News Miscellany

[Miss Shelby]

Biden claims that when he's traveling through red rural small town neighborhoods, six year olds stand on their front lawns and greet him with their middle fingers.

[JoeP]

Surprised Miss S hasn't posted this one...

“Lost for words”: Joe Biden's tale about cannibals bemuses Papua New Guinea residents | Joe Biden | The Guardian

Biden spoke about his uncle, 2nd Lt Ambrose J Finnegan Jr, while campaigning in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, describing how “Uncle Bosie” had flown single engine planes as reconnaissance flights during the war. Biden said he “got shot down in New Guinea”, adding “they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea.”

“And they would find this kind of categorisation very offensive. Not because someone says ‘oh there used to be cannibalism in PNG’ – yes, we know that, that’s a fact.

“But taking it out of context, and implying that your [uncle] jumps out of the plane and somehow we think it’s a good meal is unacceptable.”

Cannibalism was practised by some communities in the past in specific contexts, said Kabuni, such as eating a deceased relative out of respect, to prevent their body from decomposing. “There was context. They wouldn’t just eat any white men that fell from the sky,” said Kabuni.

[Miss Shelby]

Biden Describes Seeing Sign That Says 'F Biden' And 'A Little Kid Standing With His Middle Finger' - YouTube

[Miss Shelby]

lol, yeah I saw that, too. Who amongst us hasn't lost an uncle to cannibals in New Guinea?

[Miss Shelby]

I guess some dude set himself on fire outside the courthouse where the Trump trial is taking place.

[JoeP]

Four taken to hospital after military horses break loose in central London | London | The Guardian

Four people have been taken to hospital after several military horses broke loose during a morning exercise and bolted through central London, colliding with vehicles.

Astonished witnesses described “total mayhem” as the runaway horses, including one white horse drenched in blood, ran through the rush-hour streets.

Two horses were seen running in the road near Aldwych. One collided with a parked taxi outside the Clermont Hotel in Buckingham Palace Road, smashing the windows of the Mercedes people carrier. One horse also crashed into a parked doubledecker tour bus, smashing the windscreen.

A group of seven horses and six soldiers from the Household Cavalry based at Hyde Park barracks were on an extended exercise in Belgravia on Wednesday at about 8.40am when chaos erupted.

[JoeP]

Blood-covered Household Cavalry horses run loose...

[Miisa]

Will they be charged as terrorists? I mean, the white one was clearly coerced by the others, but... terrorism.

[Miss Shelby]

Harvey Weinstein sex crime conviction overturned and new trial ordered | CNN

[LarsMac]

‘Vampire facials’ were linked to cases of HIV.

"Three women were diagnosed with HIV after getting “vampire facial” procedures at an unlicensed New Mexico medical spa, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report last week, marking the first documented cases of people contracting the virus through cosmetic services using needles."


Well, THAT is certainly an attention-getter headline.

[JoeP]

Sword attack in east London this morning!

Hainault: Boy, 14, dies after five people including two police officers attacked in sword rampage — The Standard

5 injured I think, one boy has died.

Hainault isn't far from my London house, and Little Miss JoeP was there last week on some errand.

[Miss Shelby]

Is the Daily Beast currently thought of as a rag? I just viewed their page and it presents like a fucking tabloid.

[LarsMac]

Originally Posted by Miss Shelby

Is the Daily Beast currently thought of as a rag? I just viewed their page and it presents like a fucking tabloid.

I can't say that I've ever given much thought to that rag.
It looks pretty cheezy.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

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Farts to the left or to the right. Extra scrutiny to either based on the Mixed rating.

[Miss Shelby]

Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died | The Seattle Times This is the second such case in as many months. Not to sound like a conspiracy nut or anything but I bet Boeing employees are getting the memo to keep their yappers shut if they know what is good for them.

[specious_reasons]

Originally Posted by Miss Shelby

Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died | The Seattle Times This is the second such case in as many months. Not to sound like a conspiracy nut or anything but I bet Boeing employees are getting the memo to keep their yappers shut if they know what is good for them.

"Died of a sudden illness." Yes, it's possible that this is just bad luck, but it doesn't seem outrageous that it's not just that.

[Miss Shelby]

Originally Posted by specious_reasons

"Died of a sudden illness." Yes, it's possible that this is just bad luck, but it doesn't seem outrageous that it's not just that.

I mean, the other guy died by an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound. But his (legal) case was just wrapping up. So why would he do that? But this current guy is more of a puzzle because he was a healthy 45 year old one minute and then sick and having to be intubated the next. And THEN developed a staph infection and died almost immediately. I really don’t like bringing up my career history in medicine, but I literally have never heard of such a thing happening so rapidly. Patients with MRSA usually hang in there despite the infection.

But it begs the question what got him sick in the first place? If I knew that it wouldn’t be such a mystery, depending on what’s it was.

[ChuckF]

Originally Posted by Miss Shelby

I really don’t like bringing up my career history in medicine

bedpans do need emptying

[Miss Shelby]

Originally Posted by ChuckF

bedpans do need emptying

I love that you always make an appearance when presumably you have no valid response . And why even? This isn’t political or even controversial really.

You have a crush on me don’t you Chuck?


Oh giggle I recognize the behavior from grade 1.

I like you too

Blush

[ChuckF]

whatever you say, doctor

My CaReEr HiStOrY iN mEdIcInE jesus fucking christ you can barely read

[Miss Shelby]

Originally Posted by ChuckF

whatever you say, doctor

My CaReEr HiStOrY iN mEdIcInE jesus fucking christ you can barely read

That’s Doctor Bedpan to YOU asshole.

And I’ve no doubt about your illiteracy if you were a student of any college in the country n the last 1000 years.

[ChuckF]

Originally Posted by Miss Shelby

I’ve no doubt about your illiteracy if you were a student of any college in the country n the last 1000 years.

Indubitable and coherent, doctor.

From your career history in medicine

[Miss Shelby]

That’s Doctor with a capital D thank you.

You illiterate college graduate.

[Stephen Maturin]

I am compelled of my own free will, so to speak, to note that I am a Lessantonian Golden Age Citizen Doctor. Unlike "regular" medical professionals, we Citizen Doctors are self-certified. Our work consists exclusively of responding to medical questions with, "I don't know; you should research that yourself and choose the option that's best for you," followed by graciously declining to accept payment for our services.

It's not what anyone would call lucrative, but it is the easiest gig I've ever had.