Funny/Strange News Stories

[TenEightyOne]

British Extreme Sporting Goes Horribly Wrong (BBC).

 

[UKMikey]

British Extreme Sporting Goes Horribly Wrong (BBC).

How embarrassing. Too bad the law precludes the naming and shaming of this fat-arsed idiot.

 

[Johnnypenso]

How embarrassing. Too bad the law precludes the naming and shaming of this fat-arsed idiot.

If this is fat I'd hate to see what qualifies as skinny in your country. He more than likely just squeeze his pelvic bone in there and couldn't get it back out.

 

[UKMikey]

If this is fat I'd hate to see what qualifies as skinny in your country. He more than likely just squeeze his pelvic bone in there and couldn't get it back out.

He sat in a chair he was too big for. Maybe he was fatheaded instead of fat bottomed but I would hate to see what passes for humour in your neck of the woods if you don't understand that.

 

[Dotini]

 

[Johnnypenso]

He sat in a chair he was too big for. Maybe he was fatheaded instead of fat bottomed but I would hate to see what passes for humour in your neck 9f the woods if you don't understand that.

We don't generally deem fat shaming and name calling as funny but I guess it is different across the pond. Carry on.

 

[UKMikey]

We don't generally deem fat shaming and name calling as funny but I guess it is different across the pond. Carry on.

Now that is funny. First he isn't fat and now I'm fat shaming him. I guess the parody of opposites doesn't work in a certain part of Canada. But hey, people who try to break children's swings need love too.

 

[TenEightyOne]

If this is fat I'd hate to see what qualifies as skinny in your country. He more than likely just squeeze his pelvic bone in there and couldn't get it back out.

You can't see the funny in an adult getting stuck in children's play equipment? His arse was simply too large, I wonder if you're mis-translating "fat" in @UKMikey's context, that arse is too fat for that chair. And it's definitely funnier than domestic violence posts.

 

[TenEightyOne]

It's not quite "the dress" but this new t-shirt has internet users baffled... you won't believe #5 etc. etc.

 

[baldgye]

It's not quite "the dress" but this new t-shirt has people who don't understand fashion baffled... you won't believe #5 etc. etc.

Fixed

 

[TenEightyOne]

God issues preacher with surprisingly specific travel instructions.

 

[TexRex]

God issues preacher with surprisingly specific travel instructions.

I saw the headline and was sure it was going to be Mike Murdock. I'm disappointed sickened that I was wrong, but not because I was wrong.

 

[UKMikey]

God issues preacher with surprisingly specific travel instructions.

Is he going to use it to fly through the eye of a needle?

 

[Touring Mars]

Thameslink apologise for lousy rail service, saying their service was "less Ferrero Rocher and more Poundland cooking chocolate" - so Poundland threatened to sue...

https://news.sky.com/story/poundland-and-thameslink-in-chocolate-tweet-spat-11390473

 

[baldgye]

Thameslink apologise for lousy rail service, saying their service was "less Ferrero Rocher and more Poundland cooking chocolate" - so Poundland threatened to sue...

https://news.sky.com/story/poundland-and-thameslink-in-chocolate-tweet-spat-11390473

I read about this in the morning... and one thing they said, really triggered me;

"aside from breach of our trademark.."

How can a tweet, that contains the name 'Poundland' breach any trademark?

 

[TenEightyOne]

How can a tweet, that contains the name 'Poundland' breach any trademark?

If you call that trademark into disrepute or use it to describe your own services without permission then arguably (and in this case crazily) that's a breach

Aside from the breach of our trademark, we think you're taking the chocolate biscuit."

He said GTR has "no right to use our name to describe poor service", stating that the budget chain served eight million shoppers last week and has a "pretty good idea about what great customer service is"...."But if we ever fall short, perhaps we'll describe ourselves as a bit Thameslink," he continued.

He has a point, but was it really worth it?

 

[baldgye]

If you call that trademark into disrepute or use it to describe your own services without permission then arguably (and in this case crazily) that's a breach



He has a point, but was it really worth it?

Fair enough, that said the one time I went to P******** the customer service was poor, to say the least.

 

[TenEightyOne]

An article in the header bar on that page caught my attention:

I'm sure the shark fins are okay, there's a ton of them after all, it's the original owners we should be more worried about

 

[Touring Mars]

Fair enough, that said the one time I went to P******** the customer service was poor, to say the least.

Less like the Tokyo Subway and more like Thameslink...?

 

[UKMikey]

I... I'm not sure how to begin to summarize this story...

Netflix documentary juxtaposition appears to show hitherto unseen side of Duchess Of Cambridge.

 

[Lizard]

http://www.ladbible.com/news/weird-...own-home-after-trying-to-kill-spider-20171017

Well it happened.

Note I haven't read it in advance so if it swears take this as a warning.

 

[UKMikey]

http://www.ladbible.com/news/weird-...own-home-after-trying-to-kill-spider-20171017

I love that 90% of the comments to stories on this site are people tagging their friends and basically saying "that's you, that is". Insightful

 

[TexRex]

I love that 90% of the comments to stories on this site are people tagging their friends and basically saying "that's you, that is". Insightful

"This wou ld be yuou Emma"

 

[Robin]

You might want to note that the firefighters reckon the spider was definitely toast

Job done then

 

[Obelisk]

I found an article dating back to April of this year that's worth a read.

Angry goose levels golfer, reasserts dominance over humanity:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/24/us/goose-golf-attack-michigan-photos-trnd/

 

[Liquid]

FBI agent does a backflip at a party; gun falls out of holster, shoots bystander when agent picks it up

Posted here as it straddles the border between funny and strange. And fortunately the casualty has not suffered life-threatening injures.

What the 🤬 was this guy doing?! If this sort of stuff isn't eliminated in the screening process then I'm not surprised that the FIB and IAA in Grand Theft Auto are so ludicrous.

 

[Touring Mars]

FBI agent does a backflip at a party; gun falls out of holster, shoots bystander when agent picks it up

Posted here as it straddles the border between funny and strange. And fortunately the casualty has not suffered life-threatening injures.

What the 🤬 was this guy doing?! If this sort of stuff isn't eliminated in the screening process then I'm not surprised that the FIB and IAA in Grand Theft Auto are so ludicrous.

It's about time that America did something about its crazy backflipping culture.

 

[Wiegert]

What the 🤬 was this guy doing?!

What looked like an accident was actually him clumsily reacting to some gangster dissing his fly girl?

 

[Lizard]

FBI agent does a backflip at a party; gun falls out of holster, shoots bystander when agent picks it up

Posted here as it straddles the border between funny and strange. And fortunately the casualty has not suffered life-threatening injures.

What the 🤬 was this guy doing?! If this sort of stuff isn't eliminated in the screening process then I'm not surprised that the FIB and IAA in Grand Theft Auto are so ludicrous.

Proof that guns can kill people.

 

[TenEightyOne]

This fits under strange, definitely not funny. Italy is shocked by selfie taken by guy at the scene of a woman hit by train.

Spoiler

Obvious content warning. BBC.