The Off Topic Topic

[Duque de Bragança]

The best obituary I read on Jacques Chirac is paywalled, so I'll just

Also, as one person on Twitter put it, responsible for a political poster that should inspire all parties:



Edit: And I had no idea of his contribution of great campaign songs:
https://www.politico.eu/article/former-french-president-jacques-chirac-slice-of-soul-and-other-memorable-campaign-songs/

That first one is great

That was for the 1981 campaign where he played a part in in the defeat of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. The latter being still alive actually.
That song is still quite popular in retro-parties. I could sing it, but I won't, for now. 

[Syt]

Posted on Austrian Reddit re: today's elections (it's Maximilian I's 500th death anniversary - the exhibition poster has been photoshoppped to make it an election poster).

[Valmy]

Vote Maximilian. I promise to inherit Burgundy.

[Syt]

I like the Twitter account Giant Military Cats.

[The Brain]

AFAIK the Australian air force doesn't have giant cats. Is "Australian" photoshopped?

[Liep]

New metro line (M3) opened in Copenhagen this weekend. 20 years of construction so far and the fourth line should be finished in 2024.

Coupled with the commuter trains travelling around Copenhagen is near perfect now.

[Syt]

I remember when I was in Copenhagen in 2003 or 2004 there was just one short line, IIRC.

[Habbaku]

So that's what it's like to live in a city with a functioning government...

[Tonitrus]

But is it worth traveling around Copenhagen? 

(unless you live there, of course)

[Syt]

Newspaper article in the travel section of an online news page: "Hardly anyone knows Ayutthaya."

I presume the knowledge increases if you've played Europa Universalis.

[Malthus]

Newspaper article in the travel section of an online news page: "Hardly anyone knows Ayutthaya."

I presume the knowledge increases if you've played Europa Universalis.

Heh. 

I imagine most tourists who have been to Thailand know something about it - at least, the ones interested in visiting historic ruins, rather than just the beaches and the Patpong Road sex shows. 

[Eddie Teach]

Ah, the weird ones. 

[alfred russel]

I recently moved back into my condo. My neighbor is a ~50 year old guy with serious drug problems with drug friends constantly coming over. He is a nice drug addict, but the HOA is harassing him constantly to try to convince him to leave. For example, he complained to my girlfriend, "the HOA keeps telling me that they know prostitution is going on in my place and that is unacceptable. I tell them that the girls staying over are not prostitutes and are good girls. Maybe they have sex for money when they really need drugs, but they aren't normally prostitutes."

Last night, before I got home, one of the ladies from his place knocked on our door and asked my girlfriend if we had vinegar because she was making hard boiled eggs. My girlfriend is certain that it was for drug stuff and today found that vinegar is somehow used by heroin users...

So what says languish? Was the vinegar for hard boiled eggs or drugs?

[Josquius]

Never heard of that one.
But never heard of it being used for boiled eggs either.

[Barrister]

So what says languish? Was the vinegar for hard boiled eggs or drugs?

YOu just know it was for drugs...