The Off Topic Topic

[Sheilbh]

Finding the Sabina Nessa story really grim - it's a bit like Sarah Everard earlier this year. A woman making a short walk, in this case five minutes to the pub, and being kidnapped and murdered

Hopefully this time it won't be a policeman but it's just similarly grim and feels like one of several stranger murders we've had in the last few months which is the scariest sort of crime.

[Syt]

[Duque de Bragança]

Cultural Appropriation! 

[Richard Hakluyt]

 

What to drink with it though? German "champagne" perhaps 

[Josquius]

Hitler is rolling in his grave.

(in Argentina)

[Syt]

What to drink with it though? German "champagne" perhaps 

That would be Sekt.

That said, kebab pizza can be great. One Turkish pizza/chicken/kebab place here made a mean kebab pizza

[Duque de Bragança]

What to drink with it though? German "crémant" or "vin effervescent" perhaps 

Fixed! Syt is correct obviously but I guess out of deference for BoJo's French language education you needed a perfectly legal French translation. 

[Syt]

https://twitter.com/Cintari_/status/1441489827212443650?s=20

Why do programmers confuse Christmas with Halloween? Because Oct 31 is Dec 25.

[DGuller]

 

[Josquius]

Something about base 8 and base 10 numbers?

[Eddie Teach]

Come on, that was good. Kudos to the person who made the connection.

[Tamas]

Janos Baksa-Soos, a 73 years old ex-musician died in Germany yesterday.

His fate is a very brutal example of what oppressive regimes can do to people's lives.

I didn't even hear about him until a few years ago. He was the songwriter-singer frontman of a Hungarian rock band called Kex. It was a band which lasted about 3 years at the very end of the 60s. There's barely any recording of theirs which has survived.

So no wonder I never heard of him until reading some articles some years ago, but a LOT of famous and/or influential Hungarian rock musicians who got to fame in the 70s name him as their main inspiration due to his stage presence, lyrics, etc.

Clearly, in a more open society he was destined to become a star. But his care-free attitude when it came to authority really seemed to disagree with the communist state. He was constantly hounded by the police. Harassed, arrested, even beaten several times. They just made it impossible to him to live, so he fled to Western Germany in 1971. He never played in a band again, he became some sort of a graphics/performance artist I think. As I understand he was known in the Berlin scene but that's about it.

[ulmont]

Come on, that was good. Kudos to the person who made the connection.

I don't have the book handy to doublecheck, but I remember Isaac Asimov's "Black Widowers" mystery stories had a story with this theme and I'm pretty sure the name was "Halloween."

[grumbler]

Something about base 8 and base 10 numbers?

Yes.  Octal 31 (abbreviated oct 31) is the same as decimal 25 (abbreviated dec 25).

And yes, I had to look that up.

[Tamas]

I hope y'all going to go to the Hunting "World Fair" in Hungary. They spent criminally insane amounts of money on it with the excuse of it attracting one million visitors.

I mean, where else you could walk on the set of the Hannibal series' next season?