The Off Topic Topic

[The Larch]

Crisis is off (as far as the media is concerned), a Danish restaurant got 3 michelin stars for the first time. Now that is breaking news.

Noma? I thought it already had 3 stars.

[Liep]

Crisis is off (as far as the media is concerned), a Danish restaurant got 3 michelin stars for the first time. Now that is breaking news.

Noma? I thought it already had 3 stars.

No, just two. It's Geranium who won the 3 stars.

[Monoriu]

Crisis is off (as far as the media is concerned), a Danish restaurant got 3 michelin stars for the first time. Now that is breaking news.

Noma? I thought it already had 3 stars.

No, just two. It's Geranium who won the 3 stars.

We had lunch in Geranium last year.  It was good, but I'd say 2 stars. 

[Josquius]

Watching a few clips from the 1989/1990 football season... It's amazing how much lower the quality of football was back then. It would be interesting to see how the teams of that time would fare today; it seems even their division 1/premiership teams would struggle even in our modern division 3/league 1.

[Eddie Teach]

So you're saying that PEDs are rampant in today's Premier League?

[Josquius]

Nah.
The reasons are quite obvious really. As the money has sky rocketed the level of professionalism has followed. Where before players lived fairly normal lives apart from what the did for a job, now they're practically race horses, groomed since adolescence to be perfect playing machines working to finely tuned tactics.

[alfred russel]

And there are no drugs in race horsing.

[DGuller]

It's better nutrition and training regimen! 

[lustindarkness]

Day-O!

On the way to school my daughter was telling me what she learned about Harry Belafonte's Banana Boat Song. I made the mistake of youtoubing it and we listened to it. Now I can't get it out of my head and the Bettlejuice scene with that song keeps replaying in my mind. 

Daylight come and me wan' go home...

[derspiess]

Puppy monkey baby.

[Josquius]

There's a family on the train. A young boy and girl of 10 years old or so.
They're arguing and...wow. the boy sounds so....cliché.  so very little boy. You know what I mean, you could envision him dressed in faux sailor clothes and holding a lolly pop.
There's just something about french that has this effect.
So.
A theory.
The reason the french speaking world gives birth to so many charvas  ( I think they call them ragets or something? ) is a self awareness of the ponciness of their own language and a need to play the tough guy to a greater degree than normal so as to try and countreact this.

[Liep]

Parliament is now voting to dispose the manipulating minister, PM's only comment so far is vaguely talking about an election (in a weird Gordian knot metaphor that didn't make a lot of sense*) before going online to taunt and ridicule the support party who wants the minister gone and then using Facebook's promote option on that post.

"So now we have a Gordian knot problem, one option is easy, just cut it and that's firing the minister, the other option is also easy, cutting it and that's having a new election... [long pause for dramatic effect]... but I think we need time to discuss it, so we're having a meeting in a few hours. No questions."

[Brazen]

Boston Dynamics' next-generation humanoid robot. Ex-military company now owned by Google X. Watch from 1:20 onwards – that guy's just triggered the Rise Of The Machines! "Don't be evil"? Yeah, right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY

[The Brain]

Yeah, replace robot with old lady and there would have been a shitstorm.

[Martinus]

So, apparently Milo Yiannopoulos is hosting an event at University of Michgan and the official website of the university posted this:

It has come to our attention that an event titled, "Does Feminism Have a Free Speech Problem?" is taking place this evening on our campus. We recognize that the rhetoric of the speakers featured in this event is incredibly harmful to many members of our campus community. The Spectrum Center will be providing a supportive alternative space this evening and holding extended staffed hours until 9pm. There will be no program; our intent is to offer a relaxing, positive space for students who want to gather in community.

Full story here: http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/24/another-group-therapy-session-for-students-following-milos-umich-visit/

If presence of a speaker with whom you disagree "threatens your mental health" and you are an adult and not institutionalized, perhaps it's time to consider whether your atoms cannot be disassembled so Mother Nature could put them to better use...