Everyone should eat a PETA.

:greenface

The Worms Crawl In

I make a mean fish chowder every Christmas eve. A year or two ago as I was cutting up a huge (and expensive) slab of cod, I found half a dozen worms in it. Freaked me right out. So I got online and read a little about it and learned that it's not unusual at all for some fish like cod to have worms in it. As part of the processing of fish, they run the fillets over a light table so they can more easily see fish with worms in them and they use tweezers to poke into the fish and yank the worms out. Then they sell the fish. Sometimes they miss some worms. The government doesn't care if fish has parasites in it because the fish is normally cooked. After reading that, I decided I'll never eat sushi.

As for that expensive slab of cod, I had already thrown it away and made a last minute trip to another store to buy some more.

It was a dolphin

It was a dolphin that knocked out a Florida boater.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,435341,00.html

*All the news that fits*

Thats awesome - I've seen a lot of porpoises in the ocean under and around the boat, but never heard of one jumping INTO a boat.
Poor thing was probably scared shitless.

Spinning and shitting....

hitting the bear with a stick. (I would have mounted it on the wall!)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-col...r.html?ref=rss

The stick or the smashed skull?

The smashed skull could be easily expertly repaired and mounted. The bears head would be on the wall, fur and all, the skulls are not kept inside a wall mounted trophy.

It was a shark! I just know it!

http://www.wftv.com/news/17672556/detail.html

Don't make fun of my strawberry shortcake backpack or I'll put a cap in ya. (WTF did you expect?) How gay is this?

http://www.wftv.com/news/17687386/detail.html

Sheriff: Family cremated mom on BBQ, kept benefits

The AP article left out the best part:

:( That's terrible.

HLJ. I'm going to have to start calling you "sunshine". lol!

She was just honoring her mother's wishes to have pieces of her skull made in to jewelry, with photographs posted on the internet.

Oh that's better. Did her mom also wish to have blood drunk from her skull? And a posthumous wild orgy? Gotta do the do, ya know :)

I just hope they respected her wishes not to be served with mustard...

Human is usually best with soy sauce ....

Not that I've ever partaken ....

Copper thefts leave youth sports scrambling

That's just wrong. They should make a law that you can't steal stuff.

Okay I've lifted this from snopes, which I wouldn't usually do (enough people here read it). But the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud - hard. In the correct use of the word, it's so random.


Check out the link to the sound file at the bottom of the snopes page.
I can clearly hear, "Islam is light" now I've been told it's there. But perhaps it's, "Islam is lite" in fact a criticism of the religion. FWIW I can't hear anything about Satan at all.

Mobile phones suck
 

I would have totally done that....I will be advised. :) I'm not one to let my electronics die in toilets, even if the hope of salvation is minimal. I'm so glad that wasn't me, right now.

New bumper sticker - "Hang up the phone and shit."

He had a shitty day.

Did he own the LG Chocolate?

The bowl or his hand?

good question

Is it too late to vote for the hand?

Swingers never can get a break.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...39463.html?npc

Cut off the hand, 'cause the bowl ain't listenin'.

GPS underware tracking for your girl. Those crazy Brazilians. :D

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...ng-system.html

Now if they could just bring back the Mummy.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...n-cloning.html

http://www.davidmanners.com/images/MUMMY20big.jpeg

Looks like they found a 6th foot. (There had been a previous 6th one, but it was a hoax.)

Approximately 1.8 meters, total.

Maybe we can help these folks. I'm willing!

Britain Faces Sperm Shortage

LONDON - Britain is facing a sperm donor shortage after reversing confidentiality laws and limiting the number of women who can use sperm from one donor, fertility experts warned Wednesday.

Britain in 2005 changed the law protecting anonymous sperm donors and allowed children to learn the identity of donor fathers — one reason, fertility experts say, there are fewer donors now.

“The only countries that seem to have enough sperm are those that pay — like the U.S. and Spain — or the countries that retain anonymity,” said Allan Pacey, a member of the British Fertility Society that warned of the shortage in the British Medical Journal.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27683226...storyContinued

This via the BBC

Gosh...now I'm trying to think of what codename I'd pick for myself. lol

I think the Secret Service plays laser tag too much...

Maybe, and this is just a wild freakin guess.... Aliantha.

just thinkin out loud and all

That is funny!

See, McCain and Palin would have had to fight over Code Name "Maverick.":rolleyes:

I'm still trying to figure out what the weirdest part of this is.

My city's paper deals with the big, important, serious issues.

The Jack Russell terrier.

To lick off the pasta sauce, silly. :blush:

Tiny, long-lost primate rediscovered in Indonesia

Cute ugly little thing

Don't tarsier me, bro.

here is the pic

Looks like it could have come from Star Wars.

Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day

Damn those Aussies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMDFz...eature=related

These swings won't stop swinging, they called scientists in, and now it looks like they put a fence around them. lol!

Swings: Those swings are pretty weird. For one afternoon I could believe it was wind at just the right angle/frequency, but long term?

Toilets:
I'm interested in permaculture and have spent some time on (kind of) self-sufficient farms, and learned about toilets there.
Shit only really stinks if it breaks down anaerobically. Hence mixing shit and water/piss is bad. Piss in one place (err, the bushes, usually :) ) and shit in a special bin with a carbon rich sprinkle (sawdust, mulch, grass clippings) on top, and it breaks down wonderfully with only a mild smell. After a few months it can be composted or fed to worms, and the end product is ideal fertilizer.

Swings - The video keeps you from seeing the top bar very much - I think they may be motorized in some fashion.

There are several videos. The cops were actually called to stop the swinging. People couldn't take it anymore. Then they found that it's a safety risk? And erected the fence. Huge magnet? The scientists were called in....Now they have given up and called ghost hunters.

Another vid.

They erected a fence instead of just taking the swings down? Stupid waste of money there.

Wind. The sound on the second video posted here shows how windy it is there. And after all there is such a thing as a prevailing wind in some areas - you just need to look at trees in windy areas.

I agree that it's bizarre to fence them in rather than remove them, but perhaps it's a short-term measure that's quicker to arrange.

I remember when swing seats were wooden, and I know more than one kid that caught one full in the face by not being careful walking behind them. It was character building!

There were these two tall buildings near an old apartment I had. The buildings were oriented towards each other so that their corners were pointed to each other from different sides of the walkway between them. Like a funnel. On a perfectly calm day, there was always a breeze right between these two buildings. On a windy day, you had to literally lean into the wind to make it through the gap between these two buildings. It was really remarkable and a pretty cool effect.

I wonder if these swings are in the courtyard of an apartment complex with similar buildings.

There is at least one building being designed to use a similar effect to power an integrated wind turbine.

Last video and article about the swings:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...icle385529.ece