Inside the Asylum

Thanks to Lentz for pointing out this Polar Bear video. It's from "Planestupid.com" who appear to be a bunch of typical global warming scare-mongers trying to tell us that plane travel is bad (even as they jet off to Copenhagen to try to generate more money-making hysteria) ... but they've produced a priceless gem that really just goes to show that the people who made the video are indeed just plain stupid.

As one person commented over at Youtube,

So if the planet warms itself more it will rain polar bears? Sweet! I want me a rug and a polar bear jacket!

Yep, apparently polar bears will fall from the sky and crush your car if you fly in a plane. Personally I blame the the PBSG (Polar Bear Specialist Group). I kid you not ... there really is such a group, and they meet on a regular basis despite all of the plane travel involved.

The 15th meeting of the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG), hosted by the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, was held at the Greenland Representation in Copenhagen Denmark , June 29-July 3, 2009. The Polar Bear Specialist Group is composed of researchers and managers representing each of the five circumpolar nations that signed the International Agreement for the Conservation of Polar Bears of 1973. Since the late 1960s, the members of PBSG have met every 3 to 5 years

At their last meeting there were 21 specialists present. If that's an average, and they've met 15 times, they've managed to kill 315 polar bears so far. Or something. Actually, if they could arrange to meet in some starving area of Africa, they could solve world hunger. I imagine all of that bear meat would save a good many villagers in times of drought.
[Update] Here are a bunch more funny bear youtube clips. Enjoy.

I finally found out what is cosplay. I've kept hearing the word, usually in context of some Asians (mostly Chinese, Koreans, Japanese) dressed up in pretty weird ways (blue hair, elf ears, swords, etc.) I thought cosplay was one of those multiplayer reality games, like Second Life. Only today did I finally discover what the word means. "Costume Play" = Cosplay. It's where people try to transfer their online characters (or avatars) into the real world, and try to look exactly like them, even when they have pretty odd attributes, like cat ears. In other words, people go online and create virtual avatars as fantasy characters, and they live alternate lives online ... and then those avatars cross back into the real world. It sounds like some kind of Steven King horror story rather than real life... but it seems to be pretty popular, especially in East Asia.

Lots of images at cosplay.com or you can watch the thing below.
The following clip from Youtube isn't porn, even though the screen shot kind of gives that impression!

The California Milk Advisory Board plans to make a pile of advertisements for Californian milk. In New Zealand. I have nothing further to add.

While reading KCNA for the previous post, I came across this other news item:

Nano Silver Antimicrobial Solution Applied

It sounded weird enough for another post, so I read on.

Nano silver antimicrobial solution developed by the Biology Branch under the State Academy of Sciences has been widely used in various units. The solution is efficacious for treating urinary diseases including cystitis, various female disorders, dermatosis and cacostomia. It is also a good remedy for burn and trauma infection. It can be used with other medicines and the proper cycle of use increases its pharmacological effect several times. The nano silver antimicrobial solution has been applied to purifying water and producing foodstuffs, cosmetics and other goods as additive, profusely paying off.

Yep, all that hard work by North Korean scientists has sure paid off. It seems there's nothing that Nano Silver can't do. Initially I thought it was just more North Korean oddness, but on the off-chance, I did a google search for "nano silver" to see if it actually exists. And it does! It's a trademark name of a product introduced by Samsung in 2003, used for anti-bacterial effects in various white goods, air conditioners etc. So it seems that it's not so much a wonder product of North Korean research, as a wonder product of North Korean espionage, or to be charitable, reverse engineering.

Following one of the semi-regular naval clashes in the Yellow Sea (or West Sea, as the Koreans call it), North Korean KCNA issues the following statement, defying the South to say it in one breath:

The rash action perpetrated by them, firing thousands of bullets and shells with several warships involved at a time was a premeditated action of the rightwing conservative forces and bellicose military group of the south side to stem the trend of the situation on the Korean Peninsula which has shown a sign of detente through the third skirmish in the West Sea.

So there.

Speaking of which, I have an exercise for you. Go to Google Maps and do a search for Korea. You'll learn that it's just to the east of Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. I kid you not, and south of Bangor, which last I heard was in Wales. It's to the west of Twentysix. There's a place called Twentysix? I guess I wasn't paying attention in geography class. It's probably another anti-North Korean capitalist plot. I wonder what the random North Korean insult generator has to say on the matter?

You politically illiterate political dwarf!

Yep, that about covers it.

Those filthy disease ridden primates (homo sapiens) having been spreading pestilence left right and center. First they infect poor innocent pigs, and now a cat has caught swine flu. In Egypt they slaughtered the entire pig population because they were afraid they'd spread swine flu (with a bunch of unforeseen consequences which shows they didn't listen to Heinlein's warning about the dangers of indiscriminately killing hogs (and dragons)). When everyone was worried about Chicken Flu, they slaughtered two million chickens in Holland at least 1.4 million in Hong Kong, plus at least 80,000 in India, another 35,000 in England and who knows how many world-wide? Well, now those dirty primates have started spreading a flu virus across species, what are we going to do about it? Filthy creatures.

OK, I admit that this is partly an excuse to post another clip of hot Lebanese singer Haife Wehbe, but that doesn't make it any less amazing. While filming this music video, a plane was supposed to fly low over the top of the car she was driving. It flew a bit too low, and actually hit her vehicle. They mixed the real collision into the video, as viewed from an in-car camera. Stunning!

It's nice to have KCNA back. They didn't go away, so much, as just get remarkably tame and (astoundingly) even sometimes a bit conciliatory. Today, we got to see a bit of vintage North Korean weirdness. The North Koreans warned

The U.S. and its “allies” had better cogitate, mindful of the grave consequences to be entailed by their reckless military actions.

It's good to have old friends back, even if they are grumpy old friends stuck in the 1950s.

The U.S. is hell bent on reinforcing the military alliance with Japan and south Korea, labeling the DPRK "an unstable factor," but this is nothing but sophism to cover up the criminal nature of its Asia strategy for domination. The U.S. revealed its scenario to militarily stifle the DPRK by putting forward Japan and south Korea as its shock brigade.

Thank goodness. I was starting to worry that this sea of weirdness for my blog posts had stopped being funny.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled that aliens (from other planets) are not "human" and therefore have no standing in court, as only a "human being" or "corporation" may bring an action. Specifically, a Martian has no standing in court, and therefore cannot sue another party. Wow. Now would be a very bad time for us to make first contact. Close down SETI, and whatever you do, don't tell the Vulcans! (Via Instapundit)

For all you perverts out there who were titillated by my recent post about the Tease and Wash topless car wash in Singapore, I found a video clip of a similar service. Enjoy.

OK, OK, perverts, this time it's for real. Apparently it's legal in the state of New York to go topless. There's even an annual event to make some sort of statement about going topless. The guy reporting on the story concludes,

"So what was accomplished here? Ummm. Something? Anyway, it was the best assignment I've ever had."

Apparently "Nubian monkey" is a highly offensive racist slur. Or so lawyers are claiming in their suit in Egypt against Lebanese singer Haifa Wehbe.

The song ‘Baba feen’ – which translates to ‘where is dad’ – was found to be extremely offensive, said the lawyers in their petition. So much so that Nubian children have stopped attending their classes at school because their classmates would mock them as ‘Nubian monkey’s’, said the lawyers.

I think the following is the song, but since I don't know the language, I can't guarantee it. It's actually pretty cute, and the clip can easily be understood by any parent with small children who keep getting up in the night. I presume that at some point that kid's momma calls him a "Nubian monkey" for waking her up. Maybe? Heck, I call my kid "monkey" all the time. I had no idea I was being so racist (against monkeys?) Oh, and Haifa Wehbe is seriously hot.

It's the latest in consumer services in Singapore, called Tease and Wash:

Allow yourselves to be "teased and titilated" while your vehicle gets a good rub down.

Basically, you sit in your car while girls clean it, eventually ending up in nothing but bikini bottoms and heels (the girls, not the car).

It's caused a bit of a stink. Apparently a 19 year old girl from China participated, and her school recognized her in the online promotion, and expelled her just short of graduation. For reasons I can't imagine, this story has attracted a lot of attention, being reported as far away as India.

Honestly, I was just trying to get my car washed.

[Update] More details here, including, *cough* images. But they're censored, so there are no naughty bits in sight, you perverts. I have to say that the blog owner doesn't seem to respect his vehicle, with a comment like this:

They wash car Clean anot?? DOES IT REALLY MATTERS?!!! DOES IT??!!!! KAKAKA!!!!

Gulf news reports on a new comic book featuing 99 Islamic Superheroes. Shown below we have

Dana Ebrahim (Noora the Light), HOME COUNTRY: UAE, POWERS: Allow her to create realistic holograms, see the good and evil inside of people and even levitate!

But they left off her most impressive power: the ability to appear in public in Islamic countries wearing pants with her hair uncovered. Truly, she must be a formidable superhero. Oddly, another superhero called Samda The Invulnerable can't be all that invulnerable, because she does have to wear a headscarf. As for superhero Widad from the Philippines (also with hair revealed), they don't quite spell out what her power is, but she's called Widad the Loving...

There's a racially mixed girl. She's half African, and half Chinese. Shock! Wow, isn't that interesting! Ummm, no, not really ... if you live in the West, the response might be a raised eyebrow, and an "oh, OK then" ... but in China, she's big news. Still, there are some interesting aspects to the story.

It was half a year into her marriage, that Lou Jing’s mom attended the university, had sexual relationship with a black man, and conceived Lou Jing... Lou Jing’s mom, out of false hopes that nobody would notice and that she could get away with this, decided not to abort the baby. Nobody knew what the husband thought. But he tried to defend his wife, telling everyone that his wife took too much Chinese medicine while she was pregnant (to ensure the fetus’s health), and this caused the baby to have black skin.

Chinese medicine, eh? As I said, in the West, this story would be nothing out of the ordinary. In China, it's a hot topic.

Seagulls can get really big in Australia, but I have to admit, I've never seen one quite this big. Run for the lives!

Particularly with regards to the last one, has it ever occurred to you that cockroaches might be alien space probes? It would certainly explain why they're so indestructible! Speaking of which, here's a cockroach controlled robot. ***Shudder***

The Japanese sure are a funny lot:

They have sprung up across the nation in entertainment districts. And the service they tout--having one's ears cleaned while resting one's head on a woman's lap--might seem to suggest other favors awaiting those willing to pay. But operators of so-called ear-cleaning salons insist they are not fuzoku, or sex-related businesses, despite the intimate setting they provide customers... this reporter--a 35-year-old married man--[decided] to try to find out what kind of magical soothing effect the "therapy" entails. No sooner had I made myself at home in the tiny cubicle at the Sakura salon in Nagoya's Sakae district, about the size of a three-tatami-mat room, the female employee dressed in a dark blue yukata whispered softly as she applied the ear cleaner to my earlobe. "You must be tired, your work being so unpredictable, no?" the woman, 28, said, as my other ear rested comfortably in the soft warmth of the woman's lap... "The customers are not coming to seek expert ear cleaning services, but seeking some form of mental satisfaction," the operator said.

Actually I can kind of see the appeal. I guess that makes me a bit odd too.

First, there was a Manga version of Marx's Das Kapital, and now, there's a Manga version of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Whatever next?
[Update] Of course ... it's got to be everyone's favorite political philosopher Mao! Manga Marx, Manga Mein Kampf, and Manga Mao ... it certainly seems to fit.