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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."

 

[Detrogen]

Americans Shouldn't Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It

Car Crashes Aren't Always Unavoidable - The Atlantic

archived 10 Jul 2019 03:41:24 UTC

archive.today

Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It

The automobile took over because the legal system helped squeeze out the alternatives.

www.theatlantic.com

Not sure if this was posted already but I thought it was interesting.

I agree with the author on several points, especially when it comes to police generally not enforcing traffic safety laws (in lieu of distributing tickets to easy targets where I live). However, since no solution is proposed, and the author seems to ignore the fact that pedestrians have the right of way 100% of the time (so much so that people will throw themselves into traffic to scam drivers or win an easy lawsuit) makes this seem mostly like the author is just screeching to the heavens because he hates driving.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

Morarji Desai, a prime minister of india, used to practice "Urine Therapy" and drink a glass of his own finest every morning. In 1978, Desai, a longtime practitioner of "urine therapy," spoke to Dan Rather on 60 Minutes about the benefits of drinking urine. Desai stated that urine therapy was the perfect medical solution for the millions of Indians who cannot afford medical treatment.[26][27][28] He also attributed his longevity to drinking urine - which he called "the water of life". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morarji_Desai].
He lived to 99 - so it finally killed him.

Well there was the lady who attributed living past 100 to a Dr. Pepper every day.
Another lady attributed whiskey.
I know they're street shitters so they don't know any better, but I've seen a woman drink piss to cure her cancer. That shit is everything your body doesn't want and all it does is strain your kidneys and allow your body to take in more toxins (not that woo bullshit but legit toxins) when you drink it again. Congrats, you just undid all your kidneys' hard work. May as well smoke a pack a day if you're gonna blatantly tell your body "fuck you"
... If you drank nothing but your own urine, how long would it take for it to be a pathetic dark brown dribble of pure urea?

 

[Oh Shit I'm Sorry]

Not sure if this is the right place for it but it seems that some faggot New Yorker slit his girlfriend's throat and posted pics of it on a Discord server before trying (and failing) to kill himself.

(Extremely NSFW) imgur collec of the pics he uploaded and people's responses: https://web.archive.org/web/20190715023406/https://imgur.com/a/35H6e95

Looks like he uploaded some of the pics to Instagram but have since been deleted leaving this one from 5/17 as his latest (https://www.instagram.com/p/BxlVL1-FMF9/). (20 thousand comments)

His insta: https://www.instagram.com/yesjuliet/
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190714194142/https://www.instagram.com/yesjuliet/

Article confirming the cops have arrested a suicidal man who admitted to killing his girlfriend: https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/homicide-near-boilermaker-start-line-delays-utica-race/
Currently in critical condition.

🕰 me if old

 

[AnOminous]

Not sure if this is the right place for it but it seems that some faggot New Yorker slit his girlfriend's throat and posted pics of it on a Discord server before trying (and failing) to kill himself.

(Extremely NSFW) imgur collec of the pics he uploaded and people's responses: https://web.archive.org/web/20190715023406/https://imgur.com/a/35H6e95

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Looks like he uploaded some of the pics to Instagram but have since been deleted leaving this one from 5/17 as his latest (https://www.instagram.com/p/BxlVL1-FMF9/). (20 thousand comments)

His insta: https://www.instagram.com/yesjuliet/
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190714194142/https://www.instagram.com/yesjuliet/

Article confirming the cops have arrested a suicidal man who admitted to killing his girlfriend: https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/homicide-near-boilermaker-start-line-delays-utica-race/
Currently in critical condition.

🕰 me if old

When Utica Police got to the scene they found a suicidal man outside an SUV and police said he had killed his girlfriend and was going to harm himself with a knife.

Police were able to stop him and he was taken to St. Elizabeth’s in Utica in critical condition.

such details much journalism wow

 

[Ahriman]

Chess grandmaster allegedly caught cheating on toilet during tournament

A rising chess star was caught allegedly cheating in a bathroom during a tournament in France this week — apparently confirming months of speculation about his meteoric rise to “super” grandmaster,…

nypost.com

 

[Silence of the Troons]

Dave Chappelle on Broadway: The Joke Is Getting Old

The comic hasn’t adjusted his material for the setting: he’s still defending wealthy, famous peers and joking about transgender targets.

www.nytimes.com

Dave Chappelle on Broadway: The Joke Is Getting Old
The comic hasn’t adjusted his material for the setting: he’s still defending wealthy, famous peers and joking about transgender targets.

For those spending hundreds of dollars to see Dave Chappelle on Broadway, some advice: Don’t leave your seats too quickly.
On Tuesday, the first night of a 10-show engagement at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, as most of the audience filed out after what was for him a subpar set, Chappelle returned to the stage for another hour, taking suggestions on what to talk about. What followed was looser, more surprising and funnier than what preceded it.

When someone shouted “Kanye West!” Chappelle embarked on one of his ornate historical digressions, comparing the rapper to the boxer Jack Johnson, whom he described as a great pioneer for African-Americans but one driven by self-interest. Asked about the recent news that a black actress, Halle Bailey, had been cast in the lead of “The Little Mermaid,” he quipped: “If they draw her as a catfish, I’m going to be furious.”

And when someone asked why he lived in Ohio, Chappelle described a recent visit to Aziz Ansari’s house and marveling at how incredible it would be to live in a New York home like his. Chappelle’s extra note of seriousness seemed intended to set up a shift of gears: “Yeah, but he flies commercial.”

This joke, which he followed with effusive praise for private jets, is not exactly relatable. But it is, I believe, revealing, a reflection of the rarefied world Chappelle has existed in for the last 15 years of his fame, since the days of “Chappelle’s Show,” the sketch show that made him a superstar.

He has been a fixture of the culture for so long that it’s easy to miss how eccentric he is. What other comic would dress in a dark jumpsuit (with his name on it) that looks like something Michael Myers would wear in a “Halloween” reboot?

Chappelle’s peculiarity has long been an asset, giving him an outsider perspective. But he’s not an underdog anymore. In the past year, he has appeared in the big-screen hit “A Star Is Born”and taken time to mentor Will Smith on stand-up. And now he’s making his Broadway debut, part of a theatrical lineage of standup explored on a recent episode of the illuminating podcast “The History of Stand-up.”

The theater might provide a rich target for Chappelle, but outside of his opening line (“Welcome to the most heterosexual show on Broadway”), it’s not one he trains his sights on. Chappelle doesn’t much adjust to the room. He does what he does, with supreme confidence. But his fiercely independent streak has led to a more indulgent performer constantly doubling down, returning to old obsessions, courting controversy and then exploiting it in his shows to play the beleaguered star.
After he was criticized for mocking transgender people in two 2017 specials, Chappelle seems to have become fixated on the subject, alternating between lukewarm jokes about this marginalized group and defensive justifications for them and even apologies. “Got to stop with the trans jokes,” he tells himself at one point.

But the time spent on this subject is overshadowed by his other favorite long-running pastime, expressing sympathy for rich and powerful men enmeshed in scandal. Chappelle has become the bizarro Joan Rivers, obsessed with celebrities, but not to skewer them so much as to play their defense attorney.

In his new show, he does Louis C.K. few favors by defending him limply. He also speaks up for Kevin Hart who, in his telling, lived a blameless life when his dream of hosting the Oscars was dashed because of a few tweets. And after litigating the case of Michael Jackson on specials in 2004 and 2017, he does so again here, telling his audience not to watch the recent HBO documentary, “Leaving Neverland,” in which two men who accused Jackson of sexual abuse speak out. Chappelle says he doesn’t believe them, and then adds that he has no evidence, before sputtering that even if the pop star was guilty, “he’s Michael Jackson.”

As he has told audiences many times, Chappelle says he is not in “the being right business.” He often adds qualifications to these provocations, but it’s hard not to notice that he sympathizes so much with his peers in wealth and fame. Once again returning to what he sees as the excesses of #MeToo, which he has soured on even more than in his special in 2017, when he described victims as “weak,” he focuses on the plight of the men, those accused, but also the ones who might be. Chappelle refers several times to the dangers of being canceled. He’s not worried, he says, because he doesn’t rape, but adds: “I have a few Aziz Ansaris in my past.”

The extensive Playbill bio noted that Chappelle’s comedy has “often shocked his audiences into laughter.” But there’s nothing shocking anymore about his making fun of transgender people. He does it so relentlessly that it has become blandly familiar. And the way he pairs this material with constant justifications, explaining how these marginalized groups, which he calls “the alphabet people,” have disproportionate power in Hollywood, is defensive, predictable and ultimately cruel.

Chappelle would argue, rightly, that comedy contains cruelty, and no one has demonstrated the comic potential of punching down better than him (see his sketch about beating a kid with cancer in a video game on “Chappelle’s Show”) But the bar for such jokes is higher, and he doesn’t scale it.

Of the dozen or so times I have seen Chappelle headline, this show was the first where I occasionally felt bored. Make no mistake, he remains such a naturally funny performer that he is always worth seeing. And where his greatest gift was once the conspiratorial way he would introduce an idea, teasing an audience by saying he probably shouldn’t say something, now his signature is to bring up something ridiculous and flash some side-eye.

He uses it to particularly sharp effect to mock Jussie Smollett, the rare disgraced celebrity he displays little sympathy for. Imagining the police hearing Smollett’s story that he was attacked by men wearing MAGA hats in Chicago, Chappelle flashed that side-eye before imitating an officer excusing himself and saying to acolleague: “Find out where Kanye West was last night.”

 

[AnOminous]

REEEEEEE REEEEEEEE this black man is still saying what he thinks instead of echoing SJW bullshit! REEEEEEEEE!

He should throw away all his jokes and just hate white people! REEEEEEEE!

 

[Sped Xing]

Comedy isn't about making people laugh.

 

[Spunt]

Arrest after man in gimp suit scares woman in Claverham

Somerset gimp suit: Arrest after man scares woman in Claverham

Police say the arrest follows 14 reports of "a man approaching people while wearing disguises".

www.bbc.co.uk

A man has been arrested after someone dressed in a gimp suit jumped out on a woman in a Somerset village.

Someone was "charging at me in a full black rubbery suit", the woman who had been walking in Claverham said.

Police said a man in his 20s had been arrested on suspicion of indecency offences in Claverham and Yatton.

"It follows 14 reports of a man approaching people while wearing disguises, one of which was a black body suit," the force added.

Officers from Avon and Somerset Police were called to the latest incident at about 23:30 BST on Thursday.

However, despite using a helicopter and a sniffer dog, they were unable to find the man in the gimp suit who the woman said had advanced towards her "grunting and breathing heavily" before fleeing.

"Ere, bring ahht tha' gimp"

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Dave Chappelle on Broadway: The Joke Is Getting Old

The comic hasn’t adjusted his material for the setting: he’s still defending wealthy, famous peers and joking about transgender targets.

www.nytimes.com

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Wah wah, we can't take jokes. Go fuck yourself NYT Dave Chappelle is hilarious and has done more for racial harmony than any of your clickbait hack outrage harvesters. Are they seriously still going to bat for Justin "Jussie Ain't a Name" Smollette?

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

Not sure if this is the right place for it but it seems that some faggot New Yorker slit his girlfriend's throat and posted pics of it on a Discord server before trying (and failing) to kill himself.

(Extremely NSFW) imgur collec of the pics he uploaded and people's responses: https://web.archive.org/web/20190715023406/https://imgur.com/a/35H6e95

View attachment 841976
Looks like he uploaded some of the pics to Instagram but have since been deleted leaving this one from 5/17 as his latest (https://www.instagram.com/p/BxlVL1-FMF9/). (20 thousand comments)

His insta: https://www.instagram.com/yesjuliet/
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190714194142/https://www.instagram.com/yesjuliet/

Article confirming the cops have arrested a suicidal man who admitted to killing his girlfriend: https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/homicide-near-boilermaker-start-line-delays-utica-race/
Currently in critical condition.

🕰 me if old

According to several twitter accounts, the dude was a stalker, and not her boyfriend. He tracked he to some concert she was going to WITH her boyfriend, and then killed her.

 

[Male Idiot]

I found Catparty's doxxx. We know how he can find so many shitpostings at once, it is his granny army!

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

According to several twitter accounts, the dude was a stalker, and not her boyfriend. He tracked he to some concert she was going to WITH her boyfriend, and then killed her.

I've heard from verified Twitter sources that the murderer was Sam Hyde and the victim was Sam Hyde in a wig.

Clark, 21, reportedly called police on himself, according to Lt. Bryan Coromato. When he was discovered in his car in Utica, Clark reportedly slit his own throat and posted pictures of his bleeding neck on Instagram as well.

Devins, who was a popular "egirl" on Tik Tok, was was found dead outside the SUV. Clark was rushed to the hospital, where he underwent surgery. The two reportedly met online, and had been seeing each other for about two months before the night of the concert, by Canadian musician Nicole Dollenganger.

Bianca's sister, Olivia Devins, later called Clark a "close family friend."

According to authorities, Devins and Clark got into an argument at the show and drove to Utica, where Clark allegedly pulled over and killed her.

17-Year-Old Brutally Murdered, Photos of Her Death Posted on Instagram

Bianca Devins, a popular "egirl" on Tik Tok, was murdered on Sunday. Photos of her slit throat wound up on Instagram, 4Chan and Discord

www.newsweek.com

edit: oddly enough the article features a Brianna Wu tweet that says something completely different.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

I've heard from verified Twitter sources that the murderer was Sam Hyde and the victim was Sam Hyde in a wig.

17-Year-Old Brutally Murdered, Photos of Her Death Posted on Instagram

Bianca Devins, a popular "egirl" on Tik Tok, was murdered on Sunday. Photos of her slit throat wound up on Instagram, 4Chan and Discord

www.newsweek.com

edit: oddly enough the article features a Brianna Wu tweet that says something completely different.

HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

 

[Jeff Wolf]

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Chess grandmaster allegedly caught cheating on toilet during tournament

A rising chess star was caught allegedly cheating in a bathroom during a tournament in France this week — apparently confirming months of speculation about his meteoric rise to “super” grandmaster,…

nypost.com

It’s unclear if the photo was the result of a sting operation, or purely chance.

Chess sting operation only brings up this article.

 

[AnOminous]

Chess sting operation only brings up this article.

He was probably visiting the bathroom way too often.

Considering how easy it is to make an earpiece invisible and have an associate doing your cheating from outside the room, soon only blitz chess will be able to be fair.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

He was probably visiting the bathroom way too often.

Considering how easy it is to make an earpiece invisible and have an associate doing your cheating from outside the room, soon only blitz chess will be able to be fair.

I think probably the best bet is to assume any top level competition is mostly a cheating without getting caught competition.

 

[Cat Menagerie]

Spoiler: Woman attempts to have estranged wife murdered

MAJOR COUNTY, Okla. – A woman is in custody after investigators say she tried to hire a hitman to kill her estranged wife.


On July 10, deputies with the Major County Sheriff’s Office asked the

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to help with the investigation involving 25-year-old Kandi Neilson.

Investigators say Neilson attempted to hire a hitman to kill her estranged wife and her estranged wife’s new boyfriend.
Two days later, Neilson was arrested.
She is facing a charge of solicitation of first-degree murder.

https://kfor.com/2019/07/16/woman-arrested-after-allegedly-trying-to-hire-hitman-to-kill-estranged-wife/

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

Spoiler: Woman attempts to have estranged wife murdered

MAJOR COUNTY, Okla. – A woman is in custody after investigators say she tried to hire a hitman to kill her estranged wife.


On July 10, deputies with the Major County Sheriff’s Office asked the

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to help with the investigation involving 25-year-old Kandi Neilson.

Investigators say Neilson attempted to hire a hitman to kill her estranged wife and her estranged wife’s new boyfriend.
Two days later, Neilson was arrested.
She is facing a charge of solicitation of first-degree murder.

https://kfor.com/2019/07/16/woman-arrested-after-allegedly-trying-to-hire-hitman-to-kill-estranged-wife/

But feminists have repeatedly assured me that women aren't violent!

 

[Ginger Piglet]

But feminists have repeatedly assured me that women aren't violent!

I don't do family law because it's too much like Jeremy Kyle. However. I'd love to do a really acrimonious gay divorce, or even just assist on one. Actually, a lesbian divorce. I bet they are absolutely fucking BRUTAL, with depths of point-scoring and vindictiveness that you never see elsewhere. You know how the majority of workplace bullies in the professions are women and bullying other women? Probably something related to that.