More oddities spotted in the news

[Dartz]

Remote control for Bridge was lost for years

7 years ago now. They've probably lost it again.

[robkelk]

Feeling hungry?

This giant cast iron skillet can theoretically fry 650 eggs at once

[classicdrogn]

(press X to disbelieve)

skepticism

Light color and the overall size of the highlights looks off, and that thing would be way too heavy to be supported by a single point of contact on the rim without warping, let alone being held up by whatever sheet of thin stuff that is between the forks, if it didn't flip the forklift entirely. The weight of the handle sticking oout like that should be pulling it off to the side without any straps/etc to secure it to the frame, for that matter, and the shadow looks iffy too. The frame itself looks plenty beefy, but probably designed for something like transporting a bunch of flat stuff like plywood, drywall, or sheet metal.

I'm not saying it can't be real, but unless there's video evidence or at least a bunch more stills it looks a lot more likely to be a fake, or at most fabbed up from something much lighter than iron. Wood or fiberglass over foam I could believe would physically work, at least, though the lighting and balance questions would remain.

Edit: Oh, I didn't notice that the text was a link. It's not April 1 so I guess I can take CBC at their word...

[Star Ranger4]

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.

Interesting, but they didn't fact check.  The FIRST runaway reaction like that actually happened in Idaho in 1961...

(goes back and re reads all articles)

Whups.  Its my facts that were bad.  Chalk River happened 9 years earlier

[Dartz]

Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo boat squadron to intercept Russian Navy during excersises off Irish Coast

Kamchatka - Kamchatka - they're back!


More seriously. It's about fish. Not Ukraine.

[robkelk]

Why plant-based "Impossible Pork" isn't kosher or halal

[robkelk]

A right royal sauce

The Queen has launched her own brand of posh tomato ketchup and brown sauce to go on sale at her Sandringham estate in Norfolk.

[Dartz]

Shooting Rampage in Donegal earns man 8 year sentence

I suppose I should just say read it.

It's vaguely amusing and uniquely Irish

[robkelk]

Loblaw Companies Ltd. is recalling PC brand Lemon & Ginger Sicilian Soda from the marketplace due to the possible presence of "extraneous" glass, says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

The product recall isn't odd, but the wording of the reason is. How does one tell the difference between "extraneous" glass in a soda and the other sort of glass?

[classicdrogn]

If it's not solidly attached to the bottle, it's extraneous glass.

[robkelk]

The other meaning of "odd"...

As the blockades have shown, anarchy is usually bad for business

And in further news, water is usually wet...

[robkelk]

Instagram-famous dog with unique face meets its look-alike

Somebody tell that headline writer the meanings of "unique" and "lookalike", please.

[robkelk]

Somebody took the fork in the road.

Mayor says that the theft "cut like a knife".

[robkelk]

The container ship Ever Forward isn't going forward at the moment.

Sister ship of vessel that blocked Suez Canal runs aground in Chesapeake Bay

[robkelk]

Got questions about the economy? Play Dungeons & Dragons, says economist

Or, "Five things I learned about economics by playing D&D"

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What would it look like if the Mandalorian was Indigenous?

Answering that question resulted in a work of art, titled Shemaginish. Yes, it's wearable.

[robkelk]

Hikers find rare WW II Canadian tank 'rusting peacefully' in English field

Jeff Noakes, a historian of the Second World War at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, studied the video. He confirmed it shows a rare Ram tank — specifically a Ram 2 from the middle of the production run that lasted from 1941 to 1943.

He said boxy fenders extending over the treads, details in the hull, and the presence of a machine-gun turret show it's a Ram, not the more common U.S. M3 tank.

Of course, none of the GnP school ships are based on the Canadian forces in WWII, are they?

[classicdrogn]

Give some of them a high sign over in TNB and they could be now...

Relevant:

link

[DHBirr]

Hikers find rare WW II Canadian tank 'rusting peacefully' in English field

Jeff Noakes, a historian of the Second World War at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, studied the video. He confirmed it shows a rare Ram tank — specifically a Ram 2 from the middle of the production run that lasted from 1941 to 1943.

He said boxy fenders extending over the treads, details in the hull, and the presence of a machine-gun turret show it's a Ram, not the more common U.S. M3 tank.

Of course, none of the GnP school ships are based on the Canadian forces in WWII, are they?

Maple High School

The schoolship's name [and] appearance is unknown, however it was purchased as an incomplete vessel from the United Kingdom. One point of note about the schoolship is that [it] has the most natural, green environment aboard compared to other schoolships, with [Norway-themed] Viking Fisheries High School following closely behind.

[robkelk]

Ah - manga-only. No wonder I didn't know about them.

[robkelk]

Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter

Odd news because it's an odd acquisition for him.

[robkelk]

Nobody died, nobody was seriously hurt, and the road's been re-opened, so there's no point in crying over this one.

Spilled milk closes freeway

[robkelk]

Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter

Odd news because it's an odd acquisition for him.

And now the offer's on hold.

[classicdrogn]

A couple more from El Reg:

Escaped robot slave recaptured and returned to servitude
How long before the inevitable revolt?

There's something fishy about NFTs
Experts may agree, or may just be playing Devil's Advocate.

[DHBirr]

"Head-on" Collision

Well, there's really no way to put this delicately. A Florida driver distracted by receiving intimate services from his passenger lost track of his surroundings and crashed head-on (it only gets worse from here, folks) into a FedEx delivery vehicle in Ft. Lauderdale on Thursday, resulting in "injuries to his private area," WPLG Local 10 reports.

... Neither occupant of the FedEx vehicle was injured; the only package harmed was the one being attentively gift-wrapped by the passenger of the SUV.

Commenters had lots of fun with this. One mentioned that it could become part of a Farmers Insurance ad ("We know a thing or two, because we've seen a thing or two."), saying,

Now THAT would be a really funny commercial! there is his stuff hanging on a plaque, and Jonathan Simmons says, "Yep, we covered that!" LOL

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Up, lad, up!  We've villages to pillage, maidens to slay, and dragons to rescue!

[robkelk]

Canada planning to put warning notices on cigarettes.

"Exact Words" applies here. We already have warning notices on cigarette packages.