Weird News

[Gravdigr]

That looks like cauliflower.

Heh, I keep hearing "Feed me, Seymour!", from "Little Shop of Horrors".

[Gravdigr]

Lovely plumage.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Unbe-leaf-able! Married man grows world's largest cauliflower which is SIX FOOT wide and weighs 20 times more than normal

What difference if he's married or not?
Is that a wink, nod, we know his wife really did all the work?
Or a single guy wouldn't have been able to pay attention long enough, what with pubs and footie?

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

What difference if he's married or not?
Is that a wink, nod, we know his wife really did all the work?
Or a single guy wouldn't have been able to pay attention long enough, what with pubs and footie?

Yes, that caused not a little head scratching here at Carruthers Towers.
I was hoping someone else might come up with the answer or, at the very least, some amusing speculation

Well played, sir!

[DanaC]

It's interesting. Very rarely see it applied to men, but it is pretty much standard reporting when they are writing about a woman to refer to her either by her marital status or her parenting status (wife of X, young mum, Grandmother).

Maybe they've decided to treat male subjects the same as they've been treating female subjects, all this time?

From an article in the Guardian about these reporting tendencies :

Did you know that women can continue to manage high-profile jobs after their grownup children have had babies? This may not sound like a shocking revelation, but it came as such a surprise to the Sunday Times that it made its front page on the weekend: "Grandmother, 71, tackles slave traffickers for the Pope." That she is a university professor and the most senior woman in the Vatican did make it into the article itself, but apparently wasn't considered as arresting for the headline as her age and offspring. Despite several ensuing pleas to the media to present women as people first and babymakers/marital appendages second, the Times was the next paper to get in on the act with another headline a few days later declaring: "Banker's wife arrested over deaths of her three children."


-snip-

The phenomenon, whereby women's identities and achievements are considered less important than their husband's role, even when the woman is focus of the story, was also seen last year in the case of drowned research scientist Rosemary Wickstead. "London GP's wife drowned on holiday trying to rescue son", read one headline ; "Drowned GP wife may have been trying to save her son" said another .

[Happy Monkey]

"Grandmother, 71, tackles slave traffickers for the Pope, unmarried."

[DanaC]

hahahahahahah. Nicely done Monk.

[infinite monkey]

Gross news from the exploding mammal department:

Dead bloated whales...what's a town to do?

For one thing, I would keep a deadbloatedwhalecam on it at all times, because if one of those things explodes you'll want to capture that on film.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/world/...html?hpt=hp_t2

[glatt]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

For one thing, I would keep a deadbloatedwhalecam on it at all times, because if one of those things explodes you'll want to capture that on film.

Absolutely!

[BigV]

Trout River becomes Whale Bay.

I'd get a line on the tail secured to the first tugboat available, while it's still buoyant, and head out to sea, see?

[Gravdigr]

I've always liked Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

What he's said in TIME about the Donald Sterling situation just blew my mind.

[DanaC]

Guy has a way with words!

“And now,” writes Abdul-Jabbar in Time, “the poor guy’s girlfriend (undoubtedly ex-girlfriend by now) is on tape cajoling him into revealing his racism.

Man, what a winding road she led him down to get all of that out.
“She was like a sexy nanny playing ‘pin the fried chicken on the Sambo.’ She blindfolded him and spun him around until he was just blathering all sorts of incoherent racist sound bites that had the news media peeing themselves with glee.”

Abdul-Jabbar goes on to say the media “caught big game on a slow news day, so they put his head on a pike, dubbed him Lord of the Flies, and danced around him whooping.”


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ba...#ixzz30b3CfWXT

[sexobon]

Kind of gives one the impression he doesn't believe that the end always justifies the means.

[tw]

Originally Posted by sexobon

Kind of gives one the impression he doesn't believe that the end always justifies the means.

What he said and how it was disseminated are two completely separate events that just happen to overlap/coincide.

Abdul-Jabbar's commentary on how and what can be recorded should raise a similar public anger. Since that also goes right back to what the paparazzi do to make lives miserable and should not be permitted to do.

We can record a guy’s private discussions in a room but must get a court order to listen to his phone? Unfortunately, Justice Scalia, representing a right wing attitude, said the Constitution does not grant you a right of privacy. A major and undefined gray area exist that technology accentuates and that desperately must be addressed by some standardized laws.

In some states, it is illegal to record sounds outside your home. And yet it is legal for someone to record your conversation inside a house?

[sexobon]

You missed the boat on this one tw. The important thing is that he was taken down by a woman who's good looking and not a ... a ... a.... Monica Lewinsky! You've got to get your priorities straight. You'll drive yourself into an early grave fretting over things like privacy rights.