Saturday, October 25, 2008
Moron Calls In Sick, Busted On Facebook
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Kyle Doyle, a 21-year old asshat from Australia, went out one night and got himself good and drunk. And then, like a little pussy, didn't want to go to work the next day. So what did he do? He called his employer and told them he was out due to a "valid medical reason". But then he updated his Facebook profile.
Kyle Doyle is not going to work, fuck it i'm still trashed SICKIE WOO.
Oh man, I want to get trashed SICKIE WOO. I don't even know what it means but damn it sounds like fun. But seriously Kyle, accept my friendship request already. Hit the jump to read the full exchange between Kyle and HR from when he tried to get his leave processed as a valid sick day.
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Colorado couple say they got marijuana with order of tacos
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LAKEWOOD, Colo. - A Colorado couple found an unusual topping on their order of tacos: a small bag of marijuana.
They discovered the drugs with their order from a Del Taco restaurant and called police.
Twenty-six-year-old Dennis Klermund, who police say waited on the husband when he picked up food on October 16, faces charges of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Klermund initially denied any knowledge but admitted the bag was meant for a friend after a search dog found more marijuana in a locker.
Klermund no longer works at the restaurant.
A message left for Klermund was not returned.
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If it smells like Bacon, it's probably an asian guy in a bacon suit.
eww. I love bacon, but i hate that idea.
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I know what you're thinking, "What IS that dapper ass-sockpuppet wearing in the picture?" And that, dear reader, is Uncle Oinker's Bacon Scented Bacon Print Tuxedo. The suit comes in four different sizes, costs $100, and is chemically treated to smell like bacon sizzling in the pan. And give you cancer. Which, I think we can all agree, is a small price to smell like delicious. Bacon Scented Bacon Print Tuxedo [newsblaze] Thanks to Julian, who once owned a chicken suit but couldn't keep the women off his meat.
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Dion Quits..
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Dion quits, but to remain at the helm until May
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Globe and Mail Update
October 20, 2008 at 4:52 PM EDT
Almost a week after his party received its biggest electoral drubbing since Confederation, Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion today said his tenure will end at a leadership convention in May but vowed to steer his party through the opening of the 40th Parliament next month.
“I fully accept my share of the responsibility,” Mr. Dion said of the Liberal electoral failure. “We must learn quickly from this experience and move on. The search for a new Liberal leader will be part of a process of renewing our party, but clearly will not in itself be sufficient.”
When asked if he felt bitter about the election, and now his decision to hand over the party reins, Mr. Dion said no.
“The past is the past,” he said. “I wish I had succeeded, of course. But you need to accept in democracy the result and move on. That's what I'm doing.”
Liberal leader Stephane Dion arrives for a news conference to discuss his future as leader, in Ottawa Monday.
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Liberal leader Stephane Dion arrives for a news conference to discuss his future as leader, in Ottawa Monday. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson)
Mr. Dion wasn't the only person hoping to quickly move past the disappointing federal election. Former Liberal leadership rival Bob Rae shied away from leadership speculation on Monday, instead calling on the party to renew itself, engage with the public and “not beat up on ourselves.”
“There'll be lots of time to reflect on the last election. It's a simple reality that sometimes you win elections, sometimes you lose them,” Mr. Rae told CTV. “We'll be sifting through those tea leaves for some time to come.”
Mr. Rae said he has not decided yet if he will contest the party's next leadership convention. “Obviously I will be discussing it with people. It would be a little disingenuous to say I wouldn't do that, but I won't be making a decision for a few weeks,” he said.
Nova Scotia Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil was quick to praise Mr. Dion's decision to stay at the helm until a leadership convention is held.
Mr. McNeil said he feared that an immediate resignation by Mr. Dion would have allowed the party to move on without assessing the disconnect at the ballot box, adding the election loss was not due solely to Mr. Dion.
Mr. Dion's decision to bridge the gap is a “testament to the character of the man,” he said.
Back in 1993, when Jean Chrétien's low personal approval ratings threatened to undo his bid for prime minister, Mr. Dion was a young college professor who saw that weakness as a secret weapon that could win Chrétien the crown.
“The best card he (Chrétien) has at the moment is that he is so low in public esteem, there are so few expectations, that he can surprise people,” Mr. Dion said of Mr. Chrétien. “His image is poor, he seems old, confused, a Trudeau without Trudeau's genius.”
Any hopes Mr. Dion may have harboured that his words would come back to reflect his own leadership ambitions 15 years later are now dashed.
Mr. Dion will instead go down in history as only the second Liberal leader in Canadian history who did not become prime minister, joining Edward Blake, who held the party's top job from 1880-87.
It was Mr. Chrétien who appointed Mr. Dion to Cabinet in 1996 and had him run in the Saint-Laurent-Cartierville by-election two months later.
That launched a political career that saw Mr. Dion go from party foot soldier against Quebec's separation to the unexpected winner of the 2006 Liberal leadership convention.
Mr. Dion said Monday that he had spent the last few days in reflection, thinking about party, country and his own future. Ultimately, he has decided to remain as leader until May “in order to ensure a smooth and successful transition.” He will then step away from the party leadership, and stay on as MP for Saint-Laurent-Cartierville.
“Politics has its ups and downs. I'm happy to be able to say I've enjoyed many more ups than downs,” Mr. Dion told a news conference Monday.
He apologized to candidates who lost their seats under his leadership, and encouraged new MPs to make sure the government works in the best interests of all Canadians.
And he urged his party to look deeply into its own machinations and existence.
“We must look beyond leadership to understand what went wrong in the campaign. ... and begin to fix our problems so that we can, I hope and I am confident, form a Liberal government again for all Canadians,” Mr. Dion said.
While almost two-thirds of Canadians voted for a party other than the Conservatives, Mr. Dion said his party's popular vote declined for the third election in a row. “This is a trend that must be reversed, because we must win the next election,” he said.
But without an overhaul of the party's finances and fundraising machinery, he said the party would have no potential to counter campaigns like the one run by the Conservatives, which relied heavily on attack advertising targeting Mr. Dion and his Green Shift plan.
He spoke passionately about the Tories' attack advertising that was such a hallmark of the campaign, and said he would do all he could to stop any future Liberal leaders from being vulnerable to such attacks.
“We have to bring our fundraising machinery into the 21st Century, or the Liberal party will be at a permanent political disadvantage. This work must start now, and be successful in the coming months,” Mr. Dion said.
Mr. Dion has been in seclusion at Stornoway, his official residence in Ottawa, since the Oct. 14 election saw the party record its lowest popular vote since Confederation.
Speculation about his future has been rife since election night, when Mr. Dion conceded defeat but did not address the massive 19-seat loss the party had suffered.
He didn't shy away from the topic on Monday, saying the party lost because he did not get the Liberal message out.
“If people are asking why, it's because I failed,” Mr. Dion said.
When canvassing their ridings, Liberal candidates were told again and again that voters would not vote Liberal because they did not like the party leader. The voters, instead, were listening to Conservative advertising, Mr. Dion said.
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“At the end of the day, people thought it was a carbon tax and were afraid of it,” he said of the Green Shift plan that formed a central plank of his election campaign.
“When I came with a [economic] plan for the first 30 days of the Liberal government... now Mr. Harper is implementing something very similar, after saying in the campaign I was cheering for a recession.”
Many Liberals expected Mr. Dion to stand aside within days of the election, but others argued he should stay on to help carry the party through to a leadership convention likely to be held in May.
The Liberals were reduced to 76 seats last Tuesday, down from 103 in the 2006 election, and won only 26.2 per cent of the popular vote — two points lower than the disastrous showing in 1984 under John Turner and only four points ahead of the worst ever result in 1867.
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Dead goldfish offered the chance to vote in Illinois
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CHICAGO - The only "agent of change" Princess ever supported was the person who freshened the water in her fishbowl.
So election officials in Chicago's northern suburbs want to know why voter registration material was sent to the dead goldfish.
Beth Nudelman, who owned the fish, said Princess may have landed on a mailing list because the family once filled in the pet's name when they got a second phone line for a computer.
The paperwork sent to a "Princess Nudelman" likely came from the "Women's Voices, Women Vote" project, which sent nearly 1 million mailings to Illinois households in August.
Group spokeswoman Sarah Johnson said the list they used mistakenly included some pets.
Johnson said the mailing list, purchased from a vendor, included names from warranties, magazine subscriptions and other sources.
She said the group attempted to screen out obvious pet names.
"Fido's not going to be left on there, but if a cat is named is Polly, she may be," Johnson said. Princess could be a person's name, she insisted. "I went to high school with two Princesses."
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Hank the Ford Robot..
Seems pretty smart... for a human talking on the mic.
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Hank the robot has State Fair auto show crowds laughing, wondering
09:06 AM CDT on Thursday, October 16, 2008
By JESSICA MEYERS / The Dallas Morning News
jmeyers@dallasnews.com
Hank woos women, mocks Toyota and busts out "the robot" on cue.
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Ford's Hank the Robot is shown at the State Fair of Texas Auto Show in Dallas. The Auto Show is one of the fair's most popular attractions, drawing 85 percent of total attendance.
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In fact, he is a robot – Ford Motor Co.'s "Ambassador of Innovation," who quips as much as he advertises. He's a hit at the State Fair, where he bewilders fairgoers daily at the car show.
"Why do my fingers look like this?" Henry Ford's namesake asked in response to a question from the growing crowd about the questionable shape of his right hand. "More than likely, it's some hoodlum who reached up here and did that to my middle finger. And now we're going to have to explain how expensive Ford is when it's because your brat came to the auto show and broke my finger."
An audience of about 50 guffawed and smirked for the rest of Hank's half-hour riff earlier this week. He performs on the half hour, and responds to most questions thrown at him, which range from his dancing abilities to his career choice. He shrugs off a couple – such as how he actually works – and adds Ford promos every couple of minutes.
"I think it's cute, but there's somebody in the back, obviously," said 36-year-old Suerri Dugan from Abbott after she watched his show. She pointed to a small camera on Hank's forehead.
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Tavian Bartholomew did some of his own fact-checking. "I went behind the curtain and there's nobody back there," said the 10-year old from Crowley. "It's cool. Can I have one?"
Ford representatives refuse to ruin the fantasy, even for many employees.
"It's kind of a corporate secret," said Darwin Kloster, who has worked with Ford for the past three years.
Even Hank had little to say when he saw a reporter approach with notebook in hand.
"There goes everything," he said. "Tomorrow there will be a story in the news that a mean robot flips up the middle finger at the State Fair."
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Improv Everywhere - MP3 Experiment.
If you haven't heard about this, these guys create MP3's and get loads of people to listen to the same MP3 at the same time and get them to do actions according to what the song says. The best thing is that they manage to sync them up for the right timing and colloborate with other groups. Check it out
The Mp3 Experiment Tour from ImprovEverywhere on Vimeo.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Iowa couple ordered to stay apart after woman bites fiance before wedding
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IOWA CITY, Iowa - A judge has ordered a suburban Chicago woman to stay away from her fiance - two weeks before their wedding.
Johnson County Judge Stephen Gerard ordered 23-year-old Rucha Patel on Monday not to have contact with the man after she was charged with domestic abuse causing injury.
Her fiance's name was not released.
Police say Patel drove over the man's foot and then bit his hand when he took away her keys to prevent her from driving. It was not known why he tried to stop Patel.
Patel told the judge the marriage was scheduled in two weeks.
A call left with a listing for Rucha Patel was not returned.
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Evidence of the Yeti.
Yes finally, more evidence of a yeti/sasquatch thing.
A friend suggested that you don't have to look too far to get evidence of the missing link.. You just have to go to your local hockey rink where Parents of kids on the ice resemble sasquatch at times...
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Hopefully this is better then the hoax we had earlier this year.
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Noriko-san subway sleeping mask lets other passengers know to where to wake you, looks really cool
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We've accomplished many an hour of restful, mugger-prone napping on the subway, but there's always the danger of missing your stop -- a problem we're usually too drowsy to consider at 2am in the morning. Not clever hacker Pyocotan, however. This resourceful fellow has built the Noriko-san sleeping mask for fashion-forward commuters, which broadcasts your destination to fellow passengers on a garish LED display, while you're busy getting some shut-eye underneath the mask -- in the hope that they'll be kind enough to wake you up at the right stop after they've rid you of your iPod and wallet. With a cost of $200 in parts, and considerable impracticality to boot, this device isn't quite ready for the commercial sphere, but that's of little concern to Pyocotan -- he's just busy being awesome. Video is after the break.
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