The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Anteater]

Everyone knows there's only one gang out there the FBI is really lookin' for.

[Chula Vista]

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

I wouldn't give the job to someone who was by turns maudlin, self-pitying, partisan and belligerent.

Indeed. If nothing else, the next week is going to allow people to go back and watch his "performance" again. In hindsight it was worse than seeing it in real time.

This is priceless (sorry if it's already been posted)

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Indeed. If nothing else, the next week is going to allow people to go back and watch his "performance" again. In hindsight it was worse than seeing it in real time.

This is priceless (sorry if it's already been posted)

****

I wish that were 20 minutes longer

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Two cities were razed by a tsunami in Indonesia but how can that possibly compete for news time when a rich woman was dry humped 40 years ago?

^ I thought of this post this morning when I read the following in the autobiog of a guy called Jeremy Bowen, who worked as a BBC war correspondent for many years:-

A traditional British newsroom follows a terrible arithmatic. Generally speaking, the furthur away from London, and the poorer the people, the more deaths it takes to qualify as a big story. In 1991 a cyclone hit Bangladesh. The first reports said that around 10,000 people had been killed. I was put on standby to go, in case it turned out that more people were dead. By the afternoon the reported toll was over 50,000, but that was still not enough. A day or two later Bangladeshi authorities were saying that more than 100,000 had died. Within hours, I was on a plane for Bangladesh. Six figures had done the trick.

[[MERIT]]

Originally Posted by 66Sexy

If MB gets classified as a gang I'm supporting it and will plan bank robberies and ****.

I'm down, as long as our gang colors are this gay blue background.

[The Batlord]

Bruh, we're an internet crime syndicate. We'll use an ever changing series of meme tattoos.

[OccultHawk]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgetow...anaugh-hearing

An anti-Trump professor at Georgetown University is taking heat for a tweet saying white Republican senators who were at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's hearing Friday should be castrated and endure a miserable death.

Honest to **** - how does a professor at Georgetown actually come to believe that she is not “entitled” as all ****?

Sure chop off there nuts but she’s going to be ****ing next in her fancy ****ing office living a bourgeois life while doing ****ing nothing

It’s like hello bitch that same hatred is coming for youuuuuuuu

[Frownland]

Put Qwertyy on suicide watch.

[Paedantic Basterd]

Going back to the Kavanaugh stuff, I don't know how many of you watched the actual testimony versus reading about it afterwards, but it was definitely one of the most surreal news events I've watched in my time. There was literally this moment where he was asked a direct question and went off on some sort of tangent about flatulence and eating ketchup on spaghetti, and he didn't even clear up whether he DOES eat ketchup on his spaghetti, or whether he merely objects to the practice. And that's not even wild compared to how he's being handled politically. I feel like I'm in a deteriorating timeline that was never supposed to be.

[Paedantic Basterd]

Yeah, there's this meta-wildness where he's a JUDGE who went to LAW SCHOOL and is in an INTERVIEW for the SUPREME COURT. Whether or not he committed a crime, his evasiveness and verifiable untruths are more than enough to disqualify him. I just can't believe that it's even still a conversation after that insane display of immaturity.