BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Pblakeney]

Yeah, but Skynet then became the self aware AI, and Cyberdyne made the robots. All part of the same group of bastards really.

In my analogy Skynet is still in it's infancy.
I hope.

 

[AndyRM]

In my analogy Skynet is still in it's infancy.
I hope.

Mmmm. Fingers crossed!

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Virginia Beach is currently under curfew, due to several shootings.
Everyone, no exceptions, must be off the streets by 9-30pm until 5am.

Must be doing wonders for takings at all the bars and restaurants in such a popular break destination.

 

[briantrumpet]

When it's a school shooting, remember the marketing opportunities for Kevlar-lined school rucksacks.

https://premierbodyarmor.com/collections/school-safety

"Our innovative solutions include backpack armor, laptop cases, and bleed control kits, ensuring the highest level of safety for students and staff. Explore each product to see how we're ahead of the curve in safeguarding schools. Your peace of mind is our priority. Let's build a safer tomorrow together."

And, let's face it, after the marketing genius of "My First Rifle" ($179.00, available in pretty pink), you can't go restricting the right of businesses to sell stuff to try to prevent your child getting killed, if schools won't arm and train their teachers properly to defend aginst psychopathic brown foreigners white dudes with gun fetishes.

I mean, you've got to admit, what 10-year-old could resist this for Christmas? Just a pity you've got to reload after killing just one person.

 

[Beebo]

I’ve given up worrying about the US gun culture.
It is so far ingrained into society that no one can do anything about it, with vested interests on all sides, even Democrats are blind to the issue.
the general public doesn’t understand how crazy they look from the outside.
The sheer lunacy of being anti abortion but pro gun and anti pope takes some huge mental gymnastics.

 

[briantrumpet]

I’ve given up worrying about the US gun culture.
It is so far ingrained into society that no one can do anything about it, with vested interests on all sides, even Democrats are blind to the issue.
the general public doesn’t understand how crazy they look from the outside.
The sheer lunacy of being anti abortion but pro gun and anti pope takes some huge mental gymnastics.

I've thought for ages that the US image of themselves was a mirage, and that the acceptance of gun deaths and the worship of profit over humane systems (e.g. the healthcare system) were the symptoms of a deeply sick society that had fooled itself – a bit like the British Empire – that it was the greatest nation on earth with no dark side.

It certainly has had great strengths – not least its embrace of immigration and welcome for people from around the world who could add to its wealth and diversity (even if its tolerance of Native Americans has been less than exemplary) – but I think that the Christian Nationalism that remains deeply embedded within US society is symptomatic of the malaise that has never really gone away in a society that doesn't really know what it believes in other than money and a very particular view of 'god'.

 

[Pinno718]

Close, though it seems that to get it just right really is a challenge for non-native speakers. I suspect that there are subtleties in both the middle consonantal sound and the A's which western ears will be deaf to.

[/howtokillajoke]

Holy moly BT, get a life will ya?

 

[Pinno718]

I've thought for ages that the US image of themselves was a mirage, and that the acceptance of gun deaths and the worship of profit over humane systems (e.g. the healthcare system) were the symptoms of a deeply sick society that had fooled itself – a bit like the British Empire – that it was the greatest nation on earth with no dark side.

It certainly has had great strengths – not least its embrace of immigration and welcome for people from around the world who could add to its wealth and diversity (even if its tolerance of Native Americans has been less than exemplary) – but I think that the Christian Nationalism that remains deeply embedded within US society is symptomatic of the malaise that has never really gone away in a society that doesn't really know what it believes in other than money and a very particular view of 'god'.

That's better.

 

[briantrumpet]

Holy moly BT, get a life will ya?

C'mon, I've still got over nine weeks of forced R&R with no cycling, so give me a break!!

 

[briantrumpet]

Anyway, I've got to preserve the image @First Aspect has of me as some posh academic who wears slippers and puffs on a pipe, rather than some oik who knows a few long words.

 

[Ian H]

Anyway, I've got to preserve the image @First Aspect has of me as some posh academic who wears slippers and puffs on a pipe, rather than some oik who knows a few long words.

Not micturating on his predilections?

 

[briantrumpet]

Not micturating on his predilections?

What I do in my own bedroom is none of his business.

 

[First Aspect]

Anyway, I've got to preserve the image @First Aspect has of me as some posh academic who wears slippers and puffs on a pipe, rather than some oik who knows a few long words.

Augustus Barclay Yaffle.

Aka Brian Trumpet.

 

[Pblakeney]

– but I think that the Christian Nationalism that remains deeply embedded within US society is symptomatic of the malaise that has never really gone away in a society that doesn't really know what it believes in other than money and a very particular view of 'god'.

May well have been there during the Puritan era but in the independent USA religion in politics is a relatively new thing. Since the 1950s.
The wise elders at foundation saw fit to specifically make the USA secular. I guess religion always finds a way to stir up trouble eventually.

 

[briantrumpet]

Augustus Barclay Yaffle.

Aka Brian Trumpet.

Scarily accurate: "He moves around more than most, being nailed to the floor with tacks to prevent him falling over."