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more about #disasters more comments → Rozelle’s Bagman: I hate when that happens. /5th grade more » The Real JR: I'm figuring the pilots were also on their laptops checking Facebook when they were supposed to be paying attention to Heavy Clouds(tm) and ZOMG!Lava. more » Wrapitup: Will no one consider the feelings of the lava? You struggle valiantly to emerge from the bowels of the earth, you're dying of heat stroke and just whe... more » Mount_Prion: Thankfully, the lava only does periodic damage. So if you time your jumps right, it'll maybe only hit you once. more » SidAndFinancy: In retrospect, using these as runway beacons might have been ill-advised. more » Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Luckily, Captain Adetokunbo "Sully" Achebe set that plane down like an indentured nanny setting a baby Afrikaner in a crib. more » resipsaloquacious: Captain Yllus declined to comment. more » Spirit Fingers: Erm, I can't imagine anything more absolutely horrific than landing in lava. I'm sure upon seeing lava approaching out the window, the knowledge of su... more » New Gonzo Drifter: There are always plane accidents/incidents in Goma ... when they quote "lava," they actually mean the hardened lava outlying the area from the eruptio... more » Unsolicited Advice: We had to put the landing strip next to the volcanic fissure! All of the villagers were complaining about noise! more » VioletViolet: Still waiting for Fantastic Mr. Fox to reach non-selected cities next weekend. I know Gawker is all, "waah, hipster appeal! hoodie nation!" about it, ... more » SpyMagician: I’d like to go to the movies, but it gets dark at like 6:00pm now and all movies are about death, dying, when you will die, things dying, living... more » Helio: I have a long standing desire to make it to the end of the world just to see it all crash and burn. The grey and dusty and boring parts is more the po... more » Glib and Bitchy: Compare this weekend's Precious take of $6 million on 174 screens ($35,000 per screen) to last weekend's $1.8 million on 18 screens ($100,000 per -- I... more » ian spiegelman: Precious is based on the incredibly awful and embarrassing Push by a hateful presence who calls herself Saffire. She got roughly $500,000 for this hol... more » -
#surprise
Real-time headline-reactions: "Plane misses runway in east Congo..." Well, it happens."...landing in lava." CHRIST.
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2012 and Precious Box-Office Takes Prove Worlds' Sadomasochism Fetish Profitable
Roland Emmerich's "Apocalypse BUKKAKE" masterpiece, 2012, opened at the box office on Friday! For a movie where everyone already knows the ending—the world, it ends—it did really, really well. So did the sad movie about the sad girl. More » -
#panic
Fancy Stroller Recall Brings Park Slope to Grinding Halt
Why does the average Park Slope parent enjoy pushing around their vulnerable young children, Daffodil and Ainsley, in a stroller that could, at any moment, chop off their tiny defenseless fingers?
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Cornell Employees' Email Blunder from Hell
A tech consultant at Cornell University somehow CCed the entire campus emails to his mistress, a Cornell staffer and fellow married person. The naughty man is in no position to be "SPANKING that FINE ASS of yours" now! More » -
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'Tardy for the Party' Live Will Give You Nightmares
Yesterday Real Housewife of Atlanta Kim Zolciak sang her hit song "Tardy for the Party" live for the first time. It is the scariest thing to happen on television since Britney Spears crashed an burned at the VMAs. Worse even! More » -
#notsolatenight
Latest Critic of the The Jay Leno Show Experiment: Jay Leno
It's not a good sign for your experiment in reshaping the face of network programming when the experiment's centerpiece muses aloud that, yeah, maybe things were better the way they were before.
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Quake Hits South Pacific. A Warning?
Some celestial beings sure are kicking the shit out of earth. First the Samoan rumbles, then the quakes in Indonesia and Italy. Now the South Pacific and Bali Ha'i have been hit. Whatever you're doing, silly humans, stop. [CNN] -
#apocalypse
Pieces are falling off a building on Broadway and Houston St. What up today, NYC?
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#death
The Gruesome L Train Incident: Solved
What exactly happened on the L train—NYC's most cool subway line—today? Earlier we heard rumors of a suicide. We got a bunch of tips. And just before we went to put up this post, we saw this. More » -
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At least
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At Least 34 Dead After Samoa Earthquake Spawns Tsunami
This is too bad: at least 34 people are dead after an 8.0 underwater earthquake spawned monstrous waves that struck Samoa and American Samoa. Hawaii's shitting its pants because authorities worry water will head their way. We would, too. [MSNBC] -
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Landmark Dog-Cat Internet Pact Signals End of Days
Clearly, the online ad market is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. Old Testament, wrath of God type stuff: Dogster and LOLcats-based I Can Has Cheezburger are now selling ads together, per a new agreement. Next up: Mass hysteria. -
#success
So How's That Tucker Max Movie Doing?
As you all know, we've just concluded the opening weekend of Tucker Max's film debut, "Alcohol and Poop Go Together Like Whores and EZ Cheez." How grand a mark has it made on cinema history? Let's go to the scorecards!
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#no
What Was The Rule About 9/11 Ads?
"The Moscow News: Things hard to explain, in a language you understand." Mmm hmm. Since this apparently didn't sink in last week: No. [Adfreak] -
#disasters
California's wildfires more than doubled in size in less than 24-hours.
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Southern California's on fire (again), and residents are told to evacuate — or burn trying.
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Brazilian police believe someone — or someones — have poisoned 63 animals this year.
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Google Office Fire Digitially Captured From Like 432 Different Angles
Google's London office building briefly caught on fire, and there's a very good chance you heard about it, because internet geeks are great at instantly broadcasting images of flames, globally. If only they were as good at igniting grills. More » -
#science
Monkeys With 3 Parents Help Fuel Culture War
This little monkey, Spindler, has three parents. That's right! Three! How could this be? Because scientists are trying to play God and help eradicate potentially fatal diseases. Those bastards! More » -
#science
Jurassic Park Inspired Plans Will Extinct Us All, Must Be Quashed
Since way back in 1993, when the movie adaptation of Jurassic Park came out, we knew the popularization of Michael Crichton's dinosaur nightmare novel would be the end of us. Well, that prediction seems frighteningly close to fruition. More »
