Author Topic: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners  (Read 148306 times)

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1050 on: 26 March, 2024, 09:51:28 am »
Alan Titchmarsh appears on North Korean TV but his jeans do not.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/26/alan-titchmarsh-jeans-north-korean-tv-censors
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rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1051 on: 29 March, 2024, 08:40:54 am »
Hedgehogs feature in this impressive list of Hungarian vulgarities:

https://www.thepoke.com/2023/03/17/hungarians-top-the-global-insult-leaderboard/
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Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1052 on: 29 March, 2024, 12:33:41 pm »
Hedgehogs feature in this impressive list of Hungarian vulgarities:

https://www.thepoke.com/2023/03/17/hungarians-top-the-global-insult-leaderboard/

I was expecting something more Pratchett-esque.

T42

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1053 on: 29 March, 2024, 01:23:09 pm »
Lassie on the train from Paris to Quimper couldn't keep quiet about the kilo of heroin she was carrying.  Unfortunately, one of the people within earshot was a gendarme.

Turned out she hadn't paid for her ticket either.

https://www.sudouest.fr/faits-divers/elle-transporte-plus-d-un-kilo-d-heroine-dans-le-train-et-s-en-vante-a-un-autre-voyageur-gendarme-de-profession-19108418.php
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1054 on: 30 March, 2024, 11:56:01 pm »
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Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1055 on: 31 March, 2024, 12:42:46 am »
Tennessee bans chemtrails  :facepalm:

I keep seeing that reported as such.  Seems to me more like Tennessee[1] is banning geoengineering / cloud seeding.  (I couldn't read the actual text of the bill, because they blocked up the state intertubes serving ABROAD.)  Which is more "someone who isn't good at maths read a KSR novel" or "vastly overestimating the importance of Tennessee" than banning chemtrails, which - as any conspiraloon will tell you - are about mind control, not manipulating the albedo.

Chucking stuff into the upper atmosphere to cool things down seems increasingly plausible as a thing that someone[2] with a sufficiency of  a) climate desperation  and  b) shiny metal birbs  will attempt at some point.  And if they do, they're probably not going to do it from Tennessee anyway.


[1] I hadn't appreciated how difficult this state was to spell.
[2] Think India, or Elon Musk.

Beardy

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1056 on: 31 March, 2024, 09:07:15 am »
As reported, it would seem to me that crop dusting would be banned by that bill as it does not say upper atmosphere, but just atmosphere. But as Kim points out, there’s no linky to the actual bill to check out the detail so there’s a possibility that it’s just bad or salacious reporting.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1057 on: 31 March, 2024, 10:19:11 am »
Awwwwwww. Disappointed now.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1058 on: 31 March, 2024, 10:29:14 am »
There's a persistent (and possibly true) urban legend that the Lynmouth floods were caused by the RAF cloud seeding.
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1059 on: 16 May, 2024, 06:34:55 pm »
Florida outlaws climate change.  That’ll show it!
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T42

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1060 on: 17 May, 2024, 08:40:40 am »
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1061 on: 17 May, 2024, 01:39:25 pm »
Florida outlaws climate change.  That’ll show it!
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T42

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1062 on: 17 May, 2024, 02:05:26 pm »
 ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1063 on: 07 June, 2024, 08:59:43 am »
https://nltimes.nl/2024/06/06/dutch-olympians-arrested-indecent-behavior-gay-cyclists-united-states


"Former Olympic athletes Laurens ten Dam and Thomas Dekker were arrested in the United States last week for “indecent behavior” by “gay cyclists."



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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1064 on: 07 June, 2024, 09:47:16 am »
https://nltimes.nl/2024/06/06/dutch-olympians-arrested-indecent-behavior-gay-cyclists-united-states


"Former Olympic athletes Laurens ten Dam and Thomas Dekker were arrested in the United States last week for “indecent behavior” by “gay cyclists."
Not "arrested by gay cyclists", arrested for acting like "gay cyclists". Which is a whole lot more Oklahoma, and not in a good way.
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1065 on: 07 June, 2024, 10:06:51 am »
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We were told that we had been charged with indecent behavior. The charges stated that we sprayed each other with water bottles like two gay cyclists.

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1067 on: 26 June, 2024, 08:55:44 pm »
We are making a New World (Paul Nash, 1918)

T42

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1068 on: 27 June, 2024, 09:34:28 am »
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1069 on: 28 June, 2024, 07:18:19 am »
https://news.sky.com/video/mother-bear-and-three-cubs-spotted-strolling-into-a-private-garden-in-italy-13160098


Lovely video of mother bear an 3 cubs in a garden in Italy. I almost put it in the adjective thread as all gardens are described as private.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1070 on: 30 June, 2024, 02:55:07 pm »
Motorised suitcases, what next?

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240626/p2g/00m/0na/055000c
What next? Controllable by app, of course. Oh, looks like they already are!
https://modobag.com/features.html
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1071 on: 07 July, 2024, 08:21:10 pm »

rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1072 on: 10 July, 2024, 05:05:22 pm »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9r3lr2l4zxo

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rogerzilla

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #1073 on: 11 July, 2024, 07:27:10 am »
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