Saturday, June 17, 2017

News on a Nailhead 6/17 | A Slut, a Nut, and Bat ... a Lotta, Lotta Bats ... and a Bubble

Gene Simmons won't lose his title for the Cheesiest Rock Slut of All time, have no fear.  He's just tried to trademark the I Love You hand signal used in American Sign Language and in other ways for centuries before that.  (CNN:  Gene Simmons attempts to trademark love)


WIKI:  ILY sign

According to some, that sign represents a devil's head but it's not scary and it looks more like a suggestion of some type of awkward sexual act than anything else.

Ed:  she's a comely lass and I wouldn't mind trying!

Learn American Sign Language, Casanova.  Your suave and debonair manner ... to her don't mean doodlysquat.



The Observer offers today's most sterling effort toward journalistic obfuscation by altogether dodging the fundamental problem of it's the guns, stupid.  (Observer:  Homegrown Terrorism Festers in America’s Toxic Political Environment)

Thanks to our cruciferous colleagues on that matter but we also observe people will kill each other over sporting events.  It's not difficult to create toxic environments between people but guns make them, oh, so much more entertaining.



Los Angeles sent a Bat Signal over the city tonight to commemorate Adam West but they went a little too far.  (Click Orlando:  Hundreds of bats force shutdown of Florida fire station)

It's illegal in Florida to disturb bats during the breeding season so the bats own the firehouse until the batlings are ready to take wing.



One more just because we love you.


Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a spin on the Seine for a test ride of the electric Sea Bubble water taxi


Bloody hell, mates.  They're French and they came up with a name like Sea Bubble?  Ouch

At the risk of appearing hypercritical, we observe it will never go to sea and it's not a bubble.  Hmmm

The idea is cool since maybe you see the hydrofoil action and some of you have lived in River City (i.e. just about every city in the world which has a river) and the only way to get from one side of the river to the other is typically via often-constricted bridges.

Much better to hop a ride on a water taxi since you only really need to go about quarter of a mile and there will be an autonomous robo taxi waiting to carry you forward on your important mission which is probably only to get lunch but nobody needs to know that since you look so damn cool doing it.  Welcome to the Future, Jean Claude.  (Phys.org:  Noiseless river 'bubble' taxi sails through Paris test)

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