Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
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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 among yourselves.
A Happy Chinese Lunar New Year to all, welcome to the Year of the Rat.
To those in areas of the world at risk from the new corona-virus, stay safe and stay well.
Holocaust Memorial Day was yesterday, and celebrated the 75 anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Russian Army. Over 150 still living survivors met together and, with a dignity that never fails to inspire awe, spoke of their experiences in a world with a rising tide of anti-Semitism. (with thanks toleahandillyana for that link)
Well, this will be the last Off-Topic Tuesday I will post before the UK offficially leaves the EU on Friday, a fact that depresses, angers and disgusts me in equal measure.
And we're already heading into our firstlikely trade dispute with our bestest friends ever, the USA, over the use of Huawei technology. Whatever decision is made, SOMEONE is going to be pissed off.
And the Trump Impeachment trial might take another twist if John Bolton is called as a witness, but as with many things invovled in this, who can tell anymore?
Sports fans around the world mourned the loss of basketball legend, Kobe Bryant, though mentions of the controversy surrounding a sexual assault claim made back in 2003 have caused some backlash.
An unexpected argument has broken out in Nepal, due to how the Chinese Government has chosen to depict the Yeti in an advertising campaign.
Mew reports suggest that Paramount and Hasbro are considering two new Transformers movies, one would be Beast Wars (If they can make that work then consider me intrigued, especially as it would mean no humans) and the other would be another movie set in the universe as Bumblebee, though not necessarily a direct sequel,
"Star Trek: Picard" debuted on Amazon Prime and set up some fascinating plotlines from the get go, the collapse of the Romulan Empire following a super-nova for one, and a major plotpoint basically taken from Blade Runner and Battlestar Galactica (new version) about synthetic lifeforms and how they possibly link to Data. Sir Patrick Stewart is a fine form as an elderly Picard.
And saving the best for last, Doctor Who delivered an absolute hum-dinger of an episode with more twists and turns than a snake with convulsions... In case people haven't seen it and haven't yet been spoiled by the resulting social media furore, I'll post my opinions in a response to this thread rather than here as I'd hate to spoil anything for someone casually scrolling down.
A Happy Chinese Lunar New Year to all, welcome to the Year of the Rat.
To those in areas of the world at risk from the new corona-virus, stay safe and stay well.
Holocaust Memorial Day was yesterday, and celebrated the 75 anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Russian Army. Over 150 still living survivors met together and, with a dignity that never fails to inspire awe, spoke of their experiences in a world with a rising tide of anti-Semitism. (with thanks to
leahandillyana for that link)Well, this will be the last Off-Topic Tuesday I will post before the UK offficially leaves the EU on Friday, a fact that depresses, angers and disgusts me in equal measure.
And we're already heading into our firstlikely trade dispute with our bestest friends ever, the USA, over the use of Huawei technology. Whatever decision is made, SOMEONE is going to be pissed off.
And the Trump Impeachment trial might take another twist if John Bolton is called as a witness, but as with many things invovled in this, who can tell anymore?
Sports fans around the world mourned the loss of basketball legend, Kobe Bryant, though mentions of the controversy surrounding a sexual assault claim made back in 2003 have caused some backlash.
An unexpected argument has broken out in Nepal, due to how the Chinese Government has chosen to depict the Yeti in an advertising campaign.
Mew reports suggest that Paramount and Hasbro are considering two new Transformers movies, one would be Beast Wars (If they can make that work then consider me intrigued, especially as it would mean no humans) and the other would be another movie set in the universe as Bumblebee, though not necessarily a direct sequel,
"Star Trek: Picard" debuted on Amazon Prime and set up some fascinating plotlines from the get go, the collapse of the Romulan Empire following a super-nova for one, and a major plotpoint basically taken from Blade Runner and Battlestar Galactica (new version) about synthetic lifeforms and how they possibly link to Data. Sir Patrick Stewart is a fine form as an elderly Picard.
And saving the best for last, Doctor Who delivered an absolute hum-dinger of an episode with more twists and turns than a snake with convulsions... In case people haven't seen it and haven't yet been spoiled by the resulting social media furore, I'll post my opinions in a response to this thread rather than here as I'd hate to spoil anything for someone casually scrolling down.
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Date: 2020-01-28 12:18 pm (UTC)I'm pissed that the "Everybody hates England" meme is trending on American social media. You are no better. It seems to me like a shallow attempt to be woke.
My sleeping cycle has completely broken down, every day I am active and sleep at different hours, and the clinic I usually go to doesn't pick that damn phone.
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Date: 2020-01-28 01:22 pm (UTC)I haven't seen that meme yet, but I'm sure it'll crop up sooner or later.
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Date: 2020-01-28 04:03 pm (UTC)