A thread for random crap on the internet

[Tony L]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lMOxuciYQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Shows how to roll a joint.

[jeffsmith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lMOxuciYQ Shows how to roll a joint.

Awesome.

[mr x]

New Mexico landfill to be dug up in search of 'buried' Atari ET video games
According to gaming urban legend, Atari buried millions of unsold games, considered one of the biggest flops in history

ET is one of the most successful movies of all time, but the Atari video game it inspired proved one of the biggest flops in history and ended, legend has it, with the mass burial of millions of unsold games and the near-collapse of the gaming company.

On Saturday, a team of contractors, guided by archaeologists and watched by a Hollywood film crew, will start a dig in a New Mexico landfill to try to unearth the truth about one of the biggest mysteries in gaming history.

In the early 1980s, Atari accounted for 80% of the video games market, with gamers eagerly snapping up its console versions of arcade classics including Asteroids and Space Invaders. In 1982, it released ET: the Extra Terrestrial, for the Atari 2600 console, after buying the rights from director Steven Spielberg and Universal for $22m.

It was a bold move into a new type of gaming, one based on a movie, not an arcade hit. But the game itself was panned. Players were supposed to find parts of an interplanetary telephone that would allow ET to phone home. Instead, they spent much of their time falling into badly-designed holes. Sales were a disaster, and contributed to Atari’s spectacular collapse. By 1984 Atari was defunct, the biggest victim of what became known as the North American video games crash.

As Atari was approaching game over, the New York Times and others reported the company had dumped “14 truckloads of discarded game cartridges and other computer equipment at the city landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico.” Guards reportedly kept reporters and spectators away from the area as workers poured concrete over the dumped merchandise.

Not everyone agrees that this was truly ET’s fate. Howard Scott Warshaw, the game’s designer, believes the landfill story is an urban legend.

Whatever the truth, the story is now the subject of two films. Saturday’s dig is being coordinated by Fuel Entertainment and Xbox Entertainment Studios for a documentary directed by Zak Penn, writer of The Avengers and X-Men 2. It will air as one of a series of documentaries and other original programmes being developed for Microsoft’s Xbox games console users. The ET burial will also be the centerpiece of an independent comedy, Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, now in production.

Penn, his crew, and University of North Dakota archaeologist Bill Caraher are expected to break ground on Saturday. Caraher’s specialty is fifth-to-10th-century Christian architecture in the Mediterranean region, but he’s also a former Atari 2600 owner. He told local newspapers that he hopes he may also unearth an early, and apparently awful, version of Pac-Man in the landfill.

“Other than garbage and the truth, I have no idea what we’ll find. I think that’s what’s exciting, we won’t know exactly what’s down there until they start digging. Alamogordo, 26 April, be there to find out the truth,” Penn told ABC News.

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[mr x]

I actually watched the first level from the above video. It's hilarious.

Hundreds of Atari E.T. game cartridges unearthed in landfill
But mystery remains why so many copies of video game — often described as worst ever made — were dumped in secrecy.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/ ... dfill.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ALAMOGORDO, N.M.—A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of cartridges for Atari’s notorious E.T. game — described by some as the worst video game ever made.

Film director Zak Penn showed one E.T. cartridge retrieved from the site and said that hundreds more had been found in the mounds of trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe.

About 200 residents and game enthusiasts gathered early Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch backhoes and bulldozers dig through the concrete-covered landfill in search of up to a million discarded copies of E.T. The Extraterrestrial that the game’s maker had wanted to hide forever.

“I feel pretty relieved and psyched that they actually got to see something,” said Penn as members of the production team sifted through the mounds of trash, pulling out boxes, games and other Atari products.

Most of the crowd left before the discovery, turned away by strong winds that kicked up clouds of dust and garbage. By the time the games were found, only a few dozen people remained. Some were playing the infamous game in a makeshift gaming den with a TV set and an 1980s game console in the back of a van, while others took selfies beside a life-size E.T. doll inside a DeLorean car like the one that was turned into a time machine in the Back To The Future movies.

Among the watchers was Armando Ortega, a city official who back in 1983 got a tip from a landfill employee about the massive dump of games.

“It was pitch dark here that night, but we came with our flashlights,” he said.

They braved the darkness, coyotes and snakes of the desert landfill and had to sneak past the security guard. But it paid off: they found dozens of crushed cartridges that they took home and discovered were still playable in their game consoles.

The game and its contribution to the demise of Atari have been the source of fascination for video game enthusiasts for 30 years. The search for the cartridges will be featured in an upcoming documentary about the biggest video game company of the early ’80s.

Whether — and most importantly, why — Atari decided to bury thousands or millions of copies of the failed game is part of the urban legend and much speculation on Internet blog posts and forums.

Kristen Keller, a spokeswoman at Atari, said “nobody here has any idea what that’s about.” The company has no “corporate knowledge” about the Alamogordo burial. Atari has changed hands many times over the years, and Keller said, “We’re just watching like everybody else.”

Atari currently manages about 200 classic titles such as Centipede and Asteroids. It was sold to a French company by Hasbro in 2001.

[mr x]

[LeafMan66_67]

Damn Costco membership!

[mikeorr]

Florida man tries to have sex with beer can, ends up in hospital.

A man from Florida has been taken to hospital with severe cuts to his genitalia.

The unnamed and rather embarrassed man from Barto reports to have been out in the town trying to find a lady friend to mate with, when he came home on his own, on Wednesday.

The Florida man said that he was "extremely horny". That's when he grabbed an empty beer can, and began to "try to make love to it".

It was "about 2 pumps in" that he felt water dripping off of his private area, and he looked down to find that it was blood.

The injury occurred when the 23-year-old twisted the can, ever so slightly, and split the skin. Still humping whilst doing so.

The man's penis was 'cut to ribbons' and will need surgery, the hospital expects he will have a full recovery within a few weeks.

http://www.whizba.com/article/517110086 ... 20B__ldXaq

[akr71]

Kinda like 'The Onion' only for beer/brewing related things

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I liked this one best so far: http://www.inebriateinquirer.com/trappi ... -beer-ipa/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[dean2k]

Comprehensive map of chick beers. Bravo

http://www.inebriateinquirer.com/compre ... ick-beers/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[akr71]

I quite liked this one about the Craft Beer Bubble, while still tongue in cheek, it is still truthful.

http://www.inebriateinquirer.com/report ... aggerated/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

OK, one more... Confessions of a Beardless Beer Guy
http://www.inebriateinquirer.com/confes ... -beer-guy/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[mr x]

Detroit photos.

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[Jimmy]

Detroit photos.

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I could look at those types of pictures all day long.

[bluenose]

Detroit photos.

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zombie apocalypse

[mr x]

[jeffsmith]

Holy shit! The fact that he landed on all four tires is amazing, but then kept it under control going into the turn...wow.

[GAM]

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Just got this from Eagleray.

Sandy

[Tim Gregory]

Anyone job hunting?

https://ca.shine.yahoo.com/need-a-job-- ... 59677.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[PEIBeerGuy]

Detroit photos.

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I could look at those types of pictures all day long.

Ditto. Picture #7, "St. Curvy", is an amazing space!

[mikeorr]

Hmm... turn one of these into a jockey box and you've got an instant party everywhere you go:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ry ... s-actually

[GAM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSQ9Dg65EFo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Sandy

[Keggermeister]

http://www.knstrct.com/rides-blog/2013/ ... -city-bike

[mr x]

The Expendables 3 cast: 850 years old



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[Keggermeister]

http://www.kijiji.ca/v-atv-parts-traile ... nFlag=true

This Honda Braaaaaaaaap(tm) can came with a 2006 honda rubicon I once owned before someone decided they wanted it more but didn't want to pay for it. This is an authentic honda muffler patterned rocket that adds an unconfirmed 50-75 horsepower to your atv. The pipe is mostly constructed of NASA grade stainless steel. When it bolts on it doubles not only as a powerful chick attracting item but a snorkel for the tail pipe.

But wait, not only does his muffler extension add insane unconfirmed amounts of power that has Chuck Norris weary of operating the beast it's attached to, it also serves as a hand warmer if you reach back and touch it while you're riding. If you love the sound of your machine this is the pipe for you because it essentially redirects those ear drum bleeding decibel levels in your general direction.

This ridiculous piece of modern all terrain vehicle art could be yours for the low price of the petrol it would take you to find the pile of rubble in my driveway.

I would consider trading for snake oil, dandelion crop, loose asbestoes or if you're willing to write a rain check, some snow from your driveway when the time comes.

No unreasonable offer will be refused, no reasonable offer will be accepted.

[Keggermeister]

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/09/05 ... ias-coast/

Vicious beaver attacks Halifax snorkeler off Nova Scotia’s coast

Hayden Kenez, National Post Staff | September 5, 2014 | Last Updated: Sep 5 5:49 PM ET
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Jeremy McNaughton won’t quickly forget his encounter with a rogue beaver that attacked him off the shores of Nova Scotia.

The 23-year-old Halifax man was snorkelling in Spanish Ship Bay, near Sherbrooke, with a couple of friends, when one of them looked down and noticed an animal of generous proportions with reddish-brown fur following them.

“I thought it must be a seal,” said Paul Skerry, who was in the water with McNaughton, due to the sheer size of the creature, which he estimates weighed nearly 50 pounds.

Never suspecting its true identity, considering beavers live exclusively in freshwater, Skerry couldn’t make sense of what the animal was until it approached him.

“I quickly realized it could only be a beaver,” once he recognized the animal’s markings, including buck teeth and a distinctly paddle-shaped tail, he said.

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The beaver approached Skerry, who said it seemed intent on attacking him.

“He was swimming much too close to me, and seemed to be zeroing in for a bite,” he said. “So I pushed him away with my flippers.”

The beaver obliged, and took up Mr. McNaughton as his victim. It pushed past Skerry, launched itself at McNaughton and sunk its teeth into him, ultimately gouging a 2-inch cavity into McNaughton’s thigh.

Initially unaware of the attack, and believing the beaver had only charged him, McNaughton realized the extent of the damage when blood began to surface.

“I looked into the water and saw all the blood,” Skerry said, recalling that McNaughton’s leg began to swell up. “I realized that this wasn’t a joke and we had to get Jeremy to a hospital.”
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Once back in the boat they had anchored in the bay, the trio returned to shore and sped off to a hospital in Sherbrooke, where McNaughton’s injuries were recognized as rather unorthodox.

“I don’t think the doctor initially knew what to do; he was consulting and trying to figure it out and probably thinking, ‘This was very bizarre,’” said Skerry.

McNaughton was treated with stitches, a pre-emptive round of rabies vaccine and a tetanus shot. The bite warranted a five-round treatment of a rabies vaccine, which McNaughton is currently completing.

[mr x]

$13m lawsuit proves Red Bull doesn't give you wings

Caffeinated drinks giant Red Bull GmbH sued for falsely claiming their product "gives you wings" and agrees to pay out $10 to every person who bought the drink since 2002

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