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Patrickl's whacky news
« on: September 27, 2008, 03:14:25 pm »
This is one of the biggest WTF clips I saw lately:
Women dice with death on M6

Two Swedish blond women (twins) want to die on a highway. Police tries to stop them ...

Then for something completely different ... rumour has it that Hugh Heffner asked Sarah Palin to feature in Playboy when she doesn't win the election with that old dude as her partner.

Sarah Palin's Playboy Spread (Photos)


Then some Dutch news. Two terrorist suspects were apprehended in a KLM airplane ready to take off from Cologne Germany to Amsterdam. Rumours were that they were going to attempt to fly the plane into a Dutch target. Later the 2 men turned out to be on "holiday".

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2008, 03:34:18 pm »
This is one of the biggest WTF clips I saw lately:
Women dice with death on M6

Two Swedish blond women (twins) want to die on a highway. Police tries to stop them ...


Yea I saw this one ... What the hell were they thinking?, or what the hell were they on?

Amazing!

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2008, 03:37:44 pm »
Suicide.  It's more common like this than people want to think.  A couple of weeks ago a guy not far from here was wandering around neighborhoods with a huge knife screaming at people.  He was trying to goad cops into shooting him - they eventually got him nonfatally but had to put Officers at needless risk to do so.

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2008, 04:05:23 pm »
Forgot to add one. A couple of Somali pirates hijacked a ship and probably to their surprise it was loaded with Russian tanks (on route to Kenya) Instead of realizing that Russians are better not messed with, they demand $35 million. The Russians send them a warship instead. Let's see them hijack that.

Ship Seized by Somali Pirates Carrying 33 Russian Tanks
Somali pirates demand 35 million dollars for 'tank' ship: official
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2008, 04:48:03 pm »
Quote from: http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.2453784.0.0.php
Kenyan and Western officials said that an American warship is steaming toward the hijacked Ukrainian ship to intercept it, and the Russian Navy announced that it too was sending a frigate, named Neustrashimy Fearless, from the Baltic to the region. The commander of the Baltic Fleet, Viktor Mardusin, said the frigate will stay near Somalia "for more than two months in order to guarantee the safety of Russian ships".


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Why American?  Seriously...?  The Russians can take care of themselves.

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« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2008, 05:45:31 pm »
Yeah I didn't quite get that either. Maybe they were there already because a lot of ships have been boarded in that region lately.
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« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2008, 05:49:51 pm »
Yeah I didn't quite get that either. Maybe they were there already because a lot of ships have been boarded in that region lately.


Even if they were, unless they were American, not our problem.  Sadly, everybody's problems are our problems.

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« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2008, 12:03:10 am »
Quote from: http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.2453784.0.0.php
Kenyan and Western officials said that an American warship is steaming toward the hijacked Ukrainian ship to intercept it, and the Russian Navy announced that it too was sending a frigate, named Neustrashimy Fearless, from the Baltic to the region. The commander of the Baltic Fleet, Viktor Mardusin, said the frigate will stay near Somalia "for more than two months in order to guarantee the safety of Russian ships".


 :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Why American?  Seriously...?  The Russians can take care of themselves.


probably because they are closer. i actually think that is quite a good thing they are doing. although maybe they just want to be in Ukraines good books. which might be why russia is sending a ship too. its nice to be wanted (",)


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« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2008, 12:05:26 am »

oh, and hefner is wrong. she should keep the glasses on! girls in glasses are hot!


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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2008, 02:13:53 am »
Yeah I didn't quite get that either. Maybe they were there already because a lot of ships have been boarded in that region lately.
Even if they were, unless they were American, not our problem.  Sadly, everybody's problems are our problems.

I think the problem is that it can be. It doesn't mean we're going to see gangs using the Russian tanks in L.A. ().

I guess it basically boils down to the U.S. trying to control a bad situation and a good faith gesture towards another country. Americans need a few more brownie points nowadays.  :-\

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« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2008, 02:17:06 am »
This is one of the biggest WTF clips I saw lately:
Women dice with death on M6

Two Swedish blond women (twins) want to die on a highway. Police tries to stop them ...


Those were cops?  They looked and acted like paramedics or something. They should've, and probably would've if it had been here, cuffed 'em and sorted it out in the back of a squad car.


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« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2008, 02:19:38 pm »
I guess it basically boils down to the U.S. trying to control a bad situation and a good faith gesture towards another country. Americans need a few more brownie points nowadays.  :-\

It doesn't work that way for us.  We go in, no matter what we do, someone hates us.  Haven't people learned that yet?  We just need to stay out of other peoples' business.

BTW, the pirates can't even unload the tanks.  They don't have docks with that capability - it's right in the articles.  They can't sell them because they can't get them off the ship.  Plus if they do Russia will go in and exterminate them.  Russia doesn't eff around right now.

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« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2008, 02:29:13 pm »
Those were cops?  They looked and acted like paramedics or something. They should've, and probably would've if it had been here, cuffed 'em and sorted it out in the back of a squad car.

Its not the US... Only -our- cops are allowed to do stuff like that.  The other countries just blow their whistles and hope you stop...
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« Reply #13 on: September 28, 2008, 02:38:26 pm »
BTW, the pirates can't even unload the tanks.  They don't have docks with that capability - it's right in the articles.  They can't sell them because they can't get them off the ship.  Plus if they do Russia will go in and exterminate them.  Russia doesn't eff around right now.
Yeah, it just boggles the mind how the pirates think this will end nicely for them. Or maybe this is a very elaborate suicide attempt.
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« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2008, 03:11:19 pm »
I guess it basically boils down to the U.S. trying to control a bad situation and a good faith gesture towards another country. Americans need a few more brownie points nowadays.  :-\
It doesn't work that way for us.  We go in, no matter what we do, someone hates us.  Haven't people learned that yet?  We just need to stay out of other peoples' business.

Don't the French have issues with us because we wouldn't help them? Leading into why the French wouldn't "help" us and that whole s/french/freedom/gi ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow---. You're right though, the U.S. has gotten stuck in this annoying, "damned if you do, damned of you don't," situation. In this case though, it seems the U.S. is moving in because the Russians isn't going to get there in time?  That's the impression I got from the articles.

I'd love to debate the topic further, but I don't know exactly what causes a thread to get sent to P&R.

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« Reply #16 on: September 28, 2008, 05:29:03 pm »
You're right though, the U.S. has gotten stuck in this annoying, "damned if you do, damned of you don't," situation.

It's not hard to understand.  No matter what happens, after the game, someone hates the ref.  That's the life of the ref.  We need to stop playing the goddam ref.


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In this case though, it seems the U.S. is moving in because the Russians isn't going to get there in time?

Again, how is that our problem?  This isn't a game.  These are the lives of American soldiers.  Russian tanks, Kenyan purchase, Somali pirates.  Why exactly do Americans need to be in danger here?

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Judgment call... and I don't have P+R access.

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« Reply #17 on: September 28, 2008, 08:45:28 pm »
Again, how is that our problem?  This isn't a game.  These are the lives of American soldiers.  Russian tanks, Kenyan purchase, Somali pirates.  Why exactly do Americans need to be in danger here?

International maritime law gets complicated.  Theres probably some clause that says if you're in the area and have the means to assist, you have to.
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« Reply #18 on: September 29, 2008, 04:16:43 am »
Maybe these pirates could also attack an American ship? It's not like they are solving a russian problem. The pirates are a problem for all cargo ships going through there. They even attacked a US Navy supply ship.

Makes sense that the navy of whichever country would be interested in protecting the waters from these pirates.
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« Reply #19 on: September 29, 2008, 08:52:44 am »
International maritime law gets complicated.  Theres probably some clause that says if you're in the area and have the means to assist, you have to.


You have to assist in accidents and when people need emergency assistance.  I seriously doubt there is anything there about interceding when pirates seize a vessel.  If there were then why had that ship ignored the other 20 or so that were hijacked in the last month?

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« Reply #20 on: September 29, 2008, 01:14:42 pm »
The boat has more than tanks. It's loaded with RPGs and other weapons too. The fear is if the pirates can make off with RPGs, etc they will be used in the Kenyan warfare Somalia going on and/or also make it's way to "tarrists!" via black market. Doesn't hurt for the US to participate in sending those ---smurfs--- to the seabed.
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« Reply #21 on: September 29, 2008, 01:41:51 pm »
The boat has more than tanks. It's loaded with RPGs and other weapons too. The fear is if the pirates can make off with RPGs, etc they will be used in the Kenyan warfare going on and/or also make it's way to "tarrists!" via black market. Doesn't hurt for the US to participate in sending those ---smurfs--- to the seabed.


Policing against what might happen is the reason we have to be everywhere all the time.  These are pirates... they could just as easily use those weapons themselves against nonAmerican targets.

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« Reply #22 on: September 29, 2008, 02:20:13 pm »
I think the police people on that first video seriously screw up in misjudging the situation. Unless they didn't get the information from what was seen on the security camera's. They've done it once, they'll try again.

And EVEN after the 2nd try they still don't jump on them....amazingly poor performance IMHO, especially for British cops who I generally regard to be tougher than our Dutch poofs.

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« Reply #23 on: September 29, 2008, 02:51:10 pm »

Damned if they do, damned if they don't.  They don't jump on those chicks and the chicks do it again.  If they do jump on those chicks we get to see "British police committing sexual assault on camera" videos instead. 

People who want to die are going to find a way.  It's not the cops' fault.

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« Reply #24 on: September 29, 2008, 03:14:54 pm »
People who want to die are going to find a way.  It's not the cops' fault.

I'm not saying it's the cops faults that they want to kill themselves. I'm talking about handling this situation professionally. I can see why the first woman "escapes" but that second time AFTER _BOTH_ have been hit is just plain bad work.

I just don't understand why people who want to kill themselves get other people like lorry drivers, train drivers etc. involved. There are other ways if you must do it....

I was a bit shocked by the numbers I must say. 3 people each day kill themselves in Holland (on a population of 16 million). That's still only half of the 6 per day in Belgium, while that country only has less than 11 million people.

77 in the US each day, 141 in the European Union (!)......

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« Reply #25 on: September 29, 2008, 03:17:42 pm »
I just don't understand why people who want to kill themselves get other people like lorry drivers, train drivers etc. involved.


Cowardice.  They can't do it themselves.

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« Reply #26 on: September 29, 2008, 05:17:37 pm »
Why American?  Seriously...?  The Russians can take care of themselves.

The Russians are claiming they had a few tanks stolen by pirates, that's embarrassing. 

If they are willing to admit they lost tanks imagine what's really on that ship.

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« Reply #27 on: September 29, 2008, 07:15:41 pm »
A bit old news, but the trial is starting up.

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« Reply #28 on: September 30, 2008, 12:06:44 am »
That'd be good with some chilli sauce.

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« Reply #29 on: September 30, 2008, 02:20:03 am »
Ah yeah. Good combo. Maybe that chili would be good for the swedish twins too.
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« Reply #30 on: September 30, 2008, 02:36:44 am »


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In this case though, it seems the U.S. is moving in because the Russians isn't going to get there in time?

Again, how is that our problem?  This isn't a game.  These are the lives of American soldiers.  Russian tanks, Kenyan purchase, Somali pirates.  Why exactly do Americans need to be in danger here?


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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #31 on: September 30, 2008, 02:55:21 am »
More whacky news:

Ghost haunts gym in Kansas City (captured on surveillance camera)

Fruit fly (or similar) crawling around on the lens. The "light" (aka blurred fruit fly) never passes behind anything, nor does it change size as it goes further away from the camera.
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« Reply #32 on: September 30, 2008, 03:02:54 am »
More whacky news:

Ghost haunts gym in Kansas City (captured on surveillance camera)

Fruit fly (or similar) crawling around on the lens. The "light" (aka blurred fruit fly) never passes behind anything, nor does it change size as it goes further away from the camera.

Yup there are quite a number of similar video's on youtube etc. Esp. those camera's that are inside a small dome are causing these images.

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« Reply #33 on: September 30, 2008, 04:03:49 am »
Yeah I was amazed that the security people said they had no idea what that spot on the image was. How can you NOT know that that was a bug on the lens? Still it's cute and whaaacky to see how people react to something like that.
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« Reply #34 on: September 30, 2008, 06:06:04 am »
Yeah I was amazed that the security people said they had no idea what that spot on the image was. How can you NOT know that that was a bug on the lens? Still it's cute and whaaacky to see how people react to something like that.

They knew it, they are also in marketing and also know free advertising when they see it.

Lets face it, there is a market in selling cameras to whacky paranoid types, esp those who think your camera can capture ghost pictures better than the competitors.
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #35 on: September 30, 2008, 01:55:50 pm »

I love it.  Iran decided to solve the pirate problem themselves... they built a Pirate Trap.

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« Reply #36 on: September 30, 2008, 02:04:35 pm »

I love it.  Iran decided to solve the pirate problem themselves... they built a Pirate Trap.
Ha, ha, now that IS whacky  :P

More than a little scary that the Iranians might be ferrying nuclear materials around though.
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« Reply #37 on: September 30, 2008, 02:08:14 pm »
More than a little scary that the Iranians might be ferrying nuclear materials around though.


You don't build nuclear facilities, for power or weapons, without doing so. 

Now we know why the American ships are there.

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« Reply #38 on: September 30, 2008, 08:35:49 pm »
Just curious why this thread got stickied?

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« Reply #39 on: September 30, 2008, 09:23:06 pm »
Just curious why this thread got stickied?

Apparently American and Nederland jizm sticks together really well in SQL based databases... Either that, or Patrick asked Saint to sticky it, and saint liked it; so he did.

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« Reply #40 on: October 01, 2008, 12:23:53 pm »
Lol, I didn't ask for the thread to be stickied. Must be the Jizm then  :P

I have more whacky news though  ;D

London News: Shocking x-ray pictures show how teenage boy cheated death after being stabbed in the head in Walworth





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« Reply #41 on: October 01, 2008, 12:46:47 pm »

That kid's skull must be made of tissue paper.

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« Reply #42 on: October 01, 2008, 02:26:25 pm »
I was hoping this would become a regular feature.
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« Reply #43 on: October 01, 2008, 02:30:33 pm »

Damn, now we're all gonna need helmets.  tommy was right.

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« Reply #44 on: October 01, 2008, 02:34:48 pm »
Heh.
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« Reply #45 on: October 01, 2008, 02:48:43 pm »
Sure, when I find something whacky I'll keep posting it here. I figured it would go to the top when I post something anyway.
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« Reply #46 on: October 01, 2008, 04:48:24 pm »
Drunk woman gets arrested while wearing a cow suit telling people to "Suck her udders!"  :P

Udder Madness 'Jersey' girl hit with 'moo'ving violation in Ohio



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Holy cow, this Ohio woman is an udder disgrace!
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More wacky animal news,

Meet Yoda the cat with FOUR ears




and even more wacky animal news. Hope this isn't too gross, but it was on a major dutch newspaper:

I knew some people have a perverted sexual taste, but when they start gangbanging a rhino ... They even drugged her to make her more agreeable. "Otherwise", the vets claimed, "rhinos can be aggressive" ::)

They'll know in a few weeks if they actually got her pregnant :o


Luckily there were no pictures of how they got the semen from the male rhino.

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« Reply #47 on: October 01, 2008, 06:54:34 pm »
OK, this is just insane. A guy cuts in line at McDonalds and a 16 year old girl complains. The hero punches the guy in the face. Bizarre (and wacky)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRYehvGmWMg[/youtube]

Disgusting detail, the man is walking with 2 small children who I assume are his kids.
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« Reply #48 on: October 01, 2008, 07:34:22 pm »
More in line with the "ghost in the gym" item, now people have spotted Mary in a window of a hospital in Springfield. It looks like an ordinary oil stain or something from the picture, but it's not.

Crowd again gathers where some see image of Virgin Mary



Image gallery at NBC

Apparently Mary is here to comfort the population of Springfield in these tough times.
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« Reply #49 on: October 02, 2008, 12:01:32 pm »
That's no virgin. That's a slutty* busty blonde in a tube top!

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« Reply #50 on: October 02, 2008, 02:42:48 pm »
That's no virgin. That's a busty blonde in a tube top!

Busty blonds can be virgins too :angel:

BTW Elvis is NOT dead. He's been spotted on the Dutch airport Schiphol checking his passport.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5t9ijfzr20[/youtube]

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« Reply #51 on: October 03, 2008, 06:23:03 pm »
Crocodile Dumdee

I hope the kids parents gave him a double time out for this and take away his TV privileges for at least three days.

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« Reply #52 on: October 04, 2008, 06:35:32 am »
About the Iranian ship:
The thing we really need to be worried about is that it was heading for Amsterdam.

It gives me the same uncomfortable feeling that I had when I was walking on top of the roof of Schiphol (Amsterdam) airport and noticing an Iran Air airplane there. Sorry but I don't feel comfortable about planes from such countries flying around here.  But then again, we've got a number of F16's always on standby.

About the passport hacking:
That's the system that was forced upon us by the US government right ?

Feels very safe !



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« Reply #53 on: October 04, 2008, 07:30:25 am »
About the Iranian ship:
The thing we really need to be worried about is that it was heading for Amsterdam.
Lol yeah, it was supposed to be carrying "iron ore" from China to Amsterdam. Maybe it stopped in Iran somewhere along the way already?

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It gives me the same uncomfortable feeling that I had when I was walking on top of the roof of Schiphol (Amsterdam) airport and noticing an Iran Air airplane there. Sorry but I don't feel comfortable about planes from such countries flying around here.  But then again, we've got a number of F16's always on standby.
I'd say American airplanes are more dangerous. They're the one who get hijacked or blown up most aren't they?

A few weeks ago a couple of Apache helicopters came thundering over my house. On their way to Schiphol. That's an eerie sight too.

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That's the system that was forced upon us by the US government right ?

Feels very safe !



I thought the EU was behind that? Although I guess the US is pushing to get it implemented quickly.

I would assume the US passport can be hacked just as easily. Actually, the US seem to rely on even less secure measures (for foreigners entering the country). They took my fingerprint last time I was there. If there is something that's easy to hack then it's a fingerprint scanner.
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« Reply #54 on: October 04, 2008, 07:51:39 am »
The Ig Nobel award goes to a researcher who found out that Coca Cola is a spermicide and that it kills the AIDS virus.

Yahoo News: Spermicide Coke, stale chips research wins Ig Nobels

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Deborah Anderson of Boston University Medical Center and colleagues were awarded the chemistry prize for a 1985 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that found Coca-Cola kills sperm.

She said she was serious in testing the soft drink because women were using it in a ---meecrob--- as a contraceptive and, later, to try to protect themselves from the AIDS virus.

Not sure why they would award the prize for a study published in 1985 though.


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Other winners included physicists who found out that anything that can tangle, will tangle and a team of biologists who ascertained that dog fleas jump farther than cat fleas.
That's whacky research  ;D

More "scientific research"; Chinese zoo keepers are feeding the Panda's chicken soup to help them regain their strength and get ready for colder weather. Guess my grandma was right about the chicken soup after all  :P

AP: Chinese pandas fed chicken soup for health

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They had been getting less sleep, and they had to run around more," he said. "We felt it would be good to give them the soup because they were fatigued and had a bit of a shock."

Reflecting the Chinese tradition of drinking slow-cooked chicken soup for health, the zookeepers boiled roosters in water overnight and added a pinch of salt to the concentrated stock.
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« Reply #55 on: October 04, 2008, 07:57:33 am »
Came across this link with 25 wacky signs  ;D:

Don’t say we didn’t warn you: 25 wacky warning signs

Liking to the crocodile story, "Unattended children will be given an espresso and a free puppy". Maybe the Australian zoo gave it an espresso and a handfull of lizzards?
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« Reply #56 on: October 06, 2008, 01:25:36 pm »
I'd say American airplanes are more dangerous. They're the one who get hijacked or blown up most aren't they?

Israel.

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« Reply #57 on: October 06, 2008, 03:59:20 pm »
Yeah, we've had some bad experiences with Israeli planes......

I loved that bear warning sign. Read it all, definitely worth it :)

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« Reply #58 on: October 06, 2008, 04:48:46 pm »
My then brother in law lived in the building where the Israeli El Al 747 flew into. Talk about whacky news. He called all the relatives to say that a small plane had flown into the building, but that he was OK. So we turn on the news to see what happened and they tell us that a 747 struck the buidling. It hit only a few appartments away from him. Now that sends a chill down your spine. He was lucky the plane came in "knife edge".



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« Reply #59 on: October 07, 2008, 10:21:47 pm »
Didn't see so much wacky news lately, but I found some more wacky pictures.

I found a picture thread with the 10 Creepiest Old Ads. Especially the last one is spooky.

Also a thread of 10 Incredible Old Computer Ads. I'm still sorry I lost an old science magazine with an advertisement of a calculator that could calculate a square root in "less than a minute". It's amazing how fast things evolve.
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« Reply #60 on: October 08, 2008, 04:21:47 am »
My then brother in law lived in the building where the Israeli El Al 747 flew into. Talk about whacky news. He called all the relatives to say that a small plane had flown into the building, but that he was OK. So we turn on the news to see what happened and they tell us that a 747 struck the buidling. It hit only a few appartments away from him. Now that sends a chill down your spine. He was lucky the plane came in "knife edge".





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« Reply #61 on: October 08, 2008, 09:45:00 am »

Who wants to bet that chick in the VD ad is someone's ex-wife?   ;D

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« Reply #62 on: October 08, 2008, 12:16:45 pm »
I am a big fan of reading this thread while I am at work w/ all the weird news from around the world. I think you are brilliant Patrick.

Here in the US I dont know if you guys heard about the girl Natalie "Dylan" who is selling her virginity on the Howard Stern show. The lucky guy and her will get to do the business at the Bunny Ranch in Texas I think it is

http://streetknowledge.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/wtf-girl-sells-her-virginity-on-howard-stern-show-for-college/

I forsee this to become some sort of trend now...i mean im a chick and ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- I think if i was getting offered tons of $ I would have to sell mine too lol

And I am sure you guys already heard about the weird chick that is going to smoke Kurt Cobain's Ashes at some Art festival in Germany? -.-

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« Reply #63 on: October 08, 2008, 01:22:09 pm »
I am a big fan of reading this thread while I am at work w/ all the weird news from around the world. I think you are brilliant Patrick.
Heh thanks. yeah I read this nonsense all over the internet and if I find it funny I think someone here might like it too  :P

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Here in the US I dont know if you guys heard about the girl Natalie "Dylan" who is selling her virginity on the Howard Stern show. The lucky guy and her will get to do the business at the Bunny Ranch in Texas I think it is

http://streetknowledge.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/wtf-girl-sells-her-virginity-on-howard-stern-show-for-college/

I forsee this to become some sort of trend now...i mean im a chick and ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- I think if i was getting offered tons of $ I would have to sell mine too lol
Yeah I posted a thread about that one a while ago: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=84351.0

I thought it was utterly bizarre too. Then a few weeks later I saw the movie "Memoires of a Geisha" where the gheisha auctions off her virginity too. Apparently this was pretty normal in Japan back then.

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Lol, no I hadn't.
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« Reply #64 on: October 08, 2008, 04:32:24 pm »
http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/australian-artist-plans-smoke-kurt-cobains-ashes/


thats the box his"ashes" are in ;o

ANyways ya gotta post lots of stuff for me to read while im at work ok? :)

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« Reply #65 on: October 08, 2008, 09:22:08 pm »
Just came across some "local" news that made me laugh:

Forum guy almost gets a heart attack telling other people to not take things so seriously.

Large font was used by author. Probably to express his "calmness"
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Yeah the "other" people are the ones who need medication

besides the the obvious logical flaw that you cannot not read a question that you didn't like ...
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« Reply #67 on: October 09, 2008, 11:12:18 am »
Ha, ha, that is Mighty Mouse :P  Seriously though, wouldn't that mouse be a tad too big for that tiny snake to eat?

Sophia Loren looks nice as a nun. Much better than Sally Field. I doubt there are many pretty nuns though. I lived close to a nun house and they all looked more or less like mother Theresa  :angel:
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« Reply #68 on: October 09, 2008, 02:41:27 pm »
Not so much wacky, but more like shocking news:

65 year old Australian doesn't agree with the way he is served his beer and ends up losing his live over it.

Tourist Bashed to Death by Waiters for Being 'Arrogant'

Guess things like that happen all the time, but still never ceases to amaze me that stuff like it happens.
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« Reply #69 on: October 09, 2008, 02:54:57 pm »
OK, not to turn this into a "celeb does something stupid thread", but Jamie Lynn Spears is Pregnant Again!   (original National Enquirer link which doesn't work right now)

Women get pregnant all the time, but the wacky part is that she just had a baby 3 or 4 months ago and herself is only 17 years old. Actually that still isn't the wackiest. Also not to turn this into a pro-life/abstinence vs sex education discussion, but apparently:

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 “She’d expected to have her period by early September.   A home pregnancy test came back positive and Jamie Lynn cried her eyes out. “
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« Reply #70 on: October 09, 2008, 02:59:21 pm »
More dumb blond women news:

Woman sues over wrong hair color

A blond womand sues L'Oreal for turning her into a brunette. She argued that the wrong dye which caused her hair to turn dark brown had caused her to get on medication because of her emotional distress.

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #71 on: October 09, 2008, 03:04:33 pm »

And to think... that chick is going to get lots of cash for her virginity but Britney Spears' little sister gave it away for an Arby's value meal.  Talk about a lost financial opportunity.

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #72 on: October 09, 2008, 03:11:17 pm »
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“Jamie Lynn believed she couldn’t get pregnant while she was breast-feeding.”
That's not all that wacky. If (and I stress, big *IF*) a woman breast feeds, using both of her feedbags, continuously and with regularity, certain hormones are maintained that prevent ovulation. Any disruption in that schedule though and... well, J. L. Spears knows the rest.  ;D
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #73 on: October 09, 2008, 03:20:43 pm »
Like Ray said, a woman has to breast feed hardcore for it to be a contraceptive.

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #74 on: October 09, 2008, 04:08:52 pm »
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“Jamie Lynn believed she couldn’t get pregnant while she was breast-feeding.”
That's not all that wacky. If (and I stress, big *IF*) a woman breast feeds, using both of her feedbags, continuously and with regularity, certain hormones are maintained that prevent ovulation. Any disruption in that schedule though and... well, J. L. Spears knows the rest.  ;D
It makes ovulation less likely/less frequent. That's not the same as it being a contraceptive.
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #75 on: October 09, 2008, 04:24:21 pm »
It makes ovulation less likely/less frequent. That's not the same as it being a contraceptive.

It is a clinically studied phenomenon, and has a 99% effectiveness if the schedule is followed STRICTLY. 19 months and counting for my wife, and no new babies (and it ain't for lack of trying).  ;D

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« Reply #76 on: October 09, 2008, 04:33:59 pm »
It is a clinically studied phenomenon, and has a 99% effectiveness if the schedule is followed STRICTLY. 19 months and counting for my wife, and no new babies (and it ain't for lack of trying).  ;D

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #77 on: October 09, 2008, 05:02:18 pm »
It makes ovulation less likely/less frequent. That's not the same as it being a contraceptive.

It is a clinically studied phenomenon, and has a 99% effectiveness if the schedule is followed STRICTLY. 19 months and counting for my wife, and no new babies (and it ain't for lack of trying).  ;D
Lol, well I looked it up and indeed it's more effective then I thought when she ONLY breastfeeds, also does this during the night and then it's still only 98% effective for the first 6 months. In reality women don't only breastfeed and you try to get your baby to sleep through the night. 19 months seems longer than 6 months too.

My wife was breast feeding, but she started ovulating in 3 months or so. Jamie Lynn was breastfeeding and (rumor has it that) she became pregnant after 3 or 4 months :P
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« Reply #78 on: October 09, 2008, 06:46:38 pm »
Tourist Bashed to Death by Waiters for Being 'Arrogant'

Guess things like that happen all the time, but still never ceases to amaze me that stuff like it happens.

We live in a world where we feel lucky when the waiter just spits in our food.

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« Reply #79 on: October 10, 2008, 11:40:41 am »
oops she did it again lol

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #81 on: October 15, 2008, 09:04:19 am »

Politics aside, that's actually not such a bad name.  I've seen way way worse.  Hopefully that doesn't come back to bite the poor girl later on if future events turn those names sour.  Could you imagine the life a kid named George Cheney Bush would be living now simply because of his name?

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« Reply #82 on: October 15, 2008, 10:07:28 am »
but what they dont' say in the article is he did this behind his wife's back. I mean come on please the poor woman gave birth and carried the damn thing around for 9 months and they agreed to another name, then he goes and does this lmao?

If I was married and my husband did that (i dont want kids though) Just saying if I did and he did that, he would be sleeping outside for a very long time :D

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« Reply #83 on: October 15, 2008, 11:01:54 am »

The article actually stated outright that he did it behind his wife's back.

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« Reply #84 on: October 15, 2008, 12:11:50 pm »
Besides if she wants a divorce of the lama picking that weird name for "her" kid, she can just cut the house in half  ;D
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« Reply #85 on: October 15, 2008, 12:25:30 pm »
Man wins contest with 1,528-pound pumpkin



WTF does this guy live next to a nuclear plant or something?  :o
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« Reply #86 on: October 15, 2008, 12:27:49 pm »
This poor ChILD

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2008-10-14-baby-politicalname_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
Talking about weird names as a political statement, this girl changed her name to an URL. Is that really allowed in the US?

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« Reply #87 on: October 15, 2008, 01:48:49 pm »

There are several people here that grow 1400+ lb pumpkins every year.  Takes them 15 years of selective "breeding" to get them that big.

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« Reply #88 on: October 15, 2008, 01:52:13 pm »
guess i skimmed the article too fast chad, I kinda have to watch it at work and read stuff fast =.=

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #89 on: October 15, 2008, 02:03:08 pm »
I now and then accuse "people" here of being a Turing test (wiki explanation of Turing test). Their replies make me wonder it's not just some script answering.

Turing claimed that computers would be able to fool people into thinking that their responses in a "chat session" were made by a human. Every year they have a contest to see which computer/program scores best at this test. Apparently the "bot" needs to fool 30% of the people trying the 5 minute test to pass.

This year the chatbot named Elbot fooled 25% of the judges. Not enough to pass Turing's test, but still it fooled 3 out of 12 judges. I'd say that's pretty impressive. I wrote an Eliza program as a university assignment once and it probably couldn't fool anyone for more than a few seconds.

Guardian: Chatbots take the ultimate AI test - and fail
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« Reply #90 on: October 15, 2008, 03:39:10 pm »
Question:
What was the name of the Republicans' president and vice president running against Jimmy Carter?

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Who cares?

By the time the kid is walking no one will give her name a second thought.

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« Reply #91 on: October 16, 2008, 12:49:06 am »
Hello, my name is Eliza. How are you today?
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« Reply #92 on: October 16, 2008, 08:53:50 am »

I remember as an AI class project writing a bot that would sit in a MOO room and chat with other users.  It was a real user in all respects except that it didn't have a human behind it.  IIRC it was perl based and used telnet to log in and wait for people to address it directly... if there was conversation going on, it would ask a general question, and wait for direct responses to it.  It would then say generic stuff like "tell me more about <direct object from precious statement>" and a few other things to get people to talk about themselves.  Not only did it fool a lot of people but a few of them actually considered themselves good friends of it because they needed so badly to talk to someone.  I pulled the plug on it after a while because I was afraid a couple of people were going to get really hurt if they found out it wasn't a real person.  It was amazing how little it took to fool some people and how badly some of them just needed someone to be interested in their life.

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« Reply #93 on: October 16, 2008, 10:19:47 am »
Indeed I have used Eliza a few times here too and had some debate that way with people. They assumed a human was talking to them so that makes it a lot easier to fool them. After a while they did begin to wonder if I was sane though.

In the Turing test, people know that one is a computer and one a real person. That makes it a lot harder.

To be honest I'd say that Elbot would (should) fail a Turing test pretty fast. It's a lot better than Eliza, but it's answers are way too long and formal. Maybe they had a better version at the contest.
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« Reply #94 on: October 17, 2008, 10:51:19 am »
Not only did it fool a lot of people but a few of them actually considered themselves good friends of it because they needed so badly to talk to someone.  I pulled the plug on it after a while because I was afraid a couple of people were going to get really hurt if they found out it wasn't a real person.  It was amazing how little it took to fool some people and how badly some of them just needed someone to be interested in their life.
Too true, it doesn't take much to fool some people. I used to run a Half-Life server and I usually played such odd hours that the only other people that were awake were half way around the world with ---smurfy--- lag or insomniacs. So I installed a couple of bot plugins to play against when I was online by myself. I spent a few months refining the gaming A.I. and Turing aspects. It wasn't long before the bots turned into wicked opponents prone to "cheating" within the game environment (the bots had a habit of jumping  >:D ) equipped with a every insult I could think of, record, or find. I even worked in responses whenever people brought up the issue of bots. One day I decided to leave the bots activated during peak hours. When I glanced over the logs, the conversations that went on were downright hilarious. Accusations flew between every player (including bots). :laugh2: :laugh2:
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« Reply #95 on: October 17, 2008, 03:01:32 pm »
LMAO I have played against a few bots on CS and im like uh i wonder if if these are real ppl or what

the bots owned ---my bottom--- alot -.-

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« Reply #96 on: October 17, 2008, 03:21:38 pm »
the bots owned ---my bottom--- alot -.-


Be careful how you phrase stuff around here... stuff like this will haunt you.   :laugh2:

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #98 on: October 20, 2008, 01:00:51 pm »

Fighter planes in 1957 carried 24 missles on them?

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« Reply #99 on: October 20, 2008, 03:20:54 pm »
Yeah...and they were known for shooting all of them at the same time too!  ;)
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« Reply #100 on: October 21, 2008, 09:03:56 am »

Eagle three fox one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eightee.... oh crap, I've been hit.

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« Reply #101 on: October 21, 2008, 04:07:23 pm »
Apparently in the Netherlands you can get arrested for stealing virtual goods:

MSNBC: Dutch court convicts 2 of stealing virtual items

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« Reply #102 on: October 21, 2008, 04:33:21 pm »
Keyboards are not secure :o Apparently it's possible to listen in on what you type on a keyboard from up to 20 meters away.

A couple of swiss researchers found several ways to listen in to what is being typed on keybords.

ZDNet: Researchers hack wired keyboards, hijack keystrokes

Website of the researchers:
Compromising electromagnetic emanations of wired keyboards


In fact in the Netherlands they all but banned electric voting machines because of the same reason. It turned out to be reasonably easy to listen in to what people vote on these machines from quite a distance away.
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« Reply #103 on: October 28, 2008, 08:59:49 pm »
I thought the dollar was going up in the exchange rates again, but apparently not enough. Guess that's why people are using their dollars to fold Star Wars origami from:


Amazing Star Wars (and Star Trek) origami made from dollar bills
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« Reply #104 on: October 31, 2008, 01:32:04 pm »
Teen changes her name to CutoutDissection.com

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Two comments.

Its NC.  That explains some of it.

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« Reply #105 on: October 31, 2008, 01:34:02 pm »

Dissecting chicken wings... that's pretty low budget.  Guess what they probably had for lunch that day?

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« Reply #106 on: November 19, 2008, 06:39:22 pm »
Lost Bag Forces Change of Plans for Spacewalks

"Oooops, I accidentally dropped the bag containing the tools we'll need to install the urine into drinking water filter.  I guess the guys on the next mission will have to install it."

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« Reply #107 on: November 20, 2008, 03:38:18 pm »
Good news for next Christmas. If you eat a tad too much turkey you can claim you need two seats your next flight within Canada.

Apparently in Canada disabled people have the right to bring an attendant and that person can travel for free to accompany the disabled person. Now the seriously obese people want in on this deal:
Yahoo: Obese have right to 2 airline seats

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The saying for something like that would be "only in America", but I guess Canada wants to "belong" too.

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« Reply #108 on: November 24, 2008, 01:30:43 pm »
Lost Bag Forces Change of Plans for Spacewalks

"Oooops, I accidentally dropped the bag containing the tools we'll need to install the urine into drinking water filter.  I guess the guys on the next mission will have to install it."
They haven't fixed the urine recycling unit yet  :P

Space shuttle astronauts in race against time to fix recycling system that converts urine to drinking water
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« Reply #109 on: November 26, 2008, 02:08:58 pm »
It must be a zero gravity thing, because the engineers who designed it on Earth using lab rats to test/drink the water didn't have any problems with it. 

There’s just no other reason why the astronauts who can keep a station worth billions of dollars functioning in space can't get the urine recycler to work.

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« Reply #110 on: November 26, 2008, 02:11:16 pm »
There’s just no other reason why the astronauts who can keep a station worth billions of dollars functioning in space can't get the urine recycler to work.

What, you never pretended the broccoli cooker was broken so you didn't have to eat broccoli?

"Please, let's get the urine recycler fixed pronto, I want to drink your urine!" 

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« Reply #111 on: November 26, 2008, 02:25:21 pm »
It must be a zero gravity thing, because the engineers who designed it on Earth using lab rats to test/drink the water didn't have any problems with it. 

There’s just no other reason why the astronauts who can keep a station worth billions of dollars functioning in space can't get the urine recycler to work.


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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #112 on: November 26, 2008, 02:28:54 pm »

I think HAL is wrong on this one, myself.

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #113 on: November 26, 2008, 02:39:23 pm »
Yeah, I found it a bit peculiar too, but then I never designed anything let alone for zero G. The problem is with the centrifuge, that would be a thing that is affected by such a change in gravity.

Anyway they claim it's finally fixed

They also installed a second toilet  :P
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« Reply #114 on: November 26, 2008, 02:49:46 pm »

$250 million dollars for that device?  Jesus Christ.  Did Bush design it himself or something?

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #115 on: November 26, 2008, 06:08:00 pm »
Shocking considering Dean Kamen designed one that costs about $1100.
Yeah yeah... it's not designed for space use, but come on... that guy's brain is bigger than all of nasa. Throw a few bucks his way and have him design a space worthy version...

http://www.esquire.com/features/dean-kamen-1208



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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #116 on: November 28, 2008, 06:17:45 pm »
Not really news, but an ad for the Bruce Lee edition Nokia N96 phone. The ad features Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchucks:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqGQ72bre30&eurl[/youtube]
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« Reply #117 on: November 28, 2008, 06:25:41 pm »
Oh and a bit late perhaps, but the two faced kitty was cute too:



Sadly it died a while later.

ps I was searching for an english link for this story and I was amazed how often this actually happens (found several stories of cats with two faces and even a human baby with two faces)
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« Reply #118 on: December 01, 2008, 01:28:21 pm »

$250 million dollars for that device?  Jesus Christ.  Did Bush design it himself or something?

Maybe that's including how much they'll have to pay the astronauts to drink it.

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #120 on: December 10, 2008, 05:38:18 pm »
In Catalonia they have a wacky Christmas tradition of having statues of pooping people around.  If a pooping Obama doesn't say "Christmas spirit" then I don't know what does  :angel:

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« Reply #121 on: December 15, 2008, 08:24:53 am »
This woman must be the ultimate arcade fan with MsPacman tattooed on her head:

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« Reply #122 on: December 18, 2008, 05:05:48 pm »
Hope this is not too political, but in a Chinese zoo there is a male couple of "gay" penguins trying to become fathers. They try to steal eggs from the hetero couples ;D

Gay penguins steal eggs from straight couples
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« Reply #123 on: January 10, 2009, 06:47:03 pm »
Toyota Prius saves the day:

A guy in Massachusetts used his Prius and a power inverter to power his house during a power outage caused by a snow storm.

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« Reply #124 on: January 20, 2009, 04:36:24 am »
Toyota Prius saves the day:

A guy in Massachusetts used his Prius and a power inverter to power his house during a power outage caused by a snow storm.

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Autobloggreen: Prius generates power in Massachusetts snowstorm


If they'd make the effort to put the power lines in the ground (like with us) they wouldn't have power failing so often. My uncle and aunt live in MA, and EACH season they experience power failure(s), all due to power lines still being run through the air.

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« Reply #125 on: January 20, 2009, 03:04:47 pm »
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« Reply #126 on: February 06, 2009, 05:23:58 pm »
Not sure if this is a global campaign, but Heineken has this ad about a couple showing off their new house. The women are screaming about the walk in closet and then they hear the men screaming too. Turns out they have a walk-in Heineken fridge.

Some Dutch students took it upon themselves to modify their flat and create a spoof of this ad
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPwkmX5GcCc[/youtube]

If you haven't seen the commercial. It's funny:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ZZreXEqSY[/youtube]
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« Reply #127 on: February 07, 2009, 09:06:32 am »
Damn, I could have built my gameroom like that ;) !

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« Reply #128 on: February 09, 2009, 01:45:53 pm »
lol the girl with the pacman on her head ........ EWW  @_@

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #129 on: February 12, 2009, 02:50:42 pm »
The end of free speech in the UK ?

Have the Brits become wimps afraid of muslim retaliation ?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/12/far-right-dutch-mp-ban-islam

I do not agree with 95% this guy says, but freedom of speech is the very essence of a democratic country.

I think we should call back our ambassador.

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #130 on: February 12, 2009, 03:45:56 pm »
Indeed that's rather whacky, although also maybe more PnR material.

Still, sort of on the same subject, I thought it was rather funny when Pat Condell gave one of his rants about the Dutch whimping out when the law was changed to make it illegal to ridicule religion (actually that didn't happen, but indeed that was the word that got out) I'd like to hear him him now on how wimpy his own government is to not even let a guy visit the country because "he's protesting against the violence of muslims and that might upset some muslims".
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« Reply #131 on: February 12, 2009, 03:53:59 pm »
Good find. Pat is right though.

I think we should be able to keep this out of PnR. It's about a basic right in the civilized world.

Again, I don't agree with Wilders. But I strongly believe in his right to say what he wants in the EC.

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« Reply #132 on: February 12, 2009, 04:34:30 pm »
Again, I don't agree with Wilders. But I strongly believe in his right to say what he wants in the EC.
Indeed and this whole thing just works against the people who want to shut him up. It only makes Wilders more popular. Even people who could care less for him understand that there is something severely wrong when Wilders cannot claim that the quran preaches violence, even while the insulted muslims have protests stating that Wilders (or even all Dutch people) should be killed.

I wonder if anyone in the UK actually noticed that this whole thing was happening though. I really doubt it was as big a deal there as it was here.
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #133 on: February 13, 2009, 04:19:18 pm »
Pat Condell updated his site. He's not so kind to the UK government either  :P

BTW that site might be NSFW due to strong language
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« Reply #134 on: February 24, 2009, 05:27:06 am »
Allrighty finally some wacky news again:

Letter from NJ to Ore. woman takes 22-year route

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An Oregon woman finally received an invitation to her nephew's high school graduation in New Jersey, but she may be a little late — it was in 1987
Lol, that must have been a surprise.



Ok the Sun isn't really a quality news paper, but for wacky news that doesn't rally matter:
Cat-boy can see in the dark

Apparently a chinese kid has developed natural night vision. He can read a book in "total" darkness and his eyes "glow" like those of a cat. I would have guessed his name was Riddick, but it isn't. If something like this would have happened ages ago he might have started a new human race of nighthunters.
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« Reply #135 on: February 24, 2009, 09:39:23 am »
Hm.... I'm dubious. The Sun probably just got it wrong and the kid has good low light vision, which isn't the same thing.

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« Reply #136 on: February 24, 2009, 09:54:55 am »
Hm.... I'm dubious. The Sun probably just got it wrong and the kid has good low light vision, which isn't the same thing.

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Far as I know you can't see without any light -- cat or human. Low light yes, no light no.
Indeed, they probably mean "really really low light" or "with no lights on", but then "complete darkness" sounds cooler. The Sun is not really a quality paper though. To be honest it's the only source I could find for this story, so it might very well be completely made up altogether. But then this is wacky news, and though maybe fake, it's wacky  :P
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« Reply #137 on: February 25, 2009, 01:57:17 pm »

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« Reply #138 on: February 25, 2009, 02:48:22 pm »
It's still crazy when it happens in your "backyard"...

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/25/turkish.plane.amsterdam/index.html

I drive a LOT around that area. 
The only thing I wonder about is why there were 3 dead crew in the cockpit....you'd expect only 2 in the cockpit during landing right ?

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« Reply #139 on: February 25, 2009, 03:04:24 pm »
It's still crazy when it happens in your "backyard"...

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/25/turkish.plane.amsterdam/index.html

I drive a LOT around that area. 
The only thing I wonder about is why there were 3 dead crew in the cockpit....you'd expect only 2 in the cockpit during landing right ?

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« Reply #140 on: February 25, 2009, 03:19:06 pm »
Yeah, they left the bodies of the crew-members until only  a couple of hours ago for investigation.......standard procesure probably but still.....

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« Reply #141 on: February 25, 2009, 05:49:29 pm »
It's still crazy when it happens in your "backyard"...
Indeed, I live right next to Schiphol. Also, my (then) wife's twin brother lived in the Bijlmer building that was struck. Friend of mine was one of the few survivers of the SLM flight. Just about his whole soccer team died.

It's like you always know someone who was on or near a flight when something goes wrong ...
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« Reply #142 on: February 26, 2009, 07:09:22 am »
The only thing I wonder about is why there were 3 dead crew in the cockpit....you'd expect only 2 in the cockpit during landing right ?

http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/3343166/__Piloten_verpletterd_in_cockpit__.html?p=1,1
Apparently there were one pilot and two co-pilots in the cockpit. Maybe one of the co-polits was a trainee or one of them was going back home? Indeed I doubt they had three crew on active duty.
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« Reply #143 on: February 26, 2009, 05:20:54 pm »
4 of the people who died were Americans. Not identified yet....

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« Reply #144 on: February 26, 2009, 08:04:05 pm »
4 of the people who died were Americans. Not identified yet....
Odd, a plane crashes in the Netherlands and 4 Americans and 5 Turks are killed. Most people died in the cockpit and tail section (which I thought was supposed to be safest).

6 people are still in critical situation though. Lets hope they pull through.

7 americans were on board among which 4 (or even all 7) were Boeing personel. There were 60 Dutch and 51 Turks on board.

A lunatic religious group was going to protest the funerals because they think the Dutch are scum of the earth (for allowing same sex marriages) and to make us see that we called this upon ourselves. Wonder if they are going to come still. Not much point if no Dutch people died. There is probably not even going to be a funeral in the Netherlands.
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« Reply #145 on: February 27, 2009, 02:42:18 pm »
Tail is often said to be "safest" but this time it hit the ground first I guess....and the hardest probably. The tearing off didn't help either.

The pilots were killed because instrument panels were pushed up to the front because of the impact...Damn, squashed to death....must have been a terrible sight...

In all honesty the 60 Dutch could well be a lot of Turkish people that live here and have the Dutch nationality or those whose parents are Turkish.

Not that it matters.

Turkish pilot association blames tail turbulence of a previous plane. Funny how the Turks claim all kinds of things without knowing any of the facts yet. First they claimed all aboard survived, now this. All trying to shift blame I bet. Fact is it has had repairs not long ago. Pretty sure the black-box data will tell the story.

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« Reply #146 on: February 27, 2009, 04:13:52 pm »
More in line with the whacky news which this thread is supposed to be about, one guy who survived the plane crash, had just survived another plane "crash" a week earlier in Istanbul. Surviving 2 plane crashes in a week. That has to be a record.
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #147 on: February 27, 2009, 05:53:49 pm »
Competing beer brand Bavaria has a reply to Heineken's walk in fridge:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcm9oGBrNKA#[/youtube]
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« Reply #148 on: February 27, 2009, 06:04:08 pm »
Damn, you beat me to it ! Just saw it on TV and thought Heineken had made a follow-up initially. This is freaking awesome, well done Bavaria !!!!  :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

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« Reply #149 on: March 29, 2009, 05:02:03 pm »
Haven't found much (funny) whacky news recently, but this one got some chuckles from me:

A list of silly things that Brits complain about when they go on vacation:
20 ridiculous complaints made by holidaymakers

I'm missing the one where they ---smurfette--- about their skin going all red after they sat outside in the sun all day :P
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« Reply #150 on: April 14, 2009, 08:43:02 pm »
A Two Inch Fir Tree Removed From Man's Lung

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« Reply #151 on: April 24, 2009, 08:07:42 pm »
Part 2 in the Heineken walk in fridge series:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOvoO6eQDms&feature[/youtube]

Not as funny, but still, I'd love to have one.
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #152 on: June 13, 2009, 03:27:05 am »
Haven't seen much whacky news lately, but did see another commercial:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU6HaTkAJtQ[/youtube]
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #153 on: July 01, 2009, 01:33:01 pm »

Wow.  That was a lot of effort for a commercial with pretty much nothing to sell.  WTF was that advertising?

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« Reply #154 on: July 01, 2009, 01:53:51 pm »

Wow.  That was a lot of effort for a commercial with pretty much nothing to sell.  WTF was that advertising?

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #155 on: July 01, 2009, 01:59:03 pm »

That is the url at the end of the commercial...

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« Reply #156 on: July 03, 2009, 01:07:23 pm »
New Yorker is a clothes store chain. Didn't realize that it's only in Europe.
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« Reply #157 on: July 04, 2009, 02:39:25 pm »
Not sure if this is a hoax or these guys really are insane, but it's a prank where they put a airbag in the couch:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv3lc0DlQoI[/youtube]
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #158 on: July 10, 2009, 06:12:41 am »
Another silly commercial. Microsoft is coming with Office 2010 ... the movie

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUawhjxLS2I[/youtube]

I guess the dialogs are not very funny, but I admire the way they worked out the concept.
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #159 on: July 10, 2009, 01:12:07 pm »
Virginia Nudist Camp to Stage Largest Simultaneous Skinny Dip

The story is a little on the wacky side but what gets me is the last sentence of the article.

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The resort will have a display of antique and customized cars on Sunday.


"Hey Honey, I'm going to check out a 68 Charger.   ...Where are the clean beach towels?"

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« Reply #160 on: July 11, 2009, 06:56:31 pm »
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #161 on: August 16, 2009, 05:00:14 am »
Research shows "Pakistani students not that bright". Or at least this testsubject clearly isn't:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w60Sxop5I38[/youtube]

Skip to 0:30
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #162 on: August 19, 2009, 09:53:49 am »

How the hell did he break that with so little force? 

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« Reply #163 on: August 19, 2009, 10:05:04 am »
I think because of where he hit it. What a tard.

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« Reply #164 on: August 19, 2009, 02:44:57 pm »
I just can't get over how he imagined that ramming his head through it would be the best solution.
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #165 on: August 19, 2009, 03:18:16 pm »
Just feels fake to me. I don't know why. Unfortunately, ever since that "Wanted" viral campaign, I question most videos.

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #166 on: August 20, 2009, 01:28:55 am »

That one has been floating around the net for years...

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« Reply #167 on: August 20, 2009, 09:48:24 am »
Which one?

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #168 on: August 20, 2009, 12:32:18 pm »

The office freakout vid.

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« Reply #169 on: August 20, 2009, 12:34:02 pm »

That one has been floating around the net for years...

Only slightly over a year old, but I was using it as an example of fake videos anyway.

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« Reply #170 on: August 20, 2009, 12:35:34 pm »

I remember seeing that a few years ago and quite a few times over the years since.  That is definitely more than a year old.  The overlay must be added on.

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« Reply #171 on: August 20, 2009, 01:14:01 pm »
Nope, that video is a piece of viral advertising for the movie Wanted. It was made last year.

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« Reply #172 on: August 20, 2009, 02:09:28 pm »

I doubt that unless they laid it out to look exactly like one that has been floating around for quite a while.  That has been around way before 2008.

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« Reply #173 on: August 20, 2009, 02:46:58 pm »

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« Reply #174 on: August 20, 2009, 02:57:27 pm »

I'm not arguing against the fact that someone used it - that much is demonstrable - I'm saying it's not original to their usage.  It wouldn't be the first time someone took a net floater and used it to push some product.

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« Reply #175 on: August 20, 2009, 03:14:55 pm »
The video in the first link shows hidden camera footage and alternate angles.

Quote from the second link:
"But now it appears that the video was a hoax.

Russian director Timur Bekmambetov says he created it and used it as a viral email to publicise his latest movie, ‘Wanted’."


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« Reply #176 on: August 20, 2009, 03:22:58 pm »
Anyone else thinking "Chad, shut up!"   ???

There are plenty of office freakout vids. You're confused, Chad.


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« Reply #177 on: August 20, 2009, 03:25:12 pm »
Anyone else thinking "Chad, shut up!"   ???

There are plenty of office freakout vids. You're confused, Chad.


No, I'm not, that one is too similar.  What do you expect the director to say?  You really think he's going to say "I saw a vid that floated around in 2004 and copied it thinking nobody would remember it"?

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« Reply #178 on: August 20, 2009, 03:26:48 pm »
This is a well known fake, but since CHHHHHAAAAAAADDDD didn't know, we must all be wrong.

Come on, Chad.

Those videos don't disappear, so find the one you're talking about. I don't doubt there's a similar one, but your first accusation was that this was just an old video with a new time stamp.

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« Reply #179 on: August 20, 2009, 03:33:43 pm »

Yes, it was, and that I was wrong on.  It looks so similar though that it can't be a coincedence.  Even the guy's path through the cubes, the layout of the cubes, and the actions he takes are nearly identical.  Everyone with me that saw the first one figured it was a student film project that went viral or something because there was never any associated news items. 

And no, I'm not going looking for it, because I don't particularly care if any of you agree with me.   ;D

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« Reply #180 on: August 20, 2009, 03:36:43 pm »
And no, I'm not going looking for it, because I don't particularly care if any of you agree with me.   ;D
Six posts by you says that you do.
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« Reply #181 on: August 20, 2009, 03:43:08 pm »
Six posts by you says that you do.


Actually, they say that I'm bored.  And now it's 7. 

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« Reply #182 on: August 20, 2009, 03:57:24 pm »
Whacky news unfolding here on the BYOAC "form as we speak"  :P
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« Reply #183 on: August 20, 2009, 04:00:19 pm »
BTW talking about fakes, is this for real?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV-BmD8B3Iw[/youtube]

Ah ok, it's from the movie? Cool.
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« Reply #184 on: August 20, 2009, 04:05:25 pm »

Cool, but I'm pretty sure parts of the female lead are fake.   :)

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« Reply #185 on: August 20, 2009, 04:40:21 pm »
Here we go again....

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« Reply #186 on: September 03, 2009, 07:52:18 am »
Time for some proper whacky news again.

Canton judge orders silence in the court — with duct tape



Judge has a defendant's mouth duct taped because he won't shut up  :laugh2:

The article also has audio of the hearing.

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« Reply #187 on: September 03, 2009, 10:36:03 am »

 :cheers:

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« Reply #188 on: September 06, 2009, 02:47:40 pm »
Russian guy catches a freaky fish. Drops it and runs home, comes to collect it the next day. Lol.



Fish With Human Teeth Caught in Russia
(BTW this site might be NSFW in the US as it is a European site)

Another picture on the website of the German Bild magazine: Fisch mit Menschenzähnen in russischem See gefangen? (BTW this site might be NSFW in the US as it is a European site)

Apparantly this is not that uncommon, but still, it looks kinda freaky :)
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« Reply #189 on: September 07, 2009, 02:43:06 am »
Robbery suspects recorded on Google Streetview

A kid was robbed of some money and a cellphone. Probably just after a Google Streetview camera car passed. A few months later he sees the guys back on Google Streetview and he goes to the police.



Robbery Suspects Nabbed By Google's Camera

BTW that kid must be really happy he has a last name like that!
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« Reply #190 on: September 07, 2009, 03:28:27 pm »
Not really news, but it's amazing what people are thinking when they go on stage for these "talent" shows.

Fouad moved from France to the UK to start his singing career. For the X Factor judges he performs a very unique interpretation of Mariah Carey's "Vision of Love" and "Hero"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9MXX4eXqCo[/youtube]

He looks like a perfect character for a new Sacha Baron Cohen movie ... Arabian French Homosexual leaves France to persue a singing career in the UK. On his way to the top he suffers prejudice and misunderstandings.

BTW a while ago I also saw a Bulgarian women doing a Mariah Carey song called "Ken Lee"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo[/youtube]
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« Reply #191 on: September 28, 2009, 05:57:06 pm »
A few days ago it was peace day in Afghanistan. Unfortunately even peace has it's casualties ...

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« Reply #192 on: October 29, 2009, 05:48:42 pm »
Ever wanted to own your own missile silo? Now is your chance to rule the world!

ebay Titan 2 Missile Silo base located in North Central Arkansas

Only $150,0000. Previous owner did some damage to the entryway, but it's a steal.
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« Reply #193 on: October 31, 2009, 01:09:07 am »
Ever wanted to own your own missile silo? Now is your chance to rule the world!

ebay Titan 2 Missile Silo base located in North Central Arkansas

Only $150,0000. Previous owner did some damage to the entryway, but it's a steal.

That could be cool. The kids could have their very own real missile base fort. Looks like nice land.
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« Reply #194 on: November 02, 2009, 10:17:27 am »

I bet that place is riddled with contaminated soil and hazardous materials.  There has to be a reason the guy didn't ever bother excavating the site to see what is down there.  I think I remember this having been for sale in the past and getting passed around the net.  I wonder if this is the same seller or the sucker that guy offloaded onto.

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« Reply #195 on: November 02, 2009, 11:32:23 am »
What a great place to survive the Zombie Apocalypse though...  hmm...

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« Reply #196 on: November 02, 2009, 12:06:04 pm »
You can grow basketball-size tomatoes in that soil.

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« Reply #197 on: November 02, 2009, 02:03:24 pm »
You can grow basketball-size tomatoes in that soil.
See, the offer gets better all the time  :P
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« Reply #198 on: November 02, 2009, 02:06:37 pm »
Imagine the gameroom you could have...   :o

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« Reply #199 on: November 02, 2009, 02:33:10 pm »
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« Reply #200 on: November 02, 2009, 06:09:57 pm »
The crisis is still hitting hard in Iceland. McDonald's pulls out of Iceland and since then:Thousands line up for last Big Mac in Iceland.

Lol, guess it's too late now, but at least McDonalds went out with a bang :)
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« Reply #201 on: November 03, 2009, 09:10:04 am »

McDonald's just did them a favor.  Eventually they will realize that.

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« Reply #202 on: November 03, 2009, 09:20:54 am »
I don't touch McDonald's. Haven't had it in many years. Gave up on BK a while back, after all four of us that ate there got violently ill and missed a week of work.

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« Reply #203 on: November 03, 2009, 09:22:11 am »

I rarely eat fast food at a chain but gave up on BK the day they made their fries into lactose sticks of death.

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« Reply #204 on: November 03, 2009, 09:34:10 am »
Yeah, I try to avoid it at all costs. Especially because of the cost (it takes a toll on your health and your wallet!).

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« Reply #205 on: November 03, 2009, 09:44:04 am »
Never understood why McDonald's is so popular. I kinda like BK though. Indeed not the fries, but the Double Whopper with bacon and cheese is nice.

McDonald's is clever with the toys. My kid sees that on TV and wants to go there. Of course then the whole family spends money there. I don't like McDonalds so he just has to suck it up and BK has toys too, but still. It does work.

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« Reply #206 on: November 03, 2009, 09:55:41 am »
I kinda like BK though. Indeed not the fries, but the Double Whopper with bacon and cheese is nice.

I used to. I loved their burgers, but then spent a week spewing from both ends and decided not to go back.

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« Reply #207 on: November 03, 2009, 10:49:21 am »
Never understood why McDonald's is so popular. I kinda like BK though. Indeed not the fries, but the Double Whopper with bacon and cheese is nice.

McDonald's is clever with the toys. My kid sees that on TV and wants to go there. Of course then the whole family spends money there. I don't like McDonalds so he just has to suck it up and BK has toys too, but still. It does work.
Answered your own question there. We're "converted" as kids. That combined with McD putting a location in absolutely everywhere. You can drive somewhere, come upon a small town with "nothing" in it, yet it will have a McDonald's. They are everywhere.
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« Reply #208 on: November 03, 2009, 10:58:33 am »
That combined with McD putting a location in absolutely everywhere. You can drive somewhere, come upon a small town with "nothing" in it, yet it will have a McDonald's. They are everywhere.


We have a McDonalds in the parking lot of our Walmart....and a McDonalds inside Walmart.

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« Reply #209 on: November 03, 2009, 11:11:17 am »
I liked McDonald's fries before 1990... when they were still fried in beef tallow.   :D

We had a BK and McD's side by side...  I would get a Whopper from BK, go next door and get fries from McD's...

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« Reply #210 on: November 03, 2009, 12:54:59 pm »

There is a McD's inside Gillette Stadium.  Everything there is $2 more than normal.  There is a McD's 500 yards from Gillette Stadium, too.

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« Reply #211 on: December 13, 2009, 01:11:24 pm »
One of those locations has a captive audience.  :)   Well, their rent is probably a lot higher too, to be fair.
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« Reply #212 on: December 14, 2009, 03:51:37 pm »
One of those locations has a drunk as hell audience.  :)   Well, their rent is probably a lot higher too, to be fair.

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« Reply #213 on: March 03, 2010, 10:59:16 pm »
Most fast food is terrible, not just in terms of taste preference, but in the quality of meat and other food staples involved in making the meals. 

It has been a while since I looked it up, but at last check McDonald's came in dead last in terms of the quality of beef and other meats they order and the freshness of their vegetables.  Highest on the list are restaurants like Wendy's and BK.  (Those two constantly trade places in the top spot.) While the top chains serve food that is considered quite edible by most nutritonalists standards, chains towards the bottom are barely fit for human consumption. 

So next time your kid wants to go to McD's tell them.  "Not a chance because I love you and don't want to slowly kill you.  Ronald McDonald IS Hitler." ;)

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« Reply #214 on: March 07, 2010, 03:54:19 pm »
Wendy's may use higher quality ingredients than McD, but it is still pretty damned awful.  Five Guy's seems pretty good, though I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack after every time I eat there.
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« Reply #215 on: March 18, 2010, 11:57:31 am »
Wendy's may use higher quality ingredients than McD, but it is still pretty damned awful.  Five Guy's seems pretty good, though I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack after every time I eat there.
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« Reply #216 on: March 26, 2010, 06:30:24 pm »
A long time ago (hopefully the NDA has expired) I did some cabling at one of the plants that makes pattys for McD's.  Big bins of meat -- Steaks -- Come in in big tubs, get dumped into a grinder, and come out the other end of the machine flash frozen.

No fillers.  No spices.  All meat.

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« Reply #217 on: March 27, 2010, 06:32:54 pm »
Ed . . . I'm not sure exactly that that is supposed to mean.  But the quality of McDonald's meat is terrible.  I don't even have to worry about NDAs to tell you how I know this -- I didn't have to sign one before putting a McDonald's burger in my mouth.
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« Reply #218 on: March 27, 2010, 06:42:47 pm »
Ed . . . I'm not sure exactly that that is supposed to mean.  But the quality of McDonald's meat is terrible.  I don't even have to worry about NDAs to tell you how I know this -- I didn't have to sign one before putting a McDonald's burger in my mouth.
Why is the quality of the meat terrible? Healt hazzard "terrible" or simply tasteless or something?

Their point is that the meat is plain meat and the way they prepare their patties, it's obviously meant to be an "ingredient" rather that the main item. They make cheap burgers and yeah, the meat is not supposed to stand out on it's own.
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« Reply #219 on: March 28, 2010, 04:25:33 pm »
What about all those rumours about them mixing in corn meal?
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« Reply #220 on: March 31, 2010, 09:30:31 am »
Just came across a clip of a guy who gets attacked by a swarm of butterflies:

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« Reply #221 on: March 31, 2010, 09:34:20 am »
On the topic of meat quality in fast food:

AN East Lancashire takeaway has become the first in the country to sell zebra pizzas

I guess it's just what you think is weird though. In Australia they have Kangaroo burgers :)
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« Reply #222 on: April 06, 2010, 09:53:40 am »
Women try to take body on plane at Liverpool airport
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« Reply #223 on: April 06, 2010, 06:38:30 pm »
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« Reply #224 on: April 07, 2010, 11:38:24 am »
Their mistake was trying to sneak him on so they could avoid the overhead storage fee (http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/04/07/cash-carry-spirit-airlines-charge-luggage-overhead-bins/?test=latestnews)
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« Reply #225 on: April 07, 2010, 11:39:52 am »
Their mistake was trying to sneak him on so they could avoid the overhead storage fee (http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/04/07/cash-carry-spirit-airlines-charge-luggage-overhead-bins/?test=latestnews)

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« Reply #226 on: April 08, 2010, 03:42:13 pm »
Finally evidence that cats share a common ancestor with humans:
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« Reply #227 on: April 15, 2010, 04:05:42 am »
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« Reply #228 on: April 23, 2010, 12:52:13 pm »
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« Reply #229 on: April 25, 2010, 05:31:13 pm »
Lol, clever.

Guess wacky robberies are a new thing. I came across this one



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« Reply #230 on: May 07, 2010, 07:08:25 pm »
Man arrested for growing pot in TV

Guy was arrested for growing marijuana in a hollowed out big screen TV. Guess people noticed that the TV image was changing really slowly.


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« Reply #231 on: May 09, 2010, 02:06:51 am »

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WTF?

The reasoning that leads them to conclude that he was scratching his nose is bombastically stupid.  It goes like this:

1. Guy shoots himself in the head.
2. No suicide note
3. Therefore, he must have been scratching an itch on his nose with his gun and then accidentally pulled the trigger.

Nobody saw anything.  They just went in and found a guy who killed himself but didn't leave a suicide note.
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« Reply #232 on: May 09, 2010, 05:28:39 am »
Yeah, not sure whether the police "investigation" or the headline is the wackiest  :P
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« Reply #233 on: May 19, 2010, 08:42:36 pm »
Maybe it -really- itched?
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« Reply #234 on: May 20, 2010, 11:12:23 am »
Hail storm in Oklahoma City.
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« Reply #235 on: June 08, 2010, 04:00:56 pm »
^This hail-storm was not fun. I was out driving when it hit (and hit....and hit.....and hit....)

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« Reply #236 on: June 08, 2010, 07:36:44 pm »
That was an interesting day to say the least that's for sure.
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« Reply #240 on: June 11, 2010, 07:53:35 pm »
Apparently the latest craze in China ... Tiger dogs and Panda dogs:

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This would look like something that could only happen in Japan and it seems like it started there first.
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« Reply #241 on: July 07, 2010, 02:46:47 pm »
Maybe they're disguising their dogs in the hopes that people stop eating them?

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #242 on: July 17, 2010, 08:17:45 am »
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #243 on: July 23, 2010, 07:50:15 am »
Bankrobbers are getting more and more creative when robbing banks. A few days ago someone tried to rob a bank with a bouqet of flowers, but now they spotted Darth Vader robbing a bank ...

Darth Vader Robs Bank

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #244 on: August 19, 2010, 10:48:02 am »

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #245 on: August 19, 2010, 11:55:37 am »
Guy I went to school with caught rubbing one out in the cemetery, car chase ensues. :lol
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #246 on: September 02, 2010, 12:34:47 pm »
Giant size nuclear accelerator (AKA Catscan) on Ebay for $17.5 mill. Get 7 Lamborghinis FREE!

http://autos.sympatico.ca/advice-guides/5702/buy-a-nuclear-accelerator-get-seven-lamborghinis

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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #247 on: October 03, 2010, 12:21:52 pm »
My name is not Patrick but here is some wacky new:

Surprise bonus in loaf of bread

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/09/29/oh_look_theres_a_mouse_in_my_bread/
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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #248 on: October 03, 2010, 01:02:00 pm »
My name is not Patrick but here is some wacky new:

Surprise bonus in loaf of bread


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Re: Patrickl's whacky news
« Reply #249 on: October 06, 2010, 05:05:25 pm »
Seen the episode of The Office where Michael follows GPS directions into a pond? 

Woman follows GPS into swamp:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/gps-to-ontario-driver-make-left-turn-into-swamp-wait-on-roof-for-an-hour-104440074.html
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