... News of the Weird ...

[Supafly]

You all probably run across some strange, weird, bizarre newsstory you feel like sharing. We had such a thread, but it is dead for ten years, so I start a fresh thread.

Fittingly, here from Germany, let me start with this one:

KFC Apologizes For Using Kristallnacht To Promote Cheesy Chicken In Germany​

The fast food chain's German division suggested customers commemorate the anniversary of Nazi attacks on Jews by eating cheesy chicken.

By
David Moye
Nov 10, 2022, 12:38 PM EST

The chain’s German division sent a message to followers on its app that read: “It’s memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!” the BBC reported.


Not surprisingly, many people found KFC’s promotion to be tasteless. Kristallnacht, or “Night of Broken Glass,” is considered the start of the Holocaust. The two-night rampage on Nov. 9-10, 1938, led to the destruction of 267 synagogues and thousands of other Jewish-owned businesses in Nazi Germany, as well as the deaths of 90 Jewish people and the arrest of thousands more.
Germany takes the Kristallnacht anniversary seriously, according to the BBC, with numerous memorial events reflecting the Nazis’ murder of more than 6 million Jewish people.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kfc-germany-kristallnact-promotion_n_636d24d9e4b03438614119af

 

[Supafly]

And now for some art:

Mondrian Artwork Has Been Hanging Upside Down For 75 Years​

But to switch it around now could damage it, according to the art historian who discovered the error.


By
Mary Papenfuss
Oct 28, 2022, 07:00 PM EDT|Updated Nov 3, 2022

But the work, “New York City I” — which features bright lines of red, yellow, black and blue tape on a white background — will likely continue to be displayed the wrong way, because to change it now could damage it.


“The adhesive tapes are already extremely loose and hanging by a thread,” art historian and German museum curator Susanne Meyer-Büser told The Guardian. “If you were to turn it upside down now, gravity would pull it into another direction. And it’s now part of the work’s story.”
The work was first publicly displayed in New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1945. Since 1980, it’s been part of the art collection of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mond...-york-city-germany_n_635c3c0fe4b023ac31c54a45

 

[John_8581]

... News of the Weird ?? ...

Okay. I'm game. I'll be nice.

Hehe.

"Every Picture Tells A Story" - sung by Rod Stewart. Backup guest vocalist Maggie Bell. Songwriters are Rod Stewart and Ron Wood.

:LMAO:

 

[Supafly]

I will hit you for derailing the thread, bro, this is about actual real news articles!11!!12!!

 

[assari]

I have tried this same thing.


Result:


Another man took my car. >:/

 

[tvstrip]

I have tried this same thing.


Result:


Another man took my car. >:/

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Aw heck, this'll be a fun thread. Good idea, 'Fly.

 

[Torre82]

https://nypost.com/2023/02/19/canad...z-breasts-kayla-lemieux-claims-they-are-real/

Soooo, uhhh.. hrm.

 

[Pornfan99]

Torre82: uh .. the Z tits trans guy is "having fun" with the Administrators at his school. He was disciplined for saying certain things in his classroom, so he "turned the tables" on them.

Check out Better Bachelor on Youtube. He did a recent video on that story.

 

[Torre82]

I suppose i see.
Methinks the article should've gone into some backstory and not a headline with tits.

 

[rhapsodymipo]

 

[Torre82]

\be reading news
\see "Sonic voice actor used his iconic voice. In the bedroom. With the actress who does tails."
O_O! Sonic fucked tails!
https://tvshowstars.com/ryan-drummond-and-emi-jones-age-gap-relationship/

 

[tvstrip]

I don't see a problem with the backing into the batshit crazy ladies, but I do have a problem with the shitty parking job. Look at how far he was over on the left side. He's asking for a dented door.

 

[Torre82]

https://nypost.com/2023/02/22/drink...larger-testicles-more-testosterone-study/amp/

Cola = bigger balls, more testosterone
Well okay, then.

 

[tvstrip]

Japanese YouTuber loses seat in Parliament after not showing up to work
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/japan-youtuber-gaasyy-expelled-parliament-rcna75005

GaaSyy, 51, received almost 300,000 votes in July in his campaign for the Diet, Japan’s parliament, as a member of a single-issue party that advocates reforms to NHK, the Japanese public broadcaster. He had been living in the United Arab Emirates even before the election and has not returned to Japan since then

The guy is an idiot, but so are the 300K people who voted for him.