The WTF? Thread

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

The big problem is that it's on a doctor oetker pizza. A pizza made with all the neapolitan flair that that name can suggest

[Levin]

Who came first Capt'n Birdseye or Iglo?

I always find is weird when companies have different brand names with the same branding. Like wall's or walkers.

[Discordant Resonance]

Wall's have the exact same product range as HB Ice Cream (Wibbly Wobbly Wonder, Cornetto, etc), though again, not sure if either company invented brands before the other, or if they were rolled out simultaneously.

[ursus arctos]

They are all Unilever brands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...nds#Ice_creams

[Lang Spoon]

Isn't HB just Walls ice cream range in Ireland?

[Discordant Resonance]

No, as Ursus says, both companies are Unilever, but they were founded independently of each other.

[ursus arctos]

Here's a piece on the evolution of their branding and the "heartbrand" logo

https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Heartbrand

[slackster]

That fishfinger pizza must be an (early) April Fool, no? I’d have a slice too, mind.

[Amor de Cosmos]

I'm sure this type of product is very much a consequence of Cannabis's widespread legalisation.

[Patrick Thistle]

The real WTF here is that Wales Online is not a spoof news organisation.

https://twitter.com/WalesOnline/status/1511611414372401160?t=uCXf5urcsUBx8D-2Ql3gzA&s=19

[caja-dglh]

For our NY posters.

https://twitter.com/JohnHinckley20/status/1512521014126780422?s=20&t=1MzyoIXjVvIaEA19ONHYCQ

[Amor de Cosmos]

The John Hinckley? I surprised he's out of stir.

[ursus arctos]

He was released in 2016

[caja-dglh]

He has discovered twitter and music since they removed the conditions on his release.

[Amor de Cosmos]

The conditions included not listening/playing music?

[Guy Profumo]

Tree trimmer found dead hanging upside down in Sherman Oaks, LA

Hwee?


https://www.latimes.com/california/s...h-sherman-oaks

[Discordant Resonance]

About three hours earlier than an Irish wedding finishes up, then:

https://twitter.com/NiecyOKeeffe/status/1517596337944027143

[Discordant Resonance]

Sadly, this is actually real:

https://twitter.com/JamFitzpatrick/status/1519275337154236416

[Satchmo Distel]

This is an odd comment from a woman of colour, not deserving of its own thread but definitely a WTF:

“Barack Obama chose Black, and he’s biracial … congratulations to the President, that’s his thing. I think that’s fascinating considering his Black dad is nowhere to be found but his white mom and grandma raised him, but OK. You do you. I’m gonna do me. Listen, I’m pretty sure my white mom was there when I was born. And my white family loves me as much as my Black family.”

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/bl...ls-jemele-hill

Since when did identity reduce to the skin colour of the parent who raised you, rather than your lived experience in a society where the power structure and dominant culture assumes you're black? She's defending her right to pick her own category (biracial) by attacking how Obama exercised his equal right.

None of which justifies ESPN disciplining her, I should add. People are allowed to speak bullshit especially on a channel whose speech output is largely bait.

[ursus arctos]

She appears to be a rather strange person.

Meanwhile,

https://twitter.com/natty4bumpo/status/1519981742173609984?s=20&t=lxfNvAmsPydquDMQddPj8A

[Hot Pepsi]

This is an odd comment from a woman of colour, not deserving of its own thread but definitely a WTF:


https://www.theguardian.com/sport/bl...ls-jemele-hill

Since when did identity reduce to the skin colour of the parent who raised you, rather than your lived experience in a society where the power structure and dominant culture assumes you're black? She's defending her right to pick her own category (biracial) by attacking how Obama exercised his equal right.

None of which justifies ESPN disciplining her, I should add. People are allowed to speak bullshit especially on a channel whose speech output is largely bait.

Yeah, I don't see how any biracial person who "looks Black" has any choice about whether or not to feel empathy for the experiences of other Black people.

As others have said, racism has never needed a cogent definition of race or categorization scheme to do its damage.

[elguapo4]

She appears to be a rather strange person.

Meanwhile,

https://twitter.com/natty4bumpo/status/1519981742173609984?s=20&t=lxfNvAmsPydquDMQddPj8A

Years ago, a family of tourists came into where I worked with a problem. They had been on a cruise and were heading home from Dublin the next day, when their teenage son confessed that he'd bought a decommissioned WW2 German Luger in a Greek Market!

Could they post it home? No

We'll throw it in a rubbish bin? Don't do that, you'll have somebody finding it and deciding to rob a bank.

They offered it to me, but I wasn't really bothered, so I called the police, and they sent a bewildered looking cop around to take it off their hands. They were probably playing Dirty Harry with it for weeks.

[elguapo4]

Yeah, I don't see how any biracial person who "looks Black" has any choice about whether or not to feel empathy for the experiences of other Black people.

As others have said, racism has never needed a cogent definition of race or categorization scheme to do its damage.

I dated a biracial girl in the 1980s who had exactly her attitude.

[Tactical Genius]

This is an odd comment from a woman of colour, not deserving of its own thread but definitely a WTF:


https://www.theguardian.com/sport/bl...ls-jemele-hill

Since when did identity reduce to the skin colour of the parent who raised you, rather than your lived experience in a society where the power structure and dominant culture assumes you're black? She's defending her right to pick her own category (biracial) by attacking how Obama exercised his equal right.

None of which justifies ESPN disciplining her, I should add. People are allowed to speak bullshit especially on a channel whose speech output is largely bait.

Your post is confusing, i cannot find that comment in the link you posted and this is the first I have heard of Hill being Biracial. Are you sure you are not confusing her with someone else like Sage Steele?

[Nocturnal Submission]

Your post is confusing, i cannot find that comment in the link you posted and this is the first I have heard of Hill being Biracial. Are you sure you are not confusing her with someone else like Sage Steele?

Must be an erroneous link. That article is from 2017 and about something completely different.