Archive of entries posted on 23rd March 2017

This Is What Happens When a Grown Man Plays With a Kid’s Toy/Aboriginal Hunting Weapon

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I echo the senitments of the post author at Neatorama: “We might not know exactly how intricate these tricks are, but the crowd is full of yoyo experts and fans, and listen to how impressed they are!”

But I’ll admit I’m sometimes puzzled by how the tricks they roar the loudest at aren’t the ones that impress me most.

Still, there is something kinda awesome about having an American win a European yo-yo contest by doing tricks to the second most American song next to The Star Spangled Banner.

[EYYC 2017 1A Open Final 1st Evan Nagao] (Viewer #86,809)

Not Just Hashtag Diplomacy: Twitter Solves Terrorism Problem!

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Are these scalp-breathing, smelt-chomping terrorists too extreme for Twitter?

Twitter said it has suspended more than half a million accounts as the company steps up efforts to tackle “extremism” on its microblogging platform.

Terrorists, obviously, will be hardest hit – especially Extreme ISIS, Extreme Al Qaeda, and other organizations dumb enough to put the word “Extreme” in their names – but rounding out the top ten will be innocent bystanders like:

* Washed-up 80’s glam-rock bands, (and nostalgic 40-somethings tweeting about their prom themes).

* Icelandic tourism

* Liquid-cooled gaming motherboards

* hair strengthening products

* Railroad Grade pizza

* Alternative explanations of back-relaxation in ionic polymer metal composites

* Recreational heavy construction equipment operation

* High-performance, all-terrain, water-resistant, portable, solid-state hard drives

and, of course, any organization dedicated to making it easier for normal people to be able to kill the terrorists that Twitter censorship somehow, incomprehensibly, doesn’t manage to stop.