The Off Topic Topic

[Habbaku]

Mass protests now. And some polling stations are releasing the real results, which show him losing in a landslide.

[Sheilbh]

No idea what'll happen. Apparently protests are nation-wide and they'd moved a lot of regional security forces into Minsk to protect the capital.

Also unknown - what Russia will do.

[Sheilbh]

However mincemeat is fruit and nuts and spices with suet.

I mean, it's the logical progression

[Tonitrus]

Lukashenko to win the election with 80% of the votes, I am shocked I tell you.

But it's not as smooth this time, as polling stations have to get rid of bags and bags of inconvenient votes.
https://twitter.com/mediazona_by/status/1292417602791321602

Not a good night for Belarus

https://twitter.com/tutby/status/1292538957440389126

What's happening here, please?

As the text says, and video shows (it's fuzzy, I know)...there are several cops (OMON are basically all-purpose federal cops) trying to arrest some dude, and you have the crowd moving in en masse to beat the cops off...I think I see one at least doing a near drop kick on one there. 

[Razgovory]

Cat killed two mice, but destroyed a TV.  So it's sort of a wash.

[mongers]

Lukashenko to win the election with 80% of the votes, I am shocked I tell you.

But it's not as smooth this time, as polling stations have to get rid of bags and bags of inconvenient votes.
https://twitter.com/mediazona_by/status/1292417602791321602

Not a good night for Belarus

https://twitter.com/tutby/status/1292538957440389126

What's happening here, please?

Moscow reporting:

Wrong sort of ballot-box stuffing in-line delays arrival of Lukashenko election victory.

[DGuller]

Also unknown - what Russia will do.

That's the real unknown here.  Lukeshenko had dozens of Wagner people arrested publicly a couple of weeks ago, and accused them of plotting a bloodbath.  I imagine Russians weren't too pleased, unless this is some sort of a super-complex conspiracy scheme.  They may want Lukeshenko gone, just because he's too strong of a personality for them, but at the same time I don't see Russia supporting any kind of uprising.  Russians have publicly supported mass slaughter of protesters before, just as a matter of principle.

My prediction is that Russia will fan the flames for a little while, before they step in to bail out Lukashenko.  They'll get to crush an uprising and make a real vassal out of him at the same time.

[The Brain]

My prediction is that Russia will fan the flames for a little while, before they step in to bail out Lukashenko.  They'll get to crush an uprising and make a real vassal out of him at the same time.

It's a good rehearsal for November as well.

[Eddie Teach]

Nyuk nyuk.

[Sheilbh]

Just found out that Geri Halliwell and Priti Patel went to the same school and, based on their Wikipedias*, were probably in the same year. Which has weirdly blown my mind


* I feel like Geri Halliwell's true age is more closely guarded than the Arc of the Covenant, and I'm not sure how truthful this is.

[Josquius]

She was always much older than the other spice girls iirc? Put in there as there had to be one with talent.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Patel's wiki entry says that she attended a comprehensive school, whereas Halliwell went to a grammar 

[Duque de Bragança]

Just found out that Geri Halliwell and Priti Patel went to the same school and, based on their Wikipedias*, were probably in the same year. Which has weirdly blown my mind


* I feel like Geri Halliwell's true age is more closely guarded than the Arc of the Covenant, and I'm not sure how truthful this is.

Anglo Wikipedia says she was born in 1972, for what it's worth.

[Sheilbh]

Patel's wiki entry says that she attended a comprehensive school, whereas Halliwell went to a grammar 

It's a lie. From the BBC article that is footnoted for that fact:

Born in London to Gujarati parents who fled Uganda in the 1960s, she was educated at Watford Grammar School for Girls.

I suppose most schools look like comps if you went to Eton

[Agelastus]

Interesting - it's been a while since I looked but almost all mention of her supposedly acting as a model for the covers of reprints of alleged Victorian-era erotica seem to have disappeared off the web.