The Off Topic Topic

[MadImmortalMan]

The US officially has more breweries now than ever before: 4,144.

Only took eight or nine decades to recover.




They must have been great kissers. Doesn't look worth it to me though. 

[Valmy]

Yeah the great tradition of American Beer making is finally back. That was a long and bleak dark age.

[DGuller]

They must have been great kissers.

I would've guessed that they were really not into kissing, and deliberately came up with demands they knew full well men could not meet.

[Syt]

I don't know why, but I suddenly feel a keen interest in learning Taekwondo.

[The Larch]

If she has a racket in her hand isn't she better off hitting the masked guy with it? 

[Eddie Teach]

Not if she can get more power with her kick.

[celedhring]

An attack while playing in a tennis court seems an awfully specific situation. Unless the magazine's criteria is teaching women how to defend themselves in places where they will wear shorts.   

[Syt]

An attack while playing in a tennis court seems an awfully specific situation. Unless the magazine's criteria is teaching women how to defend themselves in places where they will wear shorts.   

It was the 70s; the IRA could strike any time.

[Liep]

http://www.climatenetwork.org/fossil-of-the-day



Of all the horrible things the current government has done and said I think its policy of ruining 20-30 years of green politics is the worst. It seems they're hell-bent on dismantling the legacy of the great Svend Auken. It's just sad.

[Syt]

Denmark is turning weird in recent years.

[Liep]

Denmark is turning weird in recent years.

Yes, we've turned into a petty, racist and egocentric country because of the work of Anders Fogh and Pia Kjærsgaard.

[mongers]

I'm contemplating doing some minor professional courses next year and the exams are traditional sit down 3 hour affairs, several crammed into 2/3 days, something I've not done for 30 odd years. 

The grading and pass rates are traditional too ie somewhat variable and they do fail people, sometimes lots, one of the modules recently had a pass rate of only 33%. 

[Savonarola]

I'm contemplating doing some minor professional courses next year and the exams are traditional sit down 3 hour affairs, several crammed into 2/3 days, something I've not done for 30 odd years. 

The grading and pass rates are traditional too ie somewhat variable and they do fail people, sometimes lots, one of the modules recently had a pass rate of only 33%. 

Is this for some sort of certification?

[Syt]

If only Sheilbh was still here - a map for brutalist architecture in London:

http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2015/12/a-perfect-map-for-exploring-londons-brutalist-buildings/418608/?utm_source=atlfb

[jimmy olsen]

If only Sheilbh was still here - a map for brutalist architecture in London:

http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2015/12/a-perfect-map-for-exploring-londons-brutalist-buildings/418608/?utm_source=atlfb

Surely one of us can track him down and invite him back.