March 28, 2024, 05:39:06 pm
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This is one of the biggest WTF clips I saw lately:Women dice with death on M6Two Swedish blond women (twins) want to die on a highway. Police tries to stop them ...
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".
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.
Quote from: http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.2453784.0.0.phpKenyan 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". Why American? Seriously...? The Russians can take care of themselves.
Quote from: patrickl on September 27, 2008, 05:45:31 pmYeah 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 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.
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.
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.
Quote from: SavannahLion on September 28, 2008, 02:13:53 amI 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.
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?
I'd love to debate the topic further, but I don't know exactly what causes a thread to get sent to P&R.
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.
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.
People who want to die are going to find a way. It's not the cops' fault.
I just don't understand why people who want to kill themselves get other people like lorry drivers, train drivers etc. involved.
Why American? Seriously...? The Russians can take care of themselves.
QuoteIn 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?
More whacky news:Ghost haunts gym in Kansas City (captured on surveillance camera)
Quote from: patrickl on September 28, 2008, 03:43:12 pmMore 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.
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.
I love it. Iran decided to solve the pirate problem themselves... they built a Pirate Trap.
More than a little scary that the Iranians might be ferrying nuclear materials around though.
First off, Hoopz is right.
Just curious why this thread got stickied?
Holy cow, this Ohio woman is an udder disgrace!
That's no virgin. That's a busty blonde in a tube top!
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 !
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.
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.
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.
I'd say American airplanes are more dangerous. They're the one who get hijacked or blown up most aren't they?
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".
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 ishttp://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? -.-
If you dont like to REPLY to a QUESTION... then simply DONT READ THEQUESTION!!! AND DONT REPLY !!! ARE YOU SO ANAL THAT YOU CANT STAND A FEW FREAKING WORDS ON A MESSAGE BOARD???!!! Do you even comprehend how Idiotic thatis?!! Basically... You who are like this... need some serious MEDICATION.
“Jamie Lynn believed she couldn’t get pregnant while she was breast-feeding.” “She’d expected to have her period by early September. A home pregnancy test came back positive and Jamie Lynn cried her eyes out. “
"I can never go back to my natural blonde hair," she complains. "I feel fake about that. Also blondes do get more attention than brunettes, of course, emotionally, I miss that."
“Jamie Lynn believed she couldn’t get pregnant while she was breast-feeding.”
Quote from: patrickl on October 09, 2008, 02:54:57 pmQuote“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.
Quote“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.
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).
Quote from: patrickl on October 09, 2008, 04:08:52 pmIt 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).
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.
This poor ChILDhttp://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2008-10-14-baby-politicalname_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
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.
the bots owned ---my bottom--- alot -.-
The Leeuwarden District Court says the culprits, 15 and 14 years old, coerced a 13-year-old boy into transferring a "virtual amulet and a virtual mask" from the online adventure game RuneScape to their game accounts.
Teen changes her name to CutoutDissection.com
The Asheville High School graduate said she began opposing dissections in middle school after a class assignment to cut up a chicken wing made her uncomfortable
people who are "functionally disabled by obesity" deserve to have two seats for one fare
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."
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.
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.
$250 million dollars for that device? Jesus Christ. Did Bush design it himself or something?
According to reports, Mr. Sweeney was able to run "his refrigerator, freezer, TV, woodstove fan and several lights through his Prius, for three days, on roughly five gallons of gas."
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.QuoteAccording to reports, Mr. Sweeney was able to run "his refrigerator, freezer, TV, woodstove fan and several lights through his Prius, for three days, on roughly five gallons of gas."Autobloggreen: Prius generates power in Massachusetts snowstorm
Again, I don't agree with Wilders. But I strongly believe in his right to say what he wants in the EC.
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
Medical tests conducted in complete darkness show Youhui can read perfectly without any light and sees as clearly as most people do during the day.
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.QuoteMedical tests conducted in complete darkness show Youhui can read perfectly without any light and sees as clearly as most people do during the day. Far as I know you can't see without any light -- cat or human. Low light yes, no light no.
It's still crazy when it happens in your "backyard"...http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/25/turkish.plane.amsterdam/index.htmlI 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 ?
It's still crazy when it happens in your "backyard"...
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 ?
4 of the people who died were Americans. Not identified yet....
It is obvious that a five-centimeter branch is too large to be inhaled or swallowed, doctors say. They suggest that the patient might have inhaled a small bud, which then started to grow inside his body.
Wow. That was a lot of effort for a commercial with pretty much nothing to sell. WTF was that advertising?
The resort will have a display of antique and customized cars on Sunday.
A dog started a house fire in Bristol – by dragging a smouldering disposable barbecue from the garden onto the living room sofa.
That one has been floating around the net for years...
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.
Anyone else thinking "Chad, shut up!" There are plenty of office freakout vids. You're confused, Chad.
And no, I'm not going looking for it, because I don't particularly care if any of you agree with me.
Six posts by you says that you do.
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You can grow basketball-size tomatoes in that soil.
I kinda like BK though. Indeed not the fries, but the Double Whopper with bacon and cheese is nice.
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.
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.
One of those locations has a drunk as hell audience. Well, their rent is probably a lot higher too, to be fair.
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.
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.
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)
An armed 23 year old policeman in Moscow fell victim of his own carelessness. He decided to scratch an itchy spot on his nose with a gun and accidentally killed himself, the Moskovsky Komsomolets reports.
QuoteAn armed 23 year old policeman in Moscow fell victim of his own carelessness. He decided to scratch an itchy spot on his nose with a gun and accidentally killed himself, the Moskovsky Komsomolets reports.WTF?
My name is not Patrick but here is some wacky new:Surprise bonus in loaf of bread