IME, I’ve very rarely had a stray dog come up to my door and ring the bell. Usually they knock.
- Emma Amit, a Filipino food vlogger, died on Feb. 6, two days after eating a poisonous “devil crab”
- In footage she shared on Facebook, she appeared to cook and eat one of the crabs from a pot
- The content creator lost consciousness shortly after consuming the crab and was rushed to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead two days later, Barangay Chief Laddy Gemang told a local news outlet
She should have known better. She was 51 years old. The crustacean is well-known enough to have earned its ‘devil crab’ nickname. She wasn’t a tourist; she lived there.
A friend of mine recently found his lost dog, with help from doorbell cameras. The way he did this was by texting all of his neighbors to ask for help, and then some of them reviewed their cameras to look for the dog, and a few of them saw it in the footage. This is a system that worked.
To be fair, we don’t know if that was stupid or not. How many views did the video get?
Perhaps it was deliberate? It would not be the first suicide on social media.
That makes the most sense.
On the other hand, her companion also ate the crab’s meat and died so, unless it was a suicide pact, it could’ve been a daredevil stunt gone bad.*
*one of the crab’s toxins, tetrodotoxin is also found in pufferfish, eaten as fugu when expertly prepared. Did the “food influencer” intend to show she’d found a safe way to eat the crabmeat?
The Simpson’s provided a map of what parts of the fish you can and cannot eat. I assume she didn’t reference it.
I nominate Scott Bessent as today’s Stupid MFer.
Summary: There was a recent House financial services committee meeting. Maxine Waters asked the secretary whether he had written a letter to hedge fund investors warning that “tariffs are inflationary.” Bessent offered a terse “no” in response.
Bessent is a stupid MFer, because he either has memory problems, or he failed to realize that his words were actually recorded:
The Treasury secretary wrote that exact sentiment in February 2024. “Tariffs are inflationary and would strengthen the dollar,” Bessent wrote to his hedge fund’s investors. “Hardly a good starting point for a U.S. industrial renaissance … The tariff gun will always be loaded and on the table but rarely discharged.”
Scott Bessent’s ‘gotcha’ moment on Trump’s tariffs and inflation | Fortune
Sorry suh, but https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/ is just down the hall. Otherwise we’ll be here all day.
Or, and hear me out here, he doesn’t give any more of a shit about what he “testifies” to than any other cabinet secretary.
Will there be a “lying to Congress” charge in the offing?
I’m not sure if this is stupid or just plain cringe, but I would like to direct everyone’s attention to this graphic that Wired magazine is using on Bluesky to illustrate their article about gay men in the tech industry;
I don’t think there is an “or” in that question.
(I eagerly await their followup story with a couple of lesbians. I can only imagine the depths to which they will sink.)
So, instead of a picture of docking there’d be one of fisting?
I don’t read or follow Wired, would someone care to comment on their general editorial perspective? Clueless, disgusting, thinks they’re edgy, all over the place, or what?
Of course not.
All of the above, and more?
Warning, graphic details of a forbidden encounter with a deer (though not quite as graphic as some accounts).
Questions remain. Was the suspect a hunter? Did he practice safe deer sex to avoid contracting CWD*?
*chronic wasting disease.
You’re seriously burying the lead there, Jackmannii – the deer was DEAD at the time. Which I guess does answer certain logistical questions.
Central City Police Department said that a man was driving through an area in Muhlenberg County when he noticed a man allegedly engaged in sexual intercourse with a deer on the side of the road.
Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County, down by the green river, where Paradise lays?
Well, I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking, Mr.Allen Osbourne has fucked all the deer.
At least he avoided the curse of Bambi saying “No”.
With deer, at least live ones, safe sex means leaving them alone, lest you get the shit literally kicked out of you.