Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners

[mark]

"Georgia Man" changes rules on new driving licenses:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/us/georgia-drivers-license-road-test-trnd/index.html

In USAnia, driver's licenses are sort of like the 2nd amendment "right" to have fire arms.

I live at the diagonally opposite corner of the nation.  I will drive with care when I see a car with a Georgia license plate.

The state of Georgia seems to have started trend:
https://fox6now.com/2020/05/05/wisconsin-dmv-waives-road-test-requirement-for-individuals-under-18-due-to-covid-19-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR14O75NjG6WnucPepeSElDsHAgX9SGIXaiosM45Sqt4ytv6Od1abkDqPQo

That's two states that I'm no longer interested in visiting, and two license plates for me to be extra careful of  while using the roads.

[Moleman76]

Former co-worker had this story from his driver's test:
They got to the parallel parking portion.  He asked the driving inspector "how many points is this worth, how many points do I have now, and how many do I need to pass?".
After getting the answer, he did the calculation and said "let's just skip that part.  Put down a zero. There is nowhere here in town that I would want to go to where I would have to parallel park".
Inspector let him get away with it.

[Moleman76]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/18/watermelon-head-shoplifters-rob-convenience-store/

and, no, they were in Virginia (names for Queen Elizabeth I), not Florida

[spesh]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/18/watermelon-head-shoplifters-rob-convenience-store/

and, no, they were in Virginia (names for Queen Elizabeth I), not Florida

So it's one of those rare occasions where you can get in trouble for not being out of your gourd?

[Paul]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/18/watermelon-head-shoplifters-rob-convenience-store/

and, no, they were in Virginia (names for Queen Elizabeth I), not Florida

So it's one of those rare occasions where you can get in trouble for not being out of your gourd?

Pipped to it.

[Jaded]

Address snafu

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-52843846

[spesh]

Address snafu

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-52843846

Saw that on the TV text news this morning - the judge's comments make for "understatement of the day". 

[spesh]

This story maybe isn't so crazy, but as this is the unofficial Florida news thread, here's a good a place as any other to post it.

Oh, #Florida! Graduating seniors in cap, gown & mask pick up their diplomas by riding a Jet Ski out to a boat where their masked principal hands it to them via reacher-grabber. https://flkeysnews.com/news/local/article243054601.html via @KeyWestGwen

https://twitter.com/craigtimes/status/1266353731622391808

[mark]

This story maybe isn't so crazy, but as this is the unofficial Florida news thread, here's a good a place as any other to post it.

Oh, #Florida! Graduating seniors in cap, gown & mask pick up their diplomas by riding a Jet Ski out to a boat where their masked principal hands it to them via reacher-grabber. https://flkeysnews.com/news/local/article243054601.html via @KeyWestGwen

https://twitter.com/craigtimes/status/1266353731622391808

Looks like a lot more fun than the typical high school graduation.

[T42]

This story maybe isn't so crazy, but as this is the unofficial Florida news thread, here's a good a place as any other to post it.

Oh, #Florida! Graduating seniors in cap, gown & mask pick up their diplomas by riding a Jet Ski out to a boat where their masked principal hands it to them via reacher-grabber. https://flkeysnews.com/news/local/article243054601.html via @KeyWestGwen

https://twitter.com/craigtimes/status/1266353731622391808

Looks like a lot more fun than the typical high school graduation.

WTF needs to "graduate" from high school?*  You did your A-levels, had a piss-up with your mates, enjoyed 3 months' holiday then buggered off to uni to do your liver in by Christmas.


* no, don't tell me. It'd be unsurprising if USAnians got certificates suitable for framing when they made it through potty training.

[rogerzilla]

After O-levels and A-levels, we just stopped going into school.

The only ceremony I remember was burning all our A-level workbooks in a friend's garden.

[tatanab]

After O-levels and A-levels, we just stopped going into school.

After O-Levels (1968) we still had to attend school until the end of term.  However, the days were often filled by visits to places of cultural interest such as the fire station.  I don't remember what happened after A levels.  In neither case did results come through the post, we had to go back to school to peer at a big notice board.  Certainly there was no ceremony or prom (nasty imported modern fashion).

[ian]

I thought the traditional British ceremony was poorly controlled bout of underaged drinking with your mates in the local pub that didn't ask too many questions. Or a party at one of your mates with obliging parents.

I remember my O levels because at that party I misplaced something I'd been really keen to misplace in the back seat of a Ford Fiesta. All said, given the region, I think that has me down as a slow starter.

[spesh]

I don't think anyone had this on their 2020 weird news bingo card...

Spanish porn star Nacho Vidal, who likes to advertise his aromatic candles shaped like male genitalia on Twitter, has been arrested on manslaughter charges following a man's death during a mystic ritual in which he inhaled psychedelic toad venom

https://twitter.com/WardieJerusalem/status/1268316960099573762

[Mr Larrington]

What happens if you put one of his candles next to one of the Gwyneth Paltrow ones?

[Cudzoziemiec]

What happens if you put one of his candles next to one of the Gwyneth Paltrow ones?

It's Christmas on YACF?

[hellymedic]

After O-levels and A-levels, we just stopped going into school.

After O-Levels (1968) we still had to attend school until the end of term.  However, the days were often filled by visits to places of cultural interest such as the fire station.  I don't remember what happened after A levels.  In neither case did results come through the post, we had to go back to school to peer at a big notice board.  Certainly there was no ceremony or prom (nasty imported modern fashion).

After O Levels, we started the A Level syllabus for the month of July.
After A Levels, I returned all my books, got signed out, returned to my bicycle, found the PF had visited and returned to the Chemistry Lab to patch the tube.

[Mr Larrington]

After my last A level exam we went to the pub.  At which point there was an humongous thunderstorm, the power went off and with it the BEER pumps.  We had to switch to Newky Brown.

[Cudzoziemiec]

After O-levels and A-levels, we just stopped going into school.

After O-Levels (1968) we still had to attend school until the end of term.  However, the days were often filled by visits to places of cultural interest such as the fire station.  I don't remember what happened after A levels.  In neither case did results come through the post, we had to go back to school to peer at a big notice board.  Certainly there was no ceremony or prom (nasty imported modern fashion).

After O Levels, we started the A Level syllabus for the month of July.
After A Levels, I returned all my books, got signed out, returned to my bicycle, found the PF had visited and returned to the Chemistry Lab to patch the tube.

Wouldn't really work now that it's not the default (though it might still be the most popular choice) for O Levels to be followed by A Levels at the same school.

[mattc]

I can't find a crazier thread to put these crazy americans in:

https://twitter.com/influencersitw/status/1268916126190272514

[quixoticgeek]

"The Bay Area saw no new COVID-19 deaths today for the first time in three weeks, a local bartender and spirits maker was arrested on child porn charges, and the Richmond man found eating his dead grandmother has been charged with her murder. https://sfist.com/2020/06/04/zero-new-covid-deaths-in-bay-area/"

That is not where I expected that tweet to end up...

J

[FifeingEejit]

When I was a tiny Mr Larrington we had a maths teacher who, having spent WW2 guarding tins of Spam at RAF Carnaby, considered himself the world's greatest expert on matters pertaining to military aviation.  One day he averred that "RAF pilots who eject twice are automatically grounded".  Young Nigel sticks his paw up.  "Please Sir, my Dad's ejected three times* and he's still flying!"

* once from a Jet Provost and twice from Jaguars

Oddly enough one of my school maths teachers had ejected and was working as a maths teacher because of it.

He said his memories of it were that one minute he was hurtling over the Moray Firth in his lightening and the next he was lying in a field, he did have a memory between the two but the official secrets act  prevented him telling us about it and then deflected questions by diverting onto one of our physics teachers knowing why chinooks fall out the sky with top brass on board. (I took this to be the mull of kintyre crash).

He was discharged from servuce due to being partly deaf as a result of the ejection.

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[ElyDave]

why is it always maths teachers?

[T42]

why is it always maths teachers?

Right enough. Our first-year algebra bloke started every lecture by correcting the errors in his previous lecture.  Fair enough, but he'd been delivering the same lectures for 17 years and transferred the corrections from lecture n+1 to lecture n.

[Legs]

why is it always maths teachers?

One of my A-Level maths teachers (the wonderfully-named Hammy Sparks) devoted the bare minimum of our lesson time to Pure Maths, and instead educated us on such diverse topics as the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway, the best places to eat out in London, the paddle steamer Waverley, Gilbert and Sullivan, water polo, and how to survive on a mountaintop if you find yourself to be naked.  He also had a collection of hexahexaflexagons decorated with snippings from 1970s 'art' magazines.

I think we all got As.