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PNP training, possibly
I’ll just leave this here:
A picture of two Philippine policemen playing DOTA.
To Serve And Protect...The Ancients
(Thx, Timawa.Net forums!)
Things that are sort of a big deal
I always check the comments section on news sites that have them. They help give me an arbitrary and unbalanced peek at how your average Filipino thinks.
One of the big stories over the long weekend was the plagiarized commencement speech delivered at the Ateneo by Philippine Long Distance and Telephone Co. chairman Manuel Pangilinan, and the reactions are more of a story than the actual story.
When online electioneering goes too far
With the billions that he’s putting into his presidential campaign, Senator Manuel Bamba Villar Jr. might as well buy the entire Internet. He’s on Google AdSense, he’s on Twitter, he’s even on facebook, suggesting that you become his fan or friend or both.
He’s everywhere now, and he might just take it a little too far.
GMANews.TV Doesn’t Know Cocks
We generally prefer GMANews.tv to Inquirer.net because there are fewer typographical and grammar errors (and ads.) Sometimes, though, they put up articles that leave us scratching our heads.
Consider this gem, for example:
Now, we get that saying that a member of the cabinet sucks cocks is probably libelous. The paragraph asks more questions than it answers, though. Most nagging of which are: What was he blowing on? Were they penises? Or just things that looked like penises? Were they hotdogs? I mean, that’s a pretty easy call to make, GMANews.tv.
You don't need to be a doctor to know your penises...
(Thx, Gibo Teodoro!)
You Ask, Yahoo! Answers
Yahoo! Answers isn’t really known for being a source of reliable information (that’s what Wikipedia is for.)
It’s the same basic concept, really. Except instead of reading enyclopedia entries, you get to ask the Internet anything you want.
Sometimes it works,
Posting On Epic Thread
Irresistible force, immovable object: A Baptist tries to convert Pinoychan’s /b/ to his faith, /b/ outs him as a closet gay, or at least tells his friends that he is.
Whoever wins, we lose.
I Win!
(Thanks for the tip, FreeSince09! )
Is Richard Gutierrez a hero?
Or does he just play one on TV?
“Mikey Arroyo, expect us.” –Anon
Presidential son and Congressman Mikey Arroyo may have bitten off more than he can chew with his recent comments regarding the proposed regulation of the intertubes.
Maling Akala
With at least half of the posts on Sen. Manuel Villar, Jr.’s pre-campaign campaign website blatantly singing him praises, there really is one logical conclusion to make.
Of course, there are also legitimate posts on his website. Like this one that reduced me to inconsolable weeping :
As always, the comment thread is open for your own Maling Akala.