The Off Topic Topic

[Richard Hakluyt]

Looking at google maps Handforth is a place of small detached houses; it is very near to Manchester airport and has a miniature railway. Clearly a place populated by Tories, kippers and retired accountants with Orcish tendencies. There may be a lot of golfers too.

So, from my point of view, the fifth circle of Hell.

South Manchester/Wilmslowy bit of Cheshire. V suspicious.

Cheshire is really in the Midlands 

On a more positive note I'm now thinking of Cheshire cheese and this is the best I've found  https://www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk/products/applebys-cheshire
Really delightful and nothing like the industrial shrink-wrapped Cheshires.

[The Larch]

In my Aunt's case it was because of her job many, many years ago.

Where does/did she work? It'd be quite the coincidence if it was the same place that my mother had to go to on her trips. 

[Razgovory]

Kroger is closing two stores in California because the local city council passed a law mandating "hero pay" for people who work in grocery stores (and presumably other occupations with come in contact with covid on a regular basis).  It's an increase of 4 bucks.

I think I'll go to Schnuck's for a while.

[Maladict]

Golden Earring' guitar player announces he has ALS, ending the band's 60 year run with the original line-up.
The only decent rock band we ever produced 

[Agelastus]

In my Aunt's case it was because of her job many, many years ago.

Where does/did she work? It'd be quite the coincidence if it was the same place that my mother had to go to on her trips. 

Ward Sister at the hospital; working mainly night shifts.

Her husband an ex-ICI Chemist turned Science Teacher.

So if your mother's travels were for work I think it unlikely their paths crossed.

[The Larch]

In my Aunt's case it was because of her job many, many years ago.

Where does/did she work? It'd be quite the coincidence if it was the same place that my mother had to go to on her trips. 

Ward Sister at the hospital; working mainly night shifts.

Her husband an ex-ICI Chemist turned Science Teacher.

So if your mother's travels were for work I think it unlikely their paths crossed.

My mom was also a chemist at ICI. 

[Agelastus]

In my Aunt's case it was because of her job many, many years ago.

Where does/did she work? It'd be quite the coincidence if it was the same place that my mother had to go to on her trips. 

Ward Sister at the hospital; working mainly night shifts.

Her husband an ex-ICI Chemist turned Science Teacher.

So if your mother's travels were for work I think it unlikely their paths crossed.

My mom was also a chemist at ICI. 

Well, people are always saying "it's a small world"...

[mongers]

Golden Earring' guitar player announces he has ALS, ending the band's 60 year run with the original line-up.
The only decent rock band we ever produced 

But you guys still have Alquin.

[celedhring]

Pretty nice article about people hunting down original samples to build high-fidelity versions of videogame soundtracks of yesteryear.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/super-high-fidelity-mario-the-quest-to-find-original-gaming-audio-samples/

Some of the examples given are pretty damn great. Always loved Super Metroid's OST.

[Maladict]

Golden Earring' guitar player announces he has ALS, ending the band's 60 year run with the original line-up.
The only decent rock band we ever produced 

But you guys still have Alquin.

They reformed in the 00s but I don't think they are around anymore.

[Syt]

Last week, police was "overwhelmed" because thousands of Corona deniers were protesting in Vienna and could do little to prevent them from gathering illegally. A few token arrests and fines, but not more. The gathering was not a surprise, and police had ample warning ahead of the date.

This week, a few hundred school kids have registered a protest against a recent deportation of asylum seekers who, for all intents and purposes, grew up in Vienna (came here as babies/toddlers with their mother, process till deportation took 11 years). Police will be there en masse, with support contingents brought in from the neighboring states of Lower Austria and Burgenland.

[Oexmelin]

Police are always overwhelmed when it comes to policing their ideological brethren. Kettling up lefties is familiar routine enough that they tread on familiar grounds.

[Syt]

Create your own Bayeux Tapestry!

https://htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/

[Syt]

This made me laugh more than it should:

[celedhring]

My film history professor gave us a similar "welcome" in our first day of film school.

Her: Do you love watching movies, sci-fi, weterns, action films, thrillers, dramas....?
Us: Yes!
Her: Well, I'm sorry to tell you that you will stop doing it!