"Shitstorm" Added To German Language

The “Anglicism of the Year” jury defined Shitstorm as a public outcry, primarily on the internet, in which arguments mix with threats and insults to reach a critical mass, forcing a reaction.

“This new kind of protest is clearly different in kind and degree from what could be expected in the past in response to a statement or action,” said jury member Michael Mann, who runs a language website called Lexikographieblog.

The jury said in a statement on Monday: “Shitstorm fills a gap in the German vocabulary that has become apparent through changes in the culture of public debate.”

It added that established German words, such as Kritik (criticism), were simply not descriptive enough.

Shitstorm came into widespread use last year in connection with the financial crisis in Greece and the plagiarism scandal which forced the then Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg to resign.

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Jackmeoff Mudd Gets Arrested

Jackmeoff Mudd

Sometimes in the media you come across an arrest that makes you do a double-take. That was the case when the Broward Sheriff’s Office arrested Jackmeoff Mudd recently.

Yes, that is actually the name he is being held under by the BSO.

The 5’6”, 155 pound 54-year-old man was facing a multitude of charges after being arrested. Jackmeoff Mudd faces several charges including: Assault, Disorderly Conduct, Resisting an Officer, Possession of Alcohol on the beach, violation of probation, and carrying an open beverage in public.

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Neighbor Calls Police On Domestic Fart Disturbance

“One of the neighbors had heard somebody yelling — a female yelling … she was possibly being hit — yelling, ‘Stop! No!’” Anderson told WWJ Newsradio 950′s Marie Osborne.

The concerned party also said that, in between shouts, she heard a repeated loud noise.

Police arrived within minutes. When they knocked on the door to the unit, Anderson said, a woman told officers she was indeed shouting, ‘Stop!’ — but that her boyfriend was not beating her.

So, what was the stink all about?


“The female that was inside stated that her boyfriend had continued to pass gas, and she was yelling at him to stop,” Anderson said.

In a show of a little police humor, the officers’ report states that police then, “Cleared the scene expeditiously.”

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Referee Beheaded After Stabbing Player

The Stabbed Footballer,  Josenir dos Santos Abreu

 An amateur football match in Brazil turned into a double murder scene as a referee was beheaded by spectators after he had stabbed a player.

The shocking incidents occurred in Maranhao, Brazil, last Sunday. According to reports, referee Otavio Jordao da Silva fatally stabbed footballer Josenir dos Santos Abreu.

Dos Santos Abreu is believed to have struck the referee after questioning a decision. In retaliation, Jordao da Silva fatally stabbed the player.

Having witnessed the incident, an outraged group of spectators turned on the referee. He was tied up, beaten, stoned and quartered. They then put his head on a stake and planted it in the middle of the pitch.

One man, Luiz Moraes de Souza, 27, has been arrested over the incident. Police are searching for two more suspects.

Valter Costa is handling the case and, in a statement, he said: "One crime never justifies another crime. Actions likes this do not collaborate with the legality of state law."

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Angry Mom Throws Flaming Dirty Diapers At Drunk Men

Police were called to a Hillcrest neighborhood early this morning when neighbors reported that a local mom of twins began throwing flaming dirty diapers at a group of people setting off fireworks.

The woman, Ernie Orsborn, became angry over fireworks going off in her neighborhood while her two young children were trying to sleep. Records show repeated calls to 311 reporting the firework violators between 8:30p.m. and 1 a.m.

Around 9:00 Orsborn posted to her twitter account: “I mean, if you like fireworks, go to Pops on the River and let us abstained sip our wine in peace as babies sleep.”

Witnesses tell us that sometime around 1:30 a.m. she decided to take measures into her own hands.
“I heard her yell, you want to see fireworks, here you go assholes,” a neighbor tells us. “Suddenly I see her holding a diaper bin and a lighter. She started pulling them out one by one and lobbing them over the fence at a group of drunk men shooting bottle rockets at each other. I sort of wanted to go help her throw them.”

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Bonus Caturday Report! Cat Looses Ears Due To Sunburn

The 8-year-old white stray named Luna risked contracting skin cancer after getting burnt on the streets of Kilmarnock, Scotland and had to have her sun-blistered ears removed.

Nevertheless, her hearing is fine and charity Cats Protection in North Ayrshire is looking for a new home for her.

Volunteer Nina Chisholm said: "Every cat is different and she has had a rough time.

"She needs time to get her confidence back. She can be loving when she knows you but she is quite guarded.

"People might be put off by the way she looks, but cats that have problems like only three legs or a missing eye quite often get the sympathy vote."

The charity is also raising awareness for owners of cats with white or pale fur to take extra care with sun exposure.

Director of Cats Protection Maggie Roberts said: "White or pale colored cats are most vulnerable to sunlight because they have little pigment or hair to protect them from harmful UVB waves.

"To help reduce the risk of sunburn, try to keep susceptible cats indoors or in the shade between 11am and 4pm when the sun is at its hottest."

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The Caturday Report! Cat Embraces His Inner Dog

This ginger Tom has gone viral with his car-chasing, stick-retrieving, frisbee-catching antics.
The multi-talented moggy stars in the new O2 'Be More Dog' advert, which has been viewed 385,000 times since it was uploaded to YouTube less than 48 hours ago.

The mobile phone network provider's new £10million campaign encourages viewers to "embrace their inner dog" and shun their more cynical 'cat-like' side.

Set to the Flash Gordon soundtrack by Queen, the one-minute 11-second clip shows the fed-up feline living life as a dog, including digging holes, jumping into lakes and sticking its head out of a car window:

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Beware The Drunk Gondoliers

Gondoliers are [now] subject to spot breathalyzer checks as part of a crackdown on Venice's increasingly unruly and crowded canals.

Italy's navigation code does not cover the entire Venetian lagoon, so boatmen are able to escape police checks on the use of alcohol or drugs, the London Telegraph reported Sunday.

The city is closing the legal loophole and imposing other regulations to ease congestion in Venice's canals.

"In the lagoon right now only part of the navigation code can be applied," said Annibale Tagliapietra, an aide to Venice Mayor Paolo Costa. "Police are unable to check a person's mental state and hence his ability to skipper a boat, or subsequently to impound the boat or suspend his license."

Speed traps were introduced six years ago, but a series of accidents and increased congestion in canals have drawn attention to safety. A woman drowned last July when a boat whose skipper was believed to have been drinking hit a water bus.

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The Great Lego Heist! $2,000,000 Worth Of Legos Stolen By One Man

Pollara reportedly used a well-known method called ‘box stuffing’ in which he slyly hid expensive Lego in larger boxes of cheap merchandise. After buying the bargain bin toys with the ‘free’ Lego inside, he made multiple eBay accounts and sold them at an elevated price.

To add insult to injury he allegedly had the audacity to use his reward card in an attempt to save even more money for each purchase. As if a man with $2 million needed to worry about saving money on cheap toys. As a result of his alleged greed the police were able to track him down through his reward card after suspicion arose when a Harry Potter Lego set worth almost $900 was stolen.


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Fast Food Hamburgers Are Only 7% Meat

This is the last straw,  I'm cutting myself off the rest of the way from fast food.

8 different popular fast food hamburger brands were tested using histologic methods. The burgers were evaluated for water content by weight and then microscopically to verify tissue types. An additional test known as Glial fibrillary acidic protein staining was used to test for brain tissue. We’ll give you the good news first, none of the eight samples had brains in them. Unfortunately that is as good as it gets.

The mean water weight of the burgers was about 50%. Now for the strange part, actual meat content in the burgers ranged from 2.1% to 14.8 percent. That’s right, the product that you are expecting to get is only 2-14% of what you really think it is!

What made up the rest of the burger you ask? Well a variety of fun and interesting tissue types were found. The tissues found other than skeletal muscle tissue aka meat, were connective tissue, blood vessels, peripheral nerve, adipose tissue, plant material, cartilage, and bone. That’s not all folks, also found in some of the burgers were intracellular parasites known as Sarcocystis.

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