Interesting Articles.. post some interesting articles that other might enjoy.

[dontpanicbobby]

^^^Liked it^^^
Was hoping it was about the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum heist though.

 

[Member2035261]

I found this Daily Mail article on Google Now or whatever it's called, so some UK people who read that paper (no offence) will have seen this.

it's written the way I would have liked to have wroted it.

Please note, only to be read by people with 2 legs, a full head of hair, no pets and must be easily offended....


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...-joke-causes-offence-laments-CRAIG-BROWN.html

 

[psionandy]

I found this Daily Mail article on Google Now or whatever it's called, so some UK people who read that paper (no offence) will have seen this.

it's written the way I would have liked to have wroted it.

Please note, only to be read by people with 2 legs, a full head of hair, no pets and must be easily offended....


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...-joke-causes-offence-laments-CRAIG-BROWN.html

To misquote Woody Allen, the joke was worse than offensive, it wasn't funny.

 

[Member2035261]

On a second reading, I think you're right. It was a nice idea if it had better examples. .... and my quips are never funny, but they keep me happy.

 

[psionandy]

It was still worth reading though...

 

[Member2035261]

When I was younger I used to go to comedy clubs regularly

On one occasion the comic landed the punch line and it was crickets.....

I guess if a comic can get over that first silence with a novel quip, it becomes less of a fear, and I'm sure long standing (no pun) comedians still have those moments.

The disasters wannabe comics can't avert (eg Britain / America's Got Talent) is not being able to 'see' outside their heads!

I only reply really to say I never heard the saying 'it was crickets' - but a description was never more apt or funny

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Not so much an "Interesting Article" but a series of interesting articles. I found this website while randomly cruising the interwebs very early this morning. Seems just a bit UK slanted but very interesing to people of a certain age.

 

[Zigman66]

I found this Daily Mail article on Google Now or whatever it's called, so some UK people who read that paper (no offence) will have seen this.

it's written the way I would have liked to have wroted it.

Please note, only to be read by people with 2 legs, a full head of hair, no pets and must be easily offended....


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...-joke-causes-offence-laments-CRAIG-BROWN.html

I found it amusing but I also thought it would have been funnier if it wasn't such an accurately sad look at the way people are today

 

[Zigman66]

Not so much an "Interesting Article" but a series of interesting articles. I found this website while randomly cruising the interwebs very early this morning. Seems just a bit UK slanted but very interesing to people of a certain age.

Dang you, @dontpanicbobby ! You almost caused me to drop down the rabbit hole again!

 

[psionandy]

https://soranews24.com/2018/09/04/d...knives-for-being-real-cut-your-finger-knives/



(ouch)

 

[Unforgiven]

https://soranews24.com/2018/09/04/d...knives-for-being-real-cut-your-finger-knives/



(ouch)

 

[dan330]

holly sharp jokes .. batman!

i wonder.. how many idiots.. accidentally cut themselves???
you know .. there was at least 1 dim-wit that did.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Ritualistic Self Amputation.

 

[sureshsharma]

KingRoot Apk

 

[Fox Mulder]

That wasn't a 'real' Beetle anyway, just a retro Beetle-like thing on a Golf platform. The genuine article was discontinued some time ago (I believe either Mexico or Brazil was the last place they were being made).
But there is a retro all-electric Bus coming in a few years, called the 'ID-Buzz'.

 

[psionandy]

If only there was some sort of hint this was going to happen.....


Author of How to Murder Your Husband charged with murdering husband

 

[Member2035261]

These new car side / door mirrors are interesting. Developed alongside a new Audi electric vehicle, they're designed to reduce airflow and fuel consumption.
The article stated they are currently legit for Europe but not the US.

Having worked a few months at a place where we had 4 BMW i3's ER's I got to love driving them, but they are unique in the electric / hybrid EV world.

See also :

https://electrek.co/2018/09/17/audi-launches-e-tron-electric-suv-with-74000-starting-price/

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/audi-e-tron-launches-brands-first-electric-only-model

 

[Member2035261]

This is pretty incredible: more than 180 mph...on a bicycle!! Congrats to Denise Mueller-Korenek and her entire team!

This Woman Just Biked at 184 MPH to Smash the Bicycle Speed Record

It's interesting and impressive up to a point.
I just feel the method used to achieve it makes it irrelevant to cycling in general.

 

[Member2035261]

Like anything else in the genre, it doesn’t translate to real-world, but if you’ve ridden at any kind of speed, it gives you a sense of how tremendous an accomplishment it is to do that...successfully.
I’ve driven a car at nearly 150 and a motorcycle at 120, and I can’t imagine 180 on a bicycle, special bike and slipstream or not.

Actually, now I've watched the video and followed thw link to the bike I learned more.

Still looks a bit weird.

 

[Member2035261]

Good movie.

 

[Zigman66]

Now I have to wonder if the B-52's will have to change the name of their song "Rock Lobster" to "Stoned Lobster".

https://fox6now.com/2018/09/19/fishmonger-offers-lobsters-some-herb-before-the-butter/

 

[psionandy]

"WASTED," Mark Judge's memoir of teen drinking with Brett Kavanaugh, free at the Internet Archive


https://boingboing.net/2018/10/04/georgetown-prep.html

 

[Unforgiven]

I'm baffled that there were 1,400 occasions in the US and this is the first I'm hearing of exploding toilets.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2...ll-of-1-4-million-flushmate-flushing-systems/

 

[dontpanicbobby]

There is probably plastic in your poop.

 

[psionandy]

There is probably plastic in your poop.

And there is probably poop on your plastic