Fucking idiots...

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Woke up, went down to get the Sunday paper (pleasant surprise, 54°)...and saw this front page headline combo:

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:facepalm:

Please, allow me to sing you the song of my people:

♪ ♫Derp♪ ♫

Uh-oh...They're starting to fight back:

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Also: That's a helluva way to die.

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:lol2:

Man Killed To Death.


That's positively zen.

When asked about the severity of the cow`s burns, doctors responded "medium rare".

Some considerable time ago, the England cricket team were playing the West Indies at the Oval in south London.
Brian Johnston, who was one of the radio commentators and noted for an impish sense of humour, saw his chance as the West Indies bowler Michael Holding was about to commence his run up to the England batsman Peter Willey.
He announced to the nation '... the bowler's Holding the batsman's Willey'. Elderly spinsters in Royal Tunbridge Wells reached for their smelling salts.

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

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Very funny!

:facepalm:

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Blockedbywhutnow?

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Excellent photo-journalism.

Digr, are you OK??

Hah! Yep, I'm still here.:lol2:

It's not MS, it's MI.

Woman sued for $2 million after boyfriend torches squirrel on apartment deck, starts massive fire.

That is so weird in so many ways.

Not least because the woman is renting an apartment with a man who eats squirrel; in what reality would she ever be able to pay $2m back? Taking her to court only adds to the costs.

She may very well have renter's insurance which could pay 50 or 100 thousand liability.
I'm betting the squirrel wasn't for sustenance, more likely something he shot and was determined to cook and eat.
Probably because she was ragging his ass about...
1- Murdering god's creatures,
2- Killing and wasting animals,
3- Bringing that filthy rodent in the apartment

Thinking about it, I guess it's not really questionable, is it.

You used to expect a certain level of decorum in news headlines...

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...I guess we've thrown that out the window, too.

Girl?

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Phung looks like a fifty year old man.

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See what they did there?

I was reading a bit about the movie 'Jurassic Park', and about how the CGI in the movie literally changed the way movies are made. Included was this summary of the flick, and some pics of some of the some of the actors...

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...man, the guy that played Muldoon ("Clever girl.") sure has changed.

Questionable Headlines
 

We bought our '96 Prizm from Bob Peck chevy. Didn't look like that.

Bob Peck changed from alive to dead, that's pretty much as far as change can get.

Probably shot by a southern sympathizer in FORD'S theater. :rolleyes:

Yeah that's----wait.

Whut?


ETA: Nevermind. Chevy-Ford, I get it, now.

Someone send me a link to the latest issue of Lone Star Outdoor News, telling me to check out the arrowhead story. I found the site a pain in the ass to navigate and screen shotted the story.
I'm having a hard time believing, but an ex-cop, from Texas, on the internet... must be true.:rolleyes:

It's totally cool that it was in a skull. But seriously, 100 year old arrow head is museum worthy?

Sure, it's lost technology from a group/lifestyle vanquished vanished. Archie Bunker's chair is museum worthy.

I suppose.

I just got really excited reading the story, thinking it was going to be thousands of years old or something and was a little disappointed with the reveal :p

Well yeah this is 'Murica. 'Murican history only goes back so far. Texas only goes to like 1835. For the white man.

Ha!

No, but bruce made a fair point. We have recent stuff in museums too. Just - arrows seems like an old technology. For an arrowhead to be remarkable (beyond being inside a fucking skull!) I'd have thought it would need to be very old.

Y'know, there a place about a half hour drive (I think) from here that used to be a neolithic flint production site. Thousands upon thousands of shavings, and chips and discards.

We have locations here where the natives found the particular type of stone they preferred for knapping arrowheads and spear points. Tribes would camp there while the artisans knapped the tribes needs. No sense it carrying the whole stone when you only need a little of it, and hunter/gatherer tribes could easily camp about anywhere, for awhile. Over thousands of years these locations accumulated not only considerable knapping debris, but a lot of artifacts discarded or lost by succeeding cultures using the site, which made archeologists say, heap good spot find stuff. ;)

Those places fascinate me. The idea that stuff that was handled by humans thousands of years ago, are just lying about loose on the ground.

hahahaha.

Vacuum the dog fur off the couch, I'm on my way!

No.

But - a 130-400 year old (or older, remember it's the the skull that is 130-400 years old) arrowhead still lodged in the skull of the animal it killed is museum-worthy. IMHO, anyway.

I've seen regular old acorns in a museum as a demonstration of what native americans would grind up to make a sort of flour they could use to cook shitty tasting cakes. Museums can have pretty low standards. Depends on the museum.

It depends on what they are trying to teach. Museums shouldn't be about bragging rights for the oldest, largest, most of or best example. A lot, maybe most, museums limit what they collect to a category. It might be a time period, or geographic region, or really narrowed down like Indians of Eastern MA, or cowboys post civil war. There's no reason for them to exist unless they teach you. Grinding acorns was an important part of that culture, so acorns it shall be.

I agree. But if you just look at an acorn by itself, it's not museum worthy. You need that context to make it worthy.

And wine to wash down the shitty cakes ;)

There are those of us who would beg to differ...

Hahahaha!

Well-played.

The hits keep rollin in...

Heh, here's another from the "Well No Shit" dept:

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Cronkite would have been all over this shit. ;)

Again, where has the decorum gone?

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From the Onion, but, still...

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That made me laugh. Pretty much everyone in Mr. Clod's department has two monitors, but he has his configured vertically so they all still know he's a bigger badass than they are.*

*In seriousness, it does help him because a lot of what he does is look at long strings of code, log files, that sort of thing, so that extra vertical length is like working on a legal pad instead of a standard page... but still, dude is not fucking around. :)

LOL.

Yeah, we have some people doing document review that have two screens. One screen has the document image on display and the other screen has the data entry program for filling in the little boxes with the information from the documents. Vertical is better there too.

J works on three widescreen monitors when he is working at home. Mainly when he is working on his game.

Always gets me when I go round and try to get something up on his browser, because the mouse is off on that screen and I have to move it across to the screen I'm using.

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Link for the interested



Link for the uninterested

oooh kittehs!

Wow.:mg:

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It's a pro-Obama piece.

:eyebrow:

Link to an article about the article. I'm not gonna contribute to their page views.

Strikes me as a publicity stunt, trying to increase circulation.

Looks like it's gonna be another one of those days:

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I thought that's kinda what they were there for.



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