Miss Piggy's Grocery Store Checkout Headlines

[Tokitoki]

I stopped reading when she started insulting the mother of three autistic kids because they "aren't autistic" and that she calls it wonderful is "cruel beyond comprehension."

[RKenshin]

The fact it was signed "Mountain Mama" pretty much sums it up.

[Melena]

I just saw someone post this gem of an article to facebook. It gave me a good chuckle until I realized people actually believe this crap then I became sad.

http://gaia-health.com/gaia-blog/201...my-son-autism/

GDI i'm blaming you for my headache now.

[Ezek]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/wo...nal-home&_r=3&

Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe, according to newly disclosed classified documents.

Fearing that terrorist or criminal networks could use the games to communicate secretly, move money or plot attacks, the documents show, intelligence operatives have entered terrain populated by digital avatars that include elves, gnomes and supermodels.

The spies have created make-believe characters to snoop and to try to recruit informers, while also collecting data and contents of communications between players, according to the documents, disclosed by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden. Because militants often rely on features common to video games — fake identities, voice and text chats, a way to conduct financial transactions — American and British intelligence agencies worried that they might be operating there, according to the papers.

Online games might seem innocuous, a top-secret 2008 N.S.A. document warned, but they had the potential to be a “target-rich communication network” allowing intelligence suspects “a way to hide in plain sight.” Virtual games “are an opportunity!” another 2008 N.S.A. document declared.

But for all their enthusiasm — so many C.I.A., F.B.I. and Pentagon spies were hunting around in Second Life, the document noted, that a “deconfliction” group was needed to avoid collisions — the intelligence agencies may have inflated the threat.

The documents do not cite any counterterrorism successes from the effort, and former American intelligence officials, current and former gaming company employees and outside experts said in interviews that they knew of little evidence that terrorist groups viewed the games as havens to communicate and plot operations.

Games “are built and operated by companies looking to make money, so the players’ identity and activity is tracked,” said Peter W. Singer of the Brookings Institution, an author of “Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know.” “For terror groups looking to keep their communications secret, there are far more effective and easier ways to do so than putting on a troll avatar.”

The surveillance, which also included Microsoft’s Xbox Live, could raise privacy concerns. It is not clear exactly how the agencies got access to gamers’ data or communications, how many players may have been monitored or whether Americans’ communications or activities were captured.

One American company, the maker of World of Warcraft, said that neither the N.S.A. nor its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters, had gotten permission to gather intelligence in its game. Many players are Americans, who can be targeted for surveillance only with approval from the nation’s secret intelligence court. The spy agencies, though, face far fewer restrictions on collecting certain data or communications overseas.

"We are unaware of any surveillance taking place," said a spokesman for Blizzard Entertainment, based in Irvine, Calif., which makes World of Warcraft. "If it was, it would have been done without our knowledge or permission."

A spokeswoman for Microsoft declined to comment. Philip Rosedale, the founder of Second Life and a former chief executive officer of Linden Lab, the game’s maker, declined to comment on the spying revelations. Current Linden executives did not respond to requests for comment.

A Government Communications Headquarters spokesman would neither confirm nor deny any involvement by that agency in gaming surveillance, but said that its work is conducted under “a strict legal and policy framework” with rigorous oversight. An N.S.A. spokeswoman declined to comment.

Intelligence and law enforcement officials became interested in games after some became enormously popular, drawing tens of millions of people worldwide, from preteens to retirees. The games rely on lifelike graphics, virtual currencies and the ability to speak to other players in real time. Some gamers merge the virtual and real worlds by spending long hours playing and making close online friends.

[Kuya]

For fucks sake

[hey]

Duh?

[Howie Roary]

Foxking is that you?

[Seraph]

Not now boss. I need to finish this raid. We have a hot lead that's where the terrorists are.

[Silenka]

Harassed boyfriend jumped to his death after his girlfriend insisted on going into another clothes shop

By Tara Brady

PUBLISHED: 08:49 EST, 9 December 2013 | UPDATED: 10:16 EST, 9 December 2013

-Tao Hsiao was shopping with his girlfriend in Jiangsu province, east China
-After five hours Tao finally had enough and demanded to go home
-When she insisted they go into another shop the 38-year-old chucked the bags to the floor and jumped over the balcony.


A man jumped to his death after a furious row with his girlfriend who insisted they go into another clothes shop.

CCTV shows Tao Hsiao, 38, escorting his girlfriend around a shopping mall in Xuzhou, Jiangsu
province, east China.

After five hours Tao finally had enough and demanded to go home.

Eyewitnesses say he could be heard saying they already had more bags than they could carry, but she insisted on going into one more shop where the was a special offer on shoes.

An eyewitness said: 'He told her she already had enough shoes, more shoes that she could wear in a
lifetime and it was pointless buying any more.

'She started shouting at him accusing him of being a skinflint and of spoiling Christmas, it was a really heated argument.'

The shouting match ended when the man chucked the bags on the floor and jumped over the balcony, smashing into Christmas decorations on his way down before hitting the floor seven stories below causing shocked shoppers to flee in panic.

Emergency services arrived at the scene but Tao was killed immediately from the impact of the fall.

A shopping spokesman said: 'His body was removed fairly quickly.

'He actually landed on one of the stalls below and then fell to the floor so although the store was damaged it meant he didn't hit anybody.

'This is a tragic incident, but this time of year can be very stressful for many people.'

[Howie Roary]

shop til you drop

[Guitarman]

The fuck is a skinflint?

[Jicent]

The fuck is a skinflint?

Just another word for cheap, frugal penny-pincher.

[Moss]

The fuck is a skinflint?

cmon bro google takes like .5 seconds

skinflint is a fun word

[hey]

Harassed boyfriend jumped to his death after his girlfriend insisted on going into another clothes shop

China

I knew it as soon as i read the title.

[BaneTheBrawler]

i bet she still bought those shoes

[myreality]

Hated shopping with an ex, i would have to clear my day just for a shirt.

[Acevalefor]

Hated shopping with an ex, i would have to clear my day just for a shirt.

What I tell my wife:
I am not going shopping with you unless there is a valid reason that I need to be there. Moral support and "a guy's opinion" are not valid reasons. Go by yourself or take a friend.

Works every time. Somehow we are still married after 12 years of me refusing to go shopping with her.

[Brill Weave]

What I tell my wife:
I am not going shopping with you unless there is a valid reason that I need to be there. Moral support and "a guy's opinion" are not valid reasons. Go by yourself or take a friend.

Works every time. Somehow we are still married after 12 years of me refusing to go shopping with her.

I don't care about shopping with the wife. What pisses me off is she'll tell me she needs to go to Target/Macy's/whatever for a specific item. Then when we get there she magically needs multiple items from different stores. So now what was supposed to be a one store trip turns into a four hour excursion.

[Nephlite]

I don't care about shopping with the wife. What pisses me off is she'll tell me she needs to go to Target/Macy's/whatever for a specific item. Then when we get there she magically needs multiple items from different stores. So now what was supposed to be a one store trip turns into a four hour excursion.

This. My wife gets mad at me when she asks if I want to go with her and I say no. I'd rather sit on my ass and watch cartoons with the kids. I guess that makes me lazy in her eyes.

[Tokitoki]

Same thing here. Went into lower Manhattan a few weeks ago with two objectives. I needed shirts to wear to work that weren't short sleeve and she needed snowboarding boots. I went into the Levis store and bought 3 shirts, done. We then went to Burton, DC, back to Burton and got the boots. Then we needed to go to Steve Madden to look for shoes, to Dr. Martens, back to Steve Madden, Campus? or something, back to Steve Madden...