Mass shootings starting up again. Just another sign that 'Murica is returning to "normal."

Why is it telling? :D

Giant Ship Blocking Suez Canal Could Take ‘Days, Even Weeks’ to Free

SUEZ CANAL AIS SHIP TRAFFIC LIVE MAP

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Several highly pollutive shipping containers gathered in one place. Interesting.

In other news, the Suez-side Cafe is seeing unprecedented business.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN2BH2TC

"Georgia bans giving water to voters in line under sweeping restrictions"

>_>

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbc...outputType=amp

Ehehehehehehe come on you bitches there's a tobacco shop that sells bowls across from my job that could be a dispensary by Christmas if you were just cool.

Yataaaaaa!!!!!

It’s official: Virginia legalizes marijuana possession starting this summer

In a most extraordinary news story dominating British media, it seems that a 99-year-old man has died peacefully at home after recently being unwell. Members of his family have reacted by being sad about his death.
I'll let you all know if I get any more details of this hard-to-believe sequence of events.

This is serious apparently. I mean, come on: it's a cartoon show! Are we that up ourselves that this has to happen?? :rolleyes: PC society gone mad? Or am I wrong?
Hank Azaria Apologises for Voicing Apu

Oh and this one:
Stolen Statue Found in Antique Shop
Surely only the Italians could have an "art squad"?? Didn't they make a joke about this on Frasier? :laughing:

The BBC has received over 100,000 complaints about their coverage.

Can you imagine when the Queen goes?

I think that's hilarious. BBC execs think they're living in the fifties or something, when news like that would have people jumping off bridges or cancelling weddings or whatever. They refuse to accept that Britain is so cosmopolitan now that a lot of people don't care so much about the Royal Family, and with the treatment "outsiders" have got, plus the emigration of Harry and Meghan, it's just not the big deal it used to be.

Plus it's only Prince Philip: what did he ever do, other than drive well after he should have been having the sense to be driven around? And he was ninety-****ing-nine! How long did people expect him to live??

Biden to Withdraw All Combat Troops From Afghanistan by Sept. 11

Long overdue but I can't believe it until I see it happen.

I don't take any pleasure in disagreeing with you, TH, especially, as you say, "it's a cartoon show". Still I think Azaria's apology is a decent gesture, for 2 reasons:

1. Architecture. You learn early on that the most satisfying way to use materials is to let them be and look like themselves. That's why real flowers are nicer than plastic ones, and why this type of stone cladding is not very convincing. Everyone can work out that it's a brick house:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...NvDlw&usqp=CAU

2. I suspect that there are not a bunch of job opportunities for actual Indian voice-over actors, so to have given the job to HA is a missed chance to spread the wealth of the entertainment industry around a little more. I don't want to use today's "woke" attitudes to beat up people who made what used to be perfectly acceptable choices for their era, but hasn't there often been a racially-exclusive undercurrent running through the entertainment industry, as these examples illustrate:-

How did they advertise for these desirable acting jobs, I wonder?

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...GNlzA&usqp=CAU Starring role for Dr. Fu ManChu in new movie (no Chinese applicants please)

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Unemployed professional dancer? Great opportunity to join the long-running Black and White Minstrals - but only for white minstrals, of course.

Without a second thought, I've enjoyed the Apu character for years but now that your news story brings it to my attention, I feel kind of sad about the casting choice because I know there's a poor Asian guy sitting in a bedsit in Hollywood who was denied his big breakthrough.

I'll save you the suspense. It aint gonna happen.

In other news, this is how you send off a warship!

Australian Navy Celebrates New $2 Billion Ship With Ceremonial Twerking...

Dunno lol might happen

Then obviously the terror networks will find a new safe haven in taliban run afghanistan and then we're back to square one

There's no winning this one we got caught in a snare by trying to occupy this country in the first place. It was a losing move and pulling out will bring some of the chickens home to roost but the alternative is what? Just stay there forever /till we collapse I guess....

Shooting at Fedex?

News Alert: 8 people killed after shooting at FedEx facility in Indianapolis, police say
Eight people with injuries consistent with gunshot wounds were pronounced dead at an Indianapolis FedEx facility, police said.

Authorities said they were aware of multiple other injured victims in hospitals.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

A mass shooting in the US has long passed being categorized as "I can't believe this news story" I think. Sadly.

Sad but true. Mass shootings were still shocking back in the 80's and earlier but not so much for the past 30 some odd years.

Here's an example of how commonplace those mass shootings in the US have become...

The US has reported at least 45 mass shootings in the last month

New Variant has Double Mutation

Right. So let me see if I understand this.
India, which is suffering from millions of infections and can't control the virus, has given us a new variant. Boris Johnson, due to go there on a junket sorry important diplomatic mission next month, has NOT cancelled it but scaled it down to one day? So - he'll be going from the UK (where there are 77 cases of the variant already) risking bringing it back and presumably coming in with no quarantine restrictions as he's the PM. And he's already had Covid.

Anyone else think this is irresponsible? Anyone else surprised? No? Just me then. OK.

Why couldn't Mark Twain have given us some history nursery rhymes to help with toddlers like that?

oh hell no not now the UK restrictions are FINALLY being eased somewhat
but no, I'm not surprised, Johnson being the twat he is

*Ryan Reynolds.gif*

History doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme? A quote by Mark Twain?

A) never heard of that one
B) what are you referring to? Toddlers?

I repeat:
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You know what's so crazy about this? It happens - almost - in one of my stories. It's foiled at the end by a driver, but still... :eek:

I blame Marilyn Manson and Doom.

How the hell does a clown get the wrong job...not that Boris can juggle either. Chimps party not the Con Party is my vote...Macron will lay on the nuts..Who else we goona add....

At least Bozo the Ringmaster is gone...

Now this is news. History, in fact.

News Alert: Mars helicopter Ingenuity successfully completed its historic first flight
The Ingenuity helicopter has successfully completed its historic flight on Mars and safely landed back on the surface, according to NASA.

The first powered, controlled flight on another planet took place at 3:30 a.m. ET.

Unlike when the helicopter's fellow traveler, the Perseverance rover, landed on Mars on February 18, there was a bit of wait to know how the helicopter fared in its attempt.

Sort of hard to believe. Assumed he'd get off somehow but there you go. BLM.

News Alert: Chauvin guilty on all three charges
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday on charges of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd.

The jury of five men and seven women deliberated for four hours Monday afternoon and resumed deliberating Tuesday morning, according to the court. They were sequestered from the public during deliberations.

Chauvin, 45, had pleaded not guilty to second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

so did the USA lose the afgan war ..??????

Given the terrible news of the fire in the hospital in Iraq, I feel this man's quiet heroism needs to be highlighted. I doubt I could have done what he did.

A man who had been visiting his brother described people jumping out of windows to escape.

"The fire spread, like fuel ... I took my brother out to the street, next to the checkpoint. Then I came (back) and went up from there. To the last floor, that did not burn. I found a girl suffocating, about 19 years old, she was suffocating, she was about to die," said Ahmed Zaki.

"I took her on my shoulders and I ran down. People were jumping... Doctors fell on the cars. Everyone was jumping. And I kept going up from there, got people and come down again," he said.

Yeah you definitely couldn't lift a teenage girl.

German police say grenade-shaped item in forest was sex toy :pimp:

LeBron James rookie card sells for record $5.2 million