The Off Topic Topic

[Admiral Yi]

29080. 

[PDH]

Mine said MB was Hitler.

[Josquius]

Buying a train ticket in Italy.
Press the English language button on the machine ; the machine shouts out an unskippable message "BEWARE OF PICKPOCKETS IN THIS AREA" thus alerting said pickpockets to your tourist status.
Good job Italian designers !

[Admiral Yi]

Buying a train ticket in Italy.
Press the English language button on the machine ; the machine shouts out an unskippable message "BEWARE OF PICKPOCKETS IN THIS AREA" thus alerting said pickpockets to your tourist status.
Good job Italian designers !

How do you know the same message isn't given in Italian too?

[The Larch]

I've just opened for my lunch a jar of pesto sauce that I got from an OXFAM shop. Reading the ingredients they seem to have been chosen with maximum saintliness/snobbishness in mind. The olive oil is from a Palestinian co-op, the nuts are fair trade cashews from Guinea-Bissau and India and the basil is Genoese and of a protected variety. It tastes heavenly. 

[lustindarkness]

Buying a train ticket in Italy.
Press the English language button on the machine ; the machine shouts out an unskippable message "BEWARE OF PICKPOCKETS IN THIS AREA" thus alerting said pickpockets to your tourist status.
Good job Italian designers !

Hopefully not for one of the two trains that crashed head on.  

[The Brain]

Buying a train ticket in Italy.
Press the English language button on the machine ; the machine shouts out an unskippable message "BEWARE OF PICKPOCKETS IN THIS AREA" thus alerting said pickpockets to your tourist status.
Good job Italian designers !

How do you know the same message isn't given in Italian too?

The machine doesn't have arms?

[Zanza]

The Irish economy grew by a colossal 26.3 per cent in 2015 rather than the original 7.8 per cent estimate, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has confirmed.
The revised growth rate, the strongest on record, reflects a 102 per cent spike in net exports.
However, the figures appear to have been hugely affected by a number of once-off factors, including activity in the aircraft leasing sector and restructuring by multinational companies involving the movement of patents.
A handful of firms in the tech sector relocated their IP assets here amid the international clampdown on the tax avoidance.

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/economy-grows-by-26-3-in-2015-says-cso-1.2719047

If you can relocate assets and thereby supposedly add value, I suggest that the measure is broken.

[The Larch]

Lies, damned lies and statistics.

[HVC]

How small is their economy that some planes and patents would have that effect?

[Valmy]

How small is their economy that some planes and patents would have that effect?

Well do have the same population as Dallas. Though I doubt Dallas getting some planes and patents would boost its economy by that much

[The Larch]

How small is their economy that some planes and patents would have that effect?

Their population is less than 5 million people and they have a huge amount of corporate offices, as they have operated as some sort of tolerated fiscal paradise inside the EU for private companies, plus they are also home to Ryanair, which I guess was the source of those plane leases, so a few big movements can create big sways in oficial data, I guess.

[Habbaku]

  

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/07/12/holocaust-museum-to-visitors-please-stop-catching-pokemon-here/

http://cheezburger.com/8820376064/nintendo-video-game-coverage-pokemon-go-koffing-inside-holocaust-museum

[The Larch]

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/07/12/holocaust-museum-to-visitors-please-stop-catching-pokemon-here/

http://cheezburger.com/8820376064/nintendo-video-game-coverage-pokemon-go-koffing-inside-holocaust-museum

One image circulating online appears to show a player encountering an unsettling digital critter inside the museum: a Pokémon called Koffing that emits poisonous gas floating by a sign for the museum's Helena Rubinstein Auditorium. The auditorium shows the testimonials of Jews who survived the gas chambers.

[Valmy]

But...but...gotta catch them all!