The Off Topic Topic

[DGuller]

What do you expect him to do?  If he asked the owner "Can I please have sex with your dog", do you think he would've received a positive response?  Breaking in was his only reasonable option.

[Razgovory]

Today I discovered that there is a Cold Stone in town.  Tasty.

[Josephus]

A Rotweiller? Scary.

[Admiral Yi]

The Big Dirk threw out the first pitch at the Rangers game last night but I didn't see if he made a good throw or not.

[Syt]

After a long break I've bought GEO Epoche, a German quarterly about history. They usually cover a topic rather well on their 170 pages, but I hate their style of writing: They like short sentences. And incomplete ones. Because they think it's cool. And adds tension. Well, all it does is irritate me.

Anyways, their topic this time is England - Rise of a Great Power 1066-1660 and covers:
- 1066: Norman Conquest
- 1215: King John and the Magna Carta
- 1381: Peasant Revolt (and peasants' everyday life)
- 1337-1453: Hundred Years War, with focus on Agincourt
- 1455-1485: Richard III and the War of the Roses
- 1475: Portrait of London as trade city
- 1530-1540: Thomas Cromwell, advisor of Henry VIII
- 1533-1603: Queen Elizabeth
- 1642-1660: The Civil War

There's also three short articles about the origins of the legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood and about the first English colony in Ameria.

[Josquius]

Interesting they skip the Tudor Henrys. They're the major focus in British colleges about the early days of England's rise- 7's unglamourous but very effective accounting and beginning to exert central power and then 8 with the obvious break from Rome.

[Slargos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxHPW-l88f0&feature=youtu.be



Maybe there IS something to grumbler's insane accusations about American police officers. 

[Syt]

Well, they cover H8 in the context of Thomas Cromwell but focus on the advisor's rise, work and demise.

Come to think of it, English history seems dotted with people who rose up from (relative) obscurity to become highly influential only to end up being executed.

[mongers]

Well, they cover H8 in the context of Thomas Cromwell but focus on the advisor's rise, work and demise.

Come to think of it, English history seems dotted with people who rose up from (relative) obscurity to become highly influential only to end up being executed.

I think it's called having a reactionary ruling class, see Jeffrey Archer et al. 

[Grey Fox]

- 1381: Peasant Revolt (and peasants' everyday life)

This could be interesting.

[CountDeMoney]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxHPW-l88f0&feature=youtu.be



Maybe there IS something to grumbler's insane accusations about American police officers. 

Don't fuck with people who fuck with people for a living.

[Habbaku]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxHPW-l88f0&feature=youtu.be



Maybe there IS something to grumbler's insane accusations about American police officers. 

Don't fuck with people who fuck with people for a living.

[The Brain]

- 1381: Peasant Revolt (and peasants' everyday life)

This could be interesting.

[Tonitrus]

So much for Taiwan being a free country vis-a-vis the ChiComs....

Food Blogger Jailed for Calling Noodles "Too Salty"
Published June 24, 2011 | NewsCore
 
TAIPEI -- A woman was jailed for 30 days by a Taiwanese court for writing on her food blog that a restaurant's noodles were too salty.
The blogger, named only as Liu, visited a Taichung beef noodle restaurant in 2008 and wrote on her blog that the cuisine there was "too salty," that the venue was unsanitary because there were cockroaches and that the owner was a "bully," the Taipei Times reported Thursday.
The restaurant's owner, known as Yang, learned about the review from a regular customer and sued Liu for defamation.
The Taichung District Court found that Liu's comments about the cockroaches were a "narration of the facts" but ruled that her criticism of the restaurant exceeded reasonable bounds because she only tried the noodles and two side dishes.
She was sentenced to 30 days in detention, two years of probation and was ordered her to pay $6,900 in compensation to the restaurant after an inspection found that the conditions were sanitary.
Liu, who apologized to the restaurant, was told by the judge that she could not appeal against the decision.
Yang said that he hoped the case would teach her a lesson.
Huang Cheng-lee, a lawyer in Taichung, said that bloggers who post restaurant reviews should remember to be "truthful, objective and fair" and should post photographs to support their comments.

[Neil]

So much for Taiwan being a free country vis-a-vis the ChiComs....

It's the sort of thing that you'd see in the UK.