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What the Fark 4: It's not unusual to be strange anymore

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Kepler said:
Don't nuke people. It makes them weird.
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Workaholic culture that leaves little time and energy for cultivating social/romantic relationships + role-based society that emphasizes blending in above all else and looks down on sticking out in any way + severe censorship laws + relative lack of contact with outsiders + heavy sense of familial and social dishonor to anyone going against the above = people going a little cuckoo.
 
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Now this is how you write a news story. Extra credit for verisimilitude if you read it to yourself in an Aussie accent.

“I started telling (her) about backpackers are more likely to get eaten by crocodiles than Australians so we decided to go down to the river and test the theory,” he said.

Mr de Paauw said the crocodile immediately grabbed his arm and didn’t let go when he punched it in the snout, only finally releasing him when he gouged it in the eye.

Mr De Paauw said he had consumed “about ten cups of goon” before jumping in the river but denied he was “one of the stupidest people around” simply replying “haters gonna hate”.

Officers from the department of Environment and Heritage Protection have set a trap to capture the crocodile, which is believed to be about 3m long.

“I don’t want that crocodile harmed, I want it released back into the wild and I want it to have a happy life,” Mr De Paauw said.

EARLIER: A QUEENSLAND teenager who jumped into a crocodile-infested river went through with the “dare” to impress a female backpacker.
Lee De Paauw was mauled by a crocodile after leaping into a river at Innisfail on a so-called “dare” and was witnessed “screaming and splashing the second he hit the water”.

De Paauw, 18, managed to escape the jaws of a crocodile, which was believed to be up to 3m long, by punching it in the head repeatedly as a female backpacker watched on, unable to help as the attack unfolded.

De Paauw has since revealed he accepted the dare to impress the young British backpacker.

“I just wanted to show the backpacker. I got her number and her name is Sophie,” he told Nova FM’s Fitzy and Wippa on Monday.
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