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ElyDave

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #450 on: 20 October, 2020, 10:18:11 am »
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #451 on: 20 October, 2020, 10:29:01 am »
As I recall, Canuckistan also has a Port Radium and a Uranium City.  I look forward to these becoming Paradis-sur-le-Lac and Sunnymeadows respectively.
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #452 on: 20 October, 2020, 10:32:18 am »
Quote from: ElyDave on 20 October, 2020, 10:18:11 am
Asbestos renamed

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

Mealy-mouthed glipes:

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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.
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andrewc

Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #453 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/
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #454 on: 20 October, 2020, 02:04:08 pm »
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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.
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Zipperhead

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #455 on: 30 October, 2020, 07:04:08 pm »
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #456 on: 30 October, 2020, 07:06:18 pm »
Quote from: Zipperhead on 30 October, 2020, 07:04:08 pm
Man overdoes it with the halloween decorations

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

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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:
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andrewc

Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #457 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://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1323147449981128706?s=20


https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rotterdam-metro-train-plows-stop-050240996.html







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quixoticgeek

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #458 on: 02 November, 2020, 11:50:36 am »
Quote from: 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://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.

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #459 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.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #460 on: 02 November, 2020, 01:37:26 pm »

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.)
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #461 on: 02 November, 2020, 01:42:01 pm »
Is that fail whale made of fibreglass?  Pretty good going for it to support a train...
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andrewc

Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #462 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
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #463 on: 02 November, 2020, 01:59:04 pm »
Quote from: 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...
Can't be, we all know that fibres just shatter and only steel is real enough to stand up to this kind of shock.
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #464 on: 02 November, 2020, 02:03:41 pm »
It’s plastic according to the artist in the BBC news report
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #465 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.
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T42

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #466 on: 02 November, 2020, 03:39:12 pm »
Quote from: 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.

Paging Michael Gove...
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andrewc

Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #467 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.
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T42

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #468 on: 02 November, 2020, 03:58:56 pm »
Quote from: 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.

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

Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #469 on: 02 November, 2020, 04:20:10 pm »
Quote from: T42 on 02 November, 2020, 03:58:56 pm
Quote from: 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.

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.
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quixoticgeek

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #470 on: 02 November, 2020, 04:53:26 pm »
Quote from: T42 on 02 November, 2020, 03:58:56 pm

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

I must admit I was expecting wurst puns...

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #471 on: 02 November, 2020, 05:00:23 pm »
Quote from: T42 on 02 November, 2020, 03:39:12 pm
Quote from: 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.

Paging Michael Gove...
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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.

http://HTTPS://WWW.FOODNAVIGATOR.COM/ARTICLE/2019/07/30/JELLYFISH-A-NEW-SUSTAINABLE-NUTRITIOUS-AND-OYSTER-LIKE-FOOD-FOR-THE-WESTERN-WORLD

Nutritious marine food source.


Poisonous primitive sea creature
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andrewc

Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #472 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
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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #473 on: 02 November, 2020, 08:29:32 pm »
Quote from: 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

Who's got the mind bleach?  (Though good use of John Major on the first page.)
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ElyDave

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Re: Little Eye On The Crazy World Of Foreigners
« Reply #474 on: 02 November, 2020, 08:49:01 pm »
Quote from: quixoticgeek on 02 November, 2020, 04:53:26 pm
Quote from: T42 on 02 November, 2020, 03:58:56 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
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