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#21

Gaming HQ / Re: The NEW New Boardgames Thr...

Last post by Tamas - Today at 08:10:40 AM

I've just picked up a boxed copy of "Legion of Honor" for EUR 10.

What the hell how did you manage THAT?!

#22

Off the Record / Re: Mongerings - The Banal, Od...

Last post by mongers - Today at 07:54:36 AM

Incidentally what are people's least used forms of transport?

Mine are planes and taxis.


I ask because I was trying to remember the last time I took a taxi, and it's a long time ago, despite having lived and worked in London I've only ever taken one black cab and that was with a female friend who was up visiting, but that must have been 35 years ago. :gasp:

I guess it's because if I'm in a city or town, even late if the journey is only a mile or so, then I'm walking by default, without thinking about it.

So what are yours?

#23

Off the Record / Re: Mongerings - The Banal, Od...

Last post by mongers - Today at 07:47:44 AM

Heard an owl last night hooting in the garden, not ever heard one around here before. 

How many magpies do you have over there? We have been invaded. They are everywhere by default but some of the fuckers have taken over the nest on the neighbour's tree originally built by forest pigeons. They make the most ugly and annoying sound I have ever heard from any bird.

A few, but being a bit more rural, crows and jackdaws predominate when it comes to corvids.

On evening a couple of weeks back around 400 metres from I stopped at a park to view what was going on, the sky was Full off 400-500 crows doing that mass flying display before the swoop down to roost.

#24

Off the Record / Re: Mongerings - The Banal, Od...

Last post by Josquius - Today at 03:03:13 AM

Magpies are indeed the devils bird.

I'm quite fond of crows though

#25

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Syt - Today at 02:20:35 AM

Watching a clip from a Karoline Leavitt press conference she really reminds me of Jo on Mythic Quest.

#26

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Last post by Syt - Today at 02:11:10 AM

Meanwhile in 1980s Japan, this dental clinic.

https://takamatsu.co.jp/en/project/pharaoh/





Probably not great if you're scared to go to the dentist.

From the interior:

#27

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Richard Hakluyt - Today at 02:10:42 AM

I assume Murdoch will fight. He has been terrorising politicians for decades and won't want to lose that power by being revealed as a paper tiger.

#28

Off the Record / Re: Mongerings - The Banal, Od...

Last post by Tamas - Today at 01:09:20 AM

Heard an owl last night hooting in the garden, not ever heard one around here before. 

How many magpies do you have over there? We have been invaded. They are everywhere by default but some of the fuckers have taken over the nest on the neighbour's tree originally built by forest pigeons. They make the most ugly and annoying sound I have ever heard from any bird.

#29

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by viper37 - July 18, 2025, 11:12:16 PM

Also, trump is now suing the wall street journal. Wonder what writers they'll have to fire to placate trump. 

Will they placate him or will they fight?

It's a 10 billion$ lawsuit, so totally frivolous.  There's a lot of anger toward Trump from the Q-Anon Maga.  Murdoch could exploit the anger and turn against Trump to make a killing out there.

#30

Off the Record / Re: Mongerings - The Banal, Od...

Last post by mongers - July 18, 2025, 10:05:04 PM

Well owl be damned!