@Mik said in "You put *what* up there?": At least put them in tail first (very) Cheap Scotch everywhere.

@Mik Lucky you! I always wanted to go. Never did. Just love Steven Tyler’s voice and the songs. Love Joe Perry as a guitarist too.

@George-K said in Most beautiful: @Mik said in Most beautiful: I'm sorry, we don't serve necros. Necrophilia is dead boring. You’re beating a dead horse… Which is sadomasochistic necrobestiality…

@LuFins-Dad said in Developed & Dumped: Yep. But… [image: images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSOw8YSmpF_-caPchpUUc2MYT7pki7ACwhF_Q&usqp=CAU] Of course. Nevertheless, I found it hard to adjust to all the "surprise" reveals of "OMG! Guess who was really a Cylon!"

They’re blanks, so better not let Alec compete…

Some news outlets are upset with Bloomberg's reporting: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/bloombergs-risky-embargo-breaking-evan-gershkovich-scoop.html How did Bloomberg beat The Wall Street Journal and the rest of the press corps on one of the most-watched stories in the world: the release of Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan from Russia? At 7:41 a.m. on August 1, Bloomberg published its scoop about the prisoner swap. Ten minutes later, a Bloomberg editor posted proudly on X, “It is one of the greatest honors of my career to have helped break this news. I love my job and my colleagues.” Then, 8:59, the piece was updated to read: “An earlier version of this story was corrected to reflect that the Americans have not been released yet.” The Journal itself didn’t report it until just after 11 when their reporter and other Americans — whose freedom was negotiated by the U.S. Government as part of an extremely complicated, 24-person swap across multiple countries — actually deplaned in Turkey. According to multiple sources at the Journal and other major outlets, the Bloomberg scoop left journalists and government officials fuming. With a prisoner swap, you don’t know if it’s going to happen until it happens. (As one Journal reporter put it: “We literally had Yaroslav Trofimov on the ground with binoculars waiting to see Evan come off the plane, and we pubbed as soon as that happened.”) Which means that Bloomberg’s story proclaiming Gershkovich was free was inaccurate, given that the Russian plane was still in the air at the time of publication. That plane could have just turned around and gone back to Moscow, which is why the Journal and other publications had agreed to hold off. “Incensed” is how one reporter, whose outlet had agreed to an embargo – delaying publishing what they knew – reacted to Bloomberg’s decision. “People are very, very disappointed in Bloomberg. And not just the embargo breaking, but the football spiking.” (The Bloomberg editor’s X post was later deleted.) Another reporter added, “We all want to break stories. We also need to consider the risks of breaking those stories. I hope editors and reporters thought long and hard about the risks of revealing the details of a hostage transfer before the hostages were back in U.S. custody.”

Sorry I cannot think of many "strange foods" that I have personally experienced there. I suppose chicken feet, pig brain, ox/cow brain, beef omasum are a bit exotic for the typical Americans, but if she's visited enough Chinese restaurants, she would have come across those already (i.e., those are not "unique" to Malaysia/Borneo). She can also try to look up "sup torpedo" (bull penis soup), but even that is not entirely unique to Malaysia/Borneo. Supposedly there is something called the "butod" (sago grub) in the Sabah/Sarawak area that she can try to look up but it's not something I have personally tried. "Laksa" is not too high on the "strange" scale in terms of ingredients but taste-wise it would be pretty far off the typical American palette, and should be quite easy to find in Malaysia; and it's a uniquely Malay dish. (It's bit like noodle soup; it just tastes very different from the Chinese/Japanese/Vietnamese noodle soups.) "Nasi kandar" will be very easy to find but basically it's (South) Indian curry rice that you top with many dishes ... the typical "nasi kandar" stall often offers many different dishes; depending on luck, sometimes you may find dishes/ingredients that you do not recognize (thus "strange" to you); maybe by visiting a few "nasi kandar" stalls she can find a few things that can satisfy her urge for "strange" foods. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

JWHT

The guy with the eel should try some…

All plausible.

Said story, especially knowing the ending going into reading the book. Just show that no matter where you are from, your background, etc., people are pretty much the same all over the world - with the same hopes, dreams, dramas, concerns, etc.

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Sort of off a tangent: It's not unusual that the military and other civilian employers/institutions/sports leagues adopt different standards for what health conditions are or are not disqualifying.

Possibly. Your memory may be better than mine.

@jon-nyc said in > 300,000: Not long ago I was registered in Kings county as well as Westchester. I moved a few weeks before the mayoral primary that saw DeBlasio get elected due to his son’s afro. I joked at the time about driving down to Brooklyn and voting against him. I was not yet registered here, so maybe it even would have been legal.

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Teenager Who Killed Millions: @Jolly said in The Teenager Who Killed Millions: @Doctor-Phibes said in The Teenager Who Killed Millions: There would have been a war anyway. Between who? Between everybody The people to blame weren't Serbian terrorists but the leaderships of the countries involved, and also the Prussian culture following the Franco-Prussian war in the 19th century. It could still have been avoided after the assassination of Ferdinand if people had wanted to, or had fully appreciated how things were going to end. The $64 question...If Ferdinand had not been assasinated, would we still have had a world war? Or simply a regional conflict such as the Franco-Prussian War? Or no war?