The Off Topic Topic

[Valmy]

Youtube is down!

Oh is that it? I was wondering if it was me.

[Jacob]

Oh is that it? I was wondering if it was me.

You feeling down?

[Valmy]

Oh is that it? I was wondering if it was me.

You feeling down?

I was when I thought my internet connection was fucking up for some reason

[Josquius]

Soooo.... My gf just lost out at a job interview for not being Christian enough. Little indication this was a faith school. Seems every school advertising for jobs these days is religious, its mad. And scary.

[Malthus]

Soooo.... My gf just lost out at a job interview for not being Christian enough. Little indication this was a faith school. Seems every school advertising for jobs these days is religious, its mad. And scary.

"Religious? I'm very religious. I pray every single day - after all, Cthulhu will not rise from the the sunken city of R'ley without our daily prayers ..."

[Valmy]

Interesting...what kind of religions? Evangelical types where you need to sign one of those statements of faith to work there?

[HVC]

In ontario you don't have to be Catholic to go to catholic school, but in the past teachers had to be Catholic (don't know if its still true, but was when i was in school). Teacher once told me he needed a letter from his priest to enter the board, but i don't know if he was pulling my leg haha

[Josquius]

Interesting...what kind of religions? Evangelical types where you need to sign one of those statements of faith to work there?

CoE oddly

[Malthus]

In ontario you don't have to be Catholic to go to catholic school, but in the past teachers had to be Catholic (don't know if its still true, but was when i was in school). Teacher once told me he needed a letter from his priest to enter the board, but i don't know if he was pulling my leg haha

Apparently he wasn't pulling your leg:

https://cpl.oise.utoronto.ca/program_certificate/teaching-in-ontarios-catholic-schools/

[Valmy]

Interesting...what kind of religions? Evangelical types where you need to sign one of those statements of faith to work there?

CoE oddly

Oh well that's not so bad...at least according to Eddie Izzard.

[Barrister]

In ontario you don't have to be Catholic to go to catholic school, but in the past teachers had to be Catholic (don't know if its still true, but was when i was in school). Teacher once told me he needed a letter from his priest to enter the board, but i don't know if he was pulling my leg haha

Apparently he wasn't pulling your leg:

https://cpl.oise.utoronto.ca/program_certificate/teaching-in-ontarios-catholic-schools/

I dated a teacher for about a year.  She started out at a on-reserve school, then got a job at a Catholic school in High Prairie.  She was not Catholic - but you had to be respectful of the views of the Church.  I even went with her to mass on Sunday a couple of times just to keep her company and because it was good for her to be seen.

[Maladict]

Only in Belgium...

Belgian manhunt for soldier on terror-watch list goes on


In this photo provided by the Belgian Federal Police on Wednesday, May 19, 2021, an undated photo of Jurgen Conings. Authorities in Belgium are searching a second day for an armed man who is on a terror watch list because of his extreme right sympathies and who had threatened several people. (Belgian Federal Police via AP)

BRUSSELS – Belgian forces kept up their manhunt for an armed soldier who is on a terror watch list because of his extreme right sympathies while the government remained nonplussed over how a known threat to society could have had access to an array of heavy weapons.

The man had already threatened several people, including a top virologist, over the past few weeks, before he was able to leave an army camp with guns and four missile launchers.

"The real question is of course: how is this possible," asked Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, adding that the 46-year-old Jurgen Conings had been on the radar of the Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis, which assesses terror threats.

"Someone who has already made threats in the past — that this man within Defense has access to weapons and can even take those weapons with him," De Croo said. "It is unacceptable."

Meanwhile, authorities had recovered his car in northeastern Belgium. "Four missile launchers and ammunition were found in it," Belgian federal prosecutor Wenke Roggen said. Throughout Wednesday authorities kept combing through the rugged terrain from Limburg province to Conings.

Authorities put out a search bulletin for the bald-shaven and tattooed Conings, who has been missing since late Monday. It warned the public not to approach Conings should they see him. It also asked Conings to turn himself in.

Local media reported he had left several farewell notes.

Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne described the man as an "acute threat" known for his extreme right sympathies. Earlier this month, he had threatened several people, including Marc Van Ranst, one of the best-known virologists working on containing the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a Twitter message early Wednesday, Van Ranst said that "let one thing be clear: such threats do not make an impression on me."

De Croo insisted that the defense forces and the security services come up with a proposal as soon as Thursday "to prevent such a thing from ever happening again."

[Josquius]

Minor local non story.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/bigg-market-pub-blackie-boy-20628439?fbclid=IwAR2MWrJk3YWeC12hO8ieqp22KKBjBVyzZVAgppOP3X_hwD5lJm0NTrR1QMQ

Gadgie pub in an unfashionable part of the city centre called Blackie Boy is planning renovations. As part of this they plan to change the name to something more modern.
This pub has been called numerous things over the years albeit has had its current name for 50 years or so.
Owner in what I suspect is amazing marketing says its because he doesn't want to offend anyone.
Local rag picks up on this.
Local Facebook pages explode with rage against the woke brigade.
It's.... So bloody post 2016.

[Valmy]

Woke, SJW, and so forth has kind of come just to mean that everybody who is against racism or whatever in any way is part of some kind of irrational conspiracy to destroy everything to the reactionaries.

[Jacob]

Woke, SJW, and so forth has kind of come just to mean that everybody who is against racism or whatever in any way is part of some kind of irrational conspiracy to destroy everything to the reactionaries.

Indeed. This weekend I saw an article in one of Canada's national papers that explicitly lumped anti-racism, antifa, wokeness, the use of the word privilige, sensitivity training, gender studies, and diversity in the workplace into one big lump (a bad lump, of course).