English Blokes Think It's Weird that Tourists Assume The Main Road off an Island Doesn't Flood During High Tide

BBC - A lifeboat volunteer says it is "quite bizarre" that tourists continue to try to drive on a tidal causeway outside safe crossing times. It follows the rescue of an Australian couple who became stranded on the Holy Island causeway, off Northumberland. That rescue was the eighth Seahouses RNLI crew has carried out this year. Ian Clayton, from the Seahouses station said: "It's incredible that people seem to think they can drive their cars into the North Sea."  Ian Clayton said: "It's all so preventable. "None of those who are caught out are locals, it's always people who are visiting the area.  "They all seem to think it's not their fault, but they've totally ignored warning signs on both sides of the road. "It's quite bizarre."

Yea, I'd say its bizarre. And You can't go blaming this one on GPS' or confused tourists, that's for sure.  This one falls squarely on your lazy asses. I couldn't agree more that this is completely preventable.  It's called building a suitable road that's higher than the ocean.  Who's bright idea was this in the first place? Building a road that disappears for 5-6 hours at time? That's absolutely insane.

Oh sure, build a sign but don't fix the road.

How are the people on this island ok with this? No big protests for basic human rights like accessible roads and streets that don't have a bloody curfew?

KInda makes the situation going on in Northern Africa and the Mid-East look a little silly.  I mean here these guys are all up in arms about basic needs like food, right to work, government stuff, meanwhile they're all just taking for granted that they have roads that don't flood every 6 hours.  Kind of puts it all in perspective. 

3,000 Irish People Attempt to Set Where's Waldo Record

They have hipsters in Ireland

Metro - What a bunch of Wallys - over 3,500 people dressed in striped red and white costumes amassed in Merrion Square in Dublin in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most Wallys. Despite the type of weather that would call for warm winter coats, thousands of people – kids included – took to the streets in outfits identical to the children's book character, with stripey hats, tops and black rimmed spectacles. This year they urged people to come dressed up in Where's Wally? outfits at three locations in Ireland over two weekends to break the record for the largest gathering of people dressed as the Where's Wally much-loved cartoon character. In the book, dozens of people are captured in a certain situation and the reader's task is to find Wally among the crowd. He is more commonly known as Where's Waldo in America and Canada, as well as a number of other names around the world.

Hate to break it to the Irish, but they just set a non-existent record here.  Who the fuck is Wally? It's Waldo, get it right Dublin.  This isn't one of those cases where you're just being pompous dicks about  your language flouting how you invented the language either, spelling things like "shoppe" , and "olde."  It's the guys name. It's Waldo, not Wally.  

Wally doesn't even make sense. No one in history has ever wondered where Wally was. Who would care? Waldo, that's an intriguing guy, someone  you want to hang out with and find out what he's up to.  Wally? Nope, kind of sounds like a free loading friend, bumming free drinks and asking for a few bucks all the time.  Absolute deadbeat.

And second of all here, wouldn't the previous world record for Waldo's in one place have been 1? Kind of the point of the game, there was 1 per page.  So it stands to reason that two average blokes could've gotten together in their ambiguously gay, red and white hipster outfits and set this record on their own.  No need to drag 3k Irish people away from their regularly scheduled bar stool for this non-record.

Chad Pennington Sitting out of the NFL for One Year...Umm Chad, You Heard About the Lockout, Right?

Chad after a lengthy autograph session.

ESPN - Scratch Chad Pennington as an option for the Miami Dolphins' -- or anybody else's -- quarterback depth chart next season.  Pennington told the Charleston Daily Mail he plans to skip the 2011 season while he recovers from shoulder and knee injuries and will work for Fox Sports as an analyst. The two-time NFL Comeback Player of the Year, who will turn 35 next weekend, said he might consider returning to the field in 2012. "I'm actually going to take this year off, get healthy and do some work for Fox Sports," Pennington told the West Virginia newspaper. "I'm going to evaluate things and see where I am physically." He signed a one-year contract with Fox Sports and will be paired with Sam Rosen, the Miami Herald reported. Pennington suffered another major injury to his throwing shoulder a few snaps into his lone Dolphins start last season. He tore a knee ligament while playing a pickup basketball game in March.

Newsflash to Chad, the whole freaken league is about to take the next year off bro.  I don't know if Fox is planning on showing Arena Football or something, but you might want to check on the status of that job.

And this is aside the point that 35 year old qb's with no contract, with an udon noodle for an arm and more surgeries than td passes in the past few years, don't really need to announce that they're taking a year off.  Not exactly a line of GM's beating down your door for your services I'd imagine. 

I can never understand why athletes take this path.  You're not fooling anyone, its forced retirement, you're washed up.  Instead of acting so ignorant, how about just taking the high road. Just announce your retirement like a man. You'll get a few congratulations, some applause and then you can move on, rather than allowing people like myself to mock and laugh at you.

21 Year Old Pees in Town Reservoir, Spares Town from Drinking Water Tainted with Dead Animals...Hero

Portland officials say a 21-year-old man admitted urinating in a Mt. Tabor reservoir early Wednesday, forcing the city to take a key water supply off line. Police responded but did not cite the man or his friends. Video surveillance and reports written by police and the Portland Water Bureau will be submitted to the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office for possible criminal charges. "It'll kind of depend on what the surveillance video shows," said Sgt. Pete Simpson, a police spokesman. "He's not out of the water yet." Covering Portland's open-air reservoirs has been a politically charged topic in recent years and the Water Bureau is working to comply with federal regulations. Last month the Portland City Council approved an $80 million contract to build a new reservoir  at Powell Butte that will eventually help mitigate closing open-air storage at Mt. Tabor.  David Shaff, administrator for the Water Bureau, said about 7.8 million gallons of drinking water will be discarded because of the incident. He originally said that will cost the bureau about $600,000 in lost revenue but later clarified that his math was very wrong, and that the water would have sold for a retail price of almost $28,500, and disposal fees are expected at about $7,600.  Shaff said the Water Bureau regularly finds dead animals in the same drinking supply but doesn't dump the water. "This is different," he said.  "Do you want to drink pee?" he asked bluntly.  When questioned about scientific data and the small amount of urine in such a large reservoir, he interjected: "Answer the question. It has nothing to do with scientifically. "Most people," he added, "are gonna be pretty damn squeamish about that."  

While Portland officials are off trying to figure out whether or not to bring charges against this 21 year old kid, I've got a word to describe him, Hero. That's right, a hero. Because correct me if I'm wrong here, but apparently if this kid hadn't had the courage to drunkenly piss into the towns retardedly outdated open air reservoir, the good citizens of Portland would still be drinking animal carcass infested water today. 

Fucking gross.  You know what else people may be squeamish about David Shaff? Drinking water with dead racoons, rabies, and aborted squirrel fetuses floating about in it. Just because they didn't know about it until now doesn't mean its not disgusting as hell.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of drinking some kids piss either, but I gotta say, that sounds like the least of your worries here.  I mean do you not treat the water at all? It just collects in a cement recepticle and gets distributed right to the peoples homes? What century are you living in?  The Roman aquedeuct system was more advanced than this...And I'm pretty sure they didn't drink water infested with animals and rat feces...you know fear of the plague, shit like that. 

Wake Up: Women Speaking Out of Place

Air conditioning outside, ladies and gentleman. Big, outdoor air conditioners on the breakdown lanes of highways is the global warming answer.

Poor girl, sshhhh. I know you've put a ton of time thinking about this, thought about it a lot and all, but rest assured Al Gore and his guys got this one covered. Do us a favor, leave the real thinking to the men and we'll figure everything out, ummkay?

You can stick to thinking about things like does this handbag match my halter-top, how much to tip your Korean nail salon lady, and keeping track of your birth control schedule...pay particular attention to that last one, the world isn't ready for you to procreate.