The Off Topic Topic

[garbon]

I'm glad my heritage does not include hunting snakes.

[Syt]

[CountDeMoney]

I'm glad my heritage does not include hunting snakes.

THATS NOT WHAT I HEARD

[mongers]

This evening, 20 May, will be the 40th anniversary of Blondie's first European gig, it took place at ..... drum-roll .....

.... the Village Bowl, Glen Fern Road, Bournemouth. 

edit:
Report and photos here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-dorset-39972808/rare-photos-of-debbie-harry-and-blondie-performing-first-european-gig

[garbon]

I'm glad my heritage does not include hunting snakes.

THATS NOT WHAT I HEARD

Spill, girl.

[Syt]

A Languish relevant gif - posted for future use.

[celedhring]

The Spanish Socialist party membership re-elected their former Secretary-General Pedro Sánchez in yesterday's primary, after being forced out by the party establishment earlier this year. Comparisons with Corbyn may apply (although he's not as far to the left as Corbyn is).

[grumbler]

A Languish relevant gif - posted for future use.

You are a few years too late with that one.  I'm pretty sure it was used here back when it came out.

[The Brain]

I'll get my croat.

[Tonitrus]

It serbs you right. 

[Zanza]

Meh, I am sitting at Ben Girton airport and apparently there is an issue with my passport, probably my Sudanese visa. Now I have to wait for a police interview or so. At least there is free Wifi and they give you sandwiches.

[Josquius]

Meh, I am sitting at Ben Girton airport and apparently there is an issue with my passport, probably my Sudanese visa. Now I have to wait for a police interview or so. At least there is free Wifi and they give you sandwiches.

Why are they wasting tax money on terrorists

[Liep]

In Milano, anything special to see that isn't in the first pages of the guides?

[Josquius]

Can't remember the name of it, but the ex industrial area in the south with all the canals is rather nice.

[CountDeMoney]

From the "Tough Shit" file...

South African hunter crushed to death by elephant
The Failing Telegraph
Stuart Graham, Johannesburg

21 May 2017 • 5:32pm

A South African big game hunter died after being crushed by an elephant cow that had been shot on a game reserve in Zimbabwe at the weekend.

Theunis Botha, 51, was leading a hunt with clients when the group accidentally walked into the middle of a breeding herd of elephants at the Good Luck Farm near Hwange National Park late on Friday afternoon, Zimparks spokesman Mr Simukai Nyasha said.

Three of the elephant cows charged the hunters. Mr Botha fired a shot from his rifle but he was caught by surprise by a fourth cow that stormed them from the side, the Afrikaans news site Netwerk24 reported.

One of the hunters shot the elephant after she lifted Botha with her trunk.The elephant then collapsed on top of Mr Botha, who has five children with his wife Carike Botha.

Mr Botha was a highly regarded houndsman and frequently led leopard and lion hunting safaris with his pack of dogs.

The website of his company Game Hounds Safaris says he pioneered traditional European-style "Monteria hunts" in southern Africa.

In Monteira hunts large packs of dogs are used to drive deer and boar towards hunters who then open fire on the animals.

Mr Botha was a specialist at hunting leopards with his big game hounds.

He would often travel to the United States to find wealthy customers to take part in trophy hunting in southern Africa.

Mr Botha's body was taken to Hwange Colliery Hospital mortuary on Saturday.

Condolences poured from hunters, who mourned the death of a "world-class houndsman" after Mrs Botha announced her husband's death on their joint Facebook page.

Mr Botha was close friends with Scott van Zyl, 44, who was killed by crocodiles while hunting in Zimbabwe last month.

Mr Van Zyl was on a hunt at the Chikwaraka camp in Zimbabwe when he disappeared on April 7.

His backpack was found on the banks of the Limpopo River days later.

DNA samples taken from contents found in the stomachs of two crocodiles that were shot during the search matched Mr Van Zyl.

Last year a tourist, Stephen Coetzee was trampled to death by a female elephant in Hwange National Park.

Mr Coetzee, from Bulawayo, was taking pictures of the animals when they charged.

Villagers in Hwange and the surrounding nearby areas often complained of losing livestock and crops to elephants in the area.