Miss Piggy's Grocery Store Checkout Headlines

[Krazy]

You don't have to mourn every victim, nobody has said that, but to trivialize it means that it will not get the attention it does deserve. Before 9/11 terrorism is not something that we believed could effect us. It was something that happened abroad and would never reach us here in the almighty US.

I would like to think that as a consequence of the attacks on the World Trade Center that there is now some awareness of what is going on around the world and an understanding that these events could happen to any given community as well. Maybe it shouldn't be the first thing on everyone's mind, but to trivialize it will create such an opportunity again.

Um, Timothy McVeigh?

[Brill Weave]

Um, Timothy McVeigh?

Doesn't count. Only foreigners can be terrorists. Dummy.

[Tokitoki]

Um, Timothy McVeigh?

Fair enough, I was 6 when the Oklahoma City bombing occurred so it is not as significant an image in my mind. Does not really detract from my point though. These things can and will happen and we shouldn't "trivialize" them.

Also have to point out I didn't say that only foreigners could be terrorists.

[Tyrath]

Doesn't count. Only foreigners can be terrorists. Dummy.

This.

How many times has the LAX guy been called a terrorist? He's white so he can't be amirite.

[Cliron]

I'd also be careful to place America's 'sensitivities' on things onto other cultures and to be mindful of the culture where it was originating from.

I'm assuming the Boston Marathon chick is American by the looks of her, but the twin tower costume occurred in the UK.

You cannot (nor should!) expect non Americans to have the same sensitivity toward issues that didn't directly effect them. Also, humour in the UK can be alot darker than in the US (Watch the american version of Little Britain then watch the British version; or perhaps Catherine Tate, or Black Adder, Geordie Shore [the jersey shore equivalent in the UK] or the cache of other British TV shows where the humour and culture is incredibly different).

Whereas it can argued that it was poor taste for them to don the costume, at the same time, its been 13 years and in a country 5000 miles away.

Also, don't look too much further into the costumes we wear in the UK/ Ireland / Continent because you'll get even more offended. Often time people will dress in 'black face' or as 'mexicans' or 'nazis' etc.

[Blubbartron]

You don't have to mourn every victim, nobody has said that, but to trivialize it means that it will not get the attention it does deserve. Before 9/11 terrorism is not something that we believed could effect us. It was something that happened abroad and would never reach us here in the almighty US.

I would like to think that as a consequence of the attacks on the World Trade Center that there is now some awareness of what is going on around the world and an understanding that these events could happen to any given community as well. Maybe it shouldn't be the first thing on everyone's mind, but to trivialize it will create such an opportunity again.

The opportunities for terrorism (or any mass violence situation, a la gun massacres) are around us every day, whether people are aware of them or not. Awareness neither decreases nor increases opportunity. The only thing that can decrease opportunities is to change processes or engineering stuff with the prevention of some specific thing in mind. For 9/11, that would be the enhanced cockpit doors. Unfortunately, these things are always done after the fact, as they must be. There are no perfect systems, and thus there will always be terrorism. The terrorists exploit a current weakness, and we try to patch the hole so that particular avenue is closed to them.

Also, 9/11 has received more than the attention it deserves. If we keep "remembering" the anniversary every year, in a few decades kids will be growing up with latent animosity for muslims, just like how kids who weren't even alive for Pearl Harbor mocked the Japanese after the Fukushima reactor incident. Granted, a sovereign nation launching attacks on your soil is much, much scarier than terrorism, but it's still long past time to get the fuck over it.

[Callisto]

http://wgntv.com/2013/11/07/man-sues...ugly-children/

A man in China sued his ex-wife for having ugly children.

Initially, he accused his wife of infidelity because he was sure he would never father such an unattractive child.

“Our daughter was so incredibly ugly to the point where it horrified me,” He said.

But DNA tests proved that the baby was his.

Then, the ex-wife came clean about something. Before they met, she had $100,000 worth of plastic surgery.

He sued her on the grounds of false pretenses, and he won.

A judge awarded him $120,000.

[Raldo]

No pics? So disappointing.

(Maybe it's for the best, lol)

[Callisto]

http://cmgcocoafab.files.wordpress.c...ents.jpg?w=484

Sources close to the case confirmed that the little girl ain't got no alibi

[Moss]

that's really sad

also some incredible plastic surgery

[Callisto]

Yeah I don't know how young the girl is but hopefully too young to understand what's going on, because that's the kind of shit that'll wreck a person for life. The guy's an ass for shunning his child for being ugly; though I do think a lawsuit regarding marriage through false pretenses is actually fair(which I think was the actual point of the case).

[isladar]

Until the kids find out!

"Hey dad, what's in this file folder?"

[Callisto]

Just think, not only is the poor girl going to have a rough enough time just based on looks, but she may be the first child ever actually told "Yes, you were the reason we got a divorce."

[isladar]

Man, we need a news thread that's like "Vaguely Amusing / Saccharine Feel-Good / Cute Animal News Stories thread", the past two pages have been depreeeeeessing.

[Moss]

Yeah I don't know how young the girl is but hopefully too young to understand what's going on, because that's the kind of shit that'll wreck a person for life. The guy's an ass for shunning his child for being ugly; though I do think a lawsuit regarding marriage through false pretenses is actually fair(which I think was the actual point of the case).

yeah... I think the worst part is I can't really argue with the ruling. I also can't blame the father for being surprised since those kids look nothing like either of them

the little boy breaks my heart tho

[Tyrath]

Man, we need a news thread that's like "Vaguely Amusing / Saccharine Feel-Good / Cute Animal News Stories thread", the past two pages have been depreeeeeessing.

Is the Abominable Snowman a Bear?
Scientist has linked "Yeti" hair samples to DNA from an ancient polar bear jaw.

http://images.nationalgeographic.com...24_600x450.jpg
A British scientist has linked supposed hair samples from the legendary Yeti, or "Abominable Snowman," to a breed of ancient Arctic bears that he says could have survived to the modern day—but other experts say the results need to be published before any conclusions can be drawn.

Bryan Sykes, a respected geneticist at Oxford University in the U.K., this week reported the findings of a yearlong project that aimed to rigorously test hair and tissue samples that were claimed to have belonged to the elusive creature.

"I put out a call for Yeti, Bigfoot, and Sasquatch hairs in 2012, and I received a good response from all over the world," Sykes told NBC News.

One of the most promising samples that Sykes received included hairs attributed to a Yeti mummy in the northern Indian region of Ladakh; the hairs were purportedly collected by a French mountaineer who was shown the corpse 40 years ago. Another sample was a single hair that was found about a decade ago in Bhutan, some 800 miles (1,290 kilometers) away from Ladakh.

According to Sykes, the DNA from these two samples matched the genetic signature of a polar bear jawbone that was found in the Norwegian Arctic in 2004. Scientists say the jawbone could be up to 120,000 years old.

Sykes's findings will be the focus of Bigfoot Files, a documentary series premiering on Britain's Channel 4 this Sunday. (A two-hour special will air in the U.S. on Sunday, November 17, at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel.)

Still Alive?

Sykes said the fact that the hair samples were found so far apart, and relatively recently, suggests the species that the hairs came from may still be alive.

"I can't imagine we managed to get samples from the only two 'snow bears' in the Himalayas," he told the Associated Press.

Sykes speculated that the creature could be a new bear species, or perhaps a hybrid of polar bears and brown bears.

"The next thing is [to] go there and find one," Sykes told the Associated Press.

Loren Coleman, director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine, said Sykes's finding could be the "number one story in cryptozoology"—the study of hidden, or unverified, animals—"for the decade."

Coleman, who also appears in the upcoming documentary, said he thinks Sykes's findings likely explain only one of the Yeti varieties that have been reported.

"That's one of the problems with the word 'Yeti,'" Coleman said. "It's an umbrella term for three different varieties. There's the small kind, there's a man-sized type, and then a larger one that is known as Dzu-Teh. I must assume what he's looking at are samples from the larger-sized one that many of us in the field have speculated was a form of bear."

If, as Sykes's findings suggest, the Dzu-Teh is indeed the same species of early polar bear that once roamed the Arctic, it is unlikely to have a white fur coat, as often shown in popular depictions of the Yeti, since it was one of the first polar bears to branch off from brown bears.

That, Coleman said, actually strengthens Sykes's case that the larger Yeti is an ancient polar bear species.

"It's one of the myths of the Abominable Snowman and Yeti that they're white," Coleman said.

"The native people actually describe them as brown and reddish-brown."

Conceivable

Brian Regal, a science historian at Kean University in New Jersey, called the possibility of an unidentified bear species living in the Himalayas "exciting," but said it will be difficult to definitively connect the hairs to the Yeti of legend.

"This is another disappointment for the cryptozoology community," Regal said. "Just because [Sykes] showed that this particular DNA sample is from a bear doesn't necessarily mean that's what people have been seeing. They may have been seeing bears; they may have been seeing something else."

Biologist Robert Rockwell, who has studied polar bears, said he thinks it's conceivable that a bear species has managed to survive in the Himalayas unnoticed.

"It is possible, as Asiatic black bears, brown bears, and even sun bears—or some odd combination—conceivably could or could have historically been in that general region. Since they are [bears], they too would share a lot of the DNA sequences found in the fossil cited," said Rockwell, who is at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

"Could something like that be in that area and not be seen clearly or captured or collected? It is a huge area, much of which is not densely populated, and except for increasingly habituated individuals, most [bears] are pretty shy. And if there are not many of them, it is even more conceivable."

Need for Peer Review

But Rockwell said he will need to see Sykes's results published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal before he is convinced the hair samples indeed came from bears.

"The claim is based on a really small sample, and the DNA is likely degraded to some extent. Until the sequence data have been published, I am going to be rather skeptical," Rockwell said.

"So many critters share so much of their DNA that getting 'matches' can be an artifact of sampling and will certainly depend on precisely what region of DNA is being used."

Molecular biologist Charlotte Lindqvist expressed a similar sentiment. "I'd like to see the data published and scrutinized," said Lindqvist, who is with the State University of New York's University at Buffalo. She was part of the team that extracted DNA from the ancient polar bear jawbone that Sykes used in his genetic comparisons.

"Before that happens, it makes little sense to me to suggest any links between the 120,000-year-old polar bear and a bear (or Yeti) in the Himalayas," Lindqvist said in an email.

Sykes says he intends to publish his findings. "The project is still going on," he told NBC News, "and the idea is to publish these results in a scientific journal to bring it back into the realm of science."

Not cute animal but I found it interesting.

[Cliron]

Seems like there are a ton of MissPiggy worthy stories today.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...ork-snack.html

Let us say 'faggots' on Facebook, says maker of pork snack
Mr Brain’s, which makes the traditional pork product, is urging Facebook to allow people to use the word 'faggots' to refer to the dish

A British faggot maker has appealed to Facebook over its restrictions on the use of the word.
Mr Brain’s, which began making the pork product in Bristol in 1935, complained that when it tries to post an advert on the social networking site, the word faggots is always blocked.
Facebook has been deactivating the accounts of users who have used the term on their profiles as it is also an offensive word used to describe gay people.
Two Facebook users recently had their accounts temporarily suspended after they wrote about the classic dish traditionally made from pork off-cuts and offal.
Eileen Perrins, 68, from Telford, Shropshire, was unable to use her profile for 12 hours after she posted a picture of the food, while Robert Wilkes, 54, from Taunton, Somerset, was also left wondering why he could not access Facebook after he confessed he “liked faggots”.

Mr Wilkes said: "It may have a different meaning in America but I used it in a food context."
Facebook admitted the two cases were a Transatlantic "misunderstanding" and said the word faggot was not explicitly banned on the site.
But when complaints are made, the social network judges content at face value and where the site does not have sufficient context, it assumes the most common reading.
A spokesman for Mr Brain’s said: "We're really sympathetic to Facebook's need to monitor offensive words, but in the UK faggots are a favourite meal amongst lots of families.
"Surely there must be a way that Facebook can allow us to talk about a traditional British dish?"
Mr Brain's was started by Herbert Brain when he opened a grocery business in Bristol's Temple Street in 1890.
In 1927 he bought premises in Upper York Street in Bristol and used it for bacon curing, smoking and cooking hams.
A suggestion from an employee led to the first production of faggots from the premises in 1935.
The word faggot, often shortened to fag, is also used as a gay slur in the US, although it may be linked to British all-male boarding schools.

And while I'm at it because of Miss Piggy being in the title of this thread:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...ecause-2685269

Woman 'runs over boyfriend' because he refused to stop at McDonalds

Crystal Brooks allegedly hit her boyfriend three times with his pickup after disagreeing with his choice of fast food restaurant

A woman was arrested after running over her boyfriend - because he refused to go to McDonalds with her.

Crystal Greer Brooks is alleged to have hit her other half three times with a pickup truck following the row in Kingsport, Tennessee.

Police were called to the scene of the collision shortly after midnight, the Kingsport-Times News reported, where they found 33-year-old Brooks' partner with cuts to his arms and back.

His clothing was also torn, "consistent with being dragged on the pavement".

Witnesses told police that Brooks, her boyfriend and a friend had been drinking on a night out when they decided to get something to eat.

But Brooks allegedly disagreed with the choice of restaurant, with one witness saying she "was mad they didn't stop at McDonalds".

She demanded her boyfriend pull over at the side of the road, but as he got out of the vehicle she got behind the wheel and then allegedly drove forward, knocking her boyfriend to the ground.

Witness statements claim she then accelerated twice more, hitting him again.

Brooks denied hitting the man, saying he had jumped on to the car bonnet, but she was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.

Her boyfriend, who is also the father of Brooks' child, was taken to a friend's house and given a domestic violence form.

[Callisto]

[AidenCarby]

Sources close to the case confirmed that the little girl ain't got no alibi

Lost my shit at this and @ British Faggot Maker. Jesus Christ my sides.

[MaachaQ]

Behold, Internet Explorer As A Magical Girl Anime
http://kotaku.com/behold-internet-ex...ime-1459673327

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/195j...f/original.gif
We've seen popular websites as anime characters before, but that was fan-art. All made up. This magical girl version Internet Explorer? She's official.

Really. That video comes from the folks at Internet Explorer. Why is Internet Explorer personified as a cute anime girl? Well, turns out there's a new version of Internet Explorer.
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/195j.../ku-xlarge.png
She's called Inori, and she even has her own Facebook page.
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/195j.../ku-xlarge.png
A recent post on the page:

When I was younger, I used to be a clumsy, slow and awkward girl.

However, just like the story of ugly duckling, people told me that I have really matured and changed over the years. I feel confident in my abilities now, and I'm eager to show you what I can do.

Why don't you get to know me a little better?

She even has a cosplayer already.
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/195j.../ku-xlarge.jpg
And how is this new version of Internet Explorer, anyway? Well...

"maybe i should try this new internet explorer, it might actually be pretty good" pic.twitter.com/PI0ACQ0NRz
— anime explorer (@JMoneyMC) November 6, 2013

Okay but, seriously, joke tweets aside, it doesn't seem like this is out yet—if you click on 'download,' it just takes you back to the Facebook page, and the description of the cosplay picture makes it sound like there's an upcoming launch for this. Until it actually launches, enjoy your magical anime girls I guess?