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

RadiantPhoenix · Post by **RadiantPhoenix** » Fri May 01, 2015 11:23 am

Koumei wrote:My idea to charge such parents with terrorism hasn't been met with much support, sadly.

Let's lump them in with the farmers breeding antibiotic-resistant diseases in their livestock.

Fwib · Post by **Fwib** » Fri May 01, 2015 3:23 pm

Shrapnel wrote:Personally, I think that anyone who refuses to vaccinate their child really deserves whatever happens to them.

The trouble is that probably whatever happens will happen to the child, not the adult.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu May 07, 2015 3:53 am

So, apparently McDonalds is bringing back the Hamburglar.

...and he looks like this:

I mean... really, he kind of looks like the Ham-douchebag. Oh, and apparently he's a dad now-

He’s had some time to grow up a bit and has been busy raising a family in the suburbs and his look has evolved over time.

tussock · Post by **tussock** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:41 am

I'm sure his family are very happy in the basement, what with it being so well insulated.

25-to-life, and that's just for stealing food.

There is really nothing good about a grown man in gloves and a mask telling me to shush.

Where did he get that jacket? The 70's? Wait, no, 40 years, is it back in fashion?

Hamburger not representative of final purchased product.

It's the tie without a collar shirt that makes him look like a stripper, right? Or is he just familiar?

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Thu May 07, 2015 1:14 pm

They should license the new Hamburgler to DC. He'd make a great Batman villain.

vagrant · Post by **vagrant** » Thu May 07, 2015 2:23 pm

Awesome news:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu May 07, 2015 4:00 pm

what's so awesome about Knights Templar Police? O.o

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Thu May 07, 2015 6:02 pm

I saw the BBC version of that story and was deeply disappoint that it wasn't about the *actual* police being blatantly rogue.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu May 07, 2015 8:18 pm

hyzmarca wrote:They should license the new Hamburgler to DC. He'd make a great Batman villain.

I thought something along those line too.

Eikre · Post by **Eikre** » Thu May 07, 2015 10:02 pm

New Hamburgler is def. a post-Batman Begins character design, yeah.

angelfromanotherpin · Thu May 07, 2015 10:14 pm

Eikre wrote:New Hamburgler is def. a post-Batman Begins character design, yeah.

I don't know, i think he'd fit right in on the '66 show.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:28 pm

It's like a villain was caught without a get up right before Gotham Villain Orientation and found himself standing outside a Spirit Halloween store. He grabbed a novelty tie, a Prisoner costume and a face mask, and grabbed a pair of red gloves he saw sticking out of a woman's purse in line.

He's poor in Gotham, so he already had the trench coat. It's probably a Wayne hand me down he got from a shelter.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Fri May 08, 2015 12:08 am

The old Hamburglar creeped me the fuck out when I was kid. I had a dream once about him chasing me through my house with a baseball bat.

The new Hamburglar creeps me the fuck out in an entirely different way. I feel like he's about to molest the shit out of that hamburger while forcing me to watch.

That might just be me though. I often find the really exaggerated expressions actors make when they're acting for children to be mildly horrifying. It gives me this uncanny valley vibe, like I'm looking at something only pretending to be human. It's similar to those people you'll occasionally meet who smile really fucking cheerfully and really fucking stiffly, and leave you feeling like you're talking to a pod person or a cult member.

Dean · Post by **Dean** » Fri May 08, 2015 12:46 am

Omegonthesane wrote:I saw the BBC version of that story and was deeply disappoint that it wasn't about the *actual* police being blatantly rogue.

I know.
"Hey everyone, isn't this new group of illegitimate police terrifying!?"
"How many people have they killed"
"None!"
"New Police for life"

vagrant · Post by **vagrant** » Fri May 08, 2015 5:05 pm

Obviously, the protecting the state's monopoly of force is faaaaar more important than the state misusing that force against its citizens.

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed May 13, 2015 2:01 am

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/bus ... /27169703/

My wife has been taking online courses via these shysters in order to take the CPA exam and is allllmost done with classes (not counting the CPA prep classes). I'm hoping ITT can keep from imploding before we're done with them.

I suspect they totally deserve it though, as our experience is that they are 100% completely fucking shady fraudsters when it comes to their loan department. They kept telling my wife that she qualified for Pell Grant loan and that it was "free money that she wouldn't have to repay"- she in fact does not qualify and we went round and round with them for months trying to explain. They wouldn't take no for an answer so we just got the extra loan funds and are paying it back. I can totally imagine other people getting fucked with tens of thousands of dollars in extra loans that they instead spent on blowjobs not realizing it was going come back to bite them later.

[edit: oh, my wife tells me I am wrong and she is using Indiana Tech, not ITT. So look for Indiana Tech to also join the news of fucking for profit colleges that are scamming loans in the future]

RelentlessImp · Post by **RelentlessImp** » Tue May 19, 2015 12:34 pm

After only six and a half years since they released it, Google is FINALLY looking into the high RAM usage of Google Chrome

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu May 21, 2015 8:03 am

A new challenger enters the ring of "dicking with people through the mail"

Send a person an actually quite reasonably priced metal dick trophy through the mail anonymously.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri May 22, 2015 9:42 pm

http://www.siliconera.com/2015/02/20/so ... g-sim-now/

Occluded Sun · Post by **Occluded Sun** » Wed May 27, 2015 2:26 am

Tanith Lee is dead.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu May 28, 2015 7:46 pm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/won ... orruption/

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri May 29, 2015 11:30 pm

http://massivelyop.com/2015/05/29/shado ... ankruptcy/

vagrant · Post by **vagrant** » Sat May 30, 2015 2:12 am

You over-hype what turns out to be a shitty rip-off of a different game, and then are surprised when reviews and poor sales kill your product. I'd say I feel sorry for them, because it sounds like they care about the game...but I don't. Fuckers ruined something that could have been beautiful.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat May 30, 2015 6:22 pm

colour me not surprised . .
SRR was not as good as i had hoped, and SRO was worse . .

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sat May 30, 2015 6:37 pm

Czech Republic pushes the boundaries of taste for reality TV programming. Which considering all the child molestation and such in US reality television, is an achievement.

-Username17