What made you go WTF today?

[Loki]

Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot

Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They brand government action for things like expanding public transportation routes and preserving open space as part of a United Nations-led conspiracy to deny property rights and herd citizens toward cities.

They are showing up at planning meetings to denounce bike lanes on public streets and smart meters on home appliances — efforts they equate to a big-government blueprint against individual rights.

“Down the road, this data will be used against you,” warned one speaker at a recent Roanoke County, Va., Board of Supervisors meeting who turned out with dozens of people opposed to the county’s paying $1,200 in dues to a nonprofit that consults on sustainability issues.

Local officials say they would dismiss such notions except that the growing and often heated protests are having an effect.

In Maine, the Tea Party-backed Republican governor canceled a project to ease congestion along the Route 1 corridor after protesters complained it was part of the United Nations plot. Similar opposition helped doom a high-speed train line in Florida. And more than a dozen cities, towns and counties, under new pressure, have cut off financing for a program that offers expertise on how to measure and cut carbon emissions...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/us...n-plot.html?hp

[Nessus]

Aim for the blue helmets, everyone!

[Loki]

Was going through the profiles of the Nazi leaders; noticed that a vast majority were Catholics/Bavarians. I guess this is what Bismarck gets for his Kulturkampf.

[Nessus]

Was going through the profiles of the Nazi leaders;

noticed that a vast majority were Catholics/Bavarians. I guess this is what Bismarck gets for his Kulturkampf.

What's that thing about carts and horses? The movement made its original strides in Bavaria for several reasons, and I'm not convinced all were the fault of Catholicism. Or maybe I am misunderstanding you

[Loki]

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/13-...-creationists/

As for the Nazi thing, I'm just amused that the part of the country that was never really considered German by Bismarck got Germany into such a giant mess.

[Khendraja'aro]

Oh, well, at least it's only 13%.

Just yesterday some fellow teachers were talking about how homeopathy was helping them sooo much. Despite some urges to call them fools, I restrained myself, I have to work with those guys, after all

Thankfully enough, they don't teach the sciences or math.

[Loki]

They'll put themselves out of the gene pool eventually if they keep on favoring homeopathy to normal medicine.

[Khendraja'aro]

One can only hope. And, by the way, Bavaria is still not considered to be really Germany by almost everyone in Germany. Including the Bavarians.

Common joke: "Last week I went abroad and drove to Munich."

[Loki]

Does that means no one supports their top soccer team?

[earthJoker]

Was going through the profiles of the Nazi leaders; noticed that a vast majority were Catholics/Bavarians. I guess this is what Bismarck gets for his Kulturkampf.

Bavaria is mostly catholic, so not that surprising to have a connection there.

Does that means no one supports their top soccer team?

Haha good one.

There's not much in the world
You could abide by
Some says it's love
Maybe that's true
And there's always God
If there's nobody else
Others believe in nothing
Life has made them hard

So much can happen
So much can happen
There's just one thing I know for sure:
Never in my life I would go to Bayern Munich

I mean, if I was 20
And supertalented
And Real Madrid had already asked me
And the boys from Manchester
And I had also played for Germany already
And were mentally fit
And Uli Hoeneß would come
To ask me

I would not open the door
Because for me it's out of questions
To spoil my character
Among people like the Bavarians

I just wanted to clarify this
So that we are on the same level
I have nothing against Munich
I just would never go to Bavarians

Is something like his really necessary?
Isn't life much too beautiful?
To throw oneself away
And go to the FC Bayern

So much can happen
So much can happen
No matter how hard my fate was
I would never go to the FC Bayern Munich

What kind of parents do you need to have
To be so spoiled
To sign a contract
With this sh*t team?

We would never go to the FC Bayern Munich!
Never go the Bavarians!
We would never go to the FC Bayern Munich!
Never go the Bavarians!

[Ominous Gamer]

They will turn just about any book into a movie

[Khendraja'aro]

Well, what do you expect when they turn a (not very complex) board game into a full length Hollywood movie?

[Illusions]

Well, what do you expect when they turn a (not very complex) board game into a full length Hollywood movie?

Are we talking about Battleship, or is there some other abomination that I should be aware of? They did make Clue into a movie though.

[Aimless]

So a man was rescued today from a car that had been completely snowed in. At the moment it seems he'd been in that car for about two months, and survived on snow doctors think he may have gone into some form of hibernation after a while, with his body temperature somewhere around 31 degrees. Was found by a couple of people frolicking in the snow on snow-scooters, purely by chance. Guy hadn't been reported missing or anything. Bizarre story

[Hazir]

Crazy traffic signs

http://www.bild.de/auto/auto-news/ve...5208.bild.html

[EmperorNorton]

Seriously you guys...the fuck?

[Ominous Gamer]

Seriously you guys...the fuck?

Toddlers

Didn't watch the video, but this girl is internet famous now. Lots of gifs of her and her mother floating around. The special juice she mentions is actually red bull. Which is bullshit, and a health hazard, but I don't know if its resulted in DCF butting in yet.

[Loki]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...ident_has.html

[Loki]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...cesss-breasts/ Finns.

[Nessus]

Obligatory Conan O'Brien reference

[Loki]

Wow, they really are twins.

[Nessus]

So, you know, have some sympathy, have some taste

(I find it funny too, what a dumb-ass)

[Loki]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml See video. This is great.

[Khendraja'aro]

So, first school period of the day: Physics with my 7-graders. They're collaborating nicely and indeed getting where I want them to get - when it knocks on the door.

It's the facility manager who insists that we leave the room immediately without actually telling me why. So, we all get up and I get my class into the adjacent room (which means that due to the hubbub, my chances of reaching my goal for this period have just been effectively shot to hell), and now he tells me why I had to leave:

We have a (small) gas leak.

Which he detected yesterday afternoon. Which means, as they closed off the main gas valve immediately, there was no real immediate danger.

He then berated me for going into this room at all - he had posted a note!

Yes, a note. A white note, on a white door, half the size of a postcard, which only said something I'd summarize as: "Something is broken!" I mean, if I had actually seen that note I wouldn't really have connected it with some sort of lethal danger. Not to mention that this room has two doors, there was only one note and we entered the room through the other door.

My other colleagues had fun as well - since the gas line was closed (and no one was told about it beforehand), one friend of mine gave her class a good telling-off because she thought that they were pranking her with the gas valves at their seats (those gas valves only can be activated if they are all closed when trying to open the room's main gas valve). And because she had designed her lesson to be a students' experiment, her lesson was effectively destroyed as well.

Mind, it's not as if we have something like an email distribution system. Or several monitors showing important news.

[Nessus]

But, but

German efficiency?

[Khendraja'aro]

Well, let me show you one aspect of my school which give a pretty good representation of the whole:

We have screens in strategic positions which tell both teachers and pupils which teacher is ill/in further training/on maternity leave/on the face of the moon. It also tells us which teacher, due to those other teachers being absent, now has to step in for what teacher in what class at what time.

However, it doesn't tell us where.

Couple this with the fact that the school has three distinct and only loosely connected buildings, and you're sometimes reminded of the Benny-Hill-Theme.

[Nessus]

/on the face of the moon.

So it is true!

But seriously, that sounds really shitty. Franz Kafka High?

[Khendraja'aro]

I'm not sure that I'd honor this school with that name

Let me put it this way: It's located in a town called Salzgitter. However, whenever I tell someone where my school is located, their first reaction is invariably: "Oh, you're teaching in Salzghetto?"

I wish I was joking.

[Nessus]

I wish you luck on the path of your choice!

[Khendraja'aro]

It's only until the summer next year