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Feb. 6th, 2018
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.
It's exactly 100 years ago since the Suffragist (wouldn't break the law) and Sufragette (WOULD and DID break the law) won their campaign to allow women in the UK the vote. Whislt a groundbreaking step of enormous magnitude, it should be noted that it was given only to women over 30 who satisfied a property ownership qualification, and the same act gave the vote to ALL men aged over 21, so parity was still some way off.
In Moscow, over a months worth of snow has fallen in two days, making it the worst snowfall for 100 years, and given we're talking Moscow here, that's serious.
POTUS 45 (would referring to him as "The orange shitgibbon" be overly insulting?) has, amongst other things, referred to the Democractic Senators who stayed silent during his State of the Union speech as "Treasonous" and "Un-American" (I won't even mention his instantly debunked claim that it had the highest ratings ever) but also slammed the UK's National health Service, which prompted a rare moment of unity in the UK, and even our notoriously inept Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt (Currently a popular term in rhyming slang) was able to hit back a nice little zinger that someone leading a country where 28million have no Health coverage is really in no position to talk)
I'm given to understand that the Philadelphia Eagles achieved something impressive by winning the Superbowl. Jolly good show lads... I guess.
Justin Timberlake's performance at the Superbowl seems to have gone down less well than if Katy Perry's Left Shark had been given a solo spot.
RIP John Mahoney, distinguished British-born stage actor, but best known for his magnificent performance as Marty Crane in 11 seasons of "Frasier", who has died aged 77. (Ironically, of the cast of Frasier, he was the only one who really WAS an opera lover.)
Elon Musk is attempting to launch the most powerful rocket ever as proof of concept of his Falcon Heavy. payload will include a Tesla car which will be put into solar orbit.
The UK government is still mired in Brexit incoherence, with little matters like lack of clarity on borders, immigration and membership (or not) of the EU Customs Union being fudged all over the place, and an ex Business Minister advising the Prime Minister to get rid of the "35 hard ideological Brexiteers" from her party (As that includes Boris Johnson (Windswept buffoon) and Jacob Rees-Mogg (A Dickensian caricature of an out of touch Tory if ever there was one) it's not hard to see her point there)
Apropos of very little, a species of stick insect which is usually exclusively female and reproduces by parthenogenesis, has produced a male mutant.
A teaser trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story has been released. Make of it what you will.
In other Star Wars events, Natalie Portman appeared on Saturday Night live and gave an... unusual, but spirtied, defence of the Prequels.
It's exactly 100 years ago since the Suffragist (wouldn't break the law) and Sufragette (WOULD and DID break the law) won their campaign to allow women in the UK the vote. Whislt a groundbreaking step of enormous magnitude, it should be noted that it was given only to women over 30 who satisfied a property ownership qualification, and the same act gave the vote to ALL men aged over 21, so parity was still some way off.
In Moscow, over a months worth of snow has fallen in two days, making it the worst snowfall for 100 years, and given we're talking Moscow here, that's serious.
POTUS 45 (would referring to him as "The orange shitgibbon" be overly insulting?) has, amongst other things, referred to the Democractic Senators who stayed silent during his State of the Union speech as "Treasonous" and "Un-American" (I won't even mention his instantly debunked claim that it had the highest ratings ever) but also slammed the UK's National health Service, which prompted a rare moment of unity in the UK, and even our notoriously inept Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt (Currently a popular term in rhyming slang) was able to hit back a nice little zinger that someone leading a country where 28million have no Health coverage is really in no position to talk)
I'm given to understand that the Philadelphia Eagles achieved something impressive by winning the Superbowl. Jolly good show lads... I guess.
Justin Timberlake's performance at the Superbowl seems to have gone down less well than if Katy Perry's Left Shark had been given a solo spot.
RIP John Mahoney, distinguished British-born stage actor, but best known for his magnificent performance as Marty Crane in 11 seasons of "Frasier", who has died aged 77. (Ironically, of the cast of Frasier, he was the only one who really WAS an opera lover.)
Elon Musk is attempting to launch the most powerful rocket ever as proof of concept of his Falcon Heavy. payload will include a Tesla car which will be put into solar orbit.
The UK government is still mired in Brexit incoherence, with little matters like lack of clarity on borders, immigration and membership (or not) of the EU Customs Union being fudged all over the place, and an ex Business Minister advising the Prime Minister to get rid of the "35 hard ideological Brexiteers" from her party (As that includes Boris Johnson (Windswept buffoon) and Jacob Rees-Mogg (A Dickensian caricature of an out of touch Tory if ever there was one) it's not hard to see her point there)
Apropos of very little, a species of stick insect which is usually exclusively female and reproduces by parthenogenesis, has produced a male mutant.
A teaser trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story has been released. Make of it what you will.
In other Star Wars events, Natalie Portman appeared on Saturday Night live and gave an... unusual, but spirtied, defence of the Prequels.
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"I was a big fan of Homicide and NYPD Blue. And I was thinking about superhero groups, why they don’t work. But Steven Bocho seems to be able to handle huge casts of characters very well. So I was thinking it through. Why don’t groups work? Hill Street Blues works. So what if you could have a superhero cop book – at that point the light came on. It can be really funny and you can talk about stuff you can't talk about in super hero books." - Alan Moore
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