July 11th, 2008
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A Japanese labor bureau has ruled that one of Toyota’s top car engineers died from working too many hours, the latest in a string of such findings in a nation where extraordinarily long hours for some employees has long been the norm.
The man who died was aged 45 and had been under severe pressure as [...]
July 10th, 2008
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Charla Muller’s idea of an “awesome gift” to her husband’s 40th birthday was “sex everyday for a full year.” That’s 365 and 1/4 times of screwing. Her husband said, no thanks.
She wonders why.
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{Photo: Hookers for Jesus — saving the world from sin one blow job at a time}
July 8th, 2008
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Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.
The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body.
The figure emphatically contradicts [...]
July 3rd, 2008
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So what does Fox News Channel do in its report of New York Times‘ own report on Fox News losing its ratings? Well, what else but something classy: give yellow teeth, less hair, horse nose to Times’ TV reporter Jacques Steinberg and TV editor Steve Reddicliffe.
Gotta love mainstream media.
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June 26th, 2008
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Public schools in Barnegat were locked down briefly after someone reported seeing a ninja running through the woods behind an elementary school.
Turns out the ninja was actually a camp counselor dressed in black karate garb and carrying a plastic sword.
Police tell the Asbury Park Press the man was late to a costume-themed day at a [...]
June 10th, 2008
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This dude is so cool, he kicks through a cinder block wall to wow friends. He doesn’t even care if he loses said leg. What an awesome human being. Will somebody give him a Darwin Award or something.
{Mad: Man with the biggest balls on earth}
May 14th, 2008
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A Fort Worth man trying to scratch an itch on his back used a revolver and accidentally shot himself.
Jorge Espinal, 44, was drinking beer and playing poker around 3 a.m. Sunday in his home in the 3500 block of Montague Street, when he got up from the table and walked into another room, said Fort [...]
April 23rd, 2008
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A man posing as Darth Vader attacked a Star Wars fan, who had founded a Jedi Church, a court has heard.
Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, from Holyhead, Anglesey, admitted assaulting Barney Jones and cousin Michael with a metal crutch. They suffered minor injuries.
Hughes, who was drunk and dressed in a black bin bag, shouted “Darth Vader!”
Earlier, [...]
April 20th, 2008
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The irony is extraordinary. At a time when world leaders are expressing grave concern about diminishing food stocks and a coming global food crisis, our government brings into force measures to increase the use of biofuels - a policy that will further increase food prices, and further worsen the plight of the world’s poor.
What biofuels [...]
April 17th, 2008
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A man we only know as “Danilo” had a bit of fun sometime on New Year’s Eve — he met a stranger, brought him home, had casual sex with him, and when he woke up hours later he would discover that there’s a can of body spray lodged up in his rectum. Turns out, the [...]