Duh.
Apparently, when you take thousands of young men and women at or near the height of perfect human physical condition and pack them into a dorm for two weeks they have a lot of sex.
You don't say. My mind has been fucking blown.
I'll put it this way, if I was 22 years old, able to lift my body weight with one arm, and surrounded by the female athletes I see at these olympics, I wouldn't be reading a fucking book in my hotel room every night.
I'd by looking for the UK curling team. Like a viking.
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You see these stories every Olympics. They always make me laugh.
Go Team USA!! 2-0.
It's funny that the Fins have one of the 3 or 4 Islanders' "Goalies of the Future" floating around the NHL.
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One of my favorite bits of Old Man's War is that when everyone shows up with their perfect new bodies, the first thing they do is fuck. That's one of the most realistic responses I've ever seen in sci-fi.
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In Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga the characters regenerate every few decades so they are back in the bodies they had when they were 16 or 17 and they all go to these special clubs for newly rejuvenated people for that very reason. I'm looking forward to science catching up with this.
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You know, if there really are infinite alternate universes, there must be one in which Sarah Palin and John "Torture Memos" Yoo have had a child together.
What's your reaction to that, Alternate Andi?
In the real world, Sully had back-to-back posts today asking (per the actress whom Seth MacFarlane, um, arguably used as a prop to attack Palin on Family Guy) "How many mothers who had a child with a significant disability would
drag him around 'like a loaf of bread' on a book tour as a prop?" and asserting that Yoo is "a war criminal who deliberately distorted the plain and unambiguous meaning of the law to enable war crimes."
But, hey, at least the former can be interpreted as St. Andrew of the Blessed Heart-Ache kind of acknowledging that Sarah Palin is actually Trig's mother, so maybe he's back on his meds.
Conversely, you can look at that statement and interpret his conclusion as "Well, she must not be his mother if she would do that, right? Riiiiight? Still, just asking questions here."
Since he's had to resort to being coy about the whole thing, I'll leave it up to you to decide.
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This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen on the internet. That *I'VE* ever seen on the internet. Think about that.
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A fairly stupid idea taken way too far. If acid had been involved, there would have been more colors and the pony would fly. Plus, it would probably be a Dead tune or maybe Phish.
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There are a lot of dos and don'ts for a good Super Bowl party, but one underrated key is this: When everyone leaves, their testicles should be in the exact same shape as they were when they arrived.
I think that's actually a really good rule of thumb for any sort of successful social gathering. Super Bowl parties, wedding receptions, Bar Mitzvahs—yeah, every guy should probably leave any of those events (to name just a few) with their balls unharmed.
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So apparently I won this round of the sweasel.com Celebrity Dead Pool with my pick of Al Haig. My prize, should I choose to claim it?
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So they're turning "Shit My Dad Says" into a television series. I'm not sure if William Shatner is more perfectly cast because the first syllable of his name is the past tense, or because he's aptly described, by Agent Bedhead:
the definition for “aging blowhard” has no words, just a picture of William Shatner taken any time in the last few years.
I'm certain there's someone out there who hasn't experienced the awesome windbagginess of Shatner, although I feel fairly certain that all three of our readers have. So just in case...
Just because no Shatner retrospective would be complete without it...
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I disagree that Shatner is "aging blowhard". I think he finally embraced the fact that he's a joke and went with it, sorta like Terry Bradshaw. Another problem, you posted Shatner's Rocket Man without posting Stewie's rendition? That's worse than a post about a hottie without pics.
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Ummmm, that's the whole point.
It always makes me laugh when people say, "The public option is dead" and it makes me laugh harder when they act surprised when it isn't dead. I'm not trying to pick on Allah here, I could be talking about Charles Krauthammer, Fred Barnes or any talking head.
What they don't seem to realize is that the Dems don't want to "Reform" healthcare, they want to take it over. They don't give a shit about how well it works, they want to control it.
If they cared, they wouldn't spend all their time attacking drug companies (who've helped extend human life about 2 decades over the last 30 years), and Obama wouldn't be running around talking about amputophilic doctors instead of saying something like, "Our healthcare professionals are the best in the world, the chaotic system is failing them." or whatever the hell collectivists believe. No, they want the public option, they want Britain's system. They want power. I don't see them settling for just paying off campaign donors with their legislation. Couple that with the cap and steal deal and the EPA's bullshit "Plant Food is a pollutant" bullshit, and they were trying to take total control of every aspect of our lives. An absolute nannyarchy. For our own good because we're just too dim to not have benevolent, intelligent, masters.
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I think the word would be better without the 'y' - Nannarchy. It is a hilarious word for a horrifying concept, and since I have improved upon your prior art in a clear way, it will not be stealing when I use this word in the future.
However, if anyone else uses 'Nannarchy' I expect a check in the mail.
Posted by: Jeff M at February 19, 2010 04:06 PM (8P3+x)
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I checked, I wasn't first. Oh well, so much for those royalties.
Posted by: Veeshir at February 19, 2010 05:21 PM (aEo32)
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Well what about 'Nannarchy' then? I already called off my job search!
Posted by: Jeff M at February 19, 2010 06:10 PM (8P3+x)
Klein is a hack. For example, he conveniently (cough) leaves out the example of auto insurance, which is very competitive, and in which national companies manage to insure according to state regulations.
Also, comparing credit to insurance is a bad joke. They're completely different products.
The entire piece is a big pile of steaming manure.
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Actually, it makes sense that Denton would take this stance since he's making a pile of money by sticking his finger in the eye of those with authoritah. I still feel dirty being on his side in anything and not in the good way.
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Spelling is important in most jobs; no boss wants to read a report that says, "We r teh BEST EVAR bruh and u shud b sooper kool dat I wurk 4 u," after all. You'd think if you were in charge of making the currency for your country, somewhere along the line, you and your entire staff would be aware of how to spell the name of your country.
Chile's mint has sacked its managing director after he sent into circulation thousands of coins bearing an incorrect spelling of the country's name.
The 50-peso coins, worth around 10 U.S. cents each, were issued in 2008 with Chile spelled "Chiie" -- an error that was only noticed late last year.
"Director Gregorio Iniguez has been fired over a series of issues, including the misspelled coins, which have brought the institution into disrepute," a mint official told Reuters on Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"Some of the coins are still in circulation. They still carry their value. Some collectors are buying them up because they feel they are rare," the official said.
I'm not sure what's the worst part about this story. Is it that not a single person involved in the creation of this coin realized that they'd spelled Chile wrong? Or is it that it took them about a year to realize the mistake and recall the coins?
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I can't embed this type of vid they way they did at Weasel Zippers, but it's pretty darn good of an Apache shooting up a ridge with some unfriendlies on it. Keep the sound on. Pretty good. Exit question, what's the funniest, single scene? The one that just keeps making you laugh until you just wish it would stop. Some are funny the first time but not nearly so funny after that. Others just keep making me laugh. Not just really funny bits, but scenes that keep you laughing for minutes.
I think the tractor tipping scene from Cars has to be considered. So does the NSEA Protector leaving space dock in Galaxy Quest. Both of those just keep getting funnier and funnier until it's just like watching Felix the Cat.
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Galaxy Quest has some great ones. Tony Shaloub announcing that they need a new berilium sphere. Him and Sam Rockwell stole every scene.
As for single scene that had me most affected has to be from ruthless people when judge reinhold rubs the chloroform on his eyes. Don't know if It holds up, been a long time.
Posted by: Douglas at February 14, 2010 11:31 PM (uU+Ss)
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Douglas - When Sam Rockwell gets 'beamed up' to the ship and screams for about 20 seconds, that was the best part of the movie.
Posted by: fozzy at February 15, 2010 12:50 AM (ccEuN)
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In Over The Hedge, when Hammy drinks the caffeinated soda. First time I saw it I nearly peed.
Posted by: tangonine at February 15, 2010 09:29 AM (C8Pcc)
Super troopers. First scene, stoners in car in custody, hear shots ring out - guy they think is perp comes out, gets in car, screams "YOU BOYS LIKE MEXICO?!!??!!" ans tears ass out of the parking lot with tires squeeling. Laughed until it hurt.
#2 - Tom Arnold sits in the john next to Mike Meyers as MM yells "WHO DOES #2 WORK FOR?" and Tom says "That's right, buddy, you tell that turd who's boss." I know it is old, but try to remeber the first time you saw it. Epic funny.
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#2 is good, Tom Arnold was made for that scene. That and screwing Roseanne. Shudder.
Posted by: Veeshir at February 15, 2010 08:10 PM (YtT7A)
Am I the only one who thinks this is over the top?
Anybody remember Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.? In case you don't, he's the black professor who got arrested after a concerned neighbor thought someone might be breaking in to his home. Obama said the white cop who arrested him "acted stupidly". Then, in his capacity as Teh Won, he invited the cop and the professor out for a beer. Because white cops are bought off with beer, apparently. We know that sophisticated Harvard professors are probably above that shit.
'Twas an historical moment. Unprecedented, even. After all, the President of the United States saw fit to get involved with a relatively minor local issue, criticize an individual citizen who was just doing his job, and turn the whole thing into a PR stunt. One to be remembered forever.
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Oh, good lord. If the Smithsonian had any spine they'd tell him to keep his idiotic donation and recommend he try Ebaying them instead.
Posted by: Nicole at February 14, 2010 01:42 PM (iUBlB)
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If they accept that, I'm going to send in the Barbie doll I found with the bite marks and demand they accept that too as an example of early hominids being attacked by vicious bands of roving Pliocene clams.
Posted by: Veeshir at February 14, 2010 01:49 PM (9nacF)
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Excuse me, not Barbie doll, but australopithecus spiff-arino.
Posted by: Veeshir at February 14, 2010 01:52 PM (9nacF)
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What? When you get arrested you get to keep the handcuffs? Huh. Then the Las Vegas Metro Police department owes me two sets of handcuffs, dammit.
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British police say they've charged a 33-year-old woman with stabbing a man through the eye with her stiletto heel.
West Yorkshire Police in northern England say the man was in a critical but stable condition after the woman, with whom he was sharing a cab, assaulted him with the heel of her shoe.
The Sun newspaper quoted neighbors as saying the pair were a couple and had gotten into an argument when she kicked him.
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Is Hooters about to go tits up?
A San Francisco based investment bank has been hired to sell the company, asking price is $250 million. Hooters has been struggling in the bad economy, and has made some really bad investment decisions, perhaps most famously the failed Hooters Air, which actually used to fly out of Scranton, heh.
Their casino has also been failing miserably.
$250 million actually sounds pretty cheap...sorta like Hooters. No, actually, I think if someone went at it with the right approach and made some necessary reforms, they could probably revive the franchise. Now I'm actually kinda curious to see what happens to Hooters. Till then, they're gonna have to hope that t-shirt sales to trashy douchebags keeps them afloat.
Free lap dance with every order of wings ... that should do it.
Seriously though, how did they think their business model (essentially a TGI Fridays with even worse food but with boobs) would transfer well to other businesses?
Posted by: Hermit Dave at February 11, 2010 08:42 PM (WhFvm)
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Posted by: ECM at February 11, 2010 09:04 PM (nYKDd)
Uselessly late movie reviews
Longer below the fold. I don't go to movies so these are all HBO,Skinemax, Encore and/or Showtime movies 10,000BC: Sucks. Stone age empires using steel? Really? Really?
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I was prepared for 10,000 B.C. to suck more than anything has ever sucked before and was ready for the anachronisms. Going in with low expectations I actually enjoyed it. Camilla Bell being in it helped.
I hate to say it, but Tom Cruise was my favorite part of Tropic Thunder.
One-Eyed Monster was sort of funny. I watched The Hammer the same night. That was really funny.
Posted by: Cee Arr at February 12, 2010 01:32 PM (Igc0D)
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Tropic Thunder was worth watching just for the 'Never go full retard.' scene. Cee Arr you're right about that Tom Cruise part. I didn't know that was him until someone told me later.
Posted by: fozzy at February 12, 2010 02:54 PM (ccEuN)
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Wait, Tom Cruise was in Tropic Thunder? Now I have to find out where.
Posted by: Veeshir at February 12, 2010 05:37 PM (SYAAx)
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Holy crap, now I have to watch the movie again just to convince myself that is Tom Cruise. That's a great part. The first time I've liked Cruise since he was hanging out with Gump.
Posted by: Veeshir at February 12, 2010 06:06 PM (SYAAx)
Lazy Floridian
Heh. Some guy was taking "stock photos" of Dolphins Stadium before the Super Bowl when a turkey vulture came through the windshield, sat on the pilot's lap, and hitched a 20 mile ride to the airport where he then flew off. There's video with a voiceover by the pilot talking about what happened.
It's pretty crappy video. Which is funny considering the guy who was doing the filming was a professional, he was getting paid to film the stadium after all.
You can kind of see the bird in the chopper and you can definitely see it fly away. For a second I was reminded of a scene from Dawn of the Dead (the 70s version, not the recent one) where I thought the lazy bird might fly into the rotor. Via Say Uncle
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We are not all lazy. It is a fact that the farther south you get the lazier you are. Key West = Island Time. Miami = Siesta Time Tampa = Laid back Time Jacksonville = Georgia time
Posted by: Vmaximus at February 11, 2010 10:49 PM (EESSb)
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That's funny, I mostly hang out in the southern part of the state with yearly forays to the Tampa region.
You might not all be lazy, but you seem to have some lazy birds.
Posted by: Veeshir at February 12, 2010 08:35 AM (fST0D)
Um, suppose this actually works...
If this actually happens, what do we do with Gorak and his family? Put them in a zoo?
As scientists come closer to completing a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome, creating a living person from an ancient DNA sequence is becoming a real possibility, according to Archaeology Magazine.
In 2005, 454 Life Sciences began a project with the Max Planck Institute to sequence the genetic code of a 30,000 year old Neanderthal woman. Now nearly complete, the sequence will let scientists look at the genetic blueprint of humankind's nearest relative, understand its biology and maybe even create a living person.
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with that?
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Honestly, some of the stupidest stuff I've seen about this comes from honest to god scientists. "Think of what we could LEARN from them!" We couldn't learn a damned thing. It will be a Neanderthal baby. Someone's gotta raise it. At which point it will be a physically deformed, mentally challenged human. Sure, we'll learn if they had the capacity for language (which is not really in dispute as far as I know), but that would be about it. We'd never learn anything about Neanderthal culture, or how they lived, or if they had religion, or any damned thing about THEM. The stuff we really want to know about them is the kind of stuff that parents would have passed along to their children. And last I checked, they're all dead.
And let's talk about rights. What rights would it have? Is it granted human rights or is it an animal that can be owned (and therefore bought and sold)? And if it's an animal, wouldn't it immediately go on the endangered species list (and therefor be unable to be experimented with)? And if it's given human rights, what if it doesn't want to be studied? Would it really be given its freedom if it asked?
This kind of crap really pisses me off.
Posted by: MikeD at February 11, 2010 09:39 AM (FkL60)
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Why do I get the feeling that if they do decide to clone this Neanderthal, it will just grow up to be a hiker from Colorado who was frozen in the ice just a handful of years ago?
I'm guessing that his intelligence would be comparable with ours, and his bone structure and appearance not different enough to draw shocked stares, but his immune system would be less evolved. We would need to inoculate him for diseases that we stopped worrying about ages ago. It would be like the Europeans bringing smallpox to America, only worse.
This is a layman's guess. I don't even play a geneticist on TV.
I think I even mispeled it.
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Frank Sinatra is still killing 'em in the Philippines
Apparently singing "My Way" in a karaoke bar is an invitation to having your heart cut out.
But Gregorio, 63, a witness to countless fistfights and occasional stabbings erupting from disputes over karaoke singing, did not dare choose one beloved classic: Frank Sinatra's version of "My Way."
"I used to like 'My Way,' but after all the trouble, I stopped singing it," he said. "You can get killed."
The authorities do not know exactly how many people have been killed warbling "My Way" in karaoke bars over the years in the Philippines, or how many fatal fights it has fueled. But the news media has recorded at least six victims in the past decade and includes them in a subcategory of crime dubbed the "My Way Killings."
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In Manila, Alisa Gabby, 33, and her relatives invariably gather before a karaoke machine, but they banned "My Way" after an uncle, listening to a friend sing the song at a bar, became enraged at the laughter coming from the next table.
The uncle, a police officer, pulled out his revolver, after which the customers at the next table quietly paid their bill and left.