{"id":25359,"date":"2013-08-01T18:35:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T18:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25359"},"modified":"2013-08-01T18:35:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T18:35:09","slug":"further-dangers-lurking-in-the-kitchen-of-your-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25359","title":{"rendered":"Further dangers lurking &#8220;in the kitchen of your mom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; for our <em>bizarre humor<\/em> section, and featuring the word <em>beer-goggled<\/em> ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>These two headlines from today&#8217;s findings struck me as painting a dark picture of the dangers hidden in even the brightest of kitchens these days:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-kitchen-news.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-kitchen-news.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC kitchen news\" width=\"616\" height=\"627\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-kitchen-news.png 616w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-kitchen-news-294x300.png 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to admit that I was torn, though &#8212; that penis and toaster headline cried out to be paired with another &#8212; illustrate illustrating between them the follies prevalent in my country of origin, and the necessity of parental guidance for its denizens:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Brits.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Brits.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC Brits\" width=\"619\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Brits.png 619w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SPEC-Brits-293x300.png 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li>The Atlantic Wire, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/national\/2013\/08\/government-knocking-doors-because-google-searches\/67864\/\">Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks<\/a>\n<li>The Guardian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/jul\/30\/penis-toaster-message-fire-brigade-fiftyshadesofred\">Do try not to get your penis stuck<\/a>\n<li>NBC News, <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/08\/01\/19795136-drunken-brits-fall-foul-of-a-pigeon-moving-train-and-escalators-in-safety-film\">Drunken Brits fall foul of a pigeon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=8880\">own roots are Scottish<\/a>, so I was particularly proud to see the paras in the <strong>Drunk Brits<\/strong> piece which read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The video showed a clip from security cameras at Scotland&#8217;s Edinburgh Waverley station in which two men dressed in kilts \u2013 possibly supporters of Scotland\u2019s rugby or football teams \u2013 on a platform.<\/p>\n<p>One tries to kick out at a pigeon but misses and his momentum causes him to fall onto the tracks in front of a stationary train.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pigeon will always win when you are beer-goggled,\u201d the caption says, using a slang term for the altered perceptions of a drunk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I even learned a new hyphenated word in all this mad kerfuffle: will wonders never cease?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; for our bizarre humor section, and featuring the word beer-goggled ] . These two headlines from today&#8217;s findings struck me as painting a dark picture of the dangers hidden in even the brightest of kitchens these days: ** I&#8217;ll have to admit that I was torn, though &#8212; that penis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,526,760,627,371,139,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-charles-cameron","category-counterterrorism","category-doublequotes","category-humor","category-media","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25359"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25391,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25359\/revisions\/25391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}