Camels disqualified from Saudi beauty contest for Botox-enhanced pouts Twelve cheating camels have been disqualified from a Saudi beauty pageant for having Botox injections to enhance their pouts. The contestants were due to compete in King Abdul Aziz Camel Festival festival, which has combined prize money of $57m (£40m). A vet had been caught giving camels plastic surgery including Botox …
@ukgnome
it was only pout enhancing and not their toes.
Did you just mention camel toes?
"Scandal hit in 1972 when “Big Mac,” the Grand Champion steer, was ruled ineligible. It had been previously entered at the American Royal Show in Kansas City as a white steer, but had been dyed black for the National Western Stock Show!"
(https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/events/2016/01/21/national-western-stock-show-through-years-history-colorado/79141426/)
What this does not tell you is that the judges at the National Western Stock Show did not go purely by color of coat in taking Big Mac for a Black Angus, but also inspected membranes fore and aft: the kid who passed off the Hereford (I think) had gone to considerable lengths.
... but not exactly "The Singularity" that The Holy Church of Singularity(tm) wanted.
These kind of news items are written by robots. Other robots attach adds to the news items. Yet other robots read all the news and all of the adds on behalf of other robots, who trade bitcoin, stocks, exotic derivatives or to drive click-ratings. Still other robots do A/B split testing to optimise the spammi-ness
Finally robots make fresh new news items from the output from the preceding shoal of digital servants and the loop is closed for another trip.
What we see is that the world becomes more and more surreal and impossible to understand.
Competitions between dogs actually doing something clever, I can appreciate - after all there's some skill gone into the training.
Competitions between dogs just looking nice - that's probably something that other dogs should judge - ok, so it would probably just come down to a 'whose bottom smells nicest' competition.
Competitions between dogs just looking nice
Sadly, dog shows are not about "dogs looking nice" - they are about how closely dogs adhere to some mythical breed standard. Which, of course, doesn't at all lead to rampant inbreeding and the rise of badly gentically-damaged dogs at all!
Oh wait - yes it does.
So you - Kennel Club (and all your little international puppies) - get your acts together. Fix the source of the problem, not the problem itself. No use banning dogs with bad hip-dysplasia scores - fix the idiocy that lead to hip dysplasia in the first place. Other genetic malformations are available and also need fixing.
> Apparently judges seek shapely humps, firm muscular physiques and luscious leathery mouths.
And when interviewed, all the camels claimed they wanted to do charity work and help camels less fortunate than they were.
I wonder if we should start to steel ourselves for the spin-off shows:
I'm a Dromedary, get me out of here
The hump factor
...
It makes the head more inflated so when the camel comes it's like, 'Oh look at how big is that head.
At least crufts doesn't have a rumpy-pumpy round - so that the judges can decide which dog has the best expression at the height of ecstacy...
Camels make enough weird noises when they're just standing there. You'd probably need the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to do justice to a parade ring full of camels in carnal bliss. And then an awful lot of booze to forget the sound afterwards...
They're rolling around helplessly in laughter as they watch TV reports on something called "The Yorkshire County Show" where Obediah Dungthwaite is proudly showing off his prize Frisian, as she wins a blue rosette and a massive £25 in cash. Apparently there was a bit of a scandal when old Obie was accused of cheating due to enhancing his cow's appearance by running a brush over it before the judging......
We need a break from reality with a good dose of silliness and random stuff
Yeah. Reality doesn't have any silliness and random stuff at all!
Unless you work in any industry that provides a service[1] to people.
[1] Stop sniggering at the back. I can hear you y'know. Yes - you laddie.
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