Interesting/Funny/Amusing News.

@ Dude prostitute...



(now I'm going to be wary of the news. That was one of those I wish I never saw.)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/06/stop-stand-up-urination-for-men-swedish-politicians-urge.html - Swedish Politicians want to get men to stop standing up while they pee.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/15/12241593-florida-woman-who-was-set-on-fire-now-hit-with-fees-to-have-cars-towed-from-gas-station - Guy sets woman on fire at FL gas station. Florida then charges her $363 to tow her car and $25 dollars a day, while in the hosp, as a storage fee. Come on bros. Waive that shit. She got lit on FUCKING FIRE.

http://www.newson6.com/story/18802728/woman-sues-city-of-tulsa-for-cutting-down-her-edible-garden - Tulsa code enforcement team chops up old elderly woman's garden for no reason. Outo f spite, maybe.

http://www.wtop.com/209/2905924/NYC-mayor-Not-always-obvious-whos-a-prostitute - NYC Mayor Bloomberg while talking about a new city ordinance that makes it illegal for taxi drivers to take prostitutes to their customers, says it's not always easy to figure out who is a prostitute.

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/cool_japan/culture/AJ201206150075 - Scary Toilet Paper!

http://www.conflictkitchen.org/ - Conflict Kitchen is a sort of performance restaurant which rotates what it serves, but always to the cuisine of countries that are currently at conflict with the US, like Iran, Pakistan, Cuba, etc. Pretty neat idea for trying out different types of food and such.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/06/12/male-spider-castrates-himself-and-gets-more-stamina/ - Some spiders snap off their genitals during sex so they can fight off rivals while continuing to pump the ladyspider full of manspider goo.

Wind Turbine:
Ever wonder how those wind turbines get there?
Never has so much effort and money been expended for bugger all result!!

http://now.msn.com/now/0620-app-sex-friends.aspx - App lets you pretend to have sex with your friends.

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/06/18/061812-news-world-obesity-1-2/ - North America has 1/3rd of the world's body weight, despite having <10% of the people

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/06/leaked-document-points-to-299-xbox-720-for-2013/ - XBox 720 details leaked?

http://pastebin.com/EZENnNMw - Awful essay on the culture that is Washington DC. It's really horrifying how insular their lifes and skewed their perspectives are.

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Originally posted by EricLindros

[ Link ] - App lets you pretend to have sex with your friends.

Way to get a virus on your new smartphone

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Originally posted by EricLindros

[ Link ] - North America has 1/3rd of the world's body weight, despite having <10% of the people

That's 1/3 of the world's excess body weight

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Originally posted by omuh

That's 1/3 of the world's excess body weight

You're just jealous of all those beautiful round north american bellies.



Anyway, more newsy stuffy:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jun/16/breasts-breastfeeding-milk-florence-williams - The Wonder of Breasts!

http://mindhacks.com/2012/06/09/a-shot-to-the-head/ - Scientific look at whether you'd be conscious of being shot in the head

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/pope-benedict-focuses-on-legacy-while-ignoring-vatican-power-struggle-a-838830.html - Interesting (long) article on Pope Benedict and the current state of the Catholic Church.

http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/16006586 - Chinese GM cows modified to make human breast milk

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-humans-with-super-human-vision/ - Super-seers can see 100x better than most people. It's basically the opposite of being color-blind; instead of missing one of the kinds of cones in your eyes, you would have one extra type, enhancing your vision 100-fold.

Awesome Obituary (if only because it seems like a pretty awesome life) - Someone should make a movie outta this guy's experiences.

Robot created that humans cannot beat at Rock-Paper-Scissors - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9365640/Count-Robert-de-La-Rochefoucauld.html

Particles that allow you to live without breathing invented. This could actually end up being quite useful in medicine.

The average bear is smarter than you thought. The smarter an animal is the more aversion to killing them I have. Funny how that works.

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Originally posted by EricLindros

[ Link ]. The smarter an animal is the more aversion to killing them I have. Funny how that works.

I'm gonna take up bear hunting just to piss you off.
I don't even hunt. I don't like killing. But I will go out of my way. In my kelp suit. 30 minutes, and hour at a time. Sure. And kill some fucking bears. With a large rock.

I guess if you're going to kill anything, kill people. But not the innocent ones and such. Kill the jerks and the guys who pay with all change when there's a line behind them and the lady who makes like 5 transactions with her ATM card while we're all waiting to just get a quick $100 outta the damn machine and all that. People like those.



ALso, I guess I should have added that the Higgs Boson was basically discovered this morning, but that's probably made the front page of whatever news website you go to so I figure I don't have to ponit that out. But it's a pretty big deal in the physics world, and helps to complete our understanding of why the fundamental particles have mass, and thus, everything that we know can exist.

YOU WANNA RAIL ABOUT TERRORISTS START YOUR OWN THREAD.

THIS ONE IS FOR NEWS.


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My post wasn't offensive, slacker. They directly addressed the comments, if not so much the content, of the link provided.
The only rule it possibly broke was referencing another thread. Which, you just did with the clapping Joker gif.

Amateur league. Don't worry, you'll get there, though.

*smallville gif? is there one appropriate?*

Obviously I was 110% serious that you should go on a rampage and kill people who inconvenience me. Because that's a very good idea and not at all totally ridiculous.


Anyway, least I didn't just delete the whole post



MOAR NEWS:

Some species of turtles apparently have gigantor penii - I believe they refer to them as Chelydra bangledeshia. Science of peens, bitches.

What happens if you play Civ II for 10 years (or until the Civ year 3991 CE)

[url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120611-bat-tongue-video-untamed-americas-science-longest/]5 cm bat has 9cm long tongue. <insert cunnilingus joke here>

The dangers of eating the grill brush - In honor of summertime cookouts.

Model live tweets getting hit on during a plane flight by a married actor - Slow your roll, buddy.

https://www.coursera.org/ - A cool site which has free University-level courses from some quite prestigious US universities (University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Princeton, University of California, Berkeley, etc. Pretty good stuff if you like to, you know, learn things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster - Not recent news (happened in 1919) but I ran into it while reading my other news things, and it sounded amazing:

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A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150

. Check it out if you're bored.

^ Yeah, none of that is news.


Chernobyl's trees are so radioactive that a forest fire could create massive clouds of radioactive smoke

The TSA wants a sip of whatever you're drinking. - Haaha, good one TSA. I used to pull that on my sister when she would get something that looked good. "Hey, I gotta try this out, make sure it's safe! <nom nom nom>"

Pictures of underwater dogs. Awesome.

Did you ever wonder if an atom casts a shadow? Well, the answer is yes, and here's a picture of it.

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Originally posted by EricLindros

^ Yeah, none of that is news.

Woman mauled by racoons!

Can more sex cure morning sickness? (Probably not) Doesn't get to it until the 2nd half of the article, but it's an interesting hypothesis.

Jealous wife stabs husband after sex.

You can actually bake cookies in a hot car.

Girl accidentally sends a crazy picture of Nic Cage to potential employer, instead of resume and cover letter. If an applicant sent that picture to me as their application, I might consider hiring them on the spot. Then, when interviewed about her mistake, if she spelled accidentally wrong I might un-hire her right on the spot again.

Up to 2o,ooo sea turtle eggs crushed by bulldozer.

Amazon going to try to provide same-day delivery. If you thought they were disruptive to local stores before, holy crap, watch out.

Scientists confirm existence of "dark galaxies"

Nepotism in Primates. Some monkeys ride their fathers success to their own success.

Urban noise can turn birds into bad mothers

And here's the world's largest natural boobs. Do not want.

Facebook wants to be your online bank

Govn't scanners can find out everything about you from 164 meters away.

The herp derp plugin allows you to turn Youtube comments into Ramsann-type comments.

New potential treatment for MRSA (a drug-resistant infection that's often caught in hospitals) possibly found: Spider Venom!

Sitting lowers life expectancy. Common knowledge by this point, I think.

Woman kept corpse of dead boyfriend in house for a year so they could watch NASCAR together. I think the only way you could actually get me to watch NASCAR is if I was dead.

What happens if you throw a baseball 90% of the speed of light?

Man tricks chick into letting him suck her toe at WalMart. As she screamed, the guy says, "IT TASTED SO GOOD THOUGH!" Fuckin' creepers.

Canada's new plastic money has a downside. It's MELTING! USAHAT. Suckers with your melting money.

And here's the world's largest natural boobs. Do not want


And here I thought it was the House of Representatives.

Rare (so rare it's considered sacred) white buffalo.

Obviously really smart guy writes bomb threat on the back of his job application.

Facebook is monitoring your chats and will forward suspicious activity to the police. Yeah, that's not scummy at all.

Scranton, PA: Where even the mayor makes minimum wage; the fiscal crisis of small towns in the US. Cheery piece.

Queen of Clown Porn dies.

SOPA making a return, piece by piece. Now with a czar!


lol - Image showing the differences between degrees Farenheit, Celcius, and Kelvin - http://i.imgur.com/ucOQh.jpg


Insurance company forcing Katy Perry to ditch her rotating bra. Fuckin' bean counter nerds runing all the fun.

Dogs may protect babies from some infections. So if you're a baby, get a dog.

Will there be genetically modified athletes at the Olympics? Don't know. We don't have tests for it.

Fish learn to cope with higher CO2 levels in water. Coral reefs, which provide habitats and feeding areas for lots of fish however, not so much.

Restaurant unveils the $666 "Douche Burger". The thing is wrapped in three one-hundred dollar bills and has some gold leaf flakes in it.

A company makes a casket-pooltable. I guess if you're going to die, might as well go out in style AND in a way in which your buddies can hang out with you one last time.

Hillary Clinton taunted with chants of "Monica, Monica!" during visit in Egypt. BURN.jpg

FDA approves pill for prevention of HIV in high-risk cohorts. Interesting, but probably too expensive to be able to make a big difference in the most at-risk countries.

Vatican running a huge budget deficit.

Scientists 95% sure they've found Bigfoot in Russian tundra. Color me 105% skeptical. Need real proof, IMO.

Only 2% of fire calls are for actual fires. (in Orange County California, but the trend is probably similar elsewhere in the US)

Fukushima Radiation may cause 1300 cancer deaths according to study. Or it may not. May is a fun word like that. Anyway, I'm always skeptical of high number counts like these, and I'm also skeptical of government propaganda official statements. It's probably somewhere in the middle.

Portugal decriminalized drugs 10 years ago. The results are staggering. Maybe one day most advanced societies will end prohibition, version 2.

The US Military's new generation of secret bases. Basically, more smaller sites, fewer big Rammstein-type behemoth sites, totalling a larger foreign-soil presence overall. Along with that probably goes less accountability.

Man arrested for keeping his wife's private parts locked up for four years. Um....um....WTF?

Cab driver shits on sidewalk. Video included!

French deman Crown jewels from the Queen to compensate for the murder of Edward Plantagenet. That murder, btw, happened in the year 1499. So, you know, recent and such.

600 year old bras found in Austrian castle. Wow, they used those thing all the way back then? Who woulda thunk it? Until this discovery it was assumed that the bra was only about 100 years old.

Worst whooping cough epidemic in 60 years strikes. Listen you fucking luddites, get your goddamn kids vaccinated. Jesus fucking christ. I don't care about your kid, but you can't give a pertussis vaccine until kids are 3 months old, so it's fucking imperative that there is already a group immunity present from the general population that HAS been vaccinated, to protect those young infants.

Dumping iron into the sea helps capture carbon. Well, good to know for emergency purposes, I guess, although terraforming like that is monstrously controversial.

Many Americans are included in a facial-recognition database without their knowledge. Big Brother says, HAHAHA!

ACLU to Obama: You can't just vaporize Americans without Judicial Process. Obama to ACLU: YES WE CAN!

Man builds bunker under ex's house to spy on her. This is like creeper to the third power. Creeper Cubed, if you will.

Goat man hides among real goats in Utah. Hrm. Authorities are worried about his well being when goat hunting season starts in September.

Peter Townshend says Mick Jagger's Penis was 'Huge and Extremely Tasty' Well, okay then.

Physicists study how to stay dry in the rain. This is important science. Especially because I don't use umbrellas. (The gist is that running is usually the better strategy, but it depends on the conditions.

Huge source of water found in Africa. Access to irrigation is a huge problem in parts of Africa and in part responsible for lots of starvation and poverty, so this is a pretty big deal for them.

Choking dog saves it's own life by calling 999. I don't know. The dog in the picture looks really stupid, plus the picture is of a rotary phone. How the hell can a dog use a rotary phone? From the article, "He's not usually very smart. He's really dope and just likes to chew socks."