Cygnia Posted October 26, 2021 Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 6 minutes ago, Cancer said: But what about Naomi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 26, 2021 Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 On 10/22/2021 at 1:19 PM, dmjalund said: why does anyone ever put live rounds in guns on set? Unfortunately, we have an answer now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 Check out the Beard Olympics in Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted October 26, 2021 Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 One of John Wayne Gacy's unidentified victims has finally been identified and from here in NC CES Cygnia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted October 26, 2021 Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 11 years too late, but the Chicago Black Hawks have been called onto the carpet. In 2010, one of their players reported a coercive sexual advance by the team's video coach at the time. They did absolutely nothing because the team was in the middle of a Stanley Cup run. This left a sexual predator free...and made unwanted advances at a team intern. They let the coach go 3 weeks later...after the playoffs. And hoped it would never see the light of day. Yes, well, it did. It took a LONG time but it did. The NHL fined them $2M. This might've been the max they could; that, I don't know. Covering up such an action deserves the most severe punishment that can be applied. Execs that are still with the team, that SHOULD have acted, have all resigned...duh...but that's nothing after such a long period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 27, 2021 Report Share Posted October 27, 2021 https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/oct/27/funniest-of-them-all-tributes-paid-to-mort-sahl-after-death-aged-94 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted October 28, 2021 Report Share Posted October 28, 2021 Max Stahl: ex Blue Peter host and fil maker who captured the East Timor struggle has died aged 66 in Australia https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59075271 I remember him on Blue Peter. He was useless. So his later career is a complete turn around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted October 29, 2021 Report Share Posted October 29, 2021 On 10/25/2021 at 1:56 PM, Duke Bushido said: They used Morgan Freeman, too. "...Easy Reader, that's my name. Readin' easy, that's my game..." "Heavy, Man; heavy....." Freeman does not like to think too much about EC -- the simple nature of the comedy probably makes him feel like a clown remembering it. But it is interesting to watch the Youtube videos of his sketches with the perspective of the actor he would become. You could already he the quiet, firm dignity he gave the absurd material. I'd already taught myself to read, but the show was (and still is) very funny. They were even able to convince Tom Lehrer to clean up his act and write some great songs for them. "L-Y" is apersonal favorite of mine. ("You enter a very dark room/and sitting there in the gloom/is DRACULA! Now how do you say goodbye?/IMMEDIATELY!") Lehrer would retire from music soon thereafter to concentrate on his academic career. Although all kinds of conspiratorial theories abounded, Lehrer retired simply because he was burnt out with touring and performing. He';s still alive, but according to news articles doesn't seem to mind that people think otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 Uninsured woman billed $700 for waiting in an Atlanta emergency room without care Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 That's the kind of policy that's just screaming for a class-action lawsuit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 You spelled "assault rifle rampage" wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 5 hours ago, Lord Liaden said: Uninsured woman billed $700 for waiting in an Atlanta emergency room without care This kind of BS is also indicative of why US medical costs are hopelessly out of control. it also plays into narratives such as "the numbers for Covid are massively inflated because the hospitals get paid more for Covid cases and deaths." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 9 minutes ago, unclevlad said: plays into narratives such as "the numbers for Covid are massively inflated because the hospitals get paid more for Covid cases and deaths." Nobody wants to hear this, but my,wife (RN) quit the hospital precisely because she was ordered to "tweak" her charting because there _was_ financial motivation for every death or complication to be COVID-related. She went To work a Hospice, and the same thing was going on there. She ended up at a different hospice (after trying two other medical providers) who acknowledged there was indeed motivation to tie as much to COVID as possible, but that they weren't going to do it-- not because they were opposed, but because the director felt that he had "the worst kind of luck" when it came to getting busted for scams. (Note that this did not stop him from trying to write prescriptions... ) Lord Liaden 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted November 3, 2021 Report Share Posted November 3, 2021 9 minutes ago, Duke Bushido said: Nobody wants to hear this, but my,wife (RN) quit the hospital precisely because she was ordered to "tweak" her charting because there _was_ financial motivation for every death or complication to be COVID-related. She went To work a Hospice, and the same thing was going on there. She ended up at a different hospice (after trying two other medical providers) who acknowledged there was indeed motivation to tie as much to COVID as possible, but that they weren't going to do it-- not because they were opposed, but because the director felt that he had "the worst kind of luck" when it came to getting busted for scams. (Note that this did not stop him from trying to write prescriptions... ) Ugh. Yeah, not what I want to hear. That said, fine, there's always some fraud going on, and throwing out the numbers altogether is absurd. But it's not good if the lie has a kernel of truth; it makes it far harder to counter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted November 3, 2021 Report Share Posted November 3, 2021 Yep. It kind of sucks. Unlike the crazy stories, though, there weren't "Massive cash bonuses" or anything like that: just grants to be used for hiring more professionals and buying more equipment and such. The equipment grants seem to be what most places where (and probably still are) after, but any money "saved" on staffing goes into the budget (that is, making payroll using grant money instead of company revenue like normal)-- and most places pay certain executives a bonus based on "saved" revenue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted November 3, 2021 Report Share Posted November 3, 2021 I still remember the dentist who made millions off charging the government and insurance companies for every unnecessary thing he could. Someone finally got wind because they started asking him how he could afford a house in the Hamptons. CES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted November 4, 2021 Report Share Posted November 4, 2021 Biofluorescence in Tasmanian Devils Observed For the First Time at Toledo Zoo pinecone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted November 4, 2021 Report Share Posted November 4, 2021 In vivo rate-determining steps of tau seed accumulation in Alzheimer’s disease Lawnmower Boy and Lee 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 5, 2021 Report Share Posted November 5, 2021 Professor who tweeted the coronavirus genome, paving the way for new vaccines, scoops major Australian science award https://theconversation.com/professor-who-tweeted-the-coronavirus-genome-paving-the-way-for-new-vaccines-scoops-major-australian-science-award-171208?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0gENtlba4swqL2A1ugD3eRjk0PfIK8iiVS6AncaSjvoXgHK0L8QeAXSQk#Echobox=1636068906o unclevlad and pinecone 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted November 5, 2021 Report Share Posted November 5, 2021 Last week, the University of Florida declared that 3 of its professors could not testify against the state in a voting rights case. Amid a storm of criticism, they reversed that policy today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 5, 2021 Report Share Posted November 5, 2021 They're also investigating the suspect hiring of an anti-vax anti-masker because DeathSantis wanted to legitimize him before making him Florida's surgeon general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 5, 2021 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2021 Something positive for a change. Here's to hoping it has a fair bit of success. BoloOfEarth, Pariah, Logan D. Hurricanes and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted November 6, 2021 Report Share Posted November 6, 2021 Man uses cobra as ‘murder weapon’ to stage own death for $5 million life insurance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted November 6, 2021 Report Share Posted November 6, 2021 There is a growing movement to use the kinds of recycled plastics recovered by efforts similar to what tkdguy posted. I got a couple watch straps from a Kickstarter project not too long ago. They're quite comfortable. Don't look bad at all. I'm all in favor of these efforts. Consumer products...ehh...I'm not sure how many things will create large-scale interest. Hopefully they can develop industrial-level uses for this stuff. 9 metric tons of plastic crap *from one haul* is amazing and disgusting. Efforts like this give me some hope that despite the best obstructive efforts of politicians, there may still be a chance. Pariah and tkdguy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 7, 2021 Report Share Posted November 7, 2021 It's been a long time since i rock-and-rolled... Fifty years of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven — the epic all epics are measured against https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-06/50-years-of-stairway-to-heaven/100466162 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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