Silly/Odd News Stories from around the World

[Vexx]

Sooooooo, do you eat it feet first or head first? Seems a might big to get into your mouth in one gulp.... use chopsticks and just rip pieces off with your mouth?

I mean, just the logistics of eating that make me raise the "absurd" flag

There's some Far Side cartoon that fits this perfectly...

[ganbaru]

Texas to open fastest US highway with 85 mph limit
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...09-06-18-04-07
Is that really a good idea ?

[Vexx]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

Texas to open fastest US highway with 85 mph limit
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...09-06-18-04-07
Is that really a good idea ?

Not really, passenger tires aren't usually rated for speeds over 85mph for more than 5 minutes.

But hey... whatever. Even my wife's 87 year old aunt admits clocking 80 on the toll road around Houston... o.O
"That road is so smooth... did you know you can be going over 80 and not realize it?"

[Xellos-_^]

Originally Posted by Vexx

Not really, passenger tires aren't usually rated for speeds over 85mph for more than 5 minutes.

But hey... whatever. Even my wife's 87 year old aunt admits clocking 80 on the toll road around Houston... o.O
"That road is so smooth... did you know you can be going over 80 and not realize it?"

*raise hand
did 80 a few hundred times myself.

it wasn't bad, 90 was pushing it.


funny thing was, my first speeding ticket was doing 40 on a 30 zone

[Elestia]

So apparently Jehova's Witness has posted a video on their main website (in ASL) about wanting deaf people to stop masturbating. To show that it's not fake here's the link, it's video #22.

[Vexx]

Originally Posted by Xellos-_^

*raise hand
did 80 a few hundred times myself.

it wasn't bad, 90 was pushing it.


funny thing was, my first speeding ticket was doing 40 on a 30 zone

I will admit to doing 135mph on the interstate between Houston and the NASA Clear Lake area back in the 1980s.... but I was in a 300ZX with tires rated for 150mph

At that speed, I started having a real concern about "going airborne" because every micro-bump on the road was becoming hugely magnified.

[Ascaloth]

Ever ate this?

I have.

Freshest squid I ever tasted.

[sa547]

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/265846/...-investigators

MOSCOW—A 14-year-old Russian girl in the Urals city of Izhevsk staged an armed bank robbery as part of a plan to run away from home and commit suicide, investigators said Thursday.

The girl, “wearing a mask and armed with a knife, carried out a raid on one of the city’s commercial banks with the aim of stealing money but was stopped by the bank’s security guards,” the Investigative Committee said.

The girl had told investigators she carried out the robbery “with the aim of escaping her parents’ excessive control,” the committee said on its website.

“The girl wanted to use the money to leave the city and end her life by suicide,” investigators said.

Komsomolskaya Pravda published security video footage of the girl wearing a white mask and hooded top waving a knife at female bank staff before being grabbed by guards.

She shouted that she wanted 200,000 rubles (about $6,200) in cash, local investigator Rodion Zainullin told the newspaper.

The girl was an A-grade student but was unhappy living with her divorced mother and her stepfather, the newspaper reported.

She has been freed after signing promises not to leave the city and to behave properly, investigators said.

In Russia minors aged between 14 and 16 can be jailed in youth prisons if they commit a serious crime even if it is a first offense.

[Ithekro]

Stealing money to run away to commit suicide does not sound like a plan at all.

[AnimeFan188]

Weird 'Flintstones' Bike Has No Pedals or Seat:

"German engineering students have created a new way of getting around, and it's
called The Fliz. The new James Dyson Award-nominated form of transportation is
powered the old fashioned way: by your feet, Fred Flintstone style."

See:

http://screen.yahoo.com/weird-flints...4-70e58b73187a

[Vexx]

Originally Posted by AnimeFan188

Weird 'Flintstones' Bike Has No Pedals or Seat:

"German engineering students have created a new way of getting around, and it's
called The Fliz. The new James Dyson Award-nominated form of transportation is
powered the old fashioned way: by your feet, Fred Flintstone style."

See:

http://screen.yahoo.com/weird-flints...4-70e58b73187a

But... wait... that's been done before (though I'm sure theirs is more efficient than the 1800s model).

http://www.victoriana.com/Bicycle/history-1881.html

[Anh_Minh]

If it's overcrowded - walk, asshole.

[Ithekro]

Well...with something like that I'd have a better chance at keeping my balance. Never did learn how to ride a bicycle.

[SaintessHeart]

Schoolgirl Bagger “Was Lolicon Precure Otaku”

I blame the Japanese education system's method of teaching Geography - they didn't teach about the alternative marriage laws in the Middle East.

Seriously though, the word lolicon is used too much in the wrong negative context. There is nothing wrong with people who have that sense of responsibility to protect innocent young girls.

[NoemiChan]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Schoolgirl Bagger “Was Lolicon Precure Otaku”

I blame the Japanese education system's method of teaching Geography - they didn't teach about the alternative marriage laws in the Middle East.

The guy just lost he's sense of reality...

Baka, kono hentai!!!

Anyway, above link is R+18 guys... So kids, don't you dare...

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by GenjiChan

The guy just lost he's sense of reality...

Baka, kono hentai!!!

Not surprising. He is probably looking for some innocence to protect. Given how the media had been portraying modern girls randomly sleeping with guys, he went for them at their "pre-corruption" stage.

There are still girls out there who are not as slutty as the media portray them to be. And there are some of thos who are still the size of lolis - just open your eyes wider and find them.

Ascaloth and Vexx can vouch for me. Though I bet Vexx abused his CIA connections and equipment for the past 20-something years to keep the CPS off his back.

[NoemiChan]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Not surprising. He is probably looking for some innocence to protect. Given how the media had been portraying modern girls randomly sleeping with guys, he went for them at their "pre-corruption" stage.

Yeah, guess he failed to do some research and proceed immediately with his experiments..

[SeijiSensei]

Originally Posted by Vexx

I will admit to doing 135mph on the interstate between Houston and the NASA Clear Lake area back in the 1980s.... but I was in a 300ZX with tires rated for 150mph

At that speed, I started having a real concern about "going airborne" because every micro-bump on the road was becoming hugely magnified.

Sometime in the early 80's I was driving with a friend from New Orleans to Houston in his VW Scirocco. We weren't on an interstate but some two-lane state highway in east Texas. Unused to living in such an incredibly flat area, and seeing no one around us for what looked like miles, I was cruising along and based on my perceptions guessed I was doing about 80 mph (128 km/h). When I looked down at the speedometer I discovered I was actually doing 110 (176 km/h). It was the fastest I have ever driven.

VWs are built for the autobahns. My 1999 Passat still seems happiest when cruising at about 80 mph.

[sneaker]

As a German: HAHAHA HAHA

[willx]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Not surprising. He is probably looking for some innocence to protect. Given how the media had been portraying modern girls randomly sleeping with guys, he went for them at their "pre-corruption" stage.

There are still girls out there who are not as slutty as the media portray them to be. And there are some of thos who are still the size of lolis - just open your eyes wider and find them.

Hm.. That's so sad.. such an awful state of affairs.. I still find it so sad that people think a girl sleeping with a guy somehow loses something like their innocence..