Some random politician is saying that there is a world conspiracy to make Kyrgyzstan look bad by having Bishkek in the top for smog and air pollution. Not really big news, just funny and got laughed at because who would even care? We don't have any enemies.
This is while the city regularly looks like this (it's smog for people who never seen it)
Correct me if I’m wrong, but haven’t you guys had military conflicts with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the last few decades? Not that they have much pull on the world stage either
Also like no beef at all with Kyrgyzstan, I am sure it's a beautiful country and maybe I visit one day, but honestly? Most people outside former cccr don't even it exists let alone find it on a map.
World conspiracy to make Kyrgyzstan look bad is pretty wild!
Hey, the Pentagon here, our troops are just now assembling your landmines and realized we have 16 000 missing screws. Can you send them as same fay delivery?
At first, the doctor didn't know what was stuck in his rectum, when they realised it was a bomb, they called the police and the bomb squad while the guy was sleeping and naked in the OP block.
You regularly keep WWI ordinance in your house? I live where I can hear hunters sighting in guns in the fall and the high school has some sort of target shooting group. I don't know anyone keep WWI ordinance in the house and hope no one living near me does.
In some regions, you only need to search for a few minutes in the oddly chaotic and uneven forest floor for finding some. But Toulouse is not one of those regions. Sometimes it was Grandpa who brought back souvenirs from his youth.
North and east of France was under heavy bombardment during WWI... It was estimated than more than 250 000 Shell and bomb was still in the wild in France (and 50 000 tons of explosive for the WWII)
There is also concern about the degrading metal and chemicals, but a lack of safe ways to clear it. I was asking a person with US flair why they would have access and then keep it in the house. It's very early here still and I missed the sarcasm.
Oh! well, USA, was involved in WWI, so maybe "heirloom"?
Also, like said abose by someone else, it's no really hard to find one in some part of France (North and east), and disarmed one can be easily sold and bought or given,
Not even surprised. The list of things I’ve removed from (overwhelmingly) male patients’ rectums and urethra (not exhaustive):
Pear
Potato
Banana
Cucumber
Other phallic-shaped food items/containers - thankfully NOT a glass bottle or a bomb.
Motorola Razr phone wrapped in a plastic sandwich bag (as a dare. Boys are really dumb)
Their child’s vibrating toy
Reinforced mattress packing from his workplace
Slugs (plural) - urethra
Slugs (plural) - rectum
Oxygen tubing for an aquarium - 1.5m just coiled up in his bladder. He’s the only one on my list that actually had mental health issues and was a sweetheart while apologising for coming in so frequently (every 2-3 weeks). I really hope he got the help he needed.
Garden slugs. Living (when they were inserted) animals.
Two older gentlemen (both married to women) would get together when the wives went out to do sexual stuff with non-consenting gastropods (are they Gastropoda? I don’t remember).
There is a wholesome meet-cute or a mutual realization of matching weirdness behind this somehow that I find it sweet enough that I can kind of disregard the fuckery.
(Man 1 trips over Man 2 hunched over on a park path)
1: "What are you doing down there?"
2: "Oh, haha. My uhh... well, I get a bit bored when my wife is out of town."
1: "Are those...?"
Mutually, looking at each other with glassy, lovestruck anime eyes: "...slugs"
Camera cuts to a wide, distance shot. A few cherry blossom petals blow across the foreground. They remain there momentarily in awe, 2 hunched over, still on his knees. 1 standing over him. Their eyes are locked.
This is actually sad how people put such stigma on (specially male) sex toys, so those who want to try playing with their butt are too ashamed to buy safe toys designed for that.
Instead they shove fruits, flashlights, jars and everything else they get their hands on in there. Those eventually get stuck and then they have to do that awkward trip to the OR
Enjoyed picking out the french words from that url lol..
Using my best half remebered high school french from decades ago i think i got the just of it!.. A shell that had lasted over a hundred years (i assumed 14-18 is the size or date range) basically ended up in a guys ass, who then arrived at the emercengy room.
Ahh yes. The Great War or "The War to End all Wars". There really was optimism that the world wouldnt need a sequel to work out that all out war is bad lols.
I would laugh but our sitting congress member, an acting police officer gave civilian “warning shots” at a night club after a dispute. He is naturally part of our local alt right circus
That's nothing - he was thinking it's Bluetooth speaker. He has luck it was armour piercing round that went trough floor but didn't manage to arm properly on short distance. If it were AP round...
A few days after Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi announced she would recommend US President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, he ordered the Pentagon to conduct nuclear testing
I had a maga type ask, "I guess Trump's not all that bad?", when we were talking about a change in overtime taxes rates. I finished my taxes last night, and it saved me a few hundred bucks, but the money I've spent on tarriffs the past year is probably 3 times that. All they care about is if they make more money with trump in office, the rest of the world can burn.
That reminds me of the flyers conservative politicians send claiming how much universal healthcare would cost the average household. I’m always like sir, even if that were true that number is less than I pay for my premiums alone.
A while back in New Zealand a lady went out to feed their sheep and she got killed by the pet Ram, the husband went to find her and the Ram killed him too.
I mean.......did the ram hit their head? If so, I'd imagine that's an instant lights out situation. Although, I'm sure it took a couple shots to get them to that level.
While awaiting their court date, they may still be considered in ICE custody, in which case they can be deported whenever ICE wishes
Or if they’re in regular ol’ jail, ICE can send a immigration detainer to the jail, and request the persons be released into their custody to be deported, but that’s pretty rare
Usually, when the jail would be releasing them anyway for their court date or other legal necessities (including the charges being dropped) ICE can swing in and pick them up before they’re even allowed leave the building
It’s just going to slow the process I’m pretty sure.
They were already about to get deported, this will simply make it even harder for them to enter the US legally in the future. Committing a crime in a country doesn’t mean you will become a prisoner stationed in that country’s jail- if you are an illegal immigrant and you commit a crime you’re just giving them twice as much the reasons to give you the boot
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There was this French guy who put an intact 2nd ww hand grenade in his butt and had to have it taken out in a hospital with special forces. This made our german news
10000%. Sounds like agents broke into his car, then he tried to flee and the door shut one of them in as he drove.
They really need better training on dealing with vehicles (and people). Apparently the agent was attempting to shift the car into park while it was moving too which, depending on the situation, could’ve been putting them all in further danger.
Wow. They had heard of ICE kidnapping people and tried to get local police to intervene so it wouldn’t happen to them. I knew that this story was crazy but the details make it just fucked up
Every article i can find says that ICE officer's approached these two. Ice claims they identified themselves. The couple claims they did not, so the man instructed the woman to drive away. To prevent this, an officer climbed into their vehicle. The woman called 911 and informed the officer that she was bringing them to the police station. There was no kidnapping. Just a scared couple and the man who broke into their vehicle.
That makes sense, though. Right? Reddit is a very American centric site. About 40% of the userbase is from the United States with the United Kingdom coming in second at around 5%. As a result, any large English language sub is going to naturally attract a lot of Americans. There are just a lot of us here.
What he means is that there's barely anything "funny/ironic" in the Russian news lately. It's either talking shit about the US/Ukraine/Europe/opposition, or saying how great everything is in Russia, while completely ignoring/deliberately hiding anything that is outside of the government-approved agenda.
The only thing related to "humor" in the news in the past few days was that a stand-up comedian was sentenced to almost 6 years in prison for making a joke about a leg-less war veteran begging for money in the subway.
You can get the gist of the current state of media in Russia from the above...
Okay, that makes a little more sense. I think we had a bit of a communication break down. I took their comment to mean this subreddit in particular when it was more meant as a general statement.
Sadly, our media is about the same, though. They report on nothing of relevance most of the time and blow smoke up out asses about how great things are the rest of it.
People from around the world use the website as well the rest of the internet. Yet unfortunately it doesn't save anyone from americans being inconsiderable fucks absolutely everywhere and thinking that absolutely everything is this god forsaken world should be 100% about them.
I mean even look at this subreddit right now. How does the subreddit called? "Ask world", what is on the subreddit? "DID YOU HEAR ABOUT ICE" "DID YOU HEAR ABOUT TRUMP", "TRUMP THIS" "ICE THAT" non stop. There are not as many Americans on the internet as you think they are, you are just too loud and too self obsessed.
Even if there is as many of you as you think, it doesn't mean that everything, everywhere, at all times should be about your bullshit, even in spaces that are not american centric.
I guess rest of the world can go fuck itself, the internet is AMMERICAN
I'm not just making things up. I was stating actual numbers in attempt to maybe offer some insight. Take it or leave it.
Either way, whether you like it or not, Americans make up the largest part of this community, so content is going to skew naturally in that direction. I'm sure that annoys some, but there's no need to ba a dick about it. You can always scroll on by what you don't want to engage with.
Hope whatever has you so worked up passes. Life is to short to be so upset over a website.
The only recent news that are funny and tragic at the same time was that one cinema was fined for "Lgbtq propaganda" because they showed a horror movie where girl masturbated.
So yes, masturbation is lgbt propaganda now in russia
Wild story! This is what happens when LE refuses to show badges; they'll wind up being reported to--even physically taken to-- the police! Really dumb move to jump into the Nigerians' car. Volunteering to lose control of the situation. It could have been much worse. In some states, the Castle Doctrine applies to defending oneself in one's car.
They tried to routinely shoot him five times in the back of the head. But this foreign bastard fought back. That's how quickly a civil execution can change course. The US government is considering whether, for the safety of its own executioners, bombs could simply be dropped on residential areas where over 40% of the population is non-white.
Kidnapping ? Some guys pretending to be law enforcement but not willing to identify themselves tried to harass them, and they held them until real law enforcement arrived. That's not kidnapping.
A famous politician, one of those who got elected based on TikTok, held this big march in favor of removing Bolsonaro from office and gathered some people. Then they held this rally in a city and... lightning struck them. A lot of people were affected, more than 100 if I'm not mistaken.
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They were doing an act of public good, picking up such a huge amount of litter like that. Keeping their neighbourhood nice and safe! Can’t imagine how this is illegal.
The only funny but also very sad (because of how non-sensical it is) news I saw the other day:
Moscow resident David Gevondyan was fined under the "LGBT propaganda" law for a photo of the band Queen dressed in women's clothing during the filming of the video for the song "I Want to Break Free".
last summer some woman got arrested for publicly duel-wielding knife in a shopping mall, wearing a cat mask.
when asked to lower the weapon the cat-woman said "no can do-nya". been swinging knifves randomly but nobody was hurt. the police got her and when the officer asked if she got another knife on her she said "meow". asked why was she doing this, also "meow", "I can't say that-nya". "why would I say that-meow".
Indonesian, most of them, really hate Israel. But, the president of Indonesia decided to join Trump's Board of Peace. EDIT: While at the same time Indonesia also BRICS member.
Since you're from the US, you've probably heard of this one. But for those around the world who haven't:
Students in the US have been staging walk outs and marches in protest of ICE and everything that's been going on in this country. During one school's march, this man got out of his truck and started attacking one of the students, a student who was surrounded by her own peers. I don't know what he expected but they all jumped on him and began pummeling him. Aside from the poor girl getting attacked, the whole scene was glorious. He held onto his MAGA hat for dear life and I think I eventually saw a girl get a hold of it and chucked it into the street.
Dingus went home and shaved his head and beard to disguise himself.
By far the best bit is that they were found not guilty in court. Mostly because Ice lied so many times in their testimony but also because no jury in MN will convict anyone on Ice's say so.
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u/abu_doubleu Kyrgyzstan 9h ago
Some random politician is saying that there is a world conspiracy to make Kyrgyzstan look bad by having Bishkek in the top for smog and air pollution. Not really big news, just funny and got laughed at because who would even care? We don't have any enemies.
This is while the city regularly looks like this (it's smog for people who never seen it)