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Josquius

#94035
June 10, 2025, 09:08:15 PM Last Edit: June 10, 2025, 09:10:46 PM by Josquius
I accidentally left my bottle/flask at the reception desk of the hostel/hotel where I'm staying.
I realised I'd lost it an hour or two later and went to ask.
After a brief bit of awkwardness where the black receptionist looked at me funny as I asked if she had seen my botella negra she realised what I was talking about and went to get it....
... It was in the little toilet room next to the reception desk. On the floor next to the toilet.
.... I... Have my bottle back.
But.... I don't want to drink from it anymore.
Why the hell would she leave it there?
I need to figure out a way to cleanse it.
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Razgovory

#94036
June 11, 2025, 02:12:51 AM
Damn old fogeys pulling the fire alarm.  Woke me up!
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Tamas

#94037
June 12, 2025, 03:02:24 AM
A Hungarian county's riot police enrolled the help of a local high school to practice the dispersing of passive demonstrators. The kids were used to be the demonstrators, obviously.

crazy canuck

#94038
June 12, 2025, 06:28:52 AM
Good to see the schools are giving how to lessons in passive resistance

viper37

#94039
June 13, 2025, 09:04:28 AM
Hammerhead shark falls from sky onto disc golf course in South Carolina

And I bet you all laughed at the Sharknado creators, right?  Visionaries, they were!  :sleep:
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Razgovory

#94040
June 14, 2025, 11:19:21 AM
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Razgovory

#94041
June 14, 2025, 12:02:43 PM


I love procedural generated quests.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

grumbler

#94042
June 14, 2025, 01:17:03 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on June 14, 2025, 11:19:21 AMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY-PtJ-wqQM

Sigh.

Absurdism has its place.  That vid would have been better if she'd had fake burned finger skins in the toaster that she could just push her fingers into and then pull them out.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Crazy_Ivan80

#94043
June 14, 2025, 01:55:27 PM
Quote from: grumbler on June 14, 2025, 01:17:03 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on June 14, 2025, 11:19:21 AMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY-PtJ-wqQM

Sigh.

Absurdism has its place.  That vid would have been better if she'd had fake burned finger skins in the toaster that she could just push her fingers into and then pull them out.

additional points if these fingers are made of actual bread

Sheilbh

#94044
June 16, 2025, 02:13:36 PM
Struck again at the weird dichotomy with the NYT. They've just hired Anton Jager to do a column on European politics - which is good. He's a really interesting writer and thinker.

He is also very much part of fairly hard-left circles intellectually. And it sort of shows in his previous opinion pieces mainly being in radical think tanks, Jacobin and the New Left Review - as I say I like him a lot.

But it's really weird how, when looking for commentary on the US, the NYT is fairly centrist, with "respectable" representatives of both sides (you think of Douthat and Salam). But when it comes to covering Europe they hire people who would, at best, be the subjects of articles in the NYT and would basically never get in the front door - former RT "satirist" Jonathan Pie, commentators from radical small presses.

Not necessarily a bad thing just a weird personality split :lol: (FWIW I actually think they could probably do with hiring more of those types to comment on the US too...)
Let's bomb Russia!

HVC

#94045
June 16, 2025, 04:26:57 PM
The workers at the louvre are on strike over over tourism  :ph34r: 
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Josquius

#94046
June 17, 2025, 07:22:51 AM Last Edit: June 17, 2025, 07:33:03 AM by Josquius
On Sunday I have an 8 hour lay over at Charles De Gaul :bleeding:
I need to figure out a plan of something to do.
Roaming the streets shouting petit pois only packs so much entertainment.
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Syt

#94047
June 17, 2025, 07:39:18 AM
Quote from: Josquius on June 17, 2025, 07:22:51 AMOn Sunday I have an 8 hour lay over at Charles De Gaul :bleeding:
I need to figure out a plan of something to do.
Roaming the streets shouting petit pois only packs so much entertainment.

Spent 3 hours between 5 an 8 am there once (though tbf that was 20 years ago). The most exciting thing during this time was the French guards clearing out or gate for some reason or other for half an hour.
We are born dying, but we are compelled to fancy our chances.
- hbomberguy

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Maladict

#94048
June 17, 2025, 09:35:19 AM
Quote from: Josquius on June 17, 2025, 07:22:51 AMOn Sunday I have an 8 hour lay over at Charles De Gaul :bleeding:
I need to figure out a plan of something to do.
Roaming the streets shouting petit pois only packs so much entertainment.

Read a book?

crazy canuck

#94049
June 17, 2025, 09:48:40 AM
Take the RER to Gare du Nord, explore a bit, find a cafe and watch the world go by with a glass of wine, then return in time for your flight.
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