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There are actually plenty of BIRDEMIC CHALLENGES. For example:

* Use a machine gun to shoot a bunch of birds in front of a school bus full of people, without actually hitting the bus.
* Make a road trip across the country eating nothing but sea weed and paying $100 the gallon of gas.
* Close a deal for your company for millions of dollars just by making a single phone call, and preparing a PowerPoint slide.

Can you survive the Birdemic?

The Game with Michael Douglas is a great film. Come to think of it, I should rewatch it and take notes, the editing and cinematography were excellent.

This wasn't me, I promise.

A guy brings fake bills totaling ZAR2 million (about $200k) into the Reserve Bank and wants to exchange it. 

https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/man-walks-into-reserve-bank-asks-to-exchange-r2m-in-fake-cash-20190221

Saw this and it made me chuckle.

WASHINGTON — Sarah Huckabee Sanders, roleplaying as Press Secretary, was seen attempting yet another Deception roll despite her character sporting an abysmal 5 total Charisma score, according to insiders from within the Trump administration. The low roll of 3 (natural 6 minus 3 when factoring in Charisma) was contested by the entire nation’s passive Insight, which at the time of reporting currently sits at 9.

Though Sanders is specced into primarily Intelligence to bolster her spellcasting ability to allow her to conjure up fantastical images and fake realities, other players at the table have commented that she goes out of her way to use her worst stat to lie to almost every NPC that they meet in the game.

“I’d say it was funny once or twice, but nobody at the table is laughing anymore and she really isn’t getting it,” recently killed-off Human Barbarian Jeff Sessions said to reporters. “I mean, even with my low Wisdom, I still managed to make some decent rolls in the campaign, like hitting the saving throw and successfully recusing myself from the Russia investigation.”

Sanders’ roll was made after the party’s plan to destroy a troublesome NPC named Jim Acosta went belly-up, leaving them floundering for a backup in true D&D fashion. According to Sanders, Acosta is a rude and bloodthirsty Level 14 Monk who found President Trump (Goblin Bard) and beat up his squire.

“Honestly, President Trump rolled Persuasion against Acosta earlier in the session to an unfortunate critical failure,” explained Dungeon Master Vladimir Putin, laughing. “But I don’t really care, I’m the kind of DM who loves to f**k with all his players. I’ll be happiest if the Trump Campaign all goes horribly wrong.”

Trump’s squire refused to comment, but eyewitnesses of the alleged scuffle say her Dexterity was low and that she simply failed half-a-dozen Sleight of Hand checks on Acosta.

Alice Cooper is playing Aberdeen later in the year. We are considering going to see him play there, but after the last time my first question was "Who is supporting?"

Damn but The Tubes were effing terrible live. I've seen some p**s poor bands on stage, but they really took the biscuit. Painful experience to say the least.

This time around its The Strangers and MC50.

Tracy, our director thinks the rehearsal last night was fantastic. Curiously I thought the performances were somewhat flat and perfunctory, especially compared to Sunday (our first technical rehearsal) but hey, she is the one in charge. I'll miss the next two on Sunday and Monday since I am going down to Glasgow for a long weekend.

The political walkouts have spread to the opposite side of the house. Three female Tories joined the new 'independent group'. Given May already struggled with a razor-thin majority in the house, this is hurting her more than the other side I think. Don't think enough people have quit to form a serious 'third' force in British politics. They do have the same numbers as the Liberal Democrats who are still just about hanging in there, but are going to have to pull something special out of the hat to really regain lost ground. If they are forming a centre ground party (as since they come from left and right wing parties I cannot imagine they are going to sit anywhere else).

The woman who joined ISIS and now wants to come back to the country has been told her British citizenship is being withdrawn since she can claim Bangladeshi citizenship, or potentially Dutch. On the one hand I do agree with that, on the other hand it feels a bit like we are then expecting other countries to deal with our problems.

If they'd done this at the start of the Brexit process, it might have helped. Really from the start of this there should have been a cross-party government working on this

The Return of the Pink Panther is my favourite one.

Especially where Catherine Schell cracks up at Peter Sellers calling himself a "trouble sh***er" instead of a trouble shooter.

Dreyfus: "Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor and then help me find my nose!"



"Try to do something about your feelthy mernkey..." 

Heaven's Gate is one of the most criminally underrated films off all time. Great cast. This film is a mostly historically inaccurate account of The Johnson County War.

I saw the 149 minute version in my home town theatre in 1981: I just couldn't understand the film and it was only later once I read Stephen Bach's book that I found out it had been cut down to that from 325 minutes! 

I would gladly donate 50% of my blood to Dame Joan Collins 

We have a high speed rail system here in South Africa called the Gautrain which serves the area between Pretoria (where I live) and Johannesburg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautrain

It's quiet, clean and efficient: the bus service is good too.

With criminal convictions, a certain amount of time has to pass without you reoffending before you stop having to declare them when applying for jobs (not declaring an unspent conviction is in itself an offense) or applying for insurance and so on. Basic checks don't reveal these offenses although even when spent they still remain on your record and higher level checks will still declare them.