Silly/Odd News Stories from around the World

[Haak]

It's official now - No evidence of Mermaids:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18692830

[NoemiChan]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

You have to remember that international media put Muslim faith as barbaric because of the 9/11 incident. All concepts of religions are naturally good, each of them has their own quirks that requires one to dig deep and realise it themselves.

I think the actions of Al Queda was more of personal/political rather that religious in nature. Funny how some uses faith as reason to justify their barbaric acts. Personally I hate the Al Queda though I'm a Muslim...

About the media...? Well, when driven by emotion people could say crazy things...

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by GenjiChan

I think the actions of Al Queda was more of personal/political rather that religious in nature. Funny how some uses faith as reason to justify their barbaric acts. Personally I hate the Al Queda though I'm a Muslim...

About the media...? Well, when driven by emotion people could say crazy things...

There is alot of money in the media that they are even listed on the stock market!

I say, I have no idea why people would buy the IPO of something that sells fear and hate. Being a seasonal and on-off trader myself, sometimes I wonder if my dislike of trading Google and media companies stem from practicality or my conscience.

[NoemiChan]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

There is alot of money in the media that they are even listed on the stock market!

I say, I have no idea why people would buy the IPO of something that sells fear and hate. Being a seasonal and on-off trader myself, sometimes I wonder if my dislike of trading Google and media companies stem from practicality or my conscience.

Hahaha.. guess bad news sells better than good news unless its for gatgets!!!!

[mangamuscle]

Originally Posted by Haak

It's official now - No evidence of Mermaids:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18692830

Nowadays the discovery channel does conspiracy theory programms by the dozen, so I am not surprised they did a mockumentary and people thought it was real.

[NoemiChan]

Originally Posted by Haak

It's official now - No evidence of Mermaids:

Look what you just did... my nieces are crying because Ariel doesn't exist!!!!

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by GenjiChan

Hahaha.. guess bad news sells better than good news unless its for gatgets!!!!

Bad news tend to be dogmatic in nature, fitting the "realist" view and opinion of many people. I wouldn't be surprised if it sells better than good news since we are almost indoctrinated that "there is no such thing that is too good to be true".

Well there ARE good things that are too good to be true. Remember what they said about "Jack of all trades" in the industry (freelancers) - knows and does everything, but no speciality? Well they are the only ones with jobs now.

[NoemiChan]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Bad news tend to be dogmatic in nature, fitting the "realist" view and opinion of many people. I wouldn't be surprised if it sells better than good news since we are almost indoctrinated that "there is no such thing that is too good to be true".

Well there ARE good things that are too good to be true. Remember what they said about "Jack of all trades" in the industry (freelancers) - knows and does everything, but no speciality? Well they are the only ones with jobs now.

I guess so....

[flying ^]

... will sure be a guaranteed HIT..... on elementary playgrounds and middle school dance floor playlists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTyWmORjTdg



Not yet touched by the news media but I guarantee they will sometime around Thursday or Friday

[Sir Maddy]

Originally Posted by flying ^

... will sure be a guaranteed HIT..... on elementary playgrounds and middle school dance floor playlists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTyWmORjTdg



Not yet touched by the news media but I guarantee they will sometime around Thursday or Friday

What the hell was that? Music?
Ugh, there are so many flaws to this it would take up a whole A4 sized piece of paper.

So I'm going to name them most of them:
- The lyrics are horrible and unoriginal.
- The music was just terrible and ear splitting.
- What the hell was up with his belly button?
- The music video is degrading to little African-American boys everywhere.
- The girls were not even hot, they looked like I just flattened them with a steamroller.
- His appearance is just terrible, his clothes, his hair, god that's gonna get him somewhere in life.
- He is being used as a tool and exploited for money.

Overall, the people who produced this are paying for my new ears, oh my god that was just terrible. It's worse than "Hot Problems". I couldn't even watch all of it. I have now officially lost all faith in humanity for making good quality music.

*Turns on Coldplay to soothe ears*

[MrTerrorist]

10 Movements to Secede from the United States

Probably the most interesting one was this.

Confederate States of America: This is the big one, the movement that immediately comes to mind when you think of an American secession. The secession of the eleven states of the Confederacy from the United States of America triggered the start of the Civil War. Events that occurred during the Civil War also led to the Texas v. White case, in which the Supreme Court officially held that a state cannot unilaterally secede from the United States. But the Confederacy wasn't the only potential secessionist movement at the time; several sources report that Southern Confederates tried to drum up an insurrection in some of the Northern states, in the hopes that a Northwestern Confederacy made up of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and, Iowa. (Lost States has a map of the proposed three-nation America.) And the Confederacy was not immune to secession attempts itself. In some regions, such as Alabama's so-called "Republic of Winston," opposition to the Confederacy was so profound that legends cropped up that the regions themselves seceded into their own tiny nations. More poignantly, 26 counties in eastern Tennessee petitioned the Tennessee state legislature to approve their bid for secession; Nashville rejected their petition and Confederate troops were sent to the area to prevent a secession, proving that even the seceding entities don't like to be seceded from.

I find the irony of the Confederates seceding form the Union, only to prevent their own states from seceding.

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by flying ^

... will sure be a guaranteed HIT..... on elementary playgrounds and middle school dance floor playlists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTyWmORjTdg



Not yet touched by the news media but I guarantee they will sometime around Thursday or Friday

Spoiler for NSFW : This is just as bad.......:

[monir]

Originally Posted by Sir Maddy

- What the hell was up with his belly button?

It's a outtie and not a innie. And he's still got the "bitches" and "hoes" lined up.

[Sir Maddy]

Originally Posted by monir

It's a outtie and not a innie.

Well that's one messed up outtie then.

[flying ^]

Originally Posted by Sir Maddy

- His appearance is just terrible, his clothes, his hair, god that's gonna get him somewhere in life.

Originally Posted by monir

And he's still got the "bitches" and "hoes" lined up.

hatas detected


never to young to be pimpin... but that lil homie gotta lose that shit he have on top of his head... walkin 'round lookin like a damn peacock!



anyways I guaran-freaking-tee 100% this 'lil Albert will be featured on Tosh.0

[Lord of Fire]

Originally Posted by flying ^

... will sure be a guaranteed HIT..... on elementary playgrounds and middle school dance floor playlists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTyWmORjTdg



Not yet touched by the news media but I guarantee they will sometime around Thursday or Friday

Let us now mourn the day on which Music died...

[flying ^]

Originally Posted by Sir Maddy

What the hell was that? Music?

yes


that piece from 'lil Albert is more music-ish than what some high value production could turn out

[Sir Maddy]

I've now lost all hope in good music.

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Sir Maddy

I've now lost all hope in good music.

If you think music is dead, please donate me your eardrums.....mine are partially damaged from listening to screams going off.

[Sir Maddy]

Mine are also damaged from crap music. So I don't think my eardrums would be good for anything anymore.