Dumb news stories

[benji]

Police have seized an enormous collection of Lego worth an estimated $200,000 alongside methamphetamine and gemstones during a drug bust in Melbourne's south-east.

Detectives raided the house in Botanic Ridge earlier this week, allegedly finding a clandestine laboratory filled with methamphetamine, an imitation firearm, cash, two pelican cases filled with high-quality gemstones and 1130 boxes of Lego.

"This is the first time our detectives have seized a Lego collection - let alone one so large that it requires specific transportation to remove it," Detective Inspector Anthony Vella said.

[Potato]

Pretty good way to launder cash honestly. LEGO holds its value.

[benji]

[benji]

You guys keep getting caught.

[Uncle]

that looks like the exact face of a man who would go around wearing a gimp suit

it's inexplicable

[benji]

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

According to Merriam-Webster, the word moist is defined as “slightly or moderately wet.” “Gaslighting” — mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful — was Merriam-Webster’s word of 2022.

[jorma]

According to Merriam-Webster, the word moist is defined as “slightly or moderately wet.” “Gaslighting” — mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful — was Merriam-Webster’s word of 2022.

i have given this a lot of thought and i'm fairly sure that "moist" is the ugliest word that i hate the most in the entire english language. 

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rövsmör is the worst word in swedish

[Potato]

According to Merriam-Webster, the word moist is defined as “slightly or moderately wet.” “Gaslighting” — mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful — was Merriam-Webster’s word of 2022.

i have given this a lot of thought and i'm fairly sure that "moist" is the ugliest word that i hate the most in the entire english language. 

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

rövsmör is the worst word in swedish

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rövsmör n

(slang, vulgar) An unpleasant substance of vague composition that accumulates between the buttocks, typically involving sweat.

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[jorma]

According to Merriam-Webster, the word moist is defined as “slightly or moderately wet.” “Gaslighting” — mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful — was Merriam-Webster’s word of 2022.

i have given this a lot of thought and i'm fairly sure that "moist" is the ugliest word that i hate the most in the entire english language. 

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

rövsmör is the worst word in swedish

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

rövsmör n

(slang, vulgar) An unpleasant substance of vague composition that accumulates between the buttocks, typically involving sweat.

yeah, literal translation is assbutter but it sounds much worse in swedish for some reason. 
moist is much grosser, yuck

[Potato]

I wonder how far they got?

[Uncle]

era does that all the time too  

I'm curious what it actually was, though

[benji]

[Potato]

era does that all the time too  

I'm curious what it actually was, though

I'm less concerned about the propaganda and more concerned about a Walkley Award winning journalist and political editor not knowing the difference between peddling and pedalling.

[Potato]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-11-21/bat-contact-mating-cloacal-kiss-non-penetrative-reproduction/103118586

Bat species uses oversized penis like an arm during 'contact mating' — not penetrative sex

Ok, bats with Japanese anime penises were not on my bingo list

[Potato]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-new-trend-tinned-fish/

Is there anything you fucking Americans won't Columbus?

For years, canned sardines have been a bit of a joke, but that's not how they're thought of in places like Spain and Portugal, where "fish in a can" is something they proudly serve in restaurants, as Becca Millstein found out: "I had lived abroad in Spain in college," she said, "and had gone into these beautiful conservarías, and saw rows and rows of beautiful tins of fish. And nothing like that exists in the U.S."

Millstein wants to change that with her company, Fishwife, just one of a number of outfits (like Espinaler, La Curiosa, Alalunga, ABC+, and Ar de Arte) hoping to convince people to spend serious money on – not "canned fish," but "tinned fish."

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Anna Hezel wrote an entire cookbook about, well, pre-cooked fish, called "Tin to Table." "It's a little more delicate, a little more special, and a little more premium," she said.

But is tinned fish just a fad? Becca Millstein says no. She named her company Fishwife for the industrious, tough women who've sold fish in the past – something she's hoping to do, long into the future. "It's something that people have been eating for hundreds of years," she said. "So, the trend that we're experiencing right now is the beginning of the new era of tinned fish."

That last paragraph is right out of the techbro, $400 Juicero playbook.

"We're reinventing tinned fish!"

Europeans right now: 

[Uncle]

it's not an american thing, it's "random company wants to make more money so tries to pretend they're the start of some new dumb revolution in the way we eat/sleep/breathe"

[benji]

[Eric Cartman]

live mas

[chronovore]

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“One threw up in the trash while the other vomited in her guacamole bowl, according to the complaint.“

[Potato]

Australian news is a fucking goldmine this morning:

Misdiagnosed and gaslit: When autistic Australians go to the doctor, it's often a 'traumatic' experience

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-01/autistic-australians-struggling-barriers-healthcare/103160556

Chantel Le Cross remembers the first time they felt heard in an emergency room.

It was only two months ago.

The 33-year-old, who is selective non-verbal autistic, was rushed to hospital in September in intense pain. An endometrial cyst wrapped around one of their fallopian tubes had ruptured.

Because Chantel was screaming in agony, they say workers were able to understand their suffering. But that level of attention isn't typical.

In the past, hospital workers have misunderstood Chantel and their symptoms. 

"I have a big issue displaying pain," they say.

"Sometimes I am non-verbal and sometimes I am [verbal]."

Mindfulness therapy does little for high-schoolers' mental health, research finds

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-01/mindfulness-therapy-mental-health-teenagers-research/103167322

When a group of teenagers was given eight weeks of therapy and mindfulness training, there was no improvement in their overall mental health, a study has shown.

The DBT therapy group engaged in mindfulness and other emotional regulation exercises.

Lead author Lauren Harvey said the only improvements were seen among those students who continued their therapy exercises at home.

The clinical psychologist said these results suggested that participants needed a certain willingness for the therapy to be effective.

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[chronovore]

There are even odds that this smelled horrible.

[benji]

[benji]

[TylenolJones]

[Potato]

Big tobacco was right!!

[benji]

Alright, which of you was flying to Austin?