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Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: rogerzilla on 25 February, 2018, 08:09:48 am

Title: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 25 February, 2018, 08:09:48 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-43137005

I think this is an excellent idea, although probably more expensive than putting £1000 behind the bar at the wake to make people turn up.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 03 March, 2018, 12:49:39 am
Surprisingly enough, a weird story from Leftpondia that isn't set in Florida.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018-elections/2018/03/01/talk-big-bucks-deer-semen-donations-fueling-south-texas-campaign
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 March, 2018, 09:20:16 am
"Deet semen fuelling" made me think of this Viz oddity from many years back: http://viz.co.uk/2014/10/03/mickeys-monkey-spunk-moped/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Torslanda on 04 March, 2018, 09:01:23 pm
I have just heard an American postulate that the 1908 Tunguska Event was caused by Nikola Tesla.

Apparently his Long Island experiment produced a 'death ray'.

He wanted to demonstrate this with an explosion at the North Pole - and overshot a bit.

I used to think 'You couldn't make this shit up'. I'm not so sure . . .
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 04 March, 2018, 09:53:12 pm
May I suggest you descend upon the YouTube channel 'world of batshit'?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Torslanda on 04 March, 2018, 09:59:46 pm
This was Discovery . . .
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Andrij on 04 March, 2018, 10:22:20 pm
I recall with fondness those innocent days before National Geographic, Discovery, History, and The Learning Channels became crappe.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 06 April, 2018, 09:32:23 pm
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/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 06 April, 2018, 09:36:14 pm
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/

Nice cameo by The Other Birmingham, there.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 24 April, 2018, 05:51:37 pm
"The case for the prosecution rests, Mallard."

http://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-duck-snapped-twice-for-speeding-in-30km-zone/a-43473734
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 15 May, 2018, 11:49:52 pm
Sorry, but you're not getting your emotional support snakes on this plane!

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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

http://time.com/5277002/goats-banned-as-emotional-support-animals-american-airlines/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 May, 2018, 03:40:17 am
What about ferrets?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 19 May, 2018, 12:57:18 am
This just might be most Floridian news story I have ever seen. For now...  :D

http://ktla.com/2018/03/21/florida-men-one-dressed-in-bull-costume-accused-of-trying-to-burn-down-house-with-ragu-sauce/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 May, 2018, 04:13:57 am
That's got to be an excerpt from a new Carl Hiaasen novel.  Hasn't it?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 19 May, 2018, 11:12:00 am
That's got to be an excerpt from a new Carl Hiaasen novel.  Hasn't it?

 ;D :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 24 May, 2018, 09:46:10 pm
Turkmens warned over presidential toilet paper (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-44236375)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 24 May, 2018, 10:03:28 pm
That reminds me: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/31/donald-trump-mexico-toilet-paper-antonio-battaglia
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: cygnet on 24 May, 2018, 11:23:03 pm
comment noted.

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 25 May, 2018, 02:19:28 pm
cygnet, some areas of the forum shouldn't be mentioned. One of the few forum rules.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 21 June, 2018, 04:31:56 pm
Actual headline: Phillie Phanatic's wayward wiener hits woman in face, causes injuries

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2018/06/20/phillie-phanatics-flying-hot-dog-injures-woman/720328002/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 26 July, 2018, 06:24:12 pm
Those Russians!

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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.
...

“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.

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/shirtless-siberian-fined-cruising-streets-bathtub-62337
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 11 August, 2018, 01:19:55 pm
With friends like these...  :o

(Originally spotted this story via Twitter, but luckily I found a news aggregator site instead of the Daily Mail)

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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

https://news.youtubecategories.com/moment-police-tape-mans-hand-to-grenade-safety-catch-daily-mail/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 14 August, 2018, 08:16:53 am
Foreigners go on holiday in their own country.  (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-woman-81-claims-benidorm-13075153)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Basil on 14 August, 2018, 08:41:52 am
Foreigners go on holiday in their own country.  (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-woman-81-claims-benidorm-13075153)

Fantastic!   Absolutely brilliant!   :D  ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 14 August, 2018, 10:03:23 am
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?

1. No I don't actually.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 16 August, 2018, 05:29:42 pm
That's got to be an excerpt from a new Carl Hiaasen novel.  Hasn't it?

This has "excerpt from a Hiaasen novel" written all over it.  ;D :-X

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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.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article216726340.html
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 03 September, 2018, 10:07:32 pm
Kuwaiti fishmonger with an eye for creative marketing bowled a googly by the authorities.

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A fishmonger in Kuwait has been closed down for sticking googly eyes on fish to make them appear fresher.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-45398254
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 05 October, 2018, 09:20:24 pm
And back to Carl Hiaasen's research files...

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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."

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/10/05/a-florida-gas-station-owner-wants-people-to-stop-warming-their-pee-in-his-microwave
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 14 October, 2018, 03:08:49 pm
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).

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Man run over by lawn mower while trying to kill son with chainsaw
https://twitter.com/3onyourside/status/1050885186047631361

 
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 October, 2018, 02:34:19 pm
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).

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Man run over by lawn mower while trying to kill son with chainsaw
https://twitter.com/3onyourside/status/1050885186047631361

And to think people failed to take Lawnmower DETH seriously!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: CAMRAMan on 17 October, 2018, 10:22:39 am
Let's kick a man while he's down, eh?!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-45860488
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Ham on 11 November, 2018, 07:03:19 pm
Clearly a mayor that believes getting into the swing of things

https://www.planetski.eu/news/10929
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 12 November, 2018, 09:21:23 pm
The French army mocks Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/12/french-army-trolls-trump-with-picture-of-them-training-in-rain (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/12/french-army-trolls-trump-with-picture-of-them-training-in-rain)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 13 November, 2018, 06:45:50 pm
Homo sapiens floridaius: Call that crazy? Hold our beers...

https://mynbc15.com/news/local/florida-man-breaks-into-restaurant-strips-naked-eats-noodles-plays-bongos

https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/florida-woman-attempts-stealing-lobster-red-lobster.html?utm_campaign=thecut&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Canardly on 13 November, 2018, 11:17:13 pm
Given Trumps foot stamping today, could it really be the case, that due to sulking, he did not visit the American cemetery in the Aisne?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 19 November, 2018, 03:13:24 pm
Meanwhile, in Canda: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/stolen-snowplow-crash-portugal-cove-1.4911075
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 19 November, 2018, 03:28:46 pm
Reminds me of an episode in the late 50s when a Belfast dockyard crane-driver and his mate got drunk, and the driver borrowed his company "car" to take his chum home to Dundonald, 5 miles or so out of town. He then drove the crane back again, managing to hit both posts of the dockyard gates in doing so. Over the entire trip he damaged around 80 parked cars.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 29 November, 2018, 06:52:59 pm
And back to the US state that already has more than its fair share of mentions...

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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  #odd
https://twitter.com/AP_Oddities/status/1068150347363950592

The replies are a toot - sorry, I mean hoot.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mattc on 30 November, 2018, 09:48:15 am
And back to the US state that already has more than its fair share of mentions...

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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  #odd
https://twitter.com/AP_Oddities/status/1068150347363950592

The replies are a toot - sorry, I mean hoot.

Normally I regard fart-gags as the lowest form of wit ... but this is hilarious!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 30 November, 2018, 04:17:36 pm
Now we know why the USA has that "Are you a terrorist?" visa question.
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“One of the questions ask if you are a terrorist and it must have jumped from No to Yes without me knowing," he said.

"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."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/john-stevenson-us-visa-ban-terrorist-esta-form-mistake-a8660441.html
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Guy on 03 December, 2018, 09:32:51 am
It's not just British idiots who move to the country and start complaining about everything

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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)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Zipperhead on 03 December, 2018, 01:57:01 pm
It's not just British idiots who move to the country and start complaining about everything

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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)

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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 03 December, 2018, 02:29:30 pm
It's not just British idiots who move to the country and start complaining about everything

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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)

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.

They'd only complain about flying balls and ridiculous trousers.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 03 December, 2018, 02:30:02 pm
To be fair, when they bought the house there were only fields. Then the council and a farmer conspired...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 03 December, 2018, 02:34:35 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 03 December, 2018, 03:34:51 pm
It's not just British idiots who move to the country and start complaining about everything

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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)
One of *their* neighbours needs to countersue, complaining about the smell of bullshit.

Details on the court case
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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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mattc on 03 December, 2018, 07:30:19 pm
 ;D

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 December, 2018, 03:04:23 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mattc on 08 December, 2018, 02:39:55 pm
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?

<runs>
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 08 December, 2018, 02:45:47 pm
<cycles>

surely!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 08 December, 2018, 03:10:13 pm
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?

Not for the first time have I thought they should get rid of the 'sports' class, which nobody seems to understand anyway, and have one for turning up without the aid of a motor vehicle.  Perhaps with a variation for a particularly stealthy approach.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mattc on 08 December, 2018, 04:26:25 pm
<cycles>

surely!

I went off-road - those plastic pigs didn't stand a chance.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 10 December, 2018, 04:18:43 pm
The spirit was willing, but the flesh was weak.

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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.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/louth-woman-married-ghost-pirate-13708090
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 12 December, 2018, 03:15:21 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/12/high-tech-robot-at-russia-forum-turns-out-to-be-man-in-robot-suit (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/12/high-tech-robot-at-russia-forum-turns-out-to-be-man-in-robot-suit)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 14 December, 2018, 05:46:17 pm
Not weird news this time, but a court order from Leftpondia that I can't see a judge from our side of the Big Pond ever issuing. Pay attention to the opening and closing lines... ;D

Part 1: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuYkaAZV4AMv8HT.jpg
Part 2: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuYkd7EVYAEuA-k.jpg

H/t: https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1073585753932869634
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 14 December, 2018, 08:02:01 pm
that's just great.  What's the bet, no-one notices it?  ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 19 December, 2018, 12:14:32 am
Continuing the theme of cranky court filings...

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From a Judge’s Order today in Mobile County, AL:

“Please don’t expect a quick reset because...the 13th Circuit is so dead-ass broke.”

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuuMhtAUcAEyFQh.jpg
https://twitter.com/associatesmind/status/1075107452369149954


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


And to finish - an Illinois attorney had a particularly extreme reaction to the outcome of the 2016 election:

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OMG.

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."
https://twitter.com/associatesmind/status/1075029343775219712

It gets better (or worse)... see: http://www.iardc.org/18PR0109CM.html
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 December, 2018, 12:41:08 pm
Mobile... only just across the state line from Florida.  Just sayin'.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 19 December, 2018, 01:05:52 pm
The Australian government and the utterly batshit crazy anti-encryption law.  TL;DR, The law enables government agencies to compel companies to break encryption on their own products if said agencies believe that a crime has been, or may be, committed.

Never mind that the companies currently, in many cases, have no access to the customer's data. Never mind that this will fundamentally undermine much of modern 'net commerce. Never mind that this will mean the end of hi-tech development in Australia.

Summary article here https://www.itpro.co.uk/encryption/32593/australia-passes-controversial-anti-encryption-law (https://www.itpro.co.uk/encryption/32593/australia-passes-controversial-anti-encryption-law)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 19 December, 2018, 01:07:51 pm
Mobile... only just across the state line from Florida.  Just sayin'.

Close enough for rock'n' roll Carl Hiaasen?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 19 December, 2018, 02:35:20 pm
Continuing the theme of cranky court filings...
....
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
....

Yebbut Microsoft are two time zones west of Wisconsin so...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 21 December, 2018, 05:45:07 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Canardly on 22 December, 2018, 10:56:32 am
Remember the french airport marzipan incident?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Torslanda on 22 December, 2018, 11:38:31 am
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

Probably one of those rare self-loading assault clarinets...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 23 December, 2018, 05:58:01 pm
That old rhetorical question about bosky ursine toilet habits needs a re-write:

https://www.thefix.com/content/russian-bears-hooked-jet-fuel91494
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 27 December, 2018, 07:41:49 am
Not just the cow bells, but they are complaining about the smell

In my little part of the upper left-hand corner of USANIA, when one purchases property within 1/4 mile of agriculturally-zone land, that fact must be disclosed.  Part of a "freedom to farm" act meant to avoid nuisance claims.

Several summers ago, a farmer spread a considerable amount of chicken manure on his field.  The aroma spread for much more than 1/4 mile.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 December, 2018, 10:55:20 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 08 January, 2019, 10:04:26 am
India scientists dismiss Einstein theories (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-46778879)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 08 January, 2019, 10:18:25 am
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.

They'll also drink Guinness, the downside being that motor oil tastes better.

It's best, when showering any kind of bear, to ensure they are wearing a close-fitting swimming cap.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 08 January, 2019, 11:22:34 am
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)!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mattc on 08 January, 2019, 12:08:22 pm
India scientists dismiss Einstein theories (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-46778879)

Oh my! That really is some amazing ... er "science".

It almost sounds like a massive hoax by the science community - each year there is a secret meeting where they choose the next ludicrous public proclamation.

"
In 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told medical staff at a Mumbai hospital that the story of the Hindu god Ganesha - whose elephant head is attached to a human body - showed cosmetic surgery existed in ancient India
"
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 10 January, 2019, 04:40:37 pm
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46828770
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 11 January, 2019, 05:46:01 pm
You want a sign of the end times? You've got a sign of the end times - Costco's sold out of its 27lb (12.25kg) buckets of mac and cheese.

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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.
...

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.

https://nypost.com/2019/01/11/costco-sells-out-of-27-pound-mac-and-cheese-bucket-with-20-year-shelf-life/?utm_source=NYPFacebook&sr_share=facebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

H/T: https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1083770981234212866
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 11 January, 2019, 06:17:42 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 11 January, 2019, 06:57:41 pm
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.

Paging Dave Lister.  Dave Lister to the curry-stained courtesy phone...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 12 January, 2019, 06:39:54 am
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)!

Having just seen the twenty five year retrospective, that was kind of my reaction as well.

Then my wife started telling me which bits if the scriptures demonstrated each point
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 13 January, 2019, 04:16:46 pm
Achievement unlocked. #LifeGoals :D

Quote
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.

Wichita Falls Times Record News, via Fark.com (https://www.fark.com/go/10285821)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 20 January, 2019, 05:04:17 pm
Emotional support animals, part 2*:

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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.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/01/pretty-laid-back-alligator-serves-as-emotional-support-animal-as-owner-shops-gives-presentations.html


* See up-thread: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=106994.msg2286638#msg2286638
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Ham on 21 January, 2019, 06:45:42 am
https://www.ouest-france.fr/bretagne/hennebont-56700/morbihan-un-lama-entre-par-surprise-chez-un-opticien-6180197 Crazy, eh? it's an alpaca not a llama (I think). If French, but the translation is as straightforward and obvious as it gets. The detail doesn't add much more to the story.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 21 January, 2019, 08:41:17 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 21 January, 2019, 03:10:05 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 21 January, 2019, 03:35:10 pm
Al Pacacino declined to comment.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Giraffe on 22 January, 2019, 08:41:18 am
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?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Guy on 22 January, 2019, 08:45:15 am
Only below 500 feet near the runways
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 29 January, 2019, 11:14:34 pm
Where "crazy" doesn't mean "normal for Florida" but "even Aussies think you're insane". :o :facepalm:

https://www.dailymercury.com.au/news/unwitting-tourist-holds-deadly-animal-on-australia/3633869/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 29 January, 2019, 11:36:32 pm
Where "crazy" doesn't mean "normal for Florida" but "even Aussies think you're insane". :o :facepalm:

https://www.dailymercury.com.au/news/unwitting-tourist-holds-deadly-animal-on-australia/3633869/
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 30 January, 2019, 10:04:13 am
Well, they did invent Foster's.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 08 February, 2019, 10:58:37 pm
Florida - the state that just keeps on giving.

https://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Florida-woman-poses-for-maternity-photos-with-baby-gator-505579651.html

Per another report, she says she was hoping to "reach peak Florida woman levels."

Achievement unlocked...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 01 March, 2019, 05:55:31 pm
Quote
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://apnews.com/1115286d4d624ad0ba1268b49d4c2e6f

The only way to make this story even better would have been if the customers had been duelling with Japanese spider crab (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_spider_crab) legs.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 01 March, 2019, 09:26:48 pm
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1101198880635609090


Axe throwing and alcohol.... a winning combination... :jurek:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 01 March, 2019, 10:38:34 pm
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1101198880635609090


Axe throwing and alcohol.... a winning combination... :jurek:

<Dr. Pepper> What's the worst that could happen? </Dr. Pepper>
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 01 March, 2019, 11:31:36 pm
The sort of gentle, refined sport I could see Charlotte enjoying....
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 March, 2019, 01:36:28 pm
https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan/status/1102289910562607104


Florida. Cycling. Crazy stuff.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 05 March, 2019, 02:55:25 pm
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47454610

A back-yard zoo.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 05 March, 2019, 05:06:52 pm
https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan/status/1102289910562607104


Florida. Cycling. Crazy stuff.

We could just link to Florida Man's Twitter and lock the thread...  ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 March, 2019, 05:25:08 pm
https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan/status/1102289910562607104


Florida. Cycling. Crazy stuff.

We could just link to Florida Man's Twitter and lock the thread...  ;D
It must be something they put in the orange juice down there.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 07 March, 2019, 09:19:23 pm
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6777961/Billionaire-diamond-trader-65-dies-penis-enlargement-surgery.html


 :facepalm:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 07 March, 2019, 09:25:17 pm
That’s hard.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 07 March, 2019, 09:33:27 pm
Definitely a stiff.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 07 March, 2019, 09:39:00 pm
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6777961/Billionaire-diamond-trader-65-dies-penis-enlargement-surgery.html


 :facepalm:

Saw that one mentioned yesterday.

Quote
This is the most 2019 thing ever. Love that it’s reported by Daily Fail.
Diamonds
Belgian-Israeli Billionaire with a teeny weenie complex
Death by Penis enlargement surgery
Reported by Propaganda Outlet
https://twitter.com/ninaandtito/status/1103515600339447808

There are some cracking replies to the Mail's tweet: https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1103309538407665667  ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: hellymedic on 07 March, 2019, 10:26:43 pm
Wish those journalists used the correct words!

He diid NOT start work as a 'masseuse'!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Butterfly on 08 March, 2019, 09:31:39 am
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6777961/Billionaire-diamond-trader-65-dies-penis-enlargement-surgery.html


 :facepalm:

That's really sad. All that money and at his age he felt he needed surgery.

Wish those journalists used the correct words!

He diid NOT start work as a 'masseuse'!

Because it's the DM. Accuracy isn't their thing. He was probably actually having his ingrown toenail done, come to think of it.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: hellymedic on 08 March, 2019, 04:25:02 pm
I've now seen the same story in the Jerusalem Post and the Jewish Chronicle.

Seems money can't buy you everything...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: PeteB99 on 12 March, 2019, 03:09:44 pm
Plane turns back after passenger leaves baby in terminal.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/12/saudi-plane-turns-around-mother-forgets-baby-airport (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/12/saudi-plane-turns-around-mother-forgets-baby-airport)

Didn't Cameron do that in a pub once?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 19 March, 2019, 11:52:30 am
Live embryo smuggling.....

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47621526
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 25 March, 2019, 06:29:47 am
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6777961/Billionaire-diamond-trader-65-dies-penis-enlargement-surgery.html
 :facepalm:
now we know how the world will be rid of Drumpf
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 04 April, 2019, 04:32:38 pm
Arkansas decides to give Florida some competition.

Quote
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.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/Drunk-Men-Wearing-Bulletproof-Vests-Arrested-508062661.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DCBrand

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 10 April, 2019, 05:54:36 pm
Now they're white/species-washing Master Splinter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splinter_(Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles))...

Quote
Florida man threatens to release army of turtles upon arrest: report http://bit.ly/2UtRPBg
https://twitter.com/orlandosentinel/status/1115952835307425793
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: hellymedic on 12 April, 2019, 12:35:36 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-47902969/police-respond-to-intruder-and-find-robot-vacuum-cleaner (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-47902969/police-respond-to-intruder-and-find-robot-vacuum-cleaner)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 13 April, 2019, 07:00:00 pm
It's not clear whether he was touched by His Noodly Appendage, but a Florida man (where else?) was arrested for "belligerent" eating of pasta.

https://thetakeout.com/florida-man-arrested-olive-garden-eating-pasta-1833970785

H/T: https://twitter.com/FOX61News/status/1116900190806474753 (had to Google for alternative report due to GDPR-induced geoblocking).
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Guy on 21 May, 2019, 10:07:54 am
Quote
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)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Ham on 22 May, 2019, 10:16:19 am
This has to be worth running through Google Translate if you can't read the French original https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/sexo/un-maire-propose-de-distribuer-du-viagra-pour-encourager-les-naissances_3453825.html
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 22 May, 2019, 10:57:52 am
Fuckin' A.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Zipperhead on 22 May, 2019, 01:32:07 pm
Fuckin' A.

I don't think that's how you get babies.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 03 June, 2019, 01:53:03 pm
This hasn't got "spike in ER attendance rates" written all over it at all, oh no siree...

Quote
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

What next, Spacehoppers for hire? ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 June, 2019, 01:59:56 pm
But are they electric pogo sticks?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andytheflyer on 03 June, 2019, 02:44:34 pm
Why am I reminded of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbnkY1tBvMU
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 14 June, 2019, 03:15:53 pm
Oh, Canada...

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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 bit about the donor sounds about normal for a bootneck, though. :demon:

Quote
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.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/frozen-toe-yukon-bar-intl-scli/index.html
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 June, 2019, 07:42:25 pm
This Unit managed to pass through Dawson City last year without succumbing to the Sourtoe business, because alcohol  ;)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Legs on 14 June, 2019, 08:39:53 pm
There's a rather entertaining travelogue documentary by A Armstrong, Esq. in which he circumnavigates the Arctic in the fashion of a goodly BRITISH adventurer and samples a Sourtoe cocktail.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 15 June, 2019, 02:48:38 pm
"Whomsoever pulls this knife from the alligator's head shall become King of all Texas!"

"Listen. Strange alligators lying in ponds distributing steak knives is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alligator-knife-sticking-out-its-head-spotted-swimming-texas-lake-n1017736
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 15 June, 2019, 09:14:04 pm
"Whomsoever pulls this knife from the alligator's head shall become King of all Texas!"

Not sure that's wise.  It's clearly going to be Florida Man.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 15 June, 2019, 09:17:14 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 15 June, 2019, 09:54:45 pm
Just about everything there is bad apart from "party".  :hand:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 15 June, 2019, 10:45:54 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 15 June, 2019, 11:05:45 pm
I’ve come to the conclusion that I’d make a dreadful alcoholic because I keep forgetting to drink. The other night I really wanted to have a whisky, but by the time I remembered I was in bed and cba to go an get one. Mind ewe, I’m trying to make up for it tonight.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 16 June, 2019, 10:34:12 am
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

Oh. Popping balloons, right.  On first sight I imagined something like a gathering where everyone whipped off their loincloths at the same time.

Whipping off an alligator I could understand - I mean, who would want to wear one anyway? - but having the Border Patrol fire at an explosive codpiece seems a bit Darwinesque.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 30 June, 2019, 01:56:59 pm
Alabama man denies pet is 'methed-out' attack squirrel:

Quote
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.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-man-denies-pet-methed-out-attack-squirrel-n1019386

Paulk's since been arrested on multiple felony warrants unrelated to the squirrel.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-man-accused-feeding-meth-squirrel-arrested-n1024801?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma


OK Georgia, now it's your turn...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 05 July, 2019, 07:04:09 pm

"Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers”

https://www.newsweek.com/vegan-meat-bacon-1447236


https://t.co/1gecZOsSRu
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 July, 2019, 07:29:10 pm
Quite right too.  As long as they extended it to the fraudulent an infuriating word "beefburger" as well :demon:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 06 July, 2019, 07:46:13 pm
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]
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 06 July, 2019, 07:59:00 pm
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 the subject of Tom Lehrer's ditty 'She's My Girl' was ahead of her time, then...

Quote
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.

http://iankitching.me.uk/humour/lehrer/an-evening.html#MyGirl
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 July, 2019, 11:57:23 pm
Quote from: Ogden Nash

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

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 08 July, 2019, 09:30:55 am
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]

I like some veggie burgers* (some are awful, the EU should really invest its time into categorizing them). The beanish ones are best. I'm unconvinced by the pretend meat stuff. I had one of the 'impossible burger' things and it was OK but I think if you expect a cow burger you're still going to be a bit disappointed.

*for my sins, I was a vegetarian for many years.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 08 July, 2019, 05:03:14 pm
I have no problem with well cooked veggie food, but I do tend to dislike the veggie food that is trying too hard to look like meat.  Just be imaginative without using meat FFS.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 08 July, 2019, 06:52:20 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 09 July, 2019, 12:50:00 pm
Moar "gender reveal party" tomfoolery, this time courtesy of Captain Cook's Mistake:

https://10daily.com.au/news/australia/a190709omktv/gender-reveal-burnout-sees-car-set-alight-20190709

If the video content in the Aussie news site is geo-blocked, here are a couple of gifs:

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--dQz0qcVo--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/cfnjdvosi7i2ru4pspbk.mp4
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--1_n9a100--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/duoizzkjrg0d0mknmrfq.mp4
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 09 July, 2019, 03:33:31 pm
I think it would be rather fun (because parties are fun!) to have a gender non-reveal party. As in "Revealed! We don't know and we're not telling you!" Or maybe a "not having a baby" party.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 09 July, 2019, 03:53:40 pm
Stick the pics in an album and hey presto, the Book of Revelations.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 09 July, 2019, 06:53:49 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 09 July, 2019, 07:03:53 pm
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.

I'm with you on the cauldron sausages, one of the few substitutes that I'll eat with equal relish to the meat equivalent.  I'm just generally eating less meat these days
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 09 July, 2019, 07:14:32 pm
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.

From the news site I linked to, the other gender reveal stunt story they were running involves a Canuckistani actress, so it's only a matter of time before the contagion crosses the Big Pond:

https://10daily.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/a190707xfgzt/shay-mitchells-gender-reveal-stunt-goes-horribly-wrong-almost-kills-two-power-rangers-20190707

I try not to be one for the YACF trope of downward-punching classism, but you just know that when it takes off here, with the people likely to indulge in such behaviour, it won't even be endearingly crap per the "Nailed it (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=nailed+it+meme&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwipoPnSt6jjAhWON8AKHZvIDucQ_AUIECgB&biw=1280&bih=909)" meme...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 10 July, 2019, 09:42:46 am
I think it's time for new wave colonialism; we take a law from India and ban scans etc from telling parents the sex of their baby.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 11 July, 2019, 02:34:36 pm
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Repo Man in Oklahoma!

or

Back To The Future, Redneck-style....

Quote
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

Unfortunately, we're geo-blocked from the news site linked in the tweet (GDPR strikes again  ::-) :facepalm:), so we can't tell if the car involved was a DeLorean.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 13 July, 2019, 08:40:59 am
Heavy metal knitting championship in Finland

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190712/p2g/00m/0et/063000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190712/p2g/00m/0et/063000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Ham on 13 July, 2019, 08:52:02 am
That is so worth chasing down the vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abkGXxUs-mw
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 18 July, 2019, 12:15:15 am
Come to the Thug Life side, we've got cookies!

Quote
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.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/iowa-official-resign-tupac-obsession

The state governor must have been a Notorious BIG fan. :demon:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 18 July, 2019, 10:53:44 am

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49017512
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Ham on 18 July, 2019, 02:13:55 pm
In French, sorry, but to paraphrase the reporting "Finding the bodies really buggered up charlotte's holiday".....
https://www.rtl.be/info/video/713958.aspx
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 July, 2019, 05:47:19 pm
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:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 18 July, 2019, 05:53:10 pm
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:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Ham on 18 July, 2019, 08:59:05 pm


What could *possibly* go wrong?   :facepalm:

Nothing, they all reveal that the parents are neuter.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 July, 2019, 08:57:44 am


What could *possibly* go wrong?   :facepalm:

Nothing, they all reveal that the parents are neuter.
L literally ol.  ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 July, 2019, 02:13:55 pm
Florida, as we know from this thread, is Scrote Central USA. Annie Proulx know this too, as she's described the "scrotum shaped outline of the state". Well spotted.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 25 July, 2019, 06:55:27 am
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/24/trump-presidential-seal-doctored-russia-golf-turning-point (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/24/trump-presidential-seal-doctored-russia-golf-turning-point)

 ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: jsabine on 28 July, 2019, 09:37:12 pm
While this (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49142550) sounds like a pretty unpleasant story all round, no matter what the truth of the event, I didn't expect *quite* such a Mr Justice Cocklecarrot moment from the Beeb - "The town of Ayia Napa is a resort popular with young people."
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 August, 2019, 04:07:35 pm
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/67963924_1375694252581372_7724861254405193728_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&_nc_oc=AQncXfjb5Dpmqg1KOID1aKcY_JVoVQqk_HaKYuStDqbY0jplb_QFH7buFnu7BWGdmSs&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=4d99c1871a4f0ed2ecffa3bde9f25c7c&oe=5DA1C26A)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 03 August, 2019, 10:21:35 pm
Brilliant
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 04 August, 2019, 08:59:44 am
<cackle> :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 04 August, 2019, 12:10:59 pm
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/world/franky-zapata-french-hoverboard-inventor-succ/


Bloody forriners trying to bypass immigration control......
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 04 August, 2019, 12:52:33 pm
After Brexit they'll shoot him down as soon as Chain Home Low picks him up.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 August, 2019, 11:49:42 am
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:
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...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 09 August, 2019, 02:15:17 pm
An ominous air hangs over a regional assembly...  :-X

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-49290641


edited
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 August, 2019, 06:56:58 pm
When Harold MacMillan said "a wind of change is blowing through this continent" I don't think he had that ^^^^ in mind.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 13 August, 2019, 07:44:35 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49334422

Those grooves in the snow. Parallel. Ski tracks?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Efrogwr on 13 August, 2019, 09:09:17 pm
https://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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mark on 14 August, 2019, 02:21:13 am
Some very extreme camera tilt in that photo. Reminds me of this: https://www.adaptnetwork.com/sports/climb/monty-python-climbing-north-face-uxbridge-road/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: nicknack on 14 August, 2019, 09:09:05 am
Reminds me of this:https://www.adaptnetwork.com/sports/climb/monty-python-climbing-north-face-uxbridge-road/
Or Batman.
(https://images2.imgbox.com/0b/6f/XybZFcRN_o.jpg) (http://imgbox.com/XybZFcRN)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 14 August, 2019, 05:39:44 pm
Someone left old TVs outside 50 homes in Virginia while wearing a TV on his head. No one knows why.  :D

Quote
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.
...

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.
...

“We determined there was no credible threat to residents and that this was strictly an inconvenience,” Pecka said. “It was” — (long pause) — “unique.”

Apparently, this has happened before.

Quote
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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/08/14/someone-left-old-tvs-outside-homes-virginia-while-wearing-tv-his-head-no-one-knows-why/?noredirect=on
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 14 August, 2019, 05:49:40 pm
That is wonderfully bizarre. And harmless, unlike some things. Perhaps we could get together a YACF "donational art action" posse to leave old bike parts on people's doorsteps. While wearing saddlebags on our heads.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 14 August, 2019, 06:51:30 pm
https://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.
;D
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Efrogwr on 14 August, 2019, 08:25:57 pm
https://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.
;D
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.

If it is the Aiguille d' Argentière, then they are unlikely to be ski tracks. Boot prints aren't unknown on snow slopes and the photographer was above Woerth.

Charlet states that the slope was forty five degrees. This matches the route description for the top of one route on that mountain. Hoever, even if the photograph was taken near the top, the camera angle grossly exaggerates the angle of the slope.

A possible clue is the strap apparently dangling from the left of his rucsack; if it's hanging free, the the slope is a lot less than it appears to be in the picture.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 August, 2019, 07:59:07 am
Someone left old TVs outside 50 homes in Virginia while wearing a TV on his head. No one knows why.  :D

My FB chum Maggie thinks it's some kind of Residents tribute act.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 21 August, 2019, 04:40:13 pm
And we hit peak Florida1, though I think even Carl Hiaasen might draw the line and putting something like this in his next book2. :o  :-X :sick:

Quote
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.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/bizarre/2019/08/20/florida-man-arrested-after-in-home-castration-goes-wrong/

<ObligBugsBunnySawingOffFlorida.gif>

H/T https://twitter.com/fineout/status/1164005692510019584



1 For now, at least.

2 Though Skin Tight does feature a scene where a PI performs a fake nose job at home on a dodgy plastic surgeon in order to obtain a confession. Things don't quite go as planned...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 24 August, 2019, 03:27:47 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Canardly on 24 August, 2019, 03:56:56 pm
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?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 24 August, 2019, 04:15:50 pm
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?

That's not a GIF[1], it's an HTML 5 video.

Try this:

(https://media.giphy.com/media/VGskvlH0D3UGnhouco/giphy.gif)


[1] Yes, I'm aware that GIF has come to mean "short, looping animation" rather than the file format that should have died a death in the late 1990s, but lingers on improbably because of the popularity of short looping animations.  I blame Young People.  Gerroff my lawn.  Etc.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 August, 2019, 06:53:12 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 24 August, 2019, 08:19:50 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 25 August, 2019, 08:10:15 am
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.

i went to skool there for three years.  If someone proves it doesnt exist, does that mean i'll dissapear in a puff of smoke?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 August, 2019, 11:31:38 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 25 August, 2019, 12:52:30 pm
So how recently was that map in use by the US government? ;D :facepalm:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 25 August, 2019, 01:01:48 pm
This thread is as good a place as any to leave the next "and finally"-type news story.

Tired: extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Wired: extraterrestrial jurisdiction.

Quote
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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-49457912

'Captain Zep - Space Detective (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Zep_%E2%80%93_Space_Detective)' or 'Space Precinct (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Precinct)' get a little closer to becoming prescient documentaries...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 31 August, 2019, 10:33:39 am
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5gwned/mississippi-police-want-to-arrest-the-satanists-who-turn-dead-people-gay?fbclid=IwAR2NjXWgyUxzjmrw_WL45C-Vg5OI05FEzyRH5bsFR3rCnl00duWEkqJLtw0
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 03 September, 2019, 04:43:20 pm
Captain Cook's Mistake takes a turn in this thread, as an Australian woman sues her neighbours for being, well... Australian, and the tribunal tells her not to be such a flaming galah.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49560208
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 11 September, 2019, 10:20:39 pm
Surely this tale of death by miss-adventure is peak France, n'est ce pas?

Quote
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.


https://www.euronews.com/2019/09/11/cardiac-arrest-during-sex-on-business-trip-can-be-considered-work-accident-rules-french-co?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1568227387
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 September, 2019, 11:16:58 pm
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)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 12 September, 2019, 12:42:41 am
The Kim in question is everyone's favourite chubby despot, not our Kim of geekiness.

Good.  I spent a couple of hours trying to accurately measure my femur using a barakta and no CT scanner earlier; I draw the line at head calibration.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 12 September, 2019, 09:59:47 am
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 don't think I've seen that open-source intelligence (OSINT) analysis technique used before - certainly, not by the people I follow on social media who are interested in what North Korea's getting up to! ;D

EDITED TO ADD:

I think I have found the source:

https://twitter.com/divert_thruster/status/1171166388439769089
https://twitter.com/divert_thruster/status/1171543336253120512
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Ham on 13 September, 2019, 11:56:26 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 13 September, 2019, 12:02:50 pm
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/

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Guy on 13 September, 2019, 02:32:08 pm
Also reported bu Auntie

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-49680933 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-49680933)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Ham on 13 September, 2019, 02:58:21 pm
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/

You got me bang to rights,  I run NewsGuard, so I did know. But hey, it still has the air (and moisture) of a spoof.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 15 September, 2019, 01:00:18 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-49691903/why-thousands-are-flocking-to-corgi-cafes

Am I the only one who saw this, and the comment 'popular in Asia', and thought...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Wombat on 15 September, 2019, 01:08:22 pm
I'd imagine they'd taste a bit stringy, unless they were well stewed.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 15 September, 2019, 01:12:10 pm
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.

Given the bacterial content of some holy water this might amount to terrorism.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/study-holy-water-harmful-health/story?id=20257722
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 18 September, 2019, 10:27:36 pm
Something strange is afoot in Oregon - ye olde cattle mutilation trope gets dusted down for another run around the ranch.

https://www.opb.org/news/article/eastern-oregon-western-cattle-deaths-mystery-theories/

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 19 September, 2019, 07:09:51 pm
Not yer average traffic stop...

Quote
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 say

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/18/us/amish-men-drinking-and-driving-trnd/index.html
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1174597009703092224

ObligWierd_Al_Yankovic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 22 September, 2019, 09:27:12 am
Of course, they only do organised races in America

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-49740880 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-49740880)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 22 September, 2019, 09:43:32 am
Vinegar oozing insect crisps

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190921/p2a/00m/0na/024000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190921/p2a/00m/0na/024000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 04 October, 2019, 04:07:51 pm
Bent as a nine-bob note...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-49933003
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 04 October, 2019, 05:52:24 pm
When I was a PSO, I had a housemate with a T-shirt featuring the old, rainbow-striped, Mega-Global Fruit Corp logo, and the caption "F*ck different.".  So they clearly have form for this sort of thing.   ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Bledlow on 10 October, 2019, 09:59:17 pm
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.
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.

Perhaps this was the result of some almost but not quite completely brain dead junior drone being aware that Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania had become independent with the fall of the USSR - & only being aware of that.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Edd on 11 October, 2019, 04:52:23 pm
Looks like the robots are shaping up well...

https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/04/police-robot-told-woman-go-away-tried-report-crime-sang-song-10864648/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 October, 2019, 04:59:41 pm
Looks like the robots are shaping up well...

https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/04/police-robot-told-woman-go-away-tried-report-crime-sang-song-10864648/
"Their alert buttons have not yet been activated."  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 12 October, 2019, 04:04:11 am
when the headline starts with "Florida man … "

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/08/florida-man-charged-forcing-captured-alligator-drink-beer/3914220002/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 12 October, 2019, 12:11:32 pm
when the headline starts with "Florida man … "

My work here is done.  ;D


<exits stage left, pursued by a bear an alligator>
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 15 October, 2019, 06:37:51 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50054044
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 15 October, 2019, 08:00:58 pm
Good case of geographical nominative determinism there.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 15 October, 2019, 10:35:44 pm
First thing the chap does is hit the beers.  Getting his priorities right  ;)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 02 November, 2019, 06:07:09 am
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 02 November, 2019, 02:05:15 pm
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

Covered that in the Trump thread in P&OBI - it's possibly more to do with him being up the creek financially, and Florida protects your primary residence from seizure if you declare bankruptcy.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 02 November, 2019, 02:06:47 pm
Halloween in Japan...

Quote
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!

Thread: https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1190108711576051712
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 02 November, 2019, 09:01:02 pm
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/30/gender-reveal-explosion-iowa-waukee-straight-people/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 November, 2019, 09:10:38 pm
Quote
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...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 02 November, 2019, 09:19:34 pm
Quote
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...

Yes, I had to look that one up.  It appears to be a novelty product from an established molisher of exploding targets (the idea being that you can see whether you've hit them from a long way away).
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 03 November, 2019, 12:13:49 pm
On some massively fundamental level I just don't get the entire 'gender reveal' thing.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 03 November, 2019, 12:30:09 pm
On some massively fundamental level I just don't get the entire 'gender reveal' thing.

A pregnant woman baked a cake once, and it got completely out of hand.  I assume it appeals to people's sense of heteronormativity, or something.  I dunno, if I had a baby, I'd be trying not to reveal its sex, so I completely fail to grok.

That the USAnians use it as an excuse to shoot at things is the least baffling bit.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 November, 2019, 01:39:38 pm
You do not need to speak German to get the gist of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I46SII5c34w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I46SII5c34w).
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 03 November, 2019, 11:10:24 pm
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/swingers-club-germany-evacuation-carbon-monoxide-alarm-hattingen-a9183441.html


I hope they all got the right car keys on the way out...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 07 November, 2019, 09:07:56 pm
https://www.thelocal.at/20191107/suspected-bomb-in-vienna-was-in-fact-a-sex-toy


I've been to a concert in that hall.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 08 November, 2019, 09:03:47 am
More gender reveal...
https://twitter.com/TheDEWLine/status/1192621451179909120
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Guy on 08 November, 2019, 10:59:23 am
Quote
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)

 ??? :facepalm:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 08 November, 2019, 11:52:52 am
They do try to be Frencher than the French (who, being French, mock their bastardized form of French). Even the STOP signs are ARRÊT. And when they do the double-language thing, they put the English in teeny-tiny letters.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 08 November, 2019, 12:14:00 pm
They also get a lot of grief from the First Nations, who not unreasonably point out that they were there well before the French.

At Shrewsbury Festival, a French-Canadian band mocked the celebration of so many centuries of Canada on the basis of how long Montreal has been there. From the audience:

"You not heard of Newfoundland, then?"

Similar note: The Chair were playing during Indyref, and some topless wanker in a kilt decided to wave a huge saltire flag in the mosh pit, blocking views of the stage. The Chair, a damned good band, unrolled a huge flag of their own. An Orkney one. There were also a few comments from them re not being 'Scoatish'.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 08 November, 2019, 12:24:47 pm
There's still a little bit of actual France off the bottom of Newfoundland (Saint Pierre and Miquelon), I bet that pokes them in the eye.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 08 November, 2019, 12:59:56 pm
Quote
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)

 ??? :facepalm:

Pedantic, perhaps, but being a citizen does not necessarily mean fluency in the language...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 08 November, 2019, 01:32:35 pm
I think it's more that she failed to demonstrate sufficient anglophobic zeal.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Guy on 08 November, 2019, 01:56:27 pm
I think it's more that she failed to demonstrate sufficient anglophobic zeal.

Reading between the lines, the article suggests this ^^^
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 08 November, 2019, 04:40:51 pm
Quote
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)

 ??? :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, so if you want to live in Quebec, they effectively get a veto over your Canadian citizenship if you're not Frenchified enough for them despite the fact that you don't have to speak French to live in Quebec if you're Canadian. I'm not sure why you simply can't immigrate to Ontario and then sneak over the border when they're not looking.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 08 November, 2019, 04:48:30 pm
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/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 08 November, 2019, 04:56:15 pm
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/

Comment dit-on "precious bodily fluids" en français, s'il vous plaît?  :demon:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 November, 2019, 05:19:29 pm
l'Académie Bitcoin is A Thing.  Who knew?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 10 November, 2019, 02:46:50 pm
Russia - Europe's Florida?

Quote
"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."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50365124
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Ham on 11 November, 2019, 02:29:02 pm
In French, soz. https://www.bfmtv.com/politique/rouvrir-les-voies-sur-berges-creer-un-second-periph-le-projet-de-marcel-campion-pour-la-voiture-a-paris-1801735.html

What do we need? Mor cars! When do we need them? Now!

- Plz to be building an underground motorway
- And sports stadiums can be car parks
- The problem? 400,000 cars. and only 20,000 bikes in Paris and bikes get their own lanes (yeah, v suspicious bike number)

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 13 November, 2019, 03:20:28 pm
Don't be a smart-Aleksey - Mikhail takes Mickey out of Aeroflot weight limit for carry-on pets and ends up losing his air miles.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/overweight-cat-body-double-flight-scam-leaves-owner-without-thousands-n1080621
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50398672

You have to give him some credit for the ingenuity of the scheme, but he should have kept schtum about how he got his chonky cat on board...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 November, 2019, 03:38:50 pm
How can someone so ingenious be such an idiot?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 13 November, 2019, 03:46:38 pm
How can someone so ingenious be such an idiot?

Very easily, if the amount of blithering idiocy I see posted on social media by nominally intelligent people is anything to go by. :demon:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Guy on 14 November, 2019, 09:07:28 am
How can someone so ingenious be such an idiot?

You haven't met the Staff Occifers I work with. Every day is an object lesson in the vast gulf between the dictionary definition of "intelligence" and the Army definition.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 18 November, 2019, 11:00:10 pm
In which the ad agency engaged by the state of South Dakota for an anti-methamphetamine campaign forgets that "I'm on it" doesn't just mean "I'm dealing with it". :facepalm:

https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1196531425152880642
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1196538726257692682
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 23 November, 2019, 09:24:39 am
Near Marseille a woman was stopped by police yesterday for transporting a pony in her microcar.

(https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/sites/regions_france3/files/styles/top_big/public/assets/images/2019/11/22/poney_voiture_police-4529101.jpg?itok=YnSoS1sW)

https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/bouches-du-rhone/marseille/voiture-poney-arretee-police-entre-marseille-ciotat-1753299.html

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Paul on 23 November, 2019, 10:08:05 am
One horsepower?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Canardly on 23 November, 2019, 12:33:51 pm
There will be a deux chevaux along any minute.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 24 November, 2019, 11:56:14 pm
A Florida dog put a car into reverse and drove it in circles for nearly an hour.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/22/us/florida-dog-drives-circles-trnd/index.html
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 25 November, 2019, 12:01:34 am
That's a bit unfair on the dog.  Unattended cars slipping into reverse and going round in circles is a fine American motoring tradition, on account of them having failed to discover clutches or handbrakes.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mark on 25 November, 2019, 02:23:49 am
As well as being on account of one large American carmaker doing a sloppy job of designing and building automatic transmissions.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 25 November, 2019, 08:43:07 am
When our dogs go round and round in circles we stand upwind then fetch the old coal shovel.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 November, 2019, 08:55:20 am
This is the dog equivalent of that thing you did at primary school where you stood on one spot and whirled round till you fell over. There's bound to be a Far Side cartoon about it.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 November, 2019, 09:02:04 am
(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/cf/9f/55/cf9f55cd5fc8176f631edfbfec1075fc--office-suite-funny-puns.jpg)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Riggers on 25 November, 2019, 09:26:41 am
I think it's more that she failed to demonstrate sufficient anglophobic zeal.


Ha ha ha!!!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 25 November, 2019, 11:55:55 am
Massive theft of antiquities in Dresden.


https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1198917556733710336?s=21 (https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1198917556733710336?s=21)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 25 November, 2019, 08:55:26 pm
https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/11/25/inenglish/1574680401_772913.html (https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/11/25/inenglish/1574680401_772913.html)


Drug smuggling submarine captured off Spanish coast.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Guy on 27 November, 2019, 11:23:27 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50571010 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50571010)

Russian cows get Virtual Reality headsets



(where's Gary Larson when you need him?)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 27 November, 2019, 01:04:05 pm
I'm sure cows in VR (while being cut up for meat) was a feature of some forgettable music video from the late 90s.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 27 November, 2019, 03:50:15 pm
Continuing the animal theme

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-50576398/pushy-pig-steals-spotlight-during-live-tv-broadcast
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 27 November, 2019, 08:31:46 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 November, 2019, 08:47:02 pm
Continuing the animal theme

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-50576398/pushy-pig-steals-spotlight-during-live-tv-broadcast
;D :thumbsup: :D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: PaulF on 05 December, 2019, 11:01:24 pm
Fumes from viagra factory giving locals a hard time. https://www.irishpost.com/news/irish-villagers-complain-viagra-plant-fumes-men-dogs-walking-around-hard-ons-142488
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 05 December, 2019, 11:26:57 pm
Bozhe moi, the bad guys are really just phoning it in these days.

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News: The US Treasury Department has announced sanctions against a Russian-based cybercriminal organization called "Evil Corp."

(Yes, that is really the name of the group)
https://twitter.com/ZcohenCNN/status/1202608121228791808

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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).

Maksim Yakubets AKA "Aqua" has been linked to "Evil Corp" the group behind the scheme as well.
https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1202613919329800192

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-charge-two-russian-hackers-malware-attack-u-s-bank-n1096426
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 24 December, 2019, 12:21:23 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 24 December, 2019, 12:34:56 pm
I'd be so tempted to get one, but I anticipate complaints if it took pride of place in the bay window at the front of the house. ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 24 December, 2019, 01:17:37 pm
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

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Why fertilize the ground inside the stable?  IMHO it's just too bloody cold to go out to the can; and if the ox and the ass can do it indoors, why shouldn't he?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 24 December, 2019, 01:46:08 pm
That reminds me, we must put our Caganer out.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 03 January, 2020, 09:07:25 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50979485
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 12 February, 2020, 09:29:59 pm
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQltEngWoAE5l2H?format=png&name=small

The best case title ever? ;D

In case you're wondering, civil forfeiture cases where the Feds are seizing assets are usually captioned so. For the background, here's a reply thread to the tweet from which I pulled the above-linked picture:

https://twitter.com/greggentry1/status/1227633661933125632
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 16 February, 2020, 12:05:32 am
Florida Man again:

Florida man: dialysis center won't allow life-sized Trump as emotional support (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/15/florida-man-dialysis-center-life-sized-trump-cutout-emotional-support)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 16 February, 2020, 07:47:57 am
would they allow a mini-trump if I promised to repeatedly stand on it
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 19 February, 2020, 11:20:33 am
What's the matter? Cat Floridian got your tongue?

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Florida police are investigating why jars of preserved human tongues were found under the floorboards of a Gainesville home
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1229912996782264322

ETA - turns out to be c/o absent-mindedness rather than anything sinister.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1230120606961733632
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 20 February, 2020, 09:23:59 pm
The scented candle thing really is getting out of hand now...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/02/20/mcdonalds-scented-candles-smell-like-quarter-pounder/4821373002/

Kentucky: "Hold my bourbon..."

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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.

https://kyforky.com/collections/new-gear/products/politics-scented-candle
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Guy on 26 February, 2020, 08:21:03 am
Isn't it time Florida had its own thread?

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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)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 26 February, 2020, 08:43:50 am
It's probably time Florida itself was put in zip ties.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 26 February, 2020, 02:31:00 pm
I guess if Carl Hiaasen runs out of inspiration from the Sunshine State's population of loonies, he could always try Wisconsin...

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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.

https://twitter.com/WaukeshaFreeman/status/1232378696264245250 via: https://twitter.com/heckyessica/status/1232450842478825473

Worth reading the replies to both tweets. ;D

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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

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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

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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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 26 February, 2020, 05:23:02 pm
Isn't it time Florida had its own thread?

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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)

The officer's got form for this.

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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.

He seems nice...

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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://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2020/02/25/body-camera-video-shows-6-year-old-orlando-girl-arrested-at-school/

via: https://twitter.com/Mimirocah1/status/1232630718448181250
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 28 February, 2020, 08:36:14 pm
https://twitter.com/TokyoFashion/status/1233403354908246017
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 28 February, 2020, 09:55:23 pm
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: ;)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 28 February, 2020, 11:33:05 pm
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: ;)

For some reason I originally misread it as him stealing them from a warehouse.  Always alarming when this sort of behaviour *isn't* plausibly a fetish thing.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 29 February, 2020, 01:17:03 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 29 February, 2020, 01:18:49 pm
Meanwhile, in Australia: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-australia-51688609/snake-eats-towel-a-vet-explains-her-strangest-day-at-work
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: hellymedic on 29 February, 2020, 03:00:22 pm
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.

See also Darwin Award post.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 01 March, 2020, 08:17:20 am
More from planet Japan:

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200228/p2a/00m/0et/011000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200228/p2a/00m/0et/011000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 02 March, 2020, 01:10:55 pm
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.

I read somewhere it was to make for that sort of cool smoke effect to appeal on social media pictures rather than cool things down, hence the industrial quantity of dry ice. I'm a bit worried that a 'qualified pharmacist' wouldn't know what high concentrations of a toxic, denser than air gas, would do in an unventilated space.

Carbon dioxide outgassing from volcanic lakes is a significant danger for those who like nearby (Lake Nyos in Cameroon once killed 1,800 overnight).
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 02 March, 2020, 01:21:43 pm
I've worked with dry ice for cool smoke effects.  Dry ice fog generation is more about surface area and being able to keep the water warm[1] than the amount of dry ice you use - the process tends to self-limit as water ice forms around the CO2.  Regardless, it's considered extremely bad form to asphyxiate the musos when using one, and you'd think anyone familiar with such things would see a swimming pool as a larger, less wingey orchestra pit.


[1] A purpose-built fogger is basically a massive kettle with a chip-pan arrangement to control the dunking of the dry ice.  Big ones are electron-hungry.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 02 March, 2020, 02:13:43 pm
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.

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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jurek on 02 March, 2020, 04:34:42 pm
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.

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.
You've a grown-up tidy-haired job now, so just come to grips with it.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 02 March, 2020, 04:59:28 pm
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.

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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jurek on 02 March, 2020, 05:03:46 pm
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.

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.
We need more people like you to propogate the fun aspects of the real world.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 02 March, 2020, 05:18:15 pm
We had a beer keg in the cold room and ate the genetically engineering plants (arabidopsis works well as a garnish in sandwiches). For reason mostly involving a failure to duck quickly enough, I was the department's radiation safety officer.

That said, a few years previous, my PhD supervisor held a similar role, and he irradiated an entire lab to the point that everything including the paint from the walls had to be removed. I never did that. I did once kick a nuclear reactor containment vessel* and the next day they had to shut down the reactor for 'safety reasons.'

*the tour guide told me to do it, to show it was that safe.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mattc on 02 March, 2020, 06:49:58 pm
A colleague of mine broke his back* falling off a nuclear reactor. (it was in a sub, so was probably in Foreigner's waters, hence qualifying for this thread).

And my college lurrrrve went to A&E for uranium burns. (purely heat-based - no radioactivty was involved, but it makes a cool story).


*all healed up now, so Happy Story  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 02 March, 2020, 06:57:59 pm
The inevitable wiksand has lead me to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

(Soviet particle accelerator accidents are almost by definition on-topic.)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 02 March, 2020, 07:21:33 pm
The inevitable wiksand has lead me to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

(Soviet particle accelerator accidents are almost by definition on-topic.)

Исправлено это для вас. ;)

Quote from: El Wiki
He was able to function well, excepting occasional complex partial seizures and rare tonic-clonic seizures.

"Tis but a scratch... I've had worse."


Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Greenbank on 02 March, 2020, 07:23:25 pm
The inevitable wiksand has lead me to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

(Soviet particle accelerator accidents are almost by definition on-topic.)

Исправлено это для вас. ;)

В Советской России ошибки исправляют вас.

(Google translate, I've long forgotten what little Russian I did once know.)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 02 March, 2020, 07:28:23 pm
The inevitable wiksand has lead me to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

(Soviet particle accelerator accidents are almost by definition on-topic.)

Исправлено это для вас. ;)

В Советской России ошибки исправляют вас.

;D ;D ;D

An extra potato for you, comrade.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 March, 2020, 07:30:29 pm
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."
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 02 March, 2020, 10:35:31 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 02 March, 2020, 11:04:19 pm
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...  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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 02 March, 2020, 11:11:29 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 March, 2020, 07:59:51 am
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
Like many Soviet jokes, it is a recounting of actual events.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Greenbank on 03 March, 2020, 11:58:17 am
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.

Similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-19
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: PeteB99 on 03 March, 2020, 01:15:24 pm
There's always a hero.

In the last hours of the battleship Bismark one of the ships divers volunteered to go into the wrecked steering compartment (full of jagged metal and open to the sea in a gale) to make an almost certainly futile attempt to free the rudders. The engineer officer told him to forget it, they'd carry on circling slowly and wait for the british to arrive.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 March, 2020, 11:19:52 am
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronavirus-challenge-moron-who-licked-21749466

Seems more likely he's got some generic bacterial infection but whatever he's got, what a fucking dumb idiot.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Guy on 27 March, 2020, 12:39:32 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 27 March, 2020, 01:51:58 pm
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.

Thought at first that this referred to Bolsonaro. It could, though.  Encouraging churches to stay open etc. I hope they've got sanctified hand cleanser in the stoups.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 30 March, 2020, 01:07:30 pm
It's in three threads already, so let's go for the full cross-postapalooza...  :D

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/30/astrophysicist-gets-magnets-stuck-up-nose-while-inventing-coronavirus-device
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 31 March, 2020, 07:21:32 am
another entry in the "Florida man … " series:

Florida man link (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-pastor-arrested-after-holding-church-services-despite-coronavirus-orders-n1172276)

(and, any hints at why the hyperlink, and not the clever quip I'd like to have appear, is showing up? I used the "insert hyperlink" tool)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: JonBuoy on 31 March, 2020, 07:31:12 am
Looking at what you wrote - your URL occurs twice.  If you replace the second instance with your clever quip it should work as desired.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 31 March, 2020, 07:50:43 am
and from the other corner of continental Usania, on a route I've often cycled on

Another link (https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/us/washington-man-arrested-pit-bull-drive-trnd/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2ADgv5D_8HSKGxZhRCHUuBnzEp1yM3cZHGMGfVo3gN4RWTz4f9VKNSeMQ)

and that was with square bracket url close square bracket, link, square bracket, forward slash url close square bracket , fwiw.
In days of old I recall something appearing that let me put a bit of text there.  I shall look at some others  with the concealed link and see what I'm missing.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: JonBuoy on 31 March, 2020, 07:56:42 am
Try:

square bracket url=link close square bracket, linkclever quip, square bracket, forward slash url close square bracket
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 01 April, 2020, 03:05:12 am
I will give that a try.

Commas are relevant, especial in " Panda eats shoots and leaves " => "Panda eats, shoots, and leaves"

<mod> we fixed your links above </mod>
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 03 April, 2020, 08:17:08 am
Foreigners go on holiday in their own country.  (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-woman-81-claims-benidorm-13075153)

Which of the 4,000 holes did she fall out of?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 03 April, 2020, 02:41:32 pm
Arctic-rated cruise liner 1 - 0 Venezuelan coastal patrol vessel

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-52151951
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 07 April, 2020, 02:19:11 am
 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)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 07 April, 2020, 07:34:20 am
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)

They should have been parked at least 2 metres apart.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 09 April, 2020, 09:30:33 am
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.  ::-)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 April, 2020, 11:02:45 am
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.  ::-)

"Strewth!  There's a bloke down there with no strides on!"
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 09 April, 2020, 05:56:19 pm
Fly free, Gaston!
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/09/frenchman_ejected_fighter_jet_retirement_jolly/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 09 April, 2020, 06:14:52 pm
Well now I know that "anti-G pants" are a thing and they're nothing to do with Borat. One to go with the wheel pants.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 09 April, 2020, 06:55:29 pm
Fly free, Gaston!
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/09/frenchman_ejected_fighter_jet_retirement_jolly/

Funny, I could have sworn I'd read about that mishap some time ago...

<reads article>

Ah, it was last March, but the report's only just been released.

I can imagine that a few people had interviews with their superiors sans café et croissants...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mark on 09 April, 2020, 09:16:37 pm
Funny as hell, until you read the comments and get a picture of just how badly the victim could have been injured.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 09 April, 2020, 10:10:44 pm
Look up the first supersonic ejection, some seriously nasty potential injuries
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 09 April, 2020, 11:03:37 pm
As it wasn't an emergency ejection, the poor sod doesn't even get membership of the Martin-Baker Ejection Tie Club for his pains, so no complimentary tie, patch and certificate to commemorate the event for him. :demon:

http://martin-baker.com/ejection-tie-club/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 April, 2020, 12:14:58 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 14 April, 2020, 09:22:19 pm
The Sunshine State decrees that full-contact vaudeville is an essential service.

Quote
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”.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/apr/14/wwe-raw-florida-tv-shows-ron-desantis-wrestling-coronavirus
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 14 April, 2020, 09:30:47 pm
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


If you can find a copy "The Man In The Hot Seat" by Doddy Hay is worth a read.  Chief test pilot/crash test dummy for Martin-Baker. 
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: TimC on 14 April, 2020, 10:42:30 pm
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!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 15 April, 2020, 06:35:17 am
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

That is not dissimilar to an ex maths teacher of my own, who was an ex-pilot, early jet age and very easy to divert from sums to "tell us about when you were a pilot sir", such as ditching a vampire into the sea off Malaysia, or ejecting somewhere else hot.

His version was that after three ejections from the old bang seats you were not grounded, but moved to things without such seats.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 April, 2020, 04:35:32 pm
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!

Aye, that's the chap.  All three of his sons were contemporaries of mine at st custards.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 April, 2020, 05:40:43 pm
Prodigal sheep returns after seven years in Tasmania
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/apr/16/prickles-the-sheep-home-at-last-after-fleeing-2013-tasmanian-bushfires
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 17 April, 2020, 07:32:36 pm
Cross-posting from the moronic motorists thread - California Man tells Florida Man: "Hold my beer and watch this!"

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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 22 April, 2020, 05:21:42 pm
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



Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Thor on 29 April, 2020, 07:02:46 pm
How not to address the coronavirus crisis.

Outcry as Spanish beach sprayed with bleach (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52471208)

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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

I've been to that area.  It's lovely. At least it was  :'(
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 30 April, 2020, 06:43:00 am
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

According to my parents that's also how it was sold/displayed in Saudi where the expats lived
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 02 May, 2020, 03:55:44 am
"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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Andrij on 02 May, 2020, 09:44:12 am
(https://www.dictionary.com/e/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/whisky_tango_foxtrot4.jpg)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 May, 2020, 10:44:03 am
"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.
A bit more than 10 years ago, Indian driving licences became recognized in the USA. This makes Georgia's decision almost sensible in comparison.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Giraffe on 02 May, 2020, 11:10:34 am
"Indian driving"=oxymoron.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 May, 2020, 11:21:45 am
In one of the Middle Eastern states you have to drive the car forwards ten yards and reverse it ten yards, or something like that.  Then you get your licence.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 May, 2020, 11:24:55 am
"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.

A few years ago my holibob rental motor-car (the Ratmobile) was registered in Georgia*.  That would explain certain things.

* or possibly not, as the tags expired ten days into a thirty day rental.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 02 May, 2020, 12:05:34 pm
How to get the social distancing message across (and raise funds for Democratic Party candidates), Florida-style...

https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1256287520775639041  :o ;D 8) :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Basil on 02 May, 2020, 12:12:36 pm
(https://www.dictionary.com/e/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/whisky_tango_foxtrot4.jpg)
:D
Love that.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 04 May, 2020, 10:02:33 am
"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.
A bit more than 10 years ago, Indian driving licences became recognized in the USA. This makes Georgia's decision almost sensible in comparison.

There are lots of scams like this (or at least they were). Americans are very dependent on driver's licenses (they're the default form of ID, you can't do anything without them*, though you can get equivalent state IDs) and it's a country where outside of a few major cities you have to drive. It's the key to independance for any kid too, otherwise it's the schoolbus shame.

I passed my test in the US after about six 'lessons' driving around the Caldor parking lot. Don't worry, I never passed a UK test and I'm sure my US licence has long since expired.
*a lack of ID and not having to show it everywhere is another something that Americans don't understand.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: PeteB99 on 04 May, 2020, 11:15:25 am
It was only after he died that we found out my father had never passed a UK driving test. He'd somehow acquired an Australian license and then transferred it.

My uncle on the other hand did do a UK driving test, it was during his army basic training and he did it on a bren carrier ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 04 May, 2020, 11:33:07 am
Sadly (or luckily for everyone else on the road) a US licence only lasts for 12 months in the UK...

I've no idea what people do in the bazillion lessons it takes to pass a UK test. Admittedly I only learned in an automatic, but go round corners, park, reverse, erm, that's about it. I read a book about road signs (in the US they vary by state, town, country etc., hence the endless quandary about turning on red) and rules (in most states exchanging gunfire with 'peace' officers is frowned upon*) so I could pass the theory multiple-choice. I passed first time though you could go back and try again after a two-week 'waiting period.' They've probably tightened things up a bit. That said, it is traditional for American kids to still learn to drive at school.

*in one recent (well 2012) case in Ohio, a backfiring car outside the courthouse led to a 62 car police chase (real life, not Blue Brothers) and the police, on finally cornering the perpetrators in a school parking lot, shot the car 137 times, one single police officer fired 49 rounds. The two people in the car were shot 23 and 24 times each. They'd committed no crime other than drive away from the scene of committing no crime. It goes without saying that no firearm – despite being 'seen' – was never found and the police officers mostly got away it, the two main officers involved eventually get fired. I don't think you need my help to guess the skin colour of the people in the car.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 May, 2020, 07:04:11 pm
My grandfather managed to get one of the last UK driving licenses dispensed before they introduced tests in 1935. He drove for the next 60-odd years. Mind you, I remember him having at least two Austin Allegros, so the number of miles covered might have struggled to make four figures.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Basil on 04 May, 2020, 07:29:28 pm
My dad never took a driving test.  WWII service in North Africa seemed to be qualification enough.
After the war it was,
"Did you drive?"
"Yes."
"Ok.  Here's your licence."
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: SteveC on 04 May, 2020, 08:45:36 pm
We have a family story that my godfather, who was a fighter pilot in the war, got some unexpected leave, so bought a driving licence in the post office, hired a car, then drove from somewhere near London back to Leicester. He'd never driven before, but reckoned it wouldn't be much different from flying. Apparently once he stopped trying to get the car to take off, he was fine.
I should point out that my father told me this story a long time ago and I have no evidence for any of it!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 06 May, 2020, 09:36:37 am
My father also never sat a test.  The driving test was suspended in WWII.  If you had to drive in the war then you automatically got your licence apparently.

he was very proud of his driving record and his original licence.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: tatanab on 06 May, 2020, 09:50:09 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 06 May, 2020, 10:29:52 am
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.

Virginia didn't ask for anything other proof of residency, a social security number, and some money to transfer my CT licence, but that's officially the South.

Inter-state banking still has some lingering oddities, but that's because there was no inter-state banking till the late 70s (hence there's still a number of 'local' banks, or what were local banks). Even in the late 90s/early 2000, there was no guarantee any given ATM would actually give me money from my account. Hence the persistence of the checkbook [sic, pedants, sic] into the modern age
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 06 May, 2020, 02:14:44 pm
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.

There is...

https://youtu.be/kHMNX3IXnvs

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 06 May, 2020, 03:08:24 pm
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.

I swapped my UK license for a Dutch one shortly before March last year. So I can still drive in Europe. If I ever move back to .UK, I dunno if I can get my license back, or what validity my Dutch license will have.

When i first moved here many many years ago, I tried to open a personal bank account, but couldn't as they required 2 photo ID's, but would not accept a UK driving license as one of them, meaning all I had was a passport. In the end I got a business account by registering as a free trade...

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mark on 06 May, 2020, 11:52:05 pm
"Georgia Man" changes rules on new driving licenses:

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

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

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

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

That's two states that I'm no longer interested in visiting, and two license plates for me to be extra careful of  while using the roads.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 11 May, 2020, 09:57:17 am
Former co-worker had this story from his driver's test:
They got to the parallel parking portion.  He asked the driving inspector "how many points is this worth, how many points do I have now, and how many do I need to pass?".
After getting the answer, he did the calculation and said "let's just skip that part.  Put down a zero. There is nowhere here in town that I would want to go to where I would have to parallel park".
Inspector let him get away with it.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 21 May, 2020, 02:02:39 am
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 21 May, 2020, 12:57:10 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Paul on 21 May, 2020, 06:54:58 pm
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
Pipped to it.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 29 May, 2020, 07:52:40 am
Address snafu

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-52843846
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 29 May, 2020, 12:40:50 pm
Address snafu

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

Saw that on the TV text news this morning - the judge's comments make for "understatement of the day".  ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 29 May, 2020, 06:51:05 pm
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.

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Oh, #Florida! Graduating seniors in cap, gown & mask pick up their diplomas by riding a Jet Ski out to a boat where their masked principal hands it to them via reacher-grabber. https://flkeysnews.com/news/local/article243054601.html via @KeyWestGwen
https://twitter.com/craigtimes/status/1266353731622391808
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mark on 29 May, 2020, 06:59:53 pm
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.

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Oh, #Florida! Graduating seniors in cap, gown & mask pick up their diplomas by riding a Jet Ski out to a boat where their masked principal hands it to them via reacher-grabber. https://flkeysnews.com/news/local/article243054601.html via @KeyWestGwen
https://twitter.com/craigtimes/status/1266353731622391808

Looks like a lot more fun than the typical high school graduation.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 30 May, 2020, 09:12:59 am
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.

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Oh, #Florida! Graduating seniors in cap, gown & mask pick up their diplomas by riding a Jet Ski out to a boat where their masked principal hands it to them via reacher-grabber. https://flkeysnews.com/news/local/article243054601.html via @KeyWestGwen
https://twitter.com/craigtimes/status/1266353731622391808

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

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


* no, don't tell me. It'd be unsurprising if USAnians got certificates suitable for framing when they made it through potty training.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 30 May, 2020, 09:15:26 am
After O-levels and A-levels, we just stopped going into school.

The only ceremony I remember was burning all our A-level workbooks in a friend's garden.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: tatanab on 30 May, 2020, 09:28:40 am
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).
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 30 May, 2020, 09:15:34 pm
I thought the traditional British ceremony was poorly controlled bout of underaged drinking with your mates in the local pub that didn't ask too many questions. Or a party at one of your mates with obliging parents.

I remember my O levels because at that party I misplaced something I'd been really keen to misplace in the back seat of a Ford Fiesta. All said, given the region, I think that has me down as a slow starter.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 04 June, 2020, 04:25:32 pm
I don't think anyone had this on their 2020 weird news bingo card...

Quote
Spanish porn star Nacho Vidal, who likes to advertise his aromatic candles shaped like male genitalia on Twitter, has been arrested on manslaughter charges following a man's death during a mystic ritual in which he inhaled psychedelic toad venom
https://twitter.com/WardieJerusalem/status/1268316960099573762
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 June, 2020, 06:21:20 pm
What happens if you put one of his candles next to one of the Gwyneth Paltrow ones?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 June, 2020, 06:29:32 pm
What happens if you put one of his candles next to one of the Gwyneth Paltrow ones?
It's Christmas on YACF?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: hellymedic on 04 June, 2020, 06:35:02 pm
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.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 June, 2020, 06:38:50 pm
After my last A level exam we went to the pub.  At which point there was an humongous thunderstorm, the power went off and with it the BEER pumps.  We had to switch to Newky Brown.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 June, 2020, 06:39:22 pm
After O-levels and A-levels, we just stopped going into school.
After O-Levels (1968) we still had to attend school until the end of term.  However, the days were often filled by visits to places of cultural interest such as the fire station.  I don't remember what happened after A levels.  In neither case did results come through the post, we had to go back to school to peer at a big notice board.  Certainly there was no ceremony or prom (nasty imported modern fashion).

After O Levels, we started the A Level syllabus for the month of July.
After A Levels, I returned all my books, got signed out, returned to my bicycle, found the PF had visited and returned to the Chemistry Lab to patch the tube.
Wouldn't really work now that it's not the default (though it might still be the most popular choice) for O Levels to be followed by A Levels at the same school.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mattc on 05 June, 2020, 07:36:21 pm
I can't find a crazier thread to put these crazy americans in:

https://twitter.com/influencersitw/status/1268916126190272514
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Post by: quixoticgeek on 06 June, 2020, 11:42:55 pm


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

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

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: FifeingEejit on 07 June, 2020, 11:09:09 am
When I was a tiny Mr Larrington we had a maths teacher who, having spent WW2 guarding tins of Spam at RAF Carnaby, considered himself the world's greatest expert on matters pertaining to military aviation.  One day he averred that "RAF pilots who eject twice are automatically grounded".  Young Nigel sticks his paw up.  "Please Sir, my Dad's ejected three times* and he's still flying!"

* once from a Jet Provost and twice from Jaguars
Oddly enough one of my school maths teachers had ejected and was working as a maths teacher because of it.

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

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

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Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 08 June, 2020, 04:23:50 pm
why is it always maths teachers?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 08 June, 2020, 05:12:51 pm
why is it always maths teachers?

Right enough. Our first-year algebra bloke started every lecture by correcting the errors in his previous lecture.  Fair enough, but he'd been delivering the same lectures for 17 years and transferred the corrections from lecture n+1 to lecture n.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Legs on 08 June, 2020, 08:28:14 pm
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 think we all got As.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 09 June, 2020, 09:18:29 am
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?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 09 June, 2020, 09:29:23 am
Given the confined space, that might have been a likely outcome.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 16 June, 2020, 05:12:10 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/16/austrian-police-defend-decision-to-fine-man-after-provocative-fart       


I fart in your general direction.......
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 17 June, 2020, 02:18:35 am
The Last Trump.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 17 June, 2020, 06:02:38 pm
Lawyer, lawyer, pants on fire...

https://flarecord.com/stories/529013524-miami-attorney-suspended-after-his-trousers-pocket-bursts-into-flames-while-representing-arson-client#.XupJITf9OFM.twitter
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 24 June, 2020, 09:15:29 am
Square melons

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200624/p2g/00m/0na/070000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200624/p2g/00m/0na/070000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 24 June, 2020, 09:52:14 am
"The inedible watermelons"
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 June, 2020, 11:15:43 am
"The inedible watermelons"

Great band.  Saw them supporting Hawkwind in 1984.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Giraffe on 24 June, 2020, 12:35:00 pm
Square melons
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200624/p2g/00m/0na/070000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200624/p2g/00m/0na/070000c)
What to think about a woman who chooses one of those...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 24 June, 2020, 03:35:34 pm
... or a pair  :)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 24 June, 2020, 03:39:32 pm
$94 for a watermelon!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Ashaman42 on 24 June, 2020, 05:29:35 pm
An inedible one at that!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 24 June, 2020, 06:13:49 pm
Paul Hollywood paid the equivalent of $350 for a strawberry in Japan. And ate it. And really enjoyed it.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 30 June, 2020, 06:19:48 pm
Quote
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

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/ex-husband-real-housewives-new-jersey-star-and-lucchese-crime-family-soldier-indicted
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 12 July, 2020, 04:18:42 am
As a slight deflection from "Florida Man" stories, may we present the doings of a Florida iguana:

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article244153012.html
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 12 July, 2020, 08:39:49 am
It'd make a change from slugs.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 16 July, 2020, 10:24:14 pm
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&utm_source=Dezeen%20Mail&utm_term=Read%20more (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......
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 16 July, 2020, 10:31:00 pm
That is a stupid design.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 17 July, 2020, 09:42:08 am
If they'd put the tennis court up top people would have been saying "but what about the wind?" Cyclists? Pfft.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 July, 2020, 09:50:04 am
Pune is in some ways India's Silicon Valley. Things might get built because they can and as here designed because the designers have ideas to help clients impress people.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Legs on 17 July, 2020, 10:40:59 am
From the same architects...

https://www.dezeen.com/2019/12/26/wooden-book-worm-nudes-pavilion-architecture-mumbai/ (https://www.dezeen.com/2019/12/26/wooden-book-worm-nudes-pavilion-architecture-mumbai/)

What happens when it rains?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 17 July, 2020, 12:37:04 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 17 July, 2020, 01:10:00 pm
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

It's a new map of Hell, where dopers* are condemned to ride forever in figure 8s come sun, wind, hail, US Postal and WADA.

* no, not the Flights of Fancy crew.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orraloon on 17 July, 2020, 01:15:43 pm
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?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 July, 2020, 02:02:57 pm
Vague recollection of a figure-8 velodrome built by those wacky Canadians in the 1990s, but I think they kept it indoors to stop BEARs from disrupting the racing.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 17 July, 2020, 02:10:00 pm
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vfqig is a recent, quite small version.

https://www.slugmag.com/lifestyle/bike-bmx/human-powered-rollercoasters-a-brief-history-of-the-alleycat-race/ refers to an earlier, bigger Canadian version.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 17 July, 2020, 10:20:44 pm
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...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 July, 2020, 10:58:08 pm
I rather like it actually. But there's clearly a long tale of corruption behind it and they really shouldn't be building anything there. But forest protection seems to have been swept aside under the current gov.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 18 July, 2020, 08:46:10 am
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...

You’ve not got planning permission, where’re our bribes?...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 18 July, 2020, 10:01:45 am


Wanna live in Amsterdam?

For just €1200 per month, you could rent this 11m² apartment near the centre.

Max 2 people, no pets, no smokers...

https://www.funda.nl/huur/amsterdam/appartement-87312059-eerste-helmersstraat-118-4-51/

Imagine being locked down there...

imagine living there with your girlfriend, and then being told you both have to work from home...

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 July, 2020, 10:59:43 am
Either there's something terribly wrong with my fondleslab or the person responsible for the photos on that page needs to be taken out behind the barn and humanely disposed of.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 July, 2020, 12:34:54 pm
Makes Bristol look bargainaceous, which is impressive.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 18 July, 2020, 01:18:47 pm
My friend has an apartment about 5 minutes walk from de Prins.  2 bedrooms going for well over half a million.....  :jurek:


She used to live a couple of floors down from me in one of these https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67601016.html    or https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-69035754.html
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 19 July, 2020, 12:24:20 pm

Red light district shut due to too many people...

https://nltimes.nl/2020/07/19/amsterdams-red-light-district-closed-due-overcrowding-street-performers-banned

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 20 July, 2020, 07:55:46 pm
Going back to unfeasibly small living quarters for insane prices....   https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/54325598     


hat tip https://twitter.com/emmahopeall/status/1284487677690155008?s=20
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jurek on 20 July, 2020, 08:16:20 pm
Going back to unfeasibly small living quarters for insane prices....   https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/54325598     


hat tip https://twitter.com/emmahopeall/status/1284487677690155008?s=20
I think you've just won tonight's internet prize, Andrew.
Squirrels will deliver it after dark.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 20 July, 2020, 09:00:45 pm
Even the Estate Agent Lens™ is struggling with that one.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Canardly on 20 July, 2020, 09:10:59 pm
Obscene really and about time this subject was tackled.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 20 July, 2020, 09:21:54 pm
Obscene really and about time this subject was tackled.

I don’t see it that way. This is built. What needs addressing is minuscule new builds.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 21 July, 2020, 09:17:48 am
Converted rather than built.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 03 August, 2020, 09:25:24 pm
Narco kitteh!

Quote
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.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/drug-smuggling-cat-escapes-high-110542204.html
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 August, 2020, 11:39:23 pm
Am I the only one picturing the said moggie flogging off the gear to buy catnip?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 07 August, 2020, 09:58:47 pm
You swine! German nudist chases wild boar that stole laptop (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/07/german-nudist-chases-wild-boar-that-stole-laptop-berlin-teufelssee)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Andrij on 11 August, 2020, 07:55:05 pm
Man parachuting in Cleveland slams into downtown building (https://nypost.com/2020/08/11/man-parachuting-in-cleveland-slams-into-downtown-building/)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 12 August, 2020, 09:33:52 am
Must've thought it was Ste.-Mère-Église.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 13 August, 2020, 06:31:34 pm
https://twitter.com/marceldirsus/status/1293824841884327937?s=20


Pigs can't fly , but they can swim.... :D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 15 August, 2020, 11:02:30 am
Sleeping in the road in Okinawa

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200814/p2a/00m/0na/018000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200814/p2a/00m/0na/018000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 20 August, 2020, 09:55:44 am
Knitting wars:

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200820/p2a/00m/0na/006000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200820/p2a/00m/0na/006000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 September, 2020, 10:17:11 pm
Quite odd pictures from the Black Forest
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/01/pom-poms-and-pigs-bladders-the-traditions-of-germanys-black-forest-in-pictures
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 September, 2020, 10:44:35 pm
The girl with the Liquorice Allsort on her head looks like she's about to commit mass murder.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 02 September, 2020, 12:15:16 am
The future has arrived.   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/01/jetpack-los-angeles-airport


'Just passed a guy in a jetpack': sightings at Los Angeles airport fuel concern.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 September, 2020, 09:57:18 am
Quite odd pictures from the Black Forest
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/01/pom-poms-and-pigs-bladders-the-traditions-of-germanys-black-forest-in-pictures
Some amazing costumes. But the stuffed fox is just creepy.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 02 September, 2020, 10:29:59 am
Quite odd pictures from the Black Forest
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)
Some amazing costumes. But the stuffed fox is just creepy.


A couple of them remind me of "The Wicker Man".   
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 04 September, 2020, 10:14:15 pm
Trophy fish!  (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/04/rare-sturgeon-fish-found-preserved-in-danish-ship-that-sank-in-1495) :D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 04 September, 2020, 10:19:47 pm
Trophy fish!  (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/04/rare-sturgeon-fish-found-preserved-in-danish-ship-that-sank-in-1495) :D

I've got one of th...*loads* Oh, not like that.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 10 September, 2020, 05:46:42 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/10/paris-museum-refuses-entry-woman-low-cut-dress-musee-dorsay


"Musée d’Orsay, home to some of world’s most famous nudes, apologises for barring visitor"
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 24 September, 2020, 05:12:04 pm
Johnny foreigner: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/police-confiscate-345000-recycled-condoms-in-vietnam
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 24 September, 2020, 06:47:20 pm
Johnny foreigner: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/police-confiscate-345000-recycled-condoms-in-vietnam
That was one hell of a night!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 24 September, 2020, 07:17:21 pm
It was much more than a night:

Quote
a “monthly input of used condoms from an unknown person”
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 24 September, 2020, 07:19:38 pm
Johnny foreigner: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/police-confiscate-345000-recycled-condoms-in-vietnam

The only way that story can be improved upon is if a news outlet has the guts to go with what the woman was paid per kilo of recycled rubbers in local currency.

At the current rate of exchange, £0.13 is roughly 3833 đồng.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 24 September, 2020, 11:25:09 pm
^  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 September, 2020, 02:07:52 am
PJ O'Rourke once noted that if the Vietnamese really wanted to be taken seriously as a trading nation they’d change the name of their currency, or else be left standing with their dongs in their hands.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 03 October, 2020, 02:54:49 pm
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjUsf35XkAAoIxc.jpg

Via: https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/1312003795342295041
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 October, 2020, 03:34:58 pm
Must be people sneaking across the state line from Florida.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 03 October, 2020, 05:14:48 pm
Even worse, Floridian students...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 October, 2020, 05:17:31 pm
Alligators in elevators?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 04 October, 2020, 02:22:26 pm
Alligators in elevators?

'Gators In 'Vators: the Floridian sequel to Snakes On A Plane.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 12 October, 2020, 09:05:26 am
https://www.insider.com/new-orleans-archbishop-pastors-threesome-on-church-altar-demonic-2020-10
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 12 October, 2020, 12:08:20 pm
https://www.insider.com/new-orleans-archbishop-pastors-threesome-on-church-altar-demonic-2020-10

Not the Holy Trinity that the Church had in mind. :demon:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 13 October, 2020, 11:50:36 am


Yesterday this tweet went by:

https://twitter.com/decentbirthday/status/1315690962438492160

It's... impressive... "Against my best wishes, I have been shot"

Today, there is a follow up...

https://twitter.com/decentbirthday/status/1315798455172976641

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 14 October, 2020, 10:40:01 am
Danger. UXB


https://twitter.com/danieltilles1/status/1316302669687017472?s=20
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 14 October, 2020, 11:04:07 am
Danger. UXB


https://twitter.com/danieltilles1/status/1316302669687017472?s=20

I loved the comment from the Polish Navy spokesman:

"The deflagration process turned into detonation. The object can be considered neutralised, it will not pose any more threat to the Szczecin-Swinoujscie shipping channel."

Interesting use of "neutralised" there. ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 14 October, 2020, 11:17:17 am
It's one way to go fishing.....  though your catch might be a bit mashed up. 
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: PeteB99 on 14 October, 2020, 11:36:30 am
Good old British technology, still working after 75 years.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 20 October, 2020, 12:33:53 am
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdgm4/new-yorker-suspends-jeffrey-toobin-for-zoom-dick-incident


"election simulation"......  do you think they spelt that correctly.....?


https://twitter.com/grace_panetta/status/1318303346172755971?s=20
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 20 October, 2020, 10:18:11 am
Asbestos renamed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54608836 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54608836)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 October, 2020, 10:29:01 am
As I recall, Canuckistan also has a Port Radium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Radium) and a Uranium City (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_city).  I look forward to these becoming Paradis-sur-le-Lac and Sunnymeadows respectively.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 20 October, 2020, 10:32:18 am
Asbestos renamed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54608836 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54608836)

Mealy-mouthed glipes:

Quote
Breathing in asbestos fibres has been linked to cancer and other diseases

That's like saying that getting shot through the head has been linked to death.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 20 October, 2020, 12:05:08 pm
Yes.  All is not well in Canada at the moment.   Their army has made a slight wolf paux in Nova Scotia https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/world/americas/nova-scotia-wolves-military.html


In the same part of the world there is a nasty & escalating dispute over lobster fishing rights.  I don't think anyone's been killed yet.  :(


https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergency-debate-lobster-fishery-dispute-ministers-1.5767602 


https://www.thebeaverton.com/2020/10/white-nova-scotia-fishermen-sure-theyre-only-one-more-violent-assault-away-from-nation-realizing-theyre-the-good-guys/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 20 October, 2020, 02:04:08 pm
Quote
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Zipperhead on 30 October, 2020, 07:04:08 pm
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)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 30 October, 2020, 07:06:18 pm
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)

Early-career Peter Jackson is his spirit animal (Think "Bad Taste" or "Braindead"). ;)

Quote
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 fine return to what this thread is all about!  :o ;D :D :demon:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 02 November, 2020, 09:46:25 am

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







Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 02 November, 2020, 11:50:36 am

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

My first response was [cetacean needed]...

After a bit of thought, my fuller response was:

For a metro train to get into this situation, multiple systemic failures have to have happened. The safety systems should not let a train go off the end of a line like this. The fact that after all these systemic breakdowns and failures, the driver is saved by art... hello 2020.

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 November, 2020, 12:05:29 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 November, 2020, 01:37:26 pm
(https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/sites/default/files/styles/liggend/public/content/images/2020/11/02/metro.jpg?h=94963729&itok=-URCriPE)
Different angle makes it seem less of a fluke.

(From https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5194262/machinist-metro-spijkenisse-aangehouden-na-bizar-ongeluk
Also a suggestion that it's a failure of the sliding stop blocks.)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 02 November, 2020, 01:42:01 pm
Is that fail whale made of fibreglass?  Pretty good going for it to support a train...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 02 November, 2020, 01:43:20 pm
I'm just had a flashback to the ending of China Mieville's "Iron Council" .....


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Council (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Council)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 November, 2020, 01:59:04 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 02 November, 2020, 02:03:41 pm
It’s plastic according to the artist in the BBC news report
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 02 November, 2020, 02:48:11 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 02 November, 2020, 03:39:12 pm
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...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 02 November, 2020, 03:44:21 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 02 November, 2020, 03:58:56 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 02 November, 2020, 04:20:10 pm
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.

While the post-Soviet interpretation of a hostile business takeover is rather more literal than what we're used to, the report reads more like it was a robbery gone wrong.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 02 November, 2020, 04:53:26 pm

It's a dog-eat-dog business, that.

I must admit I was expecting wurst puns...

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 November, 2020, 05:00:23 pm
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...
Quote
Jellyfish: A new sustainable, nutritious, and ‘oyster-like’ food for the Western world?
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
(https://cdn.technologynetworks.com/tn/images/thumbs/webp/640_360/the-genes-jellyfish-need-to-graduate-318271.webp?v=10145331)
Nutritious marine food source.

(https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article3523047.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200b/Michael-Gove.jpg)
Poisonous primitive sea creature
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 02 November, 2020, 05:28:10 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 02 November, 2020, 08:29:32 pm
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

Who's got the mind bleach?  (Though good use of John Major on the first page.)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 02 November, 2020, 08:49:01 pm

It's a dog-eat-dog business, that.

I must admit I was expecting wurst puns...

J

I always think German sausage jokes are the wurst
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: cygnet on 02 November, 2020, 09:29:58 pm
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.
Think of the tension currently going through that coupling though!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 02 November, 2020, 09:35:34 pm
Usually large sculptures like that are assembled around and depend on a steel frame.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: cygnet on 02 November, 2020, 09:50:04 pm
I used plastic deliberately; I didn't intend to suggest that was the sole material (unlike the artist/BBC).
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 02 November, 2020, 10:31:05 pm

I always think German sausage jokes are the wurst

Where as Dutch sausage jokes are the actual worst, but unfortunately so few people appreciate this, it's usually lost :(

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 03 November, 2020, 09:43:03 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/El7E1c-WMAI9Z_8?format=jpg&name=medium)


https://twitter.com/ottocrat/status/1323715383942066176?s=20
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 November, 2020, 09:49:05 pm
I used plastic deliberately; I didn't intend to suggest that was the sole material (unlike the artist/BBC).
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.
That's off the scale!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 06 November, 2020, 10:48:40 am
Monster grannies:

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200921/p2a/00m/0na/012000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200921/p2a/00m/0na/012000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 08 November, 2020, 08:11:18 am
all that winning he promised leads to this:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/four-seasons-total-landscaping-trump-team-news-conference.html

look for that landscaping firm to dry up and blow away
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: JonBuoy on 08 November, 2020, 08:54:10 am
There were a lot of 'reviews' added to the landscaping company's Google page yesterday but they seem to have disappeared now   :(
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 November, 2020, 10:43:16 am
Did they get Chris Grayling to book the venue?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 November, 2020, 12:04:09 pm
Did they get Chris Grayling to book the venue?

I could speculate that the mystery of Mark François' prolonged absence from the spotlight has now been explained, but then The Invigilator would have to remove this po… [NO CARRIER]
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 10 November, 2020, 12:26:00 am
Bears shot dead on Russian nuclear submarine (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54877285)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 November, 2020, 02:51:14 am
Disappointed that they didn’t caption the photo “A BEAR, yesterday”.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 10 November, 2020, 10:46:14 am
It's usually LOLruses that the Russian navy has issues with.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/walrus-sleeps-atop-submarine/
https://www.livescience.com/walrus-sinks-russian-boat.html
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: geraldc on 10 November, 2020, 02:23:26 pm
This twitter feed on Russia has kept me amused for days

https://twitter.com/CrazyinRussia
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 11 November, 2020, 04:39:03 pm
Remote control flying taxis.   That'll upset the London cabbies...


https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1326563587515559936?s=20



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-11/drone-taxis-and-bags-of-rice-take-flight-in-downtown-seoul
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 November, 2020, 06:18:28 pm
What could possibly go wrong?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 15 November, 2020, 09:56:31 am
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)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 15 November, 2020, 10:41:48 am
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)

I love the Attenborough-style commentary on the video.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 19 November, 2020, 05:29:46 pm
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. 
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 19 November, 2020, 08:19:27 pm
Presumably all the Italian helicopters were unavailable due to use of a non-standard thread on the Jesus nut or something.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 November, 2020, 08:34:05 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 20 November, 2020, 08:35:06 am
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.

Last time I was cycling in Italy we were overtaken by a string of vintage cars with police cars top & tail and a police Lambo up front.  Can't be much fun sitting in one of those things and being limited to 50 kph - like crowd-watching duty at a cup final.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 23 November, 2020, 02:26:21 pm
Smashing lockdown
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Canardly on 23 November, 2020, 02:34:37 pm
Honit soit qui...........
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mattc on 23 November, 2020, 08:45:01 pm
Smashing lockdown
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
That is brilliant. Sounds like without the knife he *might* have got off lightly!

I have a dream ... where folks use these forms as a form of protest ...

Reason: "To speak in a polite and professional tone to Priti Patel"
etc ... etc ...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 24 November, 2020, 12:32:32 am
This one's a long way from Florida man: An off-duty cop in Poland, setting out for a bike ride with his girlfriend, spotted a driver drinking beer while driving. The man was driving very slowly and having difficulty remaining within his lane. Cycling policeman managed to follow him home and arrest him. It was found not only was he way over the drink drive limit, he'd already lost his licence (it doesn't say what for). He faces a possible two years in jail.
https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/lublin/lublin-policjant-na-rowerze-zatrzymal-pijacego-kierowce/p66lnst
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 26 November, 2020, 09:54:42 am
No double dipping!

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20201126/p2g/00m/0dm/071000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20201126/p2g/00m/0dm/071000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: PeteB99 on 27 November, 2020, 12:29:26 pm
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."
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 27 November, 2020, 02:58:38 pm
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 in the USA, Dumping
https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/hackensack/news/hackensack-board-member-who-opposed-lgbtq-curriculum-resigns-after-embarrassing-zoom-incident/798530/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Snakehips on 27 November, 2020, 04:14:09 pm
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.'
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 November, 2020, 04:19:22 pm
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.'
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)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 27 November, 2020, 04:46:47 pm
It's nice to see elected officials with the guts to stand up for what they believe is right, even if they do get a little ham-fisted about it.

Quote
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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-55097091
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 27 November, 2020, 06:01:39 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 November, 2020, 06:03:27 pm
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.  ::-)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 November, 2020, 06:51:38 pm
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."

Onoz!!1! What are the brewers of this Fine BEER going to do now? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking_Hell)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 28 November, 2020, 09:38:46 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mark on 28 November, 2020, 01:00:58 pm
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?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 28 November, 2020, 01:56:47 pm
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?

I think it depends on which market sector howls the most.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 29 November, 2020, 11:06:56 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/29/monolith-vanishes-from-utah-desert (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/29/monolith-vanishes-from-utah-desert?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)


It’s being weighed in at the nearest scrap dealer...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: cycleman on 30 November, 2020, 07:32:52 am
Or it's gone to Jupiter  :D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 30 November, 2020, 08:10:46 am
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.  ::-)

I've driven through it, and nearby Oy, both to much hilarity
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 30 November, 2020, 08:31:00 am
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.  ::-)

I've driven through it, and nearby Oy, both to much hilarity

And I've hiked from Schloß Wengwies to the nearby mountain (probably the Wankberg though I can't find it on Google Maps) and slept overnight in the Wankhütte before hiking back the next day.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 03 December, 2020, 03:05:15 pm
Possibly not quite the strangest politics story of 2020 - Adolf Hitler has just won an election in <checks notes> Namibia...

Quote
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

https://www.africanews.com/2020/12/03/politician-named-after-adolf-hitler-wins-election-in-namibia/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 04 January, 2021, 09:53:03 pm
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.....
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 04 January, 2021, 11:23:25 pm
It is disappointing that he hasn’t got garters for his socks.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 05 January, 2021, 12:34:48 am
Should have cleared a place for the meltwater to go, first.  Otherwise, step outside, put foot on the layer of ice, and fall on one's rump in white bathrobe.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ElyDave on 05 January, 2021, 07:29:38 am
At least he was wearing a  visor
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 05 January, 2021, 09:57:33 am
And appeared to be drinking a beer.   It's important to stay hydrated when operating dangerous gadgetry,  keeps you alert to danger...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 05 January, 2021, 01:11:33 pm
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.....

Having experimented with various Vietnam-War-inspired gardening techniques, I concluded that agent orange was more effective than napalm.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 06 January, 2021, 10:51:45 am
Naked fugitive found in crocodile-infested waters near Darwin charged with fresh offences (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jan/06/naked-fugitive-found-in-crocodile-infested-waters-near-darwin-charged-with-fresh-offences)

Quote
“He looked like he needed a beer, although he was in a bad way,” Faust said.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 12 January, 2021, 02:49:27 pm
Down, Shep!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55631198
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 15 January, 2021, 12:46:34 pm
Skating lady police commandos ..


https://twitter.com/diaahadid/status/1350020576698642434?s=20     &    https://www.arabnews.pk/node/1792976/pakistan

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 15 January, 2021, 11:56:18 pm
Their skates don't match.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 24 January, 2021, 10:14:55 am
Undersea aged wine

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210122/p2a/00m/0li/026000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210122/p2a/00m/0li/026000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 February, 2021, 05:02:04 pm
I was looking for information about a mid-20th century Californian architect, Joseph Eichler, which led to a NY Times magazine article. Then I browsed around the NYT mag and found this:
(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/01/31/magazine/31mag-tip/31mag-tip-jumbo-v2.png?quality=90&auto=webp)
Quote
Quote
Release 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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/magazine/how-to-treat-a-wounded-manatee.html

I guess it's a change from Florida 'gators.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 01 February, 2021, 07:27:29 pm
https://www.independent.ie/news/cost-of-having-someone-killed-across-europe-falls-as-younger-hitmen-blamed-for-violence-40035530.html


Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.....
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 01 February, 2021, 07:35:45 pm
Wondering if brexit chaos means that EU hitmen are unwilling to travel to the UK...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 February, 2021, 07:52:16 pm
Or they're staying away cos they're scared of Covid.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 03 February, 2021, 07:22:16 pm
"Give the job of testing the abduction alert system to the intern," they said, "it'll be child's play..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55925674
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 08 February, 2021, 07:17:07 pm
We haven't had a genital reveal death for a while...  https://abc7.com/mi-man-killed-when-cannon-used-at-baby-shower-explodes/10320746/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 08 February, 2021, 07:43:59 pm
Come to think of it, we haven't had Florida Man making an appearance for a little while either...

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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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 09 February, 2021, 11:30:17 am
Squawking bird blows the whistle on fake video trying to tilt Ecuador election
A widely shared video appeared to show Colombian guerrillas backing a candidate – but an ornithologist spotted something awry (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/09/ecuador-bird-fake-video-colombian-guerrillas)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Guy on 10 February, 2021, 08:04:03 am
Quote
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 10 February, 2021, 09:34:31 am
Words fail me. That a law suit can even be considered means there’s something wrong with the legal system over there.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 10 February, 2021, 11:02:06 am
Good advert for the strength of Gorilla Glue.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 10 February, 2021, 11:04:59 am
It's very convenient PR.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 10 February, 2021, 01:15:22 pm
No-one's going to tell her she should be wearing a helmet.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mark on 10 February, 2021, 01:25:18 pm
Words fail me. That a law suit can even be considered means there’s something wrong with the legal system over there.

She's probably desperate for a way to pay the bill for her ER visit and various other medical expenses. 22 hours in an American ER wouldn't be cheap. No mention of whether a court has agreed to hear the lawsuit, which would indeed indicate a real problem with the US court system.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 10 February, 2021, 02:08:31 pm
Words fail me. That a law suit can even be considered means there’s something wrong with the legal system over there.

That'll ensure the product usage description is changed to indicate only those things that should be attempted with said product, and anything else is at your own risk. 
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 14 February, 2021, 12:34:56 pm

Lots of Dutch people out playing on the ice this week. Some however did not heed the warning given earlier this week about making sure the ice is thick enough:

https://nos.nl/artikel/2368612-auto-zakt-door-ijs-in-friesland.html

And if anyone is wondering how thick the ice needs to be, alaska state parks have produced this handy guide:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Et8cQ9LXMAADJKM?format=jpg&name=large)

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 14 February, 2021, 01:01:39 pm
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)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 14 February, 2021, 01:03:09 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 14 February, 2021, 01:16:36 pm
It's an Icezilla.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Polar Bear on 14 February, 2021, 01:21:48 pm
Words fail me. That a law suit can even be considered means there’s something wrong with the legal system over there.

Anybody can sue and in the USA they usually do.  I'd be more interested in the levels of success.  Actually no, I'm seriously not interested in narcissistic litigation and the outcomes.

Yanks just love to pull their litigation chains.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jurek on 14 February, 2021, 07:23:32 pm
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

I've always fancied ice-skating in straight lines along frozen Dutch canals, having been weaned on ice-skating indoors in relatively small circles.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 15 February, 2021, 09:57:10 am
I learned to skate on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa. Well, I saw learned, like there was some kind of endpoint to this activity that involved me staying upright for more than several seconds. To be honest, by the end, I was hoping someone would replace me with a stunt double. Canadians may have mocked my lack of ability, but give me a steep slope, some snow, and a liberated school dinner tray, and I got snow skills.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 17 February, 2021, 10:38:10 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 17 February, 2021, 10:43:11 pm
The Leftpondians in the state of Texas are having problems with low temperatures & a surfeit of cold white stuff Republicans.

FTFY
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 February, 2021, 11:58:20 pm
They had something similar only a couple of years ago, though that time my chum Houston Danny had, IIRC, thoughtfully chosen to visit his Aged Parent in California.  Which caught fire not long afterwards, though I don't think these two facts are related.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 February, 2021, 12:15:02 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 February, 2021, 12:30:55 pm
And apparently the Texan one is State-owned, which smells of Socialism and therefore serves nicely as a blunt instrument with which to beat swivel-eyed privatisation fanboiz over the head :demon:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 18 February, 2021, 12:45:01 pm
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.

It's not.  There's Canadians involved in the big ones.  And Alaska has two grids of its own (I suspect BEARS make interconnection problematic or something).

But for these porpoises, it's sufficient to know that:

a) Like the UK and Europe, these grids aren't synchronised with each other.  So you can't just wire them together to borrow some electrons.  Like us, there'e some limited import/export capability via HVDC connections.
b) Texas has its own grid for ideological "sticking it to The Man" reasons.
c) Just like the Californians, they did capitalism, and failed to engineer their power systems in a way that could cope with rare, but entirely foreseeable, extreme weather.
d) Texas has a surprisingly large amount of wind power, much of which isn't working because (c), but this is a small portion of their total capacity, and the bulk of the problem is the natural gas infrastructure that isn't working because (c).
e) This is however a prime target for ideologically-motivated claims about the inadequacy of wind power, which can readily be disproved by observing the countless fully armed and operational wind turbines operated in ludicrous weather by extremely competent Scandiwegians, and indeed the more pragmatic Leftpondians from higher latitudes.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 18 February, 2021, 01:58:08 pm
The US has always had shonky infrastructure through government stuff being purposefully underfunded and run-down so they can say 'look, big government, it's terrible!' and then use that excuse to pass the buck to private companies who then give all the money to their shareholders and then claim 'well, it was like that when we got it, give us some more money or take it back' People in the UK might also be familiar with this playbook.

When I lived in New England, they had rolling brownouts through summers because they couldn't supply enough electricity to meet the a/c demand (because several reactors were offline and there was no spare capacity).
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 February, 2021, 02:03:17 pm
Just like India, except you can't get a decent idli sambar for breakfast in Boston.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 February, 2021, 07:58:52 pm
And while Texas shivers, guess who’s gone on holibobs in sunny Cancún?  Why, Sen. R.E. Cruz (R-TX), that's who!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mark on 18 February, 2021, 08:17:56 pm
https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/posts/4830271573732525

Says it all.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 18 February, 2021, 08:48:44 pm
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362274022709420033.html (https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362274022709420033.html)


Thread on the Texas situation.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 19 February, 2021, 11:56:51 am

Arkansas has snow ploughs, Texas does not. Texan's laughed at the idea.

This road is on the border between Texas and Arkansas. Guess which side is which:

(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/texarkana-snow-01.jpg)

But it's all the plebs' fault...

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuXyr-oUUAESLxb.jpg)


J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 February, 2021, 01:15:06 pm
"...the weak will parish."
TOBAGO!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 19 February, 2021, 01:39:00 pm
You just know Tim is the sort of person who whines like a spoiled child the moment someone threatens to take away his toys.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 19 February, 2021, 01:50:14 pm
Don't blame the plebs, blame the wind turbines.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 February, 2021, 01:55:17 pm
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.

* except for his internet connection, obv
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Tim Hall on 19 February, 2021, 01:57:42 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Polar Bear on 19 February, 2021, 02:13:21 pm
It's when he utters the words God and socialists that, if you had not considered this already, you know that he is an AK47-carrying MAGA-wearing maniac of the radicalised far right that proudly seeks to replace the nazis as the worst people ever in the history of the world.

Just my snowflake, atheist leftie opinion you understand.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 19 February, 2021, 02:16:06 pm

Hospitals are over stretched, staff are over worked, everything is on the limit.

But then the canals have frozen so...

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/02/broken-wrists-and-hips-40000-are-treated-for-ice-related-injuries/

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mark on 19 February, 2021, 02:25:28 pm
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that Tim lives in:
  • 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
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.

* 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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 19 February, 2021, 03:03:37 pm
And I bet he didn't build his own internet so he could self-sufficiently castigate those socialists.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Polar Bear on 19 February, 2021, 03:08:40 pm
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that Tim lives in:
  • 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
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.

* 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.

Thanks for the update.  My knowledge of assault weapons is extremely limited.  👍
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: tiermat on 19 February, 2021, 03:15:06 pm
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

Which made wonder if there is a place called Texas City in Colorado.  Apparently not.  I do know there is a place called "Nowhere" as we have passed it several times on our trips out there.  I get Therapy? as an earworm everytime...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 19 February, 2021, 03:15:41 pm

Thanks for the update.  My knowledge of assault weapons is extremely limited.  👍


Look at Hickok45 on Youtube to expand your knowledge.  Every type of firearm tried & tested by an avuncular old codger.   
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 19 February, 2021, 03:18:13 pm
The AR-15 is not an assault weapon, it's a 'sports rifle.' The sport is in running away from the person bearing that rifle.

I did discover yesterday that you can get a licence from the ATF to own full-automatic weapons for 'product development purposes.'
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 February, 2021, 06:22:02 pm
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that Tim lives in:
  • 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
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.

* 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.

Facts.  Bah :'(

My chum Fast Freddy, a self-confessed Republican ever since Jimmy Carter wouldn’t let him go to the Moscow Olympics, owns an example of both the AK-47 and AR-15.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 20 February, 2021, 01:02:28 am
https://twitter.com/alexhortontx/status/1362565976349286401?s=21 (https://twitter.com/alexhortontx/status/1362565976349286401?s=21)


Locked & loaded...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 20 February, 2021, 06:44:08 am
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.

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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 20 February, 2021, 08:35:33 am
I'd suggest moving that to the Darwin Awards thread but enough of them will survive to perpetuate the syndrome.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: JonBuoy on 20 February, 2021, 08:52:16 am
You know how you should always check under the toilet seat for spiders:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56136249   :o
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 20 February, 2021, 08:53:26 am
That's what happened to Pooh Bear.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 February, 2021, 01:30:44 pm
BEARS, woods, er…
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 20 February, 2021, 06:24:08 pm
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.

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.  ::-)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 February, 2021, 06:33:42 pm
Women wear 'granny' disguise to try to get Covid vaccine (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/19/florida-women-wear-granny-disguise-covid-vaccine).  Florida, natch.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 20 February, 2021, 10:49:10 pm
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.
So what they really need is less global warming.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Guy on 23 February, 2021, 09:01:12 am
Yet another exploding 'gender reveal' device.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56159731
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 23 February, 2021, 09:32:32 am
Why these fossicking idiots are allowed to reproduce is beyond me: they're obviously not doing anything for the gene pool.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 27 February, 2021, 09:47:24 am
HUMMERS!!!

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/woman-filmed-removing-thong-to-use-as-face-mask-in-supermarket/ar-BB1e30TB?ocid=msedgntp
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 27 February, 2021, 10:17:50 am
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 Of Ambition Protection ?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 27 February, 2021, 02:49:29 pm
gross!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 27 February, 2021, 04:18:33 pm
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 Of Ambition Protection ?

Which also chimed with this
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/naked-man-with-bible-shot-after-after-knocking-on-florida-residents-doors/ar-BB1e4why?ocid=msedgntp
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 27 February, 2021, 05:12:59 pm
Never bring a knife to a cockfight... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56224144
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 27 February, 2021, 07:18:34 pm
Never bring a knife to a cockfight... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56224144

I think that bloke in Florida actually brought a bible...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 20 March, 2021, 09:39:02 pm
I wonder how this happened:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/19/politics/mar-a-lago-closed-covid-outbreak/index.html

with overtones of "Florida man"
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 20 March, 2021, 09:41:35 pm
and Florida man needs expensive aircraft repairs, must resort to flying in small private jet:

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-boeing-757-need-repairs-empty-ny-airport-2021-3
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 March, 2021, 10:28:12 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 20 March, 2021, 10:57:32 pm
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.

For once, the search engine worked: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10502.msg2566507#msg2566507

For those who haven't opted into the P&OBI group, here's the story I was posting about: https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/from-air-force-one-to-trump-force-one/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 March, 2021, 11:03:36 pm
Ha!  I knew That Spesh would rise to the bait and save me the bother of grappling with the Search SCIENCE ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 20 March, 2021, 11:18:37 pm
Ha!  I knew That Spesh would rise to the bait and save me the bother of grappling with the Search SCIENCE ;D

There's SCIENCE!* involved in the forum search engine?  :o

First I've heard of it...  :demon:



* See Magnus Pyke in a certain Thomas Dolby song (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Blinded_Me_with_Science#Song_structure).
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 21 March, 2021, 12:02:00 am
One of those wiffly-waffly SCIENCES like zoology or sociology, rather than one of the formal mathsy ones.  Certainly not linguistics, either.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 21 March, 2021, 12:18:52 am
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:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 21 March, 2021, 12:20:46 am
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:

Some of the search results are diluted to homeopathic levels with random nonsense, so you might be onto something...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 March, 2021, 12:48:01 am
Does it stop being SCIENCE when squishy things are introduced into the picture?  Floppy-haired mountaineer and helicopter enthusiast Professor B Cox certainly thinks so :demon:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 23 March, 2021, 08:24:43 pm
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/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 23 March, 2021, 08:51:42 pm
I had a good go at turning a canal boat without the benefit of a winding hole (then wasted a whole afternoon as the next one was 4 locks further on, which is 8 to traverse in total), and almost did the same thing.  It nearly worked - there was only about a foot in it.  A bargepole probably wouldn't do the job in this case.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 23 March, 2021, 10:35:19 pm
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/

Obligatory Austin Powers 3*-point turn scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGiQOCX9UbM


* For bigly yuge values of 3
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 24 March, 2021, 12:53:07 pm
Left hand down a bit.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: TimC on 24 March, 2021, 03:09:23 pm
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/

Nothing to do with the Captain. The Suez Pilot will have been in charge.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: PeteB99 on 24 March, 2021, 04:02:20 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 24 March, 2021, 04:04:14 pm
The engine room logs will be looked at closely though.

Wouldnt be surprised if they were upoaded in real time.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 24 March, 2021, 04:26:07 pm
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.
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 24 March, 2021, 04:26:42 pm
Cynic mode _ How soon before the Americans, Saudis & Israelis blame Iranian saboteurs ?  _ Cynic mode.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: PeteB99 on 24 March, 2021, 04:37:09 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Tim Hall on 24 March, 2021, 04:53:37 pm
All this reminds me of my The boss a couple of jobs ago. Before entering the hesady world of commerce he'd been in the Andrew Royal Navy.  He tells of one occasion* when aboard HMS Troutbridge they were just exiting the Med via Gibraltar.  A sailing yacht is heading into the Med, crew fighting hard with the wind. A Jolly Jack Tar leans over the rail of Troutbridge and hollers "The canal's closed. You'll have to go round the long way."


* He also tells of the time when Ronnie Biggs was brought aboard his ship whilst docked in Rio.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 24 March, 2021, 04:54:27 pm
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.
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: TimC on 24 March, 2021, 08:05:11 pm
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.

Ah, ok!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 March, 2021, 08:15:12 pm
Seems the same ship clouted a ferry in the Elbe on a windy day in February 2019.  A ship that doesn’t handle well in windy conditions sounds like a bit of a liability.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 24 March, 2021, 08:29:12 pm
All of those container ships have problems in crosswinds. I think that car carriers and livestock transporters might be the only ships with bigger problems. Wind force is something we need to take account of in vessel mooring analyses but it is worse when ships are moving.

Vessel control is surprisingly limited when big ships are moving in narrow and shallow channels. The ship acts something like a piston in a cylinder with water moving at speed around the hull, resulting in counterintuitive effects.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 March, 2021, 11:58:52 pm
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”.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 25 March, 2021, 08:08:12 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 25 March, 2021, 12:41:06 pm
The exact quote:

“No one will need more than 637KB of memory for a personal computer. 640KB ought to be enough for anybody.” ~ Bill Gates, 1981

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.

In the grand scheme of things, that Gates quote isn't too embarrassing compared with some of the classic predictions that pre-dated it...

“Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers of the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh one and a half tons.” ~ Popular Mechanics, 1949

“The world potential market for copying machines is 5,000 at most.” ~ quoth IBM to the eventual founders of Xerox in 1959

“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.” ~ Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977.

Source: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/worst-tech-predictions-of-the-past-100-years-c18654211375/


* 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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: PeteB99 on 25 March, 2021, 12:49:29 pm
The British can be just as good as foreigners at the foot in mouth game

"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys."

Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 25 March, 2021, 12:55:45 pm
"I truly believe that one day there will be a telephone in every town in America."
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 25 March, 2021, 12:58:55 pm

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.


I think Kathryn Bigelow's "Strange Days" is a good "Gibsonesque" cyberpunk movie, though I've never seen the film they made of "New Rose Hotel" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rose_Hotel_(film)   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133122/reviews?ref_=tt_urv



Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 25 March, 2021, 01:17:40 pm
In terms of SF classic to cinematic release, the best has got to be Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Other than that, it’s a path littered with more turkeys than successes.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Tim Hall on 25 March, 2021, 01:46:37 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jurek on 26 March, 2021, 07:51:05 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 26 March, 2021, 09:37:05 am
It’s looking like clearing the canal is going to take a significant amount of time with shipping now being diverted around the Cape. Something else for the gubermint to blame Brexit import delays on.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: PeteB99 on 26 March, 2021, 10:11:14 am
Big Boat gets stuck. A childrens story.

https://defector.com/big-boat-stuck-a-story/ (https://defector.com/big-boat-stuck-a-story/)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 26 March, 2021, 10:21:42 am
Just dump a few tons of Picolax into the canal ,  that should clear any blockage......



Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 March, 2021, 11:19:27 am
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.

Based on this information I can now determine the identity of Jurek's ex and will be publishing it here* unless in receipt of a plain brown envelope stuffed with used twenties by 23:59 on March 31st.

* Lie
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 March, 2021, 02:55:46 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 27 March, 2021, 07:27:36 pm
Bonus points for not drowning or getting eaten by crocogators.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 27 March, 2021, 11:23:10 pm
Are they sure it wasn't a manatee?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 27 March, 2021, 11:41:30 pm
Oh, the huge manatee.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 27 March, 2021, 11:53:01 pm
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.

That officials are citing her safety and mental health as reasons for not naming her suggests there are some doubts that she was lost in the sewer for as long as she says, even if her boyfriend had reported her missing three weeks ago.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 28 March, 2021, 12:00:39 am
You'd have to be both spectacularly stupid and surprisingly well-prepared to stay lost in a storm drain for that long...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 28 March, 2021, 12:44:05 am
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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.

You are in a tunnel
You are swimming
You see a door
Open door
S
You tumble down a sloping hole, water rushes beside you
You find a tin.
Open
You open the tin
Drink
You drink the ging bere
You are refreshed
Your head asplodes.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 28 March, 2021, 02:25:45 pm
Odd individual with unusual wheeled vehicle travels remarkable distance.

Uses name 'Gordy'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-australia-56438893
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 March, 2021, 07:21:43 pm
Quote
[…] says he "didn't realise how big Australia was".

Nothing like planning ahead.  And clearly he did nothing like planning ahead ;D

My e-chum Poit cycled round Australia.  It took him seven weeks.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 March, 2021, 08:35:49 pm
Nothing crazy here but this sentence:
the role played by synthetic fabrics in late-stage Catholicism (https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/is-post-catholic-ireland-unable-to-make-sense-of-its-christian-culture-1.4520077)
was too good not to repeat!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 29 March, 2021, 10:42:57 am
"Late-stage Catholicism" sounds terminal.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 29 March, 2021, 01:55:19 pm
"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. :D

Quote
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!

http://graeme.50webs.com/lehrer/vatican.htm
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Regulator on 29 March, 2021, 02:59:02 pm
"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. :D

Quote
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!

http://graeme.50webs.com/lehrer/vatican.htm


As an aside, one of my favourite pieces of liturgical music is Ramirez's Misa Criolla, which was one of the first post-Vatican II vernacular masses. Undeniably Argentinian (although inspired by post-WWII Germany) music.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 April, 2021, 01:02:09 pm
Mullet over: Aussie boys' school tells kids 'business in the front, party in the back' hairstyle is 'not acceptable' (https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/31/boys_school_mullet_ban/).  "A fine Australian tradition stomped on", claims El Reg.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 02 April, 2021, 07:08:51 am
another "Florida man" entry, this time from the political party which purports to stand up for business's rights to do whatever they wish, and defy government intervention:

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20210330/florida-governor-vaccine-passport-ban
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 02 April, 2021, 09:38:47 am
https://twitter.com/snellyradio/status/1377664803850883074?s=20


If you've got a blocked canal, just call these chaps  :D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 02 April, 2021, 02:14:35 pm
Nike wins lawsuit over 'Satan Shoes' with human blood (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56609333)

Quote from: The BBC
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".
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Guy on 19 April, 2021, 03:30:14 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 19 April, 2021, 04:23:45 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 April, 2021, 06:24:19 pm
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

Quote
Is there a raptor on the loose in Palm Coast?

No.  No, there is not.  HTH HAND.

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

Reminds me of the incident in which a horde of Fish & Wildlife types in USAnia assembled trank guns, humane traps and dog alone knows what else to rescue a BEAR stuck up a tree, only to discover after a Several of hours that they'd rushed in mob-handed to the aid of a bin bag.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 21 April, 2021, 12:53:06 pm

Lunteren, NL. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/dutch-police-arrest-2-after-attack-on-photojournalist-in-car/ar-BB1fQZB8


Journalist tries to film burning car & is chased away & then has his car flipped into a ditch by a tractor.


Warning!  Scary dashcam video with lots of shouting.  https://nos.nl/video/2377493-dashcambeelden-laten-zien-hoe-een-shovel-de-auto-van-een-persfotograaf-omduwt.html


Criminal gang trying to burn evidence ?  I read that there is a major problem with illicit drug manufacturers just dumping the toxic by products from their labs in the countryside.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 23 April, 2021, 10:35:44 am
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:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 23 April, 2021, 11:37:18 am
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?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 23 April, 2021, 12:22:22 pm
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?

You see, IRTA a genital retrieval party.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 23 April, 2021, 12:43:37 pm
A genital revile party with unsear wee pees.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 28 April, 2021, 12:30:54 pm

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/04/on-yer-bike-belarus-border-police-tells-illegal-dutchman/

And relatedly :

https://twitter.com/FloorCP/status/1387074609145651221

I am in awe at just how stupid people can be...

J

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: PeteB99 on 28 April, 2021, 12:43:06 pm
And in Germany

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56912481 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56912481)

"After careful examination of the bag's contents, the officers quickly realised that it was a rubber dummy," Hauzenberg Police said in a press release.
"The bag was emptied and the contents examined. This turned up an empty tube of lubricant, two unused condoms in a tin and a USB cable."
Officials added that an online search "confirmed their suspicions" that "there really are sex toys modelled on hand grenades".

I've led too sheltered a life to work out the mechanics of a sex act that requires a tube of lubricant, couple of condoms a USB cable and a rubber hand grenade  :hand:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 28 April, 2021, 12:45:16 pm
It's a truism that if it can be inserted, someone will.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Giraffe on 28 April, 2021, 03:55:37 pm
If it's not fake - now that's what I call a blow-job!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 28 April, 2021, 11:46:36 pm
It's a truism that if it can be inserted, someone will.

Although in the case of the USB cable, it'll only go in on the third attempt.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 29 April, 2021, 09:32:20 am
I think that describes any relationship that involves a penis too.

Which just unnecessarily proves that USB was designed by men.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 30 April, 2021, 12:09:49 am

Quote

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

https://twitter.com/CTVNews/status/1387754852374175752


Data on whether it's a boulder the size of a small boulder, or a boulder the size of a large boulder is as yet. Not available...


J

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 April, 2021, 12:47:48 am
We call upon mark otp to investigate with a tape measure.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 30 April, 2021, 03:39:20 am
Many wonder "why does the USAnian state of Kentucky continue to elect Mitch McConnell to serve in the Senate?"

This video may provide insight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDaQZUzJCNM
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 May, 2021, 11:25:46 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 04 May, 2021, 09:41:19 pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56978344

Sod it, let's just redefine belgium...

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: FifeingEejit on 04 May, 2021, 09:57:15 pm
Reading that earlier made me finally find out why Belgium exists, my summary: Religion.


Sent from my BKL-L09 using Tapatalk

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 May, 2021, 10:55:24 pm
Fake news!  The non-existence of Belgium was conclusively* proven more than twenty years ago  (https://zapatopi.net/belgium/).  Bielefeld, Winnipeg and Vermont don’t exist either, while Minneapolis was created specifically for The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

* FSVO “conclusive”, obv.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 04 May, 2021, 11:20:16 pm

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


There’s no need to swear...:: :jurek:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mark on 05 May, 2021, 03:53:37 am
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.

The boulder in question actually was removed very quickly, trundled into Boulder Creek by a bulldozer within 24 hours of the incident.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 13 May, 2021, 11:59:58 am

Anyone remember the fuel protests about 20 years or so ago? and all the Brits were panic buying petrol, and storing it in what ever they could find, including various containers that were dissolved by the Petrol itself?

Well... the yanks are at it this time:

https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/1392535965839753216

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 13 May, 2021, 12:03:13 pm

(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...

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 May, 2021, 01:03:06 pm
Best comment on that twitterling:
Quote
You don't understand. They are preparing to host a gender reveal party, you see.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 13 May, 2021, 01:08:43 pm
I like the woman who fills a bin bag with gasoline and then when it leaks, double-bags it. Now that's practicality.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: nuttycyclist on 13 May, 2021, 02:48:03 pm
I like the woman who fills a bin bag with gasoline and then when it leaks, double-bags it. Now that's practicality.

The video made me laugh, but is many months old.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hoarding-gas-plastic-bags/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 14 May, 2021, 09:30:31 pm


(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1ThjB8VUAYVAJV.jpg)

...

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 14 May, 2021, 09:59:32 pm
Arf  ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 15 May, 2021, 02:55:04 pm
That'll be for the new "gel gasoline", it's a semi-solid form of fuel like you find around dinosaur seeds, with the simple chemical formula (a few gazillion hydrocarbons)-H2O3.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 04 June, 2021, 09:06:38 am
Perhaps there should be a thread "Little Eye on the Crazy World of Florida", in which case this:

https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2021/06/02/boy-10-shot-after-florida-man-let-him-use-paintball-gun-in-drive-by-shooting-police-say/

would be at home.

A few things to note:
Age of "parent" and age of child.
The "stand your ground" principle at work.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: nuttycyclist on 04 June, 2021, 09:24:05 am
Your notes are indeed eye opening, although I found this quote more mind bending.
"He fired one shot, which struck the child. The boy then lost his balance and was run over by his father’s vehicle, police said."
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 June, 2021, 09:57:32 am
"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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 04 June, 2021, 11:29:33 am

(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...

I've seen that setup before:  They get the fuel out after the crash, using a small high explosive charge to create a cloud, along with an incendiary charge to ignite it.  They're supposed to use some diesel in the mix for the obligatory plume of thick black smoke, thobut.

It's vitally important to remove all the wheelnuts before pushing the car off the cliff, of course.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 04 June, 2021, 01:06:47 pm
"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.

Commendable attempt at retroactive Darwinism.  Now all Daddy needs to do is jump in front of his own moving car.

They could have done a far better job by paintballing a cop shop.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 19 June, 2021, 10:39:56 am
Unexpected road obstruction.


https://twitter.com/raffaeledipalma/status/1406127739304873987?s=21 (https://twitter.com/raffaeledipalma/status/1406127739304873987?s=21)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 19 June, 2021, 11:06:36 am
Unexpected road obstruction.


https://twitter.com/raffaeledipalma/status/1406127739304873987?s=21 (https://twitter.com/raffaeledipalma/status/1406127739304873987?s=21)

Love the smell of hydrazine in the morning...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 23 June, 2021, 09:56:47 am
Poop mascot  :o

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210622/p2a/00m/0na/027000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210622/p2a/00m/0na/027000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 24 June, 2021, 01:53:36 pm

     https://twitter.com/GramsciFag/status/1407763535870955529


Forgot to pay your safety subscription? pray you don't crash...

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 11 July, 2021, 12:21:15 pm
Fish bombing! (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-57793082)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mark on 11 July, 2021, 01:22:39 pm
Fish bombing! (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-57793082)

Old news, it's been going on for decades in the western US. Apparently stocking some of the higher mountain lakes in steeper terrain calls for some pretty aggressive flying tactics, which the pilots thoroughly enjoy.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 11 July, 2021, 01:27:16 pm
Doesn't look like much fun for the fish, thobut.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 27 July, 2021, 03:28:13 pm
The "Panther tank in the basement"1 story still rumbles on:

Quote
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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57965260

Mind you, this bit is funny as all get out:

Quote
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.

"Most efficient"?

The Panther tank had a powerful gun and good frontal armour, but it was over-engineered and took longer to manufacture than comparable Allied tanks2, it was underpowered, had a fragile transmission and was a PITA to maintain in the field.


1 Original story from 2015: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-33381772

2 If you look at the 2nd World War WRT industrial capacity, Germany was pretty much on to a loser from quite early on.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 July, 2021, 04:22:48 pm
84, so born in 1937, therefore lived through WW2 but not old enough to fight in it, except perhaps as a last-ditch berserker on the Eastern Front in the last few months. Also too young to have bought, requisitioned or acquired it at the same time. I wonder if their father was a Panzerfahrer? Alsfo if they have a four-by-four?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Paul on 27 July, 2021, 05:37:23 pm
The "Panther tank in the basement"1 story still rumbles on:

Quote
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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57965260
Vot basement? (https://prod-images.tcm.com/Master-Profile-Images/KennethMars.122899.jpg)

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 27 July, 2021, 06:18:07 pm
That is a significant basement!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 July, 2021, 06:26:48 pm
Wonder if he's got a Kettenkrad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sd.Kfz._2) hidden away somewhere too…
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 02 August, 2021, 10:42:28 pm
https://twitter.com/notesfrompoland/status/1422151317296979975?s=21 (https://twitter.com/notesfrompoland/status/1422151317296979975?s=21)


Illegal crypto mining at police HQ.

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 03 August, 2021, 07:43:13 pm
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)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 15 August, 2021, 12:56:45 am


A strong contender for the world's most optimistic job ad...

https://twitter.com/DaybookJobs/status/1426182241659416581

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 15 August, 2021, 12:36:26 pm


A strong contender for the world's most optimistic job ad...

https://twitter.com/DaybookJobs/status/1426182241659416581

J

"Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy." ~ Bob Hope
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 17 August, 2021, 09:05:34 pm
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?"
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 17 August, 2021, 09:27:54 pm
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?"

Nice shout-out to Private Frost in Aliens.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 22 August, 2021, 09:45:38 am
Iron (wo)man treat:

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210820/p2a/00m/0li/036000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210820/p2a/00m/0li/036000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 23 August, 2021, 01:30:19 am
Iron (wo)man treat:

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210820/p2a/00m/0li/036000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210820/p2a/00m/0li/036000c)

I'm sure that will attract the hope-for tourist trade like a magnet
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Canardly on 23 August, 2021, 11:49:23 am
Wonder if they have filed a patent?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 23 August, 2021, 11:58:01 am
I'm galvanised by this news.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 23 August, 2021, 12:12:01 pm
Iron (wo)man treat:

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210820/p2a/00m/0li/036000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210820/p2a/00m/0li/036000c)

Shinya Tsukamoto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuo:_The_Iron_Man) approves. :P
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 04 September, 2021, 06:17:18 pm
Old and busted: flying through a barn or hanger...

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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 04 September, 2021, 06:53:58 pm
Nutter.

Can I haz a go pleez
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: JonBuoy on 04 September, 2021, 08:35:08 pm
I think the parachute was pretty superfluous.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jurek on 04 September, 2021, 09:17:23 pm
Old and busted: flying through a barn or hanger...

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
'kin nut job.
Awesome  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 05 September, 2021, 08:38:54 am
The racket reminded me of cycling through tunnels in Austria.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 06 September, 2021, 09:38:05 am
I'd be more fucking impressed if Red Bull could figure out a stunt that somehow retrieved all the littered and discarded cans, contributed to diabetes research, and stopped making every British town smell like sick on Sunday morning.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 06 September, 2021, 03:58:59 pm
There's a Vodbull shop on Silly Oak high street.  I'm still not entirely sure what they sell.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 06 September, 2021, 04:00:13 pm
The precursors of sick.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 06 September, 2021, 04:17:52 pm
That would certainly be consistent with the way they've decorated the shop window.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 September, 2021, 04:58:30 pm
High-headed lowlanders lower but still highest. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/17/dutch-are-worlds-tallest-people-but-theyre-shrinking-study-shows)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orraloon on 17 September, 2021, 08:49:38 pm
Pass Raise the Dutchie 'pon the left hand side...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 04 October, 2021, 07:35:54 pm
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1445088853145047042?s=21 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1445088853145047042?s=21)


It’s raining drones in China…
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Legs on 07 October, 2021, 04:22:01 pm
I have no words...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58810977 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58810977)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 October, 2021, 06:07:33 pm
That’s one of the cases where you want both parties to lose, like Melania Trump vs the Daily Heil.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Guy on 08 October, 2021, 08:18:25 am
Only a USAnian could see
Quote
"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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 08 October, 2021, 09:22:58 am
Only a USAnian could see
Quote
"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
With a curse no less
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 12 October, 2021, 02:36:59 pm
Can rely on finding strange items in Japanese vending machines:
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20211011/p2a/00m/0li/018000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20211011/p2a/00m/0li/018000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 12 October, 2021, 02:46:27 pm
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=119545.msg2631499#msg2631499
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: PeteB99 on 23 November, 2021, 11:53:16 am
A Michigan woman tried to hire an assassin online at RentAHitman.com. Now, she’s going to prison.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/22/rent-a-hitman-website/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/22/rent-a-hitman-website/)

"Seething and vengeful, Wendy Wein was on the lookout for the professional killer she meant to hire as she waited inside a southeastern Michigan cafe in July 2020.
Wein wanted her ex-husband dead. But she didn’t want to kill him herself and didn’t know anyone she trusted to do it for her. So she did what a lot of people do when they have a job they can’t or don’t want to do themselves — she searched for help on the Internet.
On RentAHitman.com.
What Wein found was presumably reassuring. The website promised her confidentiality. It boasted of industry awards. It showed off testimonials of satisfied customers, including one from Laura S., who had “caught my husband cheating with the babysitter.” The website bragged about complying with HIPPA, which it said was “the Hitman Information Privacy & Protection Act of 1964,” a nod to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, the law passed in 1996 to protect patients’ medical information."

Industry awards for hitmen  ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 23 November, 2021, 01:14:43 pm
Or one that stupid really does need locking up for the safety of everyone else.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 23 November, 2021, 01:23:01 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59342016


Order your dope via Uber, and some munchies to go with it.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 23 November, 2021, 04:18:43 pm
Well, über does sorta mean high.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: L CC on 10 December, 2021, 09:42:54 am
Russian sailors like to drink :jurek:  (https://www.umgdy.gov.pl/?p=46311)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 10 December, 2021, 10:00:30 am
...and get into the rough, according to Google Translate.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 10 December, 2021, 12:00:05 pm
BBC: Saudi camel beauty pageant cracks down on cosmetic enhancements

Quote
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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-59593001
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: nicknack on 10 December, 2021, 01:42:28 pm
Do the contestants have to sleep with the judges?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 15 December, 2021, 12:31:37 pm
Smart kid.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/15/four-year-old-sydney-child-orders-1139-of-ice-cream-delivered-to-his-fathers-work
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 15 December, 2021, 02:08:43 pm
Daft parents, though.  We've been living in The Future long enough for everyone to be fully aware of the ability of seemingly illiterate children with an undeveloped sense of consequences to shoulder-surf passwords and do assorted expensive things online.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 17 December, 2021, 02:54:03 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/17/anti-5g-necklaces-radioactive-dutch-nuclear-experts-quantum-pendants


Think of it as evolution in action.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 December, 2021, 06:56:57 pm
How many Woo! boxes can you tick at once?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 17 December, 2021, 07:04:59 pm
Radioactive 5G protection necklaces sounds like SCIENCE-trolling, to me.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Giraffe on 18 December, 2021, 10:41:35 am
Comments in El Reg:
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2021/12/17/dutch_nuclear_authority_bans_anti5g/

I was going to put this in Super-twat. I do find it (incorrectly?) pleasing. Now, what can we do to the anti-vaxxer pillocks - oh, they'll do it to themselves!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 18 December, 2021, 12:26:05 pm
Radioactive 5G protection necklaces sounds like SCIENCE-trolling, to me.

Reminds me of something...

Quote from: Screamers
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 22 December, 2021, 08:31:28 am
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.

*There are péages to leave the A4, the Autoroute de l'Est, but that's because it comes all the way from Paris.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 24 December, 2021, 01:19:01 am
stand aside, Florida Man -

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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 24 December, 2021, 07:44:58 am
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.

*There are péages to leave the A4, the Autoroute de l'Est, but that's because it comes all the way from Paris.
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.

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 24 December, 2021, 08:54:46 pm
stand aside, Florida Man -

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
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 31 December, 2021, 10:25:14 am
Insect funerals  ???

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20211224/p2a/00m/0li/068000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20211224/p2a/00m/0li/068000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 31 December, 2021, 11:28:57 am
Insect funerals  ???

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20211224/p2a/00m/0li/068000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20211224/p2a/00m/0li/068000c)

You beat me to it.  I’d heard and seen memorial services for robot pet dogs, but this is new.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 04 January, 2022, 10:03:07 am
Employers using AI to promote love in the pandemic workplace

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220104/p2g/00m/0bu/010000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220104/p2g/00m/0bu/010000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 04 January, 2022, 12:16:49 pm
https://twitter.com/JimCantore/status/1478327150851854336?s=20


A minor traffic jam on US Interstate 95 between Virginia & Washington.  People stuck for up to 15 hours in sub zero temperatures. 
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 January, 2022, 12:19:05 pm
Well they clearly need more lanes on that motorway so it doesn't happen again, and larger cars just in case it does.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 04 January, 2022, 12:31:05 pm
I-95 already has 16 lanes in places (though in other places goes down to four). Americans don't stop driving because of snow, they just go out and get stuck or crash. It's very predictable.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 05 January, 2022, 01:40:52 pm
At first glance, this story seems tailor-made for this forum's more... peurile minds...

Quote
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.

https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-star-who-sells-her-farts-in-jars-starts-selling-1848305521

Mind you, reading the whole article makes we wonder if another Carrington Event (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event) is the electronic laxative that the world is in most dire need of nowadays:

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 January, 2022, 03:05:37 pm
What would happen if a Carrington-stylee Event crossed its beams with the 5G Bat-Control Plague Rays being transmitted by the [“Milk Marketing Board” – Ed.]?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 05 January, 2022, 05:08:09 pm
Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 January, 2022, 05:25:43 pm
Yes, but would anything unusual happen?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 05 January, 2022, 06:44:24 pm
Dang it.

Just found the farts in a jar story and came over here to post it.

But spesh guffed first!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 05 January, 2022, 06:47:43 pm
But spesh guffed first!

Whoever smelt it, must have dealt it... :demon:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 06 January, 2022, 12:40:00 am
He who said the rhyme, did the crime.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 January, 2022, 01:21:59 am
He who denied it, supplied it.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 06 January, 2022, 07:24:45 am
But spesh guffed first!

Whoever smelt it, must have dealt it... :demon:

Or have Covid.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 22 January, 2022, 04:35:48 pm
Another from Japan, talking bins

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220122/p2a/00m/0na/016000c
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 January, 2022, 05:34:46 pm
They have talking bins in Barry Island. Bilingual talking bins shaped like penguins!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 23 January, 2022, 12:04:11 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 23 January, 2022, 12:45:21 am
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.

Did they say the corpse wasn't dead, he was pining for the fjords loughs? :demon:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 23 January, 2022, 12:55:14 am
"He lives in box, he looks like a corpse. He's dead of course!".
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 23 January, 2022, 10:29:49 am
How to share cake in Japan

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220121/p2a/00m/0na/010000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220121/p2a/00m/0na/010000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 23 January, 2022, 02:09:20 pm
Looks like the bloke went home with a roll of loo paper.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 23 January, 2022, 02:20:26 pm
How to share cake in Japan

I've spent too long in this forum - I read the above and had visions of a certain scene involving the gastronome gangster, his moll and an egg yolk in Tampopo...  :demon:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 24 January, 2022, 10:19:49 pm
https://nltimes.nl/2022/01/24/bag-full-human-skulls-found-zuid-holland-river (https://nltimes.nl/2022/01/24/bag-full-human-skulls-found-zuid-holland-river)



Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 08 February, 2022, 03:12:17 pm
This one doesn't really fit in the Ukraine or random political snippets thread, so it might as well go here:

Quote
Putin pot: The Libyan police busted 323 bars of hashish wrapped with photos of the Russian president.

Some funny pictures via @AFP.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLDyH-QXMAUmaQA?format=jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLDx8eKXEAU4odz?format=jpg
https://twitter.com/Aya_Isk/status/1490958487492653064
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 February, 2022, 03:36:43 pm
Woah! I think you need some sort of warning on that second photo. Seeing so many Putins at once is enough to make anyone think they've slipped into some sort of Really Bad TripTM.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 10 February, 2022, 02:01:49 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-60327304

Quote
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.

Textbook BRITISH tourist behaviour, of course.  But surprising diligence by the Spanish authorities.  Perhaps they thought the teeth might be evidence of some crime or other?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 10 February, 2022, 02:31:38 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60330758

Absolutely appalling act.

Don't they sell stick-on googly eyes in Russia, ffs?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 14 February, 2022, 08:49:57 pm
Another new tea craze…


https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220212/p2a/00m/0li/024000c
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 15 February, 2022, 07:21:28 pm
Stick the kettle on, I'd love a cuppa.

Okay. What do you want: builder's, English breakfast or bug shit?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 16 February, 2022, 08:19:34 am
Nothing new. Lipton's Yellow has tasted like shit for years. Sometimes shit with pepper.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 19 February, 2022, 09:34:05 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/19/fda-dead-rodents-arkansas-family-dollar

This is what Brexit is aiming to achieve.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 16 March, 2022, 04:33:41 pm
Don't call Dug a human potato
Don't call Dug a spud

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/16/giant-new-zealand-potato-is-not-in-fact-a-potato-guinness-world-records-rules
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 March, 2022, 05:22:11 pm
Some foreigners are always foreign, wherever they are.
Quote
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 18 March, 2022, 08:15:08 pm
I recall sharing a dorm in Amsterdam youth hostel with a chap who'd been on hash cakes.   Spaced out wasn't in it.   He was due to fly back to the UK the following day for some exams.  I don't think he made it.....
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 18 March, 2022, 08:53:05 pm
As little students urchins in deepest, darkest L13, we baked up a big batch of magic cakes and left them to cool atop the oven. Flatmate Jo's mother turned up (a constant danger, as she lived in Stockport, but sometimes she'd bring food, for some reason she believed her daughter couldn't survive purely on baked beans and the occasional Marlboro Lite) and was left unattended with said cakes.

She helped herself.

Hilarity ensued.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 28 March, 2022, 08:46:47 pm
https://twitter.com/drsimoncmp/status/1508170433828466691?s=21&t=AoSm-MiffJnP79DmXSlJIw (https://twitter.com/drsimoncmp/status/1508170433828466691?s=21&t=AoSm-MiffJnP79DmXSlJIw)


“Sex slave woman wanted for burglary”


I remember The Case Of The Manacled Mormon” !
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 29 March, 2022, 12:57:09 am
Well, it's a good opening paragraph. I can't wait for the rest of the story.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 09 April, 2022, 04:35:38 pm
Just occasionally, something makes me cry with laughter.  Like these Chinese translation fails.

https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-chinese-translation-fails/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 13 April, 2022, 03:07:04 am
a sad turn in the "Florida Man" series
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/04/08/16-year-old-killed-when-teens-wearing-body-armor-take-turns-shooting-at-each-other-in-florida-police-say/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 15 April, 2022, 09:45:47 am
Shocking vandalism

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220415/p2a/00m/0na/020000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220415/p2a/00m/0na/020000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 26 April, 2022, 11:46:12 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 27 April, 2022, 11:54:36 am
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 27 April, 2022, 01:02:08 pm
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.

Cawthorn is a thick nasty piece of work.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 27 April, 2022, 04:06:16 pm
It's been suggested the gun incident was deliberate, to distract from the lingerie story, and others which are coming to light. Apparently, there are also allegations of insider trading in the "Let's Go Brandon" meme cryptocurrency, and sexual misconduct, so to say he's a hot mess right now would be something of an understatement.

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 28 April, 2022, 08:59:01 am
from the other corner of the USofA: (upper lefthand corner of the map, as we say here)

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 ..."
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 29 April, 2022, 09:08:15 am
I wonder if they were from Florida...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-61267265
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 29 April, 2022, 11:30:06 pm
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.

Cawthorn is a thick nasty piece of work.

Teh GOP seems to be full of sub Jonah Ryans at the mo.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 05 May, 2022, 09:50:20 pm
A couple of tales from our favourite state of the Union, c/o The Smoking Gun:

April 29
Quote
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

May 4
Quote
The first rule of False Name Club is: You do not claim to be Tyler Durden.

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.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/cocaine/tyler-durden-arrest-749230

Oh Florida, don't you ever change...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 14 June, 2022, 09:56:52 pm
Murder, she wrote...

Quote
..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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61786575
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 June, 2022, 10:50:32 pm
Crikey.  Not Florida!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 15 June, 2022, 08:59:54 am
The states of Michigan and Mississippi still have "lascivious cohabitation" as a crime.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 15 June, 2022, 09:05:13 am
from the other corner of the USofA: (upper lefthand corner of the map, as we say here)

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 ..."
My father he worked down the sewers
He worked in a deep sewage pit
And when he came home in the evening
His hands were all covered in

Shine up your buttons with Brasso
It's only three and thruppence a tin
You can buy it or nick it from Woolies
But I don't think they've got any in

Some say that he died of a fever
And some say he died of a fit
But I know what my father died of
He died of the smell of the

Shine up your buttons with Brasso
It's only three and thruppence a tin
You can buy it or nick it from Woolies
But I don't think they've got any in

Some say that he's buried in soil
And some say he's buried in grit
But I know where my father's buried
He's under six feet of

Shine up your buttons with Brasso
It's only three and thruppence a tin
You can buy it or nick it from Woolies
But I don't think they've got any in
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 15 June, 2022, 12:27:44 pm
Don't recall seeing that one in any collection of Stanley Holloway's monologues. ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 June, 2022, 12:40:15 pm
Nor the alternative version with the verse that goes

My brother sells rubbers to sailors
My Mum makes the holes with a pin
My sister performs the abortions
My God how the money rolls in!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 15 June, 2022, 05:38:28 pm
I think you’ll find that everyone concerned we’re just going through the motions.

Coat you say? In this heat, are you mad!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 June, 2022, 10:13:38 am
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 22 June, 2022, 11:44:30 am
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

Don't be impressed. I read a bit into the backstory.

He bought an island in croc country. Makes money from tourists. Encourages his dogs to bait crocs - there is another vid of that going wrong, little dog eaten.

Just another arse baiting wildlife to get a reaction and impress people.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mark on 10 July, 2022, 03:11:46 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Clare on 10 July, 2022, 04:15:51 am
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.

She'll probably be ticketed for not having the child in a certified baby seat instead.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 27 July, 2022, 10:32:32 pm
"Je mag alleen die verdomde deuren eraf blazen!"

Quote
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://www.vice.com/en/article/93ab4e/europe-atms-blown-up
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 July, 2022, 07:46:09 am
Pretty common here in de verenigd koninkrijk tbf.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 06 August, 2022, 02:02:49 pm
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….
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 06 August, 2022, 07:49:54 pm
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….

"The workers are so calm"

That would be why they are shouting "Scheisse"
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 12 August, 2022, 11:25:08 am
Um... right
https://twitter.com/isitreallymoira/status/1557311730547662849
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 12 August, 2022, 12:36:31 pm
Was it Bobb's hat?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 12 August, 2022, 12:47:09 pm
I did wonder.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 12 August, 2022, 02:18:09 pm
Um... right
https://twitter.com/isitreallymoira/status/1557311730547662849

A spoof, but a good one. Several more on Twitter I believe. 

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: graculus on 19 August, 2022, 02:06:00 pm
Admit it, you were waiting for it to have a go at the glass display cabinet:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-latin-america-62603550 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-latin-america-62603550)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 28 August, 2022, 10:22:56 pm
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/28/air-france-suspends-two-pilots-over-fistfight-in-cockpit


The moral of that piece seems to be "Don't fly Air France!"
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 August, 2022, 10:31:18 pm
Bof!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 28 August, 2022, 10:51:08 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 29 August, 2022, 02:06:48 pm
Lion eats man (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/29/lion-kills-man-who-climbed-into-enclosure-in-ghana-zoo?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other) who jumped into its enclosure. And it’s not even in Florida!

(I did think of putting this in the Darwin Award thread, but his breeding status is not reported)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: JonBuoy on 29 August, 2022, 09:42:39 pm
Guinness World Record: Man rides 38 miles in giant pumpkin (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-62716252)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 30 August, 2022, 07:41:59 am
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.

I was mildly surprised that J.T. wasn't shot for assaulting a white man.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 15 September, 2022, 07:59:44 am
Getting to the bottom of cheating in chess.
https://twitter.com/MetroUK/status/1569983251912998913
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Paul on 15 September, 2022, 10:14:03 pm
Definitely below the belt.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Paul on 15 September, 2022, 10:16:03 pm
Suspect chess cheat: Honestly, there’s nothing in there!
Chess security person: I still have to check, mate.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 September, 2022, 10:54:43 pm
Long ago when I was controlling tournaments the lavatory was jokingly referred to as the “analysis room”.

This brings a whole new complexion to the anal in analysis.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 25 September, 2022, 04:42:06 pm
Japanese search and rescue cockroaches..

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220924/p2g/00m/0sc/016000c
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 25 September, 2022, 04:47:32 pm
Japanese search and rescue cockroaches..

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220924/p2g/00m/0sc/016000c

Shades of the Fifth Element.

https://youtu.be/DrHMBletjXg
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 25 September, 2022, 07:52:35 pm
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:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 26 September, 2022, 10:42:56 am
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:

Yes, that was my thought. Nor does it get over the probelm they had with a similar mechanical centipede (one of our VP's worked on the project) whereby when they tried it after the Fukashima tsunami the radiation fried the electronics.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 26 September, 2022, 12:06:45 pm
Isn't 'search and rescue' a robotics euphemism for 'military applications'?

I can imagine a solar-powered cockroach being a useful platform for covert surveillance.  Assuming you can overcome their famous aversion to daylight.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 26 September, 2022, 12:51:06 pm
Japan is pathologically averse to militarism, given how well it turned out for then the last time. I suspect it's more to do with the development of the thin solar film - I can see applications for that as wraps, window films etc etc.  And the fact that they have a surfeit of eathquakes, tsunami and landslides means they do need better search and rescue materiel.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 08 October, 2022, 03:49:01 pm
And another, a sticking plaster that mimics a biscuit. A “sweet butter biscuit made with dried powdered eel” no less 2 for 1 there!

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221007/p2a/00m/0bu/015000c

And it’s the gift that keeps giving, a new twist on the “send money” scam, though pretty original!

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221008/p2g/00m/0na/053000c
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 08 November, 2022, 08:24:21 pm
Regular programme on NHK World is Document 24 Hours, where a camera crew hang around a particular site for three days interviewing people as to why they are there. Current one is a 10,000 bike underground parking facility at a railway station in Kasa, a suburb of Tokyo.

Depressing to learn how difficult life is for so many people, often having two jobs to help support caring for families with problems.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/4026168/ (https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/4026168/)

30 minute programme
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 08 November, 2022, 09:25:14 pm
Don't lick frogs (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/please-refrain-from-licking-psychedelic-toads-can-poison-you-national-park-service-warns/ar-AA13SM2N)...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 08 November, 2022, 09:39:03 pm
Or toads, even...

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 16 November, 2022, 10:51:57 pm
"Florida man announces intention to campaign for President of the United States"
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: robgul on 17 November, 2022, 07:52:44 am
"Florida man announces intention to campaign for President of the United States"

The teaser, for an article on page 26 of the paper was: 

The New York Post covered Trump's declaration with a bottom-of-front-page footer irreverently headlined, "Florida Man Makes Announcement".

So an even more cutting comment from the Dirty Digger, not even a hint!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 November, 2022, 10:41:20 am
‘Energy Healer’ Tech Couple Say They Flew to SF on Private Jet to Help Space Karen (https://sfstandard.com/business/energy-healer-tech-couple-say-they-flew-to-sf-on-private-jet-to-help-heal-elon-musk).  Going well, is it?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 05 December, 2022, 11:32:01 am
I watched a short video care of Twitter in which a Brummy chap produces what looks like a superb Xmas dinner for under £19, as part pf a challenge to help with COL. All the ingredients are fresh, and it looks absolutely superb. It includes fresh herbs and garlic, salt, pepper, etc.

Cue lots of USAnians going "There's no seasoning!"

Also cue lots of non-colonials asking "What the fuck are salt, pepper, sage, rosemary, mustard, honey and garlic in this context?"


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"
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 05 December, 2022, 12:34:58 pm
It's not American unless it's seasoned with cheese and bacon.

I still can't handle the concept of marshmallow casserole.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 December, 2022, 01:07:22 pm
It's not American unless it's seasoned with cheese and bacon cheez-flavored food productTM'n'BacoBitsTM.

I still can't handle the concept of marshmallow casserole.

FTFY :P
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 05 December, 2022, 02:25:33 pm
One of my first American food experience was 'bottomless'* cheesy fries sprinkled with bacon-dust. After that meal, I was offered a ride back to my hotel. Which was on the other side of the parking lot. I'd consumed enough calories to circle the world five times.

*every two minutes the waitress would zoom over and replace them to ensure you didn't see the bottom of the basket.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Hot Flatus on 05 December, 2022, 05:13:20 pm
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"


That is only because they don't know about our exquisite culinary tradition

(https://hips.hearstapps.com/ame-prod-redonline-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/main/gallery/24810/b2_88.jpg)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Bledlow on 05 December, 2022, 07:50:19 pm
It's not American unless it's seasoned with cheese and bacon.

I still can't handle the concept of marshmallow casserole.
I may regret this, but -

WTF is a marshmallow casserole?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 December, 2022, 08:13:46 pm
As best I can ascertain it’s a way of making sweet potatoes taste even more revolting.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 05 December, 2022, 08:24:40 pm
Spot on, its sweet potatoes cooked with marshmallows (usually in a sauce of button, brown sugar, orange juice and cinnamon) which might make it should like an odd dessert (I refer people to the miracle whip salad) but it's actually served with – typically – the Thanksgiving turkey and other trimmings. The first time I was served it, I thought it was some kind of hazing ritual and everyone was going to say we're just fucking with you, we don't actually eat this. But eat it they did.

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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 December, 2022, 10:02:10 am
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.

I know the USAnian diet caters to a less sophisticated palate than that of the noble BRITON but I didn’t know they were actually eating mattresses :jurek:  Some enterprising Walthamstovian needs to start a business selling organic free-range mattresses to USAnia hipsters.

Grape jelly is foul beyond description and you have to mine deep in the little tub of preserves at the Battle Mountain Super 8 to find an alternative – usually strawberry jam but occasionally something actually described as “marmalade”.  Which would have Frank Cooper setting sail down the Isis in a gunboat, if he hadn’t died in 1927.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 06 December, 2022, 11:06:46 am
Wonderbread and its ilk do taste like a sweetened mattress. It's still nearly impossible to get decent bread in the US, unless you spend about $35 on a small baguette at the hipster market.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: orienteer on 16 December, 2022, 11:03:45 am
Temple in hotel foyer

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221215/p2a/00m/0na/018000c (https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221215/p2a/00m/0na/018000c)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 17 December, 2022, 09:28:22 pm
Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats
Beverly Roberts and Mary Alston sought to trap the cats so they could be neutered (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/17/alabama-women-stray-cats-arrest-food-trap)

Video of the arrest here: https://eu.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/crime/progress/2022/12/13/wetumpka-alabama-cat-ladies-found-guilty-on-all-four-charges/69722572007/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mattc on 20 December, 2022, 05:58:13 pm
https://twitter.com/acommonlawyer/status/1605100752304803843?t=GSg9U7LCiH5yTsF2pWvMtA&s=19
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Wombat on 20 December, 2022, 07:19:40 pm
"They don't like it up 'em!"    Oh, I stand corrected, evidently they do...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 20 December, 2022, 07:47:40 pm
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…."



Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Basil on 20 December, 2022, 07:50:47 pm
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…."

Guess what I read that as?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 December, 2022, 03:31:29 pm
Have a safe trip: Oregon trains magic mushroom facilitators. (https://www.kptv.com/2022/12/22/have-safe-trip-oregon-trains-magic-mushroom-facilitators/)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 04 January, 2023, 02:20:51 pm
"If a body sells a body
Coming through the morgue"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64159612
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 04 January, 2023, 05:24:08 pm
"If a body sells a body
Coming through the morgue"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64159612
I saw this earlier and thought it was a Netflix promo at first. Even the attached picture reinforces this initial view  ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 04 January, 2023, 07:03:41 pm
It doesn't look anything like Prince Harry!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 04 January, 2023, 08:30:50 pm
It doesn't look anything like Prince Harry!
I thought she was supposed to be the queen in the next remake of the crown.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 January, 2023, 11:53:12 pm
"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)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 05 January, 2023, 09:30:48 am
"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)

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 06 January, 2023, 10:16:40 am
Today's language lesson is in Polish....    https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/01/05/polish-district-drops-historical-name-after-rude-meaning-draws-unwanted-attention/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 06 January, 2023, 12:07:11 pm
Oh dear. I can add the mildly rude Sutki Leonarda and Złote Sutki – Leonard's Nipples and Golden Nipples.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 05 February, 2023, 04:22:35 pm
The wearable bean-bag…

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230204/p2a/00m/0bu/013000c
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 14 February, 2023, 05:05:50 pm
Noodle eating in Japan

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230214/p2a/00m/0na/013000c
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 February, 2023, 10:55:26 am
‘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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 21 February, 2023, 10:57:41 am
Canadian? It would be. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 21 February, 2023, 11:02:41 am
Machine-gunning pigs is the sort of thing I'd expect from Middle Eastern caliphates.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 February, 2023, 11:27:27 am
Crazed wild pigs were a key plot device in Neal Stephenson's last novel.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 21 February, 2023, 11:48:44 am
‘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.

Now we wait for the 2019-vintage "30-50 feral hogs" news reports and memes (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/05/feral-hogs-memes-twitter-30-50-running-into-my-yard-small-kids) to be exhumed as William McNabb says, "See, I told y'all!"  :demon:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 February, 2023, 10:57:33 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 22 February, 2023, 08:32:05 pm
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.

Because of the radiation he had three anyway, so this might be a positive development.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 February, 2023, 08:52:02 pm
Alternative explanation: Harry Kane's penalty against France has finally returned to Earth.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 22 February, 2023, 09:21:28 pm
<"That Guy" mode>

Looks like a mooring buoy to me:

https://blueoceanmarineequipment.com/spherical-steel-mooring-buoys/

</"That Guy" mode>

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 23 February, 2023, 08:11:14 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 February, 2023, 09:07:16 am
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?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 23 February, 2023, 04:01:00 pm
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?

Something went adrift with his spike proteins :o ?

Mind you, IIRC he did have big brawny US-football-player's shoulders. Lizards don't got shoulders.  Maybe he's got the rest of the tackle too.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 01 March, 2023, 08:03:17 pm
My suitcase is full of eels.... https://nltimes.nl/2023/03/01/170000-endangered-glass-eels-found-suitcases-schiphol-airport
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 March, 2023, 11:57:14 am
When French money ceased to be legal tender in Jersey, from 1834, they adopted a currency with 13 pence to the shilling.
http://www.jerseycoins.com/pen13/pen13.htm
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: graculus on 06 March, 2023, 03:52:13 pm
I'm not sure I would have managed to be that nonchalant:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-64865242 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-64865242)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: PaulF on 25 March, 2023, 08:57:04 am
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:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 25 March, 2023, 09:14:09 am
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:

Only in Florida. For now. DeSantis might become president.

Scratch a Republican, find a bible-vomiting, pro-gun, racist, sexist, blue-nosed idiot.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 March, 2023, 10:58:10 am
Quote
The 5.17m (17ft) statue depicts an entirely naked David, the Biblical figure who kills the giant Goliath.

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.
Sue the school for false representation in its name, if they're going to refuse to use classics.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 March, 2023, 12:05:04 pm
Nicked off of Farcebok:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52770260050_8c12b2487b_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2op8nPQ)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Canardly on 25 March, 2023, 12:08:26 pm
However do they make babies in Florida?  Perhaps Rome/Florence should be taken off the US touring agenda.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 31 March, 2023, 12:39:00 pm


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65133860

Being naked in changing rooms banned... Wtf


J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 31 March, 2023, 12:50:55 pm


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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 31 March, 2023, 01:44:33 pm


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.

1) Aus was always prudish. The sight of a nipple in public is considered justification for calling a swat team.

2) Old Aussie beach changing rooms always used to be just one big room with a row of shower heads along a wall. (one room for men, one for women). I think this is one of the old ones, and people started object to seeing wrinkly wobbly bits.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 31 March, 2023, 03:44:41 pm
If their dicks are in proportion to the diminutive example on Michaelangelo's David statue I can understand why they want to hide them.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Auntie Helen on 31 March, 2023, 03:56:51 pm
It was the women’s changing room where the problem seems to have occurred.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 01 April, 2023, 09:12:46 am

Dutch told to shit less, for the sake of the environment.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/04/straight-flush-dutch-aim-to-tackle-human-manure-emissions/


(click to show/hide)

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 03 April, 2023, 02:11:26 am
Disney outfoxes DeSantis, invokes King Charles' descendents ...

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1167042594/disney-desantis-board-reedy-creek-charles

For a long time, Disney had an arrangement with Florida where they were basically self-governing in their central Florida fiefdom.  After they wanted to say "gay" when Desantis had passed "don't say gay", DeSantis upped the ante by appointing a new, righter-than-right-wing governance board.  But, before the new board took office, the old one, in publicly announced meetings, agreed to the Mouse's terms and cut their successors authority drastically.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 27 April, 2023, 10:47:58 am


(https://social.v.st/system/media_attachments/files/110/267/655/177/738/979/original/84f92c8affbe58cb.png)

There is an Orange alert for the whole of the Netherlands today.

Widespread outbreaks of Orange are expected across the whole country.

You are warned.

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 April, 2023, 11:43:56 am
Oh, are you having a coronating [sic] day too?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 27 April, 2023, 11:48:06 am
Oh, are you having a coronating [sic] day too?

Kings day. Basically a national party day.

In the centre it's full of people in orange being drunk.

M hiding at home cos crowds are scary.

A friend lives in the banks of the Amstel.

This is the view from their window.

(https://social.v.st/system/media_attachments/files/110/270/302/264/580/195/original/3fe6f9e6fc5b2424.jpg)

Yes that is a barge full of portaloos so that people in boats Dan float up, and pee somewhere that is not the canals.

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 April, 2023, 11:57:07 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 27 April, 2023, 12:13:58 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Basil on 27 April, 2023, 01:54:33 pm
Ah, I used to have that work pattern.
Week 1 Monday is a nwd

Week 2 Friday is a nwd

Great isn't it?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 27 April, 2023, 03:43:03 pm
Ah, I used to have that work pattern.
Week 1 Monday is a nwd

Week 2 Friday is a nwd

Great isn't it?

Best work decision I've ever made.

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: L CC on 27 April, 2023, 04:06:39 pm
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
We (me, my mum & my daughters) dodged an intimidating boisterous Amsterdam party and went to Delft for the day.
Ferry home afterwards.

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230427/bd503f52a6b1a68511920eb96999d532.jpg)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 28 April, 2023, 05:31:15 pm
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/04/dutch-sperm-donor-who-may-have-fathered-550-kids-is-ordered-to-stop/ (https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/04/dutch-sperm-donor-who-may-have-fathered-550-kids-is-ordered-to-stop/)


What a wanker……
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 01 May, 2023, 10:53:07 am


https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/05/police-arrest-drunk-driver-with-fake-boris-johnson-driving-licence/


Boris Johnson caught drink driving in Groningen...

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 May, 2023, 11:07:10 am
Line 7 on the licence looks like it says "Good evening from Ukraine".
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 May, 2023, 12:58:14 pm
Man eats banana...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65446331
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 01 May, 2023, 01:07:27 pm
Man eats banana...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65446331

Send in the Velvet Buzzsaw.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Moleman76 on 01 May, 2023, 06:47:11 pm
Arkansas woman sells items on Facebook

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/01/1173030059/arkansas-woman-stolen-human-body-parts
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pickled Onion on 01 May, 2023, 10:14:32 pm
Line 7 on the licence looks like it says "Good evening from Ukraine".

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Доброго_вечора,_ми_з_України (https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Доброго_вечора,_ми_з_України)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 May, 2023, 08:33:48 am
Thank you PO.
https://youtu.be/BvgNgTPTkSo
We've had folk, electric folk, folk rock, pop folk, now we have technofolk. Or something like that.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 May, 2023, 08:40:16 am
And this one sounds a bit like Hej Sokoly! (Hey Falcons!)
https://youtu.be/1XCrSZNJsAM
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 May, 2023, 12:00:08 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-65455991
Teacher disturbs sleeping bear.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 18 May, 2023, 11:56:13 am
Quote
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.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65608917
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 23 May, 2023, 04:37:41 pm
Fake crocodile in the Dordogne (in French but the pics say it all):

https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/insolite/faux-alligator-dans-la-dordogne-jusqu-au-bout-on-a-cru-a-un-vrai-crocodile-raconte-l-un-des-plongeurs-6434007
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 24 May, 2023, 06:51:38 pm
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."
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 25 May, 2023, 10:44:53 am
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."

I'm beginning to warm towards Trump.  Nah, not really but DeSantis is a mad slobbering ultra-right wily bastard religious-maniac baboon.  At least Trump is merely a rogue.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 31 May, 2023, 11:49:10 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 31 May, 2023, 12:06:38 pm
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.

It's such an impressive shipment of fail, you can almost overlook the abuse of authority and waste of water involved in the affair. :D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 May, 2023, 12:09:20 pm
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.
Mains 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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Canardly on 31 May, 2023, 01:45:46 pm
He was fined half the value of the phone.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 01 June, 2023, 07:54:14 am
GTA a bit soft for you gamers?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-65714083

Reviews include "Great game to pass the time. But I think it lacked more torture options."

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 10 June, 2023, 12:32:02 am


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-09/couple-threatened-with-eviction-racial-discrimination-case/102446338

"Baby once born not authorised to be at the premises"

Landlords being shit in Australia...

Tribunal finds in favour of the tenant.

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 10 June, 2023, 02:32:53 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/10/no-sex-on-the-beach-please-dutch-town-tells-nude-sunbathers-to-put-a-lid-on-lust


Sand getting in all the wrong places...  :jurek:
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 29 June, 2023, 02:14:23 pm
South Koreans grow 1-2 years younger overnight.

Quote
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.

https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-age-counting-law-a38a4a6b47c6864bd13433fdac071cec
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 10 July, 2023, 10:28:27 pm
"Rolling Hills".  A lost work by M C Escher.....  massive landslip causes evacuation of gated community in California. 


https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/12-homes-evacuated-southern-california-city-after-ground-100988580


https://twitter.com/LACoFDPIO/status/1678173429759979521



https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1678218715937091586



Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 July, 2023, 11:19:19 pm
Kim Kardashian reveals farting fear on dates after Kanye West divorce (https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/kim-kardashian-farting-mexican-dates)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 July, 2023, 09:26:18 pm
Your attention please! Normal Florida has been resumed:

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)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 21 July, 2023, 08:57:33 pm
Your attention please! Normal Florida has been resumed:

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)
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 July, 2023, 10:50:21 pm
Try this: https://archive.li/Rhb8v
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 22 July, 2023, 12:34:22 am
 :facepalm:
So many questions…
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 July, 2023, 12:49:53 am
And more than 21 million inhabitants.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mark on 22 July, 2023, 02:37:49 am
18 years old and has a 3 year old son. That explains a fair bit.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 22 July, 2023, 07:49:43 am
Sneaky website thobut.

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 22 July, 2023, 12:42:08 pm
18 years old and has a 3 year old son. That explains a fair bit.

Yes, it means she lives in a country where the right to an abortion is not enshrined in law. Where even in states where it's available to get to the clinic you have to go through the crowds of protesters. If you have the money, and the ability to get to an abortion clinic in the first place.

Not to mention living in a country where there are people actively trying to ban birth control.

We have no idea about the history of this woman. It's grossly offensive to make judgements about her being a mother at 15.

Punch up, not down.

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 24 July, 2023, 10:26:23 am
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...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 24 July, 2023, 10:35:12 am
Not fryers then.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Canardly on 24 July, 2023, 10:37:38 am
Come in handy if they don't go to Heaven.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 24 July, 2023, 10:55:52 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: MattH on 24 July, 2023, 06:55:03 pm
A boat crashed into a home near the Lake of the Ozarks on Saturday night, injuring all eight people on board and extensively damaging the house, according to Missouri law enforcement ...  The driver of the boat, aged 46, was arrested for boating while intoxicated.


https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/23/us/lake-ozarks-boat-crash-house/index.html
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 24 July, 2023, 09:18:22 pm
He'd had a few too many schooners.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 July, 2023, 10:34:14 am
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...
Quote
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.

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.
First I'd heard of this too.
Quote
The transport hub, located halfway between Warsaw and Łódź, is forecast to serve 65 million passengers a year by 2060
That's about 150% of Poland's entire (current) population. It could end up being an expensive, grandiose white elephant.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 25 July, 2023, 12:09:41 pm
Airport firefighting is very specialist.

The ability to get a large engine as quick as possible to a burning plane takes skill and practice.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 25 July, 2023, 08:50:12 pm
Nah. Some bloke on the internet could do it better.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 31 July, 2023, 07:07:20 pm
Quote
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.

Responding to a viral video of a bear on its hind legs, Hangzhou Zoo said people "don't understand" the species.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-66362970
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 04 August, 2023, 11:36:14 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Beardy on 05 August, 2023, 11:36:47 am
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.
I can’t imaging how big the tap was that refilled the pool twice a day.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: chrisbainbridge on 05 August, 2023, 05:40:16 pm
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.
In the context of the whole story, I presumed that was some sort of euphemism.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 07 August, 2023, 09:13:13 am
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.

Just remember that TUI is an anagram of UTI
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 09 August, 2023, 11:48:52 am
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.
In the context of the whole story, I presumed that was some sort of euphemism.

It was a mixed metaphor. It wasn't meant to be. Not quite waxing lyrically.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 11 August, 2023, 08:18:52 am

The most dangerous places in England
 (https://a-z-animals.com/blog/unveiling-the-most-dangerous-cities-in-england/)

Be afraid..
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 11 August, 2023, 08:38:25 am

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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Efrogwr on 11 August, 2023, 08:56:56 am

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 perpetrator of the item linked to lives in Pennsylvania... I assume the foreign one, not the village near Bath.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 11 August, 2023, 09:13:11 am

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 perpetrator of the item linked to lives in Pennsylvania... I assume the foreign one, not the village near Bath.

Pot calling kettle.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 August, 2023, 10:59:43 am
“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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 11 August, 2023, 11:58:02 am
“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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 August, 2023, 02:28:06 pm
A couple of dangerspots down is Hampshire, the illustration of which is captioned "Hampshire was the home of author Jane Austen before her passing." Makes it sound rather recent. Or as if she might have lived elsewhere after her "passing".
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 11 August, 2023, 02:32:04 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 11 August, 2023, 02:34:08 pm
I've been to Winchester for a night's drinking.  Rahs on the rampage.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 11 August, 2023, 05:30:56 pm
Kiwi supermarket forgets about Microsoft's Tay chatbot and creates an AI menu planner - what could possibly go wrong?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 16 August, 2023, 04:25:30 pm
Once upon a time in interbellum Germany...

"Let's introduce raccoons to enrich the local fauna. What's the worst that could happen?"

Well...

https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2023/08/beer-drinking-racoons-cause-havoc-in-germany/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Wombat on 16 August, 2023, 07:26:44 pm
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.

Alton?  Brought up in Steventon, then after spells in Bath and Southampton, Chawton, and died in Winchester.  She once wrote of the "stinking fish" of Southampton, hence the re-enactment event of that name which took place in 2017 and possibly other years.  The Jane Austen Society in the USA contributed heavily to new bells for Chawton church, (I was heavily involved with the project) and I recall a typical American lady commenting how lovely it was to sit in the church where Jane used to sit, and listen to the same bells she would have heard. Mrs W, the cruel thing, pointed out that the church burnt down in 1890-something and was rebuilt, and actually the bells were about a week old.  The previous bells were bloody awful, and sounded like someone kicking a bucket round the yard. Nearly as bad as West Tisted (or was it East Tisted, can't remember, but I've rung the awful things)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Wombat on 16 August, 2023, 07:32:04 pm
I've been to Winchester for a night's drinking.  Rahs on the rampage.

I have been utterly drunk as a skunk (definitely not a raccoon) in Winchester on more than one occasion! On one occasion the future Mrs W, who I had only been "going out with" for about a month, collected me from there, and even after certain displays of drunken idiocy, still married me, almost 29 years ago.  She said at least I was drunk, funny and sweet, rather than drunk and aggressive.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 24 August, 2023, 09:02:04 pm
Young man goes cuckoo and gets a physics lesson...

Quote
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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66596126
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 August, 2023, 09:40:31 pm

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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 August, 2023, 06:10:06 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/28/live-worm-living-womans-brain-australia-depression-forgetfulness

That's pretty unpleasant.

My Good Friend Sherry, mentioned in the previous post, suffered a similar problem years ago after volunteering in Africa. Her brain became infested with tape worm larvae, most likely contracted as a result of the proximity of pigshit to human habitation.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/crazy-world/article/2000083266/woman-nearly-died-after-tapeworms-burrowed-into-her-brain refers
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 August, 2023, 06:25:27 pm
Rather horrible. I hope our GF Sherry and also the Australian woman have made/make a good recovery.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 August, 2023, 06:47:00 pm
Sherry thinks it has affected her mental health, although she no longer has fits. Also does occasional weird things to arms and stuff. But she has developed a year-round taste for cold-water swimming which she says "resets her brain" - the colder, the better.

I have to say I don't share her taste for the very cold water.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Regulator on 30 August, 2023, 01:15:48 pm

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.

It is not a criminal offence to be naked in public...

...it may be a crime against good taste though.  :P
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 30 August, 2023, 02:37:07 pm
Just heard that people are swimming in the storm surge from Hurricane Idalia in (of course) Florida.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Bledlow on 30 August, 2023, 10:37:37 pm
“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.
Eye-ran. Eye-rak. Poo'un (the ' marks a glottal stop). I am bemused by many Leftpondian pronunciations.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 31 August, 2023, 08:17:42 am
Canadians seem even worse than their southern neighbours. New Del-high being a good example. To be expected from a nation that rhymes Regina with vagina.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 August, 2023, 12:37:21 pm
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-Mangrove NEZZ PURSE” and not inna-French-stylee as I'd assumed for years.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Legs on 31 August, 2023, 01:46:32 pm
“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).
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: graculus on 31 August, 2023, 04:25:09 pm
'What seems to be the problem Officer?'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-66668411 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-66668411)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 August, 2023, 08:30:27 pm
Normal for Norfolk. ^
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 September, 2023, 01:46:33 am
My grate frend Professor Admiral Viscount Timelord Jun Nogami just posted that on Farcebok which, for some reason, wouldn't let him share the original story.  Disappointed now to learn it's Nebraska and not Florida.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Efrogwr on 01 September, 2023, 05:59:36 pm
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-Mangrove NEZZ PURSE” and not inna-French-stylee as I'd assumed for years.



...So I was right sixty plus years ago, and was misled by learning French.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 02 September, 2023, 07:32:21 pm
“It’s hot during the day & cold during the night “


https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/02/burning-man-festival-mud-trapped-shelter-in-place (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/02/burning-man-festival-mud-trapped-shelter-in-place)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 02 September, 2023, 08:32:07 pm
Serious sploshing…..


https://x.com/dwnews/status/1698048325046444450 (https://x.com/dwnews/status/1698048325046444450?s=46&t=lquV-LJg2wzA2xeUpZXV3Q)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 04 September, 2023, 05:34:18 pm
“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).

Trump’s pronunciation is actually correct. I’m surprised he didn’t go with Tarzania though.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 04 September, 2023, 05:40:11 pm
Serious sploshing…..


https://x.com/dwnews/status/1698048325046444450 (https://x.com/dwnews/status/1698048325046444450?s=46&t=lquV-LJg2wzA2xeUpZXV3Q)
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 06 September, 2023, 06:47:54 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: SoreTween on 06 September, 2023, 11:18:24 pm
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.

Compared to Ben Carlin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carlin) (plus rolling cast of wives) who repeatedly attempted to circumnavigate the planet (and eventually succeeded, surprisingly) in an amphibious jeep this seems entirely reasonable.  Yes, those amphibious jeeps noted of having the buoyancy of a rock in anything greater than a 4" swell. 

If you get the opportunity to watch the 'it's a small world' 2 part interview (leftpondian televisual presentation m'lud) it's well worth it.  Barking mad in all the right ways.  Really - absolutely barking.
(https://www.adventuretravelfilmfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/HS2.jpeg)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 September, 2023, 01:49:14 am
I read the first of Mr Carlin's books, about his Atlantic crossing as a small Mr Larrington and even then thought “NUTTER”.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 07 September, 2023, 08:51:41 am
I'd heard of him before. Amazing, the lengths people will go to in order to get out of Northam.

He strikes me as an absolute idiot. Didn't conduct any sea trials, no idea of fuel consumption (originally set off with 200 galleons, final successful trip took 735 and still ran out, refueled by a ship). No idea of handling of car/boat, and had to construct new rudders to make it steer.

An absolute idiot. His only virtue was perseverance.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 September, 2023, 09:09:48 am
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!
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 07 September, 2023, 09:13:34 am
^ ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Rod Marton on 07 September, 2023, 10:25:37 am
Back in the nineties, I was briefly retained as a consultant to a group planning to do an amphibious vehicle circumnavigation. This was because, at the time, I was one of the few people in the country to have travelled overland in eastern Siberia and they wanted information and advice on the region. Though they weren't all that keen on my advice, which was to wait for winter and drive down the rivers. Amphibious vehicles might cope with land and water, but they certainly aren't up to trackless bog.

I've no idea if they even started. Certainly sounds as if they didn't finish.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 07 September, 2023, 10:31:32 am
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!

Is that TBAGO?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 September, 2023, 10:43:38 am
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!

Is that TBAGO?
This one: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=123362.msg2732386#msg2732386
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 22 September, 2023, 05:09:01 pm
When ABC journalist Kirsten Drysdale gave birth to her third child, she decided to put the Births Deaths and Marriages register to the test...

The Grauno: Australian journalist calls her baby ‘Methamphetamine Rules’ as a test of naming regulations (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/19/can-you-name-your-baby-methamphetamine-rules-in-australia)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Auntie Helen on 23 September, 2023, 10:01:42 am
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/
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 23 September, 2023, 10:23:45 am
Quote

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".

I guess the CAA got the heads up from EUASA.



Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: TimC on 23 September, 2023, 11:24:40 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Auntie Helen on 23 September, 2023, 05:55:31 pm
Yes, that was a tongue-in-cheek comment about the Brits changing the rules.

It would be interesting to find out how this went on for so long before it was spotted.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 26 September, 2023, 09:51:22 pm
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 ? 
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: quixoticgeek on 27 September, 2023, 01:07:08 am
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...

J
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: MattH on 27 September, 2023, 06:01:19 am
It's alien technology, they've been working on it for years. Think about it - how close Las Vegas is to Area 51. Coincidence? I don't think so.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 27 September, 2023, 08:42:19 am
Freshers week in Japan?

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230925/p2a/00m/0na/003000c
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Bledlow on 27 September, 2023, 11:50:08 am
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.
Indeed.

I looked up AOG. I think it was set up as a scam by a couple of Venezuelans/Colombians, & is probably a front for one or more makers of fake parts. The employee profiles on LinkedIn are almost all fake or probably fake: photos lifted off the net (e.g. Shutterstock), no other Internet presence, & an extraordinary lack of connections.

The founder calls himself British, but he's called himself Venezuelan elsewhere, & there's someone with an address in Venezuela with exactly the same name & birthday. So, either he's really Venezuelan or he's stolen a Venezuelan's profile. Another person who may be real appears to be Colombian.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 30 September, 2023, 04:46:31 pm
Anyway, back to the sort of content this thread was created for... :demon:

And surprisingly, this one's not from Florida:

Quote
See you later: emotional support alligator denied entry to Phillies game

Security turned away Joie Henney’s TikTok-famous, leashed reptile Wally from Philadelphia baseball game on Wednesday
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/29/emotional-support-alligator-phillies-baseball-game

What he needs is one of these: https://www.etsy.com/listing/629107095/emotional-support-honey-badger  ;)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 September, 2023, 04:50:46 pm
Anyway, back to the sort of content this thread was created for... :demon:

And surprisingly, this one's not from Florida:

Quote
See you later: emotional support alligator denied entry to Phillies game

Security turned away Joie Henney’s TikTok-famous, leashed reptile Wally from Philadelphia baseball game on Wednesday
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/29/emotional-support-alligator-phillies-baseball-game

What he needs is one of these: https://www.etsy.com/listing/629107095/emotional-support-honey-badger  ;)

Sold out chiz, but while Daniel Ricciardo is in dock with that wrist injury…
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: fruitcake on 30 September, 2023, 05:15:55 pm
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.

Other ways of receiving advice during a game are discussed here (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-63010107).
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 01 October, 2023, 11:20:30 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66737051

Japanese robot wolves.  They need frikkin' lasers, really.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 01 October, 2023, 11:57:53 am
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.

Other ways of receiving advice during a game are discussed here (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-63010107).

Some kind of indication of a bishop or even a queen in your rectum could be very useful in a game.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 21 October, 2023, 07:46:51 am
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Regulator on 24 October, 2023, 09:47:57 am
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


Quote
"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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 24 October, 2023, 10:25:59 am
Sort of. As he says:
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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:
Quote
"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 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.
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.

The really disturbing bit is that in his mind the local children have been "entrusted to" him.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 24 October, 2023, 03:55:51 pm
Quote
"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.
[/quote]

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.

Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Steph on 24 October, 2023, 05:09:22 pm
Yippykiyay, pal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67204915
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Regulator on 24 October, 2023, 05:16:06 pm
Quote
Quote
"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.

Err.. not quite.  All Hallows Eve (Halloween), All Saints (Hallows) Day and All Souls Day are the three days (triduum) of Allhallowtide. 
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 October, 2023, 06:18:53 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 24 October, 2023, 09:57:23 pm
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.
Now I want a "Trinkets and Baubles" T shirt but I'm 30 years too late.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 16 November, 2023, 03:44:24 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 16 November, 2023, 03:56:40 pm
I wonder how many Russians think Kaliningrad is an island?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 November, 2023, 04:02:26 pm
Maybe some Alaskans think they're on an island?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 16 November, 2023, 04:11:59 pm
Maybe some Alaskans think they're on an island?
Sarah Palin probably does.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Regulator on 16 November, 2023, 04:48:09 pm
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

To be pedantic, Alaska comprises a number of islands (several thousand of them in fact)...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 06 December, 2023, 07:07:52 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/06/venice-gondola-capsizes-tourists-canal


It's a bit chilly for swimming,  I doubt they'd want a cornetto afterwards.....
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 23 December, 2023, 01:56:23 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/23/airbus-atlantic-staff-christmas-dinner-gastroenteritis-outbreak


Ooops! 700 people upchucking.   Someone will be getting a food hygiene refresher.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 December, 2023, 07:56:30 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67825635

Got fewer presents than your sibling?  Shoot your parent.  Yee-haw.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: JonBuoy on 27 December, 2023, 08:11:59 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67825635

Got fewer presents than your sibling?  Shoot your parent.  Yee-haw.

It took a bit of unravelling but from what I could see 14 year old boy shot his 23 year old sister (while she was carrying her 10 month old son) and was then shot by his 15 year old brother.  23 year old is dead and 14 year old is in hospital.  This is Florida so brother/sister/child relationships may be a bit blurred...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Polar Bear on 27 December, 2023, 08:22:23 am
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/06/venice-gondola-capsizes-tourists-canal


It's a bit chilly for swimming,  I doubt they'd want a cornetto afterwards.....
It's France.  I can imagine a gallic shrug and a slightly pouty face.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 31 January, 2024, 04:16:16 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 31 January, 2024, 04:30:29 pm
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
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Feanor on 31 January, 2024, 04:37:17 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Basil on 31 January, 2024, 05:21:45 pm
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.
Doesn't last long in our climate.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Efrogwr on 31 January, 2024, 06:14:29 pm
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.
Doesn't last long in our climate.



I first saw the circle round a dog-job in Worthing in 1975. I'm glad the idea has been revived.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jurek on 31 January, 2024, 07:12:07 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 31 January, 2024, 07:59:37 pm
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.)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 31 January, 2024, 10:18:41 pm
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.

Where's that photo of the CrinklyCubs mantling a train set around a crashed-out audaxer...
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 31 January, 2024, 11:05:00 pm
I investigated getting “Yellow Spray Paint, hazard marking for the use of”. For the council but other shit got in the way and I never progressed it.

The idea was to make dog eggs stand out. But with weather degrading paint.

May reconsider and relook at it in my dotage.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 02 February, 2024, 04:03:27 pm
Autocorrect gets below the belt:

https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/northern-ont-pizza-shop-s-unforeseen-circumcisions-typo-goes-viral-1.6746886
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: ian on 02 February, 2024, 09:39:00 pm
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.


I don't doubt I've told the story, but as students we borrowed a reel of 'police' tape from, not the police, but our gangster landlord who used it to discourage people looking at stuff that they shouldn't be looking at ('plenty more where that came from, lads'). Anyway, we spent our drunken evenings with me prone on various garden paths and street pavements while my partner-in-crime chalked my outline. Then we'd seal off the scene with the police tape. We trapped my girlfriend in her house for an entire weekend because she thought someone had been murdered on her doorstep. I thought it was you!, she said. How close she was. If she'd ever found out, it might have been me.


It got a bit out of hand, our faux crime spree was even featured in the Liverpool Echo. At that point, we decided to fade into the background, and let's face it, Liverpool has enough real murders to have eventually put us out of the faux crime business.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Arminius on 03 February, 2024, 08:00:06 am
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.)

I've not seen anything similar in EH9, but I feel like there's been an increase in the amount of dog poo being left to lie about in the last few months.

I, too, commend whoever is doing the chalk outlines. The flags are good too, but I guess they would result in random litter after a few spells of rain.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 03 February, 2024, 11:28:43 am
The flags are good too, but I guess they would result in random litter after a few spells of rain.

That's a fair point - we certainly don't need more litter on the streets.

I realised I have some pavement chalk (bought for scrawling messages to the phantom flytippers who think it's ok to dump bags of rubbish next to the glass bin instead of walking 20m to the general waste bin).

Perhaps I shall become the next poo-chalker. ;)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 February, 2024, 06:39:27 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Kim on 03 February, 2024, 07:43:43 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Feanor on 03 February, 2024, 08:02:54 pm
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Arminius on 04 February, 2024, 10:06:13 am
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.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 04 February, 2024, 01:54:54 pm
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.

A conscientious dog might be forgiven for squatting on the "edge" of one and crapping "down" it.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 February, 2024, 09:51:04 am
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's presumably spray chalk rather than a old-skool stick.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Legs on 06 February, 2024, 07:29:28 am
It does what?!?! (https://youtu.be/Aromts0OiHs?si=G_AEY1IqpCpzKLIE)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jurek on 06 February, 2024, 07:45:50 am
It does what?!?! (https://youtu.be/Aromts0OiHs?si=G_AEY1IqpCpzKLIE)
:o Why would you?
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 06 February, 2024, 02:12:19 pm
I guess the rules must state you have to advise the potential side effects, no matter how (un)likely they are in reality.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 February, 2024, 11:22:59 am
‘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)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: T42 on 09 February, 2024, 01:34:54 pm
‘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)

Quote
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.

That's about as sympathetic as you could expect from the Home Orifice. Maybe the FCC has been taking lessons.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: spesh on 09 February, 2024, 01:45:56 pm
I suspect that American bureaucracy needs no lessons from anybody in the art of Bastard-fu.
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Jaded on 09 February, 2024, 02:10:04 pm
Build an Eiffel Tower out of matches.
Get a World Record.
Have it snatched away.
Get it back.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/09/matchstick-eiffel-tower-guinness-world-records-matches
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: Pingu on 11 February, 2024, 11:10:55 pm
Airport K9 sniffs out mummified monkeys at Boston airport
Passenger returning from the DRC said luggage contained dried fish, but inspection revealed four dead monkeys (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/11/k9-sniffs-out-mummified-monkeys-boston-airport)
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: rafletcher on 03 March, 2024, 11:20:35 am
Worried about the pong of your poo? You’re in good company.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240301/p2a/00m/0na/028000c
Title: Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
Post by: andrewc on 26 March, 2024, 08:06:36 am
Baltimore bridge collapses after being hit by cargo ship.  Casualties unknown.


https://x.com/bbcbreakfast/status/1772528883411103847 (https://x.com/bbcbreakfast/status/1772528883411103847?s=46&t=lquV-LJg2wzA2xeUpZXV3Q)



https://x.com/uncoovr/status/1772531237556564216 (https://x.com/uncoovr/status/1772531237556564216?s=46&t=lquV-LJg2wzA2xeUpZXV3Q)







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