The Off Topic Topic

[Liep]

I almost posted in the weather thread that it hadn't rained today for the first time in weeks.. but then I noticed some dark clouds and well.

[Eddie Teach]

No one has posted on Languish for nearly 8.5 hours!

Incorrect.

[Josquius]

I've been seeing the first specks of snow here today.
And stupidly went to work without a coat.
The weekend had been fine

[HVC]

How the royal family reacts to a guy being run down by a horse.

The old guy in back is disturbingly intrigued.

[celedhring]

So, it looks like one of the contestants of the current edition of Big Brother in Spain attempted to sexually abuse another during a party inside the house, taking advantage of her drunkenness. The show's producers reported it to the police.

Just how thick you have to be to pull that kind of shit in a place where there are dozens of cameras working 24h/day. 

[The Larch]

So, it looks like one of the contestants of the current edition of Big Brother in Spain attempted to sexually abuse another during a party inside the house, taking advantage of her drunkenness. The show's producers reported it to the police.

Just how thick you have to be to pull that kind of shit in a place where there are dozens of cameras working 24h/day. 

That guy didn't look like the sharpest tool in the shed to begin with.

[CountDeMoney]

So, it looks like one of the contestants of the current edition of Big Brother in Spain attempted to sexually abuse another during a party inside the house, taking advantage of her drunkenness. The show's producers reported it to the police.

Just how thick you have to be to pull that kind of shit in a place where there are dozens of cameras working 24h/day. 

Plenty of reality TV celebrities get away with all sorts of stuff.

[Grey Fox]

So, it looks like one of the contestants of the current edition of Big Brother in Spain attempted to sexually abuse another during a party inside the house, taking advantage of her drunkenness. The show's producers reported it to the police.

Just how thick you have to be to pull that kind of shit in a place where there are dozens of cameras working 24h/day. 

Plenty of reality TV celebrities get away with all sorts of stuff.

The forthcoming nuclear apocalypse for one.

[CountDeMoney]

Think of the ratings!  For the first 30 minutes at least.

[crazy canuck]

Think of the ratings!  For the first 30 minutes at least.

Trump: "You know how much I like ratings"

[The Minsky Moment]

"I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me."

[Admiral Yi]

Haiku!

Excellent, thoughtful, very long article about social media and politics in The Economist.

1 of 5 tweets during the presidential campaign was generated by a bot.

Americans fart 3 million times a minute.  Americans "like" something 4 million times a minute.

[Eddie Teach]

Americans fart 3 million times a minute. 

That's only once every couple hours per person. 

[derspiess]

I am supposed to have dinner with Peru's ambassador to the US this Thursday.  But I'm skipping it to coach my son's last football practice for the year.

[Jacob]

I hope US-Peru relations recover from this setback.