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The discussion revolves around sharing unusual and funny news stories. One highlighted case involves artist Peter Doig, who is being sued for $5 million by a man claiming a painting is his, despite Doig's insistence that he did not create it. Another story features inmates in Texas who broke out of their cell to save an unconscious guard, raising questions about their behavior. Additionally, a couple of dogs in the UK were caught damaging cars, leading to their eventual capture and a search for adoptive homes. The thread showcases a variety of bizarre incidents, emphasizing the oddities found in everyday news.
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which is very popular with Britons
The ski resort, or disappearing from things?
 
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Ooooo
 
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https://www.tennessean.com/story/ne...rson-interest-nashville-explosion/4052711001/

In between a digitized female voice giving warnings to evacuate the area, there was music, the officers said.
"Downtown," a wistful 1964 song by Petula Clark, echoed down Second Avenue just before the blast.

“When you're alone and life is making you lonely you can always go downtown,” blared Clark’s voice through the speakers. “When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know.”

 
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Russian woman who swam under Siberia's ice may have broken the world record
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She said:
The air temperature was as low as -22 degrees Fahrenheit but felt more like -43.6 on January 6, she said. Conditions were "dangerous and dark under the ice," which convinced the team to postpone the attempt.
Nekrasova described what happened the following day as a "Christmas miracle."
"The weather warmed up to -21 (degrees Celsius, -5.8 Fahrenheit ), the wind slightly moderated," she wrote.
 
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Guy injected Magic Mushroom tea, got sick.
A man brewed a tea from "magic mushrooms" and injected the concoction into his veins; several days later, he ended up at the emergency department with the fungus growing in his blood.

The man spent 22 days in the hospital, with eight of those days in the intensive care unit (ICU), where he received treatment for multisystem organ failure. Now released, he is still being treated with a long-term regimen of antibiotic and antifungal drugs, according to a description of the case published Jan. 11 in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
By injecting shrooms into his bloodstream, the 30-year-old patient had hoped to relieve symptoms of bipolar disorder and opioid dependence, according to the report. His family members noted that he had recently stopped adhering to his prescribed bipolar medications and was "cycling between depressive and manic states."
 
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For people who think the intensive care units are too empty these days.
 
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mfb said:
For people who think the intensive care units are too empty these days.
Is surjection safer than injection?
 
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@Keith_McClary, in response to your giving my questioning post a 'skeptical' reaction, I offer the following: I asked @mfb whether surjection was safer than injection ##-## surjection may be exploitative of the fact of the toroidalic homeomorphicity thereto of the alimentary canal ##-## eating something puts it in the tube; insufflating something puts it on the surface; injecting something puts it in.
 
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sysprog said:
toroidalic homeomorphicity
I don't think those were words before today. Well played sir, well played.
 
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DaveE said:
sysprog said:
toroidalic homeomorphicity
I don't think those were words before today. Well played sir, well played.
Thanks for the gentleness ##-## shouldn't a 'spherical cow' be more of a donut instead of too much of a basketball? ##-## maybe (due to its ingestion and excretion capabilities, which mean that it has an alimentary canal, and that it's therefore ultimately tubular) it's homeomorphic to a torus rather than to a sphere?
 
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There's a new outlet for your frustration that's as easy as picking up your phone.

Just Scream! is a hotline created by elementary school teacher Chris Gollmar.

You can call the number and just scream for as long and as loudly as you want.

There's no one on the other end and numbers aren't saved.
Gollmar said he's gotten 70,000 recordings since launching the hotline.

The hotline will stop accepting calls on January 21. The screams will remain on the website.

https://abc7news.com/screaming-hotline-just-scream-chris-gollmar/9805836/
https://justscream.baby/78394/
 
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fresh_42 said:
Reminds me of ...
It made me think of this for some reason.

Could you imagine having a cardboard cutout of your boss watching over you while you work from home?
 
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Jarvis323 said:
It made me think of this for some reason.
The dogs know what happens to Keanu Reeve's (character's) dog.
 
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After the breakup it's back to hard drinking and donuts.
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nsaspook said:
After the breakup it's back to hard drinking and donuts.
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Perhaps it is time to declare a cheer Ben Affleck up day?

Web illustrators Photoshopped Reeves into other sad settings: next to Forrest Gump, surrounded by http://guestofaguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/keanucats.jpg, on the Lost island, in a Lady Gaga video, even next to Stalin and Churchill. Nothing they did seemed to make the actor happy. But maybe this will: Tuesday, June 15, is Cheer Up Keanu Day.

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http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1996460,00.html
 
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And there have been reports mentioned in the newspaper from similar incidents.
The teachers had organized a video conference with the students of the second grade using external software, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Culture in Wiesbaden. A participant with an alleged maiden name dialed in, excluded the teachers from the conference and showed ***
Guess we're not really ready for remote schooling.
 
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Not sad - just staying warm. Bernie Sanders mittens picture has been making the rounds.
 
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Borg said:
Not sad - just staying warm. Bernie Sanders mittens picture has been making the rounds.

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Borg said:
Not sad - just staying warm.
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