The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Revoltingest]

Well...you are at least getting closer to the "Beating a Dead Horse" award

A new avatar for you....

 

[Wu Wei]

A new avatar for you....

sad...so very sad...and so very predictable and boring

 

[Revoltingest]

What can be seen on your Noo Yawk subway...

 

[Wu Wei]

Seriously. it just got old....

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[Wu Wei]

Olympic Karate will finally be televised today

 

[sun rise]

While you all were fulfilling the lack of meaning of the thread, I was out walking - over an hour - over 5000 steps. Many "heart points" for exertion.

 

[JustGeorge]

While you all were fulfilling the lack of meaning of the thread, I was out walking - over an hour - over 5000 steps. Many "heart points" for exertion.

I need to do that, too, but after yesterday's fiasco with the kid, my foot isn't doing so hot.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

My Facebook account was hacked.

 

[ChristineM]

My Facebook account was hacked.

Oh dear.

 

[ChristineM]

Just seen on Facebook

You've been eating hotdogs and McChicken all your life but you won't have the vaccine because you don't know what's in it...

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Just seen on Facebook

You've been eating hotdogs and McChicken all your life but you won't have the vaccine because you don't know what's in it...

I was just mentioning that growing up as the Cold War was coming to an end made this an interesting time to see the hypocrisy of those who emphasized the hell out doing for your country and that sacrificing for country and putting country first is how we won the Cold War. But, now, they refuse to do the most petty and trivial of things when it is they who are called to do for their country and they're losing hard because of this failure to act.

 

[Revoltingest]

Olympic Karate will finally be televised today

Good.
I could use a nap.

 

[Stevicus]

Bolivia's lake Poopo dries up and scientists fear refill unlikely (msn.com)

They have a lake named Poopo in Bolivia, but now it's dry.

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia's Lake Poopo was once a fountain of life for local inhabitants, who fished from its teeming waters and farmed along its banks. Now it is a desert.

Scientists say the one-time lake, which sprawls across Bolivia's sun-drenched, high-altitude altiplano, has fallen victim to decades of water diversion for regional irrigation needs. And a warmer, drier climate has made its recovery increasingly unlikely.

"It's like a perfect storm," says Jorge Molina, a researcher with the Universidad Mayor de San Andres. "Every year that passes the situation gets worse."

The lake, Bolivia's second largest, is very shallow, and has traditionally ebbed and flowed, according to both scientists and the lake's long-time Aymara inhabitants.

Valerio Rojas, who once made a living from fishing the lake, says village elders tell of the lake recharging every 50 years. But looking out across the parched, white-rimmed salt flat that remains, he has his doubts.

"Will the lake fill again? With this climate change and pollution, it seems to me that the weather can no longer be predicted," Rojas said. "In our Aymara language it is said that: 'Our mother earth is tired'."

Scientists are also growing skeptical. Molina says the Andes are outpacing the global average temperature rise, especially during the day, which means evaporation has ramped up, making it especially hard for a shallow lake - and its flora and fauna - to survive.

“It is no longer a functional lake. A lake that dries up too often is no longer functional for fauna, flora and biodiversity," Molina told Reuters.

The drought is also driving away the communities that once lived along its banks, says Benedicta Uguera, an indigenous woman from Untavi who once raised livestock on an island in the lake.

“The families decided to leave the island, because we cannot survive without water and there is no more life," she said.

 

[Wu Wei]

Good.
I could use a nap.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Good.
I could use a nap.

I more enjoy watching exhibition matches. Granted they are choreographed, but what they can do is amazing.
Almost as amazing as gymnastics and figure skating.

 

[Revoltingest]

I more enjoy watching exhibition matches. Granted they are choreographed, but what they can do is amazing.
Almost as amazing as gymnastics and figure skating.

Meh....no People's Elbow.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Meh....no People's Elbow.

Just goes to show, you can have the lamest special move in all of sports entertainment, but if you do it right and sell it well it becomes electrifying.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

They should make talking on the mic an Olympic event. The Rock and Slim Shady would dominate.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

And the jitters return over calling the salon.
I keep telling people, we're more scared of them than they are of us.