Weird News Thread Part III

Wait.. Is that kind of like how Playboy put out a Braille version when they were trying to convince people that their magazines were being purchased for the articles as well?

 

Last time I saw pornhub in a law article or blog, it was when HBO was suing them for posting Game of Thrones excerpts.

 

Don't knock it. I know a freelance writer who got an article published in Playboy. It was the most widely read piece he had ever done because everyone you ask will tell you that they read it for the articles.

 

There was a real-life Lord of the Flies. But these kids banded together to survive.

I began to wonder: had anyone ever studied what real children would do if they found themselves alone on a deserted island? I wrote an article on the subject, in which I compared Lord of the Flies to modern scientific insights and concluded that, in all probability, kids would act very differently. Readers responded sceptically. All my examples concerned kids at home, at school, or at summer camp. Thus began my quest for a real-life Lord of the Flies. After trawling the web for a while, I came across an obscure blog that told an arresting story: “One day, in 1977, six boys set out from Tonga on a fishing trip ... Caught in a huge storm, the boys were shipwrecked on a deserted island. What do they do, this little tribe? They made a pact never to quarrel.”

The article did not provide any sources. But sometimes all it takes is a stroke of luck. Sifting through a newspaper archive one day, I typed a year incorrectly and there it was. The reference to 1977 turned out to have been a typo. In the 6 October 1966 edition of Australian newspaper The Age, a headline jumped out at me: “Sunday showing for Tongan castaways”. The story concerned six boys who had been found three weeks earlier on a rocky islet south of Tonga, an island group in the Pacific Ocean. The boys had been rescued by an Australian sea captain after being marooned on the island of ‘Ata for more than a year. According to the article, the captain had even got a television station to film a re-enactment of the boys' adventure.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

 

An all young male Gilligan's Island?

It was not the same without Mary Ann (and Ginger).

 

Gotta appreciate their gumption. "Yo this school sucks. Let's steal that jerk's boat and get the hell outta here"

 

Hmmm...has notes of transmission fluid and diesel exhaust

 

This incel's wanking game just took a major hit

A Virginia man inspired by notorious “incel” mass shooter Elliott Rodger fantasized about blowing up a shopping mall and killing “hot cheerleaders,” according to an FBI affidavit.

On June 2, Cole Carini of Richlands, Virginia, showed up at the Clinch Valley Medical Center with a missing hand. Several fingers on Carini’s other hand were also gone, and he had shrapnel wounds to the neck and throat. A local sheriff’s deputy arrived to interview Carini, who claimed his gruesome injuries were the result of a gardening accident.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cole-...cel-killer-elliot-rodger-was-making-bomb-feds

 

As someone who often mows the lawn in sandals . . . Yeah, right.

 

As I said elsewhere, the court document is much better than any article. I recommend all click on that FBI affidavit link.

 

@Ismitje , I saw your anonymouspotato.com post (I can't remember where) and decided to get one for my wife's birthday instead of a card.

It went over..... well? A lot of laughing, "what the hell is this?" and "I have no idea what to say." She's from Tremonton/Cache Valley area (spent time in both growing up). I think it went well?

Mostly, she was impressed I bought something a week before her birthday. I usually wait until the day of, because she's ruined almost every surprise I've ever got her, including the proposal. She doesn't much like surprises.

 

Well she didn't see this one coming.

 

That’s a fascinating tale. Have to send it to my son in law he’s from that part of the world. His grandfather was a sea captain who decided to stay on his island.
Later on my SiL went to Uni in NZ got his masters in Ed and now teaches with my daughter in China. Great life innit???

 

NY Times Uses the Irish word Gobshite for the first time

 

They're just slaggin' us, ya bleedin' wankah.

 

A pod of beluga whales "adopted" a narwhal.



https://www.salon.com/2019/01/02/a-...as-why-interspecies-adoptions-happen_partner/

 

Well, they are the "Jedi of the sea," so the narwhal probably impressed the hell out of the belugas, which just look like precooked bratwurst, anyway.

 

Took the grandkids to Vancouver aquarium a few years back just as they introduced their new baby beluga. Mrs Scouse in her best judgement bought them the CD. Listening to it all the way back to Seattle was grounds for driving into the pacific.

 

Man wins lawsuit against his parents because they threw out his porn collection

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...f-sons-porn-collection?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

Now your mom threw away your best porno mag

 

That makes for some awkward discussions at the holiday dining table:

"Well David - looks like your forearms are back to their normal size now."

 

Every time I see someone drinking White Claw I think of the sacrifice of the Beastie Boys and weep.

 

Merry Christmas!

 

Dafuq is this?

How to eat "St. Louis-style" bagels pic.twitter.com/djOp7aaqYi

— New Jersey (@NJGov) December 29, 2020