News of the Weird 2.0 (November 26, 2013)
News of the Weird 2.0
Angst, Confusion, Cynicism, Ridicule
Prime Cuts of Underreported News from Last Week, Hand-Picked and Lightly Seasoned by Chuck Shepherd
November 25, 2013 (part II)
(datelines November 16-November 23) (links correct as of November 25)
Worse Sex Lives Than You: “Who [well, Brian Hounslow, that’s who] gets up at 8:30 in the morning and decides they’re [sic] going to go to Walmart, take off all their clothes, and masturbate in the women’s bathroom?” “How could you think you weren’t going to get caught?” (Ummm, maybe you didn’t?) KJRH-TV (Tulsa, Okla.)
Also: Jermaine Lloyd, 28, Augusta, Ga., enjoying a Sunday park outing, naked (except for high heels and a turban) but in the process of putting on his pantyhose and pink panties. Augusta Chronicle
(Also, while you’re wasting time anyway, here’s a member of the Australian Parliament tasting his own head-hair. Sydney Morning Herald)
Took It a Step Too Far
OK, hooray for the brave “gender identity disorder” people who withstand society’s scorn and change their birth gender. Now, here’s NYC artist Shakina Nayfack tapping a cancer-type kickstarter-ish fund to underwrite her sex-reassignment surgery. New York Daily News
A teacher in San Jose, Calif., won a defamation jury verdict against two brats who were calling him a perv, leading “personal injury” lawyer Lee Danforth to say, “If this trial prevents one little girl or one mother or father from reporting suspected abuse, then this [verdict] is profoundly sad for our society.” Alternative view: It’s a joyous day when scheming adolescents get called out for promiscuously throwing around career-ending charges against adults they don’t like. San Jose Mercury News
Ms. Fatima Mangre was granted a divorce from her better half. Fatima’s 8. Her dad finally came to the realization that arranging for her to marry at age 4 was maybe too soon. Said he, “Social pressures are high in our [Uttar Pradesh, India] village.” Daily Mail (London)
“Stand Your Ground” needs a thorough national discussion, but here we have Mr. Adric White, 18, out on bond for armed robbery, surprised by a customer while Adric was in the middle of another armed robbery (and leading an employee at gunpoint into a back room). Adric, surely a split-second away from havoc, was then gunned down by the legal-carry customer. Adric’s mom: “If [the customer’s] life was not in danger . . . [he] should have just left the store . . ..” “[W]hat gives him the right to think that it’s okay to just shoot someone?” WALA-TV (Mobile, Ala.)
United Airlines: Look, we’re a good company; we’re willing to pay for our mistakes; please just sign our standard settlement agreement first--the one that says you can’t ever tell a soul that we totally failed to honor our advertised service and almost killed your dog. KNTV (San Francisco)
“Diversity” is good; if you don’t see that, I guess they have ways of making your see it. Littleton Green Community School in Huntington, England, has apologizedso piling on them wouldn’t be fair but Yr Ed is not deterred. Good idea: mandatory field trip to a non-Christian religious site just to see something the elementary-school urchins might not otherwise experience. Bad idea: And if parents object, or won’t pay the £5 service charge, we’ll tack a “racial discrimination” note onto their kid’s Permanent Record. Seriously. Daily Mail
Weekly Cite-Seeing
Man Buys House Next to Ex-Wife, Erects Middle Finger Statue --- WJBK-TV (Detroit)
Vietnam Banker Sentenced to Death for Fraud --- AlJazeera
Phoenix Dietitian Warns Against Cotton Ball Diet --- KTAR-TV (Phoenix)
Updates & Recurring Themes
I told you about this guy last month [M342, 10-27-2013], trying to avoid a perving charge on an airline by claiming that his junk was on fire from accidental exposure to peppermint oil (and, because he abandoned a checked bag when he landed, the FBI wanted a piece of him, too). Well . . not guilty, reasonable doubt. (Bonus: the benefit of flaccidity!) Salt Lake Tribune
And it’s time to update Spain’s Catalonia-tradition caganers--the Nativity-scene figurines taking dumps, including the famous and the reverent, such as, ta-daaaa! Pope Francis. Agence France-Presse via The Local (Rome) /// Wikipedia (caganers)
Newsrangers: Michael Cadwalader, and the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
Angst, Confusion, Cynicism, Ridicule
Prime Cuts of Underreported News from Last Week, Hand-Picked and Lightly Seasoned by Chuck Shepherd
November 25, 2013 (part II)
(datelines November 16-November 23) (links correct as of November 25)
Worse Sex Lives Than You: “Who [well, Brian Hounslow, that’s who] gets up at 8:30 in the morning and decides they’re [sic] going to go to Walmart, take off all their clothes, and masturbate in the women’s bathroom?” “How could you think you weren’t going to get caught?” (Ummm, maybe you didn’t?) KJRH-TV (Tulsa, Okla.)
Also: Jermaine Lloyd, 28, Augusta, Ga., enjoying a Sunday park outing, naked (except for high heels and a turban) but in the process of putting on his pantyhose and pink panties. Augusta Chronicle
(Also, while you’re wasting time anyway, here’s a member of the Australian Parliament tasting his own head-hair. Sydney Morning Herald)
Took It a Step Too Far
OK, hooray for the brave “gender identity disorder” people who withstand society’s scorn and change their birth gender. Now, here’s NYC artist Shakina Nayfack tapping a cancer-type kickstarter-ish fund to underwrite her sex-reassignment surgery. New York Daily News
A teacher in San Jose, Calif., won a defamation jury verdict against two brats who were calling him a perv, leading “personal injury” lawyer Lee Danforth to say, “If this trial prevents one little girl or one mother or father from reporting suspected abuse, then this [verdict] is profoundly sad for our society.” Alternative view: It’s a joyous day when scheming adolescents get called out for promiscuously throwing around career-ending charges against adults they don’t like. San Jose Mercury News
Ms. Fatima Mangre was granted a divorce from her better half. Fatima’s 8. Her dad finally came to the realization that arranging for her to marry at age 4 was maybe too soon. Said he, “Social pressures are high in our [Uttar Pradesh, India] village.” Daily Mail (London)
“Stand Your Ground” needs a thorough national discussion, but here we have Mr. Adric White, 18, out on bond for armed robbery, surprised by a customer while Adric was in the middle of another armed robbery (and leading an employee at gunpoint into a back room). Adric, surely a split-second away from havoc, was then gunned down by the legal-carry customer. Adric’s mom: “If [the customer’s] life was not in danger . . . [he] should have just left the store . . ..” “[W]hat gives him the right to think that it’s okay to just shoot someone?” WALA-TV (Mobile, Ala.)
United Airlines: Look, we’re a good company; we’re willing to pay for our mistakes; please just sign our standard settlement agreement first--the one that says you can’t ever tell a soul that we totally failed to honor our advertised service and almost killed your dog. KNTV (San Francisco)
“Diversity” is good; if you don’t see that, I guess they have ways of making your see it. Littleton Green Community School in Huntington, England, has apologized
Weekly Cite-Seeing
Man Buys House Next to Ex-Wife, Erects Middle Finger Statue --- WJBK-TV (Detroit)
Vietnam Banker Sentenced to Death for Fraud --- AlJazeera
Phoenix Dietitian Warns Against Cotton Ball Diet --- KTAR-TV (Phoenix)
Updates & Recurring Themes
I told you about this guy last month [M342, 10-27-2013], trying to avoid a perving charge on an airline by claiming that his junk was on fire from accidental exposure to peppermint oil (and, because he abandoned a checked bag when he landed, the FBI wanted a piece of him, too). Well . . not guilty, reasonable doubt. (Bonus: the benefit of flaccidity!) Salt Lake Tribune
And it’s time to update Spain’s Catalonia-tradition caganers--the Nativity-scene figurines taking dumps, including the famous and the reverent, such as, ta-daaaa! Pope Francis. Agence France-Presse via The Local (Rome) /// Wikipedia (caganers)
Newsrangers: Michael Cadwalader, and the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.
Comments
worse sex lives- Hey, at least he was not in there tearing the tags off shit to steal it.
in the park- I hate it when a new pair of hose gets a hole poked in it the first time you wear it!
armed robbery- That mother's attitude is exactly what is wrong with society. What if the customer had left and her 'baby boy' decided to kill the clerk? Oh, that's right, she wouldn't care as long as someone else's child was the one to die.
United Airlines- Bastards! I hope they go under!!
School trip- I would have had no problem with this trip but for the threat that was issued. After which I'd have kept my child home because I'd have been suspicious of the motivation for such a dire threat.
bankers- That kind of a penalty would have made some of the crooks we have seen in banking over the last few years think twice!
flaccidity- Guys with ED can be pervs too!
in the park- I hate it when a new pair of hose gets a hole poked in it the first time you wear it!
armed robbery- That mother's attitude is exactly what is wrong with society. What if the customer had left and her 'baby boy' decided to kill the clerk? Oh, that's right, she wouldn't care as long as someone else's child was the one to die.
United Airlines- Bastards! I hope they go under!!
School trip- I would have had no problem with this trip but for the threat that was issued. After which I'd have kept my child home because I'd have been suspicious of the motivation for such a dire threat.
bankers- That kind of a penalty would have made some of the crooks we have seen in banking over the last few years think twice!
flaccidity- Guys with ED can be pervs too!
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/26/13 at 11:08 PM
Mr. Adric White? Adric? ADRIC? Seriously? There is an actual person named Adric?
Well. Just keep him away from Cybermen. That won't end well.
(Adric? Someone named their kid Adric? I mean, I actually liked Adric, but as far as I can tell, the name doesn't exist outside of Dr Who. And if you are going to name your kid after a character in a TV show, you might want to pick one who didn't get killed off.)
Well. Just keep him away from Cybermen. That won't end well.
(Adric? Someone named their kid Adric? I mean, I actually liked Adric, but as far as I can tell, the name doesn't exist outside of Dr Who. And if you are going to name your kid after a character in a TV show, you might want to pick one who didn't get killed off.)
Posted by Calli Arcale on 11/27/13 at 01:32 PM
"Alternative view: It’s a joyous day..."
Yes, and let's consider that the Kellers, victims of the Satanic Ritual Abuse hysteria, are only now getting released from prison after twenty-one years. Not to mention those on the sex-offender registry who've had their lives ruined because they had consensual sex as teenagers with someone who was a year or two younger than themselves.
Yes, and let's consider that the Kellers, victims of the Satanic Ritual Abuse hysteria, are only now getting released from prison after twenty-one years. Not to mention those on the sex-offender registry who've had their lives ruined because they had consensual sex as teenagers with someone who was a year or two younger than themselves.
Posted by sudon't on 11/29/13 at 02:42 PM
It is very complex to easily differentiate between them. we are known Gender through the social construct, role, activities, attributes and specific responsibilities. And Sex is considered through the genetic transmission of qualities and Psychological behavior in society, Sex is biologically and psychologically developed and gender is developed by society, society has divided genders through social values and norms. Source page http://behaviouralsciences.net
Posted by gender on 02/17/14 at 12:00 AM
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