Silly/Odd News Stories from around the World

[Tom Bombadil]

“They were supposed to seek blessing from me, and my hand touch,” he said. But he added that there was “no possibility to cross-check, so I don’t know”.

Bahh, they have no evidence what so ever. It is basically, yeah, we suspect they will do something, so they are criminals.

Logic?

[mangamuscle]

Originally Posted by AnimeFan188

China 'collecting Dalai Lama blood samples':

"Chinese agencies are secretly collecting samples of the Dalai Lama’s blood, urine
and hair and are stepping up efforts to harm him, the Tibetan government in exile
said on Sunday."

1. Clone body
2. Age cloned body
3. Insert puppet personality in cloned body
4. Switch real with clone
5. Congratulations, Tibet is yours!

well, technology is not yet there, right?

[Dhomochevsky]

Good plan, but unnecessarily complicated technology wise. Easier:
1. Clone body
2. Give Clone a strict communist education
3. Wait until current Dalai Lama dies
4. Sneakily present cloned Dalai Lama to the guys who are searching for the 'next reincarnation of Dalai Lama'
5. Cue miracle: 'LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE YOUNG FORMER DALAI LAMA, MUST BE REINCARNATION!'
6. Profit

[Endless Soul]

Originally Posted by Vexx

They should have used the Ark of the Covenant...

That was tried, but noooooo some American adventurist just had to intervene.

Endless "No nickname today" Soul

[AnimeFan188]

"Deer can swim, but not very far. When they showed up for the first time on the Big
Island of Hawaii, mystified residents wondered how they got there.

The island is some 30 miles southeast of Maui, where deer are plentiful.

Hawaii wildlife authorities think someone dropped a few from a helicopter on the
northern tip of the island. And tracks along the southern coast indicate deer were
pushed into the ocean from a boat and forced to paddle ashore."

See:

http://news.yahoo.com/mystery-deer-g...173250448.html

[Mr Hat and Clogs]

Kid builds X-ray machine for school project

[ganbaru]

City official consults Ouija board before vote
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...05-23-09-07-16

Silicon Valley tech exec accused of Lego thefts
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...05-22-20-20-39

"This particular crime, the way it was done, the sophistication, the amount of expenditure in time and money to do it, suggests there's something way beyond money that motivated him to do it," Hendrickson said.

[Paranoid Android]

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/S...771/story.html

Originally Posted by METRO VANCOUVER

A Surrey gym has been ordered by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal to pay $1,916 to a customer who was told he couldn’t wear boots while exercising because it violated the gym’s dress code.

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This is worse than those cases where someone tried to sue God. Because those failed. This one was passed as 'justified' because the other gym-owner didn't even bother showing up to the idiot-fest.

[Mr Hat and Clogs]

Gym owner should give him monopoly money.

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Mr Hat and Clogs

Gym owner should give him monopoly money.

Unfortunately the gym owner does not own all the gyms in the area or country.

[Paranoid Android]

For some reason I think of Pokemon now .__."

Wish I could sue gyms for having electric fences, confusing layouts and brittle thin-ice flooring.

[JokerD]

Microsoft Bundles Visual Studio with Moe Claudia Figure (NSFW site)

The last comment line me up:

Online, the figure had rather more impact than the software, leading otaku to the understandable conclusion that Microsoft was selling a “¥170,000 figure of Claudia” and even causing some of her more ardent fans to wonder if they would be kind enough to leave out the useless software bundled with it…

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by JokerD

Microsoft Bundles Visual Studio with Moe Claudia Figure (NSFW site)

The last comment line me up:

First a dojikko named 7, next a loli idol-wannabe (Silverlight), and now a MILF office lady? Microsoft sure knows how to party.

Leoxiao and that dustcan (Paranoid Android) are going to fight the Tron for her - they love women older than them.

[ganbaru]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Leoxiao and that dustcan (Paranoid Android) are going to fight the Tron for her - they love women older than them.

As if there's something wrong with that ?

[Paranoid Android]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

First a dojikko named 7, next a loli idol-wannabe (Silverlight), and now a MILF office lady? Microsoft sure knows how to party.

Leoxiao and that dustcan (Paranoid Android) are going to fight the Tron for her - they love women older than them.

There's also that FL-chan mascot for FL Studio from like 2006 or 2007 or something, I don't remember anymore

Spoiler for fl:

I have a chibi version as one of the rotating backgrounds xD

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

As if there's something wrong with that ?

That is considered tasteless and submissive. I prefer younger girls - they tend to be cuter.

Originally Posted by Paranoid Android

There's also that FL-chan mascot for FL Studio from like 2006 or 2007 or something, I don't remember anymore

Spoiler for fl:

I have a chibi version as one of the rotating backgrounds xD

Honestly speaking, out of all the software-tan, I like Silverlight the most. She's the cutest mascot I have ever seen, though Nanami is equally adorable. They should have younger girls for OS mascots.

Shouldn't you be fapping at Claudia-tan?

[Ithekro]

What does Claudia represent? What program or product?

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Ithekro

What does Claudia represent? What program or product?

Windows Azure or Visual Studio I think.

[Endless Soul]

I wish my office was filled with Claudias instead of female versions of Jabba the Hutt.

Endless "Wishful thinking" Soul

[Paranoid Android]

Originally Posted by Endless Soul

female versions of Jabba the Hutt.

Hand me the brain bleach please.

I'm glad microsoft didn't make a paperclip lolicon x__X I can't don't even know where to start imagining how that would look.