Funny/Strange News Stories

[TenEightyOne]

Woman uses sleeping husband's thumb to unlock phone, ensuing mayhem causes their flight to land prematurely. Guardian.

 

[Touring Mars]

Japanese Prime Minister falls into a bunker while playing golf with Donald Trump...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-...lfing-as-japan-s-shinzo-abe-falls-into-bunker

 

[TenEightyOne]

Family try tea they bought abroad only to end up in a hallucinogenic naked kidnapping/chase/crash. Or something like that, it's complicated.

 

[TexRex]

I beat a rat to death in my house with a pipe wrench. Took me 4 months to get him trying with traps and poison all failing. They are annoying, nasty, bacteria filled creatures.

In the rats' defense, so are we.

 

[UKMikey]

Family try tea they bought abroad only to end up in a hallucinogenic naked kidnapping/chase/crash. Or something like that, it's complicated.

Flipping heck.

I wonder whether this is a case of "Herbal tea is bad, mmm'kay"? Maybe those guys in Boston had the right idea.

 

[Joey D]

I give you uniquely Utah!

https://deadspin.com/utah-parent-wants-school-mascot-renamed-because-it-soun-1820431720

Given that Farmington is north of the city it's in a deeply conservative Mormon area.

 

[TenEightyOne]

The lovely little lord baby jesus. He's not a sausage.

 

[Touring Mars]

The lovely little lord baby jesus. He's not a sausage.

I may boycott Greggs on Christmas Day this year.

 

[UKMikey]

No fair of evangelist Daniel Webster for not falling for the cleekbait.

The UK Evangelical Alliance tell Newsbeat it is "not too outraged" about the Greggs nativity scene, but that it does raise issues of companies using the Bible story to sell products.

"Every year some company creates a Christmas controversy for commercial gain. It seems to get earlier each year," says Daniel Webster, spokesperson for the organisation.

He says Jesus is what should be the focus of Christmas celebrations, not advent calendars and marketing to sell sausage rolls.

"That's the scandal that should be talked about this Christmas, not processed outrage to sell processed food."

 

[Famine]

Sausages are closer to the spirit of Christmas than an implausible magical Jew is.

 

[Northstar]

The lovely little lord baby jesus. He's not a sausage.

That's actually the traditional nativity scene in Wisconsin.

 

[DG_Silva]

I may boycott Greggs on Christmas Day this year.

Only on Christmas Day then?...

 

[TenEightyOne]

Only on Christmas Day then?...

And only "may". Personally I'm going to check if they're open to show my support for their splendid campaign

 

[TenEightyOne]

Train doesn't leave on time, apology is issued.

 

[Grayfox]

200 Hasbrowns leads to Arrest

 

[Touring Mars]

The lovely little lord baby jesus. He's not a sausage.

My mate just pointed out that 'Lord Jesus' spelled backwards is Susejd Rol

 

[TenEightyOne]

My mate just pointed out that 'Lord Jesus' spelled backwards is Susejd Rol

Proof of something confirmed!

 

[UKMikey]

My mate just pointed out that 'Lord Jesus' spelled backwards is Susejd Rol

Proof of something confirmed!

I don't know. It sounds somewhat flaky to me...

 

[TenEightyOne]

US Navy apologies for "unacceptable" incident in which a jet drew a Gentleman's Area in the sky. BBC.

 

[Robin]

^ I was just about to post that.

Top marks for accuracy with the drawing! Skilled pilot

 

[UKMikey]

one householder told KREM 2 she was upset about having to explain to her children what the vapour trail's shape represented

I hope she never takes her kids anywhere near Cerne Abbas on holiday.

 

[Northstar]

I hope she never takes her kids anywhere near Cerne Abbas on holiday.

She should probably just keep them locked in their rooms, they’ll be safe from such horrors there!

It always amuses me how people will freak out over basic human anatomy.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Bus thwarts perfect view of stadium demolition. BBC.

It reminds me rather of the man who waited all day to see the Flying Scotsman pass. Language warning!

 

[TenEightyOne]

British water engineers still dowse for pipes. I'd love to see some research on this, anyone? BBC.

 

[JKgo]

British water engineers still dowse for pipes. I'd love to see some research on this, anyone? BBC.

...This method isn't silly at all, at least according to my dad. He swears by it. The only difference is that, rather than some suspect "metal rod" he believes it's better to use the branches of a certain tree, instead...

 

[TenEightyOne]

...This method isn't silly at all, at least according to my dad. He swears by it. The only difference is that, rather than some suspect "metal rod" he believes it's better to use the branches of a certain tree, instead...

There's got to be a thesis in that research. Maybe @Famine will know of some retro-GIS bod working on similar?

 

[Eh Team]

...Two things immediately popped into my mind after reading this article.

One - an obesity pandemic, eh? Is that why Liverpool sucks so bad in football?! chuckles

And two - there was a story several months - maybe a year, even - ago about a certain Nigerian gent living in London trying and failing to import fizzy

...This method isn't silly at all, at least according to my dad. He swears by it. The only difference is that, rather than some suspect "metal rod" he believes it's better to use the branches of a certain tree, instead...

One of my old high school teachers use a y shaped willow branch to find the best place to dig a well. He said the branch turned straight down and there was nothing he could do about it.

 

[UKMikey]

One of my old high school teachers use a y shaped willow branch to find the best place to dig a well. He said the branch turned straight down and there was nothing he could do about it.

I'm not sure about trees but remember an item on a children's tv programme of the seventies (probably Blue Peter) which showed kids how to make their own divining rods out of biro shells and two pieces of wire coathanger. I think it was only a bit of fun at the time and wasn't presented as real science but I'm not sure.

 

[Eh Team]

I'm not sure about trees but remember an item on a children's tv programme of the seventies (probably Blue Peter) which showed kids how to make their own divining rods out of biro shells and two pieces of wire coathanger. I think it was only a bit of fun at the time and wasn't presented as real science but I'm not sure.

I'm pretty sure he said that was the only kind of branch you could use and that it was just as accurate as the wires. I think he tried to explain it but it was lost on us as high schoolers.

 

[UKMikey]

I'm pretty sure he said that was the only kind of branch you could use and that it was just as accurate as the wires. I think he tried to explain it but it was lost on us as high schoolers.

That's interesting as it implies that the wires are just as accurate as the branch which would appear to make the coathangers an easier to obtain solution.