Jones, the former longtime light heavyweight champion, has been no stranger to outside-of-the-cage infractions throughout his record-breaking UFC career, having fallen foul of both the law and the sport’s drug-testing authorities on several occasions throughout his ascent to the summit of the sport. The 34-year-old was arrested in Las Vegas …
Read More »‘Dead fish’: Daniil Medvedev’s bizarre US Open celebration explained after move goes viral (VIDEO)
Denying world number one Novak Djokovic the chance to become the first player since 1969 to sweep a calendar Grand Slam, Moscow-born Medvedev clinched a well-deserved $2.5 million in prize money by seeing off the Serb. Doing this in three sets with identical scores of 6-4, Medvedev did not go for …
Read More »‘State of you lot’: Man City mocked for bizarre picture showing star players as crime family gang from Jack Grealish’s home city
New signing Grealish, who joined the club for a Premier League record $139 million last week, was born in an area of Midlands city Birmingham – where his former club, Aston Villa, are based – and has a strong accent from the region that has parallels with the twang that can be …
Read More »Australian man charged for impersonating police officer in bizarre video plotting to oust government
Australian authorities announced on Monday that a 49-year-old man from Perth was arrested at the weekend for his involvement in a conspiracy video that gained significant attention online over the last two weeks. The man in the footage, claiming to be police commissioner Reece Kershaw, says that several Australian institutions, …
Read More »Racism won Euro 2020: Italian football team has too many damn Italians, The Economist argues, in bizarre racial rambling
Italy beat England 3-2 in a nail-biting penalty shootout on Sunday night, winning the UEFA European Championships for the first time since 1968. However, while Italians erupted in celebration, some dismayed England fans turned their anger on their team’s three black players who missed their penalty kicks. Much has been written …
Read More »‘Most disturbing interview’: Celebrity Judge Joe Brown SHOCKS with bizarre ‘rape by seduction’ Bill Cosby defense
Appearing on Marc Lamont Hill’s ‘Black News Tonight’, Brown claimed that he and numerous other lawyers and judges were “not shocked” by Cosby’s release. The fact that Cosby’s case went to trial at all, the judge added, was a “travesty.” Cosby had been convicted of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in …
Read More »‘Are your friends becoming extremists?’ Facebook asks users as it tests bizarre new feature to combat ‘harmful content’
The platform rolled out the new test feature for certain US-based users on Thursday, part of its broader effort to combat “extremism,” according to Facebook spokesman Andy Stone. Baffled netizens quickly shared screenshots of the alerts online, some hinting at the pitfalls of enlisting users to root out so-called extremists. …
Read More »Bugs Bunny, LGBTQ superstar? Insider creates bizarre database of LGBTQ cartoon characters in the name of ‘inclusion’
Technology has changed the work of the journalist. Shrinking attention spans and the instant availability of press releases, tweets and statements mean the modern reporter often writes short articles without ever picking up the phone or doing any investigative work of their own. But those investigative skills aren’t dead. They’ve …
Read More »Academic paper reveals Hong Kong student protesters were paid to be guinea pigs in bizarre experiment that may have gone wrong
Secreted in the depths of academic journal American Economic Review’s June edition is an absolutely extraordinary research paper, revealing that a team of Western scholars conducted a somewhat peculiar study analyzing why students attended protests in Hong Kong – and that participants were paid to do so. The paper’s abstract …
Read More »‘If you’re a cis man do you need a plaid shirt?’: NYC rolls out bizarre gender identity training video for employees (VIDEO)
The instructional footage is part of an online sexual harassment prevention training module created by the NYC Commission on Human Rights. All city employees are required by law to take the instructional course. Private businesses in the Big Apple must also make their employees undergo similar training, although they are …
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