News Miscellany

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Steve Irwin at the pearly gates with a cricket bat. Saint Peter tells him he can go right in.

“Thanks, mate, but I’m waiting on someone.”

[Sock Puppet]

Jesus.

[Ari]

Soooo… here’s Steve Irwin’s son Robert Irwin not molesting a komodo dragon in any shape or form.

[Miss Shelby]

Originally Posted by Miss Shelby

Henderson police report details grisly decapitation homicide

this is cold blooded. I wonder if he made a joke about her being on her period.

Oh Heavens to Betsies, I ran across this and by the headline I thought it was this same Nevada woman, but this is a different woman altogether. Holy shit.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/convi...without-parole

[JoeP]

BBC News - Sycamore Gap: Boy, 16, arrested after Hadrian's Wall tree felled

The landmark at Sycamore Gap, beside Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, was cut down overnight.

Northumberland National Park Authority officials believe the tree, known as Robin Hood's Tree, was "deliberately felled".

[LarsMac]

Originally Posted by JoeP

BBC News - Sycamore Gap: Boy, 16, arrested after Hadrian's Wall tree felled

Well, that certainly looks fairly deliberate.

[JoeP]

Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ continues | Paris | The Guardian

[Stephen Maturin]

Holy fuck, we got us an indictment and arrest in Tupac's murder, and it isn't Puffy.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by JoeP

BBC News - Sycamore Gap: Boy, 16, arrested after Hadrian's Wall tree felled

Sycamore Gap: Man in 60s arrested in connection with felling of world-famous tree

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

First degree dumbass gets first degree terrorism charge.

[viscousmemories]

Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin

Holy fuck, we got us an indictment and arrest in Tupac's murder, and it isn't Puffy.

I read that he published a memoir in 2019 in which he confessed to supplying the gun used in the killing and that he was in the car when it happened. I checked and doublechecked but I wasn't reading the Onion.

[Stephen Maturin]

EMILYs List president Laphonza Butler will serve the rest of Dianne Feinstein's U.S. Senate term, which expires in January 2025.

[LarsMac]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Sycamore Gap: Man in 60s arrested in connection with felling of world-famous tree

Why do they call it it "Robin Hood's tree" [well, ..., did]?

[LarsMac]

Originally Posted by LarsMac

Why do they call it it "Robin Hood's tree" [well, ..., did]?

So yet another case of Costner bending history.

[Stephen Maturin]

In this storm of ghastly news, let us take time to at Tommy Tuberville, who's supplanted Ron Johnson as America's stupidest senator, falling down like a common Joe Biden.

[LarsMac]

Well, I wish that I could say that I've never done that.
(But,..., at least, I didn't have news cameras there to record the event.)

[specious_reasons]

Originally Posted by LarsMac

Well, I wish that I could say that I've never done that.
(But,..., at least, I didn't have news cameras there to record the event.)

You've mocked Biden's mobility and then have your own issues? That's not very nice.

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[LarsMac]

I can honestly say that I've never mocked Joe Biden.
Tommy T, on the other hand,...

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Arkansas. That is all.

[Miss Shelby]

North Carolina man's body mistaken for Halloween prop by landscapers

can't make this shit up. ten days. well nine but who's counting?

[Stephen Maturin]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Arkansas. That is all.

I remember telling that dumbass lolbert who posted here long ago that the stuffed animal he uses as a jizz rag is not an actual human being, and therefore he cannot be "married" to it. As always, life outstrips snark.

[Miss Shelby]

Sarpy County body transport employee arrested, fired after life-sized doll tampered with at scene

on the subject of dead bodies.

[seebs]

person in Doncaster sees paragliders, assumes Hamas is attacking the UK.

This is how Brexit happened.

[JoeP]

This is how stochastic terrorism works. People are really, really stupid.

[Ari]

And now for something completely different,
Silvio Berlusconi heirs weigh up fate of his mostly worthless art collection | Italy | The Guardian

TheGuardian

The heirs of Silvio Berlusconi inherited billions from his empire but now they are faced with a dilemma: what to do with his vast collection of mostly worthless artwork, including paintings of nude women and the Madonna, stored in a warehouse opposite his home near Milan.

The former prime minister, who died in June at the age of 86, reportedly amassed the 25,000 works during the final years of his life, buying the majority from late-night shopping channels in his quest to become a top collector.

Vittorio Sgarbi, an undersecretary at the culture ministry, art critic and close friend of Berlusconi, said the compulsion for buying art sold through TV auctions began in earnest in 2018 as a result of “sleepless nights”.

He told Report, the investigative series broadcast on Rai, that Berlusconi spent an estimated €20m on what Sgarbi described as a collection of “daubs”, and the focus appeared to be on quantity rather than quality.

According to La Repubblica newspaper, the collection is a burden for Berlusconi’s five offspring, not least because it costs €800,000 a year to maintain the huge warehouse opposite Villa San Martino, his main residence in Arcore near Milan, in which the works are stored.