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scans_dailyIn 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.
The latest tragic school shooting in America has caused the usual ripples and platitude for "Thoughts and prayers, but in an impressive and actually rather inspiring move, the surviving students themselves, in conjunction with the youth branch of the same movement that led the Woman's March, are motivating for change calling for a days walkout from schools on March 14th.
The Winter Olympics continue, with a new generation of sportspeople doing things like staying up late the night before their event to watch a boxset (and then winning a gold), texting from the top of the ski jump, or in the case of Norway's curling team, having the most objectively fabulous assortment of different daily themed trousers.
The New York Toy Fair had the VERY surprising news that Bandai, after 25 years, will no longer produce Power Rangers toys for the US market (though Bandai Japan will continue to do so for Sentai series). Instead, Hasbro has the licence.
The other surprise announcement was that next years Power Rangers will not be based on either of the most recent sentai (Zyuohger, with humanoid animals from a parallel Earth, or Kyuranger with it's astronomy theme and 12 strong team) but instead will be based on 2012's "Go-Busters" which will become "Power Rangers: Beast Morphers".
The Brexit Secretary was the third UK political figure to make an incredibly unconvincing speech about how bad Brexit isn't going to be. Apparently, it won't be a Mad max scenario, which is setting the bar kind of low I'd have thought, and the thought of Theresa May as Auntie Entity boggles the mind.
In a rather embarrassing incident, two thirds of the UK's branches of KFC had to shut after they ran out of... well... chicken! Apparently a new contract with a new delivery company started up and within a week over 500 restaurants had to shut due to incomplete deliveries. Someone's next Annual Appraisal interview is NOT going to be a pleasant one I suspect.
An American tourist caused a bit of an international incident, by taking a selfie with one of the famed Chinese terracotta warriors (currently on display in the US), before snapping one of it's thumbs off as a souvenir. Words fail.
The latest tragic school shooting in America has caused the usual ripples and platitude for "Thoughts and prayers, but in an impressive and actually rather inspiring move, the surviving students themselves, in conjunction with the youth branch of the same movement that led the Woman's March, are motivating for change calling for a days walkout from schools on March 14th.
The Winter Olympics continue, with a new generation of sportspeople doing things like staying up late the night before their event to watch a boxset (and then winning a gold), texting from the top of the ski jump, or in the case of Norway's curling team, having the most objectively fabulous assortment of different daily themed trousers.
The New York Toy Fair had the VERY surprising news that Bandai, after 25 years, will no longer produce Power Rangers toys for the US market (though Bandai Japan will continue to do so for Sentai series). Instead, Hasbro has the licence.
The other surprise announcement was that next years Power Rangers will not be based on either of the most recent sentai (Zyuohger, with humanoid animals from a parallel Earth, or Kyuranger with it's astronomy theme and 12 strong team) but instead will be based on 2012's "Go-Busters" which will become "Power Rangers: Beast Morphers".
The Brexit Secretary was the third UK political figure to make an incredibly unconvincing speech about how bad Brexit isn't going to be. Apparently, it won't be a Mad max scenario, which is setting the bar kind of low I'd have thought, and the thought of Theresa May as Auntie Entity boggles the mind.
In a rather embarrassing incident, two thirds of the UK's branches of KFC had to shut after they ran out of... well... chicken! Apparently a new contract with a new delivery company started up and within a week over 500 restaurants had to shut due to incomplete deliveries. Someone's next Annual Appraisal interview is NOT going to be a pleasant one I suspect.
An American tourist caused a bit of an international incident, by taking a selfie with one of the famed Chinese terracotta warriors (currently on display in the US), before snapping one of it's thumbs off as a souvenir. Words fail.
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Date: 2018-02-21 08:44 am (UTC):-)