The WTF? Thread

[Guy Profumo]

The BBC covering the important issues of the day:

MaccyDs want to open a branch on the Oakham bypass

Residents not happy


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-en...mpression=true

[Gangster Octopus]

How unlucky was this?

[Guy Profumo]

Keith Vaz.

Christ's sake.

Keith fucking Vaz.

Come on Ian Lavery and suspend each and every member of the Leicester East with immediate effect.

And expel each and every FUCKING CUNT who voted for Vaz for the whole of the rest of their fucking life


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.the...abour-comeback

[Sporting]

Let's fatten up our kids:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ules-roll-back

[Diable Rouge]

https://twitter.com/JamieBrysonCPNI/status/1218182074521341958

[Foot of Astaire's]

https://twitter.com/JamieBrysonCPNI/status/1218182074521341958

That's brilliant!!

[ursus arctos]

[URL="https://twitter.com/laurahankin/status/1221839273638404097?s=21"]https://twitter.com/laurahankin/status/1221839273638404097[/URL]

[Hot Pepsi]

I’d love to see Jane Austen’s take on Dracula.

[delicatemoth]

https://twitter.com/TVsCarlKinsella/status/1222192972814483461

[ursus arctos]

Clickagy and Parnas’s Fraud Guarantee shared a major investor, according to people familiar with the businesses. Clickagy used Parnas’s connections in GOP circles to attempt to land a contract with America First, the primary pro-Trump super PAC, according to people familiar with the firm.

Clickagy’s chief executive, Harry Maugans, declined to comment.

America First has said it is voluntarily cooperating with the investigation. A spokeswoman declined to comment on Clickagy.

In recent days, investigators have interviewed the investor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.

He told The Post that he bought $250,000 of shares in Fraud Guarantee in 2016. The investor said that he has received no returns on his payment and that it is not clear to him whether Fraud Guarantee was a real business.

He said he was persuaded to invest in part because he said Parnas told him he could use his high-powered connections to pitch Trump on an idea the investor had to build a temple in Jerusalem on a platform high above the existing city.

The investor, whose interactions with Parnas were first reported by the Wall Street Journal, said he believed the proposal could bring together Judaism, Christianity and Islam — and usher in peace to the Middle East.

At a meeting in Florida, the investor showed Parnas a painting that he had commissioned of the temple, according to Artem Mirolevich, the painter, who was also present.

“Parnas said that Trump was the type of person who might be interesting in building something like this,” Mirolevich said, noting that the investor had envisioned an 800-story structure built over the ancient city.

Mirolevich said that after the meeting, he unsuccessfully tried to persuade his friend not to invest with Parnas. “I told him: ‘It’s in the company’s name. He’s telling you there will be fraud. It’s guaranteed,’ ” he said.

But the investor decided to proceed because he wanted to show Trump his idea for the temple in Jerusalem, he and Mirolevich said.

[caja-dglh]

The whole mattress-in-a-box landfill of mattresses should be here. It is always fascinating how many "internet entrepreneur" ideas are just a more efficient way to communicate something that destroys the environment and scales up waste.

[ursus arctos]

That was the case with most things designed to separate the comfortable from their disposable income before the internet was created, though the internet has facilitated previously undreamed of scale.

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/EcologyMinded/status/1227507579913428992

[caja-dglh]

Yeah - that story made me rather depressed. It was something I hadn't committed a lot of thought to.

[Nocturnal Submission]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51472821

[Sporting]

Underwater museum has a problem with leaks:

https://english.elpais.com/arts/2020...ith-leaks.html

[Hot Pepsi]

Aren’t all mattresses disposable? None of them last forever, certainly.

When you order one, they say they’ll take it back within a certain time period but then it can’t be resold so they’ll donate it to somebody who needs it. I guess it ends up in the dump often. But then, most people are probably satisfied otherwise that company wouldn’t stay in business.

I got my bed off the internet. But it didn’t come in a box. Two guys from Harrisburg delivered it in a truck. Apparently, they contract with a bunch of different online furniture vendors and figure out how to cobble together those deliveries to make it work somehow.

[Gangster Octopus]

Snakes in Sunderland.

[Diable Rouge]

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1230737936036986882

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/CanadiensMTL/status/1233529527558692865

[WOM]

Well, that's the second most fucked up music-related thing I've read today.

The first is that Kraftwerk are playing the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. That's the original Grand Ole Opry, for you out-of-town folks.

A few weeks earlier, they're playing Red Rocks. Kraftwerk....at Red Rocks.

[Lang Spoon]

That does not compute. Does Nashville have good cycling or summat?

[WOM]

I was in the Ryman for the first time last year and it's glorious. A genuine old-timey country / folk / bluegrass hall. The idea of Die Mensch Maschine doing their 3D gig there blows my mind.

[ursus arctos]

They are trying to corner the Bachelorette/Hen Party market

[Janik]

https://twitter.com/ramsaymatt/status/1233073533917503489

In case anyone isn't clear which organisation is responsible for this shambles, it's Boots. A chemist. Who also mix, measure out and dispense prescription medicines. i.e. things where getting the correct dose can be the difference between helpful and deadly. Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.