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Bus passenger uses live snake as a face mask:

Transportation officials in the UK have warned commuters not to use live snakes as face coverings, after a bus passenger was spotted with a large reptile wrapped around his head. [...]

A Transport for Greater Manchester spokesperson told CNN that passengers are expected to follow government guidance on wearing face coverings on public transportation during the coronavirus pandemic, unless they are exempt.

“This needn’t be a surgical mask … passengers can make their own or wear something suitable, such as a scarf or bandana,” the representative said in a statement.

“While there is a small degree of interpretation that can be applied to this, we do not believe it extends to the use of snakeskin — especially when still attached to the snake.”

...they said, Britishly. lol.

I kinda love this headline:

"Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they’re talking about, study suggests"

"You pre-paid for your butt-dialed pizza. Domino's doesn't give a fuck."

This bit from one of the latest Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA papers reads like whatever that Twitter of weird patch notes is:

4.4 Core designation of PPDM elements
The approval of 6JSC/ALA/29 effectively plugged the "cascading vortex of horror".

(PPDM = Production, Publication, Distribution, and Manufacture)

I think they are referring to a place in the RDA instructions where there existed a complicated decision tree for deciding what of these elements were core (i.e. must be included in the bibliographic record), lots of "core if:" kinds of statements, that has since been simplified; but I love that someone out there apparently characterized it as a "cascading vortex of horror". LOL.

"I wish people could communicate more effectively. [pause] I think that's more than any one genie can handle."

I don't agree with the sentiment about Martinis, but I LOLed anyway:

Enotsola says:

Mmm.... server.iad.liveperson.net
Almost all the joys of phoning tech support..
except I can play my own hold music, and I don't actually have to talk to a person

http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6670326/the-internet-justice-league

"Google: An overpowered hero with a near infinite amount of abilities. Everyone relies on him more than they should while secretly hoping he'll never flip out and use his powers for evil.

...

Google Plus: A hero who, despite being noble and good-intentioned, is generally thought to be worthless and kinda dumb."

Hover text on today's Dinosaur Comics:

LET'S COUNT UP THE NUMBER OF BRAIN CELLS ACROSS EVERY LIVING THING WORLDWIDE DEDICATED TO FACEBOOK. THEN LET'S SLICE THEM OUT, CREATE A FACEBOOK BRAIN, AND IGNORE WHAT IT SAYS FOREVER


hahah. Yisssss....

now that LJ exists again for crossposting...

All this is posted with permission from the artist. The text is from the artist's comment (I didn't write it; wish I had, though). I just thought this was so awesome and silly.


The Fall of the Pieomancers by liiga on deviantART

It was too late!

The Pie had been summoned, but the binding ritual had been disrupted. The remaining pieomancers scrambled as the ferocious technofairy brought its steed around for one last strike. Casting a ward that she knew would never hold, the last pieomancer felt her eyes fill with tears of remorse. Not for her own end, but for the Pie of terror that they had unleashed upon the world.


A Brief History of the Technofairy Empire

Technofairies used to be regular fairies until they successfully opened a portal between worlds and brought back an artifact - a miner's helmet.

After many decades of attempting to reverse engineer it, they succeeded, and learned to power it by attaching widgets to their wings and fluttering them real fast. The technique was later used to power a wide array of other interesting mechanisms, often adding magic into the mix.

The helmet, however, retained a spot of special importance and not only because of its historical value. Their command of light allowed the technofairies to tame the fearsome pandamoths, turning them into steeds that were quite intelligent and quick to obliterate targets marked by lightbeams.

The combination of technological prowess and swarms of critters that put Australia to shame guaranteed quick ascent to power and foundation of the Technofairy Empire. Nobody objected much as the technofairies took upon themselves the role of guardians of the lands, protecting them against invaders and, more importantly, against anyone who might take it upon themselves to open portals and try to bring through artifacts, such as miner helmets, sharp objects or giant pies.

And that's why you don't use bamboo for staves if you're into pieomancery - it attracts pandamoths and angry technofairies.