Hey guys (and girls), (and aliens)...(and Miyagi) , lets do some NEWS WATCH !
News watch will pretty much be me linking articles and laughing, along with comments.
Ok, get this, I was reading the news and found these articles. All are from Reuters, NONE are fake, and this is all real insanity:
Ape escapes, goes on 3-hour rampage
Thu May 24, 2007 3:15PM EDT
TAIPEI (Reuters) - An orangutan chewed through her cage and went on a three-hour rampage at a Taiwan entertainment park until authorities subdued it with a stun gun, a park employee said Thursday.
The 19-year-old primate, named "Little Blackie," turned over iceboxes, garbage cans and motor scooters near the ticketing gates of Santao Mountain Entertainment Area in Kaohsiung County after her escape Wednesday, said a park worker surnamed Hsu.
"She just turned everything upside down," Hsu said.
About two hours later, a county agricultural team shot the orangutan with a stun gun, she said. No human or beast was injured.
Ok , here are the things I don't get :
1. Why is it able to chew through its cage? I guess the cage must be made in Taiwan,but still,chewable ? Was it made of skittles ? Come on Taiwan. I hope the prisons in Taiwan aren't made of the same stuff or criminals will get ideas from this orangutan.
2. Why did it take 3 hours to subdue the thing ? Its an orangutan in a zoo, that's five minutes, tops. Can't find it ? Its orange,its not camouflaged (They call it blackie, but I guess that's just cause they're racist)
3. Why did they put the thing in its cage ? Its an entertainment park, it didn't hurt anyone , let it roam ! Its good entertainment !
4.The thing is 19 years old, why is it still being called "Little" ? Maybe that made it mad.
5. Why didn't it do anything ? If it spent so long trying to get out couldn't it at least bite someone? Bitch you chewed through your bars ! Do something !
6. "She just turned everything upside down" Sorry, but this needs to be repeated. Thats one stupid orangutan. I would have at least broken the scooter
Girls do badly at math when told boys better: study
Thu May 24, 2007 8:17PM EDT
By Belinda Goldsmith
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Telling girls that boys are better than they are at mathematics can irritate them so much that it negatively impacts their performance, according to a U.S. study.
Researchers from three U.S. universities found that the threat of stereotypes could create worries that undermined the women's short-term memory system needed for problem solving.
"The women start worrying about screwing up which uses up important short term or working memory which could otherwise be used performing the task," said Sian Beilock, assistant professor in psychology at the University of Chicago and lead investigator in the study.
But the study also found that reminding girls of popular stereotypes, such as boys being better at math, did not just undermine performance in that topic, but in other areas too.
"They get so concerned with the stereotype that this spills over into other tests," Beilock told Reuters.
"Our work suggests that if a girl has a mathematics class first thing in the morning and experiences math-related worries in this class, these worries may carry implications for her performance in the class she attends next."
Researchers have been aware that stereotypes can undermine achievement in schools but little research had focused on the specific mental processes that prompt this response.
[Rest of the article cut off because its not funny]
Ok, heres what I think :
1. I think its funny that the study proves three things it doesn't intend to. 1. Girls don't do as well under pressure as guys. 2. Girls are more gullible and likely to believe what they are told. 3. Girls like to make excuses.
2. This article should be renamed to : Girls more likely to do badly when told they will do badly.
3.This shows how many feminists control the media, and make excuses for themselves. Get over it girls, some people are good at cooking (you), and cleaning (you), and some people are better at helping humanity progress (men).
4. I think I sounded way too sexist. I like it. Its edgy. I won't apologize. (Please don't stop reading, I need the love)
Girl calls for police help over messy room
BERLIN (Reuters) - A nine-year-old German girl was so upset about having to tidy her room she put up a sign in her window urging passers-by to call police for help.
Pedestrians in the central city of Braunschweig saw the girl crying in the window, holding up a sign up saying "Help! Please call the police!" Next to her sat a small boy. Quickly alerted, officers rushed to the scene to discover the girl had argued with her mother about tidying her room and enlisted her two-year-old brother's aid to attract attention.
"The room looked like a battlefield," said a spokesman for local police on Monday. "Officers told the girl to tidy her room. When they came back two hours later to check, it was all cleaned up. And the mother and daughter had made up too."
Wow. I don't even need to make fun of that.
Here are some headlines I loved and the funny bits only(All from Reuters and within the week):
Man busted while drunk driving in wheelchair
"It's not like we can impound his wheelchair," the spokesman said. "But he is facing some sort of punishment. It's just not clear yet what exactly that will be."
What I say ?
Force him to walk home.
Lecturer suspended after breastfeeding opinion
CAIRO (Reuters) - Cairo's al-Azhar Islamic University on Monday suspended a lecturer who suggested that men and women work colleagues could use symbolic breastfeeding to get around a religious ban on being alone together.
The lecturer, Ezzat Atiya, had drawn on Islamic traditions which forbid sexual relations between a man and a woman who has breastfed him to suggest that symbolic breastfeeding could be a way around strict segregation of males and females.
Yea but wouldn't it be awkward to work with a woman who breastfed you ?
" Gosh I'm thirsty, Mary"
" Don't even think about it"
" Tea with milk , Ahmed?"
" Who's milk ?!"
Killers wrap victim in Christmas paper
Police unwrapped the sheets to find he had been taped up in festive wrapping paper with a Christmas tree motif.
What I think ?
Santa did it. Some bad kids get coal, some bad kids get shot.
Mom drives son to rob jewelry store
A 36-year-old German mother-of-five drove her son to a jewelry store he wanted to rob because she was afraid he may come to some harm, Bild newspaper reported Wednesday.
While her 17-year-old son and his two accomplices stabbed and robbed a jeweler in the eastern city of Dresden, the mother waited outside in the car.
"I knew he wanted to rob the shop and I was very worried about him," top-selling Bild quoted the mother as saying.
Wow, that's a pretty great mom right there. Though if she really loved him she would have been in there with him. Now I know for sure my mom hates me, she’d never let me rob a store. I never get to have fun.
Also, this is a freaky coincidence, I just realized that the font I've been using for this blog (and all previous entries) was called Georgia. Scared ? You bet I am.
Mr.Miyagi says, " My mother drove me to Karate classes. Until I accidentally Dragon Punched her. After that I had to walk."