Best interactive ad I have ever seen. But also the only interactive ad I have ever seen. Try and f**k the bear or even eat the bear!
Category: Strange
Sex in the woods
There is an awesome Johnson City Press article about two Washington County Sheriff’s deputies caught drinking and having sex at a U.S. Forest campground. They are now off the county’s payroll. The event that led to the firings happened on a Friday night when the deputies were off duty. The U.S. Forest Service office and a Carter County deputy, working off-duty with the forest service at the time, came upon the two deputies together with a third person at a local campground. According to the federal citations charging the three:
The forest ranger saw the three at a camp site drinking alcohol in the open and then engaging in sex.
No one has been able to say how long the U.S. Forest Service Officers stood watching the trio, but in one officer’s report he wrote:
He saw Dennison and Adkins engage in three sex acts and then Adkins and Walsh began to fondle Dennison.
The three were charged with possessing alcohol in a prohibited area, public nudity and public intoxication. One of the three had an additional charge of child endangerment because his 2-year-old son was asleep in a tent at the campsite… Classy!
Prairie Chapel Ranch
I really want a ranch like George W’s. He has a 1,583 acre ranch in unincorporated McLennan County, Texas, located seven miles northwest of Crawford. The property was acquired by President George W. Bush in 1999 and was known as the Western White House during his Presidency. George W spends vacation time at the house where he has also entertained dignitaries from around the world.
The ranch gets its name from the Prairie Chapel School which was built nearby on land donated by mid-19th century German immigrant Heinrich Engelbrecht from Oppenwehe, Germany, who owned the land that now comprises the Bush ranch. Engelbrecht also donated land for the nearby Canaan Baptist Church AKA the “Prairie Chapel”. A prized souvenir from the ranch is a gray Under Armour athletic shirt emblazoned with a Texas star encircled by the words The President’s 100-Degree Club. In order to qualify a visitor must run 3 miles, or bike for 10, when the thermometer hits triple digits. When he was president, Bush used the ranch for vacations, meetings, and entertaining foreign dignitaries. In the less formal setting, dress code for meetings called for an open collar and no tie. Guests were typically treated to meals of Southwestern cuisine. When not holding meetings or briefings, Bush spent his time mountain biking, jogging, fishing, bird hunting, and clearing brush.
50 cents minus 56 pounds
Apparently 50 cent is playing a football player with cancer in a new movie. He has lost the weight for the role and looks absolutely amazing.
I know this is old news it’s just new to me…
Best countries in the world?
I read that according to a Newsweek cover story, the ten best countries in the world are:
Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Australia, Luxembourg, Norway, Canada, Netherlands, Japan and Denmark.
I just don’t get it. I can’t be arsed to read the whole story because, on the face of it, it just seems so wrong. With the exception of Australia (a country packed with drunks, whiners , and butch women) they are all rain or snow infested dumps full or earnest well-meaning folk.
Personally I would far rather live in West Texas or New Mexico, even in a house with no windows.
Cat in a bin
This is the moment when a crazy horrible old woman threw a cat in a wheely bin. According to the Daily Mail:
The grey-haired woman, aged around 50, is filmed stroking tabby Lola on a wall outside a house on Brays Lane in Coventry at around 8pm on Saturday. But she then suddenly grabs the four-year-old cat by the scruff of the neck before throwing it into a wheelie bin and slamming the lid closed. She then calmly walks away.
The owner rescued his cat and is now looking for help in identifying the dreadful old bitch..
Robo-farmer
If my arm and back pain doesn’t improve soon I think I am going to need one of these suits:
They are being developed for elderly farmers in Japan:
Prof. Shigeki Toyama of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology’s Graduate School of Engineering is close to perfecting a robot suit that could considerably reduce the physical burden of farmwork on elderly farmers.
I think I had better start saving up…
Metal staples as sutures
I quite like my metal staples. I have seven of them holding my wound shut and I enjoy the post-industrial ethos! However a study published on bmj.com concludes that using metal staples to close wounds after surgery can lead to a greater risk of infection than using traditional nylon sutures.
Apparently following surgery, wound complications are one of the main sources of illness. They can extend a patient’s stay in hospital or even lead to re-admission. In addition, there is a link between superficial wound infection and deep infection. To close wounds, orthopedic surgeons use both metallic staples and nylon sutures. Staples are considered faster and easier to use than sutures. However, there is suggestion that staples are more likely to cause infection and may also be more expensive.
It is still unclear which method of skin closure is the best. In order to find out more, researchers at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital analyzed the results of six trials. They compared the use of staples to sutures following orthopedic procedures in adults. The trials involved 683 wounds from which 322 patients underwent suture closure and 351 staple closures. In general, the risk of developing a superficial wound infection was over three times greater after staple closure than suture closure. The most consistent benefit of staples is more rapid skin closure. However, the time saved is rarely more than two to three minutes. The saving may also be reduced by the increased costs of removing the staples, compared with absorbable stitches. This might be reduced even further by the costs of treating the increased number of infections.
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Are you the kind of woman who likes to have gossip with the girlies? Did you love Sex in The City I and II? Are you a “spiritual” person? Do you really believe that Price Charming will soon arrive? If the answer to any of these is yes then you will LOVE Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia – US link
At the age of thirty-one, Gilbert moved with her husband to the suburbs of New York and began trying to get pregnant, only to realize that she wanted neither a child nor a husband. Three years later, after a protracted divorce, she embarked on a yearlong trip of recovery, with three main stops: Rome, for pleasure (mostly gustatory, with a special emphasis on gelato); an ashram outside of Mumbai, for spiritual searching; and Bali, for “balancing.” These destinations are all on the beaten track, but Gilbert’s exuberance and her self-deprecating humor enliven the proceedings: recalling the first time she attempted to speak directly to God, she says, “It was all I could do to stop myself from saying, ‘I’ve always been a big fan of your work.’”
Don’t believe a word of it this book is utter tripe. I don’t know why I bought his book but it is a miracle that I finished it. How this book became so successful is far beyond my understanding presumably it is through PR and hype because it is boring nonsense by an author whose perceptions of life barely move beyond the superficial. The whole journey seems to be a sham. The author, according to reports, reportedly got a $200,000 advance from her publishers before she even left the country to throw away Western values and go on this spiritual pilgrimage. Regardless of that Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia – US link
Insect Sushi
There was a time when my daughter would have really enjoyed this – I once found her eating a Roach and a HUGE Millipede – but she has changed. I haven’t seen her eating a bug in years.