Funny/Strange News Stories

[prisonermonkeys]

A rather unfortunate series of stories from Australia.

First, the Prime Minister has announced that the terror threat level will be raised from "medium" to "high":

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-12/australia-increases-terrorism-threat-level/5739466

Next, he says he will be running the government from a tent in the Northern Territory:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-13/abbott-to-camp-in-arnhem-land/5741340

 

[Touring Mars]

Colombian women's cycling team's new flesh-coloured kit is 'unacceptable' according to the UCI...

Viewer discretion advised - there's no nudity in the picture, but it still looks NSFW..

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...n-cycling-flesh-coloured-kit-unacceptable-uci

I rather like it

 

[prisonermonkeys]

An Australian senator has started a "Ban the Burqa" campaign following last week's anti-terror raids.

The campaign includes a picture of a woman in a burqa carrying a pistol, with a caption describing the burqa as a symbol of violence and oppression.

However, it's believed that the woman in the picture is in fact Afghanistan's first female police officer, who is considered something of a national hero:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-...urka-photo-believed-to-be-policewoman/5757438

 

[DK]

Well, if she reposted that pic from Britain First, she's probably not very clever.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

She's not. She's the same senator who I posted about a few pages back when she described her "ideal man" on nationally-syndicated radio.

It doesn't surprise me that she's done it. She's really just echoing the comments of an ultra-conservative senator who has also featured in this thread after his book claiming that the children of single mothers and gay parents are more likely to develop drug addictions and turn to crime saw him get a roasting on national television that went viral around the world.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

And here is Senator Lambie's response - she is "honouring" the memory of the fallen police officer, claiming that she would agree with the calls to ban the burqa:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-...honours-policewoman-killed-by-taliban/5758324

 

[prisonermonkeys]

The saga continues - Lambie makes it pretty clear that she has no idea what she's talking about, and gets told to shut up by her boss, the guy who called the Chinese government "communist mongrels" who "shoot their own people because they don't have a justice system" on live television:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-...ia-needs-unity-after-lambie-interview/5759320

 

[dylansan]

Train wreck indeed. Australia's Sarah Palin? Or perhaps worse..

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Train wreck indeed. Australia's Sarah Palin? Or perhaps worse..

We use the Westminster system, so her individual power is actually very limited. She is, at best, an amusing distraction from the people who are actually running the country.

Honestly, the entire Palmer United Party is like a living, breathing sitcom.

 

[Famine]

Baby, you make me wish I had threeeeee hands.

(a little NSFW, but beach-safe)

 

[EF12345678]

Baby, you make me wish I had threeeeee hands.

(a little NSFW, but beach-safe)

That's just weird.

 

[dylansan]

Unfortunately I doubt she'll succeed in turning off all men.

Even more unfortunate is that she'd probably like the people she turned on before a lot more than the people she'll turn on now.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

It's obviously an attention-grabbing thing. I mean, she talks more about her plans for a reality TV show than her desire to repel men.

 

[FoolKiller]

Not a single reference to Eccentrica Gallumbits?

Really? COME ON, Internet. I have more faith in you than this.

 

[Vic Reign93]

Not a single reference to Eccentrica Gallumbits?

Really? COME ON, Internet. I have more faith in you than this.

Admittedly I had to search that one up to get that reference.

I'm surprised not even the one from 'Paul' has been mentioned.

 

[DK]

I feel a weird feeling in the middle of my chest, almost like a phantom boob.

 

[Northstar]

I'd imagine not shaving would achieve the same effect at a fraction of the cost, but than she couldn't whore herself out for fame.

 

[FoolKiller]

Admittedly I had to search that one up to get that reference.

I'm surprised not even the one from 'Paul' has been mentioned.

Read a book every now and then, people!

 

[FoolKiller]

The head of the New York Chapter of gun control group Moms Demand Action got into a Twitter debate and winds up saying that a quote from Josef Goebbels are "wise words to live by."
http://www.gunssavelife.com/?p=13954

 

[Lizard]

I bet every high ranking government official has said that at some point. *Cough* NSA *cough*.

 

[FoolKiller]

I bet every high ranking government official has said that at some point. *Cough* NSA *cough*.

But they didn't directly attribute Goebbels. They try to avoid being linked to him.

 

[Lizard]

But they didn't directly attribute Goebbels. They try to avoid being linked to him.

Of course they tried to avoid being linked to him. Or has the Nazi party become an election winning thing?
By them having said that I did mean behind closed doors.

 

[FoolKiller]

Of course they tried to avoid being linked to him. Or has the Nazi party become an election winning thing?
By them having said that I did mean behind closed doors.

Only if you are an idiot, as shown above.

 

[Liquid]

Sky - Donald Trump Tweets Image Of Fred & Rose West

Someone has duped Donald Trump into retweeting an image of Britain's most infamous murderers, Fred and Rose West.

Trump subsequently removed the Tweet without comment.

 

[axletramp]

And there's these too.

 

[TenEightyOne]

And there's these too.

Second one was mildly funny (never heard of the wrestler) but I didn't get the first one at all?

 

[m8h3r]

Wrestler killed his wife, child and himself in 2007.

Raul Moat shot and blinded a police officer and walked around with a shotgun whilst being hunted by British police.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Wrestler killed his wife, child and himself in 2007.

Raul Moat shot and blinded a police officer and walked around with a shotgun whilst being hunted by British police.

Ah okay. I didn't recognise Raul Moat. I remember that incident more for Gazza turning up with a fishing rod and fried chicken.

EDIT: This is old funny-bizarre-weird news but Raoul Moat related (I learned the propr spleling of Raoul too). I was also wrong about the full extent of Gazza's special murderer-police-standoff "Peace Kit", apologies.

 

[DK]

Sky - Donald Trump Tweets Image Of Fred & Rose West

Someone has duped Donald Trump into retweeting an image of Britain's most infamous murderers, Fred and Rose West.

Trump subsequently removed the Tweet without comment.

Well, Trump is only slightly less psychopathic than the Wests.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Well, Trump is only slightly less psychopathic than the Wests.

He might be going to sue. She must be his lawyer.