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I was perusing the MSN homepage for news stories and an article about the military organization I served in shows up. It originally comes from Business Insider. It looks like it could be a recruiting vehicle; but, doesn't say it's sponsored or a paid advertisement. The military has been complaining about being stretched too thin and I'm wondering if this article was somehow finagled.

Many articles about my old organization have been written before; but, the timing is awkward and writing suspicious on this one. It certainly struck me as weird to find it in with the news articles. See what you think:

Why Green Berets are the smartest, most lethal fighters in the world

It's certainly a complimentary fluff piece, possibly the Army wanted it because all the press the SEALs have been getting the last couple years.
But I doubt they had to pay him just ask a favor, with all his military connections through Duffel Blog and wtf,over.
On the other hand he may be a crook, you know, living in San Clemente and all. ;)

:jail:

Remember the video of the Hummvees freefalling out of the sky?

Soldier charged in Humvees’ free-fall

At least these assholes are keeping it in one thread.

Remember when you agreed to take the mod job you said you wouldn't be able to be on that much, mostly on weekends? :lol2:
Of course technology marches on, then comes the growing creep of time consumed, and the feeling of obligation to check just to make sure.

You're doing a good job, thank you. :notworthy

Quoted for truth.:notworthy

Hey. No big deal. It's not much work. I'm just offended that they would sully the cellar.

Your Oddly Entertaining Weird News Item Of The Day
 

So...

The gay, female-identifying, 24-year old male stripper accuses his 67-year old partner (yep, sexual relationship) of being a cannibal. 67-year old Honey-Bunch pulls a gun, it goes off. Of course it hits no one. The stripper then stabs Honey-Bunch in both eyes with a pen. Not satisfied that Honey-Bunch knows he's crossed a line, Boy Toy then grabs a piece of wood, jams it down Honey-Bunch's throat, and then, just to drive his point home...stomps the piece of wood even further down the man's throat.

Boy Toy then grabbed a backpack, stole some money and escaped out a window. Naked.

The bright side to all this?

It's the first time in six years Honey-Bunch got wood without taking a little blue pill.

:drummer:

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I think that could be a David Lynch movie.

How do you thank the firefighters who saved eighteen of your piglets, and two sows, from the blaze?

Sausages. Made from the pigs you saved.

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Excellent comment from that article:

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Hummer with casket on roof leads police on high speed chase

Did you read about the asteroid from another solar system that somehow magically just flew through our system close enough to the sun to slingshot it away and off to other destinations at an even higher speed? First time that has been observed. Best story this week.

I saw that a few days ago. Maybe it was asteroid B612 (a.k.a. asteroid 325).

It was from outside our solar system. Never seen before, never be seen again.

This one is trying to convince us that being in the country illegally is a gateway crime.

Weird News? I got yer weird fucking news right here.
 

What in the double-dippin' fuck?:eyebrow:

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Wait. Patricia married her biological son in 2008 and then married her adopted daughter in 2015?

I have less of a problem with the adopted daughter. What with the Woody Allen precedent. But both are still messed up. Seriously. Something is broken in this mother's head.

The mom was 42 --> half her age plus seven equals 28... Nope, not okay.





Also the incest thing.

Mother probably would have married both her children at the same time for a ménage à trois; but, you know, bigamy is illegal.

She could have moved to Utah. ;)

:eek:

Lightning Sparks Mid-Air Nuclear Reaction in Never-Before-Seen Phenomenon

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Having spent ninety Great British minutes on a phone call to a financial institution this afternoon, and in need of a short respite from such things, I thought I'd have a look around a news website or two.
One story which caught my eye was an incident where West Midlands Fire Service had to release an 'internet prankster' who had cemented his head in a microwave oven. Yes, we've all done it, haven't we?

WMFS were understandably not amused by this demand on their time...

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Man 'cements microwave to head' in Wolverhampton

On YouTube the video requires you to sign in but it's available here at Huffington Press

FWIW the 'cement' involved wasn't of the bricklaying type, it was Polyfilla, a plaster based material used to close up cracks in internal walls and ceilings.

The well of human stupidity will never run dry.

The well is deep and quickly replenished.

He is sooo stupid, and sooo lucky he didn't die. :facepalm:

YouTube isn't doing the world any favors by hosting that video and rewarding the guy.

But they help kill off the really stupid ones and reward the buddy with the half a beer he's holding.

Moronic News Edition
 

Frank Miles, and everyone between his keyboard and the rest of the world, is a fucking moron.

Self-propelled vessel intercepted smuggling more than 3,800 pounds of cocaine near Texas

Fuck the coke. This vessel is self-propelled. It moves under its own power.

Man, if the rest of the world could just get their hands on this "self-propelling" technology.

And, just in case you think the geniuses at Fox News simply mis-spoke, and actually meant 'autonomous', or 'self-steering', the [on-board] crew of three was arrested.

Morons.

I blame the headline writer. Frank Miles just repeated the quote he was given; he's only guilty of an extremely lazy article (paraphrase upcoming quote, print quote, add random facts about the quotee's organization, publish). The headline writer for some reason glommed on the adjective "self-propelled", rather than the much more interesting "semi-submersible".

Though I would be interested in seeing a non-self-propelled semi-submersible, though.

I think they had at least one human-powered one in the Civil War, doomed by incomplete information about how water transmits the shockwave from an underwater explosive.

Though I would be interested in seeing

In the past I saw articles about submersibles being towed behind what appeared to be sport fishers or pleasure craft. In case of detection they would just cut it loose. When the feds caught on, the push for "self-propelled" was on. Semi-submersibles are much easier to build than subs.
Way back I read than some South Americans bought a couple of surplus Soviet subs, but haven't heard any more about it.

Of course you haven't heard any more. Silent service!! :D :D (Neither the ship nor the submariners should give off any noise. I kind of hope the tradition follows to the smugglers.)

Of course. :notworthy

This is a self-propelled gun.

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It isn't a tank. Definitely not a tank.
What's the difference? Well, in the case of an MoD contract about £2.5 million each.

That makes sense. It's the type of info that would have made the article much better if included.

The self-propelled gun probably only has armor for small arms fire.

I always thought that a tank had a fully rotatable turret on it and a SPG only could traverse a few degrees?

From Quora:

FWIW

Thanks for that, sir!

Now I know. :thumb:

I make no guarantees as to the truthiness of those definitions.

Jeepers! The sheriff's department that stole Christmas.

This gets even better ...

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Poor sods. Not doin anybody any harm.

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people say that, at this time, if you are heading eastbound on I-70 in Kansas or I-80 in Nebraska, and have out-of-state plates, the chances are outstanding that you will be pulled over for some minor unconfirmable infraction to see if you are hauling weed out of Colorado.

ordinary law-abidin' people say they were pulled over three times before they could get through Kansas

My parents, both in their 80's can confirm UT's post. They drive out every year to ski and have been pulled over multiple times
while driving back.

I-40 is a drug superhighway. I-10 is losing due to heavy enforcement. ANY E-W highway is a target nowadays.

I used to think all these political things were just a little weird with a mild interesting streak thrown in--at least it's not a viagra ad, right? Except now I see all of them as Russian tools to destabilize other countries' governments, and they make me nauseous.

Museum offers gold toilet to Trump instead of Van Gogh's work

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They should have offered something by Salvador Dali. Now that really is crap.
Sorry about the above indelicacy, but sometimes these things just have to be said.

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If not Dali, the largest fraud ever foisted on the art world, Jackson Pollock. :rolleyes:

You know I'm going to get on my Pollock soapbox.

His work near-perfectly reproduces what scientists have determined is the most pleasing visual distribution of an image--something found in nature, for example, as a dense forest canopy. This wasn't by accident. Computer analysis of the visual distribution of his work shows a clear, unmistakable trend--he was fairly close, in his earlier works, to the perfect distribution; he steadily, empirically, improved over time; and once he was able to produce his most "pleasing to the human eye" images, he never wavered and never fell back down in effectiveness--there were no statistical outliers in this trend, it was methodically consistent. This was a purpose-driven result. He knew exactly what he wanted to do and he achieved it through persistent effort.

Computer analysis of a Pollock work can accurately date at which period of his career he produced it, and determine with complete confidence if it is a forgery of a Pollock work--others are not able to produce the images he does, even when "copying" his work.

Taste is subjective, but appreciation of a craftsman's facility and technique isn't an evaluation of taste. I don't think "fraud" is the correct word to describe someone who is literally, scientifically verified to have achieved a very specific, measurable result.

I like Pollock's art. Draws you in. There's something primal about it, but also kind of delicate and organic.

What does that have to do with a gold shit house? Maybe we should ask the Donald?

If you need a computer to tell you whether a painting is good or not, it's not art it's science.
The "experts" running around fawning about how great it is to drive up the prices(commissions) are fraudsters.

Haggis!
 

Not so much weird as eminently sensible. :)

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An enterprising catapult salesman could make a packet at that event.

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More comfortable than eating and then hurling. :vomit:

Haggis is better tossed than eaten.

Haggis is best eaten. With tatties and neeps.


Ftw. Food of the fucking gods, man.



You can actually get some pretty decent vegetarian haggis these days too. Me, though, I prefer the real deal.




[eta] mind you, y'all are probably against black pudding too.