[Non-political] News that makes you Laugh/Cry/Both...

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Mon May 09, 2011 5:21 pm

What the fuck, Nature? What the fuck?

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon May 09, 2011 5:36 pm

That's it, i'm staying indoors <.<

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Mon May 09, 2011 5:46 pm

Fortunately I wear glasses.

(And everyone tells me to wear contacts. Phooey!)

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon May 09, 2011 6:04 pm

I don't think even Australia has something like that.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon May 09, 2011 6:13 pm

Koumei wrote:I don't think even Australia has something like that.

I was about to ask...

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon May 09, 2011 6:26 pm

No, the Australian Version would make your eyes explode into your skull to kill you like about anything else down under . .

MGuy · Post by **MGuy** » Mon May 09, 2011 9:17 pm

Australia is a scary place.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon May 09, 2011 9:33 pm

Seriously . . you could drop some nukes there and NOBODY would be able to tell the difference!

Grek · Post by **Grek** » Mon May 09, 2011 11:50 pm

I like how the professor's advice is basically "If you see a bug like that, don't let it lay eggs in your eyes. Swat it or something."

Blasted · Post by **Blasted** » Mon May 09, 2011 11:52 pm

Seriously... Someone did:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nu ... _Maralinga
And you can't tell the difference from the land around it
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=-29.9629657&l ... 12&l=0&m=b

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue May 10, 2011 4:30 am

Apparently people have been ignoring that bug for ages, and now one person managed to get shot in the eyes, suddenly the news sources (or at least, the tabloids) are screaming "WATCH OUT, THIS NEW DEADLY THREAT WILL END US ALL!"

Interesting thing of note: nobody in Australia has died of spider bite since 1981*. Thank antivenin for that. Spiders do still kill people, by suddenly appearing in the car (dropping from behind the sun visor for instance), which scares/surprises the driver, who loses focus and crashes. Yes, they kill by using stealth and the element of surprise, attacking when you least expect it.

*It is possible that, since I heard that, this has changed - I recall hearing 3rd-hand news that a baby may have died this year from being bitten by the spiders that were everywhere in my old workplace.

violence in the media · Tue May 10, 2011 1:23 pm

"He went to church and everything."

A young girl was found caged and attempting to eat herself in a mobile home in Virginia and cops say her parents are responsible.

A young girl was found caged and attempting to eat herself....

caged and attempting to eat herself

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Tue May 10, 2011 1:52 pm

That shit.. that shit is why the Death Penalty is a necessary thing. There is no rehabilitating people who do that shit to a child. None. Just hang them until dead dead dead. (Or Decapitation, or what ever)

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue May 10, 2011 2:08 pm

Koumei wrote:Apparently people have been ignoring that bug for ages, and now one person managed to get shot in the eyes, suddenly the news sources (or at least, the tabloids) are screaming "WATCH OUT, THIS NEW DEADLY THREAT WILL END US ALL!"

In all fairness, Bot Flies have been an object of horror for some time. It's not just in Sweden, those things are everywhere.

sabs wrote:That shit.. that shit is why the Death Penalty is a necessary thing. There is no rehabilitating people who do that shit to a child. None. Just hang them until dead dead dead. (Or Decapitation, or what ever)

What are you talking about? It's just child neglect. They left a child locked in a crib for years at a time with inadequate nutrition. Apparently they did it with a previous child and it died. There are children who have malnutrition all the time. Almost sixteen thousand children die from hunger related causes every day. What are you doing about it?

Those two people had a culturally accepted duty to act to keep those children fed and they didn't. And that means that by the standards of our society they are insane. But honestly: get off your high horse about it. Children are starving all the time and it's super tragic. But them not feeding that child until it died is no more or less tragic than the ten other children who died of hunger related causes in that same minute.

You can't hang everyone who lets a child starve, because then you'd hang all of us.

-Username17

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Tue May 10, 2011 2:30 pm

You don't see a problem with intentional neglect? REALLY?
And what I'm doing about it is what I can.. I give some of my really pathetically small paycheck to World Hunger Charity.

Being able to feed a child and intentionally locking it up and starving it, and not being able to get food to children who need it are two different things. And I also vote for people who I think are going to support children food programs in schools, and humanitarian funding to 3rd world countries.

We make enough food in the world to feed everyone on a basic level. Just because our politicians are at best self-serving retards does not make what that couple did any less horrible.

PoliteNewb · Post by **PoliteNewb** » Tue May 10, 2011 5:11 pm

FrankTrollman wrote:
sabs wrote:That shit.. that shit is why the Death Penalty is a necessary thing. There is no rehabilitating people who do that shit to a child. None. Just hang them until dead dead dead. (Or Decapitation, or what ever)
What are you talking about? It's just child neglect. They left a child locked in a crib for years at a time with inadequate nutrition. Apparently they did it with a previous child and it died. There are children who have malnutrition all the time. Almost sixteen thousand children die from hunger related causes every day. What are you doing about it?

Those two people had a culturally accepted duty to act to keep those children fed and they didn't. And that means that by the standards of our society they are insane. But honestly: get off your high horse about it. Children are starving all the time and it's super tragic. But them not feeding that child until it died is no more or less tragic than the ten other children who died of hunger related causes in that same minute.

You can't hang everyone who lets a child starve, because then you'd hang all of us.

-Username17

WTF? So the fact that women are raped every day is now everybody's fault, and we shouldn't get all upset about rape because we're not doing anything/enough to stop rape in the Congo? Fuck you.

We are not to blame for children dying in Africa, at least not in the same way these particular dipshits are to blame for their child starving to death. Trying to equate the two is messed up, and simply results in a circle of finger pointing where everyone is equally to blame for all the horrible shit that exists in the world and which none of us are fixing right this second while we peck at our keyboards.

No, you can't hang people for letting children on another continent starve...but you can hang people for letting the one sitting right in front of them starve. Those two things are not the same, and we can (and should) treat them differently.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Tue May 10, 2011 6:28 pm

The Honor Killing of Jessica Mokdad, 20

The victim’s name was Jessica Mokdad. She was 20 years old. Her killer was her stepfather, Rahim A. Alfetlawi, 45 years old. According to the assistant principal, Jessica was a “standout student” at Coon Rapids High School in Minnesota. “She was a quiet student who was very confident in who she was and proud of being a Muslim.”

Why was she killed? Because, according to the police, her stepfather’s believed she was “not adhering to Muslim customs.” And, because her biological father was “letting her be a little more Americanized than what (the defendant) wanted.”

What’s different about this case is that Jessica fled to the safety of her biological father’s home in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Thus, her own father was supporting her as was her paternal grandmother, in whose home she was when Alfetlawi found her and shot her with a 9mm handgun.

Like Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan in Buffalo (who beheaded his wife), Atfetlawi calmly went to the police and admitted killing his stepdaughter. Like Faleh Almaleki in Arizona (who ran over his daughter down with a two ton jeep), Alfetlawi also hedged his bets and claimed that the gun went off “accidentally.”

Mokdad was planning to attend college.

Try to tell me Islam is the religion of peace. It doesn't matter. Jessica is still fucking dead. Her own father killed her. Any religion that promotes or commends the calm killing of a daughter by a father is sick, of the evil one, and needs to be purged ... WITH FIRE.

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Tue May 10, 2011 6:37 pm

You do understand that pretty much none of that is supported by the Qu'ran. It's some fucked up mix of bad interpretation and tribal custom. That's like blaming Christianity for the people who abuse their children because they want to purse unclean thoughts from their minds.

It's pants on head crazy, no matter the religion.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Tue May 10, 2011 6:45 pm

Yes but the "religion" supports it by its silence.

I don't see the same thing with child abuse.

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Tue May 10, 2011 6:46 pm

ORLY?
Because the Catholic Church goes on wild rampages about the Evil of Child Abuse?

Parthenon · Post by **Parthenon** » Tue May 10, 2011 8:24 pm

A cheerleader is kicked out for not supporting the person who raped her. This sickens me. Why the fuck is the school condoning rapists?

Now admittedly I can see how as a cheerleader and one of the public faces for her school she has to go along with the school's message, but the situation where she is expected to cheer for him is fucked up.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Tue May 10, 2011 8:30 pm

tzor wrote:Yes but the "religion" supports it by its silence.

I don't see the same thing with child abuse.

1) Depriving essential medical care.

2) Catholic Church.

3) I pretty much disagree with sabs though, the Hadith is very clear, the religion is very clear. Islam has some pretty shitty stuff in it.

So does every other religion, especially Christianity, but Islam has done a poor job at distancing itself from it's crazy.

It of course, doesn't need to be purged with fire, because purging with fire is not effective. Purging with knolwedge is, and that's why secularism and atheism are on the rise in the vast majority of non fire based countries.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Thu May 12, 2011 1:02 pm

Chuck is being renewed for a minimum of 13 episodes next season.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Thu May 12, 2011 4:42 pm

'SlutWalk' coming to Australia

SYDNEY (AFP) – Women protesting for the right to wear what they like and behave how they choose without facing sexual harassment are set to hold "SlutWalks" across Australia as the movement goes global.

SlutWalk began in Canada in April in response to a Toronto police official saying that "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised".

Since then, events have been organised across the United States, and now Australia.

"Being assaulted isn't about what you wear; it's not even about sex; but using a pejorative term to rationalise inexcusable behaviour creates an environment in which it's okay to blame the victim," the organisation said on its website.

Keep walking ladies. (And in stilettos ... that's dedication!)

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu May 12, 2011 6:16 pm

Parthenon wrote:A cheerleader is kicked out for not supporting the person who raped her. This sickens me. Why the fuck is the school condoning rapists?

Now admittedly I can see how as a cheerleader and one of the public faces for her school she has to go along with the school's message, but the situation where she is expected to cheer for him is fucked up.

Shoot them all, start with the rapist, continue with the school people, finish with the judges . .