So, did we ever have a general thread for the strange, odd, somewhat interesting, and slightly amusing news stories? I can't remember and I can't be bothered thread-necro'ing at the moment, so why not.

If nothing else, this might help to reduce a bit of clutter in the BSL. So, any interesting news items from around the world you would like to share, then might as well drop them here, in one place.

To start off:

The Stripping Teacher: (in class, no less!)

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=658234

A fine example of the European secondary education system. Apparently female teachers can strip in class, and still be considered 'valuable' as a part of the teaching institution, and not get sacked.

Hooray for European education?

Grainy mobile phone footage included for those so inclined...

gaz, good plan

french president looses bid on voodoo doll

Porn is not good for the weak at heart...

Yeah, if there were a thread like this. That campaign to legally marry 2D characters would be in here

Policing. Srs Business

Manga Kills

Japan's PM appears in an ero game

All female cosplaying biker gang wreaks havoc!

Meido Sanders

Gotta love blogs.

Well this thread lasted long :P

anyways - now that there's a thread to put stuff like this in...

DDR - THE MUSICAL! <= I'm very scared...

:blink: :blink: I'm pretty sure I just lost all hope for the survival of the human race. Check the books because I'm pretty sure this is a sign of the "end times".

wow...those are...funny lolz humanity has hope yet ^_^

This is somewhat old video game news, but it is absolutely hilarious.

Square Enix doesn't know what it is getting itself into...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/200...nifique-cologne

^ :eyebrow:

That... is just wrong! >.<

:blink: :jawdrop: WTFH is this!?!

Are these people mad?! :nani:

http://www.geekologie.com/2008/11/gay_peng..._steal_eggs.php

ummm, i don't get this... <_<

That artical confuses me as well.

It's not that hard, right...?

Two male penguins are acting like a male/female mating pair. Given they can't generate an egg of their own, they are apparently stealing eggs from other male/female pairings and replacing them with rocks, and then tending to the stolen eggs as their own.

I'm not sure whether to treat that as totally awesome or slightly disturbing... :heh:

... is it possible to treat it as both?

@Balthy That's not what confuses me.

It's that two birds are being considered gay that has me scratching my head.

@Trowa: well, it's two male penguins acting as a male/female mating pair would normally act. That sounds pretty gay to me! :lol:

Which is what makes it so dang wierd. I mean it's just flat out weird to think of two male birds acting like a couple. It's theincongruity of it that gets me asking what the world is comeing from.

I'm half thinking it's a sign that the "end times" are near. :heh:

lol i heard of that panguine thing before...very strange indeed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7772902.stm

:huh: learn something new every day...

For those that read Chinese this should be quite funny.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertai...ad-1058031.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7782122.stm?lsm <= Take mah burnin hot pizza!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from...ent/7779126.stm <= Hyperchondriac french

LOL at the first one. Guess we know why our parents kept telling us not to play/throw our food. :heh:

As for the second one. Geez, give the doctor a break would ya'. Just cause you have a gough doesn't mean your dieing or something. Sometimes the best "medicine" is a hot bowl of soup and bed rest.

Even if the local insect life has bitten off your leg due to a broken mosquito net >_>

<_< There's a difference between haveing a cold and haveing half your leg missing. One is obviously an important injury, the other is something going to the local store and buying some cough medicine can fix.

aye, but the example about the tiredness and red spots on legs at the end of that article would be an example of something turning out to be very serious :P

"Only suspected leprosy."

Actually, there is no cure for the common cold ................ except time.

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/20...red_288359.html

I have to admit, I find the idea of taking a bath in the sinks at your local fast food joint to not exactly be the smartest idea in the world... at least they didn't try taking the bath in the deep fryer? :heh:

:huh: what odd hobbies people have :unsure:

And the next story: "Let zem eat Caviar! Wait. Wut? :huh:"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7793477.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7800549.stm

^ Want viagra, give detailed terrorist movements yes?

^ That's one way to expose their weak side. :lol:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7795676.stm

^ GET OFFA MAH COUNTRY! :angry:

Interesting that the stupid Brits seemed to completely ignore the fact that the "two Germans and a Dutchman" caused the problem by attempting to take over the platform.
I'd say Bates should have shot them and thrown them in the sea :P
Isn't that how coups normally work? :D

He was a serviceman who decided to make a country out of British Government property. I'd have thought that was desertion/defection or something they could nab his ass and sink the damn thing for :unsure:

Found something on New Scientist

I guess someone had a thing against AT-AT Walkers...

Unfortunately this story is a little to early for the AT-AT comment. The origanal didn't come out unitl 77' 6 years after Vietnam ended. And a good decade before said walkers showed up on the big screen.

Amuseing none the less.

Hey, If that went through you'd already have walkers and the AT-ATs would have just been a lame bigger and better version :P

or ESB would have been shut down for giving insight into how to blow them up :lol:

Here's a fairly lulzy one:

Russian Professor thinks US will Collapse within 1 year
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html

I do believe that a Russian professor first made such a prediction back in the early 30's about a year and a half into the Great Depression. Or maybe it was Stalin, I forget.

Yeah, well this one wants to think he's more like Emmanuel Todd, who correctly predicted the fall of the Soviet Union. I personally think that one's a fluke, because even with all of its problems, the US is nowhere near close to collapsing. And even if it collapsed, its component states would still be VERY powerful; California would be the 7th largest economy ALONE and the 35th most populous. It isn't going to bow down to China, and I don't think Sarah Palin is going to bow down to the Ruskis.

When Obscenity Filters Go Wrong

...lulzy :P