Funny/Strange News Stories

[TenEightyOne]

...From the link provided (may not be the same for other clickers, though...):

Rats chase Nigerian President out of his office. BBC.

Mr. Buhari has health issues, goes overseas to get treatment, and when he returns from the trip, he finds his Presidential Office literally damaged by rats. Not political rats, no, but real, live rodents.

Rats in the Nigerian presidential office really does sound like the start of a good observational satire

 

[TenEightyOne]

Make partying great again, Trump in bag.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Firefighters save pigs from early roasting, grill them them later.

 

[JKgo]

Firefighters save pigs from early roasting, grill them them later.

...Ah, the great circle of life. Tasty.

 

[PeterJB]

Firefighters save pigs from early roasting, grill them them later.

Now I'm no PETA-tard but I don't think I can agree with rescuing baby animals from a fire and then putting them in another and eating them, even if they are delicious.

 

[Famine]

Now I'm no PETA-tard but I don't think I can agree with rescuing baby animals from a fire and then putting them in another and eating them, even if they are delicious.

They were being reared as meat and saved from a fire in February. It's now August and they're meat, so why not give some of the meat to the people who helped them become meat?

If they stopped my wheat field from being burned down, I'd send them some of the bread that it ended up making.

 

[PeterJB]

Ah, I was under the impression this all happened in the same week.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Israeli Prime Minister's dog poo becomes internet sensation. Fake poos.

 

[JKgo]

Israeli Prime Minister's dog poo becomes internet sensation. Fake poos.

...Another coincidental sighting from the link provided: Museum goers damage 800 year old coffin by placing a living child inside. BBC.

The crims high-tailed it outta there before they could be reprimanded. But their idiotic mugs are captured by the CCTV, so there's that.

 

[Carbonox]

China's status as a world superpower might one day be in jeopardy due to... reasons.

 

[Touring Mars]

China's status as a world superpower might one day be in jeopardy due to... reasons.

"Enlarged testicular veins"? Does that mean it is possible to tell if someone masturbates too much? Asking on behalf of a friend...

 

[Dennisch]

Australian politician claims that homosexuals stole the word gay!

 

[JKgo]

China's status as a world superpower might one day be in jeopardy due to... reasons.

....It's an American conspiracy, I tell you. All 'em Big Macs and fries, and all 'em pornographic materials - it's the Imperial West out to get us!!!!!!

Australian politician claims that homosexuals stole the word gay!

...Out of genuine curiosity, I wonder what the exact reasons were for the word gay to become deeply associated with same-sex relationships. Was it derogatory in its initial usage or it meant something far more positive? Anyone got a clue? I could Google, but uh, I'm in the middle of doing something at the moment....

 

[UKMikey]

...Out of genuine curiosity, I wonder what the exact reasons were for the word gay to become deeply associated with same-sex relationships. Was it derogatory in its initial usage or it meant something far more positive? Anyone got a clue? I could Google, but uh, I'm in the middle of doing something at the moment....

Wikipedia thinks it grew out of its use as a euphemism for different-sex "relationships" (for money) in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, a gay house being another term for a brothel etc.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=gay

 

[TenEightyOne]

Ford and Dominos (yuck) are to co-trial self-driving pizza delivery vehicles.

The aim isn't so much to test the self-driving but to find out whether customers will leave their house to collect a pizza from an empty car. BBC.

 

[daan]

Ford and Dominos (yuck) are to co-trial self-driving pizza delivery vehicles.

The aim isn't so much to test the self-driving but to find out whether customers will leave their house to collect a pizza from an empty car. BBC.

With some neighbourhoods, that'll be "order pizza, get a free car."

 

[TB]

The whole reason I order delivered pizza is for the convenience of not having to leave my house...

On the plus side, an un-manned vehicle can't smell my hasn't showered for 3 days stank.

 

[Touring Mars]

With some neighbourhoods, that'll be "order pizza, get a free car."

With the price of Dominos pizzas and the state of some delivery driver's cars, that sounds quite fair to me.

 

[UKMikey]

http://abc13.com/education/local-school-sends-boy-home-over-long-hair/2331122/

Surely the name of the school should've tipped the mum off?!

 

[daan]

http://abc13.com/education/local-school-sends-boy-home-over-long-hair/2331122/

Surely the name of the school should've tipped the mum off?!

I got this ident in front of the video and the announcer pronounced his name as "Tom Cook."

Sorry Tom, once a Koch, always a Koch.

 

[UKMikey]

I got this ident in front of the video and the announcer pronounced his name as "Tom Cook."

View attachment 670028

Sorry Tom, once a Koch, always a Koch.

There was a guy where I worked who pronounced his last name as "meeko" even though it was spelt Mycock.

 

[BobK]

There was a guy where I worked who pronounced his last name as "meeko" even though it was spelt Mycock.

Lol, can't say as I blame him.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Nuns on the run.

 

[daan]

There’s something very hard heading towards Uranus, scientists believe.

Scientists have long suspected it, but there is something very, very hard near Uranus – rains of solid diamonds to be precise.

Stanford researchers now believe that huge diamonds – possibly millions of carats – sink towards the core of Uranus.

My, isn’t Uranus full of surprises?



Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/28/there...nus-scientists-believe-6884235/#ixzz4rKfCdaWU

 

[UKMikey]

There’s something very hard heading towards Uranus, scientists believe.

Scientists have long suspected it, but there is something very, very hard near Uranus – rains of solid diamonds to be precise.

Stanford researchers now believe that huge diamonds – possibly millions of carats – sink towards the core of Uranus.

My, isn’t Uranus full of surprises?

You missed out the Uranus probe gag.

 

[daan]

You missed out the Uranus probe gag.

Brings back too many unpleasant memories.

 

[TenEightyOne]

here is something very, very hard near Uranus

Ah, so not Klingons after all.

 

[Danoff]

There’s something very hard heading towards Uranus, scientists believe.

Scientists have long suspected it, but there is something very, very hard near Uranus – rains of solid diamonds to be precise.

Stanford researchers now believe that huge diamonds – possibly millions of carats – sink towards the core of Uranus.

My, isn’t Uranus full of surprises?



Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/28/there...nus-scientists-believe-6884235/#ixzz4rKfCdaWU

Brown diamonds?

 

[Grayfox]

https://finance.nine.com.au/2017/09/01/15/35/house-owners-who-refused-to-pay-rates-have-house-sold

 

[Touring Mars]

Would-be terrorist went to the Windsor Castle pub instead of Windsor Castle after sat-nav mix-up.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/01/bucki...windsor-castle-but-got-address-wrong-6894823/

He was later arrested outside Buckingham Palace wielding a sword and shouting 'Allah Akbar!' Lucky his satnav is not voice-activated, as he might have ended up here.