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QuikSand 03-01-2019 04:05 PM

World’s No 1 bridge player suspended after failing a drugs test | Sport | The Guardian

miami_fan 03-14-2019 09:54 PM

Florida Mayor Thursday Part Two
 
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Originally Posted by miami_fan (Post 3231828)


Arrested again: Ousted Port Richey mayor, with acting mayor, accused of intimidating police officer

This is tremendous!

AlexB 04-12-2019 11:31 AM

A comedian literally died on stage, and the audience spent five minutes laughing, thinking it was part of the act.

Ian Cognito: Comedian dies on-stage in Bicester - BBC News

Warhammer 04-12-2019 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by AlexB (Post 3235697)
A comedian literally died on stage, and the audience spent five minutes laughing, thinking it was part of the act.

Ian Cognito: Comedian dies on-stage in Bicester - BBC News


Echoes of Dick Shawn there...

miami_fan 05-05-2019 06:19 PM

Deputies: Publix shopper accidentally shoots himself while inside Land O’ Lakes store

miami_fan 05-05-2019 06:21 PM


Some member of my family visits this store at least once a week.

Lathum 05-10-2019 11:47 AM

An Interview With A Man Who Eats Leftover Food From Strangers' Plates In Restaurants

miami_fan 06-14-2019 03:50 PM

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...olice-n1017256

JPhillips 07-17-2019 11:40 AM

iowa-official-resign-tupac-obsession

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The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that 66-year-old Jerry Foxhoven was asked to resign after repeatedly declaring his unwavering dedication to ’90s rapper Tupac and his music during work hours.


albionmoonlight 07-17-2019 12:11 PM

"I am sure you are already aware that this Sunday is also 2Pac's birthday" is a sentence I am pretty sure I will never receive in an email from my boss.

Critch 07-29-2019 08:45 AM

Bishop defends saying gays exist because pregnant women enjoy anal sex

Lathum 07-29-2019 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Critch (Post 3244581)


Whew.

I was worried my son may be gay, no chance of that now.

panerd 07-29-2019 07:03 PM

'I want more answers' | Man finds frozen baby in mom's freezer in south St. Louis | ksdk.com

molson 07-31-2019 11:41 AM

Man With 'Long, Long, History' Of Masturbating In Fields With Horses Jailed Again

QuikSand 08-07-2019 11:05 PM

FOX 5 Atlanta on Twitter: "U.S. & WORLD NEWS: Woman says meth found hidden inside vagina is not hers https://t.co/XaKOO8rwNj… "

JonInMiddleGA 08-07-2019 11:25 PM


At least there's no indication she claimed "I don't know how it got there".

That'd make this next level disturbing.

PilotMan 09-24-2019 06:21 AM

This one def qualifies:


Mom claims Ukrainian daughter, 9, she adopted was really a 22-year-old with dwarfism | Daily Mail Online

QuikSand 10-03-2019 02:03 PM

Texas woman says potential employer publicly shared her bikini photo to shame her about 'unprofessionalism' | TheHill

PilotMan 10-03-2019 02:58 PM



I'd buy it.

Ben E Lou 10-03-2019 03:25 PM

Huh. Interesting one. Because of my years in close proximity to some high school football programs, my social media friend universe contains maybe a couple dozen high school and college coaches. At some point, just about every one of them has posted generic advice to young athletes about how their social media feed could cost them a scholarship and/or a job offer, and sometimes they use screen shots as example. I'm guessing that I see these sorts of "PSAs" once or twice a month. As a result, I probably have a bit of an inherent "she should have known better" bias that may not be fair in all cases. That said, if the potential employer asks you to follow their IG feed, shouldn't that be a least a yellow flag that they want you to make it easy for them to check out your online presence?

FWIW, a high enough percentage of my former YL kids use "altered" versions of their names on both FB and IG that I can only assume that it's a fairly well-known best practice to do so. This is the group that was in high school or college when FB first came out, and only high school kids, college kids, and people they invited had access to it. As a result, many of their feeds from back then are rampant with pics of drinking and/or weed smoking, profane rants, etc. I'm sure that if they don't want to delete their accounts, rather than trying to scrub stuff from 2005, it's just easier to change their names so that no potential employer can see that stuff. Examples: 31-year-old with initials of "T.M." now goes by "Taylor Made" on both FB and IG. Late-20s lawyer now goes by his first and middle names, last name nowhere to be found on social media. Even a certain former UT and Tucker High tailback who infamously shunned UGA because "UT plays for National Championships and Georgia goes to the Peach Bowl"--and then proceeded to play in and *lose* two Peach Bowls at UT--now uses a fake name despite his mug being easily recognizable to any serious SEC fan. ;) In every single one of these cases I've seen, the person used to use their first and last name, but changed it, so it seems fairly clear that it's to avoid this sort of thing.

JPhillips 10-03-2019 05:18 PM

I have a lot of students and former students that use first/middle as a way to hide from any unwanted attention.

Edward64 10-14-2019 10:06 AM

WTF ??

Mother of man, 28, who died after injecting his scrotum with silicone sues his five boyfriends | Daily Mail Online
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Mother of man, 28, who died after injecting his scrotum with silicone sues his five boyfriends after they 'forced her son to inflate his testicles to the size of a basketball'

QuikSand 10-14-2019 10:26 AM

"forced"

NobodyHere 10-14-2019 10:40 AM

I must have a really boring life.

tyketime 10-17-2019 11:04 AM

Maybe he should have quit streaming after 2 hours?


No, you can’t watch porn in your car while parked in public, N.J. appeals court rules - nj.com

NobodyHere 10-25-2019 06:47 AM

Sweet Jesus

A Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Using Alcohol. It Turns Out, His Gut Brews Its Own Booze. | Live Science

JediKooter 10-25-2019 10:41 AM


That's one way to save money.

cuervo72 11-10-2019 05:48 PM

Russia's greatest Napoleonic re-enactor found drunk in a river with the severed arms of his lover in his backpack - SFGate

JPhillips 11-13-2019 07:52 AM

Three judges suspended for drunken 3 AM fight at White Castle — that ended with two shot

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“The judges traveled to Indianapolis April 30 to attend a judicial conference the next day. Around 3 a.m. May 1, the judges, along with another magistrate who was not involved in the fight, tried to enter the Red Garter Gentleman’s Club in Downtown, but it was closed,” The Star noted. “They went to the nearby White Castle at 55 W. South St. instead.”

Things then escalated rapidly.

“Adams, Jacobs and Bell were standing outside the restaurant when Alfredo Vazquez and Brandon Kaiser drove past the trio in a blue SUV. According to charging documents from the Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications, either Kaiser or Vazquez yelled something out the window that prompted Bell to give the middle finger to the men,” the newspaper reported.

According to the opinion, the three judges then, “joined in a profane verbal altercation that quickly turned into physical violence and ended in gunfire, and in doing so, gravely undermined public trust in the dignity and decency of Indiana’s judiciary.”

JediKooter 11-13-2019 09:52 AM


Sounds like they used...poor judgement.

molson 11-13-2019 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Warhammer (Post 3235699)
Echoes of Dick Shawn there...


And Tommy Cooper. The video of whose death randomly surfaced after decades.

I know you never expect the comedian you're watching to die on stage, but, I'm not sure I'd think that falling over unconscious was "part of the show", as the audience did in all three cases.

JPhillips 11-14-2019 02:50 PM

Just watch ...


JPhillips 11-18-2019 05:17 PM

dola


miami_fan 11-18-2019 06:24 PM

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

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A Miami professor who’s an expert on drug trafficking and organized crime was charged by the U.S. with laundering money from Venezuela, skimming more than $250,000 for himself.

NobodyHere 11-18-2019 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by miami_fan (Post 3256853)


The title of the link makes me think that you're linking to a totally different (and more interesting) story.

Edward64 11-19-2019 04:22 PM

Not that strange but kind of funny. Good reviews on Rotten Tomatoes so far but not one I would watch.

Tom Hanks Learns He's a Distant Relative of Fred Rogers | PEOPLE.com
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Won’t you be my relative?

Through research conducted by Ancestry, a genealogy service that charts users’ lineage via its database of more than 20 billion public records, Tom Hanks was shocked to learn that he is, in fact, sixth cousins with the late Fred Rogers.

Access Hollywood surprised Hanks, 63, with the results at a New York City screening of the star’s upcoming film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a drama in which Hanks steps into Rogers’ iconic sweater to embody the gentle children’s TV host.

“No, impossible … you’re pulling our leg,” the actor’s wife, Rita Wilson, said upon hearing the news, scanning a family tree diagram.

“Listen,” said Hanks, harping on the significance of the revelation, “it all just comes together, you see.”


NobodyHere 11-25-2019 05:26 PM

Eighty-two-year-old woman beats up burglar who broke into her home | US news | The Guardian

Imagine being the inmate in prison who will be asked how he got caught.

Critch 12-01-2019 07:56 AM

Apostrophe society shuts down because 'ignorance and laziness have won'

Edward64 12-15-2019 02:58 PM

Hmmmm. Unfortunately, can't un-see it.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/14/us/fa...rnd/index.html
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Thousands of 'penis fish' washed up on a California beach

A horde of large, fat worms descended upon a central California beach, spooked out of their burrows by a bomb cyclone.

Wildlife enthusiast David Ford captured the foreboding scene, which looks as though a plane full of frankfurters flung open the hatch and let the dogs rain down upon the unassuming shore.




JediKooter 12-16-2019 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Edward64 (Post 3259266)
Hmmmm. Unfortunately, can't un-see it.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/14/us/fa...rnd/index.html





Well that sucks and is definitely a prickly situation that is probably hard to solve and hopefully none of those birds will choke when trying to swallow them.

NobodyHere 12-16-2019 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by JediKooter (Post 3259308)
Well that sucks and is definitely a prickly situation that is probably hard to solve and hopefully none of those birds will choke when trying to swallow them.


You thought long and hard about this post didn't you. I'd hate to see the uncut version.

JediKooter 12-16-2019 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by NobodyHere (Post 3259317)
You thought long and hard about this post didn't you. I'd hate to see the uncut version.


Not too long thankfully. :)

Critch 12-16-2019 10:55 AM

That's cute, they're like tiny little dicks.

JPhillips 12-18-2019 03:27 PM

Missouri church leader tried to pay for sex on Grindr with Arby’s card

JediKooter 12-19-2019 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by JPhillips (Post 3259514)


Wait...you can pay for sex with an Arby's card?

JPhillips 12-19-2019 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by JediKooter (Post 3259603)
Wait...you can pay for sex with an Arby's card?


They have the meat.

Kodos 12-20-2019 07:55 AM

Well played.

NobodyHere 12-24-2019 11:48 AM

This isn't something you see every day.


Critch 12-30-2019 01:48 PM

Suffolk man ‘had sex with 450 tractors’

Izulde 12-30-2019 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Critch (Post 3260321)


That's a satire website, Jim.

Critch 12-30-2019 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Izulde (Post 3260326)
That's a satire website, Jim.


So it is, I was surprised there were that many tractors in Suffolk.

miami_fan 01-02-2020 04:50 PM

New York State Assembly Republican Brian M. Kolb charged with DWI a week after warning against it | Daily Mail Online

JediKooter 01-02-2020 04:58 PM


Damn. He looks more sober in his booking photo than the one to the right of it.

JediKooter 01-23-2020 11:42 AM

Guy In Florida Loads Car With Frozen Iguanas, They Warm Up, Come Back To Life, Cause Car Accident

Chief Rum 01-23-2020 03:38 PM


Florida is the gift that keeps giving.

NobodyHere 01-23-2020 03:40 PM

https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-co...239520633.html

JediKooter 01-24-2020 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Chief Rum (Post 3262696)
Florida is the gift that keeps giving.


Just not as tasty as the Jelly of the Month Club.

JediKooter 01-24-2020 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by NobodyHere (Post 3262697)


That doesn't look tasty...at all.

I'm so glad we have places like McDonald's and other places that are happy to prep your food for you. I would starve if I was born a century earlier than I was.

JediKooter 01-31-2020 09:24 AM

Texas Man Admits Kidnapping 79 People To Anally Probe Them While Disguised As An Alien

I'm disappointed it wasn't Florida Man.

NobodyHere 01-31-2020 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by JediKooter (Post 3263421)


I'm surprised it wasn't Ted Cruz

JediKooter 01-31-2020 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by NobodyHere (Post 3263428)
I'm surprised it wasn't Ted Cruz


Totally human Ted Cruz, may have been a prime suspect at one point.

QuikSand 01-31-2020 12:30 PM


Brian Swartz 02-02-2020 12:36 AM

My nominee for dumb headline of the year:

Sunday's date is a rare palindrome that hasn't happened in over 900 years

I get what they're getting at, but I'm pretty sure Sunday's date hasn't happened like, ever.

molson 02-02-2020 01:02 AM

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Originally Posted by QuikSand (Post 3263439)


I feel like this would be more effective if they used Steven Wright's voice

Edward64 02-02-2020 02:19 PM

Somewhat related to above post. Assuming they gave her fair warning, I'm okay with this. Won't work here though.

Shocking moment shopper is dragged from Chinese supermarket 'after she REFUSED to wear face mask' | Daily Mail Online
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A woman was dragged out of a Chinese supermarket and pinned to the ground after allegedly refusing to wear a face mask while the country deals with the coronavirus outbreak.

Mobile phone footage from Wednesday shows the shopper, identified only by her surname Qiu, resisting two uniformed officers as they haul her down the aisle of Space supermarket in Shenzen, in south China's Guangdong province.

The local government, responsible for some 113million inhabitants, announced a province-wide mask order effective on January 26, making it a punishable offence to be in a public space without a surgical mask.

NobodyHere 02-02-2020 03:04 PM

Everything I've read says that regular surgical masks does nothing against the coronavirus so I'm definitely NOT okay with that.

Edward64 02-02-2020 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by NobodyHere (Post 3263651)
Everything I've read says that regular surgical masks does nothing against the coronavirus so I'm definitely NOT okay with that.


I've read that its minimum vs nothing. It may help in incidental contact. I read one article that said it may help reduce particulates coming from the infected etc. So if it even helps a little (and assuming she was given fair warning) and it lowers concern from your fellow citizens in a heighten state of alert, why not.

NobodyHere 02-02-2020 10:05 PM

Because you're probably going to cause more harm someone by tackling them and dragging them out of the store than the damage caused by not wearing a mask.

miami_fan 02-19-2020 04:17 PM

Amateur footballer in France banned for biting opponent's penis

NobodyHere 02-20-2020 05:11 PM

Takes all kinds I guess

Some People Eat Oreos With Mustard, According To A Crossword Puzzle

miami_fan 03-12-2020 05:44 AM

Chlamydia Discovered in Arctic Ocean Deep Sea Sediment

JPhillips 03-25-2020 04:13 PM


JPhillips 04-01-2020 10:23 PM


NobodyHere 04-02-2020 08:21 PM

World's Oldest Porn Found

miami_fan 04-08-2020 05:08 AM

A few people have mentioned that some folks in their neighborhoods not following the social distancing guidelines. Evidently, this has riled up many in the Tampa/St Pete area to the point that law enforcement is getting hundreds of calls. Stay inside, waste of law enforcement time and all that serious stuff is being put to one side here. That is for the other thread.

A few of the strange bits from the articles I have seen.

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Hillsborough County deputies arrived at the house in the Lake Magdalene area Friday night to find a crowd of 15 gathered around the wrestling ring in the front yard. Some were wearing costumes.

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They called because a friend “checked in” on Facebook at a nightclub on Gunn Highway and, according to a summary of one call to the Hillsborough sheriff, because of a “neighbor walking around outside not following quarantine while roommate posts nude pics at closed state parks."

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One St. Pete man posted a night-vision security video on YouTube of what appeared to be three teenage girls playfully cutting through his back yard. He noted they were not social distancing.

And my personal favorite one.

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In a Facebook group for Gulfport residents, one member Photoshopped a swastika flag onto the cute, pastel bungalow of another resident. They were trying to compare people telling on their neighbors for poor social distancing habits to those who turned their neighbors in to the Gestapo during World War II.

AlexB 04-09-2020 07:37 AM

Coronavirus: Man finds old car buried in garden during lockdown - BBC News

NobodyHere 06-08-2020 10:04 AM

Man Has Whole Fish Stuck in Rectum After Sitting on It By Accident

miami_fan 06-08-2020 05:48 PM

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/india...ntl/index.html

Not shaming, just informing.:D

NobodyHere 06-09-2020 11:02 AM

Ex-Miss Hitler Pageant Entrant Jailed For Being Part of Neo-Nazi Group

Also in the news: Water is Wet.

JPhillips 06-09-2020 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by NobodyHere (Post 3285143)


It was a million to one shot, Doc.

Critch 06-09-2020 04:34 PM

'Curious' young boy inserted 20 magnetic balls up his penis - and didn't tell parents

Keeping with the theme.

thesloppy 06-09-2020 04:58 PM

He sits on a fish, you shove 20 magnets up your urethra, it's the Chicago way!

NobodyHere 06-17-2020 02:39 PM

Galapagos tortoises who saved species with sex return to Espanola

I salute thee, horny turtle.

Ksyrup 06-25-2020 07:30 AM

A Twitch viewer is suing the Amazon-owned platform because the female streamers are too sexy so he:
a) has felt compelled to use a Fleshlight that has chafed his penis
b) has bloodshot eyes from ogling
c) shortcircuited his monitor by ejaculating on it

Twitch Sued for £20 Million Over "Sexually Suggestive" Streamers | Kotaku UK

Ksyrup 07-08-2020 12:45 PM

The 30th Dimension of Compatibility:

Oregon man driving stolen car crashes into woman driving another stolen car

AlexB 07-24-2020 03:26 PM

Only strange in that it’s a refreshingly uplifting story - a man’s word is his honour

US lottery jackpot shared after 1992 handshake - BBC News

JPhillips 07-28-2020 06:25 PM

Lackawanna woman died as she lived: hating Tom Brady

RendeR 07-29-2020 12:58 AM

Yeah I saw that in the news here. No love lost for system QB Brady here in western NY LOL

BishopMVP 07-29-2020 01:15 AM

Loved the Yankees, LeBron James, smoking millions of cigarettes and playing Candy Crush/Farmville? Sounds like a real winner.

(Seriously, thank goodness for the daughter the media is picking up on the Tom Brady angle. Who decides to list 5 things they want their mother remembered for and #2 is "She loved to smoke. She smoked millions of cigarettes.")

RendeR 07-29-2020 01:55 AM

People want to be remembered for who they are, if that was a specific trait that defined her then whats the problem?

My Grandmother was an unbelievable skinflint, and more than one person talked about it at length during the memorial. Same same.

NobodyHere 07-29-2020 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by RendeR (Post 3293375)
People want to be remembered for who they are, if that was a specific trait that defined her then whats the problem?

My Grandmother was an unbelievable skinflint, and more than one person talked about it at length during the memorial. Same same.


Did anyone else have to look up "skinflint"?

JPhillips 07-31-2020 10:49 AM


sterlingice 07-31-2020 10:56 AM

Links I'm not clicking on for 200, Alex

SI

Lathum 08-07-2020 09:43 AM

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nudist-c...hed-his-laptop

miami_fan 09-24-2020 03:33 PM

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/us/ma...rnd/index.html

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A study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine says a 54-year-old man died as a result of eating too much licorice.

Edward64 09-24-2020 04:00 PM

WTF?

https://www.timesnownews.com/the-buz...n-satan/657572
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Michel Faro do Prado, a 44-year-old Brazilian is one such extreme body modification enthusiast. Far has several head implants, customised teeth, and dozens of piercings and tattoos. But his latest modification is downright shocking.

He has surgically had a portion of his nose removed in a bid to enhance his 'human satan' appearance.

Ksyrup 09-24-2020 06:50 PM

Hero status secured.

MTA workers had hidden 'man cave' below Grand Central tracks

JediKooter 09-29-2020 11:28 PM

Swearing parrots removed from wildlife park

JPhillips 10-11-2020 06:25 PM


JPhillips 10-16-2020 04:03 PM

Hell of a week for Baton Rouge.



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