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Volkonski wrote: ↑Fri Nov 25, 2022 5:11 pmI've seen "The Mousetrap" in London 3 times. No, I am not going to give away the ending.

MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Sat Nov 26, 2022 1:37 am A lot of times I read the next day's comics when they are posted at midnight online. A majority of the Saturday comics I just read pay tribute to Charles Schulz who was born 100 years ago on Dec 26, 1922. That was so sweet.

Police bust super-cartel that controls a third of Europe’s cocaine

The Times and The Sunday Times28 Nov 2022

Europol co-ordinated the raids which led to the arrest of 49 suspects in five different countries, as well as the seizure of 30 tonnes of drugs.

MsDaisy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 1:11 pm My Mister whose mother died of breast cancer many years ago just got a call from his sister in London who’s just had a positive pap smear. I think she's 78/79. His face looked very worried when he told me.

Foggy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:08 am Q. Why did the wise men bring frankincense and myrrh?

A. They were men. By the time they got around to Christmas shopping, that's all that was left on the shelves.

Patagoniagirl wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 11:06 pm One of my favorite oldies is The Andy Griffith Show. In one of the later seasons, Aunt Bee (Bea?) Take flying lessons.I was curious about that and found several sites saying she really did have a license, was a wing-walker in a barnstorming company and ended up being quite an excellent pilot. But most of those links are slightly not reliable. I'd like it to be true, not confident.

'Anti-woke' MAGA bank is shutting down after mismanagement, general sucking

It's a sad week in America. It's also a sad week for billionaire anti-everything troll Peter Thiel, former Mike Pence Chief of Staff Nick Ayers, omnipresent fascist talking head Candace Owens, and a host of other archconservative investors. Mostly, it’s America that has suffered a loss. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the first self-proclaimed anti-woke "bank" in the nation is dying a hot flaming bankrupt death only a few brief months after opening for business.

That "anti-woke" bank called itself GloriFi, a portmanteau of "glory" and "financial malpractice" that premised itself on being, well, not woke. No, that was the whole gimmick. It was going to be a bank for MAGA-type Republicans who didn't want to put their money in a bank unless it catered to gun-toting, white nationalism-adjacent flag-humping cultural anti-wokeness. Among its appeals to the (ahem) Trumpy class were, as Rolling Stone puts it, "plans to offer gun owners discounts on home insurance, credit cards made of shell casing material, and assistance paying legal bills if customers shot someone in self-defense."

You can glean from this description what all the people involved with this new bank believed "anti-woke" to mean. "Woke" means not getting to shoot at people you don't like, and "anti-woke" means getting a discount on financial products if you do shoot people you don’t like. There's no singing “America the Beautiful” for this crowd—it was guns, guns, murder, and guns.

It turns out that was not, by itself, a sufficient business plan. The Journal had previously noted that the plan to make credit cards out of shell casing metal turned into a big oops because the people promising such a thing hadn't realized that making a credit card out of metal might "interfere with security chips and potentially be too thick for payment terminals," which is one of those science-type oversights that you're going to get when your biggest-brained ideas revolve around "what would sound like a good idea to the sort of people who think Donald Trump was history's smartest president."

jez wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 3:51 pm I think I fractured my foot. Roomie is going to take me to the ER when she is done with work.

It will be fun explaining how I tripped on nothing and maybe broke my foot.

jez wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 11:04 pm Foot is not broken. Just did a number on the ligaments. Have a walking shoe and crutches. And they found a rather large bone spur on my heel.

jcolvin2 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 11:57 pm About 20 years ago I tripped walking down a staircase in a Barnes & Noble bookstore. No obstructions; I just somehow missed the landing. Broke my foot. The doctors told me it was the type of fracture most commonly suffered by women wearing high heels.

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