Posts by George Nacht 134 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Nov 2009
When I read the headline, I imagined Courteney Cox going all Stephen Fry on the basics of the modern physics. My mistake, sorry.
Interesting, anyway. Contemporary scientists generally are not very eager to publicize such shocking revelations, unless they have it thoroughly backed up. CERN is quite solid institution, as far as I know. It´s not like an interference from running electric can opener would screw their readings. I look forwards further news.
Since few years back, when Swiss banks cut down the interest rates so low, that it does not cover the banking charges, I was under impression, that all Nazi/Jewish gold in their safes is already spent! I was apparently wrong....
C´mon, people, somebody was bound to make this joke sooner or later, so why not me?
Paranormal researcher (let´s pretend that is actually a thing) might indeed be qualified for navigating a "Brussels labyrinthine bureaucracy".
Off the top of my head, Czech Republic and Italy had at a time a pop singer and (female) stripper in their national parlaments, respectively. I´d very much like to hear the explaining of their qualification. On the other hand, maybe not...
the other way around: Wasn´t it this one Mr.Moran, who was first to conclusively prove that heating a feces on the electric heater will NOT turn them into gold?
Isn´t it a basic principle of science, that someone has to go first and then say : "Dead end, colleagues. Let´s find another way!"
While I can not approve of this guy´s tactics...or strategy...or costume for that matter, I can´t stop thinking: How much damage/injury/public outrage/threat to U.S. homeland security has he actually caused?
Unless he is a chronic offender, a jail time for what he did seems a bit....harsh, or not?
I stand ready to be corrected. Harshly, if necessary.
it is only my uneducated feeling, and I can be very wrong, but are Americans, more than any other nation, likely to turn brand names into proper nouns and use them as such? See Greyhound, Kleenex (also in the comments mentioned), also Trapper Keeper, Mace (I was thoroughly disappointed when I found out, that the daring thief, who succesfully assaulted an armored truck in Brazil, armed with mace, was actually using tear gas), any number of housecleaning products, an so on.
Is it some weird property of English language, that is causing this? or do other nation do this as well?
Far from being an expert, but the paintball bullet lacks both energy and shape to cause such a massive damage as rupture of the breast enhancement. My money is on the lady tripping on the course and unfortunatelly falling on some angular object, and then perhaps trimming the story a bit to make it more interesting.
The "extra padding" thing sounds interesting, though...
... "Operation Extra Sugar" wins my personal Best Codename Ever Award. Equally hilarious as "Operation Beaver Cage" and "Operation Grizzly Forced Entry", but without disconcerting undertones.
On the other hand... low level employees in fast food industry making a few bucks aside... police doing a sting operation...hardly a news, I´d say.
And my condolence to "concerned citizen" who tipped the cops off. I pray for you, mister, to find one day a joy and purpose in the life, which was apparently both taken away from you a long, long time ago...
I can second that. Once, in a train, I had to ask a girl to turn the volume in her headphones down - and she was sitting in the next COMPARTMENT. I admit, I did it for her own protection, as well as mine, I am kinda weird this way. The fact, that she wondered, how could have I heard it, told me that the damage to her hearing has been done already.
It is nothing new. The doctors warned us about hearing problems, occuring amongst young people, since eighties.
I may be wrong, but sometimes I believe it does not stop with hearing.
about the mortuary attendants being a bit superstitious and being scared shitless when confronted with reanimated client, and this being Africa and all....
but....they abandoned him for 24 FREAKING HOURS?
Unless the mortuary was (for superstitious reasons) built 100 miles for nearest human setllement, I just don´t get it.
Not that I have a slightest sympathy for Lukashenko - I most definitely don´t.
However, crap like this, making Russians look like benevolent and tolerant chaps in comparison, actually makes me wonder, how much of this is caused by direct orders from Lukashenko, and how many of it is work of overzealous bureaucratic drones, who knows, what is best for His Presidentnees, better than president himself.
Just extrapolating from similar cases in history of my own country, mind you.
This might be totally in line with Luhashenko´s orders...
they just needs an early warning. My boss, when talking to our German counterparts, literally opens with : "I´m gonna tell you a joke now," and then it works.
On the unrelated note, one of my German friends has a note in his PDA, saying in translation: "09:00 - 09.30 AM - Be spontaneous".
Go figure....
...police managed to bust into bathroom...
Sorry, but this sounds very much like an ancient Czech joke about the Wehrmacht reports from Battle of Stalingrad.
"Monday: We took the hall.
Tuesday: After artillery barrage we took control of the kitchen.
Wednesday: With severe losses we stormed the living room.
Thursday: We invaded pantry, but were stopped by minefield.
At this rate we are down the toilet by end of the week..."
...his ID and creditcard in order to get a money from teller at gunpoint, still takes the cake. But amazing story nevertheless.
I remember similar story from our country, when burglar (certain Mr.Bidlo) was attacked upon entering by flat owner´s german shepherd, who tore away the back pocket from his trousers, containing the driver´s license. Said license was then , according to local papers "proudly presented to police". By aforementioned shepherd, no less.
from two of my personalities:
1. If somebody with a parole sentence behind his neck goes to rob a bank...or rob anything for that matter, then that person WANTS to be in jail.
2. if somebody with a parole sentence behind his neck goes to rob a bank...or rob anything for that matter, then this country´s legal system seriously fails to deter people from crime.
but I hold my opinion, until I see results, positive or otherwise. Colorful packing is main selling point of cigarettes? A bit funny idea, but to do nothing would be worse. Or not, if the prediction about smuggling is correct.
As for the financial impact....I do not have the latest data, but I was taught, that for each pound, made by tobacco taxation, there are four pounds spent treating diseases, directly caused or worsened by smoking. Might be totally biased stats, true.
As somebody, who lost a loved one to lung cancer, I am not exactly unbiased, too.
Maybe there is a simple answer. There are heck of a lot people in China - the gaming community is therefore also large coming humongous - so, statistically, even the most improbable shit happens once in long time. It´s not like chinese gamers were dropping like flies. Yet.
Makes more sense than nation wide malnutrition or underlying disease.
He died two hours after sustaining injury, not two days. So, some kind of complication was a factor here, but I doubt the infection. Embolia, maybe? Severe maltreatment of the wounded calf, resulting in increased blood loss?
Or, for the thrill seekers... Poison on the cock blade?
Still, I admit that the opportunity to raise awareness about cock washing should not be missed...
but why get so excited about (a bit boring, true) font? I agree that nothing should be overused (with the exception of blue cheese. You can´t overuse a blue cheese), but I am using Comic Sans for many years for my amateur translations of webcomicses like XKCD or Pictures for sad children into my native language, and the result is...well...acceptable. I never dreamed of using it elsewhere.
Is it really so widespread? In my cultural area (central Europe going to eastern Europe) I do not recall seeing a sign, let alone the whole document in this font.
...his tongue to push the cock back to ring? Otherwise, unless these razors were fixed to the wings of the bird, instead of talons, I have hard time imagining how did he came close enough for throat slitting experience.
I mean, if it was dog fighting ring, and that man was attacked and killed by his pitbull, OK, but rooster?
That being said, this is exactly the same type of entertaiment, enjoyed by the same type of people, who get exactly the same amount of sympathy from me.
I guess I am going to watch it - I´m neither social network user, nor sucker for human tragedies (or tragedies of any other type, that is), but this sounds like a damn good piece of filmmakery, and to watch work of people who are good at what they do is always interesting.
let me also say, until I see the steel evidence, I am not going to consider it "documentary", no, thank you.
By the way, "snapped Occam razor into several pieces" - I guess I know what you meant by that, however, isn´t it what we usually call "mixed metaphor"? That being said, it fits perfectly to the overall tone and subject of the article - good touch!
I would also add one more sentence "Parents, whose 10 year old kids were offended needs a stern talking to. And possibly someone from Social Services taking a look at them once in a while." Because these can´t be good parents and they clearly neglect their parental duty to educate their offspring.
...about "boob checker", or "bikini analyst" etc. being the dreamjob, I would be actually surprised, if he/she was even the first one who pulled something like this up.
Just why he/she considered necessary to pretend to be South African is beyond me. Is South Africa famous for incomparably better proficiency of local silicon-pumpers than those of Idaho?
...but Panzer IV was so popular partially by it´s easy field maintenance (the armor was, so to speak, assembled together from access hatches, so the crew could remove and replace anything right in the field without special equipment).
So, maybe it is possible to strip the hull down to really small portion of the full weight.
Still impressive feat though.
Exactly my thoughts.
Besides, neither Little chef nor Bolivians have trademark on "Charlie". "I love charlie" may easily refer to british 80th rock band. Or member of Vietcong, for that matter. Or that tunnafish mascot, sorry, I forgot the name of the brand. Or Winston Churchill´s favourite parrot.
Or... I doubt it is necessary to continue.
I am actually more distressed by fact that someone saw this t-shirt and thought "cocaine!".
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