Octopus Overlords

Holman wrote:I made pesto three days ago and now I have pine mouth again. Again!

Unagi wrote:Honest question: Ever been in a knife fight?

dbt1949 wrote:I just went to the bathroom and now I have potty mouth.

dbt1949 wrote:In the army my buddy and I had bought some epees and used to fence down the hall by the brigade commander.

Blackhawk wrote:Two purchases in a row from Amazon that ended up being scams, several low-quality products failing on me, and two Kickstarters that I've been unhappy with the creator of, despite having been happy with their previous efforts.

Incompetent and/or uncaring businesses have put me in a really shitty, dickish mood.

Z-Corn wrote:

Holman wrote:I made pesto three days ago and now I have pine mouth again. Again!

Just use sunflower seeds!

Blackhawk wrote: ... Morons (meaning me) need to quit arguing with the masses on the internet. We'd sleep better.

Skinypupy wrote:My kids have a play kitchen that gets used almost every day. One of the "burners" has a button on it that makes different noises depending on which pan you put on it. I.E. When you put down the frying pan, it sounds like frying eggs.

Only problem...the saucepan (which I assume is supposed to sound like boiling water) sounds exactly like a water bong. I chuckle every time I hear it, and haven't yet figured out a good answer to "why are you laughing dad?"

Skinypupy wrote: Only problem...the saucepan (which I assume is supposed to sound like boiling water) sounds exactly like a water bong. I chuckle every time I hear it, and haven't yet figured out a good answer to "why are you laughing dad?"

The Welsh farmer teamed up with Nottingham Trent University to create this chili plant. Known as the Dragon’s Breath chili, this pepper comes in at around 2.48 million on the Scoville scale.

Isgrimnur wrote:That was ... something. I doubt I have the context to truly appreciate whatever meta she was slinging.

hepcat wrote:Dear God, I thought the Ghost Pepper was supposed to be the hottest thing on earth. I was wrong:

Carolina Reaper, 2,200,000 SHU.
Moruga Trinidad Scorpion 2,009,000 SHU.
7 Pot Douglah 1,854,000 SHU.
Primo 1,469,000 SHU.
Butch T Trinidad Scorpion, 1,464,000 SHU.
Naga Viper, 1,349,000 SHU.
Ghost, 1,042,000 SHU.
7 Pot Barrackpore, 1,000,000 SHU.

Sheesh, who knew people were insane enough to put potentially lethal plants into their mouths for fun.

Jaymann wrote:She comes on like a rose
And everybody knows
She'll get you in dutch
You can look but you'd better not touch
Poison ivy, poison ivy
Well late at night when you're sleeping
Poison ivy comes a creeping all around
She's pretty as a daisy
But look out man she's crazy
She'll really do you in
But if you let her get under your skin
Poison ivy, poison ivy
Well late at night when you're sleeping
Poison ivy comes a creeping all around
Measles make you bumpy and mumps'll make you lumpy
And chicken pox'll make you jump and twitch
A common cold'll cool you but whooping cough'll fool you
But poison ivy's gonna make you itch
You're gonna need an ocean
Of calamine lotion
You'll be scratching like a hound
The minute you start to mess around
Poison ivy, poison ivy

25 May 2017, Iain Thomson
A court in Mississippi has sentenced three Nigerian men to 235 years in prison for running online scams that duped people out of tens of millions of dollars.

Oladimeji Seun Ayelotan, 30, was sentenced to 95 years in prison today, with associates Rasaq Aderoju Raheem, 31, getting 115 years and Femi Alexander Mewase, 45, getting 25 years. A jury found all three guilty of mail fraud, wire fraud, identity theft, credit card fraud and theft of government property.

Ayelotan and Raheem were also found guilty of conspiracies to commit bank fraud and money laundering, which explains their longer sentences. The three were part of a 21-person case bought by US authorities against an accused gang based in Nigeria and the US. Twelve of them have already pled guilty.

Based on their testimony, the gang has been operating since 2001 and ran a variety of schemes, including so-called romance scams where the lonely and credulous are persuaded to shell out for plane tickets and medical costs to meet a sweetheart who never shows up.

Such rackets are depressingly successful. Last year a British bean counter was cheated out of $150,000 in just such a romance scam and a British woman lost $1.6m over a ten-month period.

The gang would also use these clueless romantics to shift money from other rackets via Western Union and MoneyGram, or to resend goods bought with stolen credit and debit cards to countries where they could be sold for a profit.

The group was arrested by South African police in a joint operation with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations and the US Postal Inspection Service. More arrests are possible, but they are unlikely to put a dent in the situation for long.

According to the International Police Organization (Interpol), West African scammers pulled in over $3bn in online rackets over the past three years. The international police force said the reason the area is such a hive of online criminality is because of low employment prospects in the region for computer specialists.

the reason the area is such a hive of online criminality is because of low employment prospects in the region for computer specialists.

KDH wrote:.
... Three Nigerians sentenced to 235 years in prison for online scamming

25 May 2017, Iain Thomson
A court in Mississippi has sentenced three Nigerian men to 235 years in prison for running online scams that duped people out of tens of millions of dollars.

Oladimeji Seun Ayelotan, 30, was sentenced to 95 years in prison today, with associates Rasaq Aderoju Raheem, 31, getting 115 years and Femi Alexander Mewase, 45, getting 25 years. A jury found all three guilty of mail fraud, wire fraud, identity theft, credit card fraud and theft of government property.

Ayelotan and Raheem were also found guilty of conspiracies to commit bank fraud and money laundering, which explains their longer sentences. The three were part of a 21-person case bought by US authorities against an accused gang based in Nigeria and the US. Twelve of them have already pled guilty.

Based on their testimony, the gang has been operating since 2001 and ran a variety of schemes, including so-called romance scams where the lonely and credulous are persuaded to shell out for plane tickets and medical costs to meet a sweetheart who never shows up.

Such rackets are depressingly successful. Last year a British bean counter was cheated out of $150,000 in just such a romance scam and a British woman lost $1.6m over a ten-month period.

The gang would also use these clueless romantics to shift money from other rackets via Western Union and MoneyGram, or to resend goods bought with stolen credit and debit cards to countries where they could be sold for a profit.

The group was arrested by South African police in a joint operation with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations and the US Postal Inspection Service. More arrests are possible, but they are unlikely to put a dent in the situation for long.

According to the International Police Organization (Interpol), West African scammers pulled in over $3bn in online rackets over the past three years. The international police force said the reason the area is such a hive of online criminality is because of low employment prospects in the region for computer specialists.

the reason the area is such a hive of online criminality is because of low employment prospects in the region for computer specialists.

Well, NO, that's not the reason .. as my momma always said .. If little johnny commits wire fraud, does that mean you have to as well?