Thread for obviously newsworthy stuff

[-Jrabbit]

Uh-oh. Flynn flips. Pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI this morning. Then it was reported he's "fully cooperating" with the Mueller investigation.

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/...tact-russians/

Cue the righty media: Let the character assassination begin!

[Broken_Erika]

If you are a prince in a fairy tale and see a princess which sleeps for 100 years, don't kiss her, no matter how much other people want you to do it.
It would happen without her consent and therefore would be sexual harrassment.
Better ride away as fast as you can and let the beauty and her court sleep ... other castles also have beautiful princesses ... ideally awake ones

[Proteus_MST]

If you are a prince in a fairy tale and see a princess which sleeps for 100 years, don't kiss her, no matter how much other people want you to do it.
It would happen without her consent and therefore would be sexual harrassment.
Better ride away as fast as you can and let the beauty and her court sleep ... other castles also have beautiful princesses ... ideally awake ones

Well, I guess that is the reason why a mother in GB wants a book with the tale of the sleeping beauty be banned from her 6 year old sons class.
She obviously fears that her son (and his classmates) get the idea that kissing sleeping beauties without their consent is O.K.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...hool-promotes/

[The Mad Monk]

It's probably balanced out by us something something Turkey with a bunch of turkeys.

[BeBMan]

I'm wondering if it makes Erdogan happy that US presidents always pardon Turkey

[The Mad Monk]

Carbon nanotubes allowed for the creation of Vantablack, the blackest black ever created.
It is so black that 3D-Things coated with Vantablack totally become invisible, if they are moved into the front of a background of Vantablack

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/15/wo...ial/index.html

I an see numerous applications ... for example as the fashion colour for supervillains and Goths, or as interior paint for haunted houses (with performers also wearing suits coated with Vantablack) ... although I guess, if used for the latter purpose, the haunted house will be confronted with lots of visitors getting heart attacks

On a sidenote:
Don't even think about using Vantablack in order to creeate artworks.
An artist named Anish Kapoor used milions of dollars in order to buy the exclusive right to use Vantablack in his artworks
(shutting out any other artist who wants to create his own artworks with Vantablack)
Stuart Semple, one of the artists affected by this, retaliated however ... he created a shade of ultraflourescent pink and made it clear that Kapoor is exclusively restricted from using it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack

http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-09-05

http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-09-06

http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-09-07

http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-09-08

You think maybe Howard Taylor has a chance to sue for violation of intellectual property rights?

[The Mad Monk]

Saudi king's golden escalator gets stuck - BBC News

http://www.bbc.com

King Salman suffers a technical malfunction when arriving for talks in Russia.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

[Proteus_MST]

Carbon nanotubes allowed for the creation of Vantablack, the blackest black ever created.
It is so black that 3D-Things coated with Vantablack totally become invisible, if they are moved into the front of a background of Vantablack

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/15/wo...ial/index.html

I an see numerous applications ... for example as the fashion colour for supervillains and Goths, or as interior paint for haunted houses (with performers also wearing suits coated with Vantablack) ... although I guess, if used for the latter purpose, the haunted house will be confronted with lots of visitors getting heart attacks

On a sidenote:
Don't even think about using Vantablack in order to creeate artworks.
An artist named Anish Kapoor used milions of dollars in order to buy the exclusive right to use Vantablack in his artworks
(shutting out any other artist who wants to create his own artworks with Vantablack)
Stuart Semple, one of the artists affected by this, retaliated however ... he created a shade of ultraflourescent pink and made it clear that Kapoor is exclusively restricted from using it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack

[Dinner]

I am not sure how that one got through the design committee.

[Proteus_MST]

[Broken_Erika]

[Aeson]

Blue balls ... that's gotta hurt!

[BeBMan]

A work of art

[Broken_Erika]

US Navy officials have said it was "absolutely unacceptable" that one of their pilots used a jet's contrail to draw a penis in the sky.

http://www.bbc.com/news/42032629

Pride of the US Navy!

[Aeson]

I had to go back and read it again since I had deleted all memory affiliated with this thread ... my findings:

The team leader of the 32nd police unit saw this as a form of insult against his colleague and filed a complaint against the man.