The Distract me from 2020s P&CE Thread Part Trois

meaning that he will have the ability to put me down when the time comes in a peaceful and humane manner...lol

 

funny but I usually hear on the pitch...referee, are you blind and deaf and stupid?
lmao

 

Tre Stupid

Echoing the report, which was commissioned before the October 19 heist, he said that the museum leadership had prioritized “visible and attractive” projects, like art purchases and revamping the museum layout at the detriment, notably, of the Louvre’s security .

Since the heist, information has resurfaced showing that gaps in security appear to have been known for years – including a 2014 warning that alleged one of the museum’s key passwords was simply “LOUVRE.” The new report only adds to a number of security failings exposed by the heist.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/europe/louvre-password-cctv-security-intl

 

Obviously he got more Heat than he asked for
Anyway, how come multimillion houses in DaYouwessay are built like they're made from firewood?

 

I don't know. We make fun of China and their "tofu-dreg" construction, but we aren't a lot better.

 

Last time I looked, there were only two states in the US which mandate sprinklers (the ones in the ceiling which help to put out fires, not the ones in the lawn or garden which help plants grow) in new construction of single family houses. California and Maryland. Every other state bowed to the building lobby which fights against this because it raises the cost of construction.

 

The Gittens have been married 83 years and are 107 & 108

The world’s “oldest married couple” has shared their secret to a lasting love—and it’s really quite simple.

Eleanor Gittens, 107, and Lyle Gittens, 108, recently won the Guinness World Records for the oldest living married couple (aggregate age) and the oldest married couple ever (aggregate age). The two have been married for a whopping 83 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/worlds-longest-married-couple-advice#img-1

 

The nightmare of people with arachnaphobia discovered:

Live Science

https://www.livescience.com › animals › spiders › worlds-biggest-spiderweb-discovered-inside-sulfur-cave-with-111-000-arachnids-living-in-pitch-black

World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 ...
5 dagen geledenResearchers have discovered more than 111,000 spiders thriving in what appears to be the world's biggest spiderweb, deep inside a pitch-black cave on the Albanian-Greek border.

https://www.newsweek.com/worlds-biggest-spiderweb-1140ft-found-stuff-nightmares-10995536

 

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...1000-spiders-inside/articleshow/125109293.cms

 

Wrong ********ing thread.

put this in the Doom thread.

 

I'm an emotional guy, and news items like this touch my heart.
Grandmother on her deathbed passes away after having met her new born grand children.

Ine with her newly born granddaughter Krissie.

Ine (66) holds her grandchild Krissie and the baby stops crying, not much later the brand new grandmother passes away.
Rarely are life and death closer together. On her deathbed in the hospital, Ine Mast (66) greets two newly born grandchildren.
Ron Mast (70), her second husband, sees her pass away peacefully. Funeral cards between biscuits with mice (=Dutch tradition when a child is born).

RIP Ine.
I'm so glad you could close your eyes with the images of your grandchildren.

 

Something is lost in translation here, I think.

 

We celebrate births with these. When people come to visit and see the newborn, they are given the "beschuit met muisjes.
The "muisjes" (=mice) are sugared anise seeds. Pink for girls, blue for boys.

Because of the seed's "tail" it got the nickname mice.

So in this case the "beschuit met muisjes" are accompanied by the funeral card of Ine.

 

And here I thought biscuits and mice was the latest offering at Waffle House.

 

Whenever excavation is done in a city the rodents run all over the place.

 

Uhm, I don't think the latest posts are respectful in regard to my op.

 

Thanks for the info, Miriam

 

Interesting, they are called mariquitas in spanish which translates to "little Marys", maybe it has the same origin.

 

Here's a tip for those of you contemplating a matrimonious event. Also a heads up for those already shackled!
I don't argue with my wife, I just accept defeat. It's based on statistics as over the years I've realized that if I lose an argument I lose and if I win an argument I lose!

 

You're like the scungili-eating Andy Capp

 

It's scungilli! There's an embargo on escargot.

 

Scungeel-eating surrender monkeys!

 

A bit of garlic butter 'n parsley....yum!