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Funny picture thread
by
zzyzzx
on 9 Dec 2011
9,806 comments, latest
32 minutes ago
#humor
One man's ObamaCare nightmare
by
zzyzzx
on 24 Sep 2013
106 comments, latest
24 days ago
http://www.foxnews.com/politic Andy and Amy Mangione of Louisville, Ky. and their two boys are just the kind of people who should be helped by ObamaCare. But they recently got a ...
California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws
by
zzyzzx
on 25 Jan 2018
52 comments, latest
a month ago
http://reason.com/blog/2018/01 Ian Calderon wants restaurateurs to think long and hard before giving you a straw. Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop ...
Yet still another school kid gets lucky!
by
zzyzzx
on 5 Mar 2021
94 comments, latest
a month ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne A married teacher who had outdoor sex with her 15-year-old pupil has been jailed for six years and two months. Kandice Barber, 35, took the underage boy to a ...
Switzerland Seizes Valuables From Refugees To Pay For Upkeep
by
zzyzzx
on 15 Jan 2016
3 comments, latest
2 months ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ Switzerland Seizes Valuables From Refugees To Pay For Upkeep ZURICH, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Refugees arriving in Switzerland have to turn over to the state any assets worth ...
Slovaks vote to name bridge Chuck Norris
by
zzyzzx
on 23 Feb 2012
5 comments, latest
3 months ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl Slovaks vote to name bridge Chuck Norris US action film star leads the running in public vote for name of bridge to cross Morava river into Austria Slovaks ...
Beyond Parody: The World Of Mike Judge’s Idiocracy Is Better Than Joe Biden’s America
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zzyzzx
on 24 Feb 2021
1 comment, latest
6 months ago
https://www.revolver.news/2021 1. Idiocracy has better art In the Idiocracy-verse, the most popular movie in America is Ass. The film is exactly what it sounds like: An ass, with occasional farting. ...
Detroit Sells Homes for $1,000
by
zzyzzx
on 15 Apr 2014
34 comments, latest
6 months ago
http://247wallst.com/economy/2 Detroit has started to auction homes for as little as $1,000 each. Its Building Detroit website launched Monday with 15 homes and a series of rules buyers must ...
Bored man hacks into giant billboard so he can watch porn while stuck in traffic
by
zzyzzx
on 8 Oct 2016
5 comments, latest
6 months ago
https://www.indy100.com/articl A man has been arrested after hacking into a giant advertising billboard and broadcasting porn to thousands of people stuck in a traffic jam. The 24-year-old IT analyst ...
Rapefugee rapes boy in Mosque
by
zzyzzx
on 28 Sep 2016
9 comments, latest
7 months ago
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new Imam, 38, who raped a boy in a mosque toilet after a religious lesson was spared jail when community elders banished him abroad but then he secretly returned to ...
GameStop shares are jumping again, but short sellers aren’t backing down
by
zzyzzx
on 26 Jan 2021
215 comments, latest
8 months ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/2 GameStop’s short interest stands steadily at 139%, unchanged from a week Interesting read on how a messageboard found a stock shorted at > 100% of the stock, so they ...
Cisco slashes CEO pay after missed goals!!!
by
zzyzzx
on 1 Oct 2014
3 comments, latest
10 months ago
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ Chambers was recently slapped on the wrist by Cisco’s board after not hitting sales and profit goals. That slap came in the form of a pay cut to ...
Majority of Paris attackers entered Europe posing as refugees
by
zzyzzx
on 9 Oct 2016
14 comments, latest
10 months ago
http://www.foreigndesknews.com Seven of the nine ISIS jihadis who launched a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris last November entered Europe by posing as refugees. The attackers were part ...
RE/MAX paying $55M to settle brokerage commission lawsuits
by
zzyzzx
on 20 Sep 2023
3 comments, latest
a year ago
https://therealdeal.com/nation Brokerage also agrees to change its business practices. RE/MAX will cough up an eight-figure sum to extricate itself from two class-action lawsuits over agent commission payments. The company agreed ...
RV Industry Update – mid-2023
by
zzyzzx
on 27 Sep 2023
11 comments, latest
a year ago
https://rvacrossamerica.net/rv Some sellers have come to an understanding that the RV market has basically collapsed, others are yet to arrive at this inevitable conclusion.
A Turkish pilot visited his investment property in Baltimore. He was shocked by what he found
by
zzyzzx
on 21 Sep 2023
4 comments, latest
a year ago
https://www.thebaltimorebanner Non -paywall version (supposedly) https://archive.ph/EbEps Kaiser said many of the homes are rented and can continue to be. But Bayirli sold his clients on an simple process, when the ...
Loophole in eviction moratorium lets landlords evict tenants
by
zzyzzx
on 4 Mar 2021
48 comments, latest
a year ago
https://www.3newsnow.com/news/ OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — While the federal government has continued to put a ban on evictions during the pandemic, there’s at least one loophole that is allowing landlords to ...
Lingerie store accepts EBT card
by
zzyzzx
on 14 Mar 2014
2 comments, latest
a year ago
http://www.wafb.com/story/2494 GONZALES, LA (WAFB) - A south Louisiana lingerie store has posted on its front door to indicate it accepts most credit cards, including the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) ...
What to do with defective laptop I just got
by
zzyzzx
on 21 Sep 2016
15 comments, latest
a year ago
I just got a broken HP laptop (Vintage 2012, I think). Specifically a HP G6 - 1b50us, Product QF761UA. Had 4GB RAM with a hard drive with Windows 7 ...
New renters running a brothel in my gated community
by
zzyzzx
on 16 Jun 2023
4 comments, latest
2 years ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealE I live in a nice gated community in California. I think some new neighbors who are renting a home in my community are running a commercial sex operation. In ...
Depends on how much you hate the particular charity, I would think...
by
zzyzzx
on 9 Jun 2023
1 comment, latest
2 years ago
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyl Salesforce Tells Employees It Will Donate $10 Per Day to Charity if They Come Back to the Office
California could be coming for your kitchen stove next (plus your water heater, clothes dryer, etc.)
by
zzyzzx
on 8 Apr 2019
27 comments, latest
2 years ago
https://hotair.com/archives/20 One of the things they are apparently thinking about doing now is getting rid of natural gas appliances in homes and businesses. The idea is to replace millions of ...
The smart money is getting out of real estate
by
zzyzzx
on 9 Dec 2015
23 comments, latest
2 years ago
http://www.businessinsider.com The smart money is getting out of real estate Real estate investing is all about timing, and Sam Zell knows this better than anyone. He sold his real ...
Senate Approves Measure Allowing Doctors to Euthanize Children
by
zzyzzx
on 12 Dec 2013
7 comments, latest
2 years ago
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/1 Belgium: Senate Approves Measure Allowing Doctors to Euthanize Children The Belgian Senate voted today 50-17 to extend euthanasia to children with disabilities, in a move pro-life advocates worldwide ...
Men who ejaculate at least 21 times a month slash their risk of prostate cancer by A THIRD.
by
zzyzzx
on 5 Aug 2021
27 comments, latest
2 years ago
Men who ejaculate at least 21 times a month slash their risk of prostate cancer by A THIRD. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/he
Migrants in Germany now complaining about the cold
by
zzyzzx
on 21 Oct 2015
29 comments, latest
2 years ago
http://news.yahoo.com/freezing Freezing migrants cry foul as German cold bites Berlin (AFP) - As the thermometer dips towards zero in Germany, thousands of asylum seekers spending their nights in tents ...
Another 15 year old kid gets lucky
by
zzyzzx
on 30 Sep 2016
31 comments, latest
3 years ago
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com 2 Women Accused Of Having Sex With 15-Year-Old At Pizza Party DERRY TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — Two women have been accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy at ...
Ice cream company will drop ‘derogatory’ name
by
zzyzzx
on 30 Dec 2021
9 comments, latest
3 years ago
https://www.mercurynews.com/20 Eskimo Pie will go the way of Aunt Jemima’s and Uncle Ben’s
Your idea of the ideal house?
by
zzyzzx
on 17 Dec 2021
52 comments, latest
3 years ago
Or maybe just the deal breakers? Inspired by this thread: https://patrick.net/post/13251 Where I mentioned low inventory and not liking most existing houses. Since we all have our preferences and pet ...
Ex-teacher who said she had constitutional right to sex with students gets prison
by
zzyzzx
on 7 Jul 2021
8 comments, latest
3 years ago
https://nypost.com/2021/07/06/ She was charged under a 2010 state law with two counts of a school employee engaging in a sex act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student under the ...
Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More
by
zzyzzx
on 21 Feb 2021
3 comments, latest
4 years ago
https://greenwald.substack.com For the third time in less than five months, the U.S. Congress has summoned the CEOs of social media companies to appear before them, with the explicit intent to ...
West Virginia Gov. Justice outlines plan to eliminate income tax during State of the State Address
by
zzyzzx
on 17 Feb 2021
7 comments, latest
4 years ago
https://www.wvnews.com/news/wv CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — Gov. Jim Justice outlined his plan to eliminate the state’s personal income tax during his State of the State Address Wednesday evening. In order ...
Washington State making it easier to steal elections
by
zzyzzx
on 15 Jan 2021
1 comment, latest
4 years ago
https://www.thegatewaypundit.c
Here's how much money Americans think they need to retire comfortably
by
zzyzzx
on 5 Aug 2020
48 comments, latest
4 years ago
https://finance.yahoo.com/news A nationwide survey by Charles Schwab of 1,000 currently employed 401(k) participants found that on average, respondents believe they need to save $1.9 million for retirement, a 12% increase ...
DOJ Files Title VI Lawsuit Against Yale For Discriminating Against White and Asian Applicants
by
zzyzzx
on 9 Oct 2020
7 comments, latest
4 years ago
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr Justice Department Sues Yale University for Illegal Discrimination Practices in Undergraduate Admissions Race Discrimination Against Applicants to Yale College Violates Federal Civil Rights Law The Justice Department today filed ...
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