SIG is a top-drawer manufacturer, in car terms it would be a Mercedes or a BMW. That is an extremely valuable and desirable gun.

Seriously, if you don't want a gun in the house for one reason or another, re-sell the blasted thing. Sheesh.

[Fragony]

It's nice to see a proper, law-abiding citizen keeping out of trouble.

If you don't want that thing you are troubled methinks, it's loud and makes holes into things and it comes with a really nice box, what's not to love about it. You must be type that uses strange feminine words such as 'responsibility', que. That thing is every sane boy's dream and a proper male never grows up. If there is a lake there is fish in it, if you have a ball there are windows, any empty building has to be explored. Period.

I got a helpful site for you http://artofmanliness.com/

[Gregoshi]

If you don't want that thing you are troubled methinks...

If he wanted the "thing", he would have ordered it. He wanted a much more manly (and practical) device - a TV. A crappy TV reflects more poorly on your manliness than a silly bang stick that will most likely just hang on the wall giving you a faux manly status symbol. The TV will impress your buddies. You'll have countless hours of watching sports and swilling beer with them developing the ultimate of manly man things - the pot belly. Can't do that with a gun. Watch some scary movies on your new TV with your man friends as a social gauge of manhood seeing who screams like a little girl, or watch the same movies with the girl you want to score with to get things started with that protective snuggle when she gets frightened. Then there is HD porn. I rest my case.

[Fragony]

If he wanted the "thing", he would have ordered it. He wanted a much more manly (and practical) device - a TV. A crappy TV reflects more poorly on your manliness than a silly bang stick that will most likely just hang on the wall giving you a faux manly status symbol. The TV will impress your buddies. You'll have countless hours of watching sports and swilling beer with them developing the ultimate of manly man things - the pot belly. Can't do that with a gun. Watch some scary movies on your new TV with your man friends as a social gauge of manhood seeing who screams like a little girl, or watch the same movies with the girl you want to score with to get things started with that protective snuggle when she gets frightened. Then there is HD porn. I rest my case.

HD Porn is yukkie, I really don't want to see everything in such detail it wastes the experience. Now if I got caught with that gun I would be in trouble here, but I grew up in a small village and the best part about stealing corn was that the farmer would shoot you on sight with salt, it hurts. So you steal his corn it comes quite naturally. We also shooted eachother with nailguns, perfection was kicking someone down and driving one in someones butt, to the horror of our local doctor who didn't really share our sense of humour. A tv is an altar of passive entertainment, in great contrast with an assault-rifle. Sitting in front of a television can be relaxing no doubt, but it's not manly.

[Gregoshi]

Sitting in front of a television can be relaxing no doubt, but it's not manly.

Fragony, you wouldn't know manly if it came up and shot you in the...

We also shooted eachother with nailguns...driving one in someones butt...

Nevermind.

I must be losing my touch. I got a serious rebuttal (butt pun not intended, but actually not too bad!) to what I thought was a tongue-in-cheek post. I should have used more emoticons.

[Fragony]

You aren't losing it, 'nailing it' is just something we do differently here, culture and all that. You couldn't have known that. You are still on top!

[Gregoshi]

A toast then, to "nailing it" in all its forms - pain or pleasure, hammered, shot or not, or whatever other types one may got.

[Fragony]

It's a bit of a pain in the ass. It's hilarious though, you are really planting a flag

Beers on me

[Ronin]

Family of bears crashes into holyday house and drink 100 beers

The hangover 3 - The Beerpack!

[Hooahguy]

The hangover 3 - The Beerpack!

Would be a better movie than the Hangover 2.

[Ronin]

Would be a better movie than the Hangover 2.

poster:

[Gregoshi]

Family of bears crashes into holyday house and drink 100 beers

Grizzlilocks and the Three Beers...one was too warm, one was too cold, but the other 100 were juuuust right!

Edit: You may think I can't count, but the "three beers" means types of beer (warm, cold and just-right)...yeah, that's what I meant.

[Fragony]

Family of bears crashes into holyday house and drink 100 beers

The hangover 3 - The Beerpack!

That is why I never invite them, there is only so many

[Lemur]

I really don't want to share the planet with these people.

[InsaneApache]

Well to be fair do we really know that the world existed before we were born?

[Vladimir]

Two pretty girls and a muppet. Are you surprised?

[Fragony]

lololol

[Lemur]

The final frontier: Anal tattoos

Anal tattoos are the "next big thing."

Or, at least, that's what some people are saying after meeting this woman at the 17th annual South Florida Tattoo Expo, which was held at the Marriott Hotel, Golf Club & Convention Center in Coral Springs, Fla., last weekend.

It felt "really, really good," the 22-year-old said of the process.

One observer noted that the whole anus-tattooing thing seemed pretty "cool."

"It's kind of a neat thing to do," he told a reporter from the New Times Broward-Palm Beach. [...]

The girl was quick to point out that her anus tat isn't her first.

"The fairy on my back is crawled in a ball with broken wings and she's pulling her ********* hair," she said of one of her older tattoos.

As for her anus, it has since been inscribed with her boyfriend's name, though his might not be the first to adorn her rectal area.

"I had two guys name on it," she said.

[Montmorency]

"The fairy on my back is crawled in a ball with broken wings and she's pulling her ********* hair," she said of one of her older tattoos.

9 asterisks? What is that? Peri-anal? Butt-hole? Antarctic? Assholish? bread? ?

[drone]

Just a hunch, but that girl might be a tad promiscuous. I'm sure her father is proud.

[Lemur]

No word on radscorpions or deathclaws: Mutant butterflies found near Fukishima



Japanese authorities may have cleared out the human population around the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but the native wildlife is still there. A month after the accident, scientists who study the pale grass blue butterfly collected 144 near the plant, and found that they had begun to show mutations like dented eyes and deformed wings.

Six months later, they caught another batch—and, worryingly, found they had twice as many mutations. This suggested that the butterflies’ germ line—the cells that turn into egg and sperm—had suffered damage, so mutations could be expected to continue to accumulate down through the generations. Exposing butterflies in the lab to radiation at the levels around the Fukushima plant triggered similar malformations, further strengthening the link between the radiation and the mutations.

The levels of radiation absorbed by the butterflies are not enough to harm humans, and this species is notoriously sensitive to environmental contaminants (in fact, that’s why scientists were studying it to begin with). But this study is a reminder that the disaster’s effects will reverberate for a long time in the natural environment and animal inhabitants of Fukushima.

[Fragony]

The final frontier: Anal tattoos

Anal tattoos are the "next big thing."

Or, at least, that's what some people are saying after meeting this woman at the 17th annual South Florida Tattoo Expo, which was held at the Marriott Hotel, Golf Club & Convention Center in Coral Springs, Fla., last weekend.

It felt "really, really good," the 22-year-old said of the process.

One observer noted that the whole anus-tattooing thing seemed pretty "cool."

"It's kind of a neat thing to do," he told a reporter from the New Times Broward-Palm Beach. [...]

The girl was quick to point out that her anus tat isn't her first.

"The fairy on my back is crawled in a ball with broken wings and she's pulling her ********* hair," she said of one of her older tattoos.

As for her anus, it has since been inscribed with her boyfriend's name, though his might not be the first to adorn her rectal area.

"I had two guys name on it," she said.

But what's the boyfriend's name bet it's B*B

[Lemur]

I cannot choose between 'Moist Nugget' and 'Hitler Did Nothing Wrong'



Soft drink giant Pepsi has taken down a website where customers could vote on the name of their new flavour after it was swamped with internet pranksters.

The "Dub the Dew" marketing campaign asked users to suggest names for its new green apple flavoured Mountain Dew.

Users of the infamous online forum 4chan quickly took up the challenge, overwhelming the campaign with votes for names such as "Diabeetus", "Moist Nugget" and "Fapple".

The site was taken down and voting was disabled after the name "Hitler did nothing wrong" topped the list, Hypervocal reports.