http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/giant-minion-escapes-to-cause-road-incident-in-dublin-1.2305908
― irl lol (darraghmac), Monday, 3 August 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun
― goole, Monday, 3 August 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
Thrillist is having a "best burger in America" bracket-style competition and a place in Tupelo (Neon Pig) is into the quarterfinals.
― rack of lamb of god (WilliamC), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 12:57 (eight years ago) link
i periodically think of this post and smirk, in meetings, on public transport etc. at some point someone's going to ask me what about.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 11:12 (eight years ago) link
duty bound to point out i wasn't the first to that joke by a long shot
― goole, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
for me it will ever be associated with 'goole'.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 10:37 (eight years ago) link
http://www.startribune.com/federal-judge-says-rogers-high-school-student-suspended-over-tweet-can-proceed-with-lawsuit/321477261/
In January 2014, Sagehorn was asked on a website titled “Roger confessions” whether he had “made out” with a 28-year-old teacher at the school. Sagehorn, then 17, tweeted, “Actually, yeah,” but later maintained he said it in jest.
― goole, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 14:34 (eight years ago) link
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/quebec-considers-removing-n-word-from-11-place-names-1.3184317
A stretch of the Gatineau River that has officially been called Nigger Rapids for decades could be renamed — along with 10 other sites in Quebec whose names include the racial slur.
But the provincial body that manages Quebec's place names says there has been little public pressure to rename the sites.
The rapids are located in the municipality of Bouchette about 120 kilometres north of Ottawa. They were named in memory of a black couple who drowned there in the early 1900s, said Jean-Pierre LeBlanc, spokesman for the Quebec Toponymy Commission.
After decades of being known by their informal name by the locals, the commission officially recognized the name in 1983.
"It was meant to describe the people who died," LeBlanc said. "There was no pejorative connotation then as there is now."
LeBlanc said that no formal request by residents has been made to change the name of the rapids but that the commission is considering whether it should rename all 11 sites that include the racial slur.
Claire Hamel, who lives near the rapids, said the official name is not a source of controversy among locals.
"Nobody talks about this," she said. "It's the name, that's it. Like Bouchette, like Maniwaki, like Ottawa."
Bouchette Mayor Réjean Major told Radio-Canada he has no intention of asking the commission to change the name of the rapids.
― flopson, Monday, 17 August 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
wtff
― feargal czukay (NickB), Monday, 17 August 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
more common in the US than you would think: http://tinyurl.com/odxwcmaand when "fixed", not generally a lot better: https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rbd17
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 August 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
Thelonius Monk, 28, was shot and killed Wednesday in the 500 block of S. Catherine St.
― computer champion (harbl), Saturday, 22 August 2015 02:18 (eight years ago) link
This is really controversial in my neighborhood and a lot of people are really upset about it:http://queenscourier.com/target-to-take-over-forest-hills-barnes-noble-site/
― five six and (man alive), Thursday, 27 August 2015 02:03 (eight years ago) link
Gosh, the memories the neighborhood must have of sitting at the soda counter, Mr. Barnes letting Ma buy on credit, Mr. Noble slipping a free magazine into Pa's burlap case... All gone because heartless Target doesn't know its boundaries.
― pplains, Thursday, 27 August 2015 02:12 (eight years ago) link
http://www.twincities.com/statefair/ci_28734408/bill-cosby-portrait-rapeseed-pulled-from-state-fair
― goole, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 18:23 (eight years ago) link
and an army of fluorescent tabard-clad 'enforcement officers' and police have started to dismantle The Ark, manchester's best-branded mini shanty town - http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/live-scuffles-break-out-homeless-10081495 - http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-ark-manchester-homeless-camp-585
― ogmor, Friday, 18 September 2015 08:21 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/nyregion/cherry-factory-to-plea-guilty-over-pollution-and-marijuana.html
Seven months after its owner committed suicide as investigators closed in on the secret marijuana farm he had kept in the basement of his factory, Dell’s Maraschino Cherries, based in Brooklyn will plead guilty on Tuesday to possessing marijuana and illegally dumping acidic wastewater into the sewer system, prosecutors said on Monday.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
Sometimes, all you need is the headline:
Dover man says injury from Taser, not spider
― pplains, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 14:52 (eight years ago) link
Yale launches amazing database of Depression-era Oregon photos
― sleeve, Monday, 12 October 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Norwegians-Use-Texas-as-Slang-for-Crazy-335356991.html
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 24 October 2015 01:40 (eight years ago) link
This one teeters close to "lol but sad" - - -
http://www.komu.com/news/arkansas-family-attacked-by-deer/
― pplains, Saturday, 24 October 2015 02:41 (eight years ago) link
i saw this on the newsstand out here and for reasons that i hope are nerdily self-evident, it blew my mindhttp://i.imgur.com/2peoF58.jpg
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 25 October 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
Satanic Temple of Seattle wants to join football coach's postgame prayer circle
― alo lin (alomar lines), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
This what it sounds like when you call in a plane crash to Pope County 911.
https://soundcloud.com/arkansasonline/pope-county-plane-crash-911-call
(Not NSFW or traumatizing or anything.)
― pplains, Saturday, 31 October 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
wow
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 31 October 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link
I think you mean "ohhh CRAP", forks.
― how's life, Sunday, 1 November 2015 11:39 (eight years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2015/11/28/police_this_guy_is_suspected_in_fou.php
This is in my immediate vicinity. I could smell a couple of the fires.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
Update. As I suspected, the "riddler" arsonist schtick was a ruse, person identified by the note is fake. This is all happening in Bukharian Jewish mobland and the fires were all in under construction McPalaces. Story is getting better and better.
http://gothamist.com/2015/12/02/arsonist_cryptic.php
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 3 December 2015 02:38 (eight years ago) link
http://static.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/pearlharborattackhonolulustar.jpg
had an artificially yellowed replica of this issue when i was a kid. i thought of it as ancient, which it wouldn't have been even if it had been real.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Monday, 7 December 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
Made the Times:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/07/nyregion/sunday-fire-is-fifth-to-demolish-bukharian-home-sites-in-queens.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-1&action=click&contentCollection=N.Y.%20%2F%20Region®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 7 December 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) - A hiker is facing long-term recovery after falling 25 to 30 feet through a hole in a rock formation in north-central Arkansas.
Deanna Jones says her son, 22-year-old Brandon Jones, slipped off the edge of the Glory Hole rock formation in the Ozark National Forest on Dec. 22 while hiking with a friend.
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/jseattle/status/703071541165096960
― bowery carmine (alomar lines), Friday, 26 February 2016 05:12 (eight years ago) link
http://49.media.tumblr.com/43398eb425c6e0e2b1aa2c911018933d/tumblr_ngpo0ughiU1u5f8joo1_500.gif
― Treeship, Friday, 26 February 2016 05:57 (eight years ago) link
lmao
http://www.twincities.com/2016/03/10/st-pauls-british-bandit-suspect-arrested-not-actually-british/
At the time of the robbery, law enforcement said the robber was also suspected of robbing a TCF Bank in Minneapolis and four St. Paul gas stations between Feb. 3 and 10. In those cases, the suspect also spoke with a British accent and wielded a gun, telling one cashier to “keep calm” and “hand over the money.”
After St. Paul police arrested Hess last week, they interviewed him and noticed he did not have a British accent, said Sgt. Mike Ernster, a police spokesman. Police found out Hess is from the Twin Cities and he told them he speaks with a British accent periodically, Ernster said.
― goole, Thursday, 10 March 2016 22:25 (eight years ago) link
note to locals: the story mentions "He was arrested last week at a University Avenue motel in St. Paul." which means it was either the days inn attached to tracks bar and grill or that creepo flophouse next to the dubliner
― goole, Thursday, 10 March 2016 22:27 (eight years ago) link
ow the mighty ave fallen eh enry iggins
― goole, Thursday, 10 March 2016 22:28 (eight years ago) link
Angry people in local newspapers
― new noise, Saturday, 9 April 2016 02:31 (eight years ago) link
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cYyTG3IxQrg/VwO4JLT2mGI/AAAAAAAAve0/-1frwHQbg844lugVb-_JeKMuHR_H35LGQ/s640/000000.jpg
<3 identical disgruntled facial expression on both man and dog
― soref, Saturday, 9 April 2016 02:46 (eight years ago) link
that photo in hd: http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/resources/images/4913470/
― soref, Saturday, 9 April 2016 02:49 (eight years ago) link
So much great stuff there.
Fried egg left at scene of shed break-in
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c6O7VHlVGiI/VLKh58wVQLI/AAAAAAAAm-0/ksXqk0YIlUE/s1600/00000.jpg
― jmm, Saturday, 9 April 2016 03:03 (eight years ago) link
Prince Paul Pony Moonlight Starshine, 70, on trial accused of knife attack
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/images/localworld/ugc-images/276270/Article/images/29250713/14259014-large.jpg
― (main prostitute from Game Of Thrones) (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:53 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/nyregion/offer-of-free-hugs-turns-violent-in-times-square-police-say.html
― ulysses, Friday, 13 May 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
a follow up to: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/nyregion/the-hugs-are-free-but-are-not-without-a-cost.html
― ulysses, Friday, 13 May 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/region/ph-ac-cn-harmony-song-0517-20160517-story.html
― #amazing #babies #touching (harbl), Monday, 16 May 2016 23:48 (eight years ago) link
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Rogue-Cambridge-cow-reported-police-chasing-women/story-29392160-detail/story.html
― ǂbait (seandalai), Monday, 13 June 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/rain-not-enough-to-dampen-2016-world-pea-shooting-championship-in-witcham/story-29495652-detail/story.html
― ǂbait (seandalai), Monday, 11 July 2016 07:13 (seven years ago) link
http://carolinapublicpress.org/25156/nutz-r-us-abandons-name
tl;dr -- a parent company dba "Nutz R Us" operated three separate home care facilities for the mentally ill
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Monday, 25 July 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
jesus christ
― goole, Monday, 25 July 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543
lots of cops solicit underage prostitute
― sarahell, Monday, 25 July 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link
Washington Post does a story on a small Danish school, a story that only reached local news recently: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/08/a-danish-school-now-separates-children-by-ethnicity/?tid=sm_tw
I saw the headlines yesterday, thought it seemed pretty smart, that they were thinking ethnicity into the process. Thought it was along the lines of busing. But no, they are actually making things more segregated, so that Danish teens don't have too many immigrants around them.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 8 September 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/8WEOuKR.png
this is a fairly standard school uniform story, but what an excellent photo/headline combination
― soref, Monday, 12 September 2016 18:25 (seven years ago) link