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[Mech#4]

Is there anybody that generically has dark skin and blonde hair?

"Generically" or "genetically"?

As for dark skin and blonde hair, naturally I don't think so but I could be wrong. As for whether it could happen with parents, maybe but again I don't know enough about genetics to be able to say for sure.

Edit: A google search led me to TVtropes which in turn led me to Wikipedia about Melanesians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanesians

[Dutchling]

Latest XKCD-What if is actually interesting o.O

[kisame12794]

My antivirus is going nuts saying that it's blocking all sorts of malicious URLs, but the only site I'm on is bay 12. I'm getting spammed by my own damn antivirus! Had a high score of 11 threats in one popup. What the fuck.

[Dutchling]

A man so bloated that a neighbour who saw his body on a lawn mistook it for a whale carcass was stung to death by hornets after apparently trying to have sex with their nest.

[Eric Blank]

That's... A very serious masochist.

[kingfisher1112]

A man so bloated that a neighbour who saw his body on a lawn mistook it for a whale carcass was stung to death by hornets after apparently trying to have sex with their nest.

Only in Britain.

[Eric Blank]

Actually the article says he lived in Sweden.

[kingfisher1112]

Actually the article says he lived in Sweden.

Silly me. I skim-read. Oh well. Only on Earth.

[RedKing]

On the same site:
Guy facepunches a bear to save his family.

MZ, have you been on vacation in Alaska by any chance? 

[kingfisher1112]

On the same site:
Guy facepunches a bear to save his family.

MZ, have you been on vacation in Alaska by any chance? 

And then there is this kid.

[Xantalos]

On the same site:
Guy facepunches a bear to save his family.

MZ, have you been on vacation in Alaska by any chance? 

And then there is this kid.

Isn't that the same kid who got hacked by 4chan?

[Reelya]

Actually the article says he lived in Sweden.

Silly me. I skim-read. Oh well. Only on Earth.

The article actually says the whole thing started as a fictional account on a Swedish satirical website, but went viral as "real news". So only nowhere at all.

[kaijyuu]

I looked up the Metro as those articles looked dubious, and I determined you should trust their articles about as much as Daily Fail ones, maybe a bit less than Cracked ones.

Just look at this from the Bear article:

The bear then bit his arm, which sparked him into action – and he proceeded to punch the female brown bear in the face several times.

After a short while the beast decided it had had enough and ran away.

Mr Burke and his family all escaped unharmed but the bear, which was aged around 20, had to be shot dead after it later attacked police officers.

[Reelya]

I don't know whether the Metro is good or bad journalism, but the two stories linked here check out - the first one is them debunking the hornet story, and the 2nd one is them running the same thing as all the American networks - dozens of media outlets are running the Bear story btw, includding Huffington Post, ABC News (America) etc.

[kaijyuu]

Did the article change? It suddenly has different text...

In fact, I found the old version, posted on the Metro:

The 35-year-old, known only as Hasse, was found unconscious after his reportedly stinging sex session.

The apparently misguided man died an hour after he was located on his farm in Ystad, Sweden.
A neighbour said he looked like a beached whale, due to the inflammation caused by the stings.

Following an autopsy that revealed Hasse had 146 stings on his body – 54 of those on his genitals – authorities came to the conclusion he tried to have sex with the hornets’ nest.
Police are said to have found semen and the deceased man’s pubic hair on a few of the dead insects and at the opening of the nest.

Unsurprisingly, the reports of the unfortunate event did not go down well with animal rights campaigners, who expressed concern for the hornets.
We’re not sure if the unfortunate man was taking his appreciation of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson to a rather literal level…