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05 Jan 2010 10:43

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Offbeat: Douchebag: My site’s visitors are too fat. I’m a vapid jerk!

  • Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.
  • BeautifulPeople.com founder Robert Hintze • On his dating site’s purging of 5,000 members who gained too much weight over the holidays and are no longer “beautiful” in his one-dimensional, vapid mind. This guy somehow gets killer PR from this. But is it the good kind? source
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15 Dec 2009 21:09

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U.S.: Let’s recall a bunch of swine flu vaccines and see if people PANIC!

  • 800,000 piggies got recalled source
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12 Dec 2009 18:25

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World: Terrible: Check out how protesters in Copenhagen were arrested

Hands bound, forced to sit on the street late at night – this may be one of the most disturbing photos we’ve seen. Nearly 1,000 protesters were arrested. source
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07 Dec 2009 20:23

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U.S.: It’s likely that you, too, have had a fresh drink of contaminated water

  • 49 million people have had a swig of some dirty dew source
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28 Nov 2009 09:50

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World: Another ferry capsizes, this time in Bangladesh

  • 1,000+ people were on the ship when it capsized
  • 28+ bodies have been recovered so far
  • 100+ people are still feared underwater source
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26 Nov 2009 11:19

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U.S.: Many are thankful for Shaq paying for Shaniya Davis’ funeral

  • The funeral On Sunday, more than 2,000 people showed up to Davis’ funeral – a sad, disturbing end for the five-year-old girl. It came out yesterday that the NBA star paid for the funeral.
  • The backstory Davis, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, went missing earlier this month and was found six days later in a wooded area. She was a victim of child prostitution and kidnapping.
  • The charges
    Mario McNeill was arrested for the murder, with video evidence implicating him. Davis’ mother, Antoinette, was charged with human trafficking charges related to child prostitution. source
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23 Nov 2009 11:08

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Offbeat: The worst version of national anthem we’ve ever heard in our lives

  • Oh, say, can you fix our speakers (and eardrums) after being forced to listen to this godawful rendition of the National Anthem? This goes beyond being bad and into a realm of violence against the listener.
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17 Nov 2009 10:15

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Offbeat: Jones Soda subjects Tofurky soda on the Thanksgiving world

  • While many think that eating turkey is the only way to celebrate Thanksgiving, we at Jones Soda suggest that this year you try something new and toast the noble bird with a cold bottle of Tofurky & Gravy.
  • Jones Soda President and CEO Joth Ricci • Describing his company’s new “Tofurky & Gravy” seasonal soda. This company, famously, has sold holiday packs for a number of years, finding excuses to subject the public to wildly awful flavors of soda, but the idea of a Tofurky one takes the cake. Proceeds from the $11.99 holiday pack, which also includes three normal flavors (a change from prior years, when the other flavors were often as disgusting as the turkey), will go to PAWS, an animal charity. • source
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07 Nov 2009 10:57

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Biz, U.S.: Think unemployment is bad? Well, the broader rate is even worse

  • 10.2% the unemployment rate reported just the other day, which is the worst jobless rate we’ve had since the early 1980s source
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24 Oct 2009 18:00

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World: The Saudi sex chat story means lashes for a female journalist

  • 60 lashes for a woman who reported on a guy talking dirty source
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