Friday’s Conversation Topics
When you need something to say, to avoid inadvertently giving someone the silent treatment, you need to be prepared with something to talk about.
I present to you these news stories to discuss when the silence threatens.
Elderly Flasher Arrested
Because it’s not so funny when kit’s an old guy waving his dong at the neighborhood.
Man tries to rob an “Adult Accessories” store - get’s away with clothes instead
He won’t be feeding his kids but they might just be prepared for a wacky Halloween now.
Crickets that eat anything are invading the US
Because you need to identify these insects before the gnaw off your arm.
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This time around let’s “expose” some things that I’m sure you’ve seen before… hehehe…
Didn’t Ask? Don’t Share. Huffington Post
If you are under 30, have an online dating presence, and have ever opened the messages you receive online, you’ve probably encountered a d*ck pic before. It’s the infamous picture that resides in the deepest, darkest parts of a man’s phone, waiting to … (Editor: Even reviewing dating services as a straight man I’ve had d*ck pics sent to me. Why?)
8 Bizarre Social Networks You Won’t Believe Exist. Mashable
FarmersOnly.com is an online dating network that pairs rural-bred singles with other anti-city folk. Granted, you don’t need to operate a tractor to join — the website says “old fashioned, down-to-earth people” from small towns or rural areas are … (Editor: If you’re looking for love there’s always someone for you somewhere. Of course, My Free Implants kinda raises a flag.)
‘Pregnant & Dating’ TV show earns some snark. Fox News
They aren’t looking for sex and they’re not in need of baby daddies. It’s those two things that landed the singles ladies of “Pregnant & Dating” on reality TV to begin with. Five in all, the growing and glowing women in WE tv’s latest lineup play mini … (Editor: Never dated a pregnant woman by another man. Must be a very weird experience.)
Most Online Daters Are Seeking Serious Relationships, But Not on Facebook. LAPTOP Magazine (blog)
Don’t be so quick to frown upon Internet dating. The web is more than a breeding ground for causal encounters and fleeting flings, at least according to one recent survey. The folks over at relationship consulting website Your Tango report that the … (Editor: I knew it!)
Friday’s Conversation Topics
Tongue-tied when it’s your turn to say something interesting?
Read these news stories and you’ll have fun and interesting conversation topics at the ready.
With Halloween just passed we know these crime stories will be about.
- Subway worker throws pot of soup on would-be robber in ghost mask. A Subway sandwich worker hurled a pot of soup at a would-be armed robber wearing a ghost mask in Braidwood before chasing him away. Don’t they know to use the day-old bread instead?
- Weird Crime: If at first you don’t succeed, sober up before you try again. When Patricia pulled into the school parking lot at around 8:15 AM, she proceeded to ram her Hyundai into a parked Smart car….which is something that potentially could have happened without alcohol being a factor; Smart cars are hard to see (and look ridiculous enough to inspire unbridled rage in some). Unfortunately, Patricia then proceeded to back up and collide with the Smart car two more times before deciding that her parking job was satisfactory.
- Rebuilding time. I’d be amiss if I didn’t include a Hurricane Sandy storm today. With costs projected to be $20 billion to $50 billion to rebuild the hurrican proved, once again, that nothing stops Mother Nature. Pay particular attention to the videos and the images.
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Incredible. We are witnesses to history. Or to the biggest cat-fight the US political system has seen since Nixon. I’m pro health care, we all get sick and that part of life shouldn’t overly burden ourselves, our families and the public purse to the extent that is does today. And in other news:- A long weekend of movies. If you’re going to see a movie (or pirate download one) you should be in tune with what’s available. I like the comedy options, you will too! And Amazing Spider-man opens on July 3rd too!
- Creep shots are finding a home on Reddit. Not sure what that means, you probably don’t want to read the article or visit any of the links to creep shot images either. Thank goodness I warned you first, many links NSFW.
- As if you need another reason to protect your WiFi network you need to see the video linked from this article about the SWAT team that busts into a house looking for the anonymous poster of threats against the police. Not only in Indiana, people, this can happen anywhere!
- Anti-Semitic Elmo gets taken away for psychiatric evaluation, questioned about his rape fantasy website and more. Really, freedom of speech? I think the Sesame Street people have it right, they don’t approve. It’s time for the powers that be work harder to protect us from this type of character fraud, don’t you? Addendum: This story has nothing to do with the Sesame Street strip club.
There you go, talk it up this weekend!
Friday’s Conversation Topics
You’d like to know things so you can talk about things. Because having nothing to talk about is just dead air, isn’t it? As well as lost opportunities too. Read my best picks from the news this past week and have something to talk about.
8 ways to clean windows. Oddly enough W thought there was just one way and that is to call someone that knows 8 ways to clean windows. OK, so maybe this is the second-to-last thing you want to talk about, the last being about Octomom as a stripper! UPDATE: No stripper gig, just porn for Suleman.
The latest edition of criminals being idiots on Facebook. You gotta love (hate!) how tech involves everyday criminals with the everyday life of the legal system.
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News articles of interest that you may have missed this past week. We all need help having something to talk about, right? Read these and you’ll be better prepared for that sudden conversation and being able to avoid those awkward pauses.
- The missing Mega-Millions ticket. She says she won, but not with the group of people she was buying lottery tickets with/for, but her own personal ticket. Now she says she “lost” the ticket. I can guess that lawsuits are on the way, whichever turns up first: the truth to her lies or the ticket’s non-existence.
- Pop star Keri Hilton shows off her boobs. Another wardrobe malfunction? LOL. Article with pics.
- First Date Advice from Glamour and Cosmo. I can always use some great first date tips and these 5 are certainly worth reading.
- Man informs police about speeders near his house. Do you see this one coming? Yup, the next day he gets a speeding ticket. If you’re going to throw sticks and stones make certain they’re not rubber and will bounce back on top of you. LOL
- “I buy everything your field office can’t afford,” the employee raps in the video. “I’ll never be under OIG investigation.” Famous last words, er, video, as the OIG goes after GSA heads following revelations of a swanky $820k Las Vegas convention/party. With video… toss them all to the wolves, I say!
Have a great weekend!
Friday’s Conversation Topics
News that you might have missed this past week that makes for great conversations…
Even if this is just my idea of things to talk about.
I mean, it’s hard to figure some people out so you have to just keep talking until they open up.
But what you say is just as important as how you say it, so speak clearly and carefully.
And start with some fun conversation topics like:
- The Big Internet Names Sued For Privacy Violations. Now, I know as well as you do that in this free-styling-information-sharing-world the most important identity is our own. The question is “How much of ourselves do we sign over to social networking sites, email services, etc.?” Do you think this lawsuit filed this week has merit? You’ll notice I’m not using any names here, I’ll let the article speak for itself. Certainly a must read for all of us, if only for enlightenment.
- 3 Child Shootings in 1 Week in Western Washington State. I don’t know what I’m scared of more, the access children have to guns or the fact that they’re so many guns apparently just lying around. Something has to be done and if it means the mother and her boyfriend spend 5 years in jail than so be it. That’ll make for great encouragement for parents to lock up their weapons, or at the very least, if you’re a convicted felon, don’t have any guns at all.
- This is so gross all I’m going to say is that it’s so gross. — Then there’s just stupid.
- Why she wants to get out of her bra. No, not because of you, dude, because 8 out of 10 women say they never fit well. Dammit. With bonus pics of young woman in various bras and panties. Ok, it’s worth a look at the article at least.
- You can’t make this stuff up!” 30 minutes later plumber gets kingsnake out of toilet. Clorox Greenworks failed this test… LOL
Have a great weekend!
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We have entered that special time of year, that usually shows us consumerism at its highest demand and honesty at its lowest.Yes, I watch the stock market and at this time of the year there is often a few weird selling patterns that appear consisting of the everyday man-woman-investor cashing in to pay the anticipated bills of the season.
I’m not talking just cash for gift buying. Business people need cash (liquidity) for the new calendar year, parents need to pay the bills for the upcoming school semester. Hell, maybe a guy plans for a very special Valentine’s Day to be pre-paid after the big marriage proposal surprise on Christmas Eve (I did that one).
Sadly, the world markets are out of control, real investor values are all over the board and that doesn’t include the run on the stock market still to come, knocking of hundreds from the stock market indexes in what are normally slow, almost no ripple trading sessions until after the new year.
And all of this leads up to the stories you need to know about so you have some awesome current events to share at the dreaded office party or that lonely corner bar stool tonight. Read and enjoy, here we go!
- Too sexy for that veggie. An Islamic cleric living in Europe reportedly has warned Muslim women not to get too close to bananas, cucumbers or other produce — to avoid having “sexual thoughts.” Hahahahaha ho. Gotta wonder which “western video” sent this cleric holy man onto this particular line of thought. I know it’s not the same guy that said women shouldn’t drive because it may affect their virginity.
- “I never intended to break the rules.” For a final payout of $12.1 million dollars I wouldn’t know too much about my bankrupt company either. Just saying….
- This is the guy in the running for Last Place Criminal Dufus of the yYear. There’s a video, below, too. But essentially dude snoops on his girlfriend’s teen daughter’s phone, found a nude pick of her and sexted the picture to almost 40 of her contacts to “teach her a lesson”. I can only guess that a couple of the kids might say the photo is old news but this guy has a fun time in store for the holidays and I hope he remembers his “soap on a rope”.
- Where would we be without a heart-fely gift shopping story? Right here is the answer. Dude with a .322 blood alcohol level is arrested for trying to steal 2 big screen TVs from Wal-Mart while he’s wearing the same coat he stole two days earlier from said store. They never said if it was the booze or the greed that gave him away. Too bad, one of those TVs was supposed to be my holiday gift!
- This will not be abused because it’s lobbyists and politicians making gift giving rules for lobbyists and politicians to receive gifts from one and another in time to give and receive this holiday season. Albeit belatedly because the new rules start January 1, 2012. State lawmakers and city council members can accept expensive gifts from lobbyists without disclosure if they are dating, and can receive meals and lodging in lobbyists’ homes without telling the public, under rules approved Thursday by the state ethics agency.
I told you it was a special time of year.
Note: Photo of Ganna A. by Antonio Clemens at Met-Art.
Friday’s Best “Pick-up” Conversation Topics
It’s been a wild ride of a week. On a personal note I had a very big health scare with being diagnosed with a suspected liver cancer. Fortunately the results of an MRI scan came back and showed no cancer there. I have been living on cloud nine since then and really want this feeling to continue. Let’s let the good news continue! Read on.
- So there’s this lab in Japan that invents a kissing machine that allows two people to simulate kissing each other over the internet. I’m not really surprised by this, not really, because I remember a news story from years ago how the porn industry was reported to have created a usb vagina, and I’ll leave it’s use to your imagination.
- If you’re still not completely out of your winter den then you’ve likely change channels to check out “The Voice” which is quite lame, I think, and Randy Jackson agrees with me. And could there have been a bigger disappointment in the season finale of “Fringe”. Seriously, what is going on with this show? Have they given up on a storyline and just decided to give the writers tons of beers to come up with lines for the actors to say?
- Sony and the PlayStation Network totally screwed more that the 77 million people that have used the system and we’re still waiting for all the details to come out. Despite the hack attack what exactly is being done now to protect users? I know that I’m trembling every time I check my credit card balances online and because of the network outage I’ve had kids suffering video game withdrawal that no amount of money can possibly repay me for.
- Some day’s it’s gratifying to see people in worse situations that yourself, so here’s a bunch of losers you can laugh at, 15 booking photos courtesy of The Smoking Gun.
- We all know that some teens are incredibly stupid, but having sex at a party in front of 15 other teens and having the act video recorded and shared among other students at a high school? The charges haven’t been announced yet but I’m sure they will do more that going to bed without dessert.
Favorites: Dating Profile Headline of the Day
My favorite kind of cookie
Chocolate chip cookies are my favorites. Not too many people actually care about this fact of mine, but when you have an awkward conversational pause you should have a backup factoid to talk about.
Cookies are relatively safe, everyone has a favorite, they don’t cross into the taboo areas of religion and politics so you can talk about cookies until someone comes along to save the conversation by changing the topic as soon as possible.
My point here is to have a backup conversation topic ready and practiced that everyone can relate too and everyone (if they’re still standing nearby) can offer some input. It’s not easy. Avoiding topics in politics and religion (and maybe your boring work search) that as long as your prepared you’ll do jut fine.
But without preparation I can almost guarantee that it’s my cookies you’ll be talking about sooner or later.
But I digress, it’s a dating profile headline your here to get and I have it for you here:
“The best people eat chocolate chips cookies.”
Have a great day!
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Another week, another few days of wackiness and newsworthy stories. It’s all about what I have and what you want this week. You’re going to want to talk about these news stories. Really! Read on.
- “I know the law”… and now this Spanish lady owns the sun. It’s amazing what the power of a notary public is and I have to wonder what Angeles Duran is going to charge us for using the sun. This is a great entrepreneurial job, don’t you think? Hmmm…
- It’s a good probability that your computer is already fingerprinted (that is, cataloged by each device’s unique combination of hardware, software and installed fonts) and you’re being tracked more intricately that ever before. David Norris’s company BlueCava has already fingerprinted 200 million internet devices and expects to have more than 1 billion devices fingerprinted and trackable for online advertisers by the end of 2011. It’s going to be very hard to use any internet-enabled device and not be followed online soon, if not already.
- Yes, I said he has a camera in the back of his head. Hey, everyone wants to be known as “the first” and academia being what it is these days, if you can’t impress one way, go farther than anyone else and make your mark with a camera in the back of your head. yes, this article includes a video to sate your curiosity and give you even more to talk about. “The thumb-sized camera is mounted on a titanium plate inserted inside the back of his head” Professor Wafaa Bilal said. Once the camera is broadcasting via a computer Professor Bilal carries with him you’ll be able to view the pictures at www.3rdi.me.
- In these hard times there’s always a story of a guy, somewhere, augmenting his income in a less-than-lawful way. Mr. Gumbs, while working at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, managed to order a few extra toner cartidges and (possibly but this has yet to be proven in court) sold them on some ink-black-market. Well, maybe a little more than a few, maybe more like $3.4 million dollars of excess (and still missing) toner purchased since 2004 that never made it into the hospital’s supply system. Of course, a lot of the ink didn’t even fit any of the printers that are in use at Sloan-Kettering. I guess this was a “great job” for a while…
Have a great week!
