Old Man Posted July 18, 2019 Report Share Posted July 18, 2019 No one expects the Inquisitor Eisenhorn pinecone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 19, 2019 Report Share Posted July 19, 2019 The Latest: 33 die in fire set at Kyoto animation studio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted July 19, 2019 Report Share Posted July 19, 2019 2 hours ago, Cygnia said: The Latest: 33 die in fire set at Kyoto animation studio Horrific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 19, 2019 Report Share Posted July 19, 2019 A powerful earthquake has hit the Greece capital Athens https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49047793 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted July 19, 2019 Report Share Posted July 19, 2019 I get the feeling Nature is pissed off with the way we treat her, and is increasingly hitting back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishFox Posted July 19, 2019 Report Share Posted July 19, 2019 1 hour ago, death tribble said: A powerful earthquake has hit the Greece capital Athens https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49047793 That looked pretty tame all things considered. Didn't we have one in California that was 2 points higher recently? Arsonist setting fire to an animation studio is some heinous shit. 30+ dead and 30+ more with burn wounds. If that were a mass shooting in the USA the arsonist would reach the #3 spot among recent entries with only Las Vegas and Pulse being worse. They better find that creep. G'damn that is upsetting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 19, 2019 Report Share Posted July 19, 2019 The arson suspect is in custody, thankfully. He is allegedly accusing the studio of plagiarizing one of his novels. So of course, murder and arson is the logical response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 19, 2019 Report Share Posted July 19, 2019 Suddenly I have an idea for a novel... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted July 19, 2019 Report Share Posted July 19, 2019 Hey---Harlan Ellison would have approved. (Well, not really. He just would have sued the SOBs.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 20, 2019 Report Share Posted July 20, 2019 Make coffee in Venice and get asked to leave. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49054042 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 20, 2019 Report Share Posted July 20, 2019 Again in Italy the continued mystery of a disappearance https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49055783 Cygnia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 22, 2019 Report Share Posted July 22, 2019 Missing French submarine found after 50 years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49068823 tkdguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted July 24, 2019 Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 The Lone Politician Who Stood Against Japanese Internment Hermit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 25, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 Andrea Camilleri, author of the Montalbano novels has passed away at the age of 93. There goes another of my favorite mystery writers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 Hawaii TMT: Desecrating sacred land or finding new frontiers?https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49082156 ‘The Rock’ joins Hawaiian protesters in demonstration against massive telescopehttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/24/mauna-kea-tmt-protests-rock-joins-hawaiian-protesters-kupuna/1823252001/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 Climb every mountain, cross every sea ! Well maybe not. French inventor fails to fly over channal with flyboard. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49108632 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 Petition to change the date of Halloween The 31st is an iconic day, but I kinda agree with making the change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 It is not a holiday over here but I cannot see the date being changed. I mean you can't change New year or Christmas can you ? Duke Bushido 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 Well, those days are generally guaranteed to be days off work to allow for a true celebration. Halloween is actually one of the most popular holidays in America. The petition argues for making it the last Saturday of the month, thus allowing for a full day to celebrate and ensuring it doesn't occur on school night's which benefits children and parents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 Super Bowl Monday needs this treatment more than Halloween does. Matt the Bruins and Starlord 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Pariah said: Super Bowl Monday needs this treatment more than Halloween does. And the Lord sayeth that Super Bowl Monday shall be an day of celebration and rejoicing except when the Dallas Cowboys or New England Patriots are victors when the Day shall be one of National Mourning Pariah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 6 minutes ago, death tribble said: And the Lord sayeth that Super Bowl Monday shall be an day of celebration and rejoicing except when the Dallas Cowboys or New England Patriots are victors when the Day shall be one of National Mourning I suppose it was statistically inevitable that we'd agree on something football-related eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 Halloween is like Groundhog Day and Walpurgisnacht/May Day (and the forgotten-in-mainstream-US Lammas). The traditional "dates" are not calendar dates, but astronomical cross-quarter days (in that they are the midpoints between equinox & solstice), and are strictly from the solar calendar (there's no lunar dependence to them, unlike e.g. Passover, Easter, etc.). That they occur on fixed calendar dates which are actually correct almost every year is actually a testament to the construction of the Gregorian calendar. I have held forth before on the importance of the actual astronomical phenomena with respect to timekeeping and calendation, so I won't bother to continue here. Besides, last Saturday of October will collide with lots of much-more-important college football observances EDIT: to Pariah: Jinx, I owe you a Coke Pariah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 Today's stage of the Tour de France has been cancelled with the leaders 25 odd Km from the finish because there was a sudden snowstorm which caused a landslide. Due to where the riders were this is going to have a major impact on the race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 26, 2019 Report Share Posted July 26, 2019 Diet Pepsi, if you'd be so kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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