Funny/Strange News Stories

[UKMikey]

It's not news, but this article still succeeded in making me feel ancient.

Gen Z kids have no idea what computer files and folders are, flummoxes uni professors in the process.

I'm amazed Microsoft still use a floppy disk icon as the save button.

 

[Danoff]

I'm amazed Microsoft still use a floppy disk icon as the save button.

I like that one. And this one, the recording icon:

The term "rewind", the phrase "roll down your window", even "get it into gear", those are all somewhat antiquated.

Not knowing what a file or a directory is... I mean... that's still absolutely integral in computing. I get that you can use a chromebook, store everything in the cloud, and not know, but if you understand basic computing beyond the most rudimentary uses, you have to know what a file and directory are.

 

[Famine]

King Donald I once phoned his press secretary from Air Force One to tell her he didn't have a small, mushroom-shaped penis, says former press secretary.

Trump’s Press Secretary says he called to insist his penis wasn’t ‘toadstool-shaped’

Three years ago, Stormy Daniels changed the trajectory of everyone’s lives when she illustrated former U.S. President Donald Trump’s genitalia with excruciatingly vivid detail — something we, and he, will simply never forget.

www.indy100.com

 

[UKMikey]

hums theme from Super Mario Bros.

 

[TexRex]

 

[TB]

Right before bed, too.

 

[Spacegoat]

 

[EngieDiesel]

It's not news, but this article still succeeded in making me feel ancient.

Gen Z kids have no idea what computer files and folders are, flummoxes uni professors in the process.

I'm amazed Microsoft still use a floppy disk icon as the save button.

Not too long ago I had to explain to my 10 year old niece what a floppy disk was because she couldn't figure out what the picture of the square thing was on Microsoft Word's save button.

If she ever asks me what pinball was, I think I might just crumble into dust right then and there.

 

[TexRex]

If she ever asks me what pinball was, I think I might just crumble into dust right then and there.

"That deaf, dumb and blind kid..."

 

[UKMikey]

Not too long ago I had to explain to my 10 year old niece what a floppy disk was because she couldn't figure out what the picture of the square thing was on Microsoft Word's save button.

If she ever asks me what pinball was, I think I might just crumble into dust right then and there.

I won't be surprised if they replace it with a picture of a cloud with a big arrow pointing to it.

 

[Pupik]

For $84,000, An Artist Returned Two Blank Canvasses Titled 'Take The Money And Run'

"The work is that I have taken their money," artist Jens Haaning said of his new piece. The commissioning museum in Denmark isn't satisfied with his explanation but is displaying the work nonetheless.

www.npr.org

 

[TexRex]

Senator Asks Hall of Fame Terrible Tech Question

Aren’t there any young people on Richard Blumenthal’s staff?

nymag.com

U.S. senators, not exactly a young bunch, haven’t recently been known for their technological acumen. There was the painful grilling of Mark Zuckerberg in 2018, during which lawmakers asked the CEO basic questions like how his company makes money. There was the time the late Alaska senator Ted Stevens infamously referred to the internet as “a series of tubes.” (It turns out he wasn’t completely wrong about that, but still.)

On Thursday, it was Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal’s turn. During a virtual hearing focusing on Instagram’s effect on teenagers, the 75-year-old Democrat asked Facebook’s global head of safety Antigone Davis a question that today’s hip young people might refer to as “cringe.” That question, delivered in a grave tone for maximum comic effect, was: “Will you commit to ending Finsta?”

The word “Finsta,” as anyone under 30 could tell you (surely someone of that age works in Blumenthal’s office?), is simply slang for an alternative, secondary account a user maintains, usually to interact with a smaller set of friends or followers than on their primary account. It seemed at first that Blumenthal was referring to fake accounts in general, which wouldn’t have been unreasonable, but…no.

“Finsta is one of your products or services. We’re not talking about Google, or Apple — it’s Facebook, correct?” asked Blumenthal.

“Finsta is slang for a type of account,” Davis said.

“Will you end that type of account?” Blumenthal shot back.

“I’m not sure what you’re asking,” Davis replied.

She was not the only one.

 

[TB]

A drunken man who had been reported missing spent hours with a search party looking for himself

 

[Famine]

Andrew Lloyd Webber has to have a therapy dog due to emotional scarring from the film adaptation of Cats.

That one's fair enough, I think.

 

[UKMikey]

[Lloyd Webber: ]“The airline wrote back and said, ‘Can you prove that you really need him?’ And I said, ‘Yes, just see what Hollywood did to my musical Cats. Then the approval came back with a note saying, ‘No doctor’s report required.’”

🤣

 

[EngieDiesel]

What's the best way to try and smuggle out plans for a nuclear submarine? Hide it in a peanut butter sandwich, of course.

 

[TexRex]

I'm seeing lots of jokes revolving around Missouri being the "Show Me State" and I'm just mad that hadn't occurred to me.

 

[UKMikey]

I'm seeing lots of jokes revolving around Missouri being the "Show Me State" and I'm just mad that hadn't occurred to me.

If this took place in Oklahoma I'm sure you would've thought of a suitable pun sooner.

 

[EngieDiesel]

Pablo Escobar's hippos are being sterilized by the Colombian government because their offspring are overrunning the local ecosystem. Apparently just leaving them alone for about 30 years in an area where they have no natural predators was actually a really bad idea! Who'da thunk it?

 

[TexRex]

This left-wing cancel culture has gone too fa--oh...

GOP lawmaker calls for Meghan, Harry to lose royal titles over paid leave push

A GOP congressman is blasting Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex's advocacy for paid family leave, suggesting she and Prince Harry should be stripped of their royal titles for her "interference in U.S. politics."

thehill.com

 

[Famine]

Ohio - where the Wright Brothers were born - reveals new licence plate design, prints 350,000, then realises mistake.

See if you can spot what it is before clicking...

Incidentally, North Carolina - where Kitty Hawk is - has sprung to Ohio's defence by asking people to "leave Ohio alone, they weren't there"...

 

[UKMikey]

I can see where they're coming from as Ohio is where Orville Wright did.

 

[TexRex]

I can see where they're coming from...

So can they.



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Kellogg’s faces $5 million lawsuit for not having enough strawberries in its Pop-Tarts

A lawsuit claims the Kellogg Sales Company is giving consumers an impression that Pop-Tart's fruit filling contains more strawberries than it does.

www.usatoday.com

 

[TB]

No one that eats Pop-Tarts gives a rats ass how much fruit is in it.

Also, frosted cherry and brown sugar and cinnamon are the best.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Viral: Teacher uses PornHub to give math lessons, uploads more than 200 videos

remonews.com

A math teacher has posted math lessons on a site uhh... designed mainly for not educational content, and the lessons seem to have a good amount of views.

 

[TexRex]

brown sugar and cinnamon

No. You shut your tart hole.

 

[TB]

No. You shut your tart hole.

I'd ask what Cruz is doing but I really don't want to know.

 

[Daz555]

I'm amazed Microsoft still use a floppy disk icon as the save button.

I hope they never stop!

This is the UK speed camera warning sign. Also irrelevant today but it's just superb.

 

[EngieDiesel]

I hope they never stop!

This is the UK speed camera warning sign. Also irrelevant today but it's just superb.

I'm not sure why that subwoofer is holding a bowler derby in a jaunty greeting, but it's certainly attention getting!

(Yes I know what it really is, shush you)

 

[HenrySwanson]

California condors: Virgin births discovered in critically endangered birds

Scientists discover California condors can give birth without any male genetic DNA.

www.bbc.co.uk