The unimportant news thread

[Todd]

Fat fingered, indeed!

[North Star]

They should have written 'semicolons' instead of 'periods'.

[Todd]

At least now I know how I will die.

[The Six]

Police Officers Gone Wild! Vol. 777: In which grabbing a high school student by her neck while she's seated in class and throwing her across the room is standard procedure.

Richland School District 2 school officials have banned a school resource officer from the district in response to a video supposedly taken at Spring Valley High School showing the officer slamming and dragging a student from her desk.

School officials confirmed the incident happened on Monday between a female student and school resource officer Ben Fields.

Fields, according to Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott, was acting in response to the student, who was refusing to leave class.

"The student was told she was under arrest for disturbing school and given instructions which she again refused," Lott said. "The video then shows the student resisting and being arrested by the SRO."

The video shows Fields approaching the girl sitting at a desk in a classroom. Fields grabs the girl's arm while putting his own arm around the student's neck.

http://www.wistv.com/story/30353999/video-shows-confrontation-between-spring-valley-student-and-school-resource-officer?clienttype=generic

[Todd]

https://www.youtube.com/v/aNddW2xmZp8

[lisa needs braces]

Twitch.tv, the platform for watching other people play video-games, is hosting a marathon of Bob Ross painting videos to inaugurate its welcome of people who use the platform to stream their artistic creative efforts and how-to-guides a la Bob Ross:

http://www.twitch.tv/bobross

[Karl Henning]

Gamergate:  Austin, TX Edition

[Karl Henning]

"What a great way to get a little bit of extra pocket money and much better than having to spend eight hours slogging in a bar earning the minimum wage," he added.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Police gone wil...waaaait, gauntlet drops in opposite direction

[Karl Henning]

Whoa

[Karl Henning]

Why Ohio voters rejected recreational and medical marijuana (more about the business model, than about the toxicology)

[North Star]

Paris shootings in city centre and explosion at Stade de France

[ibanezmonster]

http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/13/pornhubs-traffic-dipped-significantly-the-day-fallout-4-came-out/

LOL

[kishnevi]

Paris shootings in city centre and explosion at Stade de France

There are now reportedly over 100 dead.
The band performing at the concert where the hostages were taken is said to be a hard rock band despite its name.

[North Star]

At least 128 deaths from the attacks now according to BBC.



Not a good weekend for the French. 

A high-speed TGV train has derailed near the eastern French city of Strasbourg, killing at least 10 people, officials say.
The crash happened during a test run in the town of Eckwersheim, on a new Paris-Strasbourg line.
The train was carrying 49 people when it derailed, caught fire, and plunged into a canal. The injured were airlifted to hospital.
The derailment was due to "excessive speed", officials say.

[Brian]

There are now reportedly over 100 dead.
The band performing at the concert where the hostages were taken is said to be a hard rock band despite its name.

It's one of my favorite bands, actually. They are a rock band and they don't take themselves seriously. When Axl Rose insulted them, one of the band members got a tattoo of the insult.

If I lived in Paris, I'd have been at the concert. One of my best friends does live in Paris. She is safe, but her coworker went to the concert and he has now become the first victim whose name has been publicly announced.

[kishnevi]

It's one of my favorite bands, actually. They are a rock band and they don't take themselves seriously. When Axl Rose insulted them, one of the band members got a tattoo of the insult.

If I lived in Paris, I'd have been at the concert. One of my best friends does live in Paris. She is safe, but her coworker went to the concert and he has now become the first victim whose name has been publicly announced.

 

[Karl Henning]

It's one of my favorite bands, actually. They are a rock band and they don't take themselves seriously. When Axl Rose insulted them, one of the band members got a tattoo of the insult.

If I lived in Paris, I'd have been at the concert. One of my best friends does live in Paris. She is safe, but her coworker went to the concert and he has now become the first victim whose name has been publicly announced.

Alas!

[Todd]

And now lefties are going after . . . Woodrow Wilson!

(Whoda thunk that Rick Perry would be ahead of the Progressive curve?)

[Todd]

Junk ain't gonna get rid of itself.