The WTF? Thread

[ursus arctos]

He was also in Parks & Rec, and likely others.

Vice Presidents have a good amount of time available for side hustles.

[Fussbudget]

Ha, so it would seem. In other 'surely not?' non-news I must be the last person on Earth to find out that Hargitay is Jayne Mansfield's daughter

[ursus arctos]

I didn't know that, but the resemblance is now clear

[jdsx]

Bus lane camera mistakes woman's sweater for number plate

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-58959930

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

https://twitter.com/james_dart/status/1449458235031818242?s=21

If that's surprising, you should watch more Ulster Football Championship. The real UFC. They love fighting in their sport up there. I've heard armagh people say things about Tyrone people that shouldn't be uttered by human lips. I am fairly sure that south armagh people actively dislike tyrone GAA people more than the british army. (and given that I was in coalisland at the time, I could kind of see what they were getting at. I've never seen anything like it)

[ursus arctos]

Given what their US-based relations get up too on a regular basis, this is very unsurprising.

[ad hoc]

"Hargitay" = from Hargita (where I live). I take it then that Jayne Mansfield's husband was Hungarian

[ursus arctos]

Born in Budapest moved to the US, became Mr Universe and a minor actor before marrying Mansfield.

[Guy Profumo]

Sacramento, California:



Meep?



Man who kept breaking in to his old house shot dead by homeowners


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...40048.html?amp

[Nocturnal Submission]

Not exactly WTF, but bloody impressive: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-devon-59004320

[ursus arctos]

Squid Game continues to reverberate around the world

https://twitter.com/abc7ny/status/1451190299628167189?s=21

[ursus arctos]

The "Sacramento" story above is actually from a Gold Country town of a few hundred people not far from my father-in-laws former abode and completely unsurprising to those of us who know it.

[Guy Profumo]

The "Sacramento" story above is actually from a Gold Country town of a few hundred people not far from my father-in-laws former abode and completely unsurprising to those of us who know it.

From the point of view of the corpse or the householders?

[ursus arctos]

As usual, I don't have the slightest idea what you are getting at

[WOM]

In 2021, homeowner shoots intruder stories have lost almost all power to shock. In many parts of the US, I'd sort of expect to be shot for knocking on a front door after 10 PM. In Florida, breaking and entering should be classified as suicide.

[ursus arctos]

Valley Springs is such a place

[Hot Pepsi]

Prop gun kills cinematographer
Shit.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59005500

[scratchmonkey]

Surely they could have snuck in a reference to "Stuck in Lodi Again" considering that's the closest large-ish town.

[Hot Pepsi]

I mentioned this on the Earworm Thread, but it also deserves a WTF?

I only recently discovered that that this is real. Canadians are probably already aware of it.

[ursus arctos]

Surely they could have snuck in a reference to "Stuck in Lodi Again" considering that's the closest large-ish town.

This is true geographically, but not in terms of how the locals think.

Lodi is definitely Central Valley, Valley Springs is Gold Country (and therefore oriented more to San Andreas, Jackson and even Sonora, though they are all further away).

My father-in-law (who lived in San Andreas, and whose brother-in-law had served as the local Roman Catholic priest for decades) was an expert in the subtle differences among Valley Springs, Angels Camp, Mokelumne Hill, Copperopolis, etc.

[Amor de Cosmos]

I mentioned this on the Earworm Thread, but it also deserves a WTF?

I only recently discovered that that this is real. Canadians are probably already aware of it.

Oh dear! That's surely an SCTV sketch from 30+ years back.

[Hot Pepsi]

Oh dear! That's surely an SCTV sketch from 30+ years back.

This appears to be the story.

https://leaderpost.com/news/local-ne...ed-a-viral-hit

This is a helpful comment.

This advert was a perfect balance of what Regina offers. All the bells & whistles of what a bigger city offers but played in a flat key.

[scratchmonkey]

This is true geographically, but not in terms of how the locals think.

Lodi is definitely Central Valley, Valley Springs is Gold Country (and therefore oriented more to San Andreas, Jackson and even Sonora, though they are all further away).

Ah, this is very true, I'm only really familiar with the towns up 108, so Sonora, Jamestown, Twain Harte, Mi-Wuk Village, Long Barn, etc.

[ursus arctos]

Yeah, that is a different part of Gold Country but still Gold Country.

These areas have also been subject to rapid change over the last 20 years with the boom and bust of the Valley as "affordable housing" for the Bay Area.

During the boom, people from Stockton were selling their homes and buying land further east.

[San Bernardhinault]

Every time I read a new story on people moving "just outside the Bay Area and planning to drive to work" I am astonished at how massive the Bay Area commuter band is, and how long people are having to drive each day because there is nowhere (and certainly nowhere affordable) left to live closer.