submitted by xB4R7x and chinkubus on 11/14/2008
With the financial crisis and credit becoming evermore scarcer by the day, it was bound to happen. People are finding new ways to pay their bills and off their debts.
This man’s is definitely the most amusing so far. He submitted a drawing. The correspondence between him as the agent is even more so.
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I’m so doing this…
I think i’m going to try this!
submitted by SirPopper on 11/11/2008
Yeah, Diggers and other social media users get upset when blogs and small websites do these things. So, how about when the big media sites do them?
The NY Times, especially, used to get on my nerves with their Twitter account. Every morning at 4AM, they dumped 10-20 links into the twitterverse. They’ve since stopped. Although, I’m still disappointed when I see mainstream media sites use Twitter as an RSS feed.
I really don’t think they get the Internet.
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Forbes, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Mens Health, you name it. The big guys think that they because they entered in the game early, or because they have some popular print publication backing them up, they can get away with whatever they want.
submitted by hdar3415 on 11/12/2008
Got kids?
Adults lie as well; in fact, kids are just really practicing for when they’re older. Or, perhaps they’re getting even for Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
My favorite part of the article is the linking between lying, high IQ, and good social skills.
The world would fall apart if we could all read each other’s minds.
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“Daddy puts on your bras sometimes,” my then 4-year-old said nonchalantly as I tried on lingerie in a department store dressing room. “Excuse me? When?” I asked, astonished. “When you’re asleep,” she replied — and proceeded to describe how, early Saturday mornings, he’d slip a bra over his T-shirt and then jump on our mini-trampoline.
Submitted by andybigs on 11/07/2008
… and submitted to Twitter by DoshDosh - which who I got the link from.
The list was compiled by researchers at Oxford. But, what was most interesting about this article, is the fact that they have researchers (and software, I assume) that monitor phrases used and construct a database of them. The purpose of the database: What expressions are disappearing and which words are misused.
Looking at the list, I think Professor Strunk would have approved.
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A top ten of the most irritating expressions has been compiled by researchers at Oxford University.
Submitted by SirPopper on 11/04/2008
I laughed hard when I read the title, because I had a good idea what was coming. I can’t believe this didn’t front page, especially seeing the amount of commentary on the post.
Sure, there were a lot of submissions announcing Obama as the 44th president of the United States, but the Onion did it best - hands down.
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African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure,..
Submitted by shellygrrl on 11/01/2008
Sure as hell can’t be the title - as in why didn’t this post make it to the front page.
No, the user account has very little activity associated with it.
The post is to a long “poster” of the 2008 election. I think just about every controversy and ridiculous aspect of the 2008 campaigns have been included.
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The 2008 election summed up as if one long poster.
Submitted by anderzole on 10/26/08
Sorta like the recent article I posted on Iceland’s citizens going back to fishing… only different. Instead of acquiring jobs that actually produce something physical (or even to another industry altogether), they’re relocating to other areas of the country and sticking with the financial industry. So, basically the rats are abandoning ship and Wall Street is experiencing population decline.
Interesting article, but left me slightly disturbed when the author referred to the talents of bankers and brokers as “rarified.”
… in what world?
awwww… look at the sad little banker…
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Bankers and brokers looking to escape the financial meltdown are scrambling to relocate their families, possessions and rarified talent far from Wall Street to places such as Florida, Chicago, Milwaukee, Virginia and Asia.
gbarberi on October 28th, 2008
Submitted by badwithcomputer on 10/27/08
Um… not the best way to get out of marrying someone. Especially, if you already have a wife!
Why didn’t he just tell his fiance about the other woman? That usually works. It’s certainly a lot easier than setting fire to a hotel.
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A Japanese man set fire to the hotel where he was due to get married at the weekend, rather than go through with the ceremony later the same day, newspaper reports said Monday. Tatsuhiko Kawata, 39, had gone along with wedding plans despite already having a wife, the Yomiuri newspaper said.
submitted by SirPopper on 10/20/2008
We’re already getting our asses kicked by foreign competition. And, according to this piece, we better get ready for an increase in both number and intensity. These countries may be poorer than us, but they make up for it in entrepreneurial spirit. They’re also more innovative than us, at least in business.
My favorite part:
I like to tell the story of a Chinese manufacturer that was getting feedback about its washing machines’ clogging up drains. The company investigated and found that the machines worked just fine but that rural consumers were using them to wash potatoes. What would an American company do to solve this problem? Call in a p.r. firm to tell consumers that washing vegetables voids their warranty? The Chinese company had a better idea: it added a vegetable-wash cycle to its machines. We call this innovating with ingenuity–and no government program can teach this.
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Imagine 100 companies from Former Third World countries with a combined revenue in the trillions of dollars–greater than the total economic output of many countries–competing with U.S. companies for space on the world stage. Imagine several hundred such companies. Now imagine thousands.
Submitted by DigiDave on 10/14/2008
There are probably a lot of Mac spoofs out there. If you want to send a message of support for something, simply have the opposing argument dress up as a PC and the supported argument dress up as the Mac guy. Simple.
This spoof focuses on Proposition 8 in California, a measure intended to modify the California constitution to disallow same sex marriages by adding a new section that states “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”
Of course, then the government will probably need to define the terms “man” and “woman” and any others that come up in the process. Something already done for Race.
