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OT: The News Thread

This is the CNN phenomenon... we need to blow up minor things to fill time on the news and to scare the elderly... my mom was telling me that it will be 50cm tomorrow... Ahh the horror...

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It didnt help his chin..

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First 2 round Reem was controling the fight but not inflicting to much damage. He was being a douche sticking out his chin and keeps his hands by his side the whole time.

Before the 3rd started he was being a complete dick showing no repsect for Silva taunting him across the ring. That is when Bigfoot came out and made him look like an ass. He was out on his feet and ate 4 more shots before finally going down.

I was cheering for Reem but he deserved this fate. You don't disrespect anyone in a fight especially then HW division.
 
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Gordon Stuckless, a former Maple Leaf Gardens equipment manager paroled in 2001 after serving two-thirds of his sentence for sexual assaults of young boys, is facing new charges relating to alleged assaults of two young males in the 1970s, Toronto police say.

Police confirmed the 63-year-old accused is the same individual who was previously convicted and served time for sexually abusing young boys at the onetime home of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

In a release, police said Stuckless was arrested Thursday and faces:
Six counts of indecent assault on a male.
One count of assault.
One count of possession of a weapon.

Police say the latest charges relate to the alleged sexual assaults of two boys, 11 and 13 years old, “at a school, a community centre, and at various other locations in Toronto” during the late 1970s.

Stuckless was then working as a teacher. He also volunteered at a local community centre and sports clubs, police say.
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Change his name to "Suckmore."
 
What is so bad about horse meat?

Also, on the subject of race, I would have to recommend a series I saw called "Faces Of America"

They took 12 celebrities and traced their family trees as far back as possible, and did DNA tests on them all to trace their genealogy.

The subjects were:

Stephen Colbert
Mario Batali
Kristi Yamaguchi
Yo Yo Ma
Meryl Streep
Queen Noor of Jordan
Malcolm Gladwell
Eva Longoria
Elizabeth Alexander
Mike Nichols
Dr. Oz
Louise Erdrich

Some interesting facts that turned up:

- Elizabeth Alexander, Professor of African-American studies at Yale has around 70% European DNA.
- Elizabeth Alexander and Stephen Colbert are distant cousins.
- Yo Yo Ma & Eva Longoria are distant cousins.
- Mike Nichols (Jewish) and Dr. Oz (Muslim) have a common paternal ancestor

There were a lot of links like that between 12 random people.

I think it's definitely worth watching if you haven't seen it already.
 
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Yeah there were a bunch but I can't remember them all.

Meryl Streep and Mike Nichols are distant cousins.

Elizabeth Alexander's family tree was traced back to Charlemagne & King John of England on one side, and a child slave on the other.

Kristi Yamaguchi's father had a whole other family that all died before marrying her mother. He was also way older than her mother.

Meryl Streep was able to get traced back to some Pennsylvania bigshots from the 1600's.

Stephen Colbert is "100% white guy"

A ton of things like that. It's a 4 part series so it's a lot of info.
 
I forgot one, Louise Erdrich, she didn't want to know her DNA breakdown, probably due to her being mostly European rather than "Native".

The host, Henry Louis Gates was also related to Elizabeth Alexander (I think it was her, can't remember for certain) but on the European side.
 
What is so bad about horse meat?
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I had some raw horse meat in Japan a few weeks ago actually. I've had it at a Japanese place here in Vancouver too.

It's actually not that bad. Just taste like beef.

People that are freaking out over it are the type of people that assume that meat is made at their grocery store in plastic packages.

You can eat 1000's of cows and chickens but horse all of a sudden is disgusting??? I suppose it's the idea that a horse is this beautiful animal where as cows and chickens looks kinda like shit. They do have a right to be pissed over the fact that there's this mystery meat in their burgers, that's kinda ****ed. But being disgusted over horse meat shouldn't be a big deal.

What do people think hot dogs/sausages are made of?

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One last point.....We breed and then race the shit out of horses and pump them full of drugs and other medications to make them faster and faster to the point where they aren't useful to us anymore and then are put down because it's to expensive to keep them. We don't seem to have too much of a problem with that. Oh society!
 
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Humans and horses have a different relationship...if you can't see that then I guess you also don't understand why people find dog meat abhorrent.

Of course many people find horse meat nasty. What a silly argument.
 
A friend of mine told me the other night that his parents used to travel to Buffalo for what they considered the best steaks they'd ever eaten (these were pretty well to do people). One day they went and the place was shut down because they had been serving up horse meat in lieu of cow. They wanted more nonetheless.
 
Looks like you missed my point, which was that people should be more disgusted by the fact that the restaurant isn't telling them what's in it, and doing whatever the **** they want to their food and advertising otherwise, rather than being grossed out because it's horse meat. Do you think people would be as appalled as they are if it was deer/caribou meat in the burgers instead? I doubt it.

I bet horse meat has been substituted in a shit load of fast food products. Anyone that eats fast food, considering the amount of shit that goes into it, shouldn't be grossed out over horse meat. That's probably the least of their concerns. But they will because a horse is this cute lovable animal. For the record I'm not advocating we start farming horses for food or anything just that anyone that eats beef and argues how disgusting eating horse is is a bit of a hypocrite.

Of course many people find horse meat nasty.
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North America does. Majority of the world see's it as a delicacy.
 
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