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The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Lime Tonics posted:

Chinese officials sacked for casting spells

Two Chinese officials have been sacked for involvement in "superstitious activities", including casting spells to aid promotions and attending geomancy courses under the guise of business trips, state media said on Friday.

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-hogwarts-comes-to-hunan-chinese-officials-sacked-for-casting-spells-2017-8

China is also strict about drugs. Perhaps they are the real-life Chi-Town, except with the color red and dragons instead of black and skulls.

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RC and Moon Pie
May 5, 2011

Goat protects marijuana crop

Cumslut1895
Feb 18, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Strom Cuzewon posted:

I never knew Lovecraft did music videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9IA6SKHPFc

Burkion
May 10, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Strom Cuzewon posted:

I never knew Lovecraft did music videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTHn2tHhcI

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Lime Tonics posted:

Chinese officials sacked for casting spells

Two Chinese officials have been sacked for involvement in "superstitious activities", including casting spells to aid promotions and attending geomancy courses under the guise of business trips, state media said on Friday.

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-hogwarts-comes-to-hunan-chinese-officials-sacked-for-casting-spells-2017-8

well you know, casting spells is strictly on the wrong side of a state/religion separation.

Tex Avery
Feb 13, 2012
Horrified McDonald's customers watch naked man inject drugs into his testicles

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/horrified-mcdonalds-customers-watch-naked-13434799.amp

The whole story is surreal. It's kinda nice to see that McDonald's restaurants on the other side of the pond can be just as trashy as over here.

a kitten
Aug 5, 2006

a kitten has a new favorite as of 19:02 on Aug 5, 2017

Lime Tonics
Nov 7, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
Man attempts to deposit million-dollar bill, gets busted for meth

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — A not-so-smooth criminal is behind bars after police say he tried to deposit a million-dollar bill into his bank account while carrying meth.

http://pix11.com/2017/08/05/man-attempts-to-deposit-million-dollar-bill-gets-busted-for-meth/

bet it was one of these,

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/1GuyX/status/893218475140841472

The story is from WND

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Thanks I needed to feel like a comparatively healthy functioning person.:unsmith:

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Also, he hosed a snake.

Mycroft Holmes
Mar 26, 2010

by Azathoth

"Snake? Snake!? Snaaaake!" - David Browns last words.

Mycroft Holmes
Mar 26, 2010

by Azathoth

RC and Moon Pie
May 5, 2011


He didn't have buns, hon.

Takoluka
Jun 26, 2009

Don't look at me!



My, Anaconda? Don't!

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
Jerry Jones says fear of failure led to fractured relationship with Jimmy Johnson

This sounds like a bad attempt at porting a sports game into English.

venus de lmao
Apr 30, 2007

Call me "pixeltits"

They really dropped the ball by not going with "fear of failure fractured friendship" there

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

RC and Moon Pie posted:

He didn't have buns, hon.

:golfclap:

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

The MSJ
May 17, 2010


FYI, it's his new movie about a dead man watching his widow's life fall apart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_3NMtxeyfk

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

.
Stay safe Pretty Man Ghost.

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

The MSJ posted:

FYI, it's his new movie about a dead man watching his widow's life fall apart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_3NMtxeyfk

Yes, I know, but that's not as funny as opening up the BBC News site and seeing "WHY IS CASEY AFFLECK UNDER A SHEET?"

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Wheat Loaf posted:

Yes, I know, but that's not as funny as opening up the BBC News site and seeing "WHY IS CASEY AFFLECK UNDER A SHEET?"

If only the answer is "trying to hide from accusations of sex crimes".

a kitten
Aug 5, 2006

https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/894537050820575233

IamnotJoe
Jul 24, 2005
Maybe Steve.

Pretty sure someone in the 1960s was fantasising about robot hookers.

Burkion
May 10, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

IamnotJoe posted:

Pretty sure someone in the 1960s was fantasising about robot hookers.

Dude, people in the 20s were.

You've seen Metropolis right?

Basically for as long as we've had a concept of robots, we've had a concept of loving them

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


How old is the myth of Pygmalion? Because I'm sure people were fantasizing about artificial women even before that.

Aleph Null
Jun 10, 2008

You look very stressed
Tortured By Flan

Burkion posted:

Dude, people in the 20s were.

You've seen Metropolis right?

Basically for as long as we've had a concept of robots, we've had a concept of loving them

To be fair, Metropolis pretty much invented the concept of what we think of as robots. And loving them.

bongwizzard
May 19, 2005

Then one day I meet a man,
He came to me and said,
"Hard work good and hard work fine,
but first take care of head"
Grimey Drawer

Horrible Lurkbeast posted:

How old is the myth of Pygmalion? Because I'm sure people were fantasizing about artificial women even before that.

I bet there are some bits in the talmud about things you are not allowed to do with a golem.

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Anyone feels like going through the Egyptian book of the dead or the epic of Gilgamesh and finding out? I'm afraid that cave paintings of robots don't exist.

china bot
Sep 7, 2014

you listen HERE pal
SAY GOODBYE TO TELEPHONE SEX
Plaster Town Cop

Horrible Lurkbeast posted:

Anyone feels like going through the epic of Gilgamesh and finding out?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8u8dq

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Severe weather indeed.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2cs8QLnxlU

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Horrible Lurkbeast posted:

Sever weather indeed.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Weather is a cutthroat business.

Barry Bluejeans
Feb 2, 2017

ATTENTHUN THITIZENTH

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Cracked: 5 Newspaper Articles From History You'll Swear I'm Making Up

Cracked.com posted:

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer
I didn't know Ruddha was a highlander

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Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Wow, it's 'thought of ants and died' a hundred years ago

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