Funny/Strange News Stories

[andrea]

Spoiler: NSFW - rude image

Think happy things.

 

[UKMikey]

It even has its own Twitter account now.

Spoiler

https://mobile.twitter.com/AmosDildo

 

[TenEightyOne]

It even has its own Twitter account now.

Spoiler

https://mobile.twitter.com/AmosDildo

It doesn't any more

 

[UKMikey]

It doesn't any more

The profile pic was a little, er, direct.

 

[TexRex]

Spoiler: NSFW - rude image

"What's so bad about a penis?"

 

[TenEightyOne]

Facebook u-turn on hoes, at least some of them. BBC.

 

[TexRex]

That's a tough row.

 

[EngieDiesel]

Imagine trying to contact the professor teaching your online course, only to discover that he's been dead for two years.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Man blue-lights his family shopping trip in a second-hand ambulance.

(BBC)

 

[UKMikey]

Four year old girl finds dinosaur footprint at Barry beach

https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/n...ld-girl-finds-dinosaur-footprint-barry-beach/

 

[TenEightyOne]

Amber Alert technicians cheer themselves up by making comedic spoof alerts for internal testing. Which is fine until you broadcast one by mistake.

 

[Touring Mars]

Amber Alert technicians cheer themselves up by making comedic spoof alerts for internal testing. Which is fine until you broadcast one by mistake.

Reminds me of my old job as an insurance clerk in my pre-PhD days. We were strictly forbidden from using joke names on any training or practice cases, presumably because some had ended up getting sent out by mistake... that said, there were some corking real names. I processed insurance policies for Julius Caesar and Ramjam Delilah Funky Boogaloo Smythe.

 

[DK]

That reminds me, I remember using characters from HBO's Chernobyl and Peep Show when testing new features for the user login service for the company's voice recognition software. Failure becomes a lot more funny when it happens to "comrade_dyatlov[at]vileninpowerplant.su".

 

[TenEightyOne]

It's some of the wording that got me in this one... after an aerial surveillance scheme in Baltimore that used Cessnas fitted with high-res cameras, authorities have decided to "end the pilot".

 

[Adamgp]

Hitler's toilet seat, looted by a U.S. soldier in WW2, to be auctioned off.

https://nypost.com/2021/02/02/hitlers-toilet-expected-to-fetch-up-to-15k-at-auction/

 

[TenEightyOne]

Not funny, just sad, idiotic and strange.

YouTuber shot dead after attempting "prank robbery".

 

[TenEightyOne]

Facebook and the Overtly Sexual Cow.

If that's a band name... I think I saw these guys at an early gig when they were still grunge-electro, they lost it a bit after the EMI deal.

 

[Famine]

The Daytona 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series (the one below the Cup Series) race this weekend is officially called "Beef. It's What's For Dinner. 300"

Frankly, when even Wikipedia is being sarcastic at you, you have to know you've taken it too far.

"The Daytona 300, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Beef. It's What's for Dinner. 300, is the first race of the NASCAR Xfinity Series season"

In less funny more bizarre news, Armie Hammer is trending once again on Twitter, as social media - and a few celebrity "news" outlets - seems convinced a massive and awful story is about to break regarding the actor.

Hammer trended back in January after a series of very odd messages, purporting to be genuine, suggested that Hammer was a cannibal and tried to coerce women into letting him eat parts of their body (mainly toes and ribs, oddly) - which Hammer denied. Over the weekend, Hammer's publicist and agency have both dropped him as a client, and new rumours surfaced regarding three missing women and the discovery of human remains near a place Hammer claimed to have worked after his 2020 divorce...


Amusingly, a writer at a site called "The Outline" wrote a story about Armie Hammer potentially being a prolific serial killer back in 2018 - though it was essentially a joke about how his face is simply the most generic human face available, so he could get away with crimes without ever being identified.

Bet that article isn't coming back to bite anyone. Unlike Hammer. Allegedly.

 

[Touring Mars]

 

[daan]

I'm not a cat!

 

[TenEightyOne]

Grand feliny.

 

[UKMikey]

He should've put his camera on paws.

 

[JKgo]

Ahhh, yes. More cat puns, please.

 

[TB]

"Recording of this hearing or live stream is prohibited."

"Watch on YouTube."

 

[TexRex]

Ahhh, yes. More cat puns, please.

Don't be such a--

Nevermind.

 

[Roo]

Don't be such a--

Nevermind.

Sourpuss?

 

[Outspacer]

"Hamlet was better at the game than Omelette, but both struggled when it got harder - hitting the single target just under half the time"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56023720

 

[JKgo]

One more reason to stay away from social media?

'Acrobat thieves' use Instagram to rob rich and famous, BBC.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Man from Dundee puts minimum effort into clearing snow from windscreen. BBC.

 

[Sum1s2pid]

Ahhh, yes. More cat puns, please.

No! We are not here for your amewsement!