I'm pretty sure I heard his grandchildren screaming.

Having a microphone on you while playing a sport can lead to some pretty interesting commentary and quotes, but it adds another wild layer when you get hurt while mic'd up. Liam Livingstone was hit in the groin multiple times during a cricket match on Tuesday and it had him kneeling in pain.

https://www.cbssports.com/general/news/cricket-player-gets-hit-in-groin-multiple-times-during-match-while-micd-up/

There's a reason this guy go disbarred.

https://reason.com/2020/01/11/virginia-legislator-joe-morrissey-gets-called-fool-sues-arguing-hes-not-a-fool/

Oh.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/08/glacier-national-park-signs-climate-change/

Diving dog.

Cleaning off cars for auction.

Advertising insanity.

Due to licensing and printing costs, some African theaters gave the task to artists to paint the posters for movies being shown...

Some artists had no reference to what movie they was drawing so some just guessed...

https://mobile.twitter.com/Retr0Joe/status/1215631541579198464

In case you hadn't heard, the Mount Taal in the Philippines is erupting, and BBC has the pictures.

Whoever took the second photograph may be forgiven for thinking the Apocalypse was at hand. Those in the remaining photos may be forgiven for wishing it was.

This is a bit dishonest without the context: In the end is all about trust

https://mobile.twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1216695192163622912

No, no, no, no, no.

The cop did NOT give a homeless man a feces sandwich.

He merely cleaned up sidewalk poo by wrapping it in bread, placing it in a food container, and setting it down NEAR a homeless man.

You cop-haters are the worst.

Oh, Medium, you had to go here.

Put even more hastily and sloppily, gun homicide and gun suicide are behaviors, and behaviors are functions of culture. More recently, Mr. Woodward graced Medium with a look specifically at the DNA components of this map. Literal genetic differences:

...

What I can say, from grinding on these maps for several days, is that “gun deaths” as defined are a deeply cultural problem, and only slightly (if at all) related to gun availability. Not just for homicide, but for suicide as well. Further, the cultural and genetic makeup of our country is so different than other countries, that comparisons between them and us are simply not viable.

https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/geographic-evidence-that-gun-deaths-are-cultural-277cb90fa06d

So Iran arrested the British ambassador for filming anti-regime protests in Tehran. They released him after a few hours (after the purpose of preventing him from producing video evidence of the protests had been served). Nonetheless, arresting and imprisoning another country's ambassador is, by definition, an act of war. Does Great Britain realize that they are now at war with Iran?

So Iran arrested the British ambassador for filming anti-regime protests in Tehran. They released him after a few hours (after the purpose of preventing him from producing video evidence of the protests had been served). Nonetheless, arresting and imprisoning another country's ambassador is, by definition, an act of war. Does Great Britain realize that they are now at war with Iran?

I have no idea how that posted twice... apologies.

CD, give the Brits 40 years to come to that conclusion. It seems to have been that way with us.

https://www.sciencealert.com/animals-aren-t-just-surviving-in-the-new-fukushima-wilderness-they-re-thriving-in-it

The Aborigines have spoken. While the greens listen?

For thousands of years, the Indigenous people of Australia set fire to the land.

Long before Australia was invaded and colonised by Europeans, fire management techniques - known as "cultural burns" - were being practised.

The cool-burning, knee-high blazes were designed to happen continuously and across the landscape.

The fires burn up fuel like kindling and leaf detritus, meaning a natural bushfire has less to devour.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51043828

This was a great show:

https://mobile.twitter.com/davidblattman/status/1216189218684383232

"Don't: A Little Book of Early American Gentility" (1968). By Eric Sloane.

https://www.bucketfulshop.com/listing/665158844
/signed-1968-edition-of-dont-a-little
(includes photos of some pages)

In theory, it's about American 18th century etiquette, but there are hints that the author cherry-picked and molded some of the rules. (He complained about hippie fashions in the foreword.)

Pages 44-45:

"Don't scold your children or your servants before others. Respect their amour propre (self esteem)."

"Don't bring children into company. Don't set them at table where there are guests. Don't force them on people's attention."

"Don't be that intolerant torment-- a tease. The disposition to worry children, cats and dogs simply displays the restlessness of any empty mind."

Page 55:

"Don't interject 'sir' or 'madam' freely into your conversation. Never say 'ma'am' at all. Young people should be taught to say. 'Yes. Papa' and 'No. Mamma.' (with accent on the second syllable of mamma and papa). 'Yes, uncle,' 'No, aunt,' and so on. 'Sir' is correct toward superiors. but it should, even in this case, be used very sparingly."

(I remember my mother warning me in the same way about that one - and she'd never read the book! Maybe.)

Page 70 (the last 7 pages are aimed at women):

"Don't give yourself extensively to the reading of novels. An excess of this kind of reading is the great vice of womankind. Good novels are good things, but how can women hope to occupy an equal place with men if their intellectual life is given to one branch of literature solely?"

(I mean, do "equal" and "intellectual" sound like adjectives from an 18th-century etiquette book, with regard to women? Besides, it was a common 18th-century belief that novels were bad for women mainly because that would lead to reading more INTELLECTUAL books; "too much" reading led to "madness and sterility" in women.)

Whoops - I forgot. Novels didn't really exist until the 19th century anyway. But starting in the 18th century, that last myth was definitely believed for well over a century. I'd say it gets reflected here as well (from 1905).

https://flashbak.com/is-college-bad-for-girls-a-1905-pamphlet-available-from-your-doctor-56758/

Moar volcano photography.

Noodle river restaurant. Private tributaries are more sanitary, right?

This whole Kiki family looks pretty stylish.

Kiwi. Sorry.

> that last myth was definitely
> believed for well over a century

My mother had to deal with it from her (loving) family when, in the early 1960's, she pulled us out of poverty with a degree in Library Science.

Sure, "her" and what strange army?

“Jessica” Yaniv Vows To Keep Comedian Ricky Gervais From Performing In Vancouver

Your taxpayer dollars at work.

Epidemic of Government Employees Watching Porn on Taxpayer Time