- Congratulations…on being the biggest nation of losers in
the world, Bangladesh. That’s all the props you get after shattering a
record set by Pakistan last year by forming the world's largest human flag. The
truly moronic feat was confirmed by Guinness World Records after tens of
thousands of Bangladeshi students and armed forces held up red and green
colored placards in Dhaka's National Parade Ground last month to create the
huge Bangladeshi national symbol. The sheer sight of it makes you want to shout
out, “Don’t you people have any dignity…or at least something better to do with
your Monday afternoon?” On the dubious day in question, Dec. 16, a total of
27,117 people held the flag together for at least five minutes, following
instructions provided by Guinness World Records. "This is the first time
our nation is breaking a record like this with Pakistan," said Akhika
Akhtar, a student who heard about the event from her professors and had better
receive a sh*t load of extra credit for taking part in the world’s largest
collective waste of time. By doing what they did, the assembled tools
simultaneously shamed themselves, their families and their nation and broke a
record set in October 2012, in Pakistan, when 24,000 people assembled a flag in
the city of Lahore. The Bangladeshi gathering was held on Dec. 16 to celebrate
the Asian nation’s Victory Day, according to event organizer Toffael Rashid. Victory
Day commemorates the day Bangladesh officially gained independence from
Pakistan on December 16, 1971, following a bloody nine-month war that left
between 1 million and 3 million people dead. To ensure that their feat of
ignominy was official, organizers had an accounting firm oversee the
record-breaking attempt and submit records to Guinness World Records, which
verified the feat………
- So…..that just happened. That, as it happens, is former “The
Young and the Restless” actor Michael Muhney being fired late last month for
allegedly and repeatedly groping co-star Hunter King. According to sources
close to the show, Muhney reportedly sexually harassed and bullied King. The
married, 38-year-old actor was accused of fondling the breasts of a woman 18
years his junior, which is always a super-classy move. King, who plays Summer on
the CBS soap, complained that the contact was unsolicited and it took producers
all of five seconds to break Muhney off. The former “Veronica Mars” cast member
didn’t exactly deny any wrongdoing when he was asked about his firing shortly
after it happened. "I saw it coming, and I didn't see it coming. I
suspected it could happen, but I didn't think that it really would,"
Muhney said at the time. "Part of me feels this is because I've always
been outspoken, and sometimes I've been too outspoken. Sometimes I've walked
around with a big backpack full of hubris. That is entirely on me." Hmm…a
vague, rambling statement about hubris and being outspoken….kind of curious.
Maybe “been too outspoken” is Michael Muhney for “get way to handsy with a
really attractive young actress’ rack.” Oh, and perhaps his hubris leads him to
believe he can commit felony sexual assault and get away with it. Either way,
those who want to be creeped out by seeing a sexual deviant on screen one final
time can tune in for Muhney's last episode on Jan. 30. His character, Adam, will
return with a new actor after a three- to six-month break……
- Surveillance videos often make for terrible viewing. But
if you end up seeing a piece of surveillance footage on the local news or
national news, then you can be sure it will be worth your while and then some.
Hours and hours of mundane non-action are set aside and the actions of a truly
idiotic criminal play on a short snippet of video for the world to mock. Winooski, Vt. resident Amanda Downing is a woman who knows how to
light up a small, black-and-white screen with her illegal antics. Downing was
arrested last weekend after swiping the purse of a fellow shopper at the
Hannaford grocery store. According to Burlington Police Cpl. Tom Chenette, Downing
is a known drug user who commonly carries needles on her. She sports a lengthy
criminal record, mostly drug and driving offenses related to her addiction, and
is a well-known commodity amongst local law enforcement. In the video obtained
from the store, a scene unfolds in which police were already seeking Downing
when she showed up in a showdown with fellow shoppers who leapt to the defense
of the older woman from whole Downing made her heist. Officers were trying to
identify the grainy figure on the video and used tips from the public to locate
her. It wasn’t until Downing struck for a second time that they were able to
determine her whereabouts. Once her victim accused Downing of ripping her purse
from her cart, several bystanders
intervened. The victim yelled, “Stop, thief!” and from there, a crowd of
concerned shoppers physically confronted Downing. One shoved Downing into a
produce bin while a second person wrestled the purse from her grasp. "We
don't typically recommend that people physically engage these types of
suspects," Chenette said. "Typically they're desperate as in this
case. It was motivated by drugs." Downing then fled the store, but a Hannaford
pharmacist followed her. The pharmacist wrote down the license plate on
Downing’s car and called police. From there, it was only a matter of time
before she was taken into custody and charged with multiple purse snatchings……..
- Wrong, wrong and wrong again, Iowa athletic director Gary Barta. This
über-square is missing the point and missing it badly after his men’s
basketball coach unleashed a tirade for the ages during the No. 22 Hawkeyes'
75-71 road loss on Sunday to fourth-ranked Wisconsin. Iowa coach Fran
McCaffery "crossed a line of acceptable behavior" during an outburst
that led to his ejection from the game….or so said Barta, who clearly doesn’t
understand that this solar burst of sideline rage is the only reason people are
talking about Iowa basketball right now. The drama began after a foul was
called on Iowa center Gabriel Olaseni that sent Wisconsin's Nigel
Hayes to the line. McCaffery seemed to dislike the call, as evidenced by the
back-to-back technical fouls he received as part of an outburst that brought
the game to a screeching halt. Ben Brust made four straight free throws for the
Badgers after McCaffery was hit with two technicals with about 12 minutes to
play, giving Wisconsin a 43-41 lead. That those four points matched the final
margin of victory is an unfortunate coincidence, but that’s no reason for Barta
to issue a statement condemning his coach. "I've met with Coach McCaffery
regarding last night's ejection from the game in Madison. He knows he crossed a
line of acceptable behavior and accepts responsibility for his actions,"
Barta said in a statement issued by the school. "All staff at the
University of Iowa fully support the Big Ten Conference's sportsmanship
policy's fundamental elements, including civility and respect toward opponents
and game officials. Fran has my full support moving forward."
Sportsmanship, shmortsmanship. So what if McCaffery continued to confront the
officials as his assistants tried to restrain him? You don’t think that kind of
passion inspires players? Sadly, McCaffery sounds like he’s fallen in line and
is spouting the brainwashed nonsense his AD is feeding him. "Anytime a
coach does something like that, you feel horrible about it because you don't
ever want to do anything other than to help your team win a game,” McCaffery
said. No need to apologize, coach……..
- How weird is Earth’s home galaxy? Weirder than you might
think, according to a team of scientists led by University of
California-Berkeley astronomer Geoff Marcy, who didn’t even factor Miley Cyrus’
ridiculous act into the mix. Marcy and his team conducted a study of the
planets sprinkled around other stars in our solar system and discovered that a
large proportion of the recently discovered planets outside that system are nothing
like the familiar planets orbiting our sun. The researchers characterized them
as "mini-Neptunes," roughly the size of Earth but, unlike Earth,
composed of a thick layer of gases around a solid core, a la Neptune. From this
find, Marcy’s team theorized that the recipe for making planets in other solar
systems is far different than the process that led to Earth's formation. These mini-Neptunes
"dominate the inventory" of the 3,000-plus planets found by NASA's
planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler, Marcy noted. He admitted that the planets are
vastly different than anything he expected to find. The research focused on
dozens of exoplanets – planets
that circle a star other than the sun – spotted by Kepler before it went dark
last year. with help from the Keck telescope in Hawaii, Marcy's team sought
small perturbations that planets create in their stars. The larger the
perturbation, the larger the planet. Ultimately, the researchers categorized
the exoplanets in two groups: those twice the size of Earth or smaller and have
a rocky core plus some water, like Earth, and those two to four times the size
of Earth, which have a rocky corps but are also comprised of lots of gas, like
Neptune. The latter group – like the planets in it – was larger and
gassier, very much like Miley Cyrus’ abhorrent gas bag of a musical existence………
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