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Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
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icon_ukIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like. Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat amongst yourselves.
Well, in their usual understated way, the British Royals announced the engagement of Prince Harry to actress Meghan Markle (best known from "Suits"). My favourite headline came from the Chicago Tribune (where the bride to be went to university) "2003 graduate accepts government post in London".
It would take a truly hardened and cynical soul to suggest that the timing of the announcement might have been intended to divert attention from any bad news the Government might want to release... so it's a good thing I am one!
Yet more wheels seem to be falling off the trolley of Brexit with ever increasing speed, with the double whammy of the Northern Ireland border issues being failed to be addressed in almost magnificently incompetent fashion, and the long awaited release of the 57 "Impact assessment reports" which existed... then didn't exist... then might have existed but weren't what they though... then were released, but only in redacted form (which is not what was promised) and... well, it's been a self inflicted fustercluck of stupendous proportions.
POTUS 45 repealed the pardons that Obama granted to the Thanksgiving turkeys during his tenure... well, okay, he didn't, but he probably thought about it. He DID manage to refer to Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas" whilst welcoming Navajo veterans to the White House to celebrate their role as code talkers in WWII.. whilst standing in front of a portrait of Andrew Jackson.. In any other Presidency a gaffe of remarkable scale, but these days, par for the course.
The Pope is in Myanmar, where he gave a speech about ethics and human rights, but on the advice of his advisers and to the disappointment of civil right groups, did not go as far as specifically referencing the Rohingya people, who are being persecuted on scale which has led to the term "ethnic cleansing" being used.
The US battle for Net Neutrality is still ongoing with a vote set for December 14th. The FCC is doing themselves no favours with some of their comments about the input they are getting from people, though the number arriving from fake e-mail addresses aren't helping
A quick PSA in the form of another reminder that Registration for Healthcare in the US for 2019 ends on December 15.
Star Wars: Battlefront II is being accused of promoting gambling with it's approach to in-game purchases of "Loot boxes".
VR has enabled the full visualisation of the Sungir people of Central Russia from 30,000 years ago.
To those who indulged in Black Friday, I hope you got bargains. To those who had to work retail on Black Friday, I hope people were polite. To those who didn't take part in Black Friday at all... wise move! (And to those non-Americans who wondered why Black Friday was even a thing when they don't celebrate Thanksgiving... I feel your pain)
Well, in their usual understated way, the British Royals announced the engagement of Prince Harry to actress Meghan Markle (best known from "Suits"). My favourite headline came from the Chicago Tribune (where the bride to be went to university) "2003 graduate accepts government post in London".
It would take a truly hardened and cynical soul to suggest that the timing of the announcement might have been intended to divert attention from any bad news the Government might want to release... so it's a good thing I am one!
Yet more wheels seem to be falling off the trolley of Brexit with ever increasing speed, with the double whammy of the Northern Ireland border issues being failed to be addressed in almost magnificently incompetent fashion, and the long awaited release of the 57 "Impact assessment reports" which existed... then didn't exist... then might have existed but weren't what they though... then were released, but only in redacted form (which is not what was promised) and... well, it's been a self inflicted fustercluck of stupendous proportions.
POTUS 45 repealed the pardons that Obama granted to the Thanksgiving turkeys during his tenure... well, okay, he didn't, but he probably thought about it. He DID manage to refer to Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas" whilst welcoming Navajo veterans to the White House to celebrate their role as code talkers in WWII.. whilst standing in front of a portrait of Andrew Jackson.. In any other Presidency a gaffe of remarkable scale, but these days, par for the course.
The Pope is in Myanmar, where he gave a speech about ethics and human rights, but on the advice of his advisers and to the disappointment of civil right groups, did not go as far as specifically referencing the Rohingya people, who are being persecuted on scale which has led to the term "ethnic cleansing" being used.
The US battle for Net Neutrality is still ongoing with a vote set for December 14th. The FCC is doing themselves no favours with some of their comments about the input they are getting from people, though the number arriving from fake e-mail addresses aren't helping
A quick PSA in the form of another reminder that Registration for Healthcare in the US for 2019 ends on December 15.
Star Wars: Battlefront II is being accused of promoting gambling with it's approach to in-game purchases of "Loot boxes".
VR has enabled the full visualisation of the Sungir people of Central Russia from 30,000 years ago.
To those who indulged in Black Friday, I hope you got bargains. To those who had to work retail on Black Friday, I hope people were polite. To those who didn't take part in Black Friday at all... wise move! (And to those non-Americans who wondered why Black Friday was even a thing when they don't celebrate Thanksgiving... I feel your pain)
