Weird News Thread Part III

I did not!! Anyways...They can't prove it.

Ps...Boca is gonna clean Rivers clock on Sat!

 

One of the tribespeople – “a kid probably about 10 or so years old, maybe a teenager” – fired an arrow that struck his Bible, he wrote that night, onboard the boat of fishermen he paid 25,000 rupees (£275) to smuggle him close to the island. “Well, I’ve been shot by the Sentinelese.”

The next day as he prepared to make another approach, Chau wrote a letter to his parents. “You guys might think I’m crazy in all this, but I think it’s worth it to declare Jesus to these people,” he wrote.

I see your Jesus and raise you one dozen arrows to your midsection.

Google the Sentinelese. It's really fascinating that they exist in the 21st century.

 

So according to these scientists 9 of 10 species are descended from one couple

Scientists surveyed the genetic 'bar codes' of five million animals - including humans - from 100,000 different species and deduced that we sprang from a single pair of adults after a catastrophic event almost wiped out the human race.

These bar codes, or snippets of DNA that reside outside the nuclei of living cells, suggest that it's not just people who came from a single pair of beings, but nine out of every 10 animal species, too

Stoeckle and Thaler, the scientists who headed the study, concluded that ninety percent of all animal species alive today come from parents that all began giving birth at roughly the same time, less than 250 thousand years ago - throwing into doubt the patterns of human evolution.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...YkaB_BOaEcm4VMw2SQtMIV_4cqlr_U4hciczPsjNMXCJI

 

We've all been there.

Drunk Pig Starts Fight With Cow

 

The students in the Ag school at my university pitted drunk pigs against bulls twice a year as a fundraiser. Then the ********ing PC Thought Police came along and ended that tradition.

Or maybe it was the state police. I can't remember.

 

of course that happened in Australia, where neither the feral pigs nor half the population requires 18 beers to behave like that.

 

This is one of your college pics, then?

 

Why?

 

No. I said ag school. Bear baiting was how the Tri-Delts raised money.

 

Irish soccer team in trouble after faking the death of one of its players. But they apologized so it's okay now, apparently. League officials said "We were told he was flown back to Spain on the Saturday. Straight away, that rang alarm bells for us. How would you die early on Friday morning and be flown back to Spain on the Saturday?" That's some class-A investigation right there.

 

And Carlsen retains the Chess world title. Crushes Fabi 3-0 in the Rapid playoff.

 

South Koreans are getting as weird as the Japanese now.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-to-escape-prison-of-daily-life-idUSKCN1NS0JB

 

Is not that weird, I think is funny in a sad way.

Breaking: The US Soccer Foundation is suing US Soccer. Story: https://t.co/5q4ITpwXwZ

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There's no Super Depressing News thread so this goes here

Michigan couple: Priest, 'bully' coach ruined our son's funeral

https://www.freep.com/story/news/lo...libarger-bedford-suicide-gofundme/2308094002/

 

In the "Who is the Biggest Asshole" competition in this story, it is actually a damn hard call. Normally, a priest acting in this way has it in the bag, but the coach gives him a run for the money.

"We’ve had four boys who played for him. He’s been bullying kids for many years," Jeff Hullibarger said. His wife said she messaged through an intermediary that Wood was not welcome at the service.

"We knew Maison would not want him at his funeral. He did not treat Maison kindly. So it was our wish that he would not be there," she said.

The coach strode in anyway, prompting one of the couple's sons to demand that he leave, they said. Wood left but soon posted this on social media:

“I was just asked to leave a funeral by a family member of a deceased football player. If you need someone to blame, I’m your man, I’m your fall guy. This is how society is when things go not as planned. We blame others for our own shortcomings. This tragedy is not about me or you. It’s about looking in the mirror as a human being and being real and honest with yourself.” ​

Regardless, that's seriously ********ed up.

 

Bet you a dime to a dollar that coach is a Trump supporter. Those who pound their chest about the importance of personal responsibility are least likely to do so, and most likely to adore the Blame Everybody President..

 

I'd similarly bet that the priest is not down with the social teachings of the Church, esp. the ones that Francis is re-emphasizing.

 

Yeah, that wouldn't be his type of Church.

 

The shittiness has always been around but the current political climate has given people the perceived freedom to flaunt their shittiness.

 

In fairness, coaches tend to be like that. My kid played 10 years of club soccer. About half the coaches would carry on about how they are moral leaders and so forth. When you hear that, put your hand on your wallet and back out of the room. Then tell your child that whenever the coach talks about something besides soccer, stop listening to him.

 

My kid played 12 years... I say stop listening especially when they are talking about soccer.

 

I have a coworker who coaches U15 travel and he's definitely the type of dude I wouldn't want my kids to play for. A manipulative, never-satisfied J.O.

 

It really is about the coach in youth soccer. My daughter had complete crap coaching until u13. After the last game together, 5 years, countless miles and trophies, they all just sat together on the sideline, none of them wanting it to end.

The last thing the coach said to them was if at anytime in their life they needed anything, bail, a ride, someone to talk to, whatever, call him.

He meant it. And they knew it.

 

Bail? I thought this was girls soccer not the NFL

 

They're expected and asked to be like that.

Quick example of a discussion had a couple years ago with a FB friend about the new HS in my old neighborhood (New building. Same colors and mascot, but new name, thus not my Alma), and the hoops coach they hired a year earlier, who won state titles in my school's last two seasons. My HS, which was fine when I attended, was failing, so the board decided to rename it to get it off the failing list. It's back on the list now with the new name.

This woman wanted to know why a (very good and younger) Black coach was transferred to allow this guy to take the job. I told her dude had won eight titles at two different schools, and so was the better choice, aaannnd that as a guy who'd retired once, he was probably saving the system $$ by taking only a coach's stipend. Then she wanted to ask what he was going to do to help with the kids if he wasn't there from 8 to 3. I told her that wasn't his job. I can name thirty or forty teachers who never went out into the hall to make students go to class, who never asked me whether I was attending class or doing well in them- including my band director. Those days, I would have asked --politely-- why they needed to know. The battle's already lost when a student can't listen to a school's academic employees.