Oh, The Irony

[Ascalon]

Fire breathing dragon immolates.

Disneyland dragon catches fire and burns down during performance.

 

[kamalktk]

Spanish Navy ship sent out to draw up maps loses its way​

/they had a bad feeling about this

https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/20...navy-ship-sent-to-draw-up-maps-loses-its-way/

A Spanish Navy ship tasked with updating nautical charts to make navigation safer, has itself gotten stranded near the island of Ibiza in the Mediterranean.

The vessel Malaspina was exploring an area of shallows to the west of the island and got stuck on one of them.
....
It is named after 18th-century Royal Navy Brigadier Alejandro Malaspina, famous for leading the largest scientific expedition around the globe at the time.

The name can also be translated into English as 'having a bad feeling'.

 

[Trevp666]

In the Blackadder episode 'Potato', just before going off to the Sea of Certain Death, Lord Melchett hands him a map and says,
"The foremost cartographers of the land have prepared this for you. It's a map of the area that you'll be traversing."
(The map is completely blank.)
"They'd be very grateful if you could just fill it in as you go along."

 

[uair01]

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

From today (Saturday) the rotation of the UN's security council presidency falls to ..... Russia!

And no. It's apparently not an April Fool.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...as-russia-takes-charge-of-un-security-council

 

[Stormkhan]

Such a false-flag op. on Moscow is only for Russian consumption. They can't convince anyone else.
The irony is that by claiming Ukraine can send a drone strike to Moscow, they have to tell the Russian people that their capital city has no air defence. In effect, they have to claim they're weak when their whole mind-set is convincing their people of their superiority.

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

Such a false-flag op. on Moscow is only for Russian consumption. They can't convince anyone else.
The irony is that by claiming Ukraine can send a drone strike to Moscow, they have to tell the Russian people that their capital city has no air defence. In effect, they have to claim they're weak when their whole mind-set is convincing their people of their superiority.

Farcical wasn't it and obviously a Red Flag false flag operation.
A tiny magician's powder flash that didn't even damage the Kremlin's flagpole and which was used by Putin as an excuse to launch an obviously long planned missile onslaught against Ukraine's civilian infrastructure.
The irony is enormous here; everything that Putin has done since February last year has served to strengthen Ukraine and NATO and destroy Russia's reputation on the international stage.

 

[Stormkhan]

It might be constantly blathered about in the media - how Putin has lost his mind, he's so paranoid now, he's gone on full 'Stalin' etc. - but even giving this 'misson' the go-ahead certainly indicates desperation combined with absolutely no grip on reality.

 

[uair01]

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

 

[IbisNibs]

Had to look up Veblen. Clever reference; I guess that's what a posh education can do for you, make you clever that way.

 

[cycleboy2]

Had to look up Veblen. Clever reference; I guess that's what a posh education can do for you, make you clever that way.

Ditto.

I consider myself to have a decent knowledge of words – as a journalist and sub-editor I should have! – but had never come across the word Veblen, so I'm glad I'm not the only one.

And once again, this Forum has proved educational as well as entertaining. Now I just need the word to come up on Uni Challenge or Only Connect...!

 

[uair01]

A clearing in the Carson National Forest, about twenty-five miles south-west of Dulce, is marked with a small plaque reading:
SITE OF THE FIRST UNITED STATES UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR EXPERIMENT FOR THE STIMULATION OF LOW-PRODUCTIVITY GAS RESERVOIRS. A 29 KILOTON NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVE WAS DETONATED AT A DEPTH OF 4227 FEET BELOW THIS SURFACE LOCATION ON DECEMBER 10, 1967.
The detonation, part of the ‘Plowshare Program’ for the peaceful use of nuclear explosions, did succeed in part, creating an eighty-foot wide, 335-foot high, natural gas-filled cavity. Unfortunately the gas was rendered dangerously radioactive by the explosion and had no commercial value, so the site was sealed up for eternity.

Mirage Men A Journey into Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs (Mark Pilkington)

 

[Stormkhan]

A classic case of the boffins not thinking it through?

 

[uair01]

The three failed U.S. banks had one thing in common — their auditor
KPMG's work for SVB, Signature and First Republic comes under scrutiny in aftermath of their collapses

 

[uair01]

The syndrome acquired the name Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after Jakob incorrectly gave credit to a fellow German scientist, Hans Creutzfeldt, who Jakob felt had described a similar case a few years earlier. Creutzfeldt’s case turned out to be a different disease—and the pairing ended up being particularly unfortunate, since Jakob was Jewish and Creutzfeldt likely had ties to the Nazi regime—but the name stuck.

 

[uair01]

Hope it's not from here:

 

[Mythopoeika]

Hope it's not from here:
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FUKT?

 

[kesavaross]

FUKT?

A magazine maybe?

https://www.fuktmagazine.com