16 posts tagged “news”
Text message snoop? Study says beware
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Can't help checking your partner's text messages on the sly? You're not alone, with an Australian survey showing one in three mobile phone users are text message snoops, and the consequences can often be heart-breaking.
The online survey, conducted for telecoms service provider Virgin Mobile Australia, shows that women are more likely than men to check their partner's phone in secret.
It also revealed that 73 percent of these sneaky text checkers have found out things they later wished they hadn't, and 10 percent ended their relationship because of SMS snooping.
As far as I am concerned text messages are no different than email, diaries, etc. It's personal correspondance, and you don't go reading it unless the owner gives you explicit permission to do so.
People: what is wrong with them?
This is old news now, but I had never heard of it before today:
At the Stadium, Stay Put When the Music Plays
So now fans are not allowed to move from their seats during the National Anthem or the singing on "God Bless America" during the seventh inning stretch. It's not I like a needed another reason to detest the Yankees, but here it is. Forcing people to observe Herr George Steinbrenner's idea of patriotism: observing a moment of silence during "God Bless America" and not getting up to use the toilet. Because you know, if you get up to pee while someone is singing a song that is not America's national anthem, you must hate Amurca!Seconds before “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “God Bless America” are played, police officers, security guards and ushers turn their backs to the American flag in center field, stare at fans moving through the stands and ask them to stop. Across the stadium’s lower section, ushers stand every 20 feet to block the main aisle with chains.
“The fans were telling us it was a disgrace that when the song was being sung people were not observing it with a moment of silence,” Trost said.
Well boo hoo.... it's a baseball game, not Sunday morning church services.
I should mention that I found this through this story about a fan who was forcibly ejected from the stadium by off duty police officers (working security) because he attempted to go to the toilet during the seventh inning stretch while "God Bless America" was playing.
Can I just say that I've had more than my bloody fill of the "post-9/11" eXtreme Patriotism phenomenon? Seriously. Assaulting someone for not caring about a fucking song does not make you a patriot. It makes you an asshole."When we reached the exit of the stadium, they confiscated my ticket and the first officer shoved me through the turnstiles, saying 'Get the hell out of my country if you don't like it.'
Man, I really hate the Yankees.
Chris Kattan, wife of eight weeks file for separation
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Comedian Chris Kattan's marriage to his model wife lasted almost as long as a "Saturday Night Live" skit.
The former "Saturday Night Live" star filed for legal separation from model wife Sunshine Tutt after eight weeks of marriage. The couple were married June 28 in Yosemite Valley.
They spent roughly a month together; Kattan's filings indicate that they separated August 10. The couple have no children together, and Kattan's filing in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday indicates that the pair have a prenuptial agreement.By filing for separation instead of divorce, Kattan is leaving the door open for a reunion with Tutt but is indicating that the pair intend to live separate lives for the time being.
Kattan, 37, appeared on "SNL" from 1996 to 2003. His screen credits include "Corky Romano" and "A Night at the Roxbury."
The couple became engaged Christmas Eve 2006.
An e-mail to Kattan's publicist was not returned.
More funny because it's true humor from The Onion:
6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling
CARPENTERSVILLE, IL—Local first-grader Connor Bolduc, 6, experienced the first inkling of a coming lifetime of existential dread Monday upon recognizing his cruel destiny to participate in compulsory education for the better part of the next two decades, sources reported.
"I don't want to go to school," Bolduc told his parents, the crushing reality of his situation having yet to fully dawn on his naïve consciousness. "I want to play outside with my friends."
While Bolduc stood waiting for the bus to pick him up on his first day of elementary school, his parents reportedly were able to "see the wheels turning in his little brain" as the child, for the first time in his life, began to understand how dire and hopeless his situation had actually become…
This is so close to reality that it's frightening. I would not have been able to articulate the feelling at the age of six as well as this article does, but I sure do remember that hopeless dread at the thought of spending what seemed like forever going to school. Man I'm glad school is over.
Anger builds as whale's time runs out
That is so sad. I guess that was what had to be done, but damn, it really sucks.
Really though, I have a whole list of people who are in need of euthanasia. I would even do it myself, free of charge.
Not that I had any doubt, since the vast majority of conspiracy theorists are basing their theories not on any scientific analysis, but on general observations of how they think things should work: "Well even though I am not a scientist or a structural engineer, I just can't imagine that the jet fuel would have burned hot enough to melt steel, so there must have been controlled demolitions. Conspiracy!"
Dubmasses.
Anyway, real scientists have solved the "mystery" of the WTC 7 collapse, and guess what? It was not intentionally demolished:
9/11 collapse mystery solved
US investigators say they have solved a mystery of the September 11, 2001 attacks: the collapse of World Trade Centre building 7, a source of long-running conspiracy theories.
So I guess this means all the conspiracy theories involving WTC 7's collapse can stop now, right? HA HA! Just kidding; I'm not really that naïve.
Critics like Mike Berger of the group 9/11 Truth said he was not buying the government's explanation.
"Their explanation simply isn't sufficient. We're being lied to," he said, arguing that there is other evidence suggesting explosives were used on the building.
Ah yes. There always seems to be some vague "other evidence." I wish one of these geniuses could tell me what the hell purpose intentionally bringing down WTC 7 would have served in some hypothetical conspiracy. It collapsed seven hours after the other two towers came down. It must have been emptied of its occupants at that point, what with the fires and all.
Newsflash shitheads: The only 9/11 conspiracy is a conspiracy of incompetence. The US government is run by a bunch of boobs who probably wouldn't qualify to manage a McDonalds. No way they could have pulled this off and kept it a secret for 7 years.
Ugh. Why are people so stupid?
JUST ASKING: Is Michael Phelps A Douche
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Girls Get the Anime Look with Extra-Wide Contact Lense
Anyone who's seen Japanese comics, cartoon videos or anime art is instantly struck by the common look of the girls - big eyes that, by making the rest of the face look small, add the cuteness and sex appeal prized by many Japanese men. Since no amount of cosmetic surgery will make actual human eyes larger, some girls are trying another way to up their cute quotient: extra-wide contact lenses!
These are no ordinary contacts - they're not only tinted, but tinted prominently in the extra-wide outer ring. The result is the appearance of a bigger, wider iris.
To quote the sales copy, "Wanna get big, watery shiny eyes without any surgery? CRAVE AND ENVY NO MORE!"
The extra-wide contact lenses are made by a variety of companies including Geo and Dueba, and cost in the $30-$50 per pair range. It seems they're not just cosmetic - send in your prescription and the lenses will be made to order.
