Sunday BBC Day DOT [6/8/23]

6/8/23 ManchuCandidate 22
"I say, I fancy a little Scotch Woodcock, don't you?"

Today’s news courtesy of the Beeb.

Ukraine’s offensive is slow due to Russian defenses, not the lightning attack most people hoped for. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66383377

Shocking, changing the rules because they’re going to lose. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66375877

It’s starting to get ugly everywhere https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-66400905

This is story of Razzlekhan and her Ilya boo. Two young kids with nothing else to except get high and put videos on Youtube… https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66390639

Some Florida news… snake Hunters hunt Pythons in Florida https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66206671

Anything else on your mind?

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22 Comments

    • Good that they caught him but it’s scary how they found him Big Brother style. I wonder if it’s AI facial recognition program or some police sitting at a computer clicking away at photos all day long.

      I feel bad for his 9 year old.

      • ive been wondering about the how too

        like….what kind of tech are they using to scour all the pictures on the interwebs? if they are

        did someone with a grudge just dob him in anonymously like with a picture?

        i dont know…. but yes…sucks for his new personas family….the past has a way of catching up to you tho…suspect his new family didnt even know

    • Wow. The winning kick was in by half an inch.

      • gotta love/hate var

        (edit) also why the fuck am i now getting tweets…from twitter btw…not x…as my first results in google?

    • The comments on my local news channel’s facebook story about the loss are like one giant cesspool of sexism, misogyny, homophobia, etc. It’s gross.

  3. the quiet is killing me

    here have some hurdy gurdy metal

    hurdy gurdy has got to be the best name for an instrument ever

    anyways yes i am bored and rained in and apolegize for the glut of comments

    luckily for everyone i has work again tomorow

  4. BBC news doesn’t really hit the same without the poncy accents though I do enjoy hearing from the occasional Scottish sports announcer Andrew Cotter.

  5. At the top of the BBC’s homepage is a link for the world Netball championships.

    Netball?

    I just looked it up and it’s been around since 1895!

    ”netball’s development traces back to American sports teacher Clara Gregory Baer’s misinterpretation of the basketball rule book in 1895.”

    It sounds like a cross between basketball and team handball.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball

    • meanwhile in the realm of the nutty flatlanders…. meet fierljeppen

      its been around since 1771….we have issues over here

      • So that’s where Animal Crossing got it from!

      • So this explains why everyone of  Dutch ancestry always seems to be so tall**!!!!

        The taller folks made it *over* the canals, and all the short ones fell in & musta drowned!😉😆💖

         

        Either that, or they didn’t survive it, because “Drunken Hijinks!” and the associated injuries, while living in a pre-antibiotic era…

        One nasty cut, and you were all done-for back then… landing in *questionably* clean water and getting a cut, or inhaling it? That could made you a gonner for sure!

        Rather than “You Died of Dysentery!” like Americans on the Oregon Trail, it’dve been “You died of a scraped Knee!”🙃

         

         

        **including most of my family, except me–i took after my mom’s “Short & Irish” ancestors🤣

        • lol….i think you may have nailed the theory there

          (tho the googles says we are tall coz of our milk and cheese heavy diet)

          (me thinks the googles may be full of shit on that one…coz everyone what can has a milk and cheese heavy diet)

  6. Has anybody had a really glitchy Netflix this weekend?

    Like feels as though they pushed code to their platform, went oh shit there’s defects, let’s rush another deployment, oh huh stuff still is shitty.

    • Yes! I was scrolling through and it kept freezing up. 😡

      • Ugh, annoying!

        Mine has had to restart twice today in the last 3 hours. I got nothing, it will sort itself out. Also I don’t watch much TV during the week so like… as long as it’s not a piece of shit next weekend I won’t care.

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