Funny/Strange News Stories

[Rallywagon]

The entire state of South Dakota is on meth.

https://kstp.com/news/south-dakotar...-guffaws-november-18-2019-/5556727/?cat=12196

I mean, it's got people talking about meth... might bring awareness, or drive usage?

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

* Language Warning*

In connection with that post we have expert fart analysis:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmy8q/chris-matthew-hardball-eric-swalwell-fart

 

[JKgo]

BBC: "Russian cows get VR headsets to reduce anxiety".

Maybe I should get one for myself, too. I mean, even cows get one nowadays, so....

 

[Touring Mars]

BBC: "Russian cows get VR headsets to reduce anxiety".

Maybe I should get one for myself, too. I mean, even cows get one nowadays, so....

Interesting juxtaposition of images...

 

[UKMikey]

Interesting juxtaposition of images...

I guess it's a step up from the previous comparison...

 

[Touring Mars]

That’s an absolute classic.

On a vaguely related note, Sturgeon unveiled the SNP’s manifesto this afternoon just a few hundred yards from my flat. If not for the fact that I had to go back to work, I might have been tempted to pop down there and heckle.

And as I returned home this afternoon evening, I was stopped in the street by an STV camera crew and they asked me ‘If you could describe the Union in one word, what would it be?’... so I might end up on tonight’s news I just wish the word had been either ‘Sturgeon’ or ‘Independence’, and I might have ended up on the news for a different reason.

 

[ryzno]

Hasbro buys Death Row Records as part of $4B deal.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/25/hasbr...7WZqkCiQUvINaR8rG88Kw5ryLxNrb0xZcOO4OUJN2YjEw

 

[Northstar]

It's sad how criminals still can't seem to understand how snow works.

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2019/11/27/snow-emergency-leads-to-arrest-of-burglars-in-robbinsdale/

Granted it was still snowing when all this went down, but it takes more than an inch or two to completely cover your tracks.

 

[TexRex]

The war on...Thanksgiving?

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday shared a bizarre theory that liberals were trying to rename Thanksgiving.

"You know, some people want to change the name Thanksgiving," Trump claimed during a wild rally in Sunrise, Florida.

Without giving any further details, he said: "They don't want to use the term 'Thanksgiving.'"

He told his supporters "we're not changing it," adding, "We're going to have do little work on Thanksgiving."

"People have different ideas why it shouldn't be called Thanksgiving," he said. "But everybody in this room, I know, loves the name Thanksgiving, and we're not changing it."

 

[W3H5]

https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/fa...way-raiding-monkeys-in-karnataka-2405349.html

 

[TheGeologist]

Heh...

Conservative radio host, provocateur and "boomer" doesn't like term, compares it to "n-word" on Twitter in since deleted tweet.

I think the funniest part of this is he was once fired from a radio gig for comments his employer believed were racist, and was later re-hired after having completed sensitivity training. One wonders if this response is a result of that training or if he's crying because he identifies as a member of the group being derided.

Boomers: "I'm tired of this SNOWFLAKE generation and their constant need for safe spaces! They need to grow skin! When my parents disagreed with me, they didn't give me safe spaces, they gave me the BELT!"

Millennials: "...Okay boomer"

Boomer: *unintelligible screeching*

Who da snowflake now?

 

[ryzno]

Pigeons with hats!
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/so...s-vegas-as-animal-rescue-works-to-remove-them

 

[Liquid]

Beer lorry spills its load over A494

 

[polysmut]

Beer lorry spills its load over A494

I think I remember a similar story from the 90s & loads of people were going to the crash site to nick the beer.

 

[UKMikey]

The heartbreaking reason the ‘Mind the Gap’ voice is different at Embankment London Underground station

 

[TexRex]

The heartbreaking reason the ‘Mind the Gap’ voice is different at Embankment London Underground station

I think it was CBS Sunday Morning that did a quick segment on that years ago, before the change if I recall correctly.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Not a funny story in itself - far from it - but the writer's poor choice of words gave me a giggle. BBC.

Labour's Luke Pollard, the first openly gay MP to represent Plymouth, has his office in the centre of his seat...

 

[UKMikey]

Not a funny story in itself - far from it - but the writer's poor choice of words gave me a giggle. BBC.

It's been changed to "his constituency" in the article.

 

[TenEightyOne]

It's been changed to "his constituency" in the article.

Ha! I guess I wasn't the only one to spot it

 

[TenEightyOne]

Reporter wins lottery live on air, doesn't check size of win.

 

[TenEightyOne]

White-bearded man robs bank, throws handfuls of money to people outside. Merry Christmas.

 

[EngieDiesel]

The former vice-chancellor of Austria is being investigated for allegedly spending up to €3,000 a month of his political party's money on... Clash of Clans.

Kinda takes pay-to-win to a whole new level, huh?

 

[UKMikey]

The former vice-chancellor of Austria is being investigated for allegedly spending up to €3,000 a month of his political party's money on... Clash of Clans.

Kinda takes pay-to-win to a whole new level, huh?

Just imagine... a politician who couldn't stop spending other people's money in order to become richer, more powerful and better at dispatching his enemies to kingdom come.

 

[ryzno]

Seriously???
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/cbc-removes-donald-trumps-scene-from-home-alone-2-broadcast-report

 

[UKMikey]

Seriously???
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/cbc-removes-donald-trumps-scene-from-home-alone-2-broadcast-report

Dude, you have been tree'd by Dennisch.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...mage-meme-thread.343002/page-68#post-12968482

 

[ryzno]

Dude, you have been tree'd by Dennisch.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...mage-meme-thread.343002/page-68#post-12968482

I see... I'm lag king for a reason.

 

[baldgye]

Seriously???
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/cbc-removes-donald-trumps-scene-from-home-alone-2-broadcast-report

wEiRd that Fox Atlanta haven't updated this 'story' with the reality that this scene was cut in 2014....

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cbc-trump-scene-home-alone-2-1.5408809

CBC spokesperson Chuck Thompson confirmed Thursday that Trump's scene and others were cut from the film five years ago to make way for commercials.

"As is often the case with feature films adapted for television, Home Alone 2 was edited for time," Thompson said. "The scene with Donald Trump was one of several that were cut from the movie as none of them were integral to the plot. These edits were done in 2014, when we first acquired the film and before Mr. Trump was elected president."

I guess it's only bAd journalists that add corrections to their work...



What a truly stupid **** this man is.

 

[ryzno]

wEiRd that Fox Atlanta haven't updated this 'story' with the reality that this scene was cut in 2014....

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cbc-trump-scene-home-alone-2-1.5408809



I guess it's only bAd journalists that add corrections to their work...



What a truly stupid **** this man is.

Ironically enough I was watching them and they got it right on TV after I posted it. Oh well... Old news... I guess the Great Orange One needed something to complain about last night!

 

[UKMikey]

I'd hate to think what would've happened if they made cuts to a movie in which he had a more substantial role...

 

[Spacegoat]

This has a better twist than any M. Night Shyamalan film.