The unimportant news thread

[Ken B]

... I'm assuming the others have been told by their lawyer to remain silent ...

So am I! Silence is not an apology! Again, if I key your car, my parents, my teachers, my employers, my government, the head of my backgammon club, and my neighbour can all apologize as profusely as they want. If on the advice of counsel I clam up, I have not apologized.

[The Six]

Um, NYPD officers may be planting guns on innocent people in order to arrest them and fulfill a "quota"...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/nyregion/gun-arrests-with-2-things-in-common-the-officers-and-unidentified-informers.html?smid=tw-nytmetro&_r=1

[Cosi bel do]

The ruble lost 9% of its value this monday against the euro and the dollar. And 43% in one year.

Wait, is that unimportant? Doesn't that mean all the Melodiya CDs and sets are gonna be cheaper?

[Ken B]

Imperialist bastards!

[kishnevi]

Imperialist bastards!

Obvious solution is to find Santa Claus's passport.  Whichever country issued it owns the Pole.

[Ken B]

Obvious solution is to find Santa Claus's passport.  Whichever country issued it owns the Pole.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-issues-santa-claus-a-passport/article16072973/

Try that on for size you rapacious Danes!

[Karl Henning]

You can take the Dane out of Jutland, but you cannot take Jutland out of the Dane.

[North Star]

Obvious solution is to find Santa Claus's passport.  Whichever country issued it owns the Pole.

Nonsense, Santa lives in Rovaniemi, Finland.

[Cosi bel do]

OK so, I think now is the time for us to send someone in Russia get all the Melodiya CDs we need.

Consider for instance this set, usually €20-25 at least on Marketplace, €30 / $50 on Amazon.



Its price is actually 450 rubles, so really, today, €5.35 or $6.60...

Same thing for all the expensive stuff at Melodiya. So, who wants to go there and bring us all some music?

[Ken B]

OK so, I think now is the time for us to send someone in Russia get all the Melodiya CDs we need.

Consider for instance this set, usually €20-25 at least on Marketplace, €30 / $50 on Amazon.



Its price is actually 450 rubles, so really, today, €5.35 or $6.60...

Same thing for all the expensive stuff at Melodiya. So, who wants to go there and bring us all some music?

One of the Finns, or Florestan. They won't even need to travel; the Russians will come to them.

[Karl Henning]

"Look, we're only helping out your insurgents!  We didn't want to!"

[Brian]

USA restores full diplomatic relations with Cuba, plans to open embassy in Havana within months, eases travel restrictions, permits American travelers to bring back $400 in Cuban goods (including $100 in cigars), and encourages Congress to formally lift embargo.

Wow.

Negotiations held in secret for 18 months, with clandestine final summit hosted by Pope Francis.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/world/americas/us-cuba-relations.html

[Ken B]

Advice for any Russian readers: keep all your money in Rubles. No-one will think to look for money in a pile of Rubles.

[Karl Henning]

If it's in rubles, and in a quantity to be worth anything, it's big as a block of flats, anyway.

[Florestan]

One of the Finns, or Florestan. They won't even need to travel; the Russians will come to them.

"Look, we're only helping out your insurgents!  We didn't want to!"

Romania, autumn of 1944, at midnight. Someone knocks heavily at the door of an old countryside lady.

"Who is there?", asked she, terribly frightened.

"'The Death! I'm coming for you!"

"God, you scared the hell out of me! I thought it was The Red Army!"

[Todd]

At first I thought this was a headline from The Onion, but it turns out it's from The Gray Lady.

[Brian]

This one's about 15 miles from where I was born: Anti-Gay Preacher Named "Gaylard" Arrested for Squeezing Man's Genitals, Caught "Returning" Gay Porn to "Friend"

[ibanezmonster]

This one's about 15 miles from where I was born: Anti-Gay Preacher Named "Gaylard" Arrested for Squeezing Man's Genitals, Caught "Returning" Gay Porn to "Friend"

Lol. And his name is "Gaylard."

[Todd]

The court wasn't monkeying around.

But this one was.

[knight66]

But this one was.

Todd, I was sure this was a leg pull, then looking round the Net had to accept it was true. Still sounds bananas to me. I could more see a point in the case had the animal not been born in the zoo. I cannot see in what sense freedom could be usefully provided to it.

Mike