Weird News of the World Thread

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Portion of Wing of London Passenger Jet Nearly Snaps Off

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[QUOTE]Of all the things you want to see while looking out of the window of a plane, "part of the wing dangling off" is very low on that list.

The above photo comes from Cole Morton, a reporter at London's Daily Telegraph, who was aboard a CityJet flight to Florence yesterday when passengers heard a "bang" and saw what you see above. According to Morton, the passengers were startled by the noise but the plane made a safe landing shortly after.

"The bang made people jump and was alarming. Then we sat there thinking 'this isn't right, surely? Does the pilot know?' But we didn't appear to be crashing. So there was a tense few minutes while we circled and waited for an announcement. It was a relief to get back on the ground."
CityJet says that the part of the wing that became detached was a cover of the operating mechanism. The airline also says that the plane should be back in the sky this week after repairs, so rest easy, future CityJet customers.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://metro.co.uk/2014/05/15/plane-forced-into-emergency-landing-as-part-of-the-wing-snaps-off-during-a-flight-4729584/[/url]

That looks bad but planes are built tough and have many features and fail-safes to ensure passenger protection. My dad is a captain for Delta and he has to be certified every 9 months to fly because they, like all airlines, want to make sure the pilots are up to snuff. Flying is vastly safer than driving your car everyday

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Sexologists, trainers, and pornstars create sexercises to boost stamina

Lube brand KY created a Sexercise program with sexologists, personal trainers and porn professionals to help you perform better in bed. They think sex needs training too and it's true. You realize that when you try to have sex standing up and seconds later your legs start shaking and you feel you're about to pass out.

https://adsoftheworld.com/media/online/ky_gel_sexercises

Everyone could use more stamina when they are getting down to business

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Hilarious retro game lets you play as Glorious Leader! Kim Jong-un

Behold the trailer for Glorious Leader!—a game that lets you play as Kim Jong-un battling against the forces of capitalism evil on foot or your trusty unicorn. You can be the Supreme Leader of North Korea himself and a friend can play with you as Dennis Rodman.

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According to its developers, it will be available for PC, phones, and tablets soon.

http://www.moneyhorsegames.com/

This looks awesome and I bet playing will become mandatory in N. Korea. I'm sure he takes this as a compliment

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Being gluten free is dumb—and gluten intolerance may not even exist

If you have Celiac, this obviously doesn't apply to you. Don't eat gluten. But if you don't have Celiac—and that's 99% of the human population, mind you—there's no reason to be gluten free. You're wasting your time. Even the scientist who started this gluten free craze thinks it's useless to be gluten free. Seriously. People, the father of gluten free think it's bull****.

Peter Gibson, a professor of gastroenterology at Monash University and director of the GI Unit at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, conducted an experiment in 2011 that linked gluten to screwing with people's gastrointestinal distress. That published paper has served as one of the strongest pieces of evidence for the non-celiac gluten sensitivity that everybody suddenly developed existing.

But Gibson wanted to repeat the experiment and see if he would reach the same conclusion. He couldn't. According to Real Clear Science, Gibson had subjects with 'gluten intolerance' but weren't Celiac take part in an experiment that fed them a high gluten, normal gluten, low gluten and placebo diet for a week and found that there was "absolutely no specific response to gluten."

What happened was that everybody reported pain, bloating, nausea and gas to similar degrees. No matter what they ate—gluten or placebo—they felt sick. The problem wasn't with gluten, it was with their brains. Basically, it's the nocebo effect. People psych themselves out and start believing they're sick.

And it makes sense, ASAP Science explains in this video how gluten is simply a combination of proteins that isn't toxic for you whatsoever:

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So. As true as it's always been: If you have Celiac, don't eat gluten. If you don't, just eat it.[/QUOTE

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/05/gluten_sensitivity_may_not_exist.html

I always knew these idiots were jumping on a non-existent bandwagon

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Truck transported on a ropeway going up a 5,400-foot mountain

Linthal 2015 is one of the most fascinating power projects going on in the world right now. When finished, this 2.35-billion-dollar pumped storage system will be able to generate as much power as a nuclear power plant—1,480 MW. The only problem is that there are no roads connecting the construction sites, so they have to lift all heavy machinery using a ropeway.

Just imagine it. The project's highest point is 8,116 feet (2,474 meters) above sea level. The lowest point is just 2,660 feet (811 meters). It must be incredible to see the trucks, tunneling machines, and excavators going up and down that Swiss mountainscape in one of the two ropeways that connect the sites.

This video is in German, but you can see the massive scope of the project.

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From their description:

A new underground pumped-storage power plant will be used to pump water from Lake Limmern back up to Lake Mutt, which is 630 m higher. When needed, it can then be used to generate electricity again. The new facility will boast pump and turbine capacities of 1 000 MW each.

This will boost the output of Kraftwerke Linth-Limmern AG (KLL) from the current 480 MW or so to 1 480 MW. In terms of performance, this will put it on a par with the Leibstadt nuclear power plant or the Cleuson Dixence hydroelectric power plant. This will serve to safeguard the future security of electricity supply for northeastern and central Switzerland.

Lake Mutt, 8,024 feet (2,446 meters) above sea level.

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The tunnels are not apt for claustrophobic people.

From the barren desserts to the highest mountains it seems like there is nowhere on earth that we humans can't build stuff if we so choose

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Fearless guy walks and dances barefoot on a crane in terrifying video

Mustang Wanted—one of those fearless daredevils from Eastern Europe that climbs any structure with no safety measures whatsoever—has definitely one-upped himself in this new video. I just can't believe what the guy does starting on the 1:13 mark. It made me gasp in disbelief—and fear.

http://www.mustang-wanted.com/photos

Vid and more pics at the link. Guy is crazy

 

[Teelie]

Being gluten free is dumb—and gluten intolerance may not even exist

If you have Celiac, this obviously doesn't apply to you. Don't eat gluten. But if you don't have Celiac—and that's 99% of the human population, mind you—there's no reason to be gluten free. You're wasting your time. Even the scientist who started this gluten free craze thinks it's useless to be gluten free. Seriously. People, the father of gluten free think it's bull****.

Peter Gibson, a professor of gastroenterology at Monash University and director of the GI Unit at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, conducted an experiment in 2011 that linked gluten to screwing with people's gastrointestinal distress. That published paper has served as one of the strongest pieces of evidence for the non-celiac gluten sensitivity that everybody suddenly developed existing.

But Gibson wanted to repeat the experiment and see if he would reach the same conclusion. He couldn't. According to Real Clear Science, Gibson had subjects with 'gluten intolerance' but weren't Celiac take part in an experiment that fed them a high gluten, normal gluten, low gluten and placebo diet for a week and found that there was "absolutely no specific response to gluten."

What happened was that everybody reported pain, bloating, nausea and gas to similar degrees. No matter what they ate—gluten or placebo—they felt sick. The problem wasn't with gluten, it was with their brains. Basically, it's the nocebo effect. People psych themselves out and start believing they're sick.

And it makes sense, ASAP Science explains in this video how gluten is simply a combination of proteins that isn't toxic for you whatsoever:

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So. As true as it's always been: If you have Celiac, don't eat gluten. If you don't, just eat it.[/QUOTE

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/05/gluten_sensitivity_may_not_exist.html

I always knew these idiots were jumping on a non-existent bandwagon

I"m shocked! Just shocked at this revelation I tell you! A fad diet turns out to be useless?!?

Of course the supporters have already decided it works, that it's helping them, although more likely it's the fact they changed their diet and stopped eating foods with gluten that just so happened to also have a lot of fat, salt, sugar and calories in it.

Correlation =/= Causation strikes again.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

How can you say correlation =/= causation my friend? We know that every detail of our life has to fit together some way. Look at my chart:

This clearly shows US spending on science, space, and technology correlates with
suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation!

FACTS!

 

[Teelie]

I'm defeated by statistics.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

If you ever need some funny correlations to through in peoples faces go here:

http://www.tylervigen.com/

I have found these to be very useful when people want to bring in BS correlations

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

News Anchor Learns of Colleague's Suicide as She's Reporting It

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Lee Chingyu, an anchor for Taiwan's Next TV News, choked back tears as she discovered live on air that a friend and colleague at another network had been found dead in an apparent suicide.

CtiTV anchorman Erich Shih, 46, died at home Thursday, apparently by his own hand. His wife discovered his body around 5 p.m., with a plastic bag over his head. He left no note, and there were no signs of a break-in.

Shih had been with CtiTV since 2008, and previously worked as a U.S. correspondent for TVBS. Others at Next TV reportedly knew him and learned of his death for the first time as they worked to report it.

http://www.nexttv.com

What a horrible way to learn about a friend's passing away. She held it together though

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Lightning Strike Reportedly Takes Down Entire Family

Three generations of a German family were reportedly struck down by a single lightning bolt on Tuesday when the electrical charge shot down a tree and across their lawn as they were heading inside to avoid the rain.

Here's how the BBC reported it:

One woman, Ricarda, says she was chopping wood in the garden when it began to rain. While she and her family were bringing their toys and garden furniture back into the house Ricarda heard a sudden, loud bang and felt "some tingling from head to toe", the Bild newspaper reports.

"There was chaos. Everybody was just acting on autopilot. A few minutes later the ambulance arrived," she says. Her nine-year-old nephew Elias fell over unconscious and had to be resuscitated by his father and grandfather on the spot. He was being treated in intensive care. Other family members, including the grandmother, Ricarda's two children and her sister-in-law, Judith, went to hospital with minor injuries. Ricarda says her son Cedrick was still complaining of a headache the following day.
There are a couple of good reasons to take this story with a hunk of salt. It originally comes from Bild, a German tabloid best known for splashing naked lady boobies across its front page every day for 28 years. The Bild story is oddly discombobulated and vague, piling grandparents and aunts and nephews into the mix with no surnames, and it weirdly mentions that the family members are Jehovah's Witnesses—twice.

Also, here's the art Bild selected for the story, above the breathless line "SIE WURDEN VOM BLITZ GETROFFEN!"—"They were struck by lightning!":

But hey, they interviewed a meteorologist who conceded that there was a mild thunderstorm in the area that day, and some lightning strikes were detected, and it's possible that a bolt struck the ground, traveled through a wet tree root or underground conduit, and struck the nebulous family.

Make of that what you will.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27426526

Sounds like BS to me but I had to report on it just for the graphic of the family getting hit by lighting. That is comedy gold right there. I can't believe somebody gets paid to use photoshop in such a way

 

[Teelie]

Lightning Strike Reportedly Takes Down Entire Family

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27426526

Sounds like BS to me but I had to report on it just for the graphic of the family getting hit by lighting. That is comedy gold right there. I can't believe somebody gets paid to use photoshop in such a way

The way it's shopped looks like the kid did it himself.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

A young Palpatine perhaps? haha

 

[Teelie]

News Anchor Learns of Colleague's Suicide as She's Reporting It

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http://www.nexttv.com

What a horrible way to learn about a friend's passing away. She held it together though

I would have thought this is something you tell the reporter before they begin reporting on it if at all possible.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Maybe it was one of those 24 hour gimmicks that they have little time for breaking news. But ya, you would think they would let people know ahead of time since I'm sure people knew they were friends

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Judge Grants Mom an Emergency Order to Protect 3-Year-Old's Foreskin

Heather Hironimus and Dennis Nebus had a son, Chase, in 2010. In 2012, they signed a parenting agreement which said, among other things, that the father would be responsible for scheduling and paying for Chase's circumcision.

Fast forward to this past Wednesday, when a Florida appeals court granted Hironimus, who has changed her mind about circumcision, an emergency order to stop the removal of her son's foreskin. A lower court had ordered the circumcision could go ahead after hearing testimony from a pediatric urologist.

Judge Jeffrey Gillen last week ruled that enforcing the parenting agreement would be in the best interest of Chase, now 3, although the urologist testified he wouldn't recommend it at Chase's age.

However, the doctor also pointed out (according to Judge Gillen) that circumcised men don't get penile cancer and that circumcision lowers the risk of AIDS—both debatable claims, but not entirely inaccurate—which convinced the judge the circumcision was the right choice for the boy.

The case became a rallying point for anti-circumcision activists, who feel boys are being robbed of their foreskins with no say and no medical benefit.

Chase's mom, a self-described "intactivist," appealed the ruling with her attorney, as "neither of us believe it should be a decision left to anyone other than Chase, who is 3 1/2 and fully aware."

She also started an online fundraiser to "help me save my son, his foreskin, his rights and hopefully other children from allowing the 'system' to make these decisions," and a group called Intact Florida was reportedly planning a protest to support her.

Nebus, the father, hasn't publicly commented on either the initial ruling or the appeal.

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2014/05/florida_circumcise_3-year-old_boy_s.php

Circumcision is pointless and archaic, serving no purpose whatsoever and shouldn't be forced on anyone

 

[Hotwire]

Judge Grants Mom an Emergency Order to Protect 3-Year-Old's Foreskin

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2014/05/florida_circumcise_3-year-old_boy_s.php

Circumcision is pointless and archaic, serving no purpose whatsoever and shouldn't be forced on anyone

And of course, it's Florida.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Hero Meteorologist Rescues Kitten from Tornado Rubble in Ohio

A television meteorologist in Ohio rescued a small kitten from the rubble of a barn after a strong tornado swept through Cedarville, Ohio on Wednesday.

While reporting on the damage left behind by the quarter-mile-wide tornado, WHIO meteorologist Rich Wirdzek spotted and then rescued the adorably tiny kitten from the destroyed barn. The family who owns the farm said that the kitten "was one of several born in their barn recently."

The EF-3 tornado caused major damage to several residences and farm buildings in Cedarville, but thankfully there were no injuries or fatalities according to the National Weather Service.

This isn't the first time that a television meteorologist rescued an animal from the aftermath of a tornado.

The Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Bettes, one of the first people on the scene after the devastating tornado that destroyed the southern half of Joplin, Missouri in 2011, rescued a golden retriever from the debris and adopted him soon thereafter. The dog, named Joplyn, has his own Facebook page.

http://www.whio.com/news/news/storm-center-7-meteorologist-rescues-kitten-tornad/nfxQM/

It's always amazing when small animals or babies survive something as chaotic and powerful as a tornado

 

[guitarsingerguy]

Being gluten free is dumb—and gluten intolerance may not even exist

If you have Celiac, this obviously doesn't apply to you. Don't eat gluten. But if you don't have Celiac—and that's 99% of the human population, mind you—there's no reason to be gluten free. You're wasting your time. Even the scientist who started this gluten free craze thinks it's useless to be gluten free. Seriously. People, the father of gluten free think it's bull****.

Peter Gibson, a professor of gastroenterology at Monash University and director of the GI Unit at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, conducted an experiment in 2011 that linked gluten to screwing with people's gastrointestinal distress. That published paper has served as one of the strongest pieces of evidence for the non-celiac gluten sensitivity that everybody suddenly developed existing.

But Gibson wanted to repeat the experiment and see if he would reach the same conclusion. He couldn't. According to Real Clear Science, Gibson had subjects with 'gluten intolerance' but weren't Celiac take part in an experiment that fed them a high gluten, normal gluten, low gluten and placebo diet for a week and found that there was "absolutely no specific response to gluten."

What happened was that everybody reported pain, bloating, nausea and gas to similar degrees. No matter what they ate—gluten or placebo—they felt sick. The problem wasn't with gluten, it was with their brains. Basically, it's the nocebo effect. People psych themselves out and start believing they're sick.

And it makes sense, ASAP Science explains in this video how gluten is simply a combination of proteins that isn't toxic for you whatsoever:

[YT]DXjpb7SFi3s[/YT]

So. As true as it's always been: If you have Celiac, don't eat gluten. If you don't, just eat it.[/QUOTE

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/05/gluten_sensitivity_may_not_exist.html

I always knew these idiots were jumping on a non-existent bandwagon

I forget what talk show it was I was watching, but they asked people on gluten free diets what gluten actually was. Not a damn one could answer the question.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Haha ya I saw that it was on Kimmel. He is great at pointing out stupid stuff in the USA

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

This Chinese Public Toilet Looks Like the U.S. Capitol Building

Politics? No, potties! Spotted in eastern China, this public restroom appears modeled after the the United States Capitol.

That's right, as you can see in these photos courtesy of Au123, this is an iconic American Neoclassical building reborn as a toilet.

http://www.au123.com/picture/focus/20140515/133658.html

I'm sure some people would like to take offense to this but I think it is amusing and a nice homage to the states

 

[guitarsingerguy]

This Chinese Public Toilet Looks Like the U.S. Capitol Building

http://www.au123.com/picture/focus/20140515/133658.html

I'm sure some people would like to take offense to this but I think it is amusing and a nice homage to the states

There are few things more precious than a nice clean public crapper.

 

[KevanG]

Very subtle, China.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Nobody Knows What These Mysterious YouTube Videos Are

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Thousands and thousands of videos, uploaded nearly every day. Each one is the same, structure-wise: 10 slides of shapes, shown over 11 seconds, over various random tones. Nobody has a clue what the videos are supposed to be, much less who is uploading them or why.

Just today, the channel has uploaded over a dozen bizarre videos. The video leading this post, however, is the very first video that Webdriver Torso uploaded to YouTube.

It's the type of randomness that almost makes the YouTube channel, called "Webdriver Torso," seem like the horse_ebooks of YouTube. But the eeriness of the videos means they might feel closer to "numbers stations," radio frequencies that carried spy codes during the cold war.

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Attempts to contact the creator have proven useless. At one point, the internet even thought they nailed what was happening: supposedly, the videos were being uploaded by a company that wanted to test video stuff out...but even that proved to be a dead end.

Everyone has theories, of course. Some are even outlandish: maybe the videos are someone's attempts to communicate with aliens? It doesn't help that among the 77,000+ videos uploaded by Webdriver Torso, there will occasionally be abnormalities. For example, there is one video of the Eiffel Tower amidst the thousands of videos of random blue and red shapes. The YouTube channel has even commented once: "Matei is highly intelligent."

...nobody knows what the crap that means, either. Watching the tons of videos uploaded by the station doesn't really help.

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The latest theory surrounding Webdriver Torso ties Google into the whole mess. If you search "webdriver torso" on YouTube, the entire page will look something like this:

That in of itself doesn't mean Google is behind it, of course—it simply means they're aware of the phenomenon. But following a number of YouTube and Google Plus accounts tied to channels which upload similar videos to Webdriver Torso eventually leads you to Google employees, according to The Daily Dot. Still, it's mostly speculation: nobody actually concretely knows what is going on here.

Whatever it ends up being, be it marketing stunt, alternate reality game, a company that is automating something for boring purposes, will probably not live up to the compelling nature of the Webdriver Torso mystery. I'm kind of hoping we never find out what's going on here.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLiV4WJfkTEHH0b9PmRklw

That is weird and a little bit creepy also it is a **** ton of videos to post. Maybe it's a test of the YouTube Emergency Broadcast System? I have no clue