Wobble-shop Benjo: ****-wool raked up out the half-rats Skilamalink fly-rink O' Baldric Eggling.

This thread will function as a kind of omnium gatherum for the melange of dissenting observations and opinions I have about MMA, MMA bouts and fighters, things I find humorous, and essentially any other thing. Why? Because sewage warrants proper curation as much as anything else. Arguably more.

Toshers and specklebellies welcome. No mutton-shunters, namby-pambys or needy-mizzlers. Pull up a stool and smother the parrot.

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It's very simple. Label Winston a terrorist by the state

That word use to mean something. Now corrupt governments use to for any enemy or anyone they hate

That rat cage I think traumatized me when I 1st read that book. Savage way to die

Instead of the rat cage his fragile masculinity will be questioned 

@Chris Rat torture was a thing in the middle ages. Bad way to go, but 'the boats' takes the cake for me.


https://historyofyesterday.com/rat-torture-bc17cf72400b

[The king] decreed that Mithridates should be put to death in boats; which execution is after the following manner: Taking two boats framed exactly to fit and answer each other, they lay down in one of them the malefactor that suffers, upon his back; then, covering it with the other, and so setting them together that the head, hands, and feet of him are left outside, and the rest of his body lies shut up within, they offer him food, and if he refuse to eat it, they force him to do it by pricking his eyes; then, after he has eaten, they drench him with a mixture of milk and honey, pouring it not only into his mouth, but all over his face. They then keep his face continually turned towards the sun; and it becomes completely covered up and hidden by the multitude of flies that settle on it. And as within the boats he does what those that eat and drink must needs do, creeping things and vermin spring out of the corruption and rottenness of the excrement, and these entering into the bowels of him, his body is consumed. When the man is manifestly dead, the uppermost boat being taken off, they find his flesh devoured, and swarms of such noisome creatures preying upon and, as it were, growing to his inwards. In this way Mithridates, after suffering for seventeen days, at last expired.

— Plutarch, Life of Artaxerxes[2]

Jussie Smollett has been convicted of faking his own hate crime.

That's a shame. Hope he doesn't beat himself up too much over it.







https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/09/jussie-smollett-found-guilty-faking-hate-crime-against-himself

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No takes backsies, Reverend.

Given the placement of the gun, he'll lose another valuable body part if he's not careful. 

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/takeaway-forced-refund-customer-who-22415114

A takeaway boss says he’s been forced to stop offering deliveries on Just Eat after a new scam emerged on the platform - which saw one of his customers refunded because they complained their ice cream was cold.

Hassan Habib, the man behind Lucky’s in Oldham, says he can no longer afford to use the platform after a spate of suspicious refunds on the site, costing him several hundred pounds each month.

He claims that the suspicious refunds started appearing more frequently after Just Eat changed their refund system to be more like their competitors at Uber Eats and Deliveroo, making it simpler for customers to get their money back if they were dissatisfied with the order.

https://apnews.com/article/oddities-health-travel-lifestyle-camels-b3e4d60991ce053d185cb8ed9cbbca74

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi authorities have conducted their biggest-ever crackdown on camel beauty contestants that received Botox injections and other artificial touch-ups, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported Wednesday, with over 40 camels disqualified from the annual pageant.

Saudi Arabia’s popular King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, which kicked off earlier this month, invites the breeders of the most beautiful camels to compete for some $66 million in prize money. Botox injections, face lifts and other cosmetic alterations to make the camels more attractive are strictly prohibited. Jurors decide the winner based on the shape of the camels’ heads, necks, humps, dress and postures.

Judges at the monthlong festival in the desert northeast of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, are escalating their clamp down on artificially enhanced camels, the official news agency reported, using “specialized and advanced” technology to detect tampering.

This year, authorities discovered dozens of breeders had stretched out the lips and noses of camels, used hormones to boost the beasts’ muscles, injected camels’ heads and lips with Botox to make them bigger, inflated body parts with rubber bands and used fillers to relax their faces.

“The club is keen to halt all acts of tampering and deception in the beautification of camels,” the SPA report said, adding organizers would “impose strict penalties on manipulators.”