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The "News of the Weird" Thread
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RootDKJ
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This is one of my favorite non-ski related threads.
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Human ice cube for 64 hours
Ordeal of human ice cube
A magician is in hospital suffering from severe frostbite after spending more than 64 hours as a human ice cube to break a world endurance record. Latvian illusionist Gennady Palychevsky, 40, spent 64 hours and 32 minutes in the six foot square ice cube in Moscow before signaling for help. The event tops American magician David Blaine's 63 hours in ice in New York's Times Square 10 years ago....Medics say Palychevsky was on the verge of literally freezing to death before he called a halt to the stunt.***
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3679218.html?men
Ordeal of human ice cube
A magician is in hospital suffering from severe frostbite after spending more than 64 hours as a human ice cube to break a world endurance record. Latvian illusionist Gennady Palychevsky, 40, spent 64 hours and 32 minutes in the six foot square ice cube in Moscow before signaling for help. The event tops American magician David Blaine's 63 hours in ice in New York's Times Square 10 years ago....Medics say Palychevsky was on the verge of literally freezing to death before he called a halt to the stunt.***
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3679218.html?men
No kidding, where's the magic in that? It would have been magic if he got himself out of the ice when he was done...
Also, how do you signal to stop the stunt if you're frozen in the ice?
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Woman, 101, grows horn
Click here for the pic:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3707275.html?menu=
Freaky.
uke:
Click here for the pic:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3707275.html?menu=
Freaky.
uke:
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Man marries pillow
It would appear that Korea has an expansive view of marriage:
True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, a large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.
Lee Jin-gyu fell for his 'dakimakura' - a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.
In Lee's case, his beloved pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the 'magical girl' anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. Now the 28-year-old otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between 'obsessive' and 'nerd') has wed the pillow in a special ceremony, after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. Their nuptials were eagerly chronicled by the local media. 'He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere,' said one friend. 'They go out to the park or the funfair where it will go on all the rides with him. Then when he goes out to eat he takes it with him and it gets its own seat and its own meal,' they added. The pillow marriage is not the first similarly-themed unusual marriage in recent times - it comes after a Japanese otaku married his virtual girlfriend Nene Anegasaki, a character who only exists in the Nintendo DS gameLove Plus, last November.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/816601-man-marries-pillow
This reminds me of "Lars and the Real Girl:" http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1175569-lars_and_the_real_girl/
It would appear that Korea has an expansive view of marriage:
True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, a large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.
Lee Jin-gyu fell for his 'dakimakura' - a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.
In Lee's case, his beloved pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the 'magical girl' anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. Now the 28-year-old otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between 'obsessive' and 'nerd') has wed the pillow in a special ceremony, after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. Their nuptials were eagerly chronicled by the local media. 'He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere,' said one friend. 'They go out to the park or the funfair where it will go on all the rides with him. Then when he goes out to eat he takes it with him and it gets its own seat and its own meal,' they added. The pillow marriage is not the first similarly-themed unusual marriage in recent times - it comes after a Japanese otaku married his virtual girlfriend Nene Anegasaki, a character who only exists in the Nintendo DS gameLove Plus, last November.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/816601-man-marries-pillow
This reminds me of "Lars and the Real Girl:" http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1175569-lars_and_the_real_girl/
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There's a whole lot of absolutely nothing right in that article.
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Briton is recognised as world's first officially genderless person
A British expat who claims to have no gender is thought to have become the first person to be officially recognised as neither male or female.
***May-Welby said: “The concepts of man or woman don’t fit me. The simplest solution is not to have any sex identification.” The UK’s Gender Trust welcomed the case. A spokesman said: “Many people like the idea of being genderless.”
I had no idea. :???:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...orlds-first-officially-genderless-person.html
A British expat who claims to have no gender is thought to have become the first person to be officially recognised as neither male or female.
***May-Welby said: “The concepts of man or woman don’t fit me. The simplest solution is not to have any sex identification.” The UK’s Gender Trust welcomed the case. A spokesman said: “Many people like the idea of being genderless.”
I had no idea. :???:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...orlds-first-officially-genderless-person.html
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“The concepts of man or woman don’t fit me."
It's simple, really. Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina. One or the other. Rarely both, but almost never neither.
It's simple, really. Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina. One or the other. Rarely both, but almost never neither.
WTF!?!?!?!
severine
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GMOs? Whatever caused that, hope I don't live long enough for mine to come in!
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Warp Daddy
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aws c'mon a HORNY old woman isn'News here we cal em cougars
ROFLMAO
Geoff
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I was more intrigued by the advertisement on the side from Bravissimo for lingere for women with D thru KK cup size. KK cup? WTF!
Warp Daddy
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Must be one of those new High Tech German bras ; a "Stoppemfrumfloppin" wunderrbar
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