Author Topic: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners  (Read 132437 times)

hellymedic

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #100 on: 07 March, 2019, 10:26:43 pm »
Wish those journalists used the correct words!

He diid NOT start work as a 'masseuse'!

Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #101 on: 08 March, 2019, 09:31:39 am »
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6777961/Billionaire-diamond-trader-65-dies-penis-enlargement-surgery.html


 :facepalm:

That's really sad. All that money and at his age he felt he needed surgery.

Wish those journalists used the correct words!

He diid NOT start work as a 'masseuse'!

Because it's the DM. Accuracy isn't their thing. He was probably actually having his ingrown toenail done, come to think of it.
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hellymedic

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #102 on: 08 March, 2019, 04:25:02 pm »
I've now seen the same story in the Jerusalem Post and the Jewish Chronicle.

Seems money can't buy you everything...

Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #103 on: 12 March, 2019, 03:09:44 pm »
Plane turns back after passenger leaves baby in terminal.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/12/saudi-plane-turns-around-mother-forgets-baby-airport

Didn't Cameron do that in a pub once?
“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #104 on: 19 March, 2019, 11:52:30 am »
We are making a New World (Paul Nash, 1918)


Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #106 on: 04 April, 2019, 04:32:38 pm »
Arkansas decides to give Florida some competition.

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Two Arkansas men have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault after police say they shot each other while taking turns wearing a bulletproof vest.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/Drunk-Men-Wearing-Bulletproof-Vests-Arrested-508062661.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DCBrand

"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #107 on: 10 April, 2019, 05:54:36 pm »
Now they're white/species-washing Master Splinter...

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Florida man threatens to release army of turtles upon arrest: report http://bit.ly/2UtRPBg
https://twitter.com/orlandosentinel/status/1115952835307425793
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche


Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #109 on: 13 April, 2019, 07:00:00 pm »
It's not clear whether he was touched by His Noodly Appendage, but a Florida man (where else?) was arrested for "belligerent" eating of pasta.

https://thetakeout.com/florida-man-arrested-olive-garden-eating-pasta-1833970785

H/T: https://twitter.com/FOX61News/status/1116900190806474753 (had to Google for alternative report due to GDPR-induced geoblocking).
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #110 on: 21 May, 2019, 10:07:54 am »
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Man detained in China for giving dogs 'illegal' names

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-48269181
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #111 on: 22 May, 2019, 10:16:19 am »
This has to be worth running through Google Translate if you can't read the French original https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/sexo/un-maire-propose-de-distribuer-du-viagra-pour-encourager-les-naissances_3453825.html

T42

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #112 on: 22 May, 2019, 10:57:52 am »
Fuckin' A.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Zipperhead

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #113 on: 22 May, 2019, 01:32:07 pm »
Fuckin' A.

I don't think that's how you get babies.
Won't somebody think of the hamsters!

Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #114 on: 03 June, 2019, 01:53:03 pm »
This hasn't got "spike in ER attendance rates" written all over it at all, oh no siree...

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Start-up mobility company Cangoroo announced plans to deploy hundreds of pogo sticks in select cities including San Francisco to compete with electric scooters as a transportation option.
https://twitter.com/KPIXtv/status/1134688276542042112

What next, Spacehoppers for hire? ;D
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #115 on: 03 June, 2019, 01:59:56 pm »
But are they electric pogo sticks?
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andytheflyer

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #116 on: 03 June, 2019, 02:44:34 pm »

Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #117 on: 14 June, 2019, 03:15:53 pm »
Oh, Canada...

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When Adam Gerle went to work one morning this week, he was thrilled to finally find a parcel with a frozen big toe in it.

Gerle is the general manger of the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Canada, which is world-renowned for an extremely gross traditional drink - the Sourtoe Cocktail.

Since 1973, visitors of the Yukon bars have been challenged to drink a shot of whiskey with a mummified human toe floating inside. To join the club -- and get a certificate from the bar -- the drinkers' lips must touch the toe. Over 86,000 Sourtoe Cocktails have been served since.

The bit about the donor sounds about normal for a bootneck, though. :demon:

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The latest big toe to reach the hotel belonged to Nick Griffiths, a former British Marine who lost it during a winter ultra marathon in 2018, according to a statement by Downtown Hotel.

Griffiths, 47, dropped out of the 2018 Yukon Arctic Ultra after he got frostbite on his left foot due to temperatures dropping to minus 40.

While in hospital, the Briton offered to donate the toes to the hotel "in the hopes of returning to the Yukon to do the Sourtoe Cocktail with his own toe," the statement says.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/frozen-toe-yukon-bar-intl-scli/index.html
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #118 on: 14 June, 2019, 07:42:25 pm »
This Unit managed to pass through Dawson City last year without succumbing to the Sourtoe business, because alcohol  ;)
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #119 on: 14 June, 2019, 08:39:53 pm »
There's a rather entertaining travelogue documentary by A Armstrong, Esq. in which he circumnavigates the Arctic in the fashion of a goodly BRITISH adventurer and samples a Sourtoe cocktail.

Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #120 on: 15 June, 2019, 02:48:38 pm »
"Whomsoever pulls this knife from the alligator's head shall become King of all Texas!"

"Listen. Strange alligators lying in ponds distributing steak knives is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alligator-knife-sticking-out-its-head-spotted-swimming-texas-lake-n1017736
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #121 on: 15 June, 2019, 09:14:04 pm »
"Whomsoever pulls this knife from the alligator's head shall become King of all Texas!"

Not sure that's wise.  It's clearly going to be Florida Man.

Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #122 on: 15 June, 2019, 09:17:14 pm »
Speaking of alligators, and Florida...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/florida-couple-use-alligator-for-gender-reveal-party-a4166926.html

At least using an alligator is slightly less environmentally irresponsible than the Arizona Border Patrol agent who shot at an explosive target in 2017, starting a wildfire...  :facepalm:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/border-patrol-agent-pleads-guilty-starting-wildfire-fire-gender-reveal-n915441
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #123 on: 15 June, 2019, 09:54:45 pm »
Just about everything there is bad apart from "party".  :hand:
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Pingu

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #124 on: 15 June, 2019, 10:45:54 pm »
This Unit managed to pass through Dawson City last year without succumbing to the Sourtoe business, because alcohol  ;)

Shirley, there should a designated driver toe opportunity. It's only fair.