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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."
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Only if you have a military band to play the "1812 Oveture". Aw yeah bitches.


RomanesEuntDomus said:
Whenever I read shit like american Universities offer "cry ins" and cuddle hours with cats to deal with stress I can't help but marvel at how mentally immature and stunted universities have become in the US. It's only a matter of time until it gets as bad in my country, I fear.

By god... how can you turn this:
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into this:

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Universities are failing their alumni. Hard. And the alumni don't even recognize it - to the contrary, they play with playdoh, sip their hot chocolate and cuddle with their cuddly blanket while sucking on their thumbs... It's outrageous.
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Jesus, 9-11 happened during my last semester, and they didn't have this shit. If any time you'd have students panicking and freaking out, it would've been then.
And don't most campuses already HAVE counselors? (I know mine did) The really sad thing is that this isn't going to do jackshit to help. :(


(The blankets and hot chocolate would've been nice, though -- it was fucking COLD in some of those classrooms. ;) )
 
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Mrs Paul said:
Jesus, 9-11 happened during my last semester, and they didn't have this shit. If any time you'd have students panicking and freaking out, it would've been then.
And don't most campuses already HAVE counselors? (I know mine did) The really sad thing is that this isn't going to do jackshit to help. :(
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If there were another 9/11 these fucking scum wouldn't need a safe space because they'd be out dancing in the streets and singing nasheeds.
 
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Ravenor said:
I honestly think that's outlawed for use, but the distance modern army's fight it's honestly outmoded now.
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millais said:
Some of the NATO tanks fielding 105 and 120 mm guns can fire canister shot, which is like grapeshot but with steel ball bearings instead of lead musket balls
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Point in Case:

Also, I don't think there is a band on such ammunitions. After all, it's just a very large shotgun.
 
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/wildlife-cameras-unexpectedly-snap-naked-9387927
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-snaps-naked-man-high-LSD-thought-tiger.html
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/23185...ked-man-high-on-lsd-who-thinks-he-is-a-tiger/

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"A hidden camera left in a forest to snap images of animals in the wild captured pictures of a naked man who believed he was a tiger after taking LSD. The man, only identified as Marek H from the Czech Republic, took the drug to try and treat his depression. But after taking LSD he then ran off into the Polish forest, stripped naked and starting behaving like a tiger.

Later foresters looked back at the footage to try and see if they had captured any wild animals on camera. But after watching footage of the man, they handed the pictures straight over to police, who later apprehended Marek H.

The 21-year-old then confessed to police that he had taken the hallucinatory drug LSD. He said it started to work immediately and that he felt he had become a Siberian tiger.
The told police that it was then that his 'true personality' had woken up and that he had always connected with the animal.

He added that while being high on the drug, he picked up a scent and felt compelled to follow it. In eight hours he is believed to have travelled 15 and a half miles along the Czech-Polish border, in a forested area.

But because the man did not have any drugs with him, he was only fined and will not face any further charges."
 
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ICametoLurk said:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/wildlife-cameras-unexpectedly-snap-naked-9387927
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-snaps-naked-man-high-LSD-thought-tiger.html
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/23185...ked-man-high-on-lsd-who-thinks-he-is-a-tiger/

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"A hidden camera left in a forest to snap images of animals in the wild captured pictures of a naked man who believed he was a tiger after taking LSD. The man, only identified as Marek H from the Czech Republic, took the drug to try and treat his depression. But after taking LSD he then ran off into the Polish forest, stripped naked and starting behaving like a tiger.

Later foresters looked back at the footage to try and see if they had captured any wild animals on camera. But after watching footage of the man, they handed the pictures straight over to police, who later apprehended Marek H.

The 21-year-old then confessed to police that he had taken the hallucinatory drug LSD. He said it started to work immediately and that he felt he had become a Siberian tiger.
The told police that it was then that his 'true personality' had woken up and that he had always connected with the animal.

He added that while being high on the drug, he picked up a scent and felt compelled to follow it. In eight hours he is believed to have travelled 15 and a half miles along the Czech-Polish border, in a forested area.

But because the man did not have any drugs with him, he was only fined and will not face any further charges."
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...informative.
 
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...th-oil-in-siberian-city/ar-AAlJCPI?li=BBnbfcL

More than 40 people dead from alcohol poisoning after drinking bath oil in Siberian city
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MOSCOW — Authorities have declared a state of emergency in a Siberian city after at least 41 people died of alcohol poisoning after drinking a bath oil they hoped would give them the same buzz as booze.

An additional 15 people were in critical condition in hospitals in Irkutsk, Russia’s sixth-largest city, with a population of 1.1 million. Mayor Dmitry Berdnikov called for the state of emergency after meeting with local authorities, the Interfax news agency reported.

Interfax said the death toll had risen to at least 41.

The bath oil bottles were labeled as containing ethyl alcohol, the state-run news agency TASS reported, and were clearly marked with warnings that they were not meant to be consumed internally. The products in fact contained methyl alcohol and antifreeze, said Alexei Krupin, the head of the alcohol regulating agency for Siberia.

Russia’s top investigative agency has opened a criminal investigation of the deaths and the sale of goods not meeting safety requirements. Investigators said in a statement that they had detained two people suspected of distributing the bath oil, and had confiscated more than 2,000 liters of spirits, the Reuters news agency reported.

Many of the victims are the residents of one neighborhood, Novo-Lenino, investigators said. Cheap perfume and facial toner containing alcohol are sold in the region without the trading restrictions on alcoholic drinks, Agence France-Presse reported, and those who buy them for drinking are often the most socially disadvantaged.

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that the president has yet to draw any conclusions on whether the poisoning is connected to the economic well-being of this population, Interfax said.

“Undoubtedly, this is a terrible tragedy,” Peskov said. “Undoubtedly, this is a well-known set of problems. The president has been informed, and without a doubt, this requires the closest attention and adoption of measures.”

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in a government meeting that he hopes to consider banning products leading to such high death tolls, and added that the country’s criminal code is being amended to toughen the punishment for people caught selling them, Reuters reported.

Poisonings with surrogate alcohol are a regular occurrence in Russia, the Associated Press reported, but the Irkutsk case was one of the deadliest such incidents in years. Homemade spirits and household products containing alcohol are popular throughout Russia as a cheap alternative to the standard brands. They are also blamed for a large number of alcohol-related deaths, according to recent studies.

Dangerous drinking patterns in Russia have led to high levels of alcohol mortality for centuries. But the alcohol-related deaths seem to have reached new extremes in post-Soviet years, according to a 2013 study published in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism. This probably is caused by a growing use of non-beverage alcohol containing high levels of ethanol and other toxic elements.

Higher levels of poverty are pushing people to drink more and to drink cheaper, poorer-quality alcohol that can often prove dangerous for health, according to the study.

A later study, published in the Lancet in 2014, asked 150,000 Russian how much vodka they drank, then followed them for up to a decade, during which 8,000 died. The study found that men who drank three or more bottles of vodka per week were about twice as likely to die prematurely than men who drank less than a bottle per week. According to the British researchers behind the study, 25 percent of all Russian men die before age 55, compared with only 7 percent of men in the United Kingdom. Alcohol and tobacco account for most of this difference.

“Russian death rates have fluctuated wildly over the past 30 years as alcohol restrictions and social stability varied under Presidents Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin, and the main thing driving these wild fluctuations in death was vodka,” said the study’s co-author, Sir Richard Peto of the University of Oxford in Britain.
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