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"A man asks his friend to take him to the hospital. But which one of them actually has a problem?" - ronin from Bookmarklet

"Dear Consumers: A disturbing trend has come to our attention. You, the people, are thinking more about health, and you're starting to do something about it. This cannot continue. Sure, there's always been talk of health in America. We often encourage it. The thing is, we only want you to think about and talk about health in a certain way--equating health with how you look, instead of outcomes like quality of life and reduced disease risk. Your superficial understanding of health has a great influence over your purchasing decisions, and we're ready for it, whether you choose to go low-calorie, low-fat, gluten-free or inevitably give up and accept the fact that you can't resist our Little Debbie snacks, potato chips and ice cream novelties." - ronin from Bookmarklet

Great, slightly less painful sting but way more of 'em. - ronin from Bookmarklet

and, IIRC, they love to gobble up anything with electricity coursing through it. - Hieronymous Boosh

Gah, even worse! - ronin

I've been on buses like that. The novelty wore off after a while. - John (bird whisperer)

It was fun to watch the front half move then feel the back half catch up to that movement. Lots of wide turns too. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from Android

"Scientists analyzing a two-mile deep mine in Ontario, Canada have discovered what is currently the oldest water known to date, at 2.6-billion years old. "Pfft, that's nothing." METHUSELAH YOU STAY OUT OF THIS." - ronin from Bookmarklet

"This is the 32-disc X-Box carousel made entirely out of LEGO by Youtuber zwenkka. It can remove a game disc from the console and replace it with any of 31 others (selected via Bluetooth) in an average of 42-seconds. Which, let's not kid ourselves, is still way quicker than it would take to convince yourself to get off the f***ing sofa and do it by hand. Hell, it could take ten minutes and it would still be worth it. Do you know how long I have to call myself a lazy waste of life before I'll actually get off the couch and do something? Try two and a half hours. I've literally been banned from every pizza delivery place in town." - ronin from Bookmarklet

"With the help of food stylist Charlotte Omnes, New York still life and food photographer Beth Galton put together an interesting series of photos that shows what prepared and packaged foods look like in cross section." - ronin from Bookmarklet

"Japanese chef to celebrities Miki Nozawa has died this week having allegedly been beaten to death outside a German nightclub by two customers who disliked and refused to pay for their fried noodles. According to Bild, the two men had complained about Nozawa's noodles and left his restaurant Nozawa on the German resort island Sylt without paying. When they ran into him later at the nightclub, Nozawa apparently demanded 10 euros from each of them in a fight that escalated until they were all thrown out of the club. At that point, per the report, the men beat the chef until he wound up in a hospital with internal injuries." - ronin from Bookmarklet

Wow... Idiots - Shevonne from iPhone

Burnt Matches. - Gimminy

My husband. Spearmint. Fresh-mown grass. Books. - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤

"Here's something that gives a whole new meaning to the term, catfish. A Japanese company has come up with a bizzare ad campaign that's creating a buzz online. It's Sushi Cats (aka Neko-Sushi) That's right, a series of photos of adorable little cats oddly posed atop sushi rolls, wrapped in seaweed." - ronin

"You know what the world doesn't need? Oscar Mayer bacon infused hot dogs. Do you know what the world is getting anyways? Oscar Mayer bacon infused hot dogs. And just in time for Memorial Day! Dare me to light a firework in my mouth?! Bacon dogs: because hotdogs shouldn't be all pig @$$holes (feel free to use that in ads if you want)." - ronin from Bookmarklet

I once wrapped bacon around a Hillshire Farms sausage & baked it. Yummy heart attack. - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!

"Australia’s Tasmanian devil is becoming devilishly close to going extinct. The ferocious sounding marsupial is in danger of dying off due to the highly contagious devil facial tumor disease." - ronin from Bookmarklet

"According to The International Cat Association (TICA), the first effort to breed a wild cat with a domestic feline was in 1963 when Jean S. Mill "invented" the Bengal by crossing a house cat with the Asian leopard cat to create an animal with, "the loving nature of a favored fireside tabby and the striking look associated with leopards, ocelots and jaguars."" - Shevonne from Bookmarklet

What if the end up looking like a tabby with the nature of leopards, ocelots and jaguars??! - Headless Gnad Kicker

Would you use one? - ronin from Bookmarklet

If we got it branded with University logos, we could sell a bunch of these at campus bookstores. I could see a big OSU Buckeye on it now! Merchandising is what it needs. - Joe Boone

I remember enjoying the show for the first two years or so before I stopped watching TV for the most part. After 9 years they FINALLY show the woman? Dang. - ronin from Bookmarklet

Rumors are betting he doesn't meet the mother until the end of the final season, which will be paced "24"-style. - Leo

Uhh... what? "Say you've got a dog and you're not sure what breed it is. Maybe it's part poodle? With a little bit of Labrador? And it drools a lot, so maybe there's some St. Bernard mixed into the DNA? Most people call these dogs "mutts." But in Washington, D.C., owners are being asked to refer to them as "Xoloitzcuintli" when filling out pet-licensing paperwork with the District's health department, according to the Washington Post." - ronin from Bookmarklet

That strikes me as incredibly sloppy database design... - Andrew C (✓) from Android

"A Florida woman dropped her purse on the ground as she waited for coffee at Starbucks — and ended up accidentally shooting her best friend in the leg. Pamela Beck, 51, from Pinellas Park, is thought to have dropped her bag too hard — sparking her loaded .25 caliber Titan handgun, which was inside, to fire a shot. The bullet hit her buddy Amie Peterson, 38, above the knee." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

Not to mention of course, that if you actually intended self defense, your purse is exactly the worst place possible for a woman to carry a gun... #pursesnatcher - WarLord

He would've been safe if he didn't slide when he was only 3/4s of the way to base. =p - ronin from Bookmarklet

Good lord has it been 15 years already???? Man I feel like an old fart. - ronin from Bookmarklet

same here, dude! - imabonehead

one of the happiest days of my life. and so glad they were left to rot in jail. - Hieronymous Boosh

=\ - ronin from Bookmarklet

This is so wrong on so many levels, it's hard to know where to start.... - WarLord

Wow this sucks. =( "A man less than two weeks into a planned journey to dribble a soccer ball from his home city of Seattle to Brazil, the host nation for the 2014 World Cup, died on Tuesday after being struck by a car in Oregon, police and the man's supporters said. Richard Swanson, 42, was struck as he walked on the shoulder of a road on the outskirts of Lincoln City just east of the Oregon coast, said Lincoln City Police Sergeant Randy Weaver. Swanson's soccer ball was found nearby, Weaver said." - ronin from Bookmarklet

:((( - Jennifer Dittrich

The driver wasn't charged. I'm assuming that because he was dribbling, his path wasn't always the furthest out to the shoulder (and straight) as it might have been had he merely been walking. - Spidra Webster

"Two bald eagles locked together by their talons in a midair battle survived a crash landing onto a runway at a northeastern Minnesota airport. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officer Randy Hanzal says the adult eagles couldn't separate Sunday before slamming into the tarmac at the Duluth International Airport." - ronin from Bookmarklet

Wait, did he eat 57 cans of whipped cream or does he have a unfathomable hatred of whipped cream? "When the store’s manager showed up on Monday morning he says he found 57 cans of Redi-Whip whipped cream cans in the garbage." - ronin from Bookmarklet

Charcoal from the BBQ section? Camp stove? RAW. - Jennifer Dittrich

Wait, they didn't sell these here in the good ol' US of A first??? Oh right, we can just buy two Ls at a time. =p - ronin from Bookmarklet

When we were in the McDonald's in Shibuya, there were a lot of groups of two or three people sharing a large fries as a snack, rather than everyone with their own. The Mega Fries would be good for a larger group. - Jennifer Dittrich

"These are Link's quest items from the original Legend of Zelda game all brought to life by thanks to the Hyrule Foundry 3-D printing technology. Hopefully not brought to life by 3-D printing technology? My little sister's doll collection. I don't know how she sleeps in there, they f***ing watch you when you enter her room." - ronin from Bookmarklet

"Presumably to dig us out of this massive deficit, the government is auctioning a former Air Force One plane, which it will probably replace with another Air Force One plane that's newer and 10x more expensive. You know, I wish we could choose where our tax dollars went because I'd want mine just flushed down the shitter and the video broadcast over the internet." - ronin from Bookmarklet

I'll have to agree that the harassment and taunting's a bit much. - ronin from Bookmarklet

Lucky bastard got to play w/one of these for half a year. Excellent review and great shots too. "I just love this lens. As you have seen above, I have really used it hard in a variety of situations during the 6 months I have had it, and it has simply done everything that I have asked. No failures. Nothing to complain about. I have inspected all of the images that I have taken for any distortion, chromatic aberration or lick marks and I can say, hand on one of my two Vulcan hearts, that I did not find any. And remember I have been using a prototype, your production ones will be mint." - ronin from Bookmarklet

W.T.F. - ronin from Bookmarklet

"If I didn’t try anything different, I’d still be doing a Calgon ad. You have to be a pioneer, which means doing things that are not scheduled and different. When you do stuff, it’s not always to please other people–it’s to please yourself. For me, the more individual you make something, the more universal it can be. You have to be a pioneer." - ronin from Bookmarklet