In other news today...
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Good riddance to bad rubbish?
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Old news but I only found this guy now
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A DREADED vuvuzela is lying on the harbour bed after a man grabbed it from a 13-year-old girl and threw it overboard from a Manly ferry on Sunday.
The girl’s aunt complained to the police but the police decided to take no action against the man because other passengers on the ferry said he had done everyone else on the crowded ferry a massive favour and that sooner or later someone else would have thrown it overboard.
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Police said Musab Mohamed El-Sheikh, who also allegedly assaulted a neighbor who tried to intervene, was charged with assault and battery, abduction and indecent exposure.
Whew. No indication that he's from Syria.
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Man, they go out of their way to bury the lede on that story.
"Yeah, some guy assaulted a teenager at random"
"Oh, I guess the teenager was a female, and the guy was a little on the naked side. But we'll studiously avoid noting that he was Muslim."
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Man, they go out of their way to bury the lede on that story.
"Yeah, some guy assaulted a teenager at random"
"Oh, I guess the teenager was a female, and the guy was a little on the naked side. But we'll studiously avoid noting that he was Muslim."
Since he didn't yell "Allahu Akbar", I'm willing to consider the possibility that it doesn't qualify for being featured on thereligionofpeace.com.
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Whew. No indication that he's from Syria.
Kind of wondering if the whole "obviously mentally ill" thing isn't edging out the nationality in this particular case though?
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I'm on to you, ableist scum.
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That was definitely the impression that I got. Either he's crazy, or he'd had a little too much of whatever he was on. And I don't mean religion.
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I went looking for information about porn and was shocked... SHOCKED! to find that dreadful smut.
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smut
/smət/noun
- a small flake of soot or other dirt.
"all those black smuts from the engine" - a fungal disease of grains in which parts of the ear change to black powder
verb
- mark with flakes or soot or other dirt.
"the smutted sky" - infect (a plant) with smut."smutted wheat"
I see nothing wrong here.
- a small flake of soot or other dirt.
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God bless that man he lived the dream.
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Oh this is a new one. That happened a few years ago in some other Euro-country.
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Well, I'm of the opinion that a large part of writing good code is a matter of professionalism and personality. This could certainly be the case. Too bad most of them have no interest in such things.
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It's easy to operate within the law if you can set the law. Can I hack the government to spy on them or is this, like everything else, a one way law?
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22 minutes later...
I'm getting mixed messages here.
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The concept of ping backs isn't a bad one. WordPress' implementation of the idea is like anything else WordPress: badly kludged together and will break if you even think of looking at it, or will have mysterious security and performance problems.
Which will then be patched and regressed a few versions later. Automattic, the original Discodevs.
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This is pretty interesting. Obviously, he's at a certain amount of disadvantage by missing one leg. But then he has an unorthodox style that others aren't used to. Plus probably the biggest thing which is that since wrestling divisions are done by weight, he can carry more upper body muscle than his competitors.
The article says that with a normal right leg, he'd probably be in the 126 pound division. Looking at this picture from the article, he definitely looks bigger and stronger:
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dogmice ate myhomeworkplans:During a special hearing set up to tackle the issue of continuous gridlock traffic, former head of the city's infrastructure agency, Christian Debuysscher, said original plans to fix the problem were "apparently eaten by mice," according to the Telegraph.
The plans were reportedly stored inside a bridge support for 20 years before being unearthed in an attempt to place them in a more adequate storage facility.
I don't quite understand this. The plans to fix the problem were put somewhere 20 years ago and in the meantime they were destroyed and we just noticed and the problem is that they were destroyed?
I'm hoping something was lost in translation / reporting that it was just generally plans of the tunnels or whatever that were lost, not the plans to fix the situation, which doesn't make any sense.
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The humble mouse, not municipal laziness, is to blame
I would say that the documents being eaten by mice is evidence of negligence if not laziness. Or was there a mouse hurricane that they didn't have time to prepare for?
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Have a link to a local source
It's indeed about the building plans of tunnels and bridges in the Brussels region. Typical 80 and 90ties Belgian story. Federal government agency is split up and not every regional government was ready to take on the job it got.
municipal laziness
Not municipal put Brussels Regional laziness. What most people call Brussels is a conglomerate of 9 different municipalities, one of those is actually Brussels.
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was there a mouse hurricane that they didn't have time to prepare for?
Don't anybody tell the SyFy channel or we'll have to endure three "Mousicane" movies.
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I'm hoping something was lost in translation / reporting that it was just generally plans of the tunnels or whatever that were lost, not the plans to fix the situation, which doesn't make any sense.
I assumed it meant that architectural drawings of new roads had been made and then eaten, because that's the most y thing I could think of in the time I spent on it.
Guess instead of stuffing the papers--whatever they were--inside a bridge, they should've put them in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign reading "beware of the leopard" on the door.
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Guess instead of stuffing the papers--whatever they were--inside a bridge, they should've put them in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign reading "beware of the leopard" on the door.
Or in the local planning department in Alpha Centauri.
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I have a new hero.
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If real, this must be a serious annoyance to tennis athlete Ekaterina Makarova. But I can't find any specific indication that it is a fake story; if it is, looks like everyone fell for it. Seems odd that a porn star would have exactly the same name, though.
Addendum: I can't say there's a real news source saying it is fake, but there's rumblings. Some say it is a viral marketing campaign. It's probably fake, and I hope the tennis star sues whoevers' tails off.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3461709/Schoolboy-16-live-Russian-porn-star-hotel-month-winning-online-competition-admits-mother-isn-t-happy-it.html
I remember having this fantasy but now that I think about it it will probably be very boring.
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Not sure boring is the word I'd use.
Story posted as a bit of fun but I'd be interested to know what the headline would be if it was a male porn star and a 16 year old girl.
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Story posted as a bit of fun but I'd be interested to know what the headline would be if it was a male porn star and a 16 year old girl.
Oh god that would headline news for a month.
An innocent young mind is being corrupted!
She entered a competition to live with a male porn star she liked.
I have a picture of him on my wall.
She's under aged for porn arrest the parents!Not sure boring is the word I'd use.
He's hardly going to be a fluffer on film set.
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He's hardly going to be a fluffer on film set.
From the article:
Asked if the prize meant having sex with the winner, she said: 'It is not supposed, but life is life.
Dude is 16 (or maybe even 14), you ephebophile!
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Dude is 16 (or maybe even 14)
The former is legal in most places, so *shrug*.
Admittedly guy looks like a perpetual innocent virgin, but come on, 16 is not a kid anymore.
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Porn star competition won by schoolboy branded 'hoax' as teen is revealed as child actor
Millions of adolescents heartbroken...some are even teenagers...
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No matter how bad work is today at least you won't be fired for eating your boss's dog.
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No matter how bad work is today at least you won't be fired for eating your boss's dog.
"Well, boss, he sure was a good dog."
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That's a pretty good sign you aren't paying your employees enough.
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If my boss didn't pay me enough, I'd eat his dog too...
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If my boss didn't pay me enough, I'd eat his dog too...
Are you sure that's just a hypothetical statement?
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eating your boss's dog
As the owner of two beloved Pembroke Welsh Corgis, I find this story particularly distressing.
Also, FWIW, the 8000 Yuan reward the boss was offering is close to what he probably paid for the dog in the first place, about $1200.
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http://news.sky.com/story/1649466/goose-exhumed-after-deadly-drive-by-shooting
A goose that was buried after it was reportedly shot dead in a pond in a small village has been exhumed by police for a post-mortem examination
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A lot of these hoaxes happen because most internet news websites just copy and paste what they are given and nobody does any due-diligence.
I remember one a while back my co-workers were chatting about, it went along the lines of "A dude married a woman who had lots of plastic surgery before meeting him and didn't tell him and it was revealed after all his kids were ugly, he is now suing".
This stuff seems to happen quite often because nobody does any fact checking.
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Age old question answered: crane style beats tiger style!
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I wouldn't know about cranes and tigers, but I know our house cats have always kept respectable distance from grazing chickens.
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I wouldn't know about cranes and tigers, but I know our house cats have always kept respectable distance from grazing chickens.
My parents are retired and have a small flock of chickens. The last time I went to visit them I watched the cute happy little chickens violently murder a frog and then consume it between them. Tiny little dinosaurs.
Also, frogs can scream apparently