The WTF? Thread

[DCI Harry Batt]

I read that, it's great. Not sure I'd ever heard of bucatini, pretty sure I've never had it.

[Balderdasha]

That is a brilliant article. Thanks ad hoc

[Hot Pepsi]

I’ve never heard of bucatini.

[San Bernardhinault]

It's a fantastic article. I'm just a little sad that the cause is probably not the... er... straw man argument.

[caja-dglh]

I am rather surprised tonton has not railed at the unnecessary variations of pasta.

[Nocturnal Submission]

BBC News - Impressionist Rory Bremner 'saved Sir John Major's bacon' amid MPs revolt: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55477424

[Benjm]

Ocado have bucatini in stock. I might add some to our next order. These are from Garofalo, long time sponsors of SSC Napoli.

[Amor de Cosmos]

[Hot Pepsi]

Fantastic

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

OMG, fantastic indeed!

[Nocturnal Submission]

Those fearing the rise of the robots will be heartened to see that they've currently peaked at synchronised dad dancing.

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/ligomersall/status/1343687733219381250?s=20

[DCI Harry Batt]

Car park operators are like landlords but worse, I reckon.

Worse in the sense that they do even less, provide even less, are more straightforwardly and more obviously just gouging people because they own land.

Not worse in the sense of the harm they do, obvs.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

We need a new criminal offence on the statute books, a general catch-all "acting the despicable c*nt". For trial by jury - the most egregious cases, like this, would find a unanimous 12-0 verdict, the need for which would provide a good filter in lieu of the "legal certainty" concept. Directors of Euro Car Parks to spend a few months at HM pleasure, to teach them to try hard to pretend to be decent human beings.

[ursus arctos]

I'm musing on the application of this principle to your area of legal expertise . . .

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

ha ha, fair point! I personally would welcome it. (To be fair, in the UK we have something not far off the civil law equivalent already.)

[Patrick Thistle]

This is a bit special. This man is actually a councillor in Chirk. And lives in Germany. And no one knows what he is a doctor of.

https://twitter.com/galloisewaters/status/1345062212864516097?s=19

[Third rate Leszno]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-55585065

Quality headline writing here.

[Capybara]

Actual lol at that.

[Felicity, I guess so]

This isn't really WTF, but it;s fucking brilliant and is worth your time. The Great Bucatini Shortage of 2020 https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/2...stigation.html

I have been buying Sainsbury's finest bucatini when I see it and one of my favourite recipes from before I could cook was bucatini with salami and emmenthal- someone gave me a "simple pasta" calendar with really good drawings of ingredients and I cut that month off and stuck it in a jotter.

But Ms F actually complained when I did clams with bucatini...

Anyway to bring this back to WTF-ness or thereabouts: why does the news report M&S profits every year like it's some sort of barometer of the nation?
Surprise, surprise they didn't do too badly, down only 8%. Sainsbury's on the other hand made increased profits and, despite their fine bucatini and other products, I know how:
They no longer reduce bashed tins, dented boxes and other damaged goods, just leave them there for the desperate hoarders, panic buyers and people with other things to worry about right now to give them full price for.

We do click and collect from Tesco, cos Sainsbury's refused to take new customers (despite our years of Nectar loyalty) and that, too is a litany of rotting fruit, bread 'use by' that day and missing items. And they aren't actually busy enough to explain it by chaos- it's deliberate.

[Levin]

https://twitter.com/JucikaInOrder/status/1346534510150602752

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Levin, I'm intrigued but a bit mystified. A bit more context would be helpful. All I can garner from a very quick look on a click-through is that this is a satirical cartoon from 1969 which uses a scantily clad female magician figure to make a point about dismal/dishonest customer service in the (communist state-run) grocery outlets? Is there some "WTF" point about it, 52 years later (or indeed some topical hook), which I'm missing?

[Nefertiti2]

seriously. What. The. Fuck.

https://twitter.com/lorenzofb/status/1348638602666905601?s=20

[DCI Harry Batt]

Oh my. What a fantastic story.

[ursus arctos]

Even considering such an IOT-enabled device must be part of the kink