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"Upon seeing the fans, even TNT basketball analyst and longtime Knicks adversary Reggie Miller remarked, "Oh, my God. That's not right." Then he checked himself, "Maybe it is."" - rønin

WTH is up w/the comments about never seeing a pregnant Asian. That's the first I've heard of that one. - rønin

>.> - Alix May

"Here’s the easiest 50 bucks you will ever make. If you drank a Kirin beer between October 25, 2009 and December 17, 2014 Anheuser-Busch is going to pay you for some misleading information on its label. Two Miami residents sued the beer maker back in 2013 because they thought Kirin was imported from Japan. Spoiler Alert: It’s not." - rønin

I knew Kirin wasn't from Japan, but off the top off my head, I can remember at least 16 bottles in that span, and about 5 6-packs. Hmmm... - Anika

I need to read the labels more carefully while I'm getting drunk. =) - rønin

"Our latest film, from actor Ken Jeong, tells the story of how a 5-foot-5 premed student played a crucial role in Notre Dame’s undefeated football season." - rønin

There's so many 30 for 30's on Netflix I need to catch up on. I watched "No Mas' and was disappointed. - Rodfather

"Baikal is also a paradise of biodiversity, "the Galapagos of Russia". Thousands of species of plants and animals live there, and some 60 per cent of them, including the photogenic Baikal seal, are found nowhere else. This little beauty is also unique to the lake." - rønin

Apparently not by Banksy. - rønin

Lucille Clerc. - Spidra Webster

"Life as a salt-farm slave was so bad Kim Jong-seok sometimes fantasized about killing the owner who beat him daily. Freedom, he says, has been worse. In the year since police emancipated the severely mentally disabled man from the remote island farm where he had worked for eight years, Kim has lived in a grim homeless shelter, where he has been preyed upon and robbed by other residents. He has no friends, no job training prospects or counseling, and feels confined and deeply bored. "I want to go back," Kim, 41, said during a recent interview in the shelter near Mokpo, the southwestern mainland port that is the gateway to dozens of salt islands where a months-long investigation by The Associated Press found that slavery still thrives, an open secret among locals." - rønin

Flip side of the coin to this article I had posted a few days back: http://ff.im/1kOLdS - rønin

"For five years, she willingly succumbed each night to the wrath of tiny, bronze-bodied critters who fed on her blood. It was a sacrifice for science. After providing free meals to thousands of bedbugs, Simon Fraser University biologist Regine Gries has discovered the key to conquering the maddening pests." - rønin

And a world-class pipe band, to strike fear into the hearts of enemies: http://www.sfupb.com/ - Brent Schaus

"Dozens of Australians tilted a train Wednesday to free a commuter whose leg was trapped between a carriage and a platform, with authorities praising their efforts as an example of “people power”. The man was boarding in the Western Australia city of Perth when he slipped and became jammed in the five-centimetre gap between the carriage and the station, operator Transperth said in a statement." - rønin

I remember this :) - Eivind

Geez. "On El Capitan’s Dawn Wall, Climb Thought to Be World’s Toughest Progresses Slowly." - rønin

Uhh... huh. "Last week, we got a very brief promo for the Chinese exclusive Call of Duty Online featuring Captain America himself, Chris Evans, and now the full version of that trailer has debuted online! Check it out in the player below. Call of Duty Online has been in development for a number of years and in an open beta in China since 2014. The game will be free-to-play for Chinese players but will feature micro-transactions allowing customization of avatars and weapons including elements and characters from “Modern Warfare,” “Ghosts” and “Advanced Warfare.”" - rønin

Yay? - rønin

Wha? - Stephen Mack

Ugh, dangit. I'm glad there are more female helmed action films, but seriously, I could really do without the whitewashing anime trend. It was a bad idea for Akira, it's a bad idea here. - Jennifer Dittrich

Holy crap. Congrats. - Rodfather

Ok so w/the right allies the Trial of Light isn't too bad. And I finished the hunter master's final request. But still die a whole lotta times before it can be brought down. - rønin

"Slavery thrives on this chain of rural islands off South Korea’s rugged southwest coast, nurtured by a long history of exploitation and the demands of trying to squeeze a living from the sea. Five times during the last decade, revelations of slavery involving the disabled have emerged, each time generating national shame and outrage. Kim’s case prompted a nationwide government probe over the course of several months last year. Officials searched more than 38,000 salt, fish and agricultural farms and disabled facilities and found more than 100 workers who had received no — or only scant — pay, and more than 100 who had been reported missing by their families. Yet little has changed on the islands, according to a months-long investigation by the AP based on court and police documents and dozens of interviews with freed slaves, salt farmers, villagers and officials." - rønin

"A comic titled “LEGO Friends” recently went viral, striking a chord with people by humorously pointing out that girls don’t need a separate line of LEGO toys. No, no—girls just need better female representation within existing LEGO sets." - rønin

Apparently I'm not tuned in enough w/the Interwebs cause I miss out on all the "viral" stuff. - rønin

I come here for the viral stuff. :-) - bentley

"In the case of Officer Liu’s funeral, Mr. Zhao said, he was acting on his own accord and was not getting paid: He had been planning to do the scrolls since hearing of the officers’ murders. “I could use my calligraphy to memorialize the officer,” he said in Mandarin. “What a pity it is. He was such a good police officer. He was an only son.”" - rønin

"Mr. Xiong climbed a ladder in a room where part of the ceremonies will unfold, and stapled the four-character sign to the wall and the two scrolls on either side. “I very rarely see a calligrapher who makes characters of this quality,” he said, adding that they suitably honored the life of Officer Liu. “Without this, the room would lack the high quality of the life that he led.”" - Spidra Webster

Snopes says: "Although the photographs are real, the claim about the giant furnishings' having originated as a way of skirting the law is a bit of fiction: the structures were built to serve the dual purpose of providing some shelter for the equines and serving as a visual advertisement for their owner's business." http://www.snopes.com/photos... - bentley

(I don't care. The horses look so cute standing under the furniture.) - bentley

"Patrick McIntosh's wife, children and grandchildren think he's gone mad. His business clients think he's joking. And his doctors think he's lucky to be alive. Yet on Monday, despite the concerns of his family and bemusement of his colleagues, the businessman left home to trek to the South Pole – despite having been diagnosed with three unconnected cancers in less than a year." - rønin

;) - Tamara J. B.

At least you're way ahead with cleaning for chinese new year :P - imabonehead

"The Norwegian government violated Minnesota's equal-pay laws by paying a female former employee $30,000 less than a male counterpart, a federal judge has ruled. In a 191-page decision issued Wednesday, Norway was also ordered to pay Ellen Ewald $170,594 — double her lost wages — plus $100,000 for emotional distress, the Star Tribune reported. U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson of St. Paul also ruled that Norway must pay $1,000 to Minnesota's general fund for violating the state's Human Rights Act." - rønin

Probably not :) - Eivind

I thought it was supposed to be smart enough to learn about the places it couldn't go. Yet it continuously goes into that corner. =p - rønin

"The recipe, dubbed the Deep Fried Champagne Toast, involves soaking hunks of sponge cake in champagne then transferring them to hot oil until they're nice and browned. Once they're out of the fryer, they're topped with powdered sugar and sprinkles, as they should be. Creating the toast is really simple provided you're not already hammered—beware the hot oil! And remember kids: laying a base before a night of imbibing is Drinking 101." - rønin

"A pair of back-to-back Lego heists last week exposed a flourishing trend in the criminal underworld that's been quietly building for years. Stolen Legos are as untraceable as cash." - rønin

! :( - Amit Patel

The point about the appreciation over time suggests that being a Lego fence is a potential job. - Technodad

"He is the Napoleon of Lego crime, Watson." - Technodad

"A recent campaign to stop the phenomenon known as "manspreading" on New York's transportation system has men's rights organizations in a tizzy, especially in Canada, where one "advocacy group" is demanding men be allowed to spread their legs as far and wide as they want to to avoid a pain more awful than anything women have ever known." - rønin