The WTF? Thread

[ursus arctos]

I was going to ask that, but also know that you were precocious

[Balderdasha]

I have managed to pass a certain level of security clearance for my current job, but nobody asked me about being unconscious anywhere.

[Eggchaser]

Watching "The Story of Rugby" (what?) and it's in the early days. The fact has been floated that at one time in the 19th century 40% of the world's trade flowed through London. 40%! If that's accurate, blimey.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Which evidences the fact that the former investigator for the House Un-American Activities Committee who was doing the interview (I have all the luck) was not only interested in potential blackmail, but in the classic Cold War trope of a device of some sort having been implanted on my person.

Good god. Can we even do this now?

[Janik]

Putting this on this thread not because it is particularly unbelievable now, it feels very plausible, but because it dovetails nicely with the posts above about futuristic technologies not quite being up-to-scratch.
In fact, isn't there a dystopian sci-fi novel from the 50s or 60s that opens with a robot supermarket burning down and so leaving everybody starving? Possibly written by Philip K Dick?

[Nocturnal Submission]

I think that the biggest WTF for me about the story is that the depots are called "fulfilment centres."

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Maybe I'm just getting immune to corporate wank terminology and buzzwords, but I didn't find the "fulfilment centre" label particularly WTF. The processes that go on in those depots are a large part of what needs to be done to fulfil customers' orders. I mean, we live in an age of far more nonsensical official language, like, say, HMRC referring to taxpayers as "customers" for the last decade or so.

[Discordant Resonance]

Makes a change from Irish teens adopting Aussie or US accents:

https://twitter.com/MeghanBobrowsky/status/1416806255251709952

[ursus arctos]

I must have seen a version of that article half a dozen times over the course of the pandemic.

The Journal is behind the curve.

[Guy Profumo]

Maidstone is currently trending for two reasons on Twitter


one is the storm

The other is this

https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/s...21565923311616

[Lobachevsky]

the cummings interview now on BBC2 fits this thread tille perfectly

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Skibbereen: We've got seven people rowing in the olympics

Bantry: Hold my beer

https://twitter.com/bantryhoops/status/1417843026374844420

[ad hoc]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwasher_salmon

[ursus arctos]

There are recipes for coming stuff on a hot engine block as well

[Discordant Resonance]

https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1417062453301628932

I'm sure the sacking truly is the bane of Sporting's daily chats.

[MsD]

[MsD]

That, of course, was where my husband lived for many years, although not his monastery, I don't think. This chap lived to 82, but that the monks were allowed to keep that boy as a virtual prisoner in the 1940s is still quite gobsmacking. I hope they've not raised any children since.

[Discordant Resonance]

Given he died in 1938, we're talking about the 1850s here, which is truly another era.

[MsD]

Oh really? Someone posted it as if it were new. OK, that's ... not OK but as you say, another era.

[tee rex]

I don't think this really belongs on the serious Covid thread - the lead story in much of Aus/NZ today:

In Sydney lockdown protest, horse punched by man not wearing Newcastle United shirt. Thoughts, prayers and carrots for the horse ...

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/worl...support-floods

[Capybara]

In Sydney lockdown protest, horse punched by man not wearing Newcastle United shirt.

Literal LOL, there.

[beak]

Humourless, disgruntled frown over here.

[Guy Profumo]

That?

It's just a few things Dad brought home from the war -


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57965260

[Guy Profumo]

How much of a FUCKING CUNT do you have to be if when your mother worked at a school for the deaf you don't sign your press conferences?


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-57998047

[ad hoc]

https://twitter.com/LauraSRobinson/status/1422320681900023813