Similarly, Kobe Bryant died of a helicopter crash. “But the coroner’s report said he died of blunt force trauma!!1!”
Rapid deceleration.
Improper grounding.
Limey, I’m reading The Splendid and The Vile by Eric Larson currently about London during Churchill’s first year. As with anything Larson does it is fascinating.
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I can only imagine how he dealt with protestors wanting to go out at night with all their lights on, claiming that the bombs were a hoax to keep them locked in doors. Eh? Oh.
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I think I posted this on the old board, but it’s worth doing so again. Someone digitized the all the reported bomb hits on London during the Blitz, and turned it into an interactive map.
Here’s the map for the area where my parents lived (not together, because they were 5 and 3 at the time). Upper Norwood is the official name, but it is informally known as Crystal Palace, after Joseph Paxton’s amazing glass and metal building was moved there in 1854 creating, essentially, the world’s first theme park with its rides and attractions. The Palace burned down in 1936, leaving only one of its twin water towers standing; which itself was dynamited in 1941 to avoid it being a sighting landmark for the Luftwaffe.
As an aside, the Crystal Palace Football Club was established in 1861 and played in the Palace grounds. It was one of twelve founder members of The Football Association (established in 1863). The club ceased playing games (or so it was thought) around 1875 and, consequently, was not believed to be associated with the current club of the same name that was established in 1905.
However, with the completion of the project to digitize old newspapers previously only retained in hard copy, stories about the team and, perhaps more importantly, its ownership, became searchable. Combing through the now online archives, a Palace historian has discovered that the 1861 club and the 1905 club are one and the same, as both were owned by the Crystal Palace Company.
On this basis, the club now has a legitimate claim to being the oldest professional football club in the world.
I’m sick of these elitist medical examiners. I watched ER, I know cause of death!
It took me a minute to figure out why you posted a photo of the Dallas Infomart.
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This is an awesome explanation of how shopping carts show your true colors. I imagine that there’s a substantial if not complete overlap in the Venns of the anti-mask folks and the people who just abandon shopping carts where they are.
What if you return the carts by playing a game with yourself and from a distance of ten to twenty yards depending on the quality of the paving you push the cart in the direction of the cart collection area and hope that it nestles itself in there?
Given the dearth of sports currently, you may be able to turn this into a PPV event!
I would definitely live stream it if I could do it here, but sadly shopping carts do not leave the store.
By the way, the restrictions placed on anyone leaving the house are extremely strict by American standards. Individual days are given to genders, Sundays are closed completely, and lately Saturdays have been closure days as well which means that men get two days of shopping rather than three. Everyone has one hour to be outside, and that hour depends on the final digit of your national ID number. You get half an hour of travel time on either side. You must wear a mask. Outside of supermarkets and pharmacies, everything is closed. Parks, the beach, closed.
Of course there are delinquents who do not respect the quarantine, and in most cases the police round them up and make them do community service projects. But the vast majority of the locals put on their mask and go shop on their day and at their hour and don’t get on Feisbu to complain about how Bill Gates is denying them their rights. You know who DO complain about all of this? You already know. Certain gringos.
Governor Abbott has announced that professional sports can resume in Texas. Sphinx, I think I’ll pass on opening day. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/18/texas-reopening-coronavirus-updates-greg-abbott-press-conference/
Hong Kong - 7.5 million people who live on top of each other in tiny spaces and get around in crowds and on public transport - like NYC on steroids, has had 4 total deaths. FOUR! It absolutely smashed its curve, seemingly by having everyone wear masks (which reduces the chance of transmission to 0.5%).
The dumbfuck anti-maskers just don’t seem to get that their completely stupid, pointless and politically ginned-up grievance is stopping them from doing everything else they want to do. If we all agreed to wear masks outside of our own homes, we could all go back to work and do many other things too. It’s so simple and easy that it’s just off-the-charts mind-numbing that we here cannot get our shit together enough to do even that!
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AKA, Slothrop’s Epic Map of Lays.
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I just had to Google that. Not sure that was a good idea.
So Abbott also is Commissioner of Pro Sports? Did he mean with crowds in the stands?
Whatever it takes to bring people into contact with great literature.
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Why even have the CDC publish guidelines for reopening during a public health crisis if Trump, Abbott and other governors are simply going to ignore them? Texas has had only two days of less than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases since May 1, but, yet, Phase 2 goes ahead today without a hitch.
It’s infuriating.
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