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Some light schadenfreude. Lightenfreude. https://twitter.com/danthat/status/752853487197782016
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KoRMaK posted:Electrical tape* This is from many pages ago, but I would like to bring it back up. This is an amazing video. The budget katana enthusiasm, the voice, each member of the family contributing and enabling, and the snotty brother just makes it perfect. This video is my equivalent of a Christmas special; it makes me thankful for my own hosed up kin because we are nowhere near this level. e: The smug look at the very beginning, how could I forget!
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Jul 13, 2016 10:55
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Foxhound posted:Some light schadenfreude. Lightenfreude. Oh my god, that emote thing, help me
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Jul 13, 2016 12:29
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SinineSiil posted:Oh wow! It almost feels like a parody. What was he thinking? The term "sticky bidon" refers to when you're taking a water bottle from your support car and the guy handing it to you holds on to it for a few seconds giving you a little tow. They're not usually that blatant. The rider in the picture a) is a oval office and b) had already exhausted all of his team mates to try to pace him back into the running on that stage after a crash had delayed him. He was thrown out of that event after the race stewards saw that video, which was the second time that day he had cheated, the first time he was riding directly behind one of the support cars, using its draft to speed him up. If that was all he had done he probably would have been fine. The video cuts off before you see it, but the group he was in was more than half a minute behind the leaders, and the support car drove him far enough that he caught them. The funniest part is that even after all that cheating to catch up to the leader group, they lost him in the latter parts of the stage and he finished 31st that day.
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Jul 13, 2016 12:56
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Rebel Blob posted:You don't have to worry, it isn't real. It's from the indescribably awful National Lampoon movie Lost Reality. The guy can throw up on command, he does it at every performance of his thrash metal band. Ah yes, Mr. Lance "I Didn't Puke on That Woman's Newborn Because My Manager Said I'd Get Sued if the Baby Died" Ozanix
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Jul 13, 2016 13:49
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Dienes posted:All ruminents secretly crave flesh. One of my all-time favorite news stories, which I've posted about in the past, involved a farmer and some missing chickens. The guy thought a fox was getting onto his property, because chickens kept disappearing, but he could never catch it in the act. The farmer staked out his chickens one night, and saw one of his cows wander over and snarf down an entire chicken. I feel bad(ish) for the chicken, but the image of a cow leaning down and chomping on a chicken cracks me up. Edit: BiggerBoat posted:Still no reason to gently caress with it. Also, THREE? Two of these are the same snake. That still leaves four, though, so your point is intact. Edit II; Someone already pointed out the duplicate snake. Centripetal Horse has a new favorite as of 14:56 on Jul 13, 2016 |
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Jul 13, 2016 14:50
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Centripetal Horse posted:One of my all-time favorite news stories, which I've posted about in the past, involved a farmer and some missing chickens. The guy thought a fox was getting onto his property, because chickens kept disappearing, but he could never catch it in the act. The farmer staked out his chickens one night, and saw one of his cows wander over and snarf down an entire chicken. I feel bad(ish) for the chicken, but the image of a cow leaning down and chomping on a chicken cracks me up. I love that this apparently catches instinct itself off guard too, since the chickens clearly aren't expecting it. Chickens are pretty dumb, but I'm pretty sure if it were a fox they'd be flipping out.
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Jul 13, 2016 14:59
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Data Graham posted:I love that this apparently catches instinct itself off guard too, since the chickens clearly aren't expecting it. Chickens are pretty dumb, but I'm pretty sure if it were a fox they'd be flipping out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwlJO789k-A
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Jul 13, 2016 15:31
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Guy gets catfished, comes up with brilliant plan to spy for Russia to fund his fake girlfriend, and it ends even dumber than you expect.
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Jul 13, 2016 15:39
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Data Graham posted:I love that this apparently catches instinct itself off guard too, since the chickens clearly aren't expecting it. Chickens are pretty dumb, but I'm pretty sure if it were a fox they'd be flipping out. Domesticated turkeys are dumber. Had a flock of young ones wander over and stick their heads through the slats of a pig pen to get at the pig's slop. Pig just kept biting their heads off. The others didn't even care or notice. He bit off 4 heads before we could run over and chase off the rest of the turkeys. I have so many stories about how stupid turkeys are. Free ranging turkeys is a bad idea.
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Jul 13, 2016 15:40
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Gobbeldygook posted:Related: Pigeons have not yet adapted to catfish hunting them. Hoover Dam posted:Guy gets catfished, comes up with brilliant plan to spy for Russia to fund his fake girlfriend, and it ends even dumber than you expect. I'm very impressed that these two posts are next to each other.
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Jul 13, 2016 15:51
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Gobbeldygook posted:Related: Pigeons have not yet adapted to catfish hunting them. Well, Catfish Hunter did play for the Yankees
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Jul 13, 2016 15:58
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Centripetal Horse posted:One of my all-time favorite news stories, which I've posted about in the past, involved a farmer and some missing chickens. The guy thought a fox was getting onto his property, because chickens kept disappearing, but he could never catch it in the act. The farmer staked out his chickens one night, and saw one of his cows wander over and snarf down an entire chicken. I feel bad(ish) for the chicken, but the image of a cow leaning down and chomping on a chicken cracks me up. Be careful man. Laughing at farm animals eating things actually has a mortality rate! Laugh at your own risk people.
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Jul 13, 2016 16:23
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Found the original story, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...arty-party.html Best part, she took a picture of it.  
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Jul 13, 2016 16:29
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SSDDR posted:Found the original story, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...arty-party.html I don't think she took a photo of it. I think a local paper sent a photog and a reporter to have her recreate her moment of stupidity. "Okay, now hold up the letters for your kid.. perfect"
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Jul 13, 2016 17:01
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I'm sort of interested in knowing the exact line of thinking that lead to "tappy ratry" specficically. Tappy I understand, but surely you would've figured something was wrong before even coming up with ratry. Maybe this lady just wanted to get on the news somehow.
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Jul 13, 2016 17:50
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SpacePig posted:Maybe this lady just wanted to get on the news somehow. Judging by how readily she allowed a newspaper photographer into her house to take a whole bunch of photos of her acting like a ditz I'm guessing her initial FB post was a joke and she just ran with it, then the supermarket replied and she just ran with that as well, then the media caught wind and she went "Well, I've pushed the joke this far, why not?"
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Jul 13, 2016 17:54
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I love English news articles. They always have the best photos of everyone. My favorite was a mother holding a wet rag to her kids head because he had to go to school in a long sleeve uniform during a heat wave. Her face wracked with worry, his with apprehension. It was like 80 degrees out.
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Jul 13, 2016 18:10
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Weather that hot can actually be fatal to people whose bodies aren't accustomed to it. And apparently it's a pretty high temperature for Britain.
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Jul 13, 2016 18:24
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chitoryu12 posted:I'm very impressed that these two posts are next to each other. I have to say I was sitting there confused as hell for a few seconds.
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Jul 13, 2016 18:29
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Kay Kessler posted:Weather that hot can actually be fatal to people whose bodies aren't accustomed to it. And apparently it's a pretty high temperature for Britain. I could see it in the 90's, and if the kid was like 4, but come on. 80's is the "this is getting uncomfortable" stage of heat.
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Jul 13, 2016 18:35
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The 80s are nothing, it hovers around 100 for like 3 and a half months straight in Dallas. I have no ac where I work and it's 95 degrees right now.
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Jul 13, 2016 19:05
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80s tends to make the news here as a heatwave...
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Jul 13, 2016 19:05
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Waci posted:80s tends to make the news here as a heatwave... Did you say a Heatwave in the 80's? https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct...468519770285118
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Jul 13, 2016 19:11
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Solice Kirsk posted:I could see it in the 90's, and if the kid was like 4, but come on. 80's is the "this is getting uncomfortable" stage of heat. Maybe you live somewhere that tends to have a dry heat and/or have a high tolerance for heat. But over here in the Netherlands, I'd probably be sweating all over if I'm wearing something like long sleeved uniform at 25+ degrees Celsius.
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Jul 13, 2016 19:13
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SpacePig posted:I'm sort of interested in knowing the exact line of thinking that lead to "tappy ratry" specficically. Tappy I understand, but surely you would've figured something was wrong before even coming up with ratry. Maybe this lady just wanted to get on the news somehow.
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Jul 13, 2016 19:13
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Solice Kirsk posted:I love English news articles. They always have the best photos of everyone. My favorite was a mother holding a wet rag to her kids head because he had to go to school in a long sleeve uniform during a heat wave. Her face wracked with worry, his with apprehension. It was like 80 degrees out. To be fair 80C is a bit much
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Jul 13, 2016 19:40
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radiatinglines posted:The 80s are nothing, it hovers around 100 for like 3 and a half months straight in Dallas. I have no ac where I work and it's 95 degrees right now. This is Britain we're talking about, we're adapted to rain and misery. Heat takes us by surprise and we just can't handle it.
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Jul 13, 2016 19:45
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Slime posted:This is Britain we're talking about, we're adapted to rain and misery. Heat takes us by surprise and we just can't handle it. Same here in Denmark. If it's cold you can put on a sweater. If it's too warm you can cower miserably in the shade and try not to die until weather permits you to breathe again.
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Jul 13, 2016 19:55
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Raygereio posted:How well your body can handle heat varies from person to person, depending on factors like metabolic rate, body shape, etc.Also in general the more humid the climate, the warmer the actual temperature feels. Ha! We keep our apartment at 74 degrees in the summer here in Chicago. It was 92 degrees and 80% humidity yesterday. I walked 2 miles in a black three piece suit. And we get below 0 temps every winter (the lowest I can remember was two years ago we hit almost -30). We hearty Chicago people can just take weather I guess! I also lived in FL when I was kid (high 80-90's all summer) and AZ when I was in my 20's (like living in a taupe coloed oven and it hit 120 degrees once when I was there). So yeah, my heat and cold tolerances are pretty far out there, but 80's should not be threat to any human being that is above the age of like 4 and below the age of 75.
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Jul 13, 2016 19:58
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Kay Kessler posted:Weather that hot can actually be fatal to people whose bodies aren't accustomed to it. And apparently it's a pretty high temperature for Britain. And we believe these people deserve to live on our hot little planet?
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Jul 13, 2016 19:58
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Same here in eastern north dakota. We rarely get super hot, but we get high 70s with 90% humidity all the loving time because we are just lousy with rivers and lakes. Most people here will be out in shorts and T-Shirts when it's 40 F, but we're worshiping the humidity destroying air-god in the summer. A few years back we had a heat-index of somewhere in the 120s because it broke 100 and was so humid you could only breathe through your shirt because the air near your body was marginally less humid.
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Jul 13, 2016 20:02
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In the American south you pray for weather in the 80s so you can finally do the yardwork in comfort.
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Jul 13, 2016 20:05
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Solice Kirsk posted:Ha! We keep our apartment at 74 degrees in the summer here in Chicago. It was 92 degrees and 80% humidity yesterday. I walked 2 miles in a black three piece suit. Wouldn't walking around in suit dripping with sweat be kinda impractical even if you can tolerate it?
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Jul 13, 2016 20:14
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doverhog posted:Wouldn't walking around in suit dripping with sweat be kinda impractical even if you can tolerate it? It was on my way home, and it wasn't so bad actually cause there was a breeze the entire way. My undershirt was a bit sweaty, but no pit stains or anything on my dress shirt. My socks on the other hand...black socks inside black leather. Those were gross.
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Jul 13, 2016 20:19
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syscall girl posted:To be fair 80C is a bit much They just use whichever scale sounds worse when you complain about it.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I also lived in FL when I was kid (high 80-90's all summer) and AZ when I was in my 20's (like living in a taupe coloed oven and it hit 120 degrees once when I was there). But.. but... it's a dry heat!  That was on June 19th of this year at about 2:30pm. 
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Jul 13, 2016 20:23
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That's almost 300 degrees!
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Jul 13, 2016 20:24
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The Locator posted:But.. but... it's a dry heat! haha hey, at least in a dry heat, you can use a swamp cooler super effectively! (and you can leave out a bag of chips for more than 30 seconds before they turn stale)
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Since moving to New York it has not stopped infuriating me that I can leave out an opened can of almonds, with the lid on, for like a week before they start turning loving gummy and soft. What in the actual hell, almonds do not do that.
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