Silly geographical comments (or whatever you'd call this)

Stormtroper · 2022-07-30 06:49:05

Something I learned about a while ago but come to think of it, it fits this thread.
There was this pizza restaurant in New York in the US that served as a front for mob drug deal operations but made as much money selling pizzas as they did selling drugs.

lrdgck · 2022-08-20 22:44:47

Meanwhile in Poland:

Machete-wielding teen harasses passers-by, chases scooter

Fortunately, both the Polish Man and his airgun-wielding companion (because there was an airgun-wielding companion who made an attempt to break his pal out of custody) were quickly apprehended.

I would've thought the city it happened in had already shed its reputation for machete-wielding maniacs, but now I see it's a bit too soon for that.

Stormtroper · 2022-08-23 05:07:45

A riveting story of love and murder and suicide and forgiveness in India.
Though, against the spirit of the thread, in the process of Googling that I learned that it's happened a bunch of times in lots of places that hitmen befriend/fall in love with their would-be victims.

lrdgck · 2022-08-24 21:18:02

broke: hitmen fall in love with their victims
woke: hitmen party with their victims

To be honest I expected something more along the lines of "fall in love". Feels more like a Bollywood movie plot this way, somehow.

Some more meanwhile-in-Poland news:

Poland's biggest Jesus monument no longer WiFi mast

Man kicked out of bar returns with a samurai sword, robs it

lrdgck · 2022-08-26 18:54:41

The dust didn't even settle, and there's already another meanwhile-in-Poland:

Sock of John Paul II officially confirmed relic

"Its stink fended off Satan"

I'm wondering. If it was ever washed with other clothes, would that mean they're all third-class relics now?

Stormtroper · 2022-08-31 05:51:06

Indian elephant has unquenchable thirst for vengeance.

Stormtroper · 2022-09-03 07:20:31

Indian girls made to remove underwear to take NEET exam
I seem to be getting an inusual amounts of weird news from India lately.

fourteenwings · 2022-09-03 16:15:32

There really should be a limit to how far you can go before "let them cheat" becomes the favorable option.

lrdgck · 2022-09-07 21:56:00

TikTok ‘frog army’ stunt could have grave consequences, experts warn

Scientists alarmed at claims of releasing 10m frogs and 100m ladybugs to rack up viewers as relocating species can have ‘extremely negative consequences’

How did I miss it, when it was hot news, I don't know

glennmagusharvey · 2022-09-13 05:29:19

Well, this is apparently a thing. Have you seen such, @lrdgck?

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1569382723726221317

lrdgck · 2022-09-13 20:21:06

Well, just today I saw a trash can marked with an image of Vladimir Putin captioned "put in", and that was not the first time I encountered something of this kind.

glennmagusharvey · 2022-09-14 03:10:44

glennmagusharvey · 2022-09-14 21:07:39

https://twitter.com/JofArnold/status/1569802781204320256

the final boss of queues

(i hear the bridge at the left, westminster bridge, takes about 5-10 minutes to cross on foot. you can use that to estimate the length of this queue.)

fourteenwings · 2022-09-16 16:00:58

It's nice to see how much the Brits still care about the monarchy.

Lebanon: We all rob banks now. It's a national pasttime.

India: Wacky teen doesn't want to go to madrassa so he murders a kid hoping the school will shut down? (somehow did not work???)

glennmagusharvey · 2022-09-19 21:16:30

https://www.eattheweeds.com/saw-palmetto-saga-3/

Apparently saw palmetto berries are very nutritious but taste...questionable. It seems they start off very sweet then turn into...something else.

glennmagusharvey · 2022-09-29 06:10:35

https://www.reddit.com/r/florida/comments/xqq29j/should_i_risk_it/

Stormtroper · 2022-09-29 06:27:44

nooo I wanted to be the one to post that

By the by how is the weather at your place?
Also:

Team Aqua did Ian

glennmagusharvey · 2022-09-29 08:34:54

so i did just post the following to a chat

Glenn Magus Harvey: FYI i'm reading about some of the impacts so far of Hurricane Ian
Glenn Magus Harvey: a few highlights:
Glenn Magus Harvey: record storm surge in Ft. Myers/Naples
Glenn Magus Harvey: record sea level drop in Tampa bay
Glenn Magus Harvey: at least four tornadoes even as far as southeast Florida (one in MDC, two in Broward, one in PBC), on Tuesday night
Glenn Magus Harvey: haven't found images as nasty as this on my local NBC station yet but i'm seeing some stuff like this here and there: https://www.reddit.com/r/florida/comments/xqo4y6/storm_surge_waterline_in_fort_meyers_beach/
Glenn Magus Harvey: at least a couple people interviewed on the news noted that they were unprepared for the magnitude of the impacts, probably expecting a cat 2 or cat 3 thing
Glenn Magus Harvey: comparisons were made to Hurricane Charley (2004), but that storm was way smaller, and the records that it set for storm surge have been not just beaten by doubled, like 3.5 ft record is now 7 ft record or something like that
Glenn Magus Harvey: also at least one place reported rainfall of 20 inches in 12 hours
Glenn Magus Harvey: yep, finding multiple videos/reports of storm surge (not just waves, but actual flooding) overtopping cars and pretty much submerging the entire first floors of buildings in the ft. myers beach area. coastal areas got slammed hard. i can't verify videos like this but this is among the many that look pretty plausible:

https://twitter.com/ProfanityNewz/status/1575345009565618177

Glenn Magus Harvey: (n.b. there are some videos that are not plausible, like a video of rapidly moving clouds over some buildings, moving way too rapidly to be realistic)
Glenn Magus Harvey: anyway enough disaster porn for tonight

glennmagusharvey · 2022-09-29 08:35:51

FYI i'm mostly unaffected by the storm, except for some annoying wind and heavy rain, since i'm pretty far from the path of the eye

though there were widespread tornado warnings here yesterday night

glennmagusharvey · 2022-09-29 08:40:48

also by this point there's flooding in central Florida (near Orlando) now

glennmagusharvey · 2022-09-29 08:44:16

oh hey look it's breaking more records as it keeps going

https://twitter.com/clough_lawrence/status/1575391931819065346

okay seriously i should go to sleep; this is enough disaster porn for tonight

glennmagusharvey · 2022-09-29 08:55:31

also i should add that all the stuff i've mentioned is in addition to the hurricane smashing Cuba and reportedly knocking out power to everyone there

(sorry i haven't followed those developments as closely)

fourteenwings · 2022-09-29 13:28:45

Oh yeah I actually heard about that.

Also I like how the Florida Man response to this was "I will go to Home Depot and get some metal siding to stick outside my house and it'll be fine!"

lrdgck · 2022-09-29 15:49:31

Florida Man Outlasts Hurricane Posting Updates On Internet Forum

glennmagusharvey · 2022-09-29 22:32:09

lrdgck wrote: »

Florida Man Outlasts Hurricane Posting Updates On Internet Forum

ROFL

fourteenwings · 2022-10-01 16:44:15

Chinese MMA Fighter Xu Xiaodong has social credit score lowered to “D”, is barred from buying plane tickets and real estate

Xu became an internet celebrity in 2017 when a video of him defeating a tai chi grandmaster in just 20 seconds went viral.

Xu is a fierce critic of what he calls “fake kung fu.” He claims that Western-style MMA is superior to traditional Chinese martial arts, a point of view that in the increasingly nationalistic environment in China is often unwelcome. To prove his point, Xu challenged tai chi grandmaster Wei Lei to a fight. The bout, which took place in a basement in the city of Chengdu, lasted only 20 seconds. Wei’s defeat shocked China and drew the ire of many Chinese, who viewed the fight as a battle between East and West.

Follow up:

Chinese martial artists no longer permitted to call themselves ‘Masters’

That duel was born out of an internet feud between Xu and Wei. Xu, a Beijing based MMA trainer, had argued that traditional martial arts were not useful for either combat sports or self-defense. Xu also took issue with traditionalists who claimed they possessed supernatural powers.

The CWA must hope that this statement slows the outpouring of videos showing ‘masters of wushu’ being starched by people who train in boxing and MMA. The organization might also hope that this stops Xu from continuing his ‘crusade against kung fu fakery’.

Meanwhile;

Karnataka: Congress MLA Zameer Khan feeds a man then eats the same chewed food from his mouth to ‘set example against caste discrimination’,

It gets weirder I promise;

One can see Swami Narayana’s bewildered expressions as he is made to take out chewed food from his mouth and feed the Congress MLA Khan.

It should be noted that the same Congress MLA, Zameer Ahmad Khan, also joined the Karnataka hijab controversy by arguing that the Islamic veil protects women’s beauty from potential [sexual assaulters]. He claimed that the hijab’s function as the girls grow up is to keep them behind Purdah since their beauty should not be seen.

Honestly India has a very serious sexual assault problem so it's not all that weird to hear people talk about stuff like this... like this.

glennmagusharvey · 2022-10-06 06:10:13

> help the war effort
> serve in Congress
> help develop fundamental principles of government
> advocate for civil rights
> serve as state governor
> serve as VPOTUS

> nevertheless get remembered for that one time someone drew an ugly picture and stuck your name on it

lrdgck · 2022-10-06 11:14:05

Weird British Thing:

Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office is the title of the official resident cat at 10 Downing Street, the residence and executive office of the prime minister of the United Kingdom in London.

Participants in the survey were shown a picture of Humphrey, the Chief Mouser appointed by Margaret Thatcher, and told that he was either Thatcher's cat or Tony Blair's cat. Affinity for the cat divided along partisan lines: Conservative voters liked the cat far more when they were told he was Thatcher's and Labour voters liked the cat far more when they were told he was Blair's.

Gladstone is a British cat who is the resident chief mouser to HM Treasury in Whitehall, London. He is a domestic short-haired cat, who, at eighteen months old, assumed the position of chief mouser in late June 2016. Gladstone's political namesake is former Chancellor and Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, who served for four separate periods, more than any other prime minister. Gladstone is responsible for catching mice at the Treasury's 1 Horse Guards Road building. [...] The appointment of Gladstone as "Chief Mouser to the Treasury" was officially announced on 29 July 2016.

[...]

Gladstone has a social media presence on an official Instagram page

fourteenwings · 2022-10-06 12:26:53

All I know is that Liz Truss tried to pet the cat and the cat was not having it.

fourteenwings · 2022-10-06 16:41:15

India Again;

Human rights group Amnesty International has called the flogging of Muslim men by police in the western Indian state of Gujarat “a serious human rights violation” that shows “utter disrespect towards the law”.

A video of the incident that took place on Tuesday in Udhela village of Gujarat’s Kheda district went viral on social media. It showed several Muslim men tied to a pole and beaten with a stick by policemen in civilian clothing, as a crowd that included women and children cheered.

The men, accused by the police of throwing stones at a Hindu religious event, were told to apologize to the crowd after the flogging and then bundled into a police van.

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