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cpebbles wrote:Via Cracked:

this is absolutely amazing LOL

Don't really know where this story belongs, but his eternal optimism and unwaivering confidence though stupid get it dropped in the superhappy fun thread. Good for you, guy. Valiant effort.

http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/london- ... ng-swim-us

a 34-year-old man from London was enjoying a holiday at the Biarritz beach when suddenly he was taken with Olympic fever.

He bid his friends farewell, explaining that the only cure was to swim across the Atlantic to New York City and infect America with his enthusiasm.
....

Sadly, the Londoner's hopes and dreams were dashed to pieces when a helicopter dropped a diver in the ocean to remind him that the distance from Biarritz to New York is 3,594.69 miles. He persisted, citing his advanced aquatic skills...

I'd probably go with decline on that one.

stlouie_lipp wrote:heyzues?

The "oh [expletive]" look on that dog's face is hilarious.

uh super creepy is more like it

JL21 wrote:The "oh [expletive]" look on that dog's face is hilarious.

Um, I got that the big 1 is a kid's arm... but wtf is above it?

I heard a story about the trial of this Russian band on NPR. Listening to the NPR voice repeatedly say "[expletive] Riot" was pretty funny. And now this:

Edit: I guess you have to click the link the see the band name.

http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/201 ... punk-band/

The usually sombre daily press briefing at the U.S. State Department took a farcical turn over the band’s name Tuesday when spokesman Patrick Ventrell mentioned U.S. concerns about the legal woes faced by both the band and anticorruption blogger Alexei Navalnyi, but tried to sidestep the group’s blush-inducing name.

The exchange ran as follows, according to a transcript on the State Department’s website:

Mr. Ventrell: We’re very concerned by these new charges, and so — not only regarding Mr. Navalnyi, but of course also the punk rock band and others. What we’ve seen are some serious concerns about the politically motivated prosecutions of the Russian opposition. So we’re deeply concerned.

Question: We’re so disappointed you didn’t say the name of the band.

Question: Yes, I was just going to ask you to – (laughter) – which punk band are you talking about?

Mr. Ventrell: They are indeed called — [expletive] Riot is the name of the band.

Question: Thank you.

The issue of the name has also come up during the trial of three band members charged with hooliganism for the performance of the song “Our Lady, Chase Putin Out!” in Christ the Saviour Cathedral just before March’s presidential election.

On Wednesday, prosecution witness Oleg Ugrik criticized the band’s name, which he translated as “festering orgy,” according to a live blog of the hearing by the Russian Legal Information Agency (which can be viewed in English here). Ugrik specifically used an adjective form of the Russian word for “pus,” suggesting he had perhaps looked up the wrong entry for the first word in the band’s name in an English-Russian dictionary.

He said others had told him it meant “something soft,” but that he didn’t believe it, causing the courtroom to burst into laughter. The band has said the name is an homage to the early 1990s feminist Riot Grrrl punk rock scene from which many of their favourite acts hailed.

cards2468 wrote:

JL21 wrote:The "oh [expletive]" look on that dog's face is hilarious.

Um, I got that the big 1 is a kid's arm... but wtf is above it?

A flaccid penis.

[SHOW]

No, I think that's a finger.