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Koant

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3330 on: January 06, 2010, 12:44:15 pm »
It's not WHAT he found, it's HOW he found it!

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3331 on: January 06, 2010, 12:47:46 pm »
Why does anyone care?

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3332 on: January 06, 2010, 01:07:24 pm »
Don't you want your circles to be circular?

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3333 on: January 06, 2010, 01:46:17 pm »
http://www.shropshirestar.com/2010/01/06/larry-lamb-v-larry-the-lamb/

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He is one of the most popular faces on the telly, the other is a children’s favourite from the 1970 — but it seems the people of Telford don’t know one from the other.

Actor Larry Lamb – better known as Machiavellian Archie Mitchell in EastEnders and much-loved father Mick in Gavin and Stacey – is planning to perform at Oakengates Theatre @ The Place on February 16.

But theatregoers have been bombarding the box office with inquiries about children’s character Larry the Lamb.

I particularly like the picture that they have chosen to illustrate the article.

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3334 on: January 06, 2010, 02:30:04 pm »
Man who survived BOTH atomic bombs dropped on Japan finally dies, aged 93:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1240993/Lucky-Yamaguchi-man-survived-Hiroshima-Nagasaki-atomic-bombs-dies-aged-93.html

(sorry for the Daily Mail link)

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Mr Yamaguchi, known as 'Lucky', was in Hiroshima on a business trip for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on August 6, 1945, when a U.S. B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city.
He suffered serious burns to his upper body as well as temporary blindness and spent the night in the city.

He then returned to his hometown of Nagasaki, about 190 miles to the southwest, which suffered a second U.S. atomic bomb attack just three days later. On August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered - ending the war.

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3335 on: January 06, 2010, 06:28:23 pm »
Hmm. Rich coming from me as I bogged down the thread with stuff a while back, but how is that laughable?

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3336 on: January 06, 2010, 08:37:08 pm »
I'm assuming it was the idea of the poor sod experiencing two nuclear blasts that was laughable (in a black humour sense), rather than the fact that he's now dead.

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3337 on: January 06, 2010, 08:56:24 pm »
KFC in racism row

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jan/06/kfc-advertisement-accused-of-racism

It's a good fried chicken story but not as good as this one from last year which makes me laugh and sigh in equal measure.  What will you feed your children?

Popeyes Runs Out of Chicken in Rochester, NY


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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3338 on: January 06, 2010, 08:59:57 pm »
"I'm more disappointed than angry."

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3339 on: January 06, 2010, 09:00:11 pm »
How u gon' run outta chicken?!

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3340 on: January 06, 2010, 09:03:53 pm »
KFC in racism row

And what a bollocks row it is too. If it had ever been intended to be shown in the US then there might be the thinnest iota of a story. It wasn't, it hasn't.

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3341 on: January 06, 2010, 09:08:47 pm »
The Guardian are honestly becoming have become as bad as the Daily Mail with this "outrage" sensationalist bollocks. When you have the leading liberal newspaper do this shit it's no wonder you still continuously get cunts saying it's political correctness gone mad. It seems The Guardian finds anything that isn't completely devoid of comment about race or sex that isn't nauseatingly open minded offensive, get fucked you cunts. For a liberal paper it seems all they now want to do is shove morality down your throat which if you don't believe it means you're [racist]/[sexist]/[homophobic]/[offensive].

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3342 on: January 06, 2010, 09:12:57 pm »
"I'm more disappointed than angry."

That made me convinced this was staged.

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3343 on: January 06, 2010, 09:13:54 pm »
Eh? How is it The Guardian's fault? It's just reporting a story. Surely the fact they're featuring the advert within the story shows they don't think the claims hold much water.

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3344 on: January 06, 2010, 09:29:03 pm »
I'm assuming it was the idea of the poor sod experiencing two nuclear blasts that was laughable (in a black humour sense), rather than the fact that he's now dead.

True that is some damn bad luck.

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3345 on: January 06, 2010, 09:30:14 pm »
True that is some damn bad luck.

Or was the fact that he survived them both very good luck?

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3346 on: January 06, 2010, 09:43:48 pm »
Eh? How is it The Guardian's fault? It's just reporting a story. Surely the fact they're featuring the advert within the story shows they don't think the claims hold much water.
In the same way that on Fox News during a news story they may say "some believe (insert liberal idea) is wrong" is often just the belief of the news station. To put something so inane on the front page of their website and to constantly put shit like this says something about the paper. They did the same with many other stories, the Jane Noir scandal for instance, and usually have a racist or sexist segment once or twice a week now. In the same way that the Daily Mail of old found swearing constantly shocking and offensive, the Guardian is starting to find anything with a hint of sexism or racism shocking and offensive.

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3347 on: January 06, 2010, 10:23:20 pm »
Meh, that Jane Moir stuff was both homophobic and national news; I thought it more than justified its front page placing (also bear in mind the front page of the site changes quite a bit during 24 hours with either new stuff or, more pertinately, increasingly viewed material being promoted for a while; I'd guess that even as a small headline the fact the words Racism, Row, and KFC featured would attract traffic from most casual and non-specialist surfers).

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3348 on: January 07, 2010, 09:54:08 am »
...would attract traffic from most casual and non-specialist surfers).

Dude!

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3349 on: January 07, 2010, 11:42:10 pm »
Fusion reactors, at the very cutting edge of science, playing with the untapped and deadly fundamental forces of nature.

Also a good place for a train set:



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/science/29train.html?_r=3&ref=science
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This month, at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, physicists and engineers built tracks inside one of its fusion reactors and ran a toy train on them for three days.

It was not an exercise in silliness, but in calibration.

The modified model of a diesel train engine was carrying a small chunk of californium-252, a radioactive element that spews neutrons as it falls apart.

...

now that it has completed its physics duties, the train, back in its original state, is running around the laboratory’s Christmas tree in the lobby.

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3350 on: January 08, 2010, 10:36:55 am »


New look TARDIS causes controversy

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3351 on: January 08, 2010, 12:50:39 pm »
 This story would have made a fantastic basis for an Ealing Comedy, Will Hay in "Oh Mr Porter Wallah" prrps

  http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/jan/060110-construction-railway-station-Gurgaon.htm

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3352 on: January 08, 2010, 02:56:31 pm »
My favourite one was: 'No chicken? Or are they just out of chicken?'

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3353 on: January 08, 2010, 03:12:41 pm »
"I'm more disappointed than angry."
I thought that phrase was resevred for being told off by parents. Usually following them addressing you by your full name.

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3354 on: January 08, 2010, 04:27:10 pm »
This bit made me laugh in The Sun.

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CHAV Lady Sovereign snogged "I Kissed a Girl" singer Katy Perry.

The Celebrity Big Brother star gave her a real smacker in a nightclub. And as our picture shows, the two even fondled each other's BOOBS in front of startled onlookers.

I love the way they capitalised and highlighted "boobs".

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3355 on: January 09, 2010, 04:05:49 pm »
Heather Mills: I'll prove I'm not a lying gold-digger

Someone at the Mail had a bit of fun with the URL...

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3356 on: January 09, 2010, 04:10:07 pm »
This bit made me laugh in The Sun.

I love the way they capitalised and highlighted "boobs".

Err...link please.

That's right, I have no shame.

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3357 on: January 09, 2010, 04:21:46 pm »
Err...link please.

That's right, I have no shame.

The most disappointing photo I've ever seen, brace yourself for a let-down: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/big_brother/2799388/Lady-Sovereign-once-snogged-Katy-Perry-in-a-club.html (page as a whole just about saved by the other pic of Katy Perry's bangers).

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3358 on: January 09, 2010, 06:17:50 pm »
I'm assuming it was the idea of the poor sod experiencing two nuclear blasts that was laughable (in a black humour sense), rather than the fact that he's now dead.

Yes, that was what I was going for - it was the whole "phew! That was close, I'm going home to Nagasaki for a bit of a lie down..." that got me, not the fact that he's now actually dead.

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Re: Laughable News
« Reply #3359 on: January 09, 2010, 06:50:12 pm »
Yes, that was what I was going for - it was the whole "phew! That was close, I'm going home to Nagasaki for a bit of a lie down..." that got me, not the fact that he's now actually dead.

Yeah, I figured in the end. Was in a weird mood when I clicked on it and thought it a bit odd and did a strange reaction to it.

 

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