Crazy Video: Happy Birthday Microwave Oven!
August 3, 2007
Oh YES! It’s Friday, and its time for another installment of…..
The Crazy News Crazy Video of the Week!
Recently, the humble modern day microwave oven celebrated its 40th birthday..
The Amana Radarange was launched on to the market in 1967, and the world hasn’t looked back since.
Happy Birthday microwave oven!
And to celebrate, here is some crazy microwave experiments for your enjoyment!
And what grand birthday celebration would be without fireworks…..for the pyromaniac in you!
Now that was awesome!
“Vegansexual”: No sex for meat eaters!
July 31, 2007
Sex?
‘Yes please! But not with you carnivores’
Talk about taking the term ‘you are what you eat’ a little too far.
A new phenomenon among vegetarians in New Zealand takes a very extreme stance on that concept, because apparently an exchange of body fluids with meat eaters would violate the philosophies of Veganism.
Annie Potts from Canterbury University in New Zealand has coined the term “Vegansexual” to describe people, “who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.”
In her research she quizzed 157 Kiwis on issues ranging from battery chickens to sexual preferences.
Many female respondents described being attracted to people who ate meat, but said they did not want to have sex with meat-eaters because their bodies were made up of animal carcasses.
“It’s a whole new thing – I have not come across it before,” said Potts.
One vegan respondent from Christchurch said: “I believe we are what we consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually.”
Another Christchurch vegan said she found non-vegans attractive, but would not want to be physically close to them.
“I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance,” she said.
Christchurch vegan Nichola Kriek has been married to her vegan husband, Hans, for nine years.
She would not describe herself as vegansexual, but said it would definitely be a preference.
She could understand people not wanting to get too close to non-vegan or non-vegetarians.
“When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals,” she said.
The Crazy News: Only in America
So many weird and wacky stories come out of the US every day, but this is the craziest of them so far.
A political fundraiser in the US state of New Hampshire aims to promote gun ownership in America by letting supporters fire powerful military-style weapons — from Uzi submachine guns to M-16 rifles.
The Manchester Republican Committee is inviting party members and their families to a “Machine Gun Shoot” where, for $25, supporters can spend a day trying out automatic weapons, said organizer Jerry Thibodeau.
“It’s a fun day. It’s a family day,” said Thibodeau of the August 5 event. “It’s quite exciting.”
A family fun day of gun shooting madness! Good fun for young and old.
I mean, young children with automatic weapons designed to kill on mass, what harm could it do?
Now excuse me while I go throw up…
And now for some more family entertainment, Playboy models with automatic machine guns.
Jail mysteries: French criminal escapes prison with chopper, while military sky dives into Colorado big house.
July 18, 2007
Off target
Irony, a word derived from the French language, a word that popped into my head when reading about what happened at a prison in south-east France.
A daring, and arrogant, flying escape from a very tenacious French crook.
The Australian Broadcasting Corp reports:
French criminal jailed for having organised a helicopter-assisted prison break has again escaped from a French prison using a helicopter.
Pascal Payet, 43, escaped from Grasse prison, in south-east France, after a helicopter hijacked by four masked men landed on the roof of the prison, said a source close to the investigation.
The helicopter landed some time later at Brignoles, 38 kilometres north-east of Toulon, on the Mediterranean coast.
Those French dudes sure know how to escaping prison in style.
More detail from expatica.com
Now, just a thought, could it be possibly that Pascal Payet and his gang got the idea from an unlikely source…?
This is a clip from an old Australian TV soap called Prisoner, aired from 1979-1986.
You might want to skip to about half way through, otherwise you’ll have to sit through some really horrible Australian accents the generation of Aussies up from me seems to have acquired.
As you’ll see its really lame stuff, but could this story be a case of art imitating life?
Fun times for all.
And since we’re speaking of prisons and air travel…
It’s been reported that in Colorado, USA, a squad of 25 military paratroopers mistakenly landed inside the perimeter of a state prison in the early hours of the morning.
Prison guards quickly escorted the clearly disorientated troopers off the grounds “without violence”, glad to know.
Apparently the US Air Force is keeping a lid on it, officially saying that they are unaware of any such incident.
Update: The US military finally commented today, CNN reported, but were not generous with the details.
“Those were Special Operations Command forces conducting routine training,” Army Col. Hans Bush, a spokesman for the command at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, said Monday. He declined to identify the units that landed at Fremont Correctional Facility but said the target was Fremont County Airport.
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