Weird News III - Beyond the Bizarre

[The_J]

Just for fun ?

Actually not the article which I wanted to post, since it's 3 years old, but it's again in the news, because apparently it fell down, and got... er... erected again.

I need to ...err... rectify this.
The current wooden penis, which has fallen down and got re-errected, is a different wooden penis. Apparently they must have a hobby down there...
The one mentioned in the news article apparently got replaced by a bear in the meantime.

 

[Kyriakos]

That statue looks really terrible...
On the other hand, it certainly is in a set with that hideous Willendorf female orc-thing.

 

[Samson]

That statue looks really terrible...
On the other hand, it certainly is in a set with that hideous Willendorf female orc-thing.

Are you complaining that 30 thousand year old art does not meet your standards of artistic beauty?

 

[Kyriakos]

Are you complaining that 30 thousand year old art does not meet your standards of artistic beauty?

That monstrosity would still look bad even if it was 30 million years old.

 

[GinandTonic]

History and any contact with children shows us humanity's innate desire to draw and carve willies and boobs. It's just a thing.

 

[Berzerker]

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a34703841/human-brain-universe-similarities/

the brain is just a scaled down version of the universe

maybe

 

[Kyriakos]

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a34703841/human-brain-universe-similarities/

the brain is just a scaled down version of the universe

maybe

That would give a new meaning to the religious belief that when you die you become one with god.
Cause that "god" would then also be dead, and you were stuff in his brain

 

[Arakhor]

Are you complaining that 30 thousand year old art does not meet your standards of artistic beauty?

Having actually visited the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna specifically to see the Venus of Willendorf, I can tell you that that image is rather larger than life-size.

 

[Kyriakos]

Apparently 16 people were killed in Uganda during a rally against the presidential candidate who is a former pop star.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Not the most sophisticated con of the century.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...olice-written-on-it/ar-BB1begKp?ocid=msedgdhp

 

[Kyriakos]

Not the most sophisticated con of the century.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...olice-written-on-it/ar-BB1begKp?ocid=msedgdhp

Maybe he was thinking that he could argue it wasn't a serious statement? (and at least avoid the false personification charge).
Or he was just another drunk brit

 

[The_J]

http://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/

Booting from a vinyl record
Most PCs tend to boot from a primary media storage, be it a hard disk drive, or a solid-state drive, perhaps from a network, or – if all else fails – the USB stick or the boot DVD comes to the rescue… Fun, eh? Boring! Why don’t we try to boot from a record player for a change?

So this nutty little experiment connects a PC, or an IBM PC to be exact, directly onto a record player through an amplifier. There is a small ROM boot loader that operates the built-in “cassette interface” of the PC (that was hardly ever used), invoked by the BIOS if all the other boot options fail, i.e. floppy disk and the hard drive. The turntable spins an analog recording of a small bootable read-only RAM drive, which is 64K in size. This contains a FreeDOS kernel, modified by me to cram it into the memory constraint, a micro variant of COMMAND.COM and a patched version of INTERLNK, that allows file transfer through a printer cable, modified to be runnable on FreeDOS. The bootloader reads the disk image from the audio recording through the cassette modem, loads it to memory and boots the system on it. Simple huh?
[...]

 

[The_J]

https://www.euronews.com/2020/11/23...aving-home-during-lockdown-to-beat-someone-up

Frenchman fined for leaving home during lockdown to 'beat someone up'

[...]
"He said he was waiting for someone to beat them up," Divisional Commander Daniel Kerdraon told AFP, adding that the man was equipped with a flick knife.

"He had his handwritten certificate with his real name and the time he left home at 22:15, but he was told that his reason for going out was not valid."

"In his own way, he was trying to fulfill the letter of the law," he added.

 

[Kyriakos]

Some people are just lame ^_^

 

[AmazonQueen]

https://www.euronews.com/2020/11/23...aving-home-during-lockdown-to-beat-someone-up

At least he'd filled his form in like a good citizen.

 

[Samson]

I for one welcome our new unknown overlords

Officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety's Aero Bureau were flying by helicopter last Wednesday, helping the Division of Wildlife Resources count bighorn sheep in southeastern Utah, when they spotted something that seemed right out of "2001: A Space Odyssey."
"One of the biologists ... spotted it, and we just happened to fly directly over the top of it," pilot Bret Hutchings told CNN affiliate KSL. "He was like, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around!' And I was like, 'What.' And he's like, 'There's this thing back there -- we've got to go look at it!'"
And there it was -- in the middle of the red rock was a shiny, silver metal monolith sticking out of the ground. Hutchings guessed it was "between 10 and 12 feet high." It didn't look like it was randomly dropped to the ground, he told KSL, but rather it looked like it had been planted.​

 

[Kyriakos]

Technically it's not a monolith, though. Cause it isn't a stone

 

[Kyriakos]

Pyramidos is a japanese band which covers folksy greek songs

...

 

[The_J]

Language:

Spoiler :

https://www.euronews.com/2020/11/26...names-itself-fugging-after-unwanted-attention

Austrian village of F**king renames itself Fugging after unwanted attention

F**king, a small village in Austria, is to cheer the new year with a name change and become Fugging.

The community, located 30 kilometres north of Salzburg in the border region of Upper Austria, had become a place of pilgrimage for tourists who'd take pictures of the sign, which was eventually set in concrete following a spate of thefts.

The village's name had also inspired a pale lager, named "F**king Hell" — Hell means pale in German — as well as a movie "Bad F**king".

But earlier this week, the local council approved a motion from the village's residents — the F**kingers — to rename the village Fugging.

Social media users have reacted to the announcement with humour.

The name change will become effective on January 1, 2021.

 

[Samson]

Pig guts fly in offal fight over meat imports in Taiwan's parliament

Parliamentarians in Taiwan have thrown pig guts at each other before coming to blows over plans to allow US meat imports.
Members of the opposition Chinese nationalist party (KMT) brought the offal to the legislative yuan on Friday in the latest of daily protests during parliamentary sittings.
During a scheduled policy speech by the premier, Su Tseng-chang, KMT members waved banners, blew whistles and hurled buckets of guts. When ruling Democratic Progressive party (DPP) legislators intervened the situation escalated into a chaotic fist fight. The aftermath revealed torn placards and raw guts strewn across the floor.
The DPP government’s recent decision to lift a ban on US pork and beef imports has been met with fierce opposition by the KMT and some of the public.
The ban had related to pork products with residue of the feed additive ractopamine, used by some farmers in the US to promote lean meat, but which is banned in Europe and China. Opponents fear it is a health threat and the KMT has accused the government of rushing the new regulations through.​