Category: WTF
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Hey look. Authentic French spam. From France. In french.
I’ve gotten spam before. We all have. I’ve posted the more amusing and/or strange pieces of it before. I can safely say, though, I got nothing stranger than this until, well, this. Clearly, someone out there thinks I’ve got a lot more money than I do. Or they wanna give … Read the rest
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Value your privacy? Reject sexual assault? You’re under arrest.
Anyone miss the good old days when 95% of the mockery *wasn’t* caused by the US or Canadian governments? Tne Transport Security Administration (TSA) apparently doesn’t. In round 8975641 of the government versus your right not to be randomly groped before you can go on your way, the TSA steps … Read the rest
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As far as thieves go, these guys are freaking geniuses.
I’d love to actually meet these two unnamed individuals for the sole purpose of shaking their hands for coming up with this bright idea. Right before I punch both of them in the face and hold out for the local cops. Two people in the south end of the city … Read the rest
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Attention Brian Coldin: the rest of Central Ontario doesn’t want to see what ya got.
Before I go tearing into this guy, I’m first going to say right here I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with what people choose to wear–or, in some cases, not wear–on their own time, and in their own home. In fact, if some people knew how I dressed when I’m … Read the rest
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Your attention please. Coffee and pickles can give you cancer. Oh yeah–your cell phone, too.
So a new World Health Organization (WHO) study came out earlier this week potentially classifying your cell phone as a class 2B carcinogen. In other words, possibly carcinogenic. In simpler terms, potentially cancer-inducing. Yay. Go World Health Organization. In response to this, the 80 millionth study declaring such things (soon … Read the rest
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The latest thing to be made politically correct? Sexual assault. Thank you, TSA.
I’ve mocked the Transport Security Administration before. Strangely, doing so has resulted in less of an uproar than mocking ODSP folks. Of course, it also hasn’t changed much. In this most recent case, the TSA continues to insist it’s perfectly A-Okay to be very intimately groped during a preflight search–in … Read the rest
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European politicians join the wi-fi is evil camp. Go Europe!
I may or may not have made reference before to folks who get it in their heads that wi-fi has this issue wherein it’s exceedingly damaging in some way, shape or form. I may or may not have indicated that camp gets its ideas from the most ridiculous of sources–like, … Read the rest
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Fake hardware failures suck almost as bad as real ones.
Disclaimer: If you’re not of a technical mind, or things like hard drive failures make you run screaming in the other direction, you may want to skip this post. Just a friendly warning from your neighbourhood undercaffinated geek. Particularly when the fake ones in question leave not just you, but … Read the rest
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The NHL doesn’t believe in free advertising, threatens a Montreal restaurant with $90000 in damages.
I’ve never been to a shawarma restaurant. Nor have I ever had shawarma. Hell, before I moved to Ottawa I’d never even really heard of the stuff. But I’d still support a restaurant of that variety who wanted to stick up for the home team–yes, even if the home team … Read the rest
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UFail.
Moving is almost always a 2-week exercise in waiting. Sometimes, it’s even a 2 month exercise in waiting. There’s the waiting for the approval in the new place. There’s the waiting for the confirmation the new place won’t fall down around the previous tenant’s ears before he moves out, nevermind … Read the rest