Funny/Strange News Stories

[JKgo]

...I knew it!!

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Hundreds of people pay $13,000 to attend a "luxury music festival", only for it to be cancelled at the last minute. Predictably, the Twittersphere has no sympathy:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-...ter-ja-rules-luxury-music-event-flops/8482192

 

[DK]

I'm reminded of some festival here (I think it was on the Atlantic coast) labelling itself "boutique". If only that went the way of Fyre.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

I'm reminded of some festival here (I think it was on the Atlantic coast) labelling itself "boutique".

I don't get the fixation with status that some people have. I really don't. Am I supposed to think highly of you because you drive an expensive car or wear designer clothes? It must be exhausting to spend so much time and effort being seen to live such an extravagant lifestyle, and it seems so completely hollow to me.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

What's Eminem been doing these days? Fighting the New Zealand government!

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-01/eminem-in-court-battle-with-nz-political-party/8486746

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Politician laughs so hard at episode of "Veep" that he chokes, gives himself a black eye and passes out:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-04/federal-mp-laughed-so-hard-at-veep-he-choked/8496936

Even Julia Louis-Dreyfus had a hard time believing it.

 

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[Johnnypenso]

Man Sues Airline for Seating Him Next to Two Obese Passengers

I can relate to this as someone who had to sit next to a rather rotund woman on a one hour flight in a Dash 8 recently. And she stank too!

An Australian man has leveled a broadside against American Airlines — for seating him next to two plump passengers on a 14-hour flight, an ordeal he claims left him with permanent injuries..... He said his squashed position by the window during the long flight worsened his scoliosis — or spinal curvature — and caused lower and upper back injuries as well as neck bruising.

The Wollongong resident is suing the airline and seeking more than $100,000 in damages.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

I used to be a CEO like you, but then I took a pie to the face.

(Note the massive over-reaction from the politician; you'd be forgiven for thinking the pie was a chemical weapon.)

 

[polysmut]

I used to be a CEO like you, but then I took a pie to the face.

(Note the massive over-reaction from the politician; you'd be forgiven for thinking the pie was a chemical weapon.)

If you think that's an overreaction you must have never watched professional soccerball.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

If you think that's an overreaction you must have never watched professional soccerball.

As it turns out, it was a protest against same-sex marriage:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-...-to-press-charges-against-pie-thrower/8513596

Because smacking a CEO in the face with a lemon meringue pie during a press conference is ... actually, I have no idea how to finish that sentence. The media has been weirdly specific in pointing out that it was a lemon meringue pie though. I guess that the statement would have been less pointed if he'd used blueberry pie.

 

[polysmut]

Because smacking a CEO in the face with a lemon meringue pie during a press conference is ... actually, I have no idea how to finish that sentence.

If this was a game, I'd go with this entry:
Because smacking a CEO in the face with a lemon meringue pie during a press conference is ...
...gonna get you a slap from Wendi Deng.

The media has been weirdly specific in pointing out that it was a lemon meringue pie though. I guess that the statement would have been less pointed if he'd used blueberry pie.

Didn't Homer Simpson The Pieman in The Simpsons use blueberry pie? Perhaps it's to make the distinction so we don't think it's him.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

If this was a game, I'd go with this entry:
Because smacking a CEO in the face with a lemon meringue pie during a press conference is

Actually, now that I think on it, I recall that Joyce was one of a number of CEOs who made a public statement supporting marriage equality. But that was months - maybe even a year - ago.

 

[Carbonox]

Don't know who any of these people are, but I found it amusing.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...urner-forget-legs-north-lambeth-a7725766.html

 

[Johnnypenso]

http://www.tsn.ca/must-see/video/th...son-pokes-fun-at-olympics-steroid-use~1124369

Funny commercial for an Aussie gambling site featuring Canada's own Ben Johnson, poking fun at his steriod scandal.

 

[Touring Mars]

Has anyone got some change for the vending machine...



http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-singapore-idUSKCN18B1KM

https://abm.sg/

 

[daan]

Has anyone got some change for the vending machine...



http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-singapore-idUSKCN18B1KM

https://abm.sg/

So if you come along and hit the side of it, a McLaren might fall out?

 

[JKgo]

Has anyone got some change for the vending machine...



http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-singapore-idUSKCN18B1KM

https://abm.sg/

...So, it's kinda like that building VW is operating in Germany, eh. But instead of naff Bluemotion diesel Polos, you get a Ferrari. Nice.

 

[BobK]

So if you come along and hit the side of it, a McLaren might fall out?

You gotta hit it pretty hard, though:

 

[prisonermonkeys]

So if you come along and hit the side of it, a McLaren might fall out?

Why not? If you hit the side of a McLaren, the engine falls out of it. The engine falls out even if you don't hit it.

 

[TenEightyOne]

So if you come along and hit the side of it, a McLaren might fall out?

Yes. Goodness knows what you do with the 6 metre plastic egg afterwards.

 

[UKMikey]

 

[Dotini]

Did fish fall from the sky at Oroville?
http://doubtfulnews.com/2017/05/oroville-fish-fall-remains-a-mystery/

 

[Grayfox]

I find this funny.
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/...nter-dies-in-freak-elephant-shooting-accident

Natures Revenge.

 

[JKgo]

Has anyone got some change for the vending machine...



http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-singapore-idUSKCN18B1KM

https://abm.sg/

BBC sent a man out to try the "vending machine".

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-as...ine-we-try-out-the-novel-singapore-dealership

Pretty nifty, I say. Time to sell one of my kidneys, I think.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Ian Brady (child killer) music quiz on Radio Leeds goes down as well as you'd expect. That's despite the inclusion of such classics as "Brady Bunch" and "Suffer Little Children". BBC.

 

[Famine]

Suffer Little Children

 

[eran0004]

Kid show subtitles accidentally run during a Swedish political debate.

http://www.lostateminor.com/2016/01...ntally-run-during-a-swedish-political-debate/

 

[TRGTspecialist]

Meanwhile, at Walkers Crisps' social media department:

The "Walkers Wave" campaign asked social media users to respond to a tweet from the official Walkers Crisps Twitter account with a selfie, using the hashtag #WalkersWave, as part of the chance to win the tickets.

The user's picture would then be incorporated into a personalised video, featuring Gary Lineker, automatically tweeted and captioned by Walkers.

Particular emphasis on "automatically" - you can probably see where this is going..........

 

[TenEightyOne]

Meanwhile, at Walkers Crisps' social media department:

Particular emphasis on "automatically" - you can probably see where this is going..........

And it goes on: