Funny/Strange News Stories

[TexRex]

You're so far down the rabbithole I really have no idea where you are going with this

Yeeeeeaaaaahhh...I, you and everyone else that regularly participates in this subforum knows very well that a recap is completely unnecessary.

Can you take a breather, Tex?

Where and when behavior of which I disapprove persists, I'm going to call it out. The behavior is not in violation of the AUP (something that I suspect is carefully calculated) and, as a result, it's not appropriate to report it, but I will be careful to observe the AUP in my objection of it, and that objection itself does not violate the AUP.

I'll also note that it was probably wise of you to reframe the comment as it was directed at me, because its previous incarnation (the one that I myself had no objection to because I fully understood the intent behind it) would surely merit an objection from a certain individual inclined to advise others not to tell users how to participate on the forum...or it would have had it not been in service to him and his agenda.

 

[UKMikey]

That Trump hasn't taken to Twitter to cry for their unceremonious dismissal over not pulling the trigger (figuratively and literally) is astonishing to me.

To be honest when I mentioned sniping I thought it was a golfing technique.

How very...

... par for the course?

 

[TexRex]

To be honest when I mentioned sniping I thought it was a golfing technique.

Oh it is; low-hanging tree limbs are a common instigator. (See...I golf as well, but I'm not compelled to change the subject to golf as a means to deflect when presented with critical questions or assertions.)

... par for the course?

I hate that that response didn't occur to me.

 

[Johnnypenso]

To be honest when I mentioned sniping I thought it was a golfing technique.





... par for the course?

A snipe shot is not a technique so much as it's a mistake if you hit it off the tee. It's a low hook shot that doesn't go very far. This guy is conflating the two and he's incorrect. A stinger on the other hand is a shot you want to hit. While Tiger didn't pioneer it he made it famous. Tiger's trademark stinger is a low and punchy 3 wood off the tee that has a long roll out but is kept low for control and consistency while sacrificing some distance vs. a well hit driver. It can also be hit with a longer iron or even a driver. Tiger used it under pressure a lot, on tight holes and quite often at the British Open.

 

[TexRex]

"You should not be wearing that in the United States of America!"

 

[Northstar]

"You should not be wearing that in the United States of America!"

If only he was wearing a shirt with a state on it, than it would be the perfect combination of stupidity.

 

[TexRex]

If only he was wearing a shirt with a state on it, than it would be the perfect combination of stupidity.

120 years--nearly twice as long as the idjit has been alive.

 

[Crazy Taylor]

A guy set up a 'hitman' website to snare would be killers. Link.

 

[Obelisk]

How stupid do you have to be to google 'hitman' and believe that the results are what you want?

 

[polysmut]

How stupid do you have to be to google 'hitman' and believe that the results are what you want?

I would expect this.

 

[Obelisk]

A guy set up a 'hitman' website to snare would be killers. Link.

Actually, I found the reddit AMA for the website. The whole thing seems to be a fraud. (NSFW warning - language)

 

[Crazy Taylor]

I would expect this.
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You want the best hitman (for hire) there is/was/ever will be.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Boater forgets to close locks, drains canal. BBC.

 

[TexRex]

Boater forgets to close locks, drains canal. BBC.

Boater's probably up **** Creek by now.

















Sorry.

 

[Touring Mars]

Boater forgets to close locks, drains canal. BBC.

He ought to be locked up.

 

[TenEightyOne]

East Fife Four, Forfar Five.

 

[TexRex]

East Fife Four, Forfar Five.

wat

 

[Touring Mars]

East Fife Four, Forfar Five.

I can't believe it! Forfar scored 5 penalties!

 

[Crazy Taylor]

East Fife Four, Forfar Five.

Close as it's gonna get eh.

@TexRex it's a joke scoreline Forfar 4 East Fife 5. May eventually happen as both teams play in lower Scottish Football League.

 

[TexRex]

@TexRex it's a joke scoreline Forfar 4 East Fife 5. May eventually happen as both teams play in lower Scottish Football League.

Yeah, I read the article...but I still really wanted to say it.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Close as it's gonna get eh.

@TexRex it's a joke scoreline Forfar 4 East Fife 5. May eventually happen as both teams play in lower Scottish Football League.

Read the story, as a testament to Eric Morecambe's apparent gift for telling the future it just happened

 

[Crazy Taylor]

Read the story, as a testament to Eric Morecambe's apparent gift for telling the future it just happened

New they just got to do it for realz. Pens are easy.

 

[baldgye]

This makes me laugh, the need to be terrified over what most countries in Europe would call 'summer'

 

[Crazy Taylor]

This makes me laugh, the need to be terrified over what most countries in Europe would call 'summer'

But we could all die over this, especially the gingers. Mustn't be happening here in THE NORTH.

 

[Crazy Taylor]

Boy of 13 charged with assault after hitting woman with French Fries fired through a straw. Must've had a chip on her shoulder. Link

 

[TenEightyOne]

Mustn't be happening here in THE NORTH.View attachment 753385

As an aside I'd disagree. I just spent a week working (trying to holiday) right on the border of Northumbria and whatever the big bit at the top's called... it wo'maftin'.

 

[Crazy Taylor]

As an aside I'd disagree. I just spent a week working (trying to holiday) right on the border of Northumbria and whatever the big bit at the top's called... it wo'maftin'.

Think it's started getting sunny now. Means we are all going to die, going by scaremongering press standards.

 

[baldgye]

Think it's started getting sunny now. Means we are all going to die, going by scaremongering press standards.

It's ok, soon as winter comes we'll die of the cold.

 

[Johnnypenso]

Seems to me this story is right up there with the Flat Earth crowd in terms of believability:
https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/pro-gamer-dumps-worlds-sexiest-weathergirl-for-more-call-of-duty/

Struggling professional “Call of Duty player” Douglas “FaZe Censor” Martin dumped his weathergirl girlfriend Yanet Garcia to spend more time with video games.
Announcing the decision on YouTube, the 23-year-old revealed that he and Garcia, 26, had split up, saying “I don’t have time for a girlfriend.” He went on to say that he needed to focus on playing “Call of Duty,” and would be playing the next iteration in the franchise, “Black Ops IV,” full-time while she was “doing that job over there.”

For information purposes only, this is the girlfriend he's giving up to play videogames:

 

[polysmut]

For information purposes only, this is the girlfriend he's giving up to play videogames:

Good information.
I'm off to have a video game bonfire.