General News Thread

It would be an interesting stamp design, for the barcode to be incorporated aesthetically within Chuck's silhouette..
[I'm not happy with the construction of that sentence, so I'll probably re-edit it later!]

(04-10-2022 10:31 )Charlemagne Wrote:  I've just noticed this.

"After 31 January 2023, regular stamps without a barcode will no longer be valid. So if you can find your old ones, use them up or swap them".

Same thing for avatars on here

Spooky foresight or what?

(08-10-2022 22:34 )Tractor boy Wrote:  I know we have a rest in peace thread, but I can't find a burn in hell thread, so I will just post the news here.

Serial killer Peter Tobin has died aged 75. No one will have to share oxygen with this evil bastard ever again.

I thought we did have one but to be honest many outside the forum might think we are a bad lot if we had a thread just for people like him and would attempt to shut the forum down for even allowing space for the demise of such people.
What I'm trying to say on this, is that we have got to be careful how we deal with such news

Anyway, I do hope Satan has a nice spit roast waiting for him for eternity.

(11-10-2022 16:15 )lovebabes56 Wrote:  I thought we did have one but to be honest many outside the forum might think we are a bad lot if we had a thread just for people like him and would attempt to shut the forum down for even allowing space for the demise of such people.

Even for you, that's a bit wild

(11-10-2022 16:15 )lovebabes56 Wrote:  What I'm trying to say on this, is that we have got to be careful how we deal with such news

(11-10-2022 16:15 )lovebabes56 Wrote:  Anyway, I do hope Satan has a nice spit roast waiting for him for eternity.

There was some controversy when the Guardian published an obituary for Peter Sutcliffe, as his life and death could have been covered fittingly, without the 'honour' of an obituary, was the view.
However obituaries aren't so black and white: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...-sutcliffe
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-art-of-the-obituarist/

(11-10-2022 09:41 )seducedx6 Wrote:  It would be an interesting stamp design, for the barcode to be incorporated aesthetically within Chuck's silhouette..
[I'm not happy with the construction of that sentence, so I'll probably re-edit it later!]

Sometimes when I'm on my tablet for a certain length of time, I go into a mental fog, which can make even quite simple words or phrases fail to come to me.. although my initial posted draft, was written when I was tired, and had been on the tablet for probably much less than an hour.. but I wasn't exactly wider awake during the later drafts..

It would be an interesting stamp design, for the barcode to be in the shape of King Chuck's silhouette..

Right-wing conspiracy theory nut-job Alex Jones has been ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars in damages to the families of the children and teachers murdered at Sandy Hook in 2012 after a defamation trial.


https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2022/1012/132...lex-jones/

Two girl climate change protesters have thrown soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting at the National Gallery in London.

The painting is estimated to be worth more than $133 million.

They then glued themselves to the wall.

The Galley says that they've removed the painting but replaced it with two life studies.

Police said the protesters had been arrested for criminal damage and aggravated trespass.

(15-10-2022 07:51 )Charlemagne Wrote:  The painting is estimated to be worth more than $133 million.

The actual painting wasn't damaged, the canvas is covered by a protective sheet of glass.

part of the argument on was the cost of electric and cost of living and using a tin of Heinz soup not the cheapest brand

Now if they only used campbells tomato soup then would be pop art vs post impressionist clash