Penguins pelt poo at Edinburgh Zoo visitors in a jealous rage over their new, and equally cute panda neighbours. (via News.com.au)
And that rockhopper penguin looks like he means business.
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This young man holding the sign at “Occupy Wall Street”, probably wanted “No More Corruption”. However, Google Translate gave him “There isn’t any more corruption.”
By the way, why is he holding a sign written in Chinese?! Has this naive young man ever done business in China? How about 關係, 後門, and 紅包?
Those last three expressions refer to concepts relating to interpersonal relationships and/in business in China.
The first is guanxi which has the literal translation of ‘relationship’ but has some connotative meaning relating to the expression ‘you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours’. The second is hou men which is literally ‘back door’, usually as a result of guanxi or what you expect if you give hong bao (the third one).
Hong bao is literally, red packet. In social situations, we’ll fill red packets with money and give them as gifts for special occasions (or not so special occasions). While people consider gifts of money to be impersonal, it’s a practical gift, and the red packet signifies luck and prosperity. So when you gift a red packet, you’re sharing your prosperity and wishing luck and prosperity upon the recipient.
In this context though, hong bao is more than likely referring to a bribe.
So yes, another example of people missing the point.
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This is old news now, but every time I hear these two mentally deficient slappers going on about how it’s the rich people’s fault and they want to show the rich that they can do what they want, I get this urge to take that bottle of rosé they’re drinking from and beat them over the head with it.
All the people they hurt, all the livelihoods lost, and most of the victims weren’t the rich they’re blaming. Utter stupidity.
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Re: Animal rights group PETA to launch pornography website - Telegraph
Re: Animal rights group PETA to launch pornography website - Telegraph
I don’t know about the dead horses. I think this thread still has a decent bit of mileage left.
Absolutely. There haven’t been any pussy jokes yet.
Yes, there were. See the original post description above the link.
Nevertheless, there is still a whole menagerie of euphemisms yet to be tapped, in more ways than one.
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Re: Animal rights group PETA to launch pornography website - Telegraph
I don’t know about the dead horses. I think this thread still has a decent bit of mileage left.
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It’s sickening, horrible stuff.I’ve been watching BBC news for hours now and the scale of rioting and looting going on is nothing short of horrific. Thinking of my friends living in London and hoping this all ends soon.
I saw that first photo and thought “I wonder what movie that’s from.”
Sigh.
It’s an incredible photo. But such terrible circumstances. :(
Just… sigh.
Planet needs rebooting.
In other news, when did Tumblr start carrying tags over in reblogs?
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Alan Jones impressed by ‘laser’ speed breakthrough - News.com.au
I can’t tell what I love most about this article:
- the headline
- the first summary bullet point: “Don’t let this man near your computer”
- the inset picture and caption: “You know who else likes lasers? Dr Evil from Austin Powers. Picture: New Line Cinema” that the author couldn’t help but put in
- or the poll “Should we rename it the “National Laser Beam Network”?”
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A man in the UK heard someone trying to steal his car from his driveway in the middle of the night. Not thinking, he ran outside and sat in the passenger seat and asked the thief “all right mate, where are we going then?”.
Only, the man was also naked.
The thief turns to see a large, naked 50yo man sitting next to him, freaks out and then scarpers.
So a lesson to all large, mature gentlemen: If your car is being stolen, you probably have a good chance of stopping the crime if you strip down to your altogethers and hop into the car.
Caveat: This theory has been based on a statistical sample of 1, and will probably only work if your thief is not also large (optional) and naked.
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(via Ben - Facebook) When I first read the article summary, I was trying to figure out whether the part of the attack was the attacker tying up their victim and using their toes to type messages to people, or whether it was the victim who did it of their own volition. Stupid English language.
Anyway, a victim of a home invasion was tied to her bed while her attacker robbed her. After he left, she managed to get help by using her toes to IM her boyfriend to call 911.
On a nerdy note, I find the most amazing thing about this story is that she was able to use her toes to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to unlock the screen.
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