Locking this post. Pretty sure everything that's needed to be said has been said so threads are devolving.
Meanwhile no one considers whatever happened to DenverCoder9
"Pepe LePew, the horny bastard, is unavailable for comment you filthy swine" (inhales)
Wisconsin bias I suppose. It received minimal votes so you were right, Luke, you were right. (burned throat gagging noises).
Patrick Dispoto, 59, of Manchester Township, was struck by lightning on J Street Beach in Seaside Park, police said.
Damn...
The head from the statue is now under repair, leaving a wire sticking out of the 16th president's neck.
Jebediah Springfield not amused
Authorities found the body of Liara Tsai, 35, in the backseat of the car on Saturday in Olmsted County, and it was “immediately apparent” her death was not a result of the accident.
The Aristocrats
A check found on a Wisconsin running trail traveled almost 100 miles — thanks to a tornado. 🌪️ The amazing story of how this debris ended up so far from home.
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The woman told police she was pregnant with the man’s baby
Headline is misleading, of course... There's more to the story
American Journal of Medical Case Reports says that 63-year-old was recovering from surgery at time of incident
Yum
Ex-Army infantry guy here.
In basic training, location Ft. Benning GA, late August. Hydration was important, and that was impressed upon us by the drill sergeants, who would pause the activity at hand for the moment and do the 'Drink Water!' call, to which we'd reply mostly in uninspired enthusiasm 'Beat the heat drill sergeant beat the heat.'
We'd then down a canteen (a quart) of water. On especially hot days, we'd do two canteens. No dumping on your head or on the ground - you had to finish one or both. We'd refill canteens and get back to the day's task of doing push-ups, sit-ups, crunches, and in-between those, learning Army stuff (sir).
One guy, Peterson (name changed), couldn't do a canteen of water. This guy was the opposite of Joey Chestnut. He ate and drank like a bird but never lost weight. Slow metabolism and high energy conversion I guess. He never seemed dehydrated I would say. But water and food were just minimal for the guy. He'd drink a pint, maybe a sip more, and done.
Our drill sergeants weren't having that. You had to finish the canteen and flip it over your head. Failure to comply was met with drinking more water, until you finished the canteen, while your platoon did push-ups. No pressure.
The rest of the story transpired really quickly.
The drill sergeants hit him with the order to drink more water, and he did, and he stopped, and then they said keep going private, and he was in obvious pain, and he said no drill sergeant, and you could see the crinkle in the eyes of the questioned, but before that drill sergeant's body language became verbal, Peterson puked up water, gallons of water it seemed, then breakfast, and the upper contents of his colon I'm pretty sure (j/k being illustrative). A medic, who just happened to be Starship Trooping on by, got on the horn and got the kid to a clinic. He was water intoxicated, we later found out.
One of the great things they forget to show you on the recruitment brochure lol. He was eventually fine, and we were relegated to drinking until we could spit out saliva a few inches.
A trio of fishermen have saved almost 40 dogs that were close to drowning on a Mississippi lake
Happy ending for all
California family lets Diesel ‘live his best life’ with his new herd after he got loose on a camping trip
cross-posted from: https://real.lemmy.fan/post/4460250 >Living his best life
California family lets Diesel ‘live his best life’ with his new herd after he got loose on a camping trip
Living his best life
CHICAGO – A Northwest Side resident stopped a burglary Thursday afternoon by hitting the alleged suspect with a cast iron frying pan. According to the homeowner, Jason Williams, he received a call …
How is this international news?
You're in Weird News, bud. Weird News knows no borders. If a Hungarian Hippo Hikes to Haiti, we're covering it.
Plus, it's fun. It's a brain break from life. Enjoy or not.
A metal detectorist has reunited a farmer with his Rolex watch – 50 years after it was eaten by a cow.
> A metal detectorist has reunited a farmer with his Rolex watch – 50 years after it was eaten by a cow.
To the cow's credit, it does have four stomachs....
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/34968058
> Her Majesty's Penitentiary inmate Devon Fitzpatrick says early one morning in mid-May he woke up and felt something moving in the crotch of his pants. When he reached in, he discovered a rat had given birth there. >
Air New Zealand chief executive Greg Foran jumped on a drinks cart and served drinks to passengers on an international flight that he had arranged to be diverted to pick him up, along with 30 other business people and government representatives. Foran had been travelling from Auckland to Tokyo for a...
Other versions of the 10ft-tall metal installation were found in places like Utah, California, Wales and Romania in 2020
President Biden was in Los Angeles for a glitzy fundraiser with former President Obama and a host of Hollywood stars.
The chutzpah
Dozens of bottles of centuries-old, impeccably preserved cherries and berries from the cellar of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in northern Virginia have been discovered during an archaeological dig.
Rep. Jim Carroll shared two videos he took in the Vermont Statehouse hallway that captured Rep. Mary Morrissey pouring a cup of liquid into his tote bag.
MADISON, Wis. -- More than 100 nude bikers took to the streets of downtown Madison Saturday morning for the annual World Naked Bike Ride.
World Naked Bike Ride returns to Madison despite controversy
Braden Ross 3 hrs ago
MADISON, Wis. -- More than 100 nude bikers took to the streets of downtown Madison Saturday morning for the annual World Naked Bike Ride.
"I think there's a sense of defiance, you know," said long-time participant Nicholas Wootten. "We wanted to really make a statement that we're back."
Last year, the ride was thrown into controversy after a 10-year-old girl participated nude. The Wisconsin State Legislature took up bills aimed at stopping the event, but after they died at the end of the last legislative session, the ride is back in full swing.
Dane County Supervisor Jeff Weigand was one of the first to raise concerns after the child participated last year. He says he believes the laws currently on the books should already prevent events like this.
"There has been enforcement of the state statutes in the past, however different leadership comes in and then they tell police departments not to take action," Weigand said. "As a father of five and a former Dane County foster parent, I can especially tell you that children should not be permitted to take part or witness this type of event. The innocence of children is special, and as adults, we need to protect that innocence. The participants are actually taking away my freedoms because I can't bring my kids downtown Madison anymore, and if I do, I have to be very, very careful."
The Dane County District Attorney and the Madison Police Department both declined to take action after the child took part saying the laws Weigand is referring to did not apply in this case.
"We're just trying to, you know, have a fun community event out here," said participant and bike commuter Mark Buchweitz. "Look at it in a positive light. Try to see the good in the thing instead of always looking for the negative."
There are many reasons why people choose to ride nude with hundreds of others. Some participate in protest of oil usage, others to promote body positivity. Buchweitz says part of it for him is about biker safety.
"It's to demonstrate the vulnerability of cyclists on the road, kind of saying, 'Hey, what do we have to do to be seen? Get naked? Okay," Buchweitz said. "You might see, every once in a while, what they call ghost bikes, which are these white painted bikes. That's a spot where a cyclist has been killed on the roads, and there's far too many of those across our country."
Wootten is a self-proclaimed nudist and says he participates in the World Naked Bike Ride every year to normalize the human body.
"I believe, I think most of us do, that [the body] is something that should be tolerated and appreciated and enjoyed, and that everyone's body, no matter how old they are, or what color the skin is or, you know, whether it's fat, thin whatever, it's a beautiful thing to have out there," Wootten said. "One of the things that I love about the ride is seeing families out there with parents with their kids saying, 'Hey, look at the naked riders. Wave at the naked riders,' things like that. The ones that are doing that are sending their children very important message that this is not weird, this is not strange."
Biker Holly McEntee has been riding in the World Naked Bike Ride since 2016.
"I'm very surprised that I do this event, honestly," McEntee said. "But it puts everything in perspective, right? If you have ridden naked through the city, everything else is easy."
She says for her, it's about empowerment for herself and others.
"One of the reasons I started doing the ride is because I had a breast cancer diagnosis," she said. "I'm cancer free now, and that's great, but it really caused me to rethink my relationship with my body. I have thought a long time about the negative messaging that, especially women, get."
Ultimately, many of the riders say children participating isn't an issue for them.
"I did testify in front of the assembly committee last year against the bills," McEntee said. "The child participant was one of the happiest kids I've ever seen in my life. Every girl, especially, but all of us, all the little boys, too, should be comfortable, should be proud, happy, not embarrassed."
The "Belltown Hellcat" appeared Friday at SPD's West Precinct for a court-ordered noise compliance check. But city officials say Mile Hudson, owner of the Hellcat, refused to cooperate with the inspection.
FYI: There's currently an open issue with crossposting on instances using the 0.19.4 lemmy ui.
In a nutshell, the post submission page reloads after it retrieves the community to crosspost to, so everything but the selected community is wiped out.
It's confirmed here on Firefox on instance daring.lemmy.fan. You should file a bug on the lemmy-ui GitHub.
Edit: If you don't want to or whatever let me know and I will be happy to do so.
Gonna do some research/reading about this and I'm being objective.
Thanks for sharing and replying so quickly.
Glad someone put the pieces together and arrested this scourge.
Granted. All sites reduced to lowest common denominator in interest of fairness. That's right: IE 6 is back folks.
