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| October 14, 2024 |
- Pascha is a brothel in the
Fatherland. Its
Wikipedia page says that, in August 2005,
two women, 19 and 29 years old, rented two rooms in the Pascha and announced
over the internet that they would pay any man €50 for sex; the goal was
to find out who could have more partners in one day. In the end they had sex
for 11 hours with a total of 115 men, and about 1,700 others had to be turned
away. The German tabloid Bild turned the story into a headline the
next day. The women insisted that they had paid the men from their own
vacation money and had not received any compensation from Bild or Pascha.
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| October 13, 2024 |
- Martha Stewart,
Lawn-Ruining Halloween Decorations You Should Never
Use. Spreading fake cobwebs in trees and
bushes looks festive -- but it can be detrimental to birds
and other small wildlife, causing them to get stuck or injured.
No actually it looks like shit and spreads micro-fibers,
I say ban it!
- Greyhound Bus
Stations at Roadside Architecture.
- Slate on "directionally" - the Wrong-Direction Election. His
claims ... might not be strictly true, but they are directionally
so, because he's talking about a real problem, or at least a feeling
that there's a real problem.
- Two final Canadian notes: the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto's a
massive natural history/anthropological affair; they've got a rock more
dazzling than any diamond, the
Light of the
Desert, the world's largest faceted cerussite gem. Unlike diamond's
sturdy carbon, this cerussite is rather delicate; but has more fire.
Also, in the next province over, Atlas Obscura on
the
Twisty History of Montréal's Outdoor Staircases.
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| October 11, 2024 |
Home again from second Canadian sojourn this year. Shiny new quarter here, the first currency I received bearing the likeness of the King. |
| October 6, 2024 |
- Joining
the
Idaho Stop (where bicyclists can treat a
STOP sign
like a YIELD) cyclists can now ignore traffic lights,
in Europe, some places --
Traffic
light exemption for cyclists: new study from Lyon.
Both of these are what I label Momentum Laws, created to favor and elevate the status of bicycle riders.
Video explanation of the new sign from the Ministry of
Ecological and Inclusive Transition.
- 12-year-old Slate article:
Chaos
Theory: a Unified Theory of Muppet Types.
I'm definitely an Order... although it's an
understandable reaction to Our World, you
Chaos Muppets make me crazy.
Ich bin eine Ordnung!
- In CrimeReads, 7
James Bond books better than any of the movies.
Only two in this list by Ian Fleming,
Moonraker and Thunderball. True, those
movies kinda sucked, but Thunderball
begins the SPECTRE/Blofeld story which continues
through OHMSS and You Only Live Twice,
the last few novels he completed, all good. (I ignore the
post-Fleming Bonds... I read the first couple by
Gardner, then moved on.)
- A BBC journalist visited Diego Garcia:
What
I found on the secretive tropical island they don't want
you to see.
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| September 24, 2024 |
Julia Wertz on Waldorf Salad, which I reject due to the celery. I
wonder how she feels about
Watergate Salad, a popular dish in areas
of the US where potlucks are common, according to Wikipedia.
I last had that at a family restaurant buffet, in Kansas.
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| September 15, 2024 |
- A 'Star Trek' compilation; every time he says
Fascinating. (15 minutes)
- Twelve years late with this Slate link about it,
but since I still encounter the expression,
Why do they hate humanity? 'Stop trying to make amazeballs happen.' (Please! Use fetch instead!) No, please don't use either one. Two others words being used differently nowadays, whose new definitions I can't quite
grasp are stan, and flex. A related slide-show of 15 (non-slang) more,
at Dictionary.com,
Do
You Cringe At the Sound of These Words?
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