Oh my god, I love the Japanese. From the NY Times:

I wish someobdy would do this for me.
I get things done when there's a deadline.

"I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by." -- Douglas Adams

I'm weirded out by the lawsuit!
So they are apparently to blame for not informing patrons of the possibility that someone might decide to put glue on the toilet seat..?!?!

And I thought "May contain nuts" on nut products was ridiculous!

Ain't Amerika Great!

Famous last words of a Red Neck, "Hey Bubba! Watch this!"

More of a human interest story with a strange twist.

'I fell in love with a female assassin'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...in-791978.html

footfootfoot, I read this and thought of you.

Fifth severed foot found on Canadian coast

:lol:

Isn't there an ocean currents guy who can trace those feet back to the shipping container that fell overboard in the Indian Ocean in a storm?

I lost a foot on 9/11.....

You INSENSITIVE bastard! I have 9 toes on one foot and 11 on the other.

20 toes? what size shoes do you wear......?

or.....

so, you can count all the way up to 30?!

Angry puffer fish goes nuts
June 17, 2008 - 3:25PM

Attachment 18332
A puffer fish ... but this one's probably not enraged.


A Cambodian teenager was recovering in hospital after a puffer fish attacked him in the groin, local media reported on Tuesday.

The Khmer-language Koh Santepheap daily ran a picture of the unnamed 13-year-old in a hospital bed with heavy strapping around his testicles, saying he was lucky to be alive.

The paper quoted the boy's father, Sok Ly, as saying the fish had become enraged when it was accidentally trapped in the boy's net and, when it was freed, had attacked the boy's scrotum.

Cambodian legend has it that the bite of the fish is even more dangerous than its poisonous spines, especially for boys, and Cambodian boys are traditionally advised not to swim in waters where the fish is common.

The victim, from Prek Pneuv commune outside Phnom Penh, was expected to recover from yesterday's attack, the paper said, but the extent of the damage had yet to be determined.

~snip~Fifth severed foot found on Canadian coast

"Our first step is to establish identity," ~snip~

lol! No pun intended!
:D

I think bears and wolves are manufacturing and setting leghold traps along hiking trails and scenic overlooks. Trapped humans are chewing off their feet to free themselves.

Six feet under?

or two yardsticks.

What race are the feet?

What ever race it was, I think they lost.

Only by a foot though

not a nose?

Not even a matching pair of feet yet, I bet.

This phenomena happens with my socks. :(

They were under toe'd.

It turns out the sixth foot was a hoax.

Yep it's been reported as a faux pas, a mean feat if there ever was one.

and from the article HLJ linked to:

This would be a great and sick, ad for nike athletic shoes.

Dumb asses didn't know the difference between live ammo and Blanks !!!!
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/tro...677880713.html

Wow, that is some stupid shit. [teh] I went to a performance of Annie Get Your Gun a few nights ago and the actors kept cocking and pointing their weapons at the audience. [ghey]

That is a serious incident and not in any way amusing.
I LOL'd.

"Taking the 'go' out of gonads"

You can't buy XP anymore.

Does that mean my computer is obsolete now and I need to get a new one?

According to Microsoft, yes.

I hear Vista sucks, I am thinking of defecting to Apple MAC.

I like Vista.

As long as it does what you need it to do, that's fine. For you.

But other people, like doctors trying to run a PACS web application to read X-rays remotely, are having the inability to do their job imposed on them. All they can do is hold on to their old PC, cross their fingers and wait for Windows 7. Oh, and hope Windows 7 isn't a piece of crap also.

I'll just keep my OEM XP discs, thanks.

Faceless 'aliens' spotted in crowd at Wimbledon
 

Faceless 'aliens' spotted in crowd at Wimbledon


By Alex Millson


With the blankest of blank expressions on their faces, these mysterious figures have been popping up in the most unlikely of places.


The faceless mutants have a penchant for A-list celebrity bashes and have been spotted at Elton John's White tie ball and Harrods summer sale, opened by Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall.


With a membrane of skin stretched tightly over their eyes, noses and mouths, the alien-like figures were most recently snapped 'watching' a match perched on Murray Mount at Wimbledon.



http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...32_468x286.jpg Eerie: The faceless figures watch a spot of Wimbledon on Murray Mount.





http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...45_468x286.jpg Court on camera: The pair sit in on a match, where most of the crowd are too absorbed by the game to notice them.


Close inspection of the pictures rules out an alien invasion - small perforations around the eye areas of the masks allow the people beneath to see the world outside.


But nobody knows who the faceless figures, who often appear as motionless couples are, or why they are turning up at high profile events.


Theories include the possibilities that they are limelight-seeking pranksters, performance artists or that they are at the centre of a viral marketing campaign for an as-yet unknown product of forthcoming horror film.



http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...28_468x286.jpg Another faceless couple stand in the crowd at the start of Harrods summer sale.




http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...02_468x286.jpg Craning his neck - but he won't see anything with skin stretched over his features.


Speculation has even arisen that the masks hide a pair of well-know faces, fed up with being harrassed by the paparazzi.


One blogger wrote on the Moue Magazine website: "They probably aren’t just random people off of the street.


"If it ends up being a pair of celebrities who have had it with being photographed all of the time and are staging a protest, I vow to support every project they appear on from now on.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...82_468x286.jpg Chauffeur: This faceless figure even has his own driver, fuelling speculation that the man behind the mask may be a celebrity himself.



http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...07_470x288.jpg Close-up: Eye holes in the spooky mask allows the wearer to see what is going on around him.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...Wimbledon.html

Beer saves the day ,
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/or...,5741974.story

It's one of those classic modern-dilemmas/ down-the-pub questions really isn't it?
"Would you call the police if you found videos of your Mum having sex with a dog?"

Niiiiiice.

From here:
I have to admit this seems harsh though.

I agree it's unfair to the dogs, but what realistically can happen to them? No one will knowingly adopt a dog that has effectively been trained to perform sex acts. So either they don't tell, which would probably get them sued, or they just keep the dogs forever at a shelter where they are already putting down animals every day for lack of space.

I understand and agree it would be practically impossible to rehome them.
Which is why I didn't say it was disgusting, let's call PETA, let's petition the sheriff's office etc etc.

It's just unfair on the dogs, and a shame.
Still - they lived a good life in dog terms ;)

Oh shit imagine the son's tormented memories for the rest of his fucking life:
"Hey Mom, can I have a sip of your soda/ bite of your sandwich?"
etc.etc. "did she just blow the dog before she kissed me goodnight?"
Some therapist is already shopping for his new maserati.

Oh and HLJ thanks for the footx5 link, missed that.

Making fun of the French is like shooting fish in a barrel. Still, WTF?

Show us your Bush.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusive...laura-bush.php

OMG what if they just adopted the sex-dogs without warning the new owners?

hoooooney, where's the peanut butter?

Gawd, it's like... political slashfic. *hurk* People actually publish this crap?

Man loses key to chastity belt, calls 999 (Brit 911)
 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle1387737.ece

But what do you expect from The Sun???

To cut a goddamn padlock? WTF!

Manhattenhenge
 

For Manhattan, a place where evening matters more than morning, that special day comes on Thursday, May 29h this year, one of only two occasions when the Sun sets in exact alignment with the Manhattan grid, fully illuminating every single cross-street for the last fifteen minutes of daylight. The other day is Saturday, July 12th. These two days give you a photogenic view with half the Sun above and half the Sun below the horizon -- on the grid. The day after May 29th (Friday, May 30th), and the day before July 12 (Friday, July 11) will also give you Manhattanhenge moments, but instead you will see the entire ball of the Sun on the horizon -- on the grid. My personal preference is the half-Sun

http://www.newyorkology.com/archives...unsettyson.jpg





http://www.newyorkology.com/archives...tanhenge_4.php

Would you prefer step-sun? ;)

I think there is a difference between being coerced into sex acts and being "trained" to do them.

That article makes me sick. Seriously.

I would adopt one! I am looking for a good dog, abused or not. I don't have to worry about a dog trying to hump my kid because I don't have any. If one is actually "trained" to do such things, it can be "trained" not to.

I would support putting the people down, and also support leaving the dogs alone. They've been messed with enough. That will be quite enough. I actually went to pet finder and found the Humane Society Tulsa page. The blue heeler listed looks like a good dog as far as I can tell.

Aaah. I think I'm pet sensitive or something. I have compassion for those dogs right now. If they were here I might actually request one, as this situation makes me sad, and I am already dog shopping. Abused animals can be really good pets. Things just didn't go right for them at first.

We don't put people down for being abused like that. Why treat dogs that way? All you have to do is tell people the odd behaviors of the abused animal before they adopt so they know what they are in for, and can make an informed decision, whether they want to deal with it or not. You don't have to say that the dog was coerced into sex, saying highly abused, exhibits these behaviors: a,b,c, would work. I'm kind of doubting that the dogs exhibit abnormal behavior (outside of signs of abuse that can be overcome) in the first place.

*Hey! Get down!Get off my leg! Bad dog!* That would probably be sufficient.

Well, I am doggy shopping, and I know whatever dog I get will be at least old enough to have been through one thing or the other already, whether I know of the thing or not. I am looking for a good dog at least 6 months old, and I don't think a human humping would effect my decision, as long as I could tell that it is a good dog. I'm stubborn though. I wouldn't even want to know about that really. If it has really bad behaviors, I would want to know. And that's what I usually ask about: the good behaviors and the bad behaviors.

um-no


I was thinking unusual news. lol @ step-sun.

Sky that's beautiful.
Great find.

When I was working at the humane society we had several cases involving the so-called "party dogs". One idiot even told the interviewer that that was the reason he wanted to adopt the dog. I'm glad I was there to explain and nix it, because she did not know the term. The health dept mandated euthanasia for dogs used thus, and any other dogs in the residence, because of concerns over the zoonotic nature of brucellosis. It's a more extreme response along the lines of the 10 day quarantine for animals accused of biting a human whether or not the animal had been vaccinated for rabies or not. NOT fair to the animals, but the cause of "protecting citizens" often overrules milder solutions.