The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[ChristineM]

Truck crashes, spills 40,000 pounds of US mail on highway in Indiana

The driver was charged with drunken driving and being in possession of a controlled substance.

www.cbsnews.com

The mail will be late.

Nothing new in the UK. Strikes mail and rail (mail goes by rail) see to that. Only last week did my friend receive the Christmas card i sent in early December

 

[Stevicus]

Friends accidentally book flights to the wrong country: 'They sound similar'

Missing your flight can be a nightmare, but unknowingly booking the wrong flight — to the wrong country — is in a category all its own.

www.yahoo.com

But unfortunately, instead of getting tickets to Budapest, the two friends mistakenly purchased tickets to Bucharest — another Eastern European city located in Romania. (Oops.)

By the looks of her TikTok, @sophealice and her BFF didn’t actually catch the error until they made it to the airport. She filmed their reaction while going to board the flight, which was clearly marked “Bucharest” at the gate.

“They sound similar right,” she wrote in her post caption.

Since it was too late to back out, the two friends decided to see what Bucharest had to offer and chronicled their “surprise” trip in subsequent TikToks.

That's the kind of mistake one would expect Americans to make, but it wasn't Americans.

“Essentially, what happened was my best friend — who lived in Australia initially, now he’s gone to New Zealand — he came over and surprised me,” the TikToker explained. “I had no idea he was coming, and then he was like, ‘Surprise!’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, great’ and then he was like, ‘Oh, also, I booked us a trip away — we’re going somewhere in Eastern Europe.”

Both the trip and the destination were meant to be a surprise, but when the pair showed up at the airport, her friend realized he’d made a critical mistake.

That said, they wound up having no regrets.

“It was amazing,” @sophalice shared.

A lot of people on TikTok said they’d also visited Romania and loved it.

“I was in Bucharest may 22 and it was class honestly want to go back,” one person shared.

“bucharest is banging anyway,” one person noted, while another called the entire country a “lovely” place to visit.

Well, at least they didn't mix up Iran and Iraq.

Still, they strike me as the kind of travelers who end up characterized in horror movies, throwing caution to the four winds and having no clue as to where they're going.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

Your random and meaningless color for the day is:

Blue...no, Yellow...

 

[Shadow Wolf]

It happened again.

A man was crushed to death while allegedly attempting to steal a catalytic converter, police say | CNN

A man was crushed to death while allegedly attempting to steal a catalytic converter from a vehicle at a Savannah, Georgia, car lot, police said.

www.cnn.com

 

[Viker]

It happened again.

A man was crushed to death while allegedly attempting to steal a catalytic converter, police say | CNN

A man was crushed to death while allegedly attempting to steal a catalytic converter from a vehicle at a Savannah, Georgia, car lot, police said.

www.cnn.com

It's the new gold rush.

 

[ChristineM]

It's the new gold rush.

Platinum rush. There is between $70 and $200 of platinum in a catalytic converter plus other rare but not as expensive metals.

Not worth getting killed for is it?


There was once an experiment in the UK with specially equipped vehicles to vacuum the roads and filter out the platinum expelled from cats. Not heard the results or anything else about it so i assume it was a failure.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Platinum rush. There is between $70 and $200 of platinum in a catalytic converter plus other rare but not as expensive metals.

Not worth getting killed for is it?


There was once an experiment in the UK with specially equipped vehicles to vacuum the roads and filter out the platinum expelled from cats. Not heard the results or anything else about it so i assume it was a failure.

That's just proof that no matter what, Catness stands above even Englishness. I assume the English were polite about it, and brought the boxes of million dollar toys to appease the cats and warm them up to the idea and thank them for their cooperation, but they're cats so they took the boxes and kept the platinum to themselves and gave those doomed English that big eyed stare that enslaved them to the cats.

 

[Revoltingest]

I need to do some welding.
It's been a few years.
My welds will look like crap.

 

[Stonetree]

Your random and meaningless color for the day is:

Blue...no, Yellow...

I colorficate your offering.....

 

[sun rise]

To show you all that I've not forgotten about you and hope things get better in spite of my cynicism created by history

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Nothing new in the UK. Strikes mail and rail (mail goes by rail) see to that. Only last week did my friend receive the Christmas card i sent in early December

Oof. How do they honestly fix this? Imagine all of the people who sent checks to pay bills through the mail. Imagine all of the people who sent in their taxes and now have to resend them. That would be a nightmare for just about everyone involved in that mail system.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I need to do some welding.
It's been a few years.
My welds will look like crap.

I have an excellent weld. Assuming my nice, orderly "dime stack" goes in the right direction, that is, as it's been more than a few years for me.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Friends accidentally book flights to the wrong country: 'They sound similar'

Missing your flight can be a nightmare, but unknowingly booking the wrong flight — to the wrong country — is in a category all its own.

www.yahoo.com

That's the kind of mistake one would expect Americans to make, but it wasn't Americans.



Well, at least they didn't mix up Iran and Iraq.

Still, they strike me as the kind of travelers who end up characterized in horror movies, throwing caution to the four winds and having no clue as to where they're going.

How does one do that? Book to the wrong country? I've accidentally bought tickets to the wrong Fox Theater once, but the wrong country?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Your random and meaningless color for the day is:

Blue...no, Yellow...

AARRRGGHHH! My flinger thingy isn't working!

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Your random and meaningless color for the day is:

Blue...no, Yellow...

Yay! The color of the snow I ate earlier!!

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

Yay! The color of the snow I ate earlier!!

Yuck!

I don't know what you're supposed to do with Blue snow...

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The one thread reminded me of something very odd about my ex. "I cut the bigot's head off and I stuffed it in my bag," as ICP rapped, that's not cool, it's not ok, should not be singing about that stuff, but according to my ex Slipknot screaming out "I wanna slit your throat and **** the wound" is ok, awesome, best band ever.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I'm starting to feel like Beavis and Butthead when they go without TV over my going without stabbing people.
I still think @Wu Wei should be nice and go maul some of the workers at the plasma center to open up hiring for me.

 

[Stevicus]

How does one do that? Book to the wrong country? I've accidentally bought tickets to the wrong Fox Theater once, but the wrong country?

Well, I guess they weren't very bright. Bucharest, Budapest - if they're not up on geography and never heard of these places before, I guess it can all blur together. I was kind of a map whiz when I was a kid, but I've also encountered a lot of people who just aren't into maps and only have a vague idea of where places are.

It reminds me of horror movies which might depict some couple (or maybe a group of teenagers), lost and alone somewhere - without a clue as to where they are, where they're going, or why they're in such a dumb movie.

But I've heard Bucharest is actually pretty nice. So is Budapest. At least they didn't end up in Transylvania - or worse still, Pennsylvania.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Pennsylvania

There's a Pennsylvania, Indiana and Indiana, Pennsylvania.

I was kind of a map whiz when I was a kid

I still remember, when I was a little kid, the struggle in trying to figure out how to pronounce the first part of Czechoslovakia, lol.