I thought it might be fun to have a general real-life WTF thread.
I’m not sure this is beatable to be fair.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/myanmar-exercise-instructor-accidentally-records-military-coup-in-workout-video/vi-BB1djsFY?ocid=msedgntp
I feel like this is a strong contender :
https://www.euronews.com/living/2021/02/01/scientists-have-taught-spinach-to-send-emails-and-it-could-warn-us-about-climate-change
This is a novel demonstration of how we have overcome the plant/human communication barrier
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Who knew my Uni’s HR department was staffed by spinach!
Plant communication has been known for a while. They can communicate with other plants and insects - all we’ve got to do is pick up on their signals: “Hey, I need more water/nutrients”, “I’m under attack”. However, I image right now that every plant is screaming, considering what we’re doing to the planet.
Job advert for Research Associate in Fungi Signal Analysis
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-lawyer-zoom-cat-filter-b1800005.html
“I don’t know how to remove it, I got my assistant here, she’s trying to,” Mr Ponton said while the mouth and eyes of the cat moved along with his words and movements. “We’re prepared to go forward with it,” he said, appearing to admit defeat. He added: “I’m here live, I’m not a cat.” “I can see that,” the judge said after a few seconds of awkward silence.
“I don’t know how to remove it, I got my assistant here, she’s trying to,” Mr Ponton said while the mouth and eyes of the cat moved along with his words and movements.
“We’re prepared to go forward with it,” he said, appearing to admit defeat.
He added: “I’m here live, I’m not a cat.”
“I can see that,” the judge said after a few seconds of awkward silence.
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I think I may have coughed up my spleen, laughing.
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I really needed a laugh yesterday and that totally did the trick 🙂
❤ Margaret Atwood
And someone’s getting a max $500 fine and up to 180 days in jail… BBC ad free version.
Gammerz Pretty sure that doesn’t apply when one of the lawyers is a cat.
A personal WTF :
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I’ve just been rewatching the BBC Sherlock series. I’m sure I can solve this. Just give me a mo…
When acronyms go wrong.
Very, very wrong.
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This is an amazing story.
Russian man ‘trapped’ on Chinese reality TV show finally voted out after three months
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-56943732
Rudi Batten, 22, threatened staff at the Yate branch on 8 February demanding cash and chicken nuggets. He was told they were only serving breakfast so chose a double-sausage McMuffin.
Then and now: When silence descended over Victoria Falls
https://www.wsj.com/articles/berkshire-hathaways-stock-price-is-too-much-for-computers-11620168548
Waarren Buffet’s firm’s stock price is SO high - and so utterly bigger than the stock price of any other company ever - that’s it’s doing a ‘Y2K bug’ and overflowing the 32 bit unsigned INT the NASDQ’s control software has the stock price value for each company stored in 😃.
Jonbwfc Should’ve used floats!😉
Wow!
DrDamn that’s unbelieable!
DrDamn 😲