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    The entire Washington DC Metro system is going to be shut down for 29 hours starting tomorrow for an "emergency investigation of equipment" following a cable fire that resulted in serious delays this morning.

    This evening's rush hour is going to be interesting.

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      I'm not sure if this should be in the Well Regulated Militia thread but:

      Someone in Florida (where else!) has created the Champagne Machine Gun.

      Of course, it only shoots magnums!

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        delicatemoth wrote: Croydon coppers channel the Taliban

        I know the Taliban do hate all music, rather than one specifically black form of music, but “this borough finds unacceptable forms of music" should chill anyone, really.
        Not least a south London club being told not to play Jamaican music. Bloody hell.

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          Here's your 17th Century woodcut of the day. Satan shits out a Puritan:

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            "the Amsterdammian definition of a Familist"!? What is that all about?

            edit: great addition to this thread, obviously.

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              ace.

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                Montpellier woman orders video game, order is successfully sent using Marshal Petain Vichy stamps.

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                  As the quote at the end suggests, I'd have thought they'd be worth more as collectors' items than as postage.

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                    Odd man fights ISIS in the train yards of Gourock

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                      Montpellier woman orders video game, order is successfully sent using Marshal Petain Vichy stamps.
                      That reminds me of a schoolfriend of mine who wrote to me in my gap year in Berlin, and enclosed a "stamped addressed envelope" for my reply. You can guess the vintage of the stamp he'd used on that.

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                        The stamps themselves are very common and likely worth less than an euro, but a postal history collector would be quite interested in the whole cover with the 2016 postmark.

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                          Tay, a Microsoft AI creation meant to emulate a teen, goes on twitter and in 24 hours becomes a sex crazed Nazi lover. She is now 'asleep' and the twitter history has magically been erased.

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                            Calvert wrote: They don't have the expense of having to pay a pilot either.
                            I worked one of their gigs in '95 and there were less than a thousand people at it.
                            They were shite.

                            If not the jet then at least their fortune would appear to have taken a turn for the better since.
                            I saw them a couple of years back at the O2 when they resurrected the set list plus a few newer favourites from the Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour and they were brilliant. And I saw them on the extra night that was added due to demand for the planned dates. They also sold a shitload of t-shirts (not to me, I wore the one they sold me when I saw them At Alexandra Palace on the Brave New World tour, supported by Slayer).

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                              caja-dglh wrote: Tay, a Microsoft AI creation meant to emulate a teen, goes on twitter and in 24 hours becomes a sex crazed Nazi lover. She is now 'asleep' and the twitter history has magically been erased.
                              They marketed her as 'The AI with zero chill'

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                                I have to say that the story of Tay, and her spiral out of control has to be one of the funniest things i've read in ages.

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                                  This is just horrific.

                                  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35914555

                                  Man in Taiwan grabs four-year old girl off bike and decapitates her.

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                                    Good god.

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                                      In less horrific news...



                                      This is apparently at a construction site in a gentrifying neighborhood in LA.

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                                        They are going to be fun neighbours

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                                          Aberdeen man poses with the Egypt Air hijacker

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                                            I have been successful in not only obtaining an acceptable quite for some electric work on the house, but gave also booked the electrician in for next week.

                                            I know this sounds like it should be on the Mundane thread, but this is so out of character for me to manage such a straightforward task as this within a few days of bring asked to organise it by my wife that it belongs here.

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                                              From @TravelGov, the US State Department's travel office Twitter feed:

                                              Not a “10” in the US? Then not a 10 overseas. Beware of being lured into buying expensive drinks or worse—being robbed. #springbreakingbadly
                                              Ugly ladies, it's your fault if something bad happens when travelling abroad!

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                                                Hey, that stuff happens to guys as well. If anything more frequently. It's a Twitter-friendly way of saying 'be careful about inviting complete strangers back to your holiday flat,' basically.

                                                The slogan itself isn't really true, though. Someone of either gender who's an average-looking person back in their home country instantly becomes stunningly beautiful when they come to Latin America if they happen to have blond hair, for example.

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                                                  Has April Fool's Day come a day early?

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                                                    Egad!

                                                    This is a bit worrying for the woman.

                                                    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-35934270

                                                    A woman has broken her pelvis and her legs in a 25ft (7.6m) fall down a lift shaft in a Starbucks coffee shop.
                                                    25'?

                                                    That's quite fortunate it wasn't worse.

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