Partick Thistle's monobrowed mutant sun god brings new evil into the weird world of the mascot

It will have to go down as a PR open goal which was skewed horribly wide. Sunday, 21 June, 2015. Stonehenge. The air is alive with bongos and body odour. From somewhere in the distance, perhaps the car park, comes the lilting sound of a social anthropology undergraduate and virgin squeezing a three-note melody through a flute made of tree bark. The sun’s first rays settle on the wrong side of the A303, casting their sacred shadow upon the stone megaliths of Salisbury Plain and its annual dreary army of druggies, druids and dropouts. Then, right there in that instant, was the moment for Partick Thistle to release their new mascot upon the earth, his eyes blank, arms outstretched, nose askew, angrily somnambulating out of the dawn horizon, this jagged demi-human hemisphere of solar terror. Instead, it came 24 hours later in the form of a photo op at Firhill Stadium on the north side of Glasgow, complete with the compulsorily twee Twitter account and a press release informing -READ MORE-http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/partick-thistles-monobrowed-mutant-sun-god-brings-new-evil-into-the-weird-world-of-the-mascot-10349154.html

Google’s image recognising robots turned on themselves, making weird dreams that could show why humans are creative

Computers have dreams, according to Google — and they’re often highly trippy, strange ones of dog-fishes and bananas. Google’s highly-powered, clever computers are normally used for image recognition — a technology that requires computers to think like humans, learning what things look like. But the company set them loose identifying small, subtle things, skewing the images to show a knight made of dogs or clouds that resemble a “pig snail”. The search giant is just one of many companies who are working on artificial neural networks, which use highly-developed mathematical methods to simulate the way that human’s brains think. But by turning those computers upside down, they throw out the strange images.read more -http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/googles-image-recognising-robots-turned-on-themselves-making-weird-dreams-that-could-show-why-humans-are-creative-10330996.html

Frisbees, sandals and picnics: weird things banned by health and safety

You might not think of a postman as a particularly dangerous job. The odd vicious dog might be the biggest risk they might have to contend with. But in Berkshire a worried postman is delaying delivery to a house on a country road because he is too afraid to cross - and the Royal Mail are backing him up. The retired occupants say they're waiting until mid-afternoon to receive their post, when it used to come in the morning. Health and Safety has saved thousands of lives - but it does occasionally lead to some pretty odd situations. Here are a few of the strangest Health and Safety incidents. Watch out for the cobbles The Royal Mail has form when it comes to slightly barmy health and safety. When residents in Bideford, Devon, complained that they weren't receiving their post, they argued it wasn't safe for postmen to travel down the cobbled street.-READ MORE-http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11670553/Frisbees-sandals-and-picnics-weird-things-banned-by-health-and-safety.html

Gallery Gallery: The Weird And Wonderful Eurovision

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Why penises SMILE during sex and 5 more weird facts you never knew about them

Most of you probably think you know your penis quite well enough, but there are six super facts about the old chap that we bet you've never heard - and they're pretty special.BEWARE MAY CONTAIN SEXUAL CONTENT OR ITEMS WHICH MY UPSET OR OFFEND-READ MORE-http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/penises-smile-during-sex-5-5697131

Weird Science is 30: 15 weirdly great things about the ’80s classic

Weird Science is 30 years old.

It’s the movie that answered every pubescent boy’s question: can I create my dream woman in my own bedroom?

Weird Science, released in 1985, may not be the best film directed by John Hughes, who gave us The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Uncle Buck and Planes, Trains & Automobiles, but it has retained its cult status through its mix of teenage fantasy, gross comedy and Kelly LeBrock’s far-too-tiny white T-shirt.

Here are the things that make it so weirdly great.

1. The premise

Tired of being overlooked by girls and bullied by their peers, teenage friends Gary (Anthony Michael Hall) and Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) decide to bring a girl to them. They obviously never saw what Tom Cruise did in Risky Business.

Instead of calling a prostitute, the boys make their own woman, using little more than a computer, a doll and some electricity.READ MORE-http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/09/weird-science-is-30-heres-15-weirdly-great-things-about-the-80s-classic-5182207/

Manchester police's weird call... to a goose on the loose outside the Bridgewater Hall

Police have had an usual start to the bank holiday weekend after reports of a goose on the loose. The @GMPCityCentre account told of the bizarre tales this morning, with Inspector Phil Spurgeon letting followers know about the unusual cases - involving a goose and a lunchtime mix-up. He tweeted: “Call 10am today to Bridgewater Hall about ‘goose on the loose.’ We sent our finest...” The tweet was accompanied by a picture of three rubber ducks in police uniform.