spouse of scouse me

I like his style It's great that he's experimenting with cooking too, he'll probably end up a very capable cook! Of course, he might already be one and I'm just stereotyping young males

Lion in Winter

He's coming along slowly. He's got one chili dish that OH taught him, other than that it's mostly fry ups of one kind or another and sometimes a baked chicken thing where you buy a Nando's spice packet, coat chicken pieces in it and bake in a bag.

spouse of scouse me

He's doing a lot more than some young men I know (scouse's sons, I'm looking at you).

My second son's right into cooking, but he's a lot older than Little Lion. He loves telling me about the latest dishes he's made, which fresh herbs and spices he used, which cut of meat gave the best result, how he cooked the various accompaniments. I'm usually very interested, but sometimes I have to stop myself saying 'Mummy bored now'.

moneypenny20

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...d=sm_fb_maddow

Forgive me if I'm being obtuse, but do I understand correctly that in 2020, in the USA, there is no concrete legislation AGAINST lynching?

scrubbedexpat097

You understand correctly.

I think there should actually be a petition signed to change the name from USA to WTF America.

Lion in Winter

This was posted originally in the George Floyd thread. Have a scroll through. It does explain a few things.

https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/bluefall

Pulaski

There are laws specifying offences of several degrees of murder and/ or homicide depending on which state you're talking about, as well as federal laws. There can also be aggravating factors, which can elevate the killing to a capital offence, and that would be typical for a lynching, but AFAIK there are no specific legal prohibitions on "lynching" any more that there are specific prohibitions on "stabbing", "strangling", "shooting", or "poisoning".

So I would characterize any attempt to pass a law against lynching is pointless political grandstanding that will have no impact on the existing laws that are explicitly clear, that depriving someone of their life carelessly, recklessly, or with maliceaforthought is a crime, that can typically get you locked up for "life without the possibility of parole", or worse (we are talking about America ) so there isn't even the "wire fraud" excuse for creating a new offence that has more severe punishment.
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moneypenny20

Yes, my brain has already started leaking after reading through that earlier.

Ok so that makes sense.

scrubbedexpat099

Not sure this helps the narrative, lets focus on the outrage.

Pulaski

Thankfully I don't get to see Ms Madcow very often, but let's enjoy a few seconds reliving her appearance on TV the morning after the 2016 election.

scrubbedexpat099

Oldie but goodie, my favourite.

Pulaski

@14:40 "I can't wait for this ****ing speech" ..... Well you're going to have to, .... while she writes it!

Thank you, @Boiler, that brightened my evening.

scrubbedexpat099

Even better live, I was flipping channels and got stuck on this. Talk about a melt down.

scrubbedexpat091

Not so much a WTF, but man was this a huge fire at an Amazon fulfillment center, the fire chief seems a bit concerned about the speed in which the fire spread. 3rd party company who Amazon contracts with.

lansbury

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020...nferences.html

Now this guy is quite entertaining, but he is deaf. In order for him to undertake the ASL interpretation he has to have an ASL interpreter signing to him what is being said. Portland pays for 2 people to do 1 job.