Category: Bizarre

I just can’t stop laughing….(via The Courier Mail)

A HORROR comedy about killer sheep made in New Zealand and distributed by an Australian company will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September.

“When a reckless genetic engineering experiment goes horribly wrong, a flock of innocent sheep accidentally transforms into a pack of blood-thirsty killers,” festival notes say.

Special effects in the film, Black Sheep, were created by the Weta Workshop of Kiwi filmmaker Peter Jackson, who started out making low-budget horror comedies.

Funding was from the NZ Film Commission and South Korea’s Daesung Group.

Hewe appropriate 🙂

Bizarre, from News.com.au:

A MAN was bruised but alive after a Saint Bernard dog thrown out a two-storey window landed on him as he was walking down the street in the southern-Polish city of Sosnowiec.
The 50kg dog was pushed out of the window by its drunken owner on Monday, police said.

“The dog had a soft landing because it fell on a man,” said police spokesman Grzegorz Wierzbicki.

“The dog escaped with just a few scratches.”

“The man was also more in a psychological state of shock than physically hurt.”

No racism intended in the heading for this post….but you’ll know what I mean if you’ve ever tried calling Dell..but on a brighter note, according to VNUnet, Dell’s new one2one blog shares its name…with a porn site. Sh*t, haven’t these morons ever heard of a Whois lookup?

Tags: Dell

Shame, shame,shame.

(via Valleywag)

Tags: Rocketboom

Now I think some of the things the US Government are doing at the moment to their citizens, in terms of spying in particular, are abhorrent, but it seems pretty clear that whilst they are busy spying on innocent civilians they are leaving their nuclear warheads unguarded…why you may well ask? Well The Register reports that three anti-nuke activists dressed as clowns broke into a Minuteman III facility in North Dakota earlier this week and painted pacifist slogans on the missile silo’s cover. Now imagine that these clowns were Al Quida operatives….makes you think doesn’t it.

How does that song on the radio go? …Forever Young?

From the BBC:

Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000.

Only in Australia! (via a Socialiteslife)

After staking out Kidman’s harbourside Sydney house for most of the day, some 20 photographers heard her garage door start to rise and quickly armed themselves with motor-drive cameras.

But instead of a shot of the bride and groom before the wedding day, the paparazzi were met by two women carrying a case of beer and water bottles.

Written on the case of 24 bottles of “Victoria Bitter” beer was a note: “Enjoy!, Nicole and Keith.”

And it seemed the gesture worked, at least temporarily, with the paparazzi thanking their host and enjoying the beer — a universal greeting of friendship in Australia.

It’s also a universal way of getting work done by tradesman as well when you are building a house, I’d think I spent nearly $1,000 pampering the tradies whilst I was getting our house built 🙂

Tags: VB, Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman

Looks like even animals know how to party 🙂

A story of the Bizarre from the BBC:

Rebecca Holdcroft likes to “express” herself through body art. However, she felt she was being discriminated against at work and contacted the BBC News website to express her point of view.

Even though she does not deal with the public face-to-face, her latest employers told her she must wear a cardigan to conceal her tattoos. And in the hot weather, this can get unbearable, she says…..

She says it is discrimination – even though the Citizens Advice Bureau and a solicitor have both told her there is no law to protect her.

“There are other people in the office that have tattoos, but not to the same extent. They aren’t being told to cover up.

“I can’t afford not to have a job so at the moment I comply with what work are asking. Even so, I’m not the only one in the office who thinks it is ridiculous.”

“The point I am trying to make is it’s not criminal to have tattoos.”

You know, I don’t have any piercings or tats, but I don’t disagree with people that do, but this women…well, it’s pretty in your face I’d think. An interesting conundrum.