Interesting history

You have got to be kidding!




"It's not just a tree, it's a movement!" Yeah... A bowel movement...

Sure - because EVERYBODY knows that the little baby Jesus had Red, White & Blue as his Team Colours...

Nothing says "Jesus" like the Grand Ole Flag. :rolleyes:


BTW: Which countries flag should the Jews use? or the Athiests? or the Buddhists? or the Mormons?

Geeze.

Find someone who bought one.

Visit them.

Say "hey...so why did you buy a Christmas tree painted like a French flag?"

I think the Buddhists win.

Jews:


Atheists:


Buddhists:


Mormons:

Wow. Worst mom ever!

Ahem.

The article says she left the 21-Year old with his sister who then left him in the play area. Ok so she's no June Cleaver but she's not Andrea Yates either.



EDITED TO ADD: Damn you!

Placebos work -- even without deception

My plan for the new year? Buy a box of Tic-Tac's and make a freaking fortune!

I do the same with 'sleepy time' teas...but sadly Im awake an hour later having to pee

What is that lump on her chest/shoulder area?

http://www.people.com/people/article...le+Feedfetcher

It appears as if the Susan G. Komen Foundation spends a million dollars per year on preventing other charities from using the word "cure"?

I think it's lame for a non-profit to waste precious donations on this.

I've also been reading recently that the cancer research community at-large is frustrated with the ubiquity of breast cancer awareness campaigns (spearheaded for the most part by SGK).

It's a fairly common cancer that affects many many people, and it is a very marketable form of cancer in that it sparks the "women are valuable" reflex of modern America. And for a while the cancer research community at large was happy to let breast cancer researchers lead the way. Early on, when there was next to no information for anyone, the research being funded in the name of curing breast cancer was really generic cancer research that benefited all manner of cancer research. But now the vast majority of generic research is done, and any money donated to specific breast cancer charities is being used for highly specialized breast cancer specific research.

Which isn't to say that research doesn't need to continue. But there have been HUGE gains in breast cancer treatments that have not been seen in most other forms of cancer out there. I think the overall 5 year survival rate is well over 70%. Near 100% for early detection. It's amazing, and great that they've made that much progress, but with Susan G. Komen, being the excellent marketers they are, still being the highest profile money-getter for cancer research, other research is getting a short shrift in terms of donations.

I think its actually a divot more than a lump, but the lighting is sort of odd. so sort of a meeting point between her collar bone and..whatever that muscle/tendon that meets it at the shoulder.

That is correct, it is the hollow under her clavicle. A trick of lighting.

Same optical illusion that makes the marble busts in the Haunted Mansion hallway work.

Your Cellphone Is Subject to Warrantless Searches in California

I was listening to the Stuff You Should Know podcast. I didn't know that the pink ribbon is not owned by any single entity and that the breast cancer awareness organizations don't work together, although SGK is the largest and most well known.

Should I know or care who Kellie Pickler & Kyle Jacobs are?

If you were into American Idol a few seasons ago, she was one of the sweethearts. Definitely wasn't going to win but it was the first time the country girl was in the city. It was fun to watch her reactions as she got exposed to things for the first time.

You got it all wrong. It's all about the boob.

Personally, I think a cure would be a nice thing to have, but PREVENTION would be better.

Bill O'Reilly thinks the only possible explanation for tides going in and out is God—science cannot explain it. See for yourself starting at the 1:54 mark.

Uh Bill, I have news for you and you're not going to like it....

so bottom line, pretty much that's a no.

Baby Wee-Wee Ad
I can't decide if that's work safe or not. I'm too confused... and disturbed....

I like that it cracks a fat before it pees !!! - NOT ! :eek:

Yyyyeah - that's actually pretty accurate. In reality, it's a good early warning system.

Kellie Pickler is a country music artist. And until this thread I had no idea she was on American Idol.

It's all about your boobs. For as risque as we were on NYE... no boobs were flashed. Odd.

Go figure! See, it's been 45 years since I peed like that, no wonder I forgot... :D

Watching "Taboo" on NatGeo. Learned a new term: "Freeganism"

WTF?

I mean, dumpster diving for furniture is one thing, but FOOD??? And not out of necessity but PRINCIPLE???

The Goode Family had an episode about freegans.


Awww, now you've gone and made me miss that show all over agin :(

Glock purchases UP after AZ shooting
wtf?

Bones had a freegan episode as well.

Not just Glocks from what I've read. They're all afraid that the shooting will give the government an excuse to ban guns, and they want to buy as many as they can before that happens.

In other words, paranoia.

What is wrong with people now a days?!!

It would appear some zebras escaped from the Hearst castle grounds so their wonderful neighbore killed them rather than call the owners to come get them! Seriously, WTF!!


Oops, for got the link; http://www.postchronicle.com/news/br...12343122.shtml

I saw that on the news. They said they "had" to kill them because they were a danger to their horses.

Now - aren't zebras basically striped horses???

Sure, and raccoons are basically masked cats.

One guy shot one just so he could have a rug made!?!? What a piece of sh1t!

Zebras are apparently quite aggressive and don't play nicely with others. They should have definitely contacted animal control or the owners. I got the feeling this wasn't a one off thing and they'd kinda had it.

And he said he made the rug so it wouldn't go to waste :)

On no trip there have the zebras ever been visible for my enjoyment.

So **** 'em says I.

Makes it barely worth bringing the gun along.

So what's your sign?

Gemini? I don't want to be no stinking Gemini. F that. I'm sticking with my Chinese equivalent: Tiger.

Yeah um... I'm pretty much the DEFINITION of an Aquarius, and my husband an Aries, so I don't see us taking on Capricorn and Pisces identities any time soon.

Not that it matters, since it's all crap :) Interesting though!

Psh. Horses and zebras are a lot closer than that. Haven't you heard of a zorse?*

I've never heard of a ... um... cacoon?

*( okay - I hadn't - but I did look up a little on zebras and horses and found that although they are similar, zebras are very wild and difficult to train. Zorses a little bit easier but only if you start within days of their birth. Themoreyouknow!)

Oddly, I think a Hebra is the mating of a circumcised horse with a female zebra.

I'd hate to be the Mohel for that job



Though the tips would be HUGE

They also have Zonkeys.

I thought those were called Zedonks?

No. They're called Tourist Traps.

BTW: the zodiac change thing doesn't affect me - I'm still a Sagittarian. Half man, half horse.

With the size of your sphincter, you will always be half horse

Oh, Wiiiilbuuuur !

Abortion doctor performing illegal late-term abortions in filthy conditions with untrained staff charged with murdering live-born children by stabbing them. WTF!

wtf indeed!

Not as much of a WTF, but the story amused me.

House Votes to Stop Printing Bills -- After Printing Hundreds of Copies of That Bill

The whole story

Major UConn donor demands return of $3 million

The whole story.

I know about Mr. Burton as he runs Cenveo, the fifth largest printing company in the country (at about $2.1 billion). He has a similar take-no-prisoners reputation in the industry as well (as well as a reputation for being a bit of a jerk).

Judith Scheindlin would sort him right out...

[Judge Judy Voice] "You're not getting it back, Mr. Burton" [/Judge Judy Voice]

More of a WTF ITEM of the week.

Do they really think wine drinkers would use this thing?!? A Wine Yoke

Thank you. This helps me understand George "The Animal" Steele's turnbuckle addiction.

My friend Tim has - and uses - one of these. He had a massive stroke at 42 and has lost most of the use of his right arm. This device allows him to shake hands and move about at parties while still enjoying a glass of wine.

OK, he's allowed - valid reason. Anybody with use of both arms/hands is not allowed.

Here's another classic recipe on Food Network's site for dark chocolate.

Really? REALLY?

Somebody that has some control of the recipes that get posted has a wonderful sense of humor!

I usually make a triple batch.

He seems a bit unclear on the definition of "donate".

Definitely another classic. Right up there with Paula Deen's English Peas.

Reading all the comments has me in stitches!! I'm not sure if i can master such a tough recipe though :evil:

Wow, this is the most WTF story I've seen in a while. This 51 year old man claimed he was raped.
Warning: Drug may lead to...well, just about anything.

On first glance it sounds preposterous but it got me thinking. What if a drug really did turn off your inhibition filter, your moral compass? All kinds of craziness could ensue.

I know of one such drug that already exists: Alcoholic Beverages

The differences are 1) the whole medically necessary aspect and 2) the actual feeling of inebriation. It's one thing to feel messed up and therefore act messed up. It's another thing to feel otherwise normal but find yourself with a major shift in personality.

From what I know of parkinsons, dopamine (or lack thereof) is a prime agent in the disease. It also happens to be a prime agent in addictive, compulsive, and risky behaviors. Knowing those to things, and confirming that Requip, or ropinirole, the drug in question, acts as a dopamine replacement), the guy's story is not difficult to believe.

There was a Radiolab story about a woman who had never gambled in her whole life, but after being put on a dopamine replacement completely bankrupted herself gambling.

This could get pricey for the drug companies.

That was a very good episode of Radiolab.

How common is that? I have trouble with punitive damages against the drug companies for rare instances of adverse reactions. Unlike cases like Provasic where they knew damn well the stuff was dangerous and sold it anyway.

I don't know how common it is, but one of the important details of this case is that the plaintiff was prescribed the drug in 2005. In 2006, the company started affixing warnings about such side effects to the drug. The claim, I would guess, is that they knew about the side effects in 2005.

It's kind of depressing that this thread never seems to run out of topics.

Woman tries to mail puppy via USPS priority mail.

I find it highly disturbing they're even THINKing about giving her the dog back. (though I imagine the law requires it) That SHPoS needs to be banned from owning animals forever!

I was once in line at the Post Office behind a man who wanted to mail a chicken to Mexico.

That just make me ill

Well, it does prove that if you just don't know how to have a good time and freak out over every little thing then you're an ass.

VAM!!!!

From the headline I thought the donkey died while para-sailing rather than months later.

If you go looking for books on BDSM on Amazon, you will see such titles as
The Lazy Crossdresser by Charlie Anders
The Toybag Guide to Canes and Caning by Janet W Hardy
Sensuous Magic: A Guide for Adventurous Lovers by Pat Califia

and of course,

Art for the Very Young: Ages 3-6 by Elizabeth Kelly and Joanne Mcconville

What the?!?

Pat Califia is AWESOME. I attended a couple of her workshops one Mardi Gras.

First time I ever heard of anyone dying of taking a c0ck to the leg...

My brother in law just "liked" Glenn Beck on facebook. WTF? I've instantly lost a measure of respect for him.

Perhaps it's a keep your friends close keep your enemies closer type of thing?

No - he seems to think there's some truth in what all the talking heads say (or at least those that don't like Obama?) and he can figure out what's what. I knew we had different political views - I just didn't think he was into all that fear, FEAR! and whargarble.

I wonder how common this is. According to the article a passenger was caught carrying drugs while re-boarding and ratted out his dealer who was selling drugs from his cabin.

I guess the moral of the story is, if you are going to deal drugs on a cruise book two cabins, one for dealing and one as a safe house.

It appears his temper tantrum is over and the University kissed his ass enough to appease he ego.

Burton, UConn Make Amends

The whole story

Paranoid granola crunchers plan to use GPS to track their students.

In related news, "Faraday cages" became a local trending topic on Google.

Probably because of a recent Mythbusters episode.

edit: oh, haha, and because of its relevance to the topic, lol

GOOD news WTF!

Caltech basketball snaps 310-game conference losing streakCongrats to the Beavers!

Over Tagalongs or Samoas that would be bat-S crazy, but we're taking thin mints here. I think she showed excellent self control.

Go out and get som Keebler Grasshoppers, woman! They taste exactly the same.

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Would fit more appropriately in an "Irony" thread...

Drunk driver rams SUV into S. LA sober house

Since there wasn't much to the story, I quoted the whole thing, but the source is here.

Russian press conference invaded by flying dildo
It's exactly what it sounds like.

I got a great laugh out of it!

A Helicockter... hehe...hehe...hehe...

VJWBM

The Heli-cockter was so randomly funny. I think all public meeting need to be interrupted in this manner.

I didn't find the other video YouTube suggested to be quite as "fun".

Monkey peeing in his own mouth.

Yeah, that clip was surprisingly funny, even more so than one would expect from the name.

Made me laugh. :) And it comes in flavors????? Dude. Wrong. Might be fun to watch the women serving it, though.


Had a laugh about that one! Husband has been flying little helicopters like that- just needs the skin.

how about 'no? '...is 'no' soon enough?
good...then...'no'

Something about this story smells mighty fishy.

Authorities in Redondo Beach are investigating what killed millions of fish over the last day at King Harbor Marina.

I'll bet Charlie Sheen is involved somehow.

nah, he always smells that way

Remember folks, if you're in an airplane when the cabin loses pressure, please plan ahead and have the good graces to not be in the bathroom at the time

It's for your protection.

<boggle>

The FAA and TSA: "We put people in danger in order to keep them safe!"

I'm so over it. Can we abolish the TSA now please?

Friend of mine says ABC interrupted their Japan tsunami coverage to cover a raid on Tiger Blood's house. Weak.

You do understand they removed them because it turns out it would be a trivial task to make one explode?


My criticism would be why it took this long to recognize this issue and what else are they missing?

"Trivial" being the operative word.

No, Moonliner should have said it was a "simple" task, which means that the main thing the TSA did wrong was take to long to discover and correct this matter.

I suspect that it may have been discovered because some groups was discovered to be planning to exploit that weakness.

The article specifically mentions that it wasn't done in response to any intelligence, just their own internal process of looking at things that could be exploited.

Personally I think sounds like a stupid over-reaction to a low risk but the reactions in the article are as well. Sudden decompression at 35,000 without immediate access to oxygen isn't really a death risk to most people unless, for some reason, the pilot decides to keep the plane at altitude (after all, people free climb Everest to 30k feet without supplemental oxygen, unpleasant but not fatal).

I'm not sure how much their comment on that is worth. Somehow I doubt they would say: In response to plans we found on a thumb drive in a bombed out Afghanistan cave we have decided to remove these devices.

Other than that for every stupid security measure they've taken in the past they've only been too happy to say "we've heard whispers of terrorists thinking about possibly in the future having a meeting to discuss the possibility of considering plans of action that theoretically could lead to them doing this thing we're preventing."

Alcohol Detectors Could Come Standard With a New Car

Ok, where's the Poo? Whenever I see something that smells this bad I assume it's being used to cover up some lesser smell to make it more fragrant. Are they looking to raise the drinking age? Drop the legal limit? What is it?

Which is exactly what makes me think there is more to this particular story.

Apparnetly they fixed a typo since you quoted that. It is not a California bill but a federal bill introduced by Tom Udall of New Mexico.

And when I read an article that generic about a bill I wonder if the writer read it.

It's here. It says nothing about making these things standard. All it does is provide money for doing research on the implications of broadening their use.

Pole Dancing for Jesus

Even I can't make that stuff up. ;)

So the pic of the girl in front... she's thinking of jesus and posing like that? hmmm. she's got a different relationship with Jesus then some other people do. ;)

Pakistan spiders cover trees in webbing (pictures)

Reminds me of the caterpillar infestations I'd see in trees growing up.

Like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/2990638...n/photostream/

I just saw a Discovery channel show about a tree in a Texas park that had thousands of spiders living in it.

If one doesn't think about the fact that there are a gazillion spiders in those trees, that's really cool.

And for arachnophobes, you don't see any spiders in the pictures; I am not sure where your threshold is, but it might be worth taking a peek.

Admittedly, I hadn't heard that 1/5 of Pakistan had been underwater in 2010.

Reading the comments on teh spider post lead to this fascinating (to me anyway) detailing of a similar event in Texas a few years ago. Not safe for the spider scaredy.

http://spiderjoe.com/journal/giant-lake-tawakoni-web

Executives of the company that operated the oil rig that blew up in the Gulf...were given huge bonuses for the company's safety record last year.

I sh*t you not

I had to chuckle a bit

Cow Girl

Cool story.

I'm confused though. That's a cow, but a bull, so shouldn't there be some teets hanging about? Os is her appearance normal for a non milk cow?

I may be misremembering but I don't believe that a cow develops prominent utters until it has been through pregnancy. And in the last photo I do see signs of nipples.

Also, if you're going to be doing searches on cow udders while at work, I recommend making sure SafeSearch is on.

I'm afraid your warning came too late Alex.

Fortunately Big Brother was not watching, but I did learn how quickly my mouse can home in on a small red X.

My cousin died drinking milk. The cow fell on him.





:D

Photos of similar escapades will be among the first you see doing an image search without SafeSearch.

I know Ive said this a time or two around these parts, but it really does warrant being said again, here and now


ewwwwww

That's utterly ridiculous

For lack of a better posting location - Google Inception

It seems Google's satellite image processing software has particular issues with bridges.

Reminds me of a Dali painting. Weirdness!

Mother drowns 3 children, one escapes.. Poor kid tried to get help but was too late.

That happened just down the river from here. Very sad.

The kid is now recanting and saying she tried to back up. Poor kid.

Zsa Zsa Gabor to become new mother at 94, husband says

?

Is she adopting a dog perhaps?

US Postal Service Uses Fake Statue Of Liberty For Stamp
The whole story.

It's been a tough week for stamp production. The Pacific nation of Niue received plenty of flak for releasing stamps of Prince William and bride-to-be Kate Middleton that have a vertical perforation that separates the pair into individual stamps.

Is the stamp with the flag made with a picture that's not the real flag as well??? Sheesh!

Lions Mane Jellyfish: holy fückballs this think is big!


Wikipedia

Hmm, that photo and the text on the page doesn't match up with what the wiki article says. The photo page claims they can be 6M (~20ft) in diameter, which the photo appears to support, but wiki (and other sources) talk in terms of ~8ft as the largest. That's a pretty significant disagreement and I strongly suspect that particular photo is either doctored or forced perspective.

Of course, an 8ft jellyfish is still damned big.

According to Wikipedia the largest such jellyfish have a bell diameter of about 8 feet. The link with the photo says 6 meters.

Some quick searching seems to support the Wikipedia number but that thing's much larger than that.

Pretty sure that's Photoshopped.

Alex, it's a good thing you have such terrible taste in candy so people can tell us apart.

Well, that and your Special Olympics medals.

And a Google Images search for Lions Maine Jellyfish results in many cool photos, though none that are this big relative to the people in them (other than many instances of this picture).

Yeah, I noticed that size discrepancy too, but it's still a big-ass jelly and felt it was WTF worthy.

This Brit spent wasted £1,000 on getting William & Kate faces on his teeth!

I love this quote from the article,

Haha I guess he didn't want Kate to be the only one with a little royal in her teeth this weekend. :evil:

Not so WTF as just downright amusing

Leaking US house dials for help

Early Playboy Playmate Yvette Vickers Found Dead

She's been dead for over a year? Mail piling up in her mailbox and the postal worker does not notice? Her neighbors just now notice? The scary part is the space heater was still running. Who paid PG&E??? This is very sad.

It took the neighbor a year to realize mail was piling up, really!?! That is crazy.

When I was two weeks late paying my power bill recently, after 10 years never late, they were threatening to shut me off!

How about the USPS (not) realizing that the mail was piling up?

Maybe she had one of those in-the-door mail slots.

Nope (at least according to the LA Times article linked):

Cats of War

People flee Italy for fear of Earthquake predicted years ago.

I really hope a good portion of them headed for Spain.

Wow... I finally found something on the internet that made me almost gag.

almost... ;)

Speaking of unfortunate headlines. I saw this on CNN today...

'Handcuffed by policy': Fire crews watch man die
The story

If they shouted "Are you sure you want to die?" and he shouted back "yes sir, thanks for asking," then I'm ok with it.

Shameful. Who needs "death squads".

Never been suicidal have you?

Depends on what you mean by that, in the sense that I have decided to kill myself, no. In the sense that I have given the option serious consideration as a way to resolve certain issues, then yes.

That said, it is a personal belief that suicide is an acceptable personal choice and while those around such a person should certainly try to talk them out of it if they are aware of it since the decision is generally not a smart one, the person ultimately should be allowed to proceed if they desire so long as their method does not put others at personal physical risk.

I know many people disagree, and I don't at all deny that many people choose suicide for horrible reasons, nor that any suicide, however rational, may have horrible emotional impacts on people they know. I also do not extend this consideration to minors.

And I know that almost everybody disagrees with me, but that's my view. And so other than the hassle this guy caused others, I don't have a problem with him deciding to kill himself (unless he's a minor and I missed that).

What if he was normally a great guy - but stopped taking his medication - and this was the result? If only any one of those people would have done something... they managed to get him out after he died after all.

What would have happend if a bunch of people jumped in to rescue him and were then in trouble. Would the "rescuers" have just sat back and continued to watch?

What was the point of them even being there anyway if they weren't going to do anything? Isn't that a waste of resources?

For those who did not read the entire article:

What if they tried to rescue him and one of the rescuers died in the process because this other guy was off his meds?

As if spelling bee contestants didn't already have enough of a stigma to overcome, this is the new venue this year.

Oh lord, that is so gay

its inappropriate to laugh...
its inappropriate to laugh...
its inappropriate to laugh...

Doesn't change my view. Just because you can be medicated out of a choice doesn't make the choice unacceptable. But if the state is willing to say pre-emptively (not just because of the choice made) that you're so incapable of making personal decisions that we will deprive you of personhood and dictate your life to you then opens a different can of worms.

Though it would be nice if there was a place people could go and say "I'm ready to die" and they're asked if they'd like to talk to someone about it, encouraged to fill out some forms that will make things easier afterward, and then given a pill and a quiet room. But all of that requires getting rid of the notion that deciding on suicide is prima facie evidence that one is crazy, or that even if one is crazy, one is not allowed to be so.

If nothing else to make sure nobody else got themselves killed doing something stupid in response.

That chopper was on the call we witnessed, over by the Cliff House. We still don't know if they ever found the "surfer in distress" they were looking for.

...out loud
...out loud
...out loud

Flying bear kills two Canadians in freak accident

link

poor bear. :(

I think I hear a Myth Busters episode in the making...but then, I think they already did one with a moose...or was it a deer?

in any case, what a sh!tty way to go

The myth: What happens if you toss a 440lb bear at a car windshield?

Yeah, I don't think we need Adam and Jamie for this one.

It's Busted. (Referring to the windshield)

I read this the first time as a flying beer - and thought - wow! it must have been flying really fast to kill 'em.

I am so glad I am not the only one who read beer! I was thinking about the parties my uncle would throw up there, yeah a lot of beer flew around!

Not entirely unheard of in Canada ;)

Someone committed suicide by jumping off the top of a building on Pine and 1st at 12:20 this afternoon. If you don't know the area, Pine is a street full of restaurants with outdoor seating. It was a beautiful day. I really can't fathom having that sort of lunchtime entertainment.

Fortunately, I got there at 2 and, while streets were still blocked off, the body was gone.

I an NOT volunteering.

It's a good thing you're not that big of a bear then, huh ;)

Soylent Brown?

I couldn't even finish reading the article because it grossed me out but did notice the comment at the bottom before I clicked away: there's corn in my steak?

I've read this elsewhere, but it feels like a hoax to me. Watch the whole video... their fridge is marked "Sh!t Burger" in English. The 'professor' is shown squatting over a toilet. Really?

Nevermind the stupid pointer he's using. Yeah, skeptic hackles are raised.

Stoat and & have decided:

• Meat processors will just be going through the motions
• Gluttons will end up "Sh|t Faced"
• The Quality stamp on the meat packaging will be the official "Excremation Mark"
• Restaurants will offer a Pooh-Pooh Platter
• Combined with Duck, it will make a nice Turd-ducken.
• Not designed to be served on a shingle.

Most of the food stuff molecules we eat were at some point shat out by something.

The idea doesn't really bother me that much assuming proper validation that contamination of the result is assured.

Just so you know, the Channel watermark on the bottom right is for SBS Two, which is an Australian Multicultural Broadcast TV channel

One point I noticed is the statement that the 'mud' was high in protien due to the bacteria. This would mean you are eating the dead bacteria bodies. Which is what you are eating when you read "xanthan gum" in any food product label.

The feces has been broken down, consumed in part at least, by the bacteria. The solid waste is most likely made up of other things besides butt biscuts, like toilet paper (YUM!) and garbage disposal scraps, and anything else that goes into the sewer. If you think about what we feed pigs, and we eat the pork, this would be like feeding our wastes to bacteria and eating them. Sans the fact that we don't feed pigs human toilet logs, recycled beer, and used toilet paper of course.

And then theres the urine and sweat recycling done on the space station.

It's all pretty sick sounding, but interesting at the same time.

I never want to hear the words "Butt Biscuits" and "Toilet Logs" again. :eek:

This.

Also - does it taste any good? I think that's the bottom line.

If it's real, of course.

Of course that should read "proper validation that non-contamination of the result is assured."

Aww, it's good to see that time in rehab (yes, yes, yes) hasn' truined that old Amy Winehouse magic :rolleyes:

I think she needs to try rehab again!

...and again, and again, and again.

She'll either get it one day or not. Meanwhile, I click on a link that has photos of celebs with drinking problems.


That's scarier than clowns are. ;)

And, I learned this:
Which is scarier than Mel.

Are you sure that's not a statue at Madame Tussauds? It looks kinda waxy and lifeless.

File under poorly written, if not deliberately misleading headlines...

From CNN.com: Canada to do away with paper money

Spoiler: They are not getting rid of cash, just switching how the bills are made to a higher tech alternative.

Damnit how did I miss this!. (NSFW)

Next year.

They do this in Portland every year too.

Chow Pandas?

uh.....I'll withhold commenting, but definitely qualifies for this thread

Sorry, Capt - Wrong thread!! This belongs in the Cute Animal Pics thread for sure !!!!! I want one now. The dye IS non-toxic, after all.

bears of a feather I suppose.

;)

seems Im just full of it lately....

but not as bad as this guy



:rolleyes:


(aww. seems snopes is calling it satire. Im....unconvinced)

Are we making fun of the letter or the headline typo?

yes...and yes

Or that his name is Connie?

I wonder how they ever found her in there after a month... Oh wait. Never mind.

wow. that made me crazy claustrophobic just reading it

http://maps.google.com/?t=h&ie=UTF8&...7&source=embed

See the plane just taking off? Scroll south and watch its progress!

Neat!

OMG! Did it crash into I-240?

No, it was abducted by Google satellites.

Continuing my stupid headline series...

From the Drudge homepage:

SoCal Looks to Secede from California...


Yeah, some random county supervisor calling for a dozen counties to secede is a little short of a popular uprising.

Good luck with that.

That's cool!

My former county, Lassen, has secession movements all the time. They want to go back to Nevada. Nothing much ever comes of it but people get all riled up periodically.

Ouch. My heart goes out to this guys family.

That is just soooo nasty as she put it in the garbage disposal and turned it on?

I gotta say, that's not a turn on at all.

Woman Died of Allergic Reaction to the Dog She Had Sex With.

I don't need to read another weird news story, ever.

I'm not really sure clicking the link will change my reaction. And since I don't want to know any details, the link shall remain unclicked by me.

But, the fish lived!

...before turning the gun on himself. film at 11

Silly jack. Fish don't use guns. They beat their head against a rock.

A woman at WDW punched her toddler because he wouldn't walk right; http://thestir.cafemom.com/toddler/1...brain_feb_test

Thank goodness someone stepped in!

Here is one for the record books:

A blond woman driving a Bently, had a little accident. First side swiping a Mercedes before crashing into a Porsche, Ferrari and an Aston Martin.

Ouch.

I saw the pic of that and thought of LoT too. I think it's Nirvanaman that would probably cry over that pic.

I know this is the effing Daily Mail we're dealing with here, but is the color of her hair such an important detail? You'd never see a headline like that if it were a man. Sexism is so gross.

Making fun of British people is still cool though.
"Came a croppah, eh, govnah?" Those kooky redcoats.

I aggree! If it had been an elderly person (ageism really), or drunk driver, or underage driver that would be worth mentioning. But the fact that "Blond woman" was in the description indicates at least part of the reason why the accident happened. As if being a blond woman really does hold credibility for doing something really stupid. Which is, well, really stupid.

I'm not a woman, but I am a natural blond, as is my mom. And I represent that statement.

No, wait....I mean RESENT that statement. I just had a blond moment! ;)

"An excitable middle aged woman with a tangle of red hair"......

I had just cued up "Violent Love" by Oingo Boingo when I read this story - Australian Woman Sues for Worker's Compensation After Sex Injury on Business Trip

:D

I don't understand why she would sue her employer. Why not sue the hotel for the light fixture coming off the wall?!

Off the top of my head, without reading the link, I'd guess the employer has deeper pockets than the hotel.

Man allegedly breaks into a house and straps a bomb to a girl's neck in Australia. Police freed her safely after 10 hours. They are being very vague about details until they investigate more.

I read that earlier and it was so odd. There was some speculation in comments that it was a viral thing for a new Saw movie or something... but I can't think the real police would be involved in something like that. A later report I read said they weren't confirming it was an explosive or that it was around her neck. ??? whatever that's supposed to mean.

They've determined that the bomb was an elaborate fake but legit-looking enough to take seriously.

This sucks. I hope he had a back up copy.

Video of a huge stage rigging collapsing at the Indiana state fair is a little a lot terrifying

Terrible story. But I watched 5 minutes of CNN but had to turn it off not because of the images but because of the voices of apparently honest shock that people who weren't under the collapsed structure actually tried to help the people who were. Even *gasp* though they didn't know them.

I really can't stand how we're apparently supposed to react with surprise that in events like that people help each other.

Seriously.

Is BART shooting themselves in the foot? It sure seems that way from here.

I'd be pretty pissed if I was trying to get home and they randomly closed my station.

Alex, you ride BART regularly don't you?

I do. I was on it when they turned off the cell "towers" on Thursday. But fortunately my schedule is such that I'm not usually on during rush hour (I'm usually on the 6:00am train in and the 3:30pm train home) so I'll probably miss most of the fun while this works out.

And yes, BART is shooting themselves in the foot. But frankly that is an improvement and it is the least harmful shooting they've done recently. Usually it seems to be them shooting some unarmed person (though that is a topic of debate this time around). At least he wasn't restrained on the ground when they shot him.

Police caught the fvcker in the Australian fake neck bomb case using some excellent detective work

Ummm wow, that's all I can say.

Uh yea wow but why didn't they go to the police first? Get a rape kit? Why go through the school? Have the kid arrested.

Sigh, I remember when he was just a little green slab of clay...

More importantly, if he was relying on a minivan we can only assume that Pokey is dead.

You should see what Gumby can do today!

What a blockhead!

just 26 cents poorer

50/50 chance I'll wake up to one of these songs" "Gumby Theme Song" or Queen "Don't Stop Me Now".

I've had "Don't Stop Me Now" going through my head for the last couple of days.

I stopped for gas this morning, and they were playing Lovin' Spoonfull's "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind". Now that is stuck in my brain.

Child abuse isn't so much a WTF (as in odd, definitely as a deed), but there are three abusive acts mentioned in the first paragraph of this story. I have to say, gluing her hands to a wall seems the least noteworthy of them.

A different side of humanity than this thread tends to feature (and a good reminder that, given the opportunity, most people will attempt to do the right thing in extreme situations):

Crowd of bystanders lift a burning car to rescue trapped motorcyclist

My brain hurts

Oh fine: lift my spirits then immediately crush them!

follow up

Gumby turns himself in

I would expect no less of Gumby.

Anyone remember the White House Crashing, Reality show staring Michaele Salahi?

CNN is reporting that her husband thinks she's been kidnapped.

If it's true it could be the perfect crime. Who would ever believe it?

A bit of a followup. The rider who was rescued has a news conference, saying what you'd expect him to say about his rescuers and experience.

However, the REAL story is where the new conference took place, as indicated by the background audio ~31 seconds in to the video clip here. Man, his injuries must have been bad if that's where they had to take him.

He's on the Enterprise?

Where can I get that ring tone?

Okay, I listened three times and could not hear - what's the background noise?

Same here. ???

Doh' they changed the video clip that my link goes to.

Try this, ~31 seconds, with volume up.

What is that sound?

The Star Trek red alert

I still can't hear anything in the background.

That I can't help with.

I heard it - now I don't feel snubbed

I was reminded of this post, which was in regards to the stage collapse in Indiana a little while back, while watching coverage of this weekend's air show crash.

They had a quote from a family member of one of the victims who died. He was there with his son and his son's friends, all of whom survived. The family members said, "I think that he probably sheltered his son. And that's the kind of guy he was." Really, THAT kind of guy? Wow, what a remarkably unique trait that guy must have had, to instinctively protect his children! Let us all laud him as the singularly amazing human being he was for doing something that no one else in the world would ever do, protect their child from danger!

I, like Alex, am rather sick of the fiction that the instinct to help others is somehow NOT the norm and miraculous when it happens.

Oh, I don't know. Being a coastal liberal, if I had been at that air show, I would have expected the FAA to protect my children.

"Badger-Gassing Program" is the name of my experimental electronica side project.

Badger badger badger badger MIDGET! MIDGET!

Um... what was he going in a badger den??? Did he go in willingly or did the badgers overpower him and drag him in there?

This is the correct place for discussing the latest Disney "land" announcement, right?

What would that be, Pru?

Oh.

Ick.

Interesting.

So the plan is to build Pandora as new land for Animal Kingdom, in place of the never materialized beastly kingdom. I guess that makes some sense. Fantasy critters were always part of the plan for AK.

I'm not a great fan of Avatar, but I'm not a great Harry Potter fan either and that turned out nicely at Universal.

If Disney is looking to pull people back from Universal and builds something worthy to do it with then I'm all for it.

And if our resident Selachimorpha gets a bite of the action so much the better.

So if/when it comes to DLR, where do they put it?

Well, it takes place in 2154...

Guess I'm going to have to see that film then. I wonder if I can stream it to my phone

So what do you rip out for it? Everything? How big do you have to be to qualify for "A new land"?

They should just make it an overlay of Bugs Land

Sounds better to me (though I've only read second hand responses) than Cars Land (though obviously less Disney connected, but that wasn't an issue for the Star Wars and Indy stuff).

Shouldn't they make HurtLockerLand since it won the Oscar?

So, is this "Hollywood Reporter" sort of like an "Onion" for showbiz news? Really the only way I can make this make sense.

This was originally going to be announced at D23- but the deal wasn't fully nailed down...

That would certainly be a blast, and it even ties in with the all pirates all the time theme.

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.

I don't know, if James Cameron is allowed to impose his will one has to think a pretty awesome ride could result. Though it might take a decade.

Is Nic Cage a vampire? This guy thinks so.

Before they put in anything from Avatar, they need to fix the yeti over on Everest. On top of that, what will the main attraction be a 3D or 4D attraction?

In today's breaking new: BBC, "Irish coroner rules man dies of spontaneous combustion," aaaand CNN, "Loved ones bid farewell from beyond the grave as 'crisis apparitions.'" All we're missing is a Nessie or Bigfoot in a UFO sighting. Maybe Fox will cover that.

Truly wtf.

What Fox might look like covering that

You do wonder sometimes if people put any thought into what they're doing.

http://www.ketv.com/news/29367988/de...#ixzz1ZkMO7sse

Though the argument could be made that the rosary has been a symbol of gang affiliation for a very long time.

Heh.

Um, so you really need this extra thingy why?

She must be extra sinful

Without al those reminders there's no telling what she might do!

and/or if your faith is so weak that you need constant reminders, maybe you should reeavaluate.

and/or schools need to focus on teaching our children and improving the quality of their education instead of measuring the length of shorts to the end of their middle finger when hanging loosely at their side. *except for cheerleaders obviously whose official uniform and other spirit day wear do not meet these standards.

Yeah. It's still a sore spot.

Also - I love how they've heard it's related to gangs in OTHER states. There is no evidence of it anywhere near them but that doesn't seem to matter.

Yeah, seeing them trip over themselves to pass anti-gang rules makes their whole town feel safer, I'm sure. :rolleyes:

It doesn't take much to establish a pattern of criminal activity to make a bunch of thugs who hang around together into a criminal street gang. Given that rape is one of the enumerated crimes that maeks a gang a gang, there's a decent argument that the Catholic church, or at least its clergy, is a criminal street gang.

Teens getting hammered off vodka soaked gummy bears.

The WTF factor here is not so much that kids are eating drunken gummies, it's more the fact they need an online tutorial on how to soak gummy bears in vodka for several days.

I have heard the opposite - you use candy seperated by color to flavor vodka. I think it was skittles though.

Yes indeedy - see here: http://mixthatdrink.com/skittles-vodka-tutorial/

We always used Jolly Ranchers.

I suppose you could you Tequila as well, but them you would need gummy worms.

Sounds like you've had some of that tequila already! ;)

Woman sues because of misleading movie trailer. here

Seeking Major Tom - Wm Shatner

previewing it on iTunes.....
words cannot express my.....WTF-ness

Have you seen/heard his renditions of Rocket Man or Mr Tambourine Man?

I find most of Shatner's stuff uninteresting at best. But his version of Common People is awesome.

uninteresting would be ok with me. these are one of those things you sort of screw your face into contortions like you just ate something foul.

frankly, terrible is a better word than uninteresting (IMO)

Like I said, uninteresting at best.

OH MY FVCK.

I should not have read this story, and I sure as hell should NOT have watched the video. I do not understand why I did.

There are apparently some severely fvcked up people in China (seriously, if you're a parent especially, be smarter than me. Don't click).

I like this post: "here's a link, but don't follow it."

I am going to heed your advice and not click.

Even I won't click it.

Out of curiosity, I clicked. Read the headline, closed the window and erased it from my memory.

I'm having a particularly bad day, so I don't think I need to click it, or consume it's awfullness at this juncture....

US forces are massing on the Pakistan border in eastern Afghanistan amid reports of an imminent drone missile offensive against fighters from the feared Haqqani Network

Call me crazy, but if a group I belonged to was being targeted by bomb laden drones, I don't think I would attend a gathering of leaders. I'd skype that one in.

Definitely not the story I was expecting from the headline:

Lacson wants all-out war vs MILF

MILF War sounds like a porno title.

or some new reality show

Seriously? There is a rock called Cummingtonite?!?

Lead me to this list of Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names

Reports out today say Kim Kardashian is filing for divorce from her husband of 72-days.

Dammit! I had 5 months in the office pool. I guess I'm just a hopeless romantic.

I'm surprised that she made it that long. Although, she had a marriage more days than Stitch's Supersonic Celebration was on the Magic Kingdom's entertainment guide.

Rewrite! What if the Kim Kardashian - Kris Humphries marriage is real but the divorce angle is faux?

Because other peoples’ happiness is capital b-o-r-i-n-g boring! to watch, the Kardashians stage a separation but the divorce is called off at the last minute. Television magic.

Tell me where my logic is faulty.

Simple. If this is a ploy, and they are manipulating the press/public and they don't get a divorce anytime soon I still lose the pool.

Well, at least I now know I can stop beating myself up. Because I thought she was married to Reggie Bush, and I kind of hated myself for knowing that.

:( There's been a fire at the Magic Castle. Kitchen and dining room "extensively damaged."

Don't worry. In magic, fire never actually burns anything. It was just there to distract you from what was really happening.

Quaker on Quaker.

When a sturdy Mennonite moves into town.

As one who lives in Amish territory, I'm just sayin'.
 

Ishkabibble. Don't let those straw hats bamboozle you. They're a wily people.

THIS picture sold for $4.3 million! It looks like the kind of crap I'd delete before even importing to Lightroom...

Well, if it helps he has sold three prints of this for more than $7 million total:



It's hard for me to say what I think of a 12 foot by 7 foot photograph from looking at it on a computer screen and a few inches big.

I think it is pretty impressive that photography is now selling for a LOT more money that it has ever sold for. The marginalization of photography is perhaps coming to a close. I think all fine art photographers should be extremely happy!

A quick image search later and I love Andreas Gursky! Spoilered for big pics.



I can't say I like the super expensive one the best but I can say I'm really impressed with composition that ends up looking like it can't possibly be a slice of three dimensional reality.

TMI dude, TMI.

But funny & informitive TMI.

There exists such as thing as a killer under water ice tornados.

They are called Brinicles.

Dang, from your description I was hoping for a moving tornado of ice shards, tearing fish to shreds in its path.

But that was still damn cool. I swear, I can't get enough of echinoderm time lapse recordings.

I missed this post.

VAM !!

From the department of OH HELL NO!... article suggests that employers might start requesting your FB login and password.

My take on this: it's illegal to ask me during an application process about my family or marital status. Since that information would be accessible from the private profile of my FB account, it is inappropriate if not completely illegal to request this.

My view is that I would put this on the application and then never hire anybody who answered it because obviously they can't be trusted with network security.

I've heard of, although I haven't interviewed for 12 years now so I've never experienced it, potential employers asking interviewees to show them their facebook page.

Depending on how badly I want the job, I'd either say no, or I might say, "You can see what's visible to the public on my Facebook page." Beyond that, none of their damned business.

The old lawyer's saying is never say anything to anyone you would not want to see repeated in court. Your Facebook page is just what you choose to expose to the world about yourself. If your prospective employer would be free to interview everyone you ever spoke to in order to ask them what stupid or potentially unprofessional thing you did, why shouldn't it get to go beyond your handpicked references to a reliable source like a Facebook page. Whether it's legal or appropriate for companies to make decisions based on how employees conduct their private lives is, of course, a separate question from wanting a reasonably accurate source of information.

There is another case recently of a court requiring a plaintiff to hand over their Facebook credentials to the defendent as part of discovery.

From the employer perspective I don't know that I see a big issue with it legally other than I would simply refuse to work for a company that required it, just as I'd refuse to work for a company that insisted on taking a tour of my house.

The discovery one I find interesting in that it presumably grants access to much more than just the information that is on point in the case, as well as functional abilities completely unrelated to discovery. I'm not sure why "defense counsel is required to hand over transcripts, with timestamps of all posts and comments made during period X" isn't sufficient.

In which case, I would immediately have myself reported to Facebook for violating their TOS so that they could shut down my account.

Was this the domestic case where husband and wife both and to hand over their FB passwords to each other or did I miss something else?

Car accident case. Defendant looking for evidence that plaintiff was exaggerating injuries.

You must spread some mojo around before....

This story makes me think of a scene from Indiana Jones

Texas Model Has 'Long Road to Recovery' After Walking Into Plane Propeller

It depends on how you spin it.

I got an email from Maddie's school principal. Apparently gummy bears are the new way to sneak vodka into school. It actually amazed me how much the gummies soaked up. I wouldn't think it would absorb so much.

If they put them behind the counter and I have to go through a whole ordeal to get gummy bears I'm going to be annoyed.

This was worthy of an email home? Lemme guess... gummy bears are now banned from school?

This is news to them? We were eating candy and fruit that had been soaked in alcohol 20 years ago and I am guessing that my parents were doing so too.

Apparently they are having quite an alcohol problem this year. By October they'd had 6 arrests which is more than last year combined. Maddie seems to think it's mostly Freshman. We get some sort of email about every two weeks this year - I think we got one last year all year.

I was just impressed how much vodka one can get into a gummy bear.

Hummmm...

Headliner did ask to stop by the store to pick up a bag of gummy bears today.

Nah.

Well, when you use one of these...

Uh huh... and we believe the BEAR was the item on that page you found most interesting, do we?

..

It's Ribbed !

Ewww, ewww, ewww, ewww.

Eww.

I understand how the students could be fooled. But who did the parents think they were kissing at a high school assembly?

Did you watch the video? The parents weren't blindfolded. They were apparently in on it. Which just makes it that much more eeew.

Oh, no I didn't watch the video.

Ok, yeah, that is odd. I'm not necessarily bothered by the prank (I wouldn't do it, but it is not remotely the most inappropriate pranks I've seen shrugged off as me being humorless) but can't imagine nobody seeing the potential negative reaction.

Look, Alex, it's okay to admit that you want to make out with your mom, we won't judge you.

Just don't swear while you do.

I'll admit it this far, while I have no interest in anybody closely related to me, I also apparently lack an instinctive disgust at the thought of incest and if other people want to do it (or anything that approaches that line), I don't care so long as everybody involved in consenting.

Which is obviously an issue in this case.

If you're looking for a last minute gift for someone that owns a Kindle, you're in luck!

We've reached an all-new low as a society. Just saw the ad for this tonight (thought apparently it's been running for the last month, but I finally noticed it):
Justice Coin

WTF PayPal?!!?!?!

I had paypal issues as well. I set up an account for my class reunion and accidentally hit the "nonprofit" button. Realizing it wasn't a non-profit I tried to switch it back. No can do, then they locked the account because it wasn't a verified non-profit. Yes I know I hit the wrong button can you just change it back? No you have to verify to us that you are not a non-profit.

Weird. Got a text tonight from an unknown 323 number.

"Hey friend just wanted to make sure you kno I'm having a Birthday party at my house this Saturday nite, Jan. 7th. [address redacted]. Starts at 930 PM goes til late".

I googled the address, it's a nice looking home in Los Feliz and comes back as the official address for some guy's seemingly legit private architectural design company.

Odd.

I think you should go

I think you should bring the LoT crew. And bacon.

Hmmm...

Unless you suspect some type of phishing scam, it's probably just a wrong number. Why not text back and let them know so this dude does not miss his friends party?

The "Hey friend" has me a little suspicious.

Don't go. They will steal your kidney or something. :eek: ;)

Visible Betty Mojo !!!!!! :snap: :snap: :snap: :snap: :snap:

Holy fvck I'm in the midst of the most infuriating online chat with Time Warner regarding pricing.

To set it up, they have 6 tiers of internet service, priced per month. On the selection page where the tiers are listed with prices, they lowest two tiers explicitly say "For 12 Months", while the other 4 do not. I could not tell from anything on the page what that meant. Did the lower ones have a contract and the others did not? Were the others not guaranteed for a year? What?

So I got on chat. Here is what happened:

I then asked whether disconnecting and reconnecting would get me a different person to chat with. To which "Mack" replied that if I disconnect my service I'd have to pay fees to reconnect it. And when I explained that I meant disconnect from chat and wanted to know if there was someone else there I could talk to instead of him, he said, "If you disconnect from chat, you'll have to log back in."

Spectacular. Absolutely spectacular.

I'm currently 2nd in queue for a new chat, let's see if anyone can answer a question with a straight forward fvcking answer.

Is it possible what he's trying to say is that the two listed as "for 12 months" are an actual contract in which you as the consumer would have to pay a fee to drop the service before the end of the 12 months but there will be no price increase. And in the rest Time Warner is guaranteeing no price increase for 12 months but since it's not a contract you as the consumer could drop the service at any time without penalty?

No, that much was clear, none of them are contracted.

Okay, finally got a straight answer (though not without a little bit more confusion first).

The ones that say "For 12 months", the rate is locked in for 12 months. The others, the rate can change at any time.

Which, btw, completely contradicts what Mack said when I explicitly asked that question.

Is "Mac" an Eliza program?