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Internet Asifa At CitiField - THE ANTI-INTERNET RALLY!
Here’s the full 4 hour lecture that happened at CitiField (Where the Met’s play). Being anti-Internet is pretty hip these days. It’s cool to disconnect and make your own sausages in your kitchen. These Hassidims love not being on the net too.
Please enjoy the film. Lock the doors, we’ll be here for a while.
A BUS YOU CAN DRIVE THROUGH!
This is perfect for highly congested areas. A bus that you can drive your car under. It’s like a train meets a bus meets a tram. It’s the ultimate transformer. It’s called a 3D Express Coach, and I really think every big city in the world needs them.
China straddling bus [English computer voice over] the only English copy (by sadieblooming)
A bus that can travel near 40mph (60km) that allows for traffic to flow underneath it.
It is known as a 3D Express Coach.
MISS TEEN FIJI ISN’T NATIVE ENOUGH — STRIPPED OF CROWN
There’s a weird race relations battle going on in Fiji-
Torika Watters - who is of mixed European/ Fijian heritage - beat a bevy of full-blooded indigenous women to win the title last month in a competition overseen by New Zealand supermodel Rachel Hunter and other non-Fijian judges.
However, the reason given for Watters’ dethroning, announced yesterday in The Fiji Times, was not because of the ugly race row but her age.
Watters said Miss World Fiji pageant director Andhy Blake told her that the British-based Miss World organisation had informed him that contestants had to be at least 16 years and 11 months at the time of the pageant.
Hundreds of complaints had to be deleted and a pageant spokeswoman said on Facebook there had been “nothing but negative criticism and remarks from our own people” about the selection of Watters.
“While we appreciate a healthy discussion/feedback on our page, violent or racist comments will not be tolerated.”
On the page itself someone named ‘vinaka’ denies the organization stripped Watters of her crown —
Please be informed despite Media Reports - Miss Torika Watters was never stripped of her title. We wish her well in her future endeavors and offer an Apology to her, her beautiful family and friends for any distress this competition would have brought upon her! She will always be the very 1st Miss World Fiji!! Good luck and God Bless! - vinaka xx
Weird shit.
MUTTON BUSTIN’ aka COMPETITIVE SHEEP RIDING
There’s a sport out there I had no clue existed, it’s called Mutton Bustin’.
Children ride sheep to see how long they can stay on without falling off. Seems cool - I just hope everyone has as fun of a time doing it as I do watching it.
Watch it and see for yourself.
OHIO MAN ATTEMPTS TO FIST PUMP FOR 17 HOURS STRAIGHT
Some bro in Ohio, an Ohibro as they say, is planning on fist pumping for 17 hours straight to get himself in the almost irrelevant Guinness Book of World Records.
I really think anyone can get in that thing.
I found this picture of him on Twitter with some broads. Looks legit.
Peterson, 34, said his goal is to create his own world record of the longest continuous fist-pumping motion around your body. The record would be a new one for Guinness — the keeper of such feats.
This isn’t the first time he’s done this — and he’s also quite the natural at it.
He describes himself as a seasoned veteran of fist pumping.
“I used to hang light fixtures, so I am used to having my hands above my head,” he said.
He prefers the so-called Jersey-style where you use your elbow to roll your fist — opposed to a “fist thrust” where you just thrust your fist into the air.
This is not his first attempt at setting a new standard for Jersey-style fist thrusting.
“I did this on St. Patrick’s Day but it was not documented.”
He’s very lucky it became a mainstream thing now that he can show it off and use all the experience he’s built up. It’s pretty incredible that he was doing it just for fun too on St. Patty’s Day.
This dude is a party animal.
MENSA UPDATE: “I HAVE TO GO POOP” SAYS 3 YEAR OLD MEMBER
I reported last week about the 2 year-old dressed as a 3 year-old named Emme Roettger — the youngest ever member of MENSA. Well, little Emme was on the Today Show and was showing off her knowledge of planets and a love for insects.
The best part was when Emme tells us loudly through her microphone that she has to poop. She apparently had a few too many donuts in the green room causing her tummy to hurt. That induced a probably uncomfortable interview for Emme. Naturally, she had to poop after all of this pressure put on her, not to mention the donuts, which will make anyonepoop.
I wonder how many other MENSA members claim they have to poop out loud like Emme?
(Source: MSN)
BUMPER NUTS, BUT WHY?
In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, people are getting ticketed for having bumper nuts on their trucks. While I don’t think they should be arrested for them or having to go to court over it, but I really don’t get why people have them anyway.
For the second time in a year, a motorist has been ticketed in South Carolina for displaying a replica of testicles on a vehicle.
A Spartanburg County sheriff’s deputy stopped a truck Sunday evening after noticing the “anatomically correct” display on the rear bumper. The incident report says the driver removed the display after being stopped but he was arrested for driving without a license. He was also given a warning ticket for having an obscene display.
It’s funny … I think.
STEPHEN FRY - ALL ABOUT I (What I wish I knew when I was 18)
Stephen Fry knows more about things than any of us. We should listen because when he tells stories, they’re really good.
In this video, he talks about things he wish he knew when he was younger. He notices cool things about life that make you think about things a bit differently.
Check it.
(Source: youtu.be)
UNICYCLIST ARRESTED FOR BEING NAKED
I once made a complete fool of myself by going on a hyperbolic rant about how unicycles are kinda stupid. The guy who I thought would laugh was actually a hardcore unicyclist. Maybe it was one of those things where you’ve seen the person riding a unicylce, then make the connection — try to be funny, then fail.
Anyway, I just don’t get it.
HOWEVER, if you ride your unicycle naked — that’s pretty cool. I have complete and total respect for that. It’s ballsy (‘scuse me), healthy and it’s how Adam or Eve would have ridden a unicycle if they were real.
“He said that he liked the way that it felt. Really don’t know what he meant by that, but that’s what he said,” said Kemah Police Chief Greg Rikard. “The officer kept his distance as best he could. Obviously he wasn’t armed, that we could tell. We did what we could do. Turned him around and moved him off to the side of the vehicle to get him out of the view of the public.
God forbid the public sees his pubic. I salute this American hero for his nude heroism. All other unicyclists should take a page out of this man’s book.
C60 is an allotrope of carbon that looks like a tiny geodesic dome - like graphite, it’s structured in carbon hexagons, but these connect on two planes, curling into icosahedrons, and other 100% excellent forms:
Discovered in 1985 and named after Buckminster Fuller, the Fullerene form of these hybridized molecules appeared within soot formed by lasers cutting graphite. (Ablation adulation!) Since then we realized that they`re also formed in natural high-energy events (lightning shocks, meteors…)
So basically, they`re molecular structures created by such massive energy that it whirls them into fully formed complex structures. (Someone somewhere is writing a philosophy thesis on the Architecture of Chaos.)
I started reading about them today because they’re being explored for their “biomedical application as cytoprotective (antioxidant), cytotoxic (anticancer), or drug delivery agents” which is to say that these little carbon cages may soon be used as vectors to transport drugs to us.
I want to have like, a billion inside me at all times.
Maybe chained together along my ear like those alt-girl earrings.
