The Off Topic Topic

[The Brain]

What is "it" in this case and how does it backfire? The criminals claiming not to be racists doesn't sound like a shocker.

[Duque de Bragança]

What is "it" in this case and how does it backfire? The criminals claiming not to be racists doesn't sound like a shocker.

Playing the race card all the time can backfire, specially in a non-racially motivated assault.
Plus the criminals cannot be racist, one of them is  the son of a PD councillor (centre-left party), not from Salvini's party, and they do not associate with racist scum, come on.

[garbon]

A Gallic attempt at humor?

[Duque de Bragança]

More on the case, in Italian

http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/articoli/Moncalieri-identificati-tre-giovani-cha-hanno-lanciato-uova-che-hanno-colpito-Daisy-Osakue-11489a62-b3e0-44b7-b05b-f9de617b15b3.html?wt_mc=2.social.tw.rainews_xxx.&wt

Long story short, it's not the first egg thrown, but it's the first one to have injured someone.

Moncalieri, identificati aggressori Daisy Osakue. Denunciati per lesioni e omissione di soccorso Ai carabinieri hanno raccontato di aver lanciato le uova per "goliardia". Sono stati denunciati per lesioni e omissione di soccorso

Il veicolo era stato segnalato precedentemente da una donna residente a Moncalieri, che qualche giorno prima era stata vittima di un analogo lancio di uova, per fortuna senza conseguenze.

English wikipedia article on Daisy Osakue has other Italian sources as well:

On 30 July 2018, in Moncalieri near Turin, young people threw an egg on her driving alongside. At first it was thought to a possible case of racism.[4][5] The eye needed to be operated to remove a fragment of the egg shell. The Italian police said it is the third episode in the last days and always with different targets. A pensioner reported the launch of eggs against his house in the night of 14 to 15 July. On 25 July before midnight three women were hit by eggs thrown out of a passing by car on the arm while leaving a street restaurant in the same part of Turin.[6][7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Osakue

[Syt]

Looking at NGO jobs. The Red Noses are looking for "Head of Clown Department". 

[Duque de Bragança]

This one is for Syt. No pisswetter in Holstein this time though, so "often inundated with mud" is harsh IMO but it does happen sometimes.
Still probaby more bearable than in Vienna.

https://www.dw.com/en/elderly-men-escape-nursing-home-to-go-to-wacken-metal-festival/a-44955305

Elderly men escape nursing home to go to Wacken metal festival
A German nursing home alerted police after they noticed two men were missing. They were later found at 3 a.m. at the Wacken Open Air metal festival.

wacken fan (picture-alliance/Eibner-Pressefoto/D. Jacobs)
Two elderly German men escaped the confines of their nursing home on Friday to attend Wacken Open Air, police said.

The nursing home alerted police after the gentlemen were found to be missing from the center.

Police then found the aging metalheads at 3 a.m. at Wacken Open Air, the world's biggest heavy metal festival. A police spokeswoman said they were "disoriented and dazed."

The men were reluctant to leave the four-day festival so police escorted them home with the help of a taxi and a patrol car.

"They obviously liked the metal festival," police spokeswoman Merle Neufeld told public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk. "The care home quickly organized a return transport after police picked them up."

Read more: German metalheads construct beer pipeline for Wacken

Wacken 2018: Mad about heavy metal
Sold out

The 29th edition of the legendary festival was fully sold out, with 75,000 people expected to attend the four-day festival.

Headline acts this year include Danzig, Judas Priest, Hatebreed, In Flames, Running Wild, Arch Enemy, In Extremo and Eskimo Callboy.

The festival in Schleswig Holstein is often inundated with mud, but this year a heatwave saw organizers warn fans against fire and dust risks.

Police praised revelers this year for good behavior with little interference needed from police beside a few minor drug seizures.

[Syt]

Yep, seen the news.

[Josquius]

Did they climb out of the window?

[Maladict]

What is "Outdated infrastructure everywhere"?

US highways are pretty mediocre. It's almost like driving in Belgium.

[Duque de Bragança]

What is "Outdated infrastructure everywhere"?

US highways are pretty mediocre. It's almost like driving in Belgium.

[Tamas]

North-Eastern US motorway conditions were kind of a letdown. I am not saying they were bad, but nothing to get excited about.

[crazy canuck]

Overall I did find SF way overhyped though, and have little interest in returning.

To be honest, I think it is for a certain type of tourist (those who want to see things like Fisherman's Wharf, ride a cable car, etc.). Though perhaps untrue now with the rise of rents, I think SF is more a city for living in than visiting as a tourist (unless say you are revisiting as a former resident). Doesn't really have the same sort of monumental attractions that you can get from other American cities.  With SF, it is more about the immediate environs with the Marin headlands, going up to Napa or down to Monterrey.

I agree, SF is at its most enjoyable when you spend time just living in the city with trips to Napa if you need more wine.

[Syt]

[Maladict]

 

[The Brain]