The Off Topic Topic

[garbon]

Live stream of a burning of a model of London to memorialize the 350 year anniversary of the Great Fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuaok2c1tao&feature=player_embedded

[Savonarola]

RIP Fred Hellerman, last surviving member of The Weavers.  Today The Weavers are probably better remembered for being blacklisted or having Pete Seeger in the group than anything they sang.  (Thanks to Kurt Cobain hipsters of my generation may know that they sang the anemic hit version of Leadbelly's Goodnight Irene the year after Leadbelly died.)  My parents were folkies, so I listened to them quite a bit as I was growing up.

[Josquius]

We're getting the first proper rain in what feels like months. It's nice. Makes the temperature more reasonable and ensures there won't be loud people on the streets at night so I can sleep with my window open.
I can't wait for the weather machine that perfectly controls weather and ensures it rains at night whilst the days remain fine.

[Ed Anger]

Yay! I got a total of 3 hours sleep. Fun times.

[Tamas]

For Tamas:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sex-crazed-spiders-big-mice-8761332#rlabs=1%20rt$category%20p$4
Sex-crazed spiders as big as MICE set to invade homes after lying in wait all summer

I mean, as summer ends, spiders and all kinds of bugs try to make their way in to the house that's pretty standard. Except, I am used to being freaked out over spiders less than half the size of these ones. That's what constitutes a "huge spider" back home.

[garbon]

No Keith Vaz thread yet? http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37269919

Politicians caught in gay scandals seems so trite these days. Though I do like how he was voice of support to keep poppers out of banned substances as well as judging whether prostitution should be legal.

[grumbler]

It's the 50th anniversary of the start of filming for The Prisoner.



http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-37232329

Loved that show.  Only three people have seen Gone with the Wind more times than I have seen The Prisoner series.

[Ed Anger]

Now I want to watch it again. Or at least the opening with the cool music.

[Grey Fox]

Woha, I haven't watched that in 20 years.

[mongers]

Woha, I haven't watched that in 20 years.

I lived it these past two decades.

[Valmy]

I thought this was clever

[CountDeMoney]

Lol, just misses sitting on a bus stop bench all fucking day like a retard.

[Zanza]

I got a letter from the bank of my long dead grandmother where they informed me about a change in their general terms & conditions. I wasn't even aware that I am a customer there. 

[mongers]

I got a letter from the bank of my long dead grandmother where they informed me about a change in their general terms & conditions. I wasn't even aware that I am a customer there. 

Comb through the T&Cs, there's some money in a dormant account of hers that they're trying to nab, whilst slyly 'informing' you, but not making you aware of the fact. 

[Zanza]

I wrote them an e-mail and asked them whether there is an account in my name.