Russian iPhone User Sues Apple for Turning Him Gay

Andy Serkis plays talking anus in fatberg prevention campaign

One for the Serkis obsessives only.

Mystery surrounds lost German sea data station
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A massive environmental monitoring station off Germany’s Baltic coast has disappeared from the seabed, baffling police and researchers.
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The seabed “observatory”, worth about €300,000 (£270,000), weighed more than half a tonne. It could not have been dragged off by a storm, tide or large animal, German experts say.
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Divers only found a torn power cable at the site, 22m (72ft) down and 1.8km (1.2 miles) offshore.
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It is a prohibited area, north of Kiel.
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No boats – not even local fishing boats – are allowed into the area, called Eckernförde Bay, about 70km (44 miles) south of the Danish border.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49592330

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by SteveUK.

I was thinking more of The Abyss.

Mystery surrounds lost German sea data station
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A massive environmental monitoring station off Germany’s Baltic coast has disappeared from the seabed, baffling police and researchers.
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The Germans have released a video of something in the water near the station;
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It’s a bum rap.

SteveUK wrote:

Mystery surrounds lost German sea data station
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A massive environmental monitoring station off Germany’s Baltic coast has disappeared from the seabed, baffling police and researchers.

It was stolen by the Russian or an oil company. Or a Russian oil company. Obviously something there they don’t want us to see.

Local one, I’ve personally not seen the dome and really don’t see what all the fuss is about,

Back garden observatory ‘blinding’ St Ives neighbour https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-50085531

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/drunk-drugged-up-man-tried-17176000?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

A drunk and drugged up man ‘tried to have sex with a pile of leaves’ in the car park of a Premier Inn, a court heard.
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Michael Golsorkhi was seen ‘thrusting’ with his trousers around his ankles in full view of families eating at a Beefeater pub in Stockport.
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The 26-year-old pulled up his underwear before running away and hiding in bushes after he was confronted by hotel staff.

Anonymous wrote:

also known by its scientific name

Has anyone actually verified whether this is her preferred pronoun?

DavidM wrote:

arjandirkse wrote:

also known by its scientific name

Has anyone actually verified whether this is her preferred pronoun?

Blob has 700 different pronouns, for whichever gender Blob chooses to identify as any given day. And it’s a hate crime to get it wrong, bigot!

I don’t understand how it can have 720 genders. It’s non-sentient, so they are presumably talking about purely physical differences. But it reproduces asexually, by cell division, so how can it have any sex-based differences? From my limited knowledge of biology, the article’s claim makes no sense.

ONE MILLION CANNIBAL ANTS TRAPPED IN SOVIET NUCLEAR BUNKER HAVE ESCAPED

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A “colony” of up to one million cannibal ants trapped in a nuclear bunker for years have escaped, scientists in Poland have said.
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The ants, which had no food source other than their dead nestmates, were first discovered in 2013 were found to be solely made up of worker ants meaning they could not reproduce—how their numbers grew so large was a mystery.
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The ants had no access to the outside world and appeared to have come from a nest above that was positioned over a ventilation pipe. When the ants fell down the pipe, they were entombed in the bunker.
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However, after returning to the site two years later, scientists found the colony was not only still there, but that it had grown in numbers. This was despite there being no obvious food source, no heat and no light. A population estimate suggested there were hundreds of thousands, if not one million ants living in the bunker.
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“The survival and growth of the bunker ‘colony’ through the years, without producing own offspring, was possible owing to continuous supply of new workers from the upper nest and accumulation of nestmate corpses,” the team concluded. “The corpses served as an inexhaustible source of food which substantially allowed survival of the ants trapped down in otherwise extremely unfavourable conditions.”
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https://www.newsweek.com/cannibal-ants-soviet-nuclear-bunker-1469573

SteveUK wrote:

ONE MILLION CANNIBAL ANTS TRAPPED IN SOVIET NUCLEAR BUNKER HAVE ESCAPED

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A “colony” of up to one million cannibal ants trapped in a nuclear bunker for years have escaped, scientists in Poland have said.
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The ants, which had no food source other than their dead nestmates, were first discovered in 2013 were found to be solely made up of worker ants meaning they could not reproduce—how their numbers grew so large was a mystery.
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–SNIP–
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The ants had no access to the outside world and appeared to have come from a nest above that was positioned over a ventilation pipe. When the ants fell down the pipe, they were entombed in the bunker.
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However, after returning to the site two years later, scientists found the colony was not only still there, but that it had grown in numbers. This was despite there being no obvious food source, no heat and no light. A population estimate suggested there were hundreds of thousands, if not one million ants living in the bunker.
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“The survival and growth of the bunker ‘colony’ through the years, without producing own offspring, was possible owing to continuous supply of new workers from the upper nest and accumulation of nestmate corpses,” the team concluded. “The corpses served as an inexhaustible source of food which substantially allowed survival of the ants trapped down in otherwise extremely unfavourable conditions.”
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https://www.newsweek.com/cannibal-ants-soviet-nuclear-bunker-1469573

Cool story idea for a sequel to Antz.

Chicken barbecue at Morrow’s house this weekend!!!
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You gotta kill and pluck the chicken yourself, but still….

https://www.thegamer.com/atlanta-truck-dice-spill-d-and-d/
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A Dicey Situation: Truck Spills Dice, Deals 216,000d6 Bludgeoning Damage to Atlanta Freeway
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It turns out CBR’s list of the 13 most powerful D&D monsters neglected to include Interstate 75, which soaked up enough damage to annihilate the entire Deities and Demigods supplement without breaking a sweat.
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According to a YouTube video released earlier this week, a driver for Atlanta-based Trivium Games rolled a natural 1 on his truck-handling check as he transported three pallets full of six-sided Chessex dice down the interstate, and took a turn too sharply, up dumping over 216,000 of the blue, black and white cubes onto the asphalt.
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Trivium Games claims that this spill amounted to the largest dice roll in history, a record previously held by the United Kingdom for Brexit.

Don’t judge me for knowing this

Woman uses baby as WEAPON to hit man after spitting and shouting at him during heated row
Jebus

Dave wrote:

Andy Serkis plays talking angus in fatberg prevention campaign

Fixed for @davidm

Tom Cruise almost had arm broken over Diet Coke confusion in pub in 1991, Irish MP claims

That headline is a real rollercoaster.

‘Startled pig’ hinders water pipe repairs and causes train disruption

A “startled pig” confronted engineers as they repaired a burst water main in London, before it was coaxed away with a bag of crisps.

The pipe burst in Lamberts Road, Surbiton, damaging nearby railway equipment, which caused train delays.

Thames Water said the valve to cut the water was in a field occupied by a pet pig called Pickle and engineers were concerned about disturbing it.

It is not known what flavour crisps were used to entice the pig away.

“NoFap” is a trademark? That is insane.

JRCarter wrote:

Florida man ‘dry humps’ stuffed Olaf doll at Pinellas Park Target, police say

For a second there I thought this was an epidemic, but luckily this is the same incident that Max posted an article about. Phew.

I think everybody knows that Collins was more of a Judas to Peter Gabriel’s Jesus.

Outrage as upmarket Bath is plagued by a ‘poo slinger’ as signs go up urging disgusting vandals to stop throwing EXCREMENT onto rooftops

Not so much weird as moronic.

Utah Woman Charged With Lewdness After Being Topless In Her Own Home

A Utah woman has been charged with lewdness in her own home after her stepchildren walked into the room and saw her bare chest.

Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah argued this week that the statute under which Tilli Buchanan, 27, was charged is unconstitutional, and they have asked a judge to drop the charges against her and change the state law. Buchanan and her husband had been installing drywall in the garage and had taken off their shirts that were itchy from the fibers, she told The Salt Lake Tribune.

When her stepchildren, aged 9, 10 and 13, walked in, she “explained she considers herself a feminist and wanted to make a point that everybody should be fine with walking around their house or elsewhere with skin showing,” her lawyers wrote in court documents, The Associated Press reports.
Now the state has charged Buchanan with three charges of lewdness involving a child. The charge is a Class A misdemeanor. Though her husband was similarly clad, he was not charged with a crime.

The state’s lewdness statute criminalizes exposure of “the female breast below the top of the areola” in the presence of a child in a private place “under circumstances the person should know will likely cause affront or alarm.”

If convicted, Buchanan faces imprisonment, fines and the requirement to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
“It was in the privacy of my own home. My husband was right next to me in the same exact manner that I was, and he’s not being prosecuted,” she told reporters after the court hearing. The charges were filed after the children’s mother told that authorities she was “alarmed” by the incident, according the AP.

Maybe not quite as clear cut as the headline suggests (but then what is) but still, it feels like an over-reaction and the step-mother being punished by the mother via the courts.

Aha! Here’s the dang thread. Weird that I couldn’t find it. Must be time for an alligator story!

Martin Smith wrote:

Maybe not quite as clear cut as the headline suggests (but then what is) but still, it feels like an over-reaction and the step-mother being punished by the mother via the courts.

Yeah, I mean… this feels like something that should’ve been resolved by the parties talking, rather than the courts. I mean, seems like this was a pretty conservative background and suddenly the guy and his new wife are walking around nude all the time, that’s something the kids will find confusing.

Five things people need to stop putting in their vaginas in 2020

JRCarter wrote:

Five things people need to stop putting in their vaginas in 2020

I hope Boris Johnson’s dick is on this list.

JRCarter wrote:

Enormous Hawk Wasp Carries Off Huntsman Spider For Feast In Australia

Nope. Nooooo. Nononono. Thank you, but. No.

Clarkson blames blazes on God being embarrassed of Australia, ‘stupid creatures’

Oh, those crazy Floridians!! 

I think I posted about this when the bust went down, but feel it is important to provide photographic evidence of what a career in drug-dealing can bring.  This I note as great-grandma, first person pictured here, is 49.

https://www.timescall.com/2020/01/18/two-people-convicted-in-longmonts-operation-misfire-are-sentenced/

OK. wow:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/jail-man-touching-woman-mrt-privates-12294872

SteveUK wrote:

I’m not clicking on that link at work.

THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!

Karachi groom chased from wedding after first wife turns up

Workers fired from Michigan Wendy’s after video shows employee bathing in kitchen sink

Twelve years after this:

I’m curious as to what “BCC Wankers” is referring. Were they aiming for “BBC Wankers”?

BCC in a message means it’s also sent to people who can’t see who else it was sent to, only the sender.

In this case, we can see the figure firing the catapult, but can we see everyone who will receive the message of the mural itself? If not, then we have no idea how many of them are wankers?

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Andrew

Coronavirus: Armed robbers steal hundreds of toilet rolls in Hong Kong

Armed robbers in Hong Kong made off with hundreds of toilet rolls worth more than HKD1,000 ($130; £98).

Toilet rolls are currently in short supply in Hong Kong due to shortages caused by panic-buying during the coronavirus outbreak.

Knife wielding men robbed a delivery man outside a supermarket in the Mong Kok district, police said.

Police have arrested two men and recovered some of the stolen loo rolls, local media reports said.

The armed robbery took place in Mong Kok, a district of Hong Kong with a history of “triad” crime gangs, early on Monday.

According to local reports, the robbers had threatened a delivery worker who had unloaded rolls of toilet paper outside Wellcome Supermarket.

An Apple Daily report said that 600 toilet paper rolls, valued at around HKD1,695 ($218; £167), had been stolen.

Stores across the city have seen supplies massively depleted with long queues when new stock arrives.

Despite government assurances that supplies remain unaffected by the virus outbreak, residents have been stocking up on toilet paper.

Other household products have also seen panic-buying including rice, pasta and cleaning items.

Face masks and hand sanitisers are almost impossible to get as people try to protect themselves from the coronavirus, which has already claimed more than 1,700 lives.

“A delivery man was threatened by three knife-wielding men who took toilet paper worth more than HK$1,000 ($130),” a police spokesman said.

Authorities blame false online rumours for the panic buying and say supplies of food and household goods remain stable.

There has also been some panic-buying of toilet rolls, hand sanitisers and face masks in Singapore, which has 75 confirmed coronavirus cases.

paul f wrote:

it’s only ever happened once in history, until yesterday:

Close, it was the third.

 Ayres became just the third emergency goaltender in the modern era to play in the NHL

He was a local guy and had Toronto gear on underneath his Carolina jersey

“No disrespect to Davy, awesome guy,” Auston Matthews said after the game. “But when you have an emergency goalie like that come into the game, I think the consensus is to shoot the puck as much as possible.”

It’s just another form of racism.

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lorcan_nagle

Apparently the prosthetic leg smelled of hammers.

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lorcan_nagle

I’m feeling a little susceptible right now

In all seriousness, that prosthetic could have belong to Jaz North after he was splatted in a noncebeating and  wound up quadispazzed and on a lifeglug.

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garjones, Dave

It ain’t just one today.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-police-remove-alligator-living-in-basement-for-25-years

Polite little gator, that.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-swims-with-rescues-9-foot-alligator-in-florida-pool

Florida Man strikes again.

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