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Originally Posted by Uncle Mxy
Google cracks me up. Everything that company does on a real-life level is hilarious and awesome. I'd love to work for them.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Mxy
Google cracks me up. Everything that company does on a real-life level is hilarious and awesome. I'd love to work for them.
It actually does seem like an awesome place to work, if you're in your mid-20s, independently wealthy due to trust fund investments, and use crystal meth. Everyone else who works there is miserable. Lots of unpaid overtime.Quote:
Originally Posted by UxKa
http://www.hulu.com/watch/78294/nbc-...too-gone-wrongQuote:
Originally Posted by Wizzle
That doesn't sound like the Google folks I know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Swami
It does sound like AOL in the '90s, though.
Speaking of Google stuff, this is interesting shit:
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/2...scott-huffman/
Office in ZurichQuote:
Originally Posted by Big Swami
They have shit like that in their American offices too. Everyone is way too busy to use any of it. I don't know about Zurich. The European work ethic is...different.Quote:
Originally Posted by UxKa
Yeah, I just knew what to Google to find those pics.
My sister-in-law works in Copenhagen for a huge multinational corporation. She says she has had a really hard time getting used to the fact that everyone in the country gets Pentecost off, even though no one believes in God.
And if you want to work on your days off... Err, it's not recommended. And by that, I mean "someone will come and throw your bicycle under a train because they don't want you fucking it up for everyone else."
Tattoo face fesses up, she wanted them all
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_w...ed_them_t.html
Surprise of the century there...Quote:
Originally Posted by Gl'enn
I only know one guy who works there but he's pretty much the opposite of miserable about working there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Swami
It's their world, we're just living in it.
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A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.
Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another.
The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.
What's more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony stick together.
Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) were once native to South America. But people have unintentionally introduced the ants to all continents except Antarctica.
These introduced Argentine ants are renowned for forming large colonies, and for becoming a significant pest, attacking native animals and crops.
In Europe, one vast colony of Argentine ants is thought to stretch for 6,000km (3,700 miles) along the Mediterranean coast, while another in the US, known as the "Californian large", extends over 900km (560 miles) along the coast of California. A third huge colony exists on the west coast of Japan.
That's news of the cool in my book. Anyone ever play SimAnts? That game was fun.
This is the kind of stuff that will get the world to unite together to take down the evil ant threat that could threaten humanity. This could be mankind's final hours.
People in Fort Wayne are celebrating today.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/ho..._into_sex.html
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A 15-year-old girl told a jury yesterday that Hector Ayala, 59, a man she once considered family, tricked her into having sex by saying that it would ward off misfortune and help make wishes come true.
The girl is the third to testify at trial that Ayala, who is charged with rape, aggravated sexual assault and several related offenses, fooled her into sex by invoking untold mysticism.
She said that when she was 13, Ayala read her Tarot cards and said that he saw bad luck in her near future. He told her that it could be averted if she allowed him to perform oral sex on her.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420a..._congress.html
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TWISP, Wash. -- In the foothills of the North Cascades, where the veil between dimensions is said to be thinnest, inhabitants of this world gather once a year to coexist with fairies in theirs.
About 250 people came to the Methow Valley June 26 through 28 from as far away as Europe and Hawaii to participate in the ninth annual Fairy and Human Relations Congress, an outdoor festival in a secluded mountain meadow called Skalitude.
A giant crop circle depicting a pinwheel-shaped sun had been cut into the high grass. An open-air tent pavilion stood at the lower end of the meadow. Farther up, white peace banners fluttered in a circular array.
"The purpose of the congress is to encourage communication and cooperation of the fairy realm," said Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski, the event's founder and organizer.
The human world is in crisis and can use all the help it can get, Pilarski said, so why not form alliances with those in other realms?
Just heard about this on the Jason Ellis Show, so I don't have a link.
Apparently, there is/was only one factory in the world that manufactures Slim Jims (the beef snack food). The factory recently had a major explosion, and therefore there hasn't been any Slim Jims produced since.
The company apparently isn't sure when they'll resume making them, IF EVER.
So now, Slim Jim fans are reportedly buying them all up in an attempt to hoard them.
That "we might never make them again" thing sounds like a brilliant marketing move. Wait until they are all bought and then "decide" to start making them again.
I haven't had one in about 10+ years, but if I see one at the store, I might pick one up, just in case.
An amazing variety of items comes up when you search "slim jim" on ebay.
Gramas gotta watch out.
Duck genitals locked in arms race
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/files/...ckgenitals.jpgQuote:
Female ducks have evolved "maze-like" genitals with many twists, pouches and dead ends, in a bid to prevent rape and retain control of who fathers their offspring – while male ducks have evolved equally convoluted penises to keep up.
Patricia Brennan, an American reproductive biologist at Yale University in Connecticut, found that some ducks and geese have co-evolved elaborate genitals in an "evolutionary arms race" between the sexes.
Ducks, especially mallards, are one of the few species of birds in which males will often rape females, in a violent act which can result in injuries or death by drowning. The females fight back by preventing successful fertilisation, said Brennan. In fact, of the 40 per cent of matings which are a result of forced copulations, only around four per cent are successful.
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Male (right) and female (left) duck genitals have evolved elaborately convoluted corkscrew shapes.
That's messed up.
I think that's in here already.
Could be. Wouldn't be the first time something I'd seen before came back around and I thought it was new because I've got a bad memory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fool
That one's worth a second go. Evolving rape penises is insane.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/....penguins.kron
This one is for Giffman.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...of-the-phallusQuote:
Originally Posted by Fool
19 Arrested In Canary-Fighting Investigation
http://www.wfsb.com/news/20183100/detail.htmlQuote:
Police said 150 birds were seized in a canary-fighting investigation in Shelton on Sunday.
Police said canaries and saffron finches were seized and 19 people were arrested at a Ripton Road address.
“There was 100 canaries fighting, and they were betting on them 'til they were dead. It’s absolutely shocking,” said neighbor Marion Sega.
Police said they served a search warrant at the home after receiving a tip that an illegal bird fight involving 150 canaries and finches was scheduled to take place on Sunday.
Thats weird
FOOL IN THE NEWS!!!!
Shit, dude. Stick to the intranets.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009...ith_horse.html
http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/20...ell_vereen.jpgQuote:
Unstable? S.C. man on probation for horse sex has sex with same horse again
BY BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Updated Wednesday, July 29th 2009, 4:53 PM
A South Carolina man was busted for having sex with a horse, while on probation for having sex with the same horse.
Rodell Vereen, 50, was arrested Monday night in the throes of bestiality by the filly's shotgun-toting owner, who also has video surveillance of the perverse act.
"When they arrested him before I thought that was the end of it," said Barbara Kenley, who caught Vereen in the middle of his romp in the hay with her 21-year-old horse, Sugar.
Vereen was charged with buggery and tresspassing, and was held on $10,000 bail.
"Hopefully he won't get out," said Kenley, owner of the Lazy B Stables in Conway, S.C. "My goal is to get him away from me and my property."
Vereen was on probation for a buggery conviction stemming from a November 2007 assault on Sugar, a crime that prompted Kenley to wire her stables with surveillance cameras.
Kenley said cameras filmed Vereen having sex with her horse on July 19, but when she showed footage to the cops they told her they couldn't identify the suspect.
She suspected Vereen would not be able to stay away from her horse, so she was ready when he snuck into her barn Monday.
"I wanted to catch him firsthand," she said. "It was just a matter of time before I caught him."
When Kenley pointed a shotgun at Vereen, he claimed to be looking for a bathroom.
"I told him he was full of crap," Kenley said. "He apologized and said he didn't mean to hurt me.
Shouldn't this be in the Barbaro updates thread?
That's already Giffy's schtick. Correct your attribution.
Agreed.
The love that we made to our sweet Barbaro was only figurative in nature.
An oldie but a goodie...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...persexual.html
Obama elected President
It can't get much weirder than that.
Thought of giffman when I saw this headline
Repair shop finds goat in car trunk
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/top...ry/920265.html
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A woman accused of keeping three children as her domestic slaves in Monroe has been extradited from Bulgaria to face federal charges.
British national Mercedes Farquharson, 63, was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2006, and arrested in Bulgaria in July.
She appeared before a federal magistrate in Charlotte for the first time on Monday.
According to the indictment, Farquharson persuaded the mother of two of the children to let them live with her by claiming to be a god.
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/in...an_accuse.html
http://img2.raidpic.com/38l_30a25e00903745ab9e4a.jpgQuote:
Waterford Township police say 35-year-old Aimee Louise Sword used the internet to track down a teenage son she gave up for adoption years earlier and had sex with him, but several online commenters have come to her defense.