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However, contrary to all expectations, no drama follows. Demonstrating tranquility worthy of a Buddhist monk, the woman continues to serve her customer, who also appears to be totally unmoved by the armed perpetrator.
The only person who seems concerned is a man who is seen entering the shop and retreating as soon as he notices the gun.
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Those hanging the roll 'under' are more likely to be submissive. Submissive people tend to be more agreeable, flexible and empathetic, says Dr Carle.
To create the toilet paper personality test, Dr Carle surveyed around 2,000 people of all ages, asking them whether they rolled the paper over or under. Some people, Dr Carle has found, actually switched the toilet roll in other people's houses (around one in five). Naturally it was those 'over' people imposing their dominant personality on submissive 'unders'.
The rich roll over. Rolling under might also be linked to lower earnings, another survey has found. 73% of those earning under $20,000 rolled under, while 60% of those earning over $50,000 roll over.
(Who knew there were so many surveys on toilet roll alignment?)
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© CENA robot priest that beams lights from its hands is giving 'auto-blessings' in the German city of Wittenberg.
The robot, called BlessU-2, was developed by the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau.
With its metallic body and touch screen, the robot asks a person what blessing they want, after which it raises its arms and appears to smile. Lights then start to flash as the robot says "God bless and protect you" and recites a biblical verse. After the blessing, the user can printout the dictum.
Take a look at how the robot priest operates in this video:
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is an experienced journalist whisperer—giving him all the skills he needs to subdue feral members of the press.
Sometimes these wild beasts ask questions so profoundly mindless that you can actually feel your brain-cells being kidnapped by ISIS and lowered into a shark tank.
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Plans announced by the government would replace the criss-crosses of red, white and blue with a shot of a lovely cup of hot brown just before it has a Hobnob dunked in it for the first time.
The change will mean all future marches by the EDL and BNP will have to be carried out with members dressed like the Tetley Tea Folk, which will be a great improvement.
The Treasury has approved the proposals, reasoning that anyone owning Union Jack merchandise will have to go out and buy a replacement meaning bumper additional revenues.
"It's what Britain is all about, really," said spokesman Simon Williams.
The recently sold bit of Sylacauga meteor, worth 18 times more than gold (Christie's)
As Daryl Pitt, a meteorite consultant for the auction house, tells Rae Paoletta at Gizmodo, the 10.3-gram specimen of meteorite sold for $7,500. "By way of example, the price of 24K gold today is $39.05/g," Pitt says, "and so this specimen sold for 18.5 times its weight in gold."
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Most of the people commenting on the viral YouTube video were touched by the performance, and wondered about the woman's fate.
Who came up with these names? Welp, it wasn't an AI.
Writes Shane on her Tumblr, "For this experiment, I gave the neural network a list of about 7,700 Sherwin-Williams paint colors along with their RGB values. (RGB = red, green, and blue color values.) Could the neural network learn to invent new paint colors and give them attractive names?"
Shane notes that, at first, the algorithm seemed to be forming words that are a combination of brown, blue, and gray. Shane told Ars that she chose a neural network algorithm called char-rnn, which predicts the next character in a sequence. So basically the algorithm was working on two tasks: coming up with sequences of letters to form color names, and coming up with sequences of numbers that map to an RGB value. As she checked in on the algorithm's progress, she found that it was able to create colors long before it could actually name them reliably.
© Politico"Having examined the entire USA, I have come to a profound diagnosis."
Putin has generously provided us with some insight into his innermost thoughts on this trending topic. Speaking earlier this week at a news conference alongside Italy's prime minister (the same conference where he "reprimanded" Lavrov for withholding US nuclear codes), Putin casually diagnosed the US political establishment with a fatal case of dangerous stupidity:
It's hard to imagine what these people, who generate such nonsense and rubbish [about Trump's alleged ties to Russia], can dream up next.The US is cannibalizing itself. Let's just hope that whatever reemerges from the American abyss will have some common sense. Hope dies last, as they say.
What surprises me is that they are shaking up the domestic political situation using anti-Russian slogans. Either they don't understand the damage they're doing to their own country, in which case they are simply stupid, or they understand everything, in which case they are dangerous and corrupt.
Comment: FYI: There doesn't seem to be an antidote.
Comment: What did the toilet paper say to the 'bum'? "Let's stay in touch." What did the 'bum' say to the toilet paper? "You're on a roll."