The Off Topic Topic

[crazy canuck]

Checking up apparently the moon was quite far from the earth this time around and one the US got back in 2017 was much more impressive.

The 2017 one was much more impressive for me. This one was a JOKE

Moon WFH

[Syt]

Well ... this is a choice ad people made.



Bonus points for none of their tourism bureaus being in the American South.

[Syt]

And most "trashy horror movie you'd definitely watch" headline goes to ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cicadas-zombies-hyper-sexual-sexually-transmitted-fungus-expected-to-emerge-this-year-massospora-cicadina/

Hyper-sexual "zombie cicadas" that are infected with sexually transmitted fungus expected to emerge this year

Trillions of cicadas will emerge across several U.S. states this spring in an event one expert dubbed "cicada-geddon." Not only are more cicadas than usual expected this year, but some of them will be "zombie cicadas" that are infected by a sexually transmitted fungus that makes them hyper-sexual.

Periodical cicadas spend most of their lives underground and only emerge after 13 or 17 years. This year, two broods of cicadas will emerge: Brood XIX, which comes out every 13 years, will emerge in the Georgia and Southeast, and Brood XIII, which emerges every 17 years, will appear in Illinois.

With this convergence, the bugs will arrive in numbers that have not been seen in generations.

[Josquius]

So this is what Mario sounds like

It is indeed.
Usually with other languages foreign accents will come across different but this absolutely is Japanese with the same Italian accent we know from English.

[Jacob]

And most "trashy horror movie you'd definitely watch" headline goes to ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cicadas-zombies-hyper-sexual-sexually-transmitted-fungus-expected-to-emerge-this-year-massospora-cicadina/

Hyper-sexual "zombie cicadas" that are infected with sexually transmitted fungus expected to emerge this year

Trillions of cicadas will emerge across several U.S. states this spring in an event one expert dubbed "cicada-geddon." Not only are more cicadas than usual expected this year, but some of them will be "zombie cicadas" that are infected by a sexually transmitted fungus that makes them hyper-sexual.

Periodical cicadas spend most of their lives underground and only emerge after 13 or 17 years. This year, two broods of cicadas will emerge: Brood XIX, which comes out every 13 years, will emerge in the Georgia and Southeast, and Brood XIII, which emerges every 17 years, will appear in Illinois.

With this convergence, the bugs will arrive in numbers that have not been seen in generations.

This will generate at least one low-budget horror film, and possibly more

[Tonitrus]

Well ... this is a choice ad people made.


Bonus points for none of their tourism bureaus being in the American South.

Now we know where Harry Turtledove got his inspiration...

[Syt]

The British Empire, collapsing since at least 1900.

[The Brain]

Fucking sadists.

[Josquius]

Fadist?
And aye, just a question of timing with two events going on at a similar time but funny to see the Boer and the Chinese person (with a archaic characature like this the term Chinaman seems somehow right) standing together

[Sheilbh]

The British Empire, collapsing since at least 1900.

And the original meaning of "Little Englander" - anti-war Liberals who were broadly dubious about imperial grandeur and entanglements, especially the Boer War.

[Admiral Yi]

Yesterday I was picking up some tenderloin at the supermarket and had the genius idea to get some Katsu sauce.  Alas my place has a billion Asian sauces but no Katsu sauce.  I did however spot a brand of Chinese sauces called Hop Sing.  You might have to be a certain age to understand why that's funny.

[HVC]

Great theme song

[Admiral Yi]

Hoss want some fly chicken.

[viper37]

Galactus is coming

[Syt]

This weekend there's a "Balkan Food Festival" at Karlsplatz, with food from Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Greece, Montenegro, Romania, and Turkey. The first 500 adults each day get free slivovits. There will be cheap beer and wine spritzers.

What could possibly go wrong.