Things Noticeable this week

[cicciobuki]

Originally Posted by xyzde69

Do you wear a gaz mask because you are afraid about a chemical bomb thrown by Belgian based IS terrorist?
Or do you wear it when you go to one of these terrible Belgian techno after parties?

Hahah!

Because I live in Antwerp, smoggy city

No, i'm not scared for gaswar happening soon
And though i like dark music (industrial, noise, etc) i dislike gothic techno / rave and their phoney gas masks. I think it's more a German thing though.

I am fascinated by masks though (gasmasks and masks in general) a love/hate thing, they look great (to me) and some freak me out (as a kid i was super scared of an african mask with bulgy eyes that hung in my aunt's house, brr).
Also as a kid i was really scared to be choked or strangled, and while gasmasks give air, they also inhibit free breathing, so it's all connected for me ... you guys are thinking i'm crazy, right?

Also i think they just look cool
I never wear them though.


Ah, and it's also a form of hiding identity so it suits this forum, doesn't it?

[Mal Hombre]

Originally Posted by xyzde69

A burger made from flour and rice worms or pellets mixing insects and chickpeas is the menu offered for sale on Monday in some Swiss supermarkets.

Consumed by 2.5 billion people

Rich in protein and vitamins, insects have an interesting nutritional potential, according to nutritionists. But their consumption is still only marginal in Western countries.

On the other hand, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), some 2.5 billion people use it regularly in the world. Entomophagia is widespread in South America (butterfly caterpillars, ant eggs, bedbug caviar) and in Africa (ants, caterpillars), but it is the most widespread Giant water, silkworms).

In Europe, Greeks and Romans were fond of locusts with honey or some larvae. A practice which continued in the Middle Ages before disappearing, with a progressive sanitization of society: insects were then associated with dirt. The industrialization of food also played a role.

Insects are living things same as cows or sheep...

[Roubignol]

Originally Posted by Mal Hombre

Insects are living things same as cows or sheep...

It was just as information.

I fell on it when I was watching informations about the death of Jerry Lewis.

I'll not eat them. I don't need to eat any kind of animals.
20 years without eating any meat and I walk longer in the mountains than a lot of my meat eaters friends or colleagues.
Really!

Do you have insect burgers for sale in UK?

Originally Posted by cicciobuki

Also i think they just look cool
I never wear them though.

I had to wear my gaz mask during a lot of exercises, when I did my military service.
How boring it was.

Originally Posted by cicciobuki

Ah, and it's also a form of hiding identity so it suits this forum, doesn't it?

Yep it suits you very well!

[diamelsx]

Originally Posted by cicciobuki

Hahah!

Because I live in Antwerp, smoggy city

As a LA native who lived there in the in the 70's & 80's this made me laugh...

Comedian Louis CK talking about the corporatization of America.

[73north]

WW2 warship USS Indianapolis found under the ocean

The World War Two heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis has been found in the Pacific Ocean, 72 years after its sinking by a Japanese submarine.

A team of civilian researchers led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen discovered the cruiser's wreckage Friday on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 18,000 feet below the surface. The discovery brings a measure of closure to one of most tragic maritime disasters in US naval history.


"To be able to honor the brave men of the USS Indianapolis and their families through the discovery of a ship that played such a significant role in ending World War II is truly humbling," Allen said.

[Puhbear69]

Originally Posted by Puhbear69

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The German - Turkish Author Doghan Akhani has got arrested in Spain via Interpol and an international warrant of Turkish justice. Akhani is living since 1991 in Germany too and is having meanwhile a German passport (since 1995).

Akhani is well known of "Kıyamet Günü Yargıçlar"ı“ (The Judges of the Armageddon) which addresses the genocide at the Armenians.

(.... Also an Enemy of Erdowahn)

The Spanish police was prepared of an evident terrorist by the Turkish police at the arresting of the author with a special force, with automatic Weapons, bullet prove wests ect..

They were obviously not bad surprised, as there appeared a 60 years old man with glasses and balding hair at the hotel room door.

He is set free actually, but he is not allowed to leave Madrid. (at his own costs of course !!)

Wiki info to Doghan Akhani : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%C4%9Fan_Akhanl%C4%B1

http://www.newsflog.com/2017/08/20/d...tional-launch/

(One should be wondering, how Turkey could know that Mr. Akhani was on vacancy in Grenada.)

[Mal Hombre]

Re. The eclipse..

[Greenman]

I remember seeing the total eclipse of 1999. I was doing a course in East Finchley and we all traipsed out of the building and crossed a road. Someone set up an easel and projected the eclipse onto a sheet of card. Although we all had special glasses to look at it. As I recall we only got a partial view in this country but it was very odd; one minute sunny day in August and then it turned darker and the birds began chirruping -it was virtually twilight at midday but it was, for all of what we got here, a really amazing spectacle.
Comedian Alan Davies commented on an episode of QI on coverage back then he saw on Sky News live from Cornwall, with the ptesenter's voiceover saying "and there is our old friend the moon, very much getting in the way"😀

[Wendigo]

Only one photograph survived from that memorable day in 1999 and it catches the moment one sightseer was bathed in ethereal darkness




Thank God that eclipse is over, my heart could not take any more excitement

[diamelsx]

A Missouri man convicted of murder will not be put to death on Tuesday night after Gov. Eric Greitens issued a stay of execution and ordered a review of his case amid new DNA evidence.
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