[Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Sun Nov 27, 2016 7:24 am

Odd that the map has this name in the Southern US but not the one in PA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse,_Pennsylvania

sendaz · Post by **sendaz** » Tue Nov 29, 2016 6:08 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38144598

A surprise to all when it turns out the new plastic £5 notes contain tallow (aka beef fat, though possibly containing mutton or pork fats) in their composition and the vegans are upset as you might well imagine.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Tue Nov 29, 2016 7:29 pm

sendaz wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38144598

A surprise to all when it turns out the new plastic £5 notes contain tallow (aka beef fat, though possibly containing mutton or pork fats) in their composition and the vegans are upset as you might well imagine.

Has anyone told them that they're not supposed to eat money?

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Tue Nov 29, 2016 8:05 pm

hyzmarca wrote:
sendaz wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38144598

A surprise to all when it turns out the new plastic £5 notes contain tallow (aka beef fat, though possibly containing mutton or pork fats) in their composition and the vegans are upset as you might well imagine.
Has anyone told them that they're not supposed to eat money?

Har har har.
Most of them object on principle to the use of animal products in things they use at all.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Tue Nov 29, 2016 8:18 pm

Omegonthesane wrote:
hyzmarca wrote:
sendaz wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38144598

A surprise to all when it turns out the new plastic £5 notes contain tallow (aka beef fat, though possibly containing mutton or pork fats) in their composition and the vegans are upset as you might well imagine.
Has anyone told them that they're not supposed to eat money?
Har har har.
Most of them object on principle to the use of animal products in things they use at all.

Yes, we know most Vegans are idiots who want to genocide species right now so that future members of the species don't suffer, but that doesn't make them less stupid.

deaddmwalking · Post by **deaddmwalking** » Tue Nov 29, 2016 9:06 pm

It's like they learned NOTHING from the Sepoy Rebellion.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Tue Nov 29, 2016 11:20 pm

deaddmwalking wrote:It's like they learned NOTHING from the Sepoy Rebellion.

If the Vegans rebel, I think the British Army can handle them.

Unless Scott Pilgrim was a documentry.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Wed Nov 30, 2016 10:09 pm

If all it takes to defeat a high level vegan is a bit of cream in the coffee, then simply issue the army with super soakers filled with milk . .
Have forrest fire fighting helicopters dump gallons of the stuff on them.
They WILL swallow some.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Thu Dec 01, 2016 1:39 am

What I want to know is why money requires animal bits in it at all.

sendaz · Post by **sendaz** » Thu Dec 01, 2016 8:39 am

Goofy Answer?
Britain is trying to make it's own BacoBitCoin?

Racist Answer?
They are trying to drive out their Muslim and Hindu population?

Realistic Answer?
They are using Stearic Acid, which is a natural wax element found in some plant and most animal fats, as a lubricant in the polymer making process and there are traces left over in the polymer sheets.
Stearic acid is what gives your hard oils their firmness while liquid oils have little to none of it in comparison and is used for this property when making soaps or candles to lend its firmness to them.
While Tallow has less Stearic content than say Shea or Cocoa butter, it is a lot cheaper than those two plant oils due to the sheer tonnage of beef fat available to process it from.
Palm has roughly the same Stearic content as Tallow and is one of the main sources of vegetable based Stearic acid, but is still a bit more expensive plus there are sustainability issues with Palm at the moment though they are working on that.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Thu Dec 01, 2016 11:04 am

deaddmwalking wrote:It's like they learned NOTHING from the Sepoy Rebellion.

They must be taught the lesson once more

maglag · Post by **maglag** » Fri Dec 02, 2016 12:19 am

After six years of not giving a single fuck about it, UN admits to have killed thousands (if not tens of thousands) of Haiti people.

Ok, that's all. What, were you expecting the UN to offer any kind of compensation? Hahaha, no.

maglag · Post by **maglag** » Sat Dec 03, 2016 12:29 am

Now for some more positive news:

Pirate Party to form government in Iceland.

European Space Agency starts planning for moon village. Still kinda of a dream right now, but hey, baby steps.

Mechalich · Post by **Mechalich** » Mon Dec 05, 2016 1:06 am

Additional good news:

The Far Right loses in Austria.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sat Dec 10, 2016 7:16 pm

http://vancouversun.com/storyline/for-t ... -food-bank

Korwin · Post by **Korwin** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 6:53 am

Mechalich wrote:Additional good news:

The Far Right loses in Austria.

Just an minor note, yes they lost. But it's not as if the Austrian president can do much.
He has no real power. He would have some in the case of war. But if Austria is involved in an actual war... we can only hope someone helps us.

Not shure if we are still using equipment from WW2 left behind by the USA.
(We where when I was there, which was 20 years ago, so we might have new equipment... doubt it)

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 8:57 am

Meanwhile in Ukraine: President is threatening to sue UK media for saying that he's bribing deputies.

SlyJohnny · Post by **SlyJohnny** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 11:48 am

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 65271.html

I want this to be true, but I can only imagine it'll be used as a bargaining chip for a concession that our idiot government won't want to make for fear of appearing "weak" and lending the Brexit-lite theory credence.

But it would be cool. I'd happily pay for an escape parachute of this kind.

maglag · Post by **maglag** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 11:10 am

Turns out there was still plenty of medicine in eastern Aleppo after all.

Just, you know, hoarded for exclusive use of the glorious rebels.

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 11:37 am

I'm not sure it's a good idea to believe the state media of a state that's involved in a war.

maglag · Post by **maglag** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 12:16 pm

By that standard, you would be unable to trust anything the USA says.

Anyway, ambulances on the move as Aleppo evacuation operation begins by the guardian truly.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 4:29 pm

maglag wrote:By that standard, you would be unable to trust anything the USA says.

The USA does not have state media.

You are the living incarnation of facepalm.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 5:29 pm

DSMatticus wrote:
maglag wrote:By that standard, you would be unable to trust anything the USA says.
The USA does not have state media.

You are the living incarnation of facepalm.

Technically it kind of does. Voice of America is state media, it used to be trustworthy, in that it had an insulted board of independent editors who made content decisions.

But under Trump, they will no longer be independent, they will now be presidentially appointed and fireable at will (Or at least, last I checked congress was pushing through legislation to that effect, not sure if it passed yet, or will pass after inauguration.)

While you can argue about whether you should have trusted Voice of America in the past, it definitely means you shouldn't starting January 20th.

Of course, none of that changes that Maglag is dumb and thinks the NYTimes is state media.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Thu Dec 15, 2016 5:58 pm

The VoA is a weird example, what with it being banned from targeting U.S. audiences a few years after it was created. It's pretty obvious it was only ever meant to be an international propaganda outlet, and I would trust its accuracy inversely proportional to the U.S. government's interest in a particular matter - which is to say not at fucking all during the Cold War, and on a case by case basis on anything since. Incidentally, Bush 2.0's state department made the push to turn it into a proper state media outlet, with the ban finally lifted under Obama, because Obama is still a fucking idiot.

But more to the point, the VoA is not (yet) the sort of thing you should think when you hear state media, any more than the propaganda leaflets people dropped one one another during WW2 were "state media." It's a categorically different thing with a categorically different purpose from China's Xinhua, or even Saudi Arabia's "we don't own them, but bad things have a tendency to happen to uppity journalists."

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Fri Dec 16, 2016 10:11 am

France extends its state of emergency. This will be exciting, should Le Pen win and get all those emergency powers.