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This is a sort of experimental thread intended as a place to casually discuss any sort of interesting new item or opinion piece that interested you, and that you think other people might be interested in. Thoughts, jokes, or discussion about anything posted is encouraged. Some guidelines: ---DO post any sort of news, thoughts about news, blog posts about news, tweets about news ect. that you think is funny or interesting. ---DO give your thoughts, discuss, or makes jokes about articles posted. ---DO make threads about topics that seem to draw a lot of interest ---DON'T be a human RSS feed. Only post articles if you think they're interesting or funny, or if you have something you want to say about them. ---DON'T be a dismissive dick about people who are misinformed, less informed, drew an article from a disreputable source, or simply disagree with you. Seek to inform, discuss, or convince, not insult. ---DON'T turn this into DaD Chat. Try to keep on the topic of articles posted in the last 3-4 pages at most. If discussion runs longer than that, please make a new thread! People clearly want to talk about it! With that in mind, have fun, and don't take this thread too seriously. A Nazi time capsule was found in Poland. It was buried in the foundation of a Nazi leadership academy at the start of its construction. Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce with Brad Pitt after a private investigator uncovered and affair with some actress I've never heard of. Jolie apparently want sole custody of their kids. Arms manufacturer lobbyists held a swanky party for military officials and congressmen.. A House committee member gave a speech requesting lobbyist assistance in securing greater military funding in the next appropriations bill.
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Blue Bell went right back to giving people listeria and should probably just shut down entirely before they kill again http://kxan.com/2016/09/21/listeria-potentially-found-in-blue-bell-products-sparking-new-recall/
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Sep 21, 2016 23:05
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Sep 21, 2016 23:21
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PostNouveau posted:Blue Bell went right back to giving people listeria and should probably just shut down entirely before they kill again This is the worst news my grandpa ever heard.
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Sep 21, 2016 23:49
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Cheerleaders kneel during anthem. Expect a bit more of these stories going straight into football season. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/20/sport/howard-cheerleaders-national-anthem-protest-irpt/index.html
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Sep 22, 2016 00:56
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Armani posted:Cheerleaders kneel during anthem. Expect a bit more of these stories going straight into football season. That's amazing. HBCUs making me proud once again.
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Sep 22, 2016 01:00
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Armani posted:Cheerleaders kneel during anthem. Expect a bit more of these stories going straight into football season. So if this keeps up do we finally stop playing the national anthem before everything, or do police refuse to do their jobs at any sporting event above Pop Warner level?
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Sep 22, 2016 01:03
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Gyges posted:So if this keeps up do we finally stop playing the national anthem before everything, or do police refuse to do their jobs at any sporting event above Pop Warner level? The cops will whine like they always do, but if they refuse to work games I'm sure the NFL will just start contracting out security to a private security agency.
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Sep 22, 2016 01:47
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PostNouveau posted:Blue Bell went right back to giving people listeria and should probably just shut down entirely before they kill again I hope that if they pull all their products again they give me sufficient warning so that I can fill my freezer with their delicious ice cream.
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Sep 22, 2016 05:07
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VelvetRiver posted:I hope that if they pull all their products again they give me sufficient warning so that I can fill my freezer with their delicious ice cream. If you live in Texas, HEB's house brand is better than Blue Bell by far. I know that's drat near heretical, but it's the truth.
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Sep 22, 2016 05:29
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ReidRansom posted:If you live in Texas, HEB's house brand is better than Blue Bell by far. I know that's drat near heretical, but it's the truth. I dunno about that, but they're pretty comparable at least.
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Sep 22, 2016 05:32
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VelvetRiver posted:I hope that if they pull all their products again they give me sufficient warning so that I can fill my freezer with their delicious ice cream. It's just ice cream dude. Go buy some that definitely won't give you listeria, and stop giving money to a company that keeps poisoning people.
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Sep 22, 2016 06:30
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ReidRansom posted:If you live in Texas, HEB's house brand is better than Blue Bell by far. I know that's drat near heretical, but it's the truth. It can get challenging when it comes to certain flavors. Thank goodness I've found a drat-near-perfect substitute for their Cookies 'n' Cream, and not just because they don't have Blue Bell west of the Rockies. That said, I'm boned when said substitute ceases to exist after the next Cascadia earthquake (it's Tillamook) (also why would you willingly submit yourself to listeria gosh)
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Sep 22, 2016 07:31
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Because bluebell is god damned worth it.
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Sep 22, 2016 08:25
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fool_of_sound posted:
You haven't heard of Marion Cotillard? She won an Oscar.
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Sep 22, 2016 11:27
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fool_of_sound posted:Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce with Brad Pitt after a private investigator uncovered and affair with some actress I've never heard of. Jolie apparently want sole custody of their kids. I don't know how big of a deal this is, or even how true it is, but I've noticed a sort of blowback against this kind of narrative after the coverage of the Pitt and Jolie's break-up that the media's been way too quick to blame this either on Jolie, or on any of the actresses that Pitt has allegedly had an affair with, when reportedly the "irreconcilable differences" in the divorce claims were more about essential disagreements on how to the couple was and would raise their children, and specifically Pitt's consumption of drugs and alcohol being a bad influence on them. To wit, in these divorce stories the wife is all too often portrayed as the flawed, even crazy person, or that the mistresses are all too often portrayed as seductresses.
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Sep 22, 2016 11:46
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 http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/22/news/companies/pacnet-investigation/index.html I can't tell if this is actually a big deal, justifying CNNs use of a 108-point headline font, or if it's just a slow news day and they are patting their own back about doing investigative journalism 60-minutes style about old people getting scammed out of their money. But in the conventions of their site (which I should really un-bookmark), this is the font they'd use if a terrorist attack happened. Pakistani Brad Pitt fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Sep 22, 2016 |
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Sep 22, 2016 18:30
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Starshark posted:You haven't heard of Marion Cotillard? She won an Oscar. Oh, I recognized the actress once I looked her up. I didn't know the name though.
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Sep 22, 2016 18:35
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Sep 22, 2016 18:40
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-37451903 A member of the House of Lords is having £3k worth of property seized by the courts because he refused to pay a fine for riding the train without a ticket. After refusing to pay he apparently tried to challenge the decision by representing himself in court, sitting in the Prosecutor's seat when he turned up and using "I'm old and shouldn't have to pay" as his defense.
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Sep 23, 2016 14:55
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Captain Fargle posted:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-37451903 Oh hell, I read that as £3 and thought they were actually going to seize and auction property for the cost of the ticket itself and nearly died at the thought.
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Sep 23, 2016 15:19
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Twitter has been looking for a buyer since they apparently still haven't figured out how to monetize the thing. There's rumored to be a lot of interest, especially from Google, the company that has brought you like three or four failed social media ventures.
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Sep 23, 2016 15:29
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fool_of_sound posted:Twitter has been looking for a buyer since they apparently still haven't figured out how to monetize the thing. There's rumored to be a lot of interest, especially from Google, the company that has brought you like three or four failed social media ventures. Wait, then what are those "Sponsored Tweet" that always show up in my feed? They should just enact overage charges where they bill people a penny for every character over 140 they type. As for google possibly buying it, does google just need to own everything on the internet? Also, since there are so many police shooting videos, should we keep each article of new ones surfacing out of here or is there room for the latest one? http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/23/us/charlotte-keith-lamont-scott-shooting-wife-video/index.html
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Sep 23, 2016 19:30
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They finally arrested a clown, Is the clown terror over? Time will tell,  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37455073
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Sep 23, 2016 19:41
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gradenko_2000 posted:I don't know how big of a deal this is, or even how true it is, but I've noticed a sort of blowback against this kind of narrative after the coverage of the Pitt and Jolie's break-up that the media's been way too quick to blame this either on Jolie, or on any of the actresses that Pitt has allegedly had an affair with, when reportedly the "irreconcilable differences" in the divorce claims were more about essential disagreements on how to the couple was and would raise their children, and specifically Pitt's consumption of drugs and alcohol being a bad influence on them. I'd thought the divorce filing was related to Pitt allegedly verbally or physically abusing the kids. There was an incident on a private flight I guess? I don't know how reliable the report is. TMZ: Brad Pitt Child Abuse Investigation
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Sep 24, 2016 02:04
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gradenko_2000 posted:I don't know how big of a deal this is, or even how true it is, but I've noticed a sort of blowback against this kind of narrative after the coverage of the Pitt and Jolie's break-up that the media's been way too quick to blame this either on Jolie, or on any of the actresses that Pitt has allegedly had an affair with, when reportedly the "irreconcilable differences" in the divorce claims were more about essential disagreements on how to the couple was and would raise their children, and specifically Pitt's consumption of drugs and alcohol being a bad influence on them. This is remarkably unsurprising, honestly. I know Pitt never really hid his love of substances, and I imagine it's really hard to be a regular pot smoker and a father of 6. The abuse accusations suck though. I don't give half a poo poo about celebrities cheating (I mean, it's terrible for the person being cheated on obviously, but on the grand scale of bad things celebrities could do, it's way toward the bottom. Shouts to Affleck).
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Sep 24, 2016 02:14
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Lime Tonics posted:They finally arrested a clown,  Local Clown Not So Scary After Demasking
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Sep 24, 2016 02:45
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PostNouveau posted:Blue Bell went right back to giving people listeria and should probably just shut down entirely before they kill again Blue Bell ice cream is really good. Worth listeria russian roulette, imo
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Sep 24, 2016 02:47
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Lime Tonics posted:They finally arrested a clown, Clown terror never ends.
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Sep 24, 2016 02:59
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I know it's the onion, but... I have never seen The Onion do a takedown this brutal. In case you hadn't heard, this is about Penn State's incredibly ill-advised Joe Paterno tribute.
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Sep 24, 2016 03:26
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Mirthless posted:I know it's the onion, but... quote:“You all need to know that what you are doing and saying is extremely strange and that you should stop,” said Alex Gilani, 35, of Tacoma, WA, adding that “it should be pretty obvious” that holding halftime tributes to the late Paterno, who did nothing to prevent his former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky from sexually abusing dozens of children, is totally unacceptable. “All of us find it very strange that you cheer for him during games, paint his name on signs to hold up in the crowd, and attempt to restore a statue of him on campus.” It's a drat good takedown.
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Sep 24, 2016 03:29
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RedTonic posted:It's a drat good takedown. Pretty weak take down of a child molester assistant.
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Sep 24, 2016 04:07
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Darth123123 posted:Pretty weak take down of a child molester assistant.  I thought it on point about Penn State and appreciated the link. Is it a tone problem? Not enough "what the gently caress is wrong with you people"-style questions?
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Sep 24, 2016 04:14
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Four people were shot in a mall in Burlington. The shooter is still on the loose in the mall http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/23/us/washington-mall-shooting/
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Sep 24, 2016 04:39
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Guy Goodbody posted:Four people were shot in a mall in Burlington. The shooter is still on the loose in the mall The fact that at this point this qualifies as "Minor current events" is really sad. 
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Sep 24, 2016 21:35
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Lime Tonics posted:They finally arrested a clown, The police seem to be pretty much admitting that they don't really have a very good reason for arresting this guy. quote:Police have warned individuals against dressing up in clown costumes, adding it could lead to criminal charges.
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Sep 24, 2016 21:39
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The cops are Space Station 13 players, and know better than to let a clown roam free.
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Sep 24, 2016 21:44
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Captain Fargle posted:The fact that at this point this qualifies as "Minor current events" is really sad. This is America. That barely even registers an anything more than a typical weekday.
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Sep 24, 2016 23:56
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ToxicSlurpee posted:This is America. That barely even registers an anything more than a typical weekday. It's awful that it's only remarkable because they haven't IDed the shooter yet.
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fool_of_sound posted:It's awful that it's only remarkable because they haven't IDed the shooter yet. Well, now it looks like he's from Turkey so we should be able to squeeze some MUSLIM MENACE out of this.
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