Funny/Strange News Stories

[prisonermonkeys]

Name: Jolyon Palmer
Postion being applied for: Racing driver, Lotus F1 Team
Previous experience: Test and reserve driver (2015), GP2 champion (2014)
Personal qualities: Money
References: Pastor Maldonado

 

[TenEightyOne]

Priest given time off to "reflect" after conducting sermon on hoverboard.

 

[daan]

Priest given time off to "reflect" after conducting sermon on hoverboard.

My main issue with this is that it is not a 🤬 hoverboard. It has 🤬 wheels. It does not 🤬 hover. It's a 🤬 segway without a handle.

 

[JKgo]

Priest given time off to "reflect" after conducting sermon on hoverboard.

...Seems a bit of overreaction to me. So he sang while floating on a piece of tech. What about it? Maybe he had problems with his legs, couldn't walk properly or something, and so instead of praying for a miracle he enlisted the aid of modern science. Big deal.

 

[TenEightyOne]

...Seems a bit of overreaction to me. So he sang while floating on a piece of tech. What about it? Maybe he had problems with his legs, couldn't walk properly or something, and so instead of praying for a miracle he enlisted the aid of modern science. Big deal.

Didn't ride well with the local traditionalist catholics, it seems. And, as @daan notes, it doesn't ****ing hover!

 

[JKgo]

Didn't ride well with the local traditionalist catholics, it seems.

...I see what you did there.



Edit: on a somewhat related note, here's a real hoverboard, ready to ship in April 2016.

Unfortuantely, it's gonna cost an arm and a leg - $24,000.

 

[TDZdave]

...I see what you did there.



Edit: on a somewhat related note, here's a real hoverboard, ready to ship in April 2016.

Unfortuantely, it's gonna cost an arm and a leg - $24,000.

Looks more like photoshopped Lego block...

 

[Johnnypenso]

Priest given time off to "reflect" after conducting sermon on hoverboard.

From the article:

"The Eucharist demands utmost respect and reverence. It is the Church's highest form of worship, not a personal celebration where one can capriciously introduce something to get attention," the diocese statement said

Apparently crappy singing on a wireless mic and pumped through speakers is utmost respect and reverence but a hoverboard is not.

 

[Grayfox]

It's a 🤬 segway without a handle

I have been telling this to people at work.
It also illegal to use in NSW unless on your own property or a skatepark.
Reason: No lights or signal devices and are hazardous to other road users
Yet push bikes are legal and they do not have signal devices, lights and can be just as dangerous.

Looks more like photoshopped Lego block...

It is real, just uses fans to make the board hover, but you have no control over where it goes ATM.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Reason: No lights or signal devices and are hazardous to other road users
Yet push bikes are legal and they do not have signal devices, lights and can be just as dangerous.

I have the same argument about part-electric bicycles, sadly they're specifically allowed for in law. Doesn't make the old :censored:s signal though.

 

[Grayfox]

While one part of this story is sad, the act of this crime is funny
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/12/29/11/26/man-dies-after-attempted-condom-machine-robbery

And why is their a condom machine in the middle of what looks like a park?

 

[Imari]

And why is their a condom machine in the middle of what looks like a park?

Because that's where people go for a quick root. Nothing like being surrounded by woods to give you wood.

 

[Famine]

Because that's where people go for a quick root. Nothing like being surrounded by woods to give you wood.

Soaked in wood, eh?

 

[TenEightyOne]

While one part of this story is sad, the act of this crime is funny
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/12/29/11/26/man-dies-after-attempted-condom-machine-robbery

And why is their a condom machine in the middle of what looks like a park?

That's so last year

 

[Mrs. Famine]

Soaked in wood, eh?

I'd give that 4/7

 

[PeterJB]

http://www.unilad.co.uk/sex/man-wit...lose-his-virginity-to-a-celebrity-dominatrix/

Thank you, world.

 

[TRGTspecialist]

Giant golden Mao built in Chinese countryside. Looks just about as absurd as you think it would:

 

[Barra333]

While not nearly as tall, there is a giant Genghis Khan statue in the middle of nowhere (just to the right of the smaller lake).

 

[DK]

Giant golden Mao built in Chinese countryside. Looks just about as absurd as you think it would:

Sure, it's only gold paint, it's not that bad.

 

[Touring Mars]

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Now you, too can smell like Vladimir Putin.

 

[JKgo]

Now you, too can smell like Vladimir Putin.

...130 bucks? Whaaaat? You've gotta be a hardcore Putin fan to shell out that much. I'll just stick with my Axe, thanks.

Oh and, is there a Cricket fan in here? This little achievement by a school boy's all the rage in India right now...

 

[prisonermonkeys]

You've gotta be a hardcore Putin fan to shell out that much.

I myself am disappointed by the name. I mean, "Leaders"? Come on - it needs to be something that inspires me to ride a grizzly bear bareback and shirtless while I lead an anti-terror raid on a group of nuclear-armed punk rockers. Or, as Putin calls it, Tuesday.

 

[Johnnypenso]

...130 bucks? Whaaaat? You've gotta be a hardcore Putin fan to shell out that much. I'll just stick with my Axe, thanks.

Oh and, is there a Cricket fan in here? This little achievement by a school boy's all the rage in India right now...

Big cricket fan here. My brother used to feed them to his tarantula

 

[DK]

What is it with Russian political figures and expensive watches? BBC

Vitaly Milonov - the author of Russia's "anti-homosexual propaganda" law - is photographed here signing an agreement for a car loan for a new Lada Vesta, worth about 650,000 roubles...and a watch worth over a million roubles.

 

[Barra333]

For those who don't know the value of the Ruble off the top of their head, I looked it up:
650,000 rubles = ~€8,130
1,000,000 rubles = ~€12,500

 

[Dennisch]

For those who don't know the value of the Ruble off the top of their head, I looked it up:
650,000 rubles = ~€8,130
1,000,000 rubles = ~€12,500

Eh.

That's not really a shocking amount of watch.

 

[DK]

Three months' of his wages (~€48k a year) seems like a pretty shocking amount to me.

 

[R5]

Big cricket fan here. My brother used to feed them to his tarantula

That's terrifying...

 

[Danoff]

Three months' of his wages (~€48k a year) seems like a pretty shocking amount to me.

Here's the thing nobody seems to realize about expensive stuff... often times that money is not spent. Rich people do not tend to hold lots of currency. They own real-estate, stocks, cars, artwork, etc. Currency is a loser over time, all of it gets devalued. An expensive watch can retain its value or even increase in value. Owning one is not really money "spent" so much as it is money "converted", which can be converted back at a later date for, in many cases, almost no loss or even a gain.

So $10k on a watch is really not that crazy. It's not my thing though.