Miss Piggy's Grocery Store Checkout Headlines

[Dantrag]

What's wrong with groping the chick in the car?

[Celeste]

What's wrong with groping the chick in the car?

Nothing is wrong with it. The real problem I see is that someone released such footage to local media. Unless China has laws against groping female passengers while speeding down a highway.

[Guitarman]

Nike released famed 'Back to the Future" shoe
http://www.kgw.com/news/business/129479098.html

Spoiler: show

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Nike is going back to the future.
The sneaker maker on Thursday said it has created a limited-edition shoe based on a glowing pair that appeared in the popular 1989 movie "Back to the Future II." The 2011 Nike Mag is designed to be an exact replica of the fictional sneaker, including a glowing Nike name on the strap. But unlike the movie version, these shoes won't lace themselves.
Nike will release 1,500 pairs of the 2011 Nike Mag sneaker for auction on eBay and donate all proceeds to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's disease research. Fox famously played Marty McFly in the "Back to the Future" time-travel trilogy, where he wore the shoes during a visit to the year 2015.
"It hasn't gone unnoted by us that there is something special about that shoe and, of course, the movie," said famed Nike shoe designer Tinker Hatfield, who helped design the original shoe and worked on the latest version.
Limited-edition shoes can draw as much, if not more mania, as a new movie or comic book release. Fans obsessively track the latest news and are willing to camp out all night or spending hundreds or more for a single pair online.
Nike's collector sneaker has been long awaited by shoe collectors and movie fans, who have been urging the company to make them ever since the movie was released. There were roughly eight or ten pairs used in the movie, some of which are in Nike's possession and a few that collectors somehow got their hands on.
Owning them, or even seeing a pair of them, has become a singular pursuit for some fans. There was even an online campaign a few years ago called "McFly 2015, Make it Happen" that gathered thousands of signatures to convince Nike to bring the McFly shoe back.
"This is the biggest thing that has happened to sneakers since Michael Jordan, hands down," said Matt Halfhill, an avid shoe collector who runs the website nicekicks.com and flew from Austin, Texas, to Los Angeles for the unveiling of the shoe on Thursday hours after Nike contacted him. "Other than the birth of one of my children, I wouldn't have missed this for anything."
Nike Inc., based in Beaverton, Ore., decided more than four years ago to create the shoe, but was unsure when a pair would be ready. Unlike the shoes in the movie, the real-life versions had to be designed for day-to-day use. For instance, the design used in the movie required Fox to wear a battery pack with wires running down his pants to light the shoe, which was the best technology available at the time.
Hatfield said the Nike Mag has been difficult to develop and the electrical systems, which illuminate the shoe for up to five hours, have been one of the most challenging things the company has ever done in footwear. But the timing seemed perfect to bring the shoe back to support a bigger idea.
That Nike is releasing the shoe in 2011 enables it to take advantage of a matching grant for the foundation. Google founder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki have offered to match all donations to the Michael J. Fox Foundation up to $50 million through the end of 2012.
"The project is exciting to me because it brings together three very passionate audiences: the Parkinson's community, sneakerheads and 'Back to the Future' fans," Fox said in a statement. "With their support we can accelerate our objective of finding a cure for Parkinson's."
Nike also has created a faux "lost scene" from the film to promote the shoe that includes original cast members Christopher Lloyd and Donald Fullilove, who will be joined by basketball star Kevin Durant and Nike's Hatfield.
The auction begins Thursday and will end Sept. 18.

I won't lie. I'd fucking love to own a pair.

for reference:

http://www.blogcdn.com/blog.moviefon...ikeairmags.jpg

[MaachaQ]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44442883...ws-seattle_wa/

Neighbor asks permission to dump body in trash can
By KING 5 News

TACOMA, Wash. – A man who asked his neighbors if he could dump a body in their trash can was arrested Wednesday night, Tacoma Police said.

It happened around 4 p.m. at an apartment complex in the 500 block of East 36th Street.

Tacoma Police spokesman Sgt. Mark Fulghum said it was unclear if the neighbors actually gave the man permission to dump the body in their trash, but he allegedly did it anyway.

Police said the body was that of a 16-year-old Tacoma boy who had been shot in the head.

No other information was immediately released by police.

[solanis]

Nike released famed 'Back to the Future" shoe

Spoiler: show

http://www.kgw.com/news/business/129479098.html

Spoiler: show

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Nike is going back to the future.
The sneaker maker on Thursday said it has created a limited-edition shoe based on a glowing pair that appeared in the popular 1989 movie "Back to the Future II." The 2011 Nike Mag is designed to be an exact replica of the fictional sneaker, including a glowing Nike name on the strap. But unlike the movie version, these shoes won't lace themselves.
Nike will release 1,500 pairs of the 2011 Nike Mag sneaker for auction on eBay and donate all proceeds to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's disease research. Fox famously played Marty McFly in the "Back to the Future" time-travel trilogy, where he wore the shoes during a visit to the year 2015.
"It hasn't gone unnoted by us that there is something special about that shoe and, of course, the movie," said famed Nike shoe designer Tinker Hatfield, who helped design the original shoe and worked on the latest version.
Limited-edition shoes can draw as much, if not more mania, as a new movie or comic book release. Fans obsessively track the latest news and are willing to camp out all night or spending hundreds or more for a single pair online.
Nike's collector sneaker has been long awaited by shoe collectors and movie fans, who have been urging the company to make them ever since the movie was released. There were roughly eight or ten pairs used in the movie, some of which are in Nike's possession and a few that collectors somehow got their hands on.
Owning them, or even seeing a pair of them, has become a singular pursuit for some fans. There was even an online campaign a few years ago called "McFly 2015, Make it Happen" that gathered thousands of signatures to convince Nike to bring the McFly shoe back.
"This is the biggest thing that has happened to sneakers since Michael Jordan, hands down," said Matt Halfhill, an avid shoe collector who runs the website nicekicks.com and flew from Austin, Texas, to Los Angeles for the unveiling of the shoe on Thursday hours after Nike contacted him. "Other than the birth of one of my children, I wouldn't have missed this for anything."
Nike Inc., based in Beaverton, Ore., decided more than four years ago to create the shoe, but was unsure when a pair would be ready. Unlike the shoes in the movie, the real-life versions had to be designed for day-to-day use. For instance, the design used in the movie required Fox to wear a battery pack with wires running down his pants to light the shoe, which was the best technology available at the time.
Hatfield said the Nike Mag has been difficult to develop and the electrical systems, which illuminate the shoe for up to five hours, have been one of the most challenging things the company has ever done in footwear. But the timing seemed perfect to bring the shoe back to support a bigger idea.
That Nike is releasing the shoe in 2011 enables it to take advantage of a matching grant for the foundation. Google founder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki have offered to match all donations to the Michael J. Fox Foundation up to $50 million through the end of 2012.
"The project is exciting to me because it brings together three very passionate audiences: the Parkinson's community, sneakerheads and 'Back to the Future' fans," Fox said in a statement. "With their support we can accelerate our objective of finding a cure for Parkinson's."
Nike also has created a faux "lost scene" from the film to promote the shoe that includes original cast members Christopher Lloyd and Donald Fullilove, who will be joined by basketball star Kevin Durant and Nike's Hatfield.
The auction begins Thursday and will end Sept. 18.

I won't lie. I'd fucking love to own a pair.

for reference:

http://www.blogcdn.com/blog.moviefon...ikeairmags.jpg

I'm not a sneakers kind of person, so I was surprised to see they're currently going for ~$5k up. is that normal for limited-edition sneakers?

[Qalbert]

Limited edition+nostalgia+for charity=$$$

[Pikarya]

Quality Indian sweatshop made.

[solanis]

Woman dies after injecting hot beef fat into her face

A Homewood woman died Thursday shortly after injecting heated beef fat into her face, but the injection did not cause her death, authorities said.

An autopsy Friday determined that 63-year-old Janet Hardt died of peritonitis, a severe abdominal inflammation caused by a bacterial infection, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Infections in her face from the injections did not lead to her death, which was ruled natural, officials with the medical examiner’s office said.

Family members told authorities Hardt had undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries to her face and neck. A short time before she died, she injected the heated beef fat into her face around her mouth and chin. Authorities said she apparently performed the procedure on several occasions in an attempt to simulate Botox, which reduces wrinkling.

Hardt had infections in her mouth and lip as well as scarring from the injections, sources said.

On Thursday, Hardt went to the hospital after complaining that her face felt like it was burning, sources said.

http://www.suntimes.com/7558632-417/...into-face.html

[ronin sparthos]

Woman dies after injecting hot beef fat into her face

http://www.suntimes.com/7558632-417/...into-face.html

What the fuck?

[Bingbong]

What the fuck?

Something something hot beef injection in the face something.

[Celestialstrife]

Austin Powers' actor gets life for torture, sex assault
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/444609.../#.Tm0Cv9TPxIE

[Yuri-G]

http://consumerist.com/2011/09/obese...ng-booths.html

290lb Man Sues White Castle For Not Enlarging Booths

By Ben Popken on September 12, 2011 2:00 PM 0 views

http://static1.consumerist.com/whitesackle.jpg (scriptingnews)

A 290lb stockbroker is suing White Castle because he says he can't fit it any of their booths. He says the chain promised to make the booths bigger and even showed him schematics of the new designs, but never made the changes.
"They're stationary booths," he told The New York Post. "I'm not humongous, [but] I'm a big guy. I could not wedge myself in." The man said he hit his knee on the metal post underneath the table when he tried to sit down.
Each of the three times in the past he filed complaints, White Castle offered him a free hamburger. However, cheese was extra.
The man said he was sent drawings of new, larger booths the chain said they were going to put in, but two and half years after he complained, they had still failed to do so.
The man says that the failure to accommodate his needs violate the civil rights of overweight people. He says that the Americans with Disabilities Act is "applicable, not only to me, but to pregnant women and handicapped people." The man says he has no problems sitting down at other restaurants or onboard aircraft.
A White Castle spokesman said the man could have asked a store manager for a regular chair.
The lawsuit seeks damages and larger chairs.

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this is bullshit. it's like smoking cigarettes despite all the health warnings and suing the tobacco companies years later for all the cancer deaths, I mean who would ever-

oh, right.

still, fuck this fat entitled loser. I bet he lets his smelly bacteria-laden unwashed blubber slip and slide all over his seatmates when he gets on a plane, too. I'd say I hope he chokes to death on a slider but it would probably take a whole cow to fill his cavernous maw of a gorge-hole.

seriously.

[Yuri-G]

goddamn that was fast. thanks, I couldn't find this thread. it was probably on the front page or something but I am very much out of it today.

also:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...it-booths.html

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...56_468x636.jpg

[Melena]

Bleh, he's overweight but not beached whale level. He's only about 15lbs more then me and I'm guessing i'm only about 2-3" taller. Though to be honest, if he really wanted to sit there he could squeeze in. Just needs to suck that gut in and start walking 30 minutes a day.

[Drex]

"I'm not humongous"

I wonder how many years it takes a fatty to convince himself of this

Martin Kessman, 64

64

http://rockthelist.com/wp-content/up...pop-mrowl1.jpg

[hey]

At first i thought that was a joke article, but really...290 lb is not so fat that he shouldn't be able to fit in a booth. My mom was somewhere in the range of 320-350 before she really started losing weight, and she never had any trouble fitting in a booth at a restaurant. It wasn't always comfortable for her, but she never had trouble fitting. There's really no reason they can't get booths that fit people weighing less than 300 lb.

[Cream Soda]

A 16-year-old boy died after masturbating 42 times without stopping in Rubiato town, in Goiás region, Brazil.

His mother told a local newspaper that she already knew about his son’s addiction and that she planned to see the doctor, but the decision came too late.

The young man began to masturbate at midnight and spent the whole night to compulsively touch himself.

At school, his classmates commented on the boy’s problem and some said he asked them to connect to the webcam for being observed.

They further said that his attraction to women was extreme; he was attracted to all kind of women, regardless of texture physics, color and age.

In his room a great amount of pornography was found, including photographs and videos of nude women that were saved on his PC.

http://m24digital.com/en/2011/08/26/...ting-42-times/



I lol'd

[Pikarya]

Story would be much better if there was scat/loli found on his drive.

[Elvis]

"regardless of texture, physics, color or age"

Physics!

[Not Kuno]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110912/D9PMU9JG0.html

SpongeBob in hot water from study of 4-year-olds

Sep 12, 6:54 AM (ET)

By LINDSEY TANNER

CHICAGO (AP) - The cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that program can cause short-term attention and learning problems in 4-year-olds.

The problems were seen in a study of 60 children randomly assigned to either watch "SpongeBob," or the slower-paced PBS cartoon "Caillou" or assigned to draw pictures. Immediately after these nine-minute assignments, the kids took mental function tests; those who had watched "SpongeBob" did measurably worse than the others.

Previous research has linked TV-watching with long-term attention problems in children, but the new study suggests more immediate problems can occur after very little exposure - results that parents of young kids should be alert to, the study authors said.

Kids' cartoon shows typically feature about 22 minutes of action, so watching a full program "could be more detrimental," the researchers speculated, But they said more evidence is needed to confirm that.

The results should be interpreted cautiously because of the study's small size, but the data seem robust and bolster the idea that media exposure is a public health issue, said Dr. Dimitri Christakis. He is a child development specialist at Seattle Children's Hospital who wrote an editorial accompanying the study published online Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

Christakis said parents need to realize that fast-paced programming may not be appropriate for very young children. "What kids watch matters, it's not just how much they watch," he said.

University of Virginia psychology professor Angeline Lillard, the lead author, said Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob" shouldn't be singled out. She found similar problems in kids who watched other fast-paced cartoon programming.

She said parents should realize that young children are compromised in their ability to learn and use self-control immediately after watching such shows. "I wouldn't advise watching such shows on the way to school or any time they're expected to pay attention and learn," she said.

Nickelodeon spokesman David Bittler disputed the findings and said "SpongeBob SquarePants" is aimed at kids aged 6-11, not 4-year-olds.

"Having 60 non-diverse kids, who are not part of the show's targeted (audience), watch nine minutes of programming is questionable methodology and could not possibly provide the basis for any valid findings that parents could trust," he said.

Lillard said 4-year-olds were chosen because that age "is the heart of the period during which you see the most development" in certain self-control abilities. Whether children of other ages would be similarly affected can't be determined from this study.

Most kids were white and from middle-class or wealthy families. They were given common mental function tests after watching cartoons or drawing. The SpongeBob kids scored on average 12 points lower than the other two groups, whose scores were nearly identical.

In another test, measuring self-control and impulsiveness, kids were rated on how long they could wait before eating snacks presented when the researcher left the room. "SpongeBob" kids waited about 2 1/2 minutes on average, versus at least four minutes for the other two groups.

The study has several limitations. For one thing, the kids weren't tested before they watched TV. But Lillard said none of the children had diagnosed attention problems and all got similar scores on parent evaluations of their behavior.