Abaddon's Weird News of the World!

[Cutlass]

I'll toss them in with bears rather than deer. Not likely to move to get out of your way, but not really all that sneaky. Just don't try to pet it?

You'd be surprised where a moose might just step out at you.

What moose and bear have in common is that they are not really afraid of you. And so don't act like other animals.

 

[peter grimes]

North American wildlife just seems so neat and clean compared to Australia. Very little of this random large animals wandering around who may or may not decide to be belligerent. Bear? Stay the hell away from it. Cougar? It probably won't come near but if it does it's trying to eat you. Same thing with wolves. I guess deer occasionally wind up hostile, but that's terribly unlikely. I suppose we have Canadian Geese, those rats of the sky are everywhere around here(I think we need to issue more permits) and those are usually pretty belligerent. At least they're way less dangerous than a kangaroo.

Not everything in Australia will try to kill you:

Spoiler :

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

It's too cold right now but for six to eight months of the year there would be a huntsman with maybe a five inch span in literally every room of the house. They just chill out up in the corners of the wall and roof minding their own business, eating the more annoying insects.

Bit if one does venture to close, whack, it's all over.

 

[Farm Boy]

Not everything in Australia will try to kill you:

Spoiler :

See, that's what I'm talking about. The animals erratically are awesome and dangerous. Fine fine fine fine notfine. Sometimesfine/sometimesnotfine.

Ok, I've been thinking about it and I concede. We have a ton of the most erratic animal possible, the domesticated dog. I don't know that I can actually say that I hate dogs, but I'd probably be happier if everyone got rid of the damned things.

 

[peter grimes]

and a hush fell across the thread...

 

[Farm Boy]

Well, Hello Kitty is now invading space, so maybe that's equally insidious.

 

[Ajidica]

Not everything in Australia will try to kill you:

Spoiler :

All this does is convince me never to go to Australia and the entire continent should be put under perpetual quarantine.

 

[Cutlass]

Moose have a good side?

If you aren't too close, they'll usually ignore you.

 

[Farm Boy]

I forget, do they even taste good?

 

[Cutlass]

People eat them. So I suppose some people think so. I don't know that anyone ever domesticated them to raise for meat. They're a bit ornery for that. But people hunt them. They aren't really numerous these days, so there isn't that big of a market. But since each adult is about the size of a horse, there's a lot of meat there in each one.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Preserve the moose!


Link to video.

 

[Lord Baal]

Source.

Man says he fathered child with alien

A 53-year-old councillor in North Yorkshire claims he has fathered a child with an alien.

"The married father of three, who represents Stakesby, said his wife had rowed with him after revealing he had a child called Zarka with an alien he refers to as the Cat Queen," Britain's The Daily Mail has reported.

Simon Parkes, who is also a driving instructor, said he had sexual relations with the alien about four times a year, according to The Mail.

"What will happen is that we will hold hands and I will say, 'I'm ready', and then the technology I don't understand will take us up to a craft orbiting the earth," Mr Parkes said.

"My wife found out about it and was very unhappy, clearly.

"That caused a few problems, but it is not on a human level, so I don't see it as wrong."

Mr Parkes - who told documentary Confessions Of An Alien Abductee that he was lifted out of his cot by an alien when he was a baby - said many people in his position were too terrified to admit their similar experiences because they feared it would destroy their careers.

"[Mr] Parkes, who also claims his 'real mother' is a 9ft green alien with eight fingers, said people only claim he is mad because they have not shared his experiences and that the encounters don't affect his work on behalf of Whitby residents," The Mail said.

This man is an elected official. People chose him for a position of power. I cannot stress that enough.

 

[Agent327]

President Putin looking for homosexual propaganda?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ves-to-bottom-of-the-sea-in-latest-stunt.html

 

[madviking]

“You cannot cure [ghetto booty].”

 

[bhsup]

This is a twofer. Possibly related?!

THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN...AGAIN?!

July 26 - 'Pink Panther' jewel thief escapes Swiss prison

A Bosnian member of the notorious "Pink Panther" gang of jewel thieves has broken out of prison in Switzerland in a daring escape, Swiss police say.

Milan Poparic, 34, who was serving a six-year sentence for a 2009 jewelry store heist in Neuchatel, Switzerland, is the third gang member to escape from a Swiss prison since May.

July 28 - Jewel heist at French Riviera hotel: $53 million in gems stolen

PARIS — A staggering $53 million of diamonds and other jewels were stolen Sunday from the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes, in one of Europe's biggest jewelry heists in recent years, police said.


The hotel in the French Riviera this summer has been hosting an exhibit of jewels from the prestigious Leviev diamond house, which is owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev.

 

[Borachio]

Ach! Jewellers, and people who own diamonds, deserve all they get.

De Beers, I understand, artificially control the supply of what, if they allowed the supply to increase as much as they easily could, is essentially a rather worthless product. Certainly no more valuable than tulips, for example. Although, arguably, of more worth as bearings for use in analogue watches, and glass cutters.

Still, I don't mean to be unsympathetic* to jewellers and the like. Who I'm sure are just trying to earn an honest living like everyone else.

Nor do I condone theft.

*well not unreasonably so, at any rate.

 

[bhsup]

hey now, watch yourself! Your beloved sovereign owns the biggest diamond around, you know! (on earth, known to exist)

 

[Borachio]

My "belovèd" sovereign? I don't wish the poor woman ill. But there's a fair number of people (like 59 million maybe) who I'd consider more deserving of the epithet "belovèd".

 

[bhsup]

Just giving you a friendly little jab

 

[Borachio]

Yeah, I know. It's fine.