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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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https://www.naplesnews.com/story/ne...jumps-up-catches-ball-golfer-says/2939466002/

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  • #353
Always a pleasure:

The "Real" Reason Scientists Are Lying About The Earth Being Round According To Flat-Earthers
"If some scientist revealed it tomorrow on CNN, or whatever, and it was broadcast that the Earth is not (round) --- there's potential for some real shock waves, some real upheaval. The first one is academic --- literally in every university in every country, astrophysics and astronomy would have to be shut down overnight. Those would not reopen."
https://www.brainjet.com/world/2456...earth-being-round-according-to-flat-earthers/
 
  • #357
Tenderized!
 
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  • #360
https://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/People-are-pooping-more-than-ever-on-the-streets-13778680.php
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A dog can't walk the streets anymore.
 
  • #361
Monty Python's killer rabbit? :wideeyed:

 
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  • #362
Borg said:
Monty Python's killer rabbit? :wideeyed:



Better every loop 😂
 
  • #364
Borg said:
People who write machine learning programs can be pretty weird.
And have WAY too much spare time.
 
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  • #366
Oxford Professor Argues Invisible Aliens Are Interbreeding With Humans

  • Dr Chi claims that aliens share our biosphere and are acting to overcome the effects of climate change.
  • Dr Chi outlined his views in a 2012 lecture and has since written a book.
  • In April 2018, Dr Chi approached The Oxford Union to propose a debate on the subject. The proposal was not accepted.
The Oxford Student has learned that Dr Young-hae Chi, Professor at Oxford’s Oriental Institute, believes in a strong correlation between climate change and alien abductions.
In 2012, Dr Chi gave a lecture at the the Ammach Conference, titled ‘Alien Abduction and the Environmental Crisis’ in which he outlined his theory concerning the presence of aliens on earth.

...article continues...
https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2019/...theory-on-climate-change-and-alien-abduction/

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diogenesNY
 
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This happens, if you don't maintain your espionage hardware! Uhm, I meant, feed, if you don't feed your ...

Last week, a group of fishermen had an ostensibly delightful encounter with a beluga whale off the coast of the Norwegian village of Inga, according to The Guardian. They say it was actively seeking their boats to try and pull straps and ropes from their sides, and seemed comfortable around humans.

Russia may be training killer beluga whales
and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 isn’t
so silly now, is it?
 
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diogenesNY said:
Oxford Professor Argues Invisible Aliens Are Interbreeding With Humans
Clearly true - here's the evidence.
 
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Oh my goodness 😂

 
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Craftek_Ana said:
Oh my goodness 😂


I don't get it. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I would do the same if I knew someone in Japan.
 
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fresh_42 said:
I don't get it. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I would do the same if I knew someone in Japan.
I agree, I would love to get my hand on some of that chalk.

It's the way they fawn over it that gets me.


- I didn't want to become a chalk dealer,but I did like the idea that I could be the first stick is free, chalk dealer on the block in my department.

-I was probably be selling it regularly to maybe 8-10 colleagues.
I would reach into my cupboard in my office and pull out another box a d we'd do the deal in my office.

-When I'm teaching I get a feeling of energy, confidence, and the chalk absolutely helps.

I lost it 😂
 
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Craftek_Ana said:
- I didn't want to become a chalk dealer,but I did like the idea that I could be the first stick is free, chalk dealer on the block in my department.


... and imagine the custom officers who desperately try to figure out what's hidden in that box of a white something if ordered per mail!
 
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Thanks for posting this. Mother was worried when I told her the news (which I read here on PF), and was (almost) preventing me from studying on my laptop and phone. I would be glad to tell her the sequel of the story. :wink:
 
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Extraordinary claims require Extraordinary proof unless its on night-time news or in the papers wherever they may publish.
 
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I fear the day the British Ammonal leftovers from WWI in Belgium will ignite.
 
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fresh_42 said:
Various drivers here drove (on different occasions) into a river, because their navigation system told them where to cross, but not that it is a ferry and not a bridge.
We had someone whose satnav said something like "after the bend, take the first right". After the bend was a level crossing, and then the right turn he was supposed to make. You can guess where he ended up...
 
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Ibix said:
We had someone whose satnav said something like "after the bend, take the first right". After the bend was a level crossing, and then the right turn he was supposed to make. You can guess where he ended up...
I observed that many drivers had their satnav switched on while they clearly were on their way home during business traffic. (You can see the light in winter when darkness comes early, and the license plates reveal whether they locals or not.)

Have they forgotten their way home? Aren't they annoyed by the voice telling them what they know anyway? I didn't get it.
 
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fresh_42 said:
Have they forgotten their way home? Aren't they annoyed by the voice telling them what they know anyway? I didn't get it.
Well it IS a different mindset! You can shut off the part of your brain that keeps track of place. You can then "automatically" respond just to the local traffic and perhaps carry on a conversation with a passenger; without worrying about tracking, and processing, where you are in relation to 'the next turn'.

Personally, I don't care to use satnav (GPS) for known routes, it makes me lazy. I've read reports (don't recall where), and know at least one person, that people lose their orienteering skills with constant satnav use.

It sure is handy though in an unfamiliar central city area at night with no Moon for a reference!
 
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fresh_42 said:
I observed that many drivers had their satnav switched on while they clearly were on their way home during business traffic. (You can see the light in winter when darkness comes early, and the license plates reveal whether they locals or not.)

Have they forgotten their way home? Aren't they annoyed by the voice telling them what they know anyway? I didn't get it.
I often use Google Maps for local navigation. While position is only so-so, the app works well for routes; choosing optimum path to a destination. Maps app offers expected travel times for alternate routes with near-time hazard and accident updates, planned road closures and severe weather warnings. A quick check helps me decide freeway (autobahn?) or city streets.
 
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Klystron said:
I often use Google Maps for local navigation. While position is only so-so, the app works well for routes; choosing optimum path to a destination. Maps app offers expected travel times for alternate routes with near-time hazard and accident updates, planned road closures and severe weather warnings. A quick check helps me decide freeway (autobahn?) or city streets.
I like the Zen navigation:

“He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.”

― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
 
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fresh_42 said:
I like the Zen navigation:

“He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.”

― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Yup. I've some neighbors that seem to apply that to life!
 
  • #398
Was the rattlesnake in a box with the Uranium?
 
  • #400
Reminds me of a store that we used to drive past an hour before we got to our mule deer hunting camp in the Modoc National Forest. LOL.

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