The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

This looks like a cutscene from a 90s RTS, like C&C.

[Legbiter]

This looks like a cutscene from a 90s RTS, like C&C.

Did he just declare himself Lord Protector of the Commowealth? 

[Duque de Bragança]

I'm above the average for my industry but I still drink less than a serviceman 

This "consumed alcohol" that's British style, right? So binge drinking. Seems fair for the Brits, with Fridays, Saturdays and some Sundays all year-long. Plus the occasional holiday mass-drinking.

[Tamas]

I'm above the average for my industry but I still drink less than a serviceman 

This "consumed alcohol" that's British style, right? So binge drinking. Seems fair for the Brits, with Fridays, Saturdays and some Sundays all year-long. Plus the occasional holiday mass-drinking.

Yeah, East Europeans all think they drink a lot but they have nothing on the Brits. Well, since the fall of communism at least.

Anyways, point is, I would not concern myself with British-made alcohol-consumption statistics if you are abroad.

[grumbler]

Anyways, point is, I would not concern myself with British-made alcohol-consumption statistics if you are abroad.

Indeed, especially as the only "data" we have is an unsourced image in an online discussion group.

[crazy canuck]

If people working in restaurants only drink 77 times a year, it is because they are only working 77 days of the year - or they are only working the brunch/lunch shift.

[garbon]

Brunch without alcohol?

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMs8Yo3Ltno

Something for you Speesh.

[Syt]

The Vienna City Funeral Services run the Funeral Museum in Vienna, too. They honor the Viennese tradition of morbidity when it comes to death, and there's the old saying of how the most important thing is to be "a schene Leich" - a beautiful corpse.

Examples from the museum gift shop:

Fridge magnet:

"Vienna is the nicest place to die."

Cigarette case:

"Smoking secures jobs."

They also sell custom LEGO sets:


The tram that transported coffins along line 71 to the Zentralfriedhof (highly recommended for walks - it's a beautiful nature preserve). It operated from WW1 through the end of WW2. "Taking the 71" is still occasionally used as slang for dying.


A horse drawn hearse.


A retro hearse. Presumably from the 50s/60s?


A crematory oven.


Figurine set of mourning family, two bodies (male & female) and a skeleton.

You can see their full LEGO collection here: https://shop.bestattungsmuseum.at/lego-bestattung/

[Maladict]

Reminds me of Christoph Waltz's appearance on Colbert. Colbert to his credit adapted to his guest, but the audience seemed to be utterly lost when Waltz waxed about morbid thoughts.

[derspiess]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMs8Yo3Ltno

Something for you Speesh.

  Charles Barkley is a national treasure.

[Syt]

Reminds me of Christoph Waltz's appearance on Colbert. Colbert to his credit adapted to his guest, but the audience seemed to be utterly lost when Waltz waxed about morbid thoughts.

That was a good interview. It was a very old fashioned Viennese attitude, especially the thing about the dive bar of which not many exist any more.

[crazy canuck]

This is super cool and a long time in the making - images from the Event Horizon Telescope are going to be released tomorrow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/opinion/black-hole.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

[Caliga]

Really looking forward to it. 

[mongers]

This is super cool and a long time in the making - images from the Event Horizon Telescope are going to be released tomorrow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/opinion/black-hole.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Some here should come up with a suitably witty H2G2 reference, ideally involving impossibly black sleek spacecraft.