The Off Topic Topic

[DGuller]

Your poorly constructed headline of the day:

Police shoot dead La. bank hostage taker

The dead hostage taker was reaching for a gun. 

[Syt]

[Malthus]

 

http://globalnews.ca/news/779932/twitter-user-fired-from-job-after-pot-plea-tweet/

[Barrister]

http://globalnews.ca/news/779932/twitter-user-fired-from-job-after-pot-plea-tweet/

Awesome.

[merithyn]

This is pretty neat.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/08/12/211364006/this-pulsing-earth

[Josquius]

And naturally, it was an Airbus.  I keep telling you mutts those things go down.

There's probably stats out there  to say one way or the other but it seems that Boeings get in trouble more often

[Syt]

[Syt]

1970s St. Stephen's Square in the center of Vienna. This is now all pedestrian area:



And a view of the street that leads from the opera to that square, late 60s:


It's now also pedestrians only. The Air France building on the right is a Starbucks today.

Same view today:

[Admiral Yi]

In the 70's all American cars were land yachts, in the 70's all Yuro cars were Fiats.

[Grey Fox]

Ah, the better years.

[HVC]

http://globalnews.ca/news/779932/twitter-user-fired-from-job-after-pot-plea-tweet/

the best part is he's bitching about the lack of free speech.

[DGuller]

In the 70's all American cars were land yachts, in the 70's all Yuro cars were Fiats.

That's the first thought that popped into my mind too.  One American car in that picture probably occupied the same amount of space that a 2x2 rectangle of European cars would.

[Valmy]

A Casino?  Is gambling legal just anywhere in Austria?

I see Air France got bought out by Starbucks.

[Josquius]

The blister is growing. Soon it shall take over my entire foot....
Oh well. Only 4 more days

[Admiral Yi]

The blister is growing. Soon it shall take over my entire foot....
Oh well. Only 4 more days

It's a dumah.