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Re: Thread : In the news today

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2022 11:48 pm
by Don Alexander
Look up into pink sky, get pink eye.

Re: Thread : In the news today

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2022 8:19 pm
by Don Alexander
Rest in peace, Uhura. :(( She lived long and prospered indeed.

Re: Thread : In the news today

Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2022 7:26 pm
by Tenjen
And we lost Pat Carroll, the Voice of Ursula too.

Re: Thread : In the news today

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2022 8:40 pm
by Don Alexander
Glas Most!
Perry Stroika!
Little Nas X Trowje!

It seems Mikahil Gorbachew has passed away.

Re: Thread : In the news today

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 4:16 am
by 'J'
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Re: Thread : In the news today

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 9:45 am
by 'J'
Chess player denies using sex toy to help him beat grand champion wrote: Image

A teenage chess grandmaster has been forced to deny using a sex toy to help him claim his crown in one of the biggest scandals to hit the game in years.

Hans Niemann,19, an up and-coming star in the game, was sensationally accused online of using anal beads connected to a computer programme that would vibrate and give him the perfect AI moves to defeat world No. 1 grandmaster Magnus Carlsen.

Hitting back at internet rumours accusing him of using anal beads to cheat, Niemann said: “If they want me to strip fully naked, I will do it.

“I don’t care. Because I know I am clean.

“You want me to play in a closed box with zero electronic transmission, I don’t care. I’m here to win and that is my goal regardless.”

It came as Elon Musk deleted a tweet of an influencer discussing the rumour that Niemann used an illicit remote sex toy during the chess competition.

Musk captioned it with an adapted version of a quote by philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, writing: “Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one can see (cause it’s in ur butt).”

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Niemann beat Magnus Carlsen, the world chess champion, in the $500,000 Sinquefield Cup on September 4, ending Carlsen’s 53-game unbeaten streak.

The next day Carlsen withdrew from the tournament - a move which shocked the chess world.

He also tweeted a cryptic video of José Mourinho, the Portuguese soccer manager, saying, “I prefer really not to speak. If I speak, I am in big trouble.”

The meme of Mourinho is when the manager is blasting officials for questionable performance leading online commentators to infer that Carlsen was accusing Neimann of cheating.

“It must be embarrassing for the world champion to lose to an idiot like me,” Niemann said in an interview shortly afterward, according to Vice. “I feel bad for him.”

On Saturday, Chris Bird, the chief arbiter of the Sinquefield Cup, released a statement that there was no indication that any competitor was “playing unfairly”.

When asked if Niemann would be invited back to the St. Louis Chess Club, its executive director, said, “Yes, Hans has already accepted an invitation to play in the fall classic, so I already have him signed up for the next tournament at the club.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/h ... 25705.html

Re: Thread : In the news today

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:53 am
by Don Alexander
Something big passed by, disturbing my horoscopes...

https://us.cnn.com/2022/10/17/world/gam ... index.html

Re: Thread : In the news today

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 5:05 pm
by Azrael
Oh man, is that why I turned green and smashed everything in sight the other day?



And OBTW, Hagrid died. :( I had no idea Robbie Coltrane was that old.

Re: Thread : In the news today

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2022 10:17 pm
by Tenjen
James Webb shot of the pillars of creation, hubble comparison included

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its disapointing that no one has made an image on scale with the source material https://i.imgur.com/xzDzyPm.png

Re: Thread : In the news today

Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2022 5:42 am
by Don Alexander
And now Jerry Lee Lewis has passed away as well. :(

Re: Thread : In the news today

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 8:30 pm
by Tenjen
Thank you for not completely fkn up during the mid terms U.S., glad to see youngun votes turned the tide.

somewhat tired of each election cycle being about the fight for peoples basic human rights just to exist though. we should we so way beyond that by now but cant even expect better.

Re: Thread : In the news today

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2022 5:09 pm
by Tenjen
Well this one hurts.

Kevin Conroy, OG voice of Batman ever since the Animated Series, has passed away at the age of 66

Re: Thread : In the news today

Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2022 9:10 pm
by Tenjen
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He had quite the struggle during his career. Im glad he found batman and his husband.Wish he had got more time to spend with him.

(rest of the comic)
https://imgur.com/gallery/LFZttru

Re: Thread : In the news today

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:10 am
by Azrael
Guitar virtuoso and double Hall of Fame inductee Jeff Beck has passed. So long Jeff, thanks for all the licks and riffs. :(

Re: Thread : In the news today

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2023 3:11 am
by Don Alexander
And now Lisa Marie Presley has died too, she was just 54. :(