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[Ben Kenobi]

A wine named "Hun"?

That reminds me of something. But I'm not sure exactly what.

[Uncle Sparky]

Well Texas is closed due to lack of a power grid. Electricity is too Socialist for them.

[Dauphin]

The US is largely energy independent now. It’s not the noughties anymore (or worse the 70s).

[Uncle Sparky]

This in not the ass kissing the Saudi royal family demands. I guess Biden really wants to wean the US off of middle eastern oil... I wonder if they will stop arms sales?

U.S. implicates Saudi crown prince in journalist's killing | CTV News

[Uncle Sparky]

Did they rescue Nell from the railway track?

[BeBMan]

North Korea: Russian diplomats leave by hand-pushed trolley

A group of Russian diplomats and their families made an unusual exit out of North Korea on a hand-pushed rail trolley due to strict Covid measures.

The eight people travelled by train and bus before pushing themselves across the Russian border for about 1km (0.6miles) over train tracks.

North Korea has blocked most passenger transport to limit the virus's spread. The country maintains it has not had any confirmed cases, but observers dispute this claim.

Since early last year, trains and wagons have been forbidden to enter or leave the country. Most international passenger flights have stopped as well. The Russian diplomats were thus left with little choice.

(snipsnap)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56206033

Elsewhere, even diplos are blue collar workers

[BlackCat]

It's only for brexiteers

[Proteus_MST]

Exactly ... I found the website for HUN wines, but I don't see any way to register as Tester

[I AM I AM I AM MOBIUS]

but where's the website

[Ming]

Sign me up


You can now be paid to drink wine at home - and get a year's free supply

HUN wines is on the lookout for its first ever consumer taste tester, and not only will you get paid £200 but you'll also get a year's supply of booze delivered to your door



With wine sourced from South Africa in a fully recyclable can, the brand think they are onto a winner but want to put the drinks through their paces by seeing if it's up to your high standards.

The lucky candidate will get one year's supply of HUN sent to their door, early access to its newest wines due to be released later this year, and £200 just to sweeten the deal.

Everything is delivered to your door so you can relax and get tasting on the sofa, and you don't need any previous experience - just a passion for wine. Think you can handle that?

All you need to do to become HUN's first ever consumer wine tester is to tell them what your favourite wine is and you'll be put into contention.

Visit the website here where you'll need to answer the question, as well as providing your name and contact email address.

You have to be 18 or older (of course) and entries close on March 9, so apply now and you might not need to shop for wine again until some point in 2022. Good luck.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Five years ago.

[BeBMan]

Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find

Four pigs - Hamlet, Omelette, Ebony and Ivory - were trained to use an arcade-style joystick to steer an on-screen cursor into walls.

Researchers said the fact that the pigs understood the connection between the stick and the game "is no small feat".

And the pigs even continued playing when the food reward dispenser broke - apparently for the social contact.

Usually, the pigs would be given a food pellet for "winning" the game level. But during testing, it broke - and they kept clearing the game levels when encouraged by some of the researchers' kind words.

(...)

Oh great, another bastion of man over pig superiority is history now

How long until pigs will rule everything???

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56023720

[Thoth]

How to make a SW review :

We need more reviewers like this.

[Uncle Sparky]

How come this guy isn't on Trump's legal team? Doesn't Trump realize libtards love small furry animals?

[BlackCat]

How to make a SW review :