Duke Bushido Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 8 hours ago, Cygnia said: SF Zoo Welcomes Four Rare Gray Wolves — One of Which Is Named 'Betty White' Betty ain't. I bet he gray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 “X” marks the particle. First detection of exotic 'X' particles in quark-gluon plasma https://phys.org/news/2022-01-exotic-particles-quark-gluon-plasma.html Physicists Detect Mysterious X Particles in 'Primordial Soup' For The First Time https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/techandscience/physicists-detect-mysterious-x-particles-in-primordial-soup-for-the-first-time/ar-AAT4N0U?li=AAgfYrC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 11 hours ago, Cygnia said: SF Zoo Welcomes Four Rare Gray Wolves — One of Which Is Named 'Betty White' This poses one of the great ethical quandaries in animal rights. On one hand, living in zoos, away from their natural communities and activities, is considered terrible for animals. It leads to the wild animal equivalences of mental illness and lead to shortened lifespans compared to their wild brethren who have a far more interesting social environment. And wolves are especially social creatures. Even being born and raised in captivity does not help much. On the other, wild animals in captivity need not fear predators or starvation. For a rare or critically endangered species, the care of trained zoologists can be a bulwark against extinction. But if they can't breed in captivity or survive out of it, what is the gain? Which side am I on? If you ask me, prepare for me to say I do not know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 OK, so the Pepsi/Doritos ad just played again...Bettis driving the bus, Eli, Bradshaw's strapped to a chair up top. Curious to know who the other guy in the bus is. It's Victor Cruz. But finding that out, the report discussed PepsiCo's plans...FrtoLay is owned by PepsiCo. That included this: Quote Frito-Lay, on the other hand, has announced it will run two gameday spots. One will promote new Doritos Flamin’ Hot Cool Ranch chips. The other will see Lay’s return to the Super Bowl after a 17-year hiatus to showcase its limited-edition Golden Grounds – a new chip designed for football fanatics that is made from potatoes grown in soil extracted from NFL stadiums. The insane part is you know they'll sell. WILDLY. It's the American public. It's football. They'll be impossible to keep on shelves. <sigh> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 Tomorrow is 'Australia Day'. It's reliably controversial. It doesn't celebrate our independence, but instead the first colonisation of Australia Fortunately it's not usually celebrated by buying Chinese made flags and wearing them as capes any more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 Not controversial to many, and it celebrates our own identity, culture, heritage, democracy, sport, and freedom as a nation called Australia. assault 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 And everyone's just seen the controversy just there. Lord Liaden, Pattern Ghost, pinecone and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 All 100 Lab Monkeys Accounted For After Several Escaped Crash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 I assume they were found with 100 typewriters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 How many of them made it here and have posted already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 Logan D. Hurricanes, Lord Liaden, Pariah and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 Well, nothing else has worked... wcw43921 and Lawnmower Boy 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 On 1/24/2022 at 10:45 AM, Cygnia said: SF Zoo Welcomes Four Rare Gray Wolves — One of Which Is Named 'Betty White' Are the other three named Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 26, 2022 Report Share Posted January 26, 2022 Horrible....... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-60120367 The sick thing is, from the details? This has happened before. The concert in Cincinnati that WKRP made sure we'd never forget...a sound check by the band led the crowd to try to push through the open gates. There was another soccer match in, I believe, England that had almost the same situation, IIRC...not enough gates, too many people, access issues. Ugh. Just completely awful.... Cygnia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 26, 2022 Report Share Posted January 26, 2022 The football match in Britain was this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster The shame of it was the police blaming the fans and that it took so long to get some kind of justice for them. unclevlad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 26, 2022 Report Share Posted January 26, 2022 CW: Suicide Peter Robbins, Voice of Charlie Brown in the 1960s, Dies at 65 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 27, 2022 Report Share Posted January 27, 2022 Barry Cryer, veteran British comic and scriptwriter dies aged 86. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34041501 Tributes paid to Barry Cryer https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60154371 Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted January 28, 2022 Report Share Posted January 28, 2022 wrong thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 29, 2022 Report Share Posted January 29, 2022 https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33169698/philadelphia-76ers-fan-taunted-lakers-carmelo-anthony-banned-indefinitely According to the story, this wasn't the fan's first offense by any means. I know had I been near him...if security asked for fan confirmation of his bad behavior, I'd give em chapter and verse. Fans think they've got herd camouflage.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 rravenwood, Old Man, Cancer and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 I can't find it in a convenient snapshot, but Steven King used to be a school teacher. He is known for telling his students "any time you hear of a book being banned, then you should _know_ that this is a book that you should be reading. It doesn't matter what reason they give to ban a book; ultimately, books are banned because they contain knowledge those in charge do not want you to have." Given the recent trend for banning anti-fascist works, I have never been more convinced that he was onto something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 If you really want to get rid of a book you let it go out of print, and steal it from libraries in the dead of night—which happens. To paraphrase Stephen King: these are the books you should be reading, if you could ever find out which titles they are. One such book is: The Lords of Creation: The History of America's 1 Percent by Frederick Lewis Allen. First published 1935. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 12 hours ago, Duke Bushido said: I can't find it in a convenient snapshot, but Steven King used to be a school teacher. He is known for telling his students "any time you hear of a book being banned, then you should _know_ that this is a book that you should be reading. It doesn't matter what reason they give to ban a book; ultimately, books are banned because they contain knowledge those in charge do not want you to have." Given the recent trend for banning anti-fascist works, I have never been more convinced that he was onto something. Logan D. Hurricanes, Cancer, rravenwood and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 30, 2022 Report Share Posted January 30, 2022 Howard Hesseman, Dr. Johnny Fever on ‘WKRP in Cincinnati,’ Dies at 81 Logan D. Hurricanes, Lee and rravenwood 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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