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All the weird shit that happened in 2018 (non Trump edition)

Bronx-Man

Bronx-Man

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Oct 25, 2017
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Just list all the surreal, batshit insane news and headlines you can remember from this hellfire of a year.

I'll start: A Thai youth soccer team got trapped in an underwater cave for 18 days but were then saved. Elon Musk went on twitter to call the rescuer a pedophile.
 
Strangelove_77

Strangelove_77

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Oct 25, 2017
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Can we exclude Trump shit? Otherwise it's going to be 90% Trump shit.
 
collige

collige

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Oct 31, 2017
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The Grimes/Elon Musk/Banks/LSD shit has to be #1 for me

The Soulja Boy game console and Neckst Up are up there too. Also, Cardi and Nicki Minaj bringing their beef to the NY Gubernatorial Democratic primary.
 
AnansiThePersona

AnansiThePersona

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Oct 27, 2017
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That time they found sarcophagus juice in an ancient Egyptian tomb and everyone wanted to drink it
 
cognizant

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Dec 19, 2017
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There some weird Kanye shit, but a lot of it revolved around Trump, so can't count that I guess!

Elon Musk shot a car into space for no good reason.

KFC shut down for a week in the UK. That was pretty bad times, but we've since recovered.
 
Forerunner

Forerunner

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Oct 30, 2017
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ayy lmao
 
Keywork

Keywork

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Oct 25, 2017
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A Flat-Earther built a rocket to prove the Earth is flat, but only went 1900 feet into the air.

Elon Musk smoked weed on a podcast and threw his companies into chaos for a few days because of it.

Seals are snorting eels in Hawaii because they are teenagers.
 
AnansiThePersona

AnansiThePersona

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IHOP became IHOB for a month and the fast food Twitter accounts were memeing about it
 
Burly

Burly

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Oct 25, 2017
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They released a ~3 hour video game with +45 mins of dialogue, with the audio intentionally missing.
 
Rika

Rika

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Oct 30, 2017
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USA
One mind-blowing thing

https://www.yahoo.com/news/miracle-...s-signed-organ-donation-papers-075038215.html -
After a dune buggy accident, 13-year-old Alabama native Trenton McKinley was pronounced brain dead. However, after being brain dead for days, just as his parents were preparing to donate his organs, the teen miraculously began moving his extremities. Even more impressive, following three brain surgeries, McKinley is talking, reading, and even walking again, just two months after his near-fatal accident.
 
Lkr

Lkr

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Oct 28, 2017
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Bronx-Man said:
Just list all the surreal, batshit insane news and headlines you can remember from this hellfire of a year.

I'll start: A Thai youth soccer team got trapped in an underwater cave for 18 days but were then saved. Elon Musk went on twitter to call the rescuer a pedophile.
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I forgot about that. Truly everything about that story was amazing, from the happy ending to Musk having a weird, almost comedic meltdown.

Urban Meyer admitted he couldn't remember if one of his assistants was engaged in domestic abuse, for years, because his medication causes him to not remember everything clearly. Urban has a history of using medical excuses to get himself out of tricky situations. Now the guy is retiring and is being "promoted" to assistant AD. He doesn't remember anything but can fall into promotions.
 
Okabe

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Aug 24, 2018
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Definitely one of the more weirder things was the whole huge Grape thing.


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Deleted member 48897

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Oct 22, 2018
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Don't forget about the time that a guy got fired from a major games writing site for plagiarising opinions. How the fuck do you manage to not have an opinion on a thing.
 
Opto

Opto

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Oct 28, 2017
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Japanese Minister of Cyber Security doesn't use computers.

Live action Cowboy Bebop actually happening and is going to be racially diverse.

Edit: Tumblr banned porn because it wants to die
 
KillstealWolf

KillstealWolf

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Oct 27, 2017
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A Spyro the dragon Drone flew all the way across America to Snopp Dogg to advertise Spyro Reignited Trilogy.

Said Drone can also breathe fire.

 

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Oct 22, 2018
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Speaking of drones, there may or may not have been a drone at a UK airport the other day; this caused intentional grounding of all flights in/out for hours
 
spam musubi

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Oct 25, 2017
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Saudi Arabia slaughtered a journalist in an embassy in Turkey then put out a body double wearing his clothes hoping nobody would notice
 
Mr.Mike

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Oct 25, 2017
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Patrick Brown resigned the leadership of the Ontario conservative party because he was cruising on his interns. He later sent out his 20 year old girlfriend who is a former intern of his to debunk the allegations against him, and subsequently joined the leadership race to replace himself. He dropped out of that race pretty soon after. But a few months later he ran to be mayor of Brampton and won (note that previously he had represented Barrie and moved to Brampton for the sole purpose of running for mayor).



Also there was a bit where he denied that he ever actually resigned. And some weird financial stuff I hardly remember at this point.
 
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