The unimportant news thread

[Karl Henning]

A cell phone has a low voltage battery and it is inconceivable that it could electrocute anyone. Evidently she was electrocuted by AC line voltage when she tried to plug in the cell phone charger while in the bath tub.

Aye, just so. The terrible absurdity being, that the stepmother reports the two of them doing just that, habitually.

Guess you only get to cheat Death so many baths ....

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[bwv 1080]

A cell phone has a low voltage battery and it is inconceivable that it could electrocute anyone. Evidently she was electrocuted by AC line voltage when she tried to plug in the cell phone charger while in the bath tub.

And a GFCI outlet would have saved her life

[Parsifal]

Iraqi Prime Minister Arrives in Mosul to Declare Victory Over ISIS

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/world/middleeast/mosul-isis-liberated.html?_r=0

I wonder if they called to see if G. W. Bush's old "Mission Accomplished" banner was available for the event.

[Todd]

Speech suppression gets all science-y:

The scientific findings I described above provide empirical guidance for which kinds of controversial speech should and shouldn't be acceptable on campus and in civil society.

[Ken B]

Book burning returns to Sweden.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/07/12/burning-books-in-sweden/

[Todd]

AmPo, a bastion of free speech and free press!/? 

[Todd]

Musk Says First Passengers on SpaceX Rockets Must Be 'Brave'

[Spineur]

Salvator Dali moustache is intact, embalmer says, and the dead man is in great shape !

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/20/salvador-dali-remains-exhumed-paternity-case

[bwv 1080]

killing off the Indians caused the little ice age

[Ken B]

General Jack D Ripper, vindicated.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jul/25/sperm-counts-among-western-men-have-halved-in-last-40-years-study

[Todd]

LIBOR to be scrapped.  I wonder what all the variable rate debt instruments tied to LIBOR will change to in 2021.

[Todd]

Another billionaire buys another media outlet. 

[kishnevi]

Anyone who hankers for a serving of overpriced gourmet teas will need to find a different place to get their fix
https://amp.cnn.com/money/2017/07/27/investing/teavana-stores-closing-starbucks/index.html

[Todd]

RIP 2° C target.

[Spineur]

Although this will have to be confirmed by a formal vote Paris gets 2024 olympics, LA 2028 olympics.  Paris official budget is 7 billions €.  Probably will end up to cost twice as much.
A real big bill...

[Ken B]

Although this will have to be confirmed by a formal vote Paris gets 2024 olympics, LA 2028 olympics.  Paris official budget is 7 billions €.  Probably will end up to cost twice as much.
A real big bill...

That f*cking migratory cloud of debt has landed on Canada thrice in my lifetime. About time the French got some!

[Spineur]

Harvard Alumni directory lists Scaramucci as dead. 

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-trump-scaramucci-harvard-idUKKBN1AG2NY

Boy ! was this a bad week !

[Karl Henning]

Citing 'basic physics,' a judge berated the FAA over shrinking airline seats

Airline seats were designed for people no taller than 5-foot-10, and in reasonably good shape, FlyersRights.org argued, noting that "many Americans do not fit into this category."

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I dunno...unimportant or not?

[Karl Henning]

"My bed has, like, an imprint of my body."