Weird News of the World Thread - Part 2

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

.Sucks Seller Accused of Ripping Off Poor Helpless Celebrities

The company selling off .SUCKS domains is making celebrities and brands pay premium prices to snatch up their .SUCKS addresses before their enemies do first. This is pissing off ICANN, the group tasked with regulating domains, which sees the scheme as a coercive shakedown.

Vox Populi, the company selling off the new .SUCKS domains, is taking full advantage of how freaked out celebrities and brands are about their haters using the power of .SUCKS against them. Vox Populi is charging celebrities and brands between $2500 and $25,000 to buy a domain before sales open up to the general public.

So, to stop anyone else from registering TaylorSwift.SUCKS when it’s an open market, Taylor Swift would have to pay a premium fee to nab the pejorative domain prior to haters-gonna- hating. And that’s exactly what the songwriter did last month. (TaylorSwiftsCat.SUCKS is still available, so apparently Swift’s not as concerned about Olivia Benson’s reputation.)

Companies like Microsoft, Verizon, and eBay are petitioning ICANN to shut .SUCKS down.

Two weeks ago, the advisory body called the Intellectual Property Constituency representing major companies and industry groups asked ICANN in a letter to halt the rollout of “.sucks,” calling it a “shakedown scheme” and “predatory.”​

ICANN is listening: It has asked the Federal Trade Commission and Canada’s Office of Consumer Affairs to look into Vox Populi’s scheme, to see if it’s up to anything illegal.

http://gizmodo.com/sucks-seller-accused-of-ripping-off-poor-helpless-cele-1696996439

As far as I'm concerned it's genius

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Teens Are Actually on Google+ for Some Reason

A new Pew research study on teenagers’ social media habits has a few surprising results. Teens are still on The Facebook en masse, with Instagram and Snapchat close behind. But 33% reported using Google+. Tied with Twitter! Come again?

Google’s attempt at building a social network hasn’t gotten much popular traction beyond the tech-minded set. But teenagers? This appeared unlikely. And indeed, the Google+ numbers are worth a closer look.

For one, use doesn’t mean regular use. Pew Associate Research Director Amanda Lenhart explained that the study looked at two data points: whether you use a service at all, and then whether it is the service that you use most often. When the numbers were broken down like this, 33% of teenagers in the study reported using Google+, but only 5% reported that they used it the most.

And there’s another explanation for why over a third of tweens are on Google+: the social network’s forced integration with YouTube and other Google services.

As Lenhart pointed out, “[w]hat’s challenging about the Google + data is knowing how much teens distinguish it from the suite of other Google products—many of which are essentially bundled together from the users’ perspective, and some of which a portion of teens may now be asked to use for school—think using Google docs to work on a document with classmates.”

In other words, teens probably aren’t thinking about the Google’s social network when answering the question about Google+ usage — but they probably aren’t thinking about schoolwork, either. In a move that made no one on the internet happy, Google strong-armed a YouTube/Google+ integration in 2013, making it so you were required to have a Google+ account in order to comment and utilize YouTube functionalities that were once independent from the Google mothership.
Teenagers’ use of Google+ is no doubt bound to YouTube, where they feed a vast ecosystem of “celebrity” YouTubers I’ve never heard of that makes me feel old and yelling about kids on my lawn. As for why such a high percentage of teenagers use Twitter, I’ve got nothin’. Nobody should be using Twitter.

http://gizmodo.com/teens-are-actually-on-google-for-some-reason-1697000843

I would think the teens like the fact that nobody will be invading their privacy there haha

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Amazon Is Starting to Sue Sellers of Fake Five-Star Reviews

Amazon is looking to end the practice of shady sellers paying money to receive positive four or five star reviews beneath their product listings, with the commerce giant aiming to smash some prolific review-sellers out of business using its immense legal cannons.

A court filing has revealed that Amazon’s going after four separate review sale sites — buyazonreviews.com, buyamazonreviews.com, bayreviews.net and buyreviewsnow.com — claiming the sellers of misleading reviews “...threaten to undermine the trust that customers, and the vast majority of sellers and manufacturers, place in Amazon, thereby tarnishing Amazon’s brand.”

Amazon says the drip of fake positive reviews left beneath a small number of listings, which are often populated over long periods of time so as to appear a little more organic in nature, are coming via sites that also infringe its trademarks and are domain squatting in their use of sites that mimic the Amazon brand.

Amazon is also seeking financial compensation from those it says are gradually undermining its solid three-star reputation, although with paid positive reviews said to cost around $19 to $22 a time, it’s unlikely any of the perpetrators of this modern crime of misdirection have particularly huge personal wealth piles to draw from.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015...20150410?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

I had no idea I could be selling my reviews

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

How Technological Advances Have Affected Sleep Deprivation

Out of the dark came fire, and it fascinated cave men through to the the small hours as they watched it flicker and burn, until they were tired to their bones. Then, there was the smartphone, and everyone stared a the glowing glass slabs until there was absolutely no hope of sleep whatsoever.

http://thedoghousediaries.com/5989

Seems legit

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Real life Batman suit is strong enough to stop stabbings

Made from Kevlar, quarter inch Kydex plating and impact resistant foam, Armatus Designs created a real life version of the Batman suit. It won't stop bullets or make you Bruce Wayne but it is stab and slash resistant while still being pretty lightweight and flexible. I wouldn't recommend you putting it on and becoming a vigilante or anything.

But you could probably fight petty criminals with it on.

[YT]yFzIZkofoFg[/YT]

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/real-life...ough-to-stop-stabbing-1696755654/+chris-mills

Wouldn't it be funny if this was that Arrow22 guy or whatever he was called? t:

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Resurrecting 1500-Year-Old Canals Could Fix Peru's Water Shortages

Lima is one of the world’s largest desert cities, so when it rains it—just kidding, it pretty much never rains. Which leaves Peru’s capital city especially vulnerable to water shortages, and the surprising solution might be reviving a system of ancient canals that date back to even before the Incas.

As New Scientist reports, the city’s water utility company is now working to conserve ancient stone canals in the Andes mountains called amunas. These canals, long fallen into disuse, were originally built by the Wari culture 1,000 to 1,500 years ago. The water company will be grouting these long-forgotten canals to make them functional again.

The amunas are actually much more than primitive aqueducts bringing water into the city; they’re a feat of major landscape engineering. They divert water during the rainy season, when big rivers overfloweth, to springs that then run year-round, essentially turning the landscape into a giant sponge that can be squeezed for water during the dry season.

Water specialists estimate that reviving the amunas can account for 60 percent of the water deficit during Lima’s dry season. And it’s a lot cheaper than a fancy new desalination plant. Sometimes ancient tech can be just as good as high tech.

http://www.newscientist.com/article...RSS|NSNS|2012-GLOBAL|online-news#.VSahKxPF_vJ

That is a pretty amazing solution

 

[squeekness]

Assuming they still get enough rainfall for it to work. The weather is a lot different now than it was a thousand years ago.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Largest Email Study Ever Shows How Very Predictable We Are

Email has been staple of our lives for over two decades, and yet many of us still struggle to manage it. We’ll whittle our inboxes down to empty one week, only to feel overwhelmed as the number of unread messages climbs into the hundreds the next. Are we always an unpredictable mess when it comes to email?

Actually, no, according to researchers at Yahoo labs, who examined more than two million users exchanging some 16 billion messages in the largest email study ever conducted. To search for patterns in our email behavior, the researchers tracked the identities of senders and recipients, the time of day emails were sent, email length, the number of attachments, and the type of device used. They also looked at demographic factors, including age and gender. The conclusion? When it comes to email, we’re drearily predictable.

Younger people tend to send shorter, faster replies than older people, and men send slightly shorter and faster replies than women, the study finds. We respond more promptly during weekdays and work hours, and when we receive more messages, we tend to respond to a smaller fraction of them, and with shorter replies.

Perhaps this information comes as no great surprise to you, but it’s incredibly valuable for computer algorithms. Software developers can use our predictability to design better email management applications that’ll ultimately prevent us from experiencing “overload”—the scientific term for that feeling when you’d rather jump in piranha-infested waters than open your inbox.

http://www.popsci.com/heres-what-scientists-learned-largest-systematic-study-email-habits

I hardly ever use my email for personal messages, it's pretty much all business stuff. Mostly purchases from the net and whatnot. I do all my personal messaging with Bookface normally

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Intel Can't Sell Chips to China Because the US Fears Nukes

In the latest passive-aggressive exchange between the US and its rival superpower, the Department of Commerce has denied Intel a license to export tens of thousands of Xeon Phi chips to China to upgrade the country’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer. Because, you know, nukes.

For the past 18 months, China’s Tianhe-2 has held the title of the world’s most powerful computing machine. The beast of a computer currently uses 80,000 Xeon chips to generate more than 33 petaflops of computational capacity (one petaflop is roughly equal to one quadrillion calculations per second.) This year, the machine is due to undergo a series of upgrades, which would push its processing power past 110 petaflops.

This is making the US government—which says the machine is being used for “nuclear explosives activities”—a bit squirmy. (A US export regulations document clarifies that “nuclear explosives activities” can mean any technologies used in the “design, development, or fabrication” of nukes.) While it’s unclear whether the Feds have any tangible proof that the supercomputer is being used for malicious purposes, Intel’s got no choice but to comply and shrug off the lost sales opportunity. The chipmaker won’t be too much out of pocket, however, since it was recently contracted to build the 180 petaflop Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.

Is it just me, or have we gone from having actual nuclear arms races to using nukes as a pretense for a computational arms race? Kinda meta.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32247532

An interesting development indeed

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Chris Hansen Wants You to Pay for Him to Keep Hitting on Sex Offenders

Famed sexter and former To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen isn't letting a lawsuit or a scandal or losing all his money get him down . Especially not when he can have yours instead. Tomorrow, Hansen will launch a Kickstarter campaign for a new series that is apparently not a joke: Hansen vs. Predator.

Hansen gushed about his nadir in a recent LA Times profile, explaining that he'd "shopped the new series around to different TV networks and syndications, but found that 'the best way to do this is shoot the next investigation and show that we have it.'" Which is a very nice way of saying that his show made the same networks that air footage of women compulsively eating their husbands ashes vaguely uncomfortable.

Obviously, the internet of today is nearly unrecognizable from his chatroom-based heyday in the mid-aughts. But Chris is ready, informing the LA Times very specifically that "now there are 22 ways to communicate online." The 22 are, of course: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, e-mail, Grindr, Snapchat, Tindr, Meerkat, Tumblr, Snapchat, Yik Yak, Kik, SMS, Craigslist, Skype, Snapchat, Google Docs, Snapchat, the forums at Halloween.com, Vine, Snapchat, and Kinja.

If you do decide to give your money to the former host and adulterer, your rewards—in addition to once again being able to revel in another damaged human's criminal sickness—could include sex offender-themed t-shirts and mugs. Plus, if you have $150 to blow, you can snag an outgoing voicemail message from Chris Hansen himself, likely something along the lines of "Hi, I'm Chris Hansen," "Take a seat," or "Please, let me die."

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-et-ct-chris-hansen-predator-crowdfunding-20150410-story.html

I would love to see him bust pervs again

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

No One Knows What to Do With This 76-Foot-Deep Hole in Chicago

If you didn’t know what to look for, you might miss it completely. But from the air—or from Google Earth—it’s impossible to overlook: A gaping, 76-foot-deep hole that has sat abandoned since the 2008 financial crisis.

This was the spot where, as the real estate bubble peaked in 2007, a developer planned a 2,000 foot supertall skyscraper called the Spire. Envisioned as the tallest building in the US and the second tallest in the world, it would have cost at least $1 billion to build the twisting tower, designed by architect Santiago Calatrava of One World Trade Transit Hub fame . But the financial crisis that struck down so many other heady, mid-2000s towers came for the Spire, too.

And now that the financial chaos surrounding it has nearly been put to rest, a big question is confronting its owners: What should be done with it? While its future remains unclear, at least one local publication—Chicago Magazine—has already asked local architects for their ideas.

http://gizmodo.com/no-one-knows-what-to-do-with-this-76-foot-deep-hole-in-1697486547/+LeahBeckmann

More at the link

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Peer Inside the X-Ray Scan of a Creature Millions of Years Old

How do you work out if a creature that's only preserved as rock sank or swam? You create a complex 3D model of its stricture using X-rays is how.

This image shows a 3D model of an ammonite—a kind of creature that lived in the sea up to 65 million years ago—created using a series of those X-ray scans by René Hoffmann from Ruhr University in BochumGermany. From these, he calculated the likely weight and volume of the creature, comparing the measurements to other animals that still grace our planet. His findings suggest that young ammonites, with 11 chambers, could float—though he's yet to confirm what became of the adults.

http://www.newscientist.com/article...ays-reveal-swimming-ability.html#.VSy5pxeepW0

Looks pretty sweet

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Alan Turing's Hidden Manuscript Just Sold For $1 Million

Alan Turing, Engima-breaking mathematician and Benedict Cumberbatch lookalike, never wrote much during his life — manuscripts and diaries are hard to come by. The best remaining example was a 56-page notebook working on “the foundations of computer science”, which just sold at auction for $1,025,000.

The original Bonhams press release on the auction boasted a sale estimate of “at least seven figures”, so the auction house only narrowly avoided embarrassment thanks to a mysterious bidder. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to charity.

The notebook was passed to Turing’s friend and mathematician, Robin Oliver Gandy following Turing’s death. Gandy used the central pages of the journal as a dream journal for a time, and as such, the notebook was never included in the publicly accessible Turing Archive, and was never seen (or heard of) until the recent auction.

https://www.bonhams.com/press_release/18977/

Amazing it can fetch that much without even being a true full journal of his

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

First-Ever Hologram Protest Takes to the Streets in Spain

Following in the illuminated footsteps of noted iconoclast Tupac Shakur, a protest group in Spain took to the streets on Sunday—in hologram form. To the best of our knowledge it’s the first hologram political demonstration ever.

Fusion reports that a group called No Somos Delito (“We Are Not a Crime”) are demonstrating against a series series of new “gag laws” that put heavy restrictions of freedom of expression. Included in the the so-called “citizen security” bills are 45 provisions that would outlaw many forms of expression, including public protest. The laws would go into effect on July 1st, if they standup to legal scrutiny. They are rightly seen as an egregious affront to personal liberty.

From the website of the Holograms for Liberty project:

To respond to this injustice and to show the future will have to face if this bill continues its course, we saw the need to carry out a different kind of protest that would allow our demands to become unstoppable: the first hologram protest in history.

A massive protest, through which we will demonstrate, that despite the trammels imposed by the government, they will not silence our voices, and even if we have to turn ourselves into holograms, we will keep on protesting.​

The stunt is clearly an effective one in that we’re writing about it half-a-world away, an for once, it’s nice to see a hologram used for something more important than selling tickets to a concert in the desert.

http://fusion.net/story/118657/the-...ource=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=/feed/

Hard to arrest or pepper spray holograms. I dig this

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Anyone Can Buy the Malware Used to Hack Sony

The Sony hack was the worst corporate cyberattack ever, and now anyone with $30,000 in Bitcoin and the ability to use Tor can buy the type of exploit used to hack Sony on underground cyberweapon websites, according to ex-hacker Jon Miller.

The malware used to carry out the Sony hack wasn’t custom-made, Miller pointed out on 60 Minutes this Sunday. Miller said he could easily buy similar exploits from Russian hackers on darknet markets, and there are plenty of people who have the technical know-how to carry out the attack themselves.

“There are probably three, four, five thousand people that could do that attack today,” Miller said, emphasizing that it didn’t take much to rip apart a huge corporation.

When you look at it in contrast to the capabilities that the United States government are deploying, it is nowhere close to being sophisticated.

My favorite analogy is the malware that was used to hack Sony is like a moped, and the malware being deployed by United States intelligence agencies is like an F-22 fighter jet. It’s much more sophisticated, it’s much harder to detect.​

The bottom line: Companies are as unprepared for attacks from run-of-the-mill malware as they are for top-shelf state-sponsored cyber espionage.

http://www.cnet.com/news/thousands-could-launch-sony-style-cyber-attack-says-ex-hacker/

Lets all start hacking! Down with FOX movies and their news network!

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

The Plan to Drill into the Crater from the Dinosaur-Killing Meteorite

Sixty-five million years ago, a meteorite careened into Earth, leaving a huge crater on the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. The impact is likely responsible for killing off the most of the dinosaurs—along with 75 percent of all species on Earth. Scientists are now planning an expedition to drill into the middle of the crater.

What look so long? This is, after all, possibly the most infamous meteorite impact of all time. But the Chicxulub crater’s center is also inaccessible, buried under ocean waters and now thousands of feet of sediment. Last week, scientists gathered in Merida, Mexico to discuss an expedition that will get to the bottom of it.

The expedition, led by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin and Imperial College London, will sample the crater’s “peak ring,” or the elevated rock that circle the Chicxulub’s center. Since the crater is in the middle of the ocean, the team will have to drill from an offshore platform. They will then take a core sample stretching to 5000 feet below the seabed to extract back the first core sample ever of the crater center’s rock layer. The entire core, stretching back 65 million years, will also tell the tale of how marine life recovered from the catastrophic impact.

Should all go according to the plan, the team will set sail in spring of 2016, finally probing the crater that has long eluded scientists peering into it.

http://www.utexas.edu/news/2015/04/06/expedition-dinosaur-killing-asteroid/

That could yield some cool results

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

87 percent of Americans call themselves some version of 'middle class'

Just how big is the middle class in America? That depends on how you define it. But if you ask Americans how they view themselves, the middle class seems pretty damn big. In fact, in a recent poll almost nine out of 10 Americans called themselves some version of "middle class."

The Pew Research survey found that about 47 percent of Americans called themselves solidly middle class. Roughly 11 percent said they were upper-middle class, and 29 percent said they were lower-middle class. Just 1 percent of Americans called themselves "upper class," while 10 percent called themselves "lower class."

That leaves 87 percent of Americans calling themselves "middle class" in some way or another. Which is curious, because we continue to hear about the disappearance of the middle class in America. In fact, 45.3 million Americans live in what the Census Bureau considers poverty. And 1 in 5 American households with children are food insecure .

"There is a very big difference between the psychological self-definition of class and anything approaching a useful economic definition of class," Richard Reeves, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution recently told the New York Times.

Translation: Americans, no matter what their income, aspire to be identified as middle class. Even people who may take home significantly more than average.

The government doesn't have any strict definition of what "middle class" means. But it might be news to many Americans that "lower middle class" isn't a term used in much of the developed world. Those 29 percent of Americans who identify as lower middle class would more likely call themselves working class in many other parts of the world.

But whatever we call it, America is still struggling to provide the most basic services for many of its people. Including many in the so-called "middle class."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/b...ng-economically-insecure.html?smid=tw-nytimes

Nobody wants to admit they are poor

 

[MangleBoP]

The Plan to Drill into the Crater from the Dinosaur-Killing Meteorite

http://www.utexas.edu/news/2015/04/06/expedition-dinosaur-killing-asteroid/

That could yield some cool results

If by "cool" you mean apocalyptic. Have you read Dead Space: Martyr? I don't want anyone drilling in Chicxulub Crater.

 

[Teelie]

Mummified Body, 300 Urine Bottles Discovered in San Francisco Home

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mummified-body-hoarder-san-francisco-20150406-story.html

How can anyone live like that?

Let me get Howard Hughes on the ouija board to find out.

 

[Teelie]

Seems like you can't throw a rock without hitting a Waffle House here in FL. I still remember when I was in Pensacola and they have a Waffle House across the street from another Waffle House haha

We've got them on every corner where I live too. We tended to avoid them because after 2AM you get a...unique crowd in waffle house.

We have two directly across from one another, on opposite sides of the highway so no one has to do any u-turns to get to them.

Incidently I once lived in Pensacola and they do indeed have a lot of them.

 

[Teelie]

87 percent of Americans call themselves some version of 'middle class'

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/b...ng-economically-insecure.html?smid=tw-nytimes

Nobody wants to admit they are poor

I don't want to admit it but I am poor as ****. That the rich get richer and the poor get poorer has never been truer. And the middle class has all but been elminated.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Homeless Man Found Dead on L Train in Brooklyn

Police found a dead homeless man sitting in a Manhattan-bound L train around 2 a.m. this morning at the Lorimer St.-Metropolitan Ave. stop.

"He was sitting up and appeared to be sleeping," an MTA source told the New York Daily News. “One of the workers tried to wake him and was unable to wake him.”

A police source also told the paper that the man "was someone we’ve been in contact with in the past" and that cops had “offered him services."

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ead-train-appeared-sleeping-article-1.2186074

Crazy that folks can die on the train and it takes forever for people to find out

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Twin Toddlers Drown After Mom, Attacked by Bee, Loses Grip on Stroller

Two 18-month-old twin brothers drowned in Arizona on Friday in a strange and tragic accident that began with an attacking bee, The Washington Post reports.

Authorities say Alexis Keslar was walking her sons in a jogging stroller when she momentarily stopped to "fend off a bee" and the stroller rolled away into a nearby canal. Kesler reportedly jumped in after the boys, but the water's swift current washed the stroller away. From CNN:

After Keslar got out of the canal, she called for help, police said.

The irrigation district that manages the canal slowed the flow of water and reduced the water level to help emergency workers find the boys, authorities said.

After more than an hour of searching, the toddlers were found and flown to a hospital, where they were pronounced dead.​

"Many people typically do not comprehend how swift the current in these canals are and how deep the water can be," said police in a statement. "They also do not realize how difficult it is to climb back up many of the canal embankments."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...mother-lets-go-of-stroller-during-bee-attack/

That is really bizarre and horrible

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

A Bot Bought MDMA off the Internet and Got Away With It

Right now, if you wanted to, you could log onto the internet, order a bunch of drugs, and have them delivered to your doorstep. There's none of the awkwardness of dealing with your shady, coked-out bartender, but all of the legal risk: If the cops found out, you'd still go to court. Not so for Random Darknet Shopper.

Late last year, a group of artists released a piece of software they'd programmed into the wild, giving it an allowance in Bitcoin and allowing it to randomly select one item for purchase from the Silk Road-style deep web marketplace Agora each week. Perhaps inevitably, Random Darknet Shopper eventually had some ecstasy delivered to the gallery where the artists were operating, and in January, Swiss authorities confiscated the bot and all of its purchases. (The haul also included a counterfeit passport and a pair of Air Yeezys.)

This week, the artists announced that they—and their bot—were getting off scot-free. Random Darknet Shopper and all of its purchases save the ecstasy were released from custody, and prosecutors dropped criminal charges in the name of art. The collective, called !Mediengruppe Bitnik, wrote on its website:

At the same time we also received the order for withdrawal of prosecution. In the order for withdrawal of prosecution the public prosecutor states that the possession of Ecstasy was indeed a reasonable means for the purpose of sparking public debate about questions related to the exhibition. The public prosecution also asserts that the overweighing interest in the questions raised by the art work «Random Darknet Shopper» justify the exhibition of the drugs as artefacts, even if the exhibition does hold a small risk of endangerment of third parties through the drugs exhibited.​

Domagoj Smoljo of !Mediengruppe Bitnik celebrated the decision in an interview with Hopes&Fears: "It was an art piece. You should be able to do things within the field of art that you can't elsewhere."

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/culture/art/168991-bot-darknet-shopper-mdma

That's hilarious, no way would they have got away with it in the states

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Japanese Late-Night Show Makes Guys Sing Karaoke While Getting Handjobs

A Japanese erotic variety show hosted by actor/comedian Yoshimi Tokui, challenging male contestants to make it through a karaoke while being manually stimulated by beautiful, professional women. Meanwhile, the hosts are in the studio laughing at them, and onscreen captions indicate when they've "finished."

The most awkward part in a contest that is nothing but awkward parts has to be the camera panning down to the sad little puddles of *** on the floor after each finish. The semen is pixelated to make it safe for TV, because we wouldn't want to risk offending any viewers of the handjob karaoke show.

1 million yen—roughly $10,000—was on offer for any contestant who could score 90 points. Not surprisingly, the money didn't get paid out: The winner finished with 74.

I guess you could call that an unhappy ending.

http://gawker.com/japanese-late-night-show-makes-guys-sing-karaoke-while-1698217692

Japan does some great things in this world