The "Talk About Anything" Thread

[I Coulda Hada VH]

I hate flying these days.


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Flying sucks.

[Dave's Dreidel]

I hate flying these days.


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Flew a lot last week, which simply meant I got a lot of extra sleep. I'm usually asleep before we take off and don't wake up until wheels down.

[fudd]

Flew a lot last week, which simply meant I got a lot of extra sleep. I'm usually asleep before we take off and don't wake up until wheels down.

Had my company’s annual shareholder meeting this weekend in Dallas and I got bumped on the return flight. Domestically, flying sucks. Internationally, it’s easy. I go to Canada 4 times a year. It’s easy like Sunday morning.


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[VH1986]

Do you ever try to scare them off by blasting this?



I kid ...

It actually attracts attention. They know they've stumbled upon a cool mutha fucka.

[bklynboy68]

As if we needed another reason to love Italian women


Migrant tries to snatch a purse from an Italian woman. Unfortunately, he picked the wrong one!

https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1916486831522070800

[Number 47]

As if we needed another reason to love Italian women


Migrant tries to snatch a purse from an Italian woman. Unfortunately, he picked the wrong one!

https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1916486831522070800

Allegedly tries to snatch her purse.

Lol! dude on the scooter is like... "I probably can't really offer any help."

[Number 47]

Crazy!

Police: Two 7-year-olds, one 8-year-old, one 18-year-old killed in Chatham crash

Authorities have announced the ages of the three children and one young adult who were killed on April 28 when a person struck them with a vehicle in Chatham.

Two 7-year-olds, an 8-year-old, and an 18-year-old were killed, Illinois State Police said in a news release Tuesday morning.

Six additional children were taken to area hospitals, and one remains in critical condition, police said.

Authorities have identified the driver as 44-year-old Marianne Akers.

Akers is not being held by police, due to the crash being under investigation, ISP said.

Akers was not injured but was transported to a hospital for evaluation, according to an earlier release.

"This does not appear to be a targeted attack," ISP wrote.

https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/crim...d/83340242007/


Vehicle smashes through Illinois building, killing 4 young people and injuring others

https://apnews.com/article/chatham-i...7760019561a076

[The Rover]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spain-p...cause-mystery/

To Summarize:

1. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said: "All the necessary measures will be taken to ensure that this does not happen again."

2. Sánchez had said Monday that a problem in the wider European grid, which he called a "strong oscillation," had been behind the outage, but that was never confirmed or expounded upon by the Spanish leader or the country's electricity providers, and officials subsequently asked people to refrain from speculation.

3. REN, Portugal's national electricity grid operator, said Monday there had been a rare atmospheric phenomenon in Spain, which it pinned on extreme temperature variations, but that explanation was also never confirmed, and on Tuesday, Spain's meteorological agency said it had not detected any "unusual meteorological or atmospheric phenomena" or unexpectedly dramatic temperature fluctuations the previous day.

[Raldo]

As if we needed another reason to love Italian women


Migrant tries to snatch a purse from an Italian woman. Unfortunately, he picked the wrong one!

https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1916486831522070800

Bad decision dude.

[Dave's Dreidel]

These power outages and loss of networks in some cases are test runs by our adversaries to see how we react, how long it takes us to get things back running, etc.

[Simon Ribeiro]

Happy Labour Day to all Linkers!!

[The Rover]

Happy Labour Day to all Linkers!!

Are you a Worker ? ? ? ?

May 1 is International Workers’ Day and we are honoring laborers and the working class from every corner of the world. Commonly referred to as Labour Day or May Day in many countries, International Workers' Day celebrates hard working individuals everywhere.

https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/...kers-day-may-1

[MF5150]

These power outages and loss of networks in some cases are test runs by our adversaries to see how we react, how long it takes us to get things back running, etc.

We had a big one back in 2022. The biggest communications provider (Rogers; one of only two in our monopolistic country) went dark for almost an entire day.

No cell service. No landline service. No internet. No debit/credit card purchases at merchants who were with Rogers. People couldnt withdraw money from banks that were on the Rogers network.


The company said it was a glitch, essentially. I can’t remember the technical reason they gave.


But I bet it was a cyber-attack and they didn’t want the country going into mass panic by announcing it as such.

[Little Intruder]

I remember the Great Blackout of 1977 in NYC. It was big news at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yo...ackout_of_1977

[Number 47]