.Things are getting weird here!
Woman Who Ate ‘Unusually Large’ Amount of Wasabi Developed Broken-Heart Syndrome
A woman got more than a burning mouthful when she mistook a serving of wasabi for avocado — the spicy food appeared to cause her to develop “broken-heart syndrome,” according to a new report of the case.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/larryfitzmaurice/sharon-stone-memoir-basic-instinct-scene
…I don’t know, but I wouldn’t put it past Verhoeven to suggest it to her.
The fuck?
GDPR shit isn’t it. You’d have thought this would all be sorted by now.
What I found to be “weird” was the Sharon Stone article posted up thread.
This one is just plain ridiculous:
What I found to be “weird” was the Sharon Stone article posted up thread.
This one is just plain ridiculous:
That is peak America
It’s almost as if something was wrong with a system that allows individuals to become limitlessly super-rich.
I think there is something disturbing about the popularity of crowdfunding, in some cases anyway. I heard a lot of people crowdfund their medical bills. Basically that makes your financial wellbeing dependent on a popularity contest. It is kind of a dystopian nightmare.
I think there is something disturbing about the popularity of crowdfunding, in some cases anyway. I heard a lot of people crowdfund their medical bills. Basically that makes your financial wellbeing dependent on a popularity contest. It is kind of a dystopian nightmare.
US healthcare companies actually suggest you run a gofundme if you can’t afford procedures now. And there are reportts of people dying because their crowdfunding campaigns failed. It really is dystopian.
Penny dreadful: Georgia man receives final paycheck in coins
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-man-final-paycheck-915-coins-0fe966a8ea0fbd1a9559d1222081aa5f
Wow. Hollywood is weird…
I think the word is “evil”, not “weird”.
It can be two things!
This is the real big news from Oriental Daily though.
Man eats quick-cooking noodles with cola so that his stomach hurts so much that he is in danger of losing his life
This is the real big news from Oriental Daily though.
Man eats quick-cooking noodles with cola so that his stomach hurts so much that he is in danger of losing his life
That’s me every time I have a takeaway.
Maybe it escaped from a bakery at a zoo!
If it was a French bakery then that must have led to a lot of pain.
Maybe it escaped from a bakery at a zoo!
If it was a French bakery then that must have led to a lot of pain.
For all the Sh*t they get about being cowards, the French are hardcore: They eat pain, and put poisson in seafood dishes.
‘WW2 bomb’ found in Bavarian forest was sex toy, say officials
Police bomb squad confirms discovery near Passau as rubber sex toy in shape of hand grenade
A German police bomb squad called to investigate a suspected hand grenade in a Bavarian forest has revealed that the object was a rubber sex toy.
A jogger reported finding a bag containing the device on Monday in a forest outside the city of Passau, near Germany’s borders with Austria and the Czech Republic.
The discovery of forgotten or hidden munitions is a regular occurrence in Germany more than 75 years after the end of the second world war.
When the bomb squad arrived and inspected the contents of the bag, they determined it was a rubber grenade replica. The condoms and lubricant in the bag helped point to the device’s intended use, police told the German news agency dpa.
“An internet search confirmed the suspicion,” police said. “There are actually sex toys in the form of hand grenades.”
Explosives rule 34 is not that weird.
In Belgium one military dude has gone awol threatening to kill a virologist because he is angry over the lockdowns and the country has gone crazy. Military from the Netherlands and Germany and France and Luxembourg has been called in to look for him. It seems half of NATO is looking for one guy.
If you have to call in the Luxembourg military for help, you really have problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_for_J%C3%BCrgen_Conings
Speaking of soldiers going crazy and panning attacks.
A young German army officer went on trial on Thursday accused of planning to attack one or more politicians while posing as an Syrian asylum seeker to try to whip up anger against migrants.
In a case that rattled the government in Berlin when it first came to light, the man, identified as Franco A., is accused of posing under a false identity in 2017 and planning an attack he hoped would be blamed on refugees and migrants.
The prosecution says Franco A. also stole ammunition from the German military, with former justice and current Foreign Minister Heiko Maas or the parliament’s Vice-President Claudia Roth seen as possible targets of an attack.
He was arrested in Vienna in February 2017 while trying to retrieve a loaded pistol he had hidden in the airport toilets after an officers’ ball, according to the investigations.
One detail the article doesn’t mention is that in spite of everything that he did, the Frankfurt court first rejected persecuted him and he was only put on trial when they were forced to by a higher court. Germany really has a right-wing extremism problem in its military, and the judicative tends to turn a blind eye.
Germany really has a right-wing extremism problem in its military, and the judicative tends to turn a blind eye.
Sounds like all the yahoos who attacked the Capitol on 1/6 that got arrested in their localities but were sent home when a local judge set them free.
including one former member of this parish
You tease, Christian!
facebook is evil
Zuckerberg is considering using that as his new marketing slogan.
I end up with the conclusion that facebook is evil for not letting people remove “friends” OR it is someone who wasn’t a wackjob here but has turned into one since he left.
He’s always been fun and a good addition to the board; I miss his voice. And falling for one daft conspiracy theory won’t make me turn away from someone.
(Though “turn away” might be overstating it – I am not a lot on Facebook these days, and it’s not like we’re actively communicating there. But, you know.)
Greedy Piiiigs iiiinnnn Spaaaaace! Jeff Bezos will go into space in July.
““You see the Earth from space, it changes you,” Jeff Bezos said in a video announcing his plan. “It changes your relationship with this planet, with humanity.”
We can only hope, Jeff…
“It changes your relationship with this planet, with humanity.”
Yep, he is going to see how small and easy to take over the Earth is.
Today on Men Over-compensating For Their Tiny Penises; Richard Branson aims to fly into space before Jeff Bezos.
Basically there are no two epidemiologists who are in perfect agreement. There is conbstant argument about anything related to the outbreak.
It’s not surprising really if you think about it. You have these microscopic organisms and you have to try and predict their behaviour out in the wild without laboratory conditions and endless variables, individual immunity, geography, climate. When we catch a common cold we usually have no idea when, how or where we picked it up.
You look at Christian and I having a debate about whether Covid is seasonal. We know flu is because we have decades of data that show peaks in winter in countries with seasons, in those that have year round climates the virus remains at the same levels all year round. With Covid we have one year’s data, some of which does point to the same seasonality like rises in Europe as autumn came in and some doesn’t like South Africa peaking in their summer or India in April.
The data is hugely interrupted by vaccines, so in the UK there was rapid decline from mid January and into February, which are the coldest months where flu peaks, but they were aggressively vaccinating millions and had lockdown measures. Some European countries like Sweden though hit a peak in late March/April but with a much slower vaccine rollout. Then you have another interruption with virus variants that could be more transmissable but we don’t know exactly how much because the data set is small and very recent.
So at this point in time it’s pretty much impossible to say with confidence if it will follow that pattern or not. You’d need a few years of data with variables reduced to say that.
I decided to put this here, but this could easily go in the regular news thread.
Basically, I kind of knew that crows are real motherfuckers, but it’s worse than I say, and also worse than I know.
They go outside of normal shit, like band together to defend the nieces and nephews (most animals just defend immediate family).
They know your face, and will teach the young what they think of you.
The sober ones are absolute bastards, and the drunk ones are worse than that.
Crow attack season is upon Vancouver; expert shares tips on avoiding dive-bombing birds
…your face mask doesn’t necessarily exempt you from another attack…
…They keep track of several people…However, there is one mask that might help — a Halloween mask.
“Stick it on the back of your head, so it looks like you have two faces basically as you go by, and then the birds are not going to have that blind spot to come in from; they’re going to see a face wherever they look. And I think that will put them off as well.”
Thing is, I know people that have had bad experiences.
If one drops dead on the hood of your car? Leave it. You think respect, they think you’re a murderer.
You’re parking far away from work for the rest of your life, might not be enough.
Sick bastards. Murder Hornets come and go, but these fucks are eternal.
Swearing on rise but parents still don’t want kids hearing it, report finds
Third of people say they use strong language more than they did five years ago, according to BBFC survey
In fairness, it’s been a rough five years.
In fucking fairness, it’s been a bloody shitshow these past five fucking years.
Fucking fixed it for you, Dave.
Personally, I blame The fucking Boys.
Of note, must use “Bill Paxton” when searching for this as “Aliens Fucking A gif” gets very different results.
Edit: well I’ve gone and fucked that up.
Ill try to fix when I get fucking home
2nd edit:
3rd edit, days later, and for no fucking reason
Personally, I blame The fucking Boys.
OI, cunt, you got a problem with their language? do ya have a raging case of vagina? why don’t run home to ya ma so yer prissy little virgin ears don’t start bleeding at hearing some straight up truths. Fucking diabolical!
Humpback whale gulps and spits out Cape Cod lobsterman
I always thought of Humpback Whale as one of Lobsterman’s more B-list villains.
Humpback whale gulps and spits out Cape Cod lobsterman
I always thought of Humpback Whale as one of Lobsterman’s more B-list villains.
This is Cape Cod Lobsterman. You’re thinking of Martha’s Vineyard Lobsterman.
Canon put cameras in its offices in China that only let you enter if you’re smiling.
Can the cameras differentiate between happy smiles, creepy smiles, and deranged-serial-killer smiles? Because, y’know…
Can the cameras differentiate between happy smiles, creepy smiles, and deranged-serial-killer smiles? Because, y’know…
Probably not, since I can’t imagine anyone’s smiling genuinely in that office.
“Too much life….” A headline from a column in the Times (which was subsequently changed.) There are some sections of society that won’t be happy until workers are the mindless drones from Metropolis.
Sounds like an instance of some “journalist” coming up with a cool headline first, and then writing a pointless article/opinion piece to justify using that headline.
Or something…
future sex robots could be hacked to murder you
The bad news of the day
future sex robots could be hacked to murder you
The bad news of the day
To be fair, so could current sex humans.
future sex robots could be hacked to murder you The bad news of the day
I mean… you can pay someone to murder you while fucking too… so… same diference? 
‘Sexist’, ‘misogynistic’ cocktail pulled from menus of Metro Vancouver pubs
Several Metro Vancouver pubs and restaurants have removed a number of cocktails off their menus after receiving complaints about the name of one drink that’s been described as misogynistic and sexist.
The name of the controversial drink: “Redheaded Sl#t.”
It’s a popular American cocktail made with Jägermeister, peach-flavored schnapps, and cranberry juice.
Judgmental people! Sluts are people too!
Liquid Cocaine? I’m interested, for a friend I mean.
Liquid Cocaine? I’m interested, for a friend I mean.
I’m also interested. For a friend.
Wanna be friends, Sean? We can… look after each others interests.
‘Sexist’, ‘misogynistic’ cocktail pulled from menus of Metro Vancouver pubs
Several Metro Vancouver pubs and restaurants have removed a number of cocktails off their menus after receiving complaints about the name of one drink that’s been described as misogynistic and sexist.
The name of the controversial drink: “Redheaded Sl#t.”
It’s a popular American cocktail made with Jägermeister, peach-flavored schnapps, and cranberry juice.
Judgmental people! Sluts are people too!
Liquid Cocaine? I’m interested, for a friend I mean.
But they’ll leave the Irish Car Bomb on there, of course.
What about the Rocky Mountain Bear F*cker? That implies bestiality!
But they’ll leave the Irish Car Bomb on there, of course.
It’s the Irish. No one gives a shit about them.
I’ve heard “slut” applied to men, too. So it’s not technically (or, not automatically) misogynistic.
It may possibly be anti-ginger, though.
I’ve heard “slut” applied to men, too. So it’s not technically (or, not automatically) misogynistic.
It may possibly be anti-ginger, though.
‘Swedish Murder Cult’.
asking for a friend??
Why the fuck did someone who was at the time the world’s richest man think someone who was at the time convicted for underage sex crimes could help win him the Nobel peace prize?
Why the fuck did someone who was at the time the world’s richest man think someone who was at the time convicted for underage sex crimes could help win him the Nobel peace prize?
Maybe the Nobel judges were clients of Epstein…. HEY, IT’S POSSIBLE!!!
While Epstein was a despicable and morally corrupt person, he knew a lot of people and how to charm people. Gates is a incredibly brilliant and ethically lax person, he looked at Epstein as an efficient tool to get what he wanted.
Man bitten by neighbor’s escaped python while sitting on the toilet
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/06/europe/austria-python-bite-toilet-scli-intl/index.html
No, they weren’t there now, they’re two people I know from mental healthcare here who have been hospitalized in that clinic before. So I assume they’re OK. I don’t think anyone I know was there now.
the perps demanded a helicopter and 20 kebab pizzas
Smart move; this way they can plead insanity when they’re brought up on new charges.
