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    That's not new, is it? Fado and a few other chains are like that.

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      WOM wrote: Canadian Senator - and Pentecostal pastor - 50, who had a sexual relationship with a 16 year old girl, promised her govt. committee work and tried to do business with her parents has failed to uphold “the highest standards of dignity” required of the Senate.

      Really...ya think?

      https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/03/09/don-merediths-relationship-with-teenager-breached-senate-rules-ethics-office-says.html
      When I first saw these headlines, I thought it was about this guy.

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        Raccoon porn.

        Well, sort of.

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          Just wow!

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            Incandenza wrote: with a rotating carousel of prostitutes,” at the Shangri-La Hotel, according to the indictment.
            Is that referring to an item of furniture?

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              "All games, including golf, will be banned in the Royal Parks"

              This article (assuming it isn't an early April Fools Day spoof) really lays bare the abject absurdity of the monarchy and the UK's version of it in particular. I'm particularly struck by how "Every station, down to hospital radio, has prepared music lists made up of “Mood 2” (sad) or “Mood 1” (saddest) songs to reach for in times of sudden mourning." Yes, hospital radio is apparently under a patriotic injunction to make sick people feel more miserable when an overprivileged, very old woman dies. What a country.

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                I read that this morning and my main thought - aside from, 'well now I'm starting my day feeling a bit depressed,' was that I fucking hope she doesn't die shortly before or during my trip back there later this year, because it'll play havoc with my plans to catch up with friends in various bits of the country and try to enjoy myself.

                I liked the line, 'In Ireland, the Irish bar is known only as the pub.' Yes, thanks for that. And in China, Chinese food is just called 'food'.

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                  Having said that there is something over here called salsa inglesa - 'English sauce' - which had me really confused for years. Then I tasted it. It's Worcestershire sauce.

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                    https://project1917.com/

                    The FT mentioned this site recently
                    It's a 'blog' using daily extracts of letters & diaries as they were recorded 100 years ago as the Russian Revolution rolled out
                    Strangely compelling to get a glimpse of all the conflicting comments and views as they played out
                    Worth a visit, the actors then ultimately impacted the history of the world

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                      http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/man-killed-dortmund-ticket-machine-exploding-germany-railway-station-break-in-open-scharnhorst-a7641501.html

                      A man has been killed by an exploding ticket machine at a railway station in Germany.

                      Police said the man had attempted to open the machine at Dortmund-Scharnhorst station when it blew up in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

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                        The German reports suggest that he was using an explosive to try to open the machine, and was killed by the door, which was blown off the machine.

                        This certainly doesn't look like the result of a crowbar job



                        It also isn't much of a "station", but rather two platforms outside of Dortmund where trains stop every two hours if one is lucky.

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                          Would the cost of the explosive have covered the amount of money likely to be in the machine?

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                            Perhaps he buys his Semtex at Costco.

                            More seriously, the reason why this kind of crime is more prevalent in Germany is that Germans are still culturally adverse to credit and debit cards and prefer to use cash for such purposes.

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                              Family Values Republican State Senator having extra-marital affair with cousin, who's also his employee and also his patient, that he is prescribing opioids to, to which she might or might not be addicted...

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                                Costco just jacked their memberships by $5 to cover their revenue shortfall. The pricks.

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                                  Well, that beats my Don 'Senator Pastor Teen Sex' Meredith post upthread. Yesterday, Meredith's lawyer was loudly shouting that this witch hunt was racist in nature. Today he's not Meredith's lawyer.

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                                    It says volumes about Tennessee that even if all of the allegations in the divorce suit are true, the creep is not in violation of any state law or regulation applying to doctors or state legislators.

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                                      WOM wrote: Costco just jacked their memberships by $5 to cover their revenue shortfall. The pricks.
                                      I'm being dragged along to Costco in about half-an-hour. I'll use this information as a desperate — but ultimately futile — attempt to sleaze out of it.

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                                          loose cannon wrote: https://project1917.com/

                                          The FT mentioned this site recently
                                          It's a 'blog' using daily extracts of letters & diaries as they were recorded 100 years ago as the Russian Revolution rolled out
                                          Strangely compelling to get a glimpse of all the conflicting comments and views as they played out
                                          Worth a visit, the actors then ultimately impacted the history of the world
                                          I'm not really sure that's WTF? stuff, but it is absolutely brilliant and I will probably waste a couple of hours tonight reading through old posts on there, so thanks for posting it, lc!

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                                            Sam wrote:
                                            Originally posted by loose cannon
                                            https://project1917.com/

                                            The FT mentioned this site recently
                                            It's a 'blog' using daily extracts of letters & diaries as they were recorded 100 years ago as the Russian Revolution rolled out
                                            Strangely compelling to get a glimpse of all the conflicting comments and views as they played out
                                            Worth a visit, the actors then ultimately impacted the history of the world
                                            I'm not really sure that's WTF? stuff, but it is absolutely brilliant and I will probably waste a couple of hours tonight reading through old posts on there, so thanks for posting it, lc!
                                            An early contender for my favourite post, from the 4th February 1917.

                                            My duties were not ended when I had put Lord Milner to bed. I had my report to send to the Embassy. There was George Clerk, determined to see something of Moscow by night, and still young enough to sacrifice his sleep to his determination. Enlisting the services of a young Russian millionaire, we took him to a gipsy party – doubtless one of the last of the great gipsy parties celebrated under the monarchy. Goodness knows what it cost. I could not have paid. There were eight of us: four English and four Russians, and as the guest of honour George Clerk had to bear the brunt of the champagne bombardment. My young Russian millionaire did his best. Maria Nikolaievna sang countless "charochki," and with her own hands offered countless bumpers to George Clerk. As a diplomatist he has had many triumphs, but never has he borne himself more bravely than on that last evening in Moscow. He never refused a toast. He drank each one down in the approved Russian manner, and his monocle never moved. Not a hair of his head was ruffled. There was neither flush nor pallor on his cheeks.

                                            In the early hours of the morning Prochoroff, my young millionaire officer, signed the bill and distributed the necessary largesse, and we set off home; my wife, George Clerk, "Jimmie" Valentine and I in one car; Prochoroff and his Russian friends showing the way in another. A quarter of a mile down the road we passed him. He had pulled up beside a policeman and was standing in the road. For George Clerk's edification we stopped to watch. Prochoroff was fumbling in his pockets. He pulled out his purse and handed a rouble to the policeman, who clicked his heels together and saluted. His hand on his sword, Prochoroff drew himself up to his full height. There was a sparkle in his eye, and he looked as though he were about to lead a charge.

                                            "Boje Tsaria Khraneel" he thundered. "God save the Tsar," repeated the policeman. And "bye Jidoff!" (beat the Jews).

                                            We drove on. Prochoroff did not hate the Jews. In so far as he had any political views he was a Liberal. But he would go on with his "God save the Tsar and beat the Jews" refrain all the way home. It was the prescribed ritual. It was the pre-revolutionary tradition.
                                            EDIT TO CLARIFY: Obviously that bit about beating the Jews isn't the part of the post I liked.

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                                              For the discerning Glaswegian in your life.

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                                                oxymoron

                                                noun

                                                a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

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                                                  I feel physically sick

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                                                    You should've labelled that NSFH.

                                                    Not Safe For Humans...

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