The Off Topic Topic

[alfred russel]

Hot water heater has started leaking. It has now been turned off. Cold showers will help me get ready faster each morning.

I unsuccessfully tried to drain the hot water heater. Hopefully it does not rupture and destroy the home of those living below me. But if it does, I hope they enjoy the warm water I send their way.

[alfred russel]

I shall baptise the condo below me in the warm waters of my dying water heater.

[Sheilbh]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f6f4d6b4-ca2e-11e3-ac05-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=uk#axzz31RjW1qCG
This is an outstanding piece of reporting. Worth registering just to get this free article.

[jimmy olsen]

A fat old Viennese guy was berating a foreigner in foul language for not speaking German.

I read this as Vietnamese the first time and was impressed by the level of assimilation! 

[jimmy olsen]

Neat!

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/02/new-find-hits-cambrian-fossil-jackpot-again/

[Ideologue]

Apropos of absolutely nothing, and perhaps something you folks were aware of, but I wasn't:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_to_Hell

Forty-three years.

[garbon]

Apropos of absolutely nothing, and perhaps something you folks were aware of, but I wasn't:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_to_Hell

Forty-three years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire

52 years now!

[Ed Anger]

Please. Buckeyes set our rivers on fire. Beat that.

[Ideologue]

Apropos of absolutely nothing, and perhaps something you folks were aware of, but I wasn't:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_to_Hell

Forty-three years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire

52 years now!

USA!

[Josquius]

Ah Japanese TV.
Today I'm watching a show called "You ha nani shi ni Nihon he" or why did you come to Japan.
Its basically two hours of a Japanese camera crew hanging around Narita airport and interrogating foreigners about what they're doing in Japan. From small boxes in the corner of the screen a unfunny comedy duo watch and comment.
The foreigners they pick on are grossly unrepresentative of the sort of people who come to Japan. For some reason every show there seem to be several so-so looking european models that they perv on. hmm....

[Liep]

Funny, I read an article yesterday about 2 Danes that were in that show. They kept following them around as they traveled Japan though.

[Josquius]

Funny, I read an article yesterday about 2 Danes that were in that show. They kept following them around as they traveled Japan though.

They do that with some people that seem interesting.
I recall once they followed some weird Norwegians who had a pet chicken and were running around in the snow naked and generally warding Japanese from ever visiting Norway.

edit- are those 2 Danes a pair of teenage guys travelling around for 9 months together?

[Liep]

Yes, those were the ones.

[The Brain]

Gay.

[Josquius]

It did seem a bit so.

They came on just 10 minutes after I first replied. Wow they must be from rich families to be able to travel around for 9 months like that.