WTF in America
Dec 4th 2017, 2:23 pm
#6556
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Re: WTF in America
Something light-hearted for a change.
What do you do when you visit a restaurant and the staff are asleep? Cook your own meal!
What do you do when you visit a restaurant and the staff are asleep? Cook your own meal!
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Dec 4th 2017, 8:50 pm
#6557
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Re: WTF in America
Only slightly related, but my mate and I got about 90 minutes of free snooker one time when the guy running the desk fell asleep, which we didn't notice until we started to wonder why the lights hadn't been switched off yet. We offered to pay for the extra time (especially because the UDA had just been in a yelled at him for a good 15 minutes) but he said it was his fault and let us off with it .
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Dec 5th 2017, 2:19 pm
#6558
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Re: WTF in America
I did get to play a best of three frames with my dad when I was over in the summer though.
Dec 8th 2017, 2:43 pm
#6559
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Re: WTF in America
WTF is right. Woke up at 6:30 and all was green. Woke up again at 8 am and all was white. Snow until 4 pm this evening down here in the Gulf Coast City of Hattiesburg.
Dec 8th 2017, 11:57 pm
#6560
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Re: WTF in America
Anyone in the market for a secondhand freezer, free meat included???
Someone stole a freezer from a local veterinary clinic, and with it the remains of two dogs awaiting cremation. | Bradenton Herald
Someone stole a freezer from a local veterinary clinic, and with it the remains of two dogs awaiting cremation. | Bradenton Herald
Dec 9th 2017, 12:13 am
#6561
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Re: WTF in America
Anyone in the market for a secondhand freezer, free meat included???
Someone stole a freezer from a local veterinary clinic, and with it the remains of two dogs awaiting cremation. | Bradenton Herald
Someone stole a freezer from a local veterinary clinic, and with it the remains of two dogs awaiting cremation. | Bradenton Herald
Dec 9th 2017, 1:11 am
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Dec 10th 2017, 4:52 pm
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Re: WTF in America
Portland doughnut shop The Holy Donut has drawn a backlash for a holiday promotion that intended to provide gifts, including warm winter clothes, to children in need.
The doughnut shop announced its plan on Facebook. Users did not take kindly to the fact that The Holy Donut partnered with The Salvation Army to find a few children in need. Commenters on Facebook took issue with the partnership, alleging that The Salvation Army has a history of discriminating against the LGBT community. The Salvation Army has denied that it discriminates against anybody for any reason.
“They proselytize to the people in their programs, they reject LGBT people from their shelters. They have tried to scrub their image, but still discriminate,” one commenter wrote on The Holy Donut’s page.
The doughnut shop announced its plan on Facebook. Users did not take kindly to the fact that The Holy Donut partnered with The Salvation Army to find a few children in need. Commenters on Facebook took issue with the partnership, alleging that The Salvation Army has a history of discriminating against the LGBT community. The Salvation Army has denied that it discriminates against anybody for any reason.
“They proselytize to the people in their programs, they reject LGBT people from their shelters. They have tried to scrub their image, but still discriminate,” one commenter wrote on The Holy Donut’s page.
Dec 12th 2017, 8:44 pm
#6564
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Re: WTF in America
The police are still allowed to execute people with impunity...
From the article: "According to the police report, Brailsford was carrying an AR-15 rifle with the phrase “You’re F—ed” etched into the weapon. The police report also said the “shots were fired so rapidly that in watching the video at regular speed, one cannot count them.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.18cd3816e974
From the article: "According to the police report, Brailsford was carrying an AR-15 rifle with the phrase “You’re F—ed” etched into the weapon. The police report also said the “shots were fired so rapidly that in watching the video at regular speed, one cannot count them.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.18cd3816e974
Dec 12th 2017, 10:48 pm
#6565
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Re: WTF in America
The police are still allowed to execute people with impunity...
From the article: "According to the police report, Brailsford was carrying an AR-15 rifle with the phrase “You’re F—ed” etched into the weapon. The police report also said the “shots were fired so rapidly that in watching the video at regular speed, one cannot count them.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.18cd3816e974
From the article: "According to the police report, Brailsford was carrying an AR-15 rifle with the phrase “You’re F—ed” etched into the weapon. The police report also said the “shots were fired so rapidly that in watching the video at regular speed, one cannot count them.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.18cd3816e974
He was found not guilty.
What are we trying to decide?
Dec 12th 2017, 11:18 pm
#6566
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Re: WTF in America
Those cops were assholes. The wanker barking the instructions is not the shooter. Still, I couldn't make out the victim's hand going to his waist.
Dec 12th 2017, 11:22 pm
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Re: WTF in America
Did you see the video? The commands being barked seemed contradictory and just downright threatening. What a waste of a life.
Those cops were assholes. The wanker barking the instructions is not the shooter. Still, I couldn't make out the victim's hand going to his waist.
Those cops were assholes. The wanker barking the instructions is not the shooter. Still, I couldn't make out the victim's hand going to his waist.
Comments on the internet should decide guilt or innocence, rather than juries and judges?
Dec 13th 2017, 1:51 am
#6568
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Re: WTF in America
The real question to ask yourself is 'would you have survived that encounter?'
Dec 13th 2017, 2:03 am
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Re: WTF in America
Probably would not have reached for my waistband, modesty not a primary issue at the time.
If the premise is that the Cop deliberately sought to cause confusion so they could shoot him, possible, but not probable.
Dec 13th 2017, 2:16 am
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Re: WTF in America
I can think of a few situations in my life where I have survived encounters and wondered later how.
Probably would not have reached for my waistband, modesty not a primary issue at the time.
If the premise is that the Cop deliberately sought to cause confusion so they could shoot him, possible, but not probable.
Probably would not have reached for my waistband, modesty not a primary issue at the time.
If the premise is that the Cop deliberately sought to cause confusion so they could shoot him, possible, but not probable.
Surviving various encounters wasn't my question, I have enough to fill a good sized book but none of them involved weapons or are like the encounter in question.
I don't think the sargeant was aiming to cause confusion but, with the benefits afforded by hindsight, it appears that the more orders/threats that are barked the more confused the suspect becomes, clear and concise the officer was not.