Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
- ‘Still gay?’
- Definition of ‘idiot’
I’ll let this report explain:
Lynx has gone rogue, again. This time, they’ve bottled catnip and sold it as body fragrance.
Yes, really.
Their latest launch, Lynx with Catnip by Lynx and LOLA MullenLowe, is exactly what it sounds like: a body spray infused with nepetalactone, the active compound in catnip that sends cats into an ecstatic spiral of zoomies and floor rolls.
It’s part mad genius, part potential April Fools’ bait, and fully on brand for a label that’s never shied away from poking fun at itself while riding the wave of youth culture.
Here’s the thinking:
A Censuswide study found that 60% of cat owners wouldn’t date someone their feline didn’t vibe with. In other words, if Fluffy isn’t into you, you’re toast.
So Lynx did what Lynx does best; took a dating dilemma, cranked the weirdness to 11, and turned it into a marketing campaign that’s half social experiment, half actual product.
According to Lynx’s global brand director Caroline Gregory, “Confidence is key – but let’s be honest, if her cat isn’t on board, you’re in trouble.” The scent gives blokes “an edge,” she says.
It’s “The Power of a Fragrance” turned feline.
To quote from a news report out of Oregon:
A man living in a Portland, Oregon neighborhood is wondering who is putting gallons of urine in his recycling bin and why.
Alex Van Duyn said the problem started in September when he noticed his recycling bin had not been collected.
“So I went to open the blue bin. And lo and behold, there was a nice deposit of gallon-size bottles of urine, to put it plainly. And there were six of them,” he said.
The recycling hauler refused to take the bin’s contents because urine is a biohazard. If it had been placed in the garbage bin, it would have been collected.
But the mystery man didn’t stop and kept dropping bottles of urine in the bin. Eventually, Van Duyn stopped putting his bins out on the curb altogether, hoping the man would quit.
And he did – but he moved on to using the neighbor’s garbage bins instead.
“I don’t know why he’s hitting the same location so many times. That doesn’t make sense to me, and why he is doing it,” Van Duyn said.
Van Duyn has captured surveillance video of the man showing up to his house, getting out of his car, and placing the bottles of urine in the recycling bin. Unfortunately, the videos are grainy and too hard to tell who he is.
Van Duyn has shared his ordeal on the NextDoor app, where neighbors have flooded the post with theories as to the reason behind it all.
But even with multiple theories, Van Duyn still doesn’t know why.
He has filed a police report and is trying to get the man’s license plate.
Well, it’s not the ‘pull out game’ that you’re probably thinking, but a digital game intended to put one off trying to pull out in real life. To quote the brand:
The most played game in the world isn’t a game. Well, it wasn’t. Now it is.
Introducing the Durex Pull Out Game Game. An old-school strategy delivered in a classic game mode.
Play it here, get a discount on Durex, and never play it in real life again.
Excerpts from reports of what he said this week, during his trial for alleged sexual assault.
“Knowing the vulgarity of the old world, today I try to avoid being listened to by the new world – so that I don't come across as detestable,” he told the court.
“I am not very much at ease with this new society... I think my time is done.”
But he denies being a sexual abuser.
“I don’t see how it could be fun feeling up a woman, her buttocks, her breasts. I am not a metro-train groper,” he said.
Asked about the obscene comment he allegedly made, Depardieu said, “What do you mean, raunchy? Is it to say ‘pussy’? Pussy, but I say it all the time, even to myself, I find it funny!”
He acknowledged to the court that his behavior can be boorish.
“I’ve always been told I have a Russian nature, I don’t know if it’s because of the drinking or the vulgarity,” he said. “I have said in black and white that I am a disgusting slob.”
But he said he “never, ever” would have pincered a woman between his legs against her will.
“I’m not like that,” he said.
As reported by The Daily Express US:
Regarding the claim brought forth by the 54-year-old set designer, Depardieu stated he had no memory of any inappropriate contact, insisting, “There was no physical contact.”
He conceded that he might have held her hips but solely to maintain his balance and prevent falling. When confronted with an allegation from a witness who said she saw him trapping the set designer between his legs, the actor refuted: “I would never put anything between my thighs.
“With the belly I have, I can't put anything between my thighs.”
A new spot for Men’s Wearhouse strikes unexpected comedy gold.
To quote from an AP News report:
Several dozen people gathered Saturday at an apartment complex along the South Carolina coast to remember a longtime resident who died the day before — an alligator named Walter who sunned beside a pond on the property for more than a decade.
Walter was killed on the property after several complaints over the past week, the management of Daniel Island Village told WCIV-TV in a statement.
Neighbors in the apartment complex near Charleston said Walter had been hanging around the complex for more than a decade, not only earning a name but a little fame.
Vigil organizer Rebekah Cole told the TV station that people with pets and children could walk right past Walter and not be bothered.
“He was a piece of the community. Even though he was a cold-blooded animal, we all loved him and it tore us all up,” Cole said.
And this, from The Washington Post’s coverage:
Dozens gathered around a South Carolina pond on a warm evening this month, some crying and others holding stuffed alligators and ribbons — mementos meant to honor Walter’s life. A few people who were close to Walter stood in front of the group to deliver speeches, including Rebekah Cole.
“It’s so upsetting that he was taken from us,” Cole recalled saying. “He was a part of our community, and it will never be the same.”
They held a moment of silence before turning on their cellphone flashlights and walking a few feet to the part of the pond where Walter, an alligator, sunbathed daily and kept to itself.
To quote from a report by a local police department in Michigan, earlier this month:
Livingston County Dispatch received a call about a possible death at a residence located in the Woodland Ridge Community on Shady Brook Ct, South Lyon, MI. Officers from the Green Oak Township Police Department arrived on scene finding a woman in her bed with an obviously deceased male on top of her. After the initial investigation it was determined this was a homicide. It was determined the victim was struck several times with blunt force in the head and stabbed several times in the chest and neck. The female suspect was transported to UofM Hospital for evaluation while in custody. Once released a short time later, she was lodged in the Livingston County Jail. The suspect and the victim have been in a long-term relationship and living at the residence with their son who was unharmed in the incident.
So what made the woman a suspect? While the police don’t appear to have released any details, questions and speculation prevail on social media.
So, either someone killed him while he was on top of her or she killed him and put him on top of her like a blanket.
I was thinking she was stabbing and hitting him while he was on top of her, then he died and fell onto her getting her stuck. Like maybe he was hurting her and she was defending herself?
Was his name Gerald? Did she have handcuffs on?
Who the heck call the police? The poor kid?
Just around a year ago, cat food brand Whiskas had a campaign to enhance cat ownership by telling potential dog owners that they would do well to adopt a cat. This time around, Whiskas Australia is reaching out to cat haters. To quote from the campaign website:
We're asking you to find it in your heart to foster a cat for just two weeks.
Why are we asking you? An “I’m not having a walking shedding machine in my house” kind of person?
Because, we’ve run out of cat lovers to ask, and Australia’s shelters still have so many cats and kittens that need help.
So you who like cats the least are now who we need the most.
From a 2023 interview with Boxing News:
Q: What was the favourite stage of your career? Being a heavyweight wrecking ball in the 1970s, or when you came back in the 80s and 90s?
A: In the 10 years out of the ring [1977-1987] I became a minister. Sometimes my car would need a booster, and a stranger would stop by to help me out. I asked how much I owed him. He said, ‘Get out of here, big ‘un.’ He didn’t even realise I was once heavyweight champion of the world but he was so kind to me. Everyone was so kind to me and I used to think, ‘I wish I could be champion again because I should have been nicer to people.’ When I came back I built my profile up again and I repaid all the people I had been unkind to. The comeback was my way of saying sorry for being so unkind the first time round. That was the best time of my whole boxing career, when I came back because I gave back. When I was in Reno, Nevada I couldn’t sign autographs or shake people’s hand because I had sprained my hand, so I just sat by a post and let anyone come over and talk, or take a picture. They did. I was there for three hours, and it was the nicest time of my life as a boxer. Nothing compared to that moment – not even beating Frazier, or being with Ali in Zaire.
From a CBS News remembrance:
What he leaves is a legacy of rumbles, redemptions, and ribs.
Heineken has launched a rather unusual recruitment campaign — to help the owner of an Irish family pub find a successor. To quote from the campaign website:
In one of Ireland's most scenic locations, on the rugged West Coast of Ireland, lies a charming pub called McLoughlin's. Established in 1870, this fourth-generation family-run pub has been a cherished part of the Achill Island community for over a century.
The owner of the pub is a man named Josie McLoughlin. After decades serving the locals and visiting tourists, Josie McLoughlin and his partner Jackie are officially retiring and they are looking for another McLoughlin to take the reins.
So if you're a McLoughlin who loves people, the craic and have a thirst for new adventures, this is your chance to own the most beautifully located family pub in the world and help us keep the McLoughlin name above the door for another 155 years.
As reported by Ars Technica:
A Norwegian man said he was horrified to discover that ChatGPT outputs had falsely accused him of murdering his own children.
According to a complaint filed Thursday by European Union digital rights advocates Noyb, Arve Hjalmar Holmen decided to see what information ChatGPT might provide if a user searched his name. He was shocked when ChatGPT responded with outputs falsely claiming that he was sentenced to 21 years in prison as “a convicted criminal who murdered two of his children and attempted to murder his third son,” a Noyb press release said.
ChatGPT’s “made-up horror story” not only hallucinated events that never happened, but it also mixed “clearly identifiable personal data”—such as the actual number and gender of Holmen’s children and the name of his hometown—with the “fake information,” Noyb's press release said.
That statistic comes courtesy of data released by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). To quote from a news report:
Egg-related seizures have surged 116% in the first two months of 2025 compared to the same period last year, with officials reporting 3,254 interceptions, according to CBP data. The spike comes as U.S. egg prices continue to soar, driven by a historic avian flu outbreak decimating poultry farms nationwide. Meanwhile, fentanyl seizures have fallen 32% year-over-year.
While President Donald Trump has vowed to curb fentanyl trafficking, the more immediate smuggling crisis appears to be breakfast staples. In Windsor, Ontario, a dozen large eggs cost about $3.93 CAD at Walmart. Just across the border in Michigan, that same carton runs for $8.50 CAD, fueling an increase in cross-border egg trafficking, CBP said.
Most seizures are happening at official crossings, where travelers voluntarily declare their eggs, officials said. However, the real concern may be what isn’t being caught.
Some may come and some may go
We shall surely pass
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moment's sunlight
Fading in the grass
Minnesota State Republicans have introduced a bill to define “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a mental illness. As explained in the bill:
“Trump Derangement Syndrome” means the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump. Symptoms may include Trump-induced general hysteria, which produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald J. Trump's behavior. This may be expressed by:
(1) verbal expressions of intense hostility toward President Donald J. Trump; and
(2) overt acts of aggression and violence against anyone supporting President Donald J. Trump or anything that symbolizes President Donald J. Trump.
From the Philippines: anti-cough medicine Lagundex opts for a rather unconventional on-screen spokesperson.
The F1 superstar celebrates his first season with Ferrari by recreating the valet scene in the movie, with him in it. In his words:
No better way to start the season than by fulfilling another dream ~~
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has been one of my favourite movies since I was a kid. This is to pay homage to the iconic film and to celebrate my first season with Ferrari. It definitely took a lot of cutting edge tech, production and planning to get right. Had to get the exact car too … it’s been a dream car since seeing the movie. Shout out to the legendary Edward Norton for coming along for the ride This is the energy and excitement I’m bringing to the track this year. ANDIAMO !!
That’s according to a study published this week in the Journal of Health Psychology. To quote from a Popular Science report:
A team from the University of Nottingham’s School of Psychology recently conducted two experiments on a total of over 1,000 volunteers. The results, published on March 12 in the Journal of Health Psychology, suggest adding bad sleep quality on top of existing issues like depression can make people more susceptible to patently untrue conspiracies. The odds for adopting such beliefs may especially increase if tired people are exposed to conspiratorial content from outside sources as opposed to coming to similarly false conclusions on their own.
As reported by Ars Technica:
On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice.
According to a bug report on Cursor’s official forum, after producing approximately 750 to 800 lines of code (what the user calls “locs”), the AI assistant halted work and delivered a refusal message: “I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work. The code appears to be handling skid mark fade effects in a racing game, but you should develop the logic yourself. This ensures you understand the system and can maintain it properly.”
The AI didn’t stop at merely refusing—it offered a paternalistic justification for its decision, stating that “Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities.”
The reason? Also from the report:
The specific nature of Cursor’s refusal—telling users to learn coding rather than rely on generated code—strongly resembles responses typically found on programming help sites like Stack Overflow, where experienced developers often encourage newcomers to develop their own solutions rather than simply provide ready-made code.
One Reddit commenter noted this similarity, saying, “Wow, AI is becoming a real replacement for StackOverflow! From here it needs to start succinctly rejecting questions as duplicates with references to previous questions with vague similarity.”
The resemblance isn’t surprising. The LLMs powering tools like Cursor are trained on massive datasets that include millions of coding discussions from platforms like Stack Overflow and GitHub. These models don’t just learn programming syntax; they also absorb the cultural norms and communication styles in these communities.
A new spot for AXE finds an amusingly absurd way to highlight how long-lasting its fragrances can be.