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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
There is No Way This Car Can Drive on Flimsy Planks to Board a Ship
Jessica Simpson Posts Photos of Her 3-Year Old on Instagram and the Internet Goes Crazy
Judgmental internet denizens are up in arms about Jessica Simpson's toddler in pictures on Instagram. The debate rages on Simpson's Facebook page about whether these images are innocent or just a little too "sexy". Some commenters say that Simpson is a bad parent for sharing the images of her daughter on the internet where predators could ogle the 3-year-old making a silly kissy face or sitting with her hand on her hip. Others argue that these are typical pictures of a 3-year-old girl and should not be condemned.
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Jessica Simpson Posts Photos of Her 3-Year Old on Instagram and the Internet Goes Crazy
Judgmental internet denizens are up in arms about Jessica Simpson's toddler in pictures on Instagram. The debate rages on Simpson's Facebook page about whether these images are innocent or just a little too "sexy". Some commenters say that Simpson is a bad parent for sharing the images of her daughter on the internet where predators could ogle the 3-year-old making a silly kissy face or sitting with her hand on her hip. Others argue that these are typical pictures of a 3-year-old girl and should not be condemned.
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Witness This Fan's Amazing One-Handed Bat Catch - With a Beer in Hand
God bless baseball, and God bless America (eagles screaming patriotically in the distance.)
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Glitch of the Day: Sending a Certain Text Message Will Force Anyone’s iPhone to Shut Down
A flaw in Apple’s iOS is allowing pranksters to remotely shut down other people’s phones.
Some iPhone users on Reddit recently discovered that sending a certain string of text to someone will force the recipient’s device to crash and reboot.
The issue apparently lies in the way the iPhone handles notifications and unicode.
Here’s an explanation from The Guardian:
When the text message is displayed by a banner alert or notification on the lockscreen, the system attempts to abbreviate the text with an ellipsis. If the ellipsis is placed in the middle of a set of non-Latin script characters, including Arabic, Marathi and Chinese, it causes the system to crash and the phone to reboot.
You can watch the error in action in the demo video above.
It reportedly only works if the other person does not already have their text thread open at the time, and you can prevent it from happening to you by turning off banner notifications and text previews (Here’s a visual of the settings on Imgur).
And if you can’t access your messages after the glitch, you can also apparently send a new message to the thread using Siri or Notes, and when it opens just delete the malicious text.
Of course the best way to prevent this from happening is by not being a troll and sending the text to anyone in the first place.
Apple apparently knows this is a problem and is hopefully working on a fix ASAP.
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Nightmare Fuel of the Day: Woman Bitten By Black Widow Spider Hiding in Bag of Grapes
Spiders have already infiltrated our bananas, and now they’re souring another of our favorite fruits.
A 21-year-old woman in Vermont was recently bitten by a black widow spider after reaching into a bag of grapes she purchased at the local Shaw’s supermarket.
That’s a whole bunch of “nope” right there.
She and her mother captured the little culprit that had crawled up her arm and brought it with them to the hospital where the woman was treated and eventually released.
The creature is identifiable by a red hourglass-shape on its belly, so if you see the mark, stay away.
Here’s the supermarket’s statement about the incident, via WPTZ:
The health and safety of products we sell, and our customers, is our first concern. We have been closely monitoring the situation and been in contact with the family. We replaced product in the customer’s refrigerator as a precaution and took immediate action to inspect the product at the customer’s store. We also are inspecting the product in all of our stores and have been in touch with the supplier, which has an extensive food safety management system in place.
While their venom is poisonous, most people just experience a pin prick followed by dull muscle pain along with other possible symptoms.
According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine:
Severe symptoms usually start to improve within 2 to 3 days, but milder symptoms may persist for several weeks. Death in a normally healthy individual is very rare. Young children, the extremely ill, and the elderly may not survive a bite.
Black widows were also found in bags of grapes in stores across several different states back in 2013.
This mast March a woman in Wales found a Brazilian Wandering Spider in her bag of bananas, which is considered the “world’s most venomous spider” by the Guinness World Records.
Other spiders have also been in the news a lot lately, particularly in Australia, where they are literally raining down from the sky as part of a phenomenon called “mass ballooning.”
Just don’t try to kill any of them, or you might end up with hundreds of even smaller spiders on your hands like this guy did.
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Whatever You Do, DON'T Feed Your New Sports Car to the Bushes
This Woman Knocks Out Her Waiter Cold When he Tries to Get Frisky With Her
FAIL Blog does not condone violence and aggression against wait staff, unless it's on video and incredibly funny.
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A Brewery Has Officially Started Aging Beer With the Music of Wu-Tang Clan Playing 24/7
Dock Street Brewery, located in Philidelphia, has just started aging a beer with music. The hope, as head brewer Vince Desrosiers told Philadelphia Magazine, is that vibrations from the sounds of Wu-Tang Clan music will agitate the yeast and "create some different flavors during fermentation.”
The beer itself, called Ain't Nuthin’ to Funk With, should be ready to try later this year.
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Malia Obama is Worth 70 sheep, 50 cows, and 30 goats to a Man in Kenya Who Plans to Buy Her Hand in Marriage
Malia Obama is Felix Kiprono's ideal woman and the Kenyan lawyer says he plans to offer a plethora of livestock to Barack Obama for the match when he comes to visit the country in July. He has the support of his family members and has a traditional marriage proposal already planned. I'm guessing Malia, who is currently 16-years-old, probably has a different idea for her future that doesn't involve drinking sour milk and living the "simple life" that Kirprono told The Nairobian he has planned for her.
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