Funny/Strange News Stories

[prisonermonkeys]

Of course - the Italian hotelier. "Whaddya mean you wanna sheet on da bed?".

Read it in an Australian accent and the joke works equally well for a Queenslander.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

"Budgie smugglers" officially added to the Oxford Dictionary:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-...ly-added-to-oxford-english-dictionary/7580368

Warning - it's not pretty.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Pokémon Go player discovers dead body while playing the game.

 

[Ken]

Pokémon Go player discovers dead body while playing the game.

Wyoming! What a interesting place to discover.

 

[JKgo]

Pokémon Go player discovers dead body while playing the game.

...Forgive me, but I don't quite see the humor in this particular bit of news about a drowned person. Maybe it's just me. Maybe not....

 

[Obelisk]

...Forgive me, but I don't quite see the humor in this particular bit of news about a drowned person. Maybe it's just me. Maybe not....

Imagine this:

You're walking along, playing Pokémon GO, and see a nice Pokémon you want. And then...Under the Pokemon.

What is that?

Wait, oh 🤬!

 

[LeMansAid]

...Forgive me, but I don't quite see the humor in this particular bit of news about a drowned person. Maybe it's just me. Maybe not....

Prude!!

Disappointing though that Pokemon Go wasn't around to make Alan Kurdi's death hilarious. We had to be all sad and stuff.

 

[Famine]

Perhaps this Pokemon Go story will be slightly more amusing - though only in the same way as the Joker's 'magic trick' flourish in The Dark Knight...

http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/12/koffing-the-poison-gas-pokemon-found-at-holocaust-museum-6002503/

(the specific bit might be a hoax, but the fact that the museum had to put a sign up to tell people it wasn't appropriate to play the game there is genuine)

 

[JKgo]

Prude!!

...Me, prude?!

Why, never in million years.


Been called lots of other things but that one's new.

 

[LeMansAid]

...Me, prude?!

I was using sarcasm to imply that I agreed with your take on the presenting of the "funny" story. That it was in very poor taste. Sometimes a story will come up or a joke will be told that despite it's sensitive nature is funny as hell, and we might concurrently laugh, and feel bad for laughing. This one just wasn't anywhere near funny enough to push into that territory.

 

[Grayfox]

Perhaps this Pokemon Go story will be slightly more amusing - though only in the same way as the Joker's 'magic trick' flourish in The Dark Knight...

http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/12/koffing-the-poison-gas-pokemon-found-at-holocaust-museum-6002503/

(the specific bit might be a hoax, but the fact that the museum had to put a sign up to tell people it wasn't appropriate to play the game there is genuine)

The clefairy inside the church is funny too
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...gbtq-claims-clefairy-loveislove-a7131706.html

 

[TenEightyOne]

#CoiffeurGate is taking hold; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-36784083

 

[justin credible]

Best one I have heard in years Boris Johnson is going to be in charge of MI6

 

[JKgo]

#CoiffeurGate is taking hold; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-36784083

...Reminds me of a story I heard 'bout one Mr. Sam L. Jackson "politely" requesting for a pair of hair stylists whenever he's hired to lend his talents on a film production.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

The travel advice offered by foreign governments to people travelling to Australia (most of which is wrong, especially the stuff on wildlife and infectious diseases):

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-...arnings-issued-by-foreign-governments/7622150

To hear some of these governments (*cough*Russia!*cough*) tell it, Australia is like the option dungeon at the end of a video game where everything can kill you just by looking at you.

 

[Northstar]

Australia is like the option dungeon at the end of a video game where everything can kill you just by looking at you.

You mean it's not?

 

[Blitz24]

You mean it's not?

Based on the way the media portrays it, I'd assume they could have done 3 separate seasons of "101 Ways to Die Down Under." 303 ways!

 

[Grayfox]

The travel advice offered by foreign governments to people travelling to Australia (most of which is wrong, especially the stuff on wildlife and infectious diseases):

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-...arnings-issued-by-foreign-governments/7622150

To hear some of these governments (*cough*Russia!*cough*) tell it, Australia is like the option dungeon at the end of a video game where everything can kill you just by looking at you.

Australia's wildlife has its ways of dealing with tourists, that think critters like kangaroos are cute and cuddly.

Is rodger cuddly?

 

[Blitz24]

Australia's wildlife has its ways of dealing with tourists, that think critters like kangaroos are cute and cuddly.

Is rodger cuddly?

Way #156: Death by kangaroo.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Chris Froome wins stage twelve of the Tour de Farce.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Woman fills out a crossword ... which turns out to be an artwork.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

The internet responds to the Trump-Pence campaign logo:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-...ing-mate-phallic-logo-wiped-from-site/7635758

 

[TenEightyOne]

The internet responds to the Trump-Pence campaign logo:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-...ing-mate-phallic-logo-wiped-from-site/7635758

Those comic observers must have very odd phalli.

 

[Danoff]

U.S. Seeks $1 Billion in 1MDB-Tied Assets, 'Wolf of Wall Street' Royalties

It looks like the movie is kinda buried in the investigation, but it's a funny headline.

 

[Fat Tyre]

Angry brother sprays 53 bullets into Xbox.

http://nr.news-republic.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=16&articleid=69243373&source=drive

Not very funny, meh at most. I must admit though I'd have loved doing this to my own Xbone on more than one occasion but due to it being so under powered and slow.

 

[JKgo]

....

Australian school bans clapping in assemblies, BBC.

Wow.

Spoiler: My response:

 

[AudiMan2011]

Probably the best note left to kids ever.

Spoiler: NSFW Language

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/i-love-u-both-very-8469399#Ey0th6fXZYd0P2PL.97

 

[Touring Mars]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/24/michigan-bottle-deposit-recycling-seinfeld

A man is facing prison for trying to deposit 10000 drinks bottles in Michigan.... also his name happens to be B.Everidge.

 

[TenEightyOne]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/24/michigan-bottle-deposit-recycling-seinfeld

A man is facing prison for trying to deposit 10000 drinks bottles in Michigan.... also his name happens to be B.Everidge.

That's genius! He hasn't done anything illegal yet though, if they're so worried that he's going to mis-return them they should confiscate them for him to collect at the state border.

 

[tarnheld]

A cow is on the run from the butcher for three weeks now (FAZ in german). German police even used a helicopter, the cow was sighted here and there but managed to escape every time with the cops close on her heels. I have a feeling this will not end well for her.