Weird News Compilation

[mfb]

which is very popular with Britons

The ski resort, or disappearing from things?

 

[berkeman]

Ooooo

 

[nsaspook]

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.”

 

[Jarvis323]

A former Israeli space security chief has sent eyebrows shooting heavenward by saying that earthlings have been in contact with extraterrestrials from a "galactic federation."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1250333

 

[nsaspook]

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit...t-made-in-hawaii-class-action-lawsuit-claims/

A new battle in the legal war over product authenticity involves the makers of King’s Hawaiian rolls, who have been hit with a class action lawsuit claiming fraudulent marketing misleads shoppers by hiding where the product is really made.

I'm upset about Hawaiian pizza. Real Hawaiian pizza would have Spam.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_pizza

 

[fresh_42]

He's quite late, isn't he?

Stanley Johnson, the father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has said that he intends to obtain French citizenship -- his comments coming just hours before the UK's final transition out of the European Union.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/31/uk/stanley-johnson-french-citizenship-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

 

[Keith_McClary]

I ran across the headline:
GST collections for December highest ever at Rs 1.15 lakh crore

Wikipedia explains the Indian numbering system.
For example, 6,78,90,17,12,34,56,789 is Six padma seventy-eight nil ninety kharab seventeen arab twelve crore thirty-four lakh fifty-six thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.

 

[nsaspook]

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/202...i-sirens-activated-to-warn-of-high-winds.html

A visitor, Leah Godfrey, said she sprinted to her car after hearing the sirens sound. “Please reserve the doomsday siren for actual doomsday,” she wrote on Facebook.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/sirens-for-high-wind-warning-cause-tsunami-scare-in-coastal-oregon-town/ar-BB1cq7Tw

 

[nsaspook]

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/co...nes-only-its-actually-for-the-boss-metal-zone

“Here in Italy people started to share this figure claiming that this is the diagram of the 5G chip that has been inserted in the COVID vaccine,” he tweeted. “In reality it is the electric circuit of a guitar pedal.”

Guitar pedals are based on 5G alien technology?

 

[BillTre]

Russian woman who swam under Siberia's ice may have broken the world record

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.

 

[BillTre]

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."

 

[mfb]

For people who think the intensive care units are too empty these days.

 

[sysprog]

For people who think the intensive care units are too empty these days.

Is surjection safer than injection?

 

[sysprog]

@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.

 

[DaveE]

toroidalic homeomorphicity

I don't think those were words before today. Well played sir, well played.

 

[sysprog]

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?

 

[Jarvis323]

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/

 

[fresh_42]

https://abc7news.com/screaming-hotline-just-scream-chris-gollmar/9805836/
https://justscream.baby/78394/

Reminds me of ...

I've read about a Japanese company which at least installed punching bags in a room in their basement, which carried the faces of the bosses for their employees ...

 

[Jarvis323]

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?

 

[mfb]

It made me think of this for some reason.

The dogs know what happens to Keanu Reeve's (character's) dog.

 

[nsaspook]

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?

Or an ex-GF.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ana...tout-ben-affleck-trash-breakup-013828340.html

 

[nsaspook]

After the breakup it's back to hard drinking and donuts.

 

[Jarvis323]

After the breakup it's back to hard drinking and donuts.
View attachment 276544

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.

http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1996460,00.html

 

[fresh_42]

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.

 

[Borg]

Not sad - just staying warm. Bernie Sanders mittens picture has been making the rounds.

 

[nsaspook]

Not sad - just staying warm. Bernie Sanders mittens picture has been making the rounds.

 

[fresh_42]

View attachment 276671

I hope this is a good omen for the weekend!

 

[fresh_42]

View attachment 276671

 

[etotheipi]

Not sad - just staying warm.

 

[Jarvis323]