(Metro UK)
"Are these the worst tattoos in the world?"
They must have seemed a good idea at the time - well, maybe.
But while beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, most people would agree that the tattoos photographed by curious collecter Aviva Yael are instead simply ugly, bizarre or plain bamboozling.
Copulating unicorns, Judge Judy, a bong-smoking dolphin and a bald Britney Spears, “Snakes on a Plane” logo are among the designs enshrined in ink on some people's bodies.
They look, as the word tattooed across one 19-year-old's forehead puts it, "STUPID".
Aviva got the idea for the book after a discussion with friends about worst dates - and one told of going out with a woman with a body covered in hideous tattoos.
New Yorker Aviva travelled to tattoo conventions and parlours across the US, snapping some of the more elaborate, eye-catching and ill-conceived illustrations.
Her book, No Regrets: The Best, Worst & Most £$%*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever, brings together hundreds of her favourites.
She said: "They had to make me either laugh or gag."
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Lazy @$$...
(Premiere Prep)
Back in 1868, a government worker in charge of finding the exact spot of the "four corners" in the American west -- the spot where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet -- screwed it up. Researchers (in England, of all places) have discovered that the spot where the government built a huge monument is wrong. The actual spot is two miles away.
Worse, the guy knew he was doing it wrong and just didn't want to walk the two miles through the desert to get it right.
Through the years, millions of people have visited the Four Corners Monument, thinking they were putting their hands and feet in four separate states. Imagine all the suckers who drove long distances through the middle of nothing to visit this monument -- all for nothing.
Back in 1868, a government worker in charge of finding the exact spot of the "four corners" in the American west -- the spot where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet -- screwed it up. Researchers (in England, of all places) have discovered that the spot where the government built a huge monument is wrong. The actual spot is two miles away.
Worse, the guy knew he was doing it wrong and just didn't want to walk the two miles through the desert to get it right.
Through the years, millions of people have visited the Four Corners Monument, thinking they were putting their hands and feet in four separate states. Imagine all the suckers who drove long distances through the middle of nothing to visit this monument -- all for nothing.
Friday, April 24, 2009
NFL DRAFT DRINKING GAME
(Premiere Prep)
If you're watching the draft and you want to take the experience to a new level, mix in a drinking game.
Drink once if you hear:
"National Football League" instead of NFL
"Upside"
"Motor is always running" or "Good motor"
"Intangible"
"Work ethic"
"Good/bad character guy"
"War room"
Drink twice if:
* Your team's picks scroll by on the ticker.
* You see a camera shot of a draftee at home with his family.
* A draftee at the podium pulls on jersey of new team with number "1" on it.
* Mel Kiper Jr. calls a pick a "steal" because he had him listed higher on his draft board.
* A player from a college you've never heard of is picked.
If you're watching the draft and you want to take the experience to a new level, mix in a drinking game.
Drink once if you hear:
"National Football League" instead of NFL
"Upside"
"Motor is always running" or "Good motor"
"Intangible"
"Work ethic"
"Good/bad character guy"
"War room"
Drink twice if:
* Your team's picks scroll by on the ticker.
* You see a camera shot of a draftee at home with his family.
* A draftee at the podium pulls on jersey of new team with number "1" on it.
* Mel Kiper Jr. calls a pick a "steal" because he had him listed higher on his draft board.
* A player from a college you've never heard of is picked.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The Big Mac diet
(Ananova)
A Californian man lost more than a stone by eating nothing but McDonald's for a month.
Doug Logeais, 40, from San Diego, stuck with his bizarre diet for 30 days and lost 15lbs - more than half in the first week alone, reports the Daily Mail.
He ate sausage and egg burritos for breakfast, chicken wraps for lunch and salads for dinner - and exercised regularly.
"I thought if I could actually eat at McDonald's and lose weight I'd incorporate the best of both worlds - I'm eating at my favourite place and I'm losing weight," he said.
"I would always go for the healthier option, but I would once in a while go for a chocolate chip cookie or the chicken McNuggets.
"But everything in moderation. If you go in there you don't always have to order a Big Mac with large fries."
However it wasn't just all down to following a McDonald's diet.
"There's a lot of cardio that went into this, and a lot of sit-ups as well," he added. "I am doing an hour of cardio in the morning, which is either running up a mountain or working out with a trainer three times a week."
Mr Logeais's experience is in stark contrast to that of filmmaker Morgan Spurlock who ate only McDonald's food for 30 days for his 2004 documentary, Super Size Me.
As a result he gained 24lbs and experienced mood swings, sexual dysfunction and liver damage
A Californian man lost more than a stone by eating nothing but McDonald's for a month.
Doug Logeais, 40, from San Diego, stuck with his bizarre diet for 30 days and lost 15lbs - more than half in the first week alone, reports the Daily Mail.
He ate sausage and egg burritos for breakfast, chicken wraps for lunch and salads for dinner - and exercised regularly.
"I thought if I could actually eat at McDonald's and lose weight I'd incorporate the best of both worlds - I'm eating at my favourite place and I'm losing weight," he said.
"I would always go for the healthier option, but I would once in a while go for a chocolate chip cookie or the chicken McNuggets.
"But everything in moderation. If you go in there you don't always have to order a Big Mac with large fries."
However it wasn't just all down to following a McDonald's diet.
"There's a lot of cardio that went into this, and a lot of sit-ups as well," he added. "I am doing an hour of cardio in the morning, which is either running up a mountain or working out with a trainer three times a week."
Mr Logeais's experience is in stark contrast to that of filmmaker Morgan Spurlock who ate only McDonald's food for 30 days for his 2004 documentary, Super Size Me.
As a result he gained 24lbs and experienced mood swings, sexual dysfunction and liver damage
Monday, April 20, 2009
No Beer Googles
(Ananova)
The concept of 'beer goggles' which supposedly make men view women as more attractive after drinking alcohol is a myth, claim scientists.
A Leicester University study found that alcohol actually has the opposite effect and made men see women as less attractive.
Half the participants in the experiment had been drinking, with effects rated as "relaxed and benign", "blunted and disinhibited", "boisterous and over-expressive", and "unambiguously drunk".
Some of the pictures of 10 young women aged 17 were digitally altered to make them appear younger or older. Make-up was also applied digitally to a number of images.
The findings showed that alcohol reduced the ability of women to guess the age of the photo models, but not men.
Both the effects of alcohol and prettifying a face with make-up had little effect on men's judgment.
Dr Vincent Egan, from the University of Leicester, said: "This study suggests that alcohol consumption and make-up use do not interfere with how old we perceive someone to be.
"Another interesting finding was that overall participants who drank alcohol actually rated all the women in the photos as less attractive, compared to the participants who hadn't drunk alcohol. This seemingly flies in the face of the commonly held notion of 'beer goggles'."
Reporting their results in the British Journal of Psychology, the researchers wrote: "Although alcohol limited the processing of maturity cues in female observers, it had no effect on the age perceptions of males viewing female faces, suggesting male mate preferences are not easily disrupted."
The concept of 'beer goggles' which supposedly make men view women as more attractive after drinking alcohol is a myth, claim scientists.
A Leicester University study found that alcohol actually has the opposite effect and made men see women as less attractive.
Half the participants in the experiment had been drinking, with effects rated as "relaxed and benign", "blunted and disinhibited", "boisterous and over-expressive", and "unambiguously drunk".
Some of the pictures of 10 young women aged 17 were digitally altered to make them appear younger or older. Make-up was also applied digitally to a number of images.
The findings showed that alcohol reduced the ability of women to guess the age of the photo models, but not men.
Both the effects of alcohol and prettifying a face with make-up had little effect on men's judgment.
Dr Vincent Egan, from the University of Leicester, said: "This study suggests that alcohol consumption and make-up use do not interfere with how old we perceive someone to be.
"Another interesting finding was that overall participants who drank alcohol actually rated all the women in the photos as less attractive, compared to the participants who hadn't drunk alcohol. This seemingly flies in the face of the commonly held notion of 'beer goggles'."
Reporting their results in the British Journal of Psychology, the researchers wrote: "Although alcohol limited the processing of maturity cues in female observers, it had no effect on the age perceptions of males viewing female faces, suggesting male mate preferences are not easily disrupted."
Friday, April 17, 2009
Crap of a Show
(Blabber Mouth)
**Please note that some words were changed due to contest**
U.K.'s Rock Sound magazine has received the following e-mail:
"Hi, Rock Sound, I just thought I'd let you know that last night [Thursday, April 16], at the PAPA ROACH show in Manchester, somebody “took a dump” at the back of the mosh-pit!
About halfway through PAPA ROACH's set, everybody started commenting on how bad the smell was. I guess it was like someone had farted or something, but it was MUCH worse. All of a sudden, there was a massive gap in the crowd and my friend told me that someone had actually “dropped a load”!
I turned around and saw this guy with cleaning materials wiping it up!!! Thank God I didn't step on it. I don't think the band were aware of it, I didn't hear them tell people to do it anyway, I think this person just decided he needed to “go”. I have no idea whether people were skidding in it or whether there was wiping action."
Rock Sound obviously needed to check that this was true, so the magazine asked Neil Mahony (of AMPLIFIER fame), who was helping out at the show. This is what he had to say: "I can confirm the PAPA ROACH story. The smell was dreadful and the security were livid. As far as I know, the guy never got caught. Stealth Crap."
**Please note that some words were changed due to contest**
U.K.'s Rock Sound magazine has received the following e-mail:
"Hi, Rock Sound, I just thought I'd let you know that last night [Thursday, April 16], at the PAPA ROACH show in Manchester, somebody “took a dump” at the back of the mosh-pit!
About halfway through PAPA ROACH's set, everybody started commenting on how bad the smell was. I guess it was like someone had farted or something, but it was MUCH worse. All of a sudden, there was a massive gap in the crowd and my friend told me that someone had actually “dropped a load”!
I turned around and saw this guy with cleaning materials wiping it up!!! Thank God I didn't step on it. I don't think the band were aware of it, I didn't hear them tell people to do it anyway, I think this person just decided he needed to “go”. I have no idea whether people were skidding in it or whether there was wiping action."
Rock Sound obviously needed to check that this was true, so the magazine asked Neil Mahony (of AMPLIFIER fame), who was helping out at the show. This is what he had to say: "I can confirm the PAPA ROACH story. The smell was dreadful and the security were livid. As far as I know, the guy never got caught. Stealth Crap."
Regret it at 40
(Premiere Prep/Coed Magazine)
According to Coed magazine online, here are the top 10 things you do when you're young that you're bound to regret when you're older.
10. Body Piercing Plugs -- Nothing about giant disks in your ears translates well when you're an honest-to-goodness adult.
9. Naughty Internet Pictures -- Pictures from that wild trip to Vegas will either get you fired from your job, divorced from your wife, or estranged from your children.
8. Tattoos -- A tattoo (especially one that can't be hidden) is a constant reminder that you were once a dolt. And, that tattoo's colors aren't getting any more vibrant.
7. Choosing Your Best Friend's Girlfriend Over Your Best Friend -- A friendship you and your best buddy had built up since you were six can never be replaced.
6. Getting Married Too Young -- Grow up and get rich before even THINKING of settling down.
5. Not Traveling (Enough) -- Being older means dealing with heavy responsibilities. Your best bet is to travel as much as you can while you're single and childless.
4. Not Finishing School -- Not having a college degree usually means getting an OK job, doing OK stuff, and having OK things.
3. Smoking -- There's nothing cool about spending the last days of your life fighting lung cancer.
2. Bad Credit -- Don't get greedy and buy a bunch of stupid crap when you can't afford it. The banks lick their chops every time a stupid 20-something signs up for one of their credit cards.
1. Not Spending More Time With Your Parents -- They are the two most important people you have, and they will be gone before you know it.
According to Coed magazine online, here are the top 10 things you do when you're young that you're bound to regret when you're older.
10. Body Piercing Plugs -- Nothing about giant disks in your ears translates well when you're an honest-to-goodness adult.
9. Naughty Internet Pictures -- Pictures from that wild trip to Vegas will either get you fired from your job, divorced from your wife, or estranged from your children.
8. Tattoos -- A tattoo (especially one that can't be hidden) is a constant reminder that you were once a dolt. And, that tattoo's colors aren't getting any more vibrant.
7. Choosing Your Best Friend's Girlfriend Over Your Best Friend -- A friendship you and your best buddy had built up since you were six can never be replaced.
6. Getting Married Too Young -- Grow up and get rich before even THINKING of settling down.
5. Not Traveling (Enough) -- Being older means dealing with heavy responsibilities. Your best bet is to travel as much as you can while you're single and childless.
4. Not Finishing School -- Not having a college degree usually means getting an OK job, doing OK stuff, and having OK things.
3. Smoking -- There's nothing cool about spending the last days of your life fighting lung cancer.
2. Bad Credit -- Don't get greedy and buy a bunch of stupid crap when you can't afford it. The banks lick their chops every time a stupid 20-something signs up for one of their credit cards.
1. Not Spending More Time With Your Parents -- They are the two most important people you have, and they will be gone before you know it.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Have You Ever?
(Premiere Prep/Men's Health)
Men's Health asked men what kind of everyday "morally ambiguous" behavior they engaged in. Here are the results of the poll:
Have You Ever...
Called in sick when you weren't?
Yes -- 73%
No -- 27%
Pilfered office supplies?
Yes -- 67%
No -- 33%
Expensed personal items to your company?
Yes -- 23%
No -- 77%.
Illegally downloaded music?
Yes -- 60%
No -- 40%
Returned a product as "defective" that you accidentally broke?
Yes -- 44%
No -- 56%
Not returned money when given too much change?
Yes -- 62%
No -- 38%
Embellished your resume?
Yes -- 23%
No -- 77%
Told your wife or girlfriend, "No, those jeans don't make you look fat" when they did?
Yes -- 55%
No -- 45%
Do you believe in karma?
Yes -- 78%
No -- 22%
Are you less moral today than you were five years ago?
Yes -- 28%
No -- 72%
To find out some specifics of how and why men do questionable things, they asked the following three questions:
1. How often do you fib, deceive, or do something of questionable morality during a typical day?
Never -- 37%
One to three times -- 60%
Four or more times -- 3%
2. Against whom are you most inclined to commit a morally suspect act?
Corporation -- 42%
Morally suspect person -- 30%
Stranger -- 18%
Wife or girlfriend -- 3%
Coworker -- 2%
Friend -- 2%
Family -- 1%
3. When are you likely to do something morally ambiguous?
When it doesn't harm anyone -- 58%
When I know no one will find out -- 13%
If I need something really badly -- 6%
When I feel the urge -- 3%
Men's Health asked men what kind of everyday "morally ambiguous" behavior they engaged in. Here are the results of the poll:
Have You Ever...
Called in sick when you weren't?
Yes -- 73%
No -- 27%
Pilfered office supplies?
Yes -- 67%
No -- 33%
Expensed personal items to your company?
Yes -- 23%
No -- 77%.
Illegally downloaded music?
Yes -- 60%
No -- 40%
Returned a product as "defective" that you accidentally broke?
Yes -- 44%
No -- 56%
Not returned money when given too much change?
Yes -- 62%
No -- 38%
Embellished your resume?
Yes -- 23%
No -- 77%
Told your wife or girlfriend, "No, those jeans don't make you look fat" when they did?
Yes -- 55%
No -- 45%
Do you believe in karma?
Yes -- 78%
No -- 22%
Are you less moral today than you were five years ago?
Yes -- 28%
No -- 72%
To find out some specifics of how and why men do questionable things, they asked the following three questions:
1. How often do you fib, deceive, or do something of questionable morality during a typical day?
Never -- 37%
One to three times -- 60%
Four or more times -- 3%
2. Against whom are you most inclined to commit a morally suspect act?
Corporation -- 42%
Morally suspect person -- 30%
Stranger -- 18%
Wife or girlfriend -- 3%
Coworker -- 2%
Friend -- 2%
Family -- 1%
3. When are you likely to do something morally ambiguous?
When it doesn't harm anyone -- 58%
When I know no one will find out -- 13%
If I need something really badly -- 6%
When I feel the urge -- 3%
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Easter Chip
"Easter Bunny Seen In Potato Chip"
SPOKANE, Wash. -- You could say it was a revelation that came just in time for Easter.
A woman in Spokane, Wash., is proudly displaying a potato chip she thinks looks just like the head of the Easter Bunny.
Mary Lindstrom said she was eating lunch with her son when she spotted the bunny face in one of her Lays chips.
Lindstrom said she's seen stories before about people who see things like the Virgin Mary in a pancake, and that she's never been able to spot the image herself. But she said the bunny's eyes, ear and face are easy to spot in the chip.
There's been no word on whether she'll put the chip up for sale on eBay.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
News + KKK + Towelie = "Oh God"
Someone thought it'd be funny to put Towelie (pot smoking towel from South Park) and a KKK hood on/under a desk in the background of a local news broadcast... yikes!
Friday, April 10, 2009
Going 2 divorce u...
RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi man has divorced his wife by text message, a newspaper said Thursday.
The man was in Iraq when he sent the SMS informing her she was no longer his spouse. He followed up with a telephone call to two of his relatives, the daily Arab News reported.
A court in the Red Sea city of Jeddah finalized the split -- the first known divorce in Saudi Arabia by text message -- after summoning the two relatives to check they had received word of the husband's intention, the paper said.
Saudi Arabia practices a strict form of Islamic Sharia law, and clerics preside over Sharia courts as judges. Under the law a man can divorce his wife by saying "I divorce you" three times.
The Saudi man was in Iraq to participate in "what he described as 'jihad'," according to the Arab News. Many Saudis have gone to fight with al Qaeda militants against the Iraqi government and U.S. forces.
The man was in Iraq when he sent the SMS informing her she was no longer his spouse. He followed up with a telephone call to two of his relatives, the daily Arab News reported.
A court in the Red Sea city of Jeddah finalized the split -- the first known divorce in Saudi Arabia by text message -- after summoning the two relatives to check they had received word of the husband's intention, the paper said.
Saudi Arabia practices a strict form of Islamic Sharia law, and clerics preside over Sharia courts as judges. Under the law a man can divorce his wife by saying "I divorce you" three times.
The Saudi man was in Iraq to participate in "what he described as 'jihad'," according to the Arab News. Many Saudis have gone to fight with al Qaeda militants against the Iraqi government and U.S. forces.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Internet Find: April 9th
TamponCrafts.com
Explains itself... a collection of photos of things people have created with tampons, aside from using them for the "right" reasons.
Enjoy... just watch out for the one time of the month.
Explains itself... a collection of photos of things people have created with tampons, aside from using them for the "right" reasons.
Enjoy... just watch out for the one time of the month.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Usually Woman Like This
"Woman divorces husband for cleaning too much"
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German woman has divorced her husband because she was fed up with him cleaning all the time.
German media reported the wife got through 15 years of marriage putting up with the man's penchant for doing household chores, tidying up and rearranging the furniture.
But she ran out of patience when he knocked down and rebuilt a wall at their home when it got dirty, Christian Kropp, court judge in the central town of Sondershausen, said on Thursday.
"I'd never had anyone seek a divorce for this," he said.
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German woman has divorced her husband because she was fed up with him cleaning all the time.
German media reported the wife got through 15 years of marriage putting up with the man's penchant for doing household chores, tidying up and rearranging the furniture.
But she ran out of patience when he knocked down and rebuilt a wall at their home when it got dirty, Christian Kropp, court judge in the central town of Sondershausen, said on Thursday.
"I'd never had anyone seek a divorce for this," he said.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
True Friends Do This...
**** WARNING This may not be for those under 18 ****
(Metro UK)
"Friend bites man's penis off in fight"
A man was rushed to hospital after telling doctors how his best friend bit his penis off in a row - and swallowed it.
Horrified Marian Milczarek, 53, from Lesna in south west Poland, was attacked following a row with his friend - apparently over borrowing a trailer.
'He began hitting me with a chain and then pulled down my trousers and started biting. It was agony,' he said.
Police and medics could find no trace of Marian's missing genitalia, and believe his attacker Wojciech Sowinski - now facing 10 years in jail - may have eaten it.
'If we'd had the other bit of his penis we could have sewn it back on,' said Dr Adam Domanasiewicz from the hospital in nearby Trzebnica, where Marian is recovering.
(Metro UK)
"Friend bites man's penis off in fight"
A man was rushed to hospital after telling doctors how his best friend bit his penis off in a row - and swallowed it.
Horrified Marian Milczarek, 53, from Lesna in south west Poland, was attacked following a row with his friend - apparently over borrowing a trailer.
'He began hitting me with a chain and then pulled down my trousers and started biting. It was agony,' he said.
Police and medics could find no trace of Marian's missing genitalia, and believe his attacker Wojciech Sowinski - now facing 10 years in jail - may have eaten it.
'If we'd had the other bit of his penis we could have sewn it back on,' said Dr Adam Domanasiewicz from the hospital in nearby Trzebnica, where Marian is recovering.
Monday, April 6, 2009
68 Tubes and 1 WTF
(Ananova)
"Thief nabbed with 68 tubes of toothpaste"
BERLIN (Reuters) - Police in northern Germany are searching for a man who tried to walk out of a supermarket with 68 tubes of toothpaste stuffed into his clothing.
"We don't know if he had bad teeth," a police spokeswoman in Rostock said Friday.
Noticing his bulging jacket, a store worker grabbed the man when he refused to stop and the tubes of toothpaste spilled all over the floor, police said.
The thief struck the woman in the face and ran out.
"Thief nabbed with 68 tubes of toothpaste"
BERLIN (Reuters) - Police in northern Germany are searching for a man who tried to walk out of a supermarket with 68 tubes of toothpaste stuffed into his clothing.
"We don't know if he had bad teeth," a police spokeswoman in Rostock said Friday.
Noticing his bulging jacket, a store worker grabbed the man when he refused to stop and the tubes of toothpaste spilled all over the floor, police said.
The thief struck the woman in the face and ran out.
Friday, April 3, 2009
April 3rd Update
Hey Rock Heads!
Sorry for the lack of updates on the blog. I've been out sick with the flu, what fun I know!
Leon is filling in for me today (Friday, April 3rd) to give me an extra day of rest. I am getting better but as the golden rule of radio goes - "one jock gets sick, everyone gets sick". Since we all use the same mic, I am choosing to stay out of the studio today with a hopefull return on Monday.
Have a great weekend and let's hope I can kick this crap!
~Wes
Sorry for the lack of updates on the blog. I've been out sick with the flu, what fun I know!
Leon is filling in for me today (Friday, April 3rd) to give me an extra day of rest. I am getting better but as the golden rule of radio goes - "one jock gets sick, everyone gets sick". Since we all use the same mic, I am choosing to stay out of the studio today with a hopefull return on Monday.
Have a great weekend and let's hope I can kick this crap!
~Wes
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