Snark fails me: Why would anyone, anywhere, ever think this was a good idea?
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No, really. I understand the concept of no publicity being bad publicity and all that, but … really?
Some people are weird in a very frightening way.
(via ThinkProgress)
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| Ray Comfort |
I generally avoid paying any attention to Ray Comfort’s more mindless anti-atheist arguments (not that anything he’s ever said on the matter could be called “mindful”, no matter how charitable one feels), but this was just too funny to pass up:
There was a big fuss recently in Sweden about lasagna and burgers containing horse meat. Sweden is atheist heaven, and so there shouldn’t be any hard and fast table manners—other than “if it tastes good, eat it.”
So why aren’t cats and horses on restaurant menus in most countries? It’s because Judeo/Christian nations base what is right and wrong to eat on the rules God gave to the Jews. But if atheism has its way, we can expect restaurants to expand their menus to include eagle-wings, double-double whale burgers, fresh cat casseroles, and tasty little kitten fingers. When any nation forsakes God, it defaults to mob rule (what society dictates) and that can go anywhere it wants.
Swinging at fruit this low-hanging is rather like picking a fight with a four-year-old; it leaves one feeling sullied and unsatisfied.
This is actually a year old to the day, but it seems I never mentioned it, so here you go:
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(via @BuzzFeedAndrew)
As you watch the following video (preferably with no-one around in order to minimize risks of acute awkwardness), keep in mind that a thinking human being at PETA presumably thought it up, someone else liked it, and they all decided it was a good way to attract favorable publicity:
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A number of men are shown moving around with large, phallic-shaped vegetable “genitals” (complete with lettuce pubic hair and round veggies for testes) swinging from their groins. (Fuck PETA for making me write that sentence.)
One would think they could choose a better way to gather people around their dubious mantra that veganism somehow improves sexual stamina than by making anyone who comes into visual contact with their ads reach for the nearest bottle of bleach to cleanse their eyeballs.
(via Joe. My. God.)
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So it turns out that little shake I tweeted about last night actually was a 4.5 quake that hit the region. [pictured] It’s only the second earthquake I remember feeling. The important thing is everyone’s okay [pictured].
Newsweek derps again, publishes doctor’s typical “experience with the afterlife” as proof that “heaven is real”. Rational thinkers everywhere facepalm.
Swedish school lunch lady ordered to make her food less good to avoid making students at other schools jealous. Because that’s the real problem – cafeteria food that’s too tasty.
(via @RadleyBalko)
PETA attacks Pokémon for encouraging animal cruelty (!), succeed in “wast[ing] everybody’s time while simultaneously proving [they] don’t know what the hell [they]’re talking about. Again”.
And finally, Cracked.com reveals a few key details that were (in)conveniently left out of big news stories. (Spoilers: Vioxx is awesome and Hooker Chemical is an innocent scapegoat.)
If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.
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| Bryan Fischer |
Keith Kloor at Slate explains why those fear-mongering about GMO food aren’t any more credible than climate change denialists.
(via The Agitator)
“Former inmates abruptly freed after spending up to six years in federal prison even though they were "legally innocent" are coming home with less help than the government typically provides the guilty after they are released.”
(via The Agitator)
Bryan Fischer [pictured] apparently thinks that repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” somehow makes it perfectly legal for servicemembers to rape children.
I already posted a Headline of the Day, so here you go: “Buddhist "Iron Man" Found by Nazis Is from Space”
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Tags: Keith Kloor • genetically modified organisms • GMOs • food • wrongful convictions • wrongful imprisonment • Bryan Fischer • Don't Ask, Don't Tell • DADT • child molestation • U.S. Military • homophobia • Scientific American • Buddhism • Nazism • space • Iron Man
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| Savannah Dietrich |
Howdy there! Live from my paint-reeking, half-patched-up bedroom, here’re a few quick links to keep y’all from dying of missing me:
Update: Teenage girl [pictured] no longer faces prison for revealing the names of the boys who sexually assaulted her on Twitter.
(via @BreakingNews)
“You are the Osama bin Laden of this travesty”: Washington Times columnist blames Dark Knight Rises director Christopher Nolan and Hollywood at large for Aurora, CO shooting. Had to happen eventually.
(via @owillis)
Antivaccination crank Meryl Dorey reconsiders the appropriateness of pestering grieving families, reminds us all that she’s a reprehensible ghoul.
(via @BadAstronomer)
Wall Street Journal crony bullshits all over the history of the Internet to try and reclaim it for anti-government conservatives.
And finally, here are five restaurant chains to avoid. I find it amusing none of them even exist near me (except for Domino’s, which is also best avoided just in general).
If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.
Tags: Savannah Dietrich • sexual assault • contempt of court • Charles Hurt • The Washington Times • The Dark Knight Rises • Christopher Nolan • Sean Penn • Warner Brothers • Hollywood • Osama bin Laden • Aurora, CO shooting • Meryl Dorey • Australian Vaccination Network • AVN • antivaccination • antivaccine • antivaxxers • antivax • Internet • U.S. Government • Gordon Crovitz • The Wall Street Journal • Chick-fil-A • Carl's Jr. • Domino's Pizza • White Castle • Waffle House • restaurants • conservatives
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| Greg Gutfeld |
The problem with Fox News isn’t only its crippling lack of editorial standards and journalistic integrity; it’s also that it acts like an irresistible magnet for some of the most insipid dunderheads anywhere. A good representative of this phenomenon is career twerp Greg Gutfeld, last seen claiming liberals want to use birth control to eliminate poor people, responding to criticism with atrocious gay jokes, and generally acting like an insufferable brat given far too many platforms to snivel on. And now, here is is, attacking celebrity chef Mario Batali over the latter’s decision to raise awareness of the plight of people living on food stamps by doing it himself.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell has some choice words for him:
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Original transcript via MSNBC; edited for grammar, style, completion, etc.
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: Celebrity chef Mario Batali, whom I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting, is trying to rewrite this country’s understanding of the food stamp program from zero understanding to what it’s actually like to try to feed a family on food stamps.
MARIO BATALI: At the big food bank for New York fund-raiser about a week ago, I challenged everyone to try to walk a mile in a person’s shoes. And that was to see if you could live on food stamps. It really causes us to think about what hunger is, whether the states is responsible for feeding people. What kind of things are going on in politics and what really makes it a great kind of engine for our discussion at the house is we really have to think about what we're eating.
O’DONNEL: Tomorrow, Mario Batali, his wife and two teenage sons will finish the week of eating on the equivalent of a food stamp budget. That’s $31 per person for the week. $1.48 per meal each. On day four of Batali’s life on a food stamp budget, he told the Associated Press, “I’m [expletive deleted] starving.” He said he’s been having rice and beans for lunch every day and figuring out ever-cheaper ways to put food on the table. He said his teenage sons are, quote, “having more peanut butter and jelly than they’ve had in the last ten years”.
Batali has been leading a couple of hundred people who are trying to eat for a week on a food stamp budget. This is an act of discipline and sacrifice that few among us would dare undertake, except of course, those already living on food stamps. Kind of wonderful that a rich and famous celebrity chef, who never has to think about the plight of the hungry, would help raise our awareness. Well, Fox News doesn't see it that way.
GREG GUTFELD: This week, Chef Mario Batali is eating on the equivalent of a food stamp budget, about $1.50 per meal, as a way to protest potential cuts to the benefits program. He said, quote, “we hopefully aren’t pretending or being like a bunch of yuppies saying uh oh, yeah, this is how we do it.” That’s exactly how it sounds. Terry, does this make you want to slap him around?
O’DONNEL: “Slap him around”. Now, Greg thinks that’s funny. In fact, he thinks most of what he says is funny. And it’s meant to be funny. Comedy isn’t comedy if it isn’t funny. His panelists went on for a couple of minutes ridiculing Mario Batali without ever once considering the plight of people who actually live on food stamps.
JAMIE WEINSTEIN: If he wanted to help people that are actually poor is to do what he does well, which is start successful restaurants and hire people. That would actually help some people get out of poverty.
O’DONNEL: You have to be so disconnected from American popular culture not to know that Mario Batali has started many successful restaurants and hired hundreds and hundreds, maybe thousands, of people to staff those restaurants. He has 11 restaurants from New York to Los Angeles. He also runs Eataly, a large combination of markets and restaurants under a single roof here in New York. And he’s also created jobs in the television business by his own very successful TV show The Chew on ABC.
GUTFELD: Wouldn’t it be a better idea to donate some food from one of his posh restaurants? Or allow them to use food stamps at the posh restaurant?
O’DONNEL: It’s illegal in most states to use food stamps in restaurants, and as to donating some food – Mario Batali has donated more food than any other chef in America and probably the world. He has devoted years of service to the food bank of New York City. He has been on the board of the food bank for nine years. A food bank that helps feed over 1.5 million people every year. Mario Batali and his wife have been relentless fund-raisers for the food bank. Batali is also a founding member of the Feeding America Entertainment Council. Previously America’s Second Harvest, as it was known. That organization provides nutritious fresh foods to Americans struggling through hunger with local and national food assistance programs. And then, of course, there is Mario Batali Foundation, whose mission is, quote, “to feed, protect, educate and empower children, and encourage them to dream big while providing them with the necessary tools to become an active force for change in today’s world.” One of the many things that Mario Batali Foundation does is teach children and their families to cook healthy on very tight budgets. Kind of makes you wonder what the Greg Gutfeld Foundation has done lately.
GUTFELD: Doesn’t this make you want to slap him around?
O’DONNEL: Mario Batali, directly and indirectly, has helped feed millions of people. And that’s before we get to the very big federal tax bill he pays every year. Some of which goes to paying for the federal food stamp program. And for all of that, these people think Mario Batali deserves to be slapped around. If one of them has ever fed a poor hungry person, they forgot to mention that in their round of ridicule of Mario Batali. You have to wonder what would make them react to Mario Batali this way?
GUTFELD: Does this make you want to slap him around?
O’DONNEL: Why do Mario Batali’s kindness, generosity and concern for the poor, all qualities that Jesus Christ exhibited in abundance – why do they make these people so uncomfortable? It might be time for them to reread what Christ did with the loafs and fishes. And when they are reminded that he gave all the bread and all the fish away to the poor, will Greg Gutfeld say this?
GUTFELD: Does this make you want to slap him around? […] Does this make you want to slap him around? […] Does this make you want to slap him around?
I’m not a big fan of O’Donnell, but he’s as good as anyone when it comes to setting Fox cronies straight. (Not that it’s a particularly difficult task, mind you.)
(via Media Matters for America)
Tags: Lawrence O'Donnell • Greg Gutfeld • Fox News • Mario Batali • food stamps • food stamps challenge
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| Card. Timothy Dolan |
Glenn Greenwald on those weak wanna-be politicians who care about such silly things as “the Constitution” and “the law”.
A good start for ethics blog’s claim that vegetarians & vegans have “moral obligation” to eat “Frankenmeat”: Stop calling it “Frankenmeat”.
(via The Agitator)
… Which has the satisfying effect of predictably pissing off Bill Donohue.
If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.
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| Obscenely tempting |
Scusi for the lack of blogging lately. I didn’t think the news could get this slow.
Storm in a teacup neutralized: Canadian Conservative gov’t closes gay marriage loophole to preserve marriages of foreigners.
Fox News flunks basic geography. Yet again.
Nuke your ’hood: Fascinating (and terrifying) interactive map to see the scale and effects of nuclear weapons. (I honestly thought the primary blast area was bigger. Yay?)
(via Joe. My. God.)
Today in WANT: Peanut butter cup cake. [pictured]
(via @jennifurret)
If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.
Tags: Canada • Conservatives • gay marriage • same-sex marriage • Fox News • Bret Baier • polar ice • Himalayas • geography • Global Warming • nuclear bombs • nuclear weapons • atomic bomb • NUKEMAP • Alex Wellerstein • peanut butter cups • Reese's • Williams-Sonoma • cakes
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| Rep. Kim Pearson (R-IA) |
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Iowa Rep. Kim Pearson [pictured] (R) introduces most extreme anti-abortion bill yet, outlawing all abortions and sentencing doctors to life in prison.
Chicken-farming, Matrix-style. Or, how to turn meat-lovers into vegetarians.
(via The Daily Grail)
“[The Girl Scouts] were encouraging girls to embrace whoever they were; it didn't matter what choices they made, as long as they were true to themselves. That was a concern.”
(via Joe. My. God.)
Whoa. 80% of Tasmanian devils have been wiped out by cancer; scientists doing what they can to save the rest.
Anthropomorphic tumor Ted Nugent’s top 10 greatest hits. How telling it is that conservative groups are eager to host him. (Or The Simpsons.)
And another one: Anti-gay conservative radio host Michael Berry investigated for hit & run after leaving a drag show at a gay bar.
(via Joe. My. God.)
Americans love Canada. (Sitting in a tree?)
If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.
Tags: Kim Pearson • Iowa • felonies • Tea Party • Republicans • chickens • poultry • farming • The Matrix • Girl Scouts • American Heritage Girls • Shanna Stewart • Tasmanian devil • cancer • Tasmania • Devil Facial Tumor Disease • DFTD • Ted Nugent • National Rifle Association • NRA • right-wing media • conservatives • The Simpsons • Michael Berry • drag shows • gay bears • hit & run • EULA • Canada • United States • USA • Gallup
Speaking of ridiculously counter-productive adverts from cartoonishly inept advocacy groups: Heeeeeere’s PETA!
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Disheveled woman with a neck-brace, JESSICA, walks slowly down a street. Camera includes shots of revealing panties.
NARRATOR: This is Jessica. She suffers from BWVAKTBOOM: Boyfriend Went Vegan And Knocked The Bottom Out Of Me, a painful condition that occurs when boyfriends go vegan and can suddenly bring it like a tantric porn star.
Jessica limps up stairs and enters home, sliding jacket off to reveal near-nakedness. Another up-close panty-shot while spindly BOYFRIEND turns around from plastering over hole in drywall.
BOYFRIEND: Oh, you’re back. You feeling better?
Jessica throws him the groceries, but then gives small smile as she walks away.
ANNOUNCER: Please, go to bwvaktboom.com and learn to go vegan safely.
I can only imagine how they come up with these PSAs:
DIRECTOR: We need ideas for a new pro-vegan advert!
MEMBER 1: Um … oh, I know – veganism increases your sex drive!
MEMBER 2: Wait, how does that make sense?
MEMBER 1: Cuz meat is bad and clogs up your penis.
MEMBER 2: Oh, okay.
DIRECTOR: Veganism = better sex! I like it. How do we show it?
MEMBER 1: How ’bout boyfriend fucks girlfriend so hard, he smashes her head into the wall and puts her in a neck-brace?
MEMBER 2: Wait, doesn’t that just sound like domestic violence?
MEMBER 1: Not if she smiles at the end.
MEMBER 2: Oh, okay.
DIRECTOR: Okay, so she’s injured by such awesome sex, but she’s okay with it, so the audience will be, too. Is she sexy?
MEMBER 1: Yeah, we make her walk around in lopsided panties and a bra and stuff.
MEMBER 2: Oh, come on, that’s just appealing to sexualization again. Don’t we do that enough?
MEMBER 1: Obviously not. Oh, and get a real nice close-up view of her half-naked ass, especially when she limps up the stairs.
MEMBER 2: I hate you.
DIRECTOR: Shut up or I’m putting you on dunking-blood-on-celebs detail again.
You just have to wonder how those things they have for minds work.
(via Joe. My. God.)
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| Rep. Peter Palumbo (D-RI) |
Rep. Peter Palumbo [pictured] (D-RI) claims “evil little thing” 16-year-old Jessica Ahlquist was “coerced by evil people” into getting rid of her school’s prayer banner. Kindly remind him of his loyalties.
(via @pzmyers)
Moral Panic of the Day: Super-alcoholic Polish drink might lead to teens doing stupid things (like drinking it)!
(via The Agitator)
Creepiest fucking thing I’ve read in ages: Fungus-infested zombie ants. Seriously, nature, are you trying to inspire a Hollywood horror flick?
(via The Agitator)
Amazing photos of the half-capsized cruise ship in Italy. Who knew sand could do so much damage?
(via The Agitator)
Vox Day brings the Atheist Dictators card (Myth A17) to ever-more facepalm-inducing heights. I’m just half-surprised he didn’t include Hitler.
If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.
Tags: Jessica Ahlquist • Peter Palumbo • Spirytus Rektyfikowany • moral panic • ants • carpenter ant • Ophiocordyceps unilateralis • fungus • Costa Concordia • cruise ships • shipwrecks • Vox Day • atheists • organized atheism • Josef Stalin • Mao Zedong • Ho Chi Minh • Pol Pot • Fidel Castro • Che Guevara • Kim Il-sung
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| She’s drying to death no matter how much she drinks (according to EFSA) |
File this one under “Headline (and Stupid Bureaucrats) of the Day”:
Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration.
Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration.
EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.
Producers of bottled water are now forbidden by law from making the claim and will face a two-year jail sentence if they defy the edict, which comes into force in the UK next month.
Next up: Nutritionists are forbidden from saying that eating helps stave off starvation.
(via @radleybalko)
Tags: European Union • European Food Standards Authority • EFSA • water • dehydration
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| Pictured: Media hysteria |
I’d like to blame the lack of blogging activity of late on mind-controlling parasites or alien mutants, but sadly, a dearth of material and computer troubles are the cause. Oh, the mundanity.
Debunking the media’s latest ridiculous myth: Vodka-soaked tampons!
(via @radleybalko)
If you’ve never heard of Casu Marzu, Pacha or Balut before … now you are damned. (Your stomach is, anyway.)
(via friend who I’ll never forgive for showing me this)
If stereotypes about the U.S. were literally true. Wait, those are fictional?
Qui-Gon Liam Neeson tries his hand at comedy.
(via The Agitator)
If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.
Tags: myths • tampons • alcohol • Cracked.com • Escamoles • Casu Marzu • Lutefisk • Baby Mice Wine • Pacha • Balut • USA • United States • stereotypes • Liam Neeson • comedy • Ricky Gervais • Life's Too Short
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| Pictured: Price of an affluent neighborhood |
Forget 9-9-9 – bring on 11-11-11!
Anti-Defamation League blasts Ray Comfort’s anti-abortion propaganda flick 180 (my review).
Average car: $30,000. Average house: $250,000. Average Gitmo detainee [pictured]: $800,000. (A bit of perspective: Priceless.)
Ann Coulter: President Obama is a “Marxist Muslim – he’s not really a Muslim, he’s an atheist”. 1) Make up your mind. 2) I wish.
If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.
Tags: 180 • Ray Comfort • Holocaust • Anti-Defamation League • ADL • Guantanamo Bay • Gitmo • Ann Coulter • Barack Obama • atheists • McDonald's • maps
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| Walter Reaves |
Hey, it’s not ten o’clock yet!
Wow: Texas DA [pictured] opposes post-conviction DNA testing because an exoneration might “[override] what a jury decided”. Isn’t that rather the fucking point?
(via The Agitator)
Another seven days, another 13 holy crimes (including 6 child sexual abuse cases).
More divine morality: New documentary exposes how the Spanish Catholic Church stole 300,000 babies and put them up for adoption for more “appropriate” parents, telling the birth mothers their child had died (and showing only a frozen infant’s corpse as “proof”). I … don’t know what to say.
(via Pharyngula)
Animal rights nuts successfully get California Nanny-Statists to ban foie gras. (See Anthony Bourdain debunk the supposed harm of forced duck/goose feeding. More here. Not glamorous, but leagues away from cruel.)
(via The Agitator)
Glenn Beck’s The Blaze proves its journalistic merits by revealing that Texas schools actually teach Spanish in Spanish classes.
(via @SimonMaloy)
If you want self-torpedoing battleships, self-destructing cannons and self-sinking nuclear subs, look no further than Soviet Russia. (And these people were a threat …?)
xkcd now in bed with the Fire Nation.
If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.
Tags: McLennan County, TX • Walter Reaves • DNA testing • exoneration • Anthony Melendez • clergy • priests • Catholic Church • child molestation • BBC • This World: Spain’s Stolen Babies • Spain • Catholic Church • foie gras • California • forced feeding • PETA • John Burton • The Blaze • Achieve Early College High School • Texas • schools • Spanish • Mexico • Soviet Russia • Cracked.com • Avatar: The Last Airbender • Mendeleev
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| Chick Beer |
Washington AG and gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna (R) calls cops on man videotaping him during a public meeting.
(via The Agitator)
GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) signs far-Right group’s pledge promising to ban all forms of porn (and that states that homosexuality is a choice and a health risk), among other things.
(via The Agitator)
Oh, and Rick Santorum joins her. But then, what else is a frothy mix to do?
Washington State man thrown in jail, loses job and car when he tries to cash in erroneous cheque from Chase Bank. Chase refused to apologize to “the customer”.
For all those who are tired of manly booze like Budweiser and Coors, now presenting: Chick Beer. Seriously.
(via @jennifurret)
Stars? Suns? Animals? Boooring. How flags should look like.
If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.
Tags: Rob McKenna • Zack Wurtz • Michele Bachmann • THE FAMiLY LEADER • homosexuality • Rick Santorum • Chase Bank • Ikenna Njoku • Chick Beer • beer • Cracked.com • flags
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To celebrate my triumphant return to blogging (snerk), I thought we’d start off with something relatively light-hearted. In that, your heart will float right up your throat once you read this [links removed for brevity]:
We'ere not exactly sure how someone goes about concocting an apple-infused horse semen shot, but apparently they are all the rage at Green Man Pub in Wellington, New Zealand. The shots were created as the pub's entry in the 14th annual Monteith's Beer & Wild Food Challenge.
The horse semen is proving more popular with women, although "a couple of them were worried they might bear children with long faces," chef Jason Varley told The Dominion. Men have been less enthusiastic about the beverage, though one brave male described the semen to be "like custard."
Horse semen isn't new to New Zealanders. This past March, the Hokitika Wild Foods Festival offered the drink as it came, or in cherry, licorice or banoffee pie flavors. "It is sort of quirky, I suppose," a festival organizer told AOL News.
The pub pays $300 for 20 vials of semen, which could be a pricey investment if people keep wanting to sample the drink. "No one's addicted to it, lets put it that way," said Varley.
Too disturbing? Okay, then, let’s go with something a little less upsetting [links removed for brevity]:
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| Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov (l) and Fagili Mukhametzyanov (r) |
A woman has reportedly died from the shock of coming to life at her own funeral.
Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, 49, was wrongly declared dead by doctors, but she actually died after hearing people pray for her soul in Kazan, Russia, according to the Daily Mail.
She was taken back to a hospital where she was declared dead, this time for good.
"Her eyes fluttered and we immediately rushed her back to the hospital but she only lived for another 12 minutes," her husband, Fagili Mukhametzyanov, said, according to the Daily News.
Mukhametzyanov said he plans to sue the hospital, which says it is conducting an investigation of the incident.
Her final cause of death was heart failure, according to reports. Her "first death" was also heart-related, a suspected heart attack.
Man, I just can’t seem to find good stories today, can I?
(funeral death story via @radleybalko)
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| Pictured: Incitement for suicide |
US Highway Patrol Sgt. Charles Jones, fired after video emerged showing him hanging and kicking his police dog, ordered rehired by a judge with all back pay and legal fees reimbursed.
(via The Agitator)
Australian twins who committed suicide at shooting range had books about spiritualism, self-improvement and atheism [pictured] in their luggage. Three guesses which one made the headline.
If you have any story suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them in.
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I’m a liberal skeptic, rationalist & third-wave atheist stuck in a rut in Québec, Canada and who spends his time composing, writing, drawing, harboring a layman’s passion for science and technology, getting angry at social injustices, and most of all, jabbing cretins and trolls with sharp pointy sticks. (Oh, and blogging.) Proud owner of a Nize Hat!, an indomitable SIWOTI syndrome and an itchy snark finger.
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