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Those numbers are in Herr Fahrenheit’s antiquated system, but even so, that 5 p.m. temperature forecast’s a little high.
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He’s no fruit ninja
As a YouTube watcher, you can already sense the impending FAIL, but as far as “Ali” was concerned, there were no possible bad outcomes when he placed a watermelon on a glass patio table and attempted to cleave it in twain with a scimitar:
To add insult to patio table injury, the watermelon came out of the experience intact.
There ain’t nose party like a sausage party
Ali’s loss is minor compared to Ethan Schneider’s. He and a buddy were trying to impress friends at a party with a trick where he’d hold a kielbasa in his mouth while his buddy sliced it with a katana. You already know where this is going…
Here’s what TMZ reports about the aftermath:
4 hours of surgery and a slew of stitches later, Ethan got his sniffer back. He can smell but has no feeling … and doctors aren’t sure if it will ever come back.
That’s called a good result.
If you’re the morbidly curious type, feel free to mosey on down to TMZ’s story, where you can see the pre-surgery pictures (after clicking on a “Warning! Graphic photos!” link first). You might not want to do this if you’re eating or easily nauseated.
Recommended viewing
Back in 2013, YouTube video personality Ryan Higa tried a real-life version of Fruit Ninja, but apparently forgot that unlike the game, everything in the real world comes with mass and Newton’s Third Law built-in:
A key difference between Ryan Higa’s video and the first two in this article is that Higa shot his video properly. The others fell victim to Vertical Video Syndrome, a common problem with videos shot using phones:
Photo taken last night by Yours Truly. I finally got to see Mad Max: Fury Road.
Giving away free butter — or even free imitation butter — anywhere in the Sun Belt seems like a bad, bad idea. Down here, that’s just an invitation to “weez the juice”, Pauly Shore-style.
It the 4th of July — Independence Day — and here in these United States of ‘Murica, that means fireworks. And the annual intentionally disturbing, unintentionally funny safety video from the CPSC, short for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The folks at Gizmodo have taken the most visually arresting bits from the CPSC video and turned it into 1-minute, 29-second “highlight reel”, complete with an added Muzak soundtrack:
I can imagine the planning meeting for the video:
CPSC official 1: We need to demonstrate how a bottle rocket can take someone’s eye out in a way that’s presentable to the public, yet gruesome at the same time, and doable with homemade special effects.
CPSC official 2: How about we use some twine or fishing line to guide the bottle rocket to a mannequin’s eye?
CPSC official 1: That’s a good start, but I need more gore. Tasteful gore.
CPSC official 3: I’ve got it! We scoop out one of the mannequin’s eyes…
CPSC official 1 (sitting forward in chair): I’m listening…
CPSC official 3: …and we put a raw egg in the resulting eye-socket!
CPSC official 1: GENIUS! Make it happen! Now remember that we’ve only got an afternoon to do it, and our budget is twenty bucks.
If you’d much rather watch the official video, complete with English and Spanish soundbites from official-looking people and “B-roll” for news organizations who need some additional video shots, here it is:
Things are dead slow today.
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The national holiday — Independence Day, the 4th of July — takes place on a Saturday this year, so a good number of businesses are treating today — Friday, July 3rd, the closest weekday — as a day off. If you’re trying to contact a business from outside the US and wondering why nobody’s replying to your calls or messages today, you now know the reason why.
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Apparently, poutine contains fish
Mike Beltzner, who’s formerly from Toronto, a resident of the other, lesser bay area, and now a product manager at Pinterest, posted a photo of the Canada Day-themed menu at the office:
My first thought: poutine contains fish?
It turns out that the source of the fish is the gravy. Worcestershire sauce is often an ingredient, and that stuff is basically anchovies in brine.
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Happy Canada Day!
Today is July 1st, which is Canada Day, Canada’s national holiday!
On July 1, 1867, the British North America Act was signed, uniting three colonies into one country under the British Empire and called it Canada. Canada’s been my home for nearly 40 years, and I’m now an importer of Canadian-ness in Florida (a.k.a. “Canada South”). From a Canadian expat to my Canadian friends and family all over the world, Happy Canada Day!
Bonus reading: How Canada is perceived around the world, an article featuring interviews with 15 people from 15 countries, in which they’re asked how they see Canada.