The Off Topic Topic

[Jacob]

Do jews tell boring rambling stories about the Holocaust at family gatherings?

I've never come across it, no. It's not really an anecdote topic for most people, I don't think.

[Josquius]

Such a shitty flight yesterday.
First the paranoia of getting tested and making sure everything is in place.... Oh for the care free pre covid and baby travel times.
Then once we are through and our gate is just about the be announced instead of a gate it flashes up... Delayed over 2 hours
Zero aid is coming from the airline and not much choice of airport food to be had. And oh so expensive.
The second time comes around.... Nothing announced when it should be. I finally find someone form the airline for an explanation - another flight at an airport 100 miles away has been cancelled so they've delayed our flight to bus people up from there to join us.
Gahhh.
Once the plane landed then it was stuck on the runway for nearly half an hour due to a problem with the stairs _we ultimately had to enter the terminal through the fire escape. Big windy dangerous metal stairs. How elderly people managed I don't know. And no push chair returned at the gate. So we had to carry the baby through a good km of airport
Oh. And it was a bad allergy day. Winning. Such a winning day.

[Jacob]

That sucks

[Grey Fox]

Air lines are assholes. Should have driven in your own privately owned vehicle.

Or better don't travel.

[ulmont]

Well, the Puerto Rican Ninjas are about to destroy me in LFFL 20 in the Quarterfinals.

...However, the reason is that Tom Brady and Leonard Fournette didn't do shit and the Saints beat the Bucs 9-0.  I'll take it.

WHO DAT!

[Savonarola]

I once saw a headline in the BBC's online edition which read "Should You Keep a Stiff Upper Lip?"  (The answer was "Yes", of course.)  That seemed like the most British headline possible.  I was reminded of that when I saw the following headline in the Globe and Mail:

If maple syrup stops flowing like it did in the springs of my youth, what will Canada become?

[Josquius]

The release date of the NES was closer to ww2 than the modern day.

[mongers]

The release date of the NES was closer to ww2 than the modern day.

We need an :Olds: smiley, though then again the whole board might now qualify for that.

[Duque de Bragança]

In Japan? 4 more years to get to Europe back then, with intra-European region locking.

[Syt]

So new chat messages of disgraced ÖVP functionary Schmid have leaked. They are from his time in the finance ministry and his trying to accommodate an entrepreneur who was attempting to get out of a multi-million taxes to be paid after an audit. In one of the internal messages a cabinet aide raised concerns about the legality of this to which Schmid replied, "Don't forget - you're working in an ÖVP cabinet. You're a whore for the rich!" 

[Eddie Teach]

We don't have any parties where that couldn't be said. 

[celedhring]

A friend of mine just wished "Happy Canukkah" on Facebook.

You Canadians should absolutely make this happen.

[Barrister]

A friend of mine just wished "Happy Canukkah" on Facebook.

You Canadians should absolutely make this happen.

Canukkah.  I like it.

[Josquius]

Languish has finally died

[Grey Fox]

No, still kicking.