This story's a load of poop - over 4,500 metric tons of it...
http://wgntv.com/2018/04/04/train-hauling-10m-pounds-of-human-feces-stranded-in-alabama-town-god-help-us-if-it-gets-hot/
American Airlines has announced that reptiles, rodents, and goats will not be allowed to fly on their flights, even if they’re emotional support animals. These animals and a sizeable list of others have been banned from flying on the airline due to safety issues
That's got to be an excerpt from a new Carl Hiaasen novel. Hasn't it?
Police in Siberia have fined a local blogger for cruising the streets of Tyumen inside a bathtub, stirring a social media storm in his support.
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“Do whatever you want, they’re still going to judge you for the rest of your life,” he wrote in an Instagram post announcing his bathtub ride.
Tyumen traffic police said they saw the online images and fined both the driver and the bather for violating safety rules.
“The 29-year-old driver and the 32-year-old passenger of the self-made trailer admitted to committing an administrative offense, saying they just wanted to have fun,” the police said in a statement Tuesday.
The victim and his soldier friend, whose names have not been released, had fallen out and been fighting in the city of Dnipro in south-eastern Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast region. The soldier pulled the pin out of the grenade before running off, leaving the man holding down the lever while shouting for help. Pictures show a number of policemen surrounding him on the ground, bravely helping him hold onto the grenade’s safety lever, and at one point even using sticky tape to secure their hands to what they believed to be a live grenade about to go off
Foreigners go on holiday in their own country. (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-woman-81-claims-benidorm-13075153)
Foreigners go on holiday in their own country. (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-woman-81-claims-benidorm-13075153)I wonder1 how she voted in the Referendum?
That's got to be an excerpt from a new Carl Hiaasen novel. Hasn't it?
When Hallandale Beach Mayor Keith London said “sphincter bleaching is a very up and coming business,” during the City Commission’s budget discussion Monday night, he may have been right. But whether he thought anal bleach had anything to do with public safety budgets — the topic being discussed — remains unclear.
Why London thought it relevant, much less appropriate, to accuse a female commissioner of making her living from bleaching her own anus is even more baffling.
“Was it getting my sphincter bleached, is that what I earned my income for?” London said to Commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub, as the two exchanged personal attacks. “No that would be you.”
What did the mayor even mean by that? London couldn’t be reached for comment.
A fishmonger in Kuwait has been closed down for sticking googly eyes on fish to make them appear fresher.
A gas station owner in Jacksonville is extremely pissed that people keep warming their urine in the store microwave.
"They walk in off the street, microwave urine containers then, leave," said On the Fly (yes, that's the real name) convenience store owner Parlu Patel to WLTV.
According to the television station, the store is within walking distance of a LabCorp drug testing facility. For the unfamiliar, it's not uncommon for anyone who needs to pass a drug test to use someone else's urine, and to get away with it, it needs to be at least body temperature.
Patel has posted a sign that says, "Only for food use, do not microwave urine."
Man run over by lawn mower while trying to kill son with chainsawhttps://twitter.com/3onyourside/status/1050885186047631361
This one's not from Florida, as you might expect, but from Tennessee (unfortunately, access to the news site is yet another collateral casualty of the GDPR, but you should get the gist from the tweet).QuoteMan run over by lawn mower while trying to kill son with chainsawhttps://twitter.com/3onyourside/status/1050885186047631361
Florida woman faces an aggravated assault charge after authorities say she passed gas in line at a dollar store and pulled a knife on a man who complained about it. http://apne.ws/VSjGk2G #oddhttps://twitter.com/AP_Oddities/status/1068150347363950592
And back to the US state that already has more than its fair share of mentions...QuoteFlorida woman faces an aggravated assault charge after authorities say she passed gas in line at a dollar store and pulled a knife on a man who complained about it. http://apne.ws/VSjGk2G #oddhttps://twitter.com/AP_Oddities/status/1068150347363950592
The replies are a toot - sorry, I mean hoot.
“One of the questions ask if you are a terrorist and it must have jumped from No to Yes without me knowing," he said.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/john-stevenson-us-visa-ban-terrorist-esta-form-mistake-a8660441.html
"I even called border control in the US and gave them my passport details."
"They looked up my Esta number and said ‘you’re a terrorist’. I told them that I was 70 years old and I don’t even recognise what that means."
A married couple who bought a large house in the fields on the edge of Holzkirchen, south of Munich, are suing a farmer over the clanging cowbells on her cows, which graze in a neighbouring meadow.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46371208 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46371208)
It's not just British idiots who move to the country and start complaining about everythingQuoteA married couple who bought a large house in the fields on the edge of Holzkirchen, south of Munich, are suing a farmer over the clanging cowbells on her cows, which graze in a neighbouring meadow.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46371208 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46371208)
It's not just British idiots who move to the country and start complaining about everythingQuoteA married couple who bought a large house in the fields on the edge of Holzkirchen, south of Munich, are suing a farmer over the clanging cowbells on her cows, which graze in a neighbouring meadow.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46371208 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46371208)
I read that this morning. Not just the cow bells, but they are complaining about the smell of cow shit. Perhaps they should have gone to live in a pseudo country environment like a golf course.
It's not just British idiots who move to the country and start complaining about everythingOne of *their* neighbours needs to countersue, complaining about the smell of bullshit.QuoteA married couple who bought a large house in the fields on the edge of Holzkirchen, south of Munich, are suing a farmer over the clanging cowbells on her cows, which graze in a neighbouring meadow.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46371208 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46371208)
They seemed like pleasant neighbours at first, good at putting the bins out, kept their lawn mowed. Then we noticed this terrible smell. It took us a few days before we realised . . . they were full of it. Living next to them has become quite unbearable.
Apparently in U.K. law your right to enjoy your property without nuisance is above the rights of even persisting nuisance causing businesses. This is why many motorsport venues are struggling or have gone out of business.
Perhaps you should have all cycled there?Apparently in U.K. law your right to enjoy your property without nuisance is above the rights of even persisting nuisance causing businesses. This is why many motorsport venues are struggling or have gone out of business.
The Kimbolton kart circuit has only a limited number of race days, so when some infernal busybody from the local council saw a large number of cars parked at the track on a non-racing Sunday, he kicked up a fuss and the BHPC is now persona non grata at the venue. Yes, it's our fault for our non-engines not disturbing the peace.
Perhaps you should have all cycled there?Apparently in U.K. law your right to enjoy your property without nuisance is above the rights of even persisting nuisance causing businesses. This is why many motorsport venues are struggling or have gone out of business.
The Kimbolton kart circuit has only a limited number of race days, so when some infernal busybody from the local council saw a large number of cars parked at the track on a non-racing Sunday, he kicked up a fuss and the BHPC is now persona non grata at the venue. Yes, it's our fault for our non-engines not disturbing the peace.
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surely!
An Irish Jack Sparrow impersonator who married the ghost of a pirate has revealed she has split from her 300-year-old hubby.
Earlier this year Amanda Sparrow Large, 46, said she’d found her “soulmate” in a Haitian pirate from the 1700s who was executed for thieving on the high seas.
The loved-up couple were legally married by a shaman priest in a boat off the Irish coast in international waters.
But now the mum from Drogheda, Co Louth, has revealed the unlikely union is over.
From a Judge’s Order today in Mobile County, AL:https://twitter.com/associatesmind/status/1075107452369149954
“Please don’t expect a quick reset because...the 13th Circuit is so dead-ass broke.”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuuMhtAUcAEyFQh.jpg
OMG.https://twitter.com/associatesmind/status/1075029343775219712
Actual quote from a lawyer in a depo:
"At this point in time, a man who insults on a daily basis everybody he does business with has now been elected President of the United States. The standards have changed. I’ll say what I want."
Mobile... only just across the state line from Florida. Just sayin'.
Continuing the theme of cranky court filings...
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The Twitter account who posted that has a screenshot of zinger of a court filing in his pinned tweet: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-BY7IMXoAAlrcX.jpg ;D
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They don't need drones in Canada...
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/musical-instrument-mistaken-for-rifle-sparks-police-lockdown-at-canada-airport-a4023261.html
Not just the cow bells, but they are complaining about the smell
That old rhetorical question about bosky ursine toilet habits needs a re-write:
https://www.thefix.com/content/russian-bears-hooked-jet-fuel91494
That old rhetorical question about bosky ursine toilet habits needs a re-write:
https://www.thefix.com/content/russian-bears-hooked-jet-fuel91494
I have read somewhere that BEARs are just crazy about any refined petroleum products, to the extent that they will drink motor oil if they can get their paws on it. OTOH grizzlies hate getting their ears wet.
India scientists dismiss Einstein theories (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-46778879)
India scientists dismiss Einstein theories (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-46778879)
Your comfort food prayers are answered, mac and cheese lovers.
Costco has blessed us with a 27-pound “Storage Bucket” of the ooey-gooey good stuff containing 180 servings. This gluttonous golden opportunity is helpfully listed under “Emergency Kits & Supplies” on the Costco (https://www.costco.com/.product.100108871.html) website.
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Although it’s actually been around on the down low for a few years, this cheesy pasta product is suddenly so popular (https://people.com/food/costco-27-pound-mac-and-cheese-bucket/) that it’s temporarily out of stock.
Pah! Every day I walk past a 50-gallon drum of mango chutney (sadly depleted, it's now used a planter).
That must have required a serious order of poppodoms.
India scientists dismiss Einstein theories (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-46778879)
"... ancient Hindus invented stem cell research." ;D
Goodness gracious me (https://www.google.co.uk/search?source=hp&ei=Y4c0XLG_Do-Oa96PlZgN&q=goodness+gracious+me+made+in+india&oq=goodness+gracious+me+invented+&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i22i30.821.15390..17607...2.0..0.131.2891.26j6......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0j0i131j33i160j33i21.mGwUI9f6ZEk)!
Wichita Falls PD: Woman riding cart drinking wine from Pringles can barred from Walmart
Wichita Falls police received a rather unique call Friday morning involving a woman drinking wine in a Walmart parking lot.
Employees requested officers to ban a woman from the local Walmart store after she reportedly had been drinking wine from a Pringles can for several hours while riding on an electric cart.
On a recent Monday afternoon, Joie Henney walked into the Glatfelter Community Center at the Village at Sprenkle Drive, an assisted-living development north of York, with his emotional support animal on a leash.
He walked by an elderly woman sitting on a bench by a window, reading a book. The woman glanced up from her book, took a look at Joie's emotional support animal, shrugged and went back to her book.
Which seemed kind of unusual. Joie’s emotional support animal is a 4-1/2 foot alligator. There must be some currency to the adage that if you live long enough, you’ll see everything.
Obviously a new fashion. Last week we had a dromedary (one hump or two, vicar?) on the railway line from Melun to Montargis. People were complaining that the trains were delayed, but folk who'd been to both places were chanting "send more dromedaries". Anyway, initial consensus made it a one-L lama until experts from the Légion Etrangère intervened.It was in no hurry, just dalai-ing.
Obviously a new fashion. Last week we had a dromedary (one hump or two, vicar?) on the railway line from Melun to Montargis. People were complaining that the trains were delayed, but folk who'd been to both places were chanting "send more dromedaries". Anyway, initial consensus made it a one-L lama until experts from the Légion Etrangère intervened.Is it illegal to ride a dromedary near an airport?
Where "crazy" doesn't mean "normal for Florida" but "even Aussies think you're insane". :o :facepalm:I’d like to know how humans have managed to survive in Australia. I mean it seems to me that at least half the animals there just want to kill you.
https://www.dailymercury.com.au/news/unwitting-tourist-holds-deadly-animal-on-australia/3633869/
Alabama police say a dispute over crab legs at a dinner buffet ended in a brawl that left two people facing misdemeanor charges.
Huntsville police officer Gerald Johnson says he was eating at the Meteor Buffet restaurant when a fight broke out.
Johnson tells WHNT-TV that diners were using service tongs like fencing swords and plates were shattering, and a woman was beating a man. Johnson says diners had been waiting in line for crab legs for more than 10 minutes, and they lost their tempers once the food came out.
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1101198880635609090
Axe throwing and alcohol.... a winning combination... :jurek:
https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan/status/1102289910562607104
Florida. Cycling. Crazy stuff.
It must be something they put in the orange juice down there.https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan/status/1102289910562607104
Florida. Cycling. Crazy stuff.
We could just link to Florida Man's Twitter and lock the thread... ;D
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6777961/Billionaire-diamond-trader-65-dies-penis-enlargement-surgery.html
:facepalm:
This is the most 2019 thing ever. Love that it’s reported by Daily Fail.https://twitter.com/ninaandtito/status/1103515600339447808
Diamonds
Belgian-Israeli Billionaire with a teeny weenie complex
Death by Penis enlargement surgery
Reported by Propaganda Outlet
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6777961/Billionaire-diamond-trader-65-dies-penis-enlargement-surgery.html
:facepalm:
Wish those journalists used the correct words!
He diid NOT start work as a 'masseuse'!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6777961/Billionaire-diamond-trader-65-dies-penis-enlargement-surgery.htmlnow we know how the world will be rid of Drumpf
:facepalm:
Two Arkansas men have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault after police say they shot each other while taking turns wearing a bulletproof vest.
Florida man threatens to release army of turtles upon arrest: report http://bit.ly/2UtRPBghttps://twitter.com/orlandosentinel/status/1115952835307425793
Man detained in China for giving dogs 'illegal' names
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-48269181 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-48269181)
Fuckin' A.
Start-up mobility company Cangoroo announced plans to deploy hundreds of pogo sticks in select cities including San Francisco to compete with electric scooters as a transportation option.https://twitter.com/KPIXtv/status/1134688276542042112
When Adam Gerle went to work one morning this week, he was thrilled to finally find a parcel with a frozen big toe in it.
Gerle is the general manger of the Downtown Hotel (https://downtownhotel.ca/) in Dawson City, Canada, which is world-renowned for an extremely gross traditional drink - the Sourtoe Cocktail.
Since 1973, visitors of the Yukon bars have been challenged to drink a shot of whiskey with a mummified human toe floating inside. To join the club -- and get a certificate from the bar -- the drinkers' lips must touch the toe. Over 86,000 Sourtoe Cocktails have been served since.
The latest big toe to reach the hotel belonged to Nick Griffiths, a former British Marine who lost it during a winter ultra marathon in 2018, according to a statement by Downtown Hotel.
Griffiths, 47, dropped out of the 2018 Yukon Arctic Ultra after he got frostbite on his left foot due to temperatures dropping to minus 40.
While in hospital, the Briton offered to donate the toes to the hotel "in the hopes of returning to the Yukon to do the Sourtoe Cocktail with his own toe," the statement says.
"Whomsoever pulls this knife from the alligator's head shall become King of all Texas!"
This Unit managed to pass through Dawson City last year without succumbing to the Sourtoe business, because alcohol ;)
Speaking of alligators, and Florida...
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/florida-couple-use-alligator-for-gender-reveal-party-a4166926.html
At least using an alligator is slightly less environmentally irresponsible than the Arizona Border Patrol agent who shot at an explosive target in 2017, starting a wildfire... :facepalm:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/border-patrol-agent-pleads-guilty-starting-wildfire-fire-gender-reveal-n915441
An Alabama man wanted on drug and gun charges, who authorities said kept an "attack squirrel" in his apartment, denied allegations that he fed his squirrel meth to "keep it aggressive."
"Narcotics investigators arrested one man and are looking for another after they executed a search warrant Monday that yielded meth, drug paraphernalia, body armor, and a squirrel," said a statement from the Limestone County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday.
Investigators searched an Athens, Alabama, apartment Monday after getting a tip that Mickey Paulk, 35, was keeping a methamphetamine-fueled "attack squirrel" at the residence, the statement said.
I say we should exit and go it alone, where we can call a vegie burger by it's true name - seasoned hockey puck
So though for breakfast she makes coffee that tastes like sham-poo,
I come home for dinner and get peanut butter stew,
Or, if I'm in luck,
It's broiled hockey puck,
But, oh well, what the hell,
She's my girl,
And I love her.
In mortal combat I am joined
With monstrous words wherever coined
"Beefburger" is a term worth hating,
Both fraudulent and infuriating,
Contrived to foster the belief
That only beefburgers are made of beef
Implying with shoddy flim and flam
That hamburgers are made of ham
apparently the EU is working alomng similar lines
veggie burger = veggie patty
veggie sausage = veggie tube
I say we should exit and go it alone, where we can call a vegie burger by it's true name - seasoned hockey puck
[NOTE: may contain traces of politics]
Moar "gender reveal party" tomfoolery, this time courtesy of Captain Cook's Mistake
I can understand why someone might be veggie and crave meat – if you're not eating meat for ethical reasons for instance – it's possible to crave a burger (and bacon, oh bacon). I've no issue with substitutes in general if they address that need, just that some of them aren't very good. Others are reasonable if not quite the same (Cauldren veggies sausages for instance, which I still wolf down in quantity). The Impossible Burger I had wasn't a bad substitution, but you'd not muddle it for a good cow burger, but it's probably a better bet than the cheap and nasty sawdust burger. I think it tried too hard, and to be honest, there's perfectly good veggie burgers that are fine as they are.
Moar "gender reveal party" tomfoolery, this time courtesy of Captain Cook's Mistake
Uhoh. If it's spread to the antipodeans, it's just a matter of time before BRITONS start doing it.
Two people were arrested after a traffic stop of a stolen car revealed the two had a rattlesnake, radioactive uranium, and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe.https://twitter.com/kfor/status/1149239648801214464
Picture the Iowa Department of Human Services director rollin’.
The Associated Press (https://apnews.com/c7ae931fae0f4bc1a0fe3386e4b5bc38?utm_medium=AP_Oddities&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow) reported on Tuesday that 66-year-old Jerry Foxhoven was asked to resign after repeatedly declaring his unwavering dedication to ’90s rapper Tupac and his music during work hours.
During his two-year tenure, the Tupac super-fan held “Tupac Fridays” in his office, handed out Tupac-themed cookies on his 65th birthday (some of which were decorated with the words “Thug life”) and regularly traded Tupac lyrics with staffers.
Moar "gender reveal party" tomfoolery, this time courtesy of Captain Cook's Mistake
Uhoh. If it's spread to the antipodeans, it's just a matter of time before BRITONS start doing it.
Moar "gender reveal party" tomfoolery, this time courtesy of Captain Cook's Mistake
Uhoh. If it's spread to the antipodeans, it's just a matter of time before BRITONS start doing it.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48316053241_86e4474856_b.jpg)
Oh
Fuck
:hand:
What could *possibly* go wrong? :facepalm:
L literally ol. ;D
What could *possibly* go wrong? :facepalm:
Nothing, they all reveal that the parents are neuter.
Walked past this sign today with my son, who wasn't familiar with the "gender reveal" concept. He interpreted it as "astrological fireworks": you set them off and they tell you, presumably through colour or maybe shape or something, whether the baby you're expecting is a boy or girl. Which is ridiculous but possibly a better idea...Moar "gender reveal party" tomfoolery, this time courtesy of Captain Cook's Mistake
Uhoh. If it's spread to the antipodeans, it's just a matter of time before BRITONS start doing it.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48316053241_86e4474856_b.jpg)
Oh
Fuck
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49334422
Those grooves in the snow. Parallel. Ski tracks?
Reminds me of this:https://www.adaptnetwork.com/sports/climb/monty-python-climbing-north-face-uxbridge-road/Or Batman.
It was kind of like Christmas — except it was August, the only presents were vintage television sets, and Santa had a TV on his head.
Residents of more than 50 households in Henrico County, Va., woke up this weekend to find old-style TVs outside their doorsteps, said Matt Pecka, a lieutenant with the local police department. Pecka said police began receiving reports about the TVs early Sunday. By the morning, their phones were clogged with calls.
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Each home received exactly one TV, carefully placed so it faced inward toward the door, ... Some deliveries were caught on residents’ doorbell cameras — and that’s where things got truly bizarre.
The givers had TVs instead of faces.
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“We determined there was no credible threat to residents and that this was strictly an inconvenience,” Pecka said. “It was” — (long pause) — “unique.”
It’s not the first time this has happened. There was a similar TV delivery last year in Glen Allen, in the Grey Oaks neighborhood in Henrico County. The TVs appeared around the same time of year — in late August — but there were fewer of them, Pecka said.
CBS 6 News reported that about 20 TVs were left on Glen Allen porches on Aug. 23 last year. Henrico police looked into the unexpected gifts, according to CBS 6, but never identified the giver — and, unlike in the Hampshire neighborhood, there appeared to be no video footage.
;Dhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49334422
Those grooves in the snow. Parallel. Ski tracks?
It depends how steep the slope really is. If it's as steep as Charlet (Woerth's guide) states, then they are probably tracks made by snow/ice/stones rolling down.
;Dhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49334422
Those grooves in the snow. Parallel. Ski tracks?
It depends how steep the slope really is. If it's as steep as Charlet (Woerth's guide) states, then they are probably tracks made by snow/ice/stones rolling down.
No. They are ski tracks. That's the sort of surface you get at the end of a fast run before people turn off and after the slope levels out. Nicknack and Mark have it right!
Edited to add: If you look at the 'horizontal image' in particular, you can see either the remnants of tyre tracks or of boot prints in the picture. Look towards the bottom left corner.
Someone left old TVs outside 50 homes in Virginia while wearing a TV on his head. No one knows why. :D
In the latest installment of near-unimaginable Florida news, a 74-year-old Sebring man has been arrested for allegedly performing a botched castration surgery on another man he’d met online through a fetish website, deputies said Tuesday.
Gary Van Ryswyk was charged with the second-degree felony of practicing medicine without a license resulting in bodily injury, deputies said.
Well the moon landing took place as we all know.....
https://giphy.com/gifs/VGskvlH0D3UGnhouco/html5 (https://giphy.com/gifs/VGskvlH0D3UGnhouco/html5)
Is it not possible to post a Gif?
The German city of Bielefeld is offering a million Euros to anyone who can prove that the city does not exist.
https://www.thelocal.de/20190823/why-is-germanys-bielefeld-offering-1-million-to-anyone-who-proves-it-doesnt-exist
The German city of Bielefeld is offering a million Euros to anyone who can prove that the city does not exist.
https://www.thelocal.de/20190823/why-is-germanys-bielefeld-offering-1-million-to-anyone-who-proves-it-doesnt-exist
I'm probably ineligible for that, because I've been there. It was the first time I ever travelled on a train.
While on the subject of places apparently not existing - or at least, going missing from maps...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/24/russia-today-puts-japan-on-the-map-where-new-zealand-should-be
Nasa is reported to be investigating a claim that an astronaut accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse from the International Space Station, in what may be the first allegation of a crime committed in space.
Anne McClain acknowledges accessing the account from the ISS but denies any wrongdoing, the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain.html) reports.
Her estranged spouse, Summer Worden, reportedly filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.
Having a cardiac arrest during sex on a business trip can be considered a "workplace accident", Paris Court of Appeal has ruled.
The ruling came about after a Frenchman, who was a safety technician, went on a business trip in northwest France and died while having sex with an unknown woman.
His employer, construction specialists TSO, argued that because the incident happened after his working hours and because he died in a room different than the hotel room reserved for him, it should not be held liable for the death, said the court statement seen by Euronews.
The Kim in question is everyone's favourite chubby despot, not our Kim of geekiness.
A new unit of measurement in the world of engineering: the Kim head. The Kim in question is everyone's favourite chubby despot, not our Kim of geekiness. This implement of the democratic people's republican will to spread pacific enlightenment across the Pacific has a calibre of 3.825 Kim heads.
(https://bi.im-g.pl/im/b7/03/18/z25181367IH,Glowa-Kima-jako-sposob-na-zmierzenie-kalibru-rakie.jpg)
I'll leave this here
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/09/12/russian-priests-dump-holy-water-from-airplane-to-cure-drunkenness-and-fornication-a67259
No, I've no idea if it is a spoof site and I've no interest to find out.
I'll leave this here
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/09/12/russian-priests-dump-holy-water-from-airplane-to-cure-drunkenness-and-fornication-a67259
No, I've no idea if it is a spoof site and I've no interest to find out.
The Moscow Times is one of the few relatively independent media outlets in Russia, so I'd say that's gen.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/moscow-times/
I'll leave this here
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/09/12/russian-priests-dump-holy-water-from-airplane-to-cure-drunkenness-and-fornication-a67259
No, I've no idea if it is a spoof site and I've no interest to find out.
Two Amish men drinking spiked iced tea in a horse and buggy that had a 12-pack of Michelob Ultra sitting on top of it escaped police after being pulled over, deputies in Ohio sayhttps://twitter.com/CNN/status/1174597009703092224
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/18/us/amish-men-drinking-and-driving-trnd/index.html
Dorpat, Kovno & Vilna - ahhh, I remember them! But they'd changed the names by the time I got there, & taken away the border between Kovno & Vilna.While on the subject of places apparently not existing - or at least, going missing from maps...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/24/russia-today-puts-japan-on-the-map-where-new-zealand-should-be
Then there's this one, used by $US_GOVERNMENT_DEPARTMENT:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48616542882_cb580440cd_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2h55uqA)
Ye Mappe (https://flic.kr/p/2h55uqA) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
No, it wasn't an historical article.
Looks like the robots are shaping up well..."Their alert buttons have not yet been activated." :facepalm:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/04/police-robot-told-woman-go-away-tried-report-crime-sang-song-10864648/
when the headline starts with "Florida man … "
when the headline starts with "Florida man … "My work here is done. ;D
when the headline starts with "Florida man … "My work here is done. ;D
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/trump-new-york-florida-primary-residence.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/trump-new-york-florida-primary-residence.html)
Perhaps he wants to take credit for all of the crazed things "Florida Man" is about to do
One of the many awesome things about Halloween in Japan is the annual "Mundane Halloween" costume contest sponsored by website @dailyportalz
The goal is to dress up like some mundane, everyday situation.
Here is a thread of my favorites from this year!
The kit, labelled by manufacturers as the ‘best baby gender reveal ever’, involves parents-to-be firing a rifle at an explosive powder-filled tub which bursts in a blast of blue or pink.How very...
QuoteThe kit, labelled by manufacturers as the ‘best baby gender reveal ever’, involves parents-to-be firing a rifle at an explosive powder-filled tub which bursts in a blast of blue or pink.How very...
On some massively fundamental level I just don't get the entire 'gender reveal' thing.
Canada's Quebec province has denied immigrant status to a French citizen because she was unable to demonstrate adequate French-language proficiency.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50241254 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50241254)
QuoteCanada's Quebec province has denied immigrant status to a French citizen because she was unable to demonstrate adequate French-language proficiency.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50241254 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50241254)
??? :facepalm:
I think it's more that she failed to demonstrate sufficient anglophobic zeal.
QuoteCanada's Quebec province has denied immigrant status to a French citizen because she was unable to demonstrate adequate French-language proficiency.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50241254 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50241254)
??? :facepalm:
Pedantic, perhaps, but being a citizen does not necessarily mean fluency in the language...
Quebec has some weird arrangement re language to 'prevent the dilution' of Québécois culture...
Known to translators all over: to try and keep their version of French 'pure', the Québécois government produced one of the best multi-lingual terminology dictionaries in the world:
http://www.granddictionnaire.com/
"Prof Sokolov reportedly told police that he killed his lover during an argument and then sawed off her head, arms and legs.
He is said to have planned to get rid of the body before a public suicide, dressed as Napoleon."
How can someone so ingenious be such an idiot?
How can someone so ingenious be such an idiot?
I think it's more that she failed to demonstrate sufficient anglophobic zeal.
I'm sure cows in VR (while being cut up for meat) was a feature of some forgettable music video from the late 90s.HHGTTG? Restaurant at the end of the universe
Continuing the animal theme;D :thumbsup: :D
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-50576398/pushy-pig-steals-spotlight-during-live-tv-broadcast
News: The US Treasury Department has announced sanctions against a Russian-based cybercriminal organization called "Evil Corp."https://twitter.com/ZcohenCNN/status/1202608121228791808
(Yes, that is really the name of the group)
NBC News: The U.S. Treasury has linked one of the primary people charged in the massive cyber crime indictment unsealed today with the Russian Federal Security Service (the FSB).https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1202613919329800192
Maksim Yakubets AKA "Aqua" has been linked to "Evil Corp" the group behind the scheme as well.
https://cat.elpais.com/cat/2016/12/27/actualidad/1482850562_452596.html (https://cat.elpais.com/cat/2016/12/27/actualidad/1482850562_452596.html)
Have a crappy Christmas :D
Florida police are investigating why jars of preserved human tongues were found under the floorboards of a Gainesville homehttps://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1229912996782264322
Ahh, politics. United, divisive, and smells like the same old shit. Burn it down and start over with a revolutionary new scented candle!
Featuring a subtle bouquet of profits over people, nothing ever changes, well whaddabout, also guns are actually people, and if you don't like it maybe you should move to Canada! between layers of actual real deal dehydrated horse shit.
Perfect for family gatherings, comment sections, séances, and unprompted conversations in line at the convenience store.
Six-year-old girl arrested at Florida school
olice bodycam footage released on 25 February has captured the moment a visibly distressed child was arrested at her school in Orlando, Florida in September 2019.
The six-year-old girl was restrained with zip ties and escorted to a waiting police car after misbehaving in class....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-51638871/six-year-old-girl-arrested-at-florida-school (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-51638871/six-year-old-girl-arrested-at-florida-school)
Waukesha Blotter: A woman was performing a spiritual ritual on a dead opossum in the road at Springdale & Bluemound by throwing goldfish & windshield washer fluid on it. She then pulled out a Packers lawn chair and yelled “repent” at the dead animal.
Any time I start to think i might be living in a simulation I see something like this and it puts my mind at ease. A computer program couldn't make something that batshit crazy up.https://twitter.com/Fake_AndrewB/status/1232393914910330880
People are focusing on the wrong details in this story. What did the opossum do in life that it had reason to repent?https://twitter.com/ProphetScience/status/1232453031586742272
Here in WIskey we make Florida man look sane. Remember we are the state that gave you Ed Gein & Jeffrey Dahmer. We had a masked man have oral sex with a horse & a woman who took a crap in a box by a register in Kmart. Elmwood is the UFO capital of the world. We have a werewolf & the infamous Hodag of Rhinelander. And the cops pulled over the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile for a traffic violation a few weeks ago.https://twitter.com/The_Kat_Roars/status/1232487768590364678
Isn't it time Florida had its own thread?QuoteSix-year-old girl arrested at Florida school
olice bodycam footage released on 25 February has captured the moment a visibly distressed child was arrested at her school in Orlando, Florida in September 2019.
The six-year-old girl was restrained with zip ties and escorted to a waiting police car after misbehaving in class....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-51638871/six-year-old-girl-arrested-at-florida-school (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-51638871/six-year-old-girl-arrested-at-florida-school)
He then told the school administrators that the youngest person he ever arrested previously was 7 years old, a boy who he had caught stealing at a supermarket. He said he arrested the boy because he “thought it was a joke” while the other children caught in the act had started crying.
Officials have said that Turner also arrested a 6-year-old boy at Nixon Academy the same day as Kaia for misdemeanor battery in an unrelated incident. However, the boy’s arrest was halted by superiors before the child made it through the full arrest process.
Details about the boy’s arrest have not been made public.
The following day, prosecutors dropped the charge against Kaia.
Orlando Police Department officials have said Turner violated agency policy on arresting children younger than 12, which requires officers to get a supervisor’s approval — something Turner did not do. However, his decision was not illegal as Florida currently does not have a minimum age for arrest.
Over the course of Turner’s 23-year tenure at OPD prior to retiring last year, he was disciplined seven times for violations of department policy that ranged from unsafe driving to a child-abuse arrest in which he was accused of injuring his 7-year-old son, record released Tuesday showed. He was also accused of sending threatening text messages to his ex-wife in 2009 and racial profiling, records show.
https://twitter.com/TokyoFashion/status/1233403354908246017
https://twitter.com/TokyoFashion/status/1233403354908246017
Given how much your thighs would be hurting if you had to ride standing up all the way home or to the LBS, that's actually quite evil.
Hanging's too good for him. :demon: ;)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51680049
Ignoring the obvious question of what they though would happen when you dump 25kg of dry ice into a swimming pool, there's something quintessentially Russian about being able to obtain industrial quantities of the stuff on a "this pool's a bit warm" whim.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51680049
Ignoring the obvious question of what they thought would happen when you dump 25kg of dry ice into a swimming pool, there's something quintessentially Russian about being able to obtain industrial quantities of the stuff on a "this pool's a bit warm" whim.
Indeed, generally, it will self-limit, and in a well-ventilated space, will sink and disperse. The smoke isn't carbon dioxide, it's mostly condensing water, which will freeze on the surface of the dry ice. Chucking it in a large volume of warm water though will prevent this and the dry ice will likely be entirely converted to gaseous carbon dioxide. Pool complexes are not renowned for their ventilation, no one wants a cold draft when they're in their speedos.You've a grown-up tidy-haired job now, so just come to grips with it.
Back in my science days, we used to have a fair quantity of the stuff, it was standard to extract and purify nucleotide metabolites in a freon-113/percholorate/tri-n-octylamine phase on dry ice. I miss having fun with chemicals.
Also if you put a small amount of dry ice in a sealed Eppendorf tube and then dropped it in someone's lab coat pocket, about 30 seconds later it would make a loud pop as it exploded. Endless fun.We need more people like you to propogate the fun aspects of the real world.
The best part of the freon/perchlorate extraction was that it would fume like a witch's cauldron and frankly is precisely what science should look like. It would also instil an appropriate level of fear in the work-slave students we used to deploy to clean up radioactivity spills and organic solvents.
The inevitable wiksand has lead me to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
(Sovietparticle acceleratoraccidents are almost by definition on-topic.)
He was able to function well, excepting occasional complex partial seizures and rare tonic-clonic seizures.
The inevitable wiksand has lead me to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
(Sovietparticle acceleratoraccidents are almost by definition on-topic.)
Исправлено это для вас. ;)
The inevitable wiksand has lead me to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
(Sovietparticle acceleratoraccidents are almost by definition on-topic.)
Исправлено это для вас. ;)
В Советской России ошибки исправляют вас.
Soviet joke: An American robot is sent on to the roof of the burning Chernobyl reactor building. It functions for 6 minutes before failing. So a better robot, a German one, is sent up. It manages 12 minutes before the radiation fries its circuitry. Then a Japanese robot is sent up, which lasts 15 minutes but it too fails. So the decision is taken to use the top secret Soviet military robot, even though the world's press is observing. After two hours, it is still going strong! So the platoon commander gives the order: "Okay Ivan Alekseievich, you can come down now for a break and a cigarette."
... the most highly radioactive materials were shoveled by Chernobyl liquidators from the military wearing heavy protective gear (dubbed "bio-robots" by the military); these soldiers could only spend a maximum of 40–90 seconds working on the rooftops of the surrounding buildings because of the extremely high doses of radiation given off by the blocks of graphite and other debris. Though the soldiers were only supposed to perform the role of the "bio-robot" a maximum of once, some soldiers reported having done this task five or six times. Only 10% of the debris cleared from the roof was performed by robots with the other 90% removed by approximately 5,000 men who absorbed, on average, an estimated dose of 25 rem (250 mSv) of radiation each.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Debris_removal
Like many Soviet jokes, it is a recounting of actual events.Soviet joke: An American robot is sent on to the roof of the burning Chernobyl reactor building. It functions for 6 minutes before failing. So a better robot, a German one, is sent up. It manages 12 minutes before the radiation fries its circuitry. Then a Japanese robot is sent up, which lasts 15 minutes but it too fails. So the decision is taken to use the top secret Soviet military robot, even though the world's press is observing. After two hours, it is still going strong! So the platoon commander gives the order: "Okay Ivan Alekseievich, you can come down now for a break and a cigarette."
Ouch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_liquidators
I'm reminded of an old Heinlein story, where a ships fatally radioactive Torch Drive needs repair & the engineering officers JFDI, to get the other crew & passengers to safety. Also Niven's "Lucifer's Hammer", where an engineer walks into a cloud of live steam to save a reactor.
As far as healthcare goes, that twat should be given the same place in the queue as he occupied when the brains were being handed out.
Foreigners go on holiday in their own country. (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-woman-81-claims-benidorm-13075153)
Florida Man parked these cars (https://jalopnik.com/over-3-500-rental-cars-lost-in-airport-fire-probably-i-1842707329?utm_campaign=Jalopnik&utm_content=1586200238&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR036QAFyXNgmQp3F3r7Nw3v3Ol_1uP9QTh0aaAYMfQ2_6ww-ejaalodfmg)
Kmart and Target stores in Australia have closed their changing rooms as part of social distancing measures but they're still open and selling clothes. So they're now having to tell customers not to try clothes on in the aisles. ::-)
Fly free, Gaston!
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/09/frenchman_ejected_fighter_jet_retirement_jolly/
Florida has ruled that WWE is an essential service, putting professional wrestling on an equal footing with hospitals, law enforcement and grocery stores.
WWE, which films shows and events at two locations in Florida, was initially shut down after Republican governor Ron DeSantis put the state under a shelter-in-place order during the Covid-19 pandemic. But Orange county mayor Jerry Demings said that after “some conversation” with DeSantis’s office, the decision was changed.
In an order signed on Thursday, the Florida Division of Emergency Management ruled that essential services now include “employees at a professional sports and media production with a national audience – including any athletes, entertainers, production team, executive team, media team and any others necessary to facilitate including services supporting such production – only if the location is closed to the general public”.
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
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
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
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
Bill Langworthy. I knew his brother, Dick, during the Falklands punch-up. He managed to bounce the one and only remaining Chinook (BN) off the sea one night and got away with it!
Why crash just your own car into a house when you can crash the resident's car as well?
https://www.thedrive.com/news/33047/impaired-ford-mustang-driver-smashes-house-twice-with-two-cars-in-legendary-crime-spree
Fumigating beaches in the middle of the breeding season for birds ... is not one of Trump's ideas. It is happening in Zahara de los Atunes
Spare a thought for all the Saff Effrikaan home bakers wondering where all the yeast and sugar had gone...
https://twitter.com/BrentLindeque/status/1251916285476102145
"Georgia Man" changes rules on new driving licenses:A bit more than 10 years ago, Indian driving licences became recognized in the USA. This makes Georgia's decision almost sensible in comparison.
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.
"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.
(https://www.dictionary.com/e/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/whisky_tango_foxtrot4.jpg):D
"Georgia Man" changes rules on new driving licenses:A bit more than 10 years ago, Indian driving licences became recognized in the USA. This makes Georgia's decision almost sensible in comparison.
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.
Sadly (or luckily for everyone else on the road) a US licence only lasts for 12 months in the UK.When I moved to the USA, Washington State, as a resident I did not know how long my UK licence would remain valid, so I took my test about a week after a massive drop of snow. A couple of years later I moved to California and had to take a local test. I think you have 10 days to do that before your out of state licence becomes invalid. I only had to take the theory part, but I was lucky to pass since many of my questions were about things I'd glossed over in the manual because they do not concern me, such as "what is the alcohol limit for an under 21". Along the same lines, I went to a branch of my WA bank only to be told that I could not deposit money with them since my account was out of state. I quickly came to the conclusion that there is nothing much united about the United States. I've been back in the UK 20 years.
Sadly (or luckily for everyone else on the road) a US licence only lasts for 12 months in the UK.
When I moved to the USA, Washington State, as a resident I did not know how long my UK licence would remain valid, so I took my test about a week after a massive drop of snow. A couple of years later I moved to California and had to take a local test. I think you have 10 days to do that before your out of state licence becomes invalid. I only had to take the theory part, but I was lucky to pass since many of my questions were about things I'd glossed over in the manual because they do not concern me, such as "what is the alcohol limit for an under 21". Along the same lines, I went to a branch of my WA bank only to be told that I could not deposit money with them since my account was out of state. I quickly came to the conclusion that there is nothing much united about the United States. I've been back in the UK 20 years.
This Unit managed to pass through Dawson City last year without succumbing to the Sourtoe business, because alcohol ;)
Shirley, there should a designated driver toe opportunity. It's only fair.
When I moved to the USA, Washington State, as a resident I did not know how long my UK licence would remain valid, so I took my test about a week after a massive drop of snow. A couple of years later I moved to California and had to take a local test. I think you have 10 days to do that before your out of state licence becomes invalid. I only had to take the theory part, but I was lucky to pass since many of my questions were about things I'd glossed over in the manual because they do not concern me, such as "what is the alcohol limit for an under 21". Along the same lines, I went to a branch of my WA bank only to be told that I could not deposit money with them since my account was out of state. I quickly came to the conclusion that there is nothing much united about the United States. I've been back in the UK 20 years.
"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.
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
Pipped to it.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? ;D
Address snafu
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-52843846
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 @KeyWestGwenhttps://twitter.com/craigtimes/status/1266353731622391808
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.QuoteOh, #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 @KeyWestGwenhttps://twitter.com/craigtimes/status/1266353731622391808
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.QuoteOh, #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 @KeyWestGwenhttps://twitter.com/craigtimes/status/1266353731622391808
Looks like a lot more fun than the typical high school graduation.
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).
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 venomhttps://twitter.com/WardieJerusalem/status/1268316960099573762
What happens if you put one of his candles next to one of the Gwyneth Paltrow ones?It's Christmas on YACF?
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).
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.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.
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!"Oddly enough one of my school maths teachers had ejected and was working as a maths teacher because of it.
* once from a Jet Provost and twice from Jaguars
why is it always maths teachers?
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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexagon) decorated with snippings from 1970s 'art' magazines.
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.Why were you keen on misplacing your something in the back seat of a Ford Fiesta?
"The inedible watermelons"
Square melonsWhat to think about a woman who chooses one of those...
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200624/p2g/00m/0na/070000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200624/p2g/00m/0na/070000c)
A Real Housewives of New Jersey star’s ex-husband allegedly hired a member of the Lucchese Crime Family "to assault his ex-wife’s then-boyfriend in exchange for a deeply discounted wedding reception.”https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1277989536723861506
Rooftop cycle track in India:
https://www.dezeen.com/2020/07/12/nudes-forest-school-in-pune-architecture-india/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dezeen%20Weekly%20677&utm_content=Dezeen%20Weekly%20677+CID_8054672bf41f0e59820bbed387fb947e (https://www.dezeen.com/2020/07/12/nudes-forest-school-in-pune-architecture-india/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dezeen%20Weekly%20677&utm_content=Dezeen%20Weekly%20677+CID_8054672bf41f0e59820bbed387fb947e&utm_source=Dezeen%20Mail&utm_term=Read%20more)
Not sure about the height of the wall......
Rooftop cycle track in India:
https://www.dezeen.com/2020/07/12/nudes-forest-school-in-pune-architecture-india/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dezeen%20Weekly%20677&utm_content=Dezeen%20Weekly%20677+CID_8054672bf41f0e59820bbed387fb947e (https://www.dezeen.com/2020/07/12/nudes-forest-school-in-pune-architecture-india/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dezeen%20Weekly%20677&utm_content=Dezeen%20Weekly%20677+CID_8054672bf41f0e59820bbed387fb947e&utm_source=Dezeen%20Mail&utm_term=Read%20more)
Not sure about the height of the wall......
Um, How do they get onto the track? I can't see any obvious entry way or staging area... Seems... pointless...
J
A task for Danny MacAskill?Rooftop cycle track in India:
https://www.dezeen.com/2020/07/12/nudes-forest-school-in-pune-architecture-india/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dezeen%20Weekly%20677&utm_content=Dezeen%20Weekly%20677+CID_8054672bf41f0e59820bbed387fb947e (https://www.dezeen.com/2020/07/12/nudes-forest-school-in-pune-architecture-india/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dezeen%20Weekly%20677&utm_content=Dezeen%20Weekly%20677+CID_8054672bf41f0e59820bbed387fb947e&utm_source=Dezeen%20Mail&utm_term=Read%20more)
Not sure about the height of the wall......
Um, How do they get onto the track? I can't see any obvious entry way or staging area... Seems... pointless...
J
https://notesfrompoland.com/2020/07/17/officials-detained-over-medieval-style-castle-residence-built-in-eu-protected-forest-in-poland/
You've not got planning permission , it will have to come down...
Going back to unfeasibly small living quarters for insane prices.... https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/54325598I think you've just won tonight's internet prize, Andrew.
hat tip https://twitter.com/emmahopeall/status/1284487677690155008?s=20
Obscene really and about time this subject was tackled.
A cat that was detained at Sri Lanka’s high-security Welikada Prison on suspicion of smuggling drugs to inmates has escaped, according to local media reports in Aruna.
The feline delinquent was detained last week with two grams of heroin, two SIM cards and a memory chip hidden in a plastic bag tied to its collar on the prison grounds.
Police suspect that the drug traffickers who trained the cat are part of the same cartel that was caught using an eagle to smuggle drugs in a suburb of Colombo. The menagerie of accomplices were associated with the underworld crime boss Angoda Lokka.
Quite odd pictures from the Black ForestSome amazing costumes. But the stuffed fox is just creepy.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/01/pom-poms-and-pigs-bladders-the-traditions-of-germanys-black-forest-in-pictures
Quite odd pictures from the Black ForestSome amazing costumes. But the stuffed fox is just creepy.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/01/pom-poms-and-pigs-bladders-the-traditions-of-germanys-black-forest-in-pictures (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/01/pom-poms-and-pigs-bladders-the-traditions-of-germanys-black-forest-in-pictures)
Trophy fish! (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/04/rare-sturgeon-fish-found-preserved-in-danish-ship-that-sank-in-1495) :D
Johnny foreigner: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/police-confiscate-345000-recycled-condoms-in-vietnamThat was one hell of a night!
a “monthly input of used condoms from an unknown person”
Johnny foreigner: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/police-confiscate-345000-recycled-condoms-in-vietnam
Alligators in elevators?
https://www.insider.com/new-orleans-archbishop-pastors-threesome-on-church-altar-demonic-2020-10
Danger. UXB
https://twitter.com/danieltilles1/status/1316302669687017472?s=20
Asbestos renamed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54608836 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54608836)
Breathing in asbestos fibres has been linked to cancer and other diseases
It was given the English name for the mineral - rather than the French amiante - in the late 19th Century.L'amiante, mon amante. It always sounds better in French.
Man overdoes it with the halloween decorations (https://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/dallas-police-keep-showing-up-to-check-on-one-neighbors-halloween-bloodbath-11958443)
While some people embrace Halloween hijinks, Novak gives them a bear hug. Only it’s a zombie bear with blood pouring out of its mouth.
A new Dutch art installation. (fortunately no one hurt , driver taken to hospital for a checkup).
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElzDlj_X0AUnvfU?format=jpg&name=large)
https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1323147449981128706?s=20
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rotterdam-metro-train-plows-stop-050240996.html
Is that fail whale made of fibreglass? Pretty good going for it to support a train...Can't be, we all know that fibres just shatter and only steel is real enough to stand up to this kind of shock.
Boris Johnson has been inspired by this event to install a maritime sculpture off the White Cliffs of Dover to stop the country going off the rails. The best suggestion so far is a small jellyfish.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54782634
Russian 'Sausage King' killed in sauna with a crossbow.....
It makes a change from falling out of the window.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54782634
Russian 'Sausage King' killed in sauna with a crossbow.....
It makes a change from falling out of the window.
It's a dog-eat-dog business, that.
It's a dog-eat-dog business, that.
Boris Johnson has been inspired by this event to install a maritime sculpture off the White Cliffs of Dover to stop the country going off the rails. The best suggestion so far is a small jellyfish.
Paging Michael Gove...
Jellyfish: A new sustainable, nutritious, and ‘oyster-like’ food for the Western world?(https://cdn.technologynetworks.com/tn/images/thumbs/webp/640_360/the-genes-jellyfish-need-to-graduate-318271.webp?v=10145331)
30-Jul-2019 By Flora Southey
Jellyfish are nutrient-rich, boast a similar taste and texture profile to oysters, and if approved as a novel food, could help ease the burden of over-exploited fisheries, according to EU-backed research.
HTTPS://WWW.FOODNAVIGATOR.COM/ARTICLE/2019/07/30/JELLYFISH-A-NEW-SUSTAINABLE-NUTRITIOUS-AND-OYSTER-LIKE-FOOD-FOR-THE-WESTERN-WORLD
That picture looks like it belongs on this U75 thread. Warning, gruesome pics of awful people. https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/the-grand-tory-cum-face-thread.289290/page-35
It's a dog-eat-dog business, that.
I must admit I was expecting wurst puns...
J
I think the fact that the first car remained coupled to the second one is restraining it, rather than being totally supported by the whale.Simple mechanics show that the plastic is holding the weight of [looks at image] approx 1 and a third carriages.
I always think German sausage jokes are the wurst
I used plastic deliberately; I didn't intend to suggest that was the sole material (unlike the artist/BBC).That's off the scale!
But the BBC probably [definitely] don't have engineers in plaice to question what they have been told. Perhaps I should have put it in inverted commas.
Did they get Chris Grayling to book the venue?
Not now 2020 :hand: Landslip in The Canaries.
Edit https://thecanarynews.com/2020/11/14/la-gomera-landslide-caught-on-camera-rescue-workers-are-searching-for-anyone-injured/
https://mobile.twitter.com/europapress/status/1327728178958393351 (https://mobile.twitter.com/europapress/status/1327728178958393351)
https://twitter.com/draebing/status/1327902997033197568?s=21 (https://twitter.com/draebing/status/1327902997033197568?s=21)
Presumably all the Italian helicopters were unavailable due to use of a non-standard thread on the Jesus nut or something.;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
https://t.co/yvFOK9PDWg?amp=1 Italian police use a Lamborghini to transport a donated kidney
https://twitter.com/pomeranian99/status/1329173587702509568?s=20
I'll bet there is a queue of Italian coppers volunteering to drive that.
Smashing lockdownThat is brilliant. Sounds like without the knife he *might* have got off lightly!
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/man-fined-for-breaking-lockdown-to-smash-a-guy-s-face-in-in-france/ar-BB1bhlCJ?ocid=msedgntp
No more fucking in Austria
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name)
"Just across the border in Bavaria in Germany there is a village called Petting."
No more fucking in Austria
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name)
"Just across the border in Bavaria in Germany there is a village called Petting."
And just across the border, they still have Wank, which even has a Wankbahn. https://goo.gl/maps/waf1sEsz2cziD72W9 (Can't believe no one's mentioned this yet. What is happening to this forum? ect ect)No more fucking in Austria
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name)
"Just across the border in Bavaria in Germany there is a village called Petting."
Sad, but looking on the bright side 'No news has yet emerged about possible name changes to the nearby hamlets of Oberfucking and Unterfucking.'
Taiwan's opposition legislators have thrown pig guts and exchanged blows in parliament amid a heated row over the easing of US pork imports.
They say a recent government decision to allow the import of US pork containing ractopamine - an additive banned for pig use in Taiwan and the European Union - is a health threat.
The ruling party denies the charge and called for a return to rational debate.
It is not uncommon for brawls to erupt in Taiwan's parliament.
And just across the border, they still have Wank, which even has a Wankbahn. https://goo.gl/maps/waf1sEsz2cziD72W9 (Can't believe no one's mentioned this yet. What is happening to this forum? ect ect)
Oh, it's definitely popped up on this forum several times – that's how I've heard of it – but not in connection with this bit of news. It could be symbolic of 2020 – no Fucking, only Wank. ::-)And just across the border, they still have Wank, which even has a Wankbahn. https://goo.gl/maps/waf1sEsz2cziD72W9 (Can't believe no one's mentioned this yet. What is happening to this forum? ect ect)
I believe our laid-back Germany correspondent has reported on it previously.
No more fucking in Austria
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name)
"Just across the border in Bavaria in Germany there is a village called Petting."
Not chez les foreigns but here at home in France they're allowing the ski resorts to re-open but not the ski lifts. :-\ This seems to annoy a lot of people.
Not chez les foreigns but here at home in France they're allowing the ski resorts to re-open but not the ski lifts. :-\ This seems to annoy a lot of people.
So the restaurants and bars where contagious disease can spread are open, but the lifts and pistes that are relatively safe (well, maybe not the big telepheriques) are closed?
Oh, it's definitely popped up on this forum several times – that's how I've heard of it – but not in connection with this bit of news. It could be symbolic of 2020 – no Fucking, only Wank. ::-)And just across the border, they still have Wank, which even has a Wankbahn. https://goo.gl/maps/waf1sEsz2cziD72W9 (Can't believe no one's mentioned this yet. What is happening to this forum? ect ect)
I believe our laid-back Germany correspondent has reported on it previously.
Oh, it's definitely popped up on this forum several times – that's how I've heard of it – but not in connection with this bit of news. It could be symbolic of 2020 – no Fucking, only Wank. ::-)And just across the border, they still have Wank, which even has a Wankbahn. https://goo.gl/maps/waf1sEsz2cziD72W9 (Can't believe no one's mentioned this yet. What is happening to this forum? ect ect)
I believe our laid-back Germany correspondent has reported on it previously.
I've driven through it, and nearby Oy, both to much hilarity
In Namibia, a certain politician named after the former German leader, Adolf Hitler has been elected as a local councilor for the governing Swapo party.
Adolf Hitler Uunona was eleceted with 85% of the votes in the regional vote to emerge the winner in Ompundja, a small town in the far north of the country.
Hitler confirmed that his father gave him the name after the German Nazi leader and probably wasn’t aware of his ideologies
Clearing snow , Kentucky style.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPWMluZdB4M I'm surprised Kim hasn't molished one for dealing with back yard vegetation.....
“He looked like he needed a beer, although he was in a bad way,” Faust said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/magazine/how-to-treat-a-wounded-manatee.htmlQuoteRelease healed manatees back into the wild. Of course, unless you’re trained and permitted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, you should not handle manatees at all.
Florida man makes bass bong [&] smokes pot out of bass's ass #BecauseFlorida #SuperBowl https://instagram.com/p/CK7hUYGjsmZ/https://twitter.com/BillyCorben/status/1358514755971989507
A Louisiana woman who’s gone viral as the “Gorilla Glue Girl” is considering a lawsuit after spraying her hair with ultra-strong adhesive.
TMZ reports Tessica Brown has hired an attorney and is discussing possible litigation against Gorilla Glue. She reportedly spent 22 hours in the emergency room at a hospital after she used the company’s heavy-duty Spray Adhesive when she ran out of the hair spray she usually uses, Got2b Glued.
“I figured if I used the Gorilla Glue – you know, by the time I got home, I could have just washed it out,” she told a Toronto radio show. “But when I tried to wash it out, it didn’t move.”
Brown says her hair has been rock-solid for a month now, despite efforts to remove the glue with rubbing alcohol. TMZ reports her ER trip also failed to help, as healthcare workers tried acetone and it burned her scalp, only briefly softening the glue before it hardened again.
https://www.al.com/news/2021/02/gorilla-glue-girl-considers-lawsuit-after-spraying-hair-with-adhesive.html
Words fail me. That a law suit can even be considered means there’s something wrong with the legal system over there.
Words fail me. That a law suit can even be considered means there’s something wrong with the legal system over there.
Meanwhile, across the border, they have metric units and no sense of humour:
(https://i.cbc.ca/1.5389672.1575920695!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/lifesaving-society-of-manitoba-ice.jpg)
Words fail me. That a law suit can even be considered means there’s something wrong with the legal system over there.
Meanwhile, across the border, they have metric units and no sense of humour:
(https://i.cbc.ca/1.5389672.1575920695!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/lifesaving-society-of-manitoba-ice.jpg)
But also apparently fewer issues with generic lizard monsters...
J
The Leftpondians in the state of Texas are having problems with low temperatures & a surfeit ofcold white stuffRepublicans.
I'm told there are three separate power grids in Usania: East, West, and Texas. So when the Texan voles aren't running, the voles from elsewhere can't be tempted to take their place.
I expect it's not quite as simple as that but.
You just know Tim is the sort of person who whines like a spoiled child the moment someone threatens to take away his toys.Soz
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that Tim lives in:Either way he'll have a generator the size of a 40’ shipping container, pride himself on living “off the grid*” and moan like buggery when SNO/hurricanes stop his diesel delivery.
- an underground bunker in the Idaho Panhandle so crammed with tinned food, bottled water and ammunition that there's barely room for Tim himself, or
- Key West
* except for his internet connection, obv
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that Tim lives in:Either way he'll have a generator the size of a 40’ shipping container, pride himself on living “off the grid*” and moan like buggery when SNO/hurricanes stop his diesel delivery.
- an underground bunker in the Idaho Panhandle so crammed with tinned food, bottled water and ammunition that there's barely room for Tim himself, or
- Key West
* except for his internet connection, obv
Tim Boyd was the mayor of Colorado City, TX when he wrote those words, a post which he has since resigned rather abruptly. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/tim-boyd-mayor-colorado-city-texas.html
Mr Boyd seems to have followed the right wing practice of trying to make government as small as possible, while making sure he gets paid a fat salary by said government. Of course he just might be a MAGA wearing AR-15 carrying maniac, too.
Note to PB: I believe that the AK-47 is a Russian weapon developed during the Soviet era, and as such unacceptable to rightwing American loonies. The AR-15 is the US-designed assault rifle favored by mass murderers, rightwing loonies, and other very fine people.
The Leftpondians in the state of Texas are having problems with low temperatures & a surfeit of cold white stuff (-25 & the power's out).
Some of their local politicians are telling them to "man up" ..... Do they put something in the water over there ?
https://ktxs.com/news/local/colorado-city-mayor-resigns-after-controversial-facebook-post
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Perry-says-Texans-wiling-to-suffer-blackouts-to-15956705.php
Thanks for the update. My knowledge of assault weapons is extremely limited. 👍
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that Tim lives in:Either way he'll have a generator the size of a 40’ shipping container, pride himself on living “off the grid*” and moan like buggery when SNO/hurricanes stop his diesel delivery.
- an underground bunker in the Idaho Panhandle so crammed with tinned food, bottled water and ammunition that there's barely room for Tim himself, or
- Key West
* except for his internet connection, obv
Tim Boyd was the mayor of Colorado City, TX when he wrote those words, a post which he has since resigned rather abruptly. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/tim-boyd-mayor-colorado-city-texas.html
Mr Boyd seems to have followed the right wing practice of trying to make government as small as possible, while making sure he gets paid a fat salary by said government. Of course he just might be a MAGA wearing AR-15 carrying maniac, too.
Note to PB: I believe that the AK-47 is a Russian weapon developed during the Soviet era, and as such unacceptable to rightwing American loonies. The AR-15 is the US-designed assault rifle favored by mass murderers, rightwing loonies, and other very fine people.
In That Texas, some of the gas-fired power plants were offline for maintenance. Fair enough, the usual peak load time is in the summer, for air conditioning.They obviously need some of that global warming all the green folk have beeen going on and on and on about. ::-)
About 2/3 of the wind turbines iced up (because no heaters on the blades, unlike further north). The remaining ones produced well above their rated ability.
Coal-fired plants had problems with coal stockpiles freezing solid; operating gas-fired were short of gas, since others were using it for heating; nuke plants had to operate at lower capacity because cooling equipment iced up.
All told, for the gas-fired part alone, the amount of electricity they weren't able to generate was about equal to what California uses on a daily basis.
Texas is #1 in energy use per capita in the USA. They used to take it for granted.
And, then of course, water mains don't get buried very deep, because "what's a frost depth?", and the resulting bursting is to be expected.
There were similar, but smaller scale, cold weather tests in 1989 and 2011. After each one, the toothless regulatory group made suggestions that energy suppliers examine their cold weather resilience. Few did. Even last week, during their regular conference call, they spent more time joking about cowboy boots than discussing the weather forecast.
They obviously need some of that global warming all the green folk have beeen going on and on and on about. ::-)Climate scientists suggest that climate change has disturbed the normal path of the jet stream, allowing the polar vortex effect to move much further south, bringing that cold down with it.
HUMMERS!!!
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/woman-filmed-removing-thong-to-use-as-face-mask-in-supermarket/ar-BB1e30TB?ocid=msedgntp (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/woman-filmed-removing-thong-to-use-as-face-mask-in-supermarket/ar-BB1e30TB?ocid=msedgntp)
HUMMERS!!!
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/woman-filmed-removing-thong-to-use-as-face-mask-in-supermarket/ar-BB1e30TB?ocid=msedgntp (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/woman-filmed-removing-thong-to-use-as-face-mask-in-supermarket/ar-BB1e30TB?ocid=msedgntp)
The Yellowed Thong OfAmbitionProtection ?
Never bring a knife to a cockfight... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56224144
IIRC – I think there’s mention of it in the “Last Trump” thread downstairs – they were trying to source a replacement engine for it several months ago just so's they could fly it down to Texas for a full overhaul.
Ha! I knew That Spesh would rise to the bait and save me the bother of grappling with the Search SCIENCE ;D
One of those wiffly-waffly SCIENCES like zoology or sociology, rather than one of the formal mathsy ones. Certainly not linguistics, either.
One of those wiffly-waffly SCIENCES like zoology or sociology, rather than one of the formal mathsy ones. Certainly not linguistics, either.
I'm inclined to think it's more pseudoSCIENCE!, like astrology or homeopathy. :demon:
Somewhere in Egypt there is a very, very embarrassed & soon to be unemployed ships captain.
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374438210315513864?s=20
https://www.cityam.com/suez-canal-blocked-with-mega-container-ship/
Somewhere in Egypt there is a very, very embarrassed & soon to be unemployed ships captain.
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374438210315513864?s=20
https://www.cityam.com/suez-canal-blocked-with-mega-container-ship/
The engine room logs will be looked at closely though.
Pilot's advice, Master's orders.Regardless of engine failure, it’s still the Captain’s can to carry whilst the vessel us underway. I wonder what the salvage rules are in the canal.
The ships Master is always responsible.
In this case it sounds like the ship lost motive power and steerage so there wasn't much the bridge crew could do about it. The engine room logs will be looked at closely though.
Why is this ship being called Evergiven when it has mile high lettering on its side spelling out Evergreen?
ah, my bad, I thought that when in port and the captain is ashore, the ranking officer on board took the responsibility. Thank you for the correction.Why is this ship being called Evergiven when it has mile high lettering on its side spelling out Evergreen?
The company name is Evergreen. The ships name is Ever Given.
Beardy - The ships safety and navigation is the Captains responsibility at all times regardless of whether it's under way or not.
Pilot's advice, Master's orders.
The ships Master is always responsible.
In this case it sounds like the ship lost motive power and steerage so there wasn't much the bridge crew could do about it. The engine room logs will be looked at closely though.
It probably doesn’t matter. After all “[the Suez Canal] will never become a large ship's accessible way in any case” according to one BRITISH prophet of the 1850s. As predictions go, that one is right up there with “groups of guitars are on their way out, Mr Epstein”.No one is going to have a need for more this time 640k of memory.
Worth noting that in the same year, William Gibson's short story Johnny Mnemonic* was published, in which the titular character was being pursued by bad guys for the hundreds of megabytes stored in his head. Which, given how much can be stuffed into a USB stick these days, seems laughably quaint now.
* There's a film based on the story, you say? Nope, that's just a mass hallucination. ;) Joking apart, I can't help thinking that said cinematic turkey is one of the reasons why a film adaptation of Neuromancer has never made it out of development hell.
Ob. Cycling: I went to an exhibition of bikes at the Design Museum, back when it down on the Thames.
There was a framed letter on the wall. Instead of being to The Beatles, from Decca and mentioning guitars it was to a young Brompton Bike company, from Raleigh and was about no future for folding bicyles.
Ob. Cycling: I went to an exhibition of bikes at the Design Museum, back when it down on the Thames.
There was a framed letter on the wall. Instead of being to The Beatles, from Decca and mentioning guitars it was to a young Brompton Bike company, from Raleigh and was about no future for folding bicyles.
Back in the early 80s my ex was advertising manager for Bicycle magazine, based in Camden. She was looking for sponsorship for a number of events to promote the then unheard of mountain bikes. She approached Raleigh. 'They'll never catch on' came the reply.
Florida woman walks through door, gets lost in sewer for three weeks (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/26/florida-woman-rescued-sewer)
If it wasn't for the sewer and if it had been anywhere other than Florida, it would be like Alice in Wonderland.
The woman later told officials she was swimming in a canal when she noticed a door and entered it. She said she eventually became lost and ended up three miles away from where she first began, surviving on a can of ginger ale she discovered unopened along the way.
[…] says he "didn't realise how big Australia was".
"Late-stage Catholicism" sounds terminal.
Another big news story of the year concerned the ecumenical council in Rome, known as Vatican II. Among the things they did, in an attempt to make the church more... commercial, was to introduce the vernacular into portions of the Mass to replace Latin, and to widen somewhat the range of music permissible in the liturgy. But I feel that if they really want to sell the product in this secular age, what they ought to do is to redo some of the liturgical music in popular song forms. I have a modest example here; it's called The Vatican Rag!
"Late-stage Catholicism" sounds terminal.
I think it's more what Tom Lehrer was referring to in his introduction to The Vatican Rag, as recorded on the That Was The Year That Was album. :DQuoteAnother big news story of the year concerned the ecumenical council in Rome, known as Vatican II. Among the things they did, in an attempt to make the church more... commercial, was to introduce the vernacular into portions of the Mass to replace Latin, and to widen somewhat the range of music permissible in the liturgy. But I feel that if they really want to sell the product in this secular age, what they ought to do is to redo some of the liturgical music in popular song forms. I have a modest example here; it's called The Vatican Rag!
http://graeme.50webs.com/lehrer/vatican.htm
Nike has won its lawsuit against Brooklyn art collective MSCHF over their controversial 'Satan Shoes' that contain a drop of real human blood in the soles.
The $1,018 (£740) trainers are modified Nike Air Max 97s that feature an inverted cross, a pentagram and the words "Luke 10:18".
MSCHF produced the shoes in collaboration with rapper Lil Nas X.
It said only 666 pairs were made and all but one have already been shipped.
Nike claimed trademark infringement, asking a federal court in New York to stop MSCHF from selling the shoes and prevent them from using its famous Swoosh.
"MSCHF and its unauthorised Satan Shoes are likely to cause confusion and dilution and create an erroneous association between MSCHF's products and Nike," the sports shoe giant said in the lawsuit.
Lawyers for MSCHF countered that the 666 pairs it created were "not typical sneakers, but rather individually-numbered works of art that were sold to collectors for $1,018 each".
Florida woman sees baby dinosaur in back yard
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/video-florida-woman-says-she-spotted-a-baby-dinosaur-running-through-yard.amp
Is there a raptor on the loose in Palm Coast?
That reminds me of something I saw a few days ago...
Mystery tree beast in Krakow turns out to be a croissant: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56757956
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/23/gender-reveal-party-using-80-pounds-of-explosives-sets-off-earthquake-reports
A boy apparently.... :facepalm:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/23/gender-reveal-party-using-80-pounds-of-explosives-sets-off-earthquake-reports
A boy apparently.... :facepalm:
How long until someone attempts a genital reveal party with unclear weapons?
It's a truism that if it can be inserted, someone will.
Boulders block Boulder Canyon road near Boulder, Colorado, Boulder County Sheriff's Office says https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/boulders-block-boulder-canyon-road-near-boulder-colorado-boulder-county-sheriff-s-office-says-1.5407064 pic.twitter.com/sqCSolILqW
We call upon mark otp to investigate with a tape measure.He chickened out, we need someone... bolder.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56978344 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56978344)
Sod it, let's just redefine belgium...
J
We call upon mark otp to investigate with a tape measure.He chickened out, we need someone... bolder.
Going back into my avalanche shelter now.
You don't understand. They are preparing to host a gender reveal party, you see.
I like the woman who fills a bin bag with gasoline and then when it leaks, double-bags it. Now that's practicality.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1NJDZkXMAE_MJz?format=jpg&name=large)
I would wonder how they plan to get the fuel out of the bags and into the tank. But it's never going to get that far...
"Run over by his father's vehicle" seems to contradict the line "so he could fire his paintball gun out the window." That's before we even consider the vehicle's autonomous malice.
Unexpected road obstruction.
https://twitter.com/raffaeledipalma/status/1406127739304873987?s=21 (https://twitter.com/raffaeledipalma/status/1406127739304873987?s=21)
Fish bombing! (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-57793082)
Lawyers in Germany are wrangling over how to deal with a pensioner who stored a World War Two tank, anti-aircraft gun and torpedo in his basement.
The items were removed from a house in the northern town of Heikendorf in 2015 with the help of the army.
Prosecutors and defence lawyers are now negotiating possible penalties, including a suspended sentence and a fine of up to €500,000 (£427,000).
The defendant, aged 84, must also find new homes for the monumental items.
According to his lawyer, a US museum is interested in purchasing the Panther tank. Many historians argue it was the most efficient such vehicle deployed by Germany during World War Two.
The "Panther tank in the basement"1 story still rumbles on:Vot basement? (https://prod-images.tcm.com/Master-Profile-Images/KennethMars.122899.jpg)QuoteLawyers in Germany are wrangling over how to deal with a pensioner who stored a World War Two tank, anti-aircraft gun and torpedo in his basement.
The items were removed from a house in the northern town of Heikendorf in 2015 with the help of the army.
Prosecutors and defence lawyers are now negotiating possible penalties, including a suspended sentence and a fine of up to €500,000 (£427,000).
The defendant, aged 84, must also find new homes for the monumental items.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57965260
A strong contender for the world's most optimistic job ad...
https://twitter.com/DaybookJobs/status/1426182241659416581
J
The joys of flying to Florida…. And an illustrative lesson as to why you should always have a handy roll of duct tape.
https://twitter.com/sweeneyabc/status/1422537706173775875?s=21 (https://twitter.com/sweeneyabc/status/1422537706173775875?s=21)
The joys of flying to Florida…. And an illustrative lesson as to why you should always have a handy roll of duct tape.
https://twitter.com/sweeneyabc/status/1422537706173775875?s=21 (https://twitter.com/sweeneyabc/status/1422537706173775875?s=21)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/17/united-airlines-flight-crews-duct-tape-unruly-passengers
"What are we supposed to use, harsh language?"
Iron (wo)man treat:
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210820/p2a/00m/0li/036000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210820/p2a/00m/0li/036000c)
Iron (wo)man treat:
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210820/p2a/00m/0li/036000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210820/p2a/00m/0li/036000c)
Old and busted: flying through a barn or hanger...'kin nut job.
The new hotness: taking off and flying inside a 1.6km motorway tunnel.
https://www.redbull.com/id-id/tunnel-pass-dario-costa-catalca-turkey
https://www.redbull.com/id-id/tunnel-pass-dario-costa-catalca-turkey-factsheet
"psychic love specialist" and "Ph.D Life Coach,"on a website and feel confident they were speaking to a professional who could help them. ::-)
Only a USAnian could seeWith a curse no lessQuote"psychic love specialist" and "Ph.D Life Coach,"on a website and feel confident they were speaking to a professional who could help them. ::-)
The mind boggles
More than 40 camels have been disqualified from Saudi Arabia's beauty pageant for receiving Botox injections and other cosmetic enhancements.
The contest is a highlight of the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, where $66m (£45m) in prize money is at stake.
Key attributes include long, droopy lips, a big nose and a shapely hump.
Judges used "advanced" technology to uncover tampering with camels on a scale not seen before, the state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
Radioactive 5G protection necklaces sounds like SCIENCE-trolling, to me.
Ace Jefferson: [Referring to the anti-radiation red cigarettes] I can't believe you've got to put this shit in your lungs just to neutralize the shit in your lungs.
Meanwhile in Alsace a much-heralded Strasbourg bypass, the A355, has been opened, just 60 years after it was first mooted. It's the first entirely Alsacien autoroute ever to have a péage on it*. To ensure that a sufficiently large number of unsuspecting tourists etc. fall for it, signage as you travel south has been changed, and the péage-free A35 that has always led, and still leads, into Strasbourg, no longer bears any mention of the fact, carrying only the name of a northern suburb thereof and the names of several towns in Germany that you can branch off to. The route via the péage is 18 km longer than the old one.Not much different to the misleading signage and road layout when heading south on the M6. Everything tries to get you on the M6 Toll, which is of no use whatsoever if you want to get to the M5.
*There are péages to leave the A4, the Autoroute de l'Est, but that's because it comes all the way from Paris.
stand aside, Florida Man -I wonder if the positioning of the No Trespass sign was a deliberate act on the part of the photographer or if it’s a stock photo and therefore a coincidence ;D
rather old news now, but Florida Woman may have topped your accomplishments
(and with a nod to the camel beauty contest noted above)
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/communities/westside/article_387e96e6-e46a-11e9-97ba-4b5f9505fd16.html
Insect funerals ???
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20211224/p2a/00m/0li/068000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20211224/p2a/00m/0li/068000c)
A reality TV star who sells her farts in jars has decided to stop selling them, despite making $1,000 per jar. But fans of her work shouldn’t worry too much. She’s still going to sell her farts as non-fungible tokens, more commonly known as NFTs.
Stephanie Matto, who appeared on the reality TV show “90-Day Fiance” and gained a huge following on TikTok, says she had to go to the hospital recently with gastric complications because she was eating so many high-fiber foods to produce more and more farts.
But spesh guffed first!
But spesh guffed first!
Whoever smelt it, must have dealt it... :demon:
Two men take corpse into Irish post office to claim dead man’s pension (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/22/two-men-take-corpse-into-irish-post-office-to-claim-dead-mans-pension)
Also, Father Ted was a documentary.
How to share cake in Japan
Putin pot: The Libyan police busted 323 bars of hashish wrapped with photos of the Russian president.https://twitter.com/Aya_Isk/status/1490958487492653064
Some funny pictures via @AFP.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLDyH-QXMAUmaQA?format=jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLDx8eKXEAU4odz?format=jpg
A holidaymaker who lost his false teeth while vomiting into a bin on a boozy night out in Benidorm was stunned when they turned up in the post 11 years on.
[...]
After Paul's dentures were found in landfill, Spanish authorities used DNA records to eventually track him to his Stalybridge, Greater Manchester home.
A Spanish man who had eaten hash cakes before he was pulled over by police for driving erratically has been fined €2,001 (£1,680) after failing to convince officers he had immunity because he was a diplomat for an “individual and mobile” republic.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/spanish-driver-hash-cakes-claims-diplomatic-immunity-menda-lerenda
U.S. representative Madison Cawthorn (he of the ultra-right fringe of the republican partei) was stopped, for the second time, by TSA airport screeners, who detected a concealed firearm on his person. It was loaded.
No word on whether he had concealed it in his bra or his garter belt.
I had assumed that those photos were faked - the 'scarf' around the neck would make it particularly easy to blend his head onto someone else.U.S. representative Madison Cawthorn (he of the ultra-right fringe of the republican partei) was stopped, for the second time, by TSA airport screeners, who detected a concealed firearm on his person. It was loaded.
No word on whether he had concealed it in his bra or his garter belt.
For context on that last bit: Cawthorn had recently been accusing his GOP colleagues of inviting him to wild cocaine-fuelled orgies - and then some pictures of him in women's underwear were passed to Politico by a former acquaintance of his...
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/22/madison-cawthorn-photos-00027286
I had assumed that those photos were faked - the 'scarf' around the neck would make it particularly easy to blend his head onto someone else.U.S. representative Madison Cawthorn (he of the ultra-right fringe of the republican partei) was stopped, for the second time, by TSA airport screeners, who detected a concealed firearm on his person. It was loaded.
No word on whether he had concealed it in his bra or his garter belt.
For context on that last bit: Cawthorn had recently been accusing his GOP colleagues of inviting him to wild cocaine-fuelled orgies - and then some pictures of him in women's underwear were passed to Politico by a former acquaintance of his...
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/22/madison-cawthorn-photos-00027286
Cawthorn is a thick nasty piece of work.
A Florida Woman suspected of drunk driving performed “multiple ballet and Irish folk dance moves” while undergoing field sobriety tests after rear-ending a vehicle late Wednesday evening, cops report (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/sites/default/files/assets/rinadui1.jpg).http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/ballet/dancing-DUI-429056
The first rule of False Name Club is: You do not claim to be Tyler Durden.http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/cocaine/tyler-durden-arrest-749230
During a vehicle stop late Sunday night in Dunedin, a Gulf Coast city, Florida cops discovered a 9mm handgun, ammunition, and “a trafficking amount of narcotics” inside the auto.
Since the gun and the drugs--heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and Xanax--appeared to belong to a male passenger, Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office deputies asked the man to identify himself.
In response, the suspect “provided the name ‘Tyler Durden,’” according to an arrest report. Apparently unaware that “Durden” was a character in the 1999 film “Fight Club,” cops ran the handle through a police database and “were unable to locate a subject by that name.
Using a fingerprint scanner, police subsequently identified the passenger as Todd Michael Burns, 44, whose rap sheet includes numerous drug convictions, as well as convictions for grand theft, disorderly conduct, violating probation, and carrying a concealed weapon.
..and for murder, she is going to jail.
An Oregon judge has sentenced Nancy Crampton Brophy, a romance author who apparently foretold of her crime in an essay titled "How to murder your husband", to life in prison for the shooting death of her late spouse.
Crampton Brophy, 71, was found guilty of second degree murder last month.
A jury found that she shot her husband of 26 years in 2018 for a $1.5m (£1.2m) life insurance pay-out.
The case attracted much attention for an essay Crampton Brophy had written years before the crime, titled "How to murder your husband".
"The thing I know about murder is that every one of us have it in him/her when pushed far enough," she had said in the now-deleted post.
...
A judge ruled against admitting the essay as evidence at her trial because it was penned years earlier as part of a writing seminar.
But prosecutors did not need the text.
They successfully argued that Crampton Brophy had the motive and the means to murder her partner, showing the couple had fallen on hard times financially, and she stood to pocket a hefty insurance pay-out after his death.
from the other corner of the USofA: (upper lefthand corner of the map, as we say here)My father he worked down the sewers
https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/news/hiker-falls-pit-toiilet/
So many unanswered questions here, including:
= what brand of cellphone did have, that worked to call for help?
= did the firefighters empty their whole tank washing the hiker and themselves down?
= can you imagine the discussions at home when the EMS crews got off their shift? "Honey, you'll never believe the emergency call we got today ..."
Does Australia still count as a province?
I was impressed by this guy:
https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/viral-video-australian-pub-owner-fights-off-crocodile-with-frying-pan-3089190
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/09/texas-abortion-pregnant-woman-hov-bottone/
Pretty sure we all saw this coming. Personally I hope she beats the ticket.
Criminal gangs armed with explosives are stalking the ATMs of the Netherlands, Belgium and northern Germany each night, hoping to find an unprotected machine to blast open and rob.
Amsterdam has been plagued by gangs targeting ATMs with air compressors for years, but after authorities in the Dutch capital responded by making it harder to rob cash machines in this way, criminals responded in turn by switching to actual explosives to blow them up.
Amsterdam actually regulates that all ATMs must be shut by 11PM each night – pretty early for one of the capitals of European nightlife but required because of the threat.
...
“They can’t work out the proper charge for the bomb and keep blowing up the fucking money,” said the cop, who wasn’t permitted to speak to the media. “They’ve been unable to adapt from the easier days of using compressed air.”
Attacking ATMs is a serious industry for criminals, with attacks common enough to make finding an ATM in Amsterdam after dark nearly impossible, much to the chagrin of local drug dealers.
“We have to put in the order disclaimer that all bank machines are closed at 2300 but we deliver [via WhatsApp] until midnight because people will order then realise they can’t get any money out,” said one dealer, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “We tell people take the cash you need at by 1900, because once it gets dark, the machines close because of the stupid gangs.”
https://twitter.com/englneerlngvlds/status/1553780407165861888 (https://twitter.com/englneerlngvlds/status/1553780407165861888?s=21&t=36rt90bfbSlHZeX75SYAGw)
Slight spillage in a German steel mill. Someone’s bike was in the way….
Um... right
https://twitter.com/isitreallymoira/status/1557311730547662849
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-man-convicted-hate-crime-road-rage-attack-black-martial-artist-rcna44951 (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-man-convicted-hate-crime-road-rage-attack-black-martial-artist-rcna44951)
A story to bring a smile to your face.
Japanese search and rescue cockroaches..
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220924/p2g/00m/0sc/016000c
Japanese search and rescue cockroaches..
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220924/p2g/00m/0sc/016000c
Japanese search and rescue cockroaches..
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220924/p2g/00m/0sc/016000c
Not much solar power available if they're searching rubble... :demon:
"Florida man announces intention to campaign for President of the United States"
It's not American unless it's seasoned withcheese and baconcheez-flavored food productTM'n'BacoBitsTM.
I still can't handle the concept of marshmallow casserole.
There was also a USAnian video, just for contrast...
Lay uncooked oversweet packaged white 'bread' slices on a baking tray.
Whip together several while raw eggs and a large tin of baked beans and spread on the 'bread', and after sprinkling the whole lot with grated industrial cheese-like substance, bake.
Apparently, "The Brits will love this"
It's not American unless it's seasoned with cheese and bacon.I may regret this, but -
I still can't handle the concept of marshmallow casserole.
You really have to recalibrate your palate to American levels of sweetness, where even a slice of bed tastes like spongecake, and they spread that with grape jelly (basically grape juice and high fructose corn syrup) and sweetened peanut butter and wash it down with sweet iced tea.
From the Twitter thread above... https://twitter.com/LandscapeMan/status/1605213029863260160
"My ex worked in A&E. They had a guy turn up on a bicycle wearing a poncho. He had the seat stem up his arse and had walked himself and the bike to A&E…."
"If a body sells a bodyI saw this earlier and thought it was a Netflix promo at first. Even the attached picture reinforces this initial view ;D
Coming through the morgue"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64159612
It doesn't look anything like Prince Harry!I thought she was supposed to be the queen in the next remake of the crown.
"If a body sells a body
Coming through the morgue"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64159612
"If a body sells a body
Coming through the morgue"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64159612
Is the one in the picture Berk or Hair?
(http://legslarry.org.uk/BikeStull/coat_48.png)
‘Incredibly intelligent, highly elusive’: US faces new threat from Canadian ‘super pig’ (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/20/us-threat-canada-super-pig-boar)
Canuckistan plotting Terrible Revenge for USAnian Cultural Imperialism.
Spy balloon, UFO or Dragon Ball? Japan baffled by iron ball washed up on beach (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/22/mysterious-metal-iron-ball-sphere-beach-japan-officials-investigate)
I reckon it's one of Godzilla's bollocks, and he's gonna be FUMMIN when he realises it’s missing.
Spy balloon, UFO or Dragon Ball? Japan baffled by iron ball washed up on beach (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/22/mysterious-metal-iron-ball-sphere-beach-japan-officials-investigate)
I reckon it's one of Godzilla's bollocks, and he's gonna be FUMMIN when he realises it’s missing.
Spy balloon, UFO or Dragon Ball? Japan baffled by iron ball washed up on beach (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/22/mysterious-metal-iron-ball-sphere-beach-japan-officials-investigate)
I reckon it's one of Godzilla's bollocks, and he's gonna be FUMMIN when he realises it’s missing.
Aren't they internal on reptiles? I mean, think of rubbing your externals along the ground every time you go for a walk.
Spy balloon, UFO or Dragon Ball? Japan baffled by iron ball washed up on beach (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/22/mysterious-metal-iron-ball-sphere-beach-japan-officials-investigate)
I reckon it's one of Godzilla's bollocks, and he's gonna be FUMMIN when he realises it’s missing.
Aren't they internal on reptiles? I mean, think of rubbing your externals along the ground every time you go for a walk.
Yebbut isn’t Godzilla some kind of mutant?
Only in America https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65071989
“ Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue”
Apparently it’s pornographic :facepalm:
The 5.17m (17ft) statue depicts an entirely naked David, the Biblical figure who kills the giant Goliath.Sue the school for false representation in its name, if they're going to refuse to use classics.
The lesson, given to 11 and 12-year-olds, also included references to Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam" painting and Botticelli's "Birth of Venus".
Principal Hope Carrasaquilla of Tallahassee Classical School said she resigned after she was given an ultimatum by the school board to resign or be fired.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65133860
Being naked in changing rooms banned... Wtf
J
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65133860
Being naked in changing rooms banned... Wtf
J
It’s unclear if it’s a mixed changing area (I assumed not) and appears to be a result of complaints from younger members. I think Aus is as prudish as the US these days.
Oh, are you having a coronating [sic] day too?
Ha, and I wasn't even serious! Might be a good day to go for a ride out in the country, assuming you've also got a day off.
Ah, I used to have that work pattern.
Week 1 Monday is a nwd
Week 2 Friday is a nwd
Great isn't it?
We (me, my mum & my daughters) dodged an intimidating boisterous Amsterdam party and went to Delft for the day.Ha, and I wasn't even serious! Might be a good day to go for a ride out in the country, assuming you've also got a day off.
It's a day off. But to get into the countryside means going through the edge of the city.
Also even the tiny villages and towns have something going on.
No. I'm hiding at home. A friend has come to visit (they live in the city centre), and we're just having a lazy day at home avoiding people.
I actually have a 5 day weekend. Cos it's my normal 4 day weekend (I work 4 days a week and get a 4 day weekend every two weeks. I'll ride tomorrow. But have to be careful as there'll be a lot of broken glass about.
J
Man eats banana...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65446331
Line 7 on the licence looks like it says "Good evening from Ukraine".
A speeding driver who was pulled over in Colorado tried to switch seats with his dog in the passenger seat to evade arrest, according to police.
Florida again. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/24/amanda-gorman-poem-ban-florida-school
If Florida were a person, it would be sitting in the US equivalent of Wetherspoons wearing a t-shirt over its beer gut bearing the legend "That's what I do. I say shit and I ban things."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-65762503
Indian chap drains a reservoir to get his phone back. Phone, predictably, is ruined anyway. As heroic failures go, this is one of the best.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-65762503Mains water is a scarcity in India – it's not pumped through the taps 24/7 like in the West, even in the middle class areas where everyone has a connection – so this is especially selfish and stupid.
Indian chap drains a reservoir to get his phone back. Phone, predictably, is ruined anyway. As heroic failures go, this is one of the best.
As South Korea campaigns to retire an old and odd age-counting method (https://apnews.com/article/082ab3d8f16d4360bf9ade45c41925f8) that makes people a year or two older than they really are, children are among the few who seem most eager to stick with the past.
“I turned 6 and then became 5 again,” Kim Da-in said when a TV reporter asked her about a new law that went into effect Wednesday that formalizes the international age-counting method in administrative and civil laws and encourages people to tally their own ages accordingly.
South Korea’s traditional age-counting custom considers every person 1 year old at birth and adds another year when the calendar hits Jan. 1, meaning a child born on Dec. 31 turns 2 the next day.
Your attention please! Normal Florida has been resumed:I got a pop-up all over the that article that said I had to disable my ad-blocker! I will have to remain ignorant of the foibles of Floridian motherhood.
Florida mom tries to hire hit man on parody website to kill her 3-year-old son, police say (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article277479658.html)
18 years old and has a 3 year old son. That explains a fair bit.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/07/24/polands-monk-firefighters-given-new-engine-to-help-protect-planned-mega-airport/
https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/07/24/polands-monk-firefighters-given-new-engine-to-help-protect-planned-mega-airport/
Firefighting monks.... that's a dodgy habit...
The firefighting unit was established in 1931 by Maksymilian Kolbe at the Niepokalanów monastery he had founded four years earlier. Kolbe, now recognised as a saint by the Catholic church, died in 1941 at Auschwitz concentration camp after volunteering to take the place of a man condemned to death by starvation.The second part is well known but it's the first I'd heard of the fire-fighting monks.
First I'd heard of this too.https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/07/24/polands-monk-firefighters-given-new-engine-to-help-protect-planned-mega-airport/
"Planned-mega-airport": just what the world needs just now. Let the bloody thing burn would be the saintly thing to do.
The transport hub, located halfway between Warsaw and Łódź, is forecast to serve 65 million passengers a year by 2060That's about 150% of Poland's entire (current) population. It could end up being an expensive, grandiose white elephant.
A zoo in eastern China has reassured visitors its sun bears are real rather than humans in disguise, after footage of one animal standing like a person sent rumours flying online.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-66362970
Responding to a viral video of a bear on its hind legs, Hangzhou Zoo said people "don't understand" the species.
Wasn’t sure where to slip this in, so here it is.I can’t imaging how big the tap was that refilled the pool twice a day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-66406043
A positive I gleaned from reading the story of this unpleasant holiday experience was that at least he was able to polish the dolphin.
Wasn’t sure where to slip this in, so here it is.In the context of the whole story, I presumed that was some sort of euphemism.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-66406043
A positive I gleaned from reading the story of this unpleasant holiday experience was that at least he was able to polish the dolphin.
Wasn’t sure where to slip this in, so here it is.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-66406043
A positive I gleaned from reading the story of this unpleasant holiday experience was that at least he was able to polish the dolphin.
Wasn’t sure where to slip this in, so here it is.In the context of the whole story, I presumed that was some sort of euphemism.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-66406043
A positive I gleaned from reading the story of this unpleasant holiday experience was that at least he was able to polish the dolphin.
I know London is quite cosmopolitan, but I'm not sure even it qualifies for this thread.
The most dangerous places in England
(https://a-z-animals.com/blog/unveiling-the-most-dangerous-cities-in-england/)
Be afraid..
I know London is quite cosmopolitan, but I'm not sure even it qualifies for this thread.
The most dangerous places in England
(https://a-z-animals.com/blog/unveiling-the-most-dangerous-cities-in-england/)
Be afraid..
I know London is quite cosmopolitan, but I'm not sure even it qualifies for this thread.
The most dangerous places in England
(https://a-z-animals.com/blog/unveiling-the-most-dangerous-cities-in-england/)
Be afraid..
The perpetrator of the item linked to lives in Pennsylvania... I assume the foreign one, not the village near Bath.
“Thames Valley” illustrated with stock photo of some arriviste USAnian namesake river instead of the one that flows through Oxfod, Reading, Staines, London’s famous London, ect. i diskard them.
Fair enough, Jane often took an outing from the gentile surroundings of Alton to the docks of Southampton and Portsmouth to find sailors to fight. A little documented part of her life.
I forgot to mention, that article illustrates the danger of not meaningfully weighting your statistics.
I've been to Winchester for a night's drinking. Rahs on the rampage.
A young man had to be taken to hospital after getting too close to one of Geneva's most famous landmarks - the Jet d'Eau fountain.
...
Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes said the man, who is thought to be in his 20s, crossed the barriers surrounding the fountain on Monday evening.
He first tried to put his face on the nozzle where the water is pumped from but was thrown backwards.
He then tried again and was sent upwards by the power of the water, before crashing down onto a nearby walkway.
The man then dived into Lake Geneva before being picked up by the authorities, who had been alerted by passers-by, and taken to hospital.
The most dangerous places in England
(https://a-z-animals.com/blog/unveiling-the-most-dangerous-cities-in-england/)
Be afraid..
The most dangerous places in England
(https://a-z-animals.com/blog/unveiling-the-most-dangerous-cities-in-england/)
Be afraid..
(https://a-z-animals.com/media/2023/07/shutterstock-1144165658-huge-licensed-scaled-1024x608.jpg)
That beach is quite definitely a crime scene. My friend Sherry and I are quite often to be seen (if you can be bothered going out at 11pm) skinny dipping in that very vicinity.
Eye-ran. Eye-rak. Poo'un (the ' marks a glottal stop). I am bemused by many Leftpondian pronunciations.“Thames Valley” illustrated with stock photo of some arriviste USAnian namesake river instead of the one that flows through Oxfod, Reading, Staines, London’s famous London, ect. i diskard them.
Well spotted, I was pondering the same. I suppose it flows past New London. Also, they do pronounce Thames phonetically, which is always a delight. They also now say Nor-witch rather than Norrich for Norwich, unless they're really old people, who cling to the latter. Reminds me of the time I was in Tanzania with a good old southern boy, and his pronunciation of the country name really didn't borrow from either of the established pronunciations. Locals would gather to hear it. It meandered like the Mississippi.
“Thames Valley” illustrated with stock photo of some arriviste USAnian namesake river instead of the one that flows through Oxfod, Reading, Staines, London’s famous London, ect. i diskard them.
Well spotted, I was pondering the same. I suppose it flows past New London. Also, they do pronounce Thames phonetically, which is always a delight. They also now say Nor-witch rather than Norrich for Norwich, unless they're really old people, who cling to the latter. Reminds me of the time I was in Tanzania with a good old southern boy, and his pronunciation of the country name really didn't borrow from either of the established pronunciations. Locals would gather to hear it. It meandered like the Mississippi.
The other day I learned that a certain tribe based a fair way west of here may be spelled “Nez Perce” but they’re pronounced “Throatwobbler-MangroveNEZZ PURSE” and not inna-French-stylee as I'd assumed for years.
“Thames Valley” illustrated with stock photo of some arriviste USAnian namesake river instead of the one that flows through Oxfod, Reading, Staines, London’s famous London, ect. i diskard them.
Well spotted, I was pondering the same. I suppose it flows past New London. Also, they do pronounce Thames phonetically, which is always a delight. They also now say Nor-witch rather than Norrich for Norwich, unless they're really old people, who cling to the latter. Reminds me of the time I was in Tanzania with a good old southern boy, and his pronunciation of the country name really didn't borrow from either of the established pronunciations. Locals would gather to hear it. It meandered like the Mississippi.
My great aunt Peta, who hailed from Himeville in SA, pronounced Tanzania as tan-ZAR-nia. Orange shitgibbon pronounces it tan-ZAY-nia (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/27/donald-trump-tanzania-foreign-policy-speech).
Serious sploshing…..Also what happens when you're riding past a roadkill badger that's been lying in the sun for a week, and it goes pop.
https://x.com/dwnews/status/1698048325046444450 (https://x.com/dwnews/status/1698048325046444450?s=46&t=lquV-LJg2wzA2xeUpZXV3Q)
Florida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel. :o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66733230
The best bit is that he's got previous for this sort of stunt.
no idea of fuel consumption (originally set off with 200 galleons, final successful trip took 735 and still ran out, refueled by a ship).Like sending the Spanish Armada to Tobago!
no idea of fuel consumption (originally set off with 200 galleons, final successful trip took 735 and still ran out, refueled by a ship).Like sending the Spanish Armada to Tobago!
This one: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=123362.msg2732386#msg2732386no idea of fuel consumption (originally set off with 200 galleons, final successful trip took 735 and still ran out, refueled by a ship).Like sending the Spanish Armada to Tobago!
Is that TBAGO?
They said they were first alerted to the alleged forgery by a Portuguese maintenance and repair company in June, prompting a scramble to discover the extent of the issue.
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency, in a filing first reported by Bloomberg, said in August it was examining reports of parts with suspected falsified documents supplied by AOG. Britain's CAA said in August it was "investigating the supply of a large number of suspect unapproved parts".
From the continent - Brits as foreigners playing fast and loose with certifications. Freed from EU rules perhaps.
https://m.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/betrugsvorwuerfe-gegen-aog-technics-safran-aeussert-sich-19194044.html
Couldn’t find this report in the UK press at first.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/engine-maker-cfm-says-up-96-planes-affected-by-fake-parts-probe-2023-09-20/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66921563 "Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann denies using vibrating sex toy to cheat" :jurek: :jurek:
Do we have a resident sexpert who could explain how remote controlled anal beads could be used to cheat at chess ? Morse code ?
Indeed.From the continent - Brits as foreigners playing fast and loose with certifications. Freed from EU rules perhaps.
https://m.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/betrugsvorwuerfe-gegen-aog-technics-safran-aeussert-sich-19194044.html
Couldn’t find this report in the UK press at first.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/engine-maker-cfm-says-up-96-planes-affected-by-fake-parts-probe-2023-09-20/
UK regulations are exactly the same as EASA, and are governed by international agreement. AOG appears to be a company acting criminally. Its location in the UK is irrelevant to the case against it.
See you later: emotional support alligator denied entry to Phillies gamehttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/29/emotional-support-alligator-phillies-baseball-game
Security turned away Joie Henney’s TikTok-famous, leashed reptile Wally from Philadelphia baseball game on Wednesday
Anyway, back to the sort of content this thread was created for... :demon:
And surprisingly, this one's not from Florida:QuoteSee you later: emotional support alligator denied entry to Phillies gamehttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/29/emotional-support-alligator-phillies-baseball-game
Security turned away Joie Henney’s TikTok-famous, leashed reptile Wally from Philadelphia baseball game on Wednesday
What he needs is one of these: https://www.etsy.com/listing/629107095/emotional-support-honey-badger ;)
The toy could convey a suggestion for the player's next move: the square to move from followed by the square to move to. There'd need to be an agreed code for the letters A to H and the numbers 1 to 8. There may need to be a signal from the player (stop sniggering at the back), to request a suggestion.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66921563 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66921563) "Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann denies using vibrating sex toy to cheat" :jurek: :jurek:
Do we have a resident sexpert who could explain how remote controlled anal beads could be used to cheat at chess ? Morse code ?
There seems to be a real buzz of excitement about this story. But as yet, I've not heard anyone explain exactly how one communicates via vibrating probe...
The toy could convey a suggestion for the player's next move: the square to move from followed by the square to move to. There'd need to be an agreed code for the letters A to H and the numbers 1 to 8. There may need to be a signal from the player (stop sniggering at the back), to request a suggestion.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66921563 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66921563) "Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann denies using vibrating sex toy to cheat" :jurek: :jurek:
Do we have a resident sexpert who could explain how remote controlled anal beads could be used to cheat at chess ? Morse code ?
There seems to be a real buzz of excitement about this story. But as yet, I've not heard anyone explain exactly how one communicates via vibrating probe...
Other ways of receiving advice during a game are discussed here (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-63010107).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67168388
"Czech village priest sorry for smashing pumpkins"
It's ok mate, Tonight, Tonight wasn't bad.
IGMC
"Leaving the rectory on Sunday evening, I saw numerous symbols of the satanic feast of 'Halloween' placed in front of our sacred grounds," he wrote.
He added that in his view the modern tradition of Halloween had been conceived in a "heathen, contemporary world", as a counterbalance to the Catholic feast of All Souls' Day.Bear in mind that pumpkins and dressing up as witches etc will be, in Czechy, an American cultural import. And in the previous quote from him:
"Leaving the rectory on Sunday evening, I saw numerous symbols of the satanic feast of 'Halloween' placed in front of our sacred grounds," he wrote.I wonder if the quotes around 'Halloween' indicate that he was using the English word. Maybe there is a Czech word, but clearly in his mind, there is an opposition between the Christian feast of All Saints Day and Halloween.
"I acted according to my faith and duty to be a father and protector of the children entrusted to me and removed these symbols," said Father Smejkal, parish priest at the Roman Catholic Church of St John the Baptist.
"Leaving the rectory on Sunday evening, I saw numerous symbols of the satanic feast of 'Halloween' placed in front of our sacred grounds," he wrote.
QuoteQuote"Leaving the rectory on Sunday evening, I saw numerous symbols of the satanic feast of 'Halloween' placed in front of our sacred grounds," he wrote.
I wonder which seminary he went to? Halloween is actually a Christian festival.
Yebbut Nov. 1 - All Saints' Day - is the festival, and Halloween is a sort of stag night for ghosties and ghoulies and knights that go bump in the jarrie.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67168388
"Czech village priest sorry for smashing pumpkins"
It's ok mate, Tonight, Tonight wasn't bad.
IGMC
Now I want a "Trinkets and Baubles" T shirt but I'm 30 years too late.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67168388
"Czech village priest sorry for smashing pumpkins"
It's ok mate, Tonight, Tonight wasn't bad.
IGMC
In a follow-up statement the priest admitted that he had a soft spot for Mudhoney.
- A woman said she was shocked to discover that Alaska is not an island, and you can drive to it.
- While Canadians were left baffled, many Americans said they'd made the same mistake.
- Some people pointed out that Alaska is shown as an island on the US map, which causes confusion.
Maybe some Alaskans think they're on an island?Sarah Palin probably does.
Quote from: Business Insider
- A woman said she was shocked to discover that Alaska is not an island, and you can drive to it.
- While Canadians were left baffled, many Americans said they'd made the same mistake.
- Some people pointed out that Alaska is shown as an island on the US map, which causes confusion.
https://www.insider.com/woman-shocked-to-discover-alaska-isnt-an-island-2023-11
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67825635
Got fewer presents than your sibling? Shoot your parent. Yee-haw.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/06/venice-gondola-capsizes-tourists-canalIt's France. I can imagine a gallic shrug and a slightly pouty face.
It's a bit chilly for swimming, I doubt they'd want a cornetto afterwards.....
Venice, LA has a new folk hero - the phantom faeces-flagger!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/30/los-angeles-dog-poop-flag-venice-mystery
Venice, LA has a new folk hero - the phantom faeces-flagger!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/30/los-angeles-dog-poop-flag-venice-mystery
That reminds me of seeing a similar thing in Saltaire, years ago - my favourite flag message was "Shame on you, clean up your poo". :D
There's someone here that does the chalk circle thing too.Venice, LA has a new folk hero - the phantom faeces-flagger!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/30/los-angeles-dog-poop-flag-venice-mystery
That reminds me of seeing a similar thing in Saltaire, years ago - my favourite flag message was "Shame on you, clean up your poo". :D
A few months back, someone in EH7 was drawing chalk-lines around pavement dog poos, in the style of dead body crime scenes.
There's someone here that does the chalk circle thing too.Venice, LA has a new folk hero - the phantom faeces-flagger!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/30/los-angeles-dog-poop-flag-venice-mystery
That reminds me of seeing a similar thing in Saltaire, years ago - my favourite flag message was "Shame on you, clean up your poo". :D
A few months back, someone in EH7 was drawing chalk-lines around pavement dog poos, in the style of dead body crime scenes.
Doesn't last long in our climate.
Venice, LA has a new folk hero - the phantom faeces-flagger!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/30/los-angeles-dog-poop-flag-venice-mystery
That reminds me of seeing a similar thing in Saltaire, years ago - my favourite flag message was "Shame on you, clean up your poo". :D
A few months back, someone in EH7 was drawing chalk-lines around pavement dog poos, in the style of dead body crime scenes.
When my mate Pete collapsed on my kitchen floor thanks to an access of incohol, I used a tub of table salt to draw a white line around his prone body.
How we laughed.
When my mate Pete collapsed on my kitchen floor thanks to an access of incohol, I used a tub of table salt to draw a white line around his prone body.
How we laughed.
Venice, LA has a new folk hero - the phantom faeces-flagger!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/30/los-angeles-dog-poop-flag-venice-mystery
That reminds me of seeing a similar thing in Saltaire, years ago - my favourite flag message was "Shame on you, clean up your poo". :D
A few months back, someone in EH7 was drawing chalk-lines around pavement dog poos, in the style of dead body crime scenes.
I'm in EH7, but it wasn't me. ;D (I did see that, though, and commend whoever did it.)
The flags are good too, but I guess they would result in random litter after a few spells of rain.
The thought of squatting down close enough to the poo to draw round it makes me want to boak. Maybe the chalkers have a long stick with their chalk attached.
The thought of squatting down close enough to the poo to draw round it makes me want to boak. Maybe the chalkers have a long stick with their chalk attached.
Probably smokers. Or dog owners.
There's a pavement chalk artist by the name of Zinn, who does these things which when looked at from the right angle, appear to be things like vertical shafts dropping down into the ground, and with various creatures coming up out of the top.
To get this uncanny 3D perspective view, he stands from the observer's PoV, and used chalk-onna-stick to sketch out the initial framework.
It's presumably spray chalk rather than a old-skool stick.The thought of squatting down close enough to the poo to draw round it makes me want to boak. Maybe the chalkers have a long stick with their chalk attached.
Probably smokers. Or dog owners.
It took a few seconds to occur to me that you were probably referring to their sense of smell - I immediately imagined that they were using their old-school cigarette holders to hold the chalk. :facepalm: ;D
Oh, and an update on the EH9 situation - I mentioned the chalk thing to my wife, who said she'd seen it in the neighbourhood.
I was semi-seriously thinking of getting a poop trowel and scooping all of the poops into a pile. It would confine the issue to a smaller area, and maybe make the dog emptiers think again before just leaving it. Probably not though.
It does what?!?! (https://youtu.be/Aromts0OiHs?si=G_AEY1IqpCpzKLIE):o Why would you?
‘What do you mean, the tower is gone?’: thieves steal 200ft structure from Alabama radio station (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/08/alabama-200ft-radio-tower-stolen)
The FCC also notified WJLX on Thursday morning that the station would have to go off the air because of the theft. While WJLX still has its FM transmitter and tower, it is not allowed to operate its FM transmitter while the AM station is off the air.
Hedgehogs feature in this impressive list of Hungarian vulgarities:
https://www.thepoke.com/2023/03/17/hungarians-top-the-global-insult-leaderboard/
Tennessee bans chemtrails (https://eu.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2024/03/20/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-banning-chemtrails-what-to-know/73027586007/) :facepalm: