The WTF? Thread

[Sam]

That is quite something. Replies are worth scrolling through, too - in one of them, someone calls the woman in the video out using her Twitter handle and she responds saying, 'I said arm with TRUTH'. As if she didn't know what she was advertising.

[Sam]

Kylie from an unnamed radio station in Los Angeles hears an artist online who she likes, and drops them a line letting them know her radio would love to play her music to give exposure to new artists, and put the artist in touch with a development firm who can get them onto 150 radio stations worldwide.

The artist in question, an up-and-coming young lady by the name of Annie Lennox, reads the email, blacks out the radio station's name and other incriminating details, and uploads it for our amusement.

[Lang Spoon]

If the mention of the Lennox won't bring G-Man back to otf, nothing will.

[Sam]

I think was him sharing it on Facebook that brought it to my attention.

[Incandenza]

Kylie from an unnamed radio station in Los Angeles hears an artist online who she likes, and drops them a line letting them know her radio would love to play her music to give exposure to new artists, and put the artist in touch with a development firm who can get them onto 150 radio stations worldwide.

The artist in question, an up-and-coming young lady by the name of Annie Lennox, reads the email, blacks out the radio station's name and other incriminating details, and uploads it for our amusement.

Someone in the comments identified the "radio station" as KMIX Los Angeles, which is not an actual radio station in Los Angeles, it's some music site online. The blacked out URL was also identified, from reading about it online, it's a site that targets unknown musicians asking them to pay for them to help market their song and enter it into a supposed awards competition, which--SURPRISE--people who enter it always seem to win! Then they keep paying to have their music marketed, and they say that they'll get on stations around the country, none of which are actually on the radio dial. From what I've read online from people who had experience with this outfit, they all get promised big things as long as they keep paying, and thankfully most people caught on that they were being played.

So Annie Lennox unwittingly helped bring this scam to a larger light. This article points that aspect out instead of playing up the "can you believe this clueless millennial radio station employee?". Kylie probably isn't even a real person.

[Incandenza]

I've mentioned Nextdoor previously. It's a site where people in your neighborhood can post about issues, asking for recommendations for house work, etc. Often it descends into bickering about local politics and complaints about changes in our city.

Santa Monica does weekly concerts at the pier during the summer, last week was the first of the season and the act was Khalid, a young R&B singer that's gaining in popularity and has a big social media following. There were estimates of 50,000 people on the beach and at the pier, who knows if they were all there for him, but needless to say a lot of people were freaking out about the crowd size, and the chief of police said that the police felt crowds of that size could lead to dangerous situations.

Anyway, so in the post about the crowds last week, someone posted the NYT's article about the charges brought against police officials over Hillsborough, saying "see, this is what can happen with big crowds." I felt it was a pretty gross way to try to argue for shutting down the concerts, and they aren't exact parallel situations. Then yesterday someone asked about the crowd size at the concert last night, posting this:



I pointed out to her that she's living in fear today over something that happened in 1989, I'm waiting to see if she'll reply.

[San Bernardhinault]

Oh! Nextdoor. It is occasionally useful. But mostly it's curtain-twitchers. And in our neighbourhood at least, it seems pretty racist. There are often comments on "suspicious looking" people walking around, and then when asked for a description the "suspicious look" frequently turns out to be non-white.

We also learn of people who are horrified about the current crime wave. The crimes are almost universally petty theft from people who leave their garages open, or leave things in the open beds of their pick-up trucks.

Basically, on Nextdoor I learn that a lot of people are stupid and/or racist.

[caja-dglh]

We had that pretty recently - someone posted several photos of someone who broke into their car, taken using their nest cameras they have around their house. Still haven't got back to the person who asked "was the car locked?".

[Incandenza]

I had to mute one guy who replies to every post. He's Always Online and Always Mad. I had called out some blatant racism and I got called the real racist for trying to find race in everything, and besides, I apparently wanted to see white people killed. Here is just one part of his much longer bio/about section, he's talking about his dad at first:

He was a dedicated Liberal when the term meant something good; now those so called "Liberals" have become "Red Fascists", to use a term from the Socialist Henry Wallace, FDR"s 3rd term VP. Today the Party would lynch FDR, Truman and Kennedy for being horribly Conservative. My Dad would be as outraged as I am. In 2013, after spending 45 years of my life as a Leftist activist, I resigned from the Party and everything related to it. I would like to have my thousands of hours and many thousands of dollars returned as partial compensation for having been betrayed. We are and were the very people who built the Liberal movement and achieved its stunning accomplishments over an 80 year period - and at great costs to ourselves. Now we are referred to by the racist, privileged, entitled, bigoted elitists as "Irredeemable, Uneducated, Deplorables". I wear the label proudly. I even have a Coffee Cup labeled to that end - "Le Deplorables". I don't well suffer fools, whiners parasites - or especially the bullying cowardice of the "Politically Correct" - unfortunately, SM/Westside is redolent with them. Life is good! The weather is great! Let's eat!

[Lang Spoon]

Just what was it that kept these wanks in the Dems till 2013 then? What changed except for a coffee colored Prez?

[Gerontophile]

Japanese whalers sighted off New Jersey coast.

[Janik]

One of the top awards of the Royal Humane Society is called it's 'Testimonial on Vellum'. Now, they are careful to point that they no longer use actual animal skin for the award, but they have retained the name. For historical reasons. That history being to remind themselves that the Royal Humane Society has had some blind spots in the past?

[Various Artist]

Hah, I had just the same thought about that name yesterday Janik – did you come across it in the same story as I did on the BBC website, about the Norfolk lorry driver who used his HGV to stop a runaway van whose driver had had a stroke on the motorway? I hadn't though looked into the award to discover that it's no longer actually presented on vellum, mercifully, but the mere name immediately conjures a disconnect from "humane" doesn't it?

[Nocturnal Submission]

So, Hong Kong, the Maldives, Singapore, Anguilla, Antigua/Barbuda, Cayman Islands, Dominica, US Virgin Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands and French Guiana. What have they got in common, other than small populations and being nice holiday destinations?

Well, according to Wiki, their highest weather temperatures ever recorded are all lower than England's!

That can't be right, can it?

[San Bernardhinault]

Small island places all have temperatures tempered by the ocean. I'm surprised about French Guiana, which goes a long way inland into the Amazon rainforest. And a little surprised by the Solomon Islands, which are actually pretty big. But the others are all actually pretty plausible.

[Levin]

There has also been a bit of a tidy up of temperature records in the past few years (I now can't find the article but the wiki on the hottest temp recorded gives an idea) and lots of the older records where the methodology can't be confirmed or wasn't to a particular standard have been de-certified.

So the UK, which has had weather recording in place and to a certain standard for longer has a better chance of recording a higher temperature.

[Various Artist]

Child almost falls through floor of moving train in Devon

The toilet floor was missing.

In a statement, SDR apologised and said: "On the day in question, something clearly went wrong with our safety control and hazard monitoring systems as evidenced by the incident having taken place - it simply should not have happened."

It's good to see SouthdownRebel owning up to his mistakes, at least.

[SouthdownRebel]

I fear my reputation has suffered irredeemable damage

[Sam]

It's not so much the story itself that made me do a double take when I saw it, but more the fact that there's a Cornish separatist terror group. That genuinely sounds like something from a Monty Python sketch.

[Nocturnal Submission]

The "blood cross flag" - blimey.

They've also got a prospective suicide bomber just itching to make a statement, the statement of course being that she needs psychiatric help.

[hobbes]

Sure it's not sui-cider bomber?

[Guy Profumo]

It's not so much the story itself that made me do a double take when I saw it, but more the fact that there's a Cornish separatist terror group. That genuinely sounds like something from a Monty Python sketch.

There was an episode of "The Avengers" which featured an Isle of Wight separatist movement.

[Nocturnal Submission]

There was an episode of "The Avengers" which featured an Isle of Wight separatist movement.

Freedom for Vectis.

I've been to the IoW a few times and the islanders do see themselves as culturally separate from the mainland.

[Various Artist]

It's not so much the story itself that made me do a double take when I saw it, but more the fact that there's a Cornish separatist terror group. That genuinely sounds like something from a Monty Python sketch.

Sam, did you notice the link in that article to another report on how even the locals are queuing up to ridicule the concept of that group, calling them the "Ooh Arr A"...?

And the main photo with the second article actually pictures the People's Liberation Front of Judea (or similar splinter group!) – not least because:

The self-styled Cornish Republican Army (CRA) said it had to change its name from the Cornish Nationalist Liberation Army because its name had been used by others. The reboot has been compared to Monty Python's film The Life of Brian in which the 'Judean People's Front' feuded with its rival 'People's Front of Judea'.

You wouldn't make this stuff up.

[Gerontophile]

I smell Nishlord behind this.