The Off Topic Topic

[The Larch]

This is what happens in the US Army after repealing DADT. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_zhaji9eos

[Lettow77]

 Russia has been increasingly occupying my thoughts, partially as a result of discussion in this thread. Russia and Venice are opposing dreamscapes that speak about humanity's nature. Of the two, Russia is more grounded in reality, and a more stark and troubling vision of humanity.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Daaaaaamn.  Congressman Pacquiao just got knocked the fuck out.  Two seconds left in the round, he was going after Marquez, kinda caught him with a right, then BOOM and he just fell face first onto the mat.  Didn't move for a while.

E:  After they peeled him off the mat and he woke up, he said he's down for fight #5 vs. Marquez.

[sbr]

What round?

[MadBurgerMaker]

6th

[sbr]

Not shocking Pacquiao lost, but it is a bit surprising to see him lose that badly.

[Josquius]

Totally rearranged the furniture in my room today. My friend donated a kotatsu to me. Fantastic.

[jimmy olsen]

Guns seems useless, explosives all the way.

http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/random_defense

[Josquius]

Patrick Moore has died.
Video games are now truly dead.

[Admiral Yi]

Spain is offering sped-up immigration and naturalization to descendents Sephardic Jews who were kicked out 540 years ago. 

[Phillip V]

Spain is offering sped-up immigration and naturalization to descendents Sephardic Jews who were kicked out 540 years ago. 

"The process is much more complicated than it appears, and some descendants are discounting the offer as useless, or even insulting, as it dawns on them that they are excluded.
...
When I asked Isaac Querub, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain, about the criteria for anousim, I was startled by the response. To be naturalized and become citizens, secular bnei anousim Jewish applicants whose families had maintained double lives as Catholics must seek religious training and undergo formal conversion to Judaism. It is the federation that will screen and certify the Sephardic Jewish backgrounds of applicants who seek the documents that can be submitted to the government to obtain citizenship."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/sunday-review/a-tepid-welcome-back-for-spanish-jews.html

[Ideologue]

Spain is offering sped-up immigration and naturalization to descendents Sephardic Jews who were kicked out 540 years ago. 

I'm coming home.

[Iormlund]

Spain is offering sped-up immigration and naturalization to descendents Sephardic Jews who were kicked out 540 years ago. 

They've had special advantages since Primo de Rivera's regime almost a century ago.

[Ed Anger]

Thinking about buying the kids those Nintendo 3DS XL handhelds with Mario cart for 159 bucks. Best buy has them for that price.

Damn kids have it good these days. I had a rock.

[CountDeMoney]

The dinner bill for three friends at Chilly D's Restaurant stung, but it wasn't the price - printed on the top of the receipt were the words "Fat Girls".

"I got the bill, I was looking at bill [and] I was like, 'Why does this receipt say 'fat girls?'" customer Christine Duran said.

The friends had dined out at the Stockton, Calif., restaurant, which is a part of the Cameo Casino Restaurant, on Thursday. The bill lists charges for three tri-tips with fries and three sodas, for a total of $25.50. A bartender named Jeff had apparently typed in "Fat Girls" to keep track of their bill.

When Duran asked a manager for an explanation, he "had like a smirk on his face, like it was funny but trying not to laugh," she said.

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The dining experience went from bad to worse when the restaurant demanded they still pay the bill, offering them a 25 percent discount and then a 50 percent discount. They declined both offers.

In a Facebook message overnight, Maggie Lewis, the Cameo Club Casino owner, apologized and said the insulting treatment Duran and her friends had received is "intolerable in our establishment."

Jimmy Siemers, co-owner of Chilly D's, didn't work the night Duran and her friends received the offensive receipt, but he said he is trying to clean up the mess.

"I just want to tell them we're sincerely sorry and we'll do everything in our power to make sure this never happens to anyone again," he said.

It's certainly not the first time customers have been insulted on receipts.

In January, a Papa John's employee was fired after writing "Lady Chinky Eyes" on a receipt to identify an Asian customer.

A Maryland woman was insulted at a RadioShack in March when she purchased a cassette tape adapter and left with a receipt that read "ugly itch" from "tattoville," referring to the tattoos on her arm in memory of a child lost to SIDS and her deceased mother.

"Based on descriptions we've seen in the media, this incident obviously does not meet RadioShack's expectations for customer service," Eric Bruner, a spokesman for RadioShack told ABC News. "RadioShack responded immediately after seeing reports in the media, taking the strongest possible disciplinary actions." It is against company policy to discuss individual personnel matters but the company has taken the "strongest action available" in response to the issue, the spokesman said.