from The High Definite
“Some fans of the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club filmed this rendition of Savage Garden’s Truly Madly Deeply in The Beehive Pub, Tottenham for their loved ones this past Valentine’s Day.
I’ve never felt more threatened by an a capella performance of a love song.”
Warning: Driving this car will make hot women want to have sex with you, and maybe men too.
from MyModernMet
“Russian design student Slavche Tanevski must have been commissioned by Bruce Wayne. Named after a breed of black-haired bull, the Lamborghini Ankonian looks worthy of becoming the next Batmobile.
The Ankonian features a series of winged panels that appear to be carved from some type of metal obsidian alloy. OLED lights are built directly into the narrow and rather complex-looking body, giving the supercar concept an aggressive look.”
Check out more pics after the jump.
Filed under: Ain't Lyin', Foreign Things, Fucking Gross, People Who are Bat Shit Insane, Retarded Things
Besides having lots of sex, Jacob Zuma, the 69 year old president of South Africa, likes to show the world how to be a bad friend. A prime example? It has been reported that Zuma has fathered his 20th child with a friend’s daughter. Someone just lost his bro’s number in his bro book.
from Telegraph
“His latest offspring, a girl, was reported on Sunday to have been born in October to Sonono Khoza, 39, the divorced daughter of Irvin Khoza, according to the country’s Sunday Times newspaper. Mr Khoza is the chairman of the organising committee for the football World Cup finals to be held in South Africa later this year.
The newspaper said the girl’s name was registered as Thandekile Matina Zuma.
The paper said that the Khoza family were not happy about the liaison – Mr Khoza is six years younger than the president – and a delegation from the president had visited them to discusss inhlawulo, the customary Zulu damages payable when a child is born out of wedlock.”
I think every leader needs to have some sort of saucy propaganda during his time in office, otherwise no one is going to remember who the fuck they are. I would have suggested that Jacob Zuma save a village from a pack of Tigers, using nothing but his bare hands and the skills his father taught him. Or a blowgun.
Chinese people aren’t only good at making chinese food, and cheap substitutions of high quality electronics–they’re also good at beating the U.S. economy into the ground. The way things are going right now, China could replace the U.S. as the world’s largest economy thanks to their serious investments in higher education, and you know, the fact that they’re smarter than all of us. While we’re thinking of driving to McDonald’s at 2 in the morning, the Chinese are thinking of ways to cure cancer.
from Telegraph
“It comes after last week’s announcement that China is poised to replace Japan as the world’s second largest economy, behind the US.
The boom in China’s scientific research was disclosed in an analysis of papers published in 10,500 academic journals across the world.
The figures, compiled by the publisher Thomson Reuters for the Financial Times , showed that Chinese scientists had increased their output at a far faster rate than counterparts in rival “emerging” nations such as India, Russia and Brazil. Although India has long been tipped as the most likely threat to US academic supremacy, the study found it now lags well behind China.”
Yea, we’re screwed.
Filed under: Foreign Things, Keepin it Real Nerdy, Neat Things, Stuff That's Weird
Are you so incredibly lazy that you can’t get up off your seat to do your laundry, or microwave your own food? Well, thanks to the good folks over at Korea Institute of Science and Technology, you don’t need to worry about doing things like getting up, and being productive. They’ve designed a domestic robot to cater to your “I’m too lazy to do things” attitude.
from cnet
“According to the Korea Times, scientists at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have created a domestic robot that can help with the laundry and even heat up food in the microwave.
The scientist says that the robot, called “Mahru-Z,” is a human-like machine with arms, legs, a rotating head, and it has the capability to “see” objects in three dimensions and recognize chores that need to be done. This is amazing for a machine of just taller than 4 feet and weighing about 120 pounds. I am 6 foot tall and often find myself not knowing what to do standing right in the middle of a messy room.
KIST engineers say that Mahru-Z can use its moving hands, elbows, and six fingers to pick up a dirty shirt, throw it into a washing machine, and push the buttons to get the laundry done. Oh, that may be it–I have only five fingers.”
I think we put more effort into thinking of ways to not do things, than actually doing things. Seriously, pushing a series of buttons to microwave your own food really isn’t that difficult. Neither is picking up your dirty clothes off the floor. You know what is hard? Getting a girl to talk to me. When I find a robot that can do that for me…I’ll let you know.
If I was an ignorant person, I’d make an insensitive joke referencing things like pedophilia, date rape, and the like, but I’m going to be sympathetic to the situation and try my best to steer clear from sexual claims. Here it goes. Alexander Lepesiotis, age 42, was caught smuggling a teenage boy in his suitcase. No matter how I approach this it’ll just sound profane. Get your mind out of the gutter, Max Powers.
from Daily Mail
“This was the amazing sight that greeted Italian immigration police during routine spot check – a teenage boy hidden in a suitcase as he tried to illegally enter the country.
The 15-year-old Afghan boy was discovered curled into foetal position inside the case while his 17-year-old brother was hidden in the foot well covered with blankets.
Officers immediately arrested the Greek driver of the car, Alexandros Lepesiotis, 42, and charged him with illegally smuggling people into the country.”
At least he gave it the ol’ college try. Plus, that suitcase looks terribly uncomfortable.
Filed under: Ain't Lyin', Foreign Things, Fucking Gross, Loss For Words, Stuff That's Weird
And the nightmares start…
[via]
“The lamb’s head had human features on – the eyes, the nose and the mouth – only the ears were those of a sheep.
Veterinaries said that the rare mutation most likely occurred as a result of improper mutation since the fodder for the lamb’s mother was abundant with vitamin A,CNNTurk.com reports.”
Looks like I’ll sleeping with the lights on…again.
Filed under: Ain't Lyin', Foreign Things, Keepin it Real Nerdy, Neat Things, Stuff That's Weird
Ello guvnuh!
Apparently Cockney is still important enough to the banks in England that they will start to offer it as a selectable language on ATMs across the sea.
“Bank Machine, which runs 2,500 ATMs across the country, has set up five cash dispensers in locations from Spittalfields to Barnet that offer customers the option either to request cash in English, or “moolah for ya sky rocket” in cockney.Ask for cockney and the machine tells you it is “Readin’ your bladder of lard” before asking for your “Huckleberry Finn”. Then the hard decisions start. Do you want to see your balance on the Charlie Sheen? Or withdraw sausage and mash?If the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang cash machines are a success, the company hopes to follow them up with Brummie, Geordie, Scouse and Scots ATMs (suggestions for these much welcomed – the British Library’s Sounds Familiar website, which tracks accents and dialects, was not a huge amount of help in coming up with the Brummie for cash).”
Now that’s what I call using your loaf! Regardless of the fact that Cockney is a dying “language” used primarily in East London only, you can still check your bank balance on the Charlie Sheen and take out a Lady Godiva if you’ve got deep enough sky rockets. Be careful of overdrafting though, as you’ll find yourself in a great big heap of Barney!
Look how neatly your bed can be stored
Apparently the new trend in European vacationing is staying at barns. Specifically, barns from the 11th century that are re-dubbed as “hotels,” complete with piles of hay for that authentic feel of the time.
[via]
“In Germany and its European neighbors Austria and Switzerland, a long weekend in a converted barn – sleeping on a bed of freshly raked hay — is fast becoming the ’staycation’ of choice.
Heuhotels (‘heu’ is German for hay) offer exactly what their name suggests. For as little as eight euros ($11) a night backpackers, couples, families and, in the case of one “hay hotel” in central Germany – ‘groups of up to 60′ – can rest their heads in a way nature intended.”
That’s cool, I guess. I don’t know about you, but who wouldn’t want to be waited on by a bellboy wearing a tunic and referring to you as a knight? It may sound a bit homo-erotic, but maybe that’s just the kind of thing we need to take the edge of our lives in these tough times. And I guess now when you leave the door open to your room and hotel management comes down and asks you, “what do we live in a barn?” you can put the dispute to bed (get it?? bed!?!) with a simple “yes.”
Filed under: Ain't Lyin', Foreign Things, Things That Should Actually Concern You
A Chinese Person. Maybe
Nothing ruins your morning commute more than traffic, especially if it’s due to onlookers watching people off themselves. Thank God someone came up with a solution to the problem. The Chinese are lubing up the climbable parts of their bridges with butter so people can’t jump off them. They’re saying that it causes a massive build-up of traffic creating a huge annoyance for commuters. Suicides are such an inconvenience.
[via]
“Chinese workers have covered a giant steel bridge with butter because officials are fed up with traffic jams caused by people who slow down to watch suicide victims leaping to their death.
Government officials in Guangzhou in south east China ordered workers to smear butter on all of the climbable surfaces of the 1,000 foot long steel bridge.
Government spokesman Shiu Liang said: “We tried employing guards at both ends but that didn’t work – and we put up special fences and notices asking people not to commit suicide here. None of it worked – and so now we have put butter over the bridge and it has worked very well. Nobody can get up there and anybody who tries either falls.”"
Chinese workers have covered a giant steel bridge with butter because officials are fed up with traffic jams caused by people who slow down to watch suicide victims leaping to their death.Government officials in Guangzhou in south east China ordered workers to smear butter on all of the climbable surfaces of the 1,000 foot long steel bridge.Government spokesman Shiu Liang said: “We tried employing guards at both ends but that didn’t work – and we put up special fences and notices asking people not to commit suicide here. None of it worked – and so now we have put butter over the bridge and it has worked very well. Nobody can get up there and anybody who tries either falls”
I can’t decide if this is a fucking brilliant idea, or a retarded one. When you think of it conceptually it sounds stupid. Imagine reading the proposal for this on paper: “Solution to people jumping off bridges: Butter.” That’s what you would do in a cartoon…if people killed themselves in cartoons. But the practicality of it is genius because you’re literally putting butter on a bridge. You can’t jump off something you can’t climb. You know what you can’t put butter on? A bullet.
