News & Not News Megathread

Walter

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If Arnold was in his prime, this would be the story of the decade.

I tend to think things don't make sense to us because we've yet to see the full picture. There's clearly some missing pieces to this puzzle right now.
 

Griffith

With the streak of a tear, Like morning dew
Like, ANOTHER WOMAN!? Women even? I was wondering about that given how the first prospective baby mama named was responding. Still, I don't want to believe this...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1388212/Mother-Arnold-Schwarzeneggers-lovechild-revealed.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Oh Arnold, this story just got uglier!
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Other very reliable sources:
In a further revelation website TMZ claimed that Schwarzenegger used his Santa Monica office for meetings with a series of women, around five to seven years ago.

The women would arrive in the early hours of the morning, carrying manilla envelopes. After meeting with Schwarzenegger for several hours they would then leave.
 

Griffith

With the streak of a tear, Like morning dew
Here's the missing data that explains everything, it's old news, but a pretty amazing piece on Arnold and his, uh... indiscretions. Which on this scale one might call his regular behavior. It's wonderfully titled, "Arnold the Barbarian."

http://www.brianflemming.org/archives/000300.html

It's got some annoying formatting issues, but persevere, it's worth it. I'll just tease it with this alleged real-life Arnold one-liner, said in situ, which is just the tip of the iceburg: "Eating isn't cheating."

Hasta la vista, baby.
 

Truder

"I frown at Griffith's nipples" -Aazealh
wait.. what?

i hear a lot of talk about the world ending May 21st. what is the deal? im totally lost :farnese:
 

Walter

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"Macho Man" Randy Savage is dead at 58. http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ycn-8508663
 

Rhombaad

Video Game Time Traveler
Walter said:
"Macho Man" Randy Savage is dead at 58. http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ycn-8508663

I just heard the news. It's a really sad situation. I feel awful for his wife.
 

Walter

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/china-prisoners-internet-gaming-scam

As a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines of north-east China. By night, he would slay demons, battle goblins and cast spells.

Liu says he was one of scores of prisoners forced to play online games to build up credits that prison guards would then trade for real money. The 54-year-old, a former prison guard who was jailed for three years in 2004 for "illegally petitioning" the central government about corruption in his hometown, reckons the operation was even more lucrative than the physical labour that prisoners were also forced to do.

"Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labour," Liu told the Guardian. "There were 300 prisoners forced to play games. We worked 12-hour shifts in the camp. I heard them say they could earn 5,000-6,000rmb [£470-570] a day. We didn't see any of the money. The computers were never turned off."
 

Aazealh

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Well, that certainly explains some things.

EDIT:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13500857 said:
Giant water bug photographed devouring baby turtle

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A giant water bug has been photographed eating a juvenile turtle in an unusual predatory role reversal. Large bugs in the Lethocerinae family have been known to prey upon small vertebrates including fish and frogs. But unlike insects that often fall prey to reptiles, scientists have observed one particular species of bug eating snakes and a turtle. Dr Shin-ya Ohba recorded the unusual behaviour during night sampling in western Hyogo, central Japan.

Writing in the journal Entomological Science, Dr Ohba describes observing a Kirkaldyia deyrolli eating a Reeve's pond turtle in a ditch next to a rice field. Using its front legs the giant water bug gripped the turtle, inserting its syringe-like rostrum into the prey's neck in order to feed. The giant water bugs are known to only attack moving prey, so it is likely that the 58mm insect captured and killed the young turtle before feeding on it.

Dr Ohba has also photographed giant water bugs eating snakes in the past. "Everyone thinks that Lethocerinae bugs live on fishes and frogs. Although eating a turtle and snake are rare in the natural condition, [this evidence] surprises naturalists [by showing] voracious feeding habits," said Dr Ohba. He suggests that these observations of bugs predating reptiles call into question previously held opinions about predator-prey dynamics in freshwater habitats.
 

Griffith

With the streak of a tear, Like morning dew
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110610/us_yblog_thelookout/bloodthirsty-pack-of-dogs-take-out-350-lb-llama

:beast:
 

Viral Harvest

Every Knee Bent Too Shall Break
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110617/us_nm/us_deer_power

"Deer dropped by eagle knocks out power in Montana"

Nature's children have been cruel as of late.
 

Rhombaad

Video Game Time Traveler
Griffith said:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110610/us_yblog_thelookout/bloodthirsty-pack-of-dogs-take-out-350-lb-llama

:beast:

As long as they don't make it into Northwestern Washington, I'm fine.
 

Truder

"I frown at Griffith's nipples" -Aazealh
Ryan Dunn from Jackass has died. :(

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/tv-news.en.ap.org/tv-news.en.ap.org-20110620-us_obit_ryan_dunn
 

Viral Harvest

Every Knee Bent Too Shall Break
Truder said:
Ryan Dunn from Jackass has died. :(

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/tv-news.en.ap.org/tv-news.en.ap.org-20110620-us_obit_ryan_dunn

I'm not sure if this has been confirmed or not, but I heard it was DWI-related. Plus he was going 110 before they crashed, turning the car into a heap of Mecha-Godzilla defecation. If the DWI bit is true, I really have no remorse for this clown.
 

Griffith

With the streak of a tear, Like morning dew
I'll believe he's dead when Oburi confirms it in six weeks. :troll:

(sorry, can't help myself :farnese:)


Anyway, I've been talking about this for years, right down to the bank robbery by note, and someone finally did it:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110621/ts_yblog_thelookout/man-robs-bank-to-get-medical-care-in-jail

The $1, and the lesser larceny charge that came with it, was a nice touch. People said I was crazy when I'd tell them this idea for "free" health care, well who looks crazy now!?

James-Verone.jpg
 

Griffith

With the streak of a tear, Like morning dew
Trick question: which episode of Seinfeld is that from? Anyway, I feel the same about this one:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FACEBOOK_STANDOFF

Awful guy uses facebook while holding woman hostage while awful family/friends message encouragement. You can see it all here on his wall:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000295855161&sk=wall

Simply astounding, these people are frighteningly stupid and unaware parodies of themselves. I'll never use the word "homie" again, even ironically.
 
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