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yellowdingo, Thu, Jun 4, 2009, 02:03 AM

I guess all those Hummers riding into Afghanistan next year will be filled with Chinese Troops

Aberzombie (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Thu, Jun 4, 2009, 03:59 AM

Here comes the Army of the 12 Monkeys...

ANIMAL RIGHTS TERRORISM ON THE RISE IN U.S.

Cuchulainn, Thu, Jun 4, 2009, 05:04 AM

Spending too much time at the strip-club? Maybe you need a good kick-to-the-head...

Shadowborn, Thu, Jun 4, 2009, 08:16 AM

Cuchulainn wrote:

Spending too much time at the strip-club? Maybe you need a good kick-to-the-head...

The tone at the end of the article makes it sound like they're downplaying the incident. I don't care if she was only 5'1". A fit, in-shape dancer kicking you with a heavy platform heel? That could do some damage if she connects in the right spot. Given the layouts of those clubs, his head was probably in the right spot to get kicked...

In other news, here's one of those what the heck were you thinking?! stories.

Andrew Turner (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Fiction, GameMastery Maps Subscriber), Thu, Jun 4, 2009, 04:21 PM

This Porn's for You

Shadowborn, Thu, Jun 4, 2009, 07:06 PM

Andrew Turner wrote:

This Porn's for You

That was pretty funny. It doesn't make me want to drink Bud Light, but it was entertaining.

Andrew Turner (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Fiction, GameMastery Maps Subscriber), Sat, Jun 6, 2009, 09:51 PM

Shoplifter Throws Baby At Cop

I can't possibly imagine what was going through her mind.

Adam Daigle (Contributor), Sat, Jun 6, 2009, 11:45 PM

Andrew Turner wrote:

I can't possibly imagine what was going through her mind.

Probably, "I don't wanna go to jail. I don't wanna go to jail."

I'm curious what she shoplifted, because if it was formula, that would be pretty ironic.

Shadowborn, Sun, Jun 7, 2009, 10:56 AM

Daigle wrote:

Andrew Turner wrote:

I can't possibly imagine what was going through her mind.

Probably, "I don't wanna go to jail. I don't wanna go to jail."

I'm curious what she shoplifted, because if it was formula, that would be pretty ironic.

Well, it does say at the end of the article that another woman, the child's mother, was also charged. So at least it wasn't the mother of the baby that threw her.

Set, Sun, Jun 7, 2009, 01:15 PM

People in a good mood see more of the world around them?

Kinda funky, that mood could affect perception in this way.

Disenchanter, Sun, Jun 7, 2009, 04:14 PM

Americas "passed away"-time.

Andrew Turner (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Fiction, GameMastery Maps Subscriber), Sun, Jun 7, 2009, 08:09 PM

Set wrote:

People in a good mood see more of the world around them?

Kinda funky, that mood could affect perception in this way.

Pretty cool. The average brain processes 400,000 bits of data per second, but we're only aware of around 2,000 bits. While the 400,000 includes the smallest details related to autonomic function, etc., you can't help but wonder how much we're really experiencing without knowing it.

Set, Mon, Jun 8, 2009, 07:53 AM

Pakistani villagers get fed up with Taliban fighters after a suicide bombing at a mosque.

I'll be happy to see more stories like this, perhaps with words like 'Palestinians' instead of Pakistani. Foreign fighters from Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc. show up, launch rockets into Israel from the cover of Palestinian communities, and then melt back into the woodwork, leaving the Palestinians to get their homes bulldozed and their people shot in the inevitable response. It's long past time the Palestinians started shooting any whackjob who shows up with a rocket launcher to 'save them' from the Israelis, 'cause it's not their cushy homes in Saudi Arabia that're gonna get targetted for reprisal...

Cuchulainn, Wed, Jun 10, 2009, 05:00 AM

Israel's new robot spy SNAKE?

Cuchulainn, Thu, Jun 11, 2009, 05:04 AM

Hey! What's goin' on? Hey! Whoah! Whooooaaah! Hey, this could be a new look for me...

CourtFool, Thu, Jun 11, 2009, 02:29 PM

President issues get out of class pass to 10-year-old

pres man, Thu, Jun 11, 2009, 07:56 PM

"Conservative" site defends Palin's fight with Letterman.

Aberzombie (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Fri, Jun 12, 2009, 04:19 AM

Porn Industry Hit With 16 Confirmed HIV Cases

Ouch!

Cuchulainn, Fri, Jun 12, 2009, 05:13 AM

pres man wrote:

"Conservative" site defends Palin's fight with Letterman.

N.O.W. defending Sarah Palin?

*Checks thermostat on Hell*

Andrew Turner (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Fiction, GameMastery Maps Subscriber), Fri, Jun 12, 2009, 07:15 AM

High School student a better doctor than her doctors

Every hospital and specialist she's seen in the last few years should return all the fees and bills she's been charged, you know, since she had to do the work herself.

yellowdingo, Sat, Jun 13, 2009, 08:13 AM

spacerock hits kid imparting superpowers

Lucky it hit his wankin hand...now he wont go blind.

yellowdingo, Sat, Jun 13, 2009, 08:25 AM

Cuchulainn wrote:

Hey! What's goin' on? Hey! Whoah! Whooooaaah! Hey, this could be a new look for me...

Yeah! seen this one...Shrinking Betlegeuse going to go bang (are we close enough to be killed or just the Northern hemisphere? If its just the Norhern hemisphere, thats OK.).

Mac Boyce, Sat, Jun 13, 2009, 02:29 PM

Scientists saying Scotty was right about the crystals not being able to take it

Set, Sat, Jun 13, 2009, 05:21 PM

Cuchulainn wrote:

N.O.W. defending Sarah Palin?

*Checks thermostat on Hell*

It's easy to stereotype advocacy groups as being anti-conservative, but then they go and do their jobs, sticking up for the people they've always stuck up for, and it's considered shocking, because they've been demonized by political pundits for so long.

Like when the ACLU filed a brief in defense of Larry Craig, on the basis that if a bathroom stall has a door *and a lock,* it can be reasonably interpreted as not being a 'public space' for the purposes of public indecency laws. Many people would just knee-jerk assume that the ACLU is a 'liberal' organization, as opposed to being a civil liberties organization that will defend a conservative who is, in their eyes, being wronged by what seemed a pretty cut-and-dried case of entrapment and police harassing someone into 'confessing' to avoid trouble, as anyone else.

pres man, Sat, Jun 13, 2009, 08:45 PM

Set wrote:

Cuchulainn wrote:

N.O.W. defending Sarah Palin?

*Checks thermostat on Hell*

It's easy to stereotype advocacy groups as being anti-conservative, but then they go and do their jobs, sticking up for the people they've always stuck up for, and it's considered shocking, because they've been demonized by political pundits for so long.

I just found it humorous that a left-leaning group said something, given how so many other left-leaning organizations were saying that she was making a big deal out of nothing.

houstonderek, Sun, Jun 14, 2009, 12:53 AM

Set wrote:

Cuchulainn wrote:

N.O.W. defending Sarah Palin?

*Checks thermostat on Hell*

It's easy to stereotype advocacy groups as being anti-conservative, but then they go and do their jobs, sticking up for the people they've always stuck up for, and it's considered shocking, because they've been demonized by political pundits for so long.

Too bad they were silent when she was being capped on in September and October leading up to the election. People were saying some pretty greasy stuff about her then, too.

Aberzombie (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Mon, Jun 15, 2009, 03:44 AM

Beauty of the beasts: Swiss cows fight to be queen.

Sarah Palin, Mon, Jun 15, 2009, 08:00 AM

Cuchulainn wrote:

pres man wrote:

"Conservative" site defends Palin's fight with Letterman.

N.O.W. defending Sarah Palin?

*Checks thermostat on Hell*

Well I'll be danged! They like me! They really like me!

yellowdingo, Mon, Jun 15, 2009, 08:05 AM

Aberzombie wrote:

Beauty of the beasts: Swiss cows fight to be queen.

Use to be the bulls fought to death over the right to service the females of the herd. I guess females fighting each other to the death for the right to be on top is what happens when there is a lack of males.

yellowdingo, Mon, Jun 15, 2009, 08:05 AM

Sarah Palin wrote:

Cuchulainn wrote:

pres man wrote:

"Conservative" site defends Palin's fight with Letterman.

N.O.W. defending Sarah Palin?

*Checks thermostat on Hell*

Well I'll be danged! They like me! They really like me!

Look! A bear! and its in Russia!

Aberzombie (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Mon, Jun 15, 2009, 09:12 AM

Umpire ejects entire crowd during baseball game

Cuchulainn, Fri, Jun 19, 2009, 05:05 AM

Cop brandishes gun when his fast food isn't fast enough.

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Planet Stories Subscriber), Fri, Jun 19, 2009, 06:54 PM

Cuchulainn wrote:

Cop brandishes gun when his fast food isn't fast enough.

Burger punk - "Beverage?"
Farva - "Gimme a liter o' cola."
Burger punk - "Liter Cola? Do we sell Liter Cola?"
Rammathorn - "Will you just order a large, Farva..."
Farva - "I don't want a Large Farva. I want a goddamn liter o' cola!"
Burger punk - "I don't know what that is!"
Farva - "Liter is French for give me my f@*~in' cola before I break vous f@*~in' lips!"

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Planet Stories Subscriber), Fri, Jun 19, 2009, 06:58 PM

Airline pilot dies during flight to Newark

World's oldest man dies at age 113

Tensor, Fri, Jun 19, 2009, 07:00 PM

In japan, it is raining tadpoles.

Aberzombie (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Tue, Jun 23, 2009, 04:47 AM

700 NYC teachers are paid to do nothing.

pres man, Tue, Jun 23, 2009, 05:56 AM

Aberzombie wrote:

700 NYC teachers are paid to do nothing.

Talk about needing a gaming group in school. Sitting in a room for months or even years with nothing to do. "Who wants to play D&D!"

yellowdingo, Tue, Jun 23, 2009, 11:06 AM

Kids build Nuclear Reactor

Oh yes, that is worth every bit of it. Freakin Priceless.

here is another site - check out the ads - should you realy be investing in yellowcake at this time.

Tensor, Tue, Jun 23, 2009, 11:26 AM

yellowdingo wrote:

Kids build Nuclear Reactor

Oh yes, that is worth every bit of it. Freakin Priceless.

here is another site - check out the ads - should you realy be investing in yellowcake at this time.

GrrrMans sure are confident about their children's scientific abilities.

Aberzombie (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Wed, Jun 24, 2009, 12:57 PM

Police search for naked french fry thief.

Cuchulainn, Thu, Jun 25, 2009, 05:10 AM

Fighting Global Warming might just take the shirt off your back.

Aberzombie (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Thu, Jun 25, 2009, 05:13 AM

Cuchulainn wrote:

Fighting Global Warming might just take the shirt off your back.

Problem with that is there are waaaayyyy to many people in this world who really shouldn't expose their naked bodies to the rest of humanity. And I include myself in that number.

pres man, Thu, Jun 25, 2009, 05:18 AM

Aberzombie wrote:

Cuchulainn wrote:

Fighting Global Warming might just take the shirt off your back.

Problem with that is there are waaaayyyy to many people in this world who really shouldn't expose their naked bodies to the rest of humanity. And I include myself in that number.

Also it is a bit misleading. They say by going nude they save on laundry bills. But if you have to be dressed to get to the place you are going nude, then you still have to wash those clothes. Also by going nude, unless you want to get skin cancer on vital parts, this means using MORE sunscreen which again, can't be great for the environment as it washes off, not to mention all the pollution made to create it and its containers.

Aberzombie (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Fri, Jun 26, 2009, 05:36 AM

Monkey urinates on Zambian president

Polevoi, Fri, Jun 26, 2009, 04:09 PM

Put on your tinfoil hats the Illuminati is hatching its dirty plots

Aberzombie (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Sun, Jun 28, 2009, 06:22 AM

Under-bite helps Pabst become World's Ugliest Dog

ericthecleric, Mon, Jun 29, 2009, 11:37 AM

Wimbledon bosses deny glamour bias

http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/article.aspx?cp-documentid=148248520

yellowdingo, Mon, Jun 29, 2009, 02:36 PM

Tamiflu declared useless a N1H1 goes drug resistant.

Aberzombie (Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Thu, Jul 2, 2009, 04:05 AM

Flight diverted after passenger undresses in seat

At least they know he wasn't carrying any concealed weapons....

yellowdingo, Thu, Jul 2, 2009, 08:14 AM

midgit wrestlers drugged to death?