OT: Bullshitting at the Barbershop

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I don't want to make a snap judgment here, but sweatpants? Really?

Special Agent (James) Fuller noticed irregularly shaped bulges under Xu’s sweatpants on both his legs

Canadian set to plead guilty after being caught trying to smuggle 51 live turtles in his pants

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Its a great idea. With sweatpants come boners and everbody will "usually" look away

 

[forty_three]

I don't want to make a snap judgment here, but sweatpants? Really?

Special Agent (James) Fuller noticed irregularly shaped bulges under Xu’s sweatpants on both his legs

Canadian set to plead guilty after being caught trying to smuggle 51 live turtles in his pants

"Shell of a catch, Agent Fuller!"

 

[jstewismybastardson]

 

[puckhead]

That would have been an interesting conversation telling Danshuko Dino how the match was gonna play out.


Wait, I what?
And then huh???
Really???

 

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Poker pro Antonio Esfandiari disqualified for peeing at tournament table to win bizarre prop bet

 

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Woman with no appendix undergoes appendectomy, wonders why

 

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Assault with a deadly weapon: Florida man charged with throwing alligator into Wendy’s

"a species of special concern" can't be referring to the alligator.

 

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Assault with a deadly weapon: Florida man charged with throwing alligator into Wendy’s

"a species of special concern" can't be referring to the alligator.

Are they charging the man for assaulting the alligator with Wendy's food?

 

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Assault with a deadly weapon: Florida man charged with throwing alligator into Wendy’s

"a species of special concern" can't be referring to the alligator.

I refuse to click on dare's link as I think it's a croc...

 

[jstewismybastardson]

 

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lol - I love additional 'g's' at the end of Omg...

 

[jstewismybastardson]

I bet MR. X is the type of guy who reheats fish in the microwave at work!



An Ottawa public servant has won the legal right to work in a separate building from an irksome colleague who walked barefoot in the office, washed his feet with vinegar, made loud guttural noises, broke wind and swore.

Line Emond, a statistics and data quality manager at the Parole Board of Canada, told a federal tribunal that problems began soon after the man — identified only as “Mr. X” — moved into a cubicle next to her office in November 2009.

The first time she spoke to Mr. X, Emond testified, she had to tell him that “washing his feet with vinegar in his cubicle was inappropriate,” according to a recently issued Public Service Labour Relations and Employment Board decision. Mr. X, a former corrections officer, wore sandals in summer and winter, the board heard, and used vinegar to clean his dirty feet.

Mr. X was a source of constant distraction for Emond. He would arrive in their Laurier Avenue office building at 7:15 a.m., she testified, open his bag, go the kitchen, and make a lot of noise while reheating a meal. His leftovers often had a strong smell, she said, and he was a noisy eater.

When someone passed nearby, she said, Mr. X would call to them, yelling things like, “Hey buddy, what’s going on?” and would regularly swear as part of such interactions. Like clockwork every day, Mr. X would “rummage” through his things as he prepared to leave at 3 p.m., said Emond. She structured her day to avoid the noise by taking her coffee break at the same time.

Other parole board employees testified that Mr. X told loud jokes, made strange noises, “allowed himself to be flatulent,” and operated a white noise machine that was eventually banned.

Emond said she complained to her supervisor, Sheila Ouellette, and asked that one of them be moved.

The situation deteriorated on May 4, 2010, when Emond was on the phone with a colleague. Mr. X was making so much noise that she hammered on their shared wall to get him to stop. Minutes later, Mr. X came into her office and demanded, “What is your problem?”

According to Emond, Mr. X then warned her that “there is a line on the floor — and do not cross that line because I do not know what will happen.”

Frightened, Emond again complained to Ouellette, who offered to take the problem to mediation. Emond refused that overture and was given a new office, further away from Mr. X.

Ouellette testified that she thought the conflict was personality based. She did not believe that Mr. X was violent; she called him a friendly, awkward person who was ridiculed and mocked by co-workers, while Emond, she said, was a hard worker with a strong personality who liked “things to be done her way.”

For eight months, the two coexisted in relative peace until Mr. X filed a harassment complaint against Emond. (One element of the complaint would be upheld, for which Emond would be reprimanded.)

Emond found out about the complaint as she was about to depart for holidays. It led her to seek medical help for depression, fear and anxiety. She went on sick leave and her doctor referred her to a psychologist, Dr. Georges Ramsay, who told the labour relations board that although Emond’s fear was “not specific,” it was real since she firmly believed Mr. X could be violent.

Her family doctor concluded that Emond’s memory and concentration were impaired by “emotional stress” and he recommended that she be relocated to another building or be allowed to work from home.

Ouellette offered to move Emond into the seventh floor executive suite, which could only be reached by those with two security cards. Emond, however, said she didn’t feel safe working in the same building as Mr. X.

The dispute ended up before the federal government’s labour relations tribunal, which heard the case over seven days. Mr. X did not testify.

Federal lawyers argued that Emond did not suffer a disability, only stress, and that officials had offered a reasonable accommodation for that problem with a secure office.

Adjudicator Linda Gobeil, however, sided with Emond, ruling that her stress could only be relieved by moving to another building. “In the circumstances,” she concluded, “I find it hard to believe that a cubicle could not be found in Ottawa in which the grievor could work.”

Gobeil also ordered the government to compensate Emond for the wages and benefits she lost during almost two years of sick leave.

 

[puckhead]

"Terry Bollea does not have a 10 inch penis, but Hulk Hogan does"

Hulk Hogan just said this under oath.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

"Terry Bollea does not have a 10 inch penis, but Hulk Hogan does"

Hulk Hogan just said this under oath.

at least he didnt say he had a 24 inch python

 

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That's quite the testimony straight from Thunderlips.

 

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I don't think that's what they mean by "One in the Oven"

Single Mum Arrested After ‘Putting Her Two-Year-Old Daughter In The Oven’

/Glad the kid is okay.

 

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Who could have seen this coming?

Microsoft introduced a chat robot designed to interact in the style of a “teen girl” on Twitter, and it went rogue almost immediately, spouting racist opinions, conspiracy theories and a fondness for genocide.

The artificial intelligence (AI) named “Tay” - @Tayandyou on Twitter - was intended chat to with 18-24 year olds with the idea being that she would learn from each tweet and get progressively smarter.

Clearly Microsoft had forgotten that Twitter is home to a huge amount of trolls, racists and general troublemakers who jumped at the chance to ‘teach’ the teenaged AI about life.

In one widely circulated tweet, Tay said: “Bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have got now. donald trump is the only hope we’ve got”.

Microsoft launches AI chatbot on Twitter and it turns racist within hours

 

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Daaaaang

Russian military says special forces officer killed near Palmyra: agencies

"The officer died as a hero, he drew fire onto himself after being located and surrounded by terrorists," he said.

He called in an airstrike on himself when the bad guys had him surrounded.

 

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Who could have seen this coming?

Microsoft introduced a chat robot designed to interact in the style of a “teen girl” on Twitter, and it went rogue almost immediately, spouting racist opinions, conspiracy theories and a fondness for genocide.

The artificial intelligence (AI) named “Tay” - @Tayandyou on Twitter - was intended chat to with 18-24 year olds with the idea being that she would learn from each tweet and get progressively smarter.

Clearly Microsoft had forgotten that Twitter is home to a huge amount of trolls, racists and general troublemakers who jumped at the chance to ‘teach’ the teenaged AI about life.

In one widely circulated tweet, Tay said: “Bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have got now. donald trump is the only hope we’ve got”.

Microsoft launches AI chatbot on Twitter and it turns racist within hours

This is why hitchhiking robots and pizza delivery robots scare the hell out of me.