The unimportant news thread

[NikF]

There is a bronze statue of Peter Falk in Hungary.

Well, that's my plans for the weekend taken care of!

[Karl Henning]

I'm here for you, buddy!

[NikF]

I'm here for you, buddy!

Thanks, man - I'm sure with your support even Brexit can't stop me! 

[NikF]

University of Chicago Tells Incoming Students: Don't Expect Safe Spaces or Trigger Warnings

In their letter to incoming students: 

"Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so called 'trigger warnings,' we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual 'safe spaces' where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own."

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/univ-chicago-pushes-back-trigger-warnings-safe-spaces

[zamyrabyrd]

Some funny stuff:
http://weirdnews.about.com/od/artisticendeavors/tp/9-Weird-Billboards.htm
No. 8:
Armed Santa
In Chico, California, a billboard for a local gun range showed Santa Claus with an automatic rifle. Many local residents expressed their disapproval, including one who said, "The idea of this symbol of joy and giving holding an assault rifle, it's just so contradictory." However, the gun range shrugged off the criticism, claiming that it was planning follow-up ads featuring a gun-toting Cupid and Easter Bunny.

[Parsifal]

Those of you who have not come across xkcd may find this link generally interesting.

Today's installment fits the GMG definition of "unimportant news."

http://xkcd.com/1732/

[Turner]

"Google proves its commitment to privacy by blurring out the face of an English cow":

https://twitter.com/AustinHunt/status/776815441629118464

https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/blurred-bovines?utm_term=.ds2pqylBE#.ixKg39GpL

[Turner]

A minor episode in Russian elections, accompanied by music

https://twitter.com/SovietSergey/status/777457756387368960

The usefulness of a staff "wall"
https://twitter.com/parfitt_tom/status/777462154895253504
->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABkGTEczOUc

[Turner]

In Moscow, at the International Conference for suppressed nations & their right to future self-determination (excluding Russian territory though), the representative of the Californian separatists (who is an English teacher based in Yekatarinenburg) has called for Russia for recognize a "Calexit" referendum in 2019 for independence & help California join the UN as a sovereign nation.

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/780006200045961216

[knight66]

I must look to see which side of the San Andreas fault that town sits; perhaps if they wait long enough......

Mike

[Turner]

I guess the English spelling is usually Ekaterinburg, it´s in Russia near Ural & a city of some importance.

Looking at the google map today, I learned that it is around 60 km west of the town of Asbest.

[Andante]

Donald and Hillary are to have a debate, I can hardly wait and am so excited I might wet myself.

[Turner]

The Ukrainian confectioner Dinara Kasko makes cakes as you´ve never seen them:

https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/782475721201647620
https://www.kyivpost.com/lifestyle/ukrainian-confectioner-reshapes-art-cake-making.html?utm_content=buffer2faba&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[zamyrabyrd]

The Ukrainian confectioner Dinara Kasko makes cakes as you´ve never seen them:

https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/782475721201647620
https://www.kyivpost.com/lifestyle/ukrainian-confectioner-reshapes-art-cake-making.html?utm_content=buffer2faba&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Pass for me. I'd rather not eat architecture.

[Karl Henning]

The Great Cake of Kiev?

[kishnevi]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/30/denzel-washington-takes-plea-deal-in-strangling-aretha-franklin.html

[Monsieur Croche]

Anything whatsoever to do with Kanye West.

[Monsieur Croche]

The Great Cake of Kiev?

Groan.
 
Maybe The Great Cake of Kiev is best eaten with a modest side serving of Mousse a la Mussorgsky, and washed down by a high-proof 'Fiery Angel' cocktail, aka a Molotov Prokofiev.

[Ken B]

Sometimes even politicians get it right. Zaevion Dobson Memorial Bridge.

http://www.wbir.com/news/local/bridge-named-in-memory-of-zaevion-dobson/340039280

[Turner]

Today, when I threw a piece of litter in the bin outside a small train station in the suburbs, a recorded voice from the bin greeted me saying "How sweet of you! Thank you very much."