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RE: More oddities spotted in the news - Dartz - 06-22-2021
Swedish cartoon character Munchkin
Otherwise, just the usual 'walk in the woods with a pre-teen' sort
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 07-16-2021
Typo leaves entrepreneur with 10,000 political-message t-shirts
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 07-17-2021
Anybody have any ideas what to do with 158 bowling balls that aren't round enough to bowl with?
Because this guy found that many of them under his house.
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 07-21-2021
'Dead parrot' sketch invoked as B.C. judge OKs glucosamine sulfate class action
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ward Branch Wrote:Health Canada cannot establish a protocol that requires that a parrot only still have its feathers in order to be sold as a live parrot, and thereby prevent anyone from suing after being sold a parrot who 'joined the bleedin' choir invisible.'
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - Dartz - 07-28-2021
Austria declares war on Serbia
You sort of get the feeling they were itching for it since last month's assassination. This is probably going to turn into some sort of quick Puppy-kicking. Or will Russia actually try to help - or just capitulate again? They're probably still thinking about the bloody nose they got from Japan.
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - Black Aeronaut - 07-28-2021
(06-18-2021, 03:56 PM)robkelk Wrote: Don't hold back - tell us what you really think...
Anime News Network: Crunchyroll Originals Have Been A Disaster
Pffft.
Old news but just like the Cooler meme that I do love so much... "Oh, is that right? Well, I sure hope somebody picks up that phone. BECAUSE I FUCKING CALLED IT!!!"
https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/9/21547657/sonys-funimation-acquires-crunchyroll-deal-price-watching-anime
Yeah. I know. December 2020. But even so, this is the first I'm hearing about it. But I fucking called it the moment I heard they were chumming up with Funi. And I fucking called it on CR turning into a fucking dumpster fire once it happens.
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - Dartz - 07-30-2021
ITANIC SINKS.
At last
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSEAnMZgeGE
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 08-11-2021
So, Twitter had a "find the bug" contest. Now it has to fix the bugs that were found... but, for some reason, I doubt that these were the types of bugs that they were expecting.
Twitter's AI image-crop algo is biased towards people who look younger, skinnier, and whiter, bounty challenge at DEF CON reveals
Oh, it's also more likely to leave people in wheelchairs out of the picture
EDIT: And when it comes to cropping to show text, the AI has a bias toward English.
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 09-07-2021
Just because it gives you wings doesn't mean you have to use them...
Italian stuntman flies aeroplane through two motorway tunnels
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - Dartz - 09-17-2021
Decrease in Leinster burglaries attributed by gardaí to deaths of three criminals in N7 crash.
General consensus among the Irish twitteraity is people are getting the sense that Truck-Kun did what Judge-kun should've done a long time ago. Or more accurately, they did it to themselves by driving the wrong way down the road at high speed.
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - Labster - 09-21-2021
Thanks, Truck-kun!
‘Star Wars’ sequel trilogy ‘sucks,’ original film editor says
Quote:[ About ] Episodes VII through IX, flat out saying: “It sucks. The storylines are terrible. Just terrible. Awful.”
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - Bob Schroeck - 10-15-2021
Meteorite crash-lands in woman’s bed in Canada
This is like, what, only the second time someone's had a meteorite hit their house? At least unlike the last time it didn't actually hit her.
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 10-18-2021
Computer scientists at University of Edinburgh contemplate courses without 'Alice' and 'Bob'
In an effort to promote diversity... so maybe they might switch to Aerith and Bob?
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 10-18-2021
Information wants to be free, and it's making its escape
tl;dr: Physics exists.
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 11-24-2021
RIP Wiarton Willie
Survived by co-workers Punxsutawney Phil, Balzac Billy, Shubenacadie Sam, and others.
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 12-01-2021
Why Quebec is unlocking its strategic reserve of maple syrup
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - Star Ranger4 - 12-04-2021
Umm... yeah, suddenly the Evil Genius 2 mission where I swipe PATRIOT's Maple syrup supply makes a LOT more sense?
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - Dartz - 12-05-2021
Explosive Diarrhoea?
Or things not to do with a 57mm shell.
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 12-12-2021
Man breaking his back on 'commute' from bed to home-office desk deemed a workplace accident
Because it was his first commute of the day. If he had detoured to the kitchen to get breakfast, the court would have ruled the other way.
(If this holds in Canada, then I'll have to check the vaccination status of anybody who comes into my home workplace, as per federal regulations...)
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - hazard - 12-12-2021
What if he commuted from the kitchen to the office?
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - Dartz - 12-16-2021
Wait 'til Biggus Dickus hears about this!
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - Labster - 12-16-2021
As if North Korea still needed to prove it’s the worst country in the world.
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - Bob Schroeck - 12-16-2021
People have something to laugh about in North Korea? Whodathunkit?
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 12-22-2021
It was 69 years ago this month that the nuclear plant in Chalk River did not completely melt down, thanks in part to a US Navy lieutenant who would later become President.
RE: More oddities spotted in the news - robkelk - 12-23-2021
Court finds city council was biased when they imposed a fine, then re-imposes the exact same fine.