Posts Tagged ‘New York’
New York Police Stop Dutch Cyclist For Wearing ‘Disturbing’ Outfit
IN New York, Dutch tourist Jasmijn Rijcken, 31, is riding her bicycle. The police pull her over. Says she:“He said it’s very disturbing, and it’s distracting the cars and it’s dangerous. I thought he was joking around but he got angry and asked me for ID. I didn’t even think for one second that my outfit could be harmful or disturbing.”
Posted: 14th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
How To Date Women In New York And Maybe London: A Video Guide
ART Malov is her to tell YOU how to flirt and pull chicks. Sorry, Art. How to get with hos. No. Too much. How to pull the birds… Sheesh. This ia hard. Thankfully, Art is here to help. He’s a dating coach in New York. That might just be a joke to relax the babes and get them in the sack. That do, Art..?
How To Flirt At Work And Not Get Sacked
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Posted: 8th, June 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Man Licks Shoes Clean On New York Subway: New Standards In Elegance
IN this video, the man on the New York subway is cleaning his shoes. It is all about standards, readers. Shiny tongue – shiny shoes. It’s the stuff on which the British Empire was built…
Spotter: Arbroath
Posted: 16th, May 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (2)
New York Catches A Cold As Global Warming Hits Brooklyn Hard
NEW York catches a cold as the UK begins to melt. And global warming can be blamed. An expert called Judah Cohen says:
“The reality is, we’re freezing not in spite of climate change but because of it.”
Or else it might just be the normal weather – more at WUWT.
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Pablo The New York Tornado Speaks In The NY Times
THE storm struck New York last week. The New York Times reacted with a spot of a pros Adrian Mole would have considered it too flowery.
Tim Blair spots it and writes on the Tree-Mageddon. It wasn’t the arboreal 9/11 – but the Times has 1,000 words to deliver so it might come close:
Some were more than a century old but still sturdy and doing their jobs.
Their “jobs”? In Obama’s America? Not likely.
Many others were young and willowy, just getting going. Some of them were inscrutable; no one truly knew them or how they got there. But others felt like old friends.
If your friends are covered in bark and have birds in them, sure. By the way, it’s nice that only some of NYC’s trees are inscrutable. I prefer an open, chatty tree myself.
The tragedy of the storm, which meteorologists said Friday included two tornadoes, was Aline Levakis, 30, from Mechanicsburg, Pa., the sole person to die, when a tree, as it happened, hit her car …
Kind of ruins the whole “kind, gentle trees” concept, but the Times barges on:
Every single time? That must have been fun. Still, it’s not as though there’s anything else in New York to talk about. Except maybe the child with a companion stick:
Reuben Slater had his own tree-loss story. He is 13 and lives in Park Slope. When he walks to school, he passes a massive ash tree with a trunk that gives way to branches that form a V. When he was younger, he thought of it as the tree of life.
The storm carved off half the V. The tree is expected to survive, but to no longer resemble its old self. That saddens Reuben. He sees a tree “with a broken arm.”
He snatched a small branch off the ground. He said he would keep it in his room. “I’m going to name it Pablo,” he said. “I’ve always loved that name.”
Pablo doubles as a splint…
In Pictures: Queen Escapes 7/11 Carnage In New York
HER Majesty Queen Elizabeth II addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations at the UN Headquarters in New York, following an eight day tour of Canada. She’s avoided being caught up in the 7/11 tragedy that has befallen the Guardian.
Along with a smiling Duke of Edinburgh, Elizabeth met Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg at the British Garden at Hanover Square. She picked a few flowers and laid a wreath at the site of the World Trade Centre.
Then she settled Prince Harry’s bar tab, took a call from Prince Charles about whether or she’d offset her flight by taking shallower breaths and thought about heading home…
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Posted: 7th, July 2010 | In: Royal Family | Comments (3)
Teenagers Hurt In Breath Holding Contest Car Crash
ON Scottsville Mumford Road, New York, four teens are in car. All four teens in the car are holding their breath. The driver, 19-year-old Bryan Parslow of Caledonia, were attempting to hold their breath until they had passed the length of Garbutt, a hamlet that is longer than it looks.
While holding his breath, Mr Parslow fainted.
The car exits the road and hits a tree. It then hits a large boulder. The teenagers, now breathing, are taken to Strong Hospital. The injuries cased by not breathing:
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Posted: 27th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
Reactions To New York’s Hi Five Cyclist, A Video
AS Anorak’s Man In New York, Paul Berger, writes: “Some wonderful reactions from unsuspecting New Yorkers being high-fived by a passing cyclist.”
Enjoy a simple pleasure, with Nathaniel Kassel:
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Naked Cowboy Launches New York Mayor Bid
THE Naked Cowboy launches his New York City Mayoral Campaign in the lobby oft the NBC Studios.
How naked is he? Take a look:
Posted: 23rd, July 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
The New York Hipster Moves
THIS is how the New York hipster moves…
The Daily What is mobile…
Posted: 27th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Thomas Prusik-Parkin ‘Posed’ As His Dead Mother to Claim Benefits
IN New York, Thomas Prusik-Parkin is arrested for impersonating his dead mother, Irene Prusik in order to claim her $115,000 in social security benefits and rent subsidies.
Mrs Irene Priski died in 2003. If Mr Thomas Prusik-Parkin was impersonating her, we marvel at how it took anyone six years to notice. For one thing, the smell must have been terrible. For another, with limbs falling off, how did he sign for anything?
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Posted: 17th, June 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
New York Men Have Sex With A WingWoman In Tow
INSECURE , plain, dull, sad and stupid mean can now hire a WingWoman to act as an enticer to help you seduce other women.
The wingwoman will laugh at your jokes and then remain mute as you move in.
This is pretty much how prostitution works – the trustworthy house mother befriending a shagable, unsuspecting target with an eye to making money off her bones by marketing her to a creepy man.
On Cragslist appears the follpwing advert:
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Posted: 20th, May 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
The 14 Most Bizarre Tea Party Signs
HEREUNDER are the 14 Most Bizarre Tea Party Protest signs. Do look at them all – and be awed…
The brownest thing – apart from all that bull****.
Posted: 19th, April 2009 | In: Photojournalism | Comment
Jesus Twitters From The Cross
IT’S Easter and your chance to experience the Stations of the Cross as Jesus travels through New York relaying his trip via cell phone, Blackberry, iPhone.
This year, you can travel the Stations of the Cross online and be part of a worldwide audience – via cell phone, Blackberry, iPhone, or other Internet connection – for what may be the world’s first Passion Play performed through the social networking application Twitter.
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Posted: 11th, April 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Ian Tomlinson, New York New School Lies And Beating Up A Deaf Man
IAN Tomlinson’s death at G20 is not the only instance of police brutality.
Sure he was begging for it for wearing a Millwall top and treading on the cracks in the pavement, but he is not alone:
Gawker has this gem:
City Room finally posted this video from the New School protest that was crushed by the police earlier today. When you watch it, keep in mind that the NYPD’s spokesperson told the NYT it was “untrue that pepper spray or mace were used in effectuating the arrests.” Liar:
Menwhile in Texas:
It began with a routine traffic stop due to excessive speeding over one year ago. The Deaf driver, Christopher Ferrell, attempted to retrieve his wallet to show the identification card regarding his deafness. The officer, J.A. Miller misinterpreted the actions for a person reaching for his gun and reacted aggressively. He grabbed the driver, swinging him around and smashed his face into the rear windshield, breaking his nose. The driver was then forced back to his seat.
The officer was disciplined with two days suspension without pay. He is currently appealing his decision.
There’s a video here.
The police are there not to protect the state. The police are there to serve the people…
Pictures And Video Of G20 Ian Tomlinson Hit From Behind By Policeman
New Video Of G20 Ian Tomlinson Being Beaten By Police
Posted: 10th, April 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Plane Crashes in New York: 48 Dead
TO New York, where a passenger plane has crashed into a home a few miles from Buffalo airport.
All 48 people on board are killed.
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Posted: 13th, February 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Hudson River Crash: First Class Service
MORE news on the Hudson River plane crash – there’s first class and there’s duck class…
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Posted: 5th, February 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews | Comment
The Hudson River Airbus, Landing (Video)
AFTER “Hudson New York Plane Crash: Pilot Averted Flight To London”, aAnorak now brings you the video of the daring aversion.
(No Muslims were arrested in the making of this film.)
New York Jet Brought Down My Geese, CIA, Jews And Al Qaeda, Developing
New York Jet Brought Down My Geese, CIA, Jews And AL Qaeda, Developing…
More…
Posted: 17th, January 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Man Survives Four Feet Fall At New York Yasnkee Stadium
MAN in New York falls four feet (!) and survives !!
There are not enough exclamation marks in the EU’s grammar mountain to give this story the weight it deserves. The news:
A construction worker at the new Yankee Stadium has been taken to a hospital after falling 4 feet off scaffolding when one of its wheels hit a drain Friday afternoon.
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Posted: 3rd, January 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
The Mums Of Others: The New York Stasi Is In The Toilet
IN New York, one mother is looking for a school for her daughter.
In the quest to find the perfect middle school for her 10-year-old daughter, Aimée Margolis has zig-zagged across Manhattan for 11 school visits, grilled pre-teenagers at a school fair on music classes and the preferred attire at dances, and compiled a dog-eared folder full of notes.
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Africa’s First Family: Obama Wins New York World Series
THE euphoria over the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America may have died down, but there remains a feeling – on the street, in people’s homes, in cafes and bars – that this momentous event is still percolating through society and will continue to do so for months, probably years, to come.
I live in a predominantly black neighborhood in Brooklyn, on the border of Crown Heights, where a race riot erupted in 1991, and Prospect Heights, a small, rapidly-gentrifying area where just a couple of generations ago few whites would consider living.
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Posted: 16th, November 2008 | In: Key Posts | Comments (2)
Spotting The Difference Between AIDS And Hipster Fashion In New York
HOW can you spot a genuine hipster from a non-genuine hipster, a square or an Aids victim?
Very tricky we know. But Lisa Pryor, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, knows how.
Think hard. Is someone close to you at risk of being considered a hipster? An art student riding an old Malvern Star along Bourke Street while wearing skinny jeans, a khaki anorak and heavy-framed glasses with massive lenses could almost certainly be diagnosed as one.
Sounds like an AIDS victim. No?
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Posted: 25th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
How Hunting Sarah Palin Marks The End Of The US Empire
TO the NEW York Times, where the talk is of Sarah Palin, the end of Empire and King Edward VIII killing a tiger in India. Write’s Paul Berger, Anorak’s man in NY:
Non sequitur of the month goes to this caption in the New York Times that accompanies a story comparing the decline of the British Empire with the perceived weakening of US hegemony.
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Posted: 22nd, October 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Obama’s White Fright Brains McCain’s Ginga Ninja
TO New York where the battle for the hearts and minds of Amerikans has selected it latest champions.
In the red corner, a smallish, gingerish, middle-aged woman carrying a placard.
In the blue corner, a chubby-ish, white-ish, middle-aged man carrying a few extra pounds.
The Ginga Ninja calls the White Fright “a rather benign, doughy-looking guy — not a person I would have expected to assault me.”
Says the referee:
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Posted: 21st, October 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
