The last four European slots were decided yesterday! The Czechs beat Denmark on penalties. Turkey beat Kosovo 1-0 Sweden beat Poland 3-2 Bosnia beat Italy on penalties This is the third consecutive World Cup that Italy fails to qualify for! :shock: Yet there is apparently room for Curacao. :hmmm ...

Cornuck wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2026 8:30 am New pole vault record - looks damn near impossible

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWVMOM2jBTh

Yeah, the physics and mathematics of the pole vault are daunting.

It really looks impossible. And I'm sure it would be - for me.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/are-you-an-italian-canadian-impacted-by-italys-new-citizenship-rules/ Looks like this might impact Chef's dreams of moving to Italy. If Canada decides to join the EU it will all be fine. Then you can live and work anywhere within the union without any red tape.

Topper wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2026 2:22 pm And at the Toronto No Kings protest, people rallied behind hammer and sickle flags.

A No Kings protest in Toronto?!

What? They don't want Charlie on their coins?

Whales are (re)appearing in Ocean regions where they have not been seen in decades. Not always a good thing. There is a humpback whale that has gotten stuck in the Baltic. It has stranded several times, and been rescued. It now has severe fungus infections on its skin, due to the water in the ...

Cousin Strawberry wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2026 6:15 am

Megaterio Llamas wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 6:56 pm https://x.com/HarrisonHSmith/status/203 ... 53069?s=20

So the cotton candy combover is actually a squid?

Which ties into the antisemitic trope of Judaism being an octopus with its tentacles reaching everywhere.
So the squid is Netanyahu.

Megaterio Llamas wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 6:56 pm https://x.com/HarrisonHSmith/status/203 ... 53069?s=20

Yeah... the hands are too big.

Cornuck wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2026 9:13 pmGlad he won.

officer Pound Cake isn't...

Petey's path to 500 points . Screenshot_20260325-232457_Facebook.jpg He's on the back 9 @ 27! Loui Eriksson is dusting off his hands somewhere in the back of a restaurant in Goteborg https://gondola.se/ :D Do you remember the scandal they had a few years ago with one of his managers groping servers ...

Cousin Strawberry wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2026 2:14 pm

Cornuck wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2026 9:26 pm Petey's path to 500 points
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Screenshot_20260325-232457_Facebook.jpg

He's on the back 9 @ 27!

Loui Eriksson is dusting off his hands somewhere in the back of a restaurant in Goteborg

https://gondola.se/

Use your phone. Put it in camera mode and zoom in on the menu.

The fossil fuel era is drawing to a close! In the 1980's coal still accounted for 70% of the electricity production in the UK. In 2025 that had dropped to 0.1%! https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/e0b7025e-77c0-4765-56cc-04ba62364a00/w=3400 https://ourworldindata ...

The economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has written an interesting piece on the widespread corruption in the current US administration. Some snippets: Over the weekend Donald Trump threatened dire vengeance on Iran unless its government opened the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, a deadline ...

Cornuck wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2026 7:48 pm Whenever I want to feel old, I consider that my birth year is closer to 1900 than today.

Nah, for me that won't be the case until June.

Or I guess for this full year you can consider it a tie.

donlever wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2026 6:19 pm Was hoping to keep war and shit out of this thread tbh.

My bad. Will post it elsewhere in the future.