The Off Topic Topic

[Razgovory]

Here's something for the learned minds of Languish:

https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/

It pops up random historical events, and you have to place them in the correct chronological order.

16!  They had some of the descriptions cover up the head.  I need to see what kind of wig the guy is wearing to correctly date him!

[The Brain]

I need to see what kind of wig the guy is wearing to correctly date him!

Me too, kid.

[The Larch]

Found another glitch. Puma was definitely *not* founded on the year 0. 

[Sheilbh]

Although less sure on wheher Priti Patel is actually from 1782

[Oexmelin]

I also learned  that homicide (manner of death) was invented in -1172.

[The Larch]

It's also quite funny when they pop out a Biblical figure and very precisely date when it was born. 

[Sheilbh]

It's also quite funny when they pop out a Biblical figure and very precisely date when it was born. 

Thank God for Archbishop Ussher.

[The Larch]

Case in point, I just had Jochebed (Moses' mother) appear in my latest game, and she's referenced as having been born exactly on 1523 BC. I checked her wiki page and her birth date is not mentioned anywhere.

Edit: Another one, Joseph was, apparently, born on 100 BC. Quite the late dad!

[Syt]

They also have a birth year for Eve. Which puts her after e.g cave paintings, cattle domestication, etc.

[Razgovory]

I got St. Paul, born 5 BC.  I had to wedge it between the foundation of the Academy and the birth of some boxer I never heard of (1988).  So not too bad.

[The Larch]

I got an unnamed New Testament character (Samaritan woman at the well), luckily the fact that it was a NT char allowed me to narrow down her date of death (66 AC, apparently).

[Syt]

So Tucker Carlson. I'm use to a lot of nonsense coming from his mouth, but... this rant about the M&M mascots getting redesigned to be more "inclusive" and "progressive" ... wow. It feels like parody, but here we are.

https://youtu.be/1EnQGIg6TU0?t=47

(Clip from Seth Meyers, but moved forward to the Tucker bit.)

[Sheilbh]

I don't mind this. I'm almost happpy when American conservatives are back to railing about the gender of chocolates rather than calling for Democratic elected officials to be jailed. It harks back to a more innocent time.

[Eddie Teach]

He sounds silly, but he's covering a silly story.

[Syt]

Anna Dobler, deputy editor-in-chief of the right-wing online tabloid eXXpress (who also held very close connections with Sebastian Kurz), has been fired after tweeting in memory of the 80 year anniversary Wannseekonferenz: "They were not only murderers, but also socialists, through and through."

She deleted the tweet shortly after, but the damage was done, and the site fired her via Tweet, clarifying that this kind of relativism was not acceptable. Frankly, it's a bit of a surprise. eXXpress has been critical of (any) anti-Covid measures and vaccinations, its content is pretty close to FPÖ positions in general, and Dobler herself has been trolling on Twitter and sicking her followers on left-wing accounts. Her opinions espoused on Twitter generally wouldn't look too out of place on Tucker Carlson. So interesting that this is where the site draws the line.

Dobler has a weird backstory. She's from Bavaria, competed in beauty contests in her youth and then went to Austria to go to university (in an interview about Germans studying in Austria from her student days she said her grades weren't good enough to be accepted in Munich so she went to Salzburg - Germany has contingents of university places, whereas Austria doesn't). During that time she also appeared on a variety of TV quiz shows to the point people were starting to recognize her and wondering about this, which then prompted her to "take a break from participating in quiz shows." Apparently she did quite well on thoes hows, too, so she seems to have a good trivia knowledge, but not so much about the Third Reich. She worked for BILD before working for the Salzburg edition of Austrian tabloid Kronen Zeitung before moving to eXXpress

EDIT: She's apparently pivoting saying she didn't mean to say the Nazis were left ("That would be nonsense!"), but that the Nazis had some socialists elements in their agenda.