The Off Topic Topic

[crazy canuck]

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While eating in Denmark, it is customary to keep one's hands visible even when resting. So, wrists are often laid on the table.

What? I mean, who keeps their hands under the table?

Somebody hasn't spent enough time watching the bar scene in Star Wars episode IV

[mongers]

Warspite, I've seen you, so you might as well post now. 

[Eddie Teach]

Warspite, I've seen you, so you might as well post now. 

Don't you mean   ?

[katmai]

Warspite, I've seen you, so you might as well post now. 

He might be too busy on his honeymoon.

[crazy canuck]

My New theory why people support Trump.  They want their survivalist purchases to be relevant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/us/apocalypse-doomsday-capitalists.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

[Eddie Teach]

Ok, now explain the 98% that aren't preppers.

[Josquius]

A famous lyric from the sex pistols song anarchy in the UK perfectly sums up most alt right supporters.

[Syt]

We live in REALLY weird times.

https://6abc.com/man-wearing-tv-on-head-caught-on-camera-leaving-old-tvs-on-porches/5462579/

(video in link)

Man wearing TV on head caught on camera leaving old TVs on Virginia front porches

HENRICO COUNTY, Virginia -- Residents living in a Virginia neighborhood woke up to find free televisions on their doorsteps. It sounds like a great gift until you see the older box sets left at the homes.

"He's committed to his trade," said homeowner, Jim Brooksbank.

No need to adjust that dial. Doorbell surveillance cameras captured the man with a TV set over his head, laying an older set down on someone's front porch and just walking off.

"He wants to be known as the TV Santa Claus. I don't know," Brooksbank told WTVR-TV.

The bizarre discovery happened Sunday morning in Henrico's Hampshire neighborhood. Outdated boxes were found at more than 50 homes.

"We got an old tube-style TV, 13 inch," said Brooksbank.

"I thought my son brought it home, but apparently not. They had way too much time on their hands if they had all these TV's and spread them all over the neighborhood," said homeowner, Michael Kroll.

Henrico Police are tuned into the situation. They have security camera video from multiple neighbors, but think it's only a prank targeting no one in particular.

"At most this seems to be more an inconvenience to the community," said one officer.

Officers and county workers spent Sunday morning picking up the old units and hauling them away.

"The police did a great job of coming up and collecting them all," said Brooksbank.

This is the second time the TV set mystery has played out in Glen Allen. The same thing happened in a different neighborhood last August.

"I think it's just a prank. Some college students who are just bored," said Kroll.

"It's summer, and people are getting ready to go back to school. Maybe TV man was just ready to strike and put a little humor in our lives," added Brooksbank.

In the absence of knowing the brains inside the box, these homeowners are left only to guess what it all means.

According to Henrico Police, the only real crime committed was illegal dumping.

[Valmy]

Maybe this kind of thing happened all the time. Maybe some guy with a hammer strapped to his head was leaving old blacksmith anvils on people's front porches in 1925, we just didn't have the internet to tell us about it.

[Josquius]

I want one. They're quite hard to find these days and would be good for my mega drive

[Malthus]

I can understand the reasoning behind this guy. When I was getting rid of my huge old tube TV, getting the city to pick it up took forever. 

[Valmy]

I can understand the reasoning behind this guy. When I was getting rid of my huge old tube TV, getting the city to pick it up took forever. 

I kind of admire him. I remember moving back then, those big CRTs were hell to move.

[Eddie Teach]

I don't think our CRTs were any heavier than our current flat screens. Course, the screen was much smaller.

[Valmy]

I don't think our CRTs were any heavier than our current flat screens. Course, the screen was much smaller.

Maybe. But flat screens are easy to carry. CRTs were bulky with no obvious hand holds. I remember my fingers hurt like fuck the longer I carried them.

Flat screens are no problem at all, even if they might be the same weight.

[DGuller]

I don't think our CRTs were any heavier than our current flat screens. Course, the screen was much smaller.

I don't think that's true.  My last CRT was a 27 inch Sony WEGA, I think it easily hit 100 pounds.  I never dared to even try picking it up myself.  My 52 inch Samsung LCD weighs in at around 50 pounds, and it's no issue at all for one person to handle it.