Michigan Loses the Game but Wins the Pee Contest

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Michigan and Michigan State played their rivalry game on Saturday, and Michigan lost. But before kickoff there was a second competition, and Michigan won that one. It was a urine collection contest, officially called The Piss Off.

Researchers from both schools set up yurts full of urinals next to the tailgating at the Ann Arbor Golf Club and asked fans to donate. The urine becomes fertilizer for research, some of it for a peony garden. According to The Detroit News, they collected two hundred thirty-seven gallons. Michigan was credited with one hundred thirty-seven. The Spartans, one hundred.

The urinals were not divided by school, though. So the winner was decided by tally marks. After you donated, you made a mark for your team, and Michigan had fifty-eight percent of the marks. So Michigan didn't necessarily pee more. Michigan fans were just more eager to walk out of a urine yurt and take credit.

The coordinator, professor Nancy Love, said, "To be honest, the level of enthusiasm among donors exceeded our expectations." Researchers have spent years trying to make people comfortable with urine fertilizer. It turns out all it needed was a rivalry and a tailgate.

In Riedering, a village southeast of Munich, three camels got out of their enclosure on Saturday morning and wandered onto the road, where a local bus hit one of them. The Brussels Times reports police said the camel was not injured and went home to its owner, a traveling showman. The bus got a shattered windshield and a damaged mirror. Camels are built to cross deserts for days. A Bavarian bus was a minor inconvenience. Police blamed an electric fence that hadn't been installed properly.

In Tokyo, two neighborhoods settle their border with a rope. SoraNews24 reports that Sumida and Taito wards, split by the Sumida River, meet in the middle of the Sakurabashi Bridge, and every year since 2024 they've held a tug-of-war there. The winner's border moves one meter. Tokyo doesn't actually let wards redraw their boundaries, so it's purely symbolic, which has not lowered the stakes at all.

Taito has won both years, so Sumida is down two meters of river. On November fifteenth, each ward fields twelve teams of ten, including two teams of children. If it's six matches each, an all-star team pulls a thirteenth. And this year, a local high school's broadcasting club will provide live color commentary. At one meter a year, nobody reaches the other bank anytime soon. But the war is young.

Over on AskReddit, people shared the most ridiculous reason they've seen an adult have a full-blown meltdown.

The top answer was a free bagel. Someone's great-uncle came to visit, and the family took him to a small bagel shop, where he loudly weighed the pros and cons of his top two choices before picking one. At home, they found the shop had tossed in his second choice for free. He lost it. Had they been charged? Why would anyone think they wanted an extra bagel? He brought up that bagel at least once a day for the rest of the trip.

One person's father-in-law threw a tantrum on Christmas because he didn't get the remote-control boat he'd asked for. They had gotten it. It was hidden in the bathtub with a bow.

Someone's coworker had a twenty-minute meltdown over rice in his burrito. He threw it in the trash, then spent several minutes yelling at the burrito, directly, about what a bad burrito it was.

And one commenter saw a guy deliberately blow diesel smoke at a Prius, so at a red light, they flipped the guy off. The guy started screaming at them to pull over and fight. So the commenter picked up a piece of fried chicken and slowly ate it at him. The light changed, the guy peeled out, and the commenter turned right. Their closing note: "It was really good chicken, too."

Another thread asked for the worst thing to say when someone shows you their newborn.

Top answers included "So... you're keeping it?", "A face only a mother could love," and "Aw, you already dressed it up for Halloween?"

Someone suggested, "Huh, it looks just like a mailman." A reply said a friend's husband actually was a mailman, and the jokes never got old. For everyone else, anyway.

And the simplest entry: "No thanks, I'm vegan." Which got the follow-up, "Does it come with fries?"

Alright guys, That’s all I have for you today. Have a great day. Thanks for listening. See you tomorrow!