Weird News Thread Part III

As my old mate Stevie Nicol (who is fluent in both) would say, "A thu endathydey, yuh gut tae loo' a yuurself inna mirra!"

 

Rangers, as in the team in Scotland or as QPR?

But QPR is in D2 no?

 

Glasgow Rangers. QPR is normally referred to as QPR.

 

You think Steve Nicol is fluent in English?
That's funny.

 

lOOk at the trouble you can get into speaking Canadian.

 

Did you happen to move recently?

 

I love maple syrup. I made 1 1/2 gal on our wood burning kitchen stove one year and it was fantastic. Other than the wallpaper peeling off all the walls in the house it ended up a labour of love.

 

At least one positive thing happened.

 

No, he's bilingual. He's fluent in Scottish and learned Scouse as a second language.

I know all about these things--Ah yusta wurk as a trrans-la-ur a thu Yue-Enn.

 

Holy smoke! Hand me a serviette. I just spilled poutine on the chesterfield!

 

It's time to improve our French vocabulary: uritrottoir



https://www.npr.org/2018/08/14/638512558/nope-those-arent-mailboxes-paris-rolls-out-sidewalk-urinals

In Paris, authorities are taking an unusual approach to combat the scourge of public urination: Make urination even more public.

The city is experimenting with completely exposed, eco-friendly urinals.

The devices are called "Uritrottoir," which combines the words for urinal and pavement. They're not at all subtle. They're bright red and in heavily trafficked areas — for example, directly next to the Seine near the Notre Dame Cathedral.

And if there's any confusion, a large white and red sign with a red arrow and a cartoon of a man peeing probably clears it up.​

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And here is another oic of the urintrottoir in action.



Tourists. Geez

 

Take that you neer-do-wells!

"Western Canada has been blanketed by smoke for days as hundreds of wildfires burn in British Columbia (BC).

The smoke has also wafted south into the US state of Washington, where a group of friends in Spokane now want to try blowing it right back to Canada.

They calculate that if each resident places at least five fans on the roof of their home, the city of 550,000 people could blow the smoke back.

The organisers insist their maths is solid.

"Team work makes the dream work," they wrote in the Facebook event page they created to promote the idea. "Let's do this, Spokanites. Let's send this smoke right back to those Canucks!"

Alberta is planning retaliation by redirecting their wind turbines.

 

Alright!

U2 abruptly ended their Saturday night concert in Berlin, Germany after Bono was struck with “a complete loss of voice.”

During the second show of the band’s European leg of their eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour, just a few songs into the performance, the singer informed the crowd, “I’m so sorry… I was ready to sing for you, but something has happened and I think we can’t go on. It’s not right for you. I’m sure this is not a big problem but I’m gonna have to do something.”

https://pagesix.com/2018/09/02/u2-a...zqf-bA1BSjaJ8lYjNBmWR5aVLgFlOFjlZE742vCbK5ozq

 

NCAA punishes University of Kentucky soccer players...

http://www.sportingnews.com/us/othe...s-rules-violations/1aqzny4m40j4e12p2cy8qojv1p

for major rules violations.

Four Kentucky soccer players are facing punishment after violating NCAA rules by participating in a pickup game with members of the Foo Fighters

The Courier-Journal reported that four current Wildcats players — three from the men's team, one from the women's — were invited by members of the band to play in a pickup game prior to the Foos' May 1 concert in Lexington. That was a week before final exams, when team activities are prohibited.


The players will have to sit out two team activities, like practices or meetings, for the rule violation, the report said.

Kentucky compliance officials uncovered the violation when they checked the pass list for the Foo Fighters' show at Rupp Arena and found the athletes' names.

They were able to remove the names ahead of the concert, thus avoiding further NCAA sanctions for impermissible benefits, but realized the pickup game was a violation and self-reported it to the NCAA.
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So is Grohl a GK or a striker?

 

That's why the NCAA sucks donkey balls. Just a bunch of players having some fun, not like they got a FedEx package full of $100 bills from a booster or anything like that...

 

Lol. I remember when the NCAA put the hammer down on UK in the late 80s for that very reason. Of course, living in Lexington, I heard it every day*.

*TBH that is what pretty much everyone in that town talks about now, even in the off-season. It reminded me of people in college who were into Phish a little too much and wanted you to listen to it, whether you wanted to or not.

 

Elon Musk smokes weed on Joe Rogan's podcast. Shares fall and Air Force investigating.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/07/elon-musk-smokes-weed-on-joe-rogan-podcast.html

 

The weed bothered me -- and I suspect Tesla shareholders -- less than the chief accountant quitting the next day after one month on the job, and the HR chief quitting as well.

Odds are, those books are cooked.

 

Who under the age of 60 hasn't smoked weed, except Mormons?

 

The reason the stock price is tanking isn't because Elon smoked dope.