peterms Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HanoiVillan Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 So are Gibbo, Cheeks and Ricey on point on this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 21 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: So are Gibbo, Cheeks and Ricey on point on this one? Well in terms of accuracy, they could probably give the beeb a run for its money, and definitely beat most of the press. So that's a "no", then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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peterms Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Leaf it out mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 (edited) 4 minutes ago, peterms said: Leaf it out mate. Got to include the first reply, too: Edited December 2, 2019 by snowychap 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 2 minutes ago, snowychap said: You can't do that story without including the first reply, too: I can only agree. Anyway, bloke must be barking mad. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Wood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 2 hours ago, peterms said: Leaf it out mate. Russell? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Obviously preying on vulnerable people is evil but the idea is kinda genius I guess. Quote A citizen of the CIS country put fake border posts in the forest and allegedly transferred four natives of Asia to Finland for money St. Petersburg. An unusual attempt at fraud was recorded by Russian border guards in a forest near the border with Finland: a citizen of one of the CIS countries tried to convince four natives of South Asia that he transferred them across the border of Russia and the European Union, which he designated as border posts made by himself with ostensibly made. According to the press service of the border control of the FSB of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, on Tuesday, last Thursday in the Vyborg region of the region, four immigrants from South Asia and their accompanying citizen of one of the CIS countries were detained. It was established that foreigners for monetary reward agreed to illegally cross the state border of the Russian Federation with the Republic of Finland. For a "service", a CIS citizen who volunteered to be a guide should have received more than 10 thousand euros, follows from the message. However, the man did not actually plan to fulfill the obligation. He made and installed fake border posts in the forest, and led migrants to them. According to the information of the border press service, the path of South Asian citizens from the northern capital to Finland was difficult: at first the guide led them along public roads, then along country roads, then there was a “throw march” around one of the lakes in the Vyborg district. Then the migrants arrived in the forest at their destination, the “Russian-Finnish border.” The attendant took an inflatable boat on the road - as he explained, "just in case." http://www.interfax-russia.ru/NorthWest/news.asp?sec=1672&id=1086702 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 We've all been there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 The Matrix - bovine edition. Quote Russian Cows Fitted With Virtual-Reality Headsets The grass is greener in a virtual world. That’s what Moscow region farmers were aiming for when they fitted their dairy cows with virtual-reality headsets to test their milk production. “Experts noted reduced anxiety and improved overall emotional mood in the herd” during the VR experiment, said the regional agriculture administration. The second phase of the experiment, it said, will evaluate the VR-wearing cows’ milk production. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/11/26/russian-cows-virtual-reality-headsets-a68316 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 7, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted December 7, 2019 Quote The head of a Brazilian government agency dedicated to culture, has claimed rock music leads to abortions and hit out megastars Elvis Presley and John Lennon. Dante Mantovani, who was appointed as the head of the National Arts Foundation (Funarte) earlier in the week, made the comments in an 11-minute YouTube video. Mr Mantovani, who is one of the far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s top officials for culture, said: “Rock music leads to drugs, which leads to sex, which leads to abortions.” He added: “At the same time, the abortion industry feeds into something much more serious which is satanism”. He also hits out at Presley, who is often referred to as the “King of Rock and Roll”, and Lennon, a Beatles star, in the clip which was shared on 30 October. “Lennon openly said, more than once, that he made a pact with the devil – with satan, in order to be famous and successful,” Mr Mantovani, whose channel has over 6,000 subscribers, said. He added: “In the 1950’s this so-called Elvis Presley emerges with rock music that makes everyone bounce and shake their hips. This is when certain behaviours start being introduced – Elvis Presley, for instance, died of an overdose.” Indy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Brazilian Christian nutcases always sound like they got their viewpoints sent to them by Jerry Falwell in a garbled fax message. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 (edited) What do you get when you mix Alive, The Thing, Arctic and hopefully a bit of Lovecraft? Quote Chilean plane en route to Antarctica disappears with 38 on board A military plane with 38 people on board has disappeared en route to Antarctica, Chile's air force says. The C-130 Hercules transport aircraft took off from Punta Arenas at 16:55 local time (19:55 GMT), and operators lost contact at 18:13 (21:13). Those missing include 17 crew and 21 passengers. They were travelling to provide logistical support to a military base on Antarctica's King George Island. A search-and-rescue mission is under way. What happened? Air Force Gen Eduardo Mosqueira told local media that the plane did not activate any distress signal. He said the plane, whose pilot had extensive experience, may have been forced to touch down on water. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50723907 Edited December 10, 2019 by sne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 On 07/12/2019 at 11:19, sne said: The Matrix - bovine edition. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/11/26/russian-cows-virtual-reality-headsets-a68316 I'm just Putin on the VR headset and picking up the PS Mooooo-ve controllers. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 No one has mentioned the Russian sports ban have they?Admittedly I didn't take too much notice of the radio report...maybe it's old news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 2 hours ago, rjw63 said: No one has mentioned the Russian sports ban have they?Admittedly I didn't take too much notice of the radio report...maybe it's old news Fifa will probably still award them another World Cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 So they are closing Rikers Island and replacing it with prison skyscrapers in the middle of Manhattan. So many sci-fi movies would tell you that this is a terrible idea. Quote New York's high-rise jails: what could go wrong? Plans to build four tall tower jails in New York City have generated backlash – but have also prompted a debate over what modern prisons should look like It looked like a gigantic tombstone, a monumental rectangular slab looming over the streets of Chinatown in Lower Manhattan, blocking out most of the sky. The great grey hulk was punctuated by tiny slit windows, each marking one of the 1,400 prisoners that would be stacked inside the vertical human storage facility. This dystopian vision of a future Gotham was an image of one of New York’s proposed new high-rise jails, released earlier this year to cries of dismay, when mayor Bill de Blasio announced sweeping reforms to the city’s criminal justice system. It depicted an outline idea for one of the four new jails planned for the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, intended to replace the crumbling, violent, and roundly condemned jail complex on Rikers Island, nicknamed the “Guantanamo of New York”.The height of the new jail towers was later slashed from 45 storeys to a maximum of 29, but the damage had been done. The images of these brutish concrete silos symbolised a rack’em and stack’em approach, attracting criticism from both prison reform advocates and the communities in which these fortified slabs were to be planted. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/dec/09/new-yorks-high-rise-prisons-what-could-go-wrong 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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