OT: 109th Obsequious Banter Thread: In the Driver's Seat

[Cody Webster]

 

[Embiid]

The people who refuse to leave their homes are off their rockers.

 

[landsbergfan]

Imagine needing a reason to want to leave Ohio

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

7.8 magnitude earthquake in South East Turkey.

Metro area is 2.1 million people with reports of entire buildings collapsing.

This is going to be one of the deadliest natural disasters of all time...

 

[Embiid]

7.8 magnitude earthquake in South East Turkey.

Metro area is 2.1 million people with reports of entire buildings collapsing.

This is going to be one of the deadliest natural disasters of all time...

Yeah 7.8 ain't no joke.....

Neither is an aftershock of 6.7..

 

[Cody Webster]

7.8 magnitude earthquake in South East Turkey.

Metro area is 2.1 million people with reports of entire buildings collapsing.

This is going to be one of the deadliest natural disasters of all time...

Death toll already at 1300

 

[flyersnorth]

It was -48C here this weekend. Car barely started Saturday morning, and I haven't had water since Friday (pipes froze).

Called a plumber on the weekend, and they can't come until tomorrow. They've been swamped with emergency calls.

That was definitely freakishly cold.

 

[Flybynite]

7.8 magnitude earthquake in South East Turkey.

Metro area is 2.1 million people with reports of entire buildings collapsing.

This is going to be one of the deadliest natural disasters of all time...

There have been two earthquakes this century with death tolls over 200,000. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake caused tsunami's that led to almost 1/4 million deaths... Then Haiti in 2010 had an Earthquake which the government there estimated a death toll over 200,000... But it could be inflated.

Haiti's never really recovered from that. They got a massive hurricane hit about 4 or 5 years later and the country now is basically like some kind of post-apocalyptic anarchy zone with gangs controlling different parts of it and no actual functional government.

 

[Cody Webster]

Wild

 

[Embiid]

Shit felt as far as Greenland and Tsunami warnings were posted in places like Italy....even heard an earthquake of about 3 was measured in Buffalo of all places....

Hopefully, it doesn't cause some kind of ring of fire cascading effect globally as supposedly it has disturbed a lot of fault lines...

 

[Flybynite]

Wild

I wonder is it better or worse for a massive earthquake to happen during the night? In terms of apartment buildings that collapsed? worse. In terms of commercial buildings/offices or schools that collapsed (but were empty because it was at night)_ and possibly freeways/bridges you would think its better?

 

[Flybynite]

Turkey had a 7.5 aftershock 4 hours ago. That aftershock by itself would have been the largest earthquake in the area this century.

 

[BernieParent]

The people who refuse to leave their homes are off their rockers.

Or do they remain on them?

 

[Embiid]

UN chief fears world headed for 'wider war' over Ukraine-Russia

UN chief Antonio Guterres warned nations Monday that he fears the likelihood of further escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict means the world is heading towards a "wider war.""I fear the world is not sleepwalking into a wider war.

news.yahoo.com

 

[Cody Webster]

 

[Young Sandwich]

UNIT

 

[Embiid]

Is that the Tonga Kid's son?

Is this Alex Buque?

Madonna unrecognizable at Grammys: ‘That can’t be her? Can it?’

Madonna spoke about being “fearless” ahead of Sam Smith’s performance at the 2023 Grammy Awards.

nypost.com

 

[trostol]

interesting that i get more news from here than i do from actual news sources

 

[Flybynite]

interesting that i get more news from here than i do from actual news sources

 

[swami24]

Is that the Tonga Kid's son?

He is of native decent, and from western Canada.

Lacrosse is THE native sport.

 

[Flybynite]

 

[Magua]

As someone who MUST get the middle seats 2/3 of the way up……remember the time where you’d just show up 20 minutes early and get whatever seat you f***ing wanted? Am I the only one who misses the simplicity of that?

 

[Embiid]

Another reason for me to just stream...

 

[Fire Tortorella]

As someone who MUST get the middle seats 2/3 of the way up……remember the time where you’d just show up 20 minutes early and get whatever seat you f***ing wanted? Am I the only one who misses the simplicity of that?

I go back and forth on this.

For something that's a regular movie theater, I 100% agree with you, especially on just getting there on time.

However, for something like Movie Tavern, I do kind of like being able to pick where I'm going to sit (last row of the bottom section), especially since there's more people moving around throughout the movie.

 

[Jack Straw]

As someone who MUST get the middle seats 2/3 of the way up……remember the time where you’d just show up 20 minutes early and get whatever seat you f***ing wanted? Am I the only one who misses the simplicity of that?

You mean people still go to movie theaters? How quaint.