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Sir Lemming
Jan 27, 2009

It's a piece of JUNK!

This must be that same guy who licked the salt planet in Star Wars TLJ


I suppose there's nothing truly wrong with Snopes debunking headlines from satire sites, but they should really just say "no it's a satire site you dummy" and move on instead of writing this whole big article about it.

Sir Lemming has a new favorite as of 13:39 on Sep 9, 2018

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Blue Footed Booby
Oct 4, 2006

got those happy feet

Sir Lemming posted:

This must be that same guy who licked the salt planet in Star Wars TLJ


I suppose there's nothing truly wrong with Snopes debunking headlines from satire sites, but they should really just say "no it's a satire site you dummy" and move on instead of writing this whole big article about it.

They seem to pick out satire headlines that make the rounds on social media as if they were real.

SneezeOfTheDecade
Feb 6, 2011

gettin' covid all
over your posts

Blue Footed Booby posted:

They seem to pick out satire headlines that make the rounds on social media as if they were real.

If you take their articles at face value, they do the extended debunkings because they keep getting emails from gullible readers asking "is this real????/".

SpacePig
Apr 4, 2007

Hold that pose.
I've gotta get something.

I can't believe that there was a second where I was thinking "This is really stupid, but it probably wasn't the Babylon Bee. They're stupid, but not that stupid." But of course they were.

Detective Thompson
Nov 9, 2007

Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. is also in repose.

I like this other delightful headline that was below the article on the page. It's not as immediately intriguing, perhaps, but it paints a beautiful picture on its own.

'U.S. Open Chair Umpire Betrayed By Arm Rest, Eats It'

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


Boy Killed Anally When Office Chair Explodes

spog
Aug 7, 2004

It's your own bloody fault.
gently caress you if you think I am clicking that link.

Last time I read a story like that, I couldn't relax in an office chair for a month.

Cacafuego
Jul 22, 2007

spog posted:

gently caress you if you think I am clicking that link.

Last time I read a story like that, I couldn't relax in an office chair for a month.

Well, not if you tense up...

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004
A man accused of kicking a seagull that ate his cheeseburger has been fined $124

quote:

NH1 interviewed the recipient of the fine, Nate Rancloes, who said that if he had intentionally hurt the seagull in front of so many witnesses he might be the "dumbest criminal ever."

He said that he was out with his daughter and while he was sitting in the sand, the bird stole his food.

He spun around to usher it away and in doing so he admits he did strike a seagull, which was said to be a second bird to the one which took his meal.

The man, described as a decorated veteran who received the purple heart, an honor for those wounded or killed in service, described this as "bad luck" and a mistake.

He said he left the beach as people started shouting at him.

The injured seagull was picked up and taken to a lifeguard by a woman.

She was told to put it down before it then bit her and a child.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/WCVB/status/1038238767604150273

jobson groeth
May 17, 2018

by FactsAreUseless
3 - 5 slices of ham a day for 8 years. Should have eaten more.

AKA Pseudonym
May 16, 2004

A dashing and sophisticated young man
Doctor Rope

It would probably just ruin it but I really want to know.

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer

They made the woman who gave the seagull to a lifeguard kill it? lmao

AMISH FRIED PIES
Mar 6, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

This is like that song where the guy eats a little bit of ham at work every day for years and makes a frankenpig after.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Aesop Poprock posted:

They made the woman who gave the seagull to a lifeguard kill it? lmao

I think they didn’t mean ‘put it down’ in the euphemistic sense. More ‘please stop carrying a large angry bird around, ma’am’.

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



It's about time someone took the fight to the seagulls, that man has my support

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer

AMISH FRIED PIES posted:

This is like that song where the guy eats a little bit of ham at work every day for years and makes a frankenpig after.

Can’t decide if this sounds like more an Arlo Guthrie or senile Raffi song

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos
Sounds like a real ham burgler.

Veni Vidi Ameche!
Nov 2, 2017

by Fluffdaddy

Aesop Poprock posted:

Can’t decide if this sounds like more an Arlo Guthrie or senile Raffi song

Alice’s Delicatessen? I don’t think it quite works.

gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug

Aesop Poprock posted:

Can’t decide if this sounds like more an Arlo Guthrie or senile Raffi song

Johnny Cash, in fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece_at_a_Time

Samuringa
Mar 27, 2017

Best advice I was ever given?

"Ticker, you'll be a lot happier once you stop caring about the opinions of a culture that is beneath you."

I learned my worth, learned the places and people that matter.

Opened my eyes.
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1038563381752614914

The MSJ
May 17, 2010


Now this is just poking the hornet’s nest.

Also happening recently:
https://twitter.com/raminnasibov/status/1038778772420481024?s=21

Take the plunge! Okay!
Feb 24, 2007



The MSJ posted:

Now this is just poking the hornet’s nest.

Also happening recently:
https://twitter.com/raminnasibov/status/1038778772420481024?s=21

Hey, I remember that mission from Tony Hawk

caligulamprey
Jan 23, 2007

It never stops.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes reboot lookin' good.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

"Wait! Wait! I am a number! I AM A NUMBER!"

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Deadly fire exposes wealthy man’s secret underground tunnels

Weaponized Autism
Mar 26, 2006

All aboard the Gravy train!
Hair Elf

This article is amazing

Veni Vidi Ameche!
Nov 2, 2017

by Fluffdaddy

quote:

“He said he made his money off bitcoins,”

This is my surprised face.

Goober Peas
Jun 30, 2007

Check out my 'Vette, bro



His name was Jonathan Livingston

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

All that money and he couldn't afford a tube of Clearasil.

Contribution...

Dylan16807
May 12, 2010
That works out to less than 9K slices. What kind of ridiculous ham math is involved here?

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Dylan16807 posted:

That works out to less than 9K slices. What kind of ridiculous ham math is involved here?

This whole thing reeks of "we needed a reason to fire this guy and deny him unemployment and HR said we have to file a police report".

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

A homeless man reported a dead body by carrying the skull into a Florida Publix and using it as a puppet.

Samuringa
Mar 27, 2017

Best advice I was ever given?

"Ticker, you'll be a lot happier once you stop caring about the opinions of a culture that is beneath you."

I learned my worth, learned the places and people that matter.

Opened my eyes.
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1039534993901375489

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Trump describes Hurricane Florence as "Tremendously big and tremendously wet."

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Never forget.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

:shuckyes:

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Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

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