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[Berzerker]

Budweiser has come out with 2 new cans, a camo can and Harley Davidson

[BeBMan]

Also this:

Kurt Cobain: Guitar smashed by Nirvana frontman sells for nearly $600,000

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65664330

I plan to buy several old guitars and smash them to get rich.

[BeBMan]

[Dauphin]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65661251

The ICC said at the time there were reasonable grounds to believe both Mr Putin and Ms Lvova-Belova bore individual criminal responsibility.

The Kremlin's investigative committee in turn announced this week that it would begin an investigation into Mr Khan for the "criminal prosecution of a person known to be innocent"

[Uncle Sparky]

So much for those memes about 2000 year old Roman roads still being in pristine condition.

[BeBMan]

And now to something competely different...and lighter:

Italian man fined nearly €900 for filling in pothole hits out at ‘injustice’

Claudio Trenta, 72, has triggered a national debate after deciding to fix 30cm hole himself in Lombardy

Not only did they fine him for fixing the pothole himself, also:

Trenta has been ordered to restore the hole to its original state.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/15/italy-man-fined-for-filling-in-pothole

[Proteus_MST]

Thanks

[BeBMan]

My condolences to you as well. Sounds similar to what my dad experienced, but pre-Covid (it ended a few years ago)

[Proteus_MST]

Tuberski's dad passed this morning.

My concolences to Tuberski.

My dad also passed away this year ... in march
(it didn't come as a surprise however he became more and more demented during 2022, then became immobile after a CoViD infection he contracted in Hospital and had to get to a nursery home ... after 3 weeks there he contracted pulmonia of which he succumbed 2 weeks after he was taken to hospital again. It was a slow decline (and for my mother and myself a long phase of saying goodbye to him))

[Dauphin]

I never follow polls. I follow the betting odds.

[N35t0r]

Yes indeed. What is interesting is that he out performed the poll numbers. That raises some questions.

After 2016, you guys should be less trusting of polls

[PLATO]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/europ...ntl/index.html



interesting development

Yes indeed. What is interesting is that he out performed the poll numbers. That raises some questions.

[Dinner]

It is always difficult to lose a parent. Hopefully, Tubs can handle this difficult situation with as much grace and understanding as he is able. I am sorry for your lose.

[pchang]

Appealing to religious zealots is a good way to build a strong base, but it will almost never create a majority on its own. After a while, the rest of the people will tire of increasingly theocratic rule.

[pchang]

Tuberski, if somehow this reaches you, you have my condolences