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Re: Darwin strikes again!
« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2008, 10:24:36 AM »
eating contests discust me.  :thumbdn:

One of the student unions at my old university (for historical reasons there were two; a mainstream sporty one and an alternative subculture one that developed from the men's and women's unions respectively) has an iron stomach contest during fresher's week each year.  One of the rounds in the competition used to be to swallow a live goldfish, but it was discontinued on animal welfare grounds and now the competition limits itself to morally defensible acts such as the yard of ale race.
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Re: Darwin strikes again!
« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2008, 11:03:47 AM »
How is this worthy of a Darwin? There's nothing stupid or wrong or asking for it about eating lots of fairy cakes.

maybe cause we evolved teeth for a reason?
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Re: Darwin strikes again!
« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2008, 01:49:30 PM »
How is this worthy of a Darwin? There's nothing stupid or wrong or asking for it about eating lots of fairy cakes.
maybe cause we evolved teeth for a reason?
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Re: Darwin strikes again!
« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2008, 06:02:31 PM »
A real Darwin type award popped up in the newspaper tonight here.


This 21 year old kid was pissed off because his old neighbours were complaining to him about the noise. So he goes and punches their glass door in to piss them off and is now in critical condition for extensive bleeding.

I wonder if he's going to sue them for injury and emotional distress.

You don't sue people in NZ.


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Re: Darwin strikes again!
« Reply #19 on: February 26, 2008, 12:20:44 AM »
This reminds me of Hold your wee for a Wii. A 27 year old died from drinking too much water because of water intoxication.

I didn't know that was possible.

Here's a link to a story about her and an excerpt:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16614865/

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A woman who competed in a radio station’s contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner’s office said Saturday.

Jennifer Strange, 28, was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest in which KDND 107.9 promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the winner.

“She said to one of our supervisors that she was on her way home and her head was hurting her real bad,” said Laura Rios, one of Strange’s co-workers at Radiological Associates of Sacramento. “She was crying and that was the last that anyone had heard from her...”