In the news

Just watched the Channel 4 news interview with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. (A day late). Not ready to make an overall judgement on his politics, but he cuts a damn fine figure on telly.

^ trudat. Decent enough reason to vote for someone. I'd vote Obama just cos he's cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mf1plaaS4I

http://youtu.be/uwxRXCnDf6M

Jesus wept! Did it clip the edge of that building on the way down?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31125052

closer view

Think it only clipped that mini van and the bridge. It all looks surreal.

hot piss! that's terrifying.

/never getting on a plane ever again. they had their chance and they blew it.

How do you explain that one to your fleet manager? Jeez...
/cancels flights, buys boat tickets/

Titanic was much worse than that clip, much worse than most things committed to video in fact.

^^thought he was an estate agent, not a fleet manager?

Totally, and I never want to endure its theme song again.

How do you explain that one to your fleet manager? Jeez...

Jeez can explain anything to anyone.

Damn...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/man-attacked-with-axe-while-queuing-to-get-into-bar-in-south-london-10024682.html

Jeez can explain anything to anyone

So true.

*misty eyed*

Got to love the Daily Mail:

Star student wins $1.5m after car crash brain trauma turned her into an impulsive sex-mad dominatrix

Sounds like a classic case of frontal lobe syndrome

"Inappropriate humour and telling of pointless and boring stories."

Yep. That's the Daily Mail alright...

Maybe it's just me with my pun-track mind, but presumably her pseudonym is a pun on 'such a misery'.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if she piggybacked unleashing other, previously repressed traumata on the effects of her physical trauma. Physical trauma is 'acceptable', psychological trauma is a lot more difficult ...

Was the coughing Major innocent?

http://popbitch.com/home/2015/02/05/was-the-coughing-major-on-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-really-innocent/

Oooooo

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/revealed-awardwinning-design-to-transform-disused-tube-tunnels-into-underground-cycle-routes-10026687.html

That's almost as bad as that cycle skyway thing.

Why is it a bad idea?

Tinfoil hat thread >>>>>>>>>

because i'd prefer to cycle in the fucking sunlight not be forced underground like some sort of two wheeled morlock. send the fucking cars down there, they're the ones killing people!

more half arsed horseshit from some design firm trying to get their name in the papers on the back of another 'safety' campaign that implies that all the people who are most likely to be victims of shitty road planning / driving should just ruddy well get out of the way, problem solved!

Also, no GPS, cold in winter, possible safety issues (moreso than alleyways on desolate estates)...

And fucking boring.