The Off Topic Topic

[Ideologue]

You could spend fifteen years in imaginary training.  I've heard that can be put to use.

[jimmy olsen]

You could spend fifteen years in imaginary training.  I've heard that can be put to use.

An Ajuma like that shop lady can do a lot more for good or ill than I can.

[Lettow77]

I was able to find a good Southern-style honky tonk with live bluegrass, which has confederate flags and figurines of Confederate soldiers. (Disappointingly, none of them are little girls..) There, I was able to communicate the necessity of transmitting Southern culture, its inherent flaws and inadequacies, and how this relates to transience and mono no aware.

The lady (her title regained), defended her actions as being submission to my presumed desires; if she truly did not act out of base and impure motivations but rather a proper and praiseworthy desire to put others' preferences above her own, to the point of sacrificing her own value and decency, this is poignantly defensible. We stumbled over a discussion on the immorality of abortion, and I feel bringing Stannis's baseborn nephews into the discussion as a parable on the importance of treasuring kin and blood over expedience may have muddled things.

Needless to say, this is a very favorable turn of events. Life is quickly approaching the happy equilibrium of fulfillment that leaves no regrets, and a lack of binding ties that turn existence into a semimandatory prison.

[Josquius]

I think part of the story is missing there. You go right from finding a bluegrass bar to speaking of a lady regaining a title.

Lol, calling the cops on wife beating in an Asian country.  That shit's funny.

I  don't know about Korea, I would assume its similar, but in Japan if I were to call the cops for such a thing then they would come and they would make a big deal  of it. Its not like they've too much other crime to deal with and most importantly the wife beating was so bad that it bothered the neighbours, a foreign neighbour at that, how dare the husband shame Japan like so!

[derspiess]

Holy shit, it's Columbus Day.  Not a holiday for us, per se, but it means I get zero calls or "urgent" emails from annoying clients as I'm heading out to lunch, or to an important meeting, or leaving for the day.  Might actually get some shit done today.

[Sheilbh]

How big is the Madeleine story in England these days? I mean, if it can continue to make headlines here...

The Daily Express have been doing a 'new' story a week. I believe that other papers are joining in because the Scotland Yard taskforce have made progress so there's actually news.

[CountDeMoney]

How big is the Madeleine story in England these days? I mean, if it can continue to make headlines here...

The Daily Express have been doing a 'new' story a week. I believe that other papers are joining in because the Scotland Yard taskforce have made progress so there's actually news.

It's on MSNBC's front page today.  America loves missing kid stories.

[Ed Anger]

As long as they are white. Chocolate kids, not so much.

MAH FEBREEZE' IS MISSING. OH MAH LAWD!

[Ed Anger]

I'm thinking of getting the Christmas tree down from the garage attic, staring at the tangled lights and then punching myself in the nuts.

[merithyn]

How big is the Madeleine story in England these days? I mean, if it can continue to make headlines here...

The Daily Express have been doing a 'new' story a week. I believe that other papers are joining in because the Scotland Yard taskforce have made progress so there's actually news.

What progress has been made?

[derspiess]

I'm thinking of getting the Christmas tree down from the garage attic, staring at the tangled lights and then punching myself in the nuts.

"Got a knot here, Russ" 

[CountDeMoney]

The Daily Express have been doing a 'new' story a week. I believe that other papers are joining in because the Scotland Yard taskforce have made progress so there's actually news.

What progress has been made?

They have top men working on it right now.  Top. Men.

[Ed Anger]

I'm thinking of getting the Christmas tree down from the garage attic, staring at the tangled lights and then punching myself in the nuts.

"Got a knot here, Russ" 

[Sheilbh]

What progress has been made?

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/14/british-detectives-efits-madeleine-mccann-suspect

The face of a suspect in the investigation of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been released to the public by detectives.

Police have issued two efits that they believe are descriptions of the same man, who is now being sought as a priority by the British detectives leading the new McCann inquiry.
...
It is only now, after Metropolitan police detectives cross-referenced all the information gathered by Portuguese detectives, private investigators and the mobile phone data from the resort, that the significance of the witness statements has been fully understood. In an appeal to be broadcast on Monday night on BBC1's Crimewatch, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood of the Metropolitan police will call for anyone who recognises the man to contact him immediately.

A 25-minute reconstruction of the events of 3 May 2007, with a child actor playing Madeleine, will also demonstrate that the accepted account and timeline of events on the night she went missing six years ago is wrong, police say.
...
The significance of the man has come to light as detectives have analysed tens of thousands of documents from the original investigation and mobile phone footprints in the resort on the night the child went missing.

Redwood said: "Our work to date has significantly changed the timeline and the accepted version of events that has been in the public domain to date."
...
Redwood said: "Through meticulously drawing together specific information, the team has been able to refocus the timeline and now places more significance on events that night.

"The timeline we have now established has given new significance to sightings and movements of people in and around Praia da Luz at the time of Madeleine's disappearance.

"I hope that when the public sees our investigative strands drawn together within the overall context of that appeal, it will bring in new information that moves our investigation forward."

Basically the Portuguese police fucked up a lot and then tried to blame the parents.

[fhdz]

I'm thinking of getting the Christmas tree down from the garage attic, staring at the tangled lights and then punching myself in the nuts.