THE BOMBINATRIX posted:

Good going Goonlord, you sure showed those Chinese journalists from the '60s...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

Google decided to send their streetview car to the tomatina festival in Bunol. Let's see how that turned out:



Spanish tomatoes: 1
Google: 0

quote:

Like many Spanish festivals, the celebration was originally a religious one, to honor Bunol's patron saint, San Luis Bertran. One year -- either 1944 or 1945 -- there was a tussle during a procession and some boys tossed tomatoes. A few say it was prompted by village rivalries. Some say it was a joke. But others claim it stemmed from unhappiness with Francisco Franco's reign following Spain's civil war.

"This village was against Franco," says Miguel Sierra Galaraza, an amateur historian in Bunol. "Throwing tomatoes at the priest and mayor was a way to protest against authority." Though banned several times in the 1950s, the tradition survived, eventually becoming the centerpiece of the town's two-week celebration.

Mellow Seas posted:

We really need youtube previews here; I skip youtube links almost all the time because they're blind clicks and 90% of them are stupid (sorry guys). But, through some divine provenance, I did click on this one, and my life is better for it.

Then I clicked on two more youtube links and they were useless trash, as usual.

tumblr hype man posted:

703 posted:

Fair and balanced DNC headline(s)

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

twitter is the new cool place for insane racist grandmas to post disturbing material

(where the hell does all the artifacting come from? do people copy/paste using phone screenshots?)

Freakazoid_ posted:

That is a neat as hell looking place, but holy poo poo how do you so blatantly ignore building and fire code for so long? Their stairs were made of loving pallets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY59mR44TLs

MrFellow posted:

I live in Oakland, and the issue of "residential"/converted warehouses gets kind of complicated.

It's pretty well known (although anecdotal) that the city is aware that there are a lot of people living in converted warehouses that aren't up to code. The problem is that if an inspector shows up and red tags the building, the current occupants will move out, and then almost immediately the place will start to fill up with more transient residents, e.g. the homeless, or crusters, or drug enterprises. This leads to a whole different set of problems, including increased crime, blight, and general bother for the neighbors, all of which is going on in a warehouse that is still not safe for habitation. The City of Oakland has, apparently, decided to look the other way on code violations because they find the second scenario more distasteful than the first (not to mention, city services are woefully underfunded, and I'm positive that there aren't enough inspectors to cover the whole city). I'm in no way trying to slam Oakland's code and fire inspectors--I worked in a warehouse in Oakland, and whenever we pulled a permit for a fundraiser, they required us to submit a whole plan and would show up during events to make sure that we were following it.

I probably don't have to mention that the whole bay area is facing the dual problems of (1) not enough funding for a social safety net and (2) rapidly evaporating affordable housing, which leads to people living in unsafe converted buildings, which often leads to tragedy.

SimonCat posted:

https://twitter.com/MTVNews/status/810960588973035520

This is why Hillary lost.

pillsburysoldier posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmi-MtP969M

Moby has a new music video

ArmZ posted:

I'm Jimmy McGill and a vote for me means a vote for no tweets in the picture thread