Octopus Overlords

"(The fish) seemed to be struggling a little bit, as it would swim around, it would try to swim in a straight line but the jellyfish would knock it off course, would send it in little circles or loops.
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The publication quoted Ian Tibbetts, a marine biologist at the Center for Marine Science at the University of Queensland, who suggests the fish could be a juvenile trevally, which are known to use jellyfish stingers as protection.

"It's difficult to tell whether disaster has just struck, or whether the fish is happy to be in there," he is quoted as saying.

"Although by the photographer's description of the fish swimming, my guess is that it is probably quite happy to be protected in there"

Smoove_B wrote:It bothers me that Spielberg and Disney believe they can use "BFG" in a movie title and expect gamers to believe it stands for "Big Friendly Giant". No, no it does not.

The Food and Drug Administration is warning the public that taking extreme doses of over-the-counter anti-diarrhea medicine such as Imodium can have very serious effects and possibly be fatal. The warning, sent Tuesday, comes amid a string of deaths resulting from people taking too much of the medicine, which they're using as a substitute for powerful opioids and other painkillers.
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Loperamide can produce a cheap high in very large doses. It can also cause serious heart problems that can be deadly.
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In large doses — the FDA did not say specifically how large — loperamide can cause serious heart problems such as an irregular heartbeat, which can be fatal. A study published last month detailed two cases in New York of people who attempted to self-treat their opioid addiction by taking anti-diarrhea medicine and died.

dbt1949 wrote:I wonder if I can get my own website, Is dbt still alive?

Rip wrote:No way I would use those grips.

Never compromise functionality for appearance.

Rip wrote:No way I would use those grips.

Never compromise functionality for appearance.

ImLawBoy wrote:

Rip wrote:No way I would use those grips.

Never compromise functionality for appearance.

And that's why you fail as a supervillain.

GreenGoo wrote:

ImLawBoy wrote:

Rip wrote:No way I would use those grips.

Never compromise functionality for appearance.

And that's why you fail as a supervillain.

My plan is all coming together

Max Peck wrote:

GreenGoo wrote:

ImLawBoy wrote:

Rip wrote:No way I would use those grips.

Never compromise functionality for appearance.

And that's why you fail as a supervillain.

My plan is all coming together

Let's see, you're an aspiring Canadian supervillian, so... Your plan probably involves weaponry with the appearance of a firearm forged from a nickel-steel meteorite (sourced from Sudbury) but the functionality of a paintball marker, with maple syrup-based dyes and a surprise fire-ant finishing move.

Rip wrote:
Never compromise functionality for appearance.

hepcat wrote:Canadian Supervillain? What's his villain name, Captain Somewhat-Nice?

hepcat wrote:Canadian Supervillain? What's his villain name, Captain Somewhat-Nice?

Brian wrote:I'm sure there's an aspiring Super Hero (or Villain) out there that could use these.
Pair of 1911 Handguns Made From 4.5 Billion Year Old Meteorite

Though, at 5.4 Million for the set, it would have to be somebody as well off as Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark to afford them.

Canada’s highest court has just ruled that some sex acts between humans and animals are legal.
In a quixotic ruling, the country’s high court ruled that a man who was on trial for raping and sexually exploiting his own daughters wasn’t guilty of “bestiality.” The man reportedly, “smeared peanut butter on the genitals of his victims and had the family dog lick it off while he videotaped the act.”

The convicted man took his case to the Canadian Supreme Court, demanding that the bestiality charge be nullified. In the end, the court agreed.

As a result of the rape case, the court ruled 7 to 1 that humans having sexual contact with animals is OK if there is no “penetration” involved in the act.

In its ruling, the court decided that the legislature had not clearly defined the terms in the country’s bestiality laws and the way the statute is written should be read to only outlaw animal penetration, whether that penetration is animal to human or vice versa.

“Although bestiality was often subsumed in terms such as sodomy or buggery, penetration was the essence — ‘the defining act’ — of the offense,” the court’s ruling states as reported by The Independent.

The high court’s lone dissenter, though, said the ruling would mean open season for the sexual exploitation of animals.

“Acts with animals that have a sexual purpose are inherently exploitative whether or not penetration occurs,” Justice Rosalie Abella wrote in her dissent.

Holman wrote:King Tut had a dagger made of meteorite iron.

LordMortis wrote:

Holman wrote:King Tut had a dagger made of meteorite iron.

I won't accept that until Steve Martin makes an iambic rhyme for it.

The human remains unearthed in March behind a Providence mill complex owned by a reputed mob associate were those of a South Boston nightclub manager who vanished in 1993, the FBI said Thursday night.

The FBI said in a statement that the Rhode Island state medical examiner’s office had identified the remains as belonging to Steven A. DiSarro, a former Westwood resident who was 43 when he disappeared in May 1993. He was the former manager of the now-defunct Channel nightclub.
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DiSarro’s remains were found on March 31 behind a complex at 715 Branch Ave. in Providence owned by reputed mob associate William L. Ricci, after an unidentified tipster said investigators would find DiSarro there.

About three weeks before the discovery, Ricci, 69, pleaded guilty to allowing his property to be used for a large-scale indoor marijuana cultivation operation. As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors dismissed two other charges against him.
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Notorious gangster Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi told federal and state authorities in 2003 that he walked in on the murder of DiSarro on May 10, 1993, at the Sharon, Mass., home of Salemme’s ex-wife, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration report filed in federal court in Boston.

Flemmi said Salemme and two other men were watching as Salemme’s son, Frank, strangled DiSarro. He identified those men as Francis Salemme’s younger brother John and a friend of Francis named Paul Weadick.
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Flemmi told authorities that Francis Salemme also said Rhode Island mobster Robert DeLuca “was present during the burial” of DiSarro, according to the report. An FBI affidavit filed in support of Ricci’s arrest last year described him as a longstanding Mafia associate who was close to DeLuca.

Francis Salemme’s son died in 1995. By the time Flemmi implicated the elder Salemme in DiSarro’s slaying, the former Mafia don was already in the witness protection program for cooperating with the prosecution of South Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger and his corrupt FBI handler, John J. Connolly Jr.
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Flemmi, who pleaded guilty to his role in 10 murders and is serving a life sentence, was the longtime sidekick of Bulger and was a key witness at the gangster’s 2013 trial.

Daehawk wrote:Huh I just realized Sean Bean doesn't die in National Treasure. lol.