Weird News

[Sundae]

Russians. You gotta love them.
Just in case.

[footfootfoot]

The joke possibilities are endless.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5153329.html

[BigV]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

The joke possibilities are endless.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5153329.html

that looks strangely familiar...

[Gravdigr]

Didja look through the antique vibrator slideshow below the story?

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Didja look through the antique vibrator slideshow below the story?

Oh yes. And it reminded me of the very funny movie Hysteria. I'm acquainted with a couple of them too.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

The joke possibilities are endless.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5153329.html

Bjørn Frilund, 64, is a master baiter in his local village of Eidsbygda, Norway. He was slacking his line one morning when his attention got tugged to one of the cod in his fishing nets, according to the photo database WENN.

Is it just me?

[Gravdigr]

'Big', and, 'pink' must have different meanings in Norwegia...

[BigV]

definitely not just you; you, me, and all the other lying bastards out there who protest otherwise.

[Carruthers]

Weird news? Well, perhaps not strictly speaking, but definitely odd, farcical and slightly sinister.

North Korean officials paid a visit to a London hair salon to question why it had used their leader Kim Jong-un's picture in a poster offering haircuts.

The poster in M&M Hair Academy in South Ealing featured the words "Bad Hair Day?" below the leader's picture.

Barber Karim Nabbach said embassy officials were shown the door and the salon's manager spoke to the police.

North Korean officials visit salon over Kim Jong-un 'bad hair' advert


And....

The Enigma that is North Korea moves in mysterious ways:

According to the Independent, the BBC has struck a deal with North Korea’s totalitarian regime to air three programs from the British television network: "Dr. Who," "Top Gear" and "Teletubbies." After several months of negotiations, the three shows were reportedly selected by the North Korean leadership to be considered for legal distribution.

Now what, in the name of sanity, is the North Korean government doing showing 'Top Gear' to its hapless populace? Is it psychological warfare of some particularly ghastly kind?
Perhaps subjecting the hordes to the odious Jeremy Clarkson will deter them from entertaining thoughts of defecting to the bourgeois capitalist West. A bizarre choice which ever way you look at it, so to speak.

BBC's 'Doctor Who', 'Top Gear' And 'Teletubbies' Might Get Their North Korean Debut

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

Weird news? Well, perhaps not strictly speaking, but definitely odd, farcical and slightly sinister.

No question, you hit it right square in the weird.

[Carruthers]

A council has apologised after a Good Friday Passion Play was cancelled because a councillor reportedly thought it was a live sex show.

The plug was pulled on The Cowley Road Passion Play when an official from Oxford City Council said organisers from St Mary and John church and St Stephens House college could be committing an offence without the proper council permits.

Oxford City Councillor and United Reform Church pastor Dick Wolff told the Oxford Mail: “Unfortunately, one of the city council’s licensing officers didn’t recognise that a Passion play on Good Friday was a religious event.

“I think he thought it was a sex show, so he said it may be committing an offence.”

Oxford City Council apologises after Passion Play it 'mistook for live sex show' is cancelled

All you can do is sigh a sigh of disbelief and wait for the next example of dimwittery to come along.

It won't be long.

[Happy Monkey]

Rule 34.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Thinking a passion play would be a sex show is pretty stupid (or wishful thinking), but he apparently thought the Crowley Road Methodist Church would put on a sex show... at 10:30 in the morning, as well. Seems to be several breaches in intelligence.

[tw]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Thinking a passion play would be a sex show is pretty stupid (or wishful thinking), ...

Passion of the Christ was more about Mel Gibson’s vitriolic temper. Mel Gibson is not Kim Kardasean.

The council needs counciling. Psychiatrists do word association. "Passion" .... "Sex". I think a problem is identified.

[Carruthers]

A middle-aged prisoner broke out of jail to flee loud rap music being played "day and night" on his wing, a court heard.

Robert Stevens, 58, a convicted robber, was fed up of the constant din of the music played by younger fellow inmates.

He had also become irritated with being "constantly pestered" to buy drugs from younger cellmates inside HMP Leyhill minimum security prison in Gloucestershire, the court was told.

Stevens climbed over a security wall to escape the category D jail before walking several miles to the nearest town.

The fugitive, who had been serving a six-and-a-half year sentence for robbery, spent 20 days at large in various towns in the south west.

Cruel and unusual punishment?

Daily Telegraph.